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I pretended to be knowing in the laws of the land (having made it my ftudy for thefe five and forty years); and because I am fo, that was the reafon of fuch my behaviour: for as long as you had the King's arms engraved on your mace, and acted under his authority, had I come here, I would have bowed my body in obedience to his authority, by which you were first called. But, Mr. Speaker, fince you and this houfe have renounced all your duty and allegiance to your fovereign, and natural liege lord the King, and are become a den of thieves, should I bow myself in this houfe of Rimmon, the Lord would not pardon me in this thing." This fpeech provoked the houfe fo much, that without any trial, they voted him and Sir Francis Butler, guilty of high treafon, and fixed the day of execution; but were diverted from it by a droll speech of that remarkable buffoon, Henry Martyn. After this, they fent a committee from the Commons Houfe to Newgate to Judge Jenkins, and made this offer to him, "That if he would own their power to be lawful, they would not only take off the fequeftrations from his eftate, which were about 5001.. per annum, but would also fettle a penfion on him of 10001. a year." To which he answered, "Far be it from me to own rebellion (although it was fuccessful) to be lawful;" fo he defired to fee their backs. Then the chief of them made another propofal to the Judge, and faid, " He should have the fame as was offered before, if he would but permit them to put it in print, that he did own and acknowledge their power to be lawful and juft, and would not gainfay it." To this he anfwered, "That he would not connive at their fo doing, for all the money they had robbed the kingdom of; and fhould they be fo impudent as to print any fuch matter, he would fell his doublet and coat, to buy pens, ink, and paper, and would fet forth the Commons Houfe, in their proper colours." (That is, he would make them appear to be fcandalous, impudent, and lying rebels.) When they found him fo firm, one of the committee used this motive, "You have a wife and nine children, who all will starve if you refuse this offer: fo confider, for their fakes; they make up ten prefling arguments for your compliance."-" What (faid the Judge) did they defire you to prefs me in this matter?"-"I will not fay they did (replied the committee-man) but I think they prefs you to it without fpeaking at all.”—With that the old man's anger was heightened to the utmost, and in a paffion he faid, "Had my wife and children petitioned you in this matter, I would have looked on her as a whore and them as baftards.” Upon this the committee departed, and he continued in Newgate till the restoration; fhortly after which he died.

The following extract, at the fame time that it elucidates a paffage in our immortal bard, forms a pleafing contraft between the reverence which our ancestors had for holy things, even during the time of war and in an enemy's ground, and the facrilege which the defolating spirit of infidelity has led the French of late years to commit. It is taken from the "Cent nouvelles nouvelles," and I have fcrupulously obferved the old orthography.

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Il fceut que l'ung de fes gens auoit derobbé en une eglife le Tabernacle ou l'on met Corpus Domini, & a bons deniers comptans vendu. fçay pas la jufte fomme; mais il eftoit grant & beau, d'argent doré tres gentement efmaillé. Monfeigneur Thalebot, quoy qu'il fuft tres cruel, & en la guerre tres criminel, fi avoit en grant reverence toujours en eu?

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l'Eglife, & ne vouloit que nul monflier ne Eglife le feu on boutaft ne derobaft quelque chofe, & ou il fçauoit qu'on le fift, il en faifoit merueilleufe difcipline de ceulx qui en ce faifant trespaffoient fon commandement." Nouv. v.

"Fortune is Bardolph's foe, and frowns on him;

For he hath ftol'n a Pix, and hanged must a' be."
"We would have fuch offenders fo cut off;
And give exprefs charge, that in all our march
There fhall be nothing taken from the villages,
But fhall be paid for.'

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Henry V. A& s.

A French Marquis coming to pay his devotions at the shrine of a Saint, found the niche empty, as his image was gone to the filverfmith to be repaired but that he might not be fufpected of want of civility, he left a card for his godfhip, to acquaint him with his intended vifit.

In Sion College Library, are fome very fine copies of the Talmud. Two of these were prefented to it in rather an extraordinary manner, as the following copy of an infcription in a blank leaf in the firft volume will fhew.

"THE PARISHONERS of St JOHN the Euangelifts in Watlingftreet in London gave this Babilonian Talmud to the new Librarie in Zion College which great and rare work confifts of 12 volumes printed at Venice by that famous Hebrue Printer Daniel Bomberge Anno Domini

1548.

The price of this whole worke-261: given by the parifhoners afforefaid being in number 18: upon the motion of Mr George Walker Rector of ye Parish

The names of the contributing Parishoners

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The other fet is a copy of the Bâfle Edition by Frobenius. In a leaf in the first volume is the following infcription.

This Babilonian Talmud confifting of Sixe large Volumes was given to the Librarye of Zion College in London.

1628.

£. s. price 16 2

The well affected Citizens who contributed to the price of it were these.

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Mr John Pocock Draper in Watling street
Mr John Fenne Haberdasher in Bread street
Mr William Lemman Linnendraper in Cheapfide
Mr Samuel Davies Marchaunt in Wallbrooke
Mr Jofeph Davies his brother

Mr Steven Goodyear mercer in Lumbard street
Mr Thomas Collins Linendraper in Friday street
Mr George Warren Linendraper in Cheapfide
Mr Thomas Stevens Haberdather in ye Poultrie
Mr John Revell Sopeboiler in Thames street

TRUTH.

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"What is the feal of the holy and bleffed God? Rabbi Bivai, in the name of R. Reuben, said nos Truth-What is no? R. Bon faid, it is the living God, the King of the universe. Resch Lukisch faid, is the firft letter in the alphabet; is the middle letter, and n is the laft. As if he had faid, I am the first who have received (my kingdom) of none, and befides me there is no God. I know no equal: and I alfo am the laft, who will not deliver it to another."-Jerufalem Talmud. Sanhedrin, Chap. i. fol. 18.

"I am

"Pilate faith unto him, What is Truth?" John xviii. 38. Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the firft and the laft.” Rev. xxii. 13.

Twining, of Trowbridge; with a Biographical Preface, by Joshua Toulmin,

LIST OF BOOKS IN DIVINITY. THE Epistle of Paul to the Romans, analyfed from a developement of thofe circumstances in the Romih church by which it was occafioned, by John Jones, 8vo.

Sermons, by the late Rev. J. Hobbes, A. M. 8vo.

A Sermon preached at St. George's, Hanover-fquare, on the day of General Thanksgiving, by H. Reginald, Lord Bishop of Exeter.

Remarks on the Methodif Dialogue, writen on the subject of Baptifm.

Evidences of Miracles, or an Explanation of the Teftimony, by which we are informed, that Miracles were wrought as an Atteftation of Chriftianity, 12mo.

Sermons on Interesting and Practical Subjects, by the late Rev. Thomas

D. D. 8vo.

Worlds Difplayed for the Benefit of Young Perfons. 12mo.

Sin Overtaken, a Sermon, at the particular request of J. Dormer, executed at Reading, by the Rev. W. B. Williams, 8vo.

The Profpect of future Univerfal Peace, a Sermon on the Day of Thankf giving for the Peace, by Joshua Toulmin, D. D. 8vo.

The Certainty of the Refurrection, argued from the Nature of Chrift's Mediatorial Kingdom; a Sermon preached before an affociation of Minifters, and published at their requeft, by E. Wil liams, D. D. 8vo. and 12mo.

A Sermos

A Sermon preached before the Stamford lodge of Odd Fellows, on the 14th June, 1802, by Robert L. Carr, 8vo.

Bible Stories, or the Memorable Acts of the Ancient Patriarchs, &c. felected from the Old and New Testament, by William Scolfield, with plates, two fmall volumes.

A plain Preface to the Bible, being an attempt to refcue that Sacred Volume

from indifference and neglect; defigned as an Appendage to every Family Bible, by James Wickham, Efq. 4to.

Religious Principles, the Source of National Profperity, a Sermon preached at Richmond, on the late Thanksgiving Day; to which are fubjoined Effays on various Subjects, connected with the occafion, by the Rev. E. Paterfon, 8vo. 180 pages.

POETRY.

THE PILGRIM.

The following ingenious Poem was delivered in the character of a Pilgrim, at a Mafquerade, given by the LORD LIEUTENANT of Ireland, on the KING'S Birth Day, 1802, and has never been published.

I.

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If nine long years unceafing toil,
O'er many a diftant land and fea,
Since laft I faw my native Ifle,

Can move your pity-lift to me.
III.

When difcord here began to roam,
And bade all focial comfort ceafe,
With heavy heart I left my home,

A PILGRIM to the fhrine of PEACE.
IV.

Far, far from Gallia's guilty ftrand

I bent my steps with fearful hafte; Where bleak, and bare, her ruins ftand, The monuments of ruthlefs waste! V.

In vain, to check the rage of war

The wilds of rude Saint Bernard rofe; Even here was urg'd the blood-ftain'd car And red were dy'd the Alpine fnows.

VI.

From fair Italia's fragrant groves,
The feats of Love and Piety,
The trumpet fcar'd the frighted doves,
Nor love, nor peace, were there for me.
VII.

At length, ('twas claffic ground I trod,)
I kiffed the rocky fhores of Greece;
But there too, WAR, had raised his rod
And trampled on the fane of PEACE!
VIII.

From thence to holy Palestine,
With humbled heart I bent my way,
At honoured Salem's facred fhrine,
My vows for love and Peace to pay.

IX.

But neither SION's facred hill,

Nor CARMEL's holy mount were free;
The groves of SHARON echoed ftill,
With lengthened cries of mifery!
X.

On Acon's walls the CHRISTIAN KNIGHT
The blood-red Crofs of England rais❜d,
In guilty hafte, and wild affright
The daring Atheist fled amazed!
XI.

Where'er my toilfome steps I turn'd,
Purfuing ftill my weary way,
That blood-red Crofs in glory burn'd,
And rescued nations blefs'd its fway.
XII.

On Egypt's dark and diftant shore,
I heard the British thunder peal;
The blackening fmoke, the battle's roar,
Were mix'd with Saba's fpicy gale.

XIII.

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XVII.
And may our HARDWICKE never miss
His faithful fervant ftill to prove,

His equal in connubial blifs,

And fecond in his People's love!

HISTORICAL

HISTORICAL REGISTER

OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

FRANCE

STILL continues to manifeft a decided difpofition for reducing all the heretofore great powers of Europe, to the ftandard of her friends, or allies. In the mention of thefe in one of the ftate papers, relative to the German indemnities, The intirely forgot the name of the Elector of Hanover, or that of the King of Great Britain, though with refpect to the future difpofal of continental power, our fovereign is more interested than feveral other potentates who might be named !-Again the proceedings of Ruffia, Pruffia, and France, in the business of the indemnities, the Emperor of Germany has remonstrated, and even indicated a difpofition to ufe force in taking poffeffion of the city of Paffau, which thofe powers had awarded to the Elector of Bavaria, but without fuccefs; his troops have been withdrawn, and the high-contracting parties have fignified their determination to adhere to the letter of this plan without any modification.

A French marine expedition, for the first time fince the commencement of the last war, has been fuccefsful.-We allude to Algiers, of which the following are particulars extracted from the official paper:-The Dey has acceded to all the demands of the First Conful. The French fquadron, commanded by RearAdmiral Leiffegues, appeared before Algiers on the 5th of Auguft, having on board Adjutant Commandant Huilin, with a letter from the First Conful to the Dey, demanding a reparation for the injuries offered to the French flag. This officer, on his landing, was received in the most diftinguished manner by the Dey, who, after perufing the letter of the First Conful, prepared an anfwer, in which he agreed, conformably to the demand contained in the letter, to liberate the crews of two Neapolitan veffels, one of which had been taken by his cruifers near the coast of France, and the other, whilst employed in the French fervice. He alfo agrees to punish the Rafs, who carried into Algiers two French veffels, and promises to refpect in future the French flag and the flag of the Italian Vol. III. Churchm, Mag. Sept. 1802.

Republic. No demand was made by the First Conful, as had been previously reported, for the general liberation of the European flaves in Algiers, it being confined with refpect to that fubject, to thofe who had been taken on board veffels in the French fervice; nor was the report correct, of its being the intention of France to infift upon a fum of money as a prefent indemnity, together with a future annual tribute, no fuch demand appearing in the letter of the First Conful. The views of France, with respec to the Barbary powers, appear thus to have been bounded merely by the defire of obtaining fatisfaction for infults received, and a guarantee from the Dey againft fimilar injuries in future.

In Switzerland, only, the power and the plans of the French Conful are oppofed. The leffer cantons of Uri, Schwitz, and Unterwald, are in open infurrection, but against these General Andermatt, the Commander in Chief of the troops of the Helvetic Republic, has commenced his operations, by taking poffeffion of Rengg, which opens for him a paffage into the canton of Underwalden. In this unhappy conteft, the Helvetian Republic poffeffes an evident fuperiority over the leffer cantons, who do not themselves appear to be firmly united in the caufe, for which they have taken up arms. It does not feem probable, therefore, that the conteft can be of any long duration, though it is deeply to be lamented that it should have proceeded to fuch an unfortunate extremity.

Happily for Portugal, the conduct of the French Ambaffador at Lifbon, which we noticed in our laft poftfcript, has not been approved by his government, though of the caules that gave rife to his abrupt departure from Lisbon, the French journals have published nothing new.

Concomitant with the reports of the anfwer of Lord Hawkesbury, to the enquiries of the Turkish merchants, refpecting commercial privileges granted to the French, we now find that an equal liberty of trading to the Black Sea, is granted to the English; ftill the value of this privilege muit depend upon the difpo

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