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after his death, unlefs from their fuperior excellence, the fuppreffion of them might have been deemed a crime.

Perhaps Mr. Cecil publifhed them from confcientious motives.-They feem to us to be appended merely to eke out a volume.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

PROFESSOR White's Diateffarôn, in the Latin of Caftellio, is ready for the prefs. This work is meant in Ufum Scholarum. The Latin Idiom of Caftellio is unexceptionable; and the arrangement of the profeffor is admirable. The ingenious editor of this useful work combines thefe excellencies in one,

LIST OF BOOKS IN DIVINITY.

A COMMENTARY on the Revelation of St. John; accompanied with historical teftimony of it's accomplishment to the prefent day. By the Rev. E.W.Whittaker, Rector of St. Mildred, Canterbury. 8vo. 497. pp.

A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Witham, Effex, on Tuesday the 1st of June 1802, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving to Almighty God, for putting an end to the late bloody and extended and expenfive By the Rev. William Aiflabie, M. A. late of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge. 8vo. 16 pp.

war.

Remarks on the Controverfy fubfifting, or fuppofed to fubfift, between the Arminian and Calviniftic Minifters of the Church of England, in a second letter to the Rev. John Overton, A. B. author of the "True Churchman Af certained." By Edward Pearfon, B. D. Rector of Rempstead, Nottinghamshire, 8vo. 102 pp.

A Sermon preached before the honourable House of Commons, at the church of St. Margaret, Weftminster, on Tuesday, June 1, 1802, being the day appointed for a General Thanksgiving. By William Vincent, D. D. Sub-Almoner to his Majesty, and Prebendary of Westminster. 4to. pp. 33..

Reflections and Exhortations adapted to the state of the times, a Sermon preached to the Unitarian Society at Hackney on the thanksgiving day. By Thomas Belfham.

8vo.

An affectionate Addrefs to the Clergy on the theological Writings of the Hon. Emanuel Swedenborg. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. 8vo.

Reflections on War, a Sermon at Cambridge on the thanksgiving day, by Robert Hall, A. M. 8vo.

The evidence for the authenticity and divine inspiration of the apocalypse stated and vindicated from the objection of the late profeffor, F. D. Michaelis, in a letter addreffed to the Rev. Herbert Marfh, 8vo. 92 pp.

A Letter to a found Member of the Church, with a Supplement, containing two letters, fent to the Editors of the Chriftian Obferver, with an Addrefs to the readers of that mifcellany, on a grofs mifreprefentation of a paffage in the Appendix to the Guide to the Church, by the Rev. Charles Daubeney, author of the Guide and Appendix, &c. Fellow of Winchester college, and Minister of Christ Church, Bath. 8vo. pp. 66.

A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the diocese of Oxford, by John Lord Bifhop of that diocese at his primary vifitation in June 1802, published at the request of the clergy. 8vo. pp. 25.

No. I. of the Churchman's Memorial: being a Biographical Register and Hiftorical Account of thofe eminent Divines and other Perfons who were deprived of their Preferments and Situations, and otherwife perfecuted, for their Loyalty to their King, and for their conformity to the Church of England, during the Great Rebellion; with a copious Introduction, containing a View of the Progrefs of Puritanism from the Reformation to 1641. By the prefent Editors of the Orthodox Churchman's Magazine. London, Spragg.

The Chriftian Guide or an attempt to explain in a feries of connected difcourfes the leading articles of Chriftianity, defigned principally for the ufe of families and young perfons. By Charles Plump tre, M. A. Rector of Long Newton in the county of Durham, 8vo. pp. 347. POETRY

POETRY.

The HYMN of St. AMBROSE, commonly called TE DEUM.

By Mr. DUNCOMBE.

Preferve, O Lord, thy people, and enhance

Thy bleffing on thy own inheritance : For ever raile their hearts and rule their

ways;

THEE, fovereign God! our grateful Each day we blefs thee, and proclaim thy

accents praife;

We own thee, Lord, and blefs thy wondrous ways.

To thee, eternal Father, earth's whole

frame

With loudeft trumpets found's immortal

fame.

Lord God of hofts, to thee the heav'nly pow'rs

With pealing anthems fill thy vaulted

tow'rs.

Thy cherubim thrice holy, holy,' holy, cry,

Thrice holy, all the feraphim reply, And thrice-returning echoes endless fongs fupply.

Both heav'n and earth thy majefty difplay;

They owe their beauty to thy glorious

ray,

Thy praifes fill the loud Apoftles' choir; The train of prophets in the fong confpire;

Legions of martyrs in the chorus thine, And vocal blood with vocal mufic join. Thy holy church, infpir'd with heav'nly

art,

Around theworld maintains a facred part, And tunes her sweetest notes, O God,

to thee,

The Father of unbounded majesty:
The Son, ador'd co-partner of thy feat,
And equal, everlafting Paraclete!

Thou, king of glory, Chrift; of the
Moft High

Thou co-eternal, filial Deity; Thou who, to fave the world's impending doom,

Did'ft deign to dwell within a virgin's womb,

(Old Tyrant death difarm'd, before thee flew

The bolts of heav'n, and back the foldings drew

To give accefs, and make the faithful way;)

From God's right hand thy filial beams difplay!

Thou art to judge the living and the dead; Then fpare thofe fouls for whom thy veins

have bled!

O take us up among the blefs'd above,
To share with them thy everlasting love!

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O'er thefe uncomfortable vaults to tread, Where blended lie the aged and the young,

The rich and poor, an undistinguish'd throng:

Death conquers all, and Time's fubduing hand

Nor tombs nor marble ftatues can withftand.

Mark yonderafhes,in confufion fpread! Compare earth's living tenants with her dead!

How ftriking the resemblance, yet how juft!

Once life and foul inform'd this mass of duft;

Around these bones, now broken and decay'd,

The ftreams of life in various channels play'd.

Perhaps that fkull, fo horrible to view, Was fome fair maid's, ye belles, as fair Thefe

as you:

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no more!

The Grave has eloquence-its lectures teach,

In filence, louder than divines can preach: Hear what it fays--ye fons of folly, hear! It fpeaks to you-O give it then your car! It bids you lay all vanity afide:

what a lecture this, for human pride! The clock ftrikes twelve-how folemn is the found!

Hark how the ftrokes from hollow vaults rebound!

They bid us haften to be wife, and fhow How rapid in their courfe the minutes flow.

See yonder yew-how high it lifts its head!

Around their gloomy fhade the branches fpread.

Old and decay'd, it fills retains a grace, And adds more folemn horror to the place.

Whofe tomb is this? it fays, 'tis Myra's tomb;

Pluck'd from the world in beauty's fairest bloom;

Attend, ye fair! ye thoughtlefs, and ye gay

For Myra dy'd upon her nuptial day! The grave, cold bridegroom! clafp'd

her in its arms,

And the worm rioted upon her charms.

In yonder tomb the old Avaro lies; Once he was rich-the world esteem'd him wife:

Schemes unaccomplish'd labour'd in his mind,

And all his thoughts were to the world confin'd;

Death came unlook'd for from his

grafping hand

land.

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Thro' heav'n's expanfe, to earth's remoteft bounds,

The dead fhall quit thefe tenements of clay,

And view again the long-extinguished day:

It must be fo-the fame Almighty Pow'r From duft who form'd us, can from duft restore.

Chear'd with this pleafing hope, I fafely truft

JEHOVAH'S pow'r, to raife me from the duft;

On his unfailing promifes rely,

Down dropt his bags, and mortgages of And all the horrors of the grave defy.

HIS

HISTORICAL REGISTER

OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.

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FRANCE

VOT only remains tranquil at home, but feems to be making flow but fure ftrides towards the increafe and eftablishment of her power abroad. The bufinefs of the indemnities, new and unprecedented as it is, our readers will perceive has been acceded to by the principal of the German powers; and fome other measures of partition have moft probably been agreed to at Memel, where the conference which we hinted in our laft, has taken place between the King of Pruffia and the Emperor of Ruffia; and the latter has ordered the circumftance to be recorded in the Peterburgh Gazette, there faid to have taken place on the occifion of a review. The French expedition from the Italian ports in the Mediterranean, firft thought to have been intended to take poffeffion of the Morea, it now appears was deftined to the Weft Indies, where the climate, as well as the war, has destroyed great numbers of officers and men. Leclerc, the Commandant, is faid to be unwell, young Dampiere, dead, and Benczech, the Maritime Prefect, at the laft gafp.

Against Touffaint, it appears a charge of perfidy to the French Government has been brought, and the perfon of that

unfortunate man feized and fent home to

France. But at Guadaloupe, the oppofition which General Richepanfe has met with from the Blacks, has been much more fanguinary and obftinate than at St. Domingo; the latter were prodigal of their lives, even to defperation, and the French accounts acknowledge the lofs of great numbers of men, and the utmost difficulty in carrying their point. Refpecting the flue of this war againft the flaves, and if they are now generally difpofed to fubmiflion and obedience, a long period muft elapfe before the ravages of nine years are repaired. A number of years muft elapfe before the Colony can be rendered permanently fubftantially beneficial to the Mother Country.

With respect to the designs of the First Conful upon Turkey, reports are various, as letters both from France and Holland continue to affert, that a treaty has been negociated by the Turkish Envoy now at Paris, by which a free Vol. III. Churchm. Mag. July, 1802,

navigation to the Black Sea is fecured to the French for a limited time; and in confideration of this, it is added, that France has guaranteed the integrity of the Turkish Empire, or rather confented to the extirpation of Pafwan Oglou, the fuppofed ally of the First Conful; thus the latest accounts from Wallachia and Vienna, make it appear that the Auftrian forces have been compelled to refift the inroads made by the troops of Pafwan Ogiou; and alfo that the Ruffians are marching for their afliftance. If thefe reports are well-founded, it is eafy to forefce that both thefe powers will indemnify themfelves for their interference with the rebellious fubjects of the Porte.

The news from Egypt are of a fill more ferious and alarming kind. Notwithstanding the treacherous maffacre of the Beys, their party has been by no means fubdued. A partial engagement with a divifion of the Grand Vizier's army has terminated to the advantage of the Beys, and large reinforcements will be neceffary to re-establish the authority of the Porte. At prefent a partial infubordination or actual rebellion prevails through Egypt; and, diftracted as the European provinces of the Turkish Empire are, few troops can be fpared to quell the difturbances of the more diftant provinces. What means the Porte may refort to under fuch difficult circumftances, we fhall not pretend to determine; though, in all probability, the Beys, unlefs overcome by foreign force, will fucceed in gaining a temporary independence. A new field is opened to the cupidity of the great Continental Powers. An eafy prey is prefented to their ambition. How long they may think it confiftent with policy to look on as inactive fpectators, it is impoffible to decide. After the experience of the laft twenty years, much cannot be expected from their forbearance or their moderation.

Hoftilities, it appears, have broken out between the Ruffians and Perfians, and the Ruffian forces have already made their way into the province of Ghelan. The origin of thefe hoftilities was fome violence offered to the Ruffians at Afterabat. Perfia opens a rich G profpect

profpect to the ambitious views of Ruffia, and, in all probability, fome other European powers will not be difpofed to look on with complete indifference.

Minorca, in obedience to the ftipulations of the Definitive Treaty of Peace, was given up to the Spaniards, on the 27th of May, and Porto Ferrajo to the French, on the 11th of June. The English evacuated it on the preceding evening. A Confular decree of the 25th ult. has directed an entrepot for foreign merchandize, to be cftablished in the port of Marseilles. Yet in proportion as the ftate of France and Europe affumes a more fettled and pacific form, the French funds droop.

The English, agreeably to the terms of the Treaty of Amiens, evacuated Porto Ferrajo (Isle of Elba) in the night of the 10th of June, on which occafion fome compliments paffed be tween the British and French Commanders.

Bonaparte's Legion of Honour, or of Nobles, notwithstanding all the oppofition it has met with, feems to be already organized, and an arrete has been published, dividing the Republic into fixteen parts, each of which is to have a company of the Legion. This establishment is of fuch a nature, that the members will have all the weight and confequence of a Military Order of Nobility. Lucien Bonaparte has fold, for three millions and a half of livres, the diamonds prefented to him by the Court of Lifbon, in confequence of the peace which he negociated with Portugal. They were fo numerous, and of fuch value, that had he difpofed of them feparately, it is calculated they would have fold at a much higher price.

ITALY

Still affords an example of a revolutionifing country, and fhews with what difficulty order is reftored when the bonds that keep fociety together are once broken. It would be difficult to afcertain whether the fituation of the Princes or the people be the worst in thofe fine countries. The King of Naples, confined to a corner, without an ally, is a fort of prifoner to the French, who poffefs the whole of the North of Italy; his fubjects defpife his authority, and difobey his orders; the navy and army are ineffectual, and the finances in confufion. The King of Sardinia, difgufted with a mock and mutilated Sovereignty, has retired to a convent; and the King of Etruria is in a state of fplendid bondage; while the Sovereign Pontiff, actuated by the motives of a good Chriftian, facri

fices all his temporal advantages in order to keep the religion he profeffes from being utterly deftroyed. Though the Pope fubmits like a Chriftian, he feels like the Ifraelites when they hanged their harps upon the willow trees by the ftreams of Babylon.

The Emperor of Germany has congratulated Bonaparte, on the profpect of his being elected Firft Conful for life; and fuch greetings are expected to be very general. Circumftances have proved, that France enjoys lefs of what is generally denominated freedom, than fhe did fourteen years ago; and Holland is in a fimilar fituation.

Relative to a prohibition of the trade with England, it appears by a recent article from Flushing, that nothing but the interference of the French troops prevented the populace from exercifing fummary vengeance on the French Cuf tom Houfe Officers, who had made the feizure, for which there appears no plaufible pretext. It is abfurd for a moment to fuppofe, that with the views which the Dutch have for ages poffeffed, as a commercial people, they should favour the narrow policy of the French Government, in opposition to their obvious intereft. Bonaparte may attempt to overawe them for a while, but intereft will at length prevail over terror, and if British goods are excluded by pofitive regulations, new facilities will necellarily be opened to their introduction, in defiance of a law which never can be permanently carried into effect.

The expected arrival of the French Ambalador, General Andreoffi, is ftill delayed, neither is it known when Lord Whitworth will leave this country for France. The preparations which were making for his departure for Paris, are entirely difcontinued, and it is faid to have been fettled, that the two Plenipotentiaries fhall leave their refpective capitals as nearly as poffible at the fame time. It is very probable that they will not commence their diplomatic career until all the difficulties now exifting, in a commercial view, between both countries, fhall be removed by the Treaty, which is actually under difcuffion. Still it is not lefs remarkable than true, that ail the foreign emballies, both to and from this country, are ftill kept open; and it is faid they will remain fo until after the commercial treaty now pending between France and this country is concluded; alfo it is faid, that neither General Andreoffi nor Lord Whitworth will fet out on their respective embaffies

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