been troubled with a dream, which he here loyally communicates for the benefit of his countrymen, and to put the ministry upon their guard against an alliance which they may not otherwise be aware of. To speak the truth, if the plot be no deeper laid, or more dextrously involved, than that before us, no great mischief could ensue; and, in such case, how frequently soever the present writer may be afflicted with dreaming of the devil, he need not trouble himself to divulge his visions any further. As to the other parts of the pamphlet, we see nothing amiss. The author certainly has the praise of having meant well; and we have no doubt that the tract contains all the merit he was capable of giving it.

ART. 18.-Alfred's Address to the Ladies of England. 12mo. 6d. Ginger. 1803.

Various' (says Alfred) are the modes in which female influence over man may be rendered useful to the state. Does any man shrink from serving his country in the field? let female scorn drive the coward from society! The brave alone should bask in the smile of beauty.' P. 4.

But this is not all: the ladies are here marshalled into rank and file: they are divided into the three grand cohorts of those possessing wealth, title, and personal attractions; and every thing is to be put in requisition for the benefit of the country. The wealthy are to contribute their riches, the titled their honours, and the pretty women their charms.

Let all these qualifications be employed in the service of your country; exert the influence you possess in the neighbourhood of your country-seats, to promote the new levies. Few will be found to refuse a cockade tendered by the arm of beauty. Let those of superior rank win by affability of advice: and of superior fortune, by diffusing its su perfluity. Let books be immediately opened to receive the subscriptions of the women of Britain !' P. 9.

That those of superior rank should become affable, we think a maxim of universal recommendation, and suitable to all places as well as times; and, that those of superior fortune should diffuse their superfluity, we can never object to, and far less at the present period, than at any other. But we trust that England will never sink so far bencath the scale of her own native prowess and manhood, as to render it necessary that the women should stimulate the men into the field against the common enemy. The moment of this humiliation must be the mo ment of her destruction.

ART. 19.-An Address to the Richmond Volunteers, assembled in the Parish Church of Richmond, in Surry, on Morday, August 29, and on Friday, September 2, 1803, to take the Oath of Allegiance. By Thomas Wakefield, B. A. &c. Printed by Request. Svo. 6d. Hurst.

This is a plain and seasonable explanation of the solemn nature of an oath in general, and especially of the express oath about to be taken upon the occasion referred to; and the preacher passes, with great per

tinence and propriety, from the consideration of the nature of a sacred oath, to an admonition against the use of such as are profane, which are, indeed,—

— abhorrent to every feeling of sensibility and virtue; and are not only in direct repugnance to all our acknowledgements of the existence and attributes of God, but likewise to every idea even of common sense. For although the vice of profane swearing be so fearfully wicked as to stand aloof from other vices for its peculiar, and as it were personal insult to the Majesty of heaven; yet it stands distinguished from them too, for being a vice to which human sagacity has never been able to assign a motive of temptation in the human constitution; and, therefore, for being a vice, which, when practised with any thought at all, must be practised for the sake merely of its wickedness. Considerations, sufficient, no doubt, to inspire every man of sense and seriousness with both horrour and contempt of it.' P. 9.

ART. 20.-Invasion Defeated. By the Author of the State of Things for 1803. 12mo, 3d. Hatchard. 1803.

This patriotic harangue is divided into three leading heads, and each of these three leading heads into three subaltern particulars, with all the arithmetical accuracy of The Rule of Three Direct.

The address is, nevertheless, far more spirited than we have.commonly found addresses thus quaintly enchained in the trammels of the same numerical boundaries; and, having at length worked his way through their labyrinth, the writer abruptly exclaims

It is done already the danger is perceived-the means are embodied and the motives are felt. Five hundred thousand freemen in arms, have sworn to their king and to each other, that by God's help, British honor shall not be insulted British chastity shall not be riolated British property shall not be plundered-British liberty shall not be destroyed. In aid of such a combination, thus voluntarily formed, and virtuously directed, all must bear a part. It is the cause of all; and honor, duty, interest demand that it should engage the hands, the hearts, and voices of all.

I call upon the aged, whom bodily infirmities unfit for active service, to support that loyal armament which they cannot join; to replenish its funds, animate its spirit, and thus to contribute what yet remains of their exhausted powers, to the defence of their country,

I call upon those, who, by the sanctity of their order, the peculiarity of their tenets, or by any other legalized singularities, are exempted from personal service, to do every thing which their avocations and their principles will allow, on behalf of that government, whose tenderness to their condition or prejudices in this arduous crisis, gives it a new claim to their veneration and support.

I call upon that sex, to whose sufferings we owe our natural existence, and to whose exertions we have not unfrequently owed our national preservation, to consider, how much it is in their power, under God, to do, in this hour of awful extremity. They are wives, they are mothers, they are daughters, they are sisters, they are women,-a -name, which only implies weakness, as weakness implies tenderness,

sensibility, and a wakeful sympathy with those who suffer. Their cou rage, fidelity, and patriotism find vouchers in every page of our his tory. Let them act in this crisis, as they have acted in every other; let them employ their commanding influence over the other sex, and those services which are compatible with their own, for the great object of common defence, and their country will ask-will need no

more.' P. 18.

This pamphlet we understaud to be the production of Mr. Owen, one of the chaplains to the bishop of London.

ART. 21.-A friendly Address to the Volunteers of Great-Britain. 870. 6d. Rivingtons.

1803.

The subject of this friendly address to the volunteers is the necessity of implicit obedience to the commands of their officers and superiors; and it is probable, that, upon some few occasions, an address upon this subject may have been necessary: we cordially unite with our author in his concluding sentence:

And, finally, may you, once more, receive that high honor, a vole of thanks from a British parliament, at a time when circumstances will give it a tenfold share both of lustre and value—when the period of your service shall have been meritoriously and prosperously concluded!"

P. 18.

RELIGION.

ART. 22.-A Sermon preached at the archidiaconal Visitations of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Northumberland, held May 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th, 1803; and published at their Request. By Robert Thorp, D.D. &c. 4to. Is. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 1803.

A serious and judicious address from an archdeacon to his clergy, in which he expatiates on the necessity of attention to their peculiar character, and to their doctrine, as 'delivered in the Scriptures, and committed to them in the articles, liturgy, and homilies, of our church.' Due distinction is made between 'the Christian faith enforced by Christian motives,' and that'system of morality, as it is too often treated by modern writers, independant of the will of God.' The clergy are, therefore, properly exhorted never to separate doctrine from morality, nor omit to inculcate those sublime truths which we receive on the authority of divine revelation.' At the same time, they are guarded against those errors which those are supposed to adopt who claim to themselves the title of evangelical preachers.

ART. 23.-A Sermon preached at the Anniversary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, May 6, 1802. By George Law, M. A. &c. 4to. 1s. Rivingtons.

The excellence of the Christian religion and Christian morality is shown in the superiority of the charitable institutions of Christianity to those of any other religion. If this charitable disposition be deserv

ing, as it undoubtedly is, of the utmost encouragement, where can it find more deserving objects than those for whom the preacher pleads in this discourse? The little that the offspring of many clergymen can derive from the effects of their parents, left at their decease, is too well attested by numberless instances, and the state of the incomes of a great part of the inferior clergy. That the laity should, in return for the communication of spiritual things, impart some of their temporal things, is assuredly a modest request; and, in the manner that it was put by the preacher, the case could not fail of exciting the compassion and the benevolence of the hearers.

ART. 24.4 Sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Nicholas, in Deptford, on Monday, the 6th of June, 1803, before the Honourable Corporation of Trinity Brethren. By the Rev. Gerrard Andrewes, A.M. &c. 4to. Hatchard.

1803.

1s.

This sermon is printed by desire, and at the expense, of the elder brethren of the Trinity-house. Without this desire, the author declares that he would not have obtruded it on the public, being convinced that a discourse may be heard to advantage from the pulpit which is not adapted to the closet;' and, in this conviction, he has our fullest concurrence.

ART. 25.-Good Effects of an united Trust in the Arm of Flesh and Arm of the Lord, a Sermon, preached at Cuxton, Kent, July 31, 1803. By the Rev. Charles Moore, M. A. &c. 800. Is. Hatchard.

The union recommended by the preacher is at all times desirable: but, as the preacher deprecates criticism, and informs us that it was .composed as a plain exhortation addressed to a plain country congregation,' we must inform him that the public would have sustained no loss if he had reserved it for the use of the plain country congre gations in his neighbourhood.

ART. 26.-Reflections on the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ; and of the probable Consequences of a Public Exhibition of his Ascension; which some think necessary to the Credibility of the Fact. By John Bigland. 820. 28. 6d.

Williams. 1803.

The facts of the resurrection and ascension of our Saviour baffle all the attacks of infidelity. Infidels pretend, however, to be displeased with the mode in which they were performed; and would have had them exhibited before the assembled multitudes at Jerusalem. The answer to such cavils is obvious. If the facts be true, he by whose power they were actually performed knew in what manner his purpose might be best accomplished, and the deepest conviction of their truth be impressed on mankind. Still it may give much pleasing instruction to contemplate the effects of the mode adopted by Providence, and to contrast it with the probable effects of that mode which seems wiser to the adversaries of Revelation. This is done in a very judicious and satisfactory manner, in the work before us. The state of the world, at the time of

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the resurrection, is brought before our view; the general plan of Providence is examined and illustrated; the two events are shown to correspond with it; and we have the amplest evidence, not only that the facts recorded took place in the manner described, but that, as we have already observed, this manner was best adapted to the establishment of the truth of these important facts, and their impression upon

the human mind.

ART. 27.-The Christian Hero; or, the Union of Piety and Patriotism enforced; a Sermon, preached in the Chapel of the Foundling-Hospital, July 31st, 1803: by the Rev. John Hewlett, B. D. &c. Published at the Request of the General Committee. 4to. Is. Johnson. 1803.

Since our enemies are not at peace with us, it is inferred that our ways do not please the Lord; and we are exhorted to act in such a manner that our ways may please the Lord, and consequently that our enemies may be at peace with us. An examination into our past conduct will be the first step necessary; and the nature and necessity of it are pointed out with much spirit and patriotism.

ART. 28. The Duty of Britons, at the present awful Crisis of their Country. A Sermon, preached August 7, 1803, by John Overton, A. M. &c. 8vo. 1s. Mawman.

This duty is pointed out in rather a prolix discourse. The patriotism of the preacher is manifest; and the substance of his exhortations may be seen in the subjoined extract, in which every individual will find something to apply to himself.

We must be valiant against sin; valiant in prayer; cheerfully contribute our pecuniary and personal aid; and, in general, must each of us, according to our various talents and opportunities, do our utmost for their advantage. The wicked must reform, the righteous must intercede, the rich must contribute, the wise must deliberate, and the strong must fight. Our purses and our persons, our hearts, heads, and hands, all our faculties and all our energies must be exerted in their cause.' P. 27.

ART. 29.-The Sacred Mirror; or, compendious View of Scripture History: containing a faithful Narration of all the principal Events recorded in the Old and New Testaments, from the Creation of the World to the Death of St. Paul. With a Continuation, from that Period to the final Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. Designed for the mental Improvement of Youth, and particularly adapted to the Use of Schools. By the Rev. Thomas Smith. 12mo. 4s. Boards. Longman and Rees.

1803.

This work, intended for youth, wants the plainness requisite in such a design. Many things are introduced not suited to their capacity; and sufficient attention is not paid to the language. As an abridgement of Scripture-history, and giving the chronology of the Bible, it may be usefully put into the hands of those who have quitted school, and who may from this work derive both entertainment and instruction.