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ecution further means will be resorted to for placing the country in such a state of security, as will afford a satisfactory assurance of being able, under providence, to resist every attempt of the enemy to invade us. 40,000 seamen were also voted for his Majesty's service, in addition to the 80,000 which had been already granted, making in all 120,000.

On the 13th instant, the Chancellor of the Exchequer proceeded to state the sums voted for public service, and the means by which they were to be raised, viz.

Navy....
Army

Vote of credit.

Ordnance.

SUPPLIES.

cent. ad valorem on all teas, calculated at £.1,300,000.; an additional £.10. per pipe on wine, estimated at £.500,000.; an increase of 50 per cent. on the existing duties both on foreign and home spirits, expected to yield £.1,500,000.; and a farther duty on malt of 2s. per bushel, which it is supposed will produce £.2,700,000.

The tax on property Mr. Addington proposed to raise by laying on the net rent of land one shilling in the pound to be paid by the proprietor, and nine-pence in the pound to be paid by the tenant; by laying also a rate of five per cent. on all dividends, except those received by foreigners; and a similar rate, subject to various modifica....10,210,000 tions, on the rents of houses, the profits of 11,751,000 trade, and the income derived from sala2,000,000 ries and professions. 1,280,000

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The increase in the customs was stated to consist of an additional duty on sugar of four shillings per hundred weight; and of twelve and a half per cent. on the existing duties on all imports, calculated to yield together £.1,300,000; a duty of one per cent. ad valorem on all goods exported to any part of Europe, and of three per cent. on exports to all other parts, taken at £.460,000; a duty on cotton wool exported, estimated at £.250,000; and a farther tonnage duty on shipping, expected to yield £.150,000.

The proprosed increase in the excise consisted of an additional duty of 45 per

The loan was contracted for on the following terms, viz. for every £.100. £.80. consols and £.80. reduced, each valued at 584 and 6s. 5d. long ann. which with the discount of £.2. 6s. 3d. made £.101, 6s. 6d. yielding a bonus of £.1. 6s. 6d. to the

contractors. The interest on the loan including the one per cent. for the extinction of the capital would amount to £.676,583. To provide for this sum the receipt tax was to be so increased as to raise £.220,000*; additions were to be made to the consolidated customs in the bill now before parliament, which would amount to £.220,000 more; and regulations were to be adopted with respect to the assessed taxes, which would produce £.250,000, making in all £.690,000. These regulations were to consist in consolidating all the acts for raising the assessed taxes, and simplifying the move of collec tion. To counteract the artifices employed to evade the window tax, all windows exceeding certain dimensions should be charged double. On servants and labourers employed for husbandry or trade, but occasionally employed as gardeners or as menial servants in the care of a horse, &c. a tax should be charged of five shillings per annum. An additional tax of two guineas per annum should be laid on race horses; and of half the present duty on carriages upon every additional body occasionally attached to the same wheels. And lastly, one guinea annually should be laid upon every rider, book-keeper, warehouseman, or shopman, employed by persons in trade.

that he had been under the necessity of A message from his Majesty announced, recalling his ambassador from the Hague, and issuing letters of marque and reprisals against the Batavian Republic.

*Receipts from £.2. and under £.10. to pay two pence ; under £.20. four pence; under £.50. six pence; under £.100. one shilling; under £.200. two shillings; under £.500. three shillings; and all above, five shillings.

DEATHS.

HIS MAJESTY THE KING OF ETRURIA, of the effects of a disease, by which he has been long afflicted. The Queen has been declared regent.-Moniteur.

June 4. At Forglen, Scotland, the Right Honourable WILLIAM LORD BANFF.

June 5. At the Earl of Derby's, in Grosvernor-square, Mrs. FARREN, mother to the Countess of Derby.

June 7. At Bridgend, in Glamorganshire, aged 78, Mrs. MORGAN, a sister of the late Dr. Price.

June 9. In Lower Grosvernor-street, the Right Rev. H. R. COURTENAY, Lord Bishop of Exeter.

A few days since, after a short indisposition, the Rev. Mr. PORTEUS, nephew of the Bishop of London, Rector of Wickham Bishop, in Essex, and one of the Prebendaries of St. Paul's. It is remarkable, that the lady of Mr. Porteus died suddenly at her father's house, at Cambridge, within a few hours after the dissolution of her husband.

At Euston-hall, in Suffolk, in her 22nd year, LADY CAROLINE FITZROY, sixth daughter of the Duke of Grafton.

May 22. Mrs. ANNE CRANMER, of Jermyn-street, aged 71.

June 3. In Cavendish-square, in the 43d year of his age, the Right Honourable GEORGE MURRAY, D. D. Bishop of St. Da

vid's. His Lordship was brother to the Duke of Athol.

May 21. At Hazlewood, in the county of Sligo, the Earl of INNISKILLEN. His Lordship was on a visit at the time to his son-in-law, Owen Wynne, Esq. He had been attacked by the influenza, but was considered as recovered, and was in the act of putting on his coat when he died.

May 23. At Ellell-Hall, near Lancaster, ABRAM RAWLINSON, Esq. aged 65, many years Representative in Parliament for that

town.

May 26. In Bloomsbury-square, aged 88, the Dowager LADY DUCKINFIELD, widow of the late Sir Samuel Duckinfield, Bart.

In Mansfield-street, aged 73, Mrs. TRAPAUD, relict of the late General Trapaud.

The Reverend J. ASTLEY, of Thornage, Norfolk.

Mr. C. LEIR, of Leonard Stanley, son of the Reverend T. Leir, of Ditcheat. His death was occasioned by a fall at the side of a water-wheel while in motion, which deprived him of life almost instantaneously.

In Southampton-place, Capt. SAMUEL RUTHERFORD, surviving his Lady only twelve days.

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE excellent suggestions of PHILO-NEPIOS will obtain as early an admission as possible.

The poetry of Navixos, and the paper of ADOLESCENS, are below par.

We shall endeavour to find a place for INSPECTOR; T. S.; PHILALETHES; the Earl of Stafford's Letters; and NE QUID NIMIS.

In reply to J. L. we beg leave to observe, that we do not profess to review all books which are sent to us.

The reply of PAULINUS to CLERICUS JUVENIS On Rom. vii. 14. in our next.

The request of DIACONUS cannot be complied with. There is an English edition of the Confessions of St. Augustine by Stanhope, which is very common.

The corrections of TWELFTH DAY shall be attended to in due time.

A FRIEND TO TRUTH; C. X.; T. W.; and H. have been received, and are under consideration.

Bishop Hall has answered in the negative the Question of GRADUATUS; Whether it be the duty of a clergyman to visit his parishioners under malignant and contagious disorders? We do not mean, however, to say, that his opinion is decisive.

ERRATA.

Number 17, page 261, col, 2, line 19, for I have read Have.

294, col. 2, line 45, for actually read eventually.
300, col. 1, line 4 from bottom, for to read of.
col. 2, line 5 from bottom, for hearts read heart.

Top of the last page, for 234 read 324.

Number 18, page 370, add to the note at the bottom of the page--The term infinite, when applied to power, must, however, be understood not to extend to things in themselves impossible, such as that two and two should make seven, or that a thing should both be and not be at the same time. It is also said of God in the Scriptures, that he" cannot lie."

POSTSCRIPT.

THE following Letter from the respectable Author of Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq. did not reach us till a period of the month, when we could insert it with facility only in this place. We were unwilling to delay its publication.

To the Editor of the Christian Observer. in the printed text from which I quot

SIR,

THE favourable notice which you have taken of my labours, in conjunction with those of Mr. Sharp, induces me to request the insertion in your Magazine of the following letter.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient servant, THE AUTHOR OF SIX LETTERS, &c.

ed. In offering our acknowledgments for a favour conferred, it is justly accounted impolite to extenuate that favour, and to shew how small is its value; for this detection, therefore, I beg leave, without interposing any reserve or demur, to return you my thanks. But this is all. In every other particular I maintain what I have written (so far, I mean, as it has been assailed by you,) without exception or relaxation; and in no other

To the Author of Six more Letters to point am I enabled to profess my obli

SIR,

Granville Sharp, Esq.*

THE many observations which you have bestowed upon my "Six Letters to Granville Sharp, Esq." in your "Six more Letters" to that gentleman, may seem to give to my readers, and I have no great objection to say, that they give to you some claim to be informed what impressions have been made on my mind by your animadversions.

Your letters then, in the first place, have, in no degree, lessened my opinion of the truth of Mr. Sharp's rule,, and of the value and importance of that discovery. It is, however, a disappointment to me, that I cannot go further; that I cannot proceed to say, that your researches have contributed to give additional evidence and stability to Mr. Sharp's theory; an event which might, perhaps, have followed had that theory found a more learned and more logical adversary.

But with regard to my own more particular concerns, I speak it, not without due deliberation, and well knowing what I say, that, in my judgment, you have not shewn that I have been guilty of any error, of any misrepresentation, of any false reasoning, whether great or small, one instance of inadvertency alone excepted. It appears, that in my extract from St. Cyril of Alexandria (Six Letters, p. SO), I have inserted the article Tov before Xgotou, which does not exist

gations to you for any new stores or materials which may contribute, in any way, to the decision of the important subject of our respective lucubrations.

Again-With so little occasion to retract, I feel also very little inclination to recriminate; to shew what you have, or what you have not done; to point out your deficiencies, errors, misrepresentations, and inconsistencies. I think, indeed, that they were, all of them, both very great and very rumerous. But you have hinted to us, that you write not for incompetent readers. "I am not writing, you say, for school-boys." Sir, if bubes and boys do not read your book, I shall be well contented to leave you to the judgment and censure of others. If men are to be your readers, I can have little concern or solicitude about them.

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* See a Review of these Letters at page 363 of the present Number.

CHRISTIAN OBSERVER.

No. 19.

JULY, 1803.

[No. 7. VOL. II.

Religious Communications.

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FOURTH LETTER OF IGNATIUS.

GNATIUS, who is also called Theophorus, to the Church of God the Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ, which hath obtained mercy, and is confirmed in holy concord and fellowship.

I have known your bishop, who obtained his ministry, not of himself, neither by men, nor through vain glory, but in the love of God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ, whose modesty is truly admirable, and whose silence carries with it more authority than the loquacity of others; for he is fitted to the exercise of discipline as chords are adapted to the lyre. Happy is he in the firmness of his mind, tempered with lenity and free from anger, according to the gentleness and long suffering of God. Ye, therefore, children of the light and truth, flee from divisions and false doctrines; and wherever the shepherd is, follow him like sheep for there are many wolves, accounted worthy of credit, who by the seductions of pleasure, lead captive those who were running the divine race. But where concord is such shall obtain no place.

Abstain from noxious herbs, which Christ hath not watered, because they have not been planted by his heavenly Father. Not that I have found division among you, but diligence in your spiritual husbandry; for as many as belong to God and Christ adhere to their bishop, and as many as by true repentance return to the unity of the Church, to live according to the rule of Christ, these also belong to God. Do not err, my beloved brethren; if any man follow a leader of schism, he shall not obtain the inheritance of God.

Endeavour, therefore, to join in one and the same Eucharist; for there is one flesh of our Lord Jesus Christ, and one cup in the unity of his blood, as there is one bishop and one body CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 19.

of the presbytery and deacons my fellow servants, in order that by their ministry ye may do all things agreeably to God.

My brethren, I am greatly enlarged in heart through love of you, and in that spirit I labour to establish_and make you safe: yet not I but Jesus Christ in whom I am bound, though yet imperfect*, and therefore subject to fear. But your prayers shall make me perfect, that through mercy I may attain to the lot appointed for me, flying to the Gospel as to the flesh of Jesus, and to the Apostles as to the elders of the Church. But let us also love the prophets, for that they were the harbingers of the Gospel, and hoped in Christ, and waited for his day; by faith in whom they have obtained mercy, being sanctified through love, having received an honourable testimony from Christ himself, and being numbered with us in the common hope of the Gospel. Yet if any one preach to you Judaical doctrine, receive him not; for it behoveth a circumcised man to hear the Gospel, not an uncircumcised to hear the law. But if either they who preach the one or the other forbear to preach Christ, they are the monuments of the dead, that retain only a name. Flee, therefore, from the snares of the prince of this world, lest being overcome by his devices ye wax cold in love. But be of one heart and mind.

I thank my God that I have the testimony of a good conscience towards you all; neither can any man boast openly or in secret that, in any thing small or great, he hath been oppressed by me. But I pray that no one of all them, among whom I have

tyrdom: an early sympton of growing

*Perfection was then ascribed to Mar

superstition.

+I do not know how the Gospel can be preached without Christ, be this appears to be the sense of the original.

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spoken, may have that witness turned against himself.

For although certain persons have laboured to seduce me according to the flesh, yet the spirit which proceedeth from God is not seduced; for that spirit knoweth whence it cometh and whither it goeth, and searcheth the secrets of the heart. When I was among you I cried with a loud voice, yea, as it were, with the voice of God, "Hearken to your bishop, to the presbytery, and to the deacons." Some suspected that I said this from a foresight of divisions which should arise: but he, in whom I am bound, is witness that I learned it not from man, but from the spirit, which said, "Without your bishop do nothing." Keep your own bodies as the temples of God: flee from strife, and be ye imitators of Christ as he is of the Father.

In what I did I acted in conformity with the character of one who loved unity; for where wrath and division are found, God dwelleth not: but God is gracious to all that repent and return to that unity which is in him. I entreat you, however, to do nothing in the spirit of contention, but according to the discipline of Christ; for I hear some who said, if it is not written in the Christian Archives I believe it not; and when I urged that it was written, I was answered, it does not occur*. But Jesus Christ, his cross, and death, and resurrection, and faith in him are my archives, by which I desire to be justified through the benefit of your prayers.

The priesthood is an excellent institution, but far more excellent is the high priest of our profession, to whom are committed the secret things of God. He is the gate unto the Father, through whom enter in Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the Prophets, the Apostles, and the whole Church. All these things pertain unto divine unity. But the Gospel hath something still more excellent, namely, the coming, passion, and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. He was, indeed, foretold by the beloved prophets, but the Gospel is the perfection of immortality.

Since, in conformity with your prayers, I am assured that the Church * Something, undoubtedly, may be allowed to tradition so near the fountain head. But the text here is very corrupt and uncertain.

of Antioch in Syria is now at peace, it becomes you as the Church of God to chuse a deacon, in order to discharge an holy embassy to that place, that when ye are gathered together, he may rejoice, and glorify God together with you. Blessed will he be in Jesus Christ, who shall be accounted worthy of such a ministry. Neither will this service be impossible unto you, if ye are so minded, as some neighbouring Churches have sent bishops, and some priests and deacons.

Philo, the Cilician deacon, a man greatly commended, who now ministers to me in the word of God, and Rhæus Agathopodes, a chosen vessel, who accompanies me from Syria, renouncing his own life, bear testimony concerning you. I give thanks unto God that ye have received them, as he also hath received you. May those who have injured them be delivered through the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The love of our brethren in the Troad salute you, from whence I write this letter by Burrhus, who was sent out of respect to attend upon me, by the Churches of Ephesus and Smyrna. May Christ, who is their hope in flesh and spirit, in faith, love, and concord, recompence them with ho nour. Farewell in the same Lord Jesus, our common hope.

To the Editor of the Christian Observer. ALTHOUGH I freely admit the liberty of every individual, who discovers a reverence for the sacred scriptures, to propose what interpretation he may think proper of any particular part of them; and although I should consider myself altogether without excuse, were I to indulge an uncharitable opinion, or use illiberal language, towards such an one, on account of any interpretation of scripture, differing from my view of its meaning, I must take the liberty to observe, that your correspondent, in his interpretation of Rom. vii. 14. to the end, (Christian Observer, Vol. II. p. 265,) has paid no attention to some material objections, which lie against his view of the subject. These objections I will state in as few words as possible; and I rely upon your professed, and indeed acknowledged, impartiality for the insertion of them.

The expressions by which St. Paul, in this passage of his writings, de

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