favour of Providence, give fecurity and permanence to thofe advantages and that comparative happinefs which are the natural confequences of a deliverance from the miferies of war. In proof that we were compelled into the war. the preacher ppeals to Mr. Marth's Vindication one Politicks of Great Britain and France, reviewed vol. LXXI. p. 252; and he contends that 66 Reafon cannot difapprove, nor does Chriflianity condemn, the voice of him who calls upon his countrymen to protect with their fwords their government, their property, their religion, and their laws. The effect of the appeal to the valour and loyalty of our countrymen is a fubject on which there can be no difpute." "And may they, who thus generoufly preffed forward in the hour of danger to protect their property, their liberty, their religion, every thing dear to them as men, as patriots, as Chriftians, enjoy that reward which is most valuable and gratifying to a good and virtuous mind, the approbation of their own confcience, and the gratitude of their country." (p. 10.) Mr. G. proceeds to fhew, that "benevolence is the characteristick of this nation. The Emigrant Clergy, notwithstanding a few folitary inftances of injudicious and intemperate zeal, maintained a general good character, as can be particularly attefied by the inhabitants of Winchefter. The barrier raifed by us has fecured to the world the poffeffion of focial order and rational fubordination. Nor, at the termination of a war which has coft Europe fo much blood and treasure, has Great Britain any caufe to fhrink from a retrospect: our naval fuperiority is confirmed beyond all precedent; our commerce increafed beyond all calculation; our Eaft-India dominion extended and feeured by the complete fubjugation of that power which used to co-operate with France; and an union with Ireland established. Such we believe the

public fituation of this country to have been, and fuch the general fentiments of its inhabitants, when it pleased the Almighty of his goodnefs to difpofe the hearts of our enemics to liften to the fuggeftions of reafon and humanity, and to refiore to the wearied and afflicted world the bleffings of peace." (pp. 19, 20.) Our obligations to fecure its continuance will be beft fulfilled in the performance of our duty, praying and labouring for the advance

"The

ment of Chrift's kingdom, the princi-
pal obftructions to which appear to
have arifen from the extended powers
of Popery and Mahometanism.
former we have feen completely hum-
bled and degraded; nor does the tem-
porary protection which the fupreme
governor of France has thought proper
to afford it, by giving it what he calls
a new exiftence, appear likely, either if
we confider the nature of this existence,
or the change in the manners and fen-
timents of the people, to enable it to
recover any confiderable portion of that
authority and influence which it once
poffeffed. The unwieldy empire of the
Crefcent is haftening to a speedy diffo-
lution."

194. Anfawer to Mr. Jofeph Vanhoven's Letters on the prefent State of the Jewish Poor in London; in which fome of his bafty Miftakes are rectified: with a Word to R. Colquhoun, Efq. on the Subject of the Jews, as treated in his "Police of the Metropolis;" with an introductory Letter, fetting in a confpicuous View fome of the Jewish Bye-laws, as obferved at prefent; and an exact Copy of the Bill now before Parliament for bettering the State of the indigent Jews. By L. Alexander. Printed by and for the Author.

MR. A. fiates a variety of cogent objections to the plan propofed by Mr. V. which certainly deferve the attention of all parties concerned in ing on this public-fpirited and well-intended undertaking.

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A Letter to Abraham Goldsmid, Efq. containing Strictures on Mr. Joshua Vanhoven's Letters on the prefent Sate of the Jewish Poor; pointing out the Impracticability of ameliorating their Condition through the Medium of Taxation and Coercion. With a Plan for erecting a Jewith College or Seminary, &c. By Philo-Judæis.

THIS public-fpirited Hebrew offers very different plan from that propofed p. 842.

197. The Hiftory and Antiquities of the Pa-
rifb of St. David, South Wales; the most
antient Documents collected from the Bod
leian Library. To which is annexed, a
corre Lift of the Archbishops, Bishops, &c.
who have filled that See Embellished with
Plates, in Aquatinta, from Drawings made
on the Spot. By George W. Manby, Ef
MR. M.'s" reafon for compiling
this account," he tells the prefent Bi-
fhop of St. David's, to whom he in-
fcribes it, "was, that by an innocent,
if not ufeful purfuit, he might expel
from his mind a melancholy, the effect
of heavy calamities by which it had
long been opprefled; a confideration
fufficient, he trufts, to influence all of
a ferious and devout difpofition to over-
look its faults.--The monaftery was
founded, A.D. 470, by St. Patrick, in
the place of his birth, and a metro-
politan fee was established here A. D.
546, in which 25 archbishops fat till
A. D. 615, when Samfon, for fear of
the plague, transferred it to Dole, in
Brittany; and his fucceffors transfer-
red the little remaining archiepifcopal
power to the Archbishop of Canter-
bury. The prefent church was, in a
great degree, the work of Bp. Peter de
Lien, 1180, and continued by his fuc-
ceffor; but great part of it was thrown
down by an earthquake, 1248. "The
fee of St. David has had 116 archbi-
fhops and bishops. Among whom it
is reputed to have had one faint, three
lord chancellors of England, one lord
treasurer, one lord privy-feal, one
chancellor of the University of Ox-
ford, and one chancellor to a queen.
It is a privilege peculiar to this church,
that the king and its archbishop are
prebendaries thereof." (p. 18.) From
the Weft door to the keeple is 121 feet,
and the middle aile refting on five
beautiful Saxon arches on very thick
pillars. The monuments are, of Bi-
hops Morgan, Gower, two others un-
known, Jowerth, Anfelm, John Mor-
gan. In the chancel an altar-tomb to
Edmund Earl of Richmond, fon of
Henry VII. and two figures of Rees
and Owen Tudor, befides the shrine
of St. David. In the North tranfept
of St. Andrew's chapel have been
found a rude relief of that faint, and
another of a demon offering a child to a
venerable perfon at an altar; but, whe-
ther the etching reprefents this last, or
fome of the ufual ornaments of the
feats in the falls, the author muft ex-
plain. The choir is handfomely paved

with coloured bricks in Mofaic of the time of Earl Edmund, and the wooden cieling painted with coats of arms. A tomb, which had brafs plates, is afcribed to Rhus, fon of Griffin Prince of South Wales, 1198. In the North wall of the North aile, or cloifter, feveral monuments of knights-templars of the name of Wogan. At the Eaft end, behind the high altar, was Bithop Vaughan's chapel, in the ftyle of Henry the VIIth's chapel, 16 feet by 36; the bishop had a brafs figure and epitaph, inlaid. Eastward, beyond this chapel, is that of our Lady, 22 feet by 44, the roof fallen down by the taking of the lead in the civil war, and its carved keyftones preferved In it are monuments of Bifhops Martin and Houghton, and one Silvefter, a phyfician. The whole cathedral is in excellent repair, and the fervice well conducted by the liberal attention of the chapter, who have vefted the direction in the prefent refidentiary. On the North fide of the church are remains of a beautiful college built by John of Gaunt and Bp. Houghton. Welt of the cathedral is the new chapter-house, 42 feet long, where the chapter, at their audit, give their entertainments, and an audit-room of finaller fize, all in the modern Gothic fivle. "Over the river Allan, to the South-weft, are feen the proud remains of the bishop's palace, built by Bithop Gower, inclofed with a wall, in which were four gates, only one remaining, There are only two houfes, annexed to the church, worth remarking, one inhabited by the refidentiary, the other, the oldeft, by the archdeacon of Brecon. The town of St. David's wears a very forry appearance; had two weekly markets and four fairs, and five fireets; feveral chapels remain in and about it, near the fea-fide; and it has a final quay for fhipping, called Port Clais, about a mile from the town. About St. David's head are found St. David's diamonds, or pellucid cryftals; and on a plain a little dif tant is a Cromlech of one fione, 12 feet long and 8 broad, and averaged at 2 feet thick, refting on one of feveral ftones. Carns are feen in various places. At the foot of a high moun tain called Carn Llydy is a rockingftone, now unpoifed. The air is pure, and the inhabitants long-lived. The diocefe contains the whole counties of Pembroke, Cardigan, Caermarthen,

Brecknock,

The little effect the twofold judgments of God, war and famine, appear to have produced on ourfelves, leaves room for trembling. "Thefe convulfions and calamities, which are to fubvert the old order of things, are the fubject of prophecy; and the antichriftian monarchies of Europe, the Papacy and the Mahometan power, are particularly marked out for deftruction in the prophecies of Daniel." Already the vengeance appears to have fallen on fome of them; but, whit there remains in what is fubftituted any thing which partakes of their nature, the ruin is not perfect. And have we feen one or more of thefe nonarchies perifh which have given their power to the beat? then may we expect foon to fee the overthrow of the reft, though not indeed inftantaneously. There are, indeed, prophecies which feem to intimate as though thirty years were to be employed in the deftruction of the fourth monarchy, or at least of the Papacy, and perhaps of the Turkish power, and forty-five years more for other awful purpofes, preparatory to the blessed difpenfation we look for, as may be gathered from Dan. xii compared with other prophecies." (pp. 28, 29.)

200. Chriftian Principles the only Foundation of confiftent Virtue: a Sermon, preached at St. Edmund's Bury, before the Hon. Sir Nah Grofe. Kot at the Aljizes held bere for the County of Suffolk, March 20, 1802. By the Rev. George Mathew, M. A. Chaplain to the High Sheriff.

THE axiom in the title is eftablifhed from the text, Luke xvi. 15. Falfe notions and opinions, and the falfe justification of them, are held up in their true lights. Such are, improper education, mittaken public character, the amaffing of wealth, falfe honour, the fuppofed harmletlnefs of railing or indulging the licentious paffions by inroper and indecent publications, the lefilement of the marriage-bed, and all the extravagant theories into which men are led when once they depart from the written Word of God. Ansexed is a note, exhibiting from the Jeport of Lucien Bonaparte, on the organization of religion in France.

201. A Sermon, preached in the Cathedral
Church of St. Paul, before the Lord Mayor,
Julges, Aldermen, Sejants at Law, the
Sheriffs, and the City Officers, on Sunday,
GENT. MAG. October, 1802.

May 6, 1802, being the fift Sunday in
Eafter Term. By the Rev. John Hutchins,
Chaplain to bis Lendship.

·FROM 1 Epif. Cor. xv. part 34, Mr. H. points out the caufes of the lamentable want of the knowledge of God, fo prevalent among us: imperfect information of the doctrines of religion; want of religious inftruction; prevalence of bad example; exittence and circulation of impious writings and indecent prints.

202. A Thanksgiving Sermon for the Peace, preached June 1, 1802. By the Rev. J. H. Williams, LL.B. Vicar of Wellesburne, Warwickshire.

AFTER an attentive perufal of this difcourte, from Rom. xiv. 19, we cannot find any reafon why it fhould be circulated beyond the pulpit or the parifh where it was delivered, though it refers to "three faft fermons, by the fame vicar, on the fame fubject."

203. A Serman, preached in the Parife Church of Woburn, March 14, 1802, the Sunday after the Interment of the late Moft Noble Francis Duke of Bedford. By Edmund Cartwright, M. 4. Rector of GoadbyMarwood, Leicestershire, and Prebendary of Lincoln.

THE fhortnefs and uncertainty of human life is here confidered, from Job xiv. 2, and applied to the truly noble and molt excellent perfon the fubject of it, the memory of whole virtues fhall long continue, as, in his private, as well as in his public, character, his ruling motive of action was to do good, and, in the regulation and

ernment of his temper, and his modefiy in appreciating his talents, he had no equal.

204 The Triumphs of Christianity over In

fidelity displayed: or, the Coming of the
Meffiah the true Key to the right Under-
fandling of the most difficult Passages in the
New Tejament; viz. of the Predictions of
the Coming of the Meffiah, of St. Paul's
Man of Sin, of the Antichrift of St. John,
and of the fare Word of Prophecy of St.
Peter: being a full Answer to the Objec
- tion of Mr. Gibson, that our Lord and bis
Ap files predicted the near Approach of the
Find of the World in beir own Time.
Whole being intended as an Illuflration
the N ceffity and importance of confidering
the Gipel as Hit ries, and particularly as
Hiflories of the great Chiravefy between
our Lord and the Jews, conserning the true
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