afforded, by defcribing the happiness of a free people under a virtuous prince.

This elaborate difcourfe is, in our opinion, much fuperior to the generality of thofe which have been published on the fubject. Indeed it is not to be regarded merely as a thanksgiving fermon, but likewife as a laudable endeavour to establish, as above intimated, by a new argument, the confiftency of God's foreknowlege with man's free agency; in anfwer to Bishop Watson's objections, delivered in a fermon preached before the Houfe of Lords:-and, fo far, it may be regarded, if we rightly recollect, as a continuation of Dr. Cooper's former difcourfe on Providence.-But, for particulars, we must refer to the fermon itself.

SINGLE SERMONS, on various Occafions,

I. Delivered on Wednesday the 6th of May, 1789, at the MeetingHoufe in the Old Jewry, London, to the Supporters of a New Academical Inftitution among Proteftant Diffenters. By Hugh Worthington, Junior. 8vo. pp. 69. 15. Cadell.

This New Academical Inftitution among Proteftant Diffenters (which now obtains the name of NEW COLLEGE) has hitherto given birth to an annual recommendatory Difcourfe. Drs. Kippis, Price, and Rees, have preached and published on this occafion. Mr. Worthington, Junior, its prefent advocate, fhews himself, in the Dif courfe before us, to be a fenfible preacher; but we will not do him or ourselves fo great an injury as to quote the inftance of false modify with which it commences, as a proof of it. Such a foil, instead of fetting off, is enough to deftroy the effect of his fermon, which contains many pertinent and judicious obfervations, and was, no doubt, well heard by the audience for which it was compofed.

But the part of Mr. W.'s fermon which doubtless afforded most fatisfaction and pleasure to the friends of this New Diffenting College, must have been the public retractation of an opinion once entertained by him, viz. that it was unadvisable to educate Divinity and Lay ftudents together in one houfe. The promifcuous education propofed by this inftitution has, as far as it refpects the Diffenting clergy, been made an objection to it. Some, looking forward to the fituation which the young Divinity ftudent is defigned to occupy in life, have

Some apology is offered in a note (p. 4.) for giving it this name. The term College is ufed, not for the fake of imitating the Establishment, but because the word Academy (applied of late years to every common school) does not convey a proper idea of our plan of educa tion. As to the word College, we think them perfectly juflified in adopting it; nor was any apology neceffary. There was, indeed, no other term for them. But this we cannot fay of the epithet new. A better, we mean a more diftinguishing epithet, might furely without much difficulty have been found. From Mr. Newtor, the principal contributor to it, it might have obtained the name of Newton College; or from its belonging chiefly to Diffenters, and originating with them, the New Diffenting College; but, perhaps they will fay with Pilate, What we have written, we have written.

feared

feared that this expenfive mode of education, affociated with gentlemen's fons, will fruftrate the intention, by raifing his views above the Diffenting Ministry, or at least that it will prevent his being, what perhaps an humbler ftyle of tuition might have made him, "paffing rich, with forty pounds a year." Mr. Worthington thinks the objection groundlefs, and fo far from having any fears on this account, he is now of opinion that real benefits are to be derived to the candidates for the Ministry being educated with youths of fortune. In the Establishment, thefe benefits are obvious, for many a poor clergyman obtains a living in confequence of the connections and friendfhips which he has formed at college; but this cannot happen among Diffenters. Their congregations enjoy the privilege (which every congregation ought to enjoy) of chufing their own minifters. This mode of education, however, may operate favourably in other refpecs but experience muft determine this. We have only to add, that it is an inftitution conducted by very able men on the most liberal principles, and we fincerely hope it will contribute to the diffufion of fcience, and to the practice of virtue.

II. Preached in the Cathedral of St. Peter, York, before Sir John Wilfon, Knight, one of his Majefty's Juftices of the Court of Common Pleas, July 26, 1789. By the Rev. Matthew Raine, A. M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. 4to. Is. Ro

binfons.

The ingenious author has feized the opportunity of an affize fermon for pleading the caufe of Chriftian liberty. He has fixed on a paffage for his text, which is very pertinent to his design: As, xviii. 14, 15. Hence, with a pious generofity of mind, he argues against mere human inpofitions, and urges the removal of all restraints and laws, even fuch as may be affectedly spoken of as old and obfolete, which tend to lay men under any disadvantages merely on account of religious opinions. It is worthy of remark, that though power and policy may refift the writers on this fide of the question, the latter are always victorious in the ufe of reafon and argument. III. Preached at the Anniverfary Meeting of the Sons of the Clergy, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, May 8, 1788. By the Rev. Phipps Wefton, B. D. Canon Refidentiary of Wells, and Rector of Witney, Oxfordshire. 4to. pp. 23. 1s. Rivingtons. The title of this difcourfe is, The Temporal Promifes of the Gospel afferted and maintained, from Matth. vi. 33. It is a spirited and uleful performance. The preacher pleads with energy, in vindication of the methods of Divine Providence, and also in behalf of the charity. He extols, with fome zeal, the merits of the clergy, particularly in refpect to public and national benefits, fuch as, the introduction of Chriftianity, the Reformation, the tranflation of the Scriptures, oppofition to arbitrary power, the fecurity of our prefent happy conftitution, &c. The account is partly true, although thofe who are acquainted with hiftory, well know, that it is to be admitted with confiderable abatements and objections. The inftitution which occafioned the difcourfe is highly worthy of attention. Mr. Wefton recommends it, in an agreeable and interefting manner, with piety, good fenfe, and ardour. We hope the collection was a good one,

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though we do not find it particularly specified in the annexed lift of ftewards, preachers, &c. fince the year 1721. We observe a mistake, or an affectation, which we have occafionally hinted at in our eftablished preachers: it is their practice of making quotations from the Pfalms, from the old verfion in the Book of Common Prayer, inftead of the tranflation in the English Bible, which has occafioned the awkward phrase in this fermon, We wish you good luck in the name of the Lord.

CORRESPONDENCE.

In a letter, figned Crito, the writer fays, in place of the ve nerable and fonorous Linnæus, why do you curtail this immortal man to the infignificant Linné?' In answer to this question, be it known to Crito, that Linné, and not Linnæus, was the real name of this immortal man.' We affert this on very good authority; viz. that of his own fignature.

*+* J. T. informs us, that inftead of faying, in our account of the Tufcan Code of Laws (Review for Auguft laft) that it was not to be fold, we should have said, that, on paying the price of binding only, it is diftributed gratis.'

+++ If an accidental reader,' inftead of pretending to queftion the grammar of a critical pen,' had confulted his own grammar, he would have found (which he does not feem to know) that what is an adjective, and that an adjective muft always be joined to a fubftantive. Where, therefore, the fubftantive is not expreffed, it is underftood; and in the cafe to which he refers, the word which ought to be underflood, is of the fingular number. His objection, confequently, is invalid.

The other criticism of this correfpondent is no lefs abfurd than the preceding. It is not our bufinefs to correct the titles of publications, in order to render them confiftent with the contents.

t.t Benevolus enquires whether the pronoun which should not be changed to who, in the Lord's Prayer, as expreffing it more grammatically. Benevolus is certainly right in this correction.-He also remarks, fhould the principle of leading us into temptation be attributed to the benevolence of the Deity?' Certainly not. The tranflators fhould have rendered the paffage thus: lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil, &c. Or, more clearly, the meaning is this lead us not into any temptation without delivering us from the evil of it, &c.

1. T. C. is right in fuppofing that the work which he mentions, had escaped our notice; but we thall enquire for it.

tit We acknowlege the receipt of the very polite letter, figned Cantabrigienfis. We are obliged to the writer for the information contained in his P.S.; and are truly forry that we cannot inform him where a copy of Mr. Glaffe's Greek Caractacus can be procured.

+ We are forry that, in the prefent inftance at leaft, we do not deferve the compliment paid to us in the conclufion of the polite letter figned Amicus; for we are not able to give him the information which he requires; viz. Whether a tranflation of Dr. Zimmermann's book concerning Frederick the Great, published at Leipzig in 1788, is likely to appear in England.

1st The letter of Mr. David Young of Perth is received. His conjectures are as ill-founded as his illiberal infinuations are undeferving the notice of the Authors of the Monthly Review. To enter into a particular correfpondence with every Author, who may be dif fatisfied with our remarks, would be to engage in an Herculean labour indeed, from which no utility or fatisfaction whatever could be expected. The modesty of Mr. Young is not more confpicuous in making fuch a propofal, than is his judgment in expecting that it could be complied with.

++ Our thanks are due to Mr. David Levi for his information concerning his new edition of the Pentateuch.-An account of that work fhall foon appear in our Review. Juftice requires us to inform our readers, that our animadverfions on a paffage in this Author's Lingua Sacra were founded on an error of the prefs. It is there afferted, that" there are fome fæminine plural nouns which end in ♫ and have Segol before it." But Mr. L. now informs us, that the word plural fhould be expunged, and our objections to the paffage will then be entirely removed. With respect to the other matters contained in Mr. L.'s letter, we muft affure him that our opinions, with which he appears to be fo much diffatisfied, were at firit not haftily formed; and now, upon maturer deliberation, we do not confider them as ill founded.

*See M. R. for April 1789, p. 290.

+ F. K. has our thanks for his friendly information refpecting the two old Medical Tracts noticed in Art. 22. of our last month's Catalogue. We had fome recollection of having feen them before; but the Author's name being now with-held, we could not avail ourselves of the advantage and affiftance of our General Index; in which, vol. i. p. 392, these tracts will be found, in the Medical clafs, under NEWMAN: the Author having fuffered his name to accompany the first publication of his pamphlets.

§§ If G. B. will turn to our General Index, vol. i. p. 162, he will there find a complete lift of the feveral publications, in the controverfy relative to the 15th and 16th chapters of GIBBON's Roman Hiftory. Among the feveral Answers to Mr. G thofe of Dr. Watfon, Mr. Davies, and Mr. Taylor, fhould be diftinguished. The first is the most concife.' .

We have received a copy of Dr Krauter's Supplement to the Examination of Mr. Levi's Objections, in his Letters to Dr. Priestley; but we recollect nothing of the Examination itself; nor do we know where to enquire for it. When both the parts of Dr. K.'s publication are before us, they will be duly noticed.

It The letter from Evesham is tranfmitted to the Gentleman in our foreign connexion, to whofe Article, in our laft Appendix, it bears reference; and whofe refidence is on the continent. An anfwer may be expected in due time. The fame may be noted, with respect to the Letter from Liverpool, figned Ferri, concerning the annual preduce of iron in Sweden.

It Due attention will be paid to Mr. Glaffe's Letter (with others) in our next.

THE learned and induftrious Mademoiselle DE KERALIO, of whofe Hiftoire d'Elizabeth, and Collection des meilleurs Ouvrages Frasfois, composés par des Femmes, we have recently given accounts, does not behold the present struggle for liberty, in her own country, with an indifferent eye; nor allow her pen to remain inactive in so great and animating a caufe. She has published at Paris, a periodical Sheet, to which the gives the title of Le Journal d'Etat & du Citoyen. At first, it made its appearance every Thursday; but, in Number 7. we are informed that, at the preffing folicitations of the subscribers, a Number will be delivered to them regularly every Sunday and Thurfday; which will then confift of only eight pages, with a Supplement, at times, as before. It is, in one word, A REVIEW,-princ pally, at this juncture, of the works which are now pouring forth from the liberated preffes of France, relative to the grand fubject of THE CONSTITUTION; and giving, at the end of each Number, an account of the chief events of the week, and of the principal objects which occupy the attention of the National Affembly.

In the true style of a perfon exulting in a recent delivery from the terrors of defpotifm and the chains of flavery, Mademoiselle DE K.

exclaims :

La liberté nous eft rendue. Nous nous flattons d'avoir de ce grand bienfait un fentiment trop vrai pour en abuser. Nous NE CONFONDRONS JAMAIS LA LIBERTE AVEC LA LICENCE.'

If the fair writer here meant to answer only for herself and colleagues, we doubt not that the will act up to her declaration; but if fhe patriotically ventured to declare this in the name of her countrymen and countrywomen, we are truly forry that he has not been able to give due force to her words. But we cannot expect that great events will be brought about eafily, quickly, nor without violence, and even barbarities. We truft, however, that our Gallic neighbours will purfue, with difcretion, as well as energy, all fuch meafures as may tend to establish the glorious caufe for which they are ftruggling. May fuccefs crown the endeavours of the friends of freedom in every quarter of the globe; and may the clouds and mists of ignorance and of fuperftition, ever attendant on tyranny and defpotifm, vanish before the cheering beams of irradiating LIBERTY!

Subfcriptions for the Journal d'Etat & du Citoyen, we obferve, are taken in by M. de Boffe, Bookfeller, Gerard Street, Sobo; of whole diligence and dispatch, in executing commiffions of this kind, we have had frequent experience.

• We have not, lately, received any additional volumes of this work.

Review for July, p. 50, the price of The Correspondence

ould be 95.