Observations on the Exercise of Riflemen, and on the Movements of Light. Troops in THIS little publication, from the pen of a gentleman who has been for fome time employed in the inftruction of different Rifle Corps, is much deferving of commendation. Its rules are fimple and explicit, and cannot fail of being serviceable. A Serious Address to the Public, upon the present Times; but more particularly to the religious Part of it. 8vo. 8vo. PP. 68. 1s. Rivingtons. THIS truly pious and impreffive Addrefs deferves the ferious perufal of every member of every clafs of fociety. A Friendly Address to the labouring Part of the Community, concerning the present State of Public Affairs in Church and State. 8vo. PP. 46. Hatchard. THIS is really what it profeffes to be, and is well adapted to the understandings of that part of fociety to which it is immediately addressed. Proofs of Holy Writ; or, England's Triumph over Bonaparte [Buonaparte] and his Armada, foretold, in Express Terms, Seventeen Hundred Years ago. 8vo. PP. 19. 6d. Badcock. THE manner of this performance is much too flippant and dogmatical for the fubject. The writer, however, as will presently be obvious, is not void of ingenuity. He confiders, that, by the beaft with seven heads, is fignified the empire which was founded by Charlemagne, and that the respective heads apply to the feven kingdoms of which that empire was compofed. "This then being fo," he oblerves, "it is not unnatural to conclude that France, which was indeed the principal and feat of that empire, is fignified by the head which was wounded. The words are very expreffive: And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.' Verse 13. Wounded to death indeed was that unhappy country during the first years of the revolution; nor in the bloodieft page of hiftory can a period be found to which this forcible expreffion will fo juftly apply. But when the reared her head above the ocean of gore that deluged her plains, and bade the tide of human blood cease to flow; when, exerting all her energies, the repelled and difcomfited the nations that were combined against her, then, indeed, might her deadly wound be faid to be healed; then, indeed, did all the world wonder after the beast." Unlike the late Mr. Galloway, in his "Commentaries upon the Revelations,” our author, inftead of confidering the other beaft to be fignificant of revolutio nary France, endeavours to identify it with Buonaparté. He explains its "two horns like a lamb," " to represent a growing power, weak and contemptible at firft, like the horns of a lamb, but approaching every day more and more towards ftrength and maturity." Our author, however, agrees 1 with Mr. Galloway in one point, viz. that the "mark" which the beaft cauled all to receive, has " a palpable allufion to the national cockade and cap of liberty."- "And that no man might buy or fell, fave he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Ver. 17. "Could any words," afks the writer, "be found to express more strongly the measures now adopted by the First conful? Befides his own, and thole of his allies, are not the ports of every neutral power, that is unable to refift his defpotic orders, clofed against the British, the only nation in Europe that disdain to fiand coolly by, and view his gigantic ftrides towards univerfal empire?" We now proceed to our author's grand explanation of the number of the beast. Having noticed the folution of Irenæus, that the word Aaravos exactly amounts to the given number 666, if the letters be taken in Greek numerals, he fays "Here the learned and pious writer has not explained to us the mode by which this interefting prophecy is to be folved, but has, at the same time, given us reafon to conclude, that the general belief of that age was, that it referred to fome man, who in after ages fhould arife, or be born in Latium. What elfe could by poffibility have led him to fix on the word Aatevos, or man of Latium? Surely this of it elf, coming from fuch high authority, would, if other more pofitive proof were wanting, afford ftrong ground for affigning this prediction to Bonaparte [Buonaparté]; who may, without any great licence, or ftretch of language, be called a Latinus, or Italian, as a native of Corfica, which, at the time the Revelations were written, was under the dominion of Rome, and which, from its situation, manners, and language, may be confidered almost as much a part of Latium, or Italy, as the Isle of Wight is of England." Having quoted the eighteenth verfe of the thirteenth chapter of Revelations,Here is wifdom, let him that understandeth count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man; and his number is fix hundred three score and fix;" the writer proceeds: The only proper mode of counting the number having been exhibited above, nothing now remains but to confider in what way a Greek author, as St. John was, would write the word Bonaparte [Buonaparté]. For to the fcholar it is well known, that when the Greeks adopted foreign words into their own language, they disfigured them in many inftances so much that it was difficult, under the new form, to recognize the original word. To comply with this common mode of orthography, they would fubtract or add a letter*; or, for the fake of euphony, or to make the found an echo to the fenfe, would change a vowel, double a confonant, and, indeed, fometimes go fo far as even to omit or add a fyllable. To the learned, examples of this are unnecessary, and to the unlearned, would not be interefting. Hence it is evident, that an author writing in Greek the name of Bonaparte [Buonaparte] would, in the firft fyllable, use o instead of the fofter founding, and double producing by this means, a ftronger and bolder found, more fuited to reprefent the character of the individual, whofe appellation it is. For it the ولا * A fpecimen of this is fhewn above in the word Aaros, Lateinos; where, as may be feen, they have added a letter to the original word Latinos, may may be remarked, by the way, that the ancients had great faith in the virtue of names; and volumes have they written to thew the felicity of fome appellations, and the misfortunes of others. Then in the fecond fyllable, it was more confiftent with the refinement of that language to change the into, that in the pronunciation it might not class with the a immediately following it, and rendered ftill more offenfive to their ears, by being joined with the fnarling letter g. The proper mode of writing the name in Greek then is Bowerαgn, Bonneparte; and this variation from common orthography, therefore, fo far from weakening the prefent demonftration, may well be confidered as a strong argument in fupport of it, fince it is proved that this is the only way in which St. John could, confiftently with the nature of the language he wrote in, fpell it, and his number he of course calculated accordingly. Befides, it may be remarked, that by this mode of fpelling, while the fenfe of the two words of which the word is compofed, is ftill preserved, one of them is made French, and the other remains Italian, a circumstance which puts beyond all doubt the propriety of the fuppofed orthography, fince Bonnaparté, as a native of Corfica, and citizen and defpot of France, and wishing himself to Gallicize his name †, `cannot but be confidered as a kind of mongrel, half one thing, half the other; and that it was particularly a custom among the Jews, and that St. John was likely to avail himself of it, to change mens' names, and impofe new ones, defcriptive of their new fituations, is evident from what he himself teftifies of our blessed Saviour (the highest authority furely that can be cited), who, on the calling of Simon, the fon of Jonah, to the apostleship, altered his name to Cephas or Peter, which is by interpretation a stone or rock, alluding thereby to the firmnefs end perfeverance, with which he forefaw that Peter would afterwards diffeminate his holy gofpel. It being proved, then, that this is the proper way of writing the name, or at least the way in which St. John would certainly write it; a specification of the numbers expreffed by the refpective letters is all that remains to be done, and thus is the number of the beast counted: "Behold then Bonaparte [Buonaparte] beyond all controverfy demonftrated to be the beast, wantoning in power, and caufing all the earth, and * Buona parte, good part. † By defire, or rather command, of the Firft Conful, the finale of Bonaparte [Buonaparte] is dropped in pronunciation. them them that dwell therein, to worship the first beaft, whofe deadly wound was healed! Behold also the fate that awaits him! That remains not to be prefumed or deduced from probabilities; that is by the fame inspired writer already foretold in terms too unequivocal to admit of argument. "And I faw, as it were, a fea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, stand on the sea of glass, moving the harps of God." Rev. xv. 2. Can any doubt this application to be juft? to whom elfe can be referred the expreffions of the facred page? Who is at war with the beaft? who dares to question his authority, but England? What can the "fea of glafs mingled with fire" denote, but the horrors of a naval war fight? And who is likely to cope with France on the feas, but England? and, on the feas, opposed to France, can England be any thing but victorious? Nay, farther, the very arms of the United Ifles, and the very part of them, that an eastern writer would, in the political fpirit of his country, felect, are clearly pointed out. The victors are described as ' ftanding on a fea of glafs,' having the harp of God." Who is ignorant that the harp oc cupies a principal quarter in the Imperial Arms of the British Ifles? and is not the fong which the victors are reprefented as finging exactly in the spirit of that gallant chief who gained the glorious victory of the Nile? "And they fing the fong of Mofes, the fervant of God, and the fong of the Lamb, faying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; juft and true are thy ways, thou King of Saints! Who fhall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy for all nations fhall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifeft." ver. 3, 4. Whatever opinion may be entertained of our author, as an expounder of propecies, it is obvious that he does not wish to be thought deficient in a lew of patriotism. The Proper Names of the Bible, New Testament, and Apocrypha, divided and accented, with other facilities for their pronunciation, agreeably to the best usage, and to English analogy. To which is added, a Selection of some of the most beautiful Scriptural Pieces, calculated to instruct Youth in the art of Reading with propriety; and, at the same time, to inculcate principles of Morality and Religion, in which it has been attempted to shew the Learner the emphatic words in every :entence intended as a sequel to the Spelling-book; and an Introduction to the Scriptures, Speaker, &c. By John Robinson, Author of the "New English Spelling-Book," &c. and Mafter of Arundel-ftreet Seminary. 12mo. PP. 182. Law. 1804. is MR. ROBINSON's alphabetical arrangement of fcriptural proper names very creditably executed; and, fo far, he has rendered material fervice to teachers as well as to learners. We cannot, however, approve of marking almost every alternate word by the Italic character. We conceive that it * Alluding to the pious and remarkable expreffions of Lord Nelfon in his dispatches, which announced the victory he had obtained over the illfated Bruǝys at Alexandria. muft When must cause the learner to deliver his leffon in laboured drawling tones, or with an inflated fort of "no-meaning," which is far worse than a monotony. There is also another objection to the redundant ufe of the Italic character, which we shall exemplify by an example from the book before us. one writer attempts minutely to mark every emphatic word of another, the chance is greatly against him, however judicious he may be, that he will commit a multitude of errors.. We select the following inftance, which we really have not hunted for, as a proof of this opinion. At page 97. Mr. Robinson marks the quoted fentence in the following manner: "A labouring man, that is given to drunkenness, fhall not be rich; and he that contemneth small things, fhall fall by little and little."-Quere, would not the following be the more correct reading? "A labouring man, that is given to drunkenness, fhall not be rich: and, he that contemneth small things, thall fall by little and little." It may perhaps be more tedious to the preceptor, but we conceive that, when the scholar errs in delivering the meaning of a sentence, if his master were to repeat the paffage correctly, and to accompany the repetition by an explanatory remark, the effect would be moft beneficial. At the best, leffons marked in Italics are but leading strings, which there is much difficulty in quitting. A Letter addressed to the Right Honourable William Windham, the late Secretary at War, on the expediency of allowing a drawback of the Duties upon Wines for the consumption of the Army. Interspersed with observations on the insufficiency of Military Pay, and the present situation of the Subaltern Officers. By Lieutenant Fairman, of the Northamptonshire Militia. Second Edition.. 8vo. PP. 88. 2s. 6d. Carpenter. THIS pamphlet, we learn from the author's " apology," was written and printed in the year 1800; but, after a number of copies had been ftruck off, it occurred to the writer, that it might be proper to fubmit it to the judgment of the Right Honourable Secretary, to whom it was dedicated. From the correspondence with which he was honoured, and from the unexpected changes which foon afterwards took place in the cabinet, he was, at that time, induced to fufpend the circulation of his tract, entertaining a belief, however, that the proffered advice would not be totally rejected. The tendency of our author's arguments is, to prove the neceffity of using wine in the army, the inadequacy of the fubalterns' pay to defray the confequent expence, and the propriety of government remitting the duties, or furnishing them with an equivalent to their amount. His propofal is, that every regiment or military-mefs, as well at home as abroad, thould be allowed, according to rank, after the manner of the navy, a limited quantity of wine, free of duty, for each member daily. At a future period, we conceive the question may be a fit fubject for parliamentary difcuffion. REVIEWERS REVIEWED. Bishop's Skinner's Primitive Truth and Order vindicated. The Anti-Jacobin Review of Dr. Campbell's Lectures on Ecclesiastical History; and the Literary Journal, April 16, 1804, WHEN HEN we undertook the talk of reviewing the periodical publications known by the titles of Reviews and Magazines, we little expec ted |