fidious machinations of the enemy at the prefent day; by thef we have feen the governments of the continental nations overturned from their very foundation; and the arts of corruption regularly preceding the military power. The people of this country are poffeffed of too folid judgment to be ftimulated with that fame eafy credulity, which has fo marked the more fluctuating genius of the other countries; nor indeed is it to be fuppofed that by flight endeavours they should be brought to undervalue thofe fuperior bleflings they enjoy in a legal monarchy, and impartial adminiftration of the laws; yet, when we confider the very artful and infinuating methods ufed by the rival power, together with the known relaxing tendency of luxury, fo readily fitting us to catch the fatal contagion, I fay, we may above all our other fubjects of praife, return our thanks to God for his very great mercy shown us in this refpect: that we have not been in. ftigated by the fame pernicious doctrines, both religious and po litical, to renounce at once our attachment to our King, our con ftitution, and our religion." P. 12.

The difcourfe is fenfible and found.

MISCELLANIES.

ART. 33. The Hiftory of Sufan Gray, as related by a Clergyman; defigned for the Benefit of Young Women when going to Service, &c. 12mo. Is. 6d. Hazard. 1810.

A very interesting ftory, by which it appears how poffible it is for a young woman to be ruined in reputation, and cut off in early life, though pure in principle and upright in conduct. The great moral inculcated is the indifpenfible obligation upon young women in fervice, and particularly if at all diftinguished by perfonal accomplishments, to avoid, as they would the bite of a serpent, encouraging any familiarity from young men, their fuperiors, in life.

ART. 34. A Dictionary of Painters, Sculptors, Artiche&s, and Engravers, containing biographical Sketches of the most celebrated Artifts, from the earliest Ages to the prefent Time; to which is added, an Appendix, comprising the Subftance of Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting in England from Vertue, forming a complete Engli School. 12mo. Ios. 6d. Gale and Curtis. 1810.

As Pilkington's Dictionary, republished by Fufeli, is, in itself, an expensive work; and other volumes of the fame kind, the fub. fiance of which is given in the prefent compilation, are either difficult to be procured, or of high price, we cannot but approve this attempt to unite Artifts of every defcription in one biographical volume. It is not to be expeed that a first work of this kind can immediately comprehend all the names, which have a claim to

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appear in it. Confequently we looked in vain for the name of the celebrated Crifpin Pas, whofe engravings in printed books are the pride of many collectors.

Befides the general dictionary, we have here an Appendix of four articles, containing the principal Artifts of the English School; namely Painters, Sculptors, Architects, and Engravers. Thefe are chiefly extracted from Walpole's Anecdotes of painting in England, and are very fatisfactorily reprefented. We congra tulate the public on the acquifition of this ufeful book, and hope to fee it rendered more complete in future editions.

ART. 35. Gazetteer of England and Wales; containing the Statiftics, Agriculture, and Mineralogy of the Counties; the Hiftory, Antiquities, Curiofities, Manufactures, Trade, Commerce, Fairs, Markets, Charitable and other Inftitutions, Population, and elective Franchifes, of the Cities, Towns and Boroughs; including à complete Index villaris, with the Bearings and Distance of each Village and Manfion from the nearest Market Town. Illuftrated by two large Maps, defcriptive of the Roads and inland Naviga tion. By Thomas Potts. 8vo. 11. 75. About 120 Sheets.

Rivingtons, and the other Bookfellers of London.

1810.

The

The example having been fet by Pitts Capper, and by Mr. Car lyle, there feems to have arifen a contention who fhall beft furnish the public with an index of names, to the towns, villages, of this country. Capper has the advantage of including Scotland and Ireland in his work, but the prefent is more complete, as to the names of England and Wales only. Of the very fmall places the entries here are as brief as poffible, mentioning only their distance and bearing from the nearest market town. confiderable places are noticed more at large, fo as to specify the most important of thofe particulars which are promifed in the title-page. A very useful acceffion to this volume is the map of navigable rivers and canals throughout the kingdom, which feems to be correctly executed. But the maps of the counties in Capper's work, containing the divifion into hundreds, &c. are an advantage which no other work of the kind has yet prefented. We trust that the prefent compilation will at fome future time obtain a fimilar illustration.

ART. 36. Mifcellaneous Questions, on Hiftory and Chronology; with an Explanation of fome of the common Terms used in both; With a Sketch of the State of the World, before the Coming of Jefus Chrift; the Prefervation of the Scriptures, and a Sketch of the Evidence of the Truth of Revelation. 12mo. 144. PP. 28. Dean, Wardour Street. 1810.

This is a very good and useful little book, and judiciously cal eulated for the purposes announced; namely, to be learnt by heart,

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and repeated in claffes. It is a catechifm, and the first questions relate to general History and Chronology. The nature of dif ferent religions is explained, and a very clear and fenfible sketch is given of the evidences of the Chriftian religion. A part particu Jarly ufeful begins at p. 78, and is called a fupplement to Dr. Watts's Scripture Hiftory. It contains a sketch of the hiftory of the Jews, from the divifion of the two kingdoms of Ifrael, and Judah, to the occupying of the Holy Land by the Saracens, and Turks. We alfo particularly approve of the questions and answers on the history of the falfe Prophet Mahomet.

A few mistakes muft, however, be noticed, that they may be corrected. In the first place, we have Rheoboam, (p. 78, and 9.) for Rehoboam. Ulrim for Urim, (p. 85.) Ptolemy Sotar repeatedly for Soter, (p. 88.) Penticoft for Pentecoft, (p. 117.) Abuekir for Abubekir (p. 128.). But the ftrangeft error, and an error which can only be cured by cancelling fome leaves, is the confufion which prevails refpecting the Fafts and Feafts of the Church. In the first place, all the Feafts are not given, for in that lift, the Nativity, Eafter Sunday, Pentecoft, and Trinity Sunday are omitted. But, what is most strange, thofe very days, and not excep ting even the Nativity of Chrift, the greatest of all Festivals, are infcribed in the lift of Fafts (p. 117.). So likewife are all the Saints' days, though they had already been fet down in the list of Feafts. The only way we can account for the majority of thefe intances is, that they were taken from fome lift, wherein the words the Vigils or days before," ftood apart, in reference to the whole clafs. But even this fuppofition will not account for all the errors This part therefore must of neceflity be cancelled, and newly drawn up, before the book can properly even be offered for circu lation.

Notwithstanding this unaccountable blunder, the book, we must repeat it, is admirably planned; and when corrected, will be a moft inftructive and ufeful school-book for very young pupils.

ART. 37. A Narrative of Facts relative to a late Occurrence in the County of Cambridge. In answer to a Statement contained in a Unitarian Publication, called "The Monthly Repofitory." By Andrew Fuller. 12mo. 24. pp. Burditt. 1810. ART. 38. Bigotry and Intolerance Defeated, or an Account of the late Profecution of Mr. John Gifburne, Unitarian Minister of Sobam, Cambridgeshire; with an Expofure and Correction of the Defects, and Mistakes of Mr. Andrew Fuller's Narrative of that Affair, in Letters to John Chriftie, Efq. Treasurer of the Unitarian Fund. By Robert Afpland, Minister of the Gravel Pit Congre gation, Hackney-Harlaw. 8vo. 71. pp. Flower. 1810.

The title of the latter book gives us to understand, that Mr. John Gisburne is, or was, an "Unitarian Minister of Soham, Cambridgeshire." That is, Mr. John Gisburne, who, in or about the year 1803, had been a preacher in Mr. Welleys con

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nection, then become a Baptift, and by repute a Calvinist, was recommended by Mr. Andrew Fuller, late minifter of a Chapel built by the Calvinists at Soham in Cambridgeshire, to supply the place of a Paftor to his old flock, and congregation; foon after he got there, he went back through the feveral ftages of Calvinism and Baptifm, to his original ftate of Arminianifm, and from thence departed into Unitarianifm; having done this, he proceeds to uncalvinize all Mr. Fuller's old friends and connections at Soham, and by dint of preaching and perfuafion, and fo on, procures at length a majority of Unitarians in the Calvinist Chapel. Having done this, he prefumes upon a right to the chapel, and refifts all attempts of the Calviniftical Truftees and Congregationists, to eject him. Riots and interruptions take place. Mr. Stone's Sermon is read from the pulpit, and Mr. Fuller's book against the Socinians from one of the pers. Mr. Gifburne looks down from the pulpit in wrath, while " Mrs. Hove is prevented looking up to it, by Mr. Fuller's large o&tavo volume" held before her; a constable is call'd, and the whole meeting thrown into confufion, and in fine crofs indictments are preferred; and the cafe brought before the Grand Jury, and a true bill found against the old Calvinistical members as rioters, to the great joy and triumph of Meffrs. Gif burne, Afpland and Co: things are afterwards however fettled by arbitration, and here begin fresh grievances. The Monthly Re pofitory reports the cafe falfely, as Mr. Andrew Fuller alledges, and Mr. Andrew Fuller reports the cafe as falfely, as Mr. Ajpland and Meffrs. Benjamin Fuller, William Attleffey, and William Threader recriminate. If any body unconnected with the cause chooses to read the books, he will find that much coarse, vulgar, and improper behaviour was reforted to, on both fides, though all claim to be gentlemen of the first reputation and purest honour. He will alfo find that intolerance and bigotry are not peculiar to eftablished churches, upon the authority of certain Diffenters themselves, who pretend grievously to lament fuch a reproach brought upon the character of the profeffion; that is, not of the Calvinifts, or Baptifts, or Arminians particularly, (they may all feverally fall into what difgrace, and incur what odium they pleafe, for what the Unitarians care,) but of the Diffenters, as a body; for as Diffenters, Mr. Afpland infinuates, they have all one intereft, and fhould be swayed by one principle. We would advife all Calvinifts to beware how they let fuch volatile, unfettled, infidious religionists as Mr. Gisburne into their pulpits; and we cannot compliment the Majority of that gentlemens' auditors at Soham, upon either their good fenfe, tafte, learning or judgment, if they could prefer Mr. Stone's very paltry Sermon, to the folid and fenfible arguments of Mr. Andrew Fuller's book against the Socinians. The one is the work of a powerful reasoner, the other too notoriously deficient both in learning and argument, to be acknowledged by any real scholar. We are confident that moft well educated Unitarians must be ashamed of it. Thefe two difputants

are equally unknown to us, we fpeak only of their works; and have hefitation in adding, that we think both of them were introduced into the chapel of Soham very improperly, and with the greatest indecorum. Had things been decently conducted, we should clearly decide against Mr. Gifburne and his friends, though the grand jury were led by the evidence before them, to do otherwife. We think Mr. Gifburne's continuance in a Calviniftical chapel, after he embraced Unitarianifm, perfectly indefenfible, and the old and original members of it, perfectly juftifiable, in endeavouring to difpoffefs him of it. They must have been tolerant; to a degree of idiotifm, to have winked at fuch an intrufion; only their proceedings fhould have been more regular.

ART. 39. The Juvenile Spectator, being Obfervations on the Tempers, Manners, and Faibles of various Young Persons, interf perfed with fuch lively Matter, as it is Prefumed will Amufe as well as Inftruct; by Arabella Argus. 8vo. 4s. Darton,

1810.

This is a very well written, and well adapted book for young children. The tales are natural, and agreeably related, and the moral eafy and obvious to the capacities of thofe for whofe amufement and inftruction the book is intended. Among the great number of books for children, which, to the honour of the prefent period, almoft every day produces, this appears to deserve a diftinguifhed place.

ART. 40. Journal of the Military Operations during the Blockade and Siege of Genoa, preceded by a fummary View of the Situation of the Army of Italy, from the Moment that General Maffena took the Command of it, until the Blockade. Tranflated from the French of Paul Thiebaut, General of Brigade, Author of the Manual for Adjutants General, and of Reflections on the Reor ganization of the Head Quarters and Staffs of Armies. By John Maunde, Tranflator of De Lille's L'Homme des Champs. 8vo. Price 6s. Egerton. 1810.

The fiege of Genoa forms an interefting epoch in the military hiftory of the French Revolution, and it is an obvious matter of curiofity at this particular time, as the most confpicuous character in it was Maffena, now the opponent of our excellent General Lord Wellington. As this narrative is written by a Frenchman, every thing favourable and flattering to the military skill and prowefs of the French is, as might naturally be expected, detailed in the moft exaggerated and fulfome terms of panegyric. It is, however, a curious hiftorical document; and as on that occafion Maffena, with all his vauntings and gafconades, was ultimately obliged to yield to the prowess of our countrymen, and

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