EPITAPH for an Infant, whose fuppofed parents were vagrants. By the Rev. Mr. O. of Northamptonshire. THEN no one gave the cordial draught, W My God the fov'reign balfam brought, What, though no mournful kindred ftand, Around the folemn bier; No parents wring the trembling hand, No coftly oak, adorn'd with art, My infant limbs inclose; No friends a winding-fheet impart, To deck my laft repofe; Yet hear, ye great ones! hear ye this, A fpotless life my coffin is, And innocence my fhroud. My My name unknown, obfcure my birth; But, though deny'd God's courts on earth, ORATIO AD DOMINUM. An hymn, written by Hildebert, bishop of Anomanum, or Mans, a city of France, in the twelfth century. It was first published by archbishop Usher, at the end of a Latin treatise, De Romanæ ecclefia fymbolo apoftolico vetere, aliifque fideí formulis, &c. A. D. 1647, now grown very fcarce; communicated, with the above account of it, by a gentleman who figns, H. P. and dates from Suffolk, Dec. 5, 1764. E XTRA portam jam delatum, Vitta ligat, lapis urget: Hinc affultus, inde fluctus: Sed tu, bone nauta! veni: Quod fi necdum refpondebit; Ut hic hoftis evanefcat; Des infirmo, des orandi. Ab hâc pefte folve mentem, Da contemptum terrenorum, Tu laus mea, meum bonum, Mea cun&ta, tuum donum. Tu folamen in labore, Medicamen in languore. Tu in luctu mea lyra. Tu lenimen es in ira. Tu in arcto liberator. Tu in lapfu relevator. Metum præftas in provectu, Spem confervas in defectu. Si quis lædit, tu rependis; Si minatur, tu defendis; Quod eft anceps, tu diffolvis; Quod tegendum, tu involvis. Tu intrare me non finas Infernales officinas; Ubi mæror, ubi metus; Ubi tortor femper cædens, In hâc rube lux folennis ; Non m nuti, non deformes; Urbs cœleftis, urbs beata, Sociatus piis turbis, Cum Moïse et Eliâ, Pium cantem alleluia. NOTA. (By Archbishop Usher.) Ex veteribus membranis Cottonianis (a quibus nomen authoris aberat) Rythmos iftos elegantiffimos defcripfimus; et, ex altero Bibliothecæ Regiæ Codice ab amiciffimo Junio accepto, alicubi emendavimus; in quo tum Epiftolæ Hildeberti continebantur, tum Carmina; et in his, de Hermaphrodito, Lucretiâ, et Rome ruinâ, quoque, quæ veterum Poetarum catalectis habentur interjecta. An An ACCOUNT of Books published in 1765. The fpiritual and temporal liberty of fubjects in England, addreffed to F. N. efq; at Hix-la-Chapelle. In two parts. Part I. Of the fpiritual liberty of proteftants in England. Part II. Of the temporal Liberty of fubjects in England. By Anthony Ellys, D. D. late lord bishop of St. David's. London, printed for Whifton, White, and Hooper. HERE cannot be a hap human fecurity, for the duration of any government, than the clergy, who live under it, heartily engaging in its defence; fince, by that means, the principles of it, flowing through the fame channel with the truths of religion, muft, in fome measure, make an equal impreffion upon the minds of the bulk of the people. It muft, therefore, be very pleafing to thofe, who with well to the British conftitution, to fee a bishop of the church of England draw his pen in favour of it; and, on this confideration alone, we may venture to affirm that the work before us, even were the writer a perfon of common abilities, cannot fail of meeting, in confequence of his ecclefiaftical dignity, with the warmest welcome from the public. But the truth is, that doctor Ellys's abilities for the task he has engaged in may be compared with thofe of the greateft men who ever trod in the fame path; having united whatever arguments philofo phy could fupply him with to prove the intrinfic goodness of the British conftitution, and whatever examples hiftory could afford him to illuftrate it; and added several things of his own, not only new, but, though natural, not within the excurfions of ordinary writers. In fpeaking thus of the doctor's performance, we with that what we fay may not be underflood of the controverfial part of it, of which, did we think our selves we means difpofed to give any opinion. Controverfy, therefore, being fo much interwoven with the first part, which treats entirely of fpiritual liberty, we fhall fay nothing of it, but that our brethren of the prefbyterian will, perhaps, think themfelves as roughly handled by the doctor, in the great point of toleration, as our enemies of the popish communion. The fecond part, which treats entirely of civil liberty, contains fix tracts, fome of which are fubdivided into fections. In his firft tract the doctor fpeaks of the liberty of the fubject in judicial proceedings, as to matters both criminal and civil; in the fecond, of the right and manner of impofing taxes, and of the other privileges of the parliament; in the third, ofthe means, whereby the free conftitutions of other nations have been impaired, while that of England has been preferved and improved; in the fourth, oftheantiquities of the commonsin parliament; in the fifth, of the |