ART. 35. The Unity of Defign in the Law and the Gospel. A. Sermon, preached in the Scotch Epifcopal Chapel, Dundee, on Sunday the 21st of February, 1808. Being the Day appointed for a Contribution in Behalf of the British Prifoners in France. By the Rev. Heneage Horfley, A. M. Prebendary of St. Ajaph, and late Student of Chrift Church, Oxon. 4to. 23 PP.: Donaldfon, Dundee; Conftable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hatchard, London. 1808.

The intimate connection that obviously fubfifts between the Old and New Testaments, makes the ftudy of the former, as well as of the latter, an object of great importance to the intelligent Chriftian. The opinions, however, that have been entertained of the Old Teftament, and efpecially of the Mofaic law, by Chriftians, and fects profeffing Chriftianity, have been very different, and fome of them very extraordinary. The brighteft luminaries of our Church have been contented to teach, that the law contained in its ritual a typical adumbration of the gofpel, which fome favoured individuals of the defce dants of Jacob were able to difcern, while to the great majority of the Jews. it held forth, as its fanctions, only temporal rewards and punishments. But the Hatchinfonians, who difcovered, through the fpectacles of their mafter, many things which all other scholars had overlooked, were ftrenuous in contending, not only that the law was a type of the gofpel, but that it was known to be fo be fo by every one to whom it was given; and that every Hebrew might have feen, had he looked wifly on his facred text, all that has fince been known by us under the gofpel. fo wild an opinion Mr. Horfley gives no countenance, but teaches, as we can fuppofe his illuftrious father at his age to have taught; that the refemblance and agreement between the law and the gofpel, is much greater than at this day is generally understood.

His text is Levit. xxv. 35-38. and the acknowledged fupe. riority of the gofpel over the law makes it particularly proper, for a fermon defigned to perfuade his audience to contribute liberally to the relief of the British now fuffering in French captivity. If by the Jewish law fuch a duty was commanded, much more is it incumbent upon Chriftians to fhow liberality to their diftreffed brethren.

If," fays this able preacher, " any one fpecies of diftrefs could be more entitled than another to pity and affift...ce, it furely would be the one for which I am this day the widing pleader. Embarked at early life in their country's cauf, ir her fake expofing their perfons to the danger of difeafe in cutant climes; feeking not merely the "bubble reputation," but their nation's fafety, in the "cannon's mouth," thefe BRAVE MEN have fallen, (but not ignobly fallen,) into the Lands of ADVERS RY, who carries his fpirit of revenge beyond the hour

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of battle, and in the treatment of his captives exhibits a cruelty and inhumanity, unpractifed of later years in the warfare of civilized ftates. It is for thefe BRAVE MEN! beloved, for your GALLANT COUNTRYMEN! Nay, perhaps for your FRIENDS! Your RELATIVES! that I am now pleading. Immured in cold and loathfome prifons, deprived not only of the comforts, but even of the neceffaries of life; deftitute of clothing, destitute of the comfortable refreshinent of wholesome and fufficient food: Behold thy brother is impoverished, and his head shaketh: the caufe of his impoverishment is in yourfelves. That you may enjoy in quiet the bleffings of your native land; that the comforts of YOUR fire-fides may long be preferved to you; that YOUR LAWS, YOUR LIBERTY, and YOUR RELIGION, may remain unmolefted by the rude attacks of a lawless invader; contending for the prefervation of these your deareft bleffings, your brother has fallen into decay; will you then not relieve him; will you not fupport him, and fear your God?"

From this fpecimen the reader will perceive that Mr. Horsley knows how to move the tendereft feelings of compaffion; and that this is no ordinary difcourfe. The unity of defign, however, in the law and the gospel deferves to be treated at greater length, and in a manner by no means fuitable to a pulpit effay. That "the nature of man required that the opening of God's plan of moral government fhould be gradual, and the manner of information lefs or more explicit in different ages," is an important truth, which we should be glad to fee illuftrated with all that critical and philofophical acumen which we have long been accustomed to admire in the writings of another Horfley. Much indeed has been written, and ably written on this fubject, by various divines of eminence, both domeftic and foreign; but there is yet room for a difquifition on the Jewish law, and its relation to the gofpel, which, if ably conducted, would prove creditable to this author, and useful to the public; and which therefore we recommend to him with earneftnefs, as a work worthy of his talents and his name.

ART. 36. The Chriftian Monitor for the laft Days; or a Caution to the profefedly religious, against the Corruptions of the latter Times, in Dorine, Difcipline, and Morals. By John Owen, M. A. late Fellow of Corpus Chrifti College, Cambridge. Second Edition, corrected. 8vo. 6s. Hatchard. 1808.

Mr. Owen has performed a very ufeful and important task in again prefenting this work to the public, accompanied, as it now is, with many corrections; although they do not appear of fufficient confequence to extract. We hope foon again to fee this gentleman's name prefixed to more elaborate, though certainly not more interefting undertakings, fince we are living at a period when an honeft zeal, like Mr. Owen's, tempered with difcretion, will have conftant occafion to exercise itself.

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ART. 37. Struggles through Life, exemplified in the various Tra vels and Adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of Lieut. John Herriot, formerly of Rochford in Effex, now Refi dent Magiftrate of the Thames Police. 2 vols. 8vo. 12s.

Hatchard.

"Struggles through Life," is a new title to a book, notwithstanding they occur to every one at all experienced in the book of life. We have been much interested and amused by the perufal of thefe volumes, and in the first volume more particularly, accompanying the author through the various fcenes he defcribes, and numerous perils which he encounters, with admiration of his undaunted intrepidity, as well as of his fagacity and great good fenfe. We fhould be very glad to have heard his friend's adventures in the higher regions of Sumatra, a place never yet defcribed by any European, except what may be gathered from Mr. Marfden. We rejoiced to find that after all his wanderings, Mr. Herriot has at length moored his veffel fafe in port. We re member one other inftance of a public and fuccefsful application to the Eaft India Company, or rather its Directors, in the perfon of Mr. Jones, a Lincolnshire Clergyman, who finding a fon whom he intended for the Church, more ready to pull the ftructure down than fupport it, told the fact, and asking for a cadetfhip, had one given him. We would not be understood as indifcriminately approving Mr. Herriot's book. His advice to his fon before he goes to India is not entirely compatible with the duties of morality.

ART. 38. Select Paffages of the Writings of St. Chryfoftom, St. Gregory Nazianzen, and St. Bafil. Tranflated from the Greek, by Hugh Stuart Boyd. 68 pp. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Warren, Margate; Richardfon, &c. 1806.

The Tranflator informs us, that "having devoted his attention for fome time paft to the ftudy of Ecclefiaßical History, and the Orators of the Grecian Church, he was peculiary charmed with the writings of John Chryfoftom, and Gregory Nazianzen, archbishops of Conftantinople." V. The first piece of eloquence here prefented to us, is the oration of Chryfoftom on the ruin of Eutropius. We have read this with great fatisfaction. Six fpecimens follow, of Gregory's eloquence, which we think inferior to that of Chryfoftom; and Bafil's oratory we still lefs admire. The tranflator appears to have executed his talk well; and if he fhall continue his fervice to the public in this way (which we are far from difcouraging) we recommend to him, in his choice of his originals, a very careful diftinction between rhetoric and found oratory.

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ART. 39. Crosby's complete Pocket Gazetteer of England and Wales, or Traveller's Companion; arranged under the various Defcriptions of local Situation, public Buildings, civil Government, Number of Inhabitants, charitable Inftitutions, Antiquities, and Curiofities, Manufactures and Commerce, Navigation and Canals, Mineral Springs, fingular Cuftoms, literary Characters, Amufements, Parifbes, Churches, &c. Market Days and Fairs, Bankers, Pofis, Inns, Coaches and Waggons, Distances from Londen, furrounding Towns, and Gentlemen's Seats, and whatever is worthy of Attention to the Gentleman or Man of Bufinefs, throughout the Kingdom. With a Preface and Introduction, by the Rev. J. Malham, Author of the Naval Ga zetteer, &c. &c. 12mo. 615 pp. 75. 6d. fine Paper. Crosby and Co. 1807.

In the vaft multiplication of books of reference for travellers in England and Wales, which have been produced of late years, we have feen no volume which contained so much within fo narrow a compafs, or with any approach to a method fo convenient, as is employed in the prefent. The fmallness of the fize does not prevent a copioufnefs of information, to which the arrangement mentioned in the title gives all poffible diftinctnefs. Few topics of occafional enquiry will be found deficient in this very convenient volume; and the circumftance of giving the bankers in each town, with the houses on which they draw in London, is, we believe, an accommodation peculiar to this work,

ART. 40.

A new and accurate Defcription of all the direct, and principal cross Roads, in England and Wales, and part of the Roads of Scotland: with correct Routes of the Mail Coaches, and a great Variety of new Admeasurements. Also an Account of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Seats, and other remarkable Objects near the Roads; with some of the topographical Hiftory. Arranged upon a new and more convenient Plan: fo that the Routes and the Seats relating to them are brought under the Eye in the fame Page. A general Index of the Roads to the dif ferent Towns, denoting the Counties in which they are fituated, their market Days, and the Inns which supply Poft Horfes, &c. An Index to the Country Seats and Places defcribed. A Table of the Heights of Mountains, and other Eminences, from the grand trigonometrical Survey of the Kingdom, under the Direction of Lieutenant Colonel Mudge, An alphabetical Table of all the principal Towns; containing the Rates of Poftage, the Times of the Arrival and Departure of the Mails; the Number of Houses, and the Population. The whole greatly augmented and improved, by the Affiftance of Francis Freeling, Efq. Secretary to the Poft Office, and of the feveral Surveyors of the provincial Districts, under the Authority of the Poft Mafter General. By LieutenantColonel Paterfon, Affißant Quarter-Mafter-General of his Ma

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jefty's Forces. The fourteenth Edition. 8vo. 528 pp. 1os. 6d. Longman, &c. 1808.

By printing at length the very copious title pages of fuch works, we are exempted from the neceffity of giving any account of their contents. Many editions of this work have passed through our hands, and always with improvements. But it appears to us, that the additional matter, and more convenient arrangement of the prefent book, gives it a greater preference than any former editions have had to their immediate predeceffors.

ART. 41. Travels through the Canadas, containing a Description of the Picturefque Scenery on fome of the Rivers and Lakes, with an Account of the Productions, Commerce, and Inhabitants of thefe Provinces, to which is fubjoined a comparative View of the Manners and Customs of feveral of the Indian Nations of North and South America. By George Heriot, Efq. Deputy Poft Maf ter General of British North America. Illuftrated with a Map and numerous Engravings, from Drawings made at the feveral Places by the Author. 4to. 31. 3s. Philips. 1807.

The author and perhaps his publisher may exprefs fome furprife and poffibly feel fome diffatisfaction at our not giving a book of this extent and confiderable price a place among our principal articles. But our duty compels us to difcriminate between price and actual value, and not to allow our judgment to be warped by the delu five appearance of numerous embellishments. In our progres through this volume we have not been detained by much amu fing anecdote, nor had our ftores of local knowledge materially increased by fagacious information of any kind. It is of that harmless tendency, neither remarkable for its dulness, nor interefting by its veracity, that extraordinary praife or cenfure would be alike injudicious and unjuft. It must take its chance, but we apprehend, that in the period of a few fleeting years, unlike the first editions of certain books of this defcription, its value will not be confidered as commenfurate with its original price.

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DIVINITY.

Christian Unitarianifm Vindicated, being a Reply to a Work by John Bevans, jun. entitled "A Defence of the Chriftian Doctrines of the Society of Friends." By Verax. 78.

Remarks on a Sermon, preached before the Univerfity of Ox ford, by Dr. Barrow and the Rev. Mr. Nares, on the Frize Difier.