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CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

ART.I.-Essays and Sketches on Life 12mo. pp. 254. and Character. 2nd ed. Longman and Co. 1821. Tis generally known that the author of this little volume is Lord John Russell. In the first edition, the work bore the fictitious appearance of 66 Papers by a Gentleman that had left his Lodgings," but the fiction answering no end whatever, is now properly dropped.

The Essays are worthy of the reputed author; sensible, good-natured, unaffectedly written, and containing some shrewd observations on manners. They betoken a lively regard to pure morals; and the disquisition entitled "State of the English Constitution," breathes the spirit of pure patriotism.

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The author speaks, no doubt, froin mortifying observation on character in the higher circles, when he says, (p. 200,) We are apt to despise the South-sea islanders for exchanging their pigs and yams for beads and red cloth; but you see that, for stars and ribands, red, green and blue, the Europeans will truck their fortune, their character, and even their liberty."

He bears a little hard upon converts in the following passage, pp. 41, 42 : "At first none appear to be more unjustly persecuted than those who change their opinions, either in politics or religion. Reason would teach us that such a change was rather a favourable proof of candour, but experience has shewn that it is so generally the effect of a want of integrity and principle, as to justify the saying of a lady of great talents, that she never could help confounding a convert and a convict." Whatever be the fair censor's talents, we demur to her wisdom. If all conversion or change of opinion is to be stigmatized, what is the possible use of debates in Parliament and books of argument? Chillingworth changed his opinions to and fro, but he would, in our judgment, betray something worse than the weakness which this conversion and re-conversion may be

thought to prove, who should charge
that admirable man with "want of
But the convert and the
integrity."
convict are a pretty alliteration for a
female tongue, and Lord John Russell
too gravely.
has quoted the jeu d'esprit somewhat

ART. II.-Supplementary Memoirs of
English Catholics, addressed to C.
Butler, Esq., Author of the Histo-
rical Memoirs of the English Ca-
tholics. By the Rev. J. M.., D. D.
Keating
F. S. A. 8vo. pp. 338.
and Brown. 1820.

"HE Rev. J. M.," is Dr. Mil

Apostolic.

From his well-known Suplearning and talents, we expected under the above title a very different and far more valuable work. The " plementary Memoirs" are in fact occupied almost entirely with the squabbles of the Catholic body, uninteresting and nearly unintelligible to the Protestant reader; and the Vicar Apostolic seems in compiling them to have had no higher object in view than to run down the literary and even moral character of Mr. Butler, whose instructive and liberal work received our commendation [XV. 48-51]. Some of his charges against this gentleman are of a very grave character, but Dr. Milner furnishes us with a decisive proof of the value of his assertions in the following passage, which we shall quote without any other comment than the expression of a wish that the reader would refer to the letters alluded to, inserted in our XIVth Volume, pp. 707-712:

"A certain advocate of impiety, by name Aspland, defending his friend Carlile in The Times newspaper of last November, appeals with high praises to Mr. C. B's theological works, and particularly to his new Apostles' Creed of eleven articles, published in his Confessions of Faith and his Life of Fenelon."-Note, p. 194.

NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

Specimens of the Russian Poets, with Preliminary Remarks and Biographical Notices. Translated by John Bowring, F. L. S. 12mo. 8s.

The Speeches of Sir Samuel Romilly in the House of Commons, with a Memoir of his Life, collected and arranged by William Peter, Esq., with a fine Portrait by Reynolds, after a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence, R. A. 2 vols. 8vo. £1. 68.

Vindicia Britannica: a Vindication of the People from the Charge of Blasphemy, and a Defence of the Freedom of the Press. In Six Letters addressed to W. Wilberforce, Esq., M. P. Christophilus. 4s. 6d.

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Miraculous Prophecies aud Predictions of Eminent Men, from the Earliest Records. 58.

The History of Seyd Said, Sultan of Muscat; together with an Account of the Countries and People of the Shores of the Persian Gulph, particularly of the Wahabees. By Shaik Mansur, a native of Rome, who, after having practised as a physician in many parts of the East, became Commander of the Forces of the Sultan of Muscat, against the Geovasseom and Wahabee Pirates. 12s. extra boards, with a Plan.

Travels in various Countries of the East, being a Continuation of Memoirs relating to European and Asiatic Turkey, &c. Edited by Robert Walpole, M. A. 4to. £3. 3s. Plates.

The Bioscope; or, Dial of Life explained. By Granville Penn, Esq. 12mo. with a Plate. 12s.

The Life of the late George Hill, D. D., Principal of St. Mary's College, St. Andrews. By George Cook, D. D., F. R. S. E. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Portrait.

The Life of Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart. By the Rev. James Baker, his Nephew and Executor. 8vo. 8s. 6d. Portrait.

One Hundred and Twenty-six Sepulchral Mottoes; consisting of Original Verses for Epitaphs. 4s.

An Illustration of the Liturgy of the Church of England, including an Exposition of the Athanasian Creed, shewing its Scriptural Foundation, &c. With an Appendix, Historical, Critical and Practical. By T. Pruen, Curate of Dursley, Gloucestershire. 2 vols. Royal 8vo. £1. 148.

A General History of the House of Guelph, or Royal Family of Great Britain. With an Appendix of Authentic and Original Documents. By Andrew Halliday, M. D., Domestic Physician to His Royal Highness the Duke of Clarence. 4to. £2. 10s.

Zoophilos, or Considerations on the Moral Treatment of Inferior Animals. By Henry Crowe, A. M.

A Catechism of Political Economy. By Jean Baptiste Say, Professor of Political Economy at the Royal Athenæum of Paris. Translated by John Richter. 68,

Observations on Mr. Brougham's Education Bill, shewing its Inadequacy to the End proposed, and the danger that will arise from it to the Cause of Religious Liberty. 8vo. 6d.

Plain Thoughts on the Abstract of Mr. Brougham's Education Bill, humbly submitted to the Consideration of the Legislature. By a Plain Englishman. 1s.

A Brief Reply to the Rev. Richard Lloyd's Letter to a Member of Parliament on the dangerous Defects of the British and Foreign Schools, &c. By James Shepherd, Treasurer to the City of London Royal British School, for Educating Three Hundred Boys, in Harp Alley, Fleet-market.

Vindicia Hebraicæ; or, a Defence of the Hebrew Scriptures, as a vehicle of Revealed Religion; occasioned by the recent Strictures and Innovations of Mr. J. Bellamy, and in Confutation of his

Attacks on all preceding Translations, and on the Established Version in particular. By Hyman Hurwitz. 8vo. 9s. A Reply to the Economists, in Defence of the Answer to Mr. Malthus's Essay on Population. By William Godwin. 8vo. 18.

Thoughts on the Criminal Prisons of the Country, occasioned by the Bill, now in the House of Commons, for Consoli dating and Amending the Laws relating to Prisons; with some Remarks on the Practice of looking to the Taskmaster of the Prison rather than to the Chaplain, for the Reformation of Offenders, and of purchasing the Work of those whom the Law has condemned to Hard Labour as a Punishment, by allowing them to spend a Portion of their Earnings during their Imprisonment. By George Holford, Esq., M. P. 8vo. 28.

The Exclusion of the Queen from the Liturgy, historically and legally considered. By a Barrister. 2s.

A View of the Sovereign Power, and of the Statute Law, on the Question of the Omission of the Queen's name in the Liturgy of the Church of England. 18. Nuptiæ Sacræ; or, An Inquiry into the Scripture Doctrine of Marriage and Divorce. 8vo. 58. 6d.

Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Henry VIII. By Miss Benger. Small 8vo.

The National Joy on the Abandonment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties, vindicated, in a Letter to a Friend. By John Walker, LL.B., Vicar of Hornchurch, Essex, and late Fellow of New College. Second edition. 1s.

Baptism.

Thoughts on the Essential Requisites for Church-Communion, Baptism and the Lord's Supper, as they stand connected with Christian Missions: being an Examination of the Sentiments of the Rev. S. Greatheed, F. A. S.; to which are added, some Miscellaneous Essays. By W. Moorhouse, Jun. 4s.

A History of the Baptized Church meeting at Shortwood, in the Parish of Horsley, Gloucestershire, read at a Centenary Commemoration of its Establishment. By William Winterbotham. 8vo. 98. Sermons.

On Infidelity. By the Rev. Andrew Thomson, M. A., Minister of St. George's, Edinburgh. 18mo.

Theology Explained and Defended, in a series of Sermons. By the late Timothy Dwight, S. T. D. LL.D., President of Yale College, in America. 5 vols. 8vo. £3. 10s.

By the Rev. John Bird Sumner, Prebendary of Durham, and Vicar of Mapledurham, Oxon. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

On the Beatitudes, &c. By the Rev. D. S. Wayland, M. A., Vicar of Kirton in Lindsey. Vol. II. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Two Discourses on the Unity of the Church, its Divisions and their Removal. To which is subjoined, A Short View of the Plan of Religious Reformation, originally adopted in the Secession. By Thomas M'Crie, D. D., Minister of the Gospel, Edinburgh. 12mo.

For Domestic Use; intended to inculcate the great Practical Truths of Christianity. By William Bishop, M. A., Rector of Ufton Nervet, Berks. 108. 6d.

Single.

The Wisdom and Benevolence of the Deity in the Ordiuation of Death. A Discourse, occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Thomas Howe, delivered at Bridport, November 26, 1820. By T. Southwood Smith, M. D. 18. 6d.

The Residence of God in the Church, preached at the Opening of the Poultry Chapel, by the Rev. J. Clayton, Senior. 18. 6d.

Christian Loyalty (as taught by St. Paul) acceptable to God and beneficial to Mankind, preached in the Parish Church of Wooburn, Bucks, November 12, 1820, By the Rev. Thomas Mortimer, Curate. 18.

Attention to the Origin and Design of the Gospel recommended, including Observations on the Doctrine of Imputed Righteousness, preached at Whitehaven, July 14, 1820, at the Visitation of the Bishop of Chester. By William Ainger, B. D. 18.

Preached at Lambeth, November 12, 1820, at the Consecration of the Right Rev. William Carey, D. D., Lord Bishop of Exeter. By the Rev. Edmund Goodenough, D. D., Head Master of Westminster School.

National Gratitude enforced : a Sermon on the Relinquishment of the Bill of Pains and Penalties against Her Majesty, preached at the Independent Chapel, Chalford, Gloucestershire, Nov. 26, 1820. By S. Nicholls. 18.

"Go and Sin no more:" preached Nov. 26, 1820, at the Evening Lecture in the Parish Church of Sittingbourne. By J. Hodgson, B. A., of Trinity College, Perpetual Curate of Oure, in Kent, and Chaplain to Lord Harris. 8vo. 6d.

Christ Anointed to preach the Gospel to the Poor, preached in St. Paul's Cathedral, December 10, 1820. By J. T. Barrett, D. D. of Peter's College, Cambridge.

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OBITUARY.

The Rev. Dr. JAMES LINDSAY. To none of our readers scarcely will the melancholy intelligence be new, that the world has been deprived, by an awfully sudden death, of this distinguished friend of truth and liberty. Hereafter, we shall endeavour to do justice to his manly and generous character: at present, we must confre ourselves to the circumstances of his death and inter

ment.

On Wednesday, the 14th instant, the Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations had assembled to receive the Report of a Committee previously appointed to consider and watch the progress of Mr. Brougham's Education Bill. There were probably fifty in number. Dr. Rippon was in the chair. The business was opened by Dr. Rees, the chairman of the Committee, who related the substance of a conversation with which Mr. Brougham had favoured the Committee, we think the preceding day. He was fol. lowed by Mr. Innes, another member of the Committee, who corroborated Dr. Rees's statements, and added other particulars. It being known that Dr. Lindsay differed in some degree from most of his brethren with regard to the magnitude of the evil involved in the Bill, there was now a general, but friendly call, upon the Doctor, who was also on the Committee, to explain his sentiments. This wish expressed by the Body, proceeded from that cordial respect which they universally entertained for him, and which his uniformly frk and courteous manners never for a moment permitted any difference of opinion to lessen. He rose and spoke with great ability, and with some animation, though not in our judgment with quite his usual energy, for about ten minutes. He did not defend Mr. Brougham's Bill, as has been reported, but maintained that some of its clauses were highly objectionable, and pledged himself to unite with his brethren in an honourable and candid opposition to them: he stated most clearly, however, that such, in his opinion, was the power of education over error and injustice, and even over whatever might be faulty in the plan of education itself, that he would rather have the Bill as it was than risk the postponement of a scheme of national education to an indefinite period. At the same time, no one could have gone farther than he went in

disclaiming all approbation of national religious establishments, and in asserting the principles of Nonconformity. He expressed a more than ordinary warmth of esteem for his brethren around him, and especially for the venerable Dr. Rees, who, he said, would have swayed his mind somewhat differently on the question, if he could have allowed himself to be determined by any authority whatever. He sate down, declaring that he would go with the meeting as far as he could, and that when he could go no further he would make no opposition, but cheerfully yield to the decision of the majority. Mr. Clayton then spoke for two or three minutes, and Dr. Waugh for about the same time. Something dropped by this last gentleman, led Dr. Rees to rise again to explain the principle of the Bill, which was not education simply, but education under ecclesiastical patronage. At this moment, the eye of the writer met Dr. Lindsay's, and he assented by a decisive motion of the head to Dr. Rees's explanation, saying, without rising from his seat, "Certainly, I admit it: that is the principle of the Bill." These were his last words. After Dr. Rees had made one or tivo remarks, and Mr. Innes had thrown in an explanatory sentence, the Secretary, Dr. Morgan, was proceeding to read a series of resolutions proposed by the Committee to the adoption of the meeting, and had advanced to the fourth or fifth, when the attention of the persons around Dr. Lindsay was attracted by a sort of groan, three times repeated. They found him inclining forward on his walking-stick, and on lifting him up, perceived that he had been seized with a fit. A slight convulsive motion of the head and face was observed by the gentleman nearest to him. He was instantly carried into the inner library, and within five or six minutes medical aid was procured; but in vain: pulsation had ceased, and the spirit had fled. Till long after his death was matter of certainty he continued to be surrounded by his sorrowing brethren, one of whom, Dr. Waugh, offered up on the occasion a solemn and deeply impressive prayer to the Almighty.

The shock of this calamity put an end to the business of the meeting; and as soon as the persons present could compose themselves sufficiently to recollect what had passed before their lamented brother's seizure, they congratulated each

other that not the least deviation from urbanity or friendship had taken place in the conversation in which Dr. Lindsay had shared, and, in fact, that no single expression had been uttered which even now any one of the speakers would have wished to retract or alter.

In this public manner did this publicspirited man breathe his last. Such of his brethren of Dr. Williams's Trust as were present, authorized the family of the deceased to make use of the Library-house for the funeral obsequies, and individual ministers of the Three Denominations expressed their wish to follow the remains of their departed brother to the grave. The body lay at Red-Cross Street until Friday, the 23rd instant, when it was removed for interment to Bunhill Fields. The procession consisted of nearly fifty coaches, of which several were the private carriages of his friends, and six were filled by former pupils of the excellent man now carried to his long home. The concourse of people was very great, both around the library and in the burial-ground. The corpse was preceded by Dr. Rees and Mr. Barrett: the latter delivered an appropriate address and prayer at the grave. The pall was borne by the following ministers of the Presbyterian body, according to seniority: Mr. Belsham, Mr. Coates, Dr. T. Rees, Mr. Aspland, Mr. Fox, and Mr. Mallison. Then followed the family: after whom came the personal friends of the deceased, the members of his congregation, (about 80 in number,) and ministers of the Three Denominations. genuine honour was never paid to any man's memory; and in this rarely-witnessed deep and general expression of respect was remarkably exemplified Dr. Lindsay's own favourite principle, laid down in the preface to his sermons, (see Mon. Repos. XV. 37,)" that in the end firmness and consistency will secure more esteem even from those to whom we refuse to yield, than the sycophancy of those despicable characters, who become all things to all men for the sake of popu larity or filthy lucre."

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Dr. Lindsay was in his 67th year, and had been upwards of thirty-five years minister of the Presbyterian congregation in Monkwell-Street. Four daughters survive him.

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1820. April 2, at Castle Howard, Ireland, WILLIAM PARNELL, Esq., M. P. Mr. Parnell was distinguished in private society for the amiableness of his manners, and for the suavity and intelligence of his conversation. He deservedly ranked high in letters and in politics for his general acquirements, but more especially for his writings, "The Causes of Popular Discontents in Ireland," and "The Apology for the Catholics:" works which have been greatly esteemed by the highest authorities for their elegance of style, the statesmanlike principles which they enforce, and the pure patriotism of the author. Had Mr. Parnell lived, the attention which he was in the habit of giving in Parliament to Irish affairs would have been productive, ere long, of lasting benefits to his country. Time only was wanting to enable him to give effect to those plans, which had been his constant study from his earliest years, for relieving Ireland from her grievances, and for ameliorating the condition of all classes · of her people, in wealth, in manners, and in morals. The following lines are from the poems of the late Mrs. Henry Tighe :

To. W. P., Esq. Avondale.

"We wish for thee, dear friend! for

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