Mr. URBAN, MR. Dec. 26. R. Archdeacon Coxe (p. 389.) might have been further informed, that the Rev. Mr. Maundrell, the well-known Traveller from Alep. po to Jerusalem, speaks of Sir Charles Hedges, then Judge of the Court of Admiralty, as his honoured uncle. You have never regularly informed your Readers that the Lady Berkeley, of whom you give them a curious account in Sept. p. 209, was Katharine, daughter of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and wife of Henry, 11th Lord Berkeley. You seem not aware that the Rev. Joseph Townsend, rector of Pewsey, p. 477, was one of the sons of Chauncey Townsend, formerly a respectable merchant in Austin Friars, and brother to the famous Alderman James Townsend, to the wife of Mr. John Smith, solicitor to the East India Company, and Clerk to the Drapers' Company--and to another lady who, I think, was twic married, but her names I have forgot. I think Joseph married a Lady Clarke-was she wi. dow of Sir Robert Clarke, bart. ? It will be a matter of uo small in. terest to the Geological world to watch who may become the next proprietor of the late Rev. Joseph Townsend's extensive, exquisitely beautiful, and scientifically arranged Collection of Minerals, andOrganic Remains illustrative of the strata of the Earth, and particularly of the strata of this Island, the fruit of researches of a long and active life, which he briefly touched upon in the first volume of "Moses," his last and most eminent monument of united knowledge, genius, and industry. E. *** Having announced in our last, p. 542, Mr. RAINE's intention of publishing the History of North Durham, (intended both as a sequel to the "History" of Mr. Surtees, and as a distinct publication for the accommodation of those who are exclusively interested in its subject),we with pleasure extract from his Prospectus the outline of his plan, and the account of his ample materials, of which we are confident he will make the best use; se -"The Topography of North Durham, will necessarily connect itself with the history of those ancient feuds which prevailed in the contiguous provinces of England and Scotland. In these districts were situated the principal places of strength for the protection of the Eastern Marches: and their remains exhibit the few and almost only memorials of that ancient rivalry, which for ages existed between two gallant Nations. But of this it is unnecessary to say more: it is sufficient to have indicated how extensive and interesting a field is here open for the labours of the Historian. - With regard to the Ecclesiastical and Parochial History of North Durham, although no objects of such magnitude here present themselves, either in respect of splendid edifices or names of high descent, as in many other districts, yet it may be safely promised, that this deficiency will be amply compensated by the extent and accuracy of the information in regard to those that do exist. By the wonted liberality of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, the Author has access to sources of information which have hitherto been unexplored, and he will thus be enabled to furnish the most authentic records respecting the endowments of churches, the transmission of pro perty, and the descent of families. It is his intention also to comprehend within his plan the Town of Berwick upon Tweed, and the Priory of Coldingham. The necessity of including the former must be obvious. Relative to the latter, which was originally dependent upon the Church of Durham, he will be able to publish at once a new and most detailed account. Amongs the important records preserved at Dur. ham, in reference to that Monastery, twelve Kings of Scotland, commencing with Dunean, either immediately cons veying benefactions, or confirming does nations made by eleven successive Earls of March. To all these charters, and to numerous other grants from the most distinguished Border families, seals are appended in a state of high preserva tion, of which finished engravings will be given from drawings by Mr. Blore, as well as of the most important objects of local interest. With regard to another department, the Author can have no ap prehension. The unsolicited kindness? and liberality of William Radclyffe, Esq. I Rouge Croix, in supplying him with such evidence as he can discover in the College of Arms relative to the district, leaves him no room for anxiety or diffidence on! this head. It is scarcely necessary to observe, that any communication which may have a tendency to facilitate the labours of the Author will be thankfully received." there exist charters of not fewer than? 板 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 91. A Discourse concerning, 1. The true Import of the Words Election and Reprobation, and the Things signified by them in the Holy Scripture. 2. The Extent of Christ's Redemption. 3. The Grace of God; where it is inquired, whether it be vouchsafed sufficiently to those who improve it not, and irresistibly to those who do improve it; and whether Men be wholly passive in the Work of their Regeneration. 4. The Liberty of the Will in a State of Trial and Probation. 5. The Perseverance ・or Defectibility of the Saints, with some Reflections on the State of Heathens, the Providence and Prescience of God. And lastly, an Answer to three Objections against the Doctrines asserted. To which is added, a Postscript, in answer to some of Dr. Edwards's Remarks. By Daniel Whitby, D.D. and late Chantor of the Cathedral Church of Sarum. Third Edition corrected. pp. 466. Rivingtons. INtion of excellent literary productions by famous men of former ages" meets with general encouragement, this "Discourse" of the pious and learned Dr. Whitby may expect a favourable reception. It is printed' verbatim from the edition of 1735. N an age when "the re-publica On a work of so long established a reputation it is superfluous to enlarge; and we therefore only give Dr. Whitby's reasons for having written it. "They who have known my education may remember, that I was bred up seven years in the University under men of the Calvinistical persuasion, and so could hear no other Doctrine, or receive no other instructions, from the men of those times, and therefore had once firmly entertained all their Doctrines. Now that which first moved me to search into the foundation of these Doctrines, viz. The Imputation of Adam's sin to all his posterity, was the strange consequences of it; this made me search the more exactly into that matter, and by reading Joshua Placeus, with the answer to him, and others on that subject, I soon found cause to judge that there was no truth in it. "I. After some years' study, I met with one who seemed to be a Deist, and telling him that there were arguments sufficient to prove the truth of Christian faith, and of the Holy Scriptures, he scornfully replied, Yes; and you will prove your Doctrine of the imputation of original sin from the same Scripture; inGENT. MAG. Suppl. LXXXVI. Part 11. E timating that he thought that doctrine, if contained in it, sufficient to invalidate the truth and the authority of the Scripture. And by a little reflection I found the strength of his argument ran thus: "That the truth of Holy Scripture could no otherwise be proved to any man that doubted of it, but by reducing him to some absurdity, or the denial of some avowed principle of reason.' Now this imputation of Adam's sin to his posterity, so as to render them obnoxious to God's wrath, and to eternal damnation, only because they were born of the race of Adam, seemed to him as contradictory to the common reason of mankind, as any thing could be, and so contained as strong an argument against the truth of Scripture, if that doctrine was contained in it, as any could be offered for it. And upon this account I again searched into the places usually alleged to confirm that doctrine, and found them fairly capable of other interpretations. One doubt remained still, whether antiquity did not give suffrage for this doctrine; and here I found the words of Vossius very positive, that Ecclesia Catholica sic semper judicavit, the Catholic Church always so judged;' which he endeavours to prove by testimonies from Ignatius to St. Austin. This set me on the laborious task of perusing the writings of antiquity till that time; and, upon an impartial search, I found that all the passages he had collected were impertinent, or at least insufficient to prove the point; yea, I found evidence sufficient of the truth of that which Peter' du Moulin plainly owns, that, from the time of the Apostles to St. Austin's time, all the ecclesiastical writers seem to write incautiously of this matter, and to incline to what he calls Pelagianism." And of this having made a collection, I finished A Treatise of Original Sin,' in Latin, which hath been composed about 20 years, though I have not thought it advisable to publish it.-Another time I discoursed with a physician, who said, There was some cause to doubt the truth of Scripture; For,' saith he, it seems plainly to hold forth the doctrine of absolute election and reprobation, in the ninth chapter to the Romans, which is attended with more evident absurdities than can be charged on them who question the truth of Scripture; and also seemeth as repugnant to the common notion which mankind have receiv ed of Divine justice, goodness, and sincerity, as even the saying that God, considering man in massá perditâ, ' as lost in in Adam,' may delude him with false miracles, seemeth repugnant to his truth.' And reading, in Mr. Dodwell, that bold stroke, that St. Paul, being bred a Pharisee, spake there, and is to be interpreted, ex mente Pharisæorum, "according to the doctrine of the Pharisees concerning fate, which they had borrowed from the Stoicks";' I set myself to make the best and the exactest search 1 could into the sense of the Apostle in that chapter, and the best help I had to attain to the sense of that chapter which I have given in my paraphrase, I received from a manuscript of Dr. Patrick, the late worthy Bishop of Ely, on that subject. Thence I went on to examine all that was urged in favour of these doctrines from the Holy Scripture, and this produced one considerable part of these Discourses." The Editor, in one of his notes, very pertinently observes, that "to smooth down the unsightly asperities of Calvinism, appears now to be the order of the day;" and that "this system of refinement is carried into every department of Literature into which a Calvinist is capable of conveying it." 92. A History of the Jesuits, to which is prefixed a Reply to Mr. Dallas's Defence of that Order. In two Volumes, 8vo. Baldwin, Cradock, & Joy. THE object of this Work is to establish the danger of the revival of the Jesuits to the world at large, and to the United Kingdom in particular. The plan embraces, in the first place, a full answer to a defence of the Jesuits, recently published by a respectable Writer who has been long known to the publick; and, secondly, a collection of the various evidences against the Jesuits, drawn from the History of other Nations and our own. The principal object of the Author appears to be to show, that, not withstanding the pretensions of the Jesuits to superior learning and talents, their order is only a corrupt modification of the Papal system; and that its Members have been at all times the most ardent and active Members of the Romish Church, having been by no means scrupulous in the employ ment of all the means in their power (not excepting PERSECUTION in every form), to swell the triumphs and enlarge the possessions of that Church: that the constitution and rules of the Society oblige its members to a prac. tice at once opposed to the plainest dictates of religion and good conscience, and at the same time hostile to the safety of Sovereign Princes, Go vernments, and States; that, in the two centuries of their existence, the Jesuits were the authors of almost all the calamities which desolated the world at large, and Europe in parti cular, especially the Protestant part of it; that to doctrines of the most pernicious tendency, both in morals and politicks, they have added prac tices in each of a nature utterly indefensible; that the agents employed by them in the prosecution of their objects have been almost exclusively members of the Catholic communion, who have ever been their willing instruments; and that inasmuch as the concessions of the present reign (espe cially the grant of the elective fran chise) have greatly increased the num ber and influence of Catholicks both in England and Ireland, the connexion which has ever subsisted between the Jesuits and themselves assumes the more importance, and threatens the greater danger to a Protestant Nation and Government; that the circum. stance of the Jesuits having now esta blished themselves both in England and Ireland*, in spite of Laws which have never been abrogated, is part of the system of achieving by fraud what cannot be effected by force; that numerous converts from the Protestant to the Catholic communion have been already made in our own coun try, through the indefatigable activity of these agents; and that the work of conversion is proceeding with remarkable success at this moment, more particularly in the inland coun ties; that the present Pope, in reviva ing an order which was abolished by Pope Clement XIV. about 40 years since, upon the petition of the whole of Europe (both Catholic and Prótestant), and in assigning to it, at the same time, the aid of the Inquisition (its oldest and best ally), has himself acted upon the great principle of Je suitism, viz. that the end to be accom plished will sanction the means which may be used, and has effectually provided for the revival of all those moral *The extensive Collegiate Establishment of Stonyhurst, near Preston, belonging principally to the Jesuits; and a close connexion subsists between that College and the large establishment of Jesuits at Castle Browne, in Ireland. and and political evils inseparable from the employment of such agents; finally, that the United Parliament owes it to its own safety, and to the interests of the Nation at large, immediately to dismiss the Jesuits who have already established themselves in Eng land and Ireland, and to prevent the landing of others of the same profession. [From the Times.] 93. Prospectus of an Institution for rendering Assistance to Shipwrecked Mariners, Preserving their Lives, and the Property of our Merchants, when Wreck occurs. 12mo. pp. 120. THE purport of this Institution is, to supply the different Sea-port Towns with Mr. Mallison's Invention called "The Seaman's Friend;" an invention which renders it " impos sible to sink when in deep water." From a Report of the Committee it appears, That Mr. Mallison intends immediately to proceed and give from ten to twenty or thirty of these Seaman's Friends, with proper directions to the fishermen, pilots, and inhabitants, and convince them of the impossibility of sinking, when in deep water. And that the Seaman's Friend shall be kept at the Town-hall, Church, or at the houses of such inhabitants as shall engage to preserve and bring them forward in the hour of distress. -Note. A list of the names of every pilot, fisherman, or individual, to whom the Seaman's Friend is intrusted, will be given to the mayor, resident clergyman, and presiding magistrate of the town, or fixed on the church porch, that it may be known who possess them. That when such town and inhabitants are perfectly satisfied of the utility of the plan, a collection shall be made at the church-doors, to repay the expences, and extend the benefit to other maritime towns.", Most heartily do we wish success to so laudable an endeavour. Mr. Mallison is himself very confident of its success; and says, "Such Ladies, Noblemen, and Gentlemen, who will honour this Syllabus with a perusal, will lay down this little work with the satisfactory gratification, that through the execution of the Plan, an immediate and great alleviation to this desolating source of destruction will be effected, a sure and lasting foundation laid for extirpating the cause of death from drowning, in all its ramifications, throughout the habitable world, I have purposely abstained from all topics unconnected with this immediate subject. Suffice it to say, I have furnished the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty with the list of upwards of 12,000 officers and men who have peof 305 officers and men who have perished this last war through Shipwreck rished since June 1811, through boats upsetting; the Commander in Chief, with upwards of 8500 officers and men, who have likewise perished through the same cause, in proceeding to or returning from the various theatres of their gallant and glorious atchievements, without being able to obtain attention to their future preservation." 94. Observations on the Chancery Bar. 8vo. pp. 31. Taylor and Hessey. TO those who have any business depending on this most honourable the small addition of the price of this though tedious and expensive Court, object. Pamphlet cannot be any considerable. "The Writer wishes it to be known that his "Observations" do not proceed from any man at the Bar, or in progress have, he cannot himself be benefited or to it; and whatever effect this may injured but he would rejoice should they tend in any degree to benefit the juniors of the Chancery Bar, or to remedy the great inconveniences of late experienced in the Chancery Courts." 95. Mary; or, Female Friendship: a Poem, in Twelve Books. By Harriet Downing. 4to, pp. 182. Harper. When the young bird first spreads its wings, To leave its parent's nest, Lest I, thy parent, live to see Some Critic strike thee dead. shelters its appearance under no THE Preface to this pleasing Tale fond wish of importunate friends; but simply states it to be written by a Mother for the benefit of those dearer than even Fame. Her infant family are the youthful Muses who inspire her lays she adds, perchance the motive may be an atonement for the deed. Harsh, indeed, and unre lenting Tenting nting must be the breast of the Critic, after perusing a Tale devoted to the cause of female friendship and gratitude, in which no honest feeling is outraged, but morality properly supported, if he be severe on the first appearance in print of an Authoress under these circumstances. We have read the Tale with attention; and, though of simple construction in its commecement, it increases in interest as it is developed, and we hesitate not in recommending it as evincing talent and ingenuity. Some legendary poems are interspersed, unconnected with the main subject, which display fertility of imagination, and ease of expression; of which the following spirited and playful sounet is a specimen: "Once, REASON fair! imperial maid, Ordered the PASSIONS to attend; They crowded to her court, afraid They might their Royal Queen offend. Before her throne Rage scarcely breath'd, Ambition bent his stubborn knee, Revenge from her a chain receiv'd, And bands were plac'd on Jealousy; Fear's heart reviv'd beneath her eye, She smil'd on Mercy and on Pity fairVALOUR, at her request, his sword put by, And HOPE was told to animate Despair. But Love, with traitor smile, her pow'r defied, Etied. And BROKE those fetters she around him We will make no other selection, but recommend the perusal of this Poem to those who may admire a little Novel dressed in metre. 96. Poems. By Arthur Brooke, Esq. sm. 8vo. pp. 56. Canterbury; Rouse and Co. THESE are the gay effusions of a young and ardent mind. Most of the Poems are of an amatory turn; and though some of them are rather too luxuriant, are not without poetical merit. The first in the volume, "The Commits Table," is professedly an imitation of Pope. The following lines in it, deprecating the evils resulting from a love of gaming, deserve commendation: "Unpleasing-painful-were the task to trace The fatal passion clouding every face, Erasing, where it reigns with power confest, [breast; Each generous feeling from its votary's Inured at length, familiar with deceit; (Shame on the paltry artifice) they cheat Oh! may I live to see those times restor❜d, [the board; When Mirth and Soul shall sparkle round When Cards no more possess alluring charms, [arms." But Beauty seeks repose in Wisdom's An "Anacreontic" shall be copied "When Chance has placed me at the board With tippling sots, I frowning sit, To hear them noisy praise afford To vulgar sallies aimed at wit. And still at every pause between The rustic tale, the jest obscene, With brutal mirth the walls resound; Though streams of nectar flow around, I coldly touch the passing bowl, And hate it from my heart and soul. Not so when with the chosen few, Whom Love invites to Beauty's bower, To taste the rich luxurious dew, The mingled sweets of fruit and flower; Whilst o'er them elegantly gay The beams of wit and fancy play, When mellow'd by the tears of wine, Love's lyre emits a tone divine, I snatch from Sappho's lip the bowl, And drink with all my heart and soul." 97. Petit Cadeau, à la Jeunesse, ou Fables Nouvelles, en Vers Français. Composées à Londres, par M. A. Mejanel, Professeur de Langue Française, et dédiées à ses Elèves. pp. 68. Dulau. THESE pretty little instructive Fables are written with spirit and judgment, and the Author thus concludes: "Muse, il est temps de prendre ha leine. Nous ne faisons, tu le sais que glaner: C'est un rude travail, et qui ne peut donner [peine. Que peu de fruits avec beaucoup de Arrêtons-nous pour un moment, Et de notre entreprise, un peu trop incertaine, Voyons venir le dénouement. Avant done de pousser plus loin notre carrière, Sachons d'abord si le benin lecteur, Ne condamnera pas et la muse et l'auteur, A voir leur avorton languir chez le libraire; Et, rongé par les rats, pourrir dans la [prévu, poussière. Mais si, par un bonheur tout à fait imSon arrêt étoit moins rigide : Qu'en faveur du motif qui nous servit de guide, Avec quelque intérêt notre ouvrage fut Alors to me verrois sautant, riant sous cape, M'estimant plus heureux que le feu roi Crésus, Et |