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To the CATHOLIC BARRISTER and to T. LL. Gentlemen, I am sorry I cannot afford any satisfactory answer or clue to your curious and interesting Queries. In this dilemma el am led by an irresistible impulse to recommend you to read ference each other's letters with studious attention. Who knows, but , that out of such reciprocal perusal something may be elicited Tthat may prevent the inquiries of one or the other of you from having been wholly made in vain. Your's, &c. EDITOR. for Dallas are one

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For some years we have heard nothing of this learned Orien talist and eminent Biblical scholar, and supposed that he was lost to the literary and theological world. About thirty years ago he attracted the notice and excited the applause of the learned, both on the Continent and in this country, by several publications, which gained him the appellation of the Kennicott of Italy. His greatest work, consisting of several quarto volumes, was published at Parma, in 1786, under the title of Varia Lectiones Veteris Testamenti, ex immensa manuscriptorum editorumque codicum congerie, haustæ et examinate. We have been favoured with intelligence, dated Parma, in November last. From this we learn, that this venerable Biblicist is not only still living and in good health at Parma; but has his thoughts still employed on the Hebrew Manuscripts of the Old Testament, and the purification of the sacred text. His collec tion of Manuscript Hebrew Bibles, of different ages and countries, is very extensive, and invaluable. The Emperor Alexander of Russia has lately attempted to enter into a negociation with De Rossi for the purchase of this collection, and has made the most tempting pecuniary offers; but without effect. We are glad to hear that this veteran in Oriental literature prefers his manuscript treasures to the treasures of kings, and is resolved, for the remainder of his days, to retain them in his own possesslon.

A CONTRAST.

"A JEW, at Ravenna, who first turned Christian, and af terwards relapsed to his old faith, Judaism, lately got into the Inquisition, from which he has been rescued by the Pope. His Holiness annulling the proceedings, thus liberally expressed himself: "The divine law is not like the law of man; it carries with it mildness and persuasion. Persecution, exile, prisous, are the means employed by false prophets and teachers. Let us pity the man who is deprived of the light, and who even

wishes to be deprived of it: for the cause of his blindness may serve to promote the great designs of Providence." This liberality on the part of his Holiness forms a striking contrast with the present proceedings of the spiritual court of this country. We are informed that several persons have lately been prosecuted and imprisoned under writs, called De excommunicato capiendo, on most trifling complaints, made by suitors for thoughtless words, spoken by defendants when in a state of irritation. A recent instance of this has come to our knowledge. Two young women, sisters, have been imprisoned in Lancaster Gaol twelve months, for not appearing when cited at the spiritual court of this diocese, at Chester. Their sufferings were not for contempt of Holy Church, as set forth in the proceedings; but because they were too poor or too negligent to take a journey to Chester, a distance of fifty or sixty miles, to answer the charge made against them, for having uttered defamatory words during a squabble with a female neighbour. This injured neighbour, under the instruction of her law adviser, thought it more advan tageous to litigate her quarrel in the Spiritual Court, than in a Court of Common Law." Lancaster Gazette, 24th Aug. 1816.

NEW TRANSLATIONS. HYMN FOR CHRISTMAS-DAY.

Jesu Redemptor omnium! JESUS, Redeemer of mankind,

Ere Nature yet had sprung to
light

Born in thy Sire's eternal mind;
His like in glory, as in might:
His bright effulgence: Author sure
Of all our good, and only end,
Now to the pray'rs thy suppliants
pour,

Thy willing ear propitious bend.
The rolling year that day renews,
When thou, Life's Author, for our
sake,

From Virgin pure didst not refuse
On thee a mortal's form to take.
Forth from thy Father's bosom led

By wondrous love to human kind,
Thou to his justice, in our stead,
Didst in thyself a victim find.
Let heav'n and earth their chorus
join,

And creatures all his praise re

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By the Rev. Wм. P. M. D.

And now to thee, whose blood was shed

To wash our sinful stains away, This tribute of our praise we glad Present on this thy natal day. To Jesus, from a Virgin sprung, Father and Spirit, mystic Three, Be glory giv'n and praises sung,

Now and for all eternity.

HYMN TO ST.STEPHEN, the 1st Martyr.
HAIL thou, in yet the infant Church,

The earliest martyr crown'd!
Far as she now extends o'er earth,

Great saint, thy name's renown'd. Before their court thou'rt dragg'd, that late

Condemn'd thy Lord divine:
When lo! thy harden'd foes beheld,
Like angel's count'nance, shine.
How, as in thee truth's spirit spoke,
The law thou didst expound!
How did their skill, their wisdom
vain,

Their learning proud confound!
Cut to the heart the stubborn race,
With each foul passion fir'd ;
Indignant, e'en their teeth they gnash,
At thy harangue inspir'd.
SUPPL. 1816.

LI

To whom thou saidst: "In vision O'er Israel, David's heir foretold,
Now born, the sov'reign sway to

"clear

"The op'ning heav'ns I see,
"And, at his Sire's right-hand en-
"thron'd,

"That Jesus preach'd by me."
Stopping their ears, with one loud

voice

Against thee they exclaim;
And furious rushing, drag thee forth,
As one they'd heard blaspheme.
The stony tempest while so fierce
They 're levelling full at thee,
"This sin, Lord, lay not to their
charge,"

Thou pray'dst on bended knee.
Then straight into thy Jesus' hands
Thy soul thou didst commend :
And thus his valiant champion here
Thy course victorious end.

O thou, who couldst, so like thy Lord,
E'en for thy murd'rers pray!
Obtain that to our en'mies we
Such mercy may display!
And ever with undaunted zeal,
Like thee, the truth maintain:

Nor blush to own what reas'ners

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hold.

"And shall this babe our race ex-

Haste,

clude ?

slave," he cries, in frantic
mood;

"Let ne'er thy sword male infant
spare:

Sure he the fate of all must share."
Ah! what avails the barb'rous
deed,

By guilty Herod thus decreed?
Alone, amidst such carnage spread,
He shuns unhurt the murd'rous

blade.

To Jesus, from a Virgin sprung,
Be glory given, and praises sung:
The like to God the Father be,
And Holy Ghost eternally.

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End of the Supplement to Vol. 3.

INDEX TO VOL. III.

Preceded by that part of Vol. II. Page 129, which contains the Literary Life
of the Rev. John Serjeant, up to Part of the 42d §.

Introductory Letter of L. to the Literary Life of the Rev. John Serjeant,
written by himself, and never before published. The Author's Letter
to the Duke of Perth, prefatory to his Catalogue of the several Trea-
tises written by him for Catholic Faith; beginning Vol. II. p. 129.-
§ 1 to 3. Came to England in 1652, &c.-His first controversy with Dr.
Hammond and Bishop Bramhall, viz. § 4 to 6. The Treatises of Schism Dis
armed and Schism Dispatcht, against the Book of Schisms of Dr. H. and the

Just Vindication of the Church of Englund, by Bp. Bramhall. § 7, 8. Bishop
Bramhall's Schism Guarded, in reply-His concessions to Catholicity-Mr.
S. endeavours to conciliate him. § 9 to 24. Dr. Hammond answers Mr.
S.'s Schism Disarmed-Mr. S. replies, and Dr. II 's rejoinder-The defects
of it exposed in Mr. S.'s No Excuse for Schism-The Vice Chancellor of
Oxford triumphs in Dr. II.'s defeat, &c. § 25, 26. Dr. S.'s Schism Dis-
patcht-The impression seized, and carried to Secretary Thurlow's cham-
bers-Reprinted at Paris-To reduce controversy to a rational, close, and
decisive method, writes his (§ 27 to 33.) Sure-footing in Christianity-
The plan of it, &c. §34 to 40. Against Dr. Pierce's Sermon of the Primi-
tice Rule of Reformation, including a reply to Drs. Stillingfleet and
Whitby on tradition-To Dr. Causabon-Anecdote of Calvin. § 41 to
43. An order issued to apprehend Mr. S. on account of his Sure-footing-
Charles II. advises the Bishops to answer it-Drs. Wilkins, Stillingfleet,
Tillotson, Bates, and Craddock, appointed for that purpose-Mr. S.
invited to a conference with them, under the safeguard of Dr. Wilkins,
at his chambers-An account of the conference, &c. §44 to 46. Dr. J.
Taylor on the point of being reconciled to the Catholick Church by Father
Hunt-Preaches a 5th of November Sermon, by order of the Vice
Chancellor of Oxford, to clear himself of the imputation-Reserves his
former intention - Father Hunt refuses to co-operate, till he makes
public satisfaction for the Lies in that Gunpowder Sermon, printed by
order of the Vice Chancellor-At the restoration is made Bishop of
Down, and publishes a Dissuasive from Popery-Mr. S.'s Discovery of the
Groundlessness and Insincerity of it-Dr. Taylor's Life of Christ taken, or
rather "stolen" from a Carthusian author, said to be Ludolphus de Saxonia
-Baxter's arguments also taken out of Rushworth's Dialogues. § 47, 48.
Dr. Tillotson's Rule of Faith, in answer to Sure-footing-The Plague, and
Mr. S.'s illness in consequence-His Letter of Thanks for Dr. Tillotson's
Rule of Faith. §49. Dr. Stillingfleet's Appendix, and Mr. S.'s Answer to
it-Mr. S. charged before a justice of peace with throwing fire-balls in
the fire of London; his accuser does not appear in support of the charge.
§ 50. Mr. S.'s Faith vindicated from the Possibility of Falsehood, against
the preceding works. § 51 to 54. Lady Throckmorton-Mr. S. writes and
dedicates to her his Method to arrive at Satisfaction in Religion-A dispu-
tation before her and three learned Catholics with Drs. Tillotson and
Stillingfleet-Mr. S. dictates six propositions for Lady T's satisfac-
tion-They are sent to Dr. Stillingfleet, whose unsatisfactory answers
induce Lady T. to become a Catholic-Her wariness compared to St.
Thomas's, &c. § 55. Caution to Catholic controvertists. § 56. Madam
Lyndsey-Conference before her of Dr. Gunning against Messrs. Tyrrwhit
and Melé, Jesuits-She is converted and becomes a nun. $ 57 to 59.
Use and abuse of the Fathers-Mr. S.'s conference with three gentle-
men. § 60, Dr. Tillotson nibbles in a Preface to his six Sermons at Mr.
S.'s Answer to him. § 61. Mr. S.'s Reason against Raillery in reply-exposes
the attempt of Dr. T. &c. to implicate him in the fire of London, and
to get the penal laws inflicted on the Keightleys for shewing him
hospitality-Exposes his ignorance of logic, shewing what first principles
ought to be-No further attacks from Dr. Tillotsou. § 62. Further de-
fects exposed in Tillotson's Probable not Certain Rule of Faith. §63. Mr.S.'s
Treatise on the Use of Holy Images, and the Veneration of thein (against
Col. Horwood's book to prove that Catholics are idolaters) was seized at
the press, and never published. §64. Sober Advice to Mr. Gataker, (a
Country Parson, who distributed writings against the Catholics) which
converted Mr. Gataker's son. §65. The Solid Grounds of the R. Catholic
Faith and Church, in answer to Dr. Pool's Nullity of the Roman Faith
and Church. § 66. Error Nonplust, in answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's Princi-

ples of the Protestant Religion. § § 67. King Charles II. publishes a procla-
mation for the priests to quit England by a fixed day-Mr. S. goes to
France-publishes there his Methodus Compendiosa, and dedicates it to
Bossuet. §68. Mr. S.'s First Catholic Letter, in answer to Dr. Stilling-
fleet's discourse with Dr. Gooden on idolatry-Second Catholic Letter, in
answer to Dr. Stillingfleet's reply. §69. The Third Catholic Letter, in
answer to the Reflector, in defence of Dr. Stillingfleet-Mr. S. re-challen-
ges Dr. Stillingfleet. §70. Mr. S.'s Fourth Catholic Letter, in answer to
Dr. Stillingfleet's Sermon before the Lord Mayor, &c. § 71. Dr. Stilling-
fleet replies to the Third Catholic Letter. §72 to 74. Mr. S.'s Fifth Catholic
Letter. §75. A Protestant History of the Controversies of the Time-
Mr. S.'s Answer, in an account of his 2d and 3d Catholic Letters-His
6th Catholic Letter. § 76. The mob at the revolution seize and destroy,
at his printers, part of a new work against Dr. Stillingfleet-Mr. S.
obliged to conceal himself. 77 to 81. Sudden increase of Atheists
and Deists, and the cause—Mr. 5.'s Method to Science, in defence of the
Christian Religion against them. § 82, 83. Locke's Essay on the Human
Understanding, setting fancy above reason, undermines religion-Mr. S.'s
answer to it, entitled, Solid Philosophy asserted, against the Fancies of the
Ideists. § 84, 85. Mr. S.'s Transnatural Philosophy, or Metaphysics, to
shew Atheists and Deists the true way of reasoning. § 86. Mr. S.'s
Explication of the most B. Trinity, against Atheists, Deists, and Socinians
Mr. S.'s justification of his manner of writing, and use of ridicule.
Note by Mr. Francis Fitter.-P. S. by L.

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