to think that many of his deductions are not warranted by facts. Thus, for instance, when he asserts, "that by the late cessions and conquests provinces have been added to our sovereignty, whose annual revenues would pay the whole ecclesiastical establishment of England many times over," p. 12; it would be erroneous to conclude that there is a large unappropriated surplus, or indeed any surplus, of revenue beyond the necessary expenditure of the Company. At p. 13, he observes, "Amidst all our conquests in the East; amidst the glory of our arms or policy; amidst our brilliant display of just and generous qualities, the Englishman is still in their (the natives) eyes the Cafir;' that is, the infidel"-Now such an expression as this might be used by the Mussulmans who apply, and ever will apply, the term to all who are not of their creed, and among the rest to the Hindus; but it is never adopted by the Hindus, who form much the largest proportion of the population of India. Again when he asserts of our countrymen that "when they leave England, they leave their religion for ever," p. 11; he himself must allow on reflection, that the generality of the remark would admit of numerous exceptions. According to his own statement there is now in British India an establishment of eighteen chaplains. Did our limits admit of it we could multiply similar instances of incautious assertion, which in our opinion detract considerably from the merit of this production, and with those who are conversant with India must greatly lessen its effect. But besides expressing our dissent from some of Dr. Buchanan's inferences, we are forced to observe, that the whole work has less the air of a sober, dispassionate, investigation of a grand and comprehensive question than it has of an ex parte pleading. Another objection arises in our minds from what we are tempted to call the petulance of many of the remarks; as well as from the style of unbecoming dic tation which pervades the memoir. There is also a sweeping and undistinguishing severity in some of the strictures which it contains, that appears to us scarcely to admit of a satisfactory vindication. Upon the imperfections of this work, however, we certainly have very little disposition to make a single remark beyond the fair claims of impartial criticism. Convinced that Dr. Buchanan, in writing it, has been animated by the purest motives, and by an ardent zeal for the interests of religion; concurring with him also most cordially in the object which he has in view, the propagation of Christianity in British India, we should have rejoiced had our duty, in reviewing his work, imposed on us no other task than that of commendation. Still, however, we have the pleasure to be able to say that it is a work of singular value, and that on a variety of accounts, it has the very strongest claims to the public attention. LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c. GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for the press:-1 History of the Trade and Manufactures of Birmingham; with Biographical Sketches of the most eminent Manufacturers and Inhabitants; enriched with aquatint engravings; in one large vol. 8vo. by J. MORFETT, Esq. Barrister at Law:-An edition of the Works of HOGARTH, with his Life; and his Descriptions moralized; in 2 vols. 4to. by Mr. T. Coox: the life to be reprinted from N1CHOLS's Anecdotes of HOGARTH, corrected' and enlarged by the author. In the Press:--Letters addressed to the the Rev. Dr. E. D. CLARKE:A Tour to : made in 1801 and 1802, to the Residence of the Chief of the Booshuana Nation, being the remotest point in the Interior of Southern Africa to which Europeans have hitherto penetrated; in 4to., with numerous engravings; edited by JOHN BARROW, Esq. F. R. S.:-A new edition in 11 vols. 8vo. of HOOKE's Roman History:-The Annual Register for 1801, being the first volume of a new series, undertaken by Messrs. Rivingtons. Proposals have been circulated for printing, by subscription, the original text, care fully collated with the most authentic MSS. of the Raymayunu, a celebrated Shanscrit Poem; with an English Translation, accompanied with elucidatory Notes. It will form 9 vols. 4to. of 600 pages each, at 5 guineas per vol.: three volumes to be delivered annually. "This Poem," say the editors, who are the Baptist Missionaries at Serampore," is far superior in antiquity to any of the Pooranus: and the veneration in which it has been held, throughout Hindoosthan, for so many ages, is scarcely exceeded by that entertained for the Sacred Scriptures throughout the Christian world; a circumstance this, its intrinsic merit. The work, however, which renders it interesting, whatever be besides furnishing an important clue to the ancient history of India, gives us such a full idea of the Hindoo Mythology, and presents to us so interesting a picture of the almost unvarying manners and customs of the country, as must render it highly gratifying to the admirers of Oriental Li terature." A General Meeting of the Proprietors of the LONDON INSTITUTION, was held on Jewry, to receive a report from the tempothe 24th April, at its house in the Old rary Committee of Managers respecting a apply, in order to obtain for the Society Royal Charter for which it is proposed to the rights of a corporate body. A draft of the proposed charter was read to the meeting, which, after some discussion, it was resolved should be printed for the use of deration at a future meeting. the Proprietors, and be taken into consibeen since done, and the proposed draft, This has after undergoing various modifications, has been adopted. By a report made to the Proprietors, it appears that the Managers of the City of London, for the grant of the have addressed themselves to the liberality site on which Blackwell Hall now stands, for the erection of a commodious house for the Institution. The total number of Pro prietors yet admitted is 950; and that of Life Subscribers, 72. A Library has been already collected, which has cost £.6700; and consists of nearly 8000 volumes, comprizing many works of great and increasing value. The whole sum received is £.76,710, 3s. 1d. of which £.65,000, with an accumulation of interest amounting to about £.2000, is invested in Exchequer Bills. Professor RICHARD PORSON is appointed principal Librarian, with a salary of £.200 per annum; under whom are two Assistant Librarians, each at £.100 per annum. The Marine Society has, since its establishment in 1756, clothed $4,191 men, and 25,519 boys: and, in the quarter ending December, 1805, 133 men, and 107 boys; 41 of the boys being apprenticed to the merchants' service. This Society has now 60 boys on board their ship at Deptford, ready and fit for his Majesty's and the merchants' service. GERMANY. The German writers seem to have been very troublesome of late to their superiors, in pestering them with presentations and dedications. The Elector of Baden has given public notice in the journals, that he shall not give any answer to authors, who send him their works. A similar intimation has been given by the Duke of SaxeTeschen, the Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, and the Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The Senate of Hamburgh has also requested authors neither to address nor to, dedicate to it any literary performance without its permission. The BISHOP OF LONDON's Lectures on the Gospel of St. Matthew, and MILNER'S History of the Church of Christ, have been translated into the German language DENMARK. The Danish Government is occupied in ameliorating the condition of the inhabitants of Iceland; a people removed to the confines of the polar circle, but interesting on account of the zeal with which they cultivated the sciences in the xth and xith centuries; and on account of the voyages which they made to America. Iceland, almost ruined by various physical and political evils, is about to be restored; a regular city is building, to be called Reykiavig; and it is already peopled by colonies of natives as well as strangers. A free port is opened; and a College, where the learned languages and natural history are taught, is in the full exercise of its functions. EAST INDIES. The Asiatic Society has united with the College of Fort William, in granting an annual stipend, by equal contributions, of £.450 sterling, to the Protestant Missionaries in Bengal, towards defraying the ex pence of publishing the original text of the most ancient Shanscrit Writings, and particularly of the Vedas, with an English translation. The subject of the Prize Essay, proposed to the Students at the College of Fort William, for the second term of 1805, is the following: "On the ultimate Improvement of the Natives of India, in the course of ages, under the influence of the British Government, in Learning and the Arts, in Morals, Manners, and Religion." Captain CHARLES STEWART, Assistant Persian Professor, has commenced a Descriptive Catalogue of the Oriental Books and MSS. belonging to the Library of TIPPOO SAIB, now in the College of Fort Wiliam, He has discovered, in that library, a valua ble work in the Persian language, referred to by Don and ORME, as necessary for the illustration of an important period in Eastern history, and which was sought for in India by those historians without success. It is the History of the Emperor AURENGZEBE, from the xith year of his reign to his death, a period of 40 years; written by the learned and authentic MAHOMMED SAKI. M. V. LUNKAR, head Pundit on the Shanscrit and Bengalee languages at Fort William, has ready for the press in Bengalee, A General History of the Hininos, from the earliest ages to the present time: compiled from Oriental authorities, and particularly from Shanscrit records. He is also preparing for the press, in the same language, A View of the Manners and Customs of the Hindoos, as they now exist; in which many popular practices are coutrasted with the ancient observances prescribed by the Vedas. NORTH AMERICA. It has been recently ascertained, that the Mammoth, or American Elephant, was a herbivorous animal. In digging a well in Wythe-county, in Virginia, after penetrating about five feet and a half from the surface, the labourers struck against the stomach of a Mammoth, the contents of which were in a state of perfect preservation, consisting of half masticated reeds twigs, and grass, or leaves. LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. THEOLOGY. A Sermon preached at Christ Church, Bath, on Wednesday, February 26, 1806. By the Rev. Charles Daubeny, Archdeacon of Sarum. 1s. 6d. Two Apologies; one for Christianity, in a Series of Letters, addressed to Edward Gibbon, Esq. the other for the Bible, in Answer to Thomas Paine. To which are added, two Sermons, and a Charge in Defence of revealed Religion. By Richard Watson, D.D. F. R. S. Lord Bishop of Landaff, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. 9s. 8vo. Scripture Views of Strife and Contention, exhibited in an Essay upon Proverbs xvii. 14. By the Author of the Dissenters appeal against the Attacks of the Rev. Rowland Hill. Expository Discourses on the Book of Genesis, interspersed with practical Reflections. By Andrew Fuller. 2 vols. 10s. An Historical View of Christianity, containing select Passages from Scripture; with a Commentary of the late Edward Gibbon, Esq. and Notes by the late Lord Viscount Bolingbroke, Voltaire, and others. 4to. 12s. MISCELLANIES. A Short Account of the Disease in Corn, called by Farmers the Blight, the Mildew, and the Rust. By Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. Observations on English Architecture, military, ecclesiastical, and civil. By the Rev. James Dallaway, M. B. F. S. A. 12s. A Collection of Architectural Designs, for Mansions, Casinos, Villas, Lodges, and Cottages, in the Greek, Gothic, and Castle Styles. By James Raudall, Architect. 4to. 21. 12s. 6d. folio, 31. 12s. 6d. The Modern Plutarch, or universal Biography; including authentic Memoirs of distinguished public Characters of all Nations, living and recently deceased. Under the immediate direction of several eminent literary Gentlemen. Vol. I. foolscap 8vo. 6s. 6d. boards. Lives of Cardinal Aberoni, and the Duke of Ripperara, Minister of Philip V. King of Spain. By G. Moore, Esq. 2 vols. 7s. Select Passages from the Diary of the Jate John Blackadder, Esq. to which is prefixed an Account of the Life and Parentage of the Writer, and Preface by the Rev. John Newton, Rector of St. Mary Woolnoth. 4s. The whole Law relative to the Duty and Office of a Justice of the Peace. By W. Williams, Esq. With great Improvements. The Temple of Truth, or the best System of Reason, Philosophy, Virtue, and Morals, analytically arranged. 8s. 8vo. bds. On the Invasion and the Cruelties inflicted on myself, now an Officer in his Majesty's Service, who was almost three Years confined in a French Prison, giving an Account of my Sufferings and Escape. By Thomas O'Niel. 5s. The Vaccine Contest; or, "Mild Hu manity, Reason, Religion, and Truth, against fierce unfeeling Ferocity, overbearing Insolence, mortified Pride, false Faith, and Desperation;" being an exact Outline of the Arguments and interesting Facts adduced by the principal Combatants on both Sides, respecting Cow-Pox Inoculation; including a late official Report on this Subject, by the Medical Council of the Royal Jennerian Society. By William Blair. 2s. 6d. An Examination of the British Doctrine which subjects to Capture a neutral Trade not open in Time of Peace. 5s. 8vo. An Inquiry into the State of the Nation at the Commencement of the present Administration. 58. 8vo. Christian Politics; containing a View of civil Government in its Influence on Virtue and Happiness, chiefly from the Relation it bears to Liberty and Property. By Ely Bates, Esq. 8vo. 93. War as it is, and the War as it should be; an Address to the united Administration, urging the Necessity of a new Species of Warfare, and a new Basis for a Treaty of Peace. By a true Englishman. Neutral Rights asserted and Vindicated, in an Examination of the British Doctrine which subjects to Capture a neutral Trade not open in Time of Peace. Observations on the Plan of training the People to the Use of Arms, with Reference to the subject of Sunday Drilling. By Thomas Gisborn, M. A. Reflections on Christian Liberty, civil, Establishments of Religion, and Toleration, By Robert Robinson. 1s. 6d. Svo. sewed. Travels, after the Peace of Amiens, throughout France, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany. By J. G. Lemaistre, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 4s. Notes on the West Indies, written during the Expedition under the Command of the late General Sir R. Abercromby; with Observations on the Island of Barba Engravings, with a descriptive Account in English and French, of Egyptian Monuments in the British Museum; collected by does, the Settlements on the Coast of the Institute in Egypt, under the Direction of Bonaparte, and surrendered to the British Commander in Chief, Lord Hutchinson, by General Menou. No. 3. 11. 1s. Guinea, and the Creoles and Slaves of the Western Colonies, and the indians of South America. By G. Pinckard, M. D. 3 vols. 8vo. 11, 10s. RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. BAPTIST MISSION IN BENGAL. THE fifteenth number of the periodical accounts of this mission has recently been published. It is prefaced by some remarks on the providential dispensations which have attended the undertaking, and rals not only unaided, but counteracted. by custom and general opinion, &c. &c. On such subjects the New Testament seems to us rather an obsolete book, written for other times. But the work in which our brethren, and all who labour with success among the heathen, are en which unquestionably appear to be deserv-gaged, places them in the midst of such ing of notice. We were particularly struck with the observation that the time when God was pleased to vouchsafe a prospect of success to the missionaries, was that "in which his holy word began to be published in the language of the natives." "That was the honoured period from whence their prosperity was dated." A list is subjoined of the persons who had been baptized by the missionaries previously to the close of the year 1804, by which it appears that forty-one Hindus had embraced Christianity. Two of these had been ordained ministers: six had been suspended or excluded on account of ill conduct, and three or four more are represented as doubtful characters. converts are six Brahmans. however, it is stated, does not include all to whom the labours of the missionaries had been useful; but merely those who had joined the Baptist Church. Among the This list, The following observations appear to us particularly important, as tending to confirm our faith in the Christian Scriptures, and in the divine origin of that religion which they inculcate. "As the particulars of this work have arrived, they have given a kind of new interest to several things in the apostolic writings, and tended to confirm us in the leading doctrines which we have received. The effects of Christianity, as they appear in a country where it has been long established, and one in which it has been entirely unknown, though alike in substance, yet must needs be attended with circumstantial differences. Hence we read of many things in the history of the first churches which are less applicable to us than they were to them. Such are cases of unbelievers deserting their husbands, or putting away their wives; cases of men who prior to their believing had more than one wife; warnings against eating things sacrificed to idols; christian worship (being on a day disregarded by the country in general) attended to by few others than believers; christian mo things, and renders the apostolic directions concerning them highly interesting. "And, if a similarity of situation enables us to read some things in the apostolic writings with new interest, much more will the observations of other things, in which Christianity is the same in all ages and places, tend to confirm our faith. It produces the same honourable thoughts of the only true God, and of Jesus Christ whom he hath sent; the same lowly conceptions of ourselves; the same dependance upon Christ alone for acceptance with God; the same fear of dishonouring God; the same gentleness, kindness, meekness, and good will to men; and the same spirit of love to the brethren. "We cannot speak of these effects in the christians of Hindustan, as existing in such a degree as we could wish, nor as unaccompanied with many faults. Yet comparing them with what they were, and what the rest of their countrymen still are, the change is great and manifest. If the apostle could say to the Corinthians, notwithstanding the evils which were found amongst them,Such were some of you, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified ; we trust we may say the same of the Hindus. "When we see these effects in a people who were notorious for almost every species of wickedness, it affords no slight proof of the doctrine which has produced them being the same for substance as that which was taught by Christ and his apostles. If every seed brings forth its own body, that which produces the same fruit must itself be in the main the same doctrine. Nor ought we to overlook the effects which it produces in unbelievers as well as in believers. The same spirit of hatred and bitter persecution, which was excited by the gospel in the early ages, is now manifest in that inoffensive race of men, as they have been commonly accounted, the Hindus. Were it not for the protection of the British and Danish laws, there is reason to fear that both |