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change will be greatly to his Royal Highness's advantage, is a nice question, which cannot hitherto be determined with any certainty.”—Pp. 8—10.

The author concludes with a confession which may well repress envy of the Great, if it ought not to excite our pity for courtiers who are too often both deceivers and deceived:

"I have now finished my relation of all the material transactions wherein I was immediately concerned; and though I can never forget my obligations to the kindest of masters, I have been too long behind the scenes; I have had too near a view of the machinery of a court, to envy

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any man either the power of a minister, or the favour of princes. The constant anxiety and frequent mortifications which accompany ministerial employments are tolerably well understood; but the world is totally unacquainted with the situation of those whom fortune has selected to he the constant attendants and companions of royalty, who partake of its domestic amusements and social happiness.

"But I must not lift up the veil, and must only add, that no man can have a clear conception how great personages pass their leisure hours, who has not been a prince's governor or a king's favourite."-Pp. 141, 142.

NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE.

On the Beneficial Tendency of Unitarianism. By Lant Carpenter, LL.D. 12mo. 18.

A Letter to the Ven. and Rev. Francis Wrangham, M. A. F. R. S., Archdeacou of Cleveland, on the Subject of his Charge. By Captain Thomas Thrush, R. N. With an Appendix, containing a Letter to the Inhabitants of Filiskirk, &c. 8vo.

An Inquiry into the Scriptural Authority for Social Worship: with Observations on its Reasonableness and Utility; and an Account of the Manner in which the Religious Services of the Temple, &c. were conducted in the Time of Christ. By Thomas Moore. 12mo. 38. 6d.

An Antidote to Intolerance and Assumption, or a Peep into Mr. Coates's View of the Only True Church of God, deuominated Freethinking Christians, being Remarks on that Gentleman's "Plea" on their Behalf. By William Stevens. 8vo. 6d.

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A Visit to North America, and the English Settlements in Illinois, with a Winter Residence in Philadelphia. By

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Elements of Greek Prosody and Metre. By Thomas Webb. 8vo. 6s.

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The Victim of the Atonement; an Essay on the Manhood and Godhead of the Redeemer, in their respective as well as joint Relatious to the Christian Sacrifice. By Green Atkinson. 12mo. 2s. 6d. The State of the Nation, at the Commencement of the Year 1822, under the Four Departments of the Finance, Foreign Relations, Home Department, Colonies and Board of Trade. 58. 6d.

Observations on a Bill to Amend the Laws relating to the Relief of the Poor in England, lately introduced into the House of Commons by J. Scarlett, Esq. By George Long, Esq., Barrister at Law. 8vo. 28.

Address to the Members of the House of Commons, on the Necessity of Reforming our Financial System. By One of Themselves. 2s. 6d.

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The Proceedings in Herefordshire, connected with the Visit of Joseph Hume, Esq., M. P., December 7, 1821, on presenting that Gentleman a Silver Tankard and a Hogshead of Cider, purchased by Subscriptions of One Shilling each, in Approbation of his Parliamentary Con

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A Short Letter to the Earl of Liverpool, on an Amelioration of the Taxes. By a Whig of the Old School. Is,

The Hippolytus and Alcestis of Euripides; literally translated into English Prose, with Notes, from the Text of Monk. 48.

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Arcita and Palamon, after the Noble Poet Geoffrey Chaucer. By Edward Lord Thurlow.

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Giuseppino, an Occidental Story. 8vo.

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Dr. Chalmers' Christian and Civic Economy of Large Towns, No. X. On the Bearing which a right Christian Economy has on Pauperism. 1s. (Published Quarterly.)

A Key to the Critical Reading of the Four Gospels, consisting chiefly of Gleanings for the Use of Students in Divinity. 8vo. 4s.

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Report of a Trial in the Jury Court, Edinburgh, June 25, 1821, for an alleged Libel, in the Case of the Rev. Andrew Scott, Roman Catholic Priest, Glasgow, versus Wm. McGaven, Author of a Work entitled "The Protestant," and Others. 8vo. 38.

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Obituary. Rev. Caleb Evans.

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An Attempt to Ascertain the Import of the Title "Son of Man," commonly assumed by our Lord. A Sermon, preached before several Unitarian Associations, and printed at their Request. By Robert Aspland, Pastor of the Unitarian Church, Hackney. 12mo. 18.

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The Character of Jesus Christ, an Evidence of his Divine Mission. A Sermon, preached at the Gravel-Pit Meeting, Hackney, and at Lewin's Mead, Bristol. By Robert Aspland, Pastor of the Unita rian Church, Hackney. 12mo. 1s.

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The Coming of the Lord, a Motive to Patience and Stedfastness, preached before the University of Cambridge, on Advent Sunday, Dec. 2, 1821. By William Mandell, B. D., Fellow of Queen's College. 18. 6d.

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The Christian Watchman: on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. Thomas Best, late Minister of Cradley Chapel, Worcestershire, August 5, 1821. By John Cawood, A. M. 18. 6d.

Suicide providentially arrested, and practically improved: preached by the express desire of Mr. G. J. Furneaux, who shot himself at White-Conduit-House, Sept. 19, 1821. By S. Piggott. Is.

OBTUARY.

Memoir of the Rev. Caleb Evans. [See Mon. Repos. XVI. 735-737.] THE amiable and excellent youth who forms the subject of the present Memoir, was the third son of the Rev. Dr. Evans, of Islington. He was born at Islington, April 29th, 1801. Until upwards of 16 years of age he seldom left the paternal roof, but was educated by his father, whose labours to imbue his mind with solid and useful knowledge, and to im plant in his heart the principles of piety and virtue, were abundantly repaid by the avidity with which he received the former, and by the evidence he gave that his conduct was influenced by the latter. In the winter of 1817, he went to Edinburgh, where he spent two winters at college. Both sessions he obtained the leading Mathematical Prize; and by the ability and earnestness with which he availed himself of the opportunities afforded him to correct and extend his

knowledge, he gained the esteem and confidence of those who had the best opportunities of observing him. He was now for the first time the master of his own time and conduct, and was at a distance from every one who could exert any controul over either. In this untried situation, which is never without danger, he gave the first decisive proof of that steadiness of mind and character which every successive year confirmed; for he studied with the diligence of those who love knowledge for itself, and acted with the discretion of those whom experience has taught the value of virtue. *

See an article intitled, "A Ramble into the Western Highlands of Scotland," continued through several successive numbers of the Pocket Magazine, in which the deceased describes in a lively manner a tour which he made in the Spring of 1818, when only in the 17th year of his age.

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Soon after leaving college, at Midsummer, 1819, he took a principal part in the management of the school which his father has conducted upwards of twenty years; and for the beneficial arrangements he introduced and the fidelity with which he devoted a large portion of his time to the improvement of those committed to his care, he deserves more than common praise, because his love of knowledge excited in him a desire to be wholly engaged in very different pursuits. This sacrifice of inclination to duty he made with so much readiness as to prove that to him duty was a law, and with so much cheerfulness as to shew that he knew how to extract pleasure from it.

For a considerable period his attention had been fixed on the Christian ministry as the profession in which he might be most happily and usefully employed, and in the autumn of 1820 he finally determined to devote himself to it. This determination was the result of much serious reflection, and formed in the sincere hope that it would be conducive to his own mental, moral and religious improvement, and to the improvement, in some humble measure, of others. And no mind could be better constituted and no character better formed for this important office.

Having made his election, he immediately applied himself with an extraordinary ardour to those studies which he deemed necessary to enable him to discharge the duties of the Christian minister with honour and usefulness. Not having it in his power to pursue that systematic study of theology and of biblical criticism, under the direction of able and enlightened tutors, which he earnestly wished, he formed a plan of study for himself, to which he adhered with great steadiness, for which he husbanded every hour, and from which even the pleasures of social intercourse could seldom seduce him. Often when friends whose society he highly valued were under the same roof with him, he confined himself to his closet, unwilling to lose any of those precious moments which could not be recalled, and of which, with all his efforts, he felt that he could obtain but too few. The time spent in these pursuits was his season of enjoyment: to other engagements he attended because his duty required it; to these, because they afforded him the highest gratification.

He commenced his studies with an attentive and thorough examination of Clarke's Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God; and of the Treatise of the same author on Natural and Revealed Religion, together with several other works which treat of the exist

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ence and perfections of the Deity, in the most able and profound manner. these investigations he was encouraged and assisted by his elder brother, with whom he could converse without reserve, and from whom he was proud to acknowledge that he received no unimportant aid in the solution of his difficulties and the confirmation of many of his own opinions.

He next applied himself with the same diligence to the study of the Evidences of the Christian Religion. The historical evidence and the philosophical argument founded upon it made a deep impression on his mind, and produced a firm and unwavering conviction, that the writers of the gospel history must have been the men they purport to have been; must have seen and heard the things which they declare they saw and heard, and must have done and suffered what they are reported to have done and suffered: consequently, that their story must be true, and therefore, that the divinity of the Christian religion is established. He could never sufficiently admire the clear and masterly statement of this argument in Mr. Belsham's Summary of the Evidences of Christianity, a work which the inquiring and upright Deist is bound to study, and with which the Christian parent ought to render the mind of his child familiar.

The next subjects which engaged his attention were the Books of the New Testament. He entered into a careful examination of their genuineness and authenticity, and in this investigation read with extreme pleasure the writings of Herbert Marsh. In like manner he had begun to examine the epistles, the obscurities of which he was anxious to explain to the satisfaction of his own mind: and by the aid of Locke and Taylor, whom he diligently studied, he had already in part succeeded: and, probably, as much for his own improvement as with a view to afford improvement to others, he had condensed and arranged the result of his investigation in a discourse on this subject which he never delivered. Already he had made himself well acquainted with the writings of Dr. Cogan, which he greatly admired.

His first sermon was delivered at Worship Street, Dec. 17, 1820, on the Paruble of the Sower, and the satisfaction which he gave on that and subsequent occasions may be best estimated from the fact, that within the year which comprised the whole of his ministerial labours, he repeatedly officiated at most of the principal Dissenting places of worship in the metropolis and its neighbourhood, and in that short period preached forty times. On Whitsunday, June 10, 1821,

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he preached (by invitation) the annual sermon at Horsham, from Acts ii.47: "Praising God and having favour with all the people:" a discourse which he likewise delivered at the Gravel-Pit Meeting-house, the last Sunday that he entered the pulpit. At Maidstone he had engaged to deliver two charity sermons on the Sunday immediately following his decease. On these two sermons were employed the last efforts of his mind. One of them, from Psalm cxix. 144, "Give me understanding and I shall live," he had completed; it contains the following passage: "If a man direct his thoughts to his own wonderful formation-to the extent and the diversity of the scene which this earth presents and to the vast, the intricate, yet the unerring process of the seasons and of vegetation; and if from these objects of his more immediate contemplation, he raise his thoughts, baffled in their investigations of the smallest portion of this globe, to the kindred planets which with this world revolve round the sun;-if, too, he forget the grandeur of this our solar system as he extends his vision to the fixed stars, whose immense masses by their incalculable distances are reduced in his sight to twinkling specks; -and if here he gather up the whole energy of his amazed and bewildered thoughts to grasp the idea that these wavering particles of light are each a system, each-worlds revolving round their sun;-if thus far he carry forth his thoughts, must he not, when he recals them to his own nothingness, feel the most awful anxiety to shape his conduct in strict subservience to the will of that Being, the effects of whose power he has been contemplating throughout the boundless extent of space?"

The other charity sermon, from Pro. verbs xi. 24, "There is that scattereth and yet increaseth," was left unfinished; it terminated abruptly with the following sentence:

"Throughout the works of God man cannot point to a single portion that has not been formed to produce some good."

The following description of a bigot is extracted from a sermon, (the last ever preached by the deceased,) from 2 Thess. iii. 14 and 15: "And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed. Yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother." After pointing out the general inculcation of humility and love through all the epistles, he proceeds:

"From the glance which we have now taken at the epistolary portion of the New Testament, we cannot hesitate to allow its direct tendency to promote kindly feelings among mankind. Let us, how

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ever, be only convinced of this fact;where then do we behold the bigot, who disturbs the happiness of his fellow-man?

"We see him advance with the writings of the apostles in his hand; with the doctrines of the apostles in his mouth; but not with the spirit of the apostles in his heart.

"He lays before us the doctrines of Paul.-These,' he exclaims, 'formed the faith and hope of an inspired apostle : they must therefore become your faith and your hope.' And he makes this exclamation, and maintains it too, without deigning to give a thought to that love, which the Apostle declares to be greater than the purest faith and the brightest hope; 'Now abideth faith, hope and love, these three, but the greatest of these is love.'

"We behold the bigot ferociously exacting the belief of mankind to the doctrines of James, Peter and John; but we see him heeding neither the declaration of James, that the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits;' nor the exhortation of Peter, to have fervent love above all things;' nor the reasoning of John, 'he that loveth not, knoweth not God, for God is love.'

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"Do we then behold the genuine disciple of Paul, James, Peter and John, in this bigot, who, because his fellow-christian assigns to the writings of those apostles a sense different from himself, counts that fellow-christian as an enemy and admonishes him not as a brother? Before

we can regard him as the genuine disciple of those apostles, he must destroy the purity and benignity of that spirit which pervades all their writings: he must sacrilegiously tear many a passage from out those very epistles for every tittle of which he avows the most pious reverence. He enforces his doctrines by the severest threats, and sends us to the epistles as the sources of his doctrines. We read the epistles, and whether we discern or fail to discern his doctrines, we peruse the clear condemnation of his malevolence. All the evil that he is willing to heap upon his differing brother, is seen to recoil upon himself. 'He sinks down in the pit that he made; in the net which he hid is his own foot taken.""

It was a favourite plan with him to unite, at some future period, with the profession of the ministry, the occupation of a public lecturer on natural philosophy. And he had already spent no inconsiderable time in gaining the necessary information, and had nearly completed a Lecture on Air, which seems to have been intended as an introduction to a course of lectures on that and similar subjects.

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