This Recriw was dircontinued after theprevent yet in 1825 ). #. Newman wrote in illo (fir W. lote) The readers of the British Review will perceive that it has passed into the hands of new Conductors. They williy not, therefore, consider the declaration quite unnecessary on the part of those now responsible, that the principles of the work, its general scope and intention, have under. gone no change. Upon whatever grounds they have hitherto been accustomed to give it their confidence and support, those grounds will, it is hoped and intended,. . remain unaltered. One deviation from the original plan will, however, be perceived in the present number. It consists in the partial or entire omission of subjects which can interest only a small portion of Readers, and in the allowed predominance of that topic which most especially concerns them all. At the same time no backwardness will be shewn, either to give publicity to scientific discoveries, or to discuss the merits of any work in the whole compass of literature, which may seem to prefer a just claim to public attention. In short, it is intended, that, as the Public have long considered the British Review to be a Literary work, of a character decidedly Religious, it shall now take the full advantage of this understanding, by rendering to the cause of Religion, all the service of which it can be made capable. And this, without at all abandoning its station in the general field of Literature, or suffering one publication of general utility or interest, to pass unnoticed. The effect of this alteration will be, to enable the Conductors to comprise their quarterly publication within smaller limits, and to offer it to their Readers at a protionably lower charge than heretofore, an advantage of which they have now availed themselves. No. XLII. WILL BE PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER. CONTENTS Diary of a Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the Years 1821 and 1822. By a Field Officer of Cavalry . - - - - - 1 1. A Charge, delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London, at the Visitation in July, 1822. By Wil- 2. With a Preface, by the Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M. A Candid Appeal to the Religious Public, in a Let- ter, addressed to the Inhabitants of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, occasioned by the Dismissal of the Rev. Isaac Bridgman, A.B. of St. Edmund's Hall, Oxford, from the Curacy of Trinity Church, 3. A Reply to a Candid Appeal to the Religious Pub- lic, occasioned by the Dismissal of the Rev. Isaac Bridgman, A.B. from the Curacy of Trinity Church, in the Forest of Dean. By the Rev. Henry Berkin, A.M. Perpetual Curate of the Church of the Holy Trinity, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. 4. Remarks on the Reply of the Rev. H. Berkin, A.M. to a Candid Appeal to the Religious Public, occa- sioned by the Dismissal of the Rev. Isaac Bridgman, A. B. from the Curacy of Trinity Church, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. By the Rev. Isaac Bridgman, A.B. With a Preface by the Rev. Row- land Hill, A.M. - - . - - - - 27 Twenty Sermons. By the Rev. Henry Martyn, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Chap- ARCHDEACON BROWNE, AND MR. Wilkins. 1. On the Corruption of Human Nature. A Charge, delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Ely; at a Visitation held in the Parish Church of St. Mi- chael's, Cambridge, on Tuesday, May 7th, 1822. With an Appendix. By the Reverend J. H. Browne, A.M. Archdeacon of Ely, Rector of Cotgrave, and late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Pub- lished at the request of the Clergy. 3. Five Letters, addressed to the Reverend G. Wilkins, Vicar of St. Mary's, Nottingham; containing Stric- tures on some parts of the First Volume of a Work, entitled “ Body and Soul." By the Reverend J. H. 5 4. Body and Soul. Volume Second. 5. A Sixth Letter to the Reverend G. Wilkins, in reply - to a Chapter in the Second Volume of “ Body and CONVERSION OF WEST INDIAN SLAVES. A Letter on the Means and Importance of converting the Slaves in the West Indies to Christianity. By the Right Hon. Sir G. Rose, M.P. The Missionary Register, containing the principal Transactions of the various Institutions for propa- gating the Gospel; with the Proceedings at large of the Church Missionary Society - - THE BRITISH REVIEW, AND LONDON CRITICAL JOURNAL. AUGUST, 1823. Art. I.---TRAVELS IN INDIA, EGYPT, & PALESTINE. Diary of a Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Pales tine, in the Years 1821 and 1822; By a Field Officer of Cavalry. 8vo. pp. viii. & 372. London. Hatchard. 1823. It has always appeared to us an object of prime importance to exhibit Religion not only in her robe of state and ceremony, in which she is approached with reserve and caution, but in the ordinary attire of common life, in which the native ease and grace of her character may be studied at leisure, and her legitimate influence over the concerns of every day observed and understood. It is seldom that in a published work she can be caught in this attitude. In sermons she is teaching others, rather than acting herself; in controversy she is too frequently rather the absent subject of dispute than the present guide of the inquiry; even in biography, as the whole character of an individual, if the author be faithful, is necessarily brought out to view, there are commonly some parts of the record, in which the influence of Religion is wanting; and in professed narratives of all sorts, the impressions and sentiments of the writer, however excellent, are usually sunk in the more prominent interest, given to the incidents described. It therefore affords us much pleasure to introduce to our readers in the present number the journal of a Christian traveller, occupied in the search of such objects, as derive their interest from the common hope, that is set before us, by whom throughout the whole volume “ The simple form of his Diary has been preserved, with a view to the advantage it offers, of communicating to others the impressions produced on his own mind by events at the time of their oc ,VOL. XXI. NO, XLI. |