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most favourable results from the known humanity and liberality of the East-India Company. It is due to them to state, that they have resisted, and been ready to punish, every attempt which has been made to carry on a slave trade within the limits of their jurisdiction. We entertain a confident hope that the

murderous practices which have been denounced by our author, will excite a similar resistance; and that the degrading regulation which draws a revenue from the idolatrous worship of Juggernaut, will be erased from the statute book of our Indian empire.

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE,

GREAT BRITAIN.

&c. &c.

In the press: a new edition of Vander Hooght's Hebrew Bible ;-An additional volume of Mr. Burke's Works, containing pieces that have never been published;→→→→ Redemption, or a View of the Christian Religion from the Fall of Adam to the Reign of Constantine, by Mr. Montagu Pennington; --Dr. Pearson's Warburtonian Lectures, preached in Lincoln's Inn Chapel ;-The late Bishop Horsley's Notes and Observations on the Book of Psalms;-a Poem on the Antediluvian World, by Mr. Montgomery; The third and last volume of Mr. Parkinson's Organic Remains -A Translation of Lucretins in Rhyme, by Dr. Busby;-A new edition of Dr. Hutton's Dictionary of Mathematics and Philosophy, with many improvements; and A stereotype edition of the Bible in French, collated with the most improved editions.

The Rev. William Goode, Rector of St. Anu's, Blackfriars, has circulated proposals for printing by subscription, in 2 vols. 8vo., an entire New Version of the Book of Psalmus,in which an attempt is made to accommodate them to the worship of the Christian Church, in a variety of measures now in general use; with original Prefaces, and Notes critical and explanatory. The work is already completed and in the press.

An alteration has been made at Trinity College, Cambridge, in the form of admission. Those who intend to become members, are no longer admitted by proxy, but oblig. ed to appear in person. The order of Fellow Commoner is also abolished in this society.

The canal from Loch Crinan to Loch Gilp, in Argyleshire, by which the dangers of the Mull of Cantyre are avoided, has been finished, and affords great facilities to the

navigation of these seas. The length of the canal from sea to sea is nine miles: the depth of water is cleven feet: the locks are ninety-six feet long and twenty-four feet wide in the clear,

The Commissioners appointed to examine into the nature and extent of the bogs in Ireland, have reported that they comprize more than one fourth of the superficies in Ireland, or about one million of acres. One district only of these bogs, containing 36,450 acres, has been accurately surveyed: the expense at which it may be drained and converted to the purposes of husbandry, is estimated at 147,0001,

A subscription has been raised, and col lections made, for the relief of the British prisoners in France. The sum raised amounts already to near 30,000l.

A mine of Cobalt has lately been discovered in Cheshire by Mr. Bakewell.

Professor Leslie's process for effecting the congelation of a mass of water in a warm room, without the aid of ice, or of any cooling mixture, or expense of materials, was exhibited lately at Glasgow, by Dr. Ure. It consists in placing two vessels under the receiver of the air pump; the one containing water, the other any substance very attrac tive of moisture. The weight of the air being removed by working the machine, copious evaporations begin to take place from the water. Were there nothing under the receiver but this liquid, an atmosphere of vapour would soon be formed, by whose pressure further evaporation would be prevented; but the other substance absorbs this vapour almost as speedily as it rises.

Hence evaporation, and its invariable effect, the production of cold, proceed so vigorously as soon to convert the water into ice, spicule of which are seen shooting beautifully across. In the present

case, a considerable cake of ice was formed and preserved for upwards of half an hour, although the temperature of the room was about thirty degrees above the freezing point. Indeed the ice might have been kept

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LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

A Course of Lectures, containing a Description and Systematic Arrangement of the several Branches of Divinity. By Herbert Marsh, D. D. F. R. S. Margaret Professor of Divinity.

Sermons on the most prevalent Vices. By David Lamont, D. D. 3 vols. 8vo. 1l. 4s. The Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the last Times. By the Rev. W. Ettrick. 2 vols. 8vo. 14s.

Missionary Anecdotes; exhibiting, în nume rous instances, the Efficacy of the Gospel in the Conversion of the Heathen, regularly traced through the successive Ages of the Christian Era: to which is prefixed an af. feeting Account of the Idolatry, Superstition, and Cruelty of the Pagan Nations, ancient and modern. By George Burder, Author of the Village Sermons, &c. 5s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Account of the past and present State of the Isle of Man ; including a Sketch of the Mineralogy, and Outline of its Laws, with the Privileges enjoyed by Strangers, and a History of the Island. By George Woods. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

An Authentic Description of the Kennet and Avon Canal, with Observations on the present State of the Inland Navigation of the Western and Southern Counties. 2s.

⚫ Carew's Survey of Cornwall, illustrated with Notes, by the late Thoinas Tonkin, Esq. M. P. now first published from the original MSS. By Francis Lord de Dunstanville. 4to. 17. 11s. 6d. large paper 2l. 10s.

An Historical Account of the Ancient Culdees of Iona, and of their Settlements in

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A Digest of the Bankrupt Laws, with Collection of the Statutes and Cases on that Subject. By Basil Montague, of Gray's Inn, Esq. Barrister. 4 vols. royal 8vo. 31. 7s. 6d.

The Life of Sir Michael Forster, Knt, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, and Recorder of Bristol. By the late M. Dodson, Esq. 4s.

A Practical Treatise on the Powers and Duties of Juries, and on the Criminal LawS of England. By Sir Richard Phillips. 78.

Rules for the Government of the Gaol and House of Correction at Dorchester. 2s. 6d.

The whole Art of Bookbinding; containing a great Variety of valuable Recipes for Edge-colouring, fancy Marbling, Gilding, &c. also Recipes for making liquid Gold for fancy Colouring and splash Paper, &c. for ornamenting Ladies' Work. 7s. 6d.

Third Reply to the Edinburgh Re view, by the Author of a Reply to the Ca lumnies of that Review against Oxford. With an Appendix, in Answer to Mr. Drummond's Observations. 1s. 6d.

4to. 31. 38. The Harleian Miscellany. Vol. VIL. royal

Spanish and English Dictionary, under one Alphabet. By Don Felipe Fernandez.

12mo. 153.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.

In annual meeting of this society is to take place on the 1st day of May, at the Freemason's Tavern, at eleven o'clock.

We are truly happy to observe that an auxiliary Bible Society has been formed at Liverpool. A requisition having been presented to the Mayor, signed by all the

clergy and a number of respectable gentlemen, a meeting of the inhabitants was accordingly called by him at the Town Hall, on the 25th of March, to consider the propriety of forming such a society. The Mayor himself presided, and explained in general terms the object of the meeting. The Rev. S. Renshaw and the Rev. H. Roughsedge warmly recommended the object to the support of all present; and the three secretaries of the parent society, who attended, successively addressed the assembly with their accustomed ability and effect. An auxiliary Bible Society was formed on the basis of the regulations adopted by the British and Foreign Bible Society, of which Earl Derby has accepted the presidency. The Mayor and the Rectors of Liverpool were appointed Vice-Presidents; and the Rev. James Hamer and Mr. Samuel Hope undertook the office of Secretaries. A large sum was immediately subscribed.

RENEVOLENT SOCIETY OF SPITALFIELDS.

A society has recently been instituted for visiting and relieving cases of great distress, chiefly among the numerous poor of Spital fields and its vicinity; of which the Rev. Josiah Pratt, minister of Wheler Chapel, is president; and John Kincaid, Esq. treasurer. There is certainly no part of the metropolis which calls so feelingly for assistance: it contains a vast number of poor, many of whom are at once ignorant, industrious, and wretched. Not a few are retired sufferers, who struggle hard in sorrow and silence against the difficulties which oppress them. It is true charity to seek out such objects.

But Christian charity will not limit itself to the temporal necessities of the poor. It will take advantage of that access which the relief of these necessities opens to the heart, to instruct the ignorant, and to warn and counsel those who neglect God. The hours of depression and sorrow will be taken as fit occasions to point the sufferers to the only durable and solid felicity of man. And, by every kind and prudent method, it will attempt to reclaim the wicked from the error of their way, to instruct the ignorant in the true knowledge of salvation, and to comfort the dejected and the mourner.

The cases chiefly attended to will be those of urgent necessity, and such as are less obvious to parochial and other assistance. The money entrusted by the public will be distributed under the superintendance of the Rev. J. Pratt, whose office connects him particularly with that quarter of the town. Reports will be published annually, or more

frequently if it shall seem expedient, of the state and progress of the institution.

Every subscriber will be entitled to recommend such cases of real distress as come under his observation, in order to their being inquired into. Such recommendations must be sent in writing, either to the treasurer or one of the stewards.

BONAPARTE'S CONFERENCE WITH THE CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT CLERGY AT BREDA.

AN account has been published in the Ga zette of Dorpt, a town of Livonia, of an audience granted by Bonaparte to the Catholic and Protestant clergy at Breda, on the 1st of May, 1810. It professes to be an accurate report of what passed on that occa sion; and we conclude that, in the present state of the continental press, no gazette would dare to attribute to Bonaparte sentiments materially different from those which be might deem it politic to avow. The account is as follows:

"After Bonaparte had made the customary tour, he said a few words to the President of the Court of Appeal, took ■ view of the different Collegiates, and at length stopped opposite to the Catholic Apostolic Vicar, who, with his manuscript in his hand, complimented the Monarch in the name of the Catholic Clergy. His Majesty, however, did not deign to give any answer, but asked, Where are the reformed clergy men? Whereupon the Prince of Neufchatel presented them to the Emperor, and Mr. Ten Oever, of the Valloon congregation, received permission to address his Majesty. The discourse was short, and contained amongst the rest the following words: 'It is the immutable principle of Protestants, in every thing that happens, to address Providence, and to render unto Cæsar the things which are Cesar's.' The Emperor listened attentively to this speech, and answered; You are right. I protect all religions. Protestants and Catholics enjoy equal privileges in France; it is but just, that the Protestants in this department should have equal prero gatives with the Catholics.' His Majesty then asked Mr. Ten Oever; Why, Sir, are you in your full dress? 'Sire,' answered Ten Oever, that is the rule.' Why, yes, said the Emperor: it is the custom in every country; but,' continued he, turning to the Roman Catholic clergy, who were not in their full dress, Why have not you your cassocks on? You say you are priests: What are you? Attornies, notaries, peasants? I come into a province where the majority are

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Mission Society to Africa and the East.

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Catholics, who in former times were oppressed, who after the revolution acquired more liberty, and upon whom the King, my brother, bestowed many favours. I come in order to make you all equal to the rest; and you begin by forgetting the respect due to me, and complain of the oppressions that you suffered under the former governments. Your conduct, however, shews how well you deserved them. The first act of sovereignty which I was obliged to exercise, consisted in the necessity of arresting two of your con'umacious priests, even the Apostolic Vicar; they are imprisoned, and shall continue under arrest. On the other hand, the first words I hear from a reformed priest, are to render unto Cæsar the things, which are Caesar's. This is the doctrine which you ought to preach. From that gentleman,' pointing to Mr. Ten Oever, you ought to learn it. I have always met with faithful subjects amongst Protestants: never have I had occasion to complain of any of them. You have calumniated the Protestants, by representing them as preaching doctrines dangerous to the state; but the best subjects I have are Protestants. In Paris I am partly attended by them: they have free access to me: and here a handful of Brabant fanatics attempt to resist my designs. Had I not met in Bossuet's doctrines, and in the maxims of the Gallican church, with principles that agree with mine, and had not the Concordat been received, I myself should have become a Protestant, and thirty millions of people would have followed my example. what religion do you teach? But, know that Christ said, My kingdom is not Do you not of this world? and would you interfere in my concerns? You will not pray for a sovereign'-(probably the Catholic clergy in these new provinces had partly declared that they would not receive any orders on spiritual subjects from a temporal power: the order to pray for the Emperor must be intimated to them by some spiritual sovereign). 'You want to be obstinate citizens: I have the proofs of it in my pocket. If you maintain such principles, your lot will be punishment in this world, and eternal damnation in the next. You,' said he, turning to the Apostolic Vicar, who had addressed him, are the Apostolic Vicar. Who appointed you to that office? The Pope:-he has no right to do it. I create bishops. You will Dot,' said he, turning to the rest,' pray for the Monarch? perhaps because a Romish priest excommunicated me.

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But who gave bim theright of excommunicating a sovereign? Why did Luther and Calvin separate themselves from the church? Your infamous CHRIST, OBSERV. No. 112.

261 and the German princes would no longer sales of indulgences caused them to revolt, bear your sway. The English acted wisely hierarchy set Europe in flames. Perhaps it in renouncing you. The Popes by their racks, but it shall be my care you do not is your wish to re-establish scaffolds and Succeel. Are you of the religion of Gregory VII. Bonitace VIII. Benedict XIV. Clement XII.? I am not. I am of the religion of Jesus Christ, who said, ⚫ Give unto agreeably to the same Gospel, 't give unto Cavar the things which are Cæsar's; and God, that which belongs to God.' I bear the temporal sword, and I know how to guide reptiles of the earth dare oppose me. it. God placed me on the throne, and you I owe only to God and Jesus Christ. You, per no account of my administration to the Pope'; haps, think me created to kiss the Pope's slipper. If it only depended on you, you would, like Lewis the Pious, place me in a would cut off my hair, put me on a cowl, or convent, or banish me to Africa. What ig Gospel that Jesus Christ has appointed the norant idiots you are! Prove me out of the Pope his substitute or successor of St. Peter, sovereign.' (From these repeated expressions and that he has the right to excommunicate a actually excommunicated the Emperor.) If one might almost suppose the Pope had you care about my protection, then, preach the Gospel as the Apostles did. I will prowill banish you from my empire, and will tect you if you are good citizens; ᎥᏝ not, I disperse you over the world like Jews. You belong to the bishopric of Moulines: pear before your Bishop; make your confes арsions to him, and sign the Concordat. The appoint another Bishop at Herzegenbuch. Bishop will inform you of my will. I will Is there a seminary at Breda? tive was given. An affirma

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MISSION SOCIETY TO AFRICA AND THE
EAST.

The Eleventh Anniversary of this Society
will take place on Whit-Tuesday next, June
4th, when a sermon will be preached before
Blackfriar's church. Service will begin at
the society by the Rev. Melville Horne, at
eleven o'clock; and the Annual Meeting will
be held at two, at the New London Tavern.

CASE OF PERSECUTION.

At the assizes held at Maidstone, in Kent, on the 22d of March last, a bill of indictment was found against one Burton and others, for having, in conjunction with others, on the 23d of December last, in the town of Wye, disturbed a congregation of the people called Methodists, in the connection of the late Rev. Mr. Wesley, by assailing them, in a most violent and riotous manner, with stones, bricks, &c. thereby putting them in fear and endangering their lives.

Mr. Garrow rose to address the Jury (on the part of the prosecution), but was prevented by the Lord Chief Baron, who observed, that it was really astonishing how any man who read the New Testament should ever conceive that Christianity could be propagated by persecution;—that it was disgrace ful in any country for people to be persecut ed for difference of opinion in religious matters, but more particularly so in this happy country, where every man is allow ed to think and choose for himself. He repeatedly said, that nothing had a more direct tendency to pull down the Established Church, than an attempt to support it by persecution. As we could not all think alike, it became our duty mutually to bear and forbear with each other. We all conceive our different sentiments to be founded in the New Testament; and if we be in error, persecution is not the way to correct it. In reference to the present case, his Lordship expressed a strong desire that it might be settled without going to the Jury.

Mr. Garrow said, that punishment was not the object sought by the prosecutors--they only wanted to worship God in peace. For his part, if he lived in Wye, he should certainly attend the Established Church, in which he had been educated, and the doctrines of which were most congenial to his own ideas--but what then? He would not go and knock out the brains of the Methodists because they attended their own meeting, as he should not like for the Methodists or Roman Catholics, or any body else, to knock his brains out because he went to church. He could not expect them to square their consciences according to his views, any more than they could expect he should square his conscience according to theirs. However, as his clients only want ed peace, he had already, on their behalf, engaged, that, if the defendants pleaded guilty, they should not be brought to the King's Bench to receive judgment. Mr. Garrow then addressed the prisoners, and observed, that they must not think this a triumph, as though they were acquitted. It

must go out and be known, that this people can worship God undisturbed. The defendants were to know, that the prosecutor, Mr. Robarts, would again go to Wye, and the very next Sunday he would be there to officiate in his own place, which he must do without interruption.

In this his Lordship fully agreed, and, addressing himself to the defendants, assured them they had no cause for triumph, and that they ought to consider themselves as treated with great lenity that they were not capitally indicted for felony.

Their Counsel (Mr. Serjeant Best and Mr. Marryatt) perfectly acquiesced in his Lordship's and Mr. Garrow's observations, and explicitly said, the defendants were extremely sorry for what they had done, and that it would never happen again, and that the leuity of the prosecutor should be considered as an indulgence granted them.

His Lordship then, with much humane feeling, expressed his satisfaction, and directed that the defendants should enter into recognizances of 501. each, for their good behaviour for five years, which was accord. ingly done.

This was not a proceeding under the Toleration Act for coming into and disturbing a place of worship, but an indictment, for a riot and disturbance without. The Statute enacts, that if any persons, unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously assembled together, shall unlawfully, and with force, demolish or pull down, or begin to demolish or pull down, any church or chapel, or any building for religious worship, certified and registered according to the Statute, &c. (the Toleration Act) or any dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out house, that then every demolishing or pulling down, or beginning to demolish or pull down, shall be adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and shall suffer death, as in case of felony without benefit of clergy." The hun. dred, city, or town, in which the house is situated, may also be compelled to make good the damage.

EAST INDIES.

LONDON MISSIONARY SOCIETY. Letters have been received by the Directors of the London Missionary Society, containing the painful intelligence of the death of Mr. Desgranges, their missionary at Vizagapatam, on the 12th July, 1810, after a residence of five years in India; and after having so far acquired the language of the country, the Telinga,as to preach in it, and to have translated into it the first three Gospels.

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