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alternations of beautiful scenery, adorned with all the magnificence of tropical vegetation, and of extensive deserts that threatened distruction to every living thing;-for the sand hills, and ravines, and rocks, and thickets, and rivers, and precipices, which impeded their course; for the repeated delay caused by the straying of oxen, the sufferings produced by a want of water, and the joy caused to man and beast by the opportunity of slaking their thirst in the full and flowing river;-for the extraordinary variations oftemperature,which gave them to experience, in the space of a single day, the extremities of an English year;-for the kindnesses received from governors, and secretaries, and landdrosts, and functionaries of all degrees, and boors, male and female, kindnesses highly honourable to all the parties;-for the particulars of his intercourse with the various tribes of hatives who fell in his way, the alarms infused into his party by reports of hostile Caffres and plundering Boshesmen, and the no less signal terrors which the exhibition of his looking-glass or his watch inflicted on many a poor Booshuana or Coranna spec tator; for the account of the toilets of the Matchappee ladies, of ca verns bung with bats, and mountains composed of incombustible petticoats (p. 261.); for battles of scorpions, and battles with lions, and a thousand other things equally novel and amusing or instructive, we must refer the curious reader to the volume before us-Here also he may contemplate plants of every size, from the lowly floweret of the vale, to the loftiest tenant of the mountain; not indeed scienti fically or intelligibly classed, but still so described as to interest the lover of nature. But what has most excited our astonishment, we had almost said our envy, is the display of the varied form of animal life with which this journey has unde Mr. Campbell familiar

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Ants and ostriches, buffaloes and bats, monkeys and tigers, camelleopards and scorpions, puff-adders and elephants, and snakes, and springbucks, and hartbucks, and quachas, and elks, and zebras, and lions, and wolves, and jackals, and knobs, and hippopatami, and hyenas, are among the living creatures which either served to minister to his wants, or to alarm his fears, and which now contribute their innocuous interest, to his pages.

In short, Mr. Campbell's materials are most abundant; and had there been any skill bestowed on their composition and arrangement, he must have held a distinguished place among modern travellers. But the very defective and even slovenly manner in which his work has been executed, we fear, will prevent its finding a general and ready admission into literary cir cles.

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The part of Mr. Campbell's work with which we ourselves are least satisfied, because we think it the least adapted to conciliate the favour of men of good taste and sound judgment, is what may be called his reflections. ample, when from the quickness with which the eye becomes familiar with strange trees and flowers, he deduces this inference," that no thing but the unsearchable Jehovah, as a man's portion, can fully gratify his immortal mind," p. 35; or when he discovers a motive to patience in the thought that the progress of his oxen though slow, was swift when compared with that of a snail or cameleon; slow and swift being only comparative terms, the mail coach moving slowly when compared with a pigeon, a pigeon when compared with a planet, and a planet when compared with light, p. 68; it is impossible not to wish that the author had confined such reflections to his own bosom. They mark, indeed, the pious frame of his mind, but are not likely to produce any very useful impres

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sion on the minds of others. Nor
do we think that he has succeeded
better when he has attempted to
clothe his ideas in verse. We give
the only specimen which the vo-
lume affords.

Lit. and Phil. Intell.-Great Britain.
All soon possess this God-like feast,
And praise the Lord from west to east."

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"The reflection that no European eye had ever surveyed these plains, and mountains, and rivers, and that I was ten thousand miles from home, made a solemn impression on my mind, which was deepened by the stillness which at that time prevailed. I snatched a scrap of paper from my pocket, on which I

wrote the following lines:

"I'm far from what I call my home,
In regions where no white men come;
Where wilds and wilder men are found,
Who never heard the Gospel sound.
Indeed they know not that there's Ouc
Ruling on high, and God alone.-
In days and nights for five months past,
I've travell'd much; am here at last,
On banks of stream well named Great,
To drink its water is a treat.-
But here to have the living word,
Enriching treasure! Spirit's sword,
A favour this that can't be told,
In worth surpassing finest gold.
May Bushmen and the Booshuanas,
The Namacquaas and the Corannas,

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P. 241.

But with all its defects, we consider this work as highly honourable, both to Mr. Campbell and the Society by which he was employed. It is well entitled to the attention of the Christian and the philanthropist, and even of the mere philosopher; and it will serve, at least, to shew to what persevering efforts, to what painful sacrifices, and self-denying labours, the love of God and compassion, for souls can, even in these degenerate days, animate the devoted servant of Jesus Christ. This is a demonstration to which Mr. Campbell has and in so doing, he holds a higher contributed a large body of proof, place, in our estimation, than if, without this, he had rivalled, in his style, the moral majesty of Johnson, the philosophical enlargement of Burke, the fascinating elegance of Buffon, or the classical taste of Clarke or Eustace.

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LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE, &c. &c.

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GREAT BRITAIN.
In the press :-A Dissertation on Rege
neration and Baptism, in Answer to Dr.
Mant, by the Rev. T. Biddulph, of
Bristol-A similar Dissertation, by the
Rev. H. Gauntlett, of Olney;-(Mr.
Scott's Answer has been published);

Parts XV. and XVI. of Mr. Storer's De
scription of the Cathedrals of Great Bri-
tain; Jonah, the Seatonian Prize Poem,
by the Rev. J. W. Bellamy, M. A., of
Queen's College, Cambridge; Repre-
sentative History of Great Bristain and
Ireland, by Mr. Oldfield-Travels in
Beloochistan and Sinde, by Lieut. Pot.
tinger, of the East-India Company's
Service; The History and Antiquities
of the Abbey Church at Bath, by Mr.
Britton; The Speeches of the Right
Hon. Edmund Burke ;-Observations of
a Russian, daring a residence of ten
months in England, translated from the
original MS. of Oloff Napea-A trans
lation of the Travels of Ali Bey in Mo.
CHRIST. OBSERV. No. 168,

and Turkey;-Paris revisited in 1815, by
rocco, Cyprus, Egypt, Arabia, Syria,
Mr. John Scott;-Justification by Faith
without Works, a Sermon, by the Rev.
T. Young, Rector of Gilling, and late
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge;-
Mr. Sumner's Treatise on the Being and
Attributes of God, to which the Pre-
mium of 4001. was adjudged at Aberdeen
(see our Number for September last) iu
2 vols. 8vo.;-and the Rev. Reginald
Heber's Bampton Lectures.

of John Hampden, by Mr. Meadley;→→→
Preparing for publication:-A Life
A Meteorological Journal, in French,
to be continued periodically, by Mr. T..
Forster.

published, price 2s. 6d. the first Num-
On the 1st of January, 1816, will be
ber of a monthly periodical work, en-
titled, "The Asiatic Journal, and
Monthly Register for British India and
its Dependencies," embracing a variety
of objects interesting to the Man of
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Letters, the Politician, and the Philoso pher; and also Notices of the Progress of Christian Missions in India, the Es. tablishment of Schools, and the Translation and Dispersion of the Scriptures. The work will be published by Black and Parry.

The foundation has been laid on the north side of Moorfields of a building for the London Institution, which may serve to contain its splendid library, and which may also afford the means of giving literary and scientific lectures. An oration was delivered on the occasion by Mr. Charles Butler, on the mutual dependence of science and commerce.

UNITED STATES.

larly happy. Catbolicism and zeal are perhaps, no where more successfully united. The piety of the Gospel is here strongly, as well as amiably displayed; and even controversy is carFied on without tarnishing the Christian character. The subordinate contribufors, imbibing the disposition of the principal, proceed in the same course of moderation and excellence. The plan of the work includes Religious and Miscellaneous Communications, Reviews, Literary and Philosophical Intelligence, a List of New Publications, Religions Intelligence, a View of Public Affairs, &c. &c. The heads are well chosen, and are filled up with advantage. The re-publication of this work is a public benefit, and reflects honour on the undertakers. Every good man must, I think, wish them success. They publish the whole. This is certainly the only course which they could take with propriety. A muti lated work must appear with serious disadvantage, even when thus miscel laneous; and occasions will often occur, when the purchaser will find reason to regret that he has not the parts which have been omitted.

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We formerly mentioned that the Christian Observer, from its com mencement, had been re-published at New York, in America. This re-pub lication has been regularly continued, We have recently been favoured by a friend with a copy of the recommendation attached to the American Edition by many distinguished Clergymen of various denominations. Among them we perceive the names of the Rev. Doctors Dwight, Morse, Mason, Ro- "With these views of the subject, I meyn, Clark, Miller, Livingston, cordially recommend this design, and Greene, Wharton, Janeway, Griffin, the gentlemen who have undertaken it, Abercrombie, and Staughton. The to the patronage of the public; and per. following is a copy of the recommenda-suade myself, that the more the Christory address of Dr. Dwight, the President of Yale College, dated 24th April, 1812

"The publishers of the American Edition of the Christian Observer hav ing requested of me a recommendation of that work to the public, I take a peculiar pleasure in complying with their wishes. I have taken this work from its commencement; and throughout the whole of its continuance have considered it as the best periodical publi*cation within my knowledge. It has also been more uniformly supported than any other production of a similar nature. The religious doctrines countenanced by the Editor, and his principal supporters, are generally those of the Reformation. In a few particulars they differ somewhat from the most generally received orthodoxy of this country. On these, however, they rarely insist. Those in which the creeds and confes sionsof Protestant Churches have chiefly united, they illustrate and defend with distinguished ability. The spirit which reigns in this work is, I think, singu

tian Observer is known, the more it will be valued."

We have published the above address, not because we think ourselves entitled to all the kind things which our American friends have thought proper to say of us; but because we ars desirous that our contributors in this country, to whom, and not to ourselves, the praise so liberally bestowed is in fact due, may understand the full extent of the sphere which they are call. ed to fill, and may be encouraged by the view to increased exertion. If their productions should prove less acceptable on this side of the Atlantic than they deserve, and if there be many among us, of whom better things might be hoped, who are even disposed to "east out their names as evil," they may be consoled by reflecting, that a whole continent has opened its arms to welcome them; and that their useful ness is not likely to be there obstracted by any of those narrow prejudices and party feelings which here operate so extensively.

ITALY. The Abbot Angelo Majo, one of the keepers of the Ambrosian Library at Milan, who had the merit of discovering and publishing three unknown Orations of Cicero, has now had the happiness to enrich us by that of the Works of an ancient Author, Cornelius Fronto, with unpublished Letters of the Emperors Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, L. Verus, and Appian. The publication consists of two vols. large octavo, with seve ral copper-plates, and fac-similes of the MS.-Of Fronto, an African by birth, a

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brator after Cicero, only a small gramVerus, and the greatest Latin matical work was hitherto known: now twenty works of this remarkable author have been discovered. There are several books of Latin and Greek Letters to lumes are inserted also three unpubdifferent emperors, &c.-In these vo lished Latin Letters of Antoninus Pius, eighteen of M. Aurelius, six of L. Verus, one Greek Letter of Appian the historian, and many inedited pieces of Ennius, Plautus, Cato, Sallust, and other ancient Romans and Greeks.

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LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

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The Border Antiquities of England and Wales, No. XV. 10s. 6d.-168.

A Catalogue of Rare and Valuable Books, in various Languages, and upon every Branch of Literature, both Ancient and Modern, now selling by Richard Priestley, 113, High Holborn.

Gs.

Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Andrew Fuller, late Pastor of the Baptist Church at Kettering, and Secretary to the Baptist Missionary Society; by J. W. Morris. 8vo. 12s.

An Introduction to Prudence; or Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, tending to the prudent Management of Affairs in Common Life; compiled by Thos. Fuller, M.D. 8vo. 58.

A Narrative of the Events which have taken place in France, from the Landing of Napoleon Bonaparte, on the 1st of March, 1815, till the Restoration of Louis XVIII.; to which is added, an Account of the Present State of Society and Public Opinion. In a Series of Letters; by Helen Maria Williams. 8vo. 9s. 6d.

An authentic Narrative of the Campaign of 1815; comprising a circumstantial Account of the Battle of Waterloo, by a Staff Officer in the French Army and forming a Sequal to the Campaign of 1811; by M. de Beauchamp. 8vo. 4s.

Information respecting Climate, interesting to a numerous Class of Invalids in Great Britain.

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A Complete Treatise on Veterinary Medicine, Vol. IV.; containing Observations on the Diseases of Cows, Sheep, Swine, and Dogs; also, particular

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important Operations in Farriery, Directions for performing the most &c. &c.; by James White, of Exeter, late Veterinary Surgeon to the First. or Royal Dragoons. 12mo. 6s.

of the late Richard Porson, Esq. Regius
Tracts and Miscellaneous Criticisms
Cambridge; collected and arranged by
Greek Professor in the University of
College, Cambridge. 8vo. 14s., large
the Rey. Thomas Kidd, A. M. Trin.
paper, 11. 4s.

A Letter addressed to an English
Lady of Fashion at Paris. 2s.
12mo. 3s.
Battle of Waterloo; by

Walker.

by J. Roby, 8vo. 7s.
Sir Bertram, a Poem, in Six Cantos,

The Culloden Papers; comprising an
Year 1625 to 1748, which throws much
extensive Correspondence, from the
British History; but particularly re-
new light upon that eventful Period of
the whole published from the Originals,
garding the Rebellion in 1715 and 1745;
Forbes, Esq. of Culloden. 4to. 31. 8s.
in the possession of Duncan George

the Antiquities and Curiosities of that A Picture of Italy, being a Guide to classical and interesting Country; by Henry Coxe, Esq. 18mo. 148.

An Account of the Kingdom of sia, Tartary, and India; by the Hon. Caubul, and its Dependencies in PerMountstuart Elphinstone, of the Hon. East India Company's Service; Resident at the Court of Poona; and late Envoy to the King of Caubul. One vol. 4to. illustrated by two maps and sixteen plates. 31. 13s. 6d.

1814-15; comprising Observations made
Travels in France, during the Years
on the Political State of the Country,
during a fixed Residence of five Months,
the Manners and Character of the
People, &c. 2 vols. 12mo. 16s.

RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE.

CINQUE PORTS AUXILIARY
BIBLE SOCIETY.

1

On the 5th inst. the second anniversary meeting of the Cinque Ports Auxiliary Bible Society took place at Dover, the earl of Liverpool, the president of the society, in the chair. On taking the chair, the noble earl adverted to the elevated rank to which, under the superintendance of Divine Providence, this nation had been raised in the estimation of Europe, and which rendered it of the highest importance that we should vindicate our right to this elevation, by shewing that Britain, great as she confessedly was in arts and arms, was no less justly entitled by her high tone of moral feeling to the same pre-eminence in this respect, which she had so happily attained in every other. It became, under these circumstances of gratifying distinction, our paramount duty to labour to extend the benign influence of Christianity, the knowledge of pure and undefiled religion, even to the utmost bounds of the earth. His lordship remarked, that the foundation of this society had been laid at a period when we ourselves were suffering from the pressure of national difficulty and distress, and when all around us the very bonds of civilised society were nearly burst asunder. Surely then it became us, now that through the Divine blessing prosperity was smiling on us with her choicest favours, that we should not relax our exertions, but with increased ardonr pursue our beneficent course,firmly resolved, whether in prosperity or adversity, to persevere in our efforts until the whole world should be illumined with the light of Divine Revelation.

On receiving the thanks of the meeting, his lordship entered more particularly into the nature and merits of the institution. As a member of the Established Church, from education and habit, but much more from consideration and conviction, he was particularly desirous of promoting its interests to the utmost of his ability. Under this impression he had recently appeared, on a public occasion, as a supporter of the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge; and he was doubtless anxious to extend the influence and re

sources of that institution. But he saw no reason whatever, why he should not at the same time afford to the British and Foreign Bible Society every assis tance in his power, and why he should not evince an equal anxiety to promote its success. The object of the two Societies were one: both dispersed the pure and uncorrupted word of God. This being the case, he should always consider it as an honour to aid these and all other societies which had the same object in view, and were labouring to effeet the same benevolent end-the disse

mination of Christianity throughout the habitable globe. He was a friend to the Bible Society, because it could operate in situations where, from local circumstances, or the prevalence of different religious sentiments, the So ciety for promoting Christian Know. ledge would not obtain admission, The universality of the single and exclusive object proposed by the British and Foreign Bible Society, and its consequeut tendency to unite all Christians (however divided on subjects of minor concern) in the bonds of Christian-sympathy and benevolence, gave it, in his lordship's mind, a powerful claim to universal support. He concluded a speech of great energy, liberality, and decision, by stating, that, in having accepted the office of president of this society, he had considered himself as only performing an act of duty; and if his influence should have the happy effect of benefiting the Society, one great end which he had in view in joining it was fully answered; and as to the future, he pledged himself to continue the steady and zealous friend and sup portor of the British and Foreign Bible Society as long as he lived.

On quitting the chair his lordship presented the Society with a second donation of 501.

This speech of lord Liverpool, the prime minister of the British empire, the known and attached friend of the Church of England, is an answer to a thousand libels, issuing from what quarter they may, against the British and Foreign Bible Society. No one, therefore, will doubt that we have real pleasure in laying it before our readers,

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