jesty's royal line hath maintained, in the face of all nations. And when infidelity arose at the French Revolution, to constitute another monstrous form of power, which is power derived from the people and not from Christ, and holden for the people and not for Christ, your Majesty's father, of beloved memory, was stirred up by God, mightily to withstand this invention of the Devil. But though God honoured your father to begin the mighty work of contending against infidelity, which makes the people king, and public opinion law, God reserved it for your father's son, our beloved king, who now, by the grace of God reigneth over us; even unto yourself, Sire, did God reserve it, to subvert the great infidel supremacy over Europe, and to restrain the person of the great infidel king. Behold also, how your Majesty, as the head of the great Protesting nation of the earth, hath laid prostrate, in another quarter of the world, the chief cities of Mahomet, of Bramah, and of Budh, the three principal superstitions of the east. Behold, also, how the popish kings were brought to seek a refuge in your Majesty's dominions, and to taste of your Majesty's bounty. And time would fail me to speak of your Majesty's honour and power, in all parts of the earth, from pole to pole. All this glory hath the God of heaven bestowed upon your royal father, and upon yourself, most mighty King, in consideration of that stout and uncompromising opposition which was made by all the constitutions of the kingdom, that protest taken, that interdict maintained, against the Pope and all his wicked inventions. Now, if a kingdom, thus exalted, of God, above all kingdoms on the earth, whose merchants also are as princes, and whose people are blessed with all science, and art, and enterprize; if this nation, whose head your Majesty is, should now, forgetting all these favours and blessings of God in times past, break down her bulwarks and defences against Socinians and Infidels on the one hand, and against Papists on the other; what less can we look for, than the utmost indignation, and the severest judgment of God, whom we have renounced? As it was with Judah, when she forgot her deliverance in the days of Hezekiah, so shall it be with us, if we forget our deliverance, in the years that are past. For as Sennacherib shook his hand over Jerusalem, but was not permitted to cast a stone into it, so the mighty Infidel Prince, now no more, after subduing all Christendom besides, did long and bitterly rage against us, but at length fell, crushed by our men of war; which deliverance of God, if we forget, and open the high places of the kingdom unto unprofessing and unbelieving men, and even unto infidels, then, as surely as Nebuchadnezzar was raised up in Sennacherib's room, to lay Jerusalem on heaps, and carry her people unto Babylon, so surely shall God raise up a scourge for Britain, to do that of which it will be a pain even to hear the report.' pp. 12-15. Mr. Irving's conscience does so far serve him as to suggest, that the Test Act led to a profanation of the Holy Sacrament; but he gets over it, by accusing all objectors to that 'most Christian and religious enactment of our fathers,' of • affected puritanism.' And while he does not scruple thus to 6 use the slang of profaneness in calumniating his brethren, he prostitutes the language of Inspiration by terming the Test Act a law holy, and just, and good.' The State, he contends, was wholly guiltless of the desecration of God's holy ordinance: it was chargeable entirely upon the Church, which had not done its duty in the matter of discipline. It is with shame and ⚫ confusion of face, that I, who am a minister of the Church, 'do confess'-No, Mr. Irving, you are not a Minister of the Church. The Church, by your own shewing, is the Episcopal Church of England, of which the King's most excellent Majesty is the visible Head; of which Church you are not an ordained minister;' by which your ordination would be held null and void; into the pulpits of which you can obtain no admission. You are a Dissenter, preaching in a licensed chapel, indebted to the Toleration Act for your liberty of prophesying. Go to, fond man! But we must make room for one more paragraph. 'O ye sluggard priests, where are your voices now? O ye timeserving priests, where is your faithfulness now unto Christ, the head of the church? O ye men of God, and true Churchmen, what hath blinded you! what hath spell-bound you, that there is never a voice to shew the wickedness of this Act, which goes to abolish Christ's royal prerogative for ever! Where are ye, O descendants of the reformers, Knox in the North, and Latimer in the South, who instructed princes and nobles concerning their dignity of ruling without warrant of the Pope, and concerning their duty of ruling by warrant of Christ, putting the foundations of power upon the everlasting mount of Zion? where the descendants of the Wentworths, of Elliot, Hampden, and Pym, who withstood the power, when it would again have interfered with the privileges of the church of Christ? (I speak not of them as men in arms against their King, which God forbid that I should approve, but as men fulfilling their duty in that House, where now hardly one standeth up in the light of the Holy Spirit, multitudes in the darkness and blindness of liberality or irreligion.) Where now are the descendants of the Scottish clergy, and nobles, and gentlemen, and people, who withstood, (I mean not in arms, but in solemn protestation, and in the flames of martyrdom,) the attempts of power to invade the sanctuary of the church? Where are your children gone, O ye fathers of the Protestant church and Protestant kingdom? what land upon the wide earth do they inhabit? O Rachel! O Rachel! weep, weep for thy children, for they are not.' pp. 29, 30. The frantic fanaticism of this paragraph deprives us of all hope that Mr. Irving will, as we once fondly hoped, outgrow his juvenilities. ART. XI. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. We understand that Mr. William Carpenter, the Author of several Popular Works on the Study of the Scriptures, is about to deliver a Course of Lectures on Sacred Literature, at Salvador House, Bishopsgate Church. The Lectures are to be adapted to the purposes of General In struction. Preparing for publication, Memoirs of John Frederic Oberlin, Pastor of Waldbach in the Ban de la Roche; compiled from authentic sources, chiefly from the French: interspersed with interesting anecdotes and original information. Captain George Beauclerk, 16th infantry, who, with another officer of the garrison of Gibraltar, accompanied Dr. Brown, in July 1826, on a medical mission to the Sultan of Morocco, has in the press a volume of Travels, illustrated with numerous appropriate costume engravings, to be entitled "A Journey to Morocco." Mr. Britton announces, that the letterpress of the Architectural Antiquities of Normandy will be ready for delivery, gratis, to the Subscribers on or before the 1st of July-that some of the copper-plates of Robson's Cities will be destroyed after 250 large and 800 small paper are worked; and that the letter-press and last Number of Peterborough Cathedral, will be ready with the Normandy. No. 1. of Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities, will be published on the 1st of next Month, with 12 Engravings by and under the direction of J. Le Keux. In the course of the Month of June, R. Ackermann will publish, in an imperial 4to. volume, with numerous Engravings, Buddhuism: illustrated from original Manuscripts of its Doctrine, Metaphysics, and Philosophy; accompanied by Forty-three Engravings, Lithographed from the Cingalese Originals, demonstrative of their Scheme of the Universe, and the Personal Attributes of the Buddhoo: also, Notices of the Planetary or Bali Incantations and the Demon Worship still existing in that Island. By Edward Upham, Member of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, F.S.A. The Second Number of the Picturesque Tour of the River Thames, will appear in June. ART. XII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. BIOGRAPHY. Memoirs of Mrs. Susan Huntington, of Boston, America. With an Introductory Essay, by James Montgomery. 12mo. 5s. Royal 24mo. 3s. 6d. Female Piety and Zeal exemplified, in Memoirs of Miss Ely. By her Brother, Rev. John Ely. 12mo. 4s. 6d. A brief History of the Life and Labours of the Rev. T. Charles, A. B. late of Bala, Merionethshire. By the Rev. Edw. Morgan, M.A. Vicar of Syston and Ratcliffe on the Wreke, Leicestershire. 12mo. 6s. The Life and Opinions of John de Wycliffe, D.D., illustrated principally from his unpublished Manuscripts; with a preliminary View of the Papal System, and of the State of the Protestant Doctrine in Europe, to the commencement of the Fourteenth Century. By Robert Vaughan. With a finely engraved Portrait. 2 vols. 8vo. ll. ls. Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Writings of the Rev. Matthew Henry. By J. B. Williams, Esq. F.S.A. 1 vol. 8vo. With Portraits. EDUCATION. Cobbin's Elements of Geography, on a new plan: with 12 Maps and Engravings. 2s. 6d. half-bound. MISCELLANEOUS. Essays on the Nature, Causes, and Effects of National Antipathies; on Credulity, and on Enthusiasm ; with an Historical Review of the Revolutions of Empires, from the earliest ages to the death of Alexander the Great. By R. Otley. 12mo. 7s. Subterraneous Travels of Niel's Klim: from the Latin of Lewis Holberg. Emma de Lissau; a Narrative of the striking Vicissitudes and peculiar Trials of her eventful Life; with some information respecting the religious and domestic habits of the Jews. By the Author of Sophia de Lissau. 2 vols. 12mo. My Early Years; for those in Early Life. 12mo. 3s. The Missionary Gazetteer. Rev. C. Williams. 12mo. 8s. By the Statement relative to Serampore, supple"Brief Memoir." By J. mentary to a Marshman, D.D. With Introductory Observations, by John Foster. 8vo. 3s. POETRY. Esq. Advocate; Author of Remarks on the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion. 12mo. 4s. The Danger of Resting in Inadequate Views of Christianity. Addressed particularly to Christian Parents. By Patrick Falconer, Esq. 12mo. 6s. The Philosophy of a Future State. By Thomas Dick, Author of the Christian Philosopher,' and the Philosophy of Religion.' 12mo. 6s. 6d. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, with Notes by the Rev. Thomas Scott. With an Intro The Fall of Nineveh, a Poem. By Ed- ductory Essay, by James Montgomery. win Atherstone. The first six Books. 8vo. The Poetical Album; or Register of modern fugitive Poetry. Edited by Alaric A. Watts. Sm. 8vo. 12s. Albert, a Poem; Hilda, and other Poems. By John Buchannan. Foolscap 8vo. 6s. The Harp of Judah; a Selection of Jews, and on Missionary and other Religious Annotations on the Apocalypse; intended as a Sequel to those of Mr. Elsley on the Gospels, and of Mr. Prebendary Slade on the Epistles; and thus to complete a Series of Comments on the whole of the New Testament, for the use of Students in Prophetical Scripture. By John Chappel Woodhouse, D.D. Dean of Lichfield. 8vo. The Evidences of Christianity; stated in a popular and practical manner, in a course of Lectures delivered in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Islington. By Daniel Wilson, M.A. Vicar. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. 8vo. 12s. Christian Charity Explained; or, the Influence of Religion on Temper stated. By the Rev. J. A. James. 12mo. 6s. Lectures on the History of Jesus Christ. By the Rev. James Bennett, D.D. Second Edition. 2 vols. 8vo. 1. 1s. The Unconditional Freeness of the Gospel; in Three Essays. By Thomas Erskine, 12mo. 6s. Beveridge's Private Thoughts on Religion. With an Introductory Essay, by Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 12mo. 5s. 6d. Booth's Reign of Grace. With an Introductory Essay, by Thomas Chalmers, D.D. 12mo. 4s. The Christian's Companion in Solitude: consisting of Baxter's Walking with God the Christian's Duty and Privilege-Baxter's Converse with God in Solitude-Corbet's Self-Employment in Secret-and Devout Breathings of a Pious Soul. With an Introductory Essay, by the Rev. David Young. 12mo. 4s. 6d. Present State of Christianity, and of the Missionary Establishments for its Propagation in all Parts of the World. Edited by Frederick Shoberl. 12mo. An Exposition of the Parables of Our Lord; shewing their Connection with his Ministry, their prophetic Character, and their gradual Developement of the Gospel Dispensation. With a Preliminary Dissertation on the Parable. By the Rev. B. Bailey, M.A. Domestic Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Torphichen. Svo. 14s. A Commentary on the Epistles to the Hebrews. In Two Volumes. By Moses Stuart, Associate Professor of Sacred Literature in the Theological Seminary at Andover, U.S. Vol. I. 8vo. Reply to the Rev. Hugh J. Rose's Work on the State of Protestantism in Germany. By Dr. K. G. Bretschneider, Chief Counsellor in the Consistory at Gotha, &c. Translated by a Layman of the Church of England. 8vo. 2s. 6d. A Treatise on the Doctrine of the Atonement. By Charles Jerram, M.A. Vicar of Chobham. 8vo. 9s. GENERAL INDEX. VOL. XXIX. NEW SERIES. ACTS, corporation and test, necessity of Adams, Mr. President, character of, &c. south, Philip's researches in, &c., Allahabad, the city of, its situation, &c. 419. the spirit of multiplying them, 36, 7. and Pitt's, 243; subjects of his chief Apollo, the fountain of, 343. Army, Spanish, Sir Arthur Wellesley's re- Austria as it is, 399, et seq.; character of Baptism, infant, the means of national re- formation, &c., by H. Budd, 110, et seq. Barn, the, and the Steeple, 474, et seq. Beechey's proceedings of the expedition to b |