instruction and delight which they derive from the study of the scriptures, is ample compensation for the toil which they undergo; and likewise, that the more theysearch into, and the better they understand the New Testament, the more they are confirmed in the views which they entertain of the person and character of their revered and exalted master.

For the better understanding of the above cited text it may be observed, that the glory for which our Lord here prays, is the very same which he proposed to communicate to his disciples. See v. 22. "That glory which thou hast given me, I have given them, that they may be one as we are one.

This glory was unquestionably the glory of publishing the gospel to the world, see v. 8. 14. They were his messengers to mankind, as he had been his Father's messenger. v. 18.

Hence it follows, that the glory which our Lord desired was not any personal honour and gratification; his motive was not of a selfish and mercenary kind. Far from it. His prayer was that he might be honoured as the instrument of instructing mankind in truth and goodness, and in making them virtuous and happy; and he was desirous that his apostles might share with him in this honour and felicity.

This glory he had given them, that is, it was his firm purpose and intention to give it them. For they were not actually qualified and sent forth till after the effusion of the spirit on the day of Pentecost. In the same sense the Father had given it to him, that is, had fully purposed to bestow it upon him, for he was not yet in possession of it: nor had he yet altogether finished the work assigned him, the scene of his sufferings not being yet begun, though he expresses himself strongly in the past tense, "I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do," where he could mean nothing more than to express the absolute certainty of the event.

But what God purposes, he purposes from eternity; it was therefore his eternal purpose thus to glorify Christ. And Christ having spoken of the glory intended for him as actually given to him, might with equal propriety speak of it as given him, that is, certainly destined for him, from all eternity. And in this sense it was the glory which he had with the Father before the world was.

This way of speaking of a thing as already done which was certainly determined upon, was familiar to the Jews. See 2 Tim. i. 9. Eph. i. 4. Heb. x. 34. And in Rom. viii. 29, 30. believers are represented as actually justified and glorified, because from the beginning they were foreknown and predestinated to salvation.

The arguments which my friend produces from the Epistles of Paul must be reserved for a future communication, which I trust will close the correspondence with which I have so long trespassed upon the candour and patience of yourself and your In the mean time, I am,

readers.

Hackney, Oct. 8, 1807.

C

T. BELSHAM.

Sir, your's &c.

POETRY.

VERSES TO A GLOW-WORM, WHICH A GENTLEMAN HAD TAKEN. FROM A HEDGE, IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT, AND

GIVEN INTO MY CARE.

Return, poor glow-worm! to thy home;
If thou thy home canst find again,-
And ah! I charge thee ne'er to roam
Where stray the steps of cruel men.
On grassy bank, in lonely dell,
Hang thou unseen thine em'rald lamp;
And never more man's wanderings tell,
Thro' tangled brake, or marshes damp!
For he will rudely seize thy light,
And bear thee (ingrate!) far away,
If chance no other star thro' night
Should kindly point its leading ray:
And he will scan, with curious eye,
The beauties of thy tortur'd form;
Thoughtless that e'en the worm, the fly,
Are each with tender instinct warm.
Ah! get thee to thy home once more,
I cannot hold thee thus, unmov'd;
For thou hast, sure, some little store
Of friends beloving, friends belov❜d!
Thy native realm of greenest grass,
Thro' which thy greener lustre shot;
Thy kindred stars of earth, alas!
Are all too dear to be forgot!

Then thus from my confining hand,

Then thus from my tear-dropping eye,

At mercy's soft, but firm command,

I bid thee go, and homeward hie!

So, oft may I exulting view

Thy fairy moon-light magic spell;

And hail, with love and rapture due,

The shades where thou and freedom dwell!

A.M.P.

THE NEGRO BOY*.

The African Prince, Naimbanna, (vid. M. Rep. V. 11. 491.) when in England, and under the tuition of a gentleman of the University of Cambridge, being asked what he gave for his watch, answered, "What I will never give again-I gave a fine boy for it."

When Avarice enslaves the mind,
And selfish views alone bear sway,
Man turns a savage to his kind,
And blood and rapine mark his way:
Alas! for this poor simple toy,
I sold a blooming Negro Boy.
His father's hope, his mother's pride,
Tho' black, yet comely to their view,
I tore him helpless from their side,
And gave him to a ruffian crew:

To fiends that Afric's coast annoy,
I sold the blooming Negro Boy.
From country, friends, and parents torn,
His tender limbs in chains confin'd,
I saw him o'er the billows borne,
And mark'd his agony of mind:
Yet still to gain this simple toy,
I gave away the Negro Boy.
In isles that deck the western wave,
I doom'd the hapless youth to dwell,
A poor, forlorn, insulted slave,
A Beast that Christians buy and sell,
And in their cruel tasks employ,
The much-enduring Negro Boy.
His wretched parents long shall mourn,
Shall long explore the distant main,
In hopes to see the youth return,
But all their hopes and sighs are vain :

They never shall the sight enjoy,
Of their lamented Negro Boy.
Beneath a tyrant's harsh command,
He wears away his youthful prime,
Far distant from his native land,

A stranger in a foreign clime:

No pleasing thoughts his mind employ,
A poor dejected Negro Boy.

But He who walks upon the wind,
Whose voice in thunder's heard on high,
Who doth the raging tempest bind,
Or wing the lightning thro' the sky,
In his own time will sure destroy,
Th' oppressors of the Negro Boy.

are obliged to two Correspondents for copies of the following poem. Edt

OBITUARY.

Joseph Peter Buchoz, M.D.-M. Pfeffel.-M. Antoine Bernard Calliard.— Jobw Fewings-Charles M Cormick, LL. B.

Jan. 30, at Paris, aged 77, JOSEPH and was subsequently minister plenipos PETER BUCHOZ, M. D. fellow of tentiary at Ratisbon and Berlin. On his the College of Physicians at Nancy; return to France, in 1795, he was made born at Metz, Jan. 27,1731. His works, keeper of the archives of foreign rela as enumerated by himself in a catalogue tions, which post he held till his death. printed in 1782, consisted of 319 vo- His active employments did not prelumes of various sizes. So well did he vent him from cultivating literature, merit the title of "Polygraphus," and he possessed a very select library. given him by Haller. His works were He wrote Memoirs on the Revolution of chiefly relative to Natural History, and Holland in 1787, and was one of the he is said to have expended 200,000 translators of Lavater's Essays on Phylivres in printing and engraving. Du- siognomy. He also communicated seve ring the latter part of his life he was ral interesting articles to the Magazin reduced to great distress; but a short Encyclopedique, and to other journals. time before his death the French Go- A few months since at Chumleigh, vernment granted him a pension of 1200 livres, (5ol) per annum.

cation; and until within a year or two previous to his deccase, he uniformly followed his employment without the assistance of glasses. At this advanced period also he would (to accomodate an old customer) walk five or six miles, with his tools at his back, and return the same day.

JOHN FEWINGS, aged upwards of 90. This man was of the humble occu March, at Paris, at the age of 81, M. pation of a tinker, but he presented a PFEFFEL, publicist for foreign relations, singular contrast to the corrupt manners member of the Legion of Honour and and dissolute life of this description of author of a" ChronologicalAbridgement itinerants. He was never known to of the History and Public Law of Ger- take what is technically called a dram, many," a work thrice printed, and nor was he ever seen in a state of intoxiwhich speedily acquired a high reputation. It is frequently quoted in Dr. Robertson's History of Charles Vth. M. Pfeffel had travelled through the greatest part of Europe, had been engaged in the most important affairs of his time, and was connected with the most distinguished persons; he had been a sagacious observer, and being possessed of a happy memory, was a living chronicle of the last half of the past century. He was frequently urged to continue his historical work to his own times, but he pertinaciously refused, urging that an ostensible agent in political life ought not to publish the history of the times in which he himself has lived. He was a man of an open and amiable temper, simple in his manners, and worthy in all the relations of life.

July 29, aged 64, CHARLES M CORMICK, LL. B. He was a native of Ireland, and having early evinced a love for reading and information, his father, who had brought up a large family on a few paternal acres, determined to indulge this disposition as far as his slender patrimony would permit. A schoolmaster was settled in the neigh, bourhood who was a man of real classical learning. The excellence of the teacher, in a few years, discover ed itself May, at Paris, M. ANTOINE BER- in the rapid progress of the scholar in NARD CALLIARD, at the age of 70. Roman and Greek literature. At the He was first employed under M. Tur- same time he was not unmindful of the got, when intendant of Limoges, and poets, orators and historians of his own afterwards was secretary of legation at country, while an ardent love of liberty Parma, Cassel, and Copenhagen, and led him to a perusal of those authors abarge d'affaires in the last capital. He who had written on the Brit sh Constituwent in the same quality to Petersburg, tion. At the age of 18 he came to Lon

Thomas Michael Newell, Esq.-Maria Duchess of Gloucester.
M. Lassus. Le Brun-Earl of Se@rborough.

don, where having remained some time family, and any one whom it fell in his way to protect. From Buonaparte he obtained permission either to return to England or travel in France.

Aug. 23, at her house at Brompton, in her 69th year, MARIA DUCHESS of

of the Earl of Waldegrave, when she married the late Duke in 1766. The Duchess was, with the exception of Earl Cholmondeley, the only surviving lineal descendant of Sir Robt. Walpole, being a daughter of his son, Sir Edward.

he went to Paris, in order to become acquainted with the language, policy and manners of the French nation. Returning he became a student of the Middle Temple, though the pages of Coke, &c. were not suited either to his taste or his GLOUCESTER. She was the widow genius. When he was on the eve of being called to the bar, his father died, and having a large family, could leave his son little besides a good example. He now passed much of his time at Oxford, either with men of congenial pursuits, or in consulting rare authors in the Bodleian The marriage of the Duke of GlouLibrary. His first appearance as an au- cester to this Lady, whose beauty is dethor was anonymous in periodical publi- scribed as highly attractive, followed soon cations. He compiled and translated after by that of the Duke of Cumbermany works, which have been well re- land to Mrs. Horton, gave occasion to ceived, and of which others have reaped the Royal Marriage Act, which passed the profits and the fame. Those which in 1772. This act "restrains the deappeared with his name were written scendants of Geo. II. from marrying under very unfavourable circumstances, without the approbation of his majesty yet they shew what might have been expected from the writer, if composed in case and retirement. The works that bear his name are, "The History of Ch. II.-The Reign of Geo. III. to 1783. -Continuation of Rapin's History of England-Light reading for Leisure Hours.-Life of the Rt. Hon. Ed. Burke, -The British Cicero," &c. All his writings are calculated to promote the cause of rational liberty, religion and virtue. In his younger days he projected a History of Ireland, and had collected materials for the work which was patronized by the Earl of Moira, who had often befriended him. He had just began to arrange the documents he had been so long collecting, when he was attacked by a dropsy, yet his cheerfulness deserted him only when he reflected on the distress in which he must leave an amiable and affectionate wife in ill-health, in years, and without friends. During his illness, he parted with all his books to supply the necessities of the day, so that his widow was left without the means of paying even the last sad tribute to his memory.

M. M.

his heirs and successors," evidently with the design of preventing such a conta mination of the blood-royal, as had recently occurred. The influence of such a power over marriage on the personal virtue of Princes is sufficiently obvious. Whether any reasons of state can justify it we shall not here discuss. It was warmly opposed by the great lawyer, Lord Camden, and the Marquis of Rockingham. The Peers, Richmond, Portland, Fitzwilliam, Lyttleton, &c. also protested against it. The Lords Spiri tual, as usual, when the Court speaks, were dutifully silent. In the House of Lords the Act was passed by a much larger majority than in the House of Commons where it was opposed chiefly by Sir W. Meredith.

Lately at Paris, at the age of 66, much esteemed and regretted, M. LASSUS, surgeon, a member of the Institute, Librarian to that Establishment, a Professor in the medical school, and Consulting Surgeon to the Emperor. He was a man of extensive learning, and well acquainted with the fine arts. He translated from the English with elegance and accuracy several works on Surgery, and published several original works.

Aug. 8, at his seat the Retreat, near Danbury, Essex, aged 47, THOMAS MICHAEL NOWELL, Esq. eminent At Paris, Sept. 2, at an advanced age, as a Physician and promoter of the vac- the French poet, LE BRUN. He was cine inoculation in the North of France. a member of the National Institute, In that country he was so much respected and of the Legion of Honour. even in the time of Robespierre, that Sept. 5, at Bath, aged 53, the EARL of every attention was paid to himself, his SCARBOROUGH. In this nobleman's