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Falsehood, or Facts opposed to Fiction, in a series of Letters to Douglas, the Author of "No Fiction," by Lefevre. The design of these letters is to expose to public view a real statement of facts, in the principal character of the above popular religious novel; to detect the artful sophistry, the gross falsehoods, and the shameful calumnies, in the discordant materials of which it is composed; to unfold the character and the different courtships, with the contemptible vanity of Douglas, in the portrait which he has drawn of himself; the real and not the fictitious correspondence; and to shew the absurdity of religious novels, and the nonsense imposed upon the public, for the gratification of passions under the baneful influence of avarice and vanity."

The above notice having been inserted in several publications, seems to have reached the ears of Douglas, who has written to Lefevre on the occasion, threatening to expose him by exhibiting his real correspondence. This threat has been resented by Lefevre, who has printed the letter of Douglas, accompanying it with a spirited reply in the language of fearless defiance. On this pamphlet, as we expect it will soon be followed by the work here announced, we forbear at present to make any observations.

which is prefixed a Familiar Essay on the Composition of a Sermon.-A Letter to a Young Minister on Preaching the Gospel, &c. &c.

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Scripture Fragments, in Prose and Verse,
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The Progress of Infidelity, by the Rev. G.
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Travels into the Arkansa Territory of North
America during the year 1819, by Thomas
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Shortly will be published, Vallis Vale, and other Poems, by the Author of the Juvenile Poetical Moralist.

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Mrs. Hannah More, the Portrait of this distinguished Lady, painted by H. W. Pickersgill, A. R. A. and exhibited in the Royal Academy last season, is now in the hands of an eminent engraver, for publication.

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A local difference between two individuals
can never, as an isolated fact, prove interest-
ing to the public; but when it becomes con-
nected with a work that has obtained a consi-gravings, by James Smith.
derable degree of celebrity in the world, as is
the case with "No Fiction," the combatants
leave the retreats of obscurity, and take their
stand on more conspicuous ground. Indepen-
dently of the individual characters which this
controversy must involve, the readers of "No
Fiction" will be amused on learning, in the
issue, whether "FICTION" shall retain or lose
its "No."

Average Price of Grain per Quarter, for the 12
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Just published, a History of Preston-Guild, with a particular account of that in 1822; embellished with Plates and a striking Likeness of N. Grimshaw, Esq. from a Painting by Lonsdale.

The extraordinary affliction and gracious relief of a little Boy, supposed to be the effects of spiritual agency; with observations on demoniacal possession, and animadversions on Superstition. By James Heaton. 8vo.

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The Best Choice, a Tale in verse, for Sabbath Schools.

A single Sermon, Sin removed by Christ, the Lamb of God, and Sinners directed to an all-sufficient Saviour. By Rev. John Peacock. In the Press, the 3d and 4th volumes of the Preacher; or, Sketches of Original Sermons, chiefly selected from the Manuscripts of eminent Divines of the Last Century, for the Use of Lay Preachers and Young Ministers; to

Wheat. Barley. Oats. Rye. Beans. Peas.

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Price of Stocks, London, November 25.

Bank Stock, 24737
3 per Ct. Rd. 80
3 per Ct. Cons. 8180
81

3 per Cent. 928
4 per Cent. 98 97
New 4 per Ct. 101

India Bonds, 42 pm.
Ex. Bills, 2d. £1000,

564 pm.
Ex. Bills, 2d. £500,
5 6 pm.
Do. small, 67 pm.
Lottery Tickets, £21.

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Long An. 20 9-16ths
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Price of Irish Stocks, November 19.
Bank Stock, 252.

Cons. for Acc. 811 811
80 81

Gov. Deb. 3 per Cent. 943
Gov. Stock, 3 per Cent. 92
Gov. Deb. 5 per Cent 7
Do. Stock, Old 4 per Cent.
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City Debentures, 5 per Cent. 313
Grand Canal Loan, 6 per Cent. 69%

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COMMERCIAL REPORT, LIVERPOOL, 23d NOVEMBER, 1822.

THE period which has elapsed since our last publication, has not been distinguished by any interesting movements in our commerce. At the present moment a general dulness prevails. Although we are at some distance from the busy scenes where the diversified foreign loan operations seem to absorb universal attention, yet their influence is indirectly felt in this place. The high rate of interest, and the excitement caused by the sudden fluctuations, have had peculiar attractions; to parties connected with the money market, and most probably have diverted many sums from being invested in mercantile speculations. It does not fall within our province to descant upon these subjects further than they interfere with our commerce, yet we cannot help hazarding the trite remark, that great prospects of gain are usually attended with much insecurity and risk.

The demand for Cotton is very languid, and the sales during the last four weeks only amount to 22,140 packages, inclusive of 3882 bales, which form the business of the week, ending this day; and may be particularised as follows:

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With so moderate an extent of business, a reduction of prices might naturally have been looked for; however, the holders do not seem inclined to relax in their demands, and consequently do not press their stocks on the market. The week closes with a tolerable inquiry. Of the market, it may be said, that it now rules at about an advance of d. on the extreme lowest point of depression.

There is much heaviness in the market for Colonial produce: the prices of British Plantation Sugar are barely supported. Coffee is rather drooping.

Rums are heavy of sale; during the present week 65 puncheons of common Leewards sold at 1s. 3d. per gallon.

Salt Hides.-The sales during the last fortnight have been considerable, but the market is tending downwards, now that the export about to close: the market is generally lower for dry hides, except in superior qualities. The total sales, during the above period, are 15,760 dry Buenos Ayres Cow and Ox, from 103d. to 11.; 4000 salted, from 61d. to 6§d. per lb.; 9400 dry Horse Hides, from 6s. 1d. to 6s. 7d. each; 700 dry West-India, at 8d. per lb.; and 3200 dry salted Brazil, from 83d. to 8ğd.; likewise 1100 good American, at 5 per lb. Ashes.-The active demand has subsided in some measure. Montreal Pots from 44s. to 45s. Pearls 48s.

Dye-Woods are far from being brisk, and prices are a shade lower. The demand for Saltpetre is improving, from 29s. to 30s. per cwt. for at 13s. 6d. per cwt, Tar firm.

Turpentine is inquired

Oils without particular interest. Newfoundland Cod Oil £23 per ton. Pale Seal Oil £27. Palm Oil £26.

The Tallow market is very flat; and there appears little confidence in the article. Timber and Deals.-In these articles there appears a tendency to advance; and the dealers evince a decided disposition to purchase stocks. American Pine from 20d. to 21d. per cubit foot.

At our Corn market, a very ready sale continues to be experienced for Wheat, and appearances continue to favour a gradual aud solid improvement; the speculators are also watching the market attentively. Barley and Oats are steady in price, but their comparatively high rates throw the consumption more on wheat; so that the deficiency on the crops of the former is likely to be less felt. There is at present no demand for Wheat or Flour under lock. The season is yet too early for any sale to be made in the imports of new Flax and Clover Seed.

LONDON: PRINTED AT THE CAXTON PRESS, BY H. FISHER.

Imperial Magazine ;

OR, COMPENDIUM OF

RELIGIOUS, MORAL, & PHILOSOPHICAL KNowledge.

DEC.] "SOCIAL REFINEMENT HAS NO EXISTENCE WHERE LITERATURE IS UNKNOWN."

[1822.

THE CRUCIFIX AND GOLD CHAIN OF Six inches long, and four broad-some

EDWARD THE CONFESSOR.

MR. EDITOR.

SIR,-If you think the accompanying narrative, extracted from a book printed in the year 1688, worthy a place in your Magazine, it is much at your service. To me the account is quite new; to others of your readers it may not be so; and I shall feel highly gratified if any further information can be obtained relative to the existence of the reliques mentioned in it.

An Account of the Finding of the Crucifix and Gold Chain of Edward the Confessor, after 620 years' Interment, and presenting it to King James II. By Charles Taylor, Gent.

esteeming it an accident, through the carelessness and neglect of the workmen in removing the scaffolds; others thought it done out of design: but be it the one or the other, thus it continued for almost seven weeks, and was often viewed by divers of the church, before it was my good fortune to go thither; when, on St. Barnaby's day, 1685, I met with two friends, between eleven and twelve of the clock, who told me they were going to see the tombs; so I went along with them, informing them that there was a report that the coffin of St. Edward the Confessor was broke ; and coming to the place, I was desirous to be satisfied of the truth thereof. In order thereunto, I fetched a ladder, looked upon the coffin, and "So many and so various have found all things answerable to the rebeen the relations and reports con- port; and putting my hand into the cerning the finding and disposing of hole, and turning the bones which I the Crucifix and Gold Chain of St. felt there, I drew from underneath the Edward the King and Confessor, and shoulder-bones a Crucifix richly adornthose so fabulous and uncertain with-ed and enamelled, and a Gold Chain of al, that in honour to truth, to disabuse twenty-four inches long, unto which it the misinformed world, and to satisfy was affixed; the which I immediately the curiosity as well as importunity of shewed to my two friends, they being my friends, I think myself under an equally surprised, and as much adobligation to give an exact account of mired the same, as myself. But I was this fact, which I shall do with the ut- afraid to take them away till I had acmost fidelity. quainted the Dean; and therefore I put them into the coffin again, with a full resolution to inform him. But the Dean not being to be spoken with at that time, and fearing this holy treasure might be taken thence by some other persons, and so concealed by converting it to their own use; I went, about two or three hours after, to one of the choir, and acquainted him with what I had found; who immediately accompanied me back to the monument, from whence I again drew the Crucifix and Chain, and shewed them him, who beheld them with admiration, and advised me to keep them till I could have an opportunity of shewing them to the Dean; so I kept them about a month, and having no opportunity in all that time to 4 F

"In the chapel of St. Edward the Confessor, within the shrine erected to his most glorious memory, I have often observed (by the help of a ladder) something resembling a coffin, made of sound, firm, and strong wood, and bound about with bands of iron; and during the eighteen years I have belonged to the choir of this church, it was a common tradition among us, that therein was deposited the body or remains of holy King Edward the Confessor.

"Now it happened, not long after the coronation of their present Majesties, that the aforesaid coffin or chest was found to be broke, and an hole made upon the upper lid thereof, over against the right breast, about No. 48-VOL. IV.

speak with the Dean, but hearing, in the meantime, that his Grace the Archbishop of York was in town, I waited upon him with the Crucifix and Chain; who looked upon them as great pieces of antiquity, ordering me to wait upon him the next morning, to attend him to Lambeth-house, that his Grace of Canterbury might also have a sight thereof: we went accordingly, and when I had produced them, and his Grace had well viewed them, be expressed the like conceptions of them that my Lord of York had done before.

"About the same time, that industrious and judicious antiquary, Sir William Dugdale, was pleased to give me a visit, desiring a sight thereof, (with whose request I willingly complied,) telling me that he would make some remarks thereon.

cramped together with large iron wedges; where it now remains as a testimony of his pious care, that no abuse might be offered to the sacred ashes therein reposited.

"I shall now endeavour to give as exact a description of these rarities as I can possible: The Chain was full twenty-four inches long, all of pure gold, the links oblong and curiously wrought; the upper part whereof (to lie in the nape of the neck) was joined together by a locket, composed of a large round knob of massy gold, and in circumference as big as a milledshilling, and half an inch thick; round this went a wire, and on the wire about half a dozen little beads, hanging loose, and running to and again on the same, all of pure gold, and finely wrought. On each side of this locket were set two large square red stones, (supposed to be rubies); from each side of this locket, fixed to two rings of gold, the chain descends, and meeting below, passes through a square piece of gold of a convenient bigness, made hollow for the same purpose: this gold, wrought into several angles, was painted with divers colours, resembling so many gems, or precious stones, and to which the Crucifix was joined, yet to be taken off (by the help of a screw) at plea

"Speedily after, the Dean going to Lambeth, his Grace told him at dinner what he had seen, and informed him they were still in my possession: upon his return to the Abbey, that afternoon, about four of the clock, I was sent for, and Mr. Dean immediately took me along with him to Whitehall, that I might present this sacred treasure to the King; and being introduced, I immediately, upon my knees, delivered them to his Majesty, of which he accepted with much satisfaction; and having given his Majesty a farther account in what condition the remains of the body of that holy King were, and opened the Cross in his presence, I withdrew, leaving them safe in his royal posses-pendicular beam being nigh one

sion.

"At the time when I took the Cross and Chain out of the coffin, I drew the head to the hole, and viewed it, being very sound and firm, with the upper and nether jaws whole, and full of teeth, and a list of gold above an inch broad, in the nature of a coronet, surrounding the temples: there was also in the coffin white linen, and gold-coloured flowered silk, that looked indifferent fresh, but the least stress put thereto, shewed it was well nigh perished; there were all his bones, and much dust likewise, which I left as I found. His Majesty was pleased soon after this discovery to send to the Abbey, and order the old coffin to be inclosed in a new one, of an extraordinary strength, each plank being two inches thick, and

sure.

"For the form of the Cross, it comes nighest to that of an humettee flory among the heralds, or rather the botony, yet the pieces here are not of an equal length, the direct or per

fourth part longer than the traverse,
as being four inches to the extremities,
while the other scarce exceeds three;
yet all of them neatly turned at the
ends, and the botons enamelled with
figures thereon. The Cross itself is of
the same gold with the Chain; but
then it exceeds it by its rich enamel,
having on one side the picture of our
Saviour Jesus Christ in his passion
wrought thereon, and an eye from
above casting a kind of beams upon
him; whilst, on the reverse of the same
cross, is pictured a Benedictine Monk
in his habit, and on each side of him
these capital Roman letters.
"On the right limb thus:

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"The Cross is hollow, and to be opened by two little screws towards the top, wherein it is presumed some relique might have been conserved. The whole being a piece not only of great antiquity, but of admirable curiosity; and I look upon this accident as a great part of my good fortune, to be made the main instrument of their discovery and preservation."

Thus far Mr. Taylor's narrative; and I shall make only one observation upon it, which is the following:It may be doubted by some, whether the coffin described above could have been that of Edward the Confessor, as the ornaments found in it may seem to them, from the description, to have been manufactured in a style not to be expected at so remote an æra: but we have the testimony of William of Malmesbury, one of our first historians, that very highly finished works in gold and silver were the produce even of our darkest ages; the Monks, and among them St. Dunstan, were celebrated for their skill in this branch of art; and curious reliquaries, finely wrought and set with precious stones, were usually styled throughout Europe, opera Anglica.

I am, your obedient servant, London, October 25th, 1822.

W.

MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF SEDUCTION,
EXEMPLIFIED IN THE HISTORY OF

HENRY

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which we are destined to encounter are still more difficult to bear. There certainly is some alleviating power, in the bare description of our misfortunes, which at once assuages the violence of sorrow, and soothes the poignancy of wretchedness; and though the effect may prove as transient as that of oil poured upon the tumultuous ocean, yet, like that, it doubtless tranquillizes our affliction, and for a time suspends our grief!

Though I am not going to describe any marvellous incidents, or to delineate any hair-breadth escapes, yet from the relation of my misfortunes, the unsuspicious may learn precaution, and the inexperienced become wise.

My father, sir, was a physician of great eminence, in the populous town and who, aware of the adof Evantages which arise from a liberal education, kindly bestowed it upon a numerous family. In the law and the church, my two elder brothers were established; the two following ones had made choice of the army and navy; and as I always testified a great fondness for physic, my father unreluctantly consented to gratify me. Having studied that branch for two years under my excellent father's tuition, I became a student in the university of Aberdeen, where I spent five years in completing my knowledge of the different branches of my profession: I then returned to England on taking a satisfactory degree.

After having passed a few weeks in the bosom of my family, eighteen months were spent in London, under the celebrated Doctor N-, from which place I was recalled suddenly, by an account of my respected father's dangerous illness. ALTHOUGH the following narrative Alas! I scarcely arrived in time to has, in some parts, much the appear- receive his last blessing, so rapid had ance of fiction, our correspondent been the inroads of the disease assures us that it is founded on fact, with which he was attacked; and the circumstances having been com- upon his death, I had the additional municated by one of the parties who misery of finding that my beloved suffered from the domestic calamity.mother and two sisters were left -EDITOR.

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actually portionless.

The heavy expenses my father had incurred in the education of his children, united to my brother's unbounded extravagance, had actually swallowed up the profits of an eight-and-twenty years' extensive practice. As our connections at E- were not only numerous, but respectable, and as

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