candid children of God one with another. Oh that some abler hand, and more loving heart, would undertake to mend my plan, if it be worth mending, or draw one more agreeable to the word of God! My eyes are upon you, dear Sir, and those who are like-minded with you, for this work: disappoint me not of my hope. Stand forth, and make way for reconciling love, by removing (so far as lies in you) what is in the way of brotherly union. Oh, Sir, the work is worthy of you! and if you saw with what boldness the false philosophers of the Continent, who are the apostles of the age, attack Christianity, and represent it as one of the worst religions in the world, and fit only to make the professors of it murder one another, or at least to contend among themselves; and how they urge our disputes, to make the Gospel of Christ the jest of nations, and the abhorrence of all flesh, you would break through your natural timidity, and invite all our brethren in the ministry, to do what the herds do on the Swiss mountains, when wolves attack them; instead of goring one another, they unite, form a close battalion, and face the common enemy on all sides. What a shame would it be, if cows and bulls shewed more prudence, and more regard for union, than Christians and Gospel-ministers! "Oh, dear Sir, take courage! be bold for the reconciling truth. Be bold for peace. You can do all things, through Christ strengthening you; and as Doctor Conyers, you can do many things,-a great many more than you think. What if you go, Sir, in Christ's name, to all the Gospel-ministers of your acquaintance, exhort them as a father, entreat them as a brother, and bring as many of them as you can together; think you that your labour would be in vain in the Lord? Impossible, Sir! Oh despair not! Charity hopeth all things; and as Kempis saith, it trieth all things, and bringeth many things to pass, which would appear impossible to him who despaireth, hateth, or careth not for the sheep? If you want a coach, or a friend to accompany you, when you go upon this errand of love, remember there is a Thornton in London, and an Ireland in Bristol, who will wish you God speed, and make your way plain before you; and God will raise many more to concur in the peaceful work. Let me humbly entreat you to go to work, and persevere in it. I wish I had strength to be at least your postilion when you go. would drive, if not like Jehu, at least with some degree of cheerful swiftness, while Christ smiled on the Christian attempt. But I am confident you can do I all in the absence, and without the concurrence, of him who is, with brotherly love, and dutiful respect, Hon. and dear Sir, your obedient servant in the Gospel, J. F." "To Mr. William PERRONET. "MY DEAR FRIEND, Nyon, June 2,1778. "When I wrote to you last, I mentioned two ladies of your family, who have married two brothers, Messrs. Monod. Since that time, they have requested me to send to your father the enclosed memorial, which, I hope, will prove of use to your family. As the bad writing and the language may make the understanding of it difficult to you, I send you the substance of it, and of the letter of the Lady's lawyer, as follows : "While I invite you to make your title clear to a precarious estate on earth, permit me, my dear Sir, to remind you of the heavenly inheritance entailed on believers. The Will, the New Testament by which we can recover it, is proved. TheCourt is just and equitable, the Judge is gracious and loving. To enter into possession of a part of the estate here, and of the whole hereafter, we need only believe, and prove, evangelically, that we are believers. "Let us then set about it now, with earnestness, with perseverance, and with a full assurance that through grace we shall infallibly carry our cause. Alas! what are estates and crowns, to grace and glory? The Lord grant that we, and all our friends, may chuse the better part, which your brother, my dear friend, so happily chose. may we firmly stand to the choice, as he did, to the last. My best respects wait upon your dear father, your sisters, and nieces. God reward your kindness to me upon them all. And "I have had a pull-back since I wrote last. After I left Mr. Ireland at Macon, to shorten my journey, and to enjoy new prospects, I ventured to cross the mountains, which separate France from this country. But on the third day of the journey, I found an unexpected trial; a large hill, whose winding roads were so steep, that though we fed the horses with bread and wine, they could scarcely draw the chaise, and obliged me to walk in all the steepest places. The climbing lasted several hours, the sun was hot, I perspired violently, and the next day I spit blood again. I have chiefly kept to goats'milk ever since, and hope I shall get over this death also, because I find myself, blessed be God, better again, and my cough is neither frequent nor violent. "This is a delightful country. If you come to see it, and claim the estate, bring all the papers and memorials your father can collect; and come to share a pleasant apartment, and one of the finest prospects in the world, in the house where I was born. God bless you, my dear friend! Believe me, dear Sir, &c. J. F." Mr. URBAN, 1 M July 6. R. Mendez Da Costa, in your last Mag. p. 515. b. is not always perfectly accurate in the Names of some persons whom he mentions. Mrs. Cavendish, whom he and other people called Jack Cavendish, was daughter of Lord James Cavendish, youngest brother to the second Duke of Devonshire, and resumed her own name after her brother died s. p. and her husband assumed the name of Cavendish by Act of Parliament. Lord Charles Cavendish was her first Cousin, being third son of the aforesaid second Duke, and brother to the third Duke: he died April 28, 1783, æt. 90. The younger son of the Dowager Duchess of Portland was Lord Edward Bentinck. Surely George Scott, whom Mr. M. Da C. mentions, was George Lewis Scott, a Commissioner of Excise, who married the sister of the famous Mrs. Montagu, of Portman-square, and died Dec. 7, 1780. I always understood that he was christened after King George I. who perhaps was his godfather. : sume the fanciful name of Belfour; but of their family I am perfectly uninformed and it is a curious circumstance, that Mrs. Barbauld, who professes to give an account of their "family and connections," never mentions so much as their name. There is moreover a similar, or perhaps greater, mystery about their sister being Countess of Derby; for, as it is certain, as your Correspondent Juba observes, that Sir Edward Stanley, Earl of Derby, married Miss Hesketh, and is not recorded to have married any other person, so it is observable that in both the entries in your vols. for 1783 and 1785, recording the deaths of Lady Echlin and Lady Bradshaigh, they are spoken of as "sisters to the late Countess of Derby." Upon further considering the language of your former Correspondent in vol. LXXIV." The eldest sister of these women, by the same mother, married Sir E. S. Earl of Derby," may it not be suspected, though it does not appear to be recorded any where, that Elizabeth, widow of Robert Hesketh, esq. mother of Lady Derby, and sole daughter and heiress of the Hon. William Spencer, 3d son of William Lord Spencer, and brother of Henry, created Earf of Sunderland, after the death of Mr. Hesketh, married a Bellingham, by whom she had the two ladies abovementioned ? J. B. I cannot help observing, as I believe others of your numerous Readers have done, the care that your learned Correspondent, the Remarker on Jamieson's Etymological Dictio- A mary, constantly takes to inform the world that he is M. D. as Sir William Desse, the famous dancing-master, after he was knighted, drew upon his banker by the name of Sir Wm. Desse, saying, “How else will any body know what an honour has been conferred upon me?" But I should not have thought it worth taking notice of, had not the learned Doctor of Physick, with the same religious care that he constantly proclaims his own dignity, constantly refused to give to the Rev. Gentleman on whom he re marks his title of Doctor of Divinity. P. 527, and 8. There is a mystery, which I cannot unravel, about the Jadies Echlin and Bradshaigh here mentioned: they were Miss Eliza and Miss D. (perhaps Dorothy) Bellingham, of Preston in Lancashire, which may have led the latter of them to as Mr. URBAN, July 7. LLOW me, through the medium of your Magazine, to answer an erroneous paragraph in the sixth Number of the BRITISH REVIEW; in which the author charges me with stating an opinion of my own as a fact. lowing: The paragraph alluded to is the fol "Mr. Galt is of opinion that the population of Sicily is gradually increasing; and says, that the fact,' as he is pleased to call it, is incontrovertibly established by recent extracts from the Parochial Registers..... Mr. Galt's observations relative to Sicily were made a twelvemonth previous to OUR OWN. At that period no publication had appeared, as far as we know, from which we could obtain this fact; and we have much to regret that Mr. Galt has not favoured us with the exposition of his authorities," &c.-BRITISH REVIEW, page 364. I know not what may have been the opportunities of acquiring knoW ledge ledge which this itinerant Critick enjoyed in Sicily; but his ignorance is certainly "disgraceful in one who aspires to the dignity of authorship," and is "characterized with no small degree of presumption." My authority with respect to the Parochial returns was the Abati Balsamo's Journal, published about six months before my first arrival at Palermo in 1809. On my RETURN to Sicily in May 1811, if the appearance of new, and a rise in the value of old houses, will be admitted as any proof of an increasing population, and if additional neatness in external comforts be evidence of improvement, THE was confirmed to my satis FACT faction. Yours, &c. Mr. URBAN, JOHN GALT. July 8. AVING just perused the free but to that Society, would not attempt to become members of the other, from fear of an ejection liable to ensue from the misguided zeal of some of its members. I will not even insist on the great increase of the old Society that has taken place since the establishment of the new one, and on the probable failure of such increase with the defect of its cause.-We come now to the second argument, That the coalition of Churchmen and Dissenters in the Bible Society is unnatural. Considering the cause in which all the members of each religious society are connectively engaged; viz. the propagation of the Gospel, and dissemination of the knowledge of Him, who died for our sins, and rose again for our justification, by whose stripes we are healed, and who is over all, God blessed for ever, are not these words of the Apostle justly ap 594, at the prese to my strictures on Dr. Marsh's pamphlet against the Bible Society, I cannot omit to send an immediate answer. The too great warmth and personality that have already been exhibited in this controversy are sincerely to be deprecated; and P. Q. is the more deserving of praise for having followed an example salutary in its effects, and the best adapted for the investigation of truth. I shall briefly discuss the three heads, under which he comprehends the leading arguments of Dr. Marsh; viz. that the Bible Society is unnecessary, unnatural, and hurtful. To prove the necessity of the Bible Society, nothing more is requisite than to produce the simple fact, that all the other religious societies now existing could not conjointly supply half the Bibles of which our domestic poor are in absolute want. To the accuracy of this statement, Mr. Gisborne's speech bears ample testimony. It may perhaps be replied, that the Church-members should transfer their subscriptions to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, and leave the Dissenters to themselves. This would at best be only a problematical good; what we possess at present is certain and indisputable. The Bible Society, when deprived of the wealth, the learning, and fostering patronage of the Church, would cer tainly be materially injured, if not destroyed. On the other hand, many of the Churchmen, now Subscribers ye are carnal; for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not carnal? Who then is Paul, and who is Apollos, but ministers by whom ye believed, even as the Lord gave to every man? I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave his increase. So then neither is he that planteth, any thing; neither is he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase:-Whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." Let us then attend to this admonition, and unite with one hand and one soul to glorify the God of Heaven, that his will may be known upon earth, his saving health among all nations. To the third argument, and to the abstruse reasoning of the Margaret Professor, we will oppose facts undeniable and incontrovertible. He says, That the Bible Society, from an extensive omission of the Liturgy, is hurtful to the Establishment. surely ask in return, has such an omission of the Liturgy yet taken place? The fact is notorious and well attested, that no increased omission of the Liturgy has taken place in consequence of the institution of the Bible Society. Let the Margaret Professor examine the accounts of the Bartlett's Building's Society, and he will find that those who are subscribers to the two Societies have ordered as many, if not But we may more more Prayer Books in proportion as those who are only members of the old one. The Bible Society has now been established eight years; she can boast of the patronage of twenty-one Archbishops and Bishops, of the leading Members in both Houses of Par liament, and of the support of nearly one hundred Auxiliary Societies; she has caused the Bible to be published in fifty-eight languages, in the sight of all men, and not in a corner; and she confidently appeals not to the cavils and abstruse reasonings of individuals, but to her own measures for the diffusion of Christianity, as incontestable proofs of her unanimity, her uprightness, and her purity. I would be the last man to impute any impure motives either to Dr. Marsh or to my present opponent; but cannot help adding, that they transgress the rules of candour and charity, when they indiscriminately term the supporters of the Bible Society, Dissenters and Euemies of the Church. Are the twentyone Archbishops and Bishops Dissenters? Are the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London Dissenters, who patronize the Military and Naval Bible Society, which distributes the Bible without the Liturgy? Let it not be supposed, that in advocating the cause of the Bible Society, I would disparage that of which Dr. Marsh is a member. May the Almighty, during this shaking of the Nations, bless the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, with all other Religious Societies; and may He cause them to take root downward, and bear fruit upward! May He likewise have mercy upon all Jews, Turks, Infidels, and Hereticks; and take from them all ignorance, hardness of heart, and contempt of his word; and so fetch them home to his flock, that they may be saved among the remnant of the true Israelites, and be made one fold under one shepherd! The object of my last insertion, was to make public the efforts that had been made, and are now making, to establish an Auxiliary Bible Society in the University of Oxford; and thereby to obtain the assistance of those distant members, who are willing that she should perform this imperious duty to herself, to her Country, and to her God. May these efforts prosper; and may our Establishment long continue a praise on the face of the earth, enjoying those blessings she is now preparing for distant lands and ages yet unborn! SCRUTATOR OXONIENSIS. Mr. URBAN, Winchester, July 7. A FRIEND to Accuracy, in your Magazine for June, most justly points out the propriety of immediately assisting to correct those errors which sometimes unavoidably creep into your valuable compilation; it is therefore superfluous to offer an apology for this attempt to set a matter of fact right in the communication from an Andover Correspondent, page 508. Jane, the wife of the Rev. Benjamin Jeffreys, was an intimate and much-valued friend to many indivi duals of the family of Mr. Justice Blackstone, but no relation to him.→ Mrs. Jeffreys was the eldest daughter of the Rev. John Mulso, one of the Prebendaries of Winchester, and a near relative of the three daughters* of Dr. John Thomas, Bishop of Winchester; her father and mother were closely allied, one with the Bishop, the other to his wife: this relationship is accurately detailed in the Memoirs of Mrs. Chapone, published in 1807, by Mr. Mulso's surviving daughter Hester. Mrs. Chapone (Mr. Mulso's sister) addressed to her niece Mrs. Jeffreys, those admirable Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, which so ably develope the talents, good principles, and attainments of the writer. Mr. URBAN, N W. Liverpool, July 6. your last volume, page 542, Dido, in Virgil's Æneid. iv. 480, &c. is censured as saying "solemque cadentem," when she ought to have said "solemque ORIENTEM:" "Oceani finem juxta, solemque cadentem, Ultimus Ethiopum locus est, ubi maximus Atlas [aptum : Axem humero torquet stellis ardentibus Hinc mihi Massylæ gentis monstrata sacerdos," &c. |