the last four or five years. To remove these apprehenfions, borings were made (under the fuperintendance of the author) in different places near the town, for the purpofe of difcovering new fprings; in confequence of which two new faline fprings have been already difcovered, not inferior to the old fpas, in chemical or medical virtues. One of them fupplies fuch an abundance of water, that it is intended to convert it into a well. The obfervations on these are followed by an account of the newly established chalybeate well, flightly noticed (he fays) about fixteen years ago, by Dr. Anthony Fothergill, at the upper end of Cheltenham, which the author ftates to be a fimple carbonated chalybeate water, fimilar to that of Tunbridge. He calls it the Steel Well, to diftinguish it from the Saline Spas with which it has been frequently confounded, and enumerates the various difeafes in which t is ufeful or hurtful, with the doses and modes of administering it. ART. 25. The Veterinarian's Pocket Manual, containing brief Direc ons for the Prevention and Cure of Difeafes in Horfes, including inportant Obfervations on the Glanders, together with a Table of different Degrees of Running, commonly denominated Glanders; and a Treatife on fame of the most common Operations. By M. La Foffe, Principal Farrier to the Army in France. 12mo. 128 PP. 2s. 6d. Bad. cock. 1803.. "M. La Foffe, author of the Veterinarian's Manual, was (fays the tranflator) principal farrier to the late King of France, in which poft he fucceeded his father, the elder La Foffe, who, it is believed, was the first perfon that improved the art of fhoeing. Thus our author, born a farrier, has a legitimate claim to deference on every point relating to horfes. A fingle glance at the table of contents, will convince the reader, that his active mind has been directed to the greatest variety of fubjects, and the most minute particulars. In this work, he does not treat fo fully on every fubject, as is feen in his Guide du Marechal (Farrier's Guide), a very elaborate performance, of which this Manual is an abridgement, chiefly for the ufe of army farriers. Guide paffed through two editions, and the Manual, called the third (dated 1803), has the addition of a chapter, on the "Anatomy and Phyfiology of the Foot," evidently tranflated from an English treatise recently published. But that which diftinguishes this work is the Table of Glanders; a subject upon which the author has bestowed a great deal of labour, and upon which no one ought to remain ignorant a moment of every ftep that is made towards the difcovery of its feat, pre difpofing caufes, and cure. It is the new information contained in this part of the book, added to the reflection, that the lives of two men, father and fon, have been devoted to the discovery of a cure for the glanders (the great defideratum in farriery) that induced the editor to ftep afide from a laborious occupation, though confcious of his inability, to prefent the world with this little voluine. In this part of it, he hath rendered the author most faithfully; lefs anxious about what he confidered as fubordinate parts of the work, with which he has taken confiderable liberty, and wholly omitting that which relates to the foot, he configns the work to the candour of the reader." M. La M. La Foffe fhews that feveral affections, of an oppofite nature, have been confounded with glanders, through the inattention or ignorance of farriers; in confequence whereof many horfes have been unneceffarily deftroyed, there being no remedy for the true glanders, to prevent the spreading of which (the difeafe being contagious), it is customary to kill the animals. The before-mentioned table exhibits the diftinctions between the real and fuppofed glanders. As for the diseases enumerated, rather than described, in this fmall volume, they are fo curforily treated of, that we judge it to be very inferior in this refpect to Mr. White's, and fome other compendiums which have preceded it. DIVINITY. ART. 26. A Sermon, preached on the late Faft Day, Wednesday, O&ober 19, 1803, at the Parish Church of Hatton, Warwickshire. By Samuel Parr, LL. D. 4to. 32 PP. 25. Mawman. 1803. The fubject of this difcourfe is patriotifm, fhown in that compre henfive view, limited with that precision, and enforced with that eloquence, which are naturally expected in a compofition produced by Dr. Parr. The preacher ably and copiously diftinguishes between true and falfe patriotifm; vindicates the Gofpel for the omiffion of that virtue, against the fneers of Shaftesbury, and the injudicious praifes of Jenyns; and illuftrates alfo the fimilar omiffion in the comprehenfive precepts of the Decalogue. It is explained, with great ability, why our Saviour could not by exprefs injunction enforce the duty of patriotifm without occafioning great evils both immediate and remote: while, at the fame time, it is exemplified in many circumftances of his conduct, and recommended by implication (which we believe is here firft obferved) in his parable of the good Samaritan. When the principles fo ably inculcated are to be enforced, by the application of them to prefent circumftances, the rich and energetic style of Dr. Parr is employed with great effect. We fhall exemplify from a paffage, in which, after enumerating and defining, with a copious recollection and difcriminating judgment, the advantages enjoyed under our prefent conftitution, ecclefiaftical and civil; he explains to his hearers the evils they would have to encounter from the fucceffes of the invading enemy. "You, my hearers, are not without your portion in the bleffings which I have juft now enumerated. In the prefent ftate of fociety, you go forth in the morning to your daily labours without fear, in the evening you return without inquietude to your homely meals, and through the ftilinefs of the night, you repofe in your beds without alarm. But, if your enemies were long to prevail, would they not, like the Egyptian tafk-mafters of old, command you to make brick, and to fupply yourfelves with ftraw? Would they liften to your complaints, when you" were hungry and thirty", and your fouls were fainting within you? Would they fuffer you to rehearse, in carols of joy, all the mighty feats, and all the glorious triumphs of your forefathers, in defence of that liberty which is now your own? No. They would not permit your tongues to utter that word, fo familiar to their ears, and and fo captivating to the hearts of Englishmen. They would put out every fpark of the holy fire, which now glows in your bofoms. They would force you to endure the fcorching fun, and the chilling froft, but without recompencing your toil. By compulfion you would till the land, and by violence, they would reap your harvests, or they would plunder your barns. From the character of freemen and of Englishmen, they would degrade you into vaffals, too impotent to be dreaded, and too contemptible to be pitied. Day after day, and year after year, they would condemn you to the moft ignominious drudgery, as "hewers of wood, and drawers of water"; and the agility of your youth, the vigour of your manhood, and even the last lingering remains of your ftrength, in tremulous and languid old age, would be exhausted at the will, and for the benefit, of your imperious and obdurate conquerors. Many of the evils here mentioned already impend over other countries, which are unable to break their chains; and if the power of your enemy were equal to his fiercenefs, the fame evils, attended by various circumstances of aggravation, would inevitably overtake yourselves and your pofterity. "But from fuch a profpect, a mind truly English must recoil with indignation. You, I am confident, would difdain to bow down your necks to that yoke, which has been thrown by your enemies on many other people, whom their promifes had cajoled, or their menaces had fcared. Your fpirit will never yield obedience to the commands of fuch oppreffors. Your hands, inftead of being cramped by the fetters which your enemies have forged for them, fhould rather be raised up in wielding the fword of justice, and in pointing the fharpeft edge of it against the invader." P. 27. This difcourfe is published at present, with only fuch references to authors, as the allufions in it render neceffary; but the defign of adding larger notes is mentioned: and from the topics which they would be employed to difcufs, there cannot be a doubt that they would abound with matter interefting to the learned, and instructive to every com petent reader. ART. 27. Antichrift, or the Man of Sin, a Sermon, preached before the University of Oxford, at St. Mary's, on Sunday, May 23, 1802. By Ralph Churton, M. A. Relor of Middleton Cheny, Northamptonshire, Lord Bishop of St. David's, and late Fellow of Brafen Nofe College. 410. 51 pp. 1s. 6d. Hanwell and Parker, Oxford; Rivingtons, London. 1804. The author of this Sermon, in a controverfy with Mr. Eyre, fhowed himself fome time ago (1797) an able and well-informed, no lefs than a zealous antagonist of the Church of Rome. In the prefent rublication he ftrenuously fupports the found and long established doctrine of the Proteftants, that the Pope is Antichrift; an undertaking in which, after the fentiments we fo lately declared (Rev. for March, p. 245, &c.) he may be expected to meet with our co-operation. We rejoice indeed to find fo able a divine contending for that doctrine which to us appears fo peculiarly important. We lately praised, with great juftice, his deferce of the Apoftolic origin of Epifcopacy, from the the Apocalypfe, (vol. xxii. p. 678), and in his prefent undertaking he difplays a fimilar force and ability. He refers to the ufual authorities of the Fathers, to prove that the Roman Empire was by them onderftood to be the obftacle which prevented, for a time, the revealing of Antichrift; and he reminds his hearers that the fame doctrine was fupported at Oxford, and there fealed with the blood of Cranmer, Latimer, and Ridley. He then points out the prophetic limit of time for the appearance of Antichrift, which is, "not before, and not long after the divifion of the Empire into ten States." "Therefore," he adds, "there are but two competitors for this poft of wicked pre-eminence, the bishops of Rome, and the impofter Mahomet." He then urges feveral reafons why it cannot be affigned to the latter; among which these are most remarkable; that his impofture could not properly be called an apoftacy or falling away, fince he had never been a Christian; and that falle miracles or lying wonders formed no part of his guilt. He urges, on the other hand, with peculiar ftrength, fome of the accufations against the Bishops of Rome; particularly that of fitting in the Church of God, there to receive perfonal adoration. He then, though no pleafing talk, calls to mind the tremendous judgments denounced against the myftic Babylon," and warns his hearers that there is no change in the character of "the prophetic beaft."-" The creed of that Church is the fame now, as in the days of our fathers; the unity, as well as infallibility of her faith is the perpetual theme of her boating. Here authorized manuals of devotion, to the bleffed Virgin and other faints, are as grofsly fuperftitious as heretofore; her public rituals, fo far as we know, are unaltered; and in them the exacts of her prelates a folemn oath, to be faithful to Rome, and to perfecute heretics." P. 28. This difcourfe in defence of a doctrine, which may be confidered as almost fundamental to every Proteftant church, whom the Refor mation called to come out of the myftic Babylon, deferves attentive perufal and confideration. ART. 28. A Sermon, preached at the Parish Church of St. George, Hanover Square, on Wednesday, October 19, 1803. Bring the Day appointed by his Majefty for a public Faft. By the Rev. Robert "Hodgson, A. M. Rector of that Parijh. The Second Edition. 8vo. 27 PP. 15. Hatchard. 1803. Mr. Hodgson fets before his parishioners the example of Nehemiah, when he exhorted the people of Ifrael not to be afraid of their enemics; but to "remember the Lord which is great and terrible, and fight for their brethren, their fons and their daughters, their wives, and their houses". Neh. iv. 14. The refult was entire fuccefs. "God brought to nought the counfels of their enemies", and "the wall was built without a breach remaining". On this foundation, very found and feasonable advice is raifed by Mr. H. and the evidence of a fecond edition, proves that his admonitions have not wanted attention from his parishioners, and probably from other readers. ART. ART. 29. The Strength of Britain: a Sermon, preached July 31, 1803. 8vo. 15 pp. Pote and Williams, Eton. 1803. The title-page of this Sermon is (without any reason that occurs to us) the most bashful we ever met with. It neither makes known to us the preacher, nor the publisher, the price, nor the place in which it was delivered. All that we learn is, that it was printed by Pote and Williams, Eton," and for this information we may thank a late Act of Parliament. Yet it is a very eloquent effufion of loyalty, patriotifm, and found piety. Our only complaint against it (one which we do not often make) is, its brevity. Of fuch a difcourfe one or two fpecimens must be produced :— "We should be unworthy of the name and honour in which we and pre-eminent among the nations of the earth.-Unworthy of the laws and liberty fecured to us by the wisdom and the virtue of our ancestors; and debafed even below the envy and hatred of our inhuman foe, if we were lefs firmly united in fpirit, lefs valorous of heart, lefs ready in action to take fignal vengeance on him, who fhall dare to place an hoftile foot on this beloved foil, to which our affec tions are, as our deep-rooted oaks, faft bound by the private endearments of our families, by the public bleffings of our conflitution in Church and State. The fhock of arms from which our fields have been fo long free, would not difmay us, animated as we are in defence of objects valuable beyond all price, dear beyond all expreffion:-We fight for the prefervation of the choiceft gifts of Heaven, the rights of our perfons and poffeffions, the independence of our government, and the pure faith of Chrift. While a thirft of blood, rapine, and devaftation, which God abhors; envy, malice, and revenge, paffions of the fiends of hell, infligate the foe to battle. In fuch a struggle we may confidently entreat the God of Hafts to be with us: in the conteft of religion againft infidelity, of moral rectitude against unprincipled profligacy, of juft laws againft capricious tyranny, of patriot loyalty againft regicide ufurpation-through God we fhall da valiantly." P. 8. "If this wicked man be a feword of thine, O God! if for our fins this nation be in danger of falling, may our timely penitence avert the evil! Proftrating ourselves before Thee, in humble acknowledgement of thy great goodnefs, and with contrite hearts lamenting our own unworthinefs, may we obtain mercy and forgivenefs! and grant, O good Lord! that by the aid of thy grace we may henceforth fo live in dutiful obedience to the King, in brotherly love towards each other, in the fear and reverence of thy holy name, that we may be blessed in thy ftrength, nor fear when he that dafbeth in pieces, is come up before our face: for happy are the people who are in fuch a cafe, yea bleffed are the people who bave thee, O Lord, for their God.”— |