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Vetus Testamentum Græcum cum Variis Lectionibus editionem à Roberto Holmes, S. T. P. R. S. S., Decano Wintoniensi, inchoatam, continuavit Jacobus Parsons, S. T. B., Tomus Tertius, Pars Secunda, continens Job. Folio. £1. 1s.

Account of a Tour in Normandy, undertaken chiefly for the purpose of investigating the Architectural Antiquities of the Duchy; with Observations on its History, on the Country, and its Inhabitants. By Dawson Turner, Esq., F. R. S. Royal 8vo. 50 Plates. 2 vols. £2.12s. 6d. L. P. £3. 13s. 6d.

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Scriptural Costume, exhibited in a Series of Engravings, representing the principal Personages mentioned in the Sacred Writings, drawn under the Superintendence of Benjamin West, Esq., President of the Royal Academy. By R. Satchwell. With Biographical Sketches, and Historical Remarks on the Manners and Customs of the Eastern Nations. Elephant 4to. £5.58.

The Pure Doctrines of Christianity; or, the Words of our Saviour. 12mo. 48.

Humble Requests to Churchmen and Dissenters, touching their Temper and Behaviour towards each other, relative to their different Forms of Worship. By the Rev. John Howe, A. M. 6d.

"Swear not at all:" containing an Exposure of the Needlessness and Mischievousness, as well as Anti-christianity, of the Ceremony of an Oath; with a View of the Parliamentary recognition of its Needlessness, implied in the Practice of both Houses; and Proof of the open and persevering Contempt of Moral and Religious Principle perpetuated by it, and rendered universal in the two Church-ofEngland Universities, more especially in the University of Oxford. By Jeremy Bentham, Esq., formerly of Queen's College, Oxford, A. M. 38. 6d.

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Religious Education; containing Extracts from the Gospels of St. Matthew, St. Mark, St. Luke, and St. John, in four Parts: 1. The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2. The Miracles. 3. The Parables. 4. Our Saviour's Sermon on the Mount. For the use of Schools and Families, 18. 3d., bound.

Notes on Rio de Janeiro, and the Southern Parts of Brazil, taken during a Residence of Ten Years in that Country, from 1808 to 1818; with an Appendix, describing the Signals by which Vessels enter the Port of Rio Grande do Sul; together with numerous Tables of Commerce, and a Glossary of Tupi Words. By John Luccock. Two Maps and a Plan. 4to. £2. 12s. 6d.

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Chronological Tables of Universal History, brought down to the End of the Reign of Geo. III. By Major James Bell. Royal Folio. £1. 10., half bound. Lectures on Painting, delivered at the Royal Academy. By H. Fuseli. £1.168.

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Exercises for Greek Verse; consisting of extremely literal Translations from the Anthologia, Apollonius Rhodius, Theocritus, the Fragments of the Comic Poets, Aristophanes, and Euripides; with short Notes. By Edmund Squire, M. A., Master of Felsted School. Post 8vo. 78.

Recollections respecting the Chief Events of the Reign of Geo. III., with Anecdotes of some of the Personages who were Members of tvarious Administrations, Lawyers, &c. By John Nicholls, Esq., Member of the House of Commons in the 15th, 16th and 18th Parliaments of Great Britain. 12s.

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First Lines of the Human Mind; to which is prefixed a Letter to Professor Stewart, in discussion of a Literary Claim. By John Fearn. 8vo. 158.

Commencement of the Days of Elias,

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No Valid Argument can be drawn from the Incredulity of the Jews against the Truth of the Christian Religion. An Essay. By the Rev. Robert Brough, B. A. 38.

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Lyric Hymns. By Edward Atkyns Bray. 2s.

The Establishments of Emmanuel de Fellenberg, at Hoffwyl, considered with reference to their Claims upon Men in Public stations. By the Count Louis de Villevielle. 28.

Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. Written by Himself in His Majesty's Gaol at Ilchester. In Monthly Numbers, 18. each. A Plan suggested in Lieu of Tithes, with Observations. By William Coleman.

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A Reply to a Pamphlet entitled "The Legality of the Questions proposed by Dr. Herbert Marsh, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, to Candidates for Holy Orders within that Diocese, considered." By A Layman. 18.

English Stories, Secoud Series, including the Period between the Accession of Henry the Third and the Death of Henry the Sixth. By Maria Hack. 7s.

Selections from Letters written during a Tour to the United States, in the Summer and Autumn of 1819, illustrative of the Character of the Native Indians, and of their Descent from the lost Ten Tribes of Israel. By Emanuel Howitt.

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A Dialogue on Baptism between Rufus and Publius. By John Hutchison, Haddington. 12mo. 18.

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designed to shew the Modern State of the Argument derived from that Source. By the Editor. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Perpetuity of Baptism. A Sermon, with an Appendix on the Prohibition against eating Blood, in Acts xv. By William Newman, D. D.

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Unitarianism and Trinitarianism contrasted, in a Course of Lectures, delivered in the Unitarian Chapel, Renshaw Street, Liverpool, on Sunday Evenings, during the Winter Season of 1819, 1820. With Notes. By George Harris. 8vo. 148.

A Second Volume. By C. Bradley, Curate of High Wycomb. 10s. 6d.. (A 4th ed. of Vol. I.)

The Four Missionary Sermons preached at the late Anniversary in London. By the Rev. Drs. Smith and Dewar, and Messrs. Elliot and Borrows. 38., or 18. each.

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Christian Worship: at the Opening of the New-Road Chapel, Brighton, August 20, 1820. By John Morell, LL.D. 18.

The Importance of Learning to the Clergy; preached before the University of Cambridge, July 2, 1820, being Commencement Sunday. By Charles James Bloomfield, D. D., Rector of St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, &c. 4to. 2s.

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Grace and Truth the Characteristics of the Gospel Dispensation; at the Visitation of the Venerable John Law, D. D., Archdeacon of Rochester. By Thomas Bowdler, M. A., Rector of Ash and Ridley. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Preached in Lambeth Chapel, July 30, 1820; at the Consecration of the Right Rev. John Kaye, D. D., Lord Bishop of Bristol. By John Banks Hollingworth, D. D., Rector of the United Parishes of St. Margaret, Lothbury, and St. Christopher-le-Stocks, &c. 2s.

A Charge delivered at the Primary Visitation of Herbert, Lord Bishop of Peterborough, in July, 1820; with an Appendix, containing some Remarks on the Modern Custom of Singing in our Churches unauthorized Psalms and Hymus, 28.

POETRY.

GOD.

FROM THE DUTCH OF HELMERS:

In the Original Measure.

How can my thoughts aspire to Thee, O Power Eternal!
Inspirer! source of light divine!

Lost 'midst Thy works, yon seas of suns supernal
That are, that flash, and cease to shine?
Fain would I clad myself in morning's purple wing;
Vainly I try life's boundary to o'erspring;

But sinking in my nothingness,
Weary and faint and courageless,

I scarcely dare to raise my voice to Thee, my King!
And what are planets, say—what suns-but flickering tapers
Burning thro' nature's vast, unmeasur'd frame?
Aldebaran shall fade, dissolv'd in vapours;

And Sirius shall put out his scarlet flame.

Millions of suns in Nature's mighty womb are lost;

What are they, Lord! to Thee?-Vile particles of dust-
Bubbles of air, blown by the stormy host-

Drops of the sea

Mists of the morn;-and less than these to Thee,

Spirit above! all-feeling and all-seeing!

What are they? Nought to Thee, unutterable Being!
Who art, and wert, and still shalt be!

In this small speck that we (poor fools) call world,—a place
In which we dwell an hour, and pass away,

Yet round us (proud ones!) hurl our weak anathemas ;-
Can man some rugged altar raise, that may

Be vast enough for Thy eternal praise—

Fit for a heav'nly hymn,-a God-ascending lay?

Thou Brama, or Jehovah! Thou Woden, Tien, Jove!

Whom thought ne'er reached,-nor reason ever fully knew ;— Enough to know, the songs of pure and faithful love

Rise to Thy throne from Christian, Moslem, Jew.

Where shall I seek Thee, where Eternal! find?
Listeneth Thy ear to the wild lion's roar,

On Zaara's horrid shore ;

There in Kolibria howling to the wind?

Hearest thou the thunder's call?

Dost Thou with the eagle above man's vision tower?

Art Thou in Niagara's waterfall?

In Saturn's ring, or hidden in yonder flower?

No! no! Thou art not there ;-my thoughts distracted runs
Forwards and backwards, helpless and opprest;

I seek, I find Thee not amidst a myriad suns ;-
But O! I find Thee in my breast.

Thou, Lord! didst give me language ;—it is Thine!
An effluence of Thy spirit-O convey

My spirit, soaring in its flight divine

Thro' earth to heaven on its sky-piercing way!
Perplext, confused I stand,-I cannot sing;
What homage can I bring?

My soul seems wandering thro' the vast abyss ;
I feel that God is here!-Peace, Spirit! Peace!

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What wonders, Lord! diversified
In countless forms, as in extent,
In scenery of grandeur spread,
In beaming beauty prevalent;
What bounties it is thy behest

That Nature's bosom should disclose,
Our generations to sustain ;

Thy visible creation shows!

FAREWELL TO ALBION.

[The following beautiful lines were written by thelate JOSEPH RITchie, Esq., in the cabin of the ship which bore him to the contagious climes of Africa, as he receded from the shores of his native country. The touching manner in which he anticipates the probability of the fatal close of his adventurous enterprise, must draw upon the sympathy of every feeling

But, who shall speak, what mind con- mind.-Antijacobin Review.]

ceive

The brighter glories of thy reign, Diffus'd through co-eternal space,

Thy sole and measureless domain;
The breathings of thy love on each

Remote, contemporaneous race;
Which the Supreme alone can through
Th' invisible creation trace?
With what profound humility

Thy servant meditates the theme,
Bows in thy presence,-how revered!-
Unerring, Thou canst justly deem:
Yet, what should check the rising pride,
That swells to tumult in the soul,-
The consciousness that would proclaim,
"I am a part of this great whole"?
BREVIS.

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Thy chalky cliffs are falling from my view,
Our bark is dancing gaily o'er the sea,
I sigh while yet I may, and say adien,
Albion! thou jewel of the earth, to
thee;

Whose fields first fed my childish fan-
tasy,

Whose mountains were my boyhood's

wild delight,

Whose rocks and woods and torrents were to me

The food of my soul's youthful appetite

Were music to my ear, a blessing to
my sight.

I never dreamt of beauty, but behold!
Straitway thy daughters flashed upon

my eye;

I never mus'd on valour, but the old
Memorials of thy haughty chivalry
Fill'd my expanding soul with ecstacy;
And when I thought on wisdom and
the crown

The muses give, with exultation high,
I turn'd to those whom thou hast
call'd thy own,

Who fill the spacious earth with their
and thy renown.

When my young heart in life's gay morning hour,

At beauty's summons beat a wild alarm,

Her voice came to me from an English bower,

And English were the smiles that wrought the charm;

And if, when wrapt asleep on fancy's

arm,

Visions of bliss my riper age have cheer'd,

Of home, and love's fireside, and greetings warm,

For one by absence and long toil endear'd,

The fabric of my hopes on thee hath still been rear'd.

Peace to thy smiling hearths, when I am

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Still may'st thou bid the sorrowers cease

to weep,

And dart the beams of truth athwart the night

That wraps a slumbering world, till from their sleep

Starting, remotest nations see the light,

And some bright eyes in which the

swelling tear

Shall start for him who sleeps in Afric's desarts drear?

Yet will I not profane a charge like mine,

With melancholy bodings, nor believe

And earth be blest beneath the buckler That a voice whisp'ring ever in the

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1820. Sept. 6, aged 64, after an illness of only a few hours, Mr. RAMSBOTTOM, of Rotherham, Yorkshire, master of the charity-school endowed by the late T. Hollis, Esq.

If sterling worth in the humbler walks of private life ought to be held in remembrance, this little memorial of an " Israelite indeed" will not be deemed unworthy of record. Mr. Ramsbottom's parents were farmers in the north of Yorkshire; he was their second son, and designedly brought up as a schoolmaster. In 1778, he married Rachel, daughter of Rev. Joseph Overend, formerly a Dissenting minister at Adwalton, near Bradford, and settled at Rotherham, having been chosen master of Hollis's Charity-School there. Till his death he continued to discharge the duties of that office, and had the pleasure of seeing his pupils and his pupils' children grow up into usefulness around him; but not in this situation only will his loss be felt; his activity in various useful and benevolent institutions will long be remembered by the inhabitants of Rotherham, for he was ever ready to lend his aid by personal exertion when prevented by his circumstances from otherwise cooperating in any labour of love.

Descended from strict Dissenters, Mr. Ramsbottom's mind was early impressed with love for their principles, and from this motive he devoted his eldest son to the ministry from the hour of his birth; but here his best hopes were destroyed

by the early death of him who bid fair to have realized his wishes. Mr. R. was brought up in Trinitarian opinions, but was led by his friend and minister, the late Rev. Josiah Townsend, to study the arguments on the opposite side of the question, and from reading and mature reflection, after a lapse of some years he embraced the Unitarian doctrine, and, perfectly satisfied with its being indeed the doctrine of Scripture, he continued steadfastly in it through the rest of his life. He united uprightness and integrity with warm charity and love; his hand and heart were ever open to the afflicted as far as he possessed ability to relieve distress; but, unsuspicious and unwilling to believe ill of any one, he was only the more exposed to the impositions of others. He was an affectionate husband, a tender parent and a steady friend. After a residence of forty-two years in Rotherham, in the uniform practice of Christian duty, his sudden death was felt as an afflictive stroke by more than his own family. How widely and how much he was beloved and respected, the tears and the solemn silence of the crowds who attended his funeral and his funeral sermon, will strongly attest; but it is the consolation of his aged widow and of his children, that though his death was sudden, he was not unprepared for it.

M.

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