after the time when the events happened; and it was drawn principally from traditional reports, handed down in family letters. It is valuable when it coincides with other hiftorical teftimony, because it relates more minute tranfactions; but fome fuperftitious ftories, with which it is interfperfed, are at best apocryphal." With all thefe objections Mr. D. cannot prevail upon himfelf to part finally from a morceau fo effential to filling-up TWENTY pages (61-81), eked out, for 20 more (82-98), with Dr. Stukeley's letters on the efcape of Charles I. from Oxford, and his more extraordi nary confidence in the Scotch committee, and Dr. Hudfon's confeffion, published more correctly than by Rushworth. Thefe are followed by detached pieces, in chronological order, relative to the fame time. During the Commonwealth and the Protectorate there are few events relative to Newark worthy of being recorded; a commiffion to one of the author's ancestors from Oliver Cromwell, and fome undirected letters, fuppofed to be to Lady Cleypole; animperfect petition of Lord Lexington; a fchedule of fums of mo• ney borrowed and debts contracted by the King's commiffioners in Nottingham From the Revolution of 1688 there have been few events in the fortunes of Newark which would interest the reader of to-day, or gratify the curiofity of future generations, could I flatter myfelf that to fuch thefe volumes would defcend. Confiderable bequefts, under the title of charitable donations, have fometimes given rile to warm altercations refpecting their application; and the exercife of the elective franchife has occafionally interrupted the tranquillity of the place. From thefe, and thefe only, with the enumeration of a few improvements of yefterday, can the hiftorian of very modern times extract materials for fillingup a long and dreary void. A feparate chapter being fet apart for the commemoration of the donors them felves, and for the account of the donations, it is intended at prefent only to obferve upon them as far as they have influenced the profperity of the town, the manners of its inhabitants, and the progrefs of its trade." A correfpondence between the flewards of Robert Lord jecture refpecting the origin of Newark, as an ingenious attempt of a very learned man to give the place of his investigation the honour of a Roman birth, his effay was entitled to a diftinguifhed poft in this enquiry. This ef fay of Dr. Stukeley was corrected for publication 1784, and dedicated to Dr. Warburton, afterwards Bishop of Gloucefter, and occupies pp. 2-15 of this work. He had hinted the fame opinion in his Itinerary 1724. In Domes day it appears that there were ten churches in Newark, which, while fome understood of the hundred inftead of the parish, Mr. D. conjectures are ufed fynonymous with altar. King John died at Newark; and his will, made in great hafte, is given in the Appendix from Worcefter. The following or modern part of the hiftory of the town profeffes to be a compilation of the various writers on it in their "original and genuine form"-"an apology for fuch repetitions as without them might have appeared nfeless or offenfive, and for the infertion at length of fuch feparate communications as might otherwife have been thought unworthy of their place in this narrative." (p. 40.) The ichnography of Newark appears to have little altered fince Edward I. The limits are defcribed by Mr. Heron, late of Chilhain caftle. The conveyances of lands to the feveral guilds are in the hands of the Mayor and Corporation, in a box infcribed Ufeless Papers, in which any thing may as eafily be found as the imprisonment of Peter de la Mare, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, may be in "Harl. MS. Brit. Muf." (p. 26, n.) The modern hiflory be gins with the reign of Elizabeth, and it makes a confpicuous figure in the fortunes of Charles I. beginning with his "fecret inftructions to the commiffioners of the loan for the county of Nottingham." The account of the Civil War tranfactions, by Mr. Savage, publifhed in the first edition of the Hiftory of Southwell, was omitted in the fecond, becaufe "it was obtained fo fhort a time before its publication that little leifure was allowed for a very minute enquiry into its authenticity. It is a duty on the author now to ftate that more deliberate investigation has not enhanced the value of this work in his Coritani' Lachrymantes." He has reafon to believe it was put into the shape in which it appears confiderably vol. XIV. in Peck, Defid. Cur. b. IX. No 25. * See it in Nalfon's MS Collections, Lexington Lexington and the Corporation, refpecting fome beneficial leafes which they were to grant him of certain lands, on certain conditions, plainly manifefting him to be the principal adviler of the particulars of the new charter, by James II. is irrecoverably loft. Mr. D. is of opinion that the preamble to the charter of Charles I. mentioning franchifes, implies that Newark was, before that time, reprefented in Parliament. The interference of the Dukes of Rutland and Newcafile first took place in 1751; and oppofition to it failed then, and in 1754, 1774, 1780, 1790, and 1796. Great contefis in 1748 and 1792 have been about the management and application of fuch confiderable efiates as have been given to the Corporation. Much of them has been fold, and a fumptuous town-hall and fhambles erected, and the church-yard enlarged. "It would be injuftice to thofe corporators, under whofe influence and authority these measures were carried into execution, to take leave of the fubject without awarding to them that commendation which a grateful pollerity will always acknowledge to be due to their memory. With a difintereftedness which feldom diftinguilhes public bodies of this denomination, they deprived themfelves of much local influence and political weight, fo generally efteenred, for the honourable purpofe of benefiting the community.” (p. 135.) "This part of the work being dedicated to the general history of Newark, to investigate with more minutenefs any of its particular parts would be to anticipate the contents of the remaining chapters, which are intended to be appropriated to a defcription of its antiquities, an historical enumeration of its principal benefactors, and a genealogical account of many of its inhabitants." (p. 14.) We are much obliged to Mr. D. for this hill of fare, which is anticipated in the contents of the two remaining chapters. The whole concludes with an account of the town arms, a table of events, "fhewing the fatalities of times, and the fignal interference of Providence in punishing us for our offences in thofe places and at thofe very feafons in which they were committed, exemplified in an extraor dinary manner, as well in the affairs of the Parliament as in thofe of the King during the late military troubles, by H. C." Hercules Clay, a tradefman, who three times dreamed his houfe was burut, as it was foon after he quitted it; lift of aldermen and mayors; reprefentatives from 1661; recorders and vicars. The work is dedicated to Sir Thomas Manners Sutton, one of the barons of the Exchequer, and late recorder of Newark. Mr. D. judges of the merit of the former part of his work (though he calls it the second portion, and in the titlepage Part III.) "from Aikin's Hittory of Literature, and the most eftimable of the Reviews, especially the Monthly.” 172. An admonitory Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on the Subject of the late delicate Enquiry; containing Anecdotes never before publifhed, which may probably lead to the Detection of the real Authors of the late fcandalous Attempt to fully the Purity of an illefirious Perfonage. IT is faid that the real authors have too much intereft in fuppreffing the real refult of the enquiry. The 173. Answer to an admonitory Letter, &c. By Ariftides. contradicts pointedly all the charges brought in the letter. But what is fuch denial? 174. A Review of the Conduct of the Prince of Wales in his various Tranfactions with Mr. Jefferies, during a Period of more than Twenty Years; containing a Detail of many Circumfiances relative to the Prince and Princess of Wales, Mrs. Fitzherbert, &c. To which is added, a Letter to Mrs. Fitzherbert, upon the Influence of Example. By Nathaniel Jefferies, late M.P. for the City of Coventry. THE leaft that can be faid of this Review is, that the author of it has over-acted his part throughout the whole tranfaction, and is properly anfwered in 175. A Letter to Nathaniel Jefferies, late Goldfmith and Jeweller to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, and late Member of Parliament for the City of Coventry, on the Subject of his extraor dinary Pamphlet intituled as above; with an Examination into the Motives of his Publication, and its probable Confequences. 176. Diamond Cut Diamond; or, Obfervations on the Pamphlet intituled “A Review," &c.; comprising a free and impartial View of Mr. Jefferies as a Tradefman, Politician, and Courtier, during a Period of Twenty Years. By Philo Veritas. THE author is fuppofed to be a literary Jew jobber, advertising the corre fpondence between Jefferies and Lord Moira for a fecond part. 177. An Antidote to Poifon; or, a full Reply to Mr. Jefferies's Attack upon the Character and Conduct of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; containing feveral important Particulars, derived from authentic Sources of Information. By Claudio. THE writer retaliates facts and tranfactions which his adverfary may wifh concealed; and his materials are better than his ufe of them. 2 178. A complete Vindication of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, relative to his Creditors; but not quite fo complete a Vindication of the Right Honour able William Pitt, relative to his Royal Highness. By the Lion and the Unicorn. 179. Brief Remarks on the Licentioufness of certain Details, political and private, tending to degrade high public Characters, and more particularly as relates to the Publication of Mr. Nathan. Jefferies. 180. Strictures on the Conduct of Nathaniel Jefferies, respecting the Publication of his Tranfactions as Goldfmith and Jeweller 'to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. Dedicated to the Right Honourable Lady Viscountess Melbourne. HAVING enumerated all the lays on this fubject that have come under our review, and there are enough of them, we fhall leave them to 181. The Patriot's Review of Mr. Jefferies's Pamphlet refpecting the Conduct of the Prince of Wales, and all the Pamphlets which have been published in reply to it; viz. Diamond Cut Diamond; An Antidote to Poifon; A Letter to Nathaniel Jefferies; A Vindication of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; Stric tures on the Conduct of Mr. Nathaniel Jefferies: with Obfervations on all the Facts contained in all of them, and Criticifms on their refpective Merits; comprifing a complete Account of this ftrange and unprecedented Controversy. By a Friend of his Country. 182. Strictures on Cobbett's unmanly Obfervations relative to the delicate Invejiigation, and a Reply to the Anfwer to the admonitory Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales; containing an Account of the true Caufe why the Commiffoners Report has not yet been published, and many other additional Facts: By the Author of the admonitory Letter. WHO takes upon him to inform the publick why the Report was not publifhed, and that it will in due time be published. Ariftides is treated as an imbecile antagonist, and a very filly fellow. 183. England's Egis; or, The Military Energies of the Conftitution. By John Cartwright, Efq. Vol. III. The Third Edition. THE Conflitutional power of the Poffe Comitatus, established by Alfred, and authoriling every man to bear arms, revived by Sir William Jones, in his "Enquiry into the legal Mode of fuppreffing Riots, with a Conflitutional Plan for future Defence," is here extended to furnish an army of 1,200,000 men, fpread over every part of the country, divided into eight military diftricts, with a proper depôt for ammunition, &c. in each. Sir William Jones put only bludgeons into our hands; the Major qualifies us to be a regular army, without the terrible name of a fianding army, or the tranfient found of volunteer corps. 184. St. Paul's Zeal in the Ministry, and his Love for Chriftian Unity. [Text, Rom. i. 16.] A Sermon, preached at St. Peter's Church, Caermarthen, on Thursday, July 17, 1805, before the Society for promoting Chriftian Knowledge and Church Union in the Diocese of St. David's, and published at their Request. By the Rev. Mofes Grant, M:A. Rector of Nolton, and Prebendary of St. David's. To which is added, An Account of the Society. WHOEVER confiders the annual meeting, at Creaton in Northamptonfhire, of between forty and fifty Clergymen of the Church of England, af fuming to themfelves the defignation of Evangelical Preachers, and a power fuperior to their Diocefan, will see the expediency of an affembly of the confifient fons of the Etablished Church, to counteract its proceedings, of which we have the following reprefentation: "At this vifitation thofe members who are approved of by the fupreme authority, wherever it is lodged, take their turn to preach in the parithchurch of Creaton; and the people from the neighbouring parishes, unaccuftomed to behold their regular clergy convened but by the authority of the bishop, flock in confiderable numbers to this extraordinary affembly. What ever may be the oftenfible nature, or whatever the remote defign, of this irregular convention, it cannot be contemplated without confiderable anxiety by thofe who with well to our Ecclefiallical Establishment. Unlicenfed conventions, of whatever defeription, are certainly to be viewed with a jealous vigilance; but there is a novelty as well as boldness in this attempt, which, I think calls for peculiar attention. The Clergy of the Establishment have been remarkable, ever fince the reftoration of the Church, for their refpect to their fuperiors; and the prefent is, I believe, the only infiance fince that period in which any confiderable body of them have convened themfelves to form a regular annual vifitation, in contempt of their Diocefan. This unauthorifed fynod of prefbyters, affembled to deliberate concerning the official conduct of its refpective members, which is the avowed object of the meeting, is not only unfanctioned by the difcipline of the Church of England, but directly oppofite to it; nor can the gentlemen fo affembled be ignorant that the question, whether Ecclefiaftical jurifdiction fhould be made in a body of Prefbyters or of the Bifhops, is the great point in difpute between the Epifcopal and Prefbyterian Churches. The dangerous tendency of this Imperium in Imperio may perhaps be, in fome meature, eftimated by confidering what degree of alarm we fhould feel were it unfortunately extended to different parts of the kingdom. What fhould we think if in every diocefe we fhould behold those Minifters of the Etablishment, who differed from their brethren, and adopted the opinious of Calvin, annually felf-convened to act and deliberate in a regular body, whatever form or colour they might choose to give to fuch an aflembly? And yet how probable it is that this confequence should enfue from fuch annual meetings regularly perfifted in must be obvious to every perfon who is acquainted with the force of example, or the active, fubtle, and infinuating nature of party fpirit., But, calculated as this circumftance is to excite attention in this ifolated and abstracted view of it, it is confiderably more fo when we view it as part of a more extended fyftem. If we could behold this convention as a meeting of Clergymen composed indiferiminately of perfons holding different doctrinal opinions, and unconnected with faction or party of any kind, however irregular or imprudent we might deem it, it might certainly be found, upon examination, to have been innocent in its extent, and, according to circumfiances, even praiteworthy; but, when we confider this affembly as wholly compofed of thofe who not only profefs the doctrines of Calvin, but who have lately, with indefatigable zeal, endeavoured to fix thofe doctrines on the Church of England, it cannot but appear in a very different point of view."-"Letter to a Country Gentle man,' with remarks on the principles of thofe men who exclufively flyle themfelves Evangelical Preachers. Far different is the example fet by the Clergy of the diocefe of St. David's, affociating in their refpective deauries for the "edifying of each other in love," for the encouraging of each other in measures that may be conducive to piety, by diftributing religious tracts to the poor, furnishing libraries to the clergy, facilitating the means of their education, encouraging English fchools, and promoting Sunday fchools. Such efforts lay a foundation for zeal in fuch meetings; their members will not be ashamed therein to addrefs their prayer to the Moft High, for his holy fpirit to improve their zeal, and increase their knowledge. Affociations thus conflituted will combine the zeal and knowledge of individuals into a general mals. Young clergymen may have hints how to act, and refolution to proceed in the management of a parith. It will alfo have a good effect in checking fchifm. As the Clergy no longer meet nationally, this provincial fynod will in fome meafure contribute, in its fphere, to the fame important end of reviving a fpiritual zeal in our Church, and to fucceed in the best of purpofes, the promoting of Chriftian union and religious connexion. The diffusion of Chriftian knowledge in this diocefe, which for near 30 years has been fufpended, fince the deceafe of its principal fupport, Mrs. Bevan, of Laugharne, whofe hequeft, in the year 1779, 9000l. is now more than doubled in the 3 per Cents. is foon likely to be revived with increafed ability, and may be hoped to extend to remote corners of the diocele, where our funds may be too limited effectually to reach. As affociations among ourselves appear to be be conducive to every good purpofe, affociations of the minifter with his own people will be a farther flep to fecure them from feparation. This would be bringing into practice effectual efforts to keep our people within the pale of the Church, and ufing weapons that the enemy of union hath been fuccefsfully lifting against us. The affilting of the feeble efforts of candidates for the miniftry in their education is pregnant with the greateft good. This obfervation receives melancholy confirmation from the want of regular candidates for the miniftry among even the better kind of Diffenters, who, not availing themselves of the qualification for claffical education held out in fome of their academies, run into itinerant and extemporary preaching, or rather babbling, to the difgrace of the principles on which they pretend to act. But what wonder at the decline of knowledge, while the leaders among the fect of Anabaptifts decry it as human and profane? If it obtains, unfortunately, in the Clergy, it is, one would hope, confined to thofe of the Northern diocefes, whofe incomes are too fcanty to permit them to attain it at the Univerfities." To this laudable affociation the annual fubfcription of the members of the church of St. David's amounts to 40 guineas. The total amount of moneys received and placed to the account of annual fubfcribers, Oct. 10, 1805, was 3761. 6s.; benefactions to the fund for claffical education amounted to 3261. 89.; towards which the Bishop gives one tenth of the average income of the fee, 1201. and other Clergy in proportion; books had been ordered, and received and diftributed, to the number of 20,126; and books and papers printed for the Sunday-fchools 9000; 12 fermons to be preached in each archdeaconry, and 8 in one of the principal towns in the diocefe 8 Sundays after Eafter day, on the principles and duties of church union, on error arifing from unfettled notions in religion, and the excellences of the Liturgy, at 10 guineas each; a premium of 20s. worth of books to be given any boy under 20 years, at any of the licenced grammar-fchools in the diocefe, to pafs the best examination in the Greek Tefiament, Epictetus, and Cicero's Offices; F01. a year to maintain a scholar at Yfiradmurig fchool 4 years after the age of 19, the fcholar of any of the licenced grammar-fchools in the diocefe, but none to be a candidate who has not obtained a premium at the Eafter examination, the exhibition to be given to any boy who paffes the beft examination of the Greek Tef tament, Homer's Iliad, Epictetus, Cicero's Offices, Cæfar's Commentaries, and other Clafficks, with Grotius, the Bishop of London's Summary of Evidence, and Burkardt's Syftem of Divinity. 185. A Letter to the Rev. James Ogilvie, D. D. occafioned by fome Paffages in the Rev. G. S. Faber's Differtations on the Prophecies. By the Rev. E. W. Whita ker, Rector of St. Mildred's, Canterbury. 186. A Supplement to the Obfervations on the 1260; containing a full Reply to the Objections and Mifreprefentations of the Rev. E. W. Whitaker; fome Remarks on certain Parts of the Author's own Differtation; and a View of the prefent Pofture of Affairs as connected with Prophecy. By the Rev. G. S. Faber, B. D. Vicar of Stockton-upon-Tees. MR. W. chufes to avoid inviting controverfy, by replying to the charges of erroneous interpretation in the form of a letter to a third perfon: He maintains that the man of fin, or the power that appeared after the removal of the Roman empire, was Antichrift and the Papacy; on which he refers to "an argumentative and excellent fermon by Mr. Churton before the University of Oxford, 1802. However, Mr. W's is "one of the beft diffuafives from Popery that ever was written, and par ticularly calculated to be useful in the prefent times, when that apoftate Re ligion begins to rear its head in Eng land, and when its wretched high priest is become the mere tool of an implacable tyrant. This is the chief value of his work." Mr. F. fhews that Antichrift, in this fenfe, could not poffibly have exifted in the time of St. John. Wherever St. John mentions him, he ftudioufly and almoft' anxiously tells us that his badge is a denial of the Meffiahship of Jefus Chrift." "Mohammed comes inuch nearer the character of St. John's Antichrift than the Pope; yet even he never denied the Melfishfhip of Chrift.” Mr. W. feems to bewilder himfelf in his explanation of the vials and trumpets, and to fix the feventh of the latter at the last day, or general judg-“ ment. "It is almoft fuperfluous to |