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lers, as publishers of the bishop of Meath's fermon, with the objectionable note annexed to it, have nothing to do with the difpute, as parties concerned. The right reverend author delivered his difcourfe, but not the note alluded to, before the fociety.-The fociety requested the publication of the difcourfe; the note was annexed to it without their knowledge.-The blame, therefore, if any blame attaches to the annexation of this note, mult lie upon the bishop of Meath, whofe thoughts upon the fubject conveyed in the note, were in unifon with thofe of Dr. Rennell.

"My Lord,-Indifcriminate charges are as abundant in mifchief, as they are generally deficient in proof; and proof, in the bufinefs now to be difcutled, your lordship feems to have thought totally fuperfluous; without any knowledge of your own, without enquiry or examination, you affume the teftimony of Dr. Rennell as incontrovertible; not reflecting, that if his evidence cannot be fubftantiated, your own accusation has nothing for its fupport. What ground Dr. Rennell had to charge the mafters of public fchools with neglect of Chriftian instruction, what right he had to affume the office of cenfor, or how he brought himself to think, that he was more invulnerable than others of his profeffion, I know not but, it is with regret, that I find his name introduced upon the prefent occafion, because I had entered into articles of peace with him two years ago, and had hoped that the fubject in difpute had been quieted once for all. At that time, upon the interference of fome common friends, Dr. Rennell was pleased to make an exception in favour of me, and the school under my fuperintendance; and though a private acknowledgement was no fatisfaction for a public accufation, still I was easily reconciled, and acquiefced, under the opinion of friends, who certainly wifhed well to us both.

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But if the teftimony of Dr. Rennell is now to be revived, for the purpose of renewing the attack, it is not my intemperance, but the indifcretion of his admirers, that brings the queftion before the public in its prefent form. I hope I fhall not tranfgrefs the bounds of moderation; but I have a right to be heard in my own defence, a double right on the repetition of the charge, without any new offence on my part; and if I felt this charge as an injury from an equal, I feel it as oppreffion from a superior.

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"Surely, my lord, degeneracy,' fyftematic neglect of religious instruction,' and portentous evil,' are terms harsh enough for the moft zealous and eloquent preacher in Chriftendom to adopt.-They could want no addition from your lordship, if they are Dr. Rennell's language; and they cannot well be carried higher by any future eloquent preacher, if they are your Lordship's. You, my lord, make no exception, because you were unacquainted with Dr. Rennell's exception; and thus, all the conductors of public education are comprized in one general indiscriminate charge, without a fingle qualifying claufe in favour of any one.

"But grofs as this language is, there is nothing to prevent my arguing the question with compofure; but the charge of fyftematic neglect of religious inftruction, is of fuch a nature, that, if it can be brought home and proved against me, or any mafter, no punishment can be too great. Neglect there is in all education, arifing from the infirmity of human nature, and the tedium of treading the fame dull round daily through a life of perpetual labour, confinement, and anxiety. Evils

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there are in all public education, produced by the habits and cuftoms of the place, which can no more be eradicated out of schools than nations. Evils there are from the temper, habits, and manners of the times; and evils there are in the conftitution and ftatutes; for our ancestors, though wife, were not perfect; and vice there is, wherever three hundred human beings are collected into a body. All this, therefore, I would have conceded; and on this, I imagine, your lordship's complaint is not founded. But the fyftematic neglect of religious inftruction is a crime of the blackest dye; and I reserve my obfervations on the indifcretion and intemperance of my accufers, till I have proved the imputation to be a

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Falfe I call it in direct terms; and calumnious I would have called it, but that, to conftitute calumny, I must prove that the intention of the accufer was malicious, and that his malice was founded upon what he knew to be a falfehood himself. Of this I acquit both Dr. Rennell and your lordship; but I believe that the zeal of Dr. Rennell made him conceive that this was a fplendid topic for his eloquence, and that your lordship miftook rhetorick for argument, or affertion for truth; but in this inftance, my lord, you have gone a step beyond the information of your brief: Dr. Rennell confined himself to the term many;" but you comprehend all public fchools in general, and condemn all in one fweeping claufe for degeneracy and systematic neglect.

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"But let us firft fettle the terms of the controverfy, and the extent of the charge. What does Dr. Rennell, or your lordship, comprize under the expreffion of Public Schools? Are we to understand only Winchester, Eton, and Westminster? or, are we to extend our notion, as we ought to do, to the three other great schools in the metropolis; to Harrow, Rugby, Manchester, Wakefield, and many more of equal magnitude in the North? If all these are to plead guilty to the charge, the rifing generation is ripe for the machinations of a Voltaire, á Diderot, a D'Alembert, a Condorcet, or a Lepaux; and we may expect a revolution in Church and State, as foon as ever a prime agitator fhall ftart up in this country to set the confpiracy in motion. I do not think, my lord, that either you or Dr. Rennell, carry your impeachment to this extent. If you do, I do maintain that your enquiries and your information will not bear you out in the event; for even in the three fchools, which I fuppofe your accufations in reality to comprehend, your investigation is miferably deficient. Dr. Rennell was bred at Eton, and has lived at Winchester; but he knows no more of Weltminter than Tom Paine does of the Bible. Juft enough to mifreprefent and condemn, but nothing to qualify him for a judge of what is good and excellent. But he does not include Westminster. No.-Not in his private judgment: but his fermon is ftill fufficient to mislead your lordship, and to influence the opinion of the public. If the attack is made in concert, it is overwhelming me with your united talents and abilities if you have not confulted him, you have built upon a foundation which he has renounced.

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(To be concluded in our next.)

ERRATUM.-P, 23, for Stackhouse read Stonhouse.

LIST

LIST OF BOOKS ON DIVINITY.

HELPS to Compofition, or 500 Skeletons of Sermons, by the Rev. C. Simeon, vol. 7 in parts.

16s. 6d. Matthews.

Oriental Cuftoms, or an Illuftration of the facred Scriptures, by an explanatory ap plication of the Cuftoms and Manners of the Eaftern Nations, and especially the Jew therein alluded to; with Obfervations on many difficult and obfcure Texts in Scripture Collected from celebrated Travellers and eminent Critics, by Samuel Burder. 8vo. gs. boards. Button.

Attempt to fhew the Nature and Extent of the Oath of Canonical Obedience, taken by the beneficed Clergy, in Anfwer to the Remarks of the Rev. John Hey, on that Subject, by John Vowels. 6d. Rivingtons, and Bulgin, Bristol.

Bull-Baiting; a Sermon, on Barbarity to God's Dumb Creation, preached in the parish Church of Wokingham, Berks, on Sunday, Dec. 20th, 1801, being the day previous to the annual Bull-bait in that Town, by the Rev. Edward Barry, M. D. is. 6d. 'Spragg.

Sermons on the Dignity of Man, and the Value of the Objects principally relating to Human Happinefs, from the German of the late Rev. George Joachim Zollikofer, Minifter of the Reformed Congregation at Leipfick, by the Rev. William Tooke, F.R. S. I vol. 8vo. boards, 4s. Longman and Rees.

Extracts from the Pentateuch, compared with fimilar Paffages from Greek and Latin Authors, with Notes, by Edward Popham, D. D. Rector of Chilton, Wilts. 8vo. 6s. boards. Rivingtons, and the Oxford Bookfellers,

The Influence of the Female Character upon Society, confidered; more especially with Reference to the prefent Crifis, in a Sermon preached in the parish Church of St. John, Hackney, on Sunday, Nov. 24, 1801, by the Rev. Henry Norris, M. A. 8vo. Is. 6d. Rivingtons.

POETRY,

ORIGINAL AND SELECT.

A MORNING SOLILOQUY.

By Mrs. HANNAH MORE.

As early rifing is very conducive to health, and to the improvement of the mind in knowledge and piety, this foliloquy is defigned to promote fo important an end; and is recommended more particularly to young perfons, as, by contracting a habit of rifing early in the days of their youth, they will be lefs liable to depart from fuch a custom, as they advance in life. The laft ftanza is expreffive of the action of rifing, in order that thofe who repeat it, may have no excufe for not quitting their beds immediately.

SOFT flumbers now mine eyes forfake,

My powers are all renew'd:

May my freed fpirit too awake
With heav'nly ftrength endued!
Thou filent murd'rer, Sloth, no more
My mind imprifon'd keep;
Nor let me wafte another hour,
With thee, thou felon Sleep!
Think, O my foul, cou'd ding men
One lavish'd hour retrieve,
Tho' fpent in tears, and pafs'd in pain,
What treasures would they give!

But feas of pearl, and mines of gold,

Were offer'd them in vain :
Their pearl of countless price is loft,

And where's the promis'd gain?
Lord, when thy day of dread account
For fquander'd hours fhall come,
Oh let not this increase th' amount,
And fwell the former fum.
Teach me in health each good to prize
I, dying, fhall efteem;
And every pleasure to defpife
1 then fhall worthlefs deem.

For all thy wond'rous mercies paft
My grateful voice I raise,
While thus I quit the bed of reft,
Creation's Lord to praife.

*See Matt. xiii. 46.

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THE LEAF.

A POEM; BY BP. HORNE,

SEE the leaves around us falling,

Dry and wither'd to the ground; Thus to thoughtless mortals calling, In a fad and folemn found:

Sons of Adam, once in Eden

Blighted when like us he fell,
Hear the lecture we are reading,
'Tis, alas! the truth we tell.
Virgins, much, too much, prefuming
On your boafted white and red,
View us, late in beauty blooming,
Number'd now among the dead..
Griping mifers, nightly waking,
See the end of all your care;
Fled on wings of our own making,
We have left our owners bare.
Sons of honour, fed on praifes,
Flutt'ring high in fancied worth,
Lo! the fickle air, that raifes,
Brings us down to parent earth.

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Learned fophs, in fyftems jaded,
Who for new ones daily call,
Ceafe, at length, by us perfuaded,
Ev'ry leaf muft have its fall.
Youths, tho' yet no loffes grieve you,
Gay in health and manly grace,
Let not cloudlefs fkies deceive you,
Summer gives to Autumn place.
Venerable fires, grown hoary,
Hither turn th unwilling eye,
Think, amidst your falling glory,
Autumn tells a winter nigh.
Yearly in our courfe returning
Meflengers of horteft ftay,
Thus we preach this truth concerning,
"Heav'n and earth shall pafs away.'
On the Tree of Life eternal.

Man, let all thy hope be ftaid,
Which alone, for ever vernal,
Bears a Leaf that fhall not fade.

MONTHLY OBITUARY.

Jan. 1] YESTERDAY fe'ennight died, the Rev. John Clendon, M. A. vicar of Brompton Regis in Somerfetfhire, and formerly fellow of Emmanuel college, Cambridge; B. A. 1744; M. A. 1748. The living is in the gift of that society. Lately died, the Rev. Anthony E. Hammond, rector of Ivychurch, and vicar of Lympne, in Kent. The former is in the gift of his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, and the latter in that of the Rev. the Archdeacon.

On Friday laft died, the Rev. N. Wakeham, D. D. dean and rector of Bocking, in Effex. Bocking is a peculiar of the fee of Canterbury, and in the gift of the archbishop. The Rev. Mr. Baxter, of the collegiate church of St. Catherine near the Tower. Jan. 9.] Early on Tuefday morning died, after a fhort illness, at his houfe at Stretham, near Ely, the Rev. John Swaine, rector of Stretham, vicar of Little Shelford, and in the commiffion of the peace for the ifle of Ely. He was formerly of Peterhoufe, Cambridge. B. A. 1777; M. A. 1780. The valuable rectory of Stretham is in the patronage of the bifhop of Ely, and the vicarage of Little Shelford in the gift of William Finch Finch, Efq.

On Saturday fe'ennight died, at St. David's, aged 87, the Rev. Delebere Pritchett, 57 years fub-chanter of that cathedral, and 49 years parish-priest.

Lately died, in the 70th year of his age, the Rev. Henry Sampfon, rector of Crofcombe and Sutton, in Somersetshire.

Lately died, at Hadley, near Barnet, Middlefex, Mrs. Chapone, aged 75, daughter of John Mulfo, Efq. and niece to Dr. Thomas, bishop of Winchester.-A pious lady well known to literature by her publication, entituled Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, addreffed to a young Lady" And another small volume, called "Mrs. Chapone's Mifcellanies," both highly esteemed at that time, the year 1773

Died, the Rev. John Swinnerton, vicar of Wybunbury, Cheshire.

The Rev. Thomas Till, curate of Thaxftead, Effex.

Jan. 17. On Friday laft died, at Wortley in Yorkshire, the Rev. Thomas Thwaites, rector of Seagrave, Leicefterfhire, and formerly fellow of Queen's college, Cambridge. He proceeded B. A. 1750; M. A. 1754'; and B. D. 1763. The rectory is in the gift of the Mafter and Fellows of Queen's college.

Jan. 23.] Laft week died, fuddenly, in the 70th year of his age, the Rev. William Seges, vicar of Teddenham, Gloucefterfhire; vicar of Chepftow, and perpetual curate of St. Arvon's, Monmouthshire; and in the Commiffion of the Peace for both counties. At Dublin, the Right Hon. John Earl of Clare, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland. His Lordship for fome months paft had fuffered inconceivable tortures, in confequence of the accident which befel him about a year fince in Hyde Park. The hurts which he then received are fuppofed, however, not to have accelerated his demife. The diforder which proved fatal was a dropfy in the cheft.

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Suddenly, at Truro, the Rev. J. Vivian, of Penkalenick, Cornwall.

At Blackheath, the Rev. William Gardner, rector of Caversham, Bucks.
The Rev. Mr. Holt, rector of Finmore, in this county.

Lately at Bideford, Devon, the Rev. Thomas Blifs, A. B. vicar of Afhford, and of Yarnfcombe, both in that county, and which livings are in the gift of the crown. Mr. Blifs was the author of a fermon entitled "Jofeph a Type of Chrift." He was formerly a student of Christ Church, Oxford; and was the fecond fon of Nathaniel Blits, A. M. Savilian Profeffor of Geometry in that univerfity, and Aftronomer Royal.

CHURCH PREFERMENTS, &c.
OXFORD.

Jan. 2.] THE Rev. John Smyth, D. D. Mafter of Pembroke-college, in this univerfity, and one of the prebendaries of Gloucefter, is inftituted to the rectory of Rudford, Gloucefterfhire, void by the ceflion of the Rev. William Gyllett, and on the prefentation of the Dean and Chapter of Gloucefter.

The Rev. Samuel Smith, B. D. ftudent of Chrift-church, has been collated, by his Grace the Archbishop of York, to a Prebendal Stall in the Cathedral-church of York. The Rev. W. W. Davies is prefented to the rectory of Whittington, Salop, void by the death of the Rev. Mr. Lloyd.

Jan. 16.] Thursday, the first day of Lent Term, the Rev. John Nelfon, and William Bewther, Queen's college; Mr. William Holt, of Brafenofe college; and the Rev. George Mountjoy Webfter, of St. John's college, B. A. were admitted Mafters of Arts.

Meffrs. George Wheeler, of St. Edmund Hall; John Page, of Brafenofe college, and Rowland Williams, of Jefus college; were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

Lord Viscount Newark has been pleafed to prefent the Rev. Robert Savage, M. A. of Pembroke college, to the Vicarage of Hartford, Devon.

The Rev. George Wallett is nominated to the perpetual Curacy of Berrow, by the Rev. the Dean and Chapter of Worcester, on the refignation of the Rev. Allen Wheeler.

The Rev. Samuel Henfhall, M. A. Fellow of Brafenofe college, is prefented by that fociety, to the rectory of Stratford, Bow, Middiefex.

The Rev. John Higgins is inftituted, by the Lord Bishop of Hereford, to the living of Bacton, in that county, on the prefentation of Sir Hungerford Hofkins, Bart.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Landaff has been pleated to appoint the Rev. William Marsden, M. A. of Blackrod, to be one of his Lo: dfhip's domeftic Chaplains.

The Right Hon. the Countefs of Loudoun, has been pleafed to appoint the Rev. Lancelot Sharpe, A. M. late of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, to be one of her domeftic Chaplains.

NOTICES.

Jan. 23.] The Savilian Profeffor of Geometry intends to begin two courses of Lectures on the ift of next month, viz. a Courfe in the Elements of Euclid at twelve o'clock, and at one o'clock, a Courfe in the Elements and Application of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry.

The Inftallation of the twenty Knights of the Bath, who have not been installed, is expected to take place the enfuing May.

CAMBRIDGE.

The first prize of 40l. founded by the late Rev. John Hulfe, formerly of St. John's college, for the best differtation, in the English language, on the Evidences of the Chriftian Religion, was last week adjudged to Mr. John Bird Sumner, Fellow of King's college, and affiftant Mafter at Eton.

The Rev. Mr. Cracroft, of Louth, is inducted into the rectory of Rippingale cum Rington, in Lincolnshire, on the prefentation of Sir Gilbert Heathcote, Bart.

The Rev. Chriftopher Atkinfon, fon of the Rev. Miles Atkinfon, of Leeds, is appointed Minifter of the church of Elland.

The Rev. Mr. Wilfon, of Magdalen college, is appointed under Master of the free grammar school at Bradford.

The Rev. Wilfred Huddlefton, M. A. Whitehaven, is prefented, by his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, to the valuable rectory of Handfworth, in the Weft Riding of

Yorkshire.

Jan. 8. The Rev. William Tolbutt Staines, Fellow of Queen's college, is appointed, by the Dean and Chapter of Rochester, a Minor Canon of that cathedral. The Rev. Morgan Lewis, of Lambourne, and formerly of St. John's college, has been inducted to the living of Great Sampford with Hempfted annexed, in Effex, upon the prefentation of Captain Eliab Harvey, of Rolls, in Chigwell.

The Rev. Henry Plimley, M. A. is prefented, by the Rev. Dr. Bingham, archdeacon of London, to the vicarage of St. Leonard, Shoreditch.

Jan. 15.] The Rev. Thomas Dade, M. A. of Caius college, was yesterday elected a Fellow of that fociety.

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