Or, in the ebb of fortune, teach my mind my breaft: Tend to promote the happinefs of man i As gaudy phantoms, and an empty fhow; THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL. AN ODE BY POPE. ITAL fpark of heavenly flame! Hark! they whisper; angels fay, The world recedės! it disappears! Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly ! Thy balmy breath's refreshing pow'r The virgin, yet untaught to figh, Come. modeft maid with blushes fpeak, Diffufing health to ev'ry cheek, And peace on ev'ry breast. Come morning! come, which heav'n de fign'd, It's choiceft gifts to bear, And kindly teach the human mind In wonder wrapt let nature ftand, And learn to praife that gracious hand, LIST OF NEW BOOKS, WITH REMARKS. DIVINITY, MORALITY, &C. ART. I. A Letter from a Clergyman to the Bishop of Landaff, on the Subject of his Lordship's Letter, to the late Archbishop of Canterbury. T HE modeft and refpectful file in which this letter is penned, cannot but plead ftrongly in its favour before a bench of Bithops. Its fubject, the preient melancholy ftate of the curates, and inferior parochial clergy, not lefs claims their attention. The ftipends of those defeited fufferers are fo very inconfiderable, that they who have no other fupport, and par ticularly fuch who may be encumbered with families, cannot but feel all the pinching hardships of penury and diftrefs. May their real grievances, that have long cried aloud for relief, have speedy redrefs, which, by all the laws of juftice and humanity, they may reasonably expect! ART. II. The Complete British Family Bible, being a real New Expofition and Commentary on the Holy Scriptures. By the Rev. Dr. Wright, Vicar of Oakley in Effex, F.S. A. This ufeful work, which is Now very publishing in 80 weekly Numbers, merits the attention and patronage of all Chriftian families, both in confideration of its convenient fize, making only one large volume folio, and its masterly execution. The Notes, are exceedingly full and inftructive. They contain a fummary of the Chriftian religion, which cannot but be highly acceptable to thofe, who may not have fpare time fufficient to read the various, tedious, and voluminous writers, on different parts of Scripture. Dr. Wright's Family Bible is, in our opinion, really what it holds itself forth to the public, a New and Complete Expofition and ommentary on the facred books of the Old and New Teflament, with the Apocrypha at large; and is embellished with the best fet of copper-plates we have ever seen. ART. III. Divine Revelation impartial; and unive fal. By the Rev. John Bennet. 8vo. 35. in Boards. Unbelievers frequently exclaim against Christianity, becaufe not univerfal, and known only at prefent to a small part of the world. To obviate which objection, this ingenious writer has endeavoured to prove, that the propagation cf the gofpel was neither imperfect, nor partial, and that if the benevolent intentions of the Divine Being were not reftrained by human vices, the natural confequences of free-will, 'the earth, at this moment, would be full of the knowledge of the Lord.' To .variety of arguments, drawn from the difpofition, circumstances, and ftate of mankind, in different ages, Mr. Bennet has added a great number of ufeful notes, which, he obferves, coft him more labour and pains, than the publication itself. ART. IV. The New and Complete Life of our Saviour Jefus Chrift and bis Apoftles, c. By the Rev. Dr. Wright, elegantly printed in Crown Folio, now publishing in 36 weekly Numbers, at 6d. each; and, be ing thoroughly compleated, may be had neatly bound in Calf, and lettered, price 11. 45. 6d. This book is a fuitable companion to Dr. Wright's Family Bible, and indeed to any other Bible of which perfons may already be poffelled, as it contains a valuable collection of Chriftian knowledge; for, independently of its intrinfic merit, confidered in the light of a full, extensive history of the life of our bleffed Saviour and his Apofthes, we find alfo contained therein a defence of the Chriftian religion, and a rich treasure of practical obfervations, well calculated to improve the understanding, mend the heart, and regulate the condua. The copper-plates are very valuable embellishments, and the whole performance is executed in fuch a manner, as fufficiently to prove its excellency and utility; and we think, without flattery, to which we are utter ftrangers, the Proprietor deserves the thanks of all ferious Chritians, for making Dr. Wright's Family Bible, his life of Chrift, and other expenfive periodical publications, fo eafily attainable. CHRONOLOGICAL FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. W Leghorn, August 4. E have had one of the feverest ftrokes here that ever vifited this part of Italy, which has been general along the coaft from Weft to Eaft, and has done incredible damage. The Tefferdoi, a Ruffian man of war, is rendered totally unferviceable by the damage the received in the Mole, and all the hips then lying there, which amounted to thirty fail of different nations, have been fufferers in a greater or lefs degree, but none fo materially as the uffian, whofe mainmaft has been shivered from the flag staff to the deck, at which place fome iron work conducted the lightning to other places of the ship, where its effects are very vifible, indeed moft awfully fo. The rigging is in many places burnt, as if the veffei had been on fire; the fails on the yards have holes burnt through them. The people on board report, that they felt the fhock, when the electric matter ftruck her, equal to what is felt in an heavy fea. Some gallies are fitting here by order of the Grand Duke for Cruizing in the Mediterranean; they will probably amount to fix fail, from 26 to 28 guas. His Neapolitan majefty is fitting out fome hips, as are most of the powers in this quarter. All thefe are only detachments to obferve the motions of the two great powers, whofe difputes are likely to reach this part of Europe. Temefwar, July 25. According to all accounts, the treaty of commerce, concluded at Conftantinople, has not abated the motions of the Ruffians in Crimea and its enVirons. The Turks on their part have not fufpended their preparations. The armaments continue at Conftantinople, where new fhips of the line are putting on the ftocks. The different corps of troops raised in all parts of the empire are affembling on the frontiers; freth reinforcements arrive to join thofe encamped near Belgrade, where they are conftantly exercifed in firing artillery and mufquetry, and where, it is faid, 14,000 fpahis are to remain and pafs the winter. Naples, Aug. 9. On the 29th paft, at one in the morning, a violent fhock of an earthquake happened again at Cala ria, which threw the whole country into an alarm at fix the fame morning they had another more violent and 'longer than any that had happened before, infomuch that the barracks now feemed not fafe, and every body fled into the fields. Four vil DIARY. lages, which had been fpared before, were overturned. Cotrona alfo fuffered confiderably, and the new buildings begun at Cozenza are fo fhattered, that they must be pulled down. It is not faid whether any perfons have perished, but the commotion was felt fo ftrongly at Meflina, that it may again have done damage there." Aix-la-Chapelle, Aug. 10. A fhock of an Earthquake was felt here at three o'clock yesterday morning, which was fo violent as to wake and alarm most of the inhabitants of this city: but we have not yet heard of any damages. GAZETTE INTELLIGENCE. St. James's, August 19. THE HE king has been pleafed to appoint Alleyne Fitz-Herbert, Efq. to be his majefty's envoy extraordinary and minifter plenipotentiary to the court of Peterburgh. Oftend, Aug. 13. The bafon which his imperial majesty ordered to be constructed at this port being completed, this day was appointed for its being opened for the reception of thips. The ceremony was performed in prefence of their royal highneffes the governor general, accompanied by count Belgiofo, and feveral other per fons of diftinction. Conftantinople, July 28. The plague rages here with violence, and the mortality is confiderable, the infection having spread in every quarter of the town, and the adjacent villages. Pera and Galata, the refidence of the Franks, have fuffered greatly; and in the new barracks for the gunners, at Topana, from twenty to thirty are buried daily. The raw mifty weather, which promotes the contagion, has continued thefe four weeks paft without interruption; a very unusual circumftande in this climate, and at this feafon. Letters from 'Smyrna, of the 17th inft. mention, that the plague has alfo broken out in that city. Paris, Aug. 28. Laft night died here, after a few days illness, George Maddifon, Efq. his Britannic majefty's fecretary of amb ffy at this.court. St. James's, July 25. It having been reprefented to his Majefty, that feveral perfons who formerly obtained orders from his Majefty in Council for grants of lands in the province of Nova Scotia, have not proceeded to cultivate and furvey the lands directed to be granted to them by fuch orders, but have, in many inftances, fold and tranferred them to others, who have alfo delayed to carry them into execution, to the great injury of his Majefty's revenue of quit-reats, T2 and : and retardment of the cultivation and improvement of the faid province: his Majesty is thereupon pleafed, with the advice of his Privy Council, to revoke and make void (and doth hereby revoke and make void) all orders made by his Majefty in Council for the grant of lands in the province of Nova Scotia, which bear date prior to the first of January, 1774, and have not yet been carried into execution: and his Maiefty is hereby further pleafed to order, that the Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being of his Majesty's province of Noya Scotia, do forbear to iffue any order of furvey to the Surveyor-General of lands in the faid province, or to pafs any grants under the feal of that province, of any lot or parcel of land within the faid province, in purfuance of any order made by his Maje y in Council, which bears date prior to the first day of January, 1774, and that this his Majefty's order in Council be pubished in the London Gazette, to the end, that all perLons may have due notice thereof. STEPH. COTTEREL. St. James's Aug. 22. The king was this day pleafed to confer the honour of knighthood on Thomas Hyde Page, Efq; lientenant in his majefty's corps of engineers. Whitehail, Aug. 23 The king has been pleafed to appoint the Hon. Henry Erikine to be his majesty's advocate in Scotland. The king has been pleafed to grant to Henry Mathias Efq. the offices or places of prothonotary and clerk of the crown in the counties of Carmarthen, Pembroke, and Cardigan, and the town of Haverfordweit and borough of Carmarthen. St. James's, Sept. 9. On Saturday night Jaft, Capt. Warner arrived with the Preliminary Articles between his Majesty and the States General, figned at Paris, on the 2d inftant; as alfo the Definitive Treaties of Peace between his Majesty and the Moft Chriftian and Catholic Kings, figned at Verfailles on the 3d inftant, by his Grace the Duke of Manchester, his Majefty's Ambaffador Extraordinary, and lenipotentiary, and by the refpective Plenipotentaries of their Moft Chriftian and Ca tholic Majefties, and the States General. The Definitive Treaty with the United States of America was alfo figned at Paris on the 3d inftant, by David Hartley, Efq. his Majefty's Plenipotentiary, and by the Plenipotentiaries of the United States. Whitehall, Sept. 16 Advices have been received over land from Fort-William, Bengal, dated the 10th of March last, which confirm the accounts of the treaty with the Mahratta ftate being concluded on the 17th of May, 1782, and ratified at Fort William on the 6th of June following; that it was compleatly ratified by the Paishwa, and minifters at Poona, on the 20th of December; and that the original Delaval. Richard Pennant, Efq. baron Penryn. John Pennynton, Efq. baron Muncafter. And the dignity of baronefs to the wife of the Rt. Hon. J. Hely Huchetton, Efq. with the remainder to the heirs male of her body, by her faid husband. By a letter from a gentleman at Copenhagen, dated August 18, we are favoured with the following account of an ifland newly thrown up in the fea by fubterraneous fire, about thirty miles diftant from the coaft of the diftrict called Guldbringe in Iceland: 66 Capt. Peterfon, failing for Havnefeord harbour, defcried about the middle of May laft, a great body of black smoke, through which, at intervals, bursting flames made their appearance. As he ap proached, it became more terrible; and when arrived within three English miles of the place, he difcovered an ifland still burning in many places, and throwing into the air vaft columns of fire and fmoak. He founded at the diftance of eight miles from the ifland, and found W. S. W. from Rykences, in Iceland, forty-four fathom water, upon a burnt bottom, fomething like pit-coal. At the diftance of about four miles, the fea was covered with pumice ftone, which floated on its furface, The ifland appeared to be about fix English miles in length, and, it is faid, has fince been taken poffeffion of in the name of the king king of Denmark. A later account con firms the above circumstances, and adds that the new ifland is of a rocky appearance, and that fire was ftill iffuing from two of its eminencies; that the inhabitants of iceland had feen a column of blac fmoke rifing from the fea, about the time the eruption is fuppofed to have happened; but that no unufual fwell of the ocean, nor any fymptoms of an earthquake had been felt. "When we combine the time and circumftances of this phenomenon with the late earthquake in alabria, in Germany, in Sweden, in Siberia, we readily have recourfe to the fame common caufe, namely, that fubterraneous fire which has lately fpread terror over fo great a part of the globe." The following dreadful affair was perpetrated at Wetherfield, near Hartford, in New England, on the 11th of December lait. William Beadle, who had refided in that town nearly ten years, married about 14 years fince an amiable woman, of a reput able family, by whom he had one fon aud three daughters, whofe education he fuperintended with great care and feeming folicitude, and was apparently an affection ate hutbard. About fun-rife on the da、 above-mentioned, he fent his fervant maid (the only perion of the family who furvived) with a letter to a friend in the neighbourhood, therein declaring that before his friend hould read the letter, he and his family fhould enter into a happier ftate, and defiring him to call two perfons and come to his houfe, gently to alarm the neighbours, and advife them to be as collected in their minds and reafon as he then was. Upon receipt of this letter the houfe was inftantly opened; they found a knife, axe, and pitols; the latter he had made ufe of upon himfelf; the two former upon his family; thefe inftruments he had carried with him to his bedchamber for fome weeks, under pretence of defending himfelf againit thieves. In this horrid manner he destroyed a worthy and beautiful wife, and four children, fleeping in their beds, the eldest about twelve years of age. He then finished the awful fcene by deftroying himself. Some circumftances rendered it probable that he had given an opiate to the family before they retired to rest. Speaking of this catastrophe in one of his letters, he fays, "I mean to clofe the eyes of fix perfons through perfect humanity and the most endearing fondnefs and friendship, for never mortal father felt more of these tender ties than myself." The jury of inqueft were of opinion that he was of found mind, and returned their verdict accordingly. The corpfe of the murderer was laid on two barrels and expofed to fhame, with the bloody knife faftened on his breaft, after which it was placed on a horfe-fledge dragged to an obfcure place, and buried with every mark of infamy. It is confidently reported at Paris, that the court of Verfailles had demanded of the Dutch the fum of 87 millions of li vres, 3,481,971. fterling, as a recompence for the trouble and expence which France has incurred in refcuing from the English Trincomale, Demerary, and St. Euftatia and for preferving the Cape of Good Hope. The advices received by the Licorne fri gate, which arrived laft Friday at Falmouth, bring the information that a veffel called the Dragon, Capt. Campbell, had arrived at New York in eighteen days from Havanna, by whom they learned that a new, and far more ferious revolt than ever in that part of the world, has happened in outh America, particularly at Panama and its vicinity. On the roth inft, at noon the Rt. Hon. the lord mayor, attended by the aldermen Crofby, Peckham, Clarke, Sainibury, Kitchen, Gill, anderfon, and the theriffs, deputy recorder, city-council, remembrancer, and town clerk, and about one hundred of the common-council went to St. James's with the addrefs to his majesty on the fafe delivery of the queen, and the birth of another princefs, and alfo upon his royal high nefs the prince of Wales arriving at the age of twenty-one years. To which his Majefty gave the following anfwer: "I return you my hearty thanks for your dutiful and loyal congratulations on the happy recovery of the queen, and the birth of another princefs, and upon the prince of Wales having attained the age of twenty-one years. "Nothing can be more acceptable to me, than thefe teftimonies of affection to mẻ and my family, on the part of my faithful fubjects it is the warmest with of my heart, and has been the conftant object of my life to promote their honour and happinefs." They were very graciously received, and had the honour of kiffing his majesty's hand. The duke of Portland, lords North and Amherst, the hon. Mr. Fox, and several foreign ambaffadors were about the throne. On Friday the 19th inft. came on the election of a physician to St. Thomas's hofpital, to fucceed Dr. Watkinson: on cafting up the ballot, the numbers were, for, Dr. Blain, 98, Dr. Crawford 84 whereupon Dr. Blain was declared duly elected. It is remarkable that four of the phyfi cians |