enced, and become partakers of every wild error that the wildest imagination can body forth, surpasses any conception of sober reason or sound understanding. We are told that the Followers of this unhappy Woman have not been confined to the very lowest rank of society, but that some, even of superior education, have been deluded by her. Let this humble our pride when we desire to be "wise above what is written;" and let it, at the same time, induce us to distrust our own judgment before we give way to dangerous doubts. There is a true and a right way set before us, by which we may "try the Spirits whether they be of God;" we must search the Scriptures, not for hidden meanings, but for that which lies near the surface, for that bread which all may eat, for that living water which will give refreshment to all. Though a friend to toleration in its purest sense, it was pain and grief to me to sit on a Bench of Magistrates when a License was, ex officio, granted to a Teacher of Johanna's doctrines. The man acknowledged his conviction of their truth, though not publicly interrogated on the subject, and that he had a small Congregation of Hearers scattered up and down in the Country. The want of power to investigate principles on such occasions, by certificate of character, &c. is certainly a proof of the good that might have arisen, even to Dissenters themselves, from that particular clause in Lord Sidmouth's celebrated Bill. In such a case as the present the Legislature was imposing a bardship on the Magistrate, by enjoining him to license the teaching of not only absurd but impious doctrines. I have a local reason, Mr. Urban, for troubling you with this letter. About thirty years ago a female from Scotland, of the name of Buchan, came into the part of the county where I reside, and from whence I write, and endeavoured to make proselytes to her opinion. Like Mrs. Southcott, she pretended to inspiration, and interpreted mysterious passages of Scripture to her own purposes. In one instance, at least, she was too successful. A respectable farmer, living on his own estate, was induced to sell it, and, with his wife, who was equally deluded, and a numerous family, attended the pretended prophetess to her native land. In this expedition, it may be imagined, his possessions were soon dissipated. Here it was that she predicted that the last day would arrive at a time which she mentioned; and her followers were collected together in an upper chamber in awful expectation of its arrival. This person informed the writer, that when he saw from the window the sun rising above the horizon in all its splendour, he began to have suspi cions. I do not recollect by what art she reconciled her disciplès to this disappointment; but the person abovementioned, after some difficulty, disentangled himself from this connexion and returned home. Soon after this time Mrs. Buchan died; but not till she had predicted her resurrection to life, like Mrs. Southcott, in three days. A second disappointment closed the scene of delusion. Not many years after this period Mrs. Southcott came into this neighbourhood, on a mission similar to that of Mrs. Buchan. The person whose story I am telling, not perfectly cured of all delusions, travelled round the neighbourhood as a selftaught Teacher. In one of his visits at an obscure village in Yorkshire he accidentally met with Mrs. Sonthcott, At the first interview she acquainted him that she was the Woman predicted in the Revelations. He informed ber that he had seen another Woman foretold in the Revelations; and wished her to explain the difficulty. Her interpretation began and ended in a most severe invective and abuse. I have never seen any written Account of Mrs, Buchan, and should be glad if any of your numerous Correspondents could throw any farther light upon her history. I am aware how worthless such characters are, and how greatly to be despised; but it is absolutely necessary to undeceive the ignorant on such subjects as the present. It will hardly be believed that in an enlightened age such occurrences could take place; but as they have taken place, it is the duty of every good member of society, not only to recommend but to profess that religion in truth and purity which we derive from the most unpolluted source. "Take heed that no man deceive you; for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many :-all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet." CLERICUS DUNELM LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Cambridge, Jan. 9.-The Hulsean prize for 1814, has this week been adjudged to the Rev. THOMAS FULLER, B. A. Fellow of St. John's College, for his dissertation" on the comparative value of Prophecies and Miracles, as Evidences for the Truth of Christianity."-The subject of the Hulsean- prize essay for 1815 is" The distinct provinces of Reason and Faith." The following are the subjects for Sir WILLIAM BROWNE'S Gold Medals for the present year: For the Greek Ode: In augustissimum Galliæ Regem solio avito redditum. - For the Latin Ode: Vivos ducent de marmore vultus. -For the Epigrams: Quicquid dicam, aut erit aut non. Works nearly ready for Publication: "The History of the Kings of England, from the arrival of the Saxons, A. D. 449, to his own Times. By WILLIAM of MALMESBURY. Collated with authentic MSS. and translated from the original Latin, with a Preface, Notes, and an Index. By the Rev. JOHN SHARP, B.A. late of Trinity College, Oxford, Curate of Elstead and Treyford, Sussex. "Travels in Europe and Africa by Col. KEATINGE; illustrated with Engravings of Antiquities, Scenery, and Costume, from Drawings taken on the spot." The Second Volume of Mr. Southey's History of Brazil. "A History of the War in Spain and Portugal, from the Year 1807 to 1814. By General SARRAZIN." "Memoirs of the French Campaigns in Spain, of 1808, 1809, and 1810. By M. ROCCA, Officer of Huzzars." "A Journal of a Tour through some parts of France, Switzerland, Savoy, Germany, and Belgium, during the Summer and Autumn of 1814. By the Hon. RICHARD BOYLe Bernard, M. P." "Observations made during a recent visit to Paris; containing a particular account of that City, its buildings, amusements, manners, &c. By SAMUEL SMITH, Esq. of the Inner Temple." 8vo. "An Historical Survey of the Character of NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE, drawn from his own Words and Actions. By the Auther of the 'Secret Memoirs'." "Memoirs of Thirty Years of the Life of the late Empress Josephine." "Maria, or the Hollanders. By Louis BUONAPARTE," 3 vols. A corrected edition of Dr. WILLIAMS's "Abridgement of OWEN on the Hebrews." "A Supplement to the Memoirs of the Life, Writings, Discourses, and Professional Works of Sir JOSHUA REYNOLDS. BY JAMES NORTHCOTE, Esq." 4to. A new Poem by Mr. POLWHELE, en- A new edition of Mr. WORDSWORTH'S Lyrical Ballads, &c. &c. with additions. "The Sélection from the Works of GEORGE Wither, announced some time since by Mr. GUTCH of Bristol, will appear in March or April next. It will contain a Life of the Author, with critical notices, and an engraved head of the Poet, from the one prefixed to his Vo lume of "Emblems." "Tannahill's Poetical Works; containing the favourite Songs of Jesse the flower o' Dunblayne, Gloomy Winter now away, &c." "A new and enlarged edition of Mr. WRIGHT'S Advice on the Study of the Law, with Directions for the choice of Books, addressed to Attorneys' Clerks." "Private Education, or the Studies of young Ladies considered. By ELIZABETH APPLETON, late Governess in the Family of the Earl of Leven and Melville." The Third, being the concluding Part of "A Poetical History of England," written expressly for young Persons, and designed to afford facility and interest to the study of History. A Second Volume of Mr. T. MORELL'S "Studies in History; containing the History of Rome from its earliest Records to the death of Constantine." Works preparing for Publication: "A Translation of the Psalms of David, with Notes. By SAMUEL HORSLEY, LL.D. F.R.S. F. A. S. late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph." 2 vols. 8vo. "Sermons on Ancient Prophecies of the Messiah, dispersed among the Heathens. Also, Four Discourses on the Nature of the Evidence borne to the Fact of our Lord's Resurrection. By SAMUEL HORSLEY, LL.D. F. R. S. F. Á. S. late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph." 8vo. The" French Preacher," 8vo; by the Rev. Mr. COBBIN; consisting of valuable Discourses, translated from the most eminent Catholic and Protestant Divines; with Biographical Notices, &c. Sir WILLIAM DUGDALE'S" History and Antiquities of the County of Warwick," is in considerable progress towards republication, with a very great accession of valuable materials both of Historical and Local interest. "A History of the Public Events of Europe, from the Commencement of the the French Revolution, to the Restora- Counties of Warwick, Stafford, and "An Historical Account of the Epis- copal See, and Cathedral Church of Sa- ness of paper, and high price of print- the Nobility and Gentry of that county. phical Notices of the Bishops, the His-vings of the seats, monuments, &c. of tory of the Establishment, from the ear- liest Period; and a Description of the vings, from Drawings by Mr. P. NASH. "Memoirs on European and Asiatic " Ways and Means, in lieu of the Pro- Governor and Commander in Chief of "Varieties of Life; or, Conduct and Inner Temple, author of "An Historical Account of the Laws enacted against the Catholics, both in England and Ireland," has issued Proposals for publishing “An Historical Inquiry into the Ancient Ec- clesiastical Jurisdiction of the Crown; from the Period in which Great Britain formed a Part of the Roman Empire." In the Portledge Library, which a few years ago was purchased by Mr. S. Woolmer, of Exeter, and which he has still in his possession, was found a printed proposal, by four booksellers of London, for printing "Sir Henry Chauncey's History and Antiquities of Hertfordshire," dated 1697; in which the notes affixed to the poem of "Char- lemagne," has announced his intention to publish a second epic at some future time, the title of which is to be the Cirneide, from Cirnos, the Greek name of Corsica. The final expulsion of the Saracens from that Island, with descrip- tions of the manners of the Islanders, forms the subject. This poem, The French have published an Atlas of their naval discoveries in the South- ern Ocean. In this they admit that the English first discovered the coast of New Holland from the isles St. Fran- cois to a point, in which they were met by the French Captain Baudin; the re- mainder of the coast, with an exception REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 1. Consolatory Verses, addressed to Her Royal Highness Madame, Duchess of Angoulême; and dedicated to His Royal Highness the Prince Regent of England. By the Rev. Sir Herbert Croft, Bart. Paris, printed by P. Didot, senr. 1814, Quarto, pp. 18. JE rejoice to find that our old Wuch respected friend and "Meek Child of sorrow, whose still-wea Stream over such unusual miseries! wretchedness! I don't deny the sources of your grief; "Stranger! yet Hartwell's bowers You do not term the British Muses so. valuable Correspondent (who has been Jong detained in France) has recovered sufficient energy to pursue his literary labours. The present elegant There Thomson prov'd how each kind tribute of consolation to an august Personage, is introduced by the following short, but loyal Address. "To His Royal Highness the PRINCE REGENT of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. "May it please your Royal Highness to accept these lines, as a small mark of gratitude for the favours conferred by your Royal Highness, through a long series of years, upon Lady Croft, and upon, Sir, your Royal Highness's most dutiful and most devoted bumble servant, HERBERT CROFT, Paris, 30 May 1814; the day of the signature of your Royal Highness's European Peace." The Poem not having as yet been published in this country, our Readers will not be displeased by a perusal of the introductory lines: Season fills [worst ills: The world with charms that balanc'd life's ThereRogers taughtyourtender soul to see The Pleasures, sadly sweet, of Memory; Hurried your rapt thoughts back to your Which, sometimes, in a visionary trance, lov'd France. • "I delayed the printing of these verses, expecting from England a drawing of Hartwell, which I meant to have used as a frontispiece. The present trifle might, so, have been more worthy the beautiful characters of Mr. P. Didot; well calculated, spite of the justice he always renders others, to succeed to the reputation of the late Bodoni, as type-founder and as printer. I know that these useful talents are hereditary in this honourable family, and how justly celebrated the younger brother, Mr. Firmin Didot, is; for I possess his elegant octavo editions of Juvenal and Persius, in the preface to the latter of which his learned Editor thanks me for my little aid. But Mr. Firmin Didot's modesty would be shocked to see his name placed before that of his illustrious elder brother, to whose various talents France and Europe owe the famous folio editions of Virgil, Horace, Racine, and La Fontaine. Mr. P. Didot is, now, preparing a similar folio edition of Boilean; and is continuing his two most beautiful and correct collections of French Classics, one in octavo, for male readers, and a different one, in a smaller size, for ladies. These two patriotic collections were begun and carried on with uncommon courage, when the Corsican's tyranny had dried up every possible source of commerce. Since the Restoration, the female collection is taken under her Royal patronage by the Princess to whom these verses are addressed." +"The Night-Thoughts of Young, whose Life my friend Johnson permitted me to write, among his Lives of the English Poets, almost forty years ago.” "The Seasons, one of the favourite books of the unfortunate." "I speak as a man, and not as an Englishman, when I say that France has obligations to Lewis the XVIIIth for consenting to reign, and to quit Hartwell for GENE. MAQ, January, 1815, the Both envied Nations! yes, we both pos- The public character, on either side. oar, "No, no! each wave that flows between our states Our Sister Nations joins, not separates: Each fisherman's, tir'd, late-returning [to shore: When all is still, half sounds from shore The maid, on Shakespeare's moonlight cliff, whose heart [depart, Thinks where she saw her truelove sad Half sees a fond French sailor, joyful, [beach. His long-left home, and leap upon the "In how few minutes, Blanchard's reach air-hung boat, [high, to float? 'Tween the two countries ceas'd, on Twice sixty minutes wafted Lewis over, To happy Calais, from delighted Dover; While Calais, as it shook with loyal joy, Seem'd to hear Dover join in VIVE LE Rot!" The Reverend Baronet has subjoined several excellent notes; some of which accompany our extracts. "I will finish these notes," he says, "with a quotation that will be seen with pleasure, I hope, by all French and English readers of verses, the second object of which is to contribute to do away all mean enmity between the two greatest nations in Europe. I would be the first to blush for my own Nation, if it deserved the reproach from which it is so honourably and so completely cleared by this testimony of the gallant Comte de St. Morys. My noble friend, one of the officers of his restored King's guard, finishes, with this philanthropic passage, his little work which was printed and published April 9, 1814, which produced a great effect, and of which the title alone (Reflexions d'un sujet de Louis XVIII.) did the highest credit to his courage, his loyalty, and his good Ten days sense, at such a moment. before it appeared, not to say almost at the very moment, Buonaparte was still the tyrant of France and of Europe. "Dates are of importance, when so many honest subjects of Lewis the XVIIIth cannot help using the language of the indignant Alceste: 'Hé, madame, l'on loue aujourd'hui tout Et le siècle par là n'a rien qu'on ne con- Ce n'est plus un honneur que de se voir sur la reconnaissance due au Prince "Buonaparte avait constamment dirigé, contre les gouvernemens avec lesquels the Louvre. Montaigne quotes the saying of an antient King That any man, who knew the weight of a sceptre, would not pick one up, if it lay before his feet.' Every French reader's heart will be touched by the first words of the fol lowing extract from the most sublime will and testament of Lewis the XVIth all wise heads will subscribe to the good sense and useful truths of the conclusion: : 'Je recommande bien vivement à mes enfans, après ce qu'ils doivent à Dieu, qui doit marcher avant tout, de rester toujours unis entre eux, soumis et obéissans à leur mère, et reconnaissans de tous les soins et les peines qu'elle se donne pour eux; et en mémoire de moi, je les prie de regarder ma sœur comme une seconde mère. Je recommande à mon fils, s'il avait le malheur de devenir roi, de songer qu'il se doit tout entier au bonheur de tous ses concitoyens ; qu'il doit oublier toute haine et ressentiment, et nommément tout ce qui a rapport aux malheurs et aux chagrins que j'éprouve; qu'il ne peut faire le bonheur du peuple qu'en régnant suivant les lois, mais en même temps qu'un roi ne peut les faire respecter et faire le bien qui est dans son cœur qu'autant qu'il a l'autorité nécessaire, et qu'autrement, étant lié dans ses opérations, et n'inspirant point de respect, il est plus nuisible qu'utile." " il |
