to be a divine revelation; but they who do can never defend it on any principle but the doctrine of grace. To say truth, I have at times been almost persuaded to believe it upon this view of things, and there is one argument which has gone very far with me, which is, that the belief of it now exists upon earth, when it is committed to the care of such as you, who pretend to believe it and yet deny the only principles on which it is defensible."

thods by which generous persons in mid- | broke, "you know I don't believe the Bible dling circumstances, during these trying times, may keep up their charitable subscriptions :-First, by selling all or most of their jewels, trinkets, hoarded coins, &c. Secondly, by leaving off or diminishing the use of wine, spirituous liquors, tobacco, and snuff. Thirdly, by decreasing expenses ;— there are professors who keep carriages or horses, some of which they could do very well without. And lastly, by disusing the expensive custom of treating parties at dinner or supper. Here I must also add that if reputable persons would restrict their families during this season to the use of cheap provisions; they would thereby have more to spare for the poor."-Evangelical Magazine, March 1813.

"THIS opinion of Inspiration, called commonly Private Spirit, begins very often from some lucky finding of an error generally held by others; and not knowing, or not remembering by what conduct of reason they came to so singular a truth (as they think it, though it be many times an untruth they light on), they presently admire themselves, as being in the special grace of God Almighty, who hath revealed the same to them supernaturally, by His Spirit."-HOBBES, p. 36.

Madan relates this as communicated to him by a person to whom Bolingbroke reported the conversation.

SECESSION of the Baptists from the Evangelical Magazine, because in A Concise View of the Present State of Evangelical Religion throughout the World, which the Editors admitted "without making themselves responsible for every sentiment they contain,"(for thus they premised),-this sentence occurred :-" The Particular Baptists have greatly enlarged their numbers, not perhaps so much from the world by awakenings of conscience in new converts, as from the different congregations of Dissenters and Methodists." This was complained of by the Baptist Brethren. The Editors took the subject into consideration, and came to this resolution :-" That the Editors having re

SECTARIANISM of the wilder sort-like considered the paragraph complained of, are

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que siempre en estas materias

aquello que no se sabe

es aquello que mas prenda."

by no means convinced that it contains any mistake in point of fact; and they are further of opinion, that recurring to the subject in the Magazine can have no possible good effect." Upon this the secession fol

D. FRANC. de Roxas. Los Vandos lowed; and the Editors in announcing it,

de Verona.

A DIGNITARY of the Church is said to have found Bolingbroke reading CALVIN'S Institutes, and being asked his opinion of the book, to have replied,-" We do not think upon such topics: we teach the plain doctrines of virtue and morality, and have long laid aside those abstruse points about grace." Look you, Doctor," said Boling

say" While it is painful to separate from brethren whom we respect and love,—we feel ourselves liberated from the restraint which our connection with them laid upon us, to refrain from all observations in favour of Infant Baptism, which we firmly maintain, in common with our fellow-Christians in general throughout the world. To this important subject, therefore, we shall occasionally recur; and endeavour to defend

"WITHOUT steadiness, and direction to some end, a great fancy is one kind of madness; such as they have, that, entering into any discourse, are snatched from their purpose by every thing that comes in their thought, into so many and so long digressions and parentheses, that they utterly lose themselves. Which kind of folly I know no particular name for."—Ibid. 33.

A TAME crow at a public-house in Swallwell, Durham, bred there from a young one. It used to fly at large during the fine season, and return in winter. Sometimes, in summer, it would visit the village, perch in the trees, and come down to take meat or bread from those who offered it to their old acquaintance. It would alight upon their shoulder, and take the food from the hand.

*NAMES of Gooseberries, at the Annual Gooseberry Show, held at the house of Mr. Robert Huxley, Sign of the Angel, Chester. Mr. Blead's, Creeping Ceres,

"SIRRAH," said an old Scotch minister to Mr. Mr. Halyburton when a boy, "unsanctified learning has done much mischief to the kirk of God."

"Or all discourse, governed by desire of knowledge, there is at last an end; either by attaining, or by giving over."-HOBBES, Leviathan, p. 30. At Cateaton Street we had not this consolation in view!

"LAST of all, men, vehemently in love Mr. Huxley's,-Royal Sovereign.

with their own new opinions, (though never so absurd), and obstinately bent to maintain them, gave those their opinions also that reverenced name of conscience, as if they would have it seem unlawful to change or speak against them; and so pretend to know they are true, when they know at most but that they think so."-Ibid. 31.

GRYFF. LLOYD had two hunters, whose names were Heretick and Beelzebub.

THE London bills of mortality for 1812 enumerate 1550 of old age; 4942 of consumption; 3530 convulsions; 1287 smallpox; 4 of grief; 1 of leprosy.

“Ir was a good race, the winner being much spurred."

he had a good bellyfull in the late race, and it must be owned in his favour, he ran very truly to it."

"Diamond is in the second degree from Herod; Hambletonian from Eclipse. The Herods are in general hard and stout; the Eclipses, jadish, speedy, and uncertain."

1799. The Hambletonian and Diamond

of their day, Sandy-o'er-the-lee, a few years since the property of Mr. Baird at Newhythe, and Whitelegs, about the same period belonging to Sir Hedworth Williamson, Baronet; horses by which, at a moderate computation, their owners may be supposed to have realized £5000 a-piece, are at this time running together in one of the diligences between Glasgow and Edinburgh.

"As a sportsman, I cannot but congratulate you, and all true lovers of the British turf, upon the late evident increase of the noble and heroic sport of horse-racing."

FITNESS of having summer and winter apartments in great houses.

ABSURDITY of verandas in the streets of London, and by the side of its dusty roads.

HEDGE-HOG Crocus pots.

"ON Saturday, January 1, 1814, will be published, continued weekly, at Swansea, a provincial newspaper, in the Welsh language, under the title of Seren Gomer."

"ST. PAUL'S, Covent-Garden, Dec. 24, 1813.

"Whereas many of the sepulchral stones and buildings in the above churchinto a very ruinous and dilapidated state; yard are, through the lapse of time, fallen notice is hereby respectfully given to the families and friends of those to whom such sepulchral conveniences have been apmay

"As for whipping such a dishonest brute as Hambletonian, it would answer no end but to make him swerve, or bolt, or pro-propriated, that unless the same shall be put bably stop him outright; but of spurring into decent repair within the space of three months from this time, they must be considered as exclusively the property of the

I have noticed before the great care taken on this head. See suprà, p. 394.

parish. — Robert Joy.-S. L. Curlewis.-|ceived any thing whatsoever, he was apt to James Sant, Churchwardens."

SIR ROWLAND HILL bought Dash, a favourite pointer of Colonel Thornton, for 120 guineas, and a cask of Madeira, on condition that if the dog were disabled for sporting at any time he should be resold to the Colonel for fifty guineas, to breed from. Which repurchase accordingly took place.

THE history of Baillie the renegade, who was going to cut off Arthur Aikin's head because I had spoken of him in the Annual Review, is to be found in DR. NEALE's Tra- | vels, p. 232.

*MRS. WHITBREAD hired a servant in Cornwall, who at the time of hiring thought herself bound to let the lady know that she had once had a misfortune. When the woman had been some time in service, by a slip of the tongue she spoke of something which had happened to her just after the birth of her first child. "Your first," said Mrs. Whitbread, "why, how many have you had then?” “O ma'am,” said she, "I've had four." "Four!" exclaimed the mistress," why, you told me you had had but one. However, I hope you will have no more." "Ma'am," replied the woman, "that must be as it may please God."

inquire the consequences of it, and what effects he could do with it. And now I add this other degree of the same excellence, that he can by words reduce the consequences he finds to general rules, called theorems, or aphorisms: That is, he can reason, or reckon, not only in number, but in all other things, whereof one may be added unto, or subtracted from another.

"But this privilege is allayed by another, and that is by the privilege of absurdity, to which no living creature is subject but man only. And of men, those are of all most subject to it who profess philosophy." — HOBBES, pp. 19, 20.

"They that have no science, are in better and nobler condition with their natural prudence, than men that by mis-reasoning, or by trusting them that reason wrong, fall upon false and absurd general rules.-Ibid. p. 21." Wortley Stuart's motion for a change of ministry : "The resolutions of a monarch are subject to no other inconstancy than that of human nature; but in assemblies, besides that of nature, there ariseth an inconstancy from the number. For the absence of a few that would have the resolution once taken continues firm, (which may happen by security, negligence, or private impediments,) or the diligent appearance of a few of the contrary opinion, undoes to-day all that was concluded yesterday."— Ibid.

“WHEN We reason in words of general sig- | p. 96. nification, and fall upon a general inference which is false; though it be commonly called error, it is indeed an ABSURDITY, or senseless speech. For error is but a deception, in presuming that somewhat is past, or to come; of which, though it were not past, or not to come, yet there was no impossibility discoverable. But when we make a general assertion, unless it be a true one, the possibility of it is inconceivable. And words whereby we conceive nothing but the sound are those we call absurd, insignificant, and

nonsense.

"I have said that a man did excel all other animals in this faculty, that when he con

"Good reason had Xenocrates to give order that children should have certain auriclets or bolsters devised to hang about their ears for their defence, rather than fencers and sword players; for that these are in danger only to have their ears spoiled with knocks or cuts by weapons; but the others to have their manners corrupted and marred with evil speeches."-PLUTARCH, p. 52.

"THE reply of that great sufferer, the noble Marquis of Worcester, to the maior of Bala in Merionethshire, who came to ex