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Our blessed Lord's Injunction to Preach the Gospel considered: A Sermon, preached at Bridgwater, at the triennial Visitation of the Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells, on Monday, June 19, 1815. By John Matthew, M.A. Rector of Kilve and Stringston, Somerset, and late Fellow of Baliol College, Oxford. 1s. 6d...

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A Treatise on Conveyancing, with a View to its Application to Practice, being a Series of practical Observations, written in a plain familiar Style. By Richard Preston, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Vol. II. Part II. 12s.

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The Important Results of an elaborate Investigation into the mysterious Case of Elizabeth Fenning, being a Detail of extraordinary Facts discovered since her Execution, including the official Report of her singular Trial, &c. &c. By John Watkins, L.L.D. 8vq. 6s. 6d.

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Mr. Nichols has at length completed his laborious History of Leicestershire, by an Appendix of Additions and Corrections; a Series of elaborate Indexes; a general Map of the County; and several additional Plates.

Proposals for a new History of Northamptonshire, brought down to the present period, have been issued by Mr. George Baker, of Northampton, who have devoted several years to collecting materials for the work.

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Mr. W. Monck Mason intends publishing by subscription History of Ireland on a very extended plan. The first portion will contain the History of Dublin and its Environs, and will be comprised in three quarto volumes.

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Des. Erasmi Rot. Concio de Poero Iesv Olim Pronunciata Prero in Schola Iohannis Coleti Londini Institvta in' qra Prasidebat Imago Pveri Lesz Docentis Specie. Editio Nova.

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BRITISH CRITIC.

FOR NOVEMBER, 1815.

ART. I. A Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester on the Subject of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Thomas Gisborne, A.M. Second Edition. Cadell and Davies. 1815. WE have ever been disposed to consider Mr. Gisborne as a worthy and a well meaning man, though certainly not as a theoJogian of the highest order. His sermons, with a very few exceptions, we have held to be both creditable and useful publications, and what they wanted in brilliancy of talent to be fully made up in goodness of intent. We have long known him to have been attached to the interests of a peculiar party, and zealously to have advocated the cause of the Bible Society, our respect however for his motives still continued undiminished; how far however his character, either as a Christian or a man, can be raised in the estimation of ourselves or of the public by the sentiments and spirit of the pamphlet before us, we shall leave it for our readers to determine.

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Mr. Gisborne has the means undoubtedly of enforcing attention in a certain circle, far beyond those which ordinary authors are allowed to possess; but we very much doubt whether with all these powers at his command his present publication would fairly have gone through a single edition, had it not been addressed to a prelate, whose recent elevation has been the object of so much public discussion. With his name in the title page it emerges from the froth and foam of an auxiliary anniversary, and acquires a sort of substance, which obtrudes itself upon our attention. We would not judge with harshness the offensive trash which too often issues from very worthy and respectable men at these Bible Associations; the vanity of selfapprobation, the intoxication of popular applause, the motley and discordant groupe from whom that applause is to be extracted

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extracted, all conspire to throw their understandings off their guard, and at once to generate confusion of idea and abandonment of principle. Had this publication therefore assumed the form of a speech delivered at the county hall of Stafford, we should not have thought it worth our while to oppose the shortlived effusions of annual eloquence, but as it now appears, containing the cool, deliberate, and uncalled for opinions of a reverend divine, upon a subject of the highest importance, and stamped with the name of a newly created prelate as its passport to general circulation, it seems to challenge the most rigid and impartial examination. The letter begins with the following paragraph.

"MY DEAR FRIEND,

"One of your predecessors complained that a book, which he had written to establish the divine legation of Moses, had excited 'outcries as vehement as might have resounded if it had averred the divine legation of Mahomet. There are persons who pursue the British and Foreign Bible Society with clamours as vehement as could be warrantable, were the object of the institution to circulate the Koran." P. 3.

How far the present Bishop will be obliged to Mr. Gisborne for reminding the world that Warburton, at whose mighty name even to this moment both the infidel and the fanatic appear to tremble, once sat in the throne which his Lordship now occupies, it is not for us to determine. We cannot however sufficiently commend the prudence, with which such a name as that of Warburton, is dropped in the gentler sqwvía of "one of your predecessors."

Whether the advocates or the adversaries of the British and Foreign Bible Society have most reason to complain of " vehement clamours," is a question which may be easily answered by those who are in the habit of attending auxiliary meetings, or what is still clearer evidence, by those who may think it worth while to read the pamphlet before us. The introduction of the Koran in this sentence, is attended with various advantages to the cause of which Mr. G. is an advocate. In the first place, it gives the reader to understand that it is the circulation of the Bible, which excites the indignation of those, whom Mr. G. opposes; though Mr. G. knows as well as we do, that the persons whom he thus traduces, are indefatigable in the distribution of the Bible through the medium of another Society, which had been established an hundred years before the modern institution was thought of. Another advantage arising from introducing the Koran is, that the opposers of the Bible Society are thus represented as objecting to it, not because they prefer their own Society to that of Mr.

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