a long while, when the time confpired with the orders of the queen to produce a filence fo profound, that had not her starts. now and then recalled my fenfes, hardly could my half-clofed eyes have difcerned the pages over, which they wandered. The door flew fuddenly open a form fa fair fo fragile fo calamitous appeared there, that hardly durft my beating heart call it Ellinor. The queen ftarted up with a feeble quickness, but had only power to falter out a convulfive ejaculationvorb inftantly remembered Elizabeth believed her dead, and ima gined this her fpectre. The beauteous phantom (for furely never mortal looked fo like an inhabitant of another world) funk on one knee, and while her long garments of black flow ed gracefully over the floor, the lifted up her eyes toward hea ven, with that nameless fweetnefs, that wild, ineffable besi nignity, madnefs alone can give, then meekly bowed before Elizabeth. The queen, heart-truck, fell back into her featu without voice to pronounce a fyllable. Ellinor arofe, and ap proached fill nearer landing a few moments, cheaked and filent. I once ice was proud, was paffionate, indignant, faid the sweet unfortunate at laft, in the low and broken voice of inexpreffible anguish,, but heaven forbids me now to be fo Oh! you who was furely born only to chatize my unhappy race, forgive me I have no longer any fenfe but that of ord Again the funk upon the f floor, and gave way to fob bings the firuggled in vain to fupprefs.The queen dragged me convulfively to her, and burying her face in my bofom, exclaimed indistinctly, fave me fave me-oh, Pembroke, fave me from this ghafly fpectre "Effex Eflux-Effex Vid groaned forth the proftrate Ellinor, expreffively railing her white hand at each touching repetition,The violent fhudder-d ings of the queen, marked the deep effect that fatal name took on her, Somebody told me, continueu the lovely wanderers that he was in the Tower, but I have looked there for him till I am weary is there a colder, fafer prifon, then? but is a prifon a place for your favourite, and can you condemn him to the grave -Ah, gracious Heaven, ftrike off his head-his beauteous head!Seal up thofe fparkling eyes for ever.-Oh, no, I thought not, faid the with an altered voiceSo you hid him here after to torment me. But Effex will not fee me fuffe Will you, my lord So fofo the flow progrefs of her eyes round the room, thewed, the in imagina tion followed his fleps. Yes yes, added she, with revived fpirits, I thought that voice would prevail, for who could ever refift it and only I need die then; well, I do no not mind thatI will fteal into his prifon and fuffer in his place, but be fure you do not tell him fo,d for one loves meah! dearly does he love me, but I alone need figh at that, you know." And figh the did indeed.-Oh! what a world of woe was drawn up in a fingle breath!The long filence which followed induced the queen once more to raife her head-the fame fad object met

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her eyes, with this difference, that the fweet creature now food up again, and putting one white hand to her forehead, the half rarfed the other, as earnestly demanding ftill to be heard, halforaffed though her vague eyes Thewed her her. Oh, now Premember it, refumed the, you have me murdered, but let me be buried in Fotheringay; and be fure I have women to attend me; Be fure of that you khow the reason."This incoherent reference to the unprece dented fate of her royal mother, affected Elizabeth deeply."But could not you let me once mo e him before I die? what pleafare would it give me to view him on the throne !Oh, I do fee him there! exclaimiell fire in the voice of furprife and tranfport. Benign, majeftic! Ah, how glorious in his beauty who would not die for thee, my Effex Alas, never, never, never, sh thall I fee him groaned forth the agonized Elizabeth."Me married to him refamed our friend, replying to fome imaginary. fpeech-oh, no, I took warning by my fitter-I will have no more bloody marriages you fee I have no ring, wildly displayindeed, if you knew all but I need not tell you that have I my lord?-look up here is my love he himself fhall tell you.-

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the hand terror had caufed Elizabeth' to extend, but faintly. fhrieking, drew back her own, furveying it with inexpreffible. horror. “Oh, you have dipt mine in blood! exclaimed the, a-mother's blood! I am all contaminated It runs cold to my very heart. Ah, no,-it is-it is the blood of Effex; and. have you murdered him at laft, in fpite of your dotage, and your promifes ? murdered the mott noble of mankind! and all because she could not love you. Fye on your wrinkles!-can. ope love age and uglinefs ?-Oh, how thofe artificial locks, and all your paintings fickened him!-How have we laughed at fuch prepofterous follyBut I have done with laughing now -we will talk of graves, and throuds, and church-yards.Methinks I fain would know where my poor fitter lies buried. you will fay in my heart perhaps it has indeed entombed all I love; yet there must be fome little unknown corner in this world, one might call her grave, if one could but tell where. to find it: there the rells at lalt with her Leicelter he was your favourite too a bloody, bloody" distinction.”—The queen who had with difficulty preserved her fenfes till this cutting period, now funk k back into a deep fwoon.

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has attended, in these volumes, more carefully to costume, in which we obferved, that he had been deficient in the first volume: and, on the whole, has fully anfwered the expectations fhe had raided. Her history is, indeed, a tale of woe, and the wrath of heaven feems, in every instance, to purfue its fairelt offspring. This is, probably, a double errop-we are led to feel, that the molt guarded conduct, and

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the most virtuous intentions, cannot fave us from diftrefs; and, from feeing that these cannot enfure fuccefs, we may neglect to deferve it in another view, misfortunes lofe their effect by their being continually prefented to the mind, without a livid ray to break through the cloud, without a pleafing profpect, or a fhort enjoyment to contraft them. We think our author has been too uniformly gloomy: the mind finks under continued diftrefs in real life; it efcapes from imaginary misfortunes; and the attention fails, when there is no refpite for the wounded feelings. The great, though not the only fource from which pleasure is derived, in confequence of the representation of diftreffing fcenes, is the emotion, or rather the employment of the mind, on fubjects which intereft it. When this employment is too long continued, fatigue rather than gratification is the confequence. Perhaps mifsLee might have attained a greater proportion of fame, if the had attended to this circumftance; yet her other merits are fo confiderable, that we have no reafon to fear the reputation of her work will be greatly leffened by it.

The language is not like that of the age of Elizabeth; it is in fome inftances incorrect, and occafionally obfcure yet her defcriptions are clear, animated, and vivid; the incidents varied and numerous; the different adventures related with spirit and precifion and the reflections just, pertinent, and moral..

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Eight Sermons on the Prophecies refpecting the Destruction of Ferufalem, preached before the University of Oxford, in the Year 1785. At the Lecture founded by the late Rev. John Bampton, M. A. Canon of Salisbury. By Ralph Churton, M. A. Fellow of Brafen Nofe College. 800. 45. White.

SHOULD the reader, in thefe Sermons, expect that grace,

splendour, and animation of ftyle, which fo highly distinguished the late difcourfes of Mr. Profeffor White, at this Lecture, he will probably be difappointed; not but that Mr. Churton's language is fometimes very fpirited, often interefting, and generally not ill fuited to the nature of the fubject he treats.

Sermon I. on Matt. vi. 10. Thy Kingdom come,-in which the author difplays learning and critical fkill, has a little too much of the stiff air of a differtation for the pulpit. The author is of opinion, that this verfe of St. Matt. xvi. 28. Verily I fay unto you, there be fome standing here which shall not taste of Death till they fee the Son of Man coming in his King

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dem-refers to our Saviour's transfiguration. He allows, that the best of our commentators do not refer it to that event; but infits that Origen, Chryfoftom, and the rest of the fathers, unanimously apply it fo; and feconds their opinion with fome plaufible reasoning.

The author, on Matt. xxvi. 29. I will not drink henceforth of this Fruit of the Vine until that Day when I shall drink it with you in my Father's Kingdom-does not admit the more common interpretations of this paffage; but thinks that, without any figure, it may be understood of the time between our Lord's refurrection and afcenfion; during which, we know, to prove beyond difpute the verity of his body, he condefcended both to eat and drink with his difciples.—Our limits will not allow us to enter into the arguments on which this opinion is founded.

Serm. II. is on Matt. xxiv. 14. This Gospel of the Kingdom fhall be preached in all the World, for a Witness unto all Nations, and then fball the End come. From this text we learn, according to our author, one of the figns which our Saviour gave to his difciples, whereby it might be known, that the defolation of the Temple, and the overthrow of the Jewish ftate, were nigh at hand.

Serm. III. Matt. xxiv. 4, 5. Take Heed that no Man deceive you. For many fhall come in my Name, faying, I am Chrift; and fhall deceive many. Here Mr. Churton difcovers another mark of the time of the approaching vengeance, mentioned in the foregoing difcourfe. The diftinctions our author fixes betwixt true and falfe prophets, and true and false workers of miracles, are ingenious, and evince confiderable ability.

Serm. IV. Matt. xxiv. 8. All these are the beginning of Sorrows. The figns of wrath, and the commencement of trouble, are, in this Sermon, illuftrated in an interefting and convincing manner, from Jofephus's Wars of the Jews.

Serm. V. Luke xxi. 20, 21. When ye fhall fee Jerufalem compaffed with Armies, then know, that the Defalation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the Mountains. The accomplishment of Chrift's prophecy fhews the probable meaning of the abomination of deflation, to be the Roman ftandards, in the army of Caius Cæftius appearing on the feaft of tabernacles, in the year 66, at Jerufalem; and that, by the holy place, was meant no more than the city in general, This. point being treated at large, the author concludes the dif courfe with the providential delivery of the Chriftians, who at that time flew from Jerufalem to Pella, in confequence of the injunction given them in the text to depart.

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Serm. VI. Luke xix, 41, 42, 43, 44. And when he was come near, he beheld the city and wept over it, &c.—on the miseries of the siege, and the final diffolution of the city and the temple. This difcourfe is chiefly historical, and abounds with affecting circumftances, well described.

Serm. VII. Rom. xi. 25, 26. I would not that ye should be ignorant (left ye should be wife in your own Conceits) that Blindnef, in Part is happened to Ifrael, until the Fulness, of the Gentiles be come in. And fo all Ifrael fhall be faved. Many of the evidences from the Old and New Teftament, relative to the final converfion of the Jews, are here flightly touched upon, but in a way that gives fatisfaction. This Sermon completes the plan of the author's

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Serm. VIII. John viv. 29. I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass ye might believe. This last difcourfe is little more than a recapitulation of the principal points of argument in the foregoing/Sermons in which fummary view thefe points are forcibly sketched gelema Bojech We shall conclude this article with the following fhort but fpirited reflection towards the end of this last discourse.cliw Had thefe prophecies been forged, had they been pra duced yesterday, and accommodated: to the circumstances of all paft ages, the face of things to-day might bely the predictions, and expofe the impoftor Let this fingular people he no longer different from other people let them adopt the religions, and become members of the fates of the various countries, whether Chritian, Mahometan, or Pagan, wherein they refide; melt them down in the mass of mankind, and let them not be diftinguishable from other men; or, if you choose, feparate them from the midst of other nations, tranfplant them into fome unoccupied region, colonize with them fome uninhabited inland, and let them there obferve their re-, ligion and their laws. Oneither fuppofition, (and either is poffible, if the holy fcriptures are not true) you demonftrate thofe predictions to be forgeries, which declare that their infidelity and difperfion halls be of equal duration; that they fall continue diftinét, not till they fwerve to idolatry, or fink into Mahometifm, but till they look upon Him whom they pierced Days and years rollion, and fweep away in their courfe the operations of men, and the dreams of error; but truth is a pillar of adamant, immoveable as the poles of heaven. Seventeen centuries have paffed over the fons of difperfion, and feen them the objects of.conftaut wretchedness; nor would feventeen thousand fee them extinct, or their fituation altered, fhould they not in the mean time embrace the gospel.