active human endeavours, is weakness and folly. Quit yourfeives like MEN, and quit yourfelves like CHRISTIANS too-affuming a military habit, as the protectors of your native land, put on alfo the whole armour of God-and then, wherever your enemies may be found, AS FOR YOU, BE YE NOT AFRAID OF THEM."

16. A Sermon, preached at St. Paul's, be fore the Lord Mayor, &c. on April 19, 1807, being the first Sunday in Eafter Term. By the Rev. Philip Dodd.

FROM Gen. ii. 3, the religious obfervance of the Sabbath is enforced,

"Pay due refpe&t, my brethren," the preacher concludes," to the Institution of the Lord's Day. From faered and worldly confiderations, it appears your duty and your wifdom to hold it in honor. Give" glory to God in the highest," for the bleffings of creation and redemption, by dedicating one day, at leaft, in the weekly revolution, to his particular fervice. Promote " peace on earth, and good-will towards men," by upholding an Ordinance which preferves Christianity in the world, and, confequently, encourages the practice of "whatfoever things are true, honeft, juft, pure, lovely, and of good report." From a principle of gratitude to God, your Creator, Preferver, Redeemer, and Sanctifier of regard for your fellow-Chriftians, and fellow-creatures of concern for your own fouls devote the leisure of this Day-THE DAY WHICH THE LORD HATH MADE-to the purposes which Religion approves."

17. Another Sermon, by Mr. Dodd, at St. Paul's, May 31, 1807, being the first Sunday in Trinity Term.

FROM Matt. v. 38-37, the folemnity of an oath on judicial occafions and the heinous guilt of perjury are well enforced.

"Whatever intereft may at any time whisper, or cuftom in any measure appear to fanction, they who invoke the Almighty to confirm an untruth, offer an affront to his venerable name and authority, of which no plea, no fophiftry, no equivocation, no mental referve, can poffibly leffen the wickedness."

18. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, the WorJhipful the Aldermen, the Recorder, the Sherifs, the Common Council of the City of London, the Liveries of the feveral Companies, and the City Officers, Sept. 29, 1807, before the Election of a Lord Mayor. By Mr. Dodd,

THE text to this Difcourfe, Phil. iv. 8, is felected as particularly appropriate to the folemnity of the day.

"For those who are called upon to fill elevated ftations in life, and to discharge duties to the publick, as men in authority, no words can convey a more wholefome and valuable direction."

After expounding the text, Mr. D. thus applies his Difcourfe to the new and to the old Lord Mayors :

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Many and valuable are the opportunities which prefent themselves to the Chief Magiftrate of this great City for the difplay of the temper which St. Paul delineates. That he is bound by the ftrongeft obligations to embrace them, it has been Cuftom my leading object to point out. required exhortation from this place; or, on the prefent occafion, when I confider the character of the person whom we expect to fee invested with the enfign of authority, I am aware that it might have been omitted, Praife is never withheld but by those who have nothing in themfelves praiseworthy, from useful and meritorious conduct. There is ftill justice and virtue enough in the world to make it the intereft of every man to do his duty, with the profpect only of temporal reward; and, if this were not the cafe, there is an encouragement to perfeverance in welldoing infinitely fuperior to worldly credit and fame. That praife awaits ufeful fervices, I am confident, my Brethren, you are ready to fhew. You will gladly give the tribute of praife and honour to the Magiftrate who has been uniformly, true to the truft repofed in him-who with. active and honeft zeal, with becoming ferioufnefs, and with exemplary punctua lity, has difcharged the duties of his high office-who has been inflexibly juft in his judgment between man and man, has neither regarded perfons, nor taken reward

who has ferved you with a pure confcience-who, by bounty to the poor, unfolicited, frequent, and extenfive (that loveliest of Chriftian virtues), has added luftre to the benevolent character of the City in which he bears rule. Conduct like this, has a title to good report. But: your prefent Chief Magiftrate needs not my encomium. He has a better witness to his fidelity, the witness of an honest heart; and I will not wound his delicacy by enlarging on this topic."

We are happy to add, that in the interval between the fecond and third of the above Sermons, the worthy Preacher was rewarded for his Civic fervices, by the va luable Rectory of St. Mary at Hill; which became vacant by the death of Mr. Brand (LXXVI. 881). The prefentation was vefted in a fmall number of Trustees, the

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principal inhabitants of the Parish; and Sir William Leighton (to whom, as Lord Mayor, Mr. Dodd was Chaplain)

is the Alderman of the Ward in which the Church is fituated.

19. A Topographical Dictionary of England; exhibiting the Names of the feveral Citics, Towns, Parishes, Tythings, TownShips, and Hamlets, with the County and Divifion of the County to which they respectively betong; the Valuation and Patrons of Ecclefiaftical Benefices, and the Tutelary Saint of each Church; the refident Population, according to the Returns made to Parliament in 1801; and the Amount of the Parochial Affefiments, according to the Returns made to Parlia ment in 1803; the Defiance and Bearing of every Place from the nearest Pof-office, and from the County Town, Markets, and Fairs; Members of Parliament, and Corporations; Free Schools; Petty Seffions and Affizes; to which is added, Mifcellaneous Information reSpecting Monaftic Foundations, and other Matters of local Hiftory. Collected from the most authentic Documents, and arranged in Alphabetical Order. In two Vols. 4to. By Nicholas Carlifle, Fellow and Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of London. 4to. Longman, & Co. THIS moft laborious work is dedicated, by permiffion, to the Prefident and Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries, to whom, and all writers on Topography, it cannot fail of becoming a valuable acquifition. Mr. Carlitle enumerates "the feveral very extenfive deferiptions of perfons" that will be benefited by confulting it in p. viii, of his preface, in which he reviews the productions of his predeceffors in the fame purfuit, beginning with Speed, whofe laborious work," he obferves, "has been found accurate beyond expectation;" but, as has been faid by Adams, in the preface to his Index Villaris (edit. 1690)," by making an alphabet to each fingle county, (Speed) rendered it ufelefs to all thofe who were to feek for any place, that knew not the county in which it was fituate." Of the Villare Anglicum, 4to, 1656, Mr. Carline fays,

"This work, which thus endeavours to recommend itfelf under the great name of Spelman, is, indeed, no more than the incorporation of Speed's Tables into one alphabet; and as fuch muft have been of confiderable ufe, though it unfairly lays claim to originality."

We have given the above extracts to fhew the manner in which Mr. C.

eftimates those who have travelled the fame road he prefers; and concludes his review by thus noticing Whatley.

"Mr. W. dedicates his work to the Right Hon. Arthur Onflow, Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, and certainly appears The work is executed with great accuracy; to have poffeffed very valuable materials. and is evidently the bafis of the feveral gazetteers, which have fince been publifhed as original compofitions. Most of them indeed (even the most recent) are mere copies of Mr. Whatley's book."

There is a fpirit of candour in this sketch, that demands our approbation, and evinces that Mr. C. may be relied on for fidelity, who can even bear to give praife where due, though that praife may appear to diminish his own claims on the publick. The lapfe of time and progreffive improvement have rendered his Dictionary useful beyond any other fimilar work: on this fubject he declares,

"A large quantity of information, more authentic than any to be procured from the feveral works already mentioned, has been afforded by the Returns to the feveral Parliamentary inquiries of 1776 and 1786, refpecting the Poor's rate; that of 1801 for enumerating the Population; and finally, a third inquiry refpecting the Poor and Poor's rate in 1803. To the accident of the Author's employment in the office where thefe laft Returns were arranged, may, indeed, be afcribed the production of the work now offered to the publick."

A lift of the most important Topographical Books which have been confulted, is fubjoined at the end of the preface. This will fhew to literary' men, in the best and shortest manner, the degree of authority to which the: work is entitled, and whether the Author has been induftrious in his refearches, and judicious in his felection of fuch information as could be inferted in a Topographical Dictionary: thofe : amount to near 300, befides which, Mr. C. acknowledges affiftance from the MSS. in the British Museum, and many gentlemen equally diflinguifhed for abilities and liberality.

"It would be improper to conclude this Preface without informing the reader, that the dominion of Wales is not included in the prefent Dictionary. The orthography of the names and appellations in that part of the kingdom is fo irregular, that the Author could not prevail on himfelf to throw them into alphabetical

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form, without having attained some knowledge of the language and of the country. He hopes hereafter to acquire thefe advantages, and will then attempt to produce a third volume, which, with Wales, may include Scotland, Ireland, and the iflands in the British Seas; thus com pleting the whole of the United Kingdom." Mr. C. has our fincere wishes, that the publick of the United Kingdom may truly eflimate the difficulty and labour of this his excellent production, and enable him to perform his promile to their future fatisfaction; though we cannot help obferving, that he has anticipated himself in the articles Abergavenny, Aberyltwith, &c.

We fhall extract one fpecimen, to explain the nature of the Topographical Dictionary.

"Byker, in the Eaft divifion of Caftle ward, co. of Northumberland, in the parifh of All Saints. The refident population of this township in 1801, was 3254. The money raifed by the parish rates in 1803, was 1010l. 2s. 3d. at 6d. in the pound. It is one mile and a quarter Eaft from Newcastle-upon-Tyne. The overfeers remark, that "in 1744 this townfhip was firft charged with one poor perfon, who received 21. 10s. annually." In 1803 the number of perfons relieved from the poor's-rate was 286, at the ex'pence of 9731. 5s. 7d."

20.

The Adventures of Robert Drury, during Fifteen Years Captivity in the Ifland of Madagafcar; containing a Defcription of that Island; an Account of its Produce, Mannfactures, and Commerce; with an Account of the Manners and Customs, Wars, Religion, and Civil Policy of the Inhabitants to which is added, a Vocabulary of the Madagafear Language. Written by himself, and now carefully revifed and corrected from the Original Copy.

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THIS work was originally printed in 1743, according to the prefent titlepage; but there muft have been a republication, for Drury's Adventures firft appeared in 1729, aud the atteflation of Capt. Mackett to his veracity, in the copy before us, bears date May 7, 1728. Of Drury fome account is given in the Biographical Dictionary, and enquiries were made after him in our vol. LX. p. 1190. The authenticity of his narrative feems to be amply confirmed, and his facts have been adopted by the compilers of geography. There is all that fimplicity and verbiage

21. Quæftiones Græcæ; or Questions adapted to the Eton Greek Grammar. By the Rev. John Simpfon, Baldock, Herts. 12mo.

THE best recommendation of a work of this kind is, that it has been tried by an able mafier, and found to anfwer its purpofe. Mr. Simplon tried it first in the cafe of the Eton Latin Grammar, and he has found, that very different degrees of advancement have takeu place, where this plan has been adopted, and where it has not. On examining it, we are inclined to be of his opinion, that it has a tendency to familiarize the application of rules; and by bringing in the judgment to allift the memory, it may remove a portion of tedium and disgust both to the ftudent and preceptor. There is another purpose, not noticed by our author, which it may certainly ferve; and that is, to enable thofe who have left fchool to afcertain the flate of their Greek knowledge, how much they have learned, what they have forgot, and what they have yet to learn. In all refpects, therefore, we can recom

end it both to mafiers and fcholars.

22. Another Word or Two; or Architectu ral Hints continued, in Lines to thofe Royal Academicians who are Painters, addreffed to them on the Re-election of Benjamin Weft, Efq. to the President's Chair, Dec. 10, 1806. By Fabricia Nunnery, Spinfier. With Dedication, Preface, Notes, and Appendix. 12mo.

THIS Lady's former poein found fault with the Academicians for placing in their chair of business and authority, an Architect, who could have no fellowfeeling with painters, and whole engagements did not permit him to give all that attention to the duties of the Prefident's Office which it required. The Royal Academicians having, however, re-elected their old President, Mr. Weft, Fabricia addrefles them in terms

both