に (now extended to the bulk of five large volumes in octavo) is offered to your Magazine, because you have already given, what may be confidered as an hiftorical preface, which foreclofes any recapitulation of dates and Occurrences by your prefent correfpondent. Fam, Sir, your's, &c. J. D. Another correfpondent, well acquainted with the Diffenters Application and Controverfy, bath favoured us with fome additional obfervations to render it more compleat, which are diftinguifhed by [ ]. A Summary of the DISSENTERS CON TROVERSY. May 1772. R. Mauduit's Cafe of the Dif Menting Minifters, addreffed to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. Wilkie, Is. In the St. James's Chronicle of April 14. and London Chronicle of April 28, 1772. the author of the Cafe was defired to explain his 12th reafon, wherein he declares the reafons for which fubfcription is deemed neceffary under an establishment, do not extend to the cafe of a toleration," by a difinterefted well-wifber to the Chriftian liberty of all mankind. And indeed the faid 12th reafon is fhewn to be ungenerous, and most certainly is more than difputable. the fentences that reflected on Calvinifim, &c. were allo cunningly omitted. See London Magazine for June 1772. p. 288.] Remarks to the Poftfcript to The Cafe, &c. in a letter to that gentleman. Being a full and faithful representation of the proceedings of thofe minifters, as to the late application to parliament. By a firm friend to truth, liberty and charity. Bladon, 2d. Edit. 6d. [Thefe remarks were written by one of the London Diffenting Minilters.] June. A Letter to the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters who lately folicited parliament for farther relief. Flexney, 1s. Some of the principles of this letterwriter were judiciously controverted by feveral pens in the public prints. See a letter from Hubert Lanquet in the Lond. Chron. of June 27. and another from A Lay Proteftant Diffenter, in the fame paper of July 7th. and a third from A. B. in the fame Chronicle of August 6, 1772. See alfo a paper figned Hoadly in the Gen. Even. Poft of October 15, 1772. July. Mr. Radcliff's Sermon preached to a congregation of Proteftant Diffenters at Crutched Friars, occafioned by the denial of relief refpecting fubfcription to the articles of the Church of England. Domville, 6d. Mr. Radcliff's zeal was productive of fome strong and nervous expreffions, or as Dr. Kippis juftly calls them, the language of manly indignation, and this provoked an opponent to draw his goofe quilt in the St. James's Chronicle of July 25, 1772 and to place the initials A. M. at the bottom. [The first impreffion was printed and not published-A fecond edition was foon published, and in the title page, was faid to be "published at the defire of the committee of minifters Candid Thoughts on the applicaappointed for the application to parlia- tion of fome Proteftant Diffenting Miment," though it contained feveral nifters to parliament, for abolishing expreffions highly reflecting on Cal- the fubfcription required of them by vinistical fentiments and minifters. A the Toleration A&t. By an Orthodox third edition fpeedily after appeared, Diffenter. Goldsmith, 68. which dropped the above words in the title page "at the defire of the committee, and a fecond impreffion of the third edition was alfo printed, which was circulated by the fecretary of the committee, among the Diffenting Mipifters in city and country, in which See A. M. in the St. James's Chronicle of October 10, 1772 humouroufly propofing a motto for the Candid Thoughts of this Orthodox Diffenter. Dr. Kippis's Vindication of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters, with re gard "In the London Magazines for September and November 1774. p. 431, and 545. and for January 1775. p. 5. was given an biftory of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifers late application to parliament, together with the hiftory of the Regium Donum, and a lift of the minority of that body, by your correfpondent Paul. All which biorical accounts were prefaced by the fame pen, in the fame Magazine for June 1774 p. 277. gard to their late application to parlia- Dr. Kippis received thro' the Lond. Auguft. Dr. Stennet's Free and Dife paffionate Account of the late application of the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters to parliament. In a letter to a friend. Buckland. 6d. rights of his neighbour, may, and ought on that account, to pray for in removal," and yet he fupported a application for a subscription, which many of his brethren told him would be exceedingly injurious to their civ and religious rights, and refused to join in feeking any relief for them; in the face of his own very charitable words, "we will become fuitors even for that, who warmlyoppofe the great doctrinesi Chriftianity, in matters. wherein the rights of confcience are concerned. We will generously afford them every affiftance we are capable of to elcape profecution: we will pray that they may be placed beyond the reach d profecution."-See Lond. Mag. for October 1772, P. 490.] October. Mr. Fownes's Enquiry into the Principles of Toleration, the degree in which they are admitted by our laws, and the reasonableness c the late application made by the Di fenters to parliament for an enlarge ment of their religious liberties. Buch land. 28. John Bull directed a letter to this learned writer in the Lond. Chron of December 24, 1772, which was duly noticed, and replied to in the Appendix to the fecond edition, foos afterwards publifhed. (Note V. p. 125-) November. Mr. Hitchin's Free Thoughts on the late application of fome Diffenting Minifters to parlia ment, in a letter to the Rev. wherein is proved, thot the prayer of their petition originated with fentiment: to which are added remarks on the new teft, with a few ftrictures os the different pieces, published in defence of the faid application. Bell. 18. A letter was addreffed to Dr. Sten- don. [Dr. S infifted that "the man who can, and does fubfcribe (the articles) if he apprehends the continuance of the fubfeription is any way injurious to the civil and religious December. Dr. Williams's Serious and Earnest Addreis to gentlemen of all denominations, who oppofed the late application of the Proteftant Dif fenting Minifters to parliament for relief in the matter of fubfcription. Rebinfon. Is. Mr.Cafe's Objections against allow ing any human authority in matters of (occafioned by a late applica tion to parliament) in a letter to a friend. Griffin. 6d. Dr.Kippis's Vindication, &c. fecond edition, Robinfon. 25. January 1773. Dr. Tucker's letters to the Rev. Dr. Kippis, occasioned by by his treatise, intituled, A Vindication of the Proteftant Diffenting Min fters, &c. Bladon. 2s. 6d. In the London Chronicle of March 18, 1773, is a letter to Dr. Tucker, on the publication of his letters to Dr. Kippis, figned, R. B. S. wherein the Dean is reprehended for his frequently difcriminating between the cafes of the established and diffenting clergy; if he pleases to turn to our correfpondent, he may feel the weight of fome fevere rubs, for his repeated flings at the petitioning clergy. Sabel lius very fmartly calls the Dean to talk in the St. James's Chronicle of February 2, 1773, for his attachment to, and defence of the fign of the crofs in baptifm, and in reply Staurophoros in the St. James's of Oct. 5th attempts a defence of his figment from its antiquity. Dr. Tucker's Semipelagian, or Arminian Senfes were overhauled by R. R. N. in the t. James's Chron. of September 18, 1773. January. Religion is not the Magiftrate's Province; or, Arguments from Reafon and Scripture against the civil magistrate's claim of authority in the province of religion, illuftrated by the writingsof fundry eminent Conformists, occafioned by a late application to parliament, and humbly fubmitted to the confideration of the liberal and ingenuous in Britain. By Philotheorus. Robinjon. is. 6d. the fmile of heaven upon your farther addrefs.] Dr. Furneaux's Hiftory of Toleration: with a particular view to the late application of the Protestant Diffenting Minifters to parliament, for amending and rendering more effectual the act of it William and Mary, commonly called the Toleration Act. Cadell. IS. 6d. 66 [The principles maintained in this effay, were abfolute liberty in the affairs of religion," and that "no penal laws fhould be enacted, which have religion for their object;" and yet the writer joined in praying the civil magiftrate to exercife a power to which he afferted he had no just right, the enjoining a fubfcription to a religious tett, under the fanction of every penal law now in force, and which he knew would operate to the depriving some of his brethren of the rights of confcience, and their religious liberty, or of their miniftry.] [By the Rev. Dr. Fleming, one of the London Diffenting Minifters, who thus expoftulated (but in vain) with the majority of the committee, though his age and abilities entitled him to have been one, and the firft, or before any of that committee: "The prayer, which has been offered to parliament, appears to be incompatible with the fundamental principles of a confiftent Proteftant diffent. Tofacrifice this principle, is a conceffion, which can no way be juftified. It appears to me, there is in the prayer an iniquity which heaven cannot patronize. Revoke the prayer-fhew your felves in a becoming light and genuine. character. Be not afraid of telling the national fenate, you better know, and can more virtuously avow your own principles. Afk for a freedom from all restraint, and fubmit to no religious teft, if you would hope for Dec. 1775 February. Mr. Fell's Genuine Proteftantifm; or unalienable rights of confcience defended, in oppofition to the late, and new mode of fubfcription, propofed by fome Diffenting Minifters. In three letters to the Rev. Mr. Pickard, chairman of the committee for conducting their late application to parliament. Dilly. 1s. 6d. At the conclufion of Mr. Fell's pamphlet was advertised, foon will be publifed," Achan's Golden Wedge; or Royal Bounty Influence, traced and difplayed from March 1723 to the prefent time: with feafonable advice to Lord North and the body of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters." This account never appearing, provoked a writer, who figns himfelt Verax in the London Evening Poft of March 5, 1774, to call on Mr. Fell for the promited hiftory. In the fame paper of the 26th of the fame month, Veritas denies Mr. Fell's knowledge of any fuch advertisement before it was printed, and his being poffeffed of any information on that fubje&t. [The book fellers do not always afk leave of authors, what book shall be advertised at the end of, or in connexion with theirs ] April. An Addre's to the Right Rev. Bithops of the Church of England; with relation to the bill of the Diffen. 4 M ters. ters. By a Diffenting Minifter. Bla. don. 6d. [By the Rev. Mr. Turnbull of Hammersmith.] Mr. Wilton's Apology for the renewal of an application to parliament, by the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters. Addreffed to the twelve minifters who protested against it. Buckland. 1s. 6d. A Collection of the feveral papers relating to the application made to parliament in 1772 and 1773, by fome of the Proteftant Diffenters, for relief in the matter of fubfcription to the doctrinal Articles of the Church of England. Wilkie. 19. Mr. R. Hutchins's Gospel Truth difplayed, and Gospel Minister Duty, in a day of great defection, proved in a fermon preached before the fociety of Proteftant Diffenting Minifters, meeting at the New York CoffeeHoufe, occafioned by the rejection of the Diffenters bill. Simmonds. 6d. [Neither Mr. R. Hutchins nor the fociety of Lay-Minifters to whom he preached, had any connection with the regular approved body of London Minifters.] Two letters addressed to the Right Reverend Prelates, who a fecond time rejected the Diffenters Bill. Jobnfon. 2s. [Attributed to the Reverend Mr. Radcliffe.] [November. Effays on public worship, patriotifm and projects of reformation. Payne. 1s. 6d. The feventh effay hath a particuJar reference to the Diffenters applica tion, and contains many just reflections on the regium donum men, and the committee. He advised them to take up the bufinefs de novo and quibble no longer about fubfcribing, "for words of God, words of man, words of the devil,it makes no manner of difference: when the magiftrate hath adopted, "then they are his words, and you defert your principle, and injure your integrity in taking even that Gofpel you believe at the hand of the magif trate, and making him the judge of your faith and confcience.] January. Mr. Fownes's Enquiry, &c. fecond edition, with confiderable additions. Buckland, zs. 6d. May. Dr. Gibbons's Objections against the application to the legislature for the relief of the Proteftant Dif fenting Minifters, Diffenting Tutors, and Schoolmafters, difpaffionately confidered and obviated. Bucktand, 6ć. [This writer was one of those cruelly felfish perfons, he himself defcribes "Becaufe I am houfed in the ark,I will! give myself no concern about my bre. thren, who are, if not drowning about me, yet in jeopardy every hour." He hath taken notice of the noft trifling of the objections against the applica tion, but meddles not with those urged by his brethren, who were to be left to the tender mercies of the Penal Laws. He acknowledges to have heard them :' "I own that I have heard other objections alledged, but I shall here drop my pen." Ne futor ultra crepidam. December. Mr. Fawcett's Sermon, preached at Kidderminster, Nov. 5, 1773, intituled, The encouraging pro- i fpect that religious liberty will be enlarged, confidered and applied to the r cafe of the Proteftant Disenters. Back | land. 6d. Hooper in the Whitehall Even. Puft of January 15, 1774-reproves the partial and limited idea of Chriftian liberty maintained, and the ill deferved compliments paid to the bishops, in this fermon. January 1774. Mr. Toulmin's two Letters on the late application to parliament, by the Proteftant Diffenting Minifters: one, An Address to the Diffenting Laity on the fubject of those applications. The other, An Enquiry into the lawfulness of the declaration, propofed to be fubftituted in the room of fubfcription to the Articles of the Church of England. Johnson. 25. [See Lond. Mag. for April 1774p. 198.] The juftice and utility of Penal Laws for the direction of conscience examined; in reference to the Diffenters late application to parliament. Addressed to a member of the House of Commons. Dilly, 25. The very ingenious author of this pamphlet (Rev. Mr. Fell) had some attention paid him, and fome hints given him by a writer who assumed the name of Locke in the Lond. Chron. of March 3, 1774, and which letter was answered by another correfpondent, who figned himself Paul in two letters in the fame paper of March 10, and April 5th, following. Locke replied in that of June 9th, and Paul had had the last word in the paper of the 8th, of the fame Month. The two letters of Paul in the faid Chronicle a of March 13th and April the 5th were published (with confiderable additions) in your Magazine for June 1774, but without any note of the writer who drew him out, and who anfwered his first letter. [See London' Magazine for Feb. 1774. p. 91.] r February. A letter to the Right Rev. Father in God, Shute Lord Bifhop of Landaff. From a petitioner. Johnjon. 13. In the London Evening Poft of Feb. 2 22, 1774, An Epifcopalian corrects a mistake in this Letter Writer to the Bishop of Landaff, refpecting Bishop Law, and who is juftly defended from all fimilarity in principle and conduct from the Bishop of Lff, and his followers. [See Lond. Mag. for April 1774. p. 198.] March. Mr. Wilton's Review of fome of the articles of the Church of England, to which a fubfcription is required of Proteftant Diffenting Minifers. Buckland. 4s. A writer under the name of Tillotfon, addreffes himself to Mr. (now Dr.) Wilton in the Whitehall Evening Poft of May 7, 1774; and with good rea. fon reproves the odious diftinction made by fome, between the plea of the eftablished clergy, and that of the Protestant Diffenting Minifters, and which was repeated by Mr. Wilton in his preface. [See Lond. Mag. for April 1774. P. 198.] May. Dr. Tucker's Religious Intolerance, no part of the general plan either of the Mofaic, or Chriftian difpenfations, proved by fcriptural inferences and deductions, after a method entirely new. Rivington. 18. [See Lond. Mag. for May 1774. P. 242.] July. An Addrefs to Proteftant Diffenters of all denominations on the approaching election of members to parliament, with respect to the state of the public liberty in general, and of American affairs in particular. Johnfon. 2d [See Lond. Mag. for Sept. 1774. P. 449.] October. Human authority in matters of faith repugnant to Christianity: illuftrated in two difcourfes on Matt. xxiii v. 8. Johnson. is. d. [See Lond. Mag. for Feb. 1775p. 91.] January 1775.Mr. Fell's fourth Letter to the Rev. Mr. Pickard on genuine Proteftantifm. Being a full reply to the Reverend Mr. Toulmin's defence of the Diffenters new mode of fubfcription. Dilly. us. [See Lond. Mag. for Jan. 1775. p. 38.] February. An Orthodox Diffenting Minifter's reafons for a further applica tion to parliament, for relief in the matter of fubfcription to the articles of the Church of England. Buckland. 28. [See Lond. Mag. for June 1775. P. 316] THE HISTORY OF EDWARD AND MARIA. THE ark never contained creatures moved hold towards Bubby Park, and the cuckold was tranfported with us to America-where he ferved the war, but defpiled by all who could judge of virtue and manly honour. In Auguft 1756 I arrived at the city of New-York; which is built on an island bounded fouth and fouthweft by the rivers Hudson and Delaware; on the eaft and north-east, by Long Island and the Atlantick ocean; and on the north-weft by Canada. Upon Hudfon and Mohawk rivers, the cities of New-York and Albany are 4 M z fituate |