Church of St. Lawrence Jewry, September 29, 1775, being the Anniversary of the Election of Mayor for the Year enfuing. By the Rev. Jojeph Williamfon. Williams. Is. VII. British confiitutional Liberty, a Sermon preached in Broad Mead, Brifiol, Nov. 5, 1775. By Caleb Evans, M. A. 63. Dilly. Senfible, conftitutional Difcourfes. VIII. Seafonable Advice to the Members of the British Parliament on conciliatory MeaJures with America; and an A&t of perpetual Infolvency for Relief of Debtors, with fume Strictures on the reciprocal Duties of Sovereigns and Senators. 15. Bew. Policy, juftice, humanity, and neceffity, this writer fays, demand an immediate reconciliation with America, reinftating them in the old privileges and rights they enjoyed in 1763; and justice, equity, and humanity, he infifts, require a perpetual act of infolvency for the relief of honeft infolvent debtors. Whether his feasonable advice will be taken or not, will foon be known; perhaps, it is too Jate with respect to America. IX. An Addrefs to the Public, fetting forth among other Things, a Cafe of unlawful Imprifenment, &c. Is. Bew. Mr. Mawhood the writer of this addrefs complains grievously of fome lawyers, attacks the attornies and folicitors bills, and would have the public confider his imprisonment as a violation of public liberty. X. A Difcourfe on the English Confiitution; extracted from a late eminent Writer, and applicable to the prefent Times. Is. Robinson. This late writer could be eminent for nothing but a blind and ftrenuous adherence to Jacobitifm or defpotifm. He is fo ignorant as to make paffive obedience and non-refiftance the great principles of the English conftitution. "A government refiftible (he fays) is no government, the fupreme power may not be lawfully refifted in any cafe whatever, by any coercive force." Had his own liberty or property been attacked by the fupreme power, we think he would have better known the English conftitution, and difcarded his flavish principles. XI. A fort Hint addreffed tothe Candid and Difpaffionate on both Sides the Atlantic. 6d. Almon. Both adminiftration and the Americans are here cenfured, and mutually exhorted to a reconciliation; he would have a mutual compact fo eftablished, as that there might be an easy affectionate dependence on one hand, and a mild and conftitutional authority on the other, and they never be liable to fall into the fatal extremes of anarchy or defpotifm. XII. Confiderations upon the Question. What should be an boneft Englishman's Erdeavour in this prefent Controverfy between Great Britain and the Colonies ? 1s. Wilkie. Our Confiderer's answer to his question, is, that Englishmen should endeavour to fupport adminiftration in their coercive operations against the colonies, and he thinks Great Britain may prevail. We would with him w confider next on this question, "Suppore Great Britain, after an expenfive and bloody conteft, fhould not prevail, and be attacked alfo by the Houfe of Bourbon (both which are very probable) will not the honest Eng lifhman's pretent hoftile endeavours against the Americans prove the ruin of the boncer, strength, and trade of Great Britain, if not annihilate her among the nations? XIII. Septennial Parliaments juftified. 13. Wiskie. A very weak defence of feptennial pariiaments. Experience hath decided in favour of triennial,and fhort parliaments are more agree able to the fundamental laws of our conftas tion. XIV. A Collection of Poems on Divine and Moral Subjects, felected from various zzathers, by William Giles, 4s. Buckland. The editor's intention was in this volume to fave from the wreck of time a few of the best poetical compofitions on divine and meral fubjects. Many excellent poems will be found in this collection, particularly Mr. Boyfe's on the Deity. The editor hath allo inferted fome poetical pieces of his own, which are of a ferious kind, and not deftitute of merit. The following is felected as a fpecimen. To a friend whefe affections were engaged by the exterior charms of a young lady. Why hang my hopes on beauty's fading flower, The blooming offspring of fome genial fhower ? To-day it buds, to-morrow's dawning fun With rifing wonder views it's bluffoms gone; E'en fo thofe charms which now create defire, Ere long muft wither, languish, and expire; With thofe lefs fair, receive one common doom, And waste their luftre in the filent tomb. XV. Devotional Picces, compiled from the Pfalms and the Book of Job; to which are prefixed, Thoughts on the devotional Tafte, on Selts, and on Establishments. 25. 63. Johnfon. The devotional pieces are judicioufly com pi'ed,but we can neither fee the neceflity for, nor the profit that will accrue from the use of them, fuperior to their prefent connexion in the Bible. The thoughts prefixed are folid, and in general juft. Mrs. Barbauld obferves, "That the frictness of a feet (and it can only be refpectable by being strict) is calcu lated for a few finer fpirits who make religion their chief object. As to the much larger number, on whom he has only an impert et influence, making them decent if not virtuous, and meliorating the heart without greatly changing it; for all these the genius of an cftablishment is more eligible and better fitted to cherish that moderate devotion of which alone they are capable. All who have not ftrength of mind to think for themselves, who would live to virtue without denying the world, who wish much to be religious, but more to be genteel, naturally flow into the eftablishment. Thofe too, whofe paffions are regular and equable, and who do not aim at abstracted virtues, are commonly placed to most advantage within the pale of the national faith; the faults of an establishment grow venerable from length of time, the improvements of a fe&t appear whimsical from their novelty. Ancient families, fond of rank and of that order which fecures it to them, are on the fide of the former; traders incline to the latter, and fo do generally men of genius, as it favours their originality of thinking. An establishment leans to fuperftition, a fect to enthufiafm: the one is a more dangerous and violent excefs, the other more fatally debilitates the powers of the mind: the one is a deeper colouring, the other a more lafting dye, but the coldness and languor of a declining fect produces scepticism." The following remark we cannot forbear tranfcribing also: "We learn to respect whatever refpects itself, and are easily led to think that fyftem requires no alteration, which never admits of any. It is this circumftance more than any other, which gives a dignity to that accumulated mafs of error, the church of Rome. A fabric which has weathered many fucceffive ages, though the architecture be rude, the parts difproportionate, and overloaded with ornament, yet ftrikes us with a fort of admiration, merely from its having held fo long together." POETICAL ESSAYS. Sure as the fparkling worlds that gild A godlike fatisfaction yield, In reafon's ravish'd eye. Sure as the Spring, in beauty bright, Or Autumn, rich in every gift, Foretell the Winter's gloom; To the Memory of Mr. Burgh—Author of And follow the manners of buxom queen Befs, Marriages and Deaths Reynolds, fifter to the Right Hon. Lord What does not our small fertile inland produc It is this that enables the foldier and tar, Hence ye nabobs to India with rapine and Courts are ruin'd by wine, while we'r omitted in our last. lict of Sir Samuel Vanaxe Sambrook, Bart, and John Holme, D. D. rector of Bractbutor, and Bramfton in the Eaft Riding of Yorkshet, Hon. Thomas Earl of Caffilis, one of the fixteen Peers of Scotland.-18. At Edin. the late Duke of Bedford. A General Bill of all the Christenings and Males - - 8876 Males Buried, 10134 In all 20514- In all 17629 - Under 2 years - - 715 70 and 80 - Decreased in the burials this year, 370 23 INDEX |