GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE : LGND: GAZETTE BuryS.Edmund's Canterbury 2 Carli.-Chefter Chelmsford 2 Cornw.--Covent. Meteorological Diary-Prices of Grain... 793 Mr. Le Mefurier's Anfwer to Dr. Laurence 826 Letters from Holland and Germany in 1794795 Act for Prevention of Duelling recommended 829 Dr. Milner on miraculous Cure of W. White 797 Mustard-Phænomenon-Downing College 830) Epitaph at Reading forVicomte deSaint Riveul 709 Pope's Homer-York Minfter--Manor of Holt 831 ARCHITECTURAL INNOVATION, No CXII. ibid. Remarks on St.George's Church, Hanover-fq.832 Length of Days promifed to filial Obedience 800 REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; viz. Woodfpring Priory in Shropshire defcribed 801 Beloe's Anecdotes of Literature, continued 833 Mr. Pope's Defcription of Briftol Wells, &c. 802 Twin Sifters-Janfon's Stranger, in America 838 Mr. Pope's Account of Sherborne Caftle. 804 Colquhoun's Treatife on Indigence, &c. 840 Illuftrations of Horace, Book I. Epiftle X. 805 Dr. Onflow's Sermon-College's Sermon 844) Strictures on the "Gent. Mag. for 1806" 80s Butler's Chronology-Peacock" At Home" 846 Infcription by Shentone to Mr. Somerville 809 Literary Intelligence--INDEXINDICATORIUS 849 Prophecies fulfilling at the prefent Period. 810 SELECT MODERN POETRY forSeptember 840--852 Laurence's "Fruit Garden Calendar" noticed it. Proceedings in the late Seffion of Parliament 853 On the delightful Amufement of Gardening 811 ConferencebetweenK.ofSweden & Gen.Brunes58 THE PROJECTOR, a period. Paper, NoLXXIV.812 Interefting Intell. from the London Gazettes 860 Dr. Laurence's Statement of his own Speech 815 Proclamation of Adm. Gambier & Ld. Cathcart ib. Donovan's Mufeum of Foffils commended 818 Acct. of Military Operations in Zealand 861, 871 Removal of Grave-ftones--Dillenting Preachers ib. Abtract of the principal Foreign Occurrences 8751 The Duchels of Gloucefter-Mr. Hutton. 819 His Majefty's Declaration refpecting Denmark 878 Prefent State of the fine Cathedral at York ibid Country News-Domeftic Occurrences... 879 Fires-UfefulMachine--English Architecture82 Biographical Memoirs of Cardinal of York 882 Exeter Cathedral-Lift of Deans of Ireland 822 Memoirs of the late John Charnock, Efq. 883 Mr. Belfham-Carter's Poems-Dr. Short 823 AdditionsandCorrections informerObituaries 885 Mifs Coote-HeraldicErrors-Fever Remedy 824 Marriages and Deaths of eminent Perfons 886 Mr. Hawkins 822, 825-Brazenofe Epitaphs 825 Daily Variations in the Prices of the Stocks 896 Printed by NICHOLS and SON, at Cicero's Head, Red-Lion Paffage, Fleet-ftreet, London: where all Letters to the Editor are defired to be addreffed, RosT-AID. 1807. AVERAGE PRICES of CORN, from the Returns ending September 19, 1807. 2.40 1034 4.30 Wheat Rye Barley | Oats Beans s. d.js. d. s. d.s. d. s. d. 71 4/45 040 4/29 350 0 d. 143 10 39 6155 9 Effex 452 6 Kent 047 041 932 650 3 243 6 Suffex 68 4/00 0.00 034 10 50 0 7 Suffolk Middlef. 72 906 8 Derfet 75 700 036 032 052 0 400 0 39 2132 3'49 6 Hant 71 AGGREGATE AVERAGE PRICES of the Twelve Maritime Diftricts of England and Wales, by which Exportation and Bounty are to be regulated in Great Britain. THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE For SEPTEMBER, 1807. LETTERS FROM HOLLAND AND GERMANY IN 1794. My Dear Friend, I Arnheim, April 16, 1794. WROTE to you from Utrecht on the 14th. On that day we made an excurfion to Zeit, a moft beautiful village five miles to the Eaft of Utrecht, which no traveller ought to omit vifiting. Here the Stadtholder lay encamped when the Pruilians came to his relief, in 1787, and delivered Holland from the fetters of Republican tyranny. But Zeift is chiefly memorable as a Moravian Settlement, which commenced in 1746, and has ever fince continued to flourish under the foflering wing of the States of Utrecht. The principal part of the village of Zeift forms a large fquare of neat and elegant buildings, furrounded by delightful groves and walks. The Moravians have a handfome place of worship, which is ferved by two paflors; and, fince their firft eftablishment here, they have maintained an uniform fanctity of character, which has gained them general efteem. They have, moreover, introduced into the Settlement a great variety of ufeful trades; and the village is adorned with many beautiful fhops, in which I faw abundance of curious wares, and numerous fpecimens of exquifite workmanship. You are no firanger to my fentiments refpecting the Moravian Brethren. I know no fect of Chriftians who fo confpicuoutly exhibit that badge by which the great Head of the Church characterized his genuine followers, nameJy, bratherly love. Their labours among the Heathen are well known, and afford the moft convincing proof that the love of Chrift is the grand fource of true philanthropy. Under the influence of that Divine principle, we have feen the Moravian Miffionaries making their way through burning deferts and the howling wilderness, and planting the rofe of Sharon amidst the fnows of Greenland; in short, the labours of thofe worthies are a friking exemplification of that charity which, to ufe the language of Inspiration, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things: and this their "work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope," will be told for a memorial of the Unitas Fratrum in all churches of the Saints to the end of time. You know the doctrinal fyftem of the Moravian Brethren accords with the Confellion of` Augfburg; and their Liturgy, in the main points, is in unifon with our own, of which we juftly boat as a model of pure and primitive worship. With regard to their conflitution and difcipline, they lay claim to the title of a Proteftant Epifcopal Church, and proved their Epifcopal Succeflion to the entire fatisfaction of two of our moft eminent, Primates; I mean the Archbishops Wake and Potter; the latter of whom wrote a congratulatory Epiftle to the famous Count Zinzendorf, on his being confecrated a Bifhop of the Moravian Church. They have also been formally recognized by an Act of the British Legiflature as Protefiant Epifcopalians; and therefore, as Members of the Church of England, we cannot, with any confift ency, withhold from them the righthand of fellowship. I have two Clerical Friends, whofe fentiments concerning the Moravian Brethren are quite in unifon with my own; and I have a letter from each of them now be fore me, of which I give you the fol lowing extracts, which, from your knowledge of the men and their commu nication nication, you will read, I am fure, with peculiar fatisfaction: "The Moravian Brethren, who have been honoured with fuch fuccefs in Greenland and in the wilds of America, were not furnished with arts and fciences, and were incapable of logical and learned difcuffions, but their breasts were warmed with the love of God and man they preached with great fimplicity Jefus Chrift and him crucified; they endured hardship; they declined no danger; they fought not the praife of men; they were unremitting in their labours; if reviled, they reviled not again; if injured, they bore it patiently, they cared not only for the fouls, but for the bodies of their hearers, and endeavoured to recommend their doctrine to them by every kind and benevolent office in their power; they placed their whole dependence upon Him whom they preached; and thus they enlightened the most ignorant, and tamed the mott favage. Surely to them the prophecy has been fignally fulfilled: The wil dernels, and the folitary place fhall be glad, and the defert fhall rejoice, and bloffom like the rofe.' I hope I have profited by their history and example." "I fpent nearly three days lately with the Moravians at There I feemed, in no final degree, to have entered into the reft appointed for the people of God. Stillness, patient induftry, contentment, felf- abafemen', love, humility, and fervent piety, were confpicuous among that happy fociety. I was admitted to their familiar life, and to their moft folemn devotions. Nobody was flattered, nor was any one neglected. Authority there was indeed among them, but obedience was fo readily paid as to make authority fcarcely difcernible. The pride of that knowledge which puffeth up, and the vain defire of praife, were unknown there; they were firangers to abject poverty on the one hand, and to haughty wealth, with its empty trappings, on the other hand; in short, I feemed to be in a world as yet unconfcious of the agitations, the bitternefs, the diffraction, which elsewhere fo unhappily prevail for want of a spirit of true religion." I affure you, my friend, there are few topics which fo warm hiv breaft, and animate my pen, as thofe which refer to the Moravian Brethreu. My first removal from Alma Maier was to a place where they had a very relpectable congregation; and happier hours I never expect to pass in this world, than I have enjoyed in the fociety and converfe of the Brethren. The remembrance of their exalted piety, their purity of manners, their heavenly converfation, their brotherly love, is chearing to my heart. Among many worthies whom I could mention, how fweet and refreshing is the memory of Benjamin La Trobe, of whom I never think without faying to myfelf in the words of Bishop Lowth, At veniet felicius œvum, Quando iterum tecum fi modo dignus ero.” To return from this digreffion, for which I am fure you will require no apology. After we had gratified our curiofity at Zeif, we returned to spend the evening at Utrecht. On our arrival there, we heard of a barbarous murder juft committed upon a Jew by a teacher of English in that city. The murderer was in cuftody, and was fhortly to fuffer the dreadful punishment of being broken on the wheel. This mode of execution, which I am happy to fay is unknown in our native land, is common on the Continent. At the fame time, I am far from being an advocate for our criminal code of Jurifprudence, which is by much too fanguinary; and it were greatly to be wifhed, that our punishments bore a jufter proportion to crimes than they do. The gradations of vice are confounded by our penal laws; and men are often incited to commit a greater crime, in order to prevent the detection of a lefs. It is the voice of nature, that he who embrues his hand in the blood of a fellow-creature, is unfit to live in fociety-and the voice. of Nature is the voice of God; but we ought to remember mercy in the midft of judgment, and not to protract and diverfify the agonies of the unhappy culprit, but to be fatisfied with a deprivation of life in the most easy and expeditious manner poffible. We invited Profeffor Brown, and a young Gentleman who now occupies a chair in the University of St. Andrew's, to spend the evening with us at our Inn, and they furnished us with an Attic evening's entertainment. I was much amufed with fome anecdotes they gave us of a very popular preacher who has lately figured away at Utrecht, and was indeed the chief fubject of converfation while we were there. He is quite a young man, handfome in his perfon, of moft infinuating addrefs, and the miraculous Cure of Win. White, &c." published by me about two years ago, Both thefe writers are entitled to my refpect; and I fhould not have left the former fo long without an anfwer, had not diftant journeys, and the compofition of a work now almoft ready for the prefs, rendered it impoffible for me to fend one fooner. But as to other writers, who are in the habit of applying the epithets infolent and impudent, and of giving the lie to thofe who differ from them upon theological fubjects; or who, when fairly and fully anfwered, repeat their objections again and again in different compofitions, but in the fame form of words, like the infect which weaves its net in the fame converging and tranfverfe lines, as often as it is swept away; I wish to have no relation with them either of peace or war. and fo diftinguished are his talents of oratory, that wherever he is expected to preach, the church is filled long before the appointed hour. His powers of perfuafion are great indeed, and he is fuch a mafter of the pathetic, that he can melt his auditory into tears whenever he has a mind. The impreffion he made upon the ladies was extraordinary. A great many young ladies of beauty and fashion were over head and ears in love with him; or, to fpeak in their own language, “dying for him," and I must not omit mentioning a fingular anecdote of one of his admirers, a very pretty young woman of Utrecht; fhe walked clofe at his heels one day in the fireet from the church to his own houfe, and after treading in his fteps all the way, the took off her fhoes upon her return home, imprinted a thoufand kifles upon the foles, and now keeps them Happily, my anfwer to P. C. may locked up in a drawer as facred relics, be brought within a narrow compafs; to which the pays her devotion regu- as he refufes to enter into the question larly every morning when the rifes, of fact concerning the late cure with and the continues this practice, not- me. In like manner, Mr. Urban, I withstanding the has loft all hope of obferve your Reviewer, in his critibeing united in wedlock to the Preach- cifms upon my pamphlet feveral months er, who has lately been married to a ago, did not difpute the truth of a Countefs in the province of Utrecht, fingle document contained in it; nor whofe relations oppofed the match has Sir Richard Colt Hoare, in the nowith all their might, and ftrove by all tice which he has taken of it in his poffible methods to divert her mind from coftly edition of Giraldus Cambrenfis, the Domine, but all to no purpofe; queftioned a fingle fact. This paff her conflant anfwer was, “No altering over of matter of fact by my fevenative but the Domine or death; unless ral critics has not, you must obferve, I am permitted to marry him, il faut happened through inattention to it. mourir de chagrin," and they were For many are the vifits from refpectforced to fubunit to the mortification of able and intelligent perfons, which having the noble blood of the houfe of Winefred White has received; and feRandwyk contaminated by the union vere have been the examinations which of a plebeian. fhe and thofe acquainted with her in this town have undergone, in order to invalidate the statements of the pamphlet, had this been practicable. We arrived at this place last night. I role very early this morning to write to you and another friend. It is now time to go to breakfast, after which I fhall take a view of Arnheim. We purpofe fetting out this afternoon for Nimeguen, from whence you may expect to hear from me; in the mean time, I remain your fincere friend. Mr. URBAN, Wolverhampton, Sept. 2. How then, Sir, does P. C. proceed in his attack upon me? He makes doctrine the teft of miracles, and not miracles the teft of doctrine, in oppofition to the conflant argumentation of our Saviour and his Difciples *. He maintains, that real miracles may be wrought in fupport of falfe doctrine, without the neceffity of fuperior mira A lall, who calls himfelf, 4 well- cles to counteract them, in oppofition difpofed Chriftian, alias a Proteftant, not without fome Sparks of belief, gently reproaches me with having neglected to notice the ftrictures of P. C. in your number for June laft, on The authentic Documents relative to to all Chrißian Apologifts and Theologians. In a word, he appeals to the following text of Scripture, in which confifts the ftrength of his argument. |