truth for themselves. Let us avoid all rash judging, and leave their future state to God."

The text of the address is Rom, xi. i. The same inadvertencies as in the former discourse mark the same want of time for revision. The writer describes the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus as the casting away intended by the Apostle, p. 19, yet says, in p. 20, the Jews were cast away at the time of their being car

Resurrection always has been, and always will be, an insurmountable obstacle to the general conversion of the Jews: it does not, therefore, follow, that we are to abandon the doctrine of the resurrection. Mr. E. is a gentleman of well known abilities, and arduous professional duties; that these discourses were composed in haste is evident, as we think, from several trips of the pen. The Jewish phylacteries were not "large pieces of parch-ried away captive by the heathen nations, ment sewed on the borders of their garments:" they were square envelopes worn on the forehead, and the left arm.

"The Essenes were a kind of hermits, renouncing the common enjoyments of life, and dwelling in the caves and desarts of the earth." No: they dwelt in communities, or convents.

Every thing that Jesus did possessed publicity." No: the Evangelists describe some things he did as private.

Mr. E.'s remarks on the importance of public worship are just; and he censures the late Mr. Wakefield for his attack of so beneficial an institution. In our opinion that attack did a great deal of good; as it startled a number of half-unsettled well-intending minds.

In the preface to his second discourse Mr. E. speaking of the transactions of the Grand Sanhedrim at Paris, observes "that the sacrifices made by the Jews on the continent, for the extension of their civil rights, ill accord with the unbending strictness of the Mosiac ritual, and have given considerable offence to their brethren in this country." His preface closes with sentiments which every rational mind will approve, whoever be

though they were afterwards restored." He has ill expressed his meaning,

We give no opinion on the question whether the Jews shall return to their own land, though our private feeling inclines to the affirmative. Neither do we so much as attempt a calculation as to the time when. The following remarks are judicious.

If the dispersion of the Jews was thought Jong in the time of Julian [about 300 years after the destruction of the temple], and

means were taken for their restoration, what must now be the opinion of all thinking persons, when nearly fifteen hundred years [additional] have elapsed, and these people are still in a state of ignominy and depression? We may be assured, that some valuable purpose is to be answered. The Jews are the depositaries of the Old Testament records, and these records describe the Messiah with every token of triumph and glory! Received by them, and read in their synagogues, they are permanent and energetic attestations of the truth of Christianity. Besides, their existence as a distinct people, in every nation under heaven, is an irrefragable proof of the authenticity of the sacred records. It is a species of protracted miracle. Go where you will, into Europe. Asia, Africa, or America, you meet the descendants of Abraham; you instantly recognize them by their features, and find them scrupulously attached to the "Let us avoid putting stumbling blocks religion of their forefathers! They are, notin the way of the Jews. Let us propose withstanding the lapse of eighteen centuries, Christianity to them as Jesus proposed it to the same as they were in the time of our them. Instead of the modern magic of scho- Saviour-tenacious and superstitious-perverse lastic divinity, let us lay before them their and obstinate to a proverb. All this is an own prophecies. Let us shew them their acargument for the truth of the gospel of Jesus complishment in Jesus. Let us appland Christ. They are reserved to the glorious æra, their hatred of idolatry. Let us shew them when the fullness of the Gentiles shall come the morality of Jesus in our lives and tem-in, and ALL ISRAEL shall be saved, pers. Let us never abridge their civil liberty, nor ever try to force their consciences. Let us remind them, that as Jews they are bound to make the law of Moses the rule of their actions. Let us try to inspire them with suspicion of rabbinical and received traditions, and a generous love of investigating religious

their author.

Compare Panorama, Vol. II. p. 913.

The Jews are now so scattered and divided on the earth, that the most power. ful potentate, however outrageous and intent on their destruction, could not destroy the whole nation. Nor could even the coalescing of several governments insure the complete execution of such a design. In some place there would still be Jaws,

Thoughts upon the present Condition of the Stage, and upon the Construction of, the new Theatre. pp. 43. Price 1s. 6d. London, 1808.

supper in his Rake's Progress. What parent can conduct his wife and daughters through this sty without trembling with the fear, that, though those sights are to them shocking and horrible to-day, they may not be so to-morrow? An audience, that went to the play to hear and see, would quickly interfere with these orgies.

The scene was hardly ever disconcerted by noisy quarrels, blows, or such indecencies as we now witness.

Women of the town were never permitted ception of the beautiful Kitty Fisher, whose in the boxes below stairs, with the single ex appearance occasioned great dismay among all the frequenters, male and female, of the hitherto unpolluted front boxes.

Ir does not become a corps of reviewers to maintain opposite sentiments, in the same number of their work: scenes in different kingdoms are prohibited from appearing in the same act, on the theatre -how then can we, who have gloried in the morality of our age, a few pages before, coincide with this ancient gentleman (and we believe ancient writer too,) who boasts of the decorum of times past, and lays very serious misbehaviour to the we could have wished that some profes As the subject is of great importance, charge of time present ? sional man of eminence had favoured this Yet we have not the choice of postponwriter with assistance, on that part of his ing this subject; as we conjecture, from the rapid movements of the bricklayers and their labourers, that the new theatre will be roofed in before our next is put to press, unless our printer bestir himself quick! quick! In this dilemma, the writer shall tell his own tale: nobody is bound to suppose that we believe it.

He complains, in the first place, of the

"outrageous size of our theatres," in which an actor can neither be heard nor seen.

This accounts (says he) for what appears to be a most vitiated taste of the public in the endurance of those childish pantomimes, Blue Beard, &c. on the very boards where Shakespeare and Otway once stormed the human heart. But this, in fact, is not such a sign of perverted laste as it is of a prudent toleration of Blue Beards, kettle-drums, or the distant view of big-bellied virgins of the sun; for if the manager did not provide these, he could give the audience nothing.

pamphlet which proposes to insure the safety of an audience, under an apprehension of danger. Mr. Sanders, who published a Treatise on the Construction of Theatres, would have been an acceptable coadjutor. The only proposition made by our author is the following: the public to pay the extra expence.

To the two galleries, and the lowest tier of boxes, three distinct rooms or corridors should be joined; these should be arched, and the floors stuccoed. An additional solid staircase to each tier should be flung open to facilitate the escape of the multitude, on the appear. ance or apprehension of danger. Under the conviction that the moment such places were reached, all peril would cease, a fair hope might be entertained, that these staircases would be descended with little dangerous precipitation, whereby some of the worst calamities might be avoided, the terrible accidents that happen fron pressure, and one unfortunate being falling over the other.

A graver evil also is caused by the outrageous size of the playhouse. With nothing to We have on former occasions stated fix the attention or touch the feelings of the generality of those who frequent the theatre, our opinion on further facilities for exit the constant and indecent interruptions from to a disturbed audience: we insist, that a ladies of easy virtue, and their paramours, substantial wall should separate the theatre are not resented as they ought to be, or as from the corridors; that the doors for egress they would be, could we suppose Garrick should, some or more of them, be opened and Mrs. Cibber arising from the dead, to the audience every night: many parts again to charm us, and treading a stage also, that are now made of wood, as pilof reasonable dimensions, and on which lars, and other supports, and even wintheir powers conld be understood and appre- dow and door frames, should be of iron; tiated. Should the internal part of the theatre have attractions to keep those who pay as they are in the linen manufactory at at the door, in their places, the lobbies would Shrewsbury, described in a preceding arnot be filled with profligates of every descrip- ticle, page 489. The building itself should tion, familiarizing the yet uncorrupted and also be insulated, and situated where the modest to scenes of such meretricious impu-crowds issuing from it, could stop a few dence; hardly exaggerated by Hogarth in the minutes, on occasion, in safety and at ease.

for investigating the nature and cure of that complaint.

LITERARY PROSPECTIVE. Mr. John Murdoch, of Hart-street, has Mr. Alexander Walker, Lecturer on Physio- nearly completed a work which he intends to logy, &c. has issued a prospectus of a new quar-publish by subscription, to be entitled, The terly work to be called The Archives of Uni- Dictionary of Distinction, which is to consist of three alphabets; containing, 1st. Words versal Science; the grand object of this work the same in sound but of different spelling will be, by giving in detail all those subjects and signification, including such as have any which other journals embrace, and by insimilarity of sound; 2d. Words that vary in volving also all those other subjects of sc ence which they do not embrace; to exhibit, pronunciation and meaning, as accentuated or connected; 3d The changes in sound and either in valuable original communications or in critical analyses of every work containing the shades of difference being pointed out sense produced by the addition of the lettere: new and important observations, the progress and noted as in Walker's Dictionary. which all the sciences and arts are every day making throughout the world; and further, also, by assigning, to each discovery, its place in a natural arrangement, to appreciate its value, and point its influence upon the Sciences, and its application to the Arts.

The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London will shortly publish the first volume of their Records. It will contain some very valuable contributions from practitioners of first rate eminence in the metropolis.

Mr. G. Burnett has in forwardness for publication, in two duodecimo volumes, The Beauties of Milton's Prose, with preliminary remarks and criticisms. It is the prime object of these volumes, to give an extensive diffusion to the sentiments of Milton, by selecting such of his pieces as deserve to have a permanent influence on public opinion; thus connecting the prose writings also of our great poet into a popular classic.

The Board of Agriculture proceed in their design of completing the County Reports; Berkshire, Leicestershire, Oxfordshire, and Derbyshire, are in the press and are expected to appear before Christmas.

A novel from the pen of Mrs. Hanway is bein the press and will make its appearance fore Christmas; it will be entitled, Faulconbridge, or a Devonshire Story.

The Translation of the Scriptures into the Persian Language, so long in preparation, and by many thought to be abandoned, has been for some time in the press, at Newcastle upon Tyne, and is expected to be ready for publication in the course of the year 1809. It will form an elegant quarto volume.

Mr. Carmichael has in the press a second. edition much enlarged, of his Essay on the Effects of Carbonate and other Preparations of Iron on Cancer; with an inquiry into that disease. Among the additions are a number of interesting cases, a disquisition on the uses of the oxide of iron in the blood, and remarks on such diseases as depend on its excess or 'deficiency, or in any way bear a relation to Cancer; with an attempt to answer the queries of the Medical Society in London,

The author of the Military Mentor is preparing for publication three volumes of Essays on the Art of War, and on Modern Military Tactics.

A new edition with additions, of the Dialogues on Chemistry, by the Rev. J. Joyce, is nearly ready for publication,

The Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Percival Stockdale will make their appearance early in next year. They will include many anecdotes of the illustrious men with whom he has been connected; the work will also abound with social, moral, political, and religious observations, and contain a particular account of Marseilles, Gibraltar, and Algiers, at each of which places he had resided.

Mr. George Montague's Supplement, to his History of British Shells is nearly ready for publication.

The Rev. R. Nares will shortly put to press a Dictionary of the Middle Language of England, or the Age of Shakespeare, on the plan of Johnson's Dictionary.

Dr. C. Burney has nearly completed; at the Cambridge press, his very learned work on the Chorusses of schylus, and it will soon be published.

Mr. Plumtre, of Clare-hall, has in the press Four Discourses on the Stage, preached lately at Cambridge.

the

press corrected.

A new edition is in the press of Quarle's Meditations, called Judgement and Mercy for Afflicted Souls. It will be a reprint of the first edition of 1646, with the errors of The introductory part will contain a Life of Quarle, by his widow Ursula; testimonials of his character and talents; with specimens of his poetry and prose. The whole will form a handsome crown octavo volume, to which there will be affixed a beautiful engraving of the author's head from the original by Marshall.

Mess. Mathison and Mason of the Secre tary's Office, East-India House, will publish the third of December a new edition of their East-India Directory, with great additions and alterations, corrected up to November 20, 1808, by permission of the Hon. East-India Company H&

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tired situation, where goods snall be cut out, and delivered to women applying for work.

The public, (particularly ladies,) is invited to subscribe annually a sum not less than 10s. 6d. A list of subscribers will be printed, or written in large characters, and pasted up

in the warehouse.

entrusted to the work woman shall be returned.-Ladies will be careful to recommend those only whose characters are good.

On Monday evening, January 2, 1809, will be published the first number, price ninepence, of a new weekly paper, entitled The Family Gazette. This paper will be adapted for families and seminaries, by a strict regard to decorum, utility, and sound principles; and for general readers, by the quantity, va riety, and arrangement of its contents. Women wanting employ shall apply to one will be printed in imperial octavo, in thirty- of these ladies for a recommendation to the two columns, on good paper, and the press- society. The lady recommending will be anwork executed with particular care. Sup-swerable to the amount of 20s that the goods plements will be occassionally published, so as to present the reader with all important public papers at full length, and with a satisfactory digest and abridgment of parliamentary proceedings, An index will be given at the end of each year; and the whole will constitute a complete annual register of public affairs. All persons interested in the education of youth will find a special regard paid in this paper to the rising generation: sound principles, in morals and in politics, will be invariably inculcated. The arrangement will be superior to that of any other paper, as every particular subject will be found under its appropriate head, and not in the disjointed manner in which they usually appear. Agriculturists, and persons connected with trade, will find fully detailed the latest accounts of the price of corn and the state of the markets, from the Saturday's London Gazette and from intelligence received by post on Monday

morning.

CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE REVIEW DE-
PARTMENT.

We understand that our reviewer of Dr. Jameson's Dictionary, has expressed himself 100 generally on the subject of the appellation hog being given to a young sheep. In Wiltshire, and on Salisbury plain, for instance, the shepherds call a sheep of one year old, by no other name.

The common people in that county use the word hog also, as a verb, implying, to cut hair or wool short-What can be the etymology of the word in both these senses?

PROPOSITA PHILANTHROPICA.
Homo sum:
Humani nihil a me alienum puto.

DISTRESSED AND INDIGENT WOMEN.

· Particulars of a proposed Institution, for relieving distressed and indigent Women, by supplying them with suitable Employment.

The ladies will choose from themselves a committee, who shall by rotation attend daily at the warehouse, inspect the work cut out, and that returned when made up and fit for sale. It will be their province to inquire into the ability of the women, and to see that they are qualified to execute the works entrusted to them. They will also take care the society be not injured by the employment of unskilful, or unprincipled servants.

It will be the object of the society to avoid as much as possible taking in, or selling those articles on which the industry of women is now engaged. They will also strive to avoid any interference with those shops in which women usually work or serve.

The society will neither give extravagant prices to the work women, nor undersell the regular trader; the grand design being to provide suitable employment for the poor, but industrious and respectable females, and to prevent the temptations to vice.

It is hoped that those distinguished persons, who can insure to it the public attention, will patronise a design which is likely to be so extensively beneficial, and which, it is evident, can have been formed from no motive of self interest, and is also free from suspicion of being the work of a party. In a political point of view, also, it is highly important; for industry will be promoted in whatever way the talents of the individual inclines her to exercise it.

It is not too much to expect, that persons of humanity and intelligence will come forward, and aid the formation of the institution by their personal exertions, and advice.

Nor can it fail of meeting with the best wishes of every female heart: and it is hoped that the ladies, who must feel that their suggestions and co-operations are necessary to ensure its success, and promote its benefit in the most delicate way, will not suffer it to languish for want of their assistance; but that they will consider it as the cause of humanity, and eminently theirs, and will exert themselves to make it deserving of universal patronage.

It is intended that a house shall be taken in a respectable and populous neighbourhood, for the sale of varions articles of wear- Letters, post paid, addressed to the Panora ing apparel, and ornamented works. A ma Office, 108, Hatton Garden, will be warehouse shall also be taken, in a more re-forwarded to the promoters of the institution.