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Mr. Porter was succeeded by Mr. Richard Rogerson, from Coventry, in the year 1723, who continued at Alcester till he removed to Newcastle, about the year 1733, to succeed Dr. Lawrence.- -(Mon. Repos. Vol. VI. pp. 587, 723.)

The next name I meet with is the Rev. George Broadhurst, who probably succeeded Mr. Rogerson. He died at Alcester in August 1775, having resigned ministry a year or two before, through ill health. He was the son of the Rev. Edward Broadhurst, of Birmingham, a posthumous volume of whose sermons was published in the year 1733. Mr. Broadhurst's place was filled by the Rev. Benjamin Evans in the year 1774, who removed to Stockton, in Durham, in 1785, where he still resides; and though he has resigned the ministry some years, he is enabled to give temporary assistance to his old congregation, who have been lately relieved, by the decision of a court of justice, from the apprehension of being deprived of their meeting-house by the same illiberal spirit which was exhibited in the Wolverhampton case. Mr. Evans was born on the beautiful banks of the river Tivy, near Newcastle Emlyn, of a very respectable Dissenting family, much esteemed in that neighbourhood; and was educated at Carmarthen under Dr. Jenkins. He was succeeded at Alcester, in 1785,

by the Rev. Benjamin Maurice, who died in the year 1814, of whom see some account in Mon. Repos. Vol. IX. p.. ..144.

The congregation, during the latter part of Mr. Maurice's time, through deaths and other causes, had become very small. The place was shut up for a few years, but about two years ago, Mr. John Hancock, a young man an inhabitant of the town, engaged to conduct a religious service on the Lord's Day with the few that attended, which he has continued ever since; and from July in the last year, Timothy Davies, from Evesham, has regularly supplied in the evening at Alcester, after two regular services in his own place, the distance being ten miles. The congregation is considerably increased, and the prospect is promising. A Sunday School has been lately established. The debt incurred in making new deeds and repairing the place, about two years ago, is almost paid off through the aid of the Unitarian and Fellowship Funds. What might not be done if these funds were to become general! A few donations more would relieve from the debt, and render the interests of Unitarianism at Alcester essential service.

SIR,

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'T. D.

Feb. 1823. remarks of your respected

Monthly Repository for January, p. 8,) on the evident inconsistency of the language employed by Calvinists and Trinitarians with the general style of the New Testament, are highly important, and well deserve the consideration of every inquirer after truth. It is, as he states, well known," that the Received Version of the last verse in the fourth chapter of Paul's Epistles to the Ephesians is incorrect. What consistency or common sense is there in this Version, which represents the apostles as enforcing the culture of amiable affection and the exercise of a forgiving spirit, not by reference to the free, unpurchased mercy of God, but as a duty founded on the scheme of satisfaction? It is most evident that if God forgive us only for the sake of Christ, (in consideration of his having suffered the punishment of human transgression,) and if we are to forgive one another,

even as God forgives us," there can be no place left for the exercise of mercy in our mutual intercourse, and the recommendation of forgiveness on such grounds is a mere contradiction in terms.

with the language of Jesus, recorded by Luke xxiv. 47, "that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name through all nations;" of Peter, Acts x. 43, "To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name, whosoever believeth in him, shall receive remission of sins ;" and of Paul, 1 Cor. vi. 11, "Ye are justified in (or by) the name of the Lord Jesus."

G. B. W.

English Bible. monopolies are evils, and lite

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of all. This is exemplified in our
rary monopolies are the worst
English Bibles, which are allowed to
be printed only by the King's Printers
(Eyre and Strahan) and the two Uni-
versities. The consequence of the
monopoly is an utter and incredible
carelessness with regard to the correct-
ness of the editions forced upon the
public. And the evil appears to have
increased since the invention of stereo-
type printing. There are now three
stereotyped editions of the Bible lying
before the writer, in which by a very
cursory and partial collation of some
of the Psalms, he has discovered the
following errors:

There is, however, one passage of the New Testament, to which the satisfactionist may appeal with more plausibility, and which, as it appears to the writer of this, must be examined and explained in accordance with the general tenor of scripture, before we are quite warranted in asserting Errors in the various Editions of the "There remains no passage in the Christian Scriptures in which God is said to bestow any blessing on mankind for the sake of Christ." I refer to 1 John ii. 12. This is rendered in the Public Version, "I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake;" in the Improved Version, "because your sins are forgiven you on account of his name." The Apostle, I presume, refers to the name of Christ, and as he employs the preposition dia with the accusative case, (« δια το ονόμα αυτού,”) which most commonly indicates the final cause, it seems to me but fair to allow that the common rendering and interpretation may be correct. I have no doubt, however, that Mr. Cogan will find little difficulty in shewing to the satisfaction of the candid inquirer, that this solitary instance of apparent inconsistency with the uniform tenor of scripture language is capable of being explained, without violence to the original, in accordance with the rest of the New Testament. It appears to me that we are justified in rendering the words of John as expressive of instrumentality, by several clear instances in which dia with the accu cative must be so understood. See John vi. 57: "I live by the Father, and he that eateth me shall live by me." Matt. xv. 6: "Thus have ye made the word of God of none effect by your tradition." Rev. xii. 11: "They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by the word of their testimony." These instances (even if a more diligent search should dis cover no others than these) will warrant us to translate the apostle's words thus, "Your sins are forgiven you, by or through his name;" and the passage so rendered is in strict harmony

VOL. XVIII.

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In the Oxford edition of 1811, 8vo, Psalm Ixvii. 6, the word "own" interpolated, "our own God shall bless us."

Psalm xcii. 4, "hands" for hand.

cxliv. 13, "garments" for garners" that our garments may be full, affording all manner of store!"

In the London edition of 1818, 8vo.
Psalm xviii. 16, " grew" for drew.
xxxiv. 5, and omitted before

"their faces."
Psalm xliv. 11, "apvointed" for
appointed.

Psalm lxxiii. 21, "veins" for reins.
cxxxviii. 6, "holy" for lowly.

In the London edition of 1819, 8vo. All the errors specified in the edition of 1818, with the addition, Psalm cxviii. 18, of" out" for but.

If in the Psalms only these errors are found, how many may be expected in all the other books?

This corrupt state of the English

Scriptures is disgraceful to the heads of the church, who ought surely to see that the King's Printer (though called printers on the title-page, they are but one firm, and it is presumed that the patent runs in the singular number) and the delegates of Oxford and Cambridge, who enjoy with him a concurrent monopoly, do their duty, and do not palm a spurious Bible upon the country. The hardship is great to the public, since the patentees absolutely prevent any other Bible being printed, under very heavy penalties. Even the Bible Society must take the copies, however corrupt, provided by the monopoly-printers.

From a trial in the Court of Session at Edinburgh, on the 7th of March last, (The King's Printer for Scotland v. Manners and Miller, and others, Booksellers in Edinburgh and Glasgow,) it appears that an individual has a like monopoly in Scotland, and that the operation of his patent commenced so lately as 1798. The appeal to the Court of Session was to decide whether he could keep the English patentees out of the Scottish market; and the judgment of the Court interdicts the sale and importation of Bibles or the other standards of the Church printed in England, without the sanction of the Scottish patentees.

The monopoly rests, as we learn from the argument in the Court of Session, on the Royal Prerogative; and the plea for it is, that it is necessary that the King should have this exclusive right in order to secure to his people the Scriptures in a correct and pure text. But if the monopoly instead of securing, defeats this end, as it certainly does, the argument is void; and the King cannot be supposed to wish for a prerogative that is a hindrance to sacred literature and an annoyance to the people.

Our opinion decidedly is, that this is a fit matter to come before Parliament by petition. The managers of the Bible Society would perhaps be the most suitable persons to take up the question; but if they hesitate, on the ground of prudence, there would be great propriety in the ministers of

religion of various denominations pursuing the object. A committee might be appointed to draw up a table of errors in the various editions, on which to found a complaint. It cannot be that, with this before their eyes, the legislature would quietly allow the evil to remain.

For obvious reasons, the question should not, in the first instance, at least, be made one of profit and loss; though the booksellers would proba bly be able to shew that the monopoly is injurious to trade, and a burden upon the public who are the purchasers.

(The reader is referred for a few other errata in various editions of the English Bible, to a paper in our last volume, XVII. 692.)

GLEANINGS; OR, SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING.

No. CCCCII.

Whig and Tory done into Latin. IN Dr. Adam Littleton's "Latine Dictionary," there are, in the "English Latine" part, the words Whig and Tory, with their corresponding Latin terms. The witty lexicographer, (for he shews wit at least in his sermons,) evinces that in Charles the Second's days, a court-chaplain had a proper abhorrence of a Whig, though he was not yet instructed to praise outright a Tory.

"A Whig. Homo fanaticus, factiosus.

"Whiggism. Enthusiasmus, perduellio (high treason!)"

"A Tory, bog-trotter or Irish robber. Prædo Hibernicus.

"A Tory, opposed to Whig. Re giarum partium assertor."

The edition here quoted is the 4th, (4to.) 1703, said in the title-page to be improved from "a large MS. in three volumes of Mr. John Milton." Whig and Tory had come up in the days of the poet, but we may acquit him of turning them into the above Latin.

REVIEW.

"Still pleased to praise, yet not afraid to blame."-POPE.

ART. I.-Memoirs of the Life of the late Mrs. Catharine Cappe. Written by Herself. 8vo. pp. 484. Longman & Co. 1822.

THE late Mrs. Cappe was well

quent interesting communications to this magazine, and the principal events of her life are familiar to them, being in some measure disclosed in her lively description of the critical scenes of the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Lindsey, (III. 637 and VII. 109,) and more fully and methodically related in the biographical sketch of her, (XVI. 494-496,) drawn up by a valuable correspondent soon after her decease. It is not our intention, therefore, to follow her Memoirs, step by step, but merely to select a few extracts, and to make now and then a remark suggested by the subject.

The qualifications for writing one's own life are self-knowledge, the result of self-examination and watchfulness; courage to expose one's own secret motives and failings; and such a degree of imagination as shall suffice to connect oneself intimately with persons, places and passing events. These endowments will appear to advantage in proportion to the number and importance of what are called incidents in the life described. Elegance of style is the only thing further wanted to make auto-biography perfect. The last property Mrs. Cappe's Memoirs can be scarcely said to possess, but they are written with a simplicity and candour which are near akin to elegance, and which operate upon the mind of the reader as an indescribable least, the history is full of variety. In the earlier chapters, at The imagination of the writer is seen in combining events and working them into agreeable stories. There is no concealment of any feeling or design. And the analysis of her sentiments on almost every important occurrence of her life, shews that she was accustomed to reflect upon herself habitually, and to regulate even her thoughts and affections by a fixed standard of morals. Her standard was Christianity. She

charm.

was a practical disciple of Christ, and eminently pious and devotional. In her Memoirs, she recurs perpetually to the agency of the Divine Providence, and if we should concede to a some

what

stern critic in a recently publish

ed number of a respectable periodical work, (The Inquirer,) that her religious feelings are sometimes obtruded upon trivial occasions, we must yet, knowing as we do her sincerity and guilelessness, contend that her habit of turning every event to a moral and spiritual account was the natural result of her strong and lively faith in the universal and perpetual government of the Almighty. In one respect, the excess (if such it must be reckoned) of her religious phraseology is a great advantage, as it proves that no error can be greater or more unjust to the persons to whom it refers, than the popular one of the incompatibility of a rational creed with warm devotional sentithere ligion of the heart in exercise, inents. Nay, in this instance, we see not in spite of the Unitarian faith, but

in consequence of it; and we cannot but reckon this volume, remote as it is from the spirit and style and form of controversy, as directly calculated to subdue prejudice, to awaken inquiry, and eventually to make proselytes to the faith of the writer.

Mrs. Cappe was the daughter of the Rev. Jeremiah Harrison, and was born on the 3rd of June, O. S. 1744, at Long Preston, in Craven, Yorkshire, the living of which her father held, together with that of Skipton, in the neighbourhood; both having been presented to him by the College of Christ trict in which was the place of her Church, Oxford, in which he had been educated. She thus describes the disnativity:

"This part of Yorkshire, at the time from the rest of the kingdom; not so of which I am speaking, was insulated much by its high mountains as by its riage could ascend its rocky steeps; the almost impassable roads. No wheel-carcarriers from Richmond to Kendal conveyed their goods in packs upon horses; and I well remember that one of my earliest pleasures was to listen to the

sound of the bells hung round the neck of their leader, followed with solemn step by a long train of his compeers, as they passed stately along the shady lane by my father's garden; all of them seeming to enjoy, equally with myself, this simple music. If this noble animal could compose and write, what petitions and remonstrances should we not daily receive against the unfeeling speed of flying diligences, hackney post-chaises and mail coaches !

"The native inhabitants of this hilly country were then as uncivilized as their mountains were rude and uncultivated. When my father first went there, (about the year 1729,) almost all the country was divided among a number of small freeholders, or lease-holders, holding grants of nine hundred or a thousand years, made over in feudal times by the great barons in exchange for military service. The ground almost every where remained in its primitive state, wholly uninclosed; and notwithstanding every man knew his own, yet their property being so intermingled, various subjects for endless debate and litigation were continually arising among them; and being proud from independence, and obstinate from extreme ignorance, it was almost impossible to arbitrate or to compose their differences. This herculean labour, however, my father courageously attempted; and, that he might do it with greater success, he took upon himself the office of a justice of peace, which he exercised among them many years with the happiest effects."-Pp. 5, 6.

"In the township of Long Preston, the greater part of the inhabitants who did not earn their living by daily labour, or by some little trade, were, as we have already observed, the small proprietors of land, possessing property from generation to generation, to the amount, perhaps, of from ten to one hundred pounds per annum. These are denominated statesmen, and are divided into two classes, great and little statesmen; the former of whom consider themselves as among the first personages in the world. The usual etiquette on calling upon the lady of a great statesman is as follows: after inviting her guests to come in and make free,' she dusts the chairs with the corner of her apron, desiring them to be seated; she next takes a brush to sweep the floor, apologizing all the time that it was not done before their arrival. She then adjusts her own apparel, and not unfrequently goes through the whole ceremony of an entire change of upper garments, standing by her company with great unconcern and relating the history of her family-when Thomas was born

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where George goes to school-how fast he takes his learning, &c. &c. Her dress being finished, she offers each of her visiters a glass of brandy, assuring them that they are as welcome as if they were at home;' and this being done, she fetches a chair and seats herself by them. I do not recollect a single instance in which any part of this ceremony was omitted, even so late as the year 1787."Pp. 13, 14.

The mother of Mrs. Cappe was the daughter of the younger son of Sir Rowland Winn, Baronet of Nostel, of large property and of great influence. The eldest son, the baronet in possession at the time to which the Memoirs refer, was much connected with Sir Robert Walpole, the prime minister, through whom he obtained for Mr. Harrison the living of Catterick, in the gift of the crown. Hither the Harrison was a respectable clergyman family removed in the year 1748. Mr. and of a liberal mind. His freedom from bigotry appears in an incident, related with others by Mrs. Cappe, to shew the effect produced upon her mind by accidental circumstances:

"When my brother was eight years old, he was sent to a public school at Scorton, of which my father was one of the governors. There were many children there, whose parents were members of the Kirk of Scotland, one of whom, who came from Dumfries, happened to be my brother's bed-fellow. I charge you,' said my father to him, if you ever hear any of your companions laugh at little Wilson for not saying the same prayers or repeating the same catechism which you have been taught, that you do not join them; Presbyterians, if they are virtuous and pious, ought to be as much esteemed as if they were church people.' I knew not what the term meant, but I set it down in my mind that Presbyterians were not to be despised for being such; and afterwards, when I became able to generalize my ideas, I thence derived an important lesson of candour respecting those who might differ from myself in religious opinions. This circumstance, together with the following conversation, which I happened to hear between my father and some other person, whom I do not recollect, when I was about eleven or twelve years of age, entirely settled my creed for many years, in respect of two material articles. There can be no doubt,' said my father, that our Saviour Christ was that great personage who existed with God before all

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