nancier that we admire in M. Necker. The eloquent eulogiums and philosophical apologies of Madame de Staël have not persuaded us that he was endowed with the powers that the crisis of the French Revolution, demanded. But we cannot name without profound respect a courtier who preserved the simplicity of his character, a prime minister of France who exhibited the virtues of a Swiss citizen, and a philosopher who found the highest employment of his faculties and his relief from trouble in religious contemplations. Madame de Staël's Memoirs of her Father are, like all her writings, rather too declamatory, sentimental and metaphysical (we want a word to express the two last qualities in combination) for the taste of an English reader; and M. Necker's aphorisms, while they display a considerable knowledge of human nature, rather delineate human nature under a French modification; but still the biographical part of the volume exhibits so much practical excellence, and the miscellaneous so much of "the meekness of wisdom," that the work may be recommended with a confidence in its approving itself to the understanding and the best affections of every class of readers. We extract a few of M. Necker's thoughts: "DEATH.- Let us not joke upon death; we do not know him, so powerful a distraction is life. But when he insists upon being acquainted with us, when he will speak with us tête-à-tête, when he banishes day from us to make us accompany him into darkness, when he orders us to follow and will not answer any of our questions, what trouble must be brought upon us.-Lights of religion! ye blessed, ye consolatory lights! you appear and all is changed."-Pp. 248, 249. "TIMIDITY.-Timid persons are lost the moment they perceive themselves the subjects of observation; they seek words but cannot find them. I believe a principal reason why women commonly speak more fluently than men, is the habit they early contract of having always, in company, some piece of work in their hands. This gives them confidence; it is a sort of screen behind which they retire, when, being less seen, words flow more freely." -P. 259. "THE ETERNITY OF FUTURE PUNISHMENT.- Eternal punishment! · Power Almighty! can they who entertain such an idea know thee?-Eternal fire for those miserable creatures who have to resist the seductions of error and the those miserable creatures who have so storms of the passions!-Eternal fire for many combats to sustain, and are armed with such feeble weapons!-Power Almighty! your (thy) goodness preceded our birth, it still subsists, it will subsist after we are cut off by the hand of death." P. 285. "THE MYSTERY OF ONE'S-SELF.-Man vainly endeavours to unravel the secret of his intellectual organization; he would, as it were, hear his thoughts."-P. 307. has increased the quantity of talent in France; there are more people who have little."-P. 313. "THE REVOLUTION.-The Revolution III.-Memoirs of the late Rev. Newvome Cappe, formerly prefixed to Two Volumes of Critical Dissertations, and now republished with Additions. By Catharine Cappe. 8vo. IV.-The Incompatibility of the Love pp. 106. Portrait: of Pleasure with the Love of God, in Four Discourses, by the late Rev. Newcome Cappe. Edited by Catharine Cappe. (Published formerly among "Discourses chiefly on Devotional Subjects.") 8vo. pp. 76. Both printed at York, and sold by Longman and Co. 1820. Mr. Cappe was an eloquent advocate of truth and virtue, and his life was a still more eloquent testimony than his writings to the beauty and worth of the pure gospel. We are therefore pleased that his amiable, faithful and enlightened widow has republished the Memoirs and the Serformer appears in consequence of a mons on the Love of Pleasure. The suggestion (XIV. 408) in our Repostory. We wish that these publications may answer the Editor's pious end, and take their place, as they well deserve, among standard practical Unitarian tracts. NEW PUBLICATIONS IN THEOLOGY AND GENERAL LITERATURE. An Examination of the Charges made against Unitarians and Unitarianism, and the Improved Version, by the Right Rev. Dr. Magee, Bishop of Raphoe, in his "Discourses and Dissertations on Atonement and Sacrifice." With some Strictures on the Statements of the Bishop of St. David's, Dr. Hales, Dean Graves, Dr. Nares, Dr.J. Pye Smith and Mr. Rennel, &c.; and on the System pursued by some recent Editors of the Greek Testament. By Lant Carpenter, LL.D. 8vo. 148. 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His on Wednesday the 16th inst. Few character was in reality two-fold, pubkings have died more respected by their lic and private. With regard to the subjects. His constitutional malady former, there are at present directly opposite opinions, but those that judge most unfavourably of him in this respect, are as ready as any others to admit that, in the latter, he was truly estimable and deservedly popular. From the circumstances of his education he was thrown into the hands of the Tory party, and throughout his reign there was manifest a disinclination to the principles on which the Brunswick family originally stood. Other principles of government produced the American war, and the war with revolutionary France, as well as certain measures at home, connected with those wars, which it will be difficult to reconcile with the constitution as established at the Revolution of 1688. Humanity shudders at the recollection of the awful effusion of blood in the contests here referred to. In the latter of them, the nation reaped laurels in abundance; but in our view national glory is a calamity when it is gained at the expense of human lifethe expense especially as in this case of the lives of hundreds of thousands. We are feeling too, by sad experience, that war, when most successful, is a curse; for when was ever the nation so bowed down by its burdens, or the hearts of the people so appaled by the prospect of the future? We could not honestly write upon this subject without saying thus much upon the Tory principles, the warlike measures, and the prodigality of the reign; but we are most willing to allow the late King the praise of many virtues; virtues rare in a king, and therefore the more to be esteemed by his subjects. His personal character would have made him in any station of life an object of respect. He was temperate in his pleasures, even to abstemiousness; and he set the example in his household of frugality and rigid economy, in which he was remarkably followed by the late lamented Duke of Kent. His well-known attachment to agricultural pursuits was in itself a strong presumption of the innocence of his heart, and, besides the good effect which it produced in exciting a spirit of improvement in the science (for such it is) and art of husbandry, it formed a new and pleasing tie by which the King was united to a large proportion of his people. The familiar appellation of “Farmer George" gave the King more real influence than half the Treasury boroughs. He had the happiness, so rarely enjoyed by monarchs, of being at home in his own were family. He was conscientiously religious, and observed not only public but also domestic worship; but, at the same time, he was free from bigotry; he shewed on more than one occasion his dislike of the Athanasian Creed; and on all occasions he was forward to protect, and even to extend, the just liberties of the Protestant Dissenters. He entertained prejudices against the Catholics, but they were honest prejudices, and they were the prejudices of all sincere Protestants of the middle of the last century, the period when the King's mind was formed. Personally, the King was humane: it is well known that so great was his aversion to the signing of deathwarrants, that his ministers obliged to watch their opportunities of putting them under his hand. In only one respect (excepting that of war) can his humanity be questioned ; we refer to the abolition of the SlaveTrade, which he strongly opposed: Mr. Brougham has said at a public meeting that on this ground the King could never speak civilly of Mr. Wilberforce. But the brightest jewel in the King's crown, was his patronage of Schools for All, and his noble declaration, worthy to be inscribed amongst the sayings of patriot kings, that he wished every poor child in his dominions to be able to read his Bible." In this his merit was the greater, as the dignified ecclesiastics around him were anxious above all things to detach him from a cause which they considered irreconcileable to that of the Established Church. George III. had not profound or comprehensive wisdom; he aspired not to the reputation of learning; he displayed no munificence; but he possessed habits of business, talents for conversation, which surprised some of his talents, a memory proverbially persons into an exaggerated estimate accurate, especially in names, dates and faces, and a shrewdness which took the appearance sometimes of sagacity and sometimes of wit. If in all things we cannot applaud him, we must remember that there are few human beings, even in the least responsible stations, who are irreproachable; that he lived in difficult times, when good meaning was scarcely sufficient to preserve a ruler from error; and that he was subject to that most awful visitation of Providence, the failure of reason, which, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. 1819. December 28, at Kidderminster, Mrs. CATHARINE FRY, aged 63, daughter of the late Mr. Humphry Buckler, Woolstapler, of Warminster, and wife of the Rev. Richard Fry. Her very affectionate and assiduous attention to her son David, who died of a consumption in the inclement winter in the beginning of 1814, greatly impaired her constitution, from which she never quite recovered. In the early part of last December she caught a cold which brought on a cough, but, for the space of a fortnight, it did not seem more threatening than what she usually experienced in the winter season; especially since her having had a violent inflammation in the lungs about five years ago, when her life was in extreme danger, and her recovery beyond expectation. A few days previous to her dissolution, her state of illness appeared alarming, and gradually became worse, probably from the effect of the frosty air on her tender vitals, until her remaining powers of life were exhausted. The writer of this obituary, from an intimacy of about thirtysix years' duration, can, with heartfelt satisfaction, attest that, in the several relations of daughter, wife, mother and sister, and as a friend, her character was truly amiable and exemplary. Her religious sentiments inclined most to the Arian system, particularly with respect to the pre-existence of Christ; for she used to observe that they were nearly expressed in Dr. Price's sermons on the Christian doctrine. With these views was associated in her mind the utmost liberality, believing that there were pious and excellent people of all denominations, and that they would form the general assembly in heaven, whatever may be their distinctions and different persuasions in this world. She was foud of neatness without affecting singularity. Pride, selfishness and deceit were as alien to her disposition as they could be to the mind of a human being, and innocence was as much an inmate in her breast. She had great meekness of spirit and benevolence of heart, pitying distress whenever witnessed, always ready to yield the redress in her power, and disposed to exercise kindness on all occasions, as well as to put the most candid construction upon the conduct of others. Scrupulously attached to a regular perusal of the Holy Scriptures, it was her habitual custom to read several chapters every day, unless prevented by indisposition; for she would rarely permit any other hinderance to this good practice. Indeed, a conscientious regard to whatever she conceived to be religious or moral duty, uniformly marked the deportment of this excellent woman. Before there was the appearance of imminent danger to her sympathizing relatives and friends, she was strongly persuaded that her disorder was beyond the power of medicine to remove, feeling that her strength was not equal to coping again with the violence of a pulmonary disease, and that, as her words were, her time in the present state of existence was nearly over. But this apprehension gave her mind no disquietude; on the contrary she was remarkably composed and comfortable. While she felt conscious of defects and unworthiness before Infinite Purity, she enjoyed a lively confidence in divine mercy, revealed in the New Covenant, saying, death had no terror in her view. She often expressed her gratitude for the various blessings she had received, her humble resignation to the will of her heavenly Father, her deep sense of obligation to the Mediator, and her hope of perfect and immortal happiness beyond the grave. Her language repeatedly was in her last hours, "I have put my trust in God, and hope I shall meet him and my Saviour with joy and not with grief.” Yes, departed Christian! excellent in thy life, patient under affliction, and happy in thy death, thou wilt share a lot with the righteous in the glorious resurrection promised in the gospel to life everlasting. 1820. Jan. 11, at Chatham, aged 75 years, Mr. WILLIAM BADELEY. His parents were persons of pious characters. Of his mother, particularly in this respect, he was accustomed to speak in terms of the warmest admiration and affection. With them he was led to attend on the services of the sanctuary, and to conform to private duties in the family. Yet, notwithstanding these moral advantages, he was not distinguished in early life by any marked seriousness, a circumstance which he has since often regretted. Disappointment in trade at a subsequent and later period, appears to have produced in him those cogitations and convictions which, in connexion with the reception of Christianity, can only conduce to human comfort. From the deductions of reason at the first, (though educated in a different belief,) his views, as to the Deity, were what is properly denominated Unitarian; and finding such a faith recognized alike by the law and the gospel, having once embraced, he never after dissented from it. Partial notions of God, as to the extent of his mercy, were highly revolting to his mind. Of the resumption of being in a future state, he had some peculiar ideas, but not such as to affect his expectation of its enjoyment. Relative to the equity and government of a Divine Providence, he tenaciously held the tenet "that every thing is from God |