been baptized by affusion required to be baptized again. 5. Baptism by affusion was common in France at the commencement of the fifth century. This practice has prevailed considerably in the north of Europe; particularly in Great Britain. And it is an undeniable fact, that those Christians who baptize by affusion, do as strictly comply with the precept of the New Testament, as those who baptize by immersion. "6. The practice of administering baptism of adult persons by one person putting another under water, as it is inconvenient and indecorous, so it is neither required by the precept, nor warranted by the example, of the New Testament."-Pp. 73-76. Mr. Belsham next points out what he considers to be intimations of infant baptism or allusions to it in the New Test ment, but upon these he does not appear to lay much stress: the passages produced are Col. ii. 11, 12, where Paul calls baptism "the circumcision of Christ," Mark x 14, John iii. 5, Acts ii. 38, and 1 Cor. vii. 14. The I etters are closed with a statement of the Practical Uses of Infant Baptism; which, according to Mr. Belsham, consist not in washing away the stain of original sin, or in merely naming the child, but in introducing infants into the glorious and honour able community of which Christ is the head, and inscribing them upon the sacred register of the visible church, as spiritually free-born; and in laying parents under the obligation of an outward and public profession to instruct their offspring in the Chris tian doctrine and to bring them up in the discipline of the Christian school. The two forms of administration of the rite are adapted to the foregoing views of it, and are solemn and devotional, and calculated to edify such parents as can enter into the ceremony with both the heart and the understanding. ART. II.-The Mystery Unfolded; or an Exposition of the Extraordinary Means employed to obtain Converts by the Agents of the London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews, &c. &c. By M. Sailman, Teacher of Hebrew, Southampton. 8vo. pp. 84. Published at No. 1, Chequer Square, Aldgate. 2s. 6d. 1817. N our Fifth Volume (pp. 155-159 and 375) we gave our opinion of the London Society for converting the Jews. The event has justified our intimations, and verified our predictions. The public were instructed in the real state of the case a few months ago, by the late printer to the Society [Mon. Repos. XI. 549), and his statements are confirmed and the character of some of the pretended converts more fully displayed in the pamphlet before us, written by one of the Jewish nation, who is indignant at proceedings which are alike disgraceful to Jews and Christians. The Dissenters have withdrawn from this society, and the chapel in Spitalfields, where Dissenting worship was carried on, avowedly for the sake of the Jews, is shut up. The Society has, however, one place of worship, the new chapel, in the parish of Bethnal Green, at the top of the Hackney Road: but it is ridiculous to call this (as it is called, and as the Hebrew inscription on the front of the building designates it), a Jews' Chapel: no Jews attend it with the exception of the children in the school, who, according to this author, are not all Jews on the side of both parents, of the servants of the society on pay, and of perhaps as many converts as would suffice to fill a pew. In fact, the place is nothing more than a Chapel of Ease for " evangelical," that is, Calvinistic preaching, and being on the edge of three large parishes, and remote from the several parish-churches, is very well attended. The Duke of Kent was patron of the Society, but (according to Mr. Sailman, p. 60, has withdrawn his patronage: this loss of royal sanction is however compensated (as we learn from our author) by the accession of two bishops, their lordships of St. David's and Gloucester. The Jew-preacher, Mr. Frey, for whom the society was instituted, has left the country, "sent out at the expense of the London Society to New York, America" (p. 50): if he had been sent out, at the expense of the country, to a still more distant part of the world, he would in the judgment of our author have had no more than his desert. Converted Jews have found a munificent patron in Mr. Way, of Stanstead, Sussex, who has, we believe, entered into orders; and a disgusting recital is before the public in Goakman's pamphlet, already referred to, and also in the present little work, of the thefts and frauds committed or attempted upon this gentleman. One convert, the clerk of the chapel, is accused of purloining the communion plate and of forging a cheque for six hundred pounds: the same man is said in the newspapers pp. 45, 44), to be now in custody, together with his wife, also a pretended convert, on a charge of uttering forged Bank of England notes. Mr. Sailman gives an account likewise (as he promises in the title-page, which is too long to extract of "Nehemiah Benjamin Solomon, who, after a conversion of some years, intreated to be taken from between Christians,' but who returned, and has lately been ordained a minister of the gospel: with various interesting facts relative to the conduct of about fort other converts, disclosing a scene of iniquity not to be paralleled in the annals of religious impositions." The author is, it must be remembered, a Jew, and therefore his opinion and conjecture weigh little without solid facts; but there is, we think, evidence enough at least to justify the late Lord Mayor's representation of the society (Mon. Repos. XI. 625), as doing very little good, and as being. imposed upon by designing persons for fraudulent purposes. ART. III.-Priestly Tyranny Exposed. A Short Statement of the Causes of the Disunion and Division which took place in the Congregation assembling in Helen's Lane, Colchester, in which the Conduct of the Rev. Joseph Herrick is set in its true Light. 12mo. pp.36. Mattacks, Colchester; Eaton, London. 9d. 1817. E have here an example of insolence and despotism in a gentleman in “pretended holy orders" which is rarely equalled by any legi. timate son of the church, educated to magnify himself and disparage the people. We recommend it to ministers and congregations; to the former that they may see how odious priestly assumptions are, and to the latter that they may learn that it is both their interest and their duty to take care that their liberties be not invaded. POETRY. No, it is all, all o'er With that sweet soul thou must converse no more! Sweet soul, where art thou now? What waking visions break thy sleep of death? What scenes of joy or woe, O God! all merciful, all guardian friend, A nation's tears shall o'er thee fall, And thousand breasts shall deeply sigh`; Beauty and youth shall spread thy pall, While hope and love stand weeping by ; And every softer virtue come, To lay thee in thy early tomb; And there shall pity lingering be, T'engrave thy mournful memory. All Britain's isle with sorrow soon, Shall hear the deed that death has done, Intruding rudely to remove, The object of her loyal love. November 6, 1817. Alike feel this: and, oh lamented shade, When on high, in happier day, VERSES Written by a Lady during her pregnancy and given to her husband after her safe. delivery, a few days subsequent to a late much-lamented event. [From the Times.] To thy dear loss shall every rite be paid, MY God, whose all-directing power And the sad tear of fond affection flow! 'Tis not the sable garb, the room of State, The minute bell that tells the fatal tale;SHE, SHE is gone for whom we felt elate; 'Tis the fond wife, the mother, we bewail, Young, loving and beloved; the good, the great, She was a nation's hope-a nation's pride: have died. Bromley, Middlesex, Nov. 6, 1817. Hath brought me to this awful hour, Ah! wherefore are my spirits fied? Then turn not, Lord, thy face away, DIRGE ON THE FUNERAL OF THE Suspence! how heavy thy controal PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES. BY J. F. M. DOVASTON, ESQ. A. M. AUTHOR OF 66 THE BRITISH MELODIES," &c. [Mwynen Gwynedd (The Melody of North Wales). Welsh Air harmonized ] Toll, Britain, toll Fair Saint, that sleepest. O'er Albion's bier With long, long farewel! greet her; Oh! England's rose, Weighs on the feeble mind! Oh, be that purpose kind! My prayer is heard, away my fears, She droop'd and died, ah! fatal hour! Unconsecrated lie? Without a song, whose fervid strains Ordains to thee a brighter lot: While earth-while hope endures, thy name Pure-high-imperishable-the sameShall never be forgot: 'Tis shrined amid the holy throng! 'Tis woven in immortal song! Yes! Campbell, of the deathless lay, AUTUMN. As through the forest sweeps th' autumnal blast, And the check'd boughs their faded foliage cast; OBITUARY. Oct. 15, at Soleure, the celebrated GENERAL KOSCIUSKO, closing, by a peaceable death, a life full of virtues and brilliant with glory. He had lived some time in a tranquil retreat, where he had become an interesting object of respect and veneration, surrounded by his own sweet remembrances, some faithful friends, and the poor, of whom he was the constant benefactor. He had recommended that the greatest simplicity should be observed at his funeral, and ordered that his mortal remains should be borne by the poor. The death of General Kosciusko has caused the most sincere sorrow. His friends have bathed his tomb with their tears; and the name of the hero whom it contains will ever be associated with all that the inflexibility of virtue, the love of country, and of true glory, have formed of the sublime. On the above news which is given in an article from Lausanne, the Times newspaper makes the following remarks, which remind us of the Pharisaic custom of honouring dead saints and persecuting living ones: "The brave, disinterested, and virtuous Kosciusko is stated, in an article from Lausanne, to have died at Soleure on the 15th instant. A singular felicity of reputation has ever attended this admirable citizen and warrior. In the cause of genuine liberty he fought against injustice, and shamed both the tyrants and the jacobins of the age. In his days of power, at the head of armies that adored his name, no false glory dazzled him, nor corrupt ambition could betray him. He nobly resisted the foreign potentates who laid waste his country; not because they were Kings and Emperors, but because they were invaders and oppressors. He combated with no rebellious sword-for no ambiguous object He was no tawdry philosopher-nor yelling democrat-nor desperate adventurer-nor savage conqueror in the rare and pure spirit of freedom and loyalty, he bled for the King and constitution of his native country. When Poland lost her independence, Kosciusko lost his home: as she sunk he rose, but not upon her ruins. The Court of Russia would have allured this illustrious defender of the people whom she had subjugated, by temptations irresistible to vulgar minds. Buona arte would have made him the flattered instrument of a spurious and hollow liberality to his countrymen: but Kosciusko saw that their lot was irretrievable: and his own he refused to change. As a soldier and a patriot in public life and in retirement, his principles were untainted, and his name unsullied the monarchs whom he opposed respected him; the factions who failed to seduce, forebore to slander him; and he would have been the Washington, had he not been the Wallace of Poland." Oct. 15, at Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, the Rev. THOMAS ASTLEY, at the advanced age of 79 years, who had been the Pastor of the Unitarian Congregation in that town during a period of nearly forty years. 16, at Bowwood, the seat of the Marquis of Lansdown, Mr. BROAD, for nearly forty years steward in the Marquis's family; being out in the park on the day preceding, with a party of ladies and gentlemen, he found a dead adder, which he took up in his hand, and opened its mouth, to shew where the poison of the creature lay; in doing this, however, the subtle matter communicated to a cut in one of his fingers. On the next morning, Mr. Broad was found dead in his bed, with every indication of his having died from the effects of the poison, the arm being much inflamed, 24, at Fairwater House, near Taunton, RICHARD CLARKSON, Esq. aged 62. He was a character of no common worth or merit. Retired from business at Kingston upon Thames, he purchased an estate about a-mile from Taunton, delightfully situated, with a charming place of residence. He did not give himself up to dissipation, luxury or sloth, but knowing the importance of an object to occupy his mind, used to an active situation, and having a taste for agriculture, he filled up most of the hours of the day in superintending improvements. The adoption of this plan, while beneficial to his health, relieved him from the tediousness of the most irksome life, that of having nothing to do. His leisure time and his evenings he devoted to books. Mr. Clarkson possessed a sound understanding, was intelligent, well-informed upon many subjects, and had particularly studied religion. Few of the laity were better acquainted with the evidences of Christianity-better able to defend its bulwarks against infidelity, the doctrines which he embraced, or his principles as a Dissenter. Religion was not with him a theory, but it entered into all his views, regulated all his pursuits; and the Scriptures were "the man of his counsel, a light to his feet, and a lamp to his path." He attended public worship constantly both parts of the day in the most serious manner: and no one who had been much in his company could doubt a correspondence in the dis charge of private duties. Mr. Clarkson was admired for an amiable uniformity of conduct; his rectitude, his truth, his prudence, shone with conspicuous lustre. Unassuming, unostentatious, he was pious, modest, gentle; and all the virtues seem to have been concentrated in his character. In the several domestic relations of husband, father, master, it is saying little to say he was exemplary. He was a priest in his own house, offering morning and evening sacrifice. To the poor he was charitable; to his friends full of affection and kindness. He was most distinguished by the evenness and sweetness of his temper, never ruffled or discomposed, never off his guard in speaking, nor, if he were hurt, betraying the irritation of anger. He is known to have said, that he had taken a great deal of pains with himself to acquire this serenity and composure; and that he was certain people might attain it if they tried In his last illness, he was not only pattern of patience, but thankful for every service rendered to him, and expressed his lively sense of the goodness of God, and dependence upon the Divine promises. He spake of them in the most animating strain as |