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POETRY.

On the Death of Mrs. WELLBELOVED. And happier still, that journey o'er

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To meet ;-and part, oh never, never! To wing, with thee, the pathless way, And dwell in realms of bliss for ever. E. W.

York, February 13, 1823.

THE BIBLE.

It is the one, clear light,

That, if all other lamps grow dim, Shall never burn less purely bright Or lead astray from Him.

It is the golden key

To treasures of celestial wealth

Joy, to the sons of misery,

And, to the sick man, health.

It is the blessed band

That reaches from th' eternal throne, To him, whoe'er he be, whose hand Will seize it for his own.

The gently proffer'd aid

Of One who knows us ;-and can best Supply the beings he hath made With what will make them blest.

It is the sweetest sound

That infant ears delight to hear, Travelling across the holy ground With God and angels near.

There rests the aching head—

And how it smooths the dying bed,
There age and sorrow love to go-
O let the Christiau show!

JONAH.

E.

Suggested by a Sermon of the late Rev. H. Turner's.

"Go thou to Nineveh :

The voice of her iniquities
Thou prophet of the Lord most high;

Tell her, ere forty days are o'er,
Hath pierced the lofty sky;
Proud Nineveh shall be no more."

Reluctant he departs—

Did his heart bleed in pity? No! Because our God is slow to wrath

The prophet's steps were slow; He knew and fear'd the power of prayer Tavert the threaten'd judgment there.

And it was so-in dust

Humbled the guilty people knelt, Leaving the gorgeous palaces,

Where late in pomp they dwelt;
King, princes, mourn'd the deep offence,
And gave themselves to penitence.
Now that his powerful voice,
Heaven-taught, had reach'd the sinner's
heart,

Might not the prophet well rejoice,
And blessing God, depart?

Or fervent join the hope, the prayer,
"Who knows if yet our God may
spare ?"

No-His was not the soul

Of one who, humbled in the dust, Pleaded for guilty Israel,

Yet own'd the sentence just ❤ Heaven's gracious thoughts his anger move,

And Jonah weeps that "God is love."
Sorrowing he goes to seek

A shelter from the noon-tide heat,
And up there sprang above his head

A shade so cooling, sweet;
"Jonah was glad," the record says,
We hear not of the Giver's praise.
Short was his joy-the plant

In one short night a worm devour'd,
The prophet saw it droop and pine,
And, sorrowing, miss'd his gourd,
Yet gentle still those accents fell,
"In this thine anger dost thou well?”

"Yes, I do well, even thus,

Thus angry unto death, to pine:" "Then thou had'st pity on the gourd,

Which was no work of thine Which in a night has flourished, And in a night thou see'st is dead!

"And shall no pity rise

For thousand and ten thousand souls That in the depth of ignorance

No sense of right controuls; And shall not God spare Nineveh, Where thrice ten thousand people be ?"

Oh! if there be who wield Heaven's thunders o'er their brothers' head,

Not, Jonah-like, commission'd high,
With error compassed,

O let them, warn'd by Him, beware,
Nor curse whom God perhaps may spare.

And let their guarded souls

Be to themselves severely true, Sorrowing pronounce condemning words, And let those words be few; Their chiefest joy the "joy of Heaven," O'er love display'd and sin forgiven.

Moses, Deut, ix. 18.

E.

To Louis-Le Desiré.*

Then thou wilt submit, O King!
Then thou wilt submit to be
That scourge of the world, a warlike
King,

Deep charg'd with the blood of the
Free?

Then thou, in thine age, must take

The sword on the side of wrong, Impatient to think this idle world

Should dally with Peace so long.

Now shame on the souls that roused
Such wrath in a merciful breast,
And gave thee thoughts which would ne'er
have come,

Had they left thee alone in thy rest!

And thou hast believed the word,

That God can delight to see
His image fair in the mind of man
Effac'd by a thing like thee ?

And thou canst indeed believe,
If the prayer be duly said
And the mass-bell rung,—that the smile
of Heaven

Shines bright on thy favour'd head?

Or ever the deed be done,

Oh! ponder, for mercy's sake!

Nor madly yet one comforting thought, From a dying moment take!

Or ever the widow's sigh

To the throne of God hath sped,
Or the deep and solemn curse be goue
From the warrior's lowly bed ;—

By all thou hast hop'd or fear'd

In Heaven or Hell, oh pause! For God will fight in defence of the right, And not in oppression's cause. E. T..

Lines written in the Prison at Calais.

(From Mr. BOWRING'S "Details of his Arrest, Imprisonment and Liberation," just published.)

Calais Prison, Oct. 8, 1822.

I have marched up and down this foul abode,

And read its tales of misery: 'tis a book

Since this poem was printed, we "have seen it in the Examiner newspaper, but being sent to us as an original, we give it as such. ED.

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SELECT NOTICES OF FOREIGN LITERATURE.

[As we take the articles under this head from the foreign periodical publications, chiefly the Revue Encyclopédique, we are responsible for the translation only.]

Der Prophet Jesaia.

The prophet Isaiah, recently translated from Hebrew into German, by G. Gesenius, Divinity Professor at Halle, in the circle of Mersebourg. Leipsic, 1820. Pp. 165, in 8vo.

Commentar uber den Jesaia, von G. GESENIUS. Philological, Critical and Historical Commentary on Isaiah, by the same. Leipsic, 1821. Pp. 140. 8vo.

M. GESENIUS has obtained astonishing success in teaching the Hebrew tongue. He has published the history of this language, a grammar and a dictionary, as well as other analogous books, much esteemed in Europe. The most learned Hebraists, and the most able theologians in Germany are inexhaustible in the praise of this new translation of Isaiah, the merit of the commentary, the erudition displayed by the author, and the justness of his reflections. He endeavours to point out, in his text, the prophetic annunciation of the Christian religion, the most remarkable traits of the life of Jesus Christ, and the establishment of his doctrine amongst the Gentiles.

Hebraische Grammatik, &c.—He brew Grammar, by the same. Fifth Edition. Halle, 1822. One Vol. in 8vo. Pp. 232.

At the end of this volume, the author announces a new edition of his Hebrew and German Dictionary, which is to assume the form of Hebrew and Latin, and in which will be found the etymologies, and a comparison of the Hebrew dialects.

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de Seine, No. 48. In 8vo. Price 2 francs.

This work is more important than its title seems to denote: this remark we address to the translator. The title announces a polemical work, whilst the production of M. Bretschneider is entirely historical. It is a very interesting biography of the life and labours of the French Reformer. In it we find a precise and clear exposition of the theological doctrines of Calvin. M. de Felice, in translating the German work into French, has principally aimed at answering the calumnies of the Conservateur. In the book of M. Bretschneider is to be found a justness and originality of thought sometimes very remarkable, joined to a profound knowledge of the circumstances and spirit of the Reformation. There are also many details of the life of Calvin, hitherto but little known. I have remarked (pp. 34, 35) a brilliant parallel between Calvin and Luther. The author points out the noble features of the character of Calvin, considered as a legislator. He discusses fully the conduct of Calvin in the judgment against Castellio, J. Gruet, Bolsec and particularly Servetus. In the times in which we live, Protestant theologians ought at once to acknowledge that Calvin countenanced the burning of Servetus; that no one thinks of maintaining that the Reformers were men entirely undeserving of reproach, any more than the enlightened priests of the Roman Church maintain that the Popes were all perfect; neither should it be considered that the defects of their characters can at all diminish the gratitude the Protestants owe them for having, according to them, delivered reason from bondage and strengthened the sacred rights of conscience.

Charles COQUEREL.

Notice sur l'Etat actuel des Eglises Vaudoises Protestantes des Vallées du Piémont.-Account of the present condition of the Protestant Churches of the

Valleys of Piedmont, followed by the intolerant decrees issued against the Christian Reformers, their petition to the King of Sardinia, and the statistical description of the Vaudois districts.

This account is drawn up by M. Charles Coquerel, one of the contributors to the Revue Encyclopédique. It is an useful supplement to the history of the Vaudois and of the persecutions they have undergone. Their present population amounts to 18,000 souls in 22 communes. It is the effect of the government they have been under since 1814, that they are precisely in the same condition as were the Protestants of France before the edict of 1787, that is, exposed to a mass of oppressive laws and regulations, which inay at every instant be put in force against them. They are excluded from every employment and all public functions, except the profession of soldiers, without the hope of being promoted above the rank of sergeant: they are waiting for liberty of conscience to be restored to them; they live on hope, may they not be deceived!

LANJUINAIS.

"that in all ages innocent persons have been condemned to death.” He brings forward the most celebrated and most lamentable proofs of it in his poem. Philosophical reasoning and quotations from history, sometimes damp the ardour and imagination of the poet. In luminous notes he discusses the opinions of Mably, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Filangieri and Montesquieu, immortal writers whom we regret not to see amongst the defenders of a moral truth, so victoriously demonstrated by the learned Beccaria, and in our days by the illustrious Pastoret, the ingenious Rœderer, and so many other distinguished writers. M. Valant is worthy to walk in their footsteps: the moment is not, perhaps, far distant when the cause he defends will triumph: the epoch will arrive, when a whole continent, advancing towards a new and superior civilization, under the auspicious instruction of religion and liberty, will expiate the crimes committed formerly in its bosom by the guilty supporters of ignorance, fanaticism and slavery.

SAXONY.-LEIPSIC.

The lectures at our university conDe la Nécessité d'abolir la Peine de tinue to be much frequented. The

Mort.

On the Necessity of abolishing the Punishment of Death, an Essay in Verse, followed by Four Discussions in Prose, in which are examined the Opinions of Mably, J. J. Rousseau, Filangieri and Montesquieu on that Subject. Paris, 1822. Pelicier, Place du Palais Royal. Pamphlet in Svo. Price 3 francs.

The work of M. VALANT, who when young pleaded this noble cause before the National Convention, is dedicated to one of the most respectable members of that assembly, whose eloquent and courageous voice abandoned neither a virtuous king in misfortune, nor his country bowed down under the weight of a brilliant despotism, to M. LANJUINAIS, whom our liberal and constitutional institutions still reckon amongst their most invariable supports. The motto of the pamphlet contains the principal idea that runs through it: "I dare remind the arbiters of nations," says the author,

number of pupils during the winter season was 1102, amongst whom 480 were studying divinity; 381 jurisprudence; 163 physic; and 74 philology. On the 1st of December, the total number was increased by 51 pupils. This prosperity is not astonishing to those who know the names of the professors. The celebrity of M. M. Rosenmüller, Hermann, Beck, Weiske, Kruse and Spohn, who preside over the philological studies, would convince us that in every department of science true merit alone has been entrusted with the care of education in this university.

AUSTRIA.

Public Instruction.—Jesuits.—A great number of Jesuits, expelled from Russia, have been allowed to settle in Gallicia, where the direction of the gymnasium of Tacnopol has been entrusted to them. An imperial decree exempts them from the duties im

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