tive only of a barren harvest of promises; and let it not be forgotten, that the Bourbons-themselves but just emancipated from the yoke of slavery, are requiting their obligations to Britain and to God, by giving their sanction to this infamous trade.

In our own country, however, a simultaneous movement seems to be taking place. The voice of the oppressed is heard in our temples and our streets. The blood of the martyr has acted with a talismanic influence, and the fall of Smith has been a great benefit to the cause of the abolitionists, as well as to the cause of Christian missions. It has let the public of Britain and the world a little into the character of the West India interest. If this is a specimen of the liberal and noble hearts of West India Governors, doubtless, their slaves experience nothing but kindness. To imprint the evils of slavery more deeply upon the mind, and rouse it to renewed exertion in the cause of emancipation, is the object of the present pamphlet; and with a masterly hand the author has swept aside the "refuge of lies" under which the advocates of slavery have so long taken shelter. He has proclaimed to the world, that the whole system is an infraction of the rights and liberties of man; that it is alike repugnant to the law of nature and of God; that as a national measure it is inexpedient, and unproductive of those benefits which its advocates assert; and that the true interests of this or any other country can be promoted, and their political greatness in the scale of nations upheld, only in proportion as their policy is enlightened, and their spirit liberal. We would gladly give a specimen of the able manner in which the subject is here treated, but we have not room; and it may be sufficient to say, the pamphlet is replete with authenticated facts, and comprises more information upon the subject of slavery than we ever remember to have seen in so small a space. We hope it will be universally read.

MEMOIR OF CATHARINE BROWN, ɑ Christian Indian of the Cherokee Nation. By Rufus Anderson, A. M. &c. Holdsworth. 2s.-This is a very interesting and encouraging little publication. As illusstrative of the benign influence of the Gospel on the mind of a Cherokee Indian girl, it will afford great pleasure to every Christian who reads it. The authenticity of the narrative brings its own voucher in the highly respectable name

of Mr. Anderson, Assistant Secretary to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. We give our cordial recommendation to the work on the ground of its being an unvarnished statement of facts, and on that account likely to be far more useful than the religious novels and tales which still so injuriously abound.

AN EXPOSTULATORY LETTER to the Rev. Edward Irving, A. M., occasioned by his Orations for Missionaries after the We are gratified to see the absurdities Apostolic School. By William Orme. 2s. of the Missionary Orations exposed in so judicious and able a manner. It is lamentable indeed that Mr. I. should have deemed it necessary to direct his assault against the whole system by which missions have hitherto been supported and conducted, especially since there is by no means any surplus liberality in this cause. It would at all events have been more christian-like, first to have obtained an experiment to more magnanimous, and more prudent, be made upon his own plan, and to have shown, like a true and rigid Bawell, and would be productive of as conian philosopher, that the thing worked much or more good, before he had reviled and called upon the Christian Church to abandon a system which has been invariably acted upon since the age of miracles terminated. Mr. Orme comes into close contact with the argument and the statement; and though he uses no high-sounding phrase, nor feeds the ear with oracular declamation, he yet convinces the judgment by sound flimsy assertions, the presumptuous desense, and completely explodes the cisions of the Caledonian Orator. We hope Mr. O.'s pamphlet will follow wherever the Orations have made their way, and that it will be one means of counteracting the baneful tendency of that leafy farrago, and of guarding the sacred cause of missions from the effects of that wound it has received in the house of its friend.

PROCEEDINGS OF A GENERAL COURT MARTIAL ON LIEUT. GEORGE FRANCIS DAWSON, of the Royal Artillery, for hesitating to comply with an Order, by which he was required to participate in the Ceremonies of the Romish Church. Butterworth and Son. 2s. 6d.-The minutes of a Court Martial can furnish little matter for criticism; in the present instance, however, it is not our intention to analyze the style, but to present the reader with a brief statement of what we conceive to be the leading facts of this ex

traordinary case. It seems to have been customary in Malta, on the anniversary of their tutelar Saint, for the different castles and forts to fire a salute at the moment when a procession, bearing the image of St. Lorenzo, were seen emerging from the church. On the day in question it became the duty of Lieut. Dawson to superintend the men employed in firing this salute. Lieut. Dawson was a soldier, but he was a Christian, and when he found it impossible to reconcile the commands of his superiors to the dictates of his own conscience, he nobly refused to obey, lest by obeying he might participate in an idolatrous act. For this he has been cashiered. The object of the present pamphlet, we believe, is simply to unfold the truth, as exaggerated accounts have been presented to the public, and to preserve his character in the eyes of his countrymen, as he will hereafter have to seek a livelihood in some other channel. We hope the christian public will extensively read this pamphlet.

THE TWO RECTORS. 12mo.-This is a well-written and spirited legend, literally a tale told for the good of the church: the saints and the evangelical clergy are the principal objects of ridicule. The author appears to be a wellmeaning man in his way-but that is not the best.

A REPLY to the Letters of the Abbé Dubois on the State of Christianity in India. By the Rev. James Hough, Chaplain to the Hon. East India Company on the Madras Establishment. 8vo.

5s.-The absurdities of the Abbé Dubois have been most ably exposed by two individuals, whose testimony to facts will surely be allowed to outweigh the prejudiced statements of the mortified, because unsuccessful, advocate of popery. Mr. Townley's volume was a seasonable and able refutation of the main positions of the Abbé's book. This a matter-offact exposure of his gross mis-statements. The religious world is greatly indebted to the Abbé for having given occasion to two works which embody a complete and most interesting summary of what has already been effected by all denominations of Protestants, and of the moral apparatus now working with a rapidly increasing power upon the heathenism of India. We strongly recommend this volume to all our readers, and especially to the enemies of missions, if such ever look upon these pages

THE REVIEWER REVIEWED; or, Strictures upon the Articles in the 61st NEW SERIES, No. 7.

and 62d Numbers of the Quarterly Review, on the Progress of Dissent and the Church in Ireland. By a Dissenter.— Who this dissenter may be we have no means of knowing, but though he has said many good things, and adduced some appropriate extracts, we certainly cannot say he has executed his undertaking to our taste. We cannot but wish that he had deemed the admirable pamphlet of a Nonconformist (which it appears he had read) quite sufficient for the occasion. Men who step forward to defend a public cause should not merely inquire whether it needs defence, but whether they are best qualified to become its advocates: otherwise they may unwittingly undermine what they would uphold.

STATE OF IRELAND. Letters from Ireland on the present Political, Religious, and Moral State of that country, &c. Second Edition.-To those who are interested in the present state of Ireland, this pamphlet will be interesting though they should differ from the opinions of the author. It is well written, and displays considerable knowledge of Irish

affairs.

THE ITINERACY of a Traveller in the Wilderness, addressed to those who are performing the same journey. By Mrs. Taylor, of Ongar. 12mo. 5s. 6d.— If not one of the most engaging, this will certainly prove one of the most useful of Mrs. T.'s productions. Among many that are excellent it might be thought invidious to point out one as best; yet that distinction we certainly do attach to the present admirable volume, nor shall we retract our opinion, tale should decide against us. though the taste of the age for fiction and

WORKS PREPARING FOR PUBLICATION.

Facts and Correspondence relative to the recent Conduct of the Managers of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters assembling in Carter Lane, Doctors' Commons. By John Hoppus, A.M.-The Manchester Socinian Controversy, with Introductory Remarks, and an Appendix, containing a List of the Chapels in England, Wales, and Scotland, now in the possession of Unitarians; also an Account of the Manchester College, York, and of the Characters of Rev. Daniel Williams and Lady. Hewley.-A Second Edition of Reviews, by the Rev. Robert Hall, A.M. Leicester.-Sermons on the Lord's Prayer, in Series of Lectures. By the Rev. Sam. Saunders, of Frome. 1 vol. 8vo.-The Fourth Part of the Bible Teachers' Manual. By Mrs. Sherwood.

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BARNSTAPLE. (The following document is transcribed from a memorandum of Mr. S. Badcock, dissenting minister at Barnstaple, and then at South Molton. It was written about 1778.)

"The dissenting congregation in this place was originally gathered by Mr. Jonathan Hanmer, (grandfather of the poet Gray), and Mr. Oliver Peard. The former was a lecturer at the church in the

protectorship of Cromwell. He was a man of very considerable abilities and great application. He wrote a treatise on Christian Confirmation, recommended by Mr. Baxter," (and various other pieces.) "Both he and Mr. Peard were ejected by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. Dr. Ca'lamy has given an account of both. When Charles II. granted an indulgence in 1672, the congregation built a meeting-house near the castle, and formed themselves into a regular church on the congregational plan, under the pastorship of Mr. Oliver Peard, who (by the approbation of the people) chose for his assistant Mr. John Hanmer, the son of his former colleague, who, though not ejected from any living by the Act of Sequestration, yet refusing to take the oaths, and comply with the other requisites of conformity, was silenced for some years, and being obliged to quit the college, is classed by Dr. Calamy amongst the ejected ministers, and spoken of with peculiar honour in the continuation of his account. In May 1692, Mr. Hanmer (by the consent of Mr. Peard) was chosen co-pastor, and after the death of Mr. Peard, September 9, 1696, Mr. Hanmer was desired to take upon himself the whole of the pastoral office, which he complied with. As the congregation was very large, Mr. Hanmer was prevailed on to choose an assistant. The person fixed on was Mr. William Peard, (son of Mr. O. Peard, the former pastor,) who, at that time, was settled with a congregation at Appledore, near Biddeford. This was about the year 1700. Mr Hanmer soon after this was rendered almost incapable of ministerial work, and some disputes arising in the congregation, respecting the choice of an assistant, a considerable part of the congregation seceded in 1705, (leaving the congregation at the castle entirely under the care

of Mr. Peard.) For some time the seceders worshipped in a private house, till a very commodious chapel was built for them in Cross Street. The first candidate for the separate congregation was a Mr. Birne, or Bearne. A blunder he made in the pulpit was the only cause of his being rejected. He was to preach a funeral ser. mon for an old gentleman well known, which drew a large audience. The poor man had forgotten to note down where his text was to be found. He told them (with a most disconcerted air) that he believed his text was in the Proverbs, but he was not certain, but the words were so and so. This unlucky blunder was the parent of a thousand more: his sermon was a very chaos of crude divinity. Some were chagrined, others disgusted, and a third sort gratified with something to make a jest of. The preacher was too much mortified to make a second attempt, and the people that invited him too much mortified to desire it. This Mr. Birne afterwards settled at Hammersmith, and in his latter days made a worse blunder than at first. He conformed to the Establishment, and became so enamoured of bis canonicals, that he wore them all day long!! But, poor man! he was near seventy! When the Cross Street Chapel was completed, the congregation invited Mr. George Boucher, in the year 1706, to settle among them. He was at that time with the people at Bovey--had been a student at old Mr. Hallett's academy at Exeter, and was ordained in 1701. Mr. Hanmer did not long survive the separation. The time of his death is specified in Dr. Calamy's Continuation, and some account of his character from his funeral sermon by Mr. Boucher. Mr. Peard, of the castle-meeting dying, he was ceeded by Mr. John Powell, who before that had been settled with a congregation at Blandford. The name of this gentleman, (and also Mr. Boucher's,) is among the subscribing ministers at the Exeter assembly in 1719. About a year before his death, he became totally incapacitated for ministerial work, on which account the congregation invited Mr. Thomas Bishop to be their pastor. He had been a chaplain in the family of Sir John Davey, Bart. and preached at Shobrook, near Crediton. He settled at Barnstaple, January 1, 1720. Mr. Bishop was succeeded by Mr. John Walrond in the year 1738, He was nephew of that Mr.

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Walrond, of Exeter, who was a principal opposer of Arianism, and Mr. Peirce in 1719. Mr. Boucher, at the Cross Street Meeting, growing exceedingly infirm, it was proposed to Mr. Walrond in the year 1753, (as he had always lived in the greatest harmony with Mr. Boucher and his people,) to unite both congregations under his own ministry, and for the satisfaction of both, it was judged most eligible to preach at each meeting alternately. Through Mr. Walrond's prudence and moderation, this scheme was effected to the satisfaction of Mr. Boucher and both societies." (Mr. Walrond published an excellent" Discourse on Ejaculatory Prayer," 8vo. 1747.) "Mr Walrond dying in the year 1769, the united congregations invited Mr. Samuel Badcock to settle among them. He accordingly removed from Wimborne, in Dorsetshire, and preached his first sermon at Barnstaple, April 1, 1770. The number of communicants from the first institution of the Society to the present time, 1778, --80 to 100-stated hearers about 500." (Here Mr. Badcock's MS. ends.) Badcock is well known as a distinguished classical scholar, and as the writer of a considerable portion of White's Bampton Lectures. He removed to South Molton in 1777. Soon after Mr. Badcock's removal, Mr. BENJAMIN SEAWARD undertook the pastoral office, and was ordained August 20, 1777. He was removed by death in 1799. In the same year, Mr. RICHARD TAPSELL, from South Molton, accepted the call of the church, and continued until January 1804, when he took the charge of a congregation at Braunton, in this neighbourhood, and was succeeded by the present minister, Mr. H. W. GARDINER. There are at present about 500 stated hearers, and 60 communicants, A Sabbath School of about 200 children, and a society for relieving the sick poor, are supported by this congregation.

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There is a Baptist church in this town, of whose history we are ignorant.

BRENT (South).-The dissenting cause in this village originated in the labours of Mr. KELLY, of Ashburton. A Miss H., of Ashburton, generously bequeathed the sum of eight hundred pounds to be laid out in lands: the interest to be applied to the support of such minister as might be eventually settled here. After enjoying the occasional labours of neighbouring preachers, the congregation invited Mr. HODGE to preach regularly to them. His stay was short. Under his successor, Mr. SHIRMAN, a place of worship was erected. It is feared, however, that the cause of religion does not flourish, nor indeed is such a result to be expected, as the Antinomian pestilence has infected the moral atmosphere of the place.

BRIXHAM.--Baptist.-A Meeting-house,

COLLUMPTON.-Mr. WILLIAM CROMPTON was the first dissenting minister settled at this place, though no authentic account can be given concerning the time of his first settlement, or of his death. He preached in a dwelling-house some years after the Revolution. It is conjectured that the late meeting-house was built in 1694. Mr. RICHARD EVANS, the grandfather of the late Mr. Evans, of Appledore, was chosen minister of this congregation in 1698. Here he continued till his death in July 1743. He officiated for a few years previously to his arrival at Collumpton, at Southbarns, near Staverton, the place of his nativity. He published a little tract " On Holiness," and was a very worthy man and well respected. The congregation was now destitute of a minister for some time. In 1745, Mr. ROBERT GLASS succeeded. He removed to Yeovil in 1746. The congregation were again destitute till 1748, when Mr. THOMAS CHAPMAN settled amongst them. After a residence of three years and a half at Collumpton, he removed to Totnes. The pulpit was now principally supplied by Mr. Hook, till the year 1754, when Mr. SAMUEL MORGAN settled here. He died about 1795, and was succeeded by Mr. DAVIS, the present minister. The number of hearers and communicants belonging to this interest, was much more considerable formerly than at present. The old meeting-house held about 3 or 400 people, and was, at one time, well attended. In 1795, the number of hearers was about 70 or 80. number at present is still less. old meeting-house has recently been pulled down, and one corresponding better with the present number of hearers erected. The sentiments of the present minister and congregation are decidedly Anti-trinitarian,

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COLYTON. It is but a very imperfect account that can be given of this church, as no records have been preserved. appears from the life of the famous Dr. Manton, that he was the curate of this place, and probably sowed the seeds of nonconformity. Mr. John Wilkins, the vicar of the parish, was one of the worthy confessors who sacrificed worldly interest to conscience, and quitted his valuable living at the ever-memorable Bartholo

mew Day. Where he afterwards lived, and when he died, is not known. The nonconformists at Colyton, as the old people of the congregation remember to have heard, suffered great hardships in common with their neighbours, and used to meet in a wood when they had opportunity. When the Duke of Monmouth landed at Lyme, which is hardly seven miles from Colyton, several of that town, animated with a warm zeal for their religion and liberties, which seemed to be in a tottering state, under a popish king, flocked to his standard, for which four of them suffered death, being executed as traitors near the market place, and died with great piety, resolution, and constancy. One of them being asked, if it did not grieve him to think how his body would be mangled, and his quarters exposed in the highways, nobly answered, It matters little, the resurrection will restore all with advantage." After King

William was seated on the throne, and the Act of Toleration was passed, a dwelling-house was fitted up, which, though mean and inconvenient, was very well attended. Mr. RICHARD TARRANT, once a Fellow of Brazen Nose College, in Oxford, and to whom Dr. Calamy gives the character of a very pious, prudent, and learned man, and qualified for an eminent station, was ejected from the Rectory of Musbury. Whether he lived to the Restoration does not appear, it is only said of him, that he chose to burn out in the service of Christ in an obscure corner, where he was silenced. Mr. JOHN GILL also gave up the living of Shute. These were parishes bordering upon Colyton, and many of the inhabitants of each were nonconformists. No minister, according to the last accounts that can be obtained, was settled with the congregation prior to Mr. John Kerridge, who, being a schoolmaster in Lyme at the Restoration, was ejected for his nonconformity. [See Calamy, pages 266, 420.) It is likely this was the Mr. Kerridge, who was engaged in the ordination of the famous Mr. George Trosse, of Exeter, in the very dangerous season of persecution. He was much afflicted with the stone, and in his latter days, with a lowness of spirits, bordering upon melancholy, which led him oftentimes to imagine he could not preach, which, however, he did to the satisfaction of his people, when any of them could prevail on him to go into the pulpit. He died in 1705, and was succeeded by Mr. ROSEWEIL, of whom nothing more can be said, than that when he was old, he was desired by many of the congregation to consent to their choosing an assistant, with a promise, that his salary should not be lessened. This caused a division, and he preached for the remainder of his days in another house to a small part of the

congregation who adhered to him. On his death, some of them became Antipædobaptists, and Mr. Fisher, one of their number, and a tradesman of the town, was their minister. It was not very long, however, before this little Society was dissolved. Mr. BATTEN, (afterwards of Ottery, and who died at Ilminster, in Somersetshire, in the year 1773, being of a very great age,) together with Mr. YOUATT, supplied the old congregation and the neighbouring one of Sidmouth, till Mr. Youatt took the care of Colyton upon himself. He was a man of very excellent character, and though he has been dead, (this was written in 1794,) more than 30 years, is still spoken of with honour. A palsy forced him to resign some time before his death, but by admirable prudence and economy, without being parsimonious, he saved enough out of his salary, and £500. brought him by his wife, to live decently, and to leave £1,000. to his three children. Mr. SLATER, (who afterwards married one of his daughters,) succeeded him, and soon after his being chosen, a neat and commodious house was built. He died in 1761, and was succeeded by Mr. TOULMIN, who had received his education at Mr. Coward's Academy in London. He was very popular, and the congregation increased under him; but altering his sentiments as to baptism, he removed to Taunton in 1765, on the invitation of the Baptist Society in that town. Mr ANSTIS was the next pastor, who staid but a short time. He removed to Bridport, being desired by the corporation of that town to undertake the care of a school there, and a neighbouring congregation inviting him at the same time to be their pastor. The congregation had not a settled minister for four years, and by this means was lessened; but in July 1772, Mr. CORNISH, educated at Mr. Coward's Academy, accepted an invitation, and was ordained in the following May at Taunton, with two other ministers. He is the present minister (1794.) The number of hearers hardly exceeds 100; the communicants in 1774, were 44: £17. 10s. per annum has been left to the place. The Presbyterian fund likewise allows £6. per annum to the minister, but notwithstanding these helps, the salary is much below £40. per annum (1794.)

Mr. Cornish, who was the author of a respectable piece on the History of Nonconformity, and of other tracts, died in 1824. He was an Arian in sentiment.

CREDITON.--Mr. ROBERT CARYL, one of the ejected ministers, was the father of dissent in this town. He preached in a private house near the Broad Street. Mr. PETER JILLEARD was ordained here Oct. 21, 1824. Two sermons, preached on the occasion by Messrs. Withers and Enty, were printed in 1725. 8vo. Mr. JOSIAH EVELEIGH, well known by his writings