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      Captain and his booksellers , for selling the commodity for which the public money has paid , at a price and in a form which make all parties appear not only ridiculous , but somewhat too sharp in the promotion of their pecuniary interests .

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      Art . XI . —Tfw Character and Office of Melchizedek , as a Type of Christ , considered , in a Discourse , delivered before the Sussex Unitarian Association . By Russell Scott . London . 1827 . We can with pleasure recommend this discourse as a judicious commentary on passages of scripture , the figurative form of which has been much abused to the purposes of religious mystification .

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      Art . XII . —The Unity and Placability of God : a Sermon , preached at the Chapel in Hanover Square , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Mhrch 16 , 1828 , previous to a Collection for the British and Foreign Unitarian Asso ciation . By William Turner . 1828 .

      Selecting for his text Isaiah vm . 20 , " To the law and to the testimony ; if they speak not according to this word , it is because there is no truth in them ;" the highly respected preacher takes the opportunity , in advocating the interests of the Association , to invite his hearers

      "to a more particular recollection of those views of the -Christian doctrine by which we are as-yet distinguished from the generality of bur fellow-christians . " That the review is temperately and ably executed , our readers are too conversant with Mr . Turner ' s opinions and writings to doubt ; and we can only refer them for fresh gratification to this pew proof of his well-directed zeal for the promotion of Christian truth .

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      Art . XIII . — Protestant Securities suggested , in an Appeal to the Clerical Members of the University of Oxford . By the Right Hon . R . Wilmot Horton . M . P . London .

      1828 . Mr . Horton is a zealous advocate for concession to the Catholic Claims . Carefully bringing together in an appendix the leading argument in the speeches of all the great Statesmen who have lately debated the question , and their professions of desire to relieve the claimants , if secure in the important particular , he directs his attention to that

      precise point . This assumes , of course , that the orators in question are honest on the subject , and that the popular arguments which they put forward are those which really actuate their minds . Finding that the grand objection has always been directed against the policy of allowing Catholics to legislate in an assembly where the rights and interests of a Protestant establishment are almost

      inviolable principles , he proposes " the enactment of a legal disqualification in the statute intended to relieve the Roman Catholic from his disabilities , such disqualification to prevent him from voting on any measure affecting the inter - ests either of the united Church of

      England and Ireland , or of the Church of Scotland . " The detail of the plan would be , to form two lists of the members , that of the Catholics and that of the Protestants , and to refer every measure , in any way connected with religious matters , to a committee of religion , which should decide whether it was one in which , in future stages , the Catholic members could take any part . We fear Mr . Horton attributes more

      virtues to his remedy than it will be admitted by any one else to possess . The Catholic demagogue , who only wants an access to power , might care very little about any disqualification of the sort ; but the friends of religious liberty would grieve to see a still more marked and permanent character given to religious peculiarities which the State alone creates and perpetuates ; and the steady Anti-Catholic will soon shew Mr .

      Horton , that , if beaten from one position , he has another to take up , and that the reasons which a man chooses to avow and place * in the fore ground , are not always those which are most influential on his actions .

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      Art . X—Hie Country Minister ; a Poem , in Seven Cantos : containing the First and Second Parts of the Original Work : with additional Poems and Notes . By J . Brettell . 2 dEdit . 1827 .

      We have before noticed the first portions of this work . The two parts of " The Country Minister , " are now reprinted in one volume , with the addition of several minor pieces , chiefly translations . We are glad to mark the proof of public approbation which the demand for this Second Edition implies . The smaller pieces will be read with pleasure .

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      Critical Notices .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1828, page 412, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2561/page/52/