would have laughed at the "ignoramus," who should seriously think that the advantage of the argument lay with him. "Though his Lordship was, no doubt, gratified to see the effect produced by his pompous and imposing style upon the unthinking crowd; he would have been the first to laugh to scorn the solemn ignoramus, who should seriously profess to believe, that the advantage of the argument remained with him." I will confront the arrogance and injustice of this charge with two authorities, which, of themselves, are sufficient to shew that it is no mark of ignorance to approve and applaud the successful efforts of Bp. Horsley against the heresies of Dr. Priestley. Mr. Belsham himself quotes Lord Thurlow as an admirer of Bishop Horsley's Tracts in this controversy: and it cannot be denied that he was a good judge of what is sound reasoning, and not one of the "unthinking crowd." He expressed strongly, the obligations which the Church owed to her zealous and able advocate. To the approbation of Lord Thurlow, we may add the judgment of a writer, who was certainly no ignoramus, but deeply conversant in profound and accurate investigation. I publicly request you," (says Mr. Whitaker, in the dedication of his Origin of Arianism to the Bishop,) "to accept a copy of the present work, in order to shew your Lordship, and the world, my strong sense of the service which you have done to the cause of Christianity, by your late writings against a well-known Heretick. Your writings will continue to be serviceable to the cause, as long as the memory of that Heretick continues in the Church: the bane and the antidote will go on in a useful union together." Yet Mr. Belsham calls Biskop Horsley a" baffled and defeated antagonist," and pronounces "the victory of Dr. Priestley to be decisive and complete." Mr. Belsham may say this, but he cannot believe it. He may wish his friends, the Unitarians, to believe it; but he will never persuade any impartial or competent reader to agree with him. The victories of Dr. Priestley on the subject of Religion are like Buonaparte's in the neighbourhood of Leipsic, in the campaign of 1813, vaunted as confidently, and with just as much truth, by the Doctor and his successor. His cha racter, as a chemical experimentalist, his incessant activity in publication, his vauntings and thrasonic challenges, and * Dr. Priestley's Claims, pp. 29, 30. last words, had, no doubt, more influence on many persons than they ought to have bad; considering his glaring insufficiency in ecclesiastical antiquities, and in the original languages of Scripture, and of the primitive Church. But this influence was, I believe, in the minds of almost all persons who were competent to judge of the subject, and with the publick at large, effectually dissipated by the learning and acuteness, and powerful eloquence of Bishop Horsley. The attention of the publick is, however, now called to a review of the controversy between Bishop Horsley and Dr. Priestley, by the Calm Inquiry, and the Claims of Dr. Priestley; in which we are most unexpectedly informed, that were all mistaken in the supposed triumphs of Bishop Horsley; and that victory was all on the side of Dr. Priestley. With what justice and truth this review of the controversy is conducted, is evident from the contents of this Address; and will be seen more fully by what I shall communicate to you hereafter. We know how much, during the last twenty years, has been effected in the political world by dauntless assertion, audacious falsehoods, and artificial influence of all kinds. We know indeed how much such means are calculated to circumvent and intimidate. But we may now reasonably hope, that, with the extinction of the French system, will cease the reign of abstract generalities, of revolutionary rights, of elamorous pretension, and artful intimidation; and that at least in this Country, among a prosperous and grateful people, the cause of truth, of Protestantism, of tempe rate liberty, of constitutional rights, and established order, will every where prevail. I cannot conclude this first Address without informing the reader, that the objects, which I have in view, are to undeceive the Unitarians in their opinions respecting JESUS CHRIST;-to defend the memory of Bp. Horsley against the calumnies of Mr. Belsham;-and to maintain the positions established by Bp Horsley in his controversy with Dr. Priestley. T. ST. DAVID'S. Durham, May 28. highest class of our native English Organ-builders. In delicacy of tone, probably Mr. Green never was equalfed, certainly never excelled. Although patronised by the great, and long at the head of his profes. sion, this admirable artist, and worthy man, scarcely obtained a moderate competency. His zeal for the mechanical improvement of the organ consumed much of his time in experimental labours, which to him produced little emolument; and the vast pains taken by him in perfecting the tones of his instruments, parlicularly in his matchless reed-work, which he refined almost equal to the most delicate sounds of a violin, filled up those hours which might have been more profitably employed in the production of less perfect in struments. It will be seen that we possess more Cathedral and Collegiate organs of Mr. Green's construction than of any other artist; a circumstance which does credit to the taste and judgment of our Chapters. Cathedral and Collegiate Organs.Canterbury. Wells. Windsor. Litchfield. Salisbury. Rochester. Bangor. York. Cashel. New College, Oxford. Trin. Coll. Dublin. Winchester College. London.-St. Catherine's, near Tower. St. Botolph, Aldersgate-street. St. Peter-le-Poor. St. Mary-at-Hill. St. Michael. St. Olave's, Hart-street. Broadstreet Chapel. Islington. Magdalen Chapel. Free Masons' Hall. St. Petersburg. Royal Hospital, Greenwich. Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Manchester. Helston, Cornwall. Walsal, co. Staff. Wrexham. Wycombe. Nayland, Essex. Wisbech, co. Camb. Cirencester. Macclesfield. Stockport. Bath, St. Michael's. Tunbridge. Loughborough. Tamworth. Walton. Leigh. Chatham. Bolton. Cramborn, Cornwall. Aberdeen Episcopal Chapel, Kingston Church, Jamaica. commemoration of Handel, in Westminster Abbey. Mr. URBAN, H. O. Nov.1. HAVING recently engaged in some biographical and genealogical researches, in which it is obvious that the most minute accuracy is of great importance, I am induced to trouble you with a query or two for the consideration of such of your Correspondents as may be able to furnish me with the information I require. to the descent of that honour to our My attention is at this time directed age and country, and benefactor of of Berkeley, in Gloucestershire, whose the human race, Dr. Edward Jenner, sagacity first led to the practice of Vaccination, and whose well-directed and persevering efforts have at length succeeded in spreading this humane discovery from one end of the globe to the other. Although I have his immediate progenitors and colgleaned some information respecting lateral relatives, yet, such further particulars as would enable me to judge ledge would be very acceptable. of the accuracy of my present know 1 find the name of Dr. Jenner, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, recorded in Nichols's Literary Auecdotes as one of the patrons of George Ballard; and I have since learned that he died on the 12th of January 1768, at the age of 80; and that he was a native of Standish in Gloucestershire, which is somewhere in the vicinity of Berkeley. Respecting this individual I am desirous of obtaining some particulars, and would gladly ascertain in what degree of consanguinity he stood related to the father of the present worthy representative of the family. In 1684, an augmentation of arms was granted to Sir Thomas Jenner, Knight, Serjeant at Law, Recorder of the city of London, and afterwards of the Common Pleas. a Baron of the Exchequer, and Judge His arms were originally, Vert, three cups covered, Or; but were altered to Azure, chevron Or. Now, I am very desirIwith the addition of two swords in ous of discovering whether this Sir Thomas Jenner belonged to the Gloucestershire family, and whether his original or augmented arms are borna by them. GENEALOGUS. DEAN DEAN FOREST. ACCORDING to Sir Robert Atkyns and Mr. Camden, the name is supposed to be derived from the small market-town of Deau, in the neighbourhood,- -or from the word Arden, which the Gauls and Britains used for a wood; two great forests, one in the Belgic provinces, the other in Warwickshire, being now called Arden." The Forest of Dean lies in the Western part of Gloucestershire, between the rivers Wye and Severn, and first inhabited by the Silures, the most antient people of South Wales. For merly the Forest was so thick with trees, so very dark and terrible in its shades, that it rendered the inhabitants barbarous; and at one time was so infested with robbers, that in the reign of Henry the Sixth, an Act of Parliament was passed purposely to restrain them. In the great rebellion it was miserably destroyed. — The whole is extraparochial, and now only contains 23,000 acres. -It is inhabited by miners and colliers. In 1811, the return of the population was 4073. Mr. Procter, the present vicar of Newland, began his great work of moralizing the part of the Forest adjacent to him in 1804; and in June 1812, he laid the foundation-stone of a building (see Plate I.) to be appropriated for six days in the week to the education of children, and for Divine worship on the Sabbath-day. The building was opened on January 6th 1813-290 children have already been admitted on Dr. Bell's plan. It is episcopally licensed, and will be consecrated on a sufficient endowment being raised, which, for the sake of the numerous inhabitants, Mr. Procter is endeavouring to procure; and we hope that he will not make his appeal in vain. See our Magazine for May 1813, Vol. LXXXIII. P. 417. EDIT. was engaged by the Editors of the first series of the "British Critic" to review for them M'Crie's "Life of John Knox," the Scottish Reformer; a task (if such it can be called) from which I derived both amusement and instruction; but, whilst I found in the work much entitled to praise, I found likewise not a little that called loudly for reprehension. The consequence was, that the Review swelled in my hands to a large bulk, furnishing three articles in the XLIId Volume of that Journal; and before any part of it was put to the press, a second edition of "The Life of Knox" was published, containing a considerable quantity of additional matter, as well as some improvements of both the language and the arrangement. As I had exposed with freedom the author's partial quotations, and other modern arts of controversy, by which, in the first edition, he had, with rancour, attacked the constitution of our Church, I felt myself called on, by a principle of justice, to give some account of the second and improved edition, which had been given to, the publick before my Review of the first. The British Critic, however, ha! in the mean time passed into the hands of other Editors, who commenced a New Series, with a determination (whether judicious or not time will shew) to make no reference whatever to the former series; and my supplementary article was returned to me as inadmissible on their plan! A promise of mine, therefore, is recorded in the XLIId Volume of the British Critic, which, without your assistance, I know not how to fulfil As the article was not rejected by the present Editors of the Critic because they disapproved of it in any respect (for they expressed of it much higher approbation than its merit can justly claim), I trust you will find it convenient to oblige an old Correspondent, by giving it an early place in your Journal, where I flatter myself that such of your readers as are likewise readers of the "British Critic" will be glad to see it ou various accounts. G-B. [See our Review, this Month, p. 569.] Mr. URBAN, THE its |