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POLITICO-RELIGIOUS . IRISH CHURCH . —His Majesty , it is said , has commanded the Arch-bishops ajnd bishops of Ireland , to make a minute return of the present state of the Irish Church within their respective provinces and dioceses . A dismal
picture it will be ! We hope it will excite his Majesty ' s compassion , and incline his ear to the arguments , hitherto ineffectual , of the necessity of granting tfie Catholics relief in matters of conscience : the only step , which will unite Catholics and Protestants as brethren , remove disaffection from the sister island , and render the sin g le vulnerable part of the British Empire impregnable . Much better surely would it be tg grant relief , while it is supplicated as a favour , than to wait till it shall be demanded , under circumstances which will make the demand irresistible , as a
GRIESBACH's N T .-We are happy to learn , that the second volume of this very valuable edition of the Greek Testament , published under the patronage of the Duke of Grafton , is arrived from Germany , and will be sold , at a reduced price , as was the first , to Ministers of every denomination . It exceeds , we understand , in bulk , the former volume by 150 pages .
Dr . TOtJLMlN . —The Sermon of J ) r . Toulmin of Birmingham , preached in London on the 30 th . of Noyember , Jbefore the Subscribers to the Unitarian Fund , is in the press , and will be shortly
published ; to which will be annexed the Report of the proceedings of the Committee of the Society . —The same gentleman is engaged to prepare for the press a new edition of that scarce and useful tract , entitled << The Student
$ ind Pastor ; ' * by the Rev . John Mason , M . A . the author of the celebrated Treatise on " Self Knowledge . " To this edition , we hear it is intended to add , the author ' s " Essay on Elocution , " , *< Letter to a Young Minister , " with some notes and a short Essay on " Cate chising , ' by the Editor .
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Mr . Marsom is printing a new edition of his valuable Tract on the " Impersonality of the Holy Ghost , ** which Jias contributed in no small
degree to the spread of the Unitarian doctrine , and has lately found its way intQ the Unitarian Book Societies . —Its brevity and cheapness fit it for easy and extensive circulation .
The late Bp . HORSLEY had prepared a volume of Sermons for publication , which will appear in the course of the winter .
LITERARY . Mr . BENNET , of Pythouse , In Wiltshire , is preparing to lay before the public , a number of original letters of Charles I . and his friends , which have been preserved in his family . MIJNGO PARK . —In addition to what was said concerning this
enterprising- traveller in our last number , we are happy to say that accounts have been recently received of him whidta mention his arrival at Tombuctoo , aim that he is now on his return . It is to he feared that he will encounter great difficulties in his journey , as he has to row his boat all the way back against the stream . The journal that is sent to Europe is dated from Sansapang .
The Jate Mrs . Charlotte Smith having drawn up Memoirs of part of her Literary Life ; the same , accompanied by a Collection of her JLetters , will shortly be presented to the world by one of the members of her family .
The Seatonian prize at Cambridge is this year adjudged to the Rev- Charles Hoyle of Trinity College , for his poem on Paul and Barnabas at . Lystra . Mr . Coleridge is engaged by the managers of the Royal Institution , to read a course of lectures at that establishment , on the principles common to the fine
arts . Mr . Davics , of JLymington , is about to publish by subscription , a Selection of Dr . Grosvenor ' s Sermons , in one , yluonie , with a Preface , by Mr . Bogue *
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Politico-Religious arid Literary Intelligence * 669
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1806, page 669, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1731/page/53/
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