On this page
-
Text (7)
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
-
Untitled Article
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Untitled Article
we have never foeard , and doubt whether the intelUgeftee has ever reached" tikis side of the water * of the services rendered by his Lordship to theology in gene * ral or to the Church of Ireland in particular .
Untitled Article
Intelligence . — 'YetUwt JS ? otptit iWto ¥ && » & 1
Untitled Article
, Bishopric of Calcutta . —The Rev . Reginald Heber , who has . been mentioned as the probable successor to the see of Calcutta , is a very elegantpoet ,. and deemed by his brethren . ^ a purely ortho * dox minister . He is t » e editor of tlie new edition of the works of Jeremy
Taylor , to which is prefixed a life of the Bishop , which has been much admired . Mr . Heber is the brother of the * learned member for the University of Oxford , whose renown as a liberal ana extensive book collector is diffused throughout Europe . —A / or » . Chron .
We have it from authority on which we can rely , that the Rev . Reginald Heber is appointed to ( and has accepted ) the vacant see of Calcutta . . Mr . Heber goes out . to India forth with ^ —Evening Paper .
Untitled Article
JQrm Chalmers . —This distinguished divine , says the Glasgow Chronicle , has beeu unanimously elected Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of St . Andrews , and he has notified to the congregation of St . John ' s his acceptance of the office . Some time since he received fifteen hundred pounds from . a lady to
lay out in any way he thought proper . Of this sum he gave 500 / . to the Rev . Dr . Burns for the purpose of assisting in the erection of a chapel ; 500 / . to the Rev . Mr . . Marshal ^ 500 / . to Mr . Muir for the same laudable purpose . He has also given 500 / . out of his own pocket for aiding the erection of a chapel in the parish of St . John ' s .
Untitled Article
Yellow Fever at New York . ( A friend thinks that it may serve the cause of humanity to publish the following extract from a letter to him ,
written by Elbazer Lord , the active oflteer of the Peace Society at New York , and dated from that place Nov . 23 , 1822 , and we have great pleasure in complying with his wifeh . )
«« Vetfy soon after receipt of the firstmentioned letter and parcel , I left the city , and remained out m consequence of the fevetV and returned only a fortnight slnee > * $ hW calamity of fellow fever is of ra ^ e occirtT 0 noe Ijere , and an immedin ate * reta *>* al of the inhabitants from - thi locality in which it appears ; renders it
Untitled Article
We understand that Francis Masbres , Esq ., Cursitor Baron of the Exchequer , whose liberal exertions for the restoration of the older mathematical writers are so well known to the mathematical world , has nearly completed a collection
of those which relate to Optical Science . Amongst the interesting treatises which are reprinted in this volume are the Optica promota of James Gregory , containing the first publication of the reflecting
telescope $ the Traits de ta jLurM £ re % of Huygeu *; and the Lediones Opticte of Dr . Barrow , a work which has become exceedingly scarce . This work is edited under the supermtendance of C . Bubbage , Esq ., F . R . S ., &c .
Untitled Article
—" - " ^—1823 . The present threatens to be an eventful year . The horizon is dark on every side , and the gathering clouds most soon burst . The contest that has been carrying on for thirty years between the kings and the jpeople of Europe , is cpming to a crisis , aud the result will be , either the
Untitled Article
Another shopman of Cari ^ ee" ^ , of the name of Tunhridge , was on the 20 th inst . found guilty in the Court of King ' s Bench of " publishing a blasphemous libel on the Christian Religion and the Holy Scriptures , contained in a work called Palmer ' s Principles of Nature . **
Untitled Article
sickness . Accordingly / our bills of mortality for the summer shewed a smaller tfatio of deaths than usual . Out of 130 , ( WI or 135 , 000 inhabitants of the city , 120 , 000 are supposed to haVe remained in the city and suburbs during the summer . The part deemed " * in *
com >^ ratirc } yharmres 8 . We-fead a Blight visiCatiott of the kind id 1819 ; befare that , it was unknown since 1805 . The pfregent season about 400 cases Were reported , about half which were fatal ; ^ s appeararice nearly banishes all other" forms of
fectecr was ^ ery circumscribed , compared with the area covered by a dense population . I am persuaded you will pardon these details on a subject not uninteresting to philanthropists of whatever nation or latitude , and which is the occasion -of so much terror to the species . I am
tempted to add , that two things seem to be settled respecting yellew ' fever ; 1 st , that by removal from the infected locality , fetal consequences are prevented . It travels or enlarges its district , only by means of victims . 2 d , that beyond such locality the sick do not communicate the infection to their nurses or attendants . * '
-
-
Citation
-
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1823, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1780/page/61/
-