orator in the circles of his people, heard by them that crowd nearest him, or that sound limited by the circles of air, or the enclosure of a wall; but every thing is represented to every person; and then let it be considered, when thy shame and secret turpitude, thy midnight revels and secret hypocrisies, thy lustful thoughts and treacherous designs, thy falsehood to God and startings from thy holy promises, thy follies and impieties shall be laid open before all the world, and that then shall be spoken by the trumpet of an Archangel upon the house-top, the highest battlements of heaven, all those filthy words and lewd circumstances, which thou didst act secretly; thou wilt find, that thou wilt have reason strangely to be ashamed. All the wise men in the world shall know, how vile thou hast been: and then consider with what confusion of face wouldst thou stand in the presence of a good man and a severe, if peradventure he should suddenly draw thy curtain, and find thee in the sins of shame and lust; it must be infinitely more, when God and all, the angels of heaven and earth, all his holy myriads and all his redeemed saints, shall stare and wonder at thy impurities and follies." p. 12. Nothing in general would be less interesting to a popular assembly, than a long definition, however precise in its logick. But, when illuminated by the torch of Genius, and adorned with the rich colouring of a splendid imagination, it may justly lay claim to the palm of eloquence. "Fear is the duty we owe to God, as being the God of power and justice, the great judge of heaven and earth, the avenger of the cause of widows, the patron of the poor, and the advocate of the oppressed, a mighty God and terrible; and so essential an enemy to sin, that he spared not his own Son, but gave him over to death, and to become a sacrifice, when he took upon him our nature, and became a person obliged for our guilt. Fear is the great bridle of intemperance, the modesty of the Spirit, and the restraint of gay eties and dissolutions; it is the girdle to the soul, and the hand-maid to repentance, the arrest of sin, and the cure or antidote to the spirit of reprobation; it preserves our apprehensions of the divine majesty, and hinders our single actions from combining to sinful habits; it is the mother of consideration, and the nurse of sober councils, and it put this soul to fermentation and activity, making it to pass from trembling to caution, from caution to carefulness, from care fulness to watchfulness, from thence to prudence; and by the gates and progresses of repentance, it leads the soul on to love, and to felicity, and to joys in God, that shall never cease again. Fear is the guard of a man in the days of prosperity, and it stands upon the watch-towers and spies the approaching danger, and gives warning to them that laugh loud, and feast in the chambers of rejoicing, where a man cannot consider by reason of the noises of wine, and jest, and musick: and if prudence takes it by the hand, and leads it on to duty, it is a state of grace, and an universal instrument to infant religion, and the only security of the less perfect persons; and in all senses is that homage we owe to God, who sends often to demand it, even then, when he speaks in thunder, or smites -by a plague, or awakens us by his threatenings, or discomposes our easiness by sad thoughts, and tender eyes, and fearful hearts, and trembling considerations.' p. 167. We sincerely hope that the sale of these sermons will be as extensive as their merit is unquestionable, that the publishers may be encouraged to favour the publick with other works of this eminent Prelate, particularly his life of Christ, and his Ductor Dubitantium. The present volume is handsomely and accurately printed, with clear type and on good paper, and is in every respect superiour to the English octavo edition. It has also an additional recommendation to English Readers, as it contains original translations of the quotations from the Greek and Latin authors, with which the Bishop abounds. These translations are executed with apparent fidelity and neatness, and those from the poets in sufficiently smooth numbers. We would recommend to students in divinity the works of Bishop Taylor as a study; from which they will derive more benefit than from tracing the endless mazes of polemick divinity. We may say of controversial theologians, what has been said of metaphysicians ; They resemble minuet dancers, who having moved twice or thrice in the figure of the circle or the octagon, leave off precisely where they began." Rain on the 2d and 3d, and snow on the 4th, .68 in.-6 1-2 inches of snow on the 14th, .72-violent snow storm on the 19th and 20th ; average depth 10 inches, reduced to water, .87-little snow on the night of the 25th, and on the morning of the 30th, reduced .16.Whole quantity of rain and dissolved snow, 2.43. 1819.735 30.5 19.5 35.5 Mean. 14.9 28.5 |25.0 10.1 29.7 ||29.80 129.72|29.75|| Mean temperature deduced from three observations each day 22.79* maxima of heat and cold ditto Mean pressure of the atmosphere 29.76 in. 1.40 2.41 19.89 JANUARY, 1816. 2921 30 23 29 24 19.7 30 29.50 29.58 29.69||N.W.V.W. | Fair. Fair. 319 133 25.5 2 134.5 129.76129.7129 70|| N.E. S. W. Fair. Cloudy. Mean. [11.7 26.5 21.9 5.9 27.6||29.81 |29.78 29.80|| Mean temperature deduced from three observations each day 20.06 maxima of heat and cold ditto Mean pressure of the atmosphere 29.79 in. 1.37 2.80 16.77 |