tance of Sir Henry Vane a charter of civil corporation, by the name of the Incorporation of Providence plantations in the Narraganset Bay in New-England."

"In 1663, King Charles granted an ample charter, whereby the province was made a body corporate and politick, in fact and name, by the name of the Governour and company of the English colony of RhodeIsland and Providence plantations in New-England, in America."

This charter was retained till the American Revolution, though some attempts were made to alter it, and a writ of Quo warranto was even once issued against the colony.

On the subject of their religious affairs, Mr. C. is more particular, than in the civil branch of their history. He was a pious, learned minister of the baptist denomination. To say that he is without those prejudices, which are almost inseparable from the human heart, and which are so apt to discover themselves, in writing as well as acting, would be saying too much. But he never speaks unkindly of any men from personal or party dislike. It was his opinion, that of all the passions which have degraded the human mind, religious bigotry is the most to be dreaded. Being attached by his connections to religious liberty, he is sometimes ardent, but never bitter in its defence. In this he deserves the more credit, as he writes upon a subject which has called forth much severity of censure from both parties; and in this too, he has not been imitated by some of his own denomination. A late author, in his history of the baptists, has made a most rude attack upon men, as well as principles; upon those of his own denomination, as well as congregationalists, if they differed from him upon the high

points of predestination and "the light within." When it was first published, it was stiled by a witty observer in one of the papers, "ạ slaughter house for private characters."

A writer who is to give a narrative of religious disputes, ought not to be a partizan; but if his life had been engaged in controversy,this can hardly be avoided. Hence it has been said that historians should not be of any religion nor politicks. But this is not without its difficulties. Those historians, who are without religion, show their prejudices against it, as we see in the pages of certain fine writers, who, though among the most modern, are not the most impartial. Those, who have no opinion of their own in politicks, make their matter heavy and dull. torians should resemble Reviewers in this. We are supposed to have our opinions, and to express them: but we are supposed also not biassed by them to do injustice, or to give tribute where it is not due.

His

Upon the whole, Mr. Callender's discourse is excellent and useful. It is not a mere skeleton account of things; but exhibits men and facts as they were. The stile is sententious and grave, well adapted to a religious discourse, but not unfit for a narrative of civil transactions. He does not call our minds from interesting parts of his narrative to unnecessary reflections of his own. Events and circumstances are selected with judgment and displayed with the utmost perspicuity and order; we feel engaged as we follow the thread of his narration, and have no reason to complain of minute attentions, multiplicity of circumstances, or vain repetitions.

It is such a work as we wish to see republished; and as we understand that the Historical Society of

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We have now the satisfaction to announce, that the publick will shortly be gratified by the publication of all that was finished of Mr. Fox's Work, the manuscript of which has just been disposed of at an unprecedented price. It appears to have been Mr. Fox's design to unfold the causes which led to the revolution, and the final overthrow of the House of Stuart, by a detailed history of the reign of James the Second; and to give, in an introduction, such a view of the period immediately preceding as might be necessary to illustrate

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Mr. Bower has made considerable progress in a work which is intended to exhibit a complete delineation of the life of Luther, and of the effects of that life upon the great revolution to which he has given a name. Mr. Bower has explored the original and voluminous documents respecting Luther, with which his own times, and those immediately succeeding, abounded; he has carefully analysed the whole of Luther's writings; and is persuaded that the materials which he has collected furnish much information which has not hitherto been laid before the British publick, respecting the character and progress of this extraordinary man, respecting the gradual formation of his mind during the period of his education, the gradual expansion of his views during his efforts for the reformation of the church; and the character which the peculiarity of his mind stamped upon the reformation itself.

Mr. G. Guttleib, is preparing for the press, an account of his travels in North America, in the years 1806 and 1807. The work will be illustrated with a considerable number of wood cuts.

An edition of Dryden's works, edited by Mr. Walter Scott, has been announc ed as nearly ready for publication.