The National Register. — London, England, 1808-08-28 00:00:00

THE, NATIPNAL REGISTER. SbS meats. Air. irnitingdon, however, has all this at his "fingers' ends." Having laid ► n one •side the vciltime of hispiration, and disdainiug the trammels of transcription, • proceeds directly to his object ; and, excepting inci dental digressions, as—" r ake care of your pockets !" " Wake that snoring sinner!"—" :Hence that noisy num " *kat r — 64 Turn out that drunken dog !"—excepting such occasional digressions, which, like the episodes of poetry, must, %ben skilfully introduced, be understeod to h ighten the effect of the whole, our orator never de ws from the course in which he set out. lie has other advantages over many of his pulpit competitors. Wing of the metaphorical and allegorical school, as well as possessing his citations by rote, there is seldom to to be loiniu the passage, from the Book of Genesis to the Revelation of s_.t. John, that may not have, remotely or a+iustvely, some connection with the subject immediately under his investigation. Hence the var:ety, as well as o! h s etoqueure t titmice the novelty of his COM meniaries ; his truly aszonishing talent of reconciling texts, else undoubted!) , inctniAruouss and of discovering dissimi larities, and asserting difficulties, where none were believed to exist !—" He who has ears to hear, let him hear *." " What, preach without a Bible; and yet be able to re " peat the bible from beginning to end !"—Yes, this can be done, and it is done, by Wietilm HesTisenos. The elfect of this is still more surprising. There is, however, something imposing in such displays of superiority ; and try those who are capable of estimating the bias of ordi nary minds, consequences may easily be calculated. Add to this, the nature of his tenets and the confidence with which he maintains them, his manner, and his system of interpreting and applying the Sacred Scriptures, and his success, though enigmatical, is not inexplicable. Such is Wrietsm fles , reveoos, S. S. Lavater, where he alive to phys;ognomise this celebrated indivirhlal. espe cially with rt.terence to the awful functions which he exer cises, might, probably, discover some objections even to his countenance. To the character of an orator he has no legitimate pretensions. His style of preaching is that of talking ; his discourses have all the air of story-telling. His intellectual acquirements are confessedly superficial. He owes his distinction to the absence of those qualities by whieh other men obtain reputation. I: Still he is a man of genius ; and, what to him has been infinitely more important, he is a son of Providence itself ! It is the property of superior men to have either fate, or fortune, or a providence, on their side. Mr. Iluntingdon has been happy in this respect ; and his " Bank of Faith" ha. drawn pretty largely •on the " Rank of England." With g reat natural endowments then, and greater super natura assistance, what marvel that he has attained the eminence upon which he is now fixed ; and whence, I doubt nut, he looks down without emotion to the efforts of his assailants I Like many exalted personages, the destinies, it appears, are for him. • There is no contendieg against destiny t. Os.u.sea us. Chapter Cl t rce-hortsc, Pater-Noster-rote. • WILLIAM HUNTINGDON has his imitators. T perfectly recollect being present, not' many years pact, at a Piptist Merl ing, where one of his Disciptes in Divinity happened to hold forth. Ile chose, for the topic of his discourse, the circum stance of Christ riding on the Ass: hut the Asti, as web as our Saviour, most have something typical through all ages of the Church. Take then this Preacher's account of them.—" " RELItTER," said he, " IS THE Ass; FA THE SAD " DLL ; AND ennrsc awes HIM INTO THE HEAVENLY 6 ' JIENUSALEN."—!.!! + While writing this sketch, I was considerably amused by accidentally taking up the Morning Chronicle of August 1808, where I find the following Extraordinary Matrimonial Paragraph.—" Married, on WedneFday, hy Special tircnee, the Bac Wiliam Huntingdon, of t7ricklewooe, to Lady Satin-, demon (I suppoe, San-)" &r. Ate. Another providential inter position I The " Bank of Faith" is really inexhaustible : but, snore of this hereafter. a 11. POPULAR PREACHERS, No. IV.—TuE rOUND- Lim., bat/ its .14 Ise ; miss. . . u 1 r AU6UBT 19. THE C0U . 114 1 ,4v9 wingo, OF FASHION. • Mfg S Wednesday, at twelve •'clock, his Majesty arrived at the Queen's Palace, from Wiedior, and was received by his ltoyal Highness the Duke of Kent. At two o'clock his Majesty held a private levee, when Major-General Sir C. Grecn,liad the honour of being presented, on his return from Maita. Ms Majesty gave audience to the Cabinet Ministers pre sent, and left town, for Windsor, about half-past four. llis Majesty looked remarkably well. —wow— I►-tt4 Tuesday ell the fashionable, round Woolwich, wit she neighbouring parts of Kent were highly gratified by a ship launch. At an early hour, Lord Hood's barge was in waili ng at Greenwich, and iler Royal Highness the Princess of Wales, accompauied by the Lady in Waiting, and his Lordship, pro ceeded dawn the river to Woolwich, whcre they found the Tri nity yatch moored WI the dock-yard, for Her Royal Highness's reception. An immense crowd was assembled on the occasion, and two elegant booths were erected fur the accommodation of the fashionables, who were very numerous, consisting of Sir Richard Bickerton, Sir Edward Hamilton, , General Fraser, and with their Ladies and Families. Expectation stood for some time on tiptoe, when at length the wished for signal was given, and at twenty minutes before three, the gallant ship glided off in a capital style, into that element a hick she is to command. She is a '74, of the largest class, and christened the Blake, in remem brance of the gallant Admiral of that name, whose patriotism induced him to support the honour of the British Flag, even under the Protector, though his loyalty induced him to assist in putting an end to the usurpation, and in the restoration of his lass lot 'dnnareh. The figure bead is a bust of the Admiral, de. corated w ith a laurel wreath, and all the embellishouts are in a style of the choicest elegance. • e • .31 ~.a.a.eats Egham Races began and closed in the past week, aid though they did not produce much port. have been attended with cir cumstances which asMail employ all the ingenuity of the Jockey Club to settle. On Tuesday her Nlaiesty and the Princesses honoured the race-ground with their presence as usual, and were received on their arrival by the Stewards, the Dakes of York and Clarence. A platform was erected for their reception, close to the winning post, and a handsome marquee was pitched for the convenience of refreshment far the Royal Party. The Nnblemeta's andientlemen's Plate was won by Lord Barrymore's Pav 'llion, both he is in a canter. There was some contest for the SubsCription Plate, five horses: being placed; It was won by Canopus, against w horn the odd, had been not quite 2 to 1. The hest race of the day, however, was for the Sorry Stakes, won by Mr. Durands brown colt. The odds were 6tp4 on the field against him, but he won it easy. Much laughter was excited by a hark race, which closed the spurts of the day ; 'twos run by horses belonging to the Officers of the 9th dragoons, but three of them were distanced, and the fourth previous to his arrival at the winning post, entertained the company with his knots ledge of military manoeuvres, going through all Dundah's' evolutions without bunk. On Thursday the knowing ones were completely on the wrong side of the post. in a da•hing, Sweepstakes, in which six horses were placed. Jocasta was next in the favourite before start ing, the odds being only 5 to 2 against her, though she came is last, and the race was sson by Lord Egremont's chesnet filly. The races closed with the Egham and Staines handicap, which remains yet for the investigation of the Jockey Club ; before starting there was much betting, and the odds were great, 5 to 4 ou Brighton Lass, 2 to 1 on Pavilion, and 5 to 1 on Runbo and Jump-off, yet Rambo was the winner, for all the horses having taken the wret.g side at the turn into the strait mile, Brighton Lass and Jump-off ran in, het the others having re turnsl and gone round the post. the two former of course were distanced, and Rambo, was declared the winner of the first heat. The betting now on the field, against Rambo, were only 2 to Is for the second heat, which he won easily. The betts have been paid, subject to n future investigation; but the lo sers assert that a post was down, and therefore that the first heat unde r all circumstances ought to have been run over again. lief Isl,le iesty enlivened the course every day with her Presence,attended y the Princesses, and was much amused with the sport;it bas " been rumoured, however, that these races will b e discont i nu e d, and that the di ff erent snatches in future will be ru n at Ascot.. gr , ~~