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I /717 4 / 1/ /it -4 , C . " e ,~ t. IL S. 4414 i. • Y~ \. ./ No. 5;.19.—V0L. HISTORY OF ENGLISh TRANSIAVONS OF TIM, BILLr. Mn, EDITOII.—As it will I.cf doubt he interrti.-4 to rany of your Readers to secs short detad of üb t...ttions of the English Bible, I send you 1 - Jtve t:Jeed, with the help of Ur. Gray's Key and others. One Of the first translutienx into English, was done by one Richard Rene, a hermit of I-I uneele in York 2eire—he also , added a /elms upon the Psalter, and died 1.71. Johr, Vitieklefe then translated the whole • vie: the Apocrypha ; his New Testament sett! fit:. 1 marks and 40 pence ; it appeared about 1560, but it was r eetor printed. The Clergy did not then read Latin, any s students from Ireland were obliged to return from terertl &cense they could not fled a Latin Bible. •In 1.,50, Richard 11. a was brought into the Pmese of Lords, to prohibit the use of English BMus, lett it was rejected upon the opposition of John Duke o' Lane:Ater, who said, "We will not be the dregs of ad, seeing ether tettions have the Las of Goa, which is the Law of oar faith, written in tlitiir own language." But in 1408 great pet•seeetioLs ensued in consequence of an order of convocation obtained by Arehbishrip Arundel, and supported by Popp Alexander V. for sup pressing all translations. In 1526, Tyndal's tranela tin at Antwerp, was the first time that any pert was rioted in English. Cardinal Wolsey and the Bishop vest:rib:A it as heretical, and Bishop Tonstal, and Sir 'Thomas \tomb:rent it at Paul's Cross ; copies however, V, are sold at Si. 61. bit the venders were compelled to ride with their fives to their horses tails and throw them into the fire, end were afterwards amerced. Tyn da) afterwar Is twice trans'eted the Pentateech, and received ma mesre than 14x. f;rr it—after welch he was eteengled and burnt at Telford Castle, shout 18 miles r . e:e • weep, et the instigation of the great reformer VI !I. Coverdalc published another at Zurich, ie. 1535, enl escaped; and Creamer, in the same year, el:tallied a petition from the conveeettion to Hen. VIII. -e-weto by the softer influence of his Queen, Ann !!t-den, ordered a tranAiatioa to be set about. This rapid transition began the progress which has Lever been checked, except by Queen Mary ; for in 1537, a thlio edition called Mathews was printed at liitinhargle in which Tyndal and Rogers had taken Parts ; Itegere published it under the fictions manic of Mathews, because Tyndal's nume was obnoxious ; but a Paris telitien, in the year fbilowing, was seized by the Inquisiton, yet some impressions were rescued entl reprinted in London by the King's authority in Ife4e, -itich was called the Great Bible, with a frontispiece Dolbein. The Bishop objected to it as faulty, but admitted that it did not contain any heresies, upon l'hiell King Ilenry said, " Then in God's name let it to abroad among cur people." In the Same year an edition appeared by Taverner, and a very improved one by Cr inmer in 1.518, which was published by authority in 1541, and sad ut teelve shillings ; six copies of which were placed in 'tit. Paul's Cathedral by Eishop Bonner In 1:71'2, an Act of Parliament condemned Tyndel's Transiarien with its notes, but Archbishop Craanter procured the indulgence, that the higher ranks might react it in private During the reign of Edward VI those prohibitions were removed, and Bishop Gardiner was committed to the Fleet and deprived of his See, for refusing to comply with the orders fur prey:Lig the Churches and others with copies, Si:. When Queen Mary ascended the throne, she :on &lnflect the Common Prayer heretical, and the Gospeler's, as they were called, fled to Geneva, where, ja1557, they completed and printed the Genevan Bible in 1560, with Calvioictie notes. The New 'Wee-Amen! of this copy is the which was divided into verses, Which set the example fen it in the sabsequent editions of the whole Bible. Daring Outien tlizabetlia pro cession to her corenatioa, a Pibie was presented to her, vinich the accepted with ve reretion. ant! orders'. a translation, and as Act was passed 135 d for its version late the Welch language. 7, he Biehons' Dike du not appear till e 56c) lard c stave, ends; direetien of Areltleisitop rerker, ivtd the • aids of each translation was subj:lo4 to h sportion was usesi in the. public service for forty years, but t v... Geneva Bible being more adapted to the ilv.rvitiliv op:nions, was more used in private. fa reinetly all dile ti reeees of opiniots nlw treaslatiott was undertaken .et e how Loitrd the Cirioner'oi: ;$ tors 4:1 sztr.4.l lie a in. if it ationat Lk ctitittr+ Our tiittq► (tonsititution ant It Afoul. SUNDAY, 7, 1818. • remaining tbrty-seven in six divisions ; they began in t iO7, completed it in thres years ; they met at Ox ford, Cambridge, and Westminster. Two persons from each division revised the whole, which was afterwards reviewed by Bilson, Bishop of Winten, and Dr. Myles Smith. The two persons prefixed the nrgu ments to the several becks, and Dr. Smith. after Bi•Itop of Gloucester, wrote the prefitee to the fhho Fdition— the marg . lual refbrunees and (Init . :ol4oa' index was added by . Bishop Lloyd : it was published in black letter, in ItA 1; thqo ; but F t t quart: edition . I)lAlitilate:iii the folllowing year in the Roman type : although the Itomarists and Presbyterians were nut pleased with it, yet it was allowed by Cromwell's Committee to be the best extaet, This is the w crk now in common we, and is generally called the received version; and although there hare been many subsequent versions, and many verbal improvements might be nude in it, yet of all those v inch have been published, this seems fairly to be entitled to preeminence. In the present age, although we. hive advanced in learning mid philosophy, yet we have lost rntircly in our compositions, that solemnity and venerable cxpres :ion which are essential to the Scriptures—which tend to keep alive their sanctity and impostance— and to re mind their readers whose cc:remands, and precepts, and visit coons, are meant to be recorded, and the Divine blessing for which they have been brought to light, and prepared !—the words now in use are not adequate to any part of their subject, for there prevaiis a disk ositien to familiarize all serious subjects with common by which all inward reverence fr tree religion is sup planted—but the pious translators of James 1. se= to have secretly appeal , d for Divine assistance, and to leive received it in such a measure as to render their work the etibet of piety, as well as learning, and a fixed standard of the serious sublime, to which future times simile. reverence ! A. 11. PRICE 9;sd• IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. 110VSE OF LORDS. MONDAY, Joon 1. The Royal Assent was given by Commission to the t o o ; Assessed•Taxes,the Irish Beek Restriction, thi vladdi r lbw the Silk Bountrio, the English and Irish Plilitia met (Availing, and five private Bills. ALIEN BILL. Lord Stntrourte, in rieiug to move that the Alien r..)1 *add be evissm,itted, obset ved, that one of the eremite n'i urged agablet the renewal of Itta Rift was, that the contest out of which it had originated was at an end, and that we were now in a state of profound peace. That was certainly it tic ; the contest was at int end; hot tli spirit which excited that contest was still inexistence, and intJtviduals, anxious to take advantage of every opportunity of disturbing the tran quillity which now prevailed., were Mill ranging about the world, and required certain precautionary measures on the part of every Government. '1 hough there was not, perhaps, the same necessity for this measure that there was in 17P3, yet the ineasnre wag necessary to a certain extent, and only to a certain extent, did the present Bill go. The Noble Viscount oust reed, this incastire was so eno.litsed, that it gave so new power to the Clown. The Crown, by its prerogativ e, hail the power of sending Poreittners out of the country, but nut by stunmareprocesi. The objectof the present Bill was, to enaole the Crown to effect that oilject with promptitude. lie would ask, whether it was not reasonable that the Government of this country should have a power of sending Aliens out of this country, when the Governments of the countries on the Con tinent hid the power of expelling all the mischievous and fec • tious out of their territories; and who, but for this measure , would make this country the focus of t heir plots and contri_ vaeree, as wall perhaps acainst the tranquillity of our Ge vitro meet as their own. The Noble Viseoont aonteeded, that the measure was necessary to preserve the tranquillity of Europe, cud therefore his Majesty's Government had felt it a duty to propose it. The. Noble Lord observed, that by ail old Scottish Act of Parliametst, ally person playing a small cumin in the Bank of Scollsaid became a naturalised subject. The Innen nattstalized all subjects of Scotland; therefore, as the law now stood, to evade the Alien Act, it woe only necessary for a foreigner to place a small sum in the Bank of Scott:tot Ile should therefore, in the conrse et the progress of the Bin, propose a cieuse to provide against that Act. H. H. 11. the Duke of Sussex, having opposed the Bill on a former oecaslon, felt it equally his duty to do so now , and he did it more decidedly because he considered it had bec:i abased in one insta n ce which had come to his knowledge, end in which he was in some measure concerned. The ease was the of an Officer tried in Portugal, and Mond guilty of au offence imputed to him. 'Chat individual was, at the expence of the Government, sent re this ostussiry, nod immeuiately after re-shipped fur the Continent, nutter the Alien Act; tins all took ;dace under a sentence pronounced against him in l'ortitgot, fur a crime of which lie verily believed the ttu• fort otiose individual was tint I•iird Hoek% NO declared himself ilveirie.lly howile to this meanie, and the arguments attic Noble ViScututt had nos at all tended to subdue his hostility. Lord WESTNIMMLAND considered the Rill as necessary . n th•ee grounds; Ist, to preserve the tranquillity antis format, ; Pd, to prnserve our amity with foreign Powers; and 3d, to preserve the peace and tranquillity of the Continent. The Marquis of LA NiHOWN C011it.1104.11, that the 1100-i.re was wholly ittniecemairy in a time of protound pesos like :lie present • it was highly unconstitutitteal. Lind BAUM/Nu% supported the ltiU, on the grounds that it wan occeisary for the preservation of tranquillity both :it :mine and abroad. 'Lite Noble Lord dinned that Oils 11:11 IA 011,1 have the effect of driving threigocus oaf t's' the country ; the contrary she fact; there wine at present smut tileusauda more Aliens in the country than there were a year 4140. The house then divided—For going into a Committee 11 —.lgainst it hi--314jurity 19 .--The House then neatinto t Curamitice.--•Adjourised. Tenn* v On: the Motion of the Earl of llossnYn, the Bill providin:, for the Education of the Poor, %vas stria a third time passed. BC; VING AND SI:LUNG (I,ML. The Earl of I..ventat HA LE moved the Order of the Day for going Mu) a Committee on the Bill respecting the sale mil purchase of Game. The Earl of CADNARVON said, it was impossible for hien to contemplate the nature, the oltjeets, and the principle of the Bill, without nicking some general and particular Misers a. Cows on it. What was obvious to every !Pall win the subject was th.• extreme hardship and ielustier• of i a n i tt lug ponishment on the poor man. while the rit'h ul ma. p ;rating in an equal, if not greater ilivaStlle ;it tile same use I.ed unpunished. Nothing could br. raore cruel and ion quituns than that. Vet he tilt soneeemisolat ion in r e f lecting, thethat I ' rotn the very ennnnity of stt , n of the (tuna L:lves, auJ even from else a>;3ravannu eir mi-chief:, sumo good t of wlis i 't? impossible that so Great an allot:ally Ia the sy delli of jestire, pursued and kept in view Aonlirt much longer continue unchecked o b e y u th ,i e l l e r ol t .;?.. r e ' d 6 . llll 'Plie present time, perhaps, was not the Hunt tit tor et - motet: at large into the fittest ion, and lie should COD.. (tilt huusrlf t% nth .I::reetn4 to go into a c a „,,,,i tt " . 'fie Earl of L t ien '.L perfectly aoreed with the N o m a Qn Motelay lost, Mr. Serjeunt Roluington Was Lord who had just spoken, a.. to the general natnre of th e ~;• Laws, which he thought most ale.urd, pernicious, and sworn into the office of Recorder of tiw Borough impuinic ;an d , indeed, a very fruitful snores of those di s or- Colchester, nude: . the new charter Ltely wanted by I Je ts which tilled our vaols with ' , nitwits le ;otter r Hts Ow Pain= Reirem-itri , 1 47! • • °Meet% her I; dim .•!..1111::le.tal. 1)11 . :gi:nt stanch is making •.. . • ' ~..-as•ore it. to apprettead C ! liltfoe, WlLD ha's übs,:outit , l fit= ;' air • • • FORLIG:i INTELLICESCE. y.. 1. .--.111 , .- - '•; • • at!. FRAACL Row, Mt r the 9th of this month the loan of 1 I N tino,ool franc} of,Annuitic.. was vi enrol at the Ministry of Finance. ~ t ar that time sft.otirs free* :he Minioeey announced to the public that the Treasury was ready to recei , e set.- •eriptioes (ruin all persons negociale tin the loan. I'llese subscriptions were closiA on the 27th. We are as sured that they amount to 2,210,100,000 Ir.; that i to say, that they would complete a loan A 163 millions of :Inanities, iotract af 14 millions, which unl was reirstre.i. 1; would he impossible: for the politic confidence to manifest itself iii a more %titling manner. It is said that the Conned of Minis ter.. assembled yesterday and the day berme, to deturitilve the portium of Annuities that shall be getir.ted to caeli sub srrtlser. This clary, at five o'clock, the Minister (Wl...Mance will make known to the subscribers the ' , lice of the Annuities, awl the determination that shah have nyea adopted oil each df their proposals. The Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Belles l'ettrcs of Di• jon, in the sitting of the limit of Arty, nnannitteii Isis Itny4l Highness the Mike of Stst•ex an 11,pisotary Foreign Member, and ilispatchr.J the diphuna to the l'rtau.e. Tai.Sacnty had previously conferred the same distinction upon Sic Jftepli Brillik6 anal Lola I lormitt. le.tters front Colin state, that the Capitan Paella had sail" et! f:cis Constantinople with *even ships of I;.e :ice and ser,wal frigutts aim, corvettes. Maoist the la !et. :*:nd of April he wattiii *lw canal of Seto with this The Doke of Ken'. 11 riVr.,l at Frankfurt on the evening of the 24th, 11/11,71e tie met Its sister the Queen Dowager of Wirtemberg. 'flit Priitee departed the *Wile alight I . Jl' Co. bonrg. Where the I'+iot•es.. ut Leitiengen was also to repair. I'ANII, JUNE t.—Silt 6011.1it•r* of timad 'et:intent of thel(uy t • al Guard, •eeret yesterday tried intote the Si emu' Colbileil I.i'ar, charged with twang, on the •20th ut April heat, met near La °rest., in Pails. whence they retired to •a public house awl got drools. C►nst.m.t, the leader of them, proceeded to 'weak the glasses and bottles, and to etnntoit great disorders. They left the pol.•tie ionise without tirv, paying their seore ran Otto the stree: Ind maltreated aim% wonuiled several per• sods pas:tog. At t er titis, they had the rashness tat :attach the pet sons who attempted to ant st tier of whom, named II::n tingere, was cut sesetei) on the head with at sobte lie now gave a Valli dear account of the conduct of the soldiers who wounded hate. 114,114 g heard the whoto of tiro evoietice in support of the cloarae, Messrs. Letaud mid Cl:treat' !poke in defence of Use prioonels, %ellen the Counsel lett the Court to deliberate on the affair. They re.nsiiien itt con!”11:411‘.it fat three hn•tlS, whets they oeuttiivect 1:0041,11111 10 ten ya.li our pri.unnn•rtt, tieing the longest period ♦flowed alto penal toile a :and Ims five comrades %tie 301114 . 11CCd to live :,%t:dra' imprisonment each. 4%