The National Register. — London, England, 1811-01-27 00:00:00

!kind of reply is to be given ? for Z Minister (we may here ask) r who is a sent-servant of Jesus Christ, always write (granting that he writes, when he does. not speak, his sermons,) under the immediate impulse of the Holy Ghost ? Now "this," quoting the words of the aforementioned Correspondent to, the 9ospel Magazine, " is bringing the ques ;ion," whether of reading or speaking, " into . a proper shape." Dexterously, however, as.this writer; signing himself 46 Filius," has hitthed into his govet wry the words "always" and " ha mediate;* for the pawpaw of ,doobt, still thegmentded chriition would pause before he pronounced "any man," being " a Zrinister" and 44 sent-sermon" e Jesus Christ," to be only " fit for Bedlam"—because, although not, perhaps, quite always, he felt himself mostly to " speak under the immediate ineindse of the Holy Ghost I" Admitting, merely for the trial of this question, that the Mi- ' nisters of Christianity do not always either compose or discourse " under the immediate impulse of the Holy Ghost," their adop tion of the extemporary rant eloquence must still be defended, or proscribed, by the judgment of reason arid experience. What says nature and truth ? Nature irresistably propels us to prefer ) extemporary speakers. And, setting aside any immediate and superhuman species of assistance, why should it be thought in credible, when we daily witness the fact, that Christian Preachers, deeply imbued with the doctrines and spirit of their Divine Master, full of faith and love and truth,—why should it be thought incredible that such men, especially when naturally ri:dowed with eloquence, are enabled to speak extemporaneously, experimentally, and efficaciously, touching that system of life and ininiortality which they were specifically commissioned to preach ? Let us come closer to the point. Supposing him sifted with eloquence, take any public speaker, master of his subject, whether at the bar or in ttie senate : and without af fecting any miraculous impulse, the only wonder, naturally causing disappointment, would be occasioned by his not speaking fluently and oratorically. Wby should not preachers acquit themselves like these men ? Now, the Rev. Mr. Povah is of this school. Nature seems to have well qualified him to speak with freedom and with force ; and he has feihrfto What had, been thus marked out for him by maw& .Inste44 of any want of utterance, if he betrays one prominent fault, it will be found that his ideas crowd too fast ~ into his n,44, and thatizetelitifAitOoc_runt, lie is rather too hurried in hie speaking. , ti ,• Desirous, of r.enderiug,himself intelligible, rather thanombi tious of being thought oratorical, he is always beneficially under- I stood, aithou4h a trom. this eause l he may sometimes fall short of I iblriagrto ii ccaUj a4nllllo3l4ti. W knuwle4g.i,4l,Fr4)ture • c1em4,,l his . acquaintaneg !sigh butnan,ity jnst l i. „whence ilia:, Alpgrationsa.re satisfactory,, stul-his applications forcible. lite Aivisions arq l .howev,er s u.ppsifessarily „multifarious 0141 his d • oourses,OU . h . §4ll plicity of. 4istribution l oxid condensation of ruFtter,,wttajd ams-11 :der his pulp4.labtr i rjaJatis syrtne to hims e lf (Ftbie word (;*ll I ought to apply al,lAthinyM mall v.). 4ilmore4vitAatrq . utto, burs- congreBati,ons- ihyr st . , rfe.)lVi #OOl l l M. poy 4 l 4 '* voice is, Oeg..but n it .01, lather, yr,rt.e . Aiiarsj tures are striking; and he poisess l e r 'a* erviging * 4 i T ppip,,iyis mode of address. lie fi l ..fjff i tl4{)l ll ,94:4l* i i4):!?9 st4ii l 6lf.!SVFuch. good let him 49 raore aq9d4...1.4 . .tbpp,e4# l*yrpie,Are*lleri they 71AtE4rc! ) Pini4l .9°lk 4f ) ..Fe49 , 5 4P 1 4 4 . 1h qAPh 0 1 g a I °'reig 4 f.i4 4, t4e l 4 l 4P (I f) ll fF... l l9Pkb bribro.v.i...v • A9M,F149 1 / 4 . • '.- , tint. i win 10 to % ;qr. Wright, who made the late bet with Ma)totp, bei acted Mr. Eames, a hoie c :etker, in Piccadilly, ;tO 6flOisa ii 2) that he'diaki : rio the satieftia l litilltbn; '4c isitithrsimeWeeitt-,410 s sr. o: asap *.grntlemari ifit'toven -bf 'Ws UrilbOtlittretf,trEff Aret• (10 000 guineas, to • ride kora liatiteto London, a disme.4 180 mile, in tbe space rif *14.46 1 3 1 M 4F4L- is• to 1) ert 4 rir• 'task . • . • ,t.".;Riniivl a IL ,tr!:!'ltd:' - I: , l)att ttrir MR. TAYLOR EX-MANAGER IN 1806, AND SOLI- MANA.GER. IN ism • Extracts from Mr. Taylor's Remirks on the Report of a Com mittee sanctioning an advance of Sixty Guineas on each Box, when the late Mr. Goold was Manager in 1806, and Mr. Taylor only Ex-Manager; these declarations May be con trasted with his Circular Letter in 1810, wheal Sole-Manager. " If the measure (an advance from 180 to 240 guineas) be persisted in, and generally resisted, as I am persuaded it will be (from the fallacy of the grounds on which the increase is founded), Boxes taken fqrcibly from the Old Subscribers, con trary equally to good faith and the security of established usage and custom, it may produce a disgust so great, as to lead to die sending all the Perfortneriout of the country until the return of peace ; a measure the Government have been long not disin clined to adopt, and which, in the present state of things, would be even a popular proceeding,butby vvhich many persons, espe cially Box Proprietors, would be seriously injured. " I refused my sanction to an increased. Subscription, on the ground that it would be a breach of good faith with tly! Old Subscribers, to call upon them for any aegro.entation or sub scription, unless founded in real necessity, of which they thews. selves ought to be made the Judges ; and I at the same time de clared, that the statement in question on which that measure was attempted to be founded, was entirely groundless. " The truth is, that when the List great rise in the Subscrip tion was effected, fourteen years ago, I passed lay word to the then Subscribers (afterwards called the Old Subscribers), that no further call of the same kind should ever be made upon them; but that in order to meet such increase of expellee as might with time attach upon the concern, the Boxes, as they became vacant, should be let to new Subscribers at additional prices, an obliga tion which I always considered as binding upon site. "It is here especially to be observed, that the Report of the . Committee now in circulation is dated in the early part of June last, a time when many of the Subscribers Were iu town, yet it is not communicated to them before the close of October, a pe riod of the year of all others when people of Fashion are absent in the country, and generally at great distances from one ano ther, and it is then sent under a sort of mean* that if by a par ticular day, without time to consult with one another, they do not comply with the proposed exaction or forced contribution, their Boxes will be declared vacant, awl disposed of accordingly, a menace as unworthy to be employed to the first classes of the community as it is in itself impotent ; for the fact is, that so fir is the same Manager from having the power of temoving 2rit of the Old Subscribers, that he has not everrthe faculty - of ?dispos ing legally of any vacant Box, withqut my special sanepowt thereto in writing, consequently Subscribers, who either have already, or may hereafter, obtain Boxes from him thlt. Goad) without such sanction, will . alwayibe Iktble at any thrreto bar red from them . . . removed from them. , , , . " The Subscribers have now before them .a Rersl, contain.. ing the ground on which they are called upon' for a very laige "augmentation of subscription-a.they have also tinder thee& titer a Couater.statemeot, in which I. positively licit!, tke truth' of viEolt article of that Repor4; the /natter, therefore, is now fairly at issue..--" Let a Committees:of Subscribers investigate the truth, and they can at the Suite time inquire; Whetter oti no the present Maaaget, who calls for this increase tat acted conformably. to his.powers and to the long -estehlirthed , Calteres and gegulationa of the Management; or svbe,thrr, on the too. ' trary; he . liss not exceeded thost pcm;v:er's, - and *abuse h t i : u t i li t ge Customs and ittgiilailons;''ittalkoni theitittilt;pf thiSi t will appear, whether ot bo,';tylautting an lend to the titriVer gant Saiacies en 4 :other vteles;opgut i g, and with a srtatfte. aisps;othilviisc,reg,flated by, and e§:nfinetl i svlth tbt p_riije 'lnd pfekrited itnitl, tfie 'piPieit Rate'Of StibattiptibitlX not at- this tiatifUl* adectuati ,ea 'Mid just tetefit to elidesa- dtertalsiertack those intureit Vogt tedialte to , d+ al, aril tfis,. ,Pr01w i r.r,e4,A 5 340„4 41 ,41F ic 9f, , 9 f .3cF7 i nk Pl. o ,l l eCstat=, count ~ •' 3 4 thitritiia ttili#, mid uttleaultietti initettlektkifreatetaka place, it is alone necessar For the Old Subscribers, irs' *diem> se-ure a contin '' " ' • 4640111 t the usual .. awl estas ;11444 A 04#;veigio II fig.. 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