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The diffusion of religious instruction is -of so much` importance to mankind. in all ages, and hi all countries, that the utmost encouragement should be given to those who expose themselves to privations, injnrious treatment, tortures, and loss of life, with the laudable view of spreading the lights of the Gospel. We therefore insert with pleasure the subjoined interesting account of the MORAVIANS, an ancient and a respectable Sect,; whose laudable efforts have assuredly been,highly beneficial as far as they have exteuded,.and whose chief recompence seems to . consist in the 'con sciousness that they do‘their duty to mankind by endeavouring to prom Ute their happiness here and hereafter COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. This Day were published,. in One large Volume, Octavo, price 11. Is. in boards, C'iOMMENTi on the LAWS of ENG LAND, principally in the order, and comprising the whole substance of the Coinmentarics of Sir William Blackstone. - London : Printed by A. Stratton, Law Printer to the r King's Most Excellent Majesty; for Joseph Butterworth and Son, 43, fleet-street; and J. Coolie, Ormond Quay, Dublin. 111., EAR SlR,—The efficacy of your .VEGE 4, TABLE ESSENCE in cases of Consumption, &c. be ing now so generally known and acknowledged, it may pro bably be tbonght superfluous to add 'another case to the long list of cures which has already been published bit, as the one I am about to submit has not, in my mind, a parallel in any of the cores 1 hate iead, I rcquqst toe publication of it, in the hope that those wLio are afflicted with that terrible malady, Consumption, may be iuduccd to make a trial 'of your invaluable Medicine. •• .. ....... Prizes of L. 30,000 ................................. L. 5,000 • 4 ............ L. 500 and ... L 2 000 - • lt elide • • ...... lihe full proportion of the inferior Prizes of L.lOO, L 50, &e. &c. h e whole of the above most be drawn ; 1 )0 44 . IN ONE Dist, NEXT TUESDAY. -‘l* Onij and Shares, warranted undrawu, arc Selling at all GREEK SEPTUAGINT. TLis Day was published, In Svo. price 11. 85. boards, handsomely printed and hot pressed, In the early part of last year, my wife was confined with her third child ; shortly after which she was seized with vio lent and alarming inflammation of the peritonamm, after great resistance, yielded to the skill of her medical at tendants; but it left her in a state of indescribable - weakness, with hectic fever—short cough—violent pain its the side—at tended with shortness of breath, and frothy expectoration, which, after is few weeks, became streaked with blood; and she was considered to be in a state of confirmed Consump tion. In this situation she continued for three months, re duced to 3, perfect skeleton, and unable to move isiherbed, withoot-tikleast hope : ssrfet.eVery * ,' - 'her relatives hourly ex pecting, her dissolution. Fortunately, at this juncture, I precut ed a Bottle of your Essence ; a tea-spoonful of which she took three times a day ; and after taking two or three Bottles, its effects were very visible ; the pain in the side wiis less violent; the c,:ugh became loose, and she expectorated more freely; her appetite also increased ; and her strength had so far returned, that she was enabled to sit up for a short time every day, gradually increasing the .lendili,of time, until eventually she' removed to the country for a change of air; where she' continued taking . the Vegetable Essence, strictly adhering to your directions as'to diet, &c. until she returned perfectly cured; a circumstance which was considered as mira culous by those who had seen her before her departure. I shall feel happY.in communicating any further particulars to all inquiries; and never fail to recommend the Vegetable Essence in all cases of Consumption, &c. which occur within my knowledge. I remain, dear Sir, - ONLY ONI; DAY MORE, q , n •-• PRIZES THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS C ONSOLS,' with Nine ether CAPITALS, A NEAT Edition bf the SEPTUAGINT, with 17 - 3 L the Apocrypha, in one Volume. The text is taken' from the Oxford Etlition.uf SOS. Same size as the Gr. Test. ic o i , This Edition is printed in one Volume, for use in Churches and Chapels„.as well as the Library. , AltU In 3:vois. Sco. Ga. boards, large paper, 41. or YEA' IN THE WHEEL, ' which must be drawn TUESDAY, - 12th January. _ . Contractor for the present Lottery to the attention of his best Friends,.the Pub '4ll4l‘;le.,S__tate ‘ of the lVitt , el at this period of the Drawing; NE hot hot One Day more, w hti, ~1 Tr ESDAY, eth of This Month (.T a'nuar y ), 1 -ao . "1 , I ..ttery will finish, on which DaZ Two Prizes of 9 ha t come forth, with Nine other Capitals. " /41 's 011ie (as usual) be pre-eminently I t a ;, :n l g il se d be confidently expects. Already in this Lot 4 % sold more of the Capitals drawn than any other b h 7Per. i i r c s , - r l-1 :g O ff ices are remarkable for the Sale of L. 20, 0 00 - 4 8 ne s r than all the ; other Offices coal , , a s o l d or ocluding,- wo in his last Contract, AN • BOTH IN SHARES. • former Lottery which contained 3 Prizes of L. 30,000, ;01.1) . THEM ALL! ! _ -• iff,_%alld Ila.res, warranted► minium, are now on Sale • s 'd's Offices 4 Cornh•ill, and 9, -Charing-Cross. . . . The GREEK TESTAMENT; a new Editiasn, with copiOus Notes Trutt) Hardy, Rdpltel, Kypke, Schleusner, Roscnmuller, &c. in familiar Latin: together with parallel passages 'front the Classics, &c. &c. Grieshach's Various Readings are pre sem din the Notes. By the Rev. E. Valpy, B. D.- - Printed by A. J. Valpy, and sold by G. and W. B. Whit taker; Longman and Cu. ; Baldwin and Co. Paternoster row ; and all other Booksellers. LIST I. 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( 'I - IS, COLDS, ASTIIM AS, &c. &c. 1, , `':11 " P ECTORAL BALSANI OF COLTSFOOT. 4C • ,1/4t44is he virtue,--'--such the safety, art 18 0( 1 , “) It‘P,.'1 ti,-it nist excellent • Medicine, ARNOLD'S R oth per',, n ALS,A n M . OF COLTSFOOT, that upwards of Colds, htilicted with the roost violent Coughs, 1,7t ,'- ' 4 l'tif'' e 'looping, Cough, Shortness of Breath, and 4tzoiti.4l', have been cured. In old Coughs recent an ki..!:, 4. ' ll l;: ng „Astha las slight and recent Coughs . and Colds, st fir) 'dfloarsenes's the Hopping Cough, Shortness of . "' C 'Hlsunniti t oits, this Medicine is decidedly th , t, ffeeta.d - the greatest discovery ever 11 . 1af.e tnetlicin - e n : It is' held. in the highest est!init !'qv v NI; 7 );c elleilt and salubrious virtues. Volumes w i o . uld girt Ftt, to e mi t a i n th e mats of individuals who e "fet?' \'`ltexPerienced its safe, salutary, and inestimable r ' ', " , , i a n .t ,"' . cai , , he better weather; to prevent the ill it, ond foggy nor can . anything be s i ! CO take When wet, damp, or wet. in the feet, .... "1 "4 in the body after a shower of rain, or fall !: 4 ";it aL'' ' ; , & c . . Above 2060 9 years has the herb (Coltsfoot) '`4l l ':. ta l prepared beer. bel4 in the highest . estima - % tit 5i(1,40 )11.forts and relieves the afflicted speedily, it causes breath e more freely,' and strengthens their con :,e'4,tii',l•"gi%irlst the de lorible and calamitous effects of h . p Nls.o —isown. ( ""s will please to ask for Arnold's Pectoral 1.,`-.(disfaut, arid observe in the Pamphlet which is t1:,1,'! Certificate made and attested by the Proprietor Hon. Matthew Wood, M. P. 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In additiou to the satisfactory Statement of he Revenue for the last Quarter, we are now enabled to extend the view to the whole Twelvemonth ; and have thus to lay before our Readers— An ABSTRACT of the NET PRODUCE of the 'REVENUE of GREAT BRITAIN, exclusive of the Arrears of War Duty on Malt and Property, in the Years and Quarters ended sth Jan. 1818 and 1819 respectively. Years ending Jan, 5.. . . Increase, Deerease. 18i8., - 1819. . , - - Customs 9,76 1 .080 9,996,226 234,746 Excise 19,726,`29 .2,894,450 3,16 8 , 15.. Stamps Post Office 1,333,000 1,339,000 •I,ooe Assessed Taxes .. 6,127,529 6,217,594 . 90,065 Land Taxes .... 1,163,820 1,209,682 . 46,3 . 62 , Miscellaneous 492.,372 368,09: 124,773 .--- 44,946;9111 48,416,321 3,594,175 124,773 Deduct Decrease .... 124,774 Increase on the Year.. 3,469,40 , 2 Quarters end. Jan. 5.' : Increase. Decrease. ISIB. 1819 . . Cnstoms • 3,017,621 2,464,664 Excise 5,499,6 72 4; 4 23t5,04e 738,368 ' . Stamps' . Post-Office Assess. d Taxes 2,260,017 2,303,778 43,761 Land lax . 353,604 408,366 54,7 62 Miscellaneous .. 255,818. 133,397 13,271,764 13,398,777 836,891 709,878 Deduct Decrease .... 709,878 . , Increase on Qom ter.. . 127,013 Thus it annears that the improvement on the Thus it api whole year 11 HALF Sterling counts from Ii up; but we I] E►ears that the improvemel is nearly THREE MILLIONS AND A g, in Great Britain alone. , The ac reland cannot yet of course be made have no doubt but that they will in on prove equally satisfactory. their proporti ENCOURAGEMENT OF INDUSTRY AND REDUCTION OF POOR RATES. It is hoped that the attention of the Le gislature Will be attracted to the impolitic duty of Five Shillings a thousand imposed upon Draining Bricks. As the duty is paid in air early stage of the process of making, it is 'levied equally upon those which are spoilt as upon those which prove fit for use. This Tax is, therefore, a greater obstruction to the progress of Agricultu ral ImproVement than would be supposed,-if judg ing alone from the rate of its assessment ; more over, losses must be more frequent if the Bricks are manufactured. without the usual bui•ldings, and under the superintendence of an individual only renting a supply for his own pnrposes, than if the business is conducted upon an extensi ve scale, professedly with a view to sale. But where Draining Tiles arc not within a reasonable dis tance, we wish each Proprietor to turn upon his own premises as many Draining Bricks as are re quired for his estate. kiladopring this method the ex pence of carriage (a. most material cousidera-, tiun) will be avoided, and while Poor Rates will be reduced, and happiness diffused amongst the lower orders, by employing them in making Bricks, and . in Land Draining, the value of property will be weedy augmented by the improvement. It wonlif also appear to have been an- oversight in the levying a Doty upon Draining - Bricks, since Draining Tiles from Duty are equally applicable to Draining Bricks, and as the making the latter .requires less skill, and no buildings, the work may be resorted to as an employment for the Poor in any part of the country where clay is to be 'found, and therefore is the more entitled to the exemption. THE UNITED- BRETHRRN, commonly called Mo. RAVIANS, are comparatively little ii . noWn in this Country. Their Missions .among the Heathens, botrevcr, bate recently attracted much 'attention, not only as • Models of what such Establishments should be, but as proofs'hoW effectually the rudeSt Barbarians may be civilized by being Christianized. Wherever the Brethren have preached the Gospel among'Savages,. they bitve introduced the arts of social life ; .and wherever the Gospel has beels received, those Savages have undergone a won derfolyenovation in moral and religious sentiment; in personal conduct, appearance, and intellect.— The commendation due to the Moravians on these accounts has been liberally awarded, not only by enlightened Travellers *, who have 'occasionally visited their remote settlements, and been struck with wonder on beholding the comfortable habi tations, the. happy circumstances,. the humble - demeanour, and the fervent piety of the 'converts from Paganism, whether Greenlanders, Esqui maux, North American Indians, Negroes, or Hottentots, but by the Governments of the Colo nies where their MiSsionitries have been stationed,' who have borne the most favourable testimony to' the benign influence of their labours upon the state of , society in the neighbourhood of their Con gregations, and have extended to them the most indulgent protection. lhe ancestors of the Moravian Brethren bad been a Church of Martyrs for many ages before theAleformation. Originally descended from the Selavonian branch of the Greek Church, they never implicitly submitted to the authority of the Pope, though their Princes from the year 967 ad hered to the Roman Communion ; but they reso lutely retained the Bible in their bands, and per• formed their Church Service according to the ritual of their Fathers, and in their mother tongue. Fur these heresies, as they were deemed, they were persecuted without mercy, and almost with out intermission; many were puniilied with death, more with the spoiling of their goods, and mul titudes with imprisoument and exile. Among these Confessors and Martyrs in the 14th century, - appeared John Ihiss, who was condemned to tl.e flames as an heretic.. During the war that en sued atter his death, the Church of the United Brethren, under its present name, was formed by .those who chose rather to suffer as witnesses of the • truth, than to defend the truth• by weapons of worldly warfare. A bloody de• cree was issued against them, at the Diet in . 1468, and commanded to be read from all the pulpits in the land. The prisons in Bo hemia were crowded with the members of their Church, and their first Bishop, Michael, remain ed in close confinement until the death of thsk King Podiebrad. Many perished in deep dun geons with hunger ; others were inhumaaly tor tured. The remainder fled to the thickest forests, where, tearing to be betrayed in the day-time, they kindled their fires at night, round which they spent their hours in reading the Scriptures and in devotion. When they afterwards obtain ed some respite from persecution, they were the first people who employed the newly invented art of printing for the publication of the Bible in a living tongue, and three Editions of the Bohemian Scriptures were issued by them before the Refor motion. When Luther, Melanethon, Bucer, and, Cal vin, at length' arose to testify more successfully than they had been able to do, against die errors and usurpations of the Church of Rome, to each of these illustrious men, tile Brethren submitted their doctrinal tenets, their Church discipline, and file Records of their affairs, and from each in theiruirn - ihey received assurances of cordial ap probation, and the kindest encouragement. But as the Retormation did not penetrate into the te cesses of Bohemia and Moravia, they had to'sul fer renewed and aggravated persecution ; till, to wards the close 01 the 17(11 Century, they were so broken up, hunted down,. and scattered abroad, that they ceased to be known. publicly as an existing Church. Their devotions, at the peril of life and liberty, were perforMed by stealth its private dwellings, in deep forest's, and in lonely caverns, a few only daring to assemble in one place and at one time. Pievious to this disper sion, their Bishop, Antos Comenius, one of the most distinguished scholars, of that age, publish ed a history of 'the Brethren, with a dedication ( ~ t Mich lie called his Last Will and TestaMent) to the Church of England, bequeathing to it the memorials of his people, in the following affect.. imt ternis:—" If, by the Grace of God, there 4 * Vide Barrow's. Travels in Southern Africa, vol. 1, pp. SOS, 372 ; also, Lichtenstein's Travels in the same Country. Printed Evidence taken before the Privy Council (»I the Aboli tion of the glace Trade in t;B9. ..Bryan Edward'; Histerg of the arilish beet Pieties,