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'e l ) litEC'fOßS :if ibis SOCIETY do hereby give -No 'hat- they have taken a LIOUSE, No. 16", WATERLOO . t f c tl ' , PALL MALL, which K ill be opened as their thief l itl ee far the transaction of B.isiness tke -Nletropolis, on the 4th day of Janifory, 1819. and where At -444' -4 ' l " will be daily given, front Ten o'clock till Four; and I)_,,` t heof•t be Society's Agent, Mr. C. A. Ilael;ct, h ,: i cuis in or near London, r ! t: witi, i•i totiire, he regimen 1., appear ~e.cw .„, t:uri Como:lak e, who witi sit victskly at Waterloo-piaci!. 441::btl thr Lowtt;sl pr its arwittiin !tie Weekiy bills of mortality. fue-Alie NorWicti Union Fire and Life Insurance So k% il 4 are a ipuinted at.the principal T owns throughout the .(Jal I COUNTY FIRE-01 1 11CM PSOUTFIANII.YroN-sTitEET, S FILIND. • C s : CI-1;1PM tt . ) Iteilewkil of POLICIES, 91, due at Christmas,.are-now in coarse of 0441.' 01 tGERS of the CouNTY FIRE-OFFICE invite a kz ainirtation into the- principles and 'practice of the tite•:, for which they act. They are proud to declare. that object o f liisuraace, viz. a prompt and ampb , in tliat"!). has heel) so illV6riably yielded by the Cotenyy ()dice, 441 4:,: f t ''ogle litigation has ever arisen to disturb the bar ii-nr.•etntit an d c t a i m ants. This security the Office is at all times to afford, because, Ist, the Oriv,inat hay, e d ital of 400 , 0001. over aril-arrive t 4 - .ti Pr?'"- • cig !foul arising from the p •sand be-' ; !!'1ed % . 21 1 141 . Y, although such p re fit as arise - are equally di- Vti those who insure, the Directers of the County shunned -the delusive and pernicidus practice of l arge return of profit and certain; and of pia 1 •1. 11 :'' Pie payauesit of claims deperent on what may he fixed rufe is. the payment or ail just-Clat•rus i s 'q - -Ihe r e t urn o f pro fit i s l e ft to var y w ith e vents. r've ;tddiionolly to oserve, that as the miginal Ca- tnritr d eemed t of stitheietit b magnitude for all ► purposes of se t: I 'l4'.', . 4 is'exp ress l y provided in the Policies, that the Sub t4 that Ftind alone shall he ansWerable for Losses. t hose who insure while entitled to share profits are 4eri,.-st,rt the Viability for flie losses of others, which has tjui n ,; felt in Societies upon the Couttibutionship t1►44,1 Prirteiple ; and which, together with the difficulty f 'tt " 4 inly of procuring restitution, has generally led to or dissolution of such Societiei. 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Com piled principally for the Use of Females. uy IY. Jillard Hort. With Plates. Price ss. boards. iiII;LIC.'►L ERRORS. Mr. Enrrott,—lt is tuti . ch to bey pitied that -a dogmatist, who signs himself AN ELinil'OF THE ENGLISH CHUIICII, should so far forget his duty, and suffer his zeal to (ninon its bias, as to blame you 7 for the publication of Illy letters, which he Ims most grossly mistaken. iiis ill manners, and ill-founded charges against them, have no example imme ; and it is a misfortone that they "should disturb his repose, and make him appear were declaimer. IVly letter's are an humble' ,appeal_ to exalted sense, without my p: ovidiugheads to un derstand them'; and those blocks, yvho do not, or will riot, I shall never. attempt to chip with a razor. • • This Elder. Of the Chorcii, ia his address you; st:4lMrs - hisThhuSe spat, mL, give him, as it can only result raAness.— Viri)y the call me insane, and say that my letters tend to unhinge the faith of the multitude, giving occasion to the enemies of the Lord to .blaspheme,— How can he judge my intentions, contrary to what they truly are, and shake his head at what they do not mean ? I know not whether he wrote his address in a tavern or a cloister, befiire dinner'or atter ; _but such language, 'such violation of all decency, was never before applied to me, for which, in his reflection, be blight to make repa 'ration by a suitable apology.' • He and liint.fornt _Lus,i who is, a polite and bever writer, betray their cloth ; and in their assaults of, me they in jure the cause they attempt to support. Whoever, excepting bigots and tanaties,will turn to my letters, will be convinced that they are not, only a defence of the Old Testament, but of IVIr. 1321..LaD3Y's Translation of it, against a partial' and interested Critic. I have said that this book, as containing the early history of the Jews, is the first, the last, and best that ever was written for.. the benefit of the civilized world, and as such have complained that no former, among many translations, could he depended upon, however countenanced 'by authority, which can never make any thing true, that is not so in itself, atilt that ' its obscurity and coarseness of expression should remain so . long unobviated and unrefined, leaving its substance untouched. . . This, our Elder says, discredits the authorised version ; and so it does, but not. the true ; and so it ever will, while a purer is- imperiously called for ; and while that ,calymniated. man, Mr. BEL . LA MY , has tioished his own. Yet This wise man of high authoritative tones, has nicknamed wha - t - I Irave said, by calling it trash, and wanting sense to discover his own.. In shorty Sir, not lowraste time on so unworthy an occasion, I shsall turn liens it, regaidless of so, much presumption (rola an Elder of the Church, who casts his bile alike on me and Mr. BELLAMY. This is a foul affront on the. late QUEEN, the I'RINCe REGENT, hisiloyal Brothers, tiye bishops,. Doctor PARR, the Chancellor of th ' e University of Od'ord, and the High Steward of the University of 'Cambridge, who head the subscription to Mr. BELLAMY'S masterly work an .aaront flowing from a man who apparently wishes to keep the Bible in darkness, and preserve its obscurities and indelicacies, to consecrate the whole, right or wrong, without question or inquiry, and deem it sacrilege to correct or explainit. In my seventh Letter I may possibly glance at this polite Censor, who, like a viper when durtiug •his tongue at me, only bites at -.a file. STACKHO USE. Justrn et lenacem proposili rirum. * A subscription to a work is not always a sanctiop to its merit, but it certainly is an encouragement, and shews that such a work as this is wanted. [PRICE SCVENIII7NCTI, FOR THE SUN. ‘ EDITOR,—Havillg perused the effusions of several of your ingenious Correspondents, I am induced to transmit to you the following BIBLICAL CRITICISM. In the present controversy .which appears in SUN on die New Translation of thedlible, by Air. BELLASIY, the following passage is Item contradictory, and one disputant say;, it. is a i lle put in to the month of the Prophet. 2 Kingi,. e. 8, v. 10. and runs thus : And. Eli3ha .said • unto him (flazael), Go, say unto him (Benbadatl)," Thou niayest certainly recover; howbeit the Lord bath shewed me that he (Benhaded)ishall surely die." Whoever reatbs.'the whole relation i&co4. nectian'witli the-p=assey,e,-'tvit Ray degree of con sidermion, k int , ,rlc, -nittst be of too awfid a state of mind to draw st!ch N conclwion. -Benhadad,'King of Syria, was sick, and •:-.:nt Hazael to `the Prophet Elisha, to know whether he should recover front his disorder. Tiie Prophet tells Ulazael to declare to him that_ he might cer tainly recover, notwithstanding the Lord hat!) chewed him that Benhadad would surely die. But mark; not die of that disorder With which, he was afileted, but a fiiolent death. When ilazael' re turned, .he told the Ring, that the Prophet sa,id he should surely recover,' (ver. 1/1.) which is a dif fer,,ht sense from the expression of the Prophet, the one denoting the possibility only of the event, the other,_ its absolute fulfilment. And this may he the reason why some imagine that the Word's of 'the Prophet imply the same sense. But no, had liazael used the sense of: the ,Prophet's (gess-ion, it would have tended to.excite-some sus. -picion in the breast of the King of the evil which followed. Thergfor,e. Ilazael , not only reserved to himself the additional prophecy in enswer to request of the Icing, but. lnterpretated the Prophetts , inessage . 'relative thereto. And the reason is manifest, for Hazael " on the morro;7 took a .tiick.,clotti,, dipped it in water, and spread it 'on the King's ; face, • so that he died," though tinder aTretence is 'Cites!) or ease him-, as : the ntar T , ,, in.: of thcoldliible•rPrnarks; This tyres the tic.7tA :that appeared inc , -ii:lble , to the Prophet, for othdrivise the Kirig m igh ;hire certainly recovered of his disorder. • •-Noti; Sir, what avails all ;the orgrin4ents of the Hebraist if.hc don't show the idiom to cotresponil with th'cit of the English, or-any other latignage, agreeable to the common and- analogical sense of th 2 passage in connection with the narrative, with whirhthe above elucidation perfectly agrees, and is different from any other I have yet seen,-with respect to the'entire relation. There is only one reason that can be. urged to render the text different from what it is, and that is, if the words are noiade plate to express . the sense which forms-the sub ject matter of discourse, or in other words, if the passage does not correspond with the entire rela.'. tion of which it is a part. The present Transla- , Lion of this passage is far -more agreeable to the facts of the case than the old one, which renders the former part, " Thou shalt recover•." And Mr. BELLAMY, jt is said, inserts the particle not in the clause, neither of which so aptly applies to the case, so that the former of these. three Trans* lations is more expressive of the real intent of ibp Prophet, and the whole of the eireumstances,than either of the latter. Let it be remarked, that the butt of the argument is to reconcile the propriety of the Prophet's reply with the simple enquiry of the King, and the view lie had of. the complica tion of circumstances which followed the retti•rn of flazael, and under this consideration the pas. sage by no means `appears diicordant, or can be rendered more intelligible to an English car, with nne trivial exceptioti to its perspicuit - y ; and t:i.it rnAy be obviated by a tranTosition of.tbe 01,'s as " Ttion certainly inayest recoveo" . . But, there appears to be enveloped - in this con troversy a point of - a philosophical tendeory, which may excite the disputants ,to shew their various and peculiar sentiments respecting the propriety of the above passage, which is that of the con sistency and truth of a circumstance being, de clared possible from. its own nature, and which . does not take place ; this has excited much con tention amons' Theologians and PhilosopherS, both ancient and modern, and the ahove relation furnishes a proper subject for it. But, Sir, I do, not conceive that it is necessary for a Translator to possess all that acumen and judgment which are required to, comprehend and decide upon all the various opinions that arc afloat in the- world, neither do 1 believe it poSsible ; it is the Literal sense he has only to do with, and to give that with at; tinhiassed judgment to the world. , maidstuue, Dec. 2G, 1915. C•