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

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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. ,
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Desirous, of r.enderiug,himself intelligible, rather thanombi-
tious of being thought oratorical, he is always beneficially under- I
stood, aithou4hatrom. this eauselhe may sometimes fall short of I
iblriagrto ii ccaUj a4nllllo3l4ti. W knuwle4g.i,4l,Fr4)ture
• c1em4,,l his . acquaintaneg !sigh butnan,ity jnstli. „whence ilia:,
Alpgrationsa.re satisfactory,, stul-his applications forcible. lite
Aivisions arql.howev,ers u.ppsifessarily „multifarious 0141
his d
• oourses,OU .h. §4ll
plicity of. 4istributionl oxid condensation of ruFtter,,wttajd ams-11
:der his pulp4.labtrirjaJatis syrtne to himself (Ftbie word (;*ll I
ought to apply al,lAthinyM mall v.). 4ilmore4vitAatrq.utto,
burs- congreBati,ons- ihyr st. ,rfe.)lVi #OOlll
M. poy4l4'* voice is, Oeg..butnit .01, lather, yr,rt.e . Aiiarsj
tures are striking; and he poisessler'a* erviging *4 iTppip,,iyis
mode of address. lie fil..fjffitl4{)lll,94:4l* ii4):!?9 st4iil6lf.!SVFuch.
good let him 49 raore aq9d4...1.4..tbpp,e4# l*yrpie,Are*lleri
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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.

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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 *abusehti:utilitge
Customs andittgiilailons;''ittalkoni theitittilt;pf thiSi t
will appear, whether ot bo,';tylautting an lend to the titriVer
gant Saiacies en 4 :other vteles;opgutig, and with a srtatfte.
aisps;othilviisc,reg,flated by, and e§:nfinetlisvlth tbt p_riije
'lnd pfekrited itnitl, tfie 'piPieit Rate'Of StibattiptibitlX not
at- this tiatifUl* adectuati ,ea 'Mid just tetefit to elidesa-
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