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London, England, 1813-05-16 00:00:00

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EVANGELICAL CONFABULATION,
FRIEND AND POET.
P.—l have him, at my fingers' ends ; I mem
F.—You mean,lnean who? What, C""t'•b••y's Dean!
P.—Oncsimns applauded.

F.—Him. What then ?

Onesimus sometimes mistakes his men.
P.—l know it ; and know more, than he who drew
St James's courtly Rector ever knew.
Time was when A•dr"w"s, wife and children clear,
Tried mainly for one linndred pounds a year,
And tried in vain; though now, his gettings great,
He rarely deigns one thought on higher state.
Nor for lawn-sleeves would soon exchange his gown.
Refus'd the mitre proffer'd by the crown !
Merit I grant him,— sentient, but not deep;
No !Parts though found to throb, no eyes to weep,
Sincere, expressive, some great point at stake,
He keeps his hearers, like himselt, awake.
Misdeemed yet first preacher of the age,
Not by Oncsimns, bait fashion's rage,
Waft him more na.stward, there his metal try;
Though hold in London, grown at Bath so shy,
Scarce shall he know, with palpitating breath,
To measure out one sad discos*, se on death. (1)
And not tinmark'd, that strangely laid aside
His ' lent.►l lectures,' once St. James's pride;
Unlionoin 'd thus his patron, prototype,
Perchance his flock for taxer notions ripe.
Feat fid of his own strength, doubting renown,
He hurried, if report lie not, to town,
Soon as he heard they dar'd him criticises
Vowing' the pulpit critic ' to chastise,
If haply law, obsequious to his will,
?slig►ht suture words with most perverted skill
F.--A•dr"w•s so weak ! To me, the tale is now;
Between ourselves, do you esteem it trne ?
P.—He at whose shop on-erving christians (I) meet,
H"ch"d, must know the fact I but repeat ;
Since close the very church whose beadles tore
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The broadsides, posted almost at his door,
Announcing to the gaping multitude,
Forsooth, that preachers were to be review'd;
And nothing him escapes; save imgiit or vain,
• His house aye open to time preaching train.
There, it' one may admit the small chat,
Ev'ai Bible t)••n (3) for his likeness sat,
Solicited by P•'le, that dexteions it;
Wim nortraits priest•--t.m benefit Muse if.

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(t) I measure out one sad niseourse on ai etch —Our poet wants if.
lustraion. Dean Al'iti*,•*4 was net..atly at Lion, during the winter
111 1898, where he could be prev•tiled nititt, to pte eb only twice, the
saint sermon each time, which (ptineipully taken from Massillon)
wiei int the topic itf drain !
(i) He, at whose shop observing christinns Inert —Bs. the words ob-
servio., christinws, ate e intent°. `. Hie p rties concerned in,
and the at, the • Christian Ohservtr t• is. are well ascertain-
ed in the tietglihourlnvid at itinit-ts'4, anti ie. v known to the
oltr.lisher la Oa work. Dimib•les,, the snore 1.-,tirci.ible individual
Is 31%0 ucquittntell with the mann. r in winch Ihi I &inks of his parish
ii.terfered tw abstract the putting at that ti!st gave not.
lice of thi• titrtiscoming criticism On the Rector, who was sent
fur, although then in the country, to take citvizance in tire pr.i;uc•
lion, and elia.tise the writer I lie returned, ituwertr, placable
than he had jiturne‘ed up,
(3) 1... en bible 4)/"St Or his likeness sat —The In
cstely contrived by tins epithet, "

'aid has a,f•t deli-
' to milLe a allpoasi-
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Smart letter d o**lt! forad ott-hand to please,.
Make wittiest speeches with proverbial ease,
And, while her passing form before c
Tickle religion into fashion's sides ;
lßiblists &fended, why w:th pupils prance,
'Jill, quite uaparson'd, 'IT sprightly dance ?
s2lll's daughter !angled, and hit her angry lip,
As well she might, to see great David skip,
Although the ark to honour, up and down;
Unworthy hint who look'd to Israel's crown !
Sutler one bard, (./I'n ! to thee to preach,
Who last a crown, ere long within thy reach,
Exceeding Israel's far, of: greater weight
"'llan e'er atrortid the majesty of state;
Treasur'd for those, who, with supernal might,
Di3card the world, and tight the faithtid tight !-
Os*n that crown he thine ! thy glorious aim
Firm candidate for Ileaven's immortal fame.

l!iblcs multiply, and Preachy' sstand
Ready to sail for each michrislian land,
Umloubting that their missionary bark
'Will rest on sonic safe mountain, like the ark;
MiHellion' dawns I—Hypocrisy has fled,
Religion thron'd and reigning in his stead.
P.—Would thus it were ! Bibles, alas! most found
Where faith declines, and formalists abound;
Religion towering to ac world's wide gaze,
Her branches spreading, white their sap dc,:ays.
but rarefy seen, by stealth were real,
When the Church triunipti'd, as her FAttitirs blAl!
Religion then wore no suspicions charms,
Wooing the wordling.to her hallowed aims
Profession prov'd no farce got up tbr
Who, of all fiends, are piety's worst foes!
F.—When trumpeted the Gospel's sounding voice,
Why not, with those who now exult, rejoice?
P.—Long since, it sounded ; to the utmost bounds
Of nature heard its life•linparting sounds!
Spent seems our gospel-day, far spent at least,
Time's night at band; white to the marriage•teast
The master calls, ere soon his guarded door
He cloies—to admit of guests no wore!
(To be continued.)

tie to mistake the character litre sketched, whilst p:;yin, him, at :he
tame tioae, one of ;he highest compliments that he could melt receive
it is in the capacity of SiP"t"y to the Bible Society, indeed, that
this reverend gent!eman has obtained so much celebrity in Our age.
Observers deem him .‘ the tongue" of the SNeicty ! As to his
tor his liketies4, otter all, there was no crying sin in that. Every one
cannot see Jilin in the pulpit, nor even at the Bible Meetings, but every
nue may now Commutate his portrait, at P"l"'s, in Fetter-lane, near
lioityoru.

• It is not undeseming of consideration, upon this schject, that the
reverend William flealtry, in his discourse on the ' Duty and Policy
of pr.pagitting Clnistianity,' (which has just issued from the press)
although a strenuous advocate for Missions, dues, in fact, support
the statement of our bard. " They went," observes this
preacher, respecting the disciples, " as sheep Among wolves ; without
any conntenanes from authority, or any influence from opinion. Yet
even' under these circumstances the Word of God grew, and mightily
prevailed. Churches were planted its many lands ; and the voice of
raver and thanlsg;oing was soon heard in the regions of Asia, and in
the farthest extremities rf western Europe. Tie pride of learning
bowed before the simplicity of the Gospel : the barbarian became ci-
vilized ; the philosopher learnt humility : the rich and the poor met
together, as children of the same parent, and as heirs of a common
inheritance. The Word. of God, simple, unarmed, and mu assuming,
labdued principalities and powers : it cheered the meanness of the
cottage, and illuminated the palaces of kings. 7/re Son rf Man was
lifted up, and 01124 nations were drawn to hehald Win !"
• Where has there been such •a Propagatioa of Christianity as this ?
and what authority have eve W expect any thing liLc to ii ?

MAY 16.

FINE ART'S.

ROYAL ACM) EM Y,SOMERSET-HOUSE.

No. 212. 7/u' Delug,-e, by T. 1%!. W. Turf N Ell. —To ponrtray in
vivid colours the moss awtul catastrophe that ever betel our planet,
Ines been often the object of the Paioter and Poet's attempts ; asd
among the production, of ancient as well as modern masters in the
chromatic art, we find this subject tiested in various ways, but we
have not yet iixcd our eyes upon performance which ever
brought the theme more home to our had wink. J so great
an impression upon our feelings, as thot of Ms. Turner. 'lse eon-
thsion, naturally attending such a deplorable eiremostance. is most
pathetically brought on the ts:e growal, wilt re a group of t.O mi—
serable wretches, flying hefure the viudictisC singes of tilt, swearing
ocean, dispute ammo, themselves the last hillocks that still
.rise
above water. The middle group is most ably conceived and masterly
executed ; the soul shrinks at the sight, aial wonders at the power
of the act ; the small, hot pointed episode of the evlii:e heron, stus.
gling to soar above destine; inn, but prevented by its heing entangled
with the coding volumes of a dying snake, says mu It to the mind,
and the cataracts of heaven, raging upon espiring maokind, are
painted in a graud and appropriate style. We should wish that Mr.
Purser's manner of lair:la:nog efieet, might hear a closer inspection,
hot the niggling- work of hi•stslinishing semis not to suit the extent
and vivacity of his genius.
No. Wt. Shakempcare, by T. STian erns, R. A. '!'his might he
called a map of Shakespeare's mind, upon which we can trace the
divers districts of passion an.l humour, of alisction and liar, of
terror and pity : in fact, it is a most elisions collection of the cha-
racters introdeced in his plays of -Lst. and Vd. pals of Henry Ir,
As yon Wee it, and the Tclopst, King Lear, 21:acbet It and Ilamkt:
'Hie name of the ingenious Academician, who grouped them to-
gether, is not a greater revoinmeodation thr the performance, than
the picture is for the artist; liu are both worthy of each other, and ie
the name of the Academician attract our attention to the frize, its
execution certainly does great honour to the painter.
No. it. Portrait at' lils It. II the Prince Itegent, by T. Pitmen's,.
R. A.—The font ensemble of this larse picture is full al troth, and,
althonsh it reminds us of a similar p rtormasce Icy Vandyke, does
not lose so lunch by the compat i.wi, as might have been feared,
emisiderieg•the transcend:lot merit of the Flemish master, awl the
difference of costumes upon which the English artist had to exercise
his talents.
The portraits ty' ViAconnt of Maynard (No. 13.) and of Far. i spmcer
(No. 99.) by the same Academician, smite the principal merit of
a good likeness to a clearness of tints, and a judicious managemsni of
light and shade, es hie!' are entitled to much praise.
0. 116, rOtiniie (f Mr. Flig-ht, by 6. nsw is, A.--Tees of the.
first since the happy revival of the tine arts, have coldioed
themselves to the noble of histosical subjects exclasively,—
Raphael, Titian, Rub.ens, Vandyke, Reynolds, &c. lla.e trawssit it'd
to posterity the featores of their patrols: awl frienis. Mr. Dawe,
Who follows the same plan, has been sueees-fal in both of these
departments, his portrait of the iagenions Mr. Flisdit, so well ksoiev
and Admired as au organ builder Of the first rate, of Mrs. C.
HA MM SI. VY and Hen DsuoturEn, (No. 179) are proofs of the
happy fertility of his mind and versatility of his talents. He has
embodied in the one, the thoughtful speculation of a profound
machinist ; in the other he displays a most pleasing union of ele-
gance and beauty. The playfulness of a sweet child, is expressed by
the same hand that painted the seriousness of ,deep consideration,
and the sweet complexion of a beautiful woman emanates from the
pallet which yielded the colouring for the dark and kutittea brovi
of the man of study. A little of the gloominess in the hack ground
of'Mr. Flight's portrait, might, perhaps, have been dispensed with;
as we should always prefer a floating indecisive colour behind a
portrait, to any violent compression of shadowed objects. The
'same artist is also very successful in his excelleet likeness of the
Archbishop of Tua'n (No. 293) and of Mr. ilashem of Miss Southey
(No. 260)wh0 plays " among roses, herself a sister lose."
No. 177. The Mother's last embrace of her Want Moses, 4-e. by A.
YEEIIG A L deserves our praise, awl .Shows that an imptov nig spirit is
in constant attendance at the easel of this artist.
No. 131. Clymene mourning. over the tomb of Phaeton, by Miss H.
A. E. JACKSON. Should we dare to foretel and prophetize, we
would boldly announce that this very young female artist, es ill he
someday, the Sappho of the Cill'OHlßtiC Parnassus, her feelings pervade
through the pigments she employs, and her gentle soul seems to give
animation to all the tiguies which she delineates, Page, age;
sic itur ad astru.
No. 41?. A Groop on the Sea Shore, by H. THOMPSON, RA.
—The figures which compose this group; 't lay have a great deal of