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I PUBLICATIONS.

17th urges the payment of Tithes from the authority of the
Law of Moses.
" Ethelwulph's reign furnishes us with a subject, which,
though mentioned elsewhere, it will not b amiss to repeat a
little more largely of in this place ; I mean the grant of Tithes.
The Charter runs thus :
" I, Ethelwulph, by the grace of God, &c., have, for the
health of my soul, and good of my people, taken the prudent
resolution of granting the tenth part of all the lands throughout
my whole kingdom to the Church and Ministers of Religion,
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Charter
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&c. &c.—Dated the Palace at Wilton, in the year 854, Indic-
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the Council of Calcuith, held iu 785, where we find they urged
the payment of Tithes from the Law of Moses. If this Chas-
ter, therefore,lis not to be consideredl,a forgery, it seems at least
to be of very doubtful authority. Add to this, that by the
tenth part of the lands must necessarily be meant the teeth
part of the profits ; which must be owned to be a very forced
interpretation, especially in a primordial Act such as this."—
Page 111, Rapin's History of England.
" The plan which I have to unfold may at first appear start-
ling, .• . to introduce within the Christian Church.
It may appear to encroach by those who have strenuously ad-
vocated the sacredness of the clergy's income, and entered
their decided protest against any reform being necessary, as re-
lating to ecclesiastical affairs."—Espilon Theta.
"The King, Henry the Fourth. representing to the Parlia-
ment his great want of an extraordinary aid, the Commons
went in a body and addressed him, That without burdening
his people he might supply his occasions by seizing the revenue
of the clergy. The Archbishop of Canterbury resisted—the
Commons brought in a Bill to seize the clergy's revenues—
the solicitations of the Archbishop were so prevalent with the
Lords, that they threw out the Bill, so the Commons were
forced to find other means to supply the King's occasions ; the
clergy granted a tenth and a-half. —Page 495.
" The Commons, willing to comply with the King's
( Henry V.) demand of a subsidy, presented an address, praying
him to seize the clergy's revenues. The clergy perceiving
their ruin inevitable, came to the resolution to resign a part of
their riches to the King in order to save the rest."—Page 509,
Rapin's History of England. (1. )—See the Sun, Nos. 14,628,
14,662.
" No mention, Bishop Barlow observes, is made of tithes
in the grand codes of canons, ending in the year of our Lord
457, (which, next to the Bible, he considers as the most au.
thentie book in the world). During all that period, there-
fore, both the clergy and the Church appear to have been sup-
ported by the free gifts and other oblations of the pious."—See
Selden on Tithes, and Barb. Rem. 169.
" Tithes, from the Saxon word Teoda, which signifies the
tenth part of a thing, may be defined to be the tenth part of
the increase yearly, arising and renewing from the profits of
land, the stock upon lands, and the personal industry of the in-
habitants."-2 Black. Com. 24.
From the above readings the following scale is deducible :
Allowing agricultural produce to realise thirty per cent., which
is absolute—tithe impost to be included—and increase being
considered synonymous with produce—a tenth is 131. per cent.
Here we must observe we think the imposition of three half-
pence in every shilling quartern loaf a severe infliction for our
spiritual edification. Albeit it would almost pass without a
murmur, but that our hallowed Faith enjoins us " To feed the
hungry"—and its denunciations are upon those who are unmind-
ful of " the child of misery baptised in tears."
Ethelwulph's Charter.—A tenth of the prat, 3/. per cent.
Hebrew. New Translation —A tenth of a tenth taken on
produce, 265. per cent.
Hebrew —A tenth of a tenth, on the increase or profit, 6s.
per cent.—An Insight to " Forced Interpretation."
We cull from the " blaze of eloquence" of immortal Milton
the epitaph for the patron of this work—" Revolutions of ages
do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of
which whole nations fare the worse."
" In the House of Lords, the debate being on; he state of
Ireland, the Earl of Liverpool said, The Noble Lord had in-
sisted on tithes, a property to which the Church had a right.
He could net go quite the length of his Noble Friend, and be-
lieved that ultimately the question must come under the con-
sideration of Parliament."—(Hear, hear. ) See Morning
Herald, June 20, 1823.
There is the recorded vote of the House of Commons to 10
per cent. property or income tax ! being oppressive.
Under the operation of the property tax an esquire whose
principal of 10,0001. netted him 500/. per annum, paid to the
State 50/., under the operation of the tithe composition, an
outlay, .of 500/. subjects the cultivator to the same 501. ; this, in-
deed, is " th' oppressors wrongs."
I " The alarm excited by announcing a proposed continuance
of the income tax was now beginning to operate ; and the city
of London commenced an opposition by presenting to Parlia-
ment, on Feb. 8, two petitions against the tax, one from the
Lord Mayor, Alderman, and Common Council, the other from
the Lord Mayor and Liverymen, both expressed in strong lan-
guage, respecting the odious and inquisitorial nature o the
tax. The Ministers and their adherents increased their efforts
to make it appear that the opposition to the tax was fastened
by popular a
p 1 ulairnaclidamekoautr and party
ip,eatrittyiomn,anpcerausvernetse.d
eTnhiAsiaartteebmil, re-
ceived
William Curtis, from the merchants, bankers, and traders
of the city of London. The number of signatures was 22,000.
March the 18th the Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed the
continuance of the obnoxious tax several other speakers fol-
lowed on each side. At length every voice was drowned in the
cry of question, and the House divided, when the numbers were,
for the continuance of the tax; 201, against it 238, majority 37.
When the result was announced, a long and loud cheering arose
in the House, which was re-echoed by the crowd that filled the
lobby and avenues, and the event was felt throughout the na-
tion 9s a relief from an oppressive burden."—Annual Register
for 1816.
" It has been presumptuous," so we read in the pithy
Examiner, No. 780, " to dabble in chemistry ; to look through
a telescope ;to inoculate for the small-pox ;to abate the viru-
lence of a pestilential disorder by the salutary assistance of a
cow; lastly, and we trust the argument will be deemed con-
clusive—to read the Bible. And in what has all this pre-
sumption generally consisted? In the anxiety of some men to
know more than it was convenient for other men they should
knew. The moment the daring inquirer discovered a truth—
a truth !—which threatened to militate against a profitable
system of error, then the' awful secrets' were invaded—the
' ark of the sanctuary' disturbed. Any Barabbas of the day
was milk-white compared with the daring offender t in a word,
away with him.' Could great men thunder,' says Shaks-
peare, ' there would be nothing but thunder.' Could they
make a thirst for knowledge sinful and presumptuous, there
would be a most inconvenient multiplicity of awful secrets.' "
Having now emerged from the honourable estimation in the
community, we take leave to mention a few whose great names
gave permanency to the system.
" Protest." "In our opinion, therefore, the land is sub-
jected to a direct taxation, amounting on the rent, tithe, and
poor-rate, to 33 per cent !"
On the amendment of the Duke of Wellington upon the Corn
Bill. Signed Duke of Newcastle, Earls Rosslyn and Lauder-
dale.—Journal of the House of Lords.—The Times, June 5,
1827.
" It would shake the foundation of all property in the king-
dom."—Mr. Peel.—The News, Sunday, May, 23, 1825.
" Because he had an apprehension and timidity." Mr.
O'Connell, Herald, Dec. 2, 1836.
It is now more than thirty years since the eminent linguist
Bellamy divulged his biblical emendations, through a periodica
of the highest literary character in the country, the " Classical
Journal ; ' it is twenty. two years since we became adherents to
his promulgations, and with an intent watchfulness, The Sun,
the Examiner, and the Chester Chronicle, are the only Papers
amongst the range, who have promoted the matter held to be
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and " a
life beyond life."
This enables us to repel the imputation to the " Continental
Despots," we rather say Sovereigns of Europe, or " the cruel
and faithless bigot," and it may go to assuage the acerbity of
vituperations against them, when one whose purport was and is
" of the utmost importance to the interest of mankind," and
" a life beyond life," has received such an act of unexampled
injustice from the press of England.—We hope this will not be
overlooked by the Germanic Diet on the regulations of the
Press.
" What complaint does the bulk of the people make of the
Legislature ? It is charged, in the case of the Corn-laws—
openly and distinctly charged, with inflicting hunger, disease,
and death on large portions of the community to enrich its
members. It cuts down the population, as Lord Ashburton
affirms. It curtails the supply of food, it limits the demand
for and the wages of labour. It plunders the working-classes
to put wealth in the pockets of the Aristocracy. All these
things are the very reverse of its duties. It holds power to
cherish and protect the people, and is highly criminal if it
shorten a life unnecessarily one day, or misappropriate one stick
of the property of the obedient people."—The Sun, No.

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NEW TRANSLATION OF THE
BIBLE.
Church Extension.—Mr. Hume's amendment to Sir R.
Inglis's motion, that an humble Address be presented to her
Majesty, praying that, before recommending this House to
grant any further sums of public money towards Church Ex-
tension, her Majesty would bo graciously pleased to take into
consideration the rich and valuable endowments which are al-
ready possessed by the Established Church of England and
Wales, as well as the large sums of public money which have
been granted for Church Extension since the year 1809.
" That her Majesty will be graciously pleased to consider
that, in the opinion of a large portion of the people in England.
the present revenues of the Church, if wisely administered, are
amply sufficient to provide religious worship and instruction
for that portion of her Majesty's subjects belonging to the
Established Church of this kingdom."—The Sun, No. 14,833,
Friday, May 22, 1840.
" We observe in a pamphlet, Anti-Deist,' published by
Mr. Bellamy, that Exodus, c. iii., v. 22, is a gross mistransla-
tion. He notices a.number of other errors in the translation
of the Bible now in use, equally hostile to the true meaning of
the writers. It is not a little curious, that many of these mis-
translated passages, which give meanings in direct opposition to
the real ones, have been as stoutly defended by eminent theo-
logians as any in the whole book, and long commentaries have
been written upon them, expressly to show their beauty and
propriety."—The Examiner, Dec. 24, 1821.
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cussion of the merits of the New Translation, as a question-of
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it to be our duty to comply. Our Correspondents, therefore,
shall be attended to in turn, as we have reason to believe that
the Heads of the Church have already directed their attention
to the controversy. "—The Sun, London, Saturday, Dec. 6,
11116.
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has deservedly obtained, should operate as a general example
and incitement. Shall the Bible, with its many acknowledged
errors, descend to posterity polluted with all those errors ;
or
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" The New Translation of the Holy Bible, containing the
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and reconciling the numerous discrepancies in Jerorne's and the
European versions."
Part 3d in 1821, containing from Numbers to Deuteronomy.
By John Bellamy.
SPECIMEN OF EWENDATION.
Authorised Version, Deuteronomy, chap. 14, v. 22 :—" Thou
shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed."
" It is a well-known maxim of English law, suggested by
common sense, and recognised by every principle of justice, s o
infer, that the long and uninterrupted enjoyment of a civil
right must have originated in a regular grant from the original
owner, although no express,,evrdence can be produced of ex-
istence of such conveyance. On Tithes.—Quarterly Review,
•
No. 53.
New Translation:—" A tenth thou shalt tenth, of all the
increase of thy seed." Note—Onkelos, the most eminent of
all the learned Rabbis, who lived before the dispersion of the
Hebrews, and consequently made the translation of the Sacred
Volume into Chaldee at the period when tile Hebrew was a
national language, thus translates, the clause—Gnasaara
tignsarah, " a tenth thou shalt tenth,' which is the same as the
Hebrew. The Septuagint 6s%oss-Gv ss7S6OESSMS-WosEl (both
Alexandrine and Vatican) " a tenth thou shalt tenth." The
learned Selden, Le Clerc, and other great authorities on
tithes, say—" It is not likely that the Levites should have had
a tenth of the whole produce of the land, because the number
ef the tribe of Levi, compared with the numbers of the other
tribes, was so trifling. Neither could it be of all the produce
of the land, but of the increase of the seed; as it is truly said
in the common version : for the increase must necessarily have
been that part of the produce after the seed employed to give
the increase, had been returned to the grower out of the gross
produce ; otherwise it could not have been said it was the "in-
crease of the seed.
"-When the harvest had been ended, and all gathered, then
the husbandman laid aside his great themma, otherwise called
the first fruits of his threshing floors, of which it bath beene
spoken in chapter on first fruits; which, though it were one
of ten, in respect of that portion. which the Levites received,
yet it was but one of a hundred in respect of
the husbandman's
Mat.. xxiii. 23 ; and hence it is that they
stocke, who payed the Levites; the Levites payed a tenth por-
tion unto the priests; this they termed Magnas.her nain-ham-
Pitee, used by the ancient
mbroke, chancellor of
magnasher, the tithe of the tithes, Neh. x. 38. The pharisees
Godwyn, B.D. 634.
would pay a tenth,
boasted, They gave tithes. of. all that. they possessed, Luke
held in 785. or, ae-
xtmhveei,bi,iur.Tenl:2ievs.e.'C'r—osiuDtCynesevdoiilfilcoaclaftnexcdafoaEtiroceduc.tliietihesi:a.lEysoatriTrclahclooafmßierite,
cording to others, in 787, or. account of erecting Lichfield into
an Archbishopric, ratified the Canons of a Synod that had been
convened just before is Northumberland. Gregory and
Theophilact, who presided as the Pope's Legates, acknow-
ledged, in their letter to the P. ope, that they were the first that
had been sent into England wish that character. The follow-
ing are some of the Canons of the Synod of Northumberland,
ratified by the Council of Calcuiths-Bth. The ancient
privileges of the Church are carefully to be preserved. The

14,869. May 6, 1840.
" The Anti-Corn-law League yesterday closed its sittings
and the members declared that they did net despair. Neither
do we. Our conviction that the Corn-law is a most iniquitous
impost is strengthened by what has occurred in the House of
Commons. We believe that to preserve such an impost for
any length of time is beyond the power of the House of Com-
mons. The debate and the division of Tuesday may help the
degradation and destruction of the Parliament, but they can
neither alter the public opinion of the nature of the law, nor
maintain it in opposition to the public conviction."—The Sun,
May 28, 1840.
It being spoken by him, " who spake as never man spoke."
Mathew, c. iv., v. 4. " But he (Jesus) answered and said, It
is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word
that proceedeth out of the mouth of God," it being our purport
to carry out, and the majority of a House of Commons to abro-
gate the mandate of the Deity himself, (2) though what we
submit " may at first appear startling," emboldens us.
This train of thought leads us to entertain the idea that it i
a national degradation ; that those in the receipt of from 3,0001.
to 30,0001. per annum should " writhe from the hands of pea-
sants their hard-earned pittance" of three-halfpence in a loaf,
and this, too, for the support of an Establishment of high in-
tellectual character. The country's dignity demands the
abolition.
Therefore we hope that her Majesty will he pleased to pro-
mote an assessment of one-half per cent. on all houses at a rent
of 501. per annum, 11. per cent. on all houses at 1001. per an-
num ; two per cent. on all at 2001. per annum ; three per cent.
en all at 2001. urards at the annual rent-charge. This paid
into her Majesty s Exchequer, the Clergy to be paid by a gra-
duated scale.
We pray her Most Gracious Majesty " hear us for our
cause," that it may disarm every depraved mind against her
" sacred person," and that no—
" Peasant shall have cause to say,
Heaven shorter, Victoria's happy life one day."
(1.) Dedicated to his Royal Highness Frederick, Prince
of Wales,the History of England, written in French by M. Rapin
de Thoyras, translated into English with additional Notes, by
N. Tindal, 111. A., Vicar of Great Waltham, Essex, 1732.
Richard Bentley, New ' Burlington-street.
(Publisher in Ordinary to her Majesty.)
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Paul's, London.
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(2.) Letter to . . . . on the Rcv. IV. L Bowles'
" Strie-tares on the Life and Writings of Pope," By the Right
Hon .I.ot d Byron, and that Noble Lord's works complete
in one volume.
Richard Bentley, New Burlington-street. Amsterdam :
Muller and Co. Leyden : W. H. Hazenberg. Paris :
Arthur Bertrand. Venice: J. B. 11Iissiaglia. Petersburgh :
Schwetschke. 1826.
A New Plan for Church Reform : in a Letter addresse Hon.d to
the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Melbourne, and the Right
Lord John Russell. By Epsilon Theta.
London: llatchard and Son, No. 187, Piccadilly.