world, from so wide and multifari- of the world save a forbearance for its ous opinions, floated between ideas defects. name Mr. C.VN. Yours, &c. Box, No. 1.-Contains the principal part of the head of a carnivorous animal. The jaws are entire, filled with grinders. The 'seat of the muscles is traced deeply along the nose, and, from their depth, must have given violent action to the nostrils and lips. Here is also a Marilla Inferior of the same kind of monster, but much larger, and of great weight and beauty. entirely varying from each other. The peculiar traits of his character, Some thought the bones the re- and the extent of his acquirements, mains of a giant; many called them may now, however, be collected extraneous fossils. Some said the ani- from his works; but the distinguished mal, to whom they appertained, was qualities, for which he is most valued, carnivorous; others as strenuously can only be found in the grateful boasserted him to be herbivorous, som of his particular friends. grammenovorous, or mixed. At I remain, Mr. Editor, with all length, wearied by the contrast, a:l the consideration which you so uniparties associated in one idea. The versally merit. bones were to be called " Mammoth Bones," notwithstanding any difference in their character, or the contrasted sensibilities which such difference would naturally make. Ashe, however, presumed that the "Mammoth," (a Russian term from Memoth, a word derived from the Arabic Mehemot) signifies the Behemoth of Lob. This animal was herbivorous, therefore, Mr. A. confines the term Mammoth to such bones as manifest, from their structure, an animal of that order; and he confers different names on other bones, which betray evident signs of contrary propensities. That the bones hitherto denominated" Mammoth Bones," are the remains of various incognita, or non-descript animals, is abundantly proved by the numerous and magnificent specimens found by Mr. A. in various parts of America. Having pursued his design with pass. indefatigable solicitude, and explored No. 3.-Has the Os Ischium, Pelvis, at the same time all the interesting Thigh, and Leg Bone. These Bones provinces west of the Allegany are both ponderous and perfect. mountains, he returned home by No. 4. Contains an object of inexway of New Orleans, and disposed of pressible grandeur and sublimity. It the curiosities he collected, to the is the foot of a clawed animal, possimuseum of Liverpool, and among bly of the order of Fere, for the claws his numerous friends and acquaint- are sheathed and retractile, in the ance. He also prepared the notes manner of the cat, tiger, and lion. of his last publication, but could not When this paw was dilated on its prey, see it through the press, having de- filled with muscles, flexors, and cartitermined to visit South America-to lage, clothed with flesh, turgid skin, which latter country he is now gone, and hair, it inust have covered a space to pursue the study of nature, and of ground four feet by three. The promote the knowledge of mankind. animal to whom it appertained, with Thus, Sir, you see the life of a tiger, with a body, too, of unequalled superior agility and ferocity to the gentleman, although so little known, magnitude and strength, must have although doubted of, is one continued been the terror of the forest and of stream of utility and good. That he man. This monument stands alone. has not been known to the public be- It has no competitor. fore this, can only be attributed to a and only one of such exorbitant magIt is the first modesty which concealed his virtues, nitude ever discovered, or probably and to a mind which required nothing that ever will. No. 2. Possesses the Vertebræ in high preservation. The Os Sacrum, and Coccygis are connected by the ossification of the cartilage; and the bed of the Coccygai Muscles are strongly visible. Through the cavity for the passage of the spinal marrow a man's arm can easily No. 5.-Contains a Rib, and Frag- The canals, in which nerves and ments of Rib, not concave internally, blood-vessels were lodged, are perbut with the edges standing out, to fect, and discover the great supply give more energy, and to bear more which prevented the waste of attrition, resistance. From hence it would ap- and made the teeth endure the compear that the animal was endowed pression of any hard body between the with the gift of contraction: his ribs jaws.-This box affords a rich conclosing together like the sticks of a templation. fan, he could spring forward, or make No. 9.-Possesses the remains of a mighty leap. This box contains an animal of the anterior world. Comother fragments, whose office in the ing to a rock, which the Naturalist frame is not sufficiently denoted for had to spring in following a vein of description. mineral, this grand object appeared No. 6.-Encloses four extraordi- under the deep explosion. It is the nary Bones. They defy the intelli- Defense of an Herbecious Incognitum, gence of the writer. He cannot dis- of ponderous volume, and amazing cover what part they performed in the height. The Defense, in a state of animal machine. He supposes them perfection, must have been five hunFemori of some Incognitum of great dred weight, implying a head of twelve force, as is wonderfully expressed by hundred weight. The present fine the deep insinuosities in the Bones, in subject, in a state of decomposition, which the tendon of the triceps, and weighs one hundred and fifty pounds, other large muscles, three inches in is twenty-five inches in circumferdiameter, could lie concealed. ence, and when (being in three parts) No. 7.-Ein aces the Teeth of va- put together, is sixteen feet long. It rious animals, weighing from 1 oz. to is by no means in the form of that of 10lbs. The grinding surfaces denote the elephant; it makes a complete the pursuits and passions of each revolve, and appears as if the animal animal. The large Grinder, with pa- could have moved it at pleasure. The rallel lines of enamel slightly indent- grain traverses in diamonds, in the ed, bespeaks the peaceable Herbivo- manner of the finest ivory, and the rous animal, of the elephantine species, internal substance is as white as snow. The ponderous Grinder, with high Several thousand ages have only led double-coned processes, and inter- this to a gradual decomposition. It locking fangs, denote the cruel Carni- may yet last many years; but must be vorous monster, lurking in the woods. touched with a trembling and a pious The Teeth, with less indention than hand, by him who can admire the this, betray a mixed animal; and wonderful greatness and wisdom disthose which have still less indention, played in the operations of nature, and and which express a rotatory motion, who can contemplate with rapture an show the animal to be Graminivorous, object which; it is hoped, the vulgar and sometimes also mixed. This box will neglect as a dreary void.” contains twenty specimens of the No. 10.-Contains the Tusks, Deabove characters. Some of the Teeth fenses, or Horns, of various animals. are elegantly stained, by the long and One may be attributed to the rhinounremitting industry of nature; and ceros, another to the elephant, but some, from lying in contact with mi- none to the hypopotamus, or river neral substances, have obtained ra- horse. One appertained to a huge diant and prismatic colours. animal of the ox kind, and another to 66 No. 8. Contains about Twenty- some mixed Incognitum, of great stafour Specimens of Carnivorous ture. The Defense is better than six Grinders, of such variety of size that feet; not running in spinal colute, but the animal's age can he followed from rising nearly perpendicular, and turnone to innumerable years. A process, ing off at the point. Such was never which sunk into the Marilla, is five found. The animal and his attributes inches wide, and the cones on the are unknown. surface two inches deep. Some From the above review, the mind Teeth exhibit nothing but the Cortex, draws this conclusion, that the nu from which fire can be struck, and yet merous bones called Mammoth many are wasted by manducation. Bones," are the remains of various nita. Perhaps the great clawed animal ing critic, and declare that the world is the Megalonyx of the Greeks; it would have had more respect for Dr. certainly is not the Arabian Mehemot, B. and a better opinion of the suavity though it is allowed that the Arabians of his temper, had he left it in better applied that word to any creature of humour with a great living character, extraordinary bigness; for Fyhl being (viz. Dr. Hurd) and had he spoken their appellation for an elephant of nil nisi bonum of Dr. Warburton, ordinary size, they add the adjective another of his celebrated critics. Mehemodi to one of uncommon mag- This reminds me of your corre→ nitude. In this brief description, simplicity is preferred to that science which perplexes the reason of those who are not desirous of entering into useless refinements, or tedious abstractions. This may be hostile to the pride of the pedantic scholar, but grateful to feeling and to sense. Mr. BATES to the EDITOR. SHOULD send you, according to spondent Senex, and of his strictures on the life of Mr. Mickle, noticed in your last number. Senex should consider, (and at his time of life he is more particularly bound to consider) that what we owe to truth is superior to every other consideration; and that De mortuis nil nisi verum is a much better maxim to follow, than his favourite one De mortuis nil nisi bonum. Here, as in every thing else, let the scriptures direct us. Charity certainly requires us to throw a veil I over the imperfections of a brother of supposing none of your correspon- when facts are to be spoken, (and dents (Aristarchus excepted) to be what is biography but a collection of sick of the beauties of that poet, did facts) they should be given with the not second thoughts suggest, that the most minute adherence to truth. And pamphlet from which I purposed to if Dr. Warburton and his right recull my remarks is of a date so recent verend and learned friend were guilty that it must be known to those of of plagiarism, and of literary finesse, your readers who have a cultivated why should not Dr. B. having clearly taste and a true relish for the classics. detected the imposition, set truth in a The work I allude to is intitled fair light? And by the same rule, if "Specimens of Literary Resemblance Garrick betrayed at some times a in the works of Pope, Gray, and littleness of mind, with a portion other celebrated writers; with critical observations: in a series of letters. By the Rev. Samuel Berdmore, D.D. late master of the Charterhouse school, London. Printed for G. Wilkie, Paternoster-row, 1801." I transcribe the title-page, that such of your readers as are acquainted with the work may be tempted by the following recommendation to procure it. of finesse towards Mr. Mickle, why should not the Rev. Mr. Sim state the fact in his life of Mr. Mickle. I also suspect the integrity of typothetical writers, and such I am sure some of our critics, not to say "the British," are. The admirable strictures in your last on the poor rates from your correspondent Mr. Townsend, remind Dr. B. has compressed a great deal me of the misplaced benevolence freof learning within a small compass; quently and ostentatiously displayed proving himself to be a sagacious cri- in our weekly journals, by Mr. or Sir tic, of a delicate taste and an accurate Thomas, or My Lord such a one, who judgment, whom neither beauties nor left five or ten guineas with the gaoler blemishes, however latent, escape. to make soup for the prisoners. It is He is never reluctant in bestowing to be lamented that such good deeds praise where praise is due, being well should be prejudicial to the commuskilled in discriminating between the nity. But, in truth, they are so: for accidental resemblance of writers on these ill judged donations defeat the the same subjects, as well as in de- end of the law, by releasing prisoners tecting plagiarism. Some of the re- from a part of the punishment which viewers severely censure this discern- is due to their offences, viz. living on UNIVERSAL MAG, VOL. IX. 2 E bread and water. To my certain in their own houses. Now this is knowledge, in the northern counties absurd. prisoners under confinement for ca I am, Sir, pital offences, as well as for debt, live From the Farm, better in prison than they could live THIS March 15. W. B. Hints to the PUBLIC and the LEGIS- Country; and the entire devotion of LATURE, on the Nature and Effect the lower classes to these itinerant of EVANGELICAL PREACHING. By instructors, who train them to a sysa Barrister, 1807. tematic contempt of the moral law, HIS is a singular publication, and withdraw them from all depenand has not perhaps been equal- dance on the practice of their duty led since Bishop Lavington produced as men and christians, is such as dehis Enthusiasm of Methodists and mands that at least the community Papists compared. We have read should be put upon its guard, and these hints with a lively interest, and that those to whom its welfare and presume we may congratulate the prosperity are entrusted, should not public, and every friend of rational sleep upon their post." religion and good order, upon having This author justly contends, that found an able advocate in their cause, these evangelical anti-moralists havagainst that wild rant, and those ing now erected themselves into a Methodistic doctrines which contound kind of popedom, claiming unlimited right and wrong, good and evil, till authority over churches and the conall moral distinction is lost. It is sciences of men, are at the same time, but justice to premise that it is the most effectually opposing all the efCalvinian, and not the Wesleyean forts of the more sober ministers or Methodists who are principally alluded magistrates, to correct and improve, to in this work, Innumerable pub- not the notions, but the morals of lications, it is true, have been issued the people. And he shews it to have against individual writers of both been their uniform system to gain these denominations, but these being over the lower orders, particularly in too confined in their object, have the country, by bringing the laws of been parried, or rebutted, having no morality and the more established more effect upon the main bodies of ministers into contempt. either party, than the skirmishing of Thus, quoting from the Village scouts or out-posts. The Author of Dialogues, he justly observes, the pathe Hints has abandoned this petty rochial clergyman, if a moral preachwarfare. He advances against the er," is held up to the sneer and whole body of his antagonists. Like ridicule of the country people, under a candid Logician, he states the ob- the contemptuous appellation of the jections he offers against his oppo- Rev. Mr. Doolittle." Accordingly, nents in their own words, and refers when he attempts to teach the farmer even to chapter and verse in the and his family, that faith alone is inpublications alluded to. The object sufficient, and that they must under of these Hints is to alarm the sober stand that good works are essential, part of the public, and the legislature the farmer is made to reply in a style with respect to the danger of the of low mockery, "Why then, Sir, country, arising from the immoral when I say I shall go alone to Maand pernicious effects of what is falsely pleton market next Thursday, you and impudently stiled, Evangeli- are to understand, that I mean to take cal Preaching." Because, as this wri- my wife and daughter Polly with me." ter observes, p. 143, "these evange- A further string of questions is then lical anti-moralists swarm in every so framed, as to furnish the farmer town in the kingdom, and are daily and his family with a triumph over multiplying their disciples in every the morality of the Rev. Mr. Dooiamlet and village throughout the little, and an opportunity of saying some and bare; every thing in praise of Mr. Love- "Come needy, come guilty, come loathgood, the faithful preacher. Throughout the whole of these dialogues, all that respect and reverence which all ranks were wont to feel towards the You can't come too filthy, come just as you are." 1 But, that a deplorable degree of clergyman of their parish, whose ignorance is the cause of all this sermons used to aim at their moral coarseness and vulgarity, is clear from reformation, is gradually diminished the examples afterwards quoted. The and done away. Those ministers (of author of the Hints observes, p. 132, any persuasion) who had taught "No work could be better calculated them to work out their own salva- for the dissemination of the evange tion with fear and trembling, know- lical principles, as they are called, than ing they had the example and autho- the Pilgrim's Progress. It treats the rity of Christ himself, are now pointed moral law (or the necessity of doing at with a sneer, and nick-named into as we would be done unto) with as derision, by the profligate and vul- much vulgar derision as the most gar; since it seems by the aid of the zealous of the fraternity could wish. new evangelists, they soon discovered They could not have made choice that " old Mr. Deadman, and his of a better vehicle for the propagation cousin Mr. Blindman, had preached of their gospel. The tinker, we all no more the true doctrine of the Bi- know, made no pretensions to innoble, as it relates to salvation by Jesus cence or integrity of life; he wallow Christ, than if they had been two of ed in his vices with humility, he the priests of Jupiter." laid no claim to merit. It was not "Lest the Village Dialogues, writ- difficult for him to teach the doctrine ten by Mr. Rowland Hill, should not laid down in this, his treasure of dibring the heathen attribute of virtue vinity, that "it is then only we have sufficiently into discountenance, ano- right thoughts of God. When we ther evangelical minister (Rev. Mr. think all our righteousness stinks G. Burder) forwards the labour by under his nostrils." A precious Village Sermons. Addressing him- teacher this! If we judge of the licenself to children, the sermon-maker tiousness that prevails in low life, he says, My dear children, why do has made many pious converts to this you hope to go to Heaven! Is it conviction. because you are not so bad as others; because you say your prayers, and go Village Dialogues it is observed, will The following extract from the to church or meeting? If so, you are proud; proud of your own righteous- serve to shew the high rank which ness, which the scripture calls, fil- this work holds in evangelical estinathy rags." This village preacher, retion. Worthy observes," the Pilsembling a swine, seems to have a grim's Progress is an inimitable dranatural propensity to filthy ideas, ma." To which Lovegood is made to otherwise, he would have preferred reply, Sir, if God had conferred on the New Testament general simile of me the honour of being the Author righteousness, to that of the Old, of the Pilgrim's Progress, I should have been tempted to have been the which seems to have been applied to the nation of the Jews in a particular proudest man on earth." This is or political sense. "And to her," singing to the praise and glory of the says the Apostle John, speaking of Tinker with a witness. This rethe Church," it was given, that she nowned work the author also obshould be arrayed in fine linen, clean serves, has been given to posterity in and white; for the fine linen, is the a poetical version with explanatory righteousness of saints." This beau- notes, by the Rev. George Burder, tiful simile, it seems, does not suit Author of Village Sermons, &c. the Methodistic system. And, there- This gentleman has shewn himself fore, still wallowing in the mire of not less gifted as a poet than a preachhis own making, the writer after- er. His poem opens with uncommon wards selects the following disgusting spirit and delicacy. invitation from the flowers of evan-"'Twas in the silent watches of the night, gelical poetry. When airy visions please us or affight; |