C 478 J [Dec. 1* 
VARIETIES, Literary and Philosophical. 
Including Noticeg of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign, 
Authentic Communications for this Article will always he thankfully received, 
T he event, the most interesting to Li- The rapid progress, and, consequent- 
terature, and one whose effect will ly, the great utility of the British and 
be felt for many years, or even for ages Foreign Bible Society, cannot be 
to come, is the establishment under placed in a clearer light than ,by exhi- 
the express approbation of the Prince biting a view of the net annual expen*» 
H EGENT, of a National Society for pro- diture of that Society, 
moting the Education of the Poor in the 1 st year, ending March 31,7 ^ 
principles of tlie Establislied Church; of 1805 .... ... S 
'^vhich the Archbishop of Canterbury 2d year, ending March 31 , 7 ^537 ^7 5^ 
is to be the President \ the Archbishop . ..• 3 
of York, the Bishops of both Provinces, ending March 31,^ 5053 18 3 
3 ind TEN TEMPORAL Peers, or Privy ^ ‘\ 
Counsellors, to be the Vice-Presidents; ^ ’^ 12206 10 3f 
a Committee of sixteen of wliom (in ad- VnjVn!r*MVrrii Vi* 7 
riition to tl.e President and Vice-Presi- “‘,809 
dents, vvlio are members ej; o^cw) are 6 th year, ending March 31, 7 17 1 
directing the atfairs of the Society. The 1810. 3 
plan was no sooner announced, than the 7 th year, ending March 31,7 033Q2 13 7 
University of Oxford and Cambridge, 1811.S'* 
in full convocation, voted 5001. each attention so justlv excited to¬ 
rn Its support out of tiie University interesting and authentic Me- 
chests, and immense sums have been jate Mr. Fox, by his pri- 
subscribed and voted from other quar- secretary, Mr. Trotter, has led 
ters. In a word, there is now no doubt physicians of that great man to tak® 
but henceforward the whole population urnbraire at Mr. Trotter’s insinuation 
of the empire will be taught the first ^hac his death was hastened by 
elements of learning ; and that a great ^ controversy has been tlie consequence, 
moral revolution, and an accelerated j^nd it appears that, if net some 
advance of knowledge, will take place potent medicine was administered, which, 
among us. The system adopted by the Trotter’s opinion, gave an abrupt 
hierarchy IS that of Dr. Bell; but it is conclusion to Mr. Fox’s illness. Mr. 
worthy of observation, that the Prince Trotter’s feeling was that of deeply-af- 
iiegent also patronises that of Mr. Lan- f^cted sensibility for the decease of his 
caster. In truth, every patriot and phi- f^ie^d ; and, as he attached no blame to 
binthropist will follow the example ol physicians, they appear to liave gone 
bis Royal Highness, and support both— way to contradict that which 
the object of both, with slight van- truth Mr. T. did not positively assert, 
ation, being the creation of a moral and _The self-love of Dr. Mozley, one of 
Jegal accountability in the whole popu- physicians, seems to have been 
lation. In fact, we are deeply indebted ridiculously piqued at Mr. Trotter’s 
to the energies of IMr. Lancaster and his havina forgotten that, besides five per- 
friends toi tne existence of this new sons remembered, a sixth, this same Dr. 
plan, and we foresee that each will Mozley was, (as he says) present at the 
operate as a stimulus to the other, as death of Mr. Fox. Dr. M. declaims 
long as both aie supported, and kept in tlierefore as vehemently against Mr. 
activity. On such a subject we speaic Trotter, as he did a few years ago, iu con» 
as patriots, and as friends to the im¬ 
provement of the human race, and not ' ] 
as partisans or sectaries; and we de- * Although Mr. Trotter has attributed 
cide on this subject on principles which the death of that great man to a supposed 
w-e have long and uniformly supported, ^misapplication of digitalis, or iox-glove, the 
and trnvard the general recog.Ht.nn nf ^ vet the efBcacv of that powerful 
Aviuel'., we have the satisfaction to he- i„ dropsical and other coses, has been 
liete we hate essentially contiibuted, fully evinced in a recent publication by the 
not only in the Idonthly Magazine, but Jate Dr. William H.-vmilton, of Bury St. 
in other writings which are before the Edmund’s, and attested by ^r. Maclean, 
public. of Sudbury. 
