In 1827, he contributed a preliminary discourse to a work, translated from the Spanish, entitled, The Coming of the Messiah in Glory and Majesty, by Juan Josafat Ben Ezra, a converted Jew; which exposed him to an attack from a writer of the name of Cole, for having supported "the awful doctrine of the sinfulness, mortality, and corruptibility of the body of the Messiah." A controversy ensued on the subject, which, at length, attracted the serious notice of the Presbytery, to whom the tenets of Mr. Irving appear to have been, in a high degree, offensive. In 1828, he printed A Letter to the King, on the Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts, a measure which he strenuously opposed: during the year, appeared his Last Days, and Discourses on the Evil Character of these our Times; also, three volumes of his sermons, lectures, and occasional discourses; and, in 1829, he published his Church and State responsible to Christ and to one another, a series of discourses on Daniel's vision of the beasts.

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In a work, entitled The Trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, he has been copiously abused; in other cotemporary productions, he has met with but little more favour; and, it is probable, that to posterity his reputation will be the reverse of enviable. "The peculiar characteristic of Mr. Irving's style," says Flavel," is a straining after originality of ideas, and the expressing them in the language of the time of Milton, Jeremy Taylor, and other wonderful divines of those days; but what in them was allowed ornamental, in him is perfect absurdity. They were consummate reasoners; and the strange and beautiful metaphors, which we meet with in the perusal of their writings, are admired and dwelt on, because they spring up naturally on the paths of the argument; besides, it was the custom of the age to employ such language. Had he shewn himself as good a logician as his great prototypes, we could have borne with his overstrained, inflated diction; but, as it is, his arguments and orations remind us of those wooden figures, in which dress-makers are accustomed to exhibit their newest and most splendid paraphernalia." "He came to London,"

observes a periodical writer, of the year 1824, "with the idea, that he was destined to convert the fashionable world from the error of their ways; a being raised up on purpose to evangelize the aristocracy of Britain. But we should be glad to hear," the writer adds, "that one convert has been brought over to practical Christianity; that one Sunday evening conversazione has been dropped -that one pack of cards the less has been soiled at the Sunday card-tablethat one duke the less has travelled on the Sabbath-that one shilling the more has been given to the poor. He has been called another Paul preaching at Athens; but where is the Agrippa whom he has convinced, or the Felix whom he has made to tremble, except at the elevated tone of his vociferation? He has preached, to be sure,-preached much, and vehemently; but his language has been full of sound and fury, signifying nothing,'-'vox, et præterea nihil.' He had better have adhered closely to Dr. Chalmers and the good men of Glasgow, and have made himself a light to enlighten the poor, instead of setting himself up as a beacon, in the world of wealth, for weak men to flock to, and witty men to laugh at. It is within Mr. Irving's grasp," continues the writer, "to become one of the lights of the age, and to acquire a character amongst the worthies of his time, which it will be the pleasure of future generations to admire, and their pride to imitate. This, we affirm, is within his reach; but if he perseveres in his present eccentricities, he will be as easily forgotten as he has been elevated."

He has distinguished himself as a warm supporter, to the utmost extent of his power, of various charitable and religious institutions. At a meeting of the society for the conversion of the Jews, he is said to have placed his watch in the hands of the chairman, exclaiming, "Silver and gold have Í none; but such as I have, I give unto thee;" adding, "that he wished the bauble to be retained, until, the profits of a work, which he intended to publish, should enable him to redeem it."

In October, 1823, Mr. Irving married, at Kirkaldy, in Scotland, a young lady named Martin, to whom, it is said, he had long been attached,

GEORGE WILLIAM, (PRINCE,) second son of George the Second, was born on the 2nd of November, 1777, and died when only three months old.

ELIZABETH CAROLINE, (PRINCESS,) daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales, born on the 30th of December, 1740, is described as having been deformed in person, but superior in mind to either of her brothers or sisters. She died, on the 4th of September, 1759.

FREDERICK WILLIAM (PRINCE) son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, was born on the 30th of May, 1750. He is represented as having been singularly graceful in person, amiable in temper, and remarkably eager for the acquirement of knowledge. He died on the 29th of December, 1765.

ELIZABETH, (PRINCESS, Landgravine of Hesse Homberg,) third daughter of George the Third, was born on the 22nd of May, 1770. In her childhood, she was lively, intelligent, and remarkably beautiful; and, on reaching maturity, she is said to have been elegant, agreeable, and accomplished. On the 7th of April, 1818, she was married to the Landgrave of Hesse Homberg, whom she accompanied to Germany, where he died, without issue by the princess, early in 1829.

SOPHIA MATILDA, (PRINCESS,) daughter of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was born in May, 1773. Although no splendid qualities have been publicly displayed by this princess, her private character is said to be not only above impeachment, but decidedly commendable.

CAROLINE AUGUSTA, (PRINCESS,) daughter of William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was born on the 24th of June, 1774, and died in her infancy.

SOPHIA, (PRINCESS,) fifth daughter of George the Third, was born on the 3rd of November, 1777. Her demeanour is said to be agreeable, and her disposition beneficent.

OCTAVIUS, (PRINCE,) eighth son of George the Third, was born on the 28th of February, 1779; and died, rather suddenly, on the 3rd of May, 1783.

ALFRED, (PRINCE,) ninth son of King George the Third, was born on the 22nd of September, 1780, and died on the 20th of August, 1782.

ELIZABETH ADELAIDE, (PRINCESS,) daughter of the Duke of Clarence, was born on the 4th of March, 1819, and lived only a few hours.

GEORGE WILLIAM, (PRINCE,) son of the Duke of Cambridge, was born on the 26th of March, 1819. He is said to possess an excellent temper, and rather superior talents.

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VICTORIA, (PRINCESS,) daughter of Edward, Duke of Kent, was born on the 23rd of May, 1819. She is described as being amiable, lively, and intelligent.

GEORGE FREDERICK, (PRINCE) son of Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, was born on the 27th of May, 1819. His abilities appear to be good, and his moral qualities, so far as they have been developed, unexceptionable.

ELIZABETH, (PRINCESS,) daughter of the Duke of Clarence, was born, prematurely, on the 2nd of December, 1820, and died on the 4th of March, 1821.

CAROLINE, (PRINCESS,) daughter of the Duke of Cambridge, was born on the 19th of July, 1822, and christened Caroline Charlotte Elizabeth Maria Sophia Louisa.

BERNARDI, (JOHN,) the son of a Genoese consul, who settled in Worcestershire, was born at Evesham, and abandoned his home at an early age, to become a common soldier, in one of the English regiments in the Dutch service. Being possessed of considerable talents, he gradually rose to the rank of captain; but precluded himself from further promotion, by giving some offence to the Prince of Orange, afterwards William the Third; on whose elevation to the throne, Bernardi followed James the Second to Ireland. A mission, on which he had been despatched to Scotland, proving fruitless, he made his escape to Holland; whence he ventured to return to this country, in 1695, and, being discovered, was committed to Newgate, on a charge of having taken part in a plot against the life of King William. By six express enactments, of as many different parliaments, he remained a prisoner for a period of forty years; his captivity terminating with his life, in the month of September, 1736. The reason why a man of so little importance was thus detained in confinement by authority of the legislature, under four successive sovereigns, without being brought to trial, was, it is surmised, that some unpleasant exposures must necessarily have attended his conviction. He is described as having been small in person, brisk, vivacious, and endowed with extraordinary fortitude. During his imprisonment, he married and had a large family.

WOGAN, (NICHOLAS,) was born in Ireland, about the year 1667, and highly distinguished himself on the continent, in his younger days, as a soldier of fortune. "He joined Forster," says Patten," at the first meeting, and was indefatigable in forwarding the success of the cause. His self-devotion was truly chivalrous; and in the action at Preston, his intrepidity was remarkably conspicuous. His generosity on the same occasion, was even more

noble than his courage; for he succeeded in bringing off prisoner Captain Preston, of Preston's regiment of foot, who was mortally wounded through the body, by a bullet from the rebels, and just at the point of being cut in pieces. He hazarded his life among his own men, if possible, to save that gentleman, though an enemy, and was wounded in doing it." Having been taken prisoner, he was brought to trial, and convicted of high treason; but received the royal pardon on the 16th of August, 1716, and died in 1734.

FITZJAMES, (JAMES, Duke of Berwick,) an illegitimate son of James, Duke of York, afterwards James the Second, by Arabella Churchill, sister to the great Duke of Marlborough, was born on the 21st of August, 1670, and educated with his brother, subsequently Duke of Albemarle, at Tully, the college of Plessis, and Paris. At the age of fifteen, he entered the imperial army, and served a campaign in Hungary, where he obtained the command of a regiment of cuirassiers. On his return to England, although still under eighteen, he was appointed governor of Portsmouth. In the next summer he was made colonel of a regiment of infantry, and, soon after, of Lord Oxford's horseguards. At the time of the revolution, he surrendered Portsmouth to the Prince of Orange, by command of his royal father, with whom he embarked, at Rochester, for France. In March, 1689, he landed, with James the Second, at Kinsale, and highly distinguished himself against the troops of William the Third, at Donegal, Enniskillin, and other parts of Ireland; which he quitted in 1691, and, shortly afterwards, accompanied Louis the Fourteenth, as a volunteer, to the seat of war in Flanders. During the campaign of 1693, he was made prisoner by his uncle, Brigadiergeneral Churchill, brother to the Duke of Marlborough. In 1695, he married a daughter of the Earl of Clanrickard ;