Mr. URBAN,

Mount-street, Grosve-
nor-square, Feb. 2.

APARAGRAPH having appeared
in the Morning Herald, of the
21st January, respecting the grand
National Monument to be dedicated
by the Ladies of Great Britain to the
celebration of our triumphs over the
monstrous power of Buonaparte, in
which it is stated that the Head of
the Duke of Wellington is to be sub-
stituted for that of the colossal statue
of the Monte Cavallo Group, must
have appeared so very absurd to every
reader whose taste has been corrected
by an acquaintance with Antiquities
and the Fine Arts, that a hint at least
of what is really intended, in the de-
sign approved by the Committee, to
carry the Monument into execution,
may be necessary, both in justice to
myself as the Artist to be employed,
and to the British Publick who are
particularly interested in such a work.
Of the two colossal figures, each
restraining an unbroken steed, on the
Quirinal still at Rome, the finest has
always been ascribed to the hand of
Phidias; it certainly has never been
equalled for loftiness of conception
and grandeur of form, and a cast from
it has ever been a desideratum in the
Northern Academies of Sculpture and
Painting. The present patriotic sub-
scription was deemed an incident fa-
vourable for obtaining a correct mo-
del of it; a circumstance the more de-
sirable, as the antique marble has been
in many parts decomposed by expos-
ure to the atmosphere, and will soon
be in a mouldering state.

To the British publick at large, however, the group in question was thought to offer a much more powerful motive for its adoption, inasmuch as the appropriating it to the present purpose actually transfers a wreath to the brow of our own Hero from that of his great Rival in arms; for it is a fact, that when Napoleon had subjugated the states and entire population of Germany, whose power united be had reason to dread, the Group in question was selected for a device on a medal struck by him to commemorate that event. With how much more propriety the curbing his power, and subduing its ungovernable effects by British constancy and perseverance, might be applied to the illustrious example of the great Welling

ton in Spain, under Providence, their happy issue will readily determine.

This celebrated Group of Phidias will, therefore, be correctly cast in bronze from the antique marble, eighteen feet high, to illustrate this achievement. The base will consist of continued groups in bronze. To perpetuate the most signal proofs of the genius and valour of the Duke of Wellington, the battles of the Douro, Salamanca, Vittoria, and Thoulouse, have been preferred in these compositions; a scale has been observed, to transmit with effect the portraits of his Grace, and the most distinguished Officers who fought under him. Yours, &c.

Mr. URBAN,

RICH. WESTMACOTT.

Great Ormond-street,
Feb. 7, 1815.

the second of my two Letters to

my learned friend Dr. Herbert Marsh, the Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, containing a succinct Historical Account of the Controversy respecting the three Heavenly Witnesses, or the authenticity of 1 John Ep. v. 7, I have stated at some length the argument in its favour, from the literal and complete insertion of it in the Confession of Faith presented by the African Prelates to King Hunneric. That Confession of Faith fills the whole of the third book of the Historia Persecutionis Vundalica of Victor Vitensis. The best edition of it is that of Dom Ruinart, published in 1694. In the Preface, Dom Ruinart cites four manuscripts of it, one in the Benedictine Monastery of St. Martin des Champs, the three others in the Colbertine Library at Paris.

The three last manuscripts I have caused to be examined, and shall copy the verse, as it stands in each of them; first inserting a copy of the verse as it stands in the Vulgate.

In the Vulgate, it is expressed in the following words: "Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in Cœlo: Pater, Verbum, et Spiritus sanctus: et hi tres

unum sunt."

I. In the Codex Regius, No. 5315, membranaceus, olim Colbertinus, sæc. xv. fol. xvi. recto: "Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in cœlo, Pater, filius, et Spiritus Sanctus: et hii tres

unum sunt."

II. In the Codex Regius, No.

2015, membranaceus, olim Colbertinus, sæc. x. (at non numerato verso:)/ "Tres sunt, qui testimonium perhibent in cælo, Pater et Filius et Spiritus Sanctus: et ii tres unum sunt."

In the margin the following words are written : "Nota. In Epistolâ beati Joannis ita legendum."

III. In the Codex Regius 2796, membranaceus, item olim Colbertinus, sæc. xiii. it is expressed in the following words: “ Tres sunt, qui testimonium perhibent in cælo, Pater, Verbum et Spiritus sanctus, et hi tres unum sunt." This is the reading adopted by Ruinart. The importance of the verse, and the contests which it has occasioned, make me think, that this account of its state in the manuscripts I have mentioned, would be acceptable to some of your biblical readers; and I shall be obliged to any of your Correspondents to inform if any thing important has appeared on the subject, since the publication of Dr. Marsh's important Letters to Mr. Archdeacon Travis.

Mr. URBAN,

me,

C. B.

Feb. 9. THE HE Correspondent who assumed the signature of PERHAPS frankly confesses, that he never did read the vast collection of quotations from the Greek and Latin Fathers" in Dr. Priestley's renowned work; and for this reason, because, whenever he took up that matchless performance, he could not endure the abuse of authorities and perversion of argument, which, wherever he dipt, almost every page exhibited. This, however, he begs leave to say in his own defence, that about the time of this controversy, perhaps a little before it began, he did read all the Apostolical Fathers, and not a few of their immediate successors, and has, from that time to this, been almost in the daily habit of consulting them. And "the result of this diligent inquiry," if a Sussex Freeholder is, as he professes himself (p. 32), willing to attend to it, is this: That, if there is any meaning in words, these early Fathers uniformly taught and believed, as the Church of England does, that Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is God and Man.

I suppose, from the question which this Correspondent asks, he imagines "the very remarkable words of Ignatius," which he produces, are fa

vourable to the Unitarian scheme; but why he fancies so (if he does so fancy) I am at a loss to discover. Is it because the venerable Father declares"there is but one God?" or because, as he goes on to declare, there is "one Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son?” This learned Freeholder doubtless knows, that the first Article of our Church is, "There is but one living and true God." And he probably knows also, that because Christ is the only begotten of the Father, we therefore infer, that he is of the same nature or essence with the Father, and consequently very God.

But of inferences there is no need, when the testimonies, as in Scripture, so in the Fathers, are express and innumerable. In the relation of the martyrdom of Ignatius, immediately before the passage which the Freeholder quotes, are these words: "Trajan replied, And who is Theophorus ?” Ignatius: "He who has Christ in his breast." Then the second question after that quotation is this: "Trajan: Dost thou then carry Him who was crucified within thee ?" Ignatius: "I do for it is written, I will dwell in them, and walk in them." Which words, as any one may satisfy himself by turning to 2 Cor. vi. 16. are spoken of the living God: "Ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them." And if your Correspondent will turn, as the margin directs, to the passages in the Old Testament, to which the Apostle refers, he will find, both in Leviticus xxvi. 12. compared with verses 1, 2, 13, and in Ezek. xxxvii. 27, 28, that it was Jehovah that spoke this.

Who then, following the holy father to his scriptural authorities, does not see at once, that in asserting that Christ dwelt in him, he declared his belief, that Christ was Jehovah, the living God? Accordingly he often expressly calls him God; as in the Inscription of his Epistle to the Ephesians: "according to the will of the Father, and Jesus Christ our God." "There is one Physician, both fleshly and spiritual; made and not made; God incarnate." ib. § 7. "For our God Jesus Christ was, according to the dispensation of God, conceived in the womb of Mary, of the seed of David, by the Holy Ghost." § 18. In the Inscription of his Epistle to the Romans,