ANTI-JACOBIN

REVIEW AND MAGAZINE,

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Monthly Political and Literary Censor,

FROM

MAY TO AUGUST (INCLUSIVE,)

-1803-

WITH AN APPENDIX,

CONTAINING

AN AMPLE REVIEW OF FOREIGN LITERATURE.

PRODESSE ET DELECTARE.

VOL. XV.

LONDON:

Printed, for the Proprietors, at the Anti-Jacobin Prefs, No. 3, Southampton-Street, Strand,
By R. Bosrock, of Bry ges-Street, Covent-Garden.

AND PUBLISHED AT THE ANTI-JACOBIN OFFICE, NO. 3, SOUTHAMPTON-STREET, STRAND,
BY J. WHITTLE; AND BY E. HARDING, AT THE CROWN AND MITRE, PALL-MALL;
C. CHAPPLE, PALL MALL; T. PIERSON, BIRMINGHAM; DELL AND BRADFUTE, EDIN-
JURCH; BRASH AND REID, GLASGOW; AND BY J. W. FENNO, NEW-YORK.

ANTI-JACOBIN

Review and Magazine;

&c. &c. &c.

For MAY, 1803.

Nunc vero non id agitur, bonifie an malis moribus vivamus, neque quantum, aut quam magnificum Imperium Populi Romani fit, Sed Hæcce, cujufcunque modi videntur noftra, an nobifcum unà Hoftium futura fint.

TACITUS.

ORIGINAL CRITICISM.

The True Churchmen afcertained; or, an Apology for thofe of the Regular Clergy of the Establishment, who are fametimes called Evangelical Minifters: occafioned by feveral modern publications. By John Overton, A. B. Mawman and Rivingtons, London; Wilson, Spence, Todd and Wolftenholme, York, &c. 8vo. PP. 422.

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E confider the publication now before us as highly important, entious minister of the established church. But let us not be mifunIts importance, in our eftimation, arifes much more from the nature and magnitude of the object which the author has in view, than from any fuccefs which has attended his endeavours to attain it. If, however, he has failed, as we conceive he has, in establishing the point which he labours to prove, we impute the failure to the badness of the cause, and not at all to the weakness of the pleader. Mr. Overton is, in fact, both an able and an artful advocate; and we certainly think that the interests of his clients could have been entrusted to few more zealous, or, to fay the truth, more competent to do them justice. But there are fome caufes fo hopeless and defperate, as to baffle all the powers of learning and ingenuity; and fuch, we , are convinced, is that which our apologist has undertaken to fupport. It has indeed been pronounced, as we are informed, by very high authority, that his book will not be eafily anfwered; and we have . reafon to believe that it is regarded by the party, as altogether unanswerable. But every one knows how apt minds, even the most ingenuous, are to be impofed upon, without perceiving the impofi

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