But, for the satisfaction of my readers, I will insert the song of God save great George our King,' as it is printed in the original text, in the Gentleman's Magazine, for October 1745 †, where it is called a song for two voices, sung at both play-hcuses, and runs thus: 'God save great George our King, O Lord our God, arise! And make them fall: Thy choicest gifts in store, "The stanzas which follow have been occasional, and added to the original song: Lord, grant that Marshal Wade Victory bring! May he sedition hush, Our father, prince, and friend! God save the King! 'Every one who has read the history of the Scotch Rebeilion in 1745, will remember that Marshal Wade was a commander of great and eminent ability, employed by our Government to repel the factious spirit of the Caledonians, who were hostile to this country at that time, and invaded many of the Northern parts of this Island. The following letter of the ingenious Dr. Harington, of Bath, strongly corroborates the authent ticity of my father's being the author of the song in question. Hearing from Mr. Sale, during my stay at Windsor, that the Doctor was in possession of this piece of information, I entreated him to make it known to me, which he politely and readily acquiesced in, saying— ⚫ Sir, The anecdote you mention respecting your father being the author and composer of the words and melody of God save great George our King, is certainly true; that most respectable gentleman Mr. Smith, my worthy friend and patient, has often told me what follows; viz. "That your father came to him with the words and music, desiring him to correct the bass, which Mr. Smith told him was not proper; and at your father's request he wrote down another in correct harmony." Mr. Smith, to whom I read your letter this day, the 13th of June, repeated the same again. His advanced age and present infirmity render him incapable of writing, or desiring to be written to; but, on his authority, I pledge myself for the truth. Should this information prove in the least advantageous to yourself, it will afford the most sincere satisfaction and pleasure to, Sir, Your most obedient Servant, 'P. S. My curiosity was often raised to enquire after the author, before Mr. Smith related the above; and I was often misinformed. Mr. Smith says, he understood your father intended this air as part of a birth-day ode, or some what of that kind; however this might be, no Laureat or composer has furnished the world with any production more complimentary or more popular, which must ever be the consequence of concise elegance and natural simplicity.' "This Mr. John Smith was friend and assistant to Mr. Handel many years ||." Journey to Windsor. * See Balnea, or George Saville Carey's In the Gentleman's Magazine is the original tune, which J. C. Smith complains of, and altered at Carey's request. This verse was added and sung on the defeat of the Scotch Rebels, 1745. This Stanza was written by Mr. Sheridan, during the performance of the evening, on account of his Majesty having been shot at by James Hadfield, a maniac, at Drury-Lane Theatre, on the 15th of May, 1800. It gave peculiar pleasure, and was vociferously encored by the whole audience. Schmidt was born 1712, at Anspach, in Franconia, came to England with Handel, who was born February 24, 1686, at Halle, in Upper Saxony. """Surely 'Surely the foregoing letter wears the complexion of truth, and yet, either from envy or rigid scepticism, it has been held out by many as a matter of doubt, without one feasible authority or circumstantial argument that could render it so. Convinced of the infalli bility of Dr. Harington's letter, I coneluted on giving it a place here, refer ing the reader to the material and provident aid the song had often yielded to the King and State, in every critical situation; when lurking Sedition had caused loud and dangerous murmurs to be daily heard in every house and every street, threatening defiance to the sword of Justice and her wise established laws, spurning at Majesty on his road to meet his mob-insulted Senate, or annoying him in his public pleasures; yet, has the wavering subject been often called back to his original duty to his King, and the harsh and clamorous voice of Anarchy lulled into a calm, by this divine, this popular, and national hymn *. ' "John Ward speaks of God save the King' in his account of the Professors of Gresham College, published 1740, where he gives a catalogue of Dr. Pepusch's music as follows: No. XVIII, 2 vols. 4to. Vol. I. folio 56, God save the King,' which is all that is there mentioned of it. It has been thought to be a variation of that gentleman's, composed on the above tune; but the Editor has not been able, at present, to meet with it." Mr. Clark gives another "popular song, Rule Britannia !” "first sung at Cliffden, in a Masque ealled Alfred, before their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, on the 1st of August, 1740, written by Mr. Thomson and Mr. Mallet, and set to music by Mr. Arne." "The Glee Club was first held at the Newcastle Coffee-House, Castlestreet, in the Strand, December 22, 1787. The following gentlemen formed the original institution:-Robert Smith, esq.; Dr. Arnold; Dr. Beaver; Rev. James Hinckes; T. S. Dupuis, esq.; John Roberts, esq. James Heseltine, esq.; Theoph. Aylward, esq.; Charles Wright, esq.; Thomas Gregory, esq.: H. Desdier, esq.; Luff. Atterbury, esq.; Thomas Linley, esq.-Honorary Members: Mr. S. Webbe; John Dyne; Paul Hobler; J. W. Callcott; John Hindle; James Bartleman; Samuel Webbe, Jun.; Samuel Harrison. "The Society removed to the Crown and Anchor in 1788, and continued there till 1790; then went to the Freemasons' Tavern, where they, beld their meetings till 1791, and afterwards returned to the Crown and Aucher, where they have continued to meet and dine together on alternate Saturdays. The Subscrib ers, at present, are thirty in number, thirteen bonorary, or musical members, and four perpetual visitors, and they meet ten times in the season; the meetings begin in December. The Society originally met twelve times. The hour of dining is half-past four o'clock; and the members take their seats at the table according to seniority, except the professional gentlemen, who always take their places in the centre of the table on each side. Each subscriber pays seven guineas for his ten nights, and is entitled to introduce one visitor on alternate nights, which visitor pays one pound. The professional gentlemen have the same privilege with the subscribers. The perpetual visitors bave an equal privilege with the honorary members. The business of the Club is conducted by a committee, consisting of the president, vice-president, treasurer, conductor, deputy-conductor, and the secretary, toge.her with five other members, which five are balloted for annually. There is also a messenger, who delivers the letters previous to each meeting, and attends in the room for the purpose of handing the books to the conductor when any glee is called for." 'Non nobis, Domine!" "Of this solemn canon, used by way the Editor presumes to remark, that of grace or thanksgiving after dinner, the learned Dr. Burney (page 39, Commemoration of G. F. Handel) says, that the chorus of I will sing unto the Lord,' in the Oratorio of Israel in Egypt,' has exactly the same intervals with the canon before-mentioned. Whether the subject occurred accidentally, or was taken by design, the Doctor does not know; but he adds, in either case, the notes are happily selected, and ingeniously used. As to the original inventor, or right owner of that series of notes, upon which the celebrated aud beautiful canon (which tradition bas given to William Byrde) was constructed, they have been the subject of fugue to Zarlino, and to old Villaert, his master, long before Byrde was born; and, indeed, constitute one of the different species of tetrachord used by the Greeks in the highest antiquity. It has been usual on some occasions to applaud, * Extract from a work called the "Balnea." after "An original song of rejoicing in honour of the Virgin Mother, from madra, mother, and galdere; or madrigaldere, a rejoicing hymn to the holy mother." From so extensive a range it would be easy to select innumerable instances of beautiful poetic gems; but we shall content ourselves with a single example, taken principally for the purpose of assisting Mr. Clark in his inquiry; who says, "Some pains have been taken to discover the Author of this beautiful Glee; but with no other effect than the following information, which the Editor had from Mr. Webbe himself:-He had 3. A Sermon on the Love of our Country, preached in the Parish Church of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, on Thursday, January 13, 1814, (being the Day appointed for a General Thanksgiving.) By Joseph Holden Pott, A. M. Archdeacon of London, and Vicar of St. Martin's. Printed by Request. 4to. -pp. 31. Rivingtons. WE have now for many years been accustomed to meet this worthy Archdeacon, and excellent Parish Priest, in the course of our Critical duty; and we always meet him with increased respect. We now see him, it is true, under new titles; and we hope, ere long, to see his pastoral labours still farther rewarded. Such promotions reflect equal honour on the Patron and the Divine. 6 An injunction of St. Paul to Tisent his servant to the chandler's shop, by the Archdeacon for elucidation, as mothy (1 Ep. ii. 1, 2.) is selected who return'd with a printed sheet of paper enveloping the article bought. The beauty of the poetry induced him to set the words to music. The ideas are undoubtedly borrowed from sacred history." 66 carrying with it a just description of that spirit which must form the substantial grounds of peace, and amity in all the world;" and coutaining a plain rule, with relation to Society and Government, for regard ing our own advantage; as it should at all times stand connected with the common welfare of mankind, and should tend to cherish and promote the benefit of other nations." "Among the singular opinions," he observes, "to which the fickle thoughts. of men have given birth, there is one which claims our notice on this subject. Attempts have not been wanting to make it questionable, whether the Gos pel does at all encourage the love of our Country, or furnish any sanction to the generous and noble ardour of a Patriot Spirit. Nothing surely could suggest suggest this doubt to any mind not warped by some great prejudice, or possessed by some prevailing misconception. They who with unbiassed thoughts shall turn the page of Scripture, and consider its examples, may not stand in need of many cautions to preserve them from this groundless and injurious notion: but the subject well deserves our best attention, lest we should be led at any time to lose sight of the just measure of our duty in this branch of our common obligation." "A fitter moment could not be selected for the encouragement of a patriot zeal, on sound and righteous principles, than that by which we are now invited to lift up the voice of thankfulness with one heart to Almighty God; to bless his name for many a successful issue which has been furnished to us in a long protracted, arduous, and eventful struggle. If, indeed, it shall appear that, throughout all the contest, the Government and Councils of this Realm have displayed the just and equal temper which the text commends to us, and which constitutes the real glory of a Patriot mind, great cause shall we have to testify our gratitude in any prosperous hour, and to join together with unanimous expressions in witnessing this grateful sense before Him who alone can render our prosperity secure and lasting, and our civil strength conducive to our own good, and helpful to the benefit of others." "The two main errors which we have to notice and avoid, are placed in opposite extremes. The first is, that which the Jewish people in their worst times, and the Heathens in the best days of their early growth, were led to entertain: for indeed, that which was a gross error in the Jews, who had the precepts of the Lord for their direction, proved a brilliant and imposing misconceit in unenlightened countries....The Jews thought that the love of their country consisted in cherishing their vain and extravagant opinions of their own prerogatives, not only as a favoured people, for they were so; but as the only people to be favoured of the Lord, which was a mistake indulged in full contradiction to the teaching of their own inspired instructors... In the GrecianStates, the love of their soil and government, their fellowship and kindred, was as manifest as that of the most partial of the house of Israel could be; and no less evident were its excesses. By them, all other nations were beheld as mere Bar barians, not less contemptible than if they had been separated from them by a different species. St. Paul found it necessary to tell the men of Athens, what, it seems, they had quite over looked, that God had made of one blood all the nations of the earth.' The Athenians boasted that they sprang from the soil of their own, region, and they took an emblem to denote this: so that the great truth which our Lord's Apostle set before them was particularly proper to them. The Spartan Commonwealth distinguished itself above all others by high notions of themselves, and carried this mistaken zeal to the extremest pitch. Their pride and insolence became, of course, intolerable. The whole education of the young among them was formed upon this plan. The child was taken from the parent, that it might acknowledge no father. but the State, and be ready at all times. to encounter death on that account. Yet, for want of Justice and Equality in the Patriot Spirit, what were the fruits of all their zeal for liberty and independence, for their customs, laws, and national importance? The result was this enormous contradiction to a free and generous spirit, that of all people upon earth they were the most arrogant and unsocial, the most rude and repulsive to strangers, the bitterest foes to every neighbour, and the hardest masters when they conquered. The base people under whose ignominious yoke Greece languishes at this day, cannot exceed them in this kind of pride, or surpass them in this insolent contempt. Singular indeed it is that they who are the present masters of the soil of Greece, and who rank low indeed among men in all good attainments, in all improvements intellectual or moral, adopt the same extravagant pretensions to a national importance, and shew the most ridiculous disdain for those who excel them in such manifest degrees. The opposite extreme to that which has thus been considered, is the more modern fancy that the love of our country is entirely superseded by the laws of general benevolence, which the Gospel so forcibly inculcates. But our Lord himself, who never trampled on the ties of nature, had many a touch of the tenderest compassion for his country. men in particular. Among the bitteresttears which he let fall, were those which he shed when he drew nigh to Jerusalem, and contemplated the near approaching doom of his country and his countrymen." After having noticed" the several extremes which it behoves us to avoid" the Archdeacon proceeds "to frame, in compliance with the text, a just view of the noble principle which it was [his] purpose to illustrate and apply;" which he lumi mously "The whole theatre of this Globe, and Europe in particular, has undergone eventful changes; and the task, therefore, of the Civil Power in each State, and in our own especially, which ranks so highly in the scale of Nations, has been proportionably difficult and trying. Whatever may be the design of Providence, whatever may be the Sovereign Will of God in conducting these events, let us be careful to cultivate, as our only stay, the favour of Almighty God. Let us cleave to this ground of good hope, as the only means of profiting amidst all events, whether they be prosperous or adverse. And this leads to the last particular which the text presents. It sets forth the true end of every duty which we have to discharge, as serving to promote peace and good conduct among men, that we may lead our lives in all godliness and honesty.' "Let us be ready to unite at all times in earnest prayer and faithful services for the furtherance of harmony and concord in our country, and for maintaining the just respect and honour of the civil sway; that we may not be found among the number of those who are regardless of the benefit of social order. The word of Truth and Revelation, so far from erasing from the hearts of men these natural impressions, serve to fix their real limits; and in proportion as that light is truly entertained, will be the rea! fervour of a Patriot Zeal, founded upon liberal views, upon disinterested judgment, upon a self-denying temper, upon forbearance and endurance, all which form the genuine features of the patriotic character." 4. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, before the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, &c. on Sunday, the 1st of May 1814, being the First Sunday in Easter Term. By the Rev. William Tooke, F. R. S. Chaplain to his Lordship. 4to. pp. 32. OUR opinion of the Discourses of this learned and elegant writer, which has already been amply stated, is far from being lessened by the Sermon now before us, from Matth. xxiv. 35. • Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.' "In the days we are fallen upon," says the, Preacher, "we have seen the religion, the governments, the distribution of kingdoms, undergoing not simple modifications, but complete alterations and subversions. The recent general uproar in the world has given a greater shake to the minds of men than to the kingdoms of the earth. The notions of mankind, in politics, in morals, in short in the various objects that occupy their faculties, have taken a different turn. History perhaps cannot furnish us with a similar instance of a change so vast and momentous, and at the same time so rapid, in the complexion of the world. Into the mmediate or proximate causes that conspired to produce these notorious effects, and what ulterior causes may arise from them in general, it is not here our bu siness to inquire. And in this respect, were we to give our heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly,' we should only discover with the sagacious Monarch, that this also is vexation of spirit.'--But into the consequences that may eventually proceed from such changes to the vital interest of Christianity, as it is within our province, it is no less our important duty to inquire. Every cause which acts in the natural or moral world, may be considered as an instrument of the divine will; and those which to us appear the most irreconcileable, and to act in the most opposite directions, are all at the same time executing the great designs of Providence, and make part of one uniform and complete system.There is perhaps nothing in which the hand of God is more evidently to be distinguished, than in the dispositions of nations and empires, and the changes that are continually happening to them. The things indeed which are of the utmost consequence to mankind, often depend on these changes of the conditions of nations and empires. These are circumstances with which the moral character of men is intimately connected. Nations polished with liberal arts, and enlightened with useful knowledge, become more susceptible of virtue, better qualified to receive those truths. which God may be pleased to reveal to them of himself, and according to their public situation may be more or less fit to have true religion committed to their charge. No doubt can be entertained that the public transactions of countries, since the period of the planting of the Gospel, have continued to bear the same kind of relation to Chris tianity, and are still directed by Pro vidence with the same views. It is a plan carrying on to the consummation of the present world; and, when we contemplate it, it seems like one great drama |