"e l :1 '/ (.7. / 9 / " 74)t flatia nal( ;11 ' t E it Our Ilinni.ColuStitutisn anU MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1818. remaining forty-seven in six division; ; they began in 1607, completel it in three ytairs .; they met at Ox ford, Cambridge. and Westminster. Two persons from each division t-eised the whole, wl:ch was afterwards reviewed by Gilson, Bishop of Winton, aid I )r. Myles :imith. The two persons prelv.ed the arguments to the several books, and Dr. Smith, afterwards 13i hop of Gloucester, wrote the preface to the folio Edition— theniarginal references and chronological index was added by Bishop' Lloyd: it was publi,lied in blank letter, in 1611, in folio ; but a quarto ehiitien was published in the hollowing year in the Roman type : elthen-ii the Romanists and I'reibyterians wove not pleased with it, yet it was allowed by Cromwell's Committee to be the bestextant. Thisis the work now in common use, and is generally• called the received version ; and although there have been many subsequent versions, and many verbal improvements might be made in it, yet of all those which have been published, this seems fairly to be entitled to preeminence. In the present age, although we have edvanced in learning and philosophy, yet we have lost entirely in our compositions, that solemnity and venerable expres sion which are essential to the Scriptures—which tend tc keep alive their sanctity and importance—and to re mind their readers whose commends, and precepts, and visitations, arc meant to be recorded, and the Divine blessing fur which they have been brought to light, and prepared !—The words now in use are not adequate to any part of their subject, for there prevails a disposition to familiarize all serious subjects with common idiom, by which all inward reverence for tree religion is sup planted—but the pious translators of James I. seem to have secretly appasl•d for Divine assistance, and to have received it in suck a mea►ure as to render their work the effe:t of piety, as well as learning, and a fixed standard at the serious sublime, b which future times should reverence ! A. H. FOIZEIGN INTELLIGENCE. .-...111P.. " FRANCE.. - Faun, so.—Ott the 9th o this month l'he loan of 11,600,04 francs of Annuities was opened at the Illinistty of Finance. At that tine a notice from the fdini, , try announced to the politic that the 'l•reasnry was reedy to receive sub scriptions trout tell persons willing to neeociate for the loan. Theme subscriptions were closed on the .7th. We are as• oared that they amount to 2,:10: 1 500,600 It., that is to say, that they would complete a loau of 163 utilitons of Annuities, instead of 14 millions, which only Wit required. It would Ise impossible for the public confidence to in a inure striking manner. It is said that the Council (era :tiaienals!ed yesterday and the day before, to determine the poriturt of Annuities that shall be granted to each slob scriticr. This day, nt five o'clock, the %holster of Finence will make kituu n to the se bscritrert the prit. cr! the Annuities, and tile Jetcrininatian that shall have bees: adopted ou each of their proposal*. The Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Relies Lettres of Di jon, ia the sitting of the t3ta Alay, nominated his Royal Itighness the Hulce of Sussex an 'Honorary Foreign Nlember, anti dispatched the diploma to the lh•tnce. Society had prey arip.ly conferred the same tisktinction upon Sir Joseph Banks and Laid Holland. Letters from Cot to state, that the Capital' Parha had sail ed from Constantinople with seven bilip of the line and several frigates and corvettes. 'Viotti the la tt r end of April lee was in the canal of with this sq. adrit. The r.,kke of %eat arr"ved at Frankfort n the evening of the Utlt, whet e he met his sister the en D o wager of WirteniSerg. Prince departed the some night for Cu. hourg, where the Pr . :Awes+ of Leinengen was also to repair. PARtF, J in4t I.—'te soidiers of the 3il I ea iment of thefiu,f al Guard, ~ very yesterday tried before the Second Conseil War, charged w..ia havi.i4, on the 2011 i of April last, met hear 1,4 Greve, in Pat"s, whet.".‘ they retired to a swathe hone and got di oak. Constant, Coe leader of them, proeeedi it to break the glasses and bottles, and to commit greet diNorilets They left the plihie house without first paytitg thcir seovu • raa 'ate tlie street and ma:treated and won tided .vei al pot ions pos.i ig. Atter thi., I;try hail the rashness to attar:, the met o,ta who attemptc.l to arrest the One of whom, n,, t ned Ilan large re, was cot isaverrl on the head with a hi r He now gave a very clear accriiiit of the conduct ut toe soldieis who woondel Ii it. Havin: heard the whole, of the evidence in seppott of the rit• r c, r. de.•• - r4 I.rnon and Cliiveall spoke in deli:nee of toe pr .•eslt iss, when the Compel left the Coot Ito deliberate OR the oLt e. riley Ir•fiLltleil to consuitaitun firs three hnu s, sentened C.:aslant to ten years' lin* prison ar:•iit, tieing the :Ingest permit allowed by the pellet ro de , and his the eumrades %vele seatenceu Er rive ;ears' tsaprisionnent rel::1. • On Mon3..iy last, Mr. Serjeant Rannington 'worn into the o:lice of Recorder of the Borough Cllehester, under the ne:w charter lately grantud by His Royal flighnesa the. Ptinee Regent, in the runic and on the. behalC of but Majesty, to that ancient and loyal fkrotic;h. Our+ PRICE 9i.. IMPERIAL PARLI IMENT. - ROUST 01.' LORDS. MetraAY, JuNtt 1. The Fovill Assent V• 44 igivn by Commission t, •hr If Assessed Tates,the Trish Volik Restrirt.on, the Madier Pa' r, the Silk Bounties, the I.ngli•h and Cloaking, and five private Bills. • XI. HISTORY OF ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF THE BIBLE. MR. Err.TOR.--..AX it Will no doubt be intar.esting to many of your Readers to see a short detail of the pub i cations of the English Bible, I send you what I have traoed, with the help of Dr. Gray's Key and others. One of the first translationsinto English, :vas done' by cne Richard Rolle, a hermit of Hempole in York shire—be also added a glosi upon the Psalter, and died in 1349. John Vltickliffe then translated the whole with the Apocrypha; his New Testament sold for 4 marks and 40 pence ; it appeared about 1360, hut it was nee e: printed. The Clergy did not then read latin, and some students from Ireland were obliged to return from Oxford because they could not find a latin Bible. In 1350, Richard 11. a Bill was brought into the house of Lords, to prohibit the use of English Bibles, but it was rejected upon the opposition of John Duke of Lancaster, who said, " We will not be the dregs cf. an, seeing other uations have the Law of God. which is the Law of our faith, written in their own language." —But in !OE great persecutions ensued in consequence of an order of convocation obtained by Archbishop Arundel, and supported by Pope Alexander V. for sup.. pressing all translations. In 1526, Tyndare transla tion at Antwerp, was the first time that any part was printed in English. Cardinal Wolsey aad the Bishop prescribed it as heretical, and Bishop Toasts], acid Sir Thomas Moreeburnt it at Paurs Cross ; copies however, were sold at 3s. 6,1. bitt the vendors ware compelled to .ride with their faces to their horses tails and throw titem into the fire, and were afterwards amerced. Tye.- dal afterwards twice translated the Pentateuch, and received no more dm 149. for it—after which he was strangled and burnt at Fedora Car,l; about 13 miles 'limn Antwerp, at the instigation of the great reformer Hen. VIII. Coverdale published another at Zurich, in 1535, and escaped ; and Crammer, in the sante year, obtained a petition from the convocation to Hen. VIII. —who, by the softer influence of his Queen, Ann, Bolyn, ordered a translation to he set about. • This rapid transition began the progress which has never bean checked, except by Queen Mary ; for in 1537, a folio edition. called Mathews was printed at Hambergle in which Tyndal and Rogers had taken _netts ; Rogers published it under the fietious name of Mathews, bacause Tyndal'a name was obnoxious; but a Paris edition, in the year following, was seised by the Ingedation, yet some imprcraions were rescued and reprinted in leralon by the King's authority in. 1539, which wes called the Grea. Bible, with a frontispiece by llolbein. The Bishop objected to it as faulty, but admitted that it did not contain any heresies ; upon which King Henry said, " Then in God's name let it go abroad among our people." In the sante year an edition appeared by Taverner, and a very improved one by Crinmer in 1518, which was published by authority in 154.1, and sold at tnelve shillings ; six copies of which were placed in St. Paul's Cathedral by Bishop Bonner: In 15t2, en .a et of Parliament condemned Tyndel's Translation with its notes, but .Archbishop CraTtuser procured the indulgence, that the higher ranks might read it in private During the reign of Edward VI these prohibitions were removed, and Bishop Gardiner was committed to tee Fleet and deprived of Lis Sec, for refusing to :empty with the orders for providing the Churches and tihers with copies, Arc. When Queen Mary ascended the throne, she con .deatried the Common Prayer lieolt as heretical, and the ..ospler's. as they were culled, fled to Geneva, where, ec1557, they completed and printed the Genevan Bible a 156'J, with Calvinistic noies. The New Testament of this copy is the first which was divided into verses, which set the example for it in the seleseitient editions e - F the whole Bible. Daring Queen Eilzabetti's pre cession to her coronation, a Bible was pree:ntei to her, elbieb she acceatel with veneration, aei ordered a translation, and an Act was pealed 1556 fa: its version -ate the Welch language. The Bishops , Bible did net appear till :569 in large Seto. under the direction of Archbishop Parker, aml the initials of each translation was subjoined to his portion ; was used in the public service for forty years, hut ".e Genova Bible being more adapted to the prevailing r.ninioes, was more used in private. l'o remedy all dif aeterces of opinion a new translation was undertaken the r inn ofiaines I. by fifty-fray Divines, of whom tleolin el the task, whish was tieished by the //7-iltJ Ir y ye' 77. EN RILL. Lora Sonstourtt, in esing to move that the A' et lit • l shoold be committed, .ef se, vod, that one of the segurosn•• itrocil against the renew& of this Bill was, that the routes: ant of r kids it bad originated was at an end, and. that we were flow In a state of profaned peace. That was rertaittly erne; the contest W 33 tt alt ; but the spit it leach recited that contest was still its eaikce, and individaats, amnions tis take advantage of every opportunity of disturbing the tran quillity which new pre-:atilt-a, were still tonging about tL world, and vettnired certain 'precautionary measures on tit port of every Government. Though the:e was not, Fleeter. thesamc necessity for this memoire that there was in 1793. ye: the ineasnre was necessary Imo certain extent, and only to a certain extent,.dia the pretty/It Bill go. The Noble Visconti: observed, this nen-vire was so modified, that it cave en re.: power to the Crown. The Crown, by its prerogative, had the power of sending Foreieners nut of the country, but tint by a summary process. The ekes-clef the present Pill was, to enz.ble the Crown to effect that object wilt; pro.nptitude. /1 • woiid ask, whether it was not reasonable that the Government of this country should-have avower of stalling Aliens nit of countrv, %viten the Governments of the countries on the Coe• damn had the -power of expelling all the toiseldevous and fee. sinus out of their territories; and who, but for•this measure, would make this contitry the focus of their plots and contr._ vaners, as well perhaps against the tranquillity of ear Govern. !Went as their man. The Noble Viseount conteoded, that the to was oecessary to preverveuhi• tranirillay of Europe, and therearre his Majesty's Goretorment had felt it a dm, to• propose it. 'The Noble Lard observed, that by an old Scottish Act of Parliament, ant person plaeing a Mall sotto i i I:.e Bank of Scotland became a netura;ised subject. The Union itaturaliaed all stariecis of Scotland; therefore, as the law now stood, to evade the Alien Act, it was only n. re b ury f o r a foreigner to place a soled' sum in the Bank of Scott:slit-- lie should therefore, in The comae of the progress of the BO:, propose no-la - an:ln provide against that Act. at. R. R. the Del,e of Sussex. having opposed the Flill'on foriper °co-4*Mo, felt It equally his duty to do so now, anti he did it more decidedly becanse he considered i; I:ten abused in one histance hich had come to his kno..vleeoe. and in which Ile was in Nome measure concerned. The Care e 4.1 /, that of an Othcer tried in Portogal, end found gaiety of an offence imouted to him. That individoaf was, at tar eXIDt Of the CitlVel nmont, sent to this country, end filmed:A(o,r after -rt hipped for the Continent, under the Alien Act; scot this all took place under a sentotce pronounced against Mot in Portugal. fur a crime of ashuhuh he verily believed the uo• fortunate individual was no , guilty. Lord ilolLatsla declared himself decidedly hostile to th s measiii e, awl tlir arguments attn.. Noble Viscount had not at all t ended to ‘iitollie bi.. hostility. Lard Is ra t er AS 0 conNidered the 1101 , t% nemtsary on th• ee gii ttlids; I I, to preserve the traiipionty urthis rotator; ; 2d, to pi erve isex asuLly with fureien Pow ..trs ; and 3d, to presets , • the peace and tranitniltity of the Continent. The of l.aPtbOwlß ColltrUtlV4l, that the measu re was wholly ttiu.teei‘ary in a tiote of profound peace like tie pre,.enr it was !ighly nneonstlintionat. Lo: d ne.u.v. , Ire supported the BM, on the gro.nuds th.tt it was liece,,,ety fur the pi ?servistion of tranquillity botn at house um: abroad. Ti.e Noble Lord denied that this 111:1 would lta.ve the eticet of driving intrigue's out of the euuutr; ; ilte cosittary was the feet ; there were at present sokie thousaada more Aliens in tba country titan there wile a year ago. Tile Haase duo divided—Forgoing into a Committee 34 —Agaioat it N—Maajority 19.—The Howse then tt eat into 4 Contnittre.—Adjourned.... TunnaT. On the Motion of the Earl of Rya Art. the Rill ploviding for tke Education of the Poor, was read r third lima a:,d paned. BUYING AND SI.U.ING GOIE. The ll•ati e l Lacuxuuwr tt atuved Lite Order o r the D ay 'r ee , going into o Cun iiii itteeua the Bill re/peeling the star and porelaase of Gantt. 'flip Earl of CARNARVON 11:111i, it Usll fraitovsible for hita to contemplate the nature, the objects. and the principle airtUe eithnut making some rtaterat and I.ai tieular mi it. What wa,, uhvi.nt, to e% et i man it to con.ideted the atiln i t e. as I le extreme bald:4llp and iiijitsir_v of jug piiiii•buiciit oil the poor WAIL, while fhe riek nun, pa. ti e - 'toting in :to t.. 041, If hOl gi enter tocuatire to the sowe Cllll.l, escape.' 1.111 , 11.11.bet1. Nothing could Ire inure ri etel and In:- quaint. than that. Vet he ft it &Chat corl•o:atiott ,•i dee i. e , that from the cry enormity of the symunt to and even front the a j atavati-i s of torts .oine K-ori nntbl it.liiteltely foliow t duet' it 44. usipo.sible that :411 Wltitt..Ll2. 1.1 the 01 jli•ltet, prnurd roil kept in vi, w I iiv th v ir Mould much loticer rhttUut.r, nu e., eked lur onl eutuvett. nit pre•eol lour, pet 15. 1 .•, was heot , file n.0:4 tit me taitrrim; at largo cwt- I lent 1 bill nith agirellii; to ge net 1 r Loumute,. • 7 11 . 1C174 11 skoar r. lastfer.i a4tveil will' the Nob' e Lord tnlw h.lll just spoken, as to the genets! Healy of titr lame Mal Le thott4itt mai.t pert.icioati, and tulle, if, a %et y fruitfni will re of those dike'. tiers ssltich titled our geuts with csillir.tb. IL W:at noloiions that ii,is l•rotight in large piatititoN from lrelenil and f rom seetlauil, in twlatutu ci the o..;itie Laws.alid if thi ToNj acixtuuta should Lc exeuiiiied, It singht fot•LJ