To the Editor of the Univerfalift's Mifcellany. SIR, ON reading the thirteenth of Matthew, and thirteenth of Luke, I obferved the Parable of the Leaven. By the three measures of meal there described, I thought it pointed to the Restoration; and on referring to Mr. Welley's notes on the New Teftament, he fays, "Thus will the gospel leaven the world, and grace the Chriftian." Shall thank you, or any of your correfpondents, to give the meaning of the above Parable. It appears to me that the three meafures comprehend all mankind. First, the first fruits. Secondly, the faved at the general judgment. Thirdly, thofe that will come out of great tribulation. Thus will the whole be leavened, and God will be all in all. A REMARKABLE ANECDOTE OF THE LATE MR. JAMES HERVEY. B EING one day on a journey, a lady, who happened to be in the fame carriage with him, was expatiating in a very particular manner on the amufements of the stage, as being, in her efteem, fuperior to any other pleafures. Among other things the faid, there was the pleafure of thinking on the play before fhe went; the pleafure the enjoyed when there, and the pleasure of ruminating upon it when on her bed at night. Mr. Hervey (who fat and heard her difcourfe without interrupting her), when the had concluded, faid to her in a mild manner, that there was one pleasure more, befides what he had mentioned, which he had forgot. What can that be? faid fhe, for fure I have included every pleasure when I have confidered the enjoyments beforehand at the time and afterwards. Pray, Sir, what is it? To which Mr. Hervey, with a grave look, and in a manner peculiar to himself, anfwered, "Madam, the pleasure that it will give you on your death-bed." A clap of thunder, or a flash of lightning, could not have ftruck her with more furprife; the ftroke went to her very heart, and fhe had not one word more to fay, but feemed quite occupied in thinking upon it. In thort, the confequence of that well-timed word, was, that she never went any more to the play-house, but became a pious woman, and a follower of those plea fures fures which would afford her true fatisfaction on her deathbed. May all who read this account, and are lovers of the ftage, confider seriously the pleasure the time fo fpent will give them on their death-bed; and if they judge it will afford them confolation at that hour, let them go on in such employ of their time; but if not, may they seek for pleafure in the knowledge of Jefus Chrift and him crucified; whom to know is life eternal. MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS. HE National Debt is faid to be 400 millions sterlingWhat will be the length of a string of guineas equal in value to the faid fum? and how broad will that path be which shall be paved with them from London to Bath, which is 107 miles?-Note, a guinea is of an inch in diameter. I AM offered a field for 120l. a year; the four fides of which, in fucceffive order, measure 27.30-50-32 and 58.50 chains; the measure alfo taken from the corner betwixt the former two fides and its oppofite is 78 chains. The question is, what is the land estimated at per acre? I HAVE a gold medal which weighs very exactly 2 oz. Troy, or 960 grains; but if weighed whilft fufpended in water, it is only 890 grains. Now, fufpecting it to be adulterated with copper, I took 2 oz. of pure gold, and the fame of copper, and immerfing them feparately in water, I found them to weigh 911 and 853 grains refpectively. What is the real quantity of gold in the medal ? WHAT did the ball upon the top of St. Paul's church (which is fix feet in diameter) cost, at the rate of is. 4d. per foot fuperficial, and the gilding at 34d. per inch square? IF all the inhabitants of the earth were collected together into one circle (fuppofing them to be 1000 million), and allowing four feet fuperficial to each person, what will be the diameter of the faid circle? and how high in the air muft I be raised over the centre of the circle to take the whole into one view, the earth being 25,000 miles in circumference? To the Editor of the Univerfalift's Mifcellany. SIR, If the following Queries confift with your plan, I wish you to give them a place as foon as convenient. Your's, &c. QUERIES ON THE NEW COVENANT. WE A. B. E read in Jeremiah, chap. xxxi, verses 31, 32, a promife that the Lord would make a New Covenant with the whole houfe of Judah, and with the whole house of Ifrael? First Query.-Hath that promise had its accomplishment? Or is it a difpenfation yet to take place? Second. Doth the Apostle in his Epiftle to the Hebrews, chap viii. feem to speak of it as a bleffing to be enjoyed in future? Third.-Can it, in propriety and truth, be made to appear, that by the above-mentioned covenant is meant the prefent Gospel Difpenfation? If so, then Fourth. What whole nation, city, town, or congregation of Christians have at large enjoyed it in its proper and full meaning and extenfive latitude? LATTER DAY GLORY ANTICIPATED. SIR, TO THE EDITOR. The following Anticipation of Latter Day Glory, which you will find in the 244th page of Ifaac Watts's Mifcellaneous Thoughts, is at your fervice to infert in your Mifcellany, or reject, which you see most fit. O WHERE fhall that city ftand whofe inhabitants fhall traffic in intellectual treasures, and fet forth all their new improvements and acquifitions in open day-light, without the danger of public penalties or reproach? Where shall that happy race of men be born who fhall feek truth with an unbiaffed foul, and shall speak it freely to mankind without the fear of parties or the odium of fingularity? When fhall that golden age arife in Great Britain in which every rich genius fhall produce his brightest fentiments to the honour of God and to the general profit of men, and yet stand exempted from common flander? When fhall the facred mines of Scripture be digged yet deeper than ever, and the hidden riches thereof be brought out of their long obfcurity, to adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour? O that thefe dark and ftormy days of party and prejudice were rolled away, that men would once give leave to their fellow Chriftians to spell out and read fome ancient and unknown glories of the perfon of Chrift, which are contained in Scripture, and to unfold fome hidden wonders of his gospel the wisest of men know yet but in part, and it is always poffible to grow wiser, at least on this fide Heaven; but public prejudice is a friend to darkness, nor could ignorance and error, without this fhield, have defended their thrones fo long among creatures of reafon, under the light of divine funbeams. I am yours, &c. Poetry. THE KNIFE, A Prefent fent by a Gentleman to his Wife on the Anniversary of his Wedding Day, and afterwards a RING on the fame Occafion. A KNIFE, dear girl, cuts love they say; Meer modern love perhaps it may; For any tool, of any kind, Can feparate what ne'er was join'd. THE THE RING. THEE, Mary, with this Ring I wed," Behold another Ring; for what? Hear then to-day with faith as fure, MONTHLY OCCURRENCES. March 1. BY the Paris Journals which arrived yesterday we learn that Buonaparte, after having reviewed the Army of England in the North, has returned to Paris. It is fuppofed that he is to attempt a defcent on this country from Holland or Flanders, while General Deffaix makes the fame attempt from Normandy or Brittany. A motion has been made in the Batavian Affembly, that not only the importation but the paffage or tranfit of French merchandize shall be prohibited under pain of death. ing to the Correfponding Society, were yesterday feized at Margate in the attempt to go to France, upon a charge of correfponding with the Directory of that country. Mr. Wilberforce had leave to bring in a bill for defraying the expences of profecutions out of the county stock. 3. By the Paris Papers it appears that Pleville Peley is appointed to the chief command of the fleet intended to act against this country. 4. By letters from Lisbon we learn that the Spanish fl-et failed on the 7th ult. from Cadiz; they chafed a part of the British fleet, but understanding March 2. Mr. O'Conner, of Ire- that Lord St. Vincent, with the re land, with four other perfons belong-mainder of the fleet, had failed from Lifton |