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Majesty used sometimes to talk with Sir Richard concerning his cousin, and once more particularly fpoke of his reftlefs, teforming fpirit, in the church, in the univerfity, phyfic, &c. "An please your Majefty, (replied Sir Richard,)if my cousin was in Heaven, he would be a reformer." "It is true, (faid a friend of Dr. Jebb, to whom this was mentioned,) he would, if any reformation was wanted there." CXXXVIII. EMANUEL COLLEGE PIC

TURE GALLERY.

In Roman Catholic countries, portraits are fometimes made votive offerings, and the objects of adoration in Proteftant they are keep-fakes. In colleges more particularly they may be confidered as family-pictures, mementos of members

or benefactors deceased.

Oxford can boast a good picture-gallery at Chrift Church, containing befides portraits of its members and benefactors, many paintings by foreign malters. Cam bridge exhibits nothing equal to this. The principal thing of the kind is at Emanuel College. But this gallery poffeffes little, that is very excellent. We will notice the following portraits, accompanying them with two or three hints.

1. Sir Walter Mildmay, the founder in Queen Elizabeth's reign. When he had it in contemplation to found Emanuel College, being at Court, her Majefty faid"So, Sir Walter, I hear you have erected a Puritan College."" No, Madam, (replied he,) far be it from me to countenance any thing contrary to established your laws. But I have fet an acorn, which, when it becomes an oak, God alone knows what will be the fruit thereof." However, the fociety rather favoured of Puritanism, and hence the old fong, called

the Mad Puritan:

Am I mad, moft noble Feftus,
While zeal and godly knowledge,
Has made me to hope,

To deal with the Pope,

As well as the best in the college? Boldly I preach, hate a cross, hate a surplice, Mitres, copes, and rockets; Come hear me pray, nine times a day, And fill your heads with crotchets. In the houfe of pure Emanuel

I had my education,

Where my friends furmize

I dazzled my eyes

With the light of Revelation.

Boldly I preach, &c.

These words are round the picture: By Vanlomer, tatis fuæ 66. Anno Do mini 1558. Virtute, non vi,

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JOSHUE BARNES : Ευχαριστριον

4. Dr. Holbeach, formerly mafter of the College. Mr. Ah, who left fome exhibitions; faid to be by Dobson.

5. Hall, bishop of Norwich, born 1574. He was fent by King James as one of the commiffioners to the Synod of Dort. His Theological Writings, containing, among other things, Specialties of his Life, Hard Measure, Songs in the Night, and Meditations, have been admired. It has been thought a fingular inftance of modefty, that in the Specialties of his Life, he takes no notice of his poems; for he was the first of our English Satirifts.

In the first adventure with fool-hardy might
To tread the fteps of perilous defpight,
I first adventure, follow me who lift,
And be the fecond English Satyrift.

Prologue to Bishop Hall's Satires.

6. Joshua Barnes, Greek Profeffor at the end of the 17th centy, editor of Homer, &c. &c.

Σπεδη Αρισαρχειο Ομηρικόν έργον εκοσμείν Great Homer's work with Ariftarchus zeal Did I adorn. JOSHUA BARNES: Ek oyog to his Homer.

7. Sir Wm Temple, well known as an elegant writer. 8. Dr. Long,the aftronomer. 9. The Earl of Westmoreland, full length. 10. Dr. Anthony Afkew, in his doctor's robes, taken when a young man. 11. Mr. Hubbard, formerly Senior Fellow, and tutor of this College. 12. Dr. Farmer, the late mafter of this College. 12. Dr. Parr, editor of Bellendenus, and highly diftinguished among the Greek fcholars and politicians of this age; and others.

In the room of the Mafter's Lodge adjoining to the gallery are Jackfon, bishop of Kildare, by Gainsborough; Hurd, bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, author of Political Dialogues, of a Commentary, and Notes on Horace's Art of Poetry, &c. William Bennet, biflop of Cloyne, formerly tutor of this College, and highly diftinguished for his tafte and claffical li terature, &c:

What Dr. Fuller remarks is fingular, that in his time more than half the mafters of the Colleges in Cambridge nad

been of Emanuel.

CXXXIX.

CXXXIX-INSTANCE of ACCURACY in a

CAMBRIDGE ANTIQUARY.

By Diffentients mentioned in a former number was meant members of the univerfity, who difapproved fomething in the univerfity either of doctrine or dif. cipline, and the like. As the Cantabrigiana, therefore, was confined to members of the university, it does not comprehend matters that relate to the town; and, of course, is unconnected with thofe, who are properly called Diffenters in Cambridge. But Mr. Cole's inaccuracy concerning the late Mr. Robert Robiníon must be fet right.

This gentleman was the predeceffor of Mr. Robert Hall, the prefent Baptift minifter in the town. Mr. Cole calls Robinfon the Anabaptift preacher of Cambridge. Now, as far as the beft claffical authorities, and the Septuagint Greek tranflation of the Old Teftament, the writers of the New, and the Greek Fathers of the two first centuries can determine the meaning of a term, the words Cawla, Cantico, Calious, and Canliomos always relate to covering over, plunging, washing or Dipping. Hence John the Baptift, or dipper; and the lect call themselves, on thele principles, dippers, or Baptifts, not Anabaptifts. But without entering into the difpute about βαπλίζω and ραντίζω, in which the Cantabrigiana takes no intereft, it fhould be obferved, be the meaning of the term. what it may, that Robinfon's fentiment on the fubject was exactly that of Sir Ifaac Newton, Dr. Samuel Clarke, Bishop Hoadly, and John Milton: and thefe are at least as good company as Mr. Cole.

Robinson's humble employment in early This fame Mr. Cole, fpeaking of Mr. life, defcribes him as a journeyman. Robinson was educated at a very excellent endowed claffical school in Norfolk, where Lord Thurlow, the late Lord Chancellor, Mr. Norris, the founder of the Norrifian Profefforfhip, and other gentlemen of Cambridge, received their education. It is now, we believe, under the care of Mr.Potter, the translator of Afchylus. Here Robinfon acquired a knowledge of the French tongue, and a better acquaintance with claffical literature, than boys ufually attain at an early period. He was originally defigned for the University, but through reafons not to be enquired into here, was bound apprentice, at the ufual time, to a very humble profeffion in Ldon. He did not ferve out his time; for his master, finding him more interefted

about books than work, was happy in giving up his indentures, when Robinfon returned to his ftudies, and to be prepared for the ministry, Confequently he never was a journeyman. We make this diftinction, to fhew the falfehood of Mr. Cole's infidious inference: for Cole's affertion was preparatory to this inference, fat down to his books, for the first time, that after having been a journeyman he and got juft fmattering enough to make him a coxcomb ;-whereas Robinfon never of a learned education, was fond of books was a journeyman, but had the advantage from a boy, continued fo through life, and fell a martyr, in a great mealure, to an intemperate application to his ftudies, in the fifty-fourth year of his age.

As to Cole's contemptuous manner of introducing this fubject, liberal Churchmen, as well as Diffenters, might ask, who was called the Carpenter's Son ? Juftin Martyr, by the bye, the firft Chriftian writer of much authority, fays, in his Dialogue with Trypho, that he alfo worked at his trade. Men of the first talents frequently burst from obfcurity, and are indebted to their own activity for all their confequence. "Quam matrem Euripides, fays Valerius Maximus, aut quem patrem Euripides habuerit, ipforum quoque feculo ignotum fuit: alterius autera matrem olera, alterius patrem cultellos venditaffe, omnium pene doctorum literæ loquuntur. Sed quid aut illius tragica, aut hujus oratoria vi clarius?

Some of the men moft diftinguished for talents, learning, and worth, in both our universities, have from the firft foundation of colleges, fprung from the lowest stations. The colleges, indeed, are eleemofynary but the fon of an innkeeper; a touch inftitutions; and Cole himself, who is far removed from the first rank of merit, was above fome of his contemporaries it must Ecce iterum Crifpinus, et eft mihi fæpe vo

be owned.

Ad partes

candus

Come, Mr. Tapfter, once again I call,
Pray give fair measure.

Juv.

the Divinity of Chrift, it was highly comWhen Robinfon published his Plea for plimented, as the best production on that fubject, by the most diftinguished advocates of the doctrine in the university, and fome of influence in the church; Hinchliffe, Bishop of, Peterborough; Hallifax, Bishop of Gloucester; Dr. Ogden, and others, who were defirous of being the means of Robinson's advancement in the church, as was alfo the Minifter of the day; and the most judicious

writers

writers of those who oppofed the doctrine, Mr. Lindsey and Dr. Jebb complimented him, by letter, for his liberality; and, as he was well-known to and refpected by men of the first character among the orthodox party, at Cambridge, fo was he by others who, with, at least, equal learning with them, did not, however, embrace their fentiments.

As to his own party, two of the most eminent of them, Dr. Kippis, the editor of the Biographia Britannica, and Dr. Furneaux, author of an excellent volume of Letters to Judge Blackftone, on peruf. ing his Plea, united in requefting him to defit from translating, for that, one poffelfed of fuch talents for original compofition, was not fit for a tranflator. Such were the reftimonies to Robinfon's attain ments when living and, after his death, three of the moft eminent, in different parties, of the Diffenters expreffed their very high fenfe of his talents and attainments, in their funeral fermons, published on occafion of his death. These were, Dr. Priestley, among the Socinians; Dr. Rees, the editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica, among the Arians; and Dr. Toulmin, author of the Life of Socinus, editor of Neal's Hiftory of the Puritans, &c. among the Baptifts.

Robinson, for eafy eloquence in the pulpit, was, perhaps, unrivalled in his own time. Dr. Price, who was no hafty admirer, confeffed, on hearing him, that for colloquial eloquence he far furpaffed any preacher he had ever heard. His works are numerous, confifting of Tranflations from the French, Sermons, Political dialogues, Tra&s, and Hiftories.

Robinfon's two principal works are his Hiftory of Baptifm, and Ecclefiaftical Reearches, both of which far exceed our praife. Thefe volumes do not wholly rehte to doctrines and ceremonies, to councils and ecclefiaftics. The writer travels over different countries, and furveys different governments; Judæa, Greece, Africa, Rome, Spain, Navarre, and Bifcay, the States of Italy, the Vallies of Piedmont, Bohemia, Munster, Poland, Tranfylvania; fometimes he had to inveftigate difputed facts, involved in labyrinths, which were intricate, and which had not been reckoned worth the trouble of penetrating; fo that, though he came to the works with a mind well ftored with various reading, yet, finding it neceffary to confult original guides, he studied the Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and other languages. He appeals to authentic ancient monuments, and antiquaries of MONTHLY MAG, No. 111.

the highest authority: and, each chapter of the Ecclefiaftical Researches defcribing a particular nation, there are to be found ingenious remarks on the geography, government, laws, antiquities, commerce, and natural productions of each, as well as on the characters and manners of the inhabitants. But he never loles fight of the leading object of his hiftories.

Though a few coarfe and inelegant expreffions are found in these volumes, yet they difplay great command of language, perfpicuity of narration, often splendor of defcription, and almost always ftrength of fentiment. The author is certainly intitled to the praife of an induftrious, learned, and original writer; and in notions of civil polity, and religious liberty he is furpaffed by no one. To execute thefe works, Robinfon had the free use of the books in the public library at Cambridge, and of feveral colleges for it was his good fortune to be acquainted with many members of the University, who were not fuch bigots as Cole.

When Mr. Cole faid that Robinfon had "learning enough to make him a coxcomb," he should have been reminded, that there are folemn, as well as facetious, coxcombs; and, that of the two, the former are the moft infuffer le. But Cole knew nothing of Robinfo, and nothing, probably, of his writings, except that he was the diffenting minister of Cambridge: and of Diffenters Cole was a most inveterate hater. With the baptifin or anabaptifm, with the orthodoxy or heterodoxy, with the alteration of Robinson's sentiments, &c. the Cantabrigiana has nothing to do. All we mean, is, to refcue him from the mifreprefentations of this high priest, as a man of letters; for the prefumption is, that, if this Baptift* had poffeffed but half` the intellects by which he was really dif tinguifhed, he would have been a greater and a brighter man than the Cardinal.

In our account of Cole's papers, we were influenced by a regard to utility; what the copyer of the paffage relating to Robinson had in view we shall not determine: but if an apology should be deemed neceffary for this article, fomething more is due for that passage.

No. CXL. KING JAMES.

Mr. Robinson has certainly spoken in

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too general terms of the learning of King James. As Cole fpoke like a high-prieft in reference to Robinfon, fo did Robinfon fpeak like a too zealous diffenter of James.

These are Robinfon's words alluded to by Cole: "He, (King James), pretended to LEARNING and religion, but was deftitute of both-and was an ignorant, contemptible, tyrant. He was the author of all the calamities of his fon's reign, and has been the fcorn of every impartial writer fince." But it fhould be underftood, that these are but leading hints in a fyllabus of lectures, and that Robinfon comes forward as the advocate of that party, of which James was the invariable perfecutor, the Puritans. Against what Robinfon fays of James, let us place what James fays in a letter to his fon Charles, entitled Sapov Caoihinov. "Nec patere, fi pacate vivere decreveris, ut hi eadem tecum patria fruerentur, nifi forte patientiæ ergo, ut Socrates vixit cum Xantippe." This is from Bishop Montacute's Latin Tranflation of James's Works, which, not having at hand the original English work, we turn back again into plain English, thus: Nor fuffer thefe men, that is, the whole body of Diffenters, if you refolve to live in peace, to enjoy the fame country with yourself, unlefs for the fake of trying your patience, as Socrates lived with Xantippe.

But af er all, that as a prince, James was weak, vain, bigoted, and intolerant, cannot be denied, even by Hume, who was difpofed to be his apologist, as far as decency permitted.

From the hint dropped by Cole, relative to verfes by James, let no reader confound James I. and V. of Scotland with James I. King of Great Britain.

Jo

The

former were real poets, the la only a jangler.

I will no janglings put in verse, Such as fome janglers do rehearse.

SIR DAVID LINDSAY'S PAPI

While fpeaking of King Jame reminded of a circumftance, whi ther it favours moft of vanity or we fhall not determine. It is re by Dr. Peckard, late mafter of M College, in his life of Mr. Farrer. James was hearing the Latin play noramus, performed (either at N ket or Cambridge) he called ou The ge

"Treafon! Treaton!"

about him, being anxious to kn difturbed his Majefty, he faid, " writer and performers had acted the fo well, that he fhould die of lau Ignoramus, we have obferved befo written to rally the law Latin o times; but had also a more infidid fign, which was, to bring the comm of the land into contempt. That was an enemy to the common larv feen in Bishop Hurd's excellent Dia on the English Conftitution.

́P. S. In answer to

who

to our use of the word Socinian, as to Dr. Jebb, and others, we reply th only adopted it to exprefs one idea, the humanity of Chrift, the leading doct Socinus. We are not ignorant that in refpects Dr. Jebb and others were no perly Socinians, as they held few fent in common with Socinus. In reply to we obferve, that we are by no means cates for conceit, or contempt of difc and authority in young men. But we the affair of the Oxford expulfion was c too far; nor are we aware of the exift a ftatute, that authorised the expulfion o young men for maintaining and propag their methodistical tenets.

MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS.

LIFE of GENERAL VON ZIETEN. OHN Joachim Von Zieten was born at the village of Wuftrau, at about eightand-twenty miles diftant from Berlin, on the 18th day of May, in the year 1699. His father was a country gentleman of fmall eftate; which was, however, not unequal to his wants, till he was, by litigious and over-reaching neighbours, entangled in fome expenfive lawfuits. His mother was E. C. Von Jurgas, daughter of a refpect able family of equal condition. Of their children, John Joachim and four daughters

lived to mature years. There was other fon, who died in infancy.

From his earliest years, as he ufed H felf, in old age, to relate, young Zieten felt a strong paffion to be a fold and to raise the fortunes of his fam Every foldier that happened to pass thro Wuftrau, was to him an object of ad ration. At nine years of age, tomed himself to walk every Saturday the garrison-town of Ruppen, a distance about four English miles, there to ha his hair drefled in the military falli

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with a long tail well ftiffened and pow. dered, by a foldier of the garrifon.

When he was thirteen years of age, his father engaged a domeftic tutor to intruct hm. But, the pupil had no paffion for letters; and would not endure corporal punishment. The tutor proved to be arbitrary in his temper, and carelefs in his morals. And the father, at the fon's folicitation, very foon difmiffed him.

Next year, his father tent him, to ferve, with the hope of promotion in the regiment of Schwendy, then partly in garriton at Spandau. General Schwendy, its commander, though his father's old acquaintance, received the youth when he went to pay his duty to him, with a carelefs infolence, which provoked his immediate, undiffembled refentment, and which he could never after, with patience think of. But his military zeal was not to be difcouraged; and he applied with diligence, to perfect himself in the difcipline. His ftature being low, and his figure without martial dignity, he had first fome difficulty to make himself respected among his comrades. He con taught them, however, with his fword, that they were not to judge of his fpirit from his perfonal afpect. In a rencounter with an old ferjeant, he gave his antagonist, a defperate wound in the face, and came off himself unhurt. Another of his comrades who ventured to make trial of his prowels, was crippled for life in the combat. On the 7th of July, 1720, he was advanced to the rank of enfign, in the fame regiment.

The regiment was in a fhort time, given to Count after wa ds Field Marthal Von Schwerin from the fervice of the Prince Mklenburg. Von Schwerin was followed into the Pruffian fervice, by many fellow-countrymen of his own, whom he was willing to patronize and advance.

In partiality to them, he accustomed himfelf to overlook the just claims of fome of the native Pruffian officers under his command. To the puny figure and fhrill voice of Von Zieten, he evinced espe¦ cial dislike. Von Zieten, after being four times unduly fuperfeded, demanded per miffion to leave the regiment; which was inftantly given him.

Here feemed to be, at once, an end to the hopes of his military ambition: and the dilappointment was, no doubt, fevere to fuch an ardent mind. But, he afterwards owned fome of its immediate effects to have been highly falutary. So much were the officers of the regiment of Schwerin, then addicted to vulgar and fottish excels in drinking; that a cask of

beer was emptied every day in the guardhoufe; each officer was obliged by the rule of their drinking, to take off a quartmug at a fingle draught; this was to be feveral times repeated in the course of the day: and it was with great difficulty, that Ven Zieten, on account of the weakness of his ftomach, obtained leave to exchange the quart of beer for a small glass of brandy. The fame example of his companions in the regiment, had begun to feduce him into amorous exceffes, scarce lefs dangerous to his health and morals. But his retreat from the regiment, both withdrew him from the contagion of evil example, and led him to folitary reflexion by which his mind was to a great degree, unalterably armed against the groffeft vices.

His father had died in the year 1719. And young Von Zieten's first care, upon retiring to Wuftrau, was to fettle his family affairs, fo as to fecure in the bett manner he could the comfort of his mother and fifters. Between two and three years thus paffed; while he meditated a return to the fervice; but awaited the chance of an invitation from his Sovereign, and wifhed to be placed in a different regiment, without lofs of rank, on account of the time he had been unemployed.

Having, at length, engaged the King's favourable notice, he was received, as fourth lieutenant in Wuthenow's regiment of dragoons, in 1726; he himself being then feven-and-twenty years of age. A law-fuit was, in the end of the fame year, terminate in his favour, by which his family had een, full forty years, vexatiously harraffed. He joined his regiment, and found foon occafion to difplay fuch activity, prudence, and spirit as were fufficient to recommend him to the esteem and friendship of almost all his brother officers. The captain, however, under whofe immediate command he was become from envy, and by contentions which that excited between them, his mortal enemy. Von Zieten wis by the malice, cowardice, and art of this man, condemned, first to a year's imprisonment, and afterwards, on account of the circumstances of a perfonal combat between him and the captain, dif miffed the regiment, by the fentence of a court-martial.

His difmiffal was not for cowardice, but chiefly becaufe he was judged to be too hot headed and impetuous. The dishonour remained, indeed, with his antagonilt. But Von Zieten had now reafon to think himself cut off, from all chance of making his fortune in Prafia, as a foldier; the King being, upon partial information, highly exafperated agat

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