Hallifax, envoy to the Elector of Brandenburgh, in 1692. He died in 1711. He seems to have taken no degree. And among the more distinguished noblemen educated here, should be mentioned the late Duke of Bedford, then Lord Russel.

One more member was deferred to the last, with no impropriety. This was Robert Garnham, A. M. 1777, fellow. He was a skilful critic in the Hebrew and Greek scriptures, though there is little of his extant in this way, except what is to be found in a critical miscellany on the scriptures, in 3 volumes, entitled Commentaries and Essays, in which, among other things, he has made

Newton's Historical Account of two notable Corruptions of the Scripture, in a Letter to a Friend, one of which was discussed so much at large in Mr. Porson's Letters to Archdeacon Travis. So that what this great man's peculiar opinions were on the doctrine of the Trinity, will be decided on differently by different persons.

Whiston it is well known, and, as appears from his Memoirs, vol. 1, inclined to the doctrine of the Baptists, and attended the ministry of their famous minister, Dr. Foster, in London: he asserts, also, in the same work, that Sir Isaac Newton and Dr. Clarke inclined to the same sentiment: but Sir Isaac Newton was not a divine, and might perhaps not think it necessary to avow his particular doctrines.

In Lord Bacon's writings there are several things that are favourable to the orthodox faith, yet again, there are others, that have made them questionable, in the judgment of many: that his belief did not extend far, and, indeed, that being a great, statesman, he had in some matters, perhaps from conviction as well as from prudence, been beforehand with Mr. Hobbes, in his book DE CIVE, a political theologian, rather than a theological politician, has been the opinion of many thinking and intelligent men. See his dedication to the Advancement of Learning, and other things, in a similar strain, in that, after all, most excellent work.

With respect to the learned, in more modern times, of this college, some have, in like manner, highly favoured the more orthodox doctrines, and others, it is well known, have not.

some judicious critiques on Bishop Lowth's and Mr. Dodson's Translations of Isaiah.

A sermon of Mr. Garnham's, against Popery, (preached in this college chapel in 1794) should be mentioned, though it were only to notice the extracts from the college statutes, prefixed. It seems, the statutes, to an obedience to which the fellows are sworn, only bind them, "opiniones Dei verbo contrarias omni voluntate ac mente refutare; vera consuetis, scripta non scriptis, in religionis causâ antehabere." This fact will account for a circumstance relating to this college, which is, that while some learned gentlemen have not chosen to hold church livings, as believing opinions not consonant to the orthodox doctrines, they have yet, they think, very conscientiously retained their fellowships. Of this number was Mr. Garnham: he held no preferment in the church, but died fellow of this society, and was deemed a very upright man. This circumstance too will account for, and sanction, a diversity of opinion in the house, which, therefore, Mr. Garnham calls, both for its opposition to Popery, and for the liberty allowed by its statutes to its members, "a truly Protestant college."

EMMANUEL COLLEGE.

THIS is neither so ancient, nor so large, nor so magnificent a college as some others; nor is it so ample in its endowment, nor so memorable for its number,-being a younger foundation,-of distinguished personages. Yet a character it has of its own. As a building, it is elegant, without being frivolous, and various, without being crowded; and as a neat whole, its elevation is, perhaps, one of the most agreeable in the University. It has one of the best livings: it is remarkable for its genteel society; it has produced its due proportion of ingenious and learned men; and being founded by one who inclined to the Puritans, it was, in its origin, considered a good deal as a nursery for such as were not over-hearty in their attachment to the prescribed discipline of the church.

The college was built on the site, and partly of the materials, of an old monastery, which had been occupied by a society of preaching, or Black Friars, professing the order of the famous St. Dominic, called, in the Saxon Chronicle, the father of all monks, and said to have ascended to heaven, A. 509. But, as the dissolution of monasteries, and the dispersion of their revenues hap