sir, you will insert this short explanation in the pages of your magazine, you will do justice to an injured person, and gratify,

Yours,

A CONSTANT READER.

MINUTIE.

BISHOPS HOADLEY AND SHERLOCK.

Bishops Hoadley and Sherlock, were both of Catherine Hall, Cambridge, both of the same year. When they were freshmen, they were called to lecture in Tully's offices. One day, Hoadley performed so well as to receive a compliment from his tutor. As they were coming away from the tutor's chamber, Sherlock, who was probably a little nettled, called out, Ben, you have made good use of L'Estrange's Translation to-day!' No, Tom,' replied Hoadley, I have it not, and I forgot to send the bed-maker to borrow yours, which, I am told, is the only one in the college.' So early did the emulation between these ecclesiastics commence.

COBBETT.

The following character of this popular writer is given by Rev. R. Hall. of Leicester, in a pamphlet written in reply to Cobbett's remarks on the Leicester framework knitters' fund:-' He (Cobbett) is a popular declaimer-not a philosopher; a firebrand-not a luminary. He emits fire and smoke in abundance, like a volcano, but the whole effect is to desolate, not to enlighten. His principal artifice consists in the exhibition of a few bold generalities, which he illustrates and confirms by a few prominent facts, culled for his

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purpose, without the slightest attempt at that patient induction and inquiry which alone can lead to solid and useful results. Shrewd, intemperate, presumptuous, careless of the truth of his representations and indifferent to the consequences, provided they make an impression; he is well qualified, it must be confessed, by his faults no less than by his talents, by his inflammatory style and incendiary spirit, to excite insurrection-the Polyphemus of the mob-the one-eyed monarch of the blind.'- Rome trembled when Cataline rejoiced.' Let the friends of peace and order then, let the landed proprietors especially, take warning; they stand upon the brink of a precipice, from which, if they suffer themselves to be precipitated, it will be no small aggravation of their calamity to perceive the ease with which it might have been prevented, together with the contemptible agency and the flimsy sophistry which accelerated their overthrow.

INQUISITION.

The Inquisition punished Heretics by fire, to elude the maxim Ecclesia non novit sanguinem, for burning a man, they said, does not shed blood. Otho, the Bishop, at the Norman invasion, in the tapestry, worked by Matilda, the Queen of William the Conqueror, is represented with a mace in his hand, for the purpose that when he dispatched his antagonist, he might not spill blood, but only break his bones.

GAMING.

I used,' says Montaigne, to like formerly games of chance with cards and dice; but of that folly I have been long cured, merely because I found that whatever good countenance I put on when I lost, I did not feel my vexation the less.'

INQUISITION.

Dr. Grainger assures us, that in his remembrance, a horse that had been taught to tell the spots upon cards, the hour of the day, &c. by significant tokens, was, together with his owner, put into the inquisition, for both of them dealing with the devil.

LADY JANE GREY'S LETTER TO HER FATHER ON HEARING OF HIS ARREST.

"Father,-Although it hath pleased God to hasten my death by you, by whome my life should rather have been lengthened, yet I can soe patiently take it, that Ï yeeld God more hearty thankes for shortning my wofull dayes, than if all the world had been given into my possessions, with life lengthened at my owne will. And albeit I am very well assured of your impatient dolours, redoubled many wayes, both in bewayling your owne woe, and especially, as I am informed, my wofull estate; yet, my deare father, if I may, without offence, reioyce in my owne mishaps, herein I may account myself blessed, that, washinge my hands with the innocence of my fact, my guiltless bloud may cry before the Lord, mercie to the innocent. And yet, though I must needs acknowledge, that beinge constrayned, and as you knowe well enough contynually assayed; yet in taking upon mee, I seemed to consent, and therein grievously offended the Queene and her lawes, yet doe I assuredly trust that this my offence towards God is soe muche the lesse, in that being in so royall estate as I was, my enforced hono neuer mingled with mine innocent heart. And thus, good father, I have opened unto you the state wherein I presently stand, my death at hand, although to you perhaps it may

seeme wofull, yet to me thear is nothing that bee more welcome than from this vale of misery to aspire to that heavenly throne of all ioy and pleasure, with Christ my Saviour: in whose stedfast faith (if it may be lawfull for the daughter soe to write to the father,) the Lord that hath hitherto strengthened you, soe continue to keepe you, that at the last wee may meete in heaven, with the Father, Sonn, and Holy Ghost.

I am,

Your obedient daughter till death,

JANE DUDLEY."

EDUCATION OF LADY JANE GREY.

The education of Lady Jane Grey was conducted on a scale much more extensive, than modern times are in the habit of applying to female understanding. In an elegy, written after her death by Sir Thomas Chaloner, she is commended for her beauty and her wit; for her stupendous skill in languages, of which eight are enumerated, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, Arabic, French, and Italian. The poet farther observes, that she wrote a clear, fair hand, and was excellent at her needle; notwithstanding all which endowments, she was of a mild, humble, and modest spirit, and never shewed an elated mind till she manifested it at her death. Lady Jane's preceptor, as is well known, was John Aylmer, afterwards Bishop of London, a divine zealously attached, in times in which such attachment was great courage, to the Protestant faith. Roger Ascham also contributed to her education. He lived in the vicinity of Bradgate, and taught writing. As he was an excellent penman, Lady Jane's dear, fair hand,' was probably formed under his tuition.

HOWARD'S LADY JANE GREY.

CAMERONS NOT CHRISTIANS.

An English gentleman, travelling through the Highlands, came to the inn of Letter-finlay, in the Braes of Lochaber. He saw no person near the inn, and knocked at the door-No answer. He knocked repeatedly with as little success. He then opened the door and walked in. On looking about he saw a man lying on a bed, whom he hailed thus- Are there any Christians in this house?' No, (was the reply,) we are Came

rons !'

PIRON AND THE BISHOP.

Piron, coming out of a house, met a Bishop entering, who, observing his rich dress, told Piron that his dress did not suit him. Piron knew the faults of the Prelate, and replied haughtily, My Lord, neither do you suit your dress.'

HELPS FROM FELLOW LABOURERS.

No. VI.

FRAGMENT.

BY MONTGOMERY.

Who, that hath ever been,

Could bear to be no more?
Yet who would tread again the scene
He trod through life before?

On with intense desire,

Man's spirit will move on;

It seems to die, yet like heaven's fire,
It is not quench'd, but gone.

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