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ties of the people : and as he believed 
so lie openly asserted that ambition was 
natural to princes, and that princes 
should have no power but that of doing 
good. The same principle led him to 
oppose king Charles, invade king 
James, and object to the giving of so 
much power to king William the third, 
under whom, though one of those illus¬ 
trious refugees who concerted the glori¬ 
ous revolution of 1688, he would never 
serve. Fletcher used to say, with 
Cromwell and Milton, that the trap¬ 
pings of a monarchy and a great aris¬ 
tocracy would patch up a very clever 
little republic. Being in company one 
day with the witty Dr. Pitcairn, the 
conversation turned upon a person of 
learning, whose history was not dis¬ 
tinctly known. 44 I know the man 
well,” said Fletcher, 44 he was here¬ 
ditary Professor of Divinity at Ham¬ 
burgh.” “ Hereditary Professor,” 
said Pitcairn, with a laugh of astonish¬ 
ment and derision; 44 yes, Doctor,” 
replied Fletcher; 44 hereditary professor 
of Divinity; what think you of an he¬ 
reditary king This anecdote exhi¬ 
bits the character of the man to a hair ; 
a character which he supports through 
the whole of his works. 
We have said so much of the preced¬ 
ing articles,that we have hardly left our¬ 
selves room to notice the three remain¬ 
ing papers in this number. The Lu- 
casta of that elegant and accomplished 
Cavalier, Colonel Richard Lovelace, 
parts 1. and 2, form the subject of the 
eighth article. The history of his mis¬ 
fortunes, and of his melancholy end, 
are well known to every one conversant 
in the poetical history of the times ; 
but the Reviewer indulges the pleasing 
hope that the accurate Anthony a Wood, 
has somewhat exaggerated his misery ; 
or, been in some measure misinformed. 
For his reasons, which appear to us 
conclusive, we must refer our readers 
to the article itself, page 1 IS in note. 
The ninth article is an account of the 
celebrated History of the Gwedir Family 
by Sir John Wynn, (and not Wynne, 
as erroneously spelt;) 44 a gentleman,” 
says the Reviewer, adopting some of his 
own words, 44 to whom his country is 
much beholden ; preferring nothing 
more than the honour thereof, which 
he carefully raketh out of the ashes of 
oblivion in searching, quoting, and 
coppying, to his great chardge, all the 
ancient records he can come by.” This 
is, indeed, one of the best written, and 
most interesting articles in the present 
number; and, unless we greatly mis¬ 
take, we recognize in it the classic hand 
of a favourite contributor. If our con¬ 
jecture be right, its greatest praise will 
be to say, that it is little, if at all, in¬ 
ferior to his admired Excursion in the 
Monthly Magazine. We abstain from 
any analysis of its soul-stirring con¬ 
tents, not only on account of the great 
length to which this notice has already 
been extended, but because the paper 
before us should be read as a whole, 
and any abridgement, or the omission 
of any part of it, would be an injury 
to the author. 
Thekmly remaining article, is, as we 
have already noticed, a continuation 
of the series of Essays upon the English 
Drama. The author under considera¬ 
tion in this number, is that 44 pure, ele¬ 
mental wit,” the wild and eccentric 
Christopher Marlow. The Reviewer 
lias successfully vindicated his memory 
from the charges of atheism and blas¬ 
phemy ; but it cannot be denied that 
he was, at the least, an immoral and a 
vicious man. But it is of his literary 
character alone, that we wish here to 
speak ; and without doubt, his was the 
greatest name on the theatrical roll, 
before Shakespeare. The extracts from 
his dramatic works fully justify this 
encomium ; and perhaps were we to 
select any two scenes as more poetical 
and more beautiful than the rest, our 
choice would fall upon that from Ed¬ 
ward the Second, at p. 162, and that 
from Faustus, at p. 169. 
Iu conclusion, we have to repeat 
our sincere commendation, both of the 
design and execution of this work, and 
with great confidence recommend it to 
our readers. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
N article selected from the North 
American Review, inserted in 
your last number, and entitled, 44 Obser¬ 
vations on English Universities,” is cal¬ 
culated to mislead your readers: you 
will therefore have the goodness to make 
use of the following observations in 
any way you think proper. 
It cannot be denied that some of its 
strictures apply themselves to the uni¬ 
versity of Oxford ; for there men are 
elected to fellowships and scholarships, 
solely because they are natives of cer¬ 
tain counties, and have been educated 
at certain schools. The writer of this 
wishes it therefore particularly to he 
under!ood that the University of Cam¬ 
bridge 
