1803.] 
The mean between thefe two ° ’ ¥ 
obfervations is therefore 37.17 45 
as ‘ » 
‘ 
Jupiter was fomewhat obfcure, 
RECAPITULATION. 
The longitude of Trebizond, ®° ' ‘ 
eaft from Paris,by lunar dilftance 37 19 0 
Ditto by the time-piece 37. 17 30 
Ditto by Jupiter’s fatellites. 37 17 45 
If it be thought proper to take 
a further mean between thefe 
three obfervations,the final refule 
will be ‘ i H $7 TSi85 
Confequently the longitude of 42°-57' 
between Trebizond and Paris, given by 
Citizen Bonne, is abfolutely falfe. The 
error amounts to 5° 39’, which makes 113 
nautical leagues on the equator, which, 
multiplied into the cofine of the latitude, 
would give 85 leagues at the parallel of 41°, 
the flattening of the earth not being. rec. 
koned. 
(To be continued.) 
—=—a ae “ 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA. 
[Continued from vol. xiv. page 497. ] 
NO. XXI.—TRANSLATION of the LATIN 
LINES ina the laft on the DEATH of Bi- 
SHOP FISHER. 
Thomas Baker, ejected Fellow 
of St. John’s Coll.Cambridge. 
What? fever fuch a holy head as thine ? 
What? with thy pious blood defile the 
hand? 
Kill Rochetfter ? 
fign— \ 
Ne’er fhall his like be born in Britain’s land. 
But thou, bleft faint, fo ripe in years and love, 
To heav’n afcend;—God calls thee from 
above. 
HIS learned and good man was a- 
warm Catholic, the great patron of 
St. John’s College. He was indiéted 
and beheaded, for denying the fupremacy 
of Harry the VITIth, that imperious mo- 
narch, who has been juftly characterized, 
as a King with the Pope in bis belly. 
DR. FARMER’S ESSAY 0” SHAKE- 
“ SPEARE. 
A little time after the late Dr. Farmer 
publifhed his Effay on the Learning of 
Shake{peare, an ingenious pamphlet, that 
fettles the controverfy concerning the li- 
terary character of our immortal drama- 
tift, he was. vifited by Dr. Johnion at 
Cambridge, 
Cantabrigiana. 
Stay, wretch, the foul de-: 
35 
Farmer obferves in this effay, that “an 
article of faith hath been ufually received” 
with more temperand complacence, than the 
unfortunate, opinion that he defended.”’ 
Johnfon, therefore, conveifing with Far- 
mer, on the agitations, that this pam- 
phlet had caufed among the critics, juftly 
admonifhed him in fome fuch words as 
thefe: ‘* Fear them not, Mr. Farmer: 
you have cut off a limb, and muft expect 
the flefh about it to tremble.” 
GRAY 04 OSSIAN’S POEMS. 
In the controverfy concerning the au- 
thenticity of Offian’s Poems, ftrefs has 
fometimes been laid on the opinion of 
Gray, the poet. From two or three let- 
ters in the Memoirs of the Life and 
Writings of Gray, by Mafon, it appears, - 
that our great Cambridge lyrift was 
not ‘only an admirer of Offian’s poems, 
but, -at one time, a believer in their au- 
thenticity. Gray wasa man of refearch 
and judgment: it fhould, therefore, be 
known, that he altered his opinion con- 
cerning the authenticity of thefe poems ; 
that he never ceafed to admire them, as 
compofitions’: ‘but if he correéted his 
judgment, he did not make a furrender 
of his candour. I allude to Johnfon’s il- 
liberal remarks on the nationality of the 
Scotch, in his Journey to the Hebrides. 
The STRICTNESS of the UNIVERSITY, 
in regard to the Use of Books in the 
PUBLIC LIBRARY. 
The Univerfity of Cambridge have of 
late years become unufually ftrigt in en- 
forcing the laws relative to the ule of 
books in the public library. Even a mem- 
ber of the fenate may not take a MS. to 
his room,without a grace; and no member 
of the univerfity can now read in the 
library, who is not alfo a member of 
the fenate, unlefs accompanied by one 
who is.) Thefe -circumftances may, 
perhaps, bring to fome people’s remem- — 
brance the waggery of a certain cler- 
gyman at the reformation. He _ was 
preaching againft the Romifh church for 
denying the people the free ufe of the 
Scriptures, and exclaimed (I quote from 
memory,) in fome fuch words as thefe: 
“* See here,” opening the book wide, ‘a 
divine book, avle to make you wife unto 
falvation : but,’’ continued he, (clapfing: 
the book faft, and holding it up in his 
hand,) ‘* you are allowed only to admire 
it ; you muft not read it.” Others may 
vindicate this ftri€tnefs of the univerfity, 
on the principle by which Bentley, when 
King’s librarian, vindicated his refufal of 
Ea the 
