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ftamps at a much lefs price, sides they can 
now do, but alfo have an intereft in the 
‘favings, which might be employed to- 
wards their own emolument, the fupport 
of thofe who have been unfortunate in the 
profefiion, or for any other purpofe which 
a majority of the parties fhould judge bet 
and fitteft. It is to be obferved, that this 
projet requires only a certain unity of 
fentiment, which might eafily be effected ; 
and if the warehoufe were fituated near to 
the inns of court, it would be produtive of 
no inconvenience to the parties, inafmuch 
as thefe who live at_a diftance from thence 
are {till in the habit of buying their amps 
from the ftationers refident there. This 
is, however, obvioufly only a flight fketch 
of fuch an undertaking, which it would 
be eafy to enlarge and impreve, if ever it 
fhould become a fubjeé& of ferious inten- 
tion. At prefent I fhall forbear to fug- 
geft any thing further, fearing that I have 
already occupied too ine of your efteem- 
ed work; but, if occafion fhouid require 
it, I thall be happy to offer my fenti- 
ments in a more detailed and metho. 
dical_ form. In the mean time, I remain 
‘Your’s, &c. 
Dee.3, 1802. S. H- 
P. S. I have omitted to mention, that 
{carcely any London ftationer keeps a ftock 
of ftamps ealculated to laft more than one 
week, and many of them not for fo long 
atime; thus, it will be perceived, that their 
profits are immenfe. Suppofe a man to begin 
bufinefs with 9]. with that fum he obtains 
ftamps to the value of rol. which he fells ins 
one week, attaching another charge of about 
51. per cent. for paper and parchment; his 
profit, therefore, is nearly fifteen per cent. or 
thirty fhillings. Cenfidertng him to purfue 
this cousfe for every week during the year, 
at the end of it the {mall fum of 9l. his ori- 
ginal capital, will /be increafed to the com- 
paratively enormeus fom of 871. Is there 
then any caufe for wonder, that fuch men 
proiper even in thefe critical times. 
—— 
‘or the Monthly Magazine. 
CANTABRIGIANA.- ~ 
| Continued from page 413, No. 94.] 
No. v.—Tle CONTROVERSY : jetiled by j; 
GREEK PROFESSORS, 
CIR THOMAS SMITH had been. 
S Fellow of Queen’s College, and 
King’s Greek Profeffor ; Sir John. Cheke 
was Fellow of St. Jobn’ s, and Seed 
Smith as Profeffor of Greek. During Ma- 
ry’s reign, as Bp.Gardiner had the power 
ot Chancellor, he could fettle .controver- 
fies, Smith and Cheke were indeed in pof- 
\ 
| Cantabri g7ana. 
« 
(Jan. iy 
{effion of argument ; but Gardiner, who 
_was not the firft man at his pen, could fay, 
‘* Arzument, I rebuke thee, Arguiment.”” 
As foon as argument had fair play again, 
it got the better. This memorable con- 
troverfy, then, concerning the pronuncia- 
tion of the Greek language, was finally 
fettled by two learned publications, writ- 
ten by Smith and Cheke; the former en- 
titled ‘* De Lingue Grac. Pronunciationé : 
imprefs: 1568 5’? the other, ‘* De Lingde 
Gree. Promune. Di/put. cum Stephan. Win- 
terton:°> Roger Afcham called thefe wor- 
thy men ‘* The Stars of the Univerfity of 
Cambridge, who brought Ariftotle, Plate, 
Tully, aud Demofthenes to flourifh as no- 
tably as ever they did in Greece and Ita~ 
ly.’ There is extant, alfo, A Royal. Elegy 
for Edward VI. by Sir John Cheke.- 
Vi.—QUEEN ELIZABETH S PRECEP- 
, TOR. 
Roger Afcham was Fellow of St. John’s, 
and Univerfity-orator, a zealous promo- 
ter of literature at Cambridge. He had 
been pupil to Cheke, and was preceptor to 
Queen Elizabeth. He ufed therefore to 
fay, that he had been pupil to the greateft 
{cholar, and was preceptor to the greateft 
pupil, in England, 
Vil.—A MIRACLE. 
In the year 1388, a ftrange miracle is 
reported to have happened at Cambridge. 
When the Auguftin Friars were ‘carrying 
the hoit about the town, it fuddenly grew 
fo heavy, that it made two of the ftouteft 
of them puff and fweat to fupport it.— 
It added to the wonder, continues -the 
writer who records this miracle,;that, if 
any layman put his hands under it, he felt 
no weight at all. This, fays he, wasa 
Roman, not a Catholic, miracle. Only 
the clergy knew it. iar firft alow it, 
and then felt it. 
Vill—A REASON why MEN \ foould not 
print every THING that they write. 
Thomas Baker, the induftrious anti- 
quary,was fellow of St.John’sCollege. He 
enjoyed his fellowfhip till the acceffion of 
the preient royal family, when, on reful- 
ing to take the oaths, he was ejected. He 
has left behind him. forty-two.volumes of 
manufcripts, all neatly written with his 
own font, He, however, never publifhed 
more than one book of his own, “ Reflec- 
tions cn Leaining,” and that without a 
name. His reafun might be founded oma 
maxim laid down by himfelf, ‘ that, if we 
had fewer books, we fhould have more 
learning.” 
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