will they fhould ever be laid before the 
public. But this, if we may judge. from 
his notes on publications, prefented to him 
by his beft triends, they are utterly unfit 
for; fince characters formed frem fuch 
fireng ues and prejudices as he was 
perpetually actuated by, can never be: 
drawn with any degree of exaCtne{s ; and 
‘ithe misfartune is, that thefe, with all the 
little tales of {candal of the univerfity, 
town, and country, for halfa century pat, 
are {o blended with his other coilections, 
(however valuable in themfelves; they can 
fearce be feparated: fo that, probably, 
fiom this c.rcimitance alone, the labours 
of his whole life wiil be fuffered to fink 
jnto oblivion, and nothing lJeft to fupport 
hismemory but that fool lith monument of 
his vanity, ordered by will to be ereéted 
eyer his remains. And the attempt to 
keep thefe characters from the public, till 
the fubjects of them fhall be no mere, 
deems to be peculiariy cruel and ungene- 
rous, fince it is precluding them frem vin- 
dicaiing themfelves from fuch injurious 
afperfions, as their friends, perhaps, hew- 
ever willing, may at that diitance of time 
be incapable of removing. The above. 
cenfure may, perhaps, be thought fevere ; 
but the editor, well acquainted with the 
ficklene{s of his difpefition for more than 
forty years, avers it to he well-grounded ; 
and thinks it incumbent upon him tous to 
pubith it to the world to prevent any mif- 
chiefs that, may arile hereafter from his 
unwarrantable prejudices. 
But it may be remarked, perhaps, by 
- readers, regardlef{; of the veuonvd bites, 
or the grave, malignant faws of jealous- 
pated authors, thar brother-artits, brother- 
pocts, brother-antiquaries, andall brothers 
of the fame craft, feldom overload the feale 
with compliments, or can indeed afford to 
give juit and full meafure to each otbct. 
J N \ 
Kat begeuc beCEs KOTLEL, HOLE HOLIOS BOLI, 
A 
=y ee 5 eta L 
Kee HELELIMEUS KECOLLLEb. Hejiod. 
Prieft hates the prieft, each poet fcorns his 
brother, 
And antiquaries * joftle one another. 
And fo a truce for the prefent with 
Mr. William Cole, and Cambridge anti- 
quaries. 
LXXV.—-BISHOP NEWTON’S REMARK 
RELATIVE fo the ENGLISH FOETS. 
The following remark. is quoted more 
en account of ifs locaireference, the rea- 
lity of the faét, and its fuitablenefs to our 
* An accommodation, 
lation. 
Cantabri 21nd. 
rather than a tranf-. 
[Aug. 1, 
prefent purpofe, thar as exhib ting any 
thing wondeiful, or even remaikable, be- 
yond wha .we ondiner ily meet with in an 
ace dental cccurrence ; fuch has been al-: 
Seg noticed in the cafe of he biihops 
and Puritans who were educated in the 
fanie college. 
- Bilhop Newton biviere ves, in his Life of 
Milton, “ if is remarkable, that though 
the merits of both the Univertities are 
perhaps equaily great, and though poeti- 
eal exerciles are rather more encouraged. 
at Oxford, yet mof of our greatelt poets 
have been bred at Cambridge, as Speniery 
Cowley, Waller, Diyden, Prior, not to 
mention any of the lefie: ones, when there 
is a greater than all, Milton!” The Bi- 
fhop thould, in due order, have di ireGed 
us firft to Chaucer: but, guided by the 
above remark, we will tteer our courie, 
next month among the Cambridge poets. 
LXXV1.—DR. RICHARDSON. 
Dr. Burton, of Oxford, was once din- 
ing with Dr. Richardfon, a late Mafter of 
Emanuel, and editor of Godwin de Pre- 
fuliobus Anglia: the latter, when the cheefe 
was brought on table, like a true Cam- 
bridge-man, began to be full of the 
prailes of * Cottenham-cheefe, ‘* Dr. 
Burton, (faid Richardfon) you know 
we are famous for our Cottenham-cheefes 5" 
and this, I think, is as excellent a one as 
was ever fet upon a table.”’ ‘* 1 do not 
perceive (faid Burton) any thing: extraole 
dinary in this cheefe, Doétor.” “ Do 
you not ? (continued Richardfon) I with 
you would fend mea better.”? “ I will 
engage fo todo, (faid Burton) and if Ido 
not, Dr. Richardfon, I will eat it.’ 
LXXViL—MR., BURKITT. 
Mr. William Burkitt, author of a 
Prafical Expofition of the New Tetta- 
ment, and other religious books, was a 
facetious, as well as a ferious man. He 
was ‘educated at Cambridge, and after- 
wards became Minifter of Dedham, in 
Effex. Going one Sunday. to church, from 
the leéture-houfe, (the miniffer’s refidence 
is fo called) he met an old Cambridge 
friend, who was coming to give him a cait 
before fermon. After the ac cutbaraell fae 
lutations, Burkitt told his friend, that as 
he had intended him the favour of @ vifit, 
his parifhioners would expect the favour of 
a fermon. ‘The clergyman exculed him- 
felf, by faying he had no fermon with: 
him : but, on jooking at Burkitt’s ee 
* Cottennham is a village a few miles front 
Cambridge, celebrated for its excellent 
checfe. he ' 
and 
