¥804. } 
the plan, independently of other confide- 
rations, it is more than probable, that the 
refolutions would have pafled ; for feveral 
who voted againit them ‘had declared, 
without referve,their approbation of them. 
But it is not our bufinefs to enter into the 
merits of this queftion, nor into the rea- 
fonablenefS or unreafonablenefs of the ob- 
jections. 
Oux av 3y Tpwas prey eacaisy nar Aya 
Magvac8”, “ommoregoies wa7np Leug xudog cpehn; 
Nor de xolwpecda, Hom. 
Dr. Jebb appears to have been an ami- 
able as well as a learned man, and was 
very much etleemed inthe univerfity, not- 
withitanding his reitlels, reforming {pirit, 
for he poffefled the zeal.of Whifion, with- 
out his eccentricities. In regard to his 
general views, Dr. Difney, the author of 
his Life, judicioufly obferves ; “ Ft may 
be thought by fome perfors, who have 
ufed to confound academical foundations 
with monaftic inflitutions, that the difputes 
in the univerfity may be of no mcre con- 
fequence, than the brawls and contentions 
of monks and friars; but, when they re- 
colle&t, that, in Mr. Jebb’s idea, the uni- 
verfities were to be caonfidered ina more 
important view, as foundations protected 
by the legiflature, and refponfibie to the 
public for a mof sacred truft, the eduea- 
tion of the youth deftined to occupy the 
firft departments in every profeliion in the 
ftate, can-we wonder at his zeal and per- 
feverance in a caule foeffential to this great 
purpofe, and fo frequifite in a place, 
where ftatef{men, patriots, citizens are 
formed ?”” 
It will be readily believed, that altera- 
tions propofed bya manofDr, Jebb’s talents 
and energy, and fupported by fome of the 
able(t men inthe Univerfity, would ocecafion 
fome butilea: Cambridge. Farmer,* Halli- 
fax, and their friends, were firenuous for 
Church and State, apprehending, that both 
were in eminent peril; that the introduc- 
tion of febb’s plan within the walls of the 
univerfity, would prove another Trojan 
herfe, and caufe a general devaitation. 
Tunc etiam fatis aperit Caflandra futuris 
Ora. VIRG. 
Powell, the Mafter of St. John’s, though 
he adminiftered a wholefome feverity in 
his own college, was averfe to making 
experiments on alma mater, conceiving, 
probably, that they might operate like a 
too powerful cathartic, and reduce her to 
© Dr, Farmer, afterwards mafter of Emanuel. 
+ Hallifax, afterwards Bithop of Gloucefter, 
Cantabrigianas 
5a 
a fkeleton.  Law,* Paley, + Watfen st 
‘Tyrwhitt,|| Plumprtre,§ and Lambeit, &e. 
were in earneft cn the other fide. They 
thought that public annual examimations 
would be a falutary mediciae, and im- 
prove the conftitution of the univerfity. 
Many luerary fkirmifhes, as might be ex 
pected, enfued, and.much fmall thot was 
dif{charged on both fides. One. tract, enti- 
thed, ** A Letter to the Author of an 
Obfervaiion,’” written by Dr. Powel, was 
replied to, and with much point, by 
a_lady, under the fignature or Prif> 
cilla,f+ who had fo fmartly handled Dr. 
Hallitax, in the public papers, as to make 
the prefent Archdeacon Paley fay, “ that 
the Lord had fold Sifera into the hands of 
a woman.” 
Ovret ap HYEAOVES Aaveey Mab KOLedvos Now. 
Hom, 
CXXIV. BISHOP WATSON. » 
_ Dr. Watfon was fellow and tutor of | 
Trinity College, and is the prefent Regius 
Profeflor of Divinity. 
Of the minutie of this gentleman’s 
creed we are ignorant ; nor are weaware, 
that they are before the public. On that 
fubjr€t, therefore, we are filent. But re- 
collecting his attachment to the reformers 
in Cambridge, and his extraordinary li- | 
berality to all parties in his Theological 
Tracts, publithed while .he was at Cam-. 
bridge, we cannot fcruple to affign him 
a place among the Cambridge-refor-. 
mers. 
When Dr. Watfon prefided as Regius 
Profefflor in the Divinity {chools, two 
gentlemen of acknowledged talents and 
learning, fuppofed to favour the doétrines 
of the methodifts, were opponents on the 
doctrine of juftification. Previoully to the 
debate, the Profeflor addrefled himfelf to 
the difputants, complimenting their un- 
derftanding, and exprefling his thorough 
conviction of their acquaintance with all 
the forms, and the fubjeét, of debate; he- 
clofed with observing, that he fhould, on 
this occafion, not confider himfelf under 
any neceffity to interfere as moderator, 
but fhould fit a filent liftener to the ar- 
guments; for that the two gentlemen were, 
* Afterwards Bifhop of Carlifle. 
+ Prefent Archdeacon of Carlifle. 
" f Prefent Bithop of Landaff, 
|| Mr. Robert Tyrwhitt, of Jefus College. 
§ Or. Plumptre, Mafter of Queen’s. 
** Mr. Lambert, Greek Profeflor at the 
time. : 
+t Suppofed te be Mrs. Jebb, 
et 
