1804.) 
er of all his meafures. _ He is allowed to 
be an excellent fcholar, though he has 
never publifhed any thing, except two fei- 
mons, on the Creation cf all Things by 
Jefus Chrift ; and the Refurreétion of the 
Dead by the Man Chrift Jefus. No one 
is better, if fo well acquainted with the 
Jaws and cuftoms of the Univerfity, as well 
as of particular Colleges, in which he has 
been for a long feries of years a more con- 
ftantly refident member, than any other 
academic, though without holding any 
of its emoluments : for notwithftanding 
the freedom of his fentiments in regard 
to the church, no one fecls 2 more duriful 
and con{cientious veneration for alma 
mater. 
——E:0e aailes of vasours oe, 
DvtTw pirosey we eyw kar YE padiorg 
Oitoiney av re, xcudev av Gacyos Haney, 
EuRiPIDEs. 
CXXVII.—MR. WILLIAM FREND. 
This gentleman was firft of Chrift’s 
College, and afterwards became fellow 
and mathematical tutor of Jefus, where he 
reputably gave leétures for {ome time, and 
was underftood to be diligently employed 
in the ftudy of the Hebrew Scriptures, in- 
tending to have furnifhed, in conneétion 
with fome other gentleraen, his portion to- 
wardsanew Tranflation of the Old Teftaz 
ynent. . 
Mr. Frend firft excited fome oppofition 
at Cambridge by two or three pamphlets 
againft the Athanafian dof&rines, which 
were circulated in Cambridge. 
pofition, however, was, at firft, only in 
fermons, at St. Mary’s church, which oc- 
cafioned Mr. Frend, in return, to publith 
a feries of critical pamphlets, 
Suffice it juft to hint in regard to thefe 
matrers, that the doétrines propagated by 
this gentleman were Unitarizn, in contradif. 
tinétion to the Trinitarian: for the Arian 
and Trinitarian are not to be underftood,as 
tho’ they meant to expunge the unity from 
their creeds. But we mutt confine our at- 
tention to the circumfances of Mr. Frend’s 
trial. 
The proceedings, then, againft this learned 
and valuable perfon in Jelus College ; his 
trialin the Vice Chancellos’s Court; and his 
final banifliment from the Univerfity, in 
1793, were occafioned by his writing a 
pamp let entitled, ** Peace and Union, re- 
commended to the aflociated bodies of Re- 
publicans and Anti-repubjicans;”” and for 
_ publifhing the fame within the precincts 
“of the Univerfity. — 
_ The pamphlet was attached by twenty~- 
feven Members of the Univerfity, for of- 
fending againft a grace pailed in the-year 
Cantabrigiana} 
This op-. 
531. 
1603, and other laws oftheUniverfity. Mr.” 
Frend, totheiraftonifhment, proved thatthe 
erace did not exilt; contended that he was 
not tried before the proper tribunal; and 
refufing to fubferibe a recantation pro- 
pofed to him, was banifhed fromthe Uni. 
verfity. This recantation, he contended, 
did not flate, as it ought to have done, 
the opinions which he was to recant, The- 
fenate-houfe was crowded oa the occa- 
fion, and great intereft was excited, both 
from the length of the trial and the parties 
concerned in it. A great point of which 
Mr. Frend complained earneftly was, that 
his profecutors met at the houfe of tha 
judge, and that, in faét, his judges and 
profecutors were one and the fame party. 
Mr. Frend met with very refpectable 
fuppert. The undergraduates feem to have 
taken fide with him, and during his trial, 
which was in the fenate-houfe, expreffed 
their approbation by clapping of handss 
He was alfo publicly countenanced by 
many very learned members of the Uni. 
verfity; Mr. Tyrwhitt, of Jefus; Mr, 
Jones, and Mr. Lambert, of Trinity 5 and 
R, Reynolds, Efq. cf Paxton, were among 
the number. In his own c.llege the tel- 
lows were divided, fix being agatnft him 
and four for him; and by the laws of the 
cullege, according to Mr. F.'s opinion, a 
majority of the fellows, or nine, was re- 
quefted to decide upon the peointin difs 
pute. All the particulars. of the proceed- 
ings of Jefus College; the trial in the 
Vice Chancellor’s court; Mr,Frend’s very 
acute Defence ; his appeal to the Court of . 
Delegates, together with Mr, Frend’s 
Addiefs to the Houfe of Commons, 
were publifhed by the defendant in 1793. 
Mr. Frend is the author of feveral publica- 
tions on algebra, fub{cription, finance, &c. 
CXXVIIT. MISCELLANEOUS. 
The Cantabrigiana does not pro- 
perly relate to matters out of the Uni-. 
verfity. We fhall,*however, take the 
liberty of juit mentioning the names of 
of a few Cambridge géntiemen diftinguifh. 
ed for talents and learning, who have pio- 
pagated the fame principles in the world, 
Mr. Emlyn, entered of Emanuel, in 
1679, and who afterwards fettled in Ire- 
land. 
Dr. S. Clarke of Caius. This gentle- 
man altered the Liturgy, fo as to adopt it 
to more general principles... This Livurgy 
is now inthe Museum. 
Dr., John Jackfon, the chronologift, ad 
mitted of Jetus in 1702. He detended Dr. 
Clarke’s famous book on the Trinity. 
Dr. John Jortin formerly Fellow of 
Jefus, author of the Life of Eratimus, 
ke 
