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too general terms of the learning of King 
James. As Cole {poke like a high-prieft 
jn reference to Robinfon, fo did Robin- 
fon fpeak like a too zealous diffenter of 
James. 
Thefe are Robinfon’s words alluded to 
by Cole: “* He, (King James), pretend - 
ed to LEARNING and religion, but was 
deftitute of both—and was an iguorant, 
contemptible, tyrant. He was the au- 
thor of all the calamities of his fon’s reign, 
and has been the fcorn of every impartial 
writer fince.” But it fhould be under- 
ftood, that thefe are but leading hints ina 
fyllabus of lectures, and that Robinfon 
comes forward as the, advocate of that 
party, of which James was the invariable 
perfecutor, the Puritans. Againft what 
Robinfon fays of James, let us place what 
James fays in a letter to his fon Charles, 
entitled Swpo Caciasnov. “ Nec patere, fi 
pacate vivere decreveris, ut hi eadem te-_ 
cum patria fruerentur, nifi forte patientize 
ergo, ut Socrates vixit cum Xantippe.”’ 
This is from Bihop Montacute’s Latin 
Tranflation of James’s Works, which, 
not having at hand the original Englifh 
-work, we turn back again into plain 
Englifh, thus: Nor fuffer thefe men, that 
is, the whole body of Diflenters, if you re- 
foive to live in peace, to enjoy the fame 
country with yourfelf, unlefs for the fake 
of trying your patience, as Socrates lived 
with Xantippe. 
But afer all, that as a prince, James 
was weak, vain, bigoted, and intolerant, 
cannot be denied, even by Hume, who 
was difpofed to be his apologift, as far as 
decency permitted. 
From the hint dropped by Cole, rela- 
tive to verfes by James, let no reader con- 
found James I. and V. of Scotland with 
James I, King of Great Britain. The 
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Life of General Von Zeiten. 
“6 ‘Tyreafon! Treaflon!”’ 
[Feb.1, 
former were real poets, the latter was 
only a jangler. 
I will no janglings put in verfe, 
Such as fome janglers do rehearfe. 
SIR DAVID LINDSAY'S PAPINGO, &¢. 
While {peaking of King James we are 
reminded of a circumftance, which whe- 
ther it favours moft of vanity or humour 
we fhall not determine. It is referred to 
by Dr. Peckard, late mafter of Magdalen 
College, in his life of Mr. Farrer. When 
James was hearing the Latin play of Ig- 
noramus, performed (either at Newwmar- 
ket or Cambridge) he called out aloud 
The gentlemen 
about him, being anxious to know what 
difturbed his Majefty, he faid, *‘ that the 
writer and performers had a¢ted their parts 
fo well, that he fhould die of laughter.” 
Tenoramus, we have obferved before, was 
written to rally the law Latin of thofe 
times; but had alfo a more infidious de- 
fign, which was, to bring the common laws 
of the land into contempt. That James 
was an enemy to the common law may be 
feen in Bifhop Hurd’s excellent Dialogues 
on the Englifh Conftitution. EDR. 
P.S. In anfwer to » who objects 
to our ufe of the word Socinian, as applied 
to Dr. Jebb, and others, we reply that, we 
only adopted it to exprefs one idea, the fimple 
humanity of Chrift, the leading doctrine of 
Socinus. We are not ignorant that in other 
refpects Dr. Jebb and others were not pro- 
perly Socinians, as they held few fentiments 
in common with Socinus, In reply to J. W. 
we obferve, that we are by no means advo- 
cates for conceit, or contempt of difcipline 
and authority in young men. But we think 
the affair of the Oxford expulfion was carried 
too far; nor are we aware of the exiftence of 
a ftatute, that authorifed the éxpulfion of the 
young men for maintaining and propagating 
their methodiftical tenets. =~ baits 
' MEMOIRS OF EMINENT PERSONS. 
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LIFE of GENERAL VON ZIETEN. 
OHN Joachim Von Zicten was born at 
the village of Wuftrau, at about eight- 
and-twenty miles diftant from Berlin, on 
the 18thday of May, in theyear 1699. His 
father was a country gentleman of fmail 
eftate ; which was, however, not unequal 
to his wants, till he was, by litigious and 
over-reaching - neighbours, entangled in 
‘fame expenfive lawiuits. His mother was 
E. C. Von Jurgas, daughter of a refpect- 
able family of equal condition. Of their 
children, John Joachim and four daughters 
~ 
lived to mature years. There was an 
other fon, who died in infancy. 
From his earlieft years, as he ufed him- 
felf, in old age, to relate, young Von 
Zieten felt a {trong paffion to be a toldier, 
and to raife the fortunes of his family. 
Every foldier that happened to pafs through 
Wuitrau, was to him an objeét of admi- 
ration. At nine years of age, he accui- 
tomed himfelf to walk every Saturday te 
the garrifon-town of Ruppen, a diftance of 
about four Englith miles, there to have 
his hair dyefled in the military fafhion, 
j with 
