1804.] 
The Greek, which is a pleafing fpeci- 
men of the Greek epigram, in the Antho- 
logia, differing from the Englifh, is as 
follows ; “ 
Ad Mufcam. 
Ailaren, pidoxaue, Tavumiege, Teemreo mui, 
TEyrto vexTape2 yeuramern TOAATOSG. 
LUAM6Ey TU/ATIE, AVIA, Ket EVSEDAVOLO AVTEAAB 
Expopew Corovwy Tov prerupuproy o7ov. 
Ak o° EU ppicuvsig AaOiandecr Guprov sasved” 
Méxets ea Grove rep oAsryoxgoviey. 
TMEneinog Croc wuts Teeg Bios wea Wepevye, 
Kiivo.at autos owe Mas CU eapasvorrercg: 
Kut yop t¢ sinkavra, mapeanomevoy Autabavrag 
Ev Qeoog avfeorray ou wager, ese Coe 
Elnxol’ evemy tax2wg magamenpitar acydn, 
Expevyé: 0’ Eng avbener, mome ovxp, 
CLXXVI.—sYLLABUS of LECTURES on 
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY, by mr, 
INGRAM, FELLOW of QUEEN’S COL- 
LEGE. : 
Tt is allowed by all that the univer- 
fity of Cambridge is liberally fupplied 
with protefforfhips in the different {ciences; 
and that the pro/eflurs have generally 
been men diftingyifhed tor talents and 
learning. The pro‘efforfhips are as fol- 
lows: three for the different faculties, 
Jaw, phytic, and, divinity, called King’s 
profefforfips ; Lady Margaret’s in divi- 
mity; a profeflorfhip in cafuiftry ; in He- 
brew, Arabic, and Greek; in chemiftry, 
botany, anatomy, experimental philofo- 
phy, and modern hiftcry. To thefe mut 
be added, Lady Sadler’s profeflorfhip for 
algebra, Mr. Norris’s of divinity, and a 
profeflorthip in mufic. It is, however, 
worthy of notice, that there is none for 
ftariftics, or political economy, at Cam- 
bridge. 
The fame defeét may be noticed in the 
univeriity of Paris, at leaft when Diderot 
and D’Alembert publifhed their Difion- 
naire raifonné. In the article College 
there is an account of the feveral arts and 
fciences taught in that univerfity, as well 
as of the mode of education. The fub- 
ject is divided into five parts, but no men- 
tion is made of political philofophy, as 
being a branch of any one. It may, there- 
fore, be prefumed, that for political phi- 
lofophy there was no provifion at Paris ; 
and it is worthy of obfcrvation, that the 
writer of the article College, though ani- 
madverting with fufficient ieverity on other 
defects, leaves this altogether unnoticed, 
Mr. Ingram, fellow .of Queen’s, per- 
ceiving that the ftudy of political econo- 
my was thus left without public encou- 
Cantabrigiana. 
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347 
ragement at Cambridge, made a propofal 
to fupply the defeét; and publifhed, in 
1799, a ‘* Syllabus; or, Abftra& of a 
Syitem of Political Philofophy ; together , 
with a Differtation, recommending that the 
Study of Political economy be encouraged 
in the Univerfities, and that a Courfe of 
Public Leétures be delivered on that Sub- 
je&.”” He announced his own willing- 
nefs to undertake ihis office, fhould he 
meet with proper encouragemert. It 
muft be acknowledged that this Syllabus 
is the work of a mind penetrating and 
judicious, habituated to philofophte re~ 
fearches, and ftored with various informa- 
tion. It does not, however, appear that 
the fervices of Mr. Ingram were accepted 
by the univerfity. . 
With all refpeé for the fuperior abili- 
ties and ‘attainments of this gentleman, 
we cannot help exprefling an opinion, that 
fuch encouragement is hardly to be ex- 
pected in thefe times, and, perhaps, 
fcarcely to be wifhed. When it is recol- 
leted, that our univerfities were founded 
in times not favourable to (uch inquiries 5 
that they have fince taken fomewhat more 
ofa corporation-form, and been fubjected 
too much to unreafonable reftrictions, it 
is not to be fuppofed that political fcience 
can have free courfe there. Why the 
Scotch and German univerfities encourage 
lectures on ftatiftics, while they are dif- 
couraged in the Englifh, might be ac- 
counted for very eafily. 
The truth is, till our academical par- 
liament (the fenate) fhall throw open the 
gates of the univerfity, and the liberality 
and benevolence of fucceeding princes re- 
move the fhackles impofed by a former 
monarch, political fcience cannot appear 
in her genuine character. Forgetting her 
origin and true deftination, fhe will be 
overruled by authority or intereft, and 
{cience be compelled to give way to ex- 
pedience. The other {ciences thrive well 
in our univerfities: Political economy 
‘flourifhes beft. in the world; and, like 
Triptolemus of old, to borrow an idea 
from Lucian’s Dream, had better {catter 
her feed over the face of the earth. 
CLXXVII—=LINES Jy SIR WILLIAM 
‘JONES. . 
Sir William Jomes was a Mafter of Arts 
of Emanuel; a man as amiable as he 
was learned. Notice was juft fince taken 
of his Specimen Poefews Afiatice. The 
following delicious lines were his compo- 
fition ; and the infertion of them here .e- 
Z2 quire 
