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The following cutious paffage relative 
fo the burial of Bucer is extracted from 
King Edward VIth’s Journal, fubjoined 
to Burnet’s Hiltory of the Reformation, 
vol.2.: 
‘© Feb. 28.—The ee man Bucerus 
died’ at Cambridge, who was, ten days 
after, buried in St. Mary’s Church, at 
Cambridge, all the whole univerfity, with 
the whole town, bringing him to his 
grave, to the number of three thoufand 
perfons. Alfo there was an oration of 
Mr. Haddon,.made very eloquently, at his 
death, anda fermon cf Dr. Parker: after 
that, Matter Redman made a third fermon; 
which tiree fermons made the peeple 
wonderfully to lament his death. Laft of 
ail, all the learned men of the unviverfity 
made their epitaphs in his praife, laying 
- them on his grave.’ 
Paul Fagius, of whom mention was 
jut made, ws appointed Hebrew profef- 
for at the time Bucer was chofen profeflor 
of divinity. He died in the univerfity 
the November preceding the death of 
Bucer. , 
NO. CCXVI—BUCER NOT A JEW. 
We jufl notice, that the Bucerifm men. 
tioned by Bayle, in his Ditionary, as 
diftinguifhed from Calvinifim, relates to 
fome circumftances of difcipline and mo-- 
deration, ia which Bucer might very eafily- 
exceed Calvin. This the Latin works 
alluded to amply fhew—that however li- 
beral he might be, predeftination was the 
marrow of his divinity. The report alfo 
meutioned by Bayle, of his bécoming a 
Tew, is difcountenanced by the tenor of 
his writings, and his behaviour at 
death. He might be born of Jewith pa- 
rents, but he feems to have died a Chrif. 
tian. For wecan hardly think, that a 
man of Bucer’s chara€ter would’act with 
fuch duplicity fora profefforfhip ; or that 
he could fo devoutly play the hypocritein 
his laf moments. 
WO. CCXVII.—=LINES WRITTEN BY THE 
, REV. MR. LE. OF TRINITY COLLEGE, 
TO THE LATE MISS ALDERSON (NOW 
_ MRS. OPIE), ON READING {N MANU- 
SCRIPT HER EPISTLE FROM CARO- 
LINE TO HENRY. 
How much with the tale-has my mind been 
perplex’d ! 
In wonder one moment, in pity the next ; 
Admiring, if ferrows fo-tuneful could flow 
From ‘the aid of ifivention, a ftranger to 
woe— - 
But—if from thy feelings—alas! I repine 
To think~that the ae fo tortui'd was 
thine 
Letter fr am Mr. ‘Thelwall 
fome months age. © 
[May Ty - 
No. COXXVIIT. - 
And here clofés our Chneah sates, 
which .we hope we may conclude nearly as 
Demophilus, the Platonift, clofes, the firft _ 
book of his Similitudes— 
Meteov agiroy, Edn Tig Fwv cobww" w ls 
Hat npeess ae dc AYU AUT CHMEV 6 
Moderation is the beft, faid one of the 
wife men ; in obeying which ie us put an 
end to our fervices. , 
Should any more Cantalaiapne follow, 
they wall be done he another handy 
He io 
-P.S. Agreeably to a hint Sordaeky dropped, 
the writer made a few remarks on Mr. Tooke’s 
Diverftons of Purley, and Mr. Whiter’s Ety= 
mologicum Magnum, ina former Cantabrigiana. 
But during a long abfence from town, they 
were miflaid, he. fuppofes, by- the _ printers 
and accordingly were fupplied by another 
writer in a different part of this Rineaaih, * 
J 
To the Editor of the Monibly Magazine. 
SER, 
HE liberal notice you have repeated= 
ly taken of my public labours, for 
the improvement of our National Elocution, 
and the removal of Impediments of Speech, 
(even while my undertaking was yet in 
its infancy, and my plan was imperfeétly 
developed)~has frequently occafioned me 
(fiace my projeét has been moré matured} _ 
to look, with anxiety, for fome opportu- 
nity of more precife communication on the 
fubject. It is not, indeed, any part of my 
plan to publifh in detached portions thofe _ 
difcoveries (if fuch IT may. prefume to call — 
them) which can only be juftly appreciated — 
in their conneétion as a whole; yet fome 
of the epifodes, perhaps, there are, which 
might have awakened curiofity, and con-. 
vinced the world—that there is fomething 
more in the fcience and faculty of orl tx 
preflion than was likely to be difcover 
or imparted by the ordinary modgs of en- 
quiry and tuition:—as the connection, for 
exaniple, between the fciences of Phyfios — 
logy and Mufic, and the phyfical caufe of / 
the fatisfaétion received by the human ear’ 
fromm fuch founds, exclufively, as are re- 
ducible to the ftated proportions of com- 
mon and triple time*. This part of my 
‘Le@ures 
* Mr. Jofhua Steele, in the only valuable 
work I have met with on the fubje& of Eng- 
ut 
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lith elocution (Se Profodia Rationalis, or a ‘4 
Treatife on the Meafure and Melody of ~ 
Speech’) obferves, (p. 26.) <¢ that either a 
tune or a difcourfe will give fome unealinefs, 
or at leaft not be quite fatisfadtory to nice ears, ia 
if its Whole duration be not meafured by am 
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