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166 _ Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
the important subject of a General In- 
elosure Bill for Great Britain, 
A gentleman of Aberdeen, recently 
deceased, has, by his will, directed his 
executors to offer a sum of not.less than 
4#200/. for the best treatise on “ The evi- 
dence that there is.a Being, all-powerful, 
wise, and good, by whom every thing ex- 
istss, and, particularly, to obviate diffi- 
culties regarding the wisdom aud good. 
ness of the Deitys and this, in the first 
Place, from considerations independent 
ef written Revelation; and, in the second 
place, from Revelation; and from the 
whole to point out the inferences most 
necessary for, and useful to, mankind.” 
‘he ministers of the established church 
of Aberdeen, the principalsand professors 
ef King’s and Marischal colleges of Aber- 
deen, and the trustees of the testator, are 
appointed to nominate and make choice 
ef three judges, who are to decide, after 
the tst of January, 1814, upon the com- 
parative excellences of such treatises as 
shall be laid before them. There is also 
Feft, by the same testator, a further sum, 
mot exceeding 400/. for a treatise on the 
same subjects, which shall be thought, 
pursuant to the same decision, next in 
merit to the first-premiam treatise. 
The Hulsean premium has been ad- 
judged to the Rev. William Heath, fel- 
how of King’s college, Cambridge, for his 
dissertation “On the advantage of diffi- 
eulties in religion ; or an attempt to show 
the good effects which result, or which 
might result,from the proofs of Revelation 
being of a probable, rather than of a 
éemonstrative, kind.” 
The late Bishop of: London, a short 
time before his death, direcied that all 
the graduates, as well as under-graduates, 
ef Christ college, Cambridge, should, in 
future,beadmitted to becandidates for the 
two annual gold medals which he has given 
for ever. The subjects for the present 
year are, fer the Latin dissertation: 
“ Beatitudo humana ndn pendet tantum- 
modo ex hac vita, sed expectanda estalia.” 
For the English— Abstain from fleshly 
lusts, which waragainst the soul.”—1 Per. 
> £ . 
nh. 14, 
bir. Spencer Smirz, late minister ple- 
Mipotentiary at the Ottoman Porte, and 
brother of Sir Sidney, has presented the 
university of Cambridge with two very 
valuable Greek marbles, to be added to 
the collection in the vestibule: namely, 
the body of an amphora, about three feet 
hi length, from the shores of the. Pro- 
pontis; and a votive tablet, or cippus, 
from Cyzicus, The first exhibits. bas 
> - 
[March rf, 
relief in a very high style of ancient 
sculpture, which is remarkable for the 
pileus, or Athenian hat, still worn by pa- 
triarchs of the Greek church; and of 
which, only one other representation is 
preserved in ancient sculpture, *_ 
The following subjects are proposed 
for the Chancellor’s prizes at Cambridge, 
viz.—-For Latin verses:  Pyramides 
Egy ptiace.”—For an English essay:““What 
are the arts, in the cultivation of which 
the moderns have been less successful 
than the ancients?”—for a Latin essay : 
“In Philosophia que de Vita et Moribas 
est illustranda, quenam precipué Ser- 
monum Socraticerum fuit eéxcellentia ?” 
Tue first of the above subjects is intend- 
ed for those gentlemen. of the university 
who have not exceeded four years from 
.the tine of their matriculation ; and the 
other two for such as have exceeded four, 
‘but not completed seven years, 
Sw Roger Newoprcare’s prize, for the 
best composition in English verse, not 
containing more than fifty lines, by any 
under-graduate who has not exceeded 
four years from the time of his matricula- 
‘tion: “TheStatue ofthe Dying Gladiator.” 
The late Dr, Su1ti’s two prizes of 257, 
each, for the best proficients in mathe. - 
matics and natural philosophy, among 
the commencing bachelors of arts of 
Cambridge, were adjudged to Messrs. 
William Henry Maule, and Thomas Shaw: 
Brandreth, of Trinity college, the first 
and second wranglers. POR Ia 
The subjects for Sir William Browne’s. 
three gola medals for the present year, 
ave, for the Greek ode— 
g AD REGEM. f 
Serus in celum redeas, diuque’ 
Lztus intersis. populo. 
Latin ode— 
Injuriarum Africanarom finis, 
Greek epigram— Be ve 
Bicliomania. © 
Latin epigram— 
— Brevis esse laboro, 
Obscurvs fio, By Sy by ay 
One of the most remarkable facts in 
the history of geography, is communicas 
ted by letters conveyed in the last ships” 
from the Cape of Good,Hepe. The 
island of Bossen, or Penguin, sometimes 
called Seal Island, at the western extre- 
mity of Table Bay, bas entirely disap-° 
peared beneath the waters. An earth- 
quake was felt at Cape Town, in Decem= 
ber, only two leagues distant, by which. 
sume damage was occasioned to the. 
houses, but we do not find that any lives 
were lost at that place; and it is suppos 
sed that the convulsion extended to Bos= 
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