the united kingdoms, with an obituary of remarkable characters. The first fasciculus of the long expected Flora Græca of the late ProfessOF SIBTHORP, edited by Dr. SMITH, will make its appearance in a few days. It will consist of 50 plates, beautifully coloured, with descriptive letter-press. This splendid work will form, when completed, ten volumes in folio, containing one thousand figures, executed by Sowerby from the masterly drawings of Mr. Ferdinand Bauer. Mr. P. KELLY, the eminent master of the commercial academy in Fins. bury-square, is preparing with great labour a new and accurate work on exchanges, to be published in one large volume quarto, under the title of the Universal Cambist. He takes for his foundation the work of Kruse, entitled the Hamburgh Contorist, which he has modernized, adapted to the English standard, and considerably enlarged from unquestionable living authorities. Among other numerous and important additions, are new essays of the princi. pal current coins by which the intrinsick par of exchange is determined. The price will not exceed three guineas; and the charge to subscribers will be half-a-guinea less than to the public. The Rev. J. Robinson, master of the grammar school at Ravenstondale, is engaged in a new and complete work on the Antiquities of Greece, similar in design to the Roman Antiquities of Dr. Adams. Besides introducing every thing valuable in the works of Archbishop Potter and others who wrote on Grecian antiquities at a distant period, Mr. Robinson has availed himself of the Travels of Anacharsis, of the works of Stuart, Choiseul Gauffier, Sonnini, Winkleman, and other recent writers and travellers, to enrich his work, and render it useful and desir able to students and admirers of Greek literature. Accounts have been received from the Baptist missionary in Bengal, bearing date November 15, 1805, by which it appears that the converts had increased since the commencement of the year from 34 to 70. Three of the natives are preaching the gospel. The missionaries are proceeding in the translation and printing of the Old and New Testament in four or five eastern languages, and they hope to accomplish the translation into all the languages of the East. In the Antiquarian Society an ac count has been read of the splendid equipage and sumptuary retinue of the Earl of Northumberland, at his em barkation for France in the reign of Henry VIII-The gospel of St. John, in Latin, but written on parchment in Roman characters mixed with Saxon, was exhibited to the society by the Rev. Mr. Milner. This volume is said to be 1,200 years old. A Catalogue of the particulars of the manuscripts, collations, and books; with manuscript notes, of the late James Philip D'Orville, Esq., purchas ed by the University of Oxford in 1805 for £.1025, will shortly be printed. In the course of August last Messrs. Boydell & Co. of London were to pub lish the third edition corrected of Ho garth Illustrated, by J.Ireland, in 3 vols. royal 8vo. This work contains not only an explanation of each print, but numerous anecdotes of that great artist, and the times in which he lived. The 3d volume, compiled from Hogarth's MSS., and con taining upwards of 40 new prints, and a correct list of the numerous variations in his engravings, may be had separate for the completion of sets, to accommodate those who purchased the two first volumes before the third was published. Mr. Cromek intends to publish in the course of the ensuing winter a series of twelve engravings, etched in a very superior style of excellence, by Louis Schiavonetti, from the original inventions of William Blake, illustrative of Blair's popular poem "The Grave." In consequence of the originality of the designs, and the vigorous expression, the work has been honoured with the patronage of the first professors of art in the metropolis, and by the subscriptions of upwards of 250 of the most distinguished amateurs. GERMANY. A splendid edition of the Poetical Works of the celebrated Schiller, with plates, will speedily appear. Sturtz is publishing Mattaire de linguæ grace dialectis opus auctum et emendatum, RUSSIA. A letter has recently been received from M. Rhemann, the physician in the suite of the Russian embassy to China, dated Kiachta on the frontiers of China, October 14th, 1805; in which he says that he has vaccinated a great number of the children of the Moguls. "These people (continues M. Rehmann,) have retained the simple manners and cus toms of their ancestors. They live in tents, and still make use of bows and arrows, which they employ with such dexterity and precision, that when they went out with the Russians of the ambassador's suite they killed six times as much game as the latter, though provided with excellent fowling-pieces." He likewise writes that he has discovered a little portable pharmaceutick collection of Thibet, from which the science of medicine is likely to derive advantage. It consists of sixty different articles, very elegantly wrapped in paper. Among these are some remedies known in Europe; but with a much greater number the botanists attached to the embassy were unacquainted. The latter consist of small fruits, nuts, and some chemical preparations. M. Rehmann has procured a translation of the list of them, which was written in the language of Tangut. He proposes to bring with him some of these collections of medicines, which are much in use among the Bucharians. SWEDEN. STATEMENT OF DISEASES, &c. from Sept. 20 to Oct. 20, 1806. this country. The mercurial practice is employed with ardour by some, and with doubt by others; perhaps this is to be explained by the fact, that it is now and then brilliantly successful, in other cases inefficient, in a few hurtful. This powerful medicine would be more frequently useful, if the principles for its application were understood. The occasional, though cautious, use of catharticks, in a way very similar to that recommended by the judicious Dr. Hamilton, is very well established. Cold water is gradually removing the obstacles opposed to it by the preju dices of the vulgar, and will probably become a common and useful remedy in fevers. The cholera of infants has been more fatal in this, than the last month; but the number of cases not greater. The cow-pock practice increases. THE atmosphere has been clear Interments from Sept. 26 to October 23. during great part of the past month, and the weather cool. Winds from the north-west and north-east. The attention of physicians has been principally called to the autumnal fever yet this disease has not been so common, and far less fatal than in most years. It is right to have it stated; though we are not desirous of making any general inferences from it at present; that the depletion of the sanguifer. ous system is rarely, if ever, resorted to by our physicians; and we suspect that as few die of fever here, in the same number of cases, as in any city of Accident bilious Inf. complaints Diseases not mentioned 3 1 པ་ 2 11 1622111 15 1 1 28 6 2 18 25 15 37 1 THE MONTHLY ANTHOLOGY. NOVEMBER, 1806. BIOGRAPHY. For the Monthly Anthology. LIFE OF RICHARD BENTLEY, D. D. [Continued from page 525.] Τιμιωτατα μεν και πρώτα τα περ την ψυχην αγαθα.-PLAT. de Leg. IV. IN While the establishing of the visitor was in debate, and Bentley's enemies in his college were busily employed in accumulating charges of violation of statutes, &c. &c. his quarrel with the university was finally determined in his favour. Those enemies who had contributed to his degradation now found all their efforts vain, and their machinations defeated, while the publick, in general, were confirmed in their opinion of the Vol. III. No. 11. 3Y illegality and violence of the mea sures, which the university had pursued. With respect to these proceedings a cause was long in agitation at the court of King's Bench*, where the propriety of the vice-chancellor's conduct was disputed. The ministry did not wish to exert their authority any farther on the occasion; but the court reversed the decree of the university, and a mandamus was sent to Cambridge, on the 7th of February, 1728, to order that Mr. Bentley should be restored to all the degrees and honours of which he had been deprived. In the first divinity act, after Dr. Bentley was restored to his degrees, he moderated himself as professor in the publick schools. Dr. John Addenbroke, afterwards Dean of Litchfield, appeared as respondent for the degree of Bachelor of Divinity, who had taken a very active part against Bentley in the senate-house, when his de ed during the conclusion of these disFor a list of the pamphlets publishputes, we must refer to the ingenious Mr. Gough's British Topog. Vol. I. gradation was the subject of debate. His first question was: I. Galei argumenta non valent contra pedobaptismum? The professor objected to the terms of it, because it confined the question to Gale's arguments, and cried out, "Quid nobis cum homuncione Galeo ?" It was observed, afterwards, that the last determination which Bentley had made in the schools before his degradation was on this subject, and that he had said that Gale's arguments need only be considered, as they contained all that could be alleged against infant baptism. The second question was, "Miracula a Christo edita probant ejus divinam missionem?" To the Latinity of this he objected, and said that he had heard of edere librum, edere signum populo: sed quis unquam audivit, edere miracula? Miracula facta sunt non edita. Bentley was undoubtedly right, for we read in Plinyt, " Ludibria sibi, obis miracula, fecit natura; but, adere miracula we do not remember. With respect to the dispute of the members of Trinity College, as the Bishop of Ely declined to act, the society engaged in the cause, and presented a petition to his majesty under the common seal in August, 1728. This was referred to a committee of the privy-counçil, as well as that of the bishop, who petitioned to be heard concerning his right, on the 2d of November. A printed state of the case of Trinity College was delivered to the privy-counsellors previous to the day appointed for a hearing, in which it was stated, that the college, as they wished an immediate examination into their affairs, intreated that his majesty would assume to himself the pow er of visitor. On March the 15th In June the petitioners exhibited their articles before his lordship; but a suspicion arose, that he wished to be accounted general visitor, the master and fellows procured a further hearing in November. The bishop lost his cause ; and in 1731 he moved for a writ of errour, in order to bring it, by appeal, into the house of lords. The crown at last put an end to these disputes, by complying with the petition of the college, and taking the master and the college into its own jurisdiction and visitation. Soon after the restoration of his degrees, Dr. Bentley wrote an anonymous letter to Chishull, with some critical remarks on an inscription to Jupiter Urius, which he had inserted in his Antiquitates Asiatice, and had restored in several passages which Spon and Wheler had published very negligently. Chishull, who was an acute scholar, and a man of solid learning, admitted part of Bentley's corrections, and part he rejected, concluding his letter thus : « Ultimum (sc. Distichon) nunc lubens verto magis ad mentem hujus HerSic enim ex pede culis musarum. ipsum metior, proque accepto habeo, quod qui clava confligere potuit, suaThe Hercules of dela maluit.” the Muses, indeed, he proved himself by his criticism on this epigram. About two years after these letters had passed between the learned Chishull and our British Aristarchus, the marble itself, from which the verses had been copied, was brought into England, and placed in Dr. Mead's collection. On examination, it appeared that the inscription was originally cut in the very same letters which Bentley had conjectured. This remarkable instance of critical sagacity has been recorded and celebrated, by the learned Dr. Taylor, in the preface to his admirable little treatise De inopi debitore in partis dissecando, in which he has given a fac simile of inscription on the marble; and among other short pieces of criticisms, which are subjoined to this work, he has preserved the original letters of Bentley and Chishull. Our great critick's disputes with his college and the university were now finally settled and his real merits, aided by justice and truth, crushed the efforts of faction and malevolence. Those who had envied his erudition and talents, now saw all their schemes defeated. Dr. Bentley, whose degradation they had so strenuously laboured to accomplish, now rose superiour to their little arts,and the publick in general began to view the proceedings of his enemies in their proper light. His duty as royal librarian was rendered agreeable, not only by the nature of his favourite pursuits, but also by the attention which was shewn him by Queen Caroline, who was his constant patroness, and was justly entitled to the elegant compliment which he paid her in his publick speech on creating the Doctor in Divinity. Her Majesty was particularly fond of engaging him in literary disputes with Dr. Clarke, Vir supra nostrum præconium longissime positus, To these amicable contests, Bentley for some time submitted, but as they generally terminated with out either party's deriving much information from then, he declined them, and pleaded his health as an excuse. The instigations of Queen Caroline, as she wished him to publish an English classick, induced Dr. Bentley to undertake his edition of Milton, which appeared in quarto in the year 1732, with two busts of the poet, at different periods of his life, engraved by Vertue. In his preface, he tells us that the mistakes in pointing, or thography, and distinction of capital letters are here carefully corrected. The elision of vowels, and the accent are particularly marked. The verses which have been foisted into the book, by the former editor, are pointed out as spurious, and several lines corrected or interposed by the editor himself, in order to give that appearance of system and consistency, which Milton himself would have done, if he had been able himself to have revised and corrected the whole poem. Such is the account which Bentley gives of his own edition. He then very happily compares Paradise Lost, in its former state, with the defadations of printer and editor, and debased by the malignity of his enemies, to the condition of the beautiful, though poor and illdressed virgin, in Terence's Phormio; ..Ut, ni VIS BONI In ipsa inesset forma, hæc formam extinguerent. He then endeavours to account for the silence of the criticks with regard to the faults which he had pointed out, and thus concludes : "Who durst oppose the universal vogue? and risque his own character, while he laboured to exalt Milton's? I wonder rather, that it is done even now, Had these |