The Earl of Chesterfield and Sir James Marriott both wrote poetry. Sir J. M. also printed a single volume of poems.

Sir Walter Haddon, master, L. L. D. though the last in our list, might, for his eminent qualities, have been placed the first. He was first of King's. He was a learned civilian, a prudent statesman, a powerful orator, and an elegant Latin poet. Such was Sir W. Haddon. Queen Elizabeth made him one of her masters of requests; and he stood conspicuous among the revivers of literature. Elizabeth being asked, whom she preferred as a Latin poet, Buchanan or Haddon, escaped the suspicion of partiality by the following happily evasive reply.

"Buchananum omnibus antepono, Haddonum nemini postpono."

The library of this college contains a Complete Body of the Canon, Roman, and Common Law. The garden is small, but the site agreeable., Students may complain, that after toiling over ponderous tomes of canonists and civilians, they find there no il reposo, not so much as a Diogenes's tub to sit and sulk in.

a See Dodsley's Collection, Laura.

b Hatcher's MS. of King's College.

See Lloyd's Statesmen, &c. of England, p. 442.

QUEEN'S COLLEGE.

NOTHING," it is said, "is new under the sun;" and nothing is more changeable than man: truths so obvious, as to seem almost truisms, yet, in the practice of statesmen so strangely perplexed, and uniformly contradicted, as to appear palpable falsehoods. Let us, for a moment, forget statesmen, who, while clamorous about the public good, are apt not to forget their own.

It has appeared to me, on contemplating the state of religious opinion in this society, that none in the University has been so remarkable and prominent, for variety, as Queen's. Fisher, and Erasmus, and Bullock, were zealous for free-will, against Luther: Dr. Davenant's works, in King James's reign, were high Calvinism, and left that society Calvinists: Mr. John Smith's lectures, a few years after, brought it back to free-willa. In the time of Dr. Plumptre, the late master, it inclined, with their tutors, to Arianism and Socinianism; and Queen's-men were then foremost among the petitioning clergy, who met at Archbishop Tennison's library, for ameliorating the subscription to articles. Now, I understand, it has returned to the doctrine of justification by faith alone, and of the co-equality of the Son and Holy Ghost with God the Father; the doctrines taught by Luther, with

a The famous Arminian, John Goodwin, was also of Queen's. VOL. II.

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some of the other first reformers, and by the modern Calvinists. Such is human opinion: thus it circulates round colleges, and round the world. Every one knows where it rested at Geneva, in the time of Calvin: but it rested only for a time-it kept moving. Some years ago it had reached the Antipodes; where it is now, is more than I can tell. If it has changed, like its government, it has, perhaps, by this time, got round to Calvinism again.

It is by observations on the human character that speculative men are taught some practical duties. In proportion to this diversity, they will extend their charity: to the variety of thinking they will proportion their liberality in judging. This microcosm, this little world of man, will go through its changes; and it becomes our duty to attend to them, and to be candid :

A mighty maze, but not without a plan!

Nor, indeed, do I think that either the writer or reader is, on the present occasion, called to any work of supererogation. It is evidently my duty at least to state literary facts, not to mutilate, not to oppose, nor even to censure opinions. Merpov ago, Moderation is best; and the rules of fitness and propriety ought to be my polar star and guide.

But, to come to the business of the present chapter. This college claims for its foundress Margaret of Anjou, consort of our Henry VI. who, as head of the Lancas

a I allude not to its present state, but to its former frequent changes from democracy to aristocracy, and from aristocracy to democracy. See D'Ivernois' Hist. of the Constitutions and Revolutions in Geneva.