their cattamaran having gone across the river without them. Čouch, Schultz, and Simmonds paffed over at that time. They. fpent the night, and paffed Great Fich river next morning. Mr. Lillburne ftayed to fleep there that night, intending to go back to a whale: with him remained Matter Law, Warmington, Frucl, Fitzgerald, Hynes, and Evans, who croffed the river afterwards, and the following who did not crofs the river: P. Burne, G. Creighton, J. Squires, and Ifaac, Capt. Talbot's coxfwain, together with one of the Lafcars who is arrived at the Cape; the Lafcar faid it was a great way to the Cape, and that he would go back to look for the natives. Thofe who had gone over the Great Fisch river found porpus left amongst the rocks; Francifco De Larfo caught hold of his tail and it splashed him all over, but he at laft ftuck it with a little knife, which he brought with him to Landrofs, and gave to Mrs. Logie's maid. 66 They continued on, after having flopped at the freth-water creek where the top-galiant-maft was feen, till they came to a pond where was fresh water, and there ftopped: they went up a fleep fandy hill, and ftayed in a fine jungle a-top of the hill, where they inade a and shook hands, and fwore they would never feparate again till they got into a Chriftian country. "At this bay they were overtaken by John Hynes and Jeremiah Evans, who told them Warmington was left behind almott dead, Larey went back and brought him. 66 By this time they had found fand creepers, which are a kind of cockles, that hide under the fand. fo that they had plenty of victuals when they were joined by thefe two of their companions. "The armourer went back with Evans to look for Mr. Lillburne, Fitzgerald, and others, but never returned; lofing his own life to fave his comrades. Evans returned back the fame night. After leaving Sondag's river, they came to a creek called Kuga, and then to Swartkop's river, of which the water is falt; and from the top of the hills could fee the inlands in the bay of Sondag's river. "When Price was alone on a fandhill, gathering Hottentot figs, as De Larfo had laid down to fleep under a bufh near him, he faw a man at a diftance, whom at first he took for one of his companions. He faw, however, a gun on his fhoulder. He immediately ran with as much celerity as poffible. His legs were too much fwelled for him to move very quickly. When he reached him his joy overpowered him, and he fell down at his feet. He then roufed De Larfo, who, as he fpoke Portuguete, entered into converfation with this ftranger. "Their companions were below by a whale at the fea-fide, as they intended to stop three days here. When they were called, this man, whofe name was John Potofe, carried them to the houfe of Christian Feroos, with whom he feemed to be a partner. "They all remained there three days, and three days more at another houfe in the neighbourhood which belonged to Daniel Konig. Then five were fent to Landrjs van Szwellendam; he, Robert Price, remaining at the fecond houfe near Swartkop's river. "From Landrofs van Swellendam, Warmington and Larey were fent to 3 F the the Cape: Hynes remained at Landrofs; and Evans and De Larfo came back to Swartkops, with thirty or forty waggons and horfes, with tents, and about one hundred people under Capt. Miller, intended to go to the wreck, and to fearch for the people who had efcaped. "Evans and De Larfo went on with the party; they got within five days journey of the wreck, but came back, as their horfes were tired; and the Mambookers oppofing them, they left the waggons at the river Nye, or Kly, which is a very large river full of great ftones. The ftream is rapid, and runs near the Bamboe Berg. The water is fresh. In their journey from the wreck they were obliged to go up it for three days before they could crofs, on account of the great ftones; the country is inhabited on both fides. Price remained near Swartkops till the waggons and people returned. They were abfent at least a month, and before they returned, went within a day's journey of the place where they were robbed. They did not reach the wreck, nor fee any tokens of the ladies or captain, except that they faw in a Caffree houfe a great coat which they thought had belonged to the cap tain. In their journey they faw feveral dead bodies. "De Larfo came from the Cape with Robert Price in The Laurwig, Capt. Stainbeck, and went to Denmark in the fame fhip came alfo William Hubberly, the fecond mate's fervant, and Francifco Feancon, who had remained with the Caffrees, and were brought from them by the Hottentots, at the fame time with Lewis. All thefe went to Denmark. "They faw no farms till they came to Swartkops. There are fome, however, beyond it; but not near the fea coaft. Price remained with Daniel Ko nig at Swartkops three or four months, and ufed to go a hunting with him; they fet out in the morning, and reached Sondag's river before night, and there ftayed to hunt. There were great numbers of elans, white and brown, hart-beeften, buffaloes, &c." Thofe who have reached England cannot give any account of the distance from Swartkops to Landrofs, nor how long they were performing the journey. They rode in a waggon, and did not attend to the length of the way, and remained three days with Captain Miller. LIFE OF RICHARD BENTLEY, D. D. LATE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY, AND MASTER OF TRINITY-COL LEGE, CAMBRIDGE. Τιμιωτατα μεν και πρωτα τα περι την ψυχην αγαθα. PLATO, de Legib. IV, (Continued from page 320.) WHILE Dr. Bentley's reputation at the foundation of the college, but was diffeminated through the continent, by his critical difquifitions, his-domeftic peace was difturbed by a difpute with the members of the college over which he prefided. In the year 1709, at a meeting of the mafter and feniors, in order to ftate the college accounts, Dr. Bentley pro pofed that the dividends fhould in future be regulated by ranking the fellows according to their degrees, and not according to their feniority. This mode of diftribution had been adopted had been changed in the year 1645, during the civil commotions in the reign of King Charles the First, when the Mafter and Fellows of Trinity were violently ejected. The dividends were then made according to the feniority of the members who enjoyed fellowfhips. No other mode, indeed, could well have been approved, as there was not one individual, at that time, in the college, except Dr. Hill, the new mater, who had taken a degree fuperior to that of Mafter of Arts; and they they were obliged to invite a Doctor of Divinity from St. John's College to take the Vice-mastership. Dr. Bentley's plan feems well calculated to encourage academical degrees. It was, however, rejected. The feeds of diffenfion, which had been fown at different times, and upon various occafions, now appeared to be matured. Those who had formerly conceived any diflike to the Doctor, through envy or refentment, now feemed to unite into one body. Some of the Fellows had before determined to complain to Dr. Patrick, the Bifhop of Ely, their vifitor, and to attempt the removal of a maiter who had rendered himself fo obnoxious. Dr. Bentley difcovered their intention, and waited on the Bifhop before they could prefent their petition. He then told his own ftory, and at the fame time affured his lordfhip, that he had no right to interfere in any bufinefs that related to Trinity College. This affertion could not be then refuted, as there was no precedent, or copy of the ftatutes, to be found in the archives of the Bishop of Ely. The affair, therefore, for the prefent, terminated abruptly. In the mean time Dr. More fucceeded to the fee of Ely, and on Dr, Bentley's propofition, with refpect to dividends, his enemies determined again $ to remove him, and a memorial, containing fifty-four articles, was exhibited against the mafter, to the vifitor. Thefe articles were ftated in the form of questions, and were figned by the vice-mafter and thirty-five members of Trinity College. A copy of the col lege ftatutes, to which thefe articles of accufation referred, was fubjoined. The petition, which feems to have accompanied thefe articles, was figned by only thirty members. At their head was Dr. Wolfran Stubbe, the vicemafter, The following is a copy of their petition: To the Right Reverend Father in God, the fortieth chapter of the College Statutes, entitled De Magiftri (fi res exigat) amotione, The humble petition and complaint of the Vice-mafter, Senior Fellows, and many of the Doctors in Divinity and Mafters of Arts, Fellows and Members of the College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity of the University of Cambridge, of King Henry the Eighth's foundation, in behalf of themfelves and the rest of the members of the faid College, against Richard Bentley, Doctor in Divinity, now Master thereof, Shew, That the Fellows and all the Members of the faid College having for many years lived with a great refpect and love to their former masters, and in a perfect amity one with another, in the year of our Lord God 1700, when the faid Dr. Bentley firft came to be their mafter, the peace of the faid College was foon difturbed by his demanding and taking of the faid College feveral unufual and great fums of mo ney, which he applied to his own ufe. And almoft every year fince, by his continual making new demands of profits and perquifites for himself; and by his taking and threatening to take away, fometimes with the forced confent of the governing part of the College, and fometimes without any consent at all, feveral known privileges and perquifites from the reft of the College in general, and even fellowships and fcholarfhips from feveral in particular; and by his threatening and affuming to inflict feveral unftatutable and (before his time) unheard-of punishments upon feveral of the Fellows, for no other reafon but because he heard they talked againft his proceedings. And by his uling violent and unworthy methods, whereby he has prevailed with fome few of the College to efpoufe his feparate intereft, the peace of this royal and ample foundation has not only for many years been wholly broken, but the ftatutes have been violated, and the goods of the College wafted, and many of the Fellows reduced to great ne3 F2 ceffity The articles were published feparate, but as a lift of their names" that fubfcribed these arti cles, or the petition," is given, they were probably fent together to the Bishop, 404 ceffity by his leffening the value of Feb. 6, 1709*. The Bishop immediately fent this petition to Dr. Bentley, with the following note: "I received this appeal from the Fellows of Trinity College, by the hands of Mr. Edmund Miller, the roth of February, 1709. "I. E." Mr. Miller was at the head of the oppofition against Bentley. He was a ferjeant at law, and managed the profecution against him, which proved very expenfive, though he was prefented with an hundred pounds by the College. Bentley fufpended him from his fellow fhip, but by an offer of four hundred pounds for pretended charges, he was brought over to the mafler's intereft, three years after the prefentation of this petition. Dr. Bentley was well prepared to anfwer any charges which they could urge against him through malice or envy. He, therefore, loft no time, but on the thirteenth of February he wrote a complete reply to every charge, in a letter to the Bishop, which was dated "At her Majefty's Library, Feb. 13, 178. He foon after diftributed copies of this letter and the petition among his friends, although he refufed a public anfwer to their allegations, because the charge wanted form, and was prefented irregularly. About this time, a copy of the articles againft Dr. Bentley, and of the College ftatutes was published. This pamphlet was followed by another, which contained the petition, and the Doctor's letter to the Bishop of Ely, with a preface by the editor, who ftyled himself a Gentleman of the Temple, With refpect to the authenticity of the letter, no doubt could arife. The reader, well acquainted with Bentley's ftyle, could never hefitate. In whatever he writes, he always unites inftruction and amufement. If he cannot convince, yet fill he pleases by fome happy allufion, or improves by the introduction of fome literary information. In this letter, he confuted every affertion of the petition, and ftated, that Trinity College had been more eminent for the erudition of its members, as well as for their moral conduct, during his maftership, than in the time of his predeceffors. He afferts the dignity of his character, as the head of fo refpectable a fociety, and proves that his conduct could in no point be deemed an infringement of the ftatutes, which he explains with his ufual acuteness. He informs the Bishop that thofe who figned the petition, were the minor part * Old style. "An Account of the Univerfity at Cambridge, and In the year 1717, Mr. Miller published the Colleges there, being a plain Relation of many of their Oaths, Statutes, and Charters; by which will appear the Neceffity the prefent Members lie under of endeavouring to obtain such Al terations as may render them practicable, and more fuitable to the prefent Times, &c. &c. Mott humbly propofed to both Houfes of Parliament." part of the fociety, and that their proceedings, in feveral inftances, had violated the statutes. He then gives a concife account of his conduct in various cafes, to which the petitioners allude. Inftead of demanding fums of money, he contributed largely to the repairs of the Mafter's Lodge, and by his conduct, the number of ftudents who entered in the courfe of the year was doubled, and the College rendered eminent for the learning and regularity of its members. As to the new demand, which the Doctor was accufed of continually making, he challenged them to fpecify one fingle inftance. On the contrary, he proves, that he had reduced the expences of feafts; that he had abolithed feveral impofitions, and corrected many enormities. The petitioners afferted that, the goods of the College too have been wafted. To this he fays: The ftatute word is Dilapidation, a terrible charge indeed, which any perfon that has once paffed through Cambridge can difprove with his own eyes. It has been often told me, by perfons of fenfe and candour, that when I'left them, I might fay of the College what Auguftus faid of Rome, Lateritium inveni, marmoreum reliqui. The College-chapel, from a decayed antiquated model, made one of the nobleft in England; the Collegehall, from a dirty, footy place, reftored to its original beauty, and excelled by none in cleanlinefs and magnificence. "The mafter's apartment (if that may be named without envy) from a fpacious jail, from want of room in an excefs of it, made worthy of that royal foundation, and of the guefts it fometimes is honoured with: an elegant chemical laboratory, where courfes are annually taught by a profeffor, made out of a ruinous lumber-hole, the thieving houfe of the burfars of the old fet, who, in fpite of frequent orders to prevent it, would ftill embezzle there the College timber: the College gate-houfe raifed up, and improved to a ftately aftronomical obfervatory, weli ftored with the best inftruments in Europe. In a word, every garret of the houfe 405 well repaired and inhabited, many of which were wafte and empty before my coming. Are thefe the figns of dilapidation? and yet in all these the mafter always bears the greatest burthen in the expence." He thus anfwers the affertion, that many of the Fellows are reduced to great neceffity by his leffening the value of their fellowships." "It is an astonishing thing, that feven feniors could fubfcribe to this, who are confcious themfelves, and have often confeffed it to myfelf and others, that I have raised the public revenue of the College a thousand pounds a year above what I found it; which improvement is more than the whole annual income of fome Colleges in Cambridge. This, my lord, can be eafily fhown in every particular, partly compaffed by a due infpection into the eftates abroad, but much more by a good economy and administration at home. And yet these are the grateful returns for fo great a benefaction. "But it may be fufpected, that though the revenue be increafed for the future, yet for thefe ten years paft the fellowfhips may have been leffened. The truth of this, my lord, may be certainly known by the College records, where all the dividends are entered; and it is by dividends alone that the value of fellowships alters; all other emoluments being ftated, and perpetual, ly at a par. Every dividend likewife is equal, one the fame as another; a whole one being in a round eftimation 2000l. Now, in the last feventeen years before me (the time of my predeceffor) I find there were nineteen half dividends; and in my ten years there have been ten already paid to them, and four more are ready for them now, and were fo in December laft, if, at Mr. Miller's inftigation, they had not refufed them. It is a demonftration then, that their fellow fhips have been better in my time than before; fourteen being much more to ten, than nineteen to feventeen. And yet, my lord, it is notorious, that for the major part of my ten years, the very rents were funk a thoufand pounds a year lower than formerly, by the exceffive low |