"Annotations on the Old and New Teftaments;" Sir Francis Pemberton, Chief Juftice of the King's Bench; John Wallis, the Mathematician; Anthony Blackwall, author of the "Defence of the Sacred Claffics ;" and the late Dr. Richard Farmer, the Commentator on Shakespeare.

This fociety confists of a master, 15 fellows, and 50 fcholars, befides a number of exhibitionists. The whole number of members in 1802 was 144. The Vifitors are, in fome cafes, the Vice Chancellor, and two fenior doctors in Divinity; in others, the master of Christ's, and the two fenior Doctors.

SIDNEY-SUSSEX COLLEGE

Was built on the fite of a monaftery of Franciscans, or Grey Friars; on the fuppreffion of which, it was granted by Henry VIII. to the Mafter and Fellows of Trinity College, of whom it was purchased by the executors of Frances Sidney, Countess of Suffex, and widow to Thomas Radcliffe, third Earl of Suffex. This Lady, by will, dated December the 6th, 1588, bequeathed £5000. and fome other property, to found a college for a Matter, ten Fellows, and twenty Scholars; but the bequest being infufficient to defray the coft of the buildings, and support so great an establishment, the Fellows were reduced by her executors to feven; but have fince been increased by additional endowments to the number originally intended. The first stone of the college was laid on the 20th of May, 1596, and the building completed in three years.

This college is fituated on the eaft fide of Bridge-street, at the corner of Jefus-lane; its buildings, which are neatly erected with brick; inclose two small courts.

THE CHAPEL (originally the friars' dormitory) has been elegantly rebuilt; and is 57 feet long, and 24 broad. This apartment, though small, is particularly neat, and reflects great credit on the taste and judgment of Dr. Elliston, the prefent Mafler, under whofe direction it was erected, and who was his own architect. The altar-piece is fometimes called the nativity; but is evidently a Repofe during the Flight into Egypt: it was executed by Pittoni, a Venetian; and reprefents the Virgin with the infant Saviour in her arms reclining on fome loofe fraw; on the right is Jofeph fleeping; in the clouds, in the upper part, are feveral cherubs, one of whom bears a fillet, on which an infcription, explanatory of the subject, is supposed to have been written; but this was obliterated by the damage the painting fuftained, through the fhip being leaky, in which it was brought from Venice. Both the compofition and coloring are extremely fine. At the oppofite end of the Chapel, is a neat gallery for the Mafter's family.

THE HALL is a very elegant room, with a Mufic-gallery, fupported by pillars, forming a veftibule at the entrance; and a hand fome bow-window at the, upper end. The ceiling and walls are beautifully ornamented with fret-work. Its dimen fions are 60 feet in length, 27 broad, and of a proportionable height.

THE LIBRARY, which is conveniently contrived as a study to the Master's Lodge, is neatly fitted up, with a well-chofen collection of books. It contains feveral curiofities; among which is part of an incrustation of a child's skull, found in the ifle of Crete, about ten feet beneath the foil, and brought to England in the year 1627. The teeth are white, and found, and remain unchanged; but the other parts refemble a hard fand-flone. It was fent up for the infpection of King Charles I. by his Majefty's defire; and was then whole; but it has been fince broken, and fome parts lost. Here is likewife a bust of Cromwell, executed by the celebrated

Bernini, from a plafter impreffion, taken from Oliver's face after his death, and fent to Italy. The countenance bears a great refemblance to the portrait, by Cooper, but has been abfurdly colored, and rendered disgusting and hideous, by the introduction of glass eyes. These the good tafte of Dr. Ellifton has determined to have removed, as well as the glaring tints that overspread the features. The buft was presented to the college by the Rev. Thomas Martyn, Regius Profeffor of Botany.

THE MASTER'S LODGE confifts of feveral convenient and handfome apartments. Among other portraits, it contains an original, in crayons, of Oliver Cromwell, by Cooper; this is esteemed a very correct likeness, and has been frequently copied; also, a full-length of Lady Sidney, the foundress; a good head of Dr. Hay; a whole-length of William Wollaston, author of the " Religion of Nature ;" and fix excellent views of Venice, by Gwediyr, a pupil of Canaletti.

The grounds belonging to this college are laid out with ex. treme tafte. In the Fellows' garden is a spacious bowlinggreen, a pleasant Summer-houfe, and a fhrubbery.

Among the most eminent perfons who have belonged to this college, are the following: Oliver Cromwell, the Protector; Bishop Seth Ward; Charles Alleyn, author of Poems, &c. William Wollaston, author of the "Religion of Nature;" Sir Robert Atkins, Chief Baron of the Exchequer; Sir Robert Leftrange; Thomas Comber, author of a " Vindication of the Divine Right of Tythes ;" and Richard Reynolds, Bishop of Lincoln.

The prefent fociety confifts of a Mafter, 12 Fellows, &c.

The whole number of members in 1802 was 53. The Vifitor

We have enumerated all the colleges at prefent established at Cambridge; but a new one is fhortly intended to be erected, by the name of Downing College, in pursuance of the will of Sir George Downing, Bart. This Gentleman, in the year 1717, devised feveral valuable estates, in the counties of Cambridge, Bedford, and Suffolk, to his nearest relations, Sir Jacob Downing and his three fons; with remainder to their iffue in fucceffion, and in cafe they all died without iffue, he devised the estates to trustees, who, with the approbation of the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Masters of St. John's and Clare Hall, were to found a college within the precincts of this University, to be called Downing College. The testator died in the year 1749, and his property defcended to Sir Jacob, who, on the death of his fons without iffue, in his life-time, became the fole inheritor, and at his decease, in 1764, bequeathed his poffeffions to his lady; but the estates, devised by Sir George Downing, were claimed by the Uni verfity for the use of the proposed college.

The validity of the original will, immediately became a fubject of legal inquiry; but, after many years litigation, was at length established; and the charter for the incorporation of the new college, having been fully examined by the Privy Council, and approved by his Majesty, the great Seal was af

* All eleemofynary corporations have by law a vifitor, where the founder has not appointed one, his heir is visitor: upon failure of the heirs of the founder, it devolves to the Crown, and the LORD CHANCELLOR is visitor.

fixed to it by the Lord Chancellor, Loughborough, on the 22d of September, 1800. This college is to confist of a Master, a profeffor of the laws of England, a profeffor of Medicine, and fixteen Fellows: fcholars and pupils to be admitted and educated, as in other colleges. The Fellows are to vacate their fellowships at the expiration of twelve years, unless under particular circumstances they obtain a license to hold them for a longer term. The Master, the Profeffors, and three of the Fellows, are named in the charter; the remaining Fellows are to be appointed by the King's fign manual, when the college is built. An open piece of ground on the fouth-east fide of the town, between Emmanuel and Pembroke, and near the Botanic Garden, called the Leas, is the fituation chosen by the trustees for the new foundation.

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We have now concluded our account of this celebrated feat of learning and the muses; in which we have with the greatest poffible correctness, noticed and described every object deferving of particular observation. It may be thought that, in many of our descriptions, we have been too minute and prolix but let it be remembered, that the most trifling object which boasts affinity with genius, poffeffes a powerful claim to notice; and this Univerfity has been rendered illustrious, by the many eminent and distinguished characters it has reared; as well as by the facredness and incalculable utility of its institution. It can boast, with honest pride, the great and philofophic discoveries of the immortal Newton; the fublime and heaven-inspired poetry of the incomparable Milton; the deep investigations of the great Bacon; and the energetic melody of the enthusiastic Gray. It has produced the most ex