and leaving all fellows to pursue what profession they please he begs leave to offer the following observations: "That most of our founders designed their several colleges for seminaries of the clergy, in which way they may with ease be made very serviceable to the nation. "That the too great increase of the clergy is not from the fellows of colleges (scarce one in ten of the parochial clergy or their curates having ever been fellows), but from servitors, batchelors, and others, who spent but four or five years in the universities. "That the ill disposition of the clergy over the nation is owing to the small share of sense, learning, and knowledge of the world, that those persons must be supposed to have from their short stay in the university, and the meanness of their circumstances, and to the great opinion they have of the judgment of the university, where they did not live long enough to discover that the senior part of the university are no such great men as they pass for with the youth; and so these men are duly qualified to be the most noisy and zealous tools of faction in the hands of cunning men in greater posts. "That 't is seen that the nobility and gentry, and other laymen that come from the universities, prove as generally disaffected to the government as those in orders, so that it is not the going into orders that spoils men. "That in those colleges where most liberty is allowed as to orders, they have sent out as few fellows into the service of their country, as where they were most confined. "That, generally speaking, those who have the faculty-places get them purely to avoid going into orders, and that they may live a more gay life without designing to follow any profession 8. His lordship's primary resource for counteracting the political evils toward which his memorial is directed, was to found a professorship in both universities for the study of the law of nature and nations: but some other considerations are adduced, which may not be unworthy the perusal of those sages who preside at our well-springs of academic learning.] * Dr. Knox, in his Liberal Education, is of opinion ❝ that students should not in general reside more than seven years in any university: because, secluded from the pains and pleasures of sympathy, they sink into a selfishness and indolence, no less fatal to enjoyment than to improvement. Those, however, who are really engaged in teaching, in lecturing, or in superintending morals, may certainly reside without local injury, as long as their circumstances and inclination shall require. All others are most truly characterized by the appellation of the drones of society, ignavum pecus.” ROBERT, LORD RAYMOND, ONE of those many eminent men who have risen to the peerage from the profession of the law. He was solicitor-general to queen Anne, attorney-general to king George the first, by whom he was appointed one of the commissioners of the great seal, and chief justice of the king's bench; in which station he died, having published "Two Volumes of Reports." Fol. [This Robert was the son of sir Thomas Raymond, a justice of the king's bench, who died on the circuit in 1683. Robert succeeded sir John Pratt as chief justice, was created baron Raymond of Abbot's Langley, Herts, by George the second in 1730, and died in 1732, leaving one son, who deceasing without issue, in 1753, the title became extinct 2. His lordship's Law Reports have not been sought after by the present editor; for the merit of them, whatever it may be, can only be duly appreciated and pointed out by the pen of some legal practitioner.] • Bolton's Peerage, p. 235. rat to honge the first, by ne of the €, ruis *', and chief Justice of was die son of sir Thor: Raymon bench, who died on the circuit reeled ir John Pratt as chi" Pamond of Aboo.'s Lo orge the second in 1785, and i g one sor, who dceca. teraire extinct2. & withon Law P' sorts have not a sought or for the mert of them, |