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On Wednesday and Thursday the first and second Jul y * was held the annual examination of students at the close of the session : it was numerous l y and very respectably attended . ; md gave ihe highest satisfaction to all present . It comprehended ihecusine * s of the whole session without the students bcingpreviouly informed , of the questions to be proposed .
On Wednesday the two Hebrew oases > ve : efiist examined ; the junior ciuss giving a particular account of the structure of the language , according to MasclePs ^ ramii * ar , and translating several pas -ages tu , ken at random ficm the Pentateuch iroiu Hebrew into English , and others
from English into Hebrew ; the senior class being examined in l ^ owth ' s Praslemonv and reading , as before , passages out of the prophetic find other poetical books , one of them concluding this brunch of the examination by a di course on Hebrew poetry . In the classics the whole of the students , v / ho had this 7 car
read the whole or . Tacitus and great part of Lucretius , read a passage irom the former author , Mucianus ' s acidre . s to Ve paswm ; afttr which a Latin poem on the bartie of Maida , and a Latin oration o : \ eloquence , were read by two of the students . The Creek classics which
hud thi .-. year been ; eadvere two plays 02 Kutipivico , ore of / Sschylus , a part of Thucydides and bome Cdes of 1 indar ; . the scudents read a scene of the Hecuba , and another of th ^ tif . x e ? : ' * ©?> £ «? \ after ¦ which an Essay was read on the char . x
ter and tultnt of Cicero , with a critique on his Oratio pr ^ damo st / u . The exam ination of the junior mathematical cia s in Alge ra and Euclid 1 oncluded the b uwucss of the iirst day . On che second ihe only student in the fourth year was Strictly cxi . mineil pn the soprce oi biblical criticism , with a particular rcfeence to the Old Te tament ; on the oii ^ inal Lingvtag ^ s in wkich we posse-s its books and the st ^ te of tl . e tt x . t ; on the several divisions w huh have been made of them ; on the sentiments which th « , y ^ evcraly
inculcatt * on the nature and character cf God , aiul on human duty and
cxpecta . tioiiS ; Pii the several Oreck and Uatin translation , on the works of Josephus ar . d Philo , the Apocjyphul \ V \ -icings and
the Tiir ^ urus , v \ iu \ their respective use . in iilustrk tiug the scriptures ; and concluded by au e abomt ^ jU iscoprL ^ on the Mo-
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saic institutionH , and their probable inteci - tion and use in preserving the knowled ge of One iup-enie Being , and exhibiting a specimen andproof of the moral governmeKt of God . The students in the third year were then examined in logic and metaphy irs , and one of them read an
Essay on the controversy relatingfo Materialism , another , u Summary and Estimate of the Natural Evidences of a Future State . Thpe of the third and second year were examined in universal grammar , oratory , and criticism . ; and three of them delivered Essays on Taste
on Sublimity , and on the tragedy oJ Othello . The two higher mathematical classes were then examined in fluxions , and in hydrostatics and astronomy ; and the whole was concluded by an E ^ sayon the Study of Natural Philosophy . The
examination being ended , the Rev . John Yates of Liverpool , - in an eloquent address declared the hi gh satisfaction of the trustees in its result ., and offered to the Students some very judicious advice on the conduct and proper application of their future studies r ihe trustees
afterwards dined together at Etridge ' s , when some interesting conversation tooh , p ace en the hest meaiu of raising a permanent fund for making provision for » third tutor . Several irery handsome sums were reported a , being ready fora , beginning to the accomplishment of this truly desirable object , and there is little doubt that with a little exertion of the
friends 01 the institution an adequate fund will soon be established . V . E .
politico-religi 6 us IMPERIAL . EDICT OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA , loth year of Kh King . A . I ) . 1805 . —^ The Supreme Crir minal Court his reported to us the trial , investigation , arid sentence of that tiihunal against Chin-yo-vang , a natrve of the p : o-vince of Canton , whq had
b'scn discovered to have received privately a map and sundry letters from the Kuropean Tc-tien-tse ( Father OdeacUtu , a Catholic Missionary at Pekin ; j and aL- > o r-egarding several other persons who had been found guilty or " teaching and propagating the doctrines of the Christian reli ^ i (* n .
" The Europeans -who adhere to tlic Christiaji faith , act conformably to tlic customs established in those countries , ancj arc nov j > rphibitec ( from < Jx > in £ *•
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442 Intelligence . * — Edict of the hmpcror of China .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1807, page 442, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2383/page/46/
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