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one is not led to form from it the most favorable opinion of his R.H.'s mind, or to expect from your description of the new Sultaness much benefit to the public weal. Surely the R. could not be alarmed at 375, Mr. Rolle's threatend motion, to hurry on this change before the Regency Bill.
The Advertisement you mention from the Cambridge Papers is undoubtedly of a most objectionable nature. The Author however, I hear, for the credit of the place, is no longer a Fell. of Jesus Coll. (the very title almost shocks one at description of another I was) & that the Bp. of Ely (as Visitor, I guess) has confirmd his expulsion. I suppose indeed this has been one object of the silly man's ambition, in order to stand at the head of a Cry of Persecution. And the Party may probably encourage him to try to bring the matter before a Court of Law: which, though I conceive it not likely to take effect, woud be, I think, a desireable event, that licentiousness might learn it's bounds, & be informd, that hitherto, like the sea, it might go, but no farther. In fact, what with the fear of a scratch on the part of our lay Brethren, & the desire of civil courts to bring more grist to their own mill, the nails of Church Power have been so pared, that it has not strength enough left to keep it's own members in due order. And I take much satisfaction at finding, that you reprobate such a daring peice of outrage against all decency. The man himself from his publication appears to be very ill informd, & not to have learnt even the common cant of the Party. But the course of studies in the Univty. of Camb. has, of late years especially, run so excessively into Mathematics, that they have put the maid into the place of the Mistress, & seem to want to measure the Doctrines of the Gospel by lines & angles, & Algebraic quantities, commencing very indifferent Philosophers, & ending in worse Divines.
By the late thaw loosening & softening the upper crust, a part of the roof of an old Quarry Pit tumbled in & by that means laid open