our founder; he gave us, not only our privileges, which are great, but our subsistence, which supports us; and he tells us plainly, in his most munificent charter, that he did to oblige us to pay the greater duty and loyalty to him and his posterity for ever. Your royal father, the mirror of kings, was our benefactor, and our gracious sovereign hath largely extended his bounty to us, and we know that we cannot better express our duty and loyalty to him, than in giving testimony of it to you, great Sir, his only brother. We have yet powerful motives from yourself: your noble and heroic actions have been the wonder of all Europe, nor can any loyal heart forget how boldly and prodigally you ventured your life for the honour and prosperity of his Majesty in these kingdoms, when in the year 1663, by the blessing of God upon your incomparable valour and conduct, you overthrew and vanquished the greatest fleet that ever the sea bore then it was that you made Nep tune's trident bow, and pay homage to the English sceptre. Let the ancient Romans tell us of their great sea-fight at Actium between Augustus and Mark Anthony; let our own histories relate the famous victory of your glorious progenitor, King Edward III. at Scluse; let the modern histories of Europe declare that celebrated victory of Don John of Austria, at the battle of Lepanto: those

must all strike sail, and veil our glorious triumph. If we search the annals of former ages, we can find nothing like it; and it is more than probable that the times to come may not produce a parallel. What shall we then render to you, great prince, for such inimitable actions and merits? All we can say is, that next after our prayers for the long life and happy reign of our most gracious sovereign, we ardently wish all increase of honour, renown, and happiness to the glorious James, his most princely brother.

OLIVER MAILLARD.

OLIVER Maillard, Doctor of Divinity, of the order of minor brothers of strict observance, was born in Britanny. He wrote several sermons and tracts of divinity in Latin. This good religious was universally allowed to be one of the best scholars of his day, but his zeal in the cause of religion and virtue outstripped his learning. He reproved the vices of his times with uncommon boldness, without any respect of persons, and depicted the sinners he had in view with such a masterly hand, that the likeness was immediately known. This conduct exposed him to the raillery of a number of wit

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lings, and the reproaches of those that could attack him with no other weapons; so that the purity of his life could scarce shield him from the poisoned arrows that were levelled at him in the dark. As his portraits were drawn from real life, his sermons may be compared to a picturegallery, in which the reigning vices of that age are exhibited in the most faithful colours. There never was a preacher, perhaps, that waged a more successful war with hypocrites, debauchees, &c. with whom all the departments of the church and state were at that time filled. He wrote with the same felicity that he spoke-the same in the pulpit, and the same on paper: he was never known to sully his tongue or his pen with flattery, or to disguise the truth; so that he was called "the scourge of sinners." Having fought the good fight, he was called by his Lord and Master; whom he had faithfully served, to receive the reward of his labours, on the 4th of January 1502. His remains were deposited in a cemetery of his own monastery,' at Narbonne. Henry Stephen has made honourable mention of this monk in his Apology for Herodotus. He has inserted some extracts from his discourses in that work. This zealous divine, one day, preaching before the parliament at Thoulouse, drew so finished a portrait of a corrupt judge, and his application to many of the members of

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that body was so pointed, that they deliberated for some time whether it would not be proper to arrest him. The result of their deliberations was transmitted to the Archbishop, who, in order to sooth the resentment of those who had felt themselves wounded, commanded that he should not preach for two years. The good man received this mandate in all the spirit of humility, waited on the magistrates who were offended, to whom he stated his duty as a preacher of the divine word, in such impressive language, that they threw themselves alternately into his bosom, confessed their crimes, becametrue penitents, and in a short time after they embraced a monastic life.

LITERARY JOURNALS.

THE manner of acquainting the public, through the medium of a journal, with what passes in the republic of letters, is one of the most laudable attempts of the sixteenth century. The honour of this undertaking is due to M. De Salls, ecclesiastic counsellor in the parliament of Paris. His Journal was received with universal applause, and was soon followed by others on the same plan in Italy and Germany.

In 1682, Mr. Mencke began the Acta Eruditorum Lipsiensia, which was carried on several years with increasing celebrity. Soon after, two journals appeared in Italy, one at Venice, and the other at Padua. Messrs. Bayle and Leclerc, having come to reside in the Low Countries, the first at Rotterdam and the other at Amsterdam, were surprised to find that in Holland, which might then be called the mart of learning, and the rendezvous of learned men, in consequence of the freedom of the press, the number of booksellers, and immense libraries, public and private; in such a country, and with such advantages, these learned men were not a little surprised to find, that no person had as yet thought of publishing a literary journal. M. Le clerc immediately launched one, which he continued down to 1727. M. Bayle was so busily engaged in composing his Biographical Dictionary, a work of immense research, that he was obliged to drop his periodical labours in a few years: Mr. Beauval, however, took it up, and continued it under the title of The Works of the Learned. Mr. Bernard's News from the Republic of Letters was well received, as well as the Journal de Trevoux; the latter, however, was considered as a partial production, in matters of religion and politics, and was conducted by a party of Jesuits. M. de Pontchartrain, Lord