Thus, beloved, I have with much pleasure gone so far through with my first proposed plan; and from what I have advanced, we may raise the following remarks:

i. That the spirit of our doctors has been the same in all ages ---a noble spirit of opposition to methodistical tenets. The magicians, the astrologers, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans, the scribes, the pharisees, the lawyers, the sadducees, and the doctors, and the shrine-makers, and the inquisitors, and the Roman bishops, and the Vice-Chancellors, and the Heads of Houses, are all in the same religion; namely, to oppose praying, reading, and expounding the Scriptures.

2. That the state of religion in our land is likely to be soon upon a very respectable footing, seeing no more than six, out of the vast number of students at Oxford, took upon them to pray to God, to read and expound the Scriptures; so that it is hoped, the many parishes in England will be likely to have parsons who will let their parishioners have their own way, and go quietly to hell without disturbing of them. Whereas, was not care taken to suppress praying people in the University, we should have the nation swarming with them, much to the detriment of priest craft.

3. It is observable, that we have found out more fully what four of the six gentlemen were, ere they set a foot in the University; one was a publican; another, a smith; a third, a barber; and a fourth, a teacher under W----y, as it is written by the Rev. Dr. Oxoniensis,---Gazetteer 12199, April 8, 1768; and I wot, my beloved, though my kindred are professors of such arts, they are held dangerous---therefore must not be tolerated by the clergy.

First and foremost, The clergy have suffered much discontent from the blacksmith; and whilst the bitterness of the loss of the abbey-lands belcheth from our stomachs, we prunella gentlemen will never forgive the blacksmiths. Query, For why? Ans. Because he was a blacksmith's son, Lord Thomas Cromwell by name, who stripped the church; that is to say, the clergy, of those warm, those fat abbey lands. No more blacksmiths, I pray ye, now---we'll have none of them. Therefore, Mr. V--e C-------r did well in expelling the man, because he had been a blacksmith.

2. Another of them had been a publican, i. e. a tax-gatherer; and I suppose Mr. V--e C-------r thought the difference betwixt tax-gathering and tithe-gathering being so very trifling, that after a young man had sufficiently learned at home to gather taxes, it was quite needless for him to come to the University to learn to gather tithes. I wot, my beloved, that the old grudge betwixt the pharisees and the publicans has not yet subsided; for, as the learned Oxoniensis observes, the V--e C-------r expelled a man the University for having been a publican.

3. And in the next place, another had been a barber; that is to say, a shaver. His reverence, Dr. Nowel, public orator of the University, hath given it as his charitable opinion, that this same barber can make a very good wig, from whence he lovingly concludes, that the said barber need not to starve; and from whence I conclude, that he would have made a very useful member of the University. A good wig, says Dr. Nowel, i. e. a decent artificial covering, for a bald pate; wherefore, it seems to have been very bad policy to expel so useful a man, at a time when the Heads of Houses are so bald and weather-beaten themselves.

4. A fourth was a teacher in a school, under W----y: but who or what this same W----y is, whether an hill, an old abbey, an holy college, or an oak tree, the accurate Oxoniensis does not say. But this schoolmaster who taught under it, be it what it will, was justly expelled. For why? Because he departed so very far from the rule established among students. The common rule observed by the hopeful young gentlemen of the gown, is, before they have so much as learned the first lesson of themselves, they conclude that they are able to teach others: witness so many dull parsons. But this man, though he had been accustomed to teach others, meanly debased himself so far as to receive instructions from others; but such a mean opinion of one's self being no way likely to add weight to the importance of the parson, must not be tolerated.