lick Esq., Lord F. G. Osborne M.P. for the County, Edward King Fordham Esq., and Mr. Wedd.(i)

In celebration of the return of Peace, there was a general public dinner to the poorer classes on Parker's Piece, on the 12th of July. Nearly 6000 persons partook of the entertainment, which consisted of plain substantial English fare.(2) The tables were twenty-four in number, diverging from an octagonal orchestra, in which was a numerous and excellent band of vocal and instrumental performers. Each table was 156 feet long, and was decorated with banners having appropriate devices. At these tables the principal gentry of the University and town presided. It was computed there were 15,000 spectators. After dinner the company adjourned to Midsummer Green, where there were rural sports and pastimes. In the evening, there was a bonfire on Parker's Piece. On the following day the fragments of the feast were distributed amongst the aged and infirm, to each of whom half-a-crown was given. The prisoners in the Gaol and the inmates of Addenbrooke's Hospital were also furnished with provisions to celebrate the occasion. On the 13th and 14th of July, there were public tea parties and dancing in various parts of the town. The expence was defrayed by a public subscription, amounting to £998. 3s. 4d.; but after paying all charges there remained a surplus of £102. 8s. 1d., out of which £90. was voted to the widows and orphans of soldiers slain in the war.(3)

On the 29th July, the royal assent was given to a Copyright Act, which contains a clause for the delivery to the warehouse-keeper of the Stationers' Company, for the use of the public library at Cambridge, of a copy of every printed book, and of every volume thereof, upon the paper upon which the largest number of such book should be printed for sale, together with all maps and prints belonging thereto, under the penalty of £5. for each copy, and full costs of suit, to be recovered by action of debt in any Court of Record. (4)

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 8 July, 15 July, 1814.

(2) The following provisions, &c., were supplied

Beef (including 700 lbs. of suet for puddings) 5,338 lbs.

Plum puddings, of 6 lbs. each, 700.

Bread, 5820 penny loaves.

Gloucester cheese, 485 lbs.

Sallads, 2640.

Onions, 220 bunches.

Vinegar, 528 half-pint cruets.

Salt, 480 saucers.

Mustard, 480 pots.

Ale, 56 barrels.

Pipes, 1728.

Tobacco, 52 lbs.

(3) Cambridge Chronicle, 15 July, 22 July, 1814; Full and True Account of the late Rejoicings at Cambridge. 8vo. 1814.

(4) Stat. 54 Geo. III. c. 156, s. 2, repealed by Stat, 5 & 6 Vict. c. 45.

On the 19th of September, a new Theatre in the parish of St. Andrew the Less was opened, the former theatre, situate in the parish of St. Benedict, being thenceforth disused.(1)

On the 19th of October, the Senate voted £300. from the University chest, for the distressed Professors of the University of Wittenberg.(2)

This year, Trinity Hall contributed £100. from their Causeway fund towards rebuilding Garret Hostel Bridge.(3)

On the 23rd of November, was the election to the Professorship of Anatomy, vacated by the death of Sir Busick Harwood M.D. The candidates were, John Haviland M.A. and Licentiate in Physic, fellow of St. John's College; William Clark M.A. fellow of Trinity College;(4) and John Thomas Woodhouse M.D. fellow of Caius College. The votes were, Haviland, 150; Clark, 135; Woodhouse, 60.

1815.

At a County Meeting, held at the Shire Hall, on the 2nd of January, it was agreed to petition the House of Commons against the renewal of the Property Tax. Jonathan Page Esq. High Sheriff was in the chair, and the resolutions were supported by Ebenezer Hollick Esq., Robert Jones Adeane Esq., Henry Gunning Esq., Rev. George Adam Browne, and Lord Francis Godolphin Osborne M.P. The Rev. Frederick Herbert Maberley of Chesterton opposed the petition.(5)

The existence of fever in several colleges and in the town created considerable alarm. At a meeting of the Vicechancellor and Heads on the 11th of April, it was, on the report of the medical gentlemen of the University and town, determined not to be expedient that the undergraduates should return to their colleges before the 20th of May. On the 3rd of May, a Grace to the following effect passed the Senate, but not without opposition:

SINCE an opinion exists in some parts of the country that the students of the university cannot with safety return immediately to their colleges, on account of a fever being prevalent in this place: MAY IT PLEASe you, that (although there is great reason to hope such opinion is groundless, yet in order to prevent the anxiety of parents and friends) their term be allowed to all undergraduates who, having kept the last Lent Term, are absent during the present Easter Term.

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 16 Sept. 1814.

(2) Ibid. 21 Oct. 1814.

(3) Corporation Common Day Book,

(4) Now Professor of Anatomy, elected to the office in 1817.

(5) Cambridge Chronicle, 6 Jan. 1815.

On the 24th of May, the following declaration was made by the Physicians of Addenbrooke's Hospital :

:

CAMBRIDGE, May 24, 1815.

WE, the undersigned, hereby declare, we do not know of any fever now prevailing in Cambridge:

And as far as we have been able to observe, the feverish complaint which has sometime back prevailed here, was not of a contagious nature.

I. PENNINGTON, M.D.

Regius Professor of Physic.

T. INGLE, M.D.

J. T. WOODHOUSE, M.D.

Physicians to Addenbrooke's Hospital.(!)

By the Stamp Act, which received the royal assent on the 11th of July, the duty on admission or matriculation in the Universities was increased from 10s. to £1. The former duties upon admission to degrees and testimonials, or certificates of admission thereto,(2) were reimposed.(3)

The Apothecaries' Act, passed on the 12th of July, contains a clause recognizing the right of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to grant licenses for the practice of physic, and by another clause it is enacted that the act shall not lessen, prejudice, or defeat the rights, authorities, privileges, and immunities theretofore vested in, exercised, and enjoyed by either of those Universities.(4)

On the 14th of July, the Senate voted £300. in aid of the fund for relief of the Widows and Orphans of those who fell at Waterloo, and of the wounded sufferers of the British army in that engage. ment.(5)

An address from the University to the Prince Regent, congratulating him on the victory at Waterloo, was unanimously voted by the Senate on the 14th of July; and on the 27th, it was presented at Carlton House by Dr. Thackeray Vicechancellor and delegates from the Senate, accompanied by the Earls of Westmoreland and Harrowby, Earl Percy, the Bishop of Gloucester, Viscount Palmerston M.P., and other members of the University.(6)

A proposal was this year made to enclose Coe Fen, Coldham's Common, and Christ's College Pieces; but the Corporation, on the 24th of August, refused their assent,(7) and the scheme was abandoned.

On the 13th of November, the Prince Regent and the Duke of

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 31 March, 14 April, 5 May, 2 June, 1815; Otter, Life of Dr. Clarke, ii. 338. Mr. Thomas Verney Okes, surgeon, this year published a tract, entitled "Observations upon the Fever lately prevalent in Cambridge,"

(2) Vide ante, p. 489.

(3) Stat. 55, Geo. III. c. 184.

(4) Stat. 55 Geo. III. c. 114, s. s. 5 & 29.

(5) Cambridge Chronicle, 14 July, 21 July, 1815.

(6) London Gazette, 29 July, 1815; Cambridge Chronicle, 21 July, 4 Aug. 11 Aug. 1815. (7) Corporation Common Day Book.

Clarence (afterwards King William IV.) passed through Cambridge, on their way from Huntingdonshire to Newmarket. They did not stop here, relays of horses being ready, by order, at Barnwell.(1)

1816.

This year, was first instituted an examination of students in civil law.

On the 5th of February, died Richard Viscount Fitzwilliam,(2) whose will(3) contains the following bequest:

I GIVE AND BEQUEATH unto the Chancellor masters and scholars of the University of Cambridge, all my capital stock in the New South Sea Annuities [£100,000], to be had and held by them the said Chancellor, masters, and scholars, and their successors for ever, upon the trusts, and to and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed and declared, touching and concerning the same; and as to all my pictures, portraits, prints, drawings and engravings, whether framed, glazed, or otherwise, and also the frames and glass thereof respectively, all my books, printed, engraved, or manuscript, bound or unbound, all my music, bound and unbound, all my busts, statues, medals, gems, precious stones, and bronzes whatsoever, which shall belong to me at the time of my decease, I give and bequeath the same unto the said Chancellor, masters, and scholars of the said University of Cambridge, and their successors for ever, upon the trusts and for the intents and purposes hereinafter expressed, declared and contained, touching and concerning the same: and I do hereby declare my will to be, and hereby direct, that they the said Chancellor masters and scholars, do and shall with all convenient speed after my decease, by and out of the dividends and annual proceeds of my said New South Sea Annuities so directed to be transferred to them as aforesaid, cause to be erected and built a good substantial and convenient Museum, Repository, or other building, within the precincts of the said University, for the reception and preservation of the said pictures, books, and other articles, or to purchase one or more erections or buildings for that purpose; and in the meantime and until such a Museum, Repository, or other building, shall be erected, built, or purchased as aforesaid, to procure a proper building for their temporary reception, and to pay rent and taxes for the same, and also to pay and defray all the costs, charges, and expences attending the removing and depositing the said respective articles: and I do hereby direct, that William Sheldon and Edward Roberts, or the survivor of them, do cause a regular schedule or inventory to be made of the said several articles, and shall cause two fair copies of such schedule or inventory to be made, one of which copies I direct shall be signed by them the said William Sheldon and Edward Roberts, or the survivor of them, and that the other copy shall be signed by the Vicechancellor of the said University for the time being, and that the copy so to be signed by the said William Sheldon and Edward Roberts, or the survivor of them, shall be delivered to the said Vicechancellor, and deposited in the place where the said several articles are kept, and that the copy to be signed by the said

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 17 Nov. 1815.

(2) Sometime of Trinity Hall, Hon. M.A. 1764.

(3) Dated 18th August, 1815.

Vicechancellor shall be delivered to the said William Sheldon and Edward Roberts, or one of them, to be kept by them, or one of them: and it is my will, and I hereby direct, that none of my said pictures, books, or other articles before mentioned, shall be taken or removed from the Museum or Repository for the time being, by any person or persons whomsoever, or on any account, or upon any pretence whatsoever, except only in case of fire happening, and then only during the time the necessity continues: and I do hereby declare my will to be, and hereby direct, that the expense of keeping such pictures, books, and other articles before mentioned, and the salaries of officers and other persons to be employed in or about the same, shall be discharged with and out of the dividends and annual proceeds of the said New South Sea Annuities so given and bequeathed as aforesaid: and I do hereby declare, that the bequests so by me made to the said Chancellor masters and scholars of the said University, are so made to them for the purpose of promoting the increase of learning, and the other great objects of that noble foundation; but the particular arrangement, economy, and disposition of the property comprised in the said legacies and bequests I have made and given, I commit (subject to the several trusts hereinbefore expressed) to the direction and management of the said Chancellor masters and scholars, in such manner as is provided by the laws and usages of the said University.

On the 9th of February, the Senate voted an address to the Prince Regent, congratulating him on the re-establishment of Peace. It was presented at Carlton House on the 30th of April, by Dr, Kaye Vicechancellor, and a deputation from the Senate, accompanied by many noblemen and gentlemen educated at the University.(1)

On the 24th of February, a County Meeting, convened by John Whitby Quintin Esq. High Sheriff (in compliance with a requisition), was held at the Shire Hall, to take into consideration the depressed condition of the Agricultural Interest. Henry Gunning Esq. proposed, and Jonathan Page Esq. seconded certain resolutions, which (with an additional resolution proposed by Sir George Leeds Bart. and seconded by the Rev. George Adam Browne) were carried unanimously. Lord F. G. Osborne expressed himself favourable to the objects of the meeting, and a letter was read from Lord C. S. Manners, intimating that he could not support a renewal of the Property Tax. The resolutions affirmed overwhelming taxation to be the main cause of the distress then existing, and intimated that considerable alleviation might be derived from protecting duties at higher rates on the importation of foreign wool, seeds, and other agricultural produce, and particularly by a recurrence to the system of drawbacks on the exportation of corn and malt. The Malt Tax and the Income Tax were condemned, and the proposed remedies of the Chancellor of the Exchequer declared utterly inefficient. It

(1) Cambridge Chronicle, 16 Feb. 3 May, 10 May, 1816; London Gazette, 4 May, 1816. [The Gazette erroneously enumcrates the Earl of Liverpool, Viscount Sidmouth, and other Oxford men, amongst the noblemen and gentlemen educated at this University.]