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1 • ' g i r I f 4 1 "r" - ‘7' - LITE4ATURE, ARTS, SCIENCES, &c. . . Hie Met iponiis (*Cups: CertUSW mertnti 'Slat rotor. eruatur pr. priit Lediot, <u d e ws. CLAUD. DESIDERIUS ERASMUS. Cllaving in one of our former Numh•rs given the Life and Cita rtft..r of .ERAsmus from the Nieuwe n< higer t we shall now lilted a description of that great man ' rxtratlied from the irrprdenWek of the Rev. Mr. J AeoaviKoac.) Desiderius Erasmus, called, in the commence ment of his career in the world of letters, Gerrit Gerritszoon, was a charader of whose birth and birth-place there existed a great difference in opi nion among the learned. It is however certain, that he was begotten in fornication at Gouda, and saw the first light of day in Rotterdam. His father, a wealthy and not unlettered man, was born in the former city, where, owing to his flippant tongue, lie gained the nick-name of - Proat, i. c. Babbler. The mother of Erasmus was a descendant of a physician in Zevenbergen, who yielded her person to the de sires of her lover, under the hope of obtaining an husband in Fraat, whose servant she was ; but the marriage was prevented by the relations of her gal lant, who sent hire to Rome ; and the mother, to conceal her dishonour, went to Rotterdam, where she was delivered of a son, who at the font was bap tized after the sir-name of his lath!r.—Gerrit, while at Rome, was persuaded, by spurious accounts from his friends, to believe his Nlargaretta was no more ; he consecrated himself to the priesthood, but found, upon his return, the mother and child both living. Ile past his days well without her, but not without taking care of the education of the child, whom he ever acknowledged as his son. of Oc• He is said to ve been born on the 2 4 8th . sec tober 14C7 ; he commenced his studies at Utrecht, and rursued them still farther at Deventer. After the death of his father, he was placed under the care of the regular canoeists of Sion in Delft ; following that, he entered the monastery of Stein near Gouda, where he exercised his genius in literature and paha : his success in the first profession requires no elucidation, and of the second some respetable spe cimens are said to remain. He is accused of hey ing neglected his master Gondanus, to whose care of his education he had great obligations : neverthe less it is doubtful if he ever had such a toter. After Lis studies were completed, and he began to write, be attained very generally the .appellation a learned and virtuous man ; and in such a measure, that the kings and princes of Germany, Italy, Eng land, and other countries, sent him munificent gifts, and other tokens of their high esteem. There is the less reason to wonder at this, when it is con sidered how far ignorance and barbarism had inun dated all Europe; and that, in his time, the arts and sciences once more began to rear their head : and as l'astitus was completely master of the Greek and Latin languages, he quickly became the general fa vourite of all who loved the arts and scieeces. Henry the VIIIth invited Erasmus to his Court, to Consult him on the affair of Luther; at his depar ture from that kingdom, his Majesty presented him with a purse of 50'gold angels, (23 I.) ; at Graves sd the officers who searched his baggage took it porn him, it being contrary to the law to export of th realm. Erasmus, not well returnedpleased at this eveitt, 5 to the English Court to complain of it to The sing, who laughing heat ‘ily at his distress,. Wormed him that his servants •barely performed their duty, which hai they seetfelone be would have had them hung ! He de tained him three days leseiger at his Court, presented him with 50 golden .angels more, together with a written older to the officers to return to him the fors tner 50, and e perralt him to carry the whole out of the realm t and thus provided with a double gift, ha returned to 'Holland. He gave many proofs of being sensible of the errors of the Church of Rome, and immorality of the clergy, arid that he wished , for a reformation. Bart all his aelions prove he was weak and faint-heared in the cause, and durst not join heartily in the arduous task of fulfilling that wish ; eessibly fearful of losing the favour of the great, and displeasing the world. The pressure if ibis important charge he let rest upon the shoul ders of the indefatigable Luther, holding it more secure to stand aloof from the heat of contention, and pretend, to play the part of a mediator : by thi, means he kept up his reputation with the Catholic Princes, but made also enemies of the Monks , whose s vicioulives he satirised in his writings and conver sation. The consequence of this dubious condua was, that he frequently drew upon himself the hat red of both parties ; and received the name of a man utterly destitute of religion. To gain a good word from the Papists, he now and then writ a few things in their behalf : and not to remain in entire disrepute with the Lutherans, he sported occasion ally at the expence of the Romish clergy. By none was he so fiercely hated as by the stupid Monks, not only for ridiculing their superstitious ceremonies, but that he was too learned for them. And not being able to endure their crimes, follies, and pro found ignorance, lie tore away the mask, and exposed them to the naked world. At certain moments, where circumstances permitted him to speak freely, he partly justified -the attack made on the Romish ceremonies by Luther, but ever added his wish that he had gone more gently to work. To the klleaor of Saxony he said a reformation was highly necessary, but that Lu ther, though his doetrines were go . od, yet his prac tice was too violent, and calculated to produce a great tragedy on the theatre of Europe. Luther writ a book on the doctrine of .free-will ; to that work Erasmus writ an answer. Luther rejoined in a work, in which he treated Erasmus as an enemy to the Christian &lief, sporting with revelation, and misleading mankind by ambiguous expressions. Erasmus defended himself in a work, in which he handled Luther with great severity and indignation, for he feared nothing so mach as losihg the fame his books had gained. Many learned men have been of opinion, that Erasmus in some respeas aided the cause of reformation. and in others did it injury. On account of the rich gifts which many anteing the learned received for writing ageinst Lu ther, .it was sarcastically Observed by Erasmus, 4 1 that the poor Luther made many men rich." It was not till after his death that, from his letters to confidential friends, it was first discovered that in his heart he way, the friend to reformation. All his works were printed at . Basle by Frobeniut, in 9 iols. Intio; whiCh were afterwards reprinted in 4.amidon. • Some ignorant monis,*who were heavily accus mg Erasmus of heresy, being asked in which of his 4 ortitings thee heresies ware to be found, replied to tfie question, Ant though they had never read his works, they neverthnless knew they were Ilan serous, were it • :dime for being written in 'obscere Latin ! It is unfortunate that Erasmus did mit possess more of that intrepidity and openness of soul which be longs to a free-horn Dutchman, and that he was too timorous to utter his sentiments aloud to the world : a proof of which timidity he sufficiently evinced in his reply to the deputation sent to him for his advice by the Bohemian church. Also was his opinion rclarive to the divorce of King Henry ex tremely wavering; sometimes for, and sometimes against his majesty, according as he was impelled by his hopes or fears. He had reached the age of nearly seventy years, when he died in a very chris tian-like manner, at the house nf.the femme; printer Frobenius, at Basle: his heirs were BonifaciusAmer bachius, Frobenius, and Nicolas Episcopius. About a month before his death, he was attacked by the flux, and, feeling his end approaching, foretold it to several friends. It happened on a certain day, that the above three persons having visited Erasmus, and were offering their condolence, that he said te them, " you resemble dr three friends of Job, with the exception that I neither behold your clothes teen, nor ashes on your heads." He employed his time in devotion and prtyer, but free from any of those superstitious ceremonies, for which he had so fre neently chastised the mon!::. To the latest moment of his existence, he preserved his understanding, and died very gently. He was buried in the great church at ifasle, his funeral being attended by a great concourse of people. The monks, whose ma lice pursued Erasmus beyond the grave, published that he expired without hope, religion, or God. It would be utterly superfluous to remark of Erasmus, that he was one of the greatest men the republic of letters has ever produced ; and though this is a truism which admits of no coatradiditm, yet had he many enemies, exclusive of the invete rate and ignorant monks. Under the number of those was the celebrated Julius Cxsar Scaligcr, who uttered many base and font slanders against his character. Of his bastardy he never reproached him, though he insisted he had won his bread as corredor of the press to Aldus Manutius, when hindered by drunkenness, from perceiving he had sanctioned many errors which escaped his attention ! Afterwards, however, the furious Scaliger re proached Erasmus with being the offspring of a prostitute ! From a letter published by the son of this candid critic, it is made to appear, that his fa ther had neither read nor understood the works of this illustrious man ! and, afterwards, on having studied a little, finding how great a man he had been libelling, he became half ashamed of his cm dud, and his son did all he could to help those dis graceful publications out of the world. It appears that, bn Scaliger's publishing one of his abusive works against Erasmus, that great and injured man applied to his friends to buy up the whole edition, and destroy them as soon as published, by which means, so zealous were those friends in the execution of their work, that scarcely a • single copy escaped their hands, and they were all destroyed. Many of the enemies of Erasmus have denied that it was ever the intention of any Pope to elevate him to the rank of a Cardinal; but such persons have egregiously erred. Boisart states positively, that he refused to accept the prof fered dignity, and was regarded as a kind of super natural being. It is certain, that under the ponti ficacy of Adrian the Sixth, he might have had that dignity, would he alone have one to Rome, to which he was invited by the Pope himself : but Erasmus declined the invitation on account of weak health, and wrote also a confidential letter to his Holiness, wherein he said he must refrain the prof ferred honours, to silence the malignance of his ene mies, who would not fail to assert that he ran after the Court to of fain dignities. Under Paul the Third, the affair of the cardinalship fcr Erasmus Was set on foot with renewed vigour, and he had but to extend his hand and take it : but his modesty W as greater than his ambition. This fad rests not so much upon the evidence of Erasmus, as that of several great men, who were assured of its truth. Tt was but with great difficulty Erasmus could be inducA to seff:r his likeness to be taken. At length, moved by the entreaties of his bosom friend, the celebrated Holbein, he permitted an half length portrait to be taken of him. Reza wrote.an epigram on this piece; in which he paid the following hyper bolic compliment to the great original : "This paint ing exhibits but half the person of the great Erasmus, whose fame has filled the world, but why not the whole ? be not astonished thereat, Reader, for the whole earth itself could not contain him !" From this portrait flowed a multitude of copies on canvas, wood, &c. and statues of different sizes and metals. About the year Pi2'2, some fanatical preachers of Rotterdam made war against the statue of Eras mus. The cause was as follows : shortly bei'ore this period, sonic Protestant miristers had applied for pecuniary help ti um the magistrates of the city, and received for answer, that the state of the coup try would not permit it. The metal statue, which yet remains in the great market-place, Was just then ere Fled ; and a certain rancorous priest, called Jacob van Leeuwen, took upon himself to censure the go vernors of the city in very indecorous and seditiuus terms : I iok," said the angry bigot, "if the state of the land can suffer metal images to be crated, which cost many thousands, end that to a perion who has merited nothing but from libertincs and impious men, who sport at all religion, I say that . God, for such provocations, shall visit the land with plagues," &c. It was pretended among the vulgar, that simple and superstitious people of time Catholic faith bent their knees before this statue, making of Erasmus a new saint, and thafthis figure would give occasion to the restoration of the wor ship of images ! As an antidote to this, a petition was delivered in the name of Erasmus to the ma gistrates of the city, complaining . of the hate and persecuting spirit of the clergy against the person of Erasmus, soliciting protection, .and in the event that they had not power to afford it, to appeal to the States of Holland, or to a general Synod. Againq the scurrilous slanders of this Leeuwen, came a work to light, written by H. Ballinger, under the title " Stove Erasmi," or, " a blotting out of the defamatory scandals of the Minister J. Van Lee uwen, against Desiderius Erasmus," in which the dodrine preached by Leeuwen was severely handled, who notwithstanding possessed many stupid adhe rents. Some of the members of the Rotterdam Church represented to the Synod for South Holland, then sitting at Corinchem, that great inquiettides had arisen In the Church owing to the ereetion of a statue of Erasmus in CFI and it was city, to be feared tit serious disturbances might arise ;l i the high authority of the Synod was not interpoied to prevent it. The Synad'resolved, that the affair did not lie within their cognizance, and admonished the busy c hurch-council to be diligent in the perfor mance of their respedive duties, and to instrud the common people that the erecting that statue was alone in consequence of an old usage, utterly incon sequential in itself, and ought not to be rejeeted, much less to occasion discussions in the church. Ills wise determination was become the more ne cessary, as no less than 300 blind zealots, adherents of J. Van Lcenwen, had entered into a written agreement, wherein they engaged to support the declaimer Let:meets, and the church council, and not to receive the sacrament before the Idol (so they called the statue) was destroyed. The seditious Priests, .1. Van Leeuwen, and Pieter NO.nrode, were dismissed from their offices, whereby the Magis trates taught the restless multitude, first to behold this fine produCtion of art with indifference, and next with satisfaction, not alone as an ornament to the city, but to the whole republic. It is already stated that, ia his heart, Erasmus was an advocate fur the reformation, but much as lie dis approved the abuses and ignorance introduced into the Church of Rome, he no less abhorred the indecent rarTe with which wild-headed enthusiasts strove to brilig about that revolution in religion. The man ner in which he wished the necessary reformation to he carried into effe.l was as follows :—" The evil, said Erasmus, would be easily cured, if the chic Cs of both sides strove with upright hearts to restore the pure religion of the er.•,:ngelists. The great cause should be left to the decision of 50 or 100 men, deputed by all nations, that should be se leded for their holy lives, profound erudition, and unbiassed minds. Those were to appoint a certain number of their own body to form a cornmitt:e to assemble at short notices. The propositions or doetrines of the assembled theologists, must rest within the walls of the school. Some of the doc trines in use must be destroyed, some altered into admonitions, &c. Above all, he rejected a reforma tion to be brought about by force and uproar, amid quarrels and dissentions, declaring such was his ab henence of discord, that the truth itself would dis please him, if it was tumultuous or seditious. His property, which was considerable, he disposed of by will : his library to .lohannes a Lases, a Pole ; but on condition that he paid 200 florins : if he died previous to Erasmus, or if he would not comply with the terms, then the library was to be given to Amerbach, who was a, liberty to dispose of the books as he might think proper. His gold watch he bequeathed to Lodewyk Berns; agolden spoon and fork to Beatus Renanus ; one hundred and fifty gold dollars to Petrus Virctus ; an equal sum to Philip Montanus ; two hundred gold florins to his servant Lambert, if he lived with nim at the time of his death, and it had not been previously given to him ; a silver bottle to Jan Brissius ; an hundred gold florins to Pattl Volsitis ; an hundred and fifty gold ducats to Sigismund Telenius ; two rings, the ore without a stone, and the other of Turcuis, to Jan Erasmus Frobenius, to whom he had stood as sponsor at his baptism ; all his clothes, furniture, &c. together with a silver cup, whereon was the arms of the Archbishop of Menu, to Hieronimus Frobenius ; a ring with the figure of a woman, and a cup with a cover and some verses on the foot, to Nicholas Episcorius ; a silver cup, with a figure representing Fortune, to Everard Goclinus ; all the overplus of his property, which was very consider able, he bequeathed to his three heirs above•men tioned, H. Frobenius, Bunifacius Amerbachius, and Nicolas Episcopins. Friday morning, -- as — theKing's Guard was marching from the parade, in St. James's Park, a private of the nine of Smith, of Colonel Stevens's company of the Ist battalion of the 3d regiment of Foot Guards, was seized with a sudden fit of cough ing, broke a blood vessel, and instantly expired. Friday Lord GRANTEE'S`, Colonel of the first regiment of the Sorry Militia, ordered circular let ters to be sent to his officers, requesting their imme diate attendance at thehead-quarters, K in oston-upon- Thames, as the corps will be embodied some day next week; or to state their reasons for neglecting to do so. On Monday se'anight, as Mrs. Smith, of Great Leighs, Essex, was boiling some fat in a saucepan, it accidentally caught fire. Not knowing how to ex tinguish it, she carried it into the yard ; hut finding the air rather increased than checked the fary of the flames, she took it into the house again, and threw a quantity of cold water upon it ; which caused so vio lent an explosion as to knock Mrs. Smith down back wards, and to scatter the fat, still blazing, all over the room; some of which communicating with the clothes of the maid-servant, set them on fire; and the flames rapidly extending to those of an infant she had in her arms, it was burnt in so dreadful a man ner, that it languished till Thursday, and then died. • —An inquisition was held upon the body on Satur day last, when the Jury returned a verdict of Am . elentul Death. We are sorry to add, that the maid ' servant was so much burnt, that she lies with but lit tle hopes of recovery. Mrs. Smith received consi derable injury, but is thought to be out of danger. The following circumstance took place this week at Croscomb, near Wells :—A young man, servant to a farmer, had been prevailed on by his worthless father to purloin some hay ; he was caught in the fad of putting it upon his father's shoulders. His. mistress remonstrated with him on the enormity of the offence, but promised him forgiveness upon the hay being returned. However, the unhappy lad, being struck with remorse, the same evening hung himself in an out-house. The Coroner's Jury re turned without hesitation a verdid, filo de se—but through the humanity of the churchwardens the ig nominious sentence of the law was dispensed with, and the corpse was suffered to be buried in the bask part of the churchyard. We understand that the plan submitted by Ge neral BENTHAM to the Boast of Admiralty, at their late visitation at Portsmouth and its vicinity, is ex peded to take place, with respect to clearing out the Hospital-lake, and rendering it thereby completely commodious, and suitable to receive a number of his Majesty's smaller ships and vessels of war, to be laid up there in a state of ordinary; in times of peace and tranquillity ; by this we shall be able. to retain a much greater navy at the central port than heretofore : and the more so, as by the intended re moval of the bridge leading across the Lake, which is already in a state of falling, the navigation of the River can be extended much farther, and enabled to answer the .most sanguine expectations of the General, for the public good: NAY4L INTELLIGENCE. , POIITV.10014 . ; MAICii 11. tact evening sailed his Majesty's ship Amphthn, of 32 guns, Capt. Hardy; and this day his Ma jesty's ship La Loire, of 46 guns, Capt. 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