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CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD, JULY 1.

In a Convocation holden in the Theatre this day, the Honorary
Degree of D.C.L. was conferred on the following Gentlemen. viz.
His Excellency James Barbour, of Barbourville, in Virginia,
Envoy of the United States of America.
Sir Howard Douglas, Bart. Knight Companion of the Bath, and i
Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief of the Province of
New Brunswick,
Sir John Eardley Rardley-Wilmot, Bart. of Berkswell Hall, in
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Sir Wm. Edward Parry, Knt. F.R.S. Captain in the Royal Navy.
Sir John Franklin, Kat. F.R.S. Captain in the Royal Navy.
At the same time the Rev. John Lodge, M.A. Fellow of Mag-
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Cambridge, were admitted ad modems.
_ _

It is a-singular coladdence that the subjects of two of the prises
reeited in the presence of the American Minister, and of Captains
Parry and Franklin, should have been,
For the English Essay—ii The Power and Stability of Federative
Governments."

For the Finglish Verse—" Voyages of Discovery to the Polar
Regions."

THE ARMY.

LORD Htu.'s Levu. His Lordship's Levee, at the Horse
Guards, yesterday, was most numerously attended. Among the
distinguished ludividuals present were : Lord Elphinstone, Lieut.-
General Sir H. Campbell, Lient.-Gerteral Sir Robert Bolton,
Colonel Sir W. Gomm, Ueut.-General Eden, Major-General Sir
H. Lowe, to take leave; Lieut.-Colonel Si Robert Mowbray,
Lieutenant Vernon Graham, Vice-Admiral Sir B. Martin, Lieut.-
General Biachford, Lord Charles Manners, Earl of Dartmouth,
and Lietit.-Coloael Dale.

BILLETTING OF SOLDIERS.
Adjutant-General's Office, Dublin, April 27, 1829.
Seine inconvenience having been found to arise •to the service
I from mbconstrucdeo of the clause of the Mutiny Atet regarding
the billetting of soldiers, the Lieutenant-General Commanding
deems it expedient to direct that the following opinion of the Law
Counsel of Government, which has been obtained, in consequence,
on the subject, shall be published for the Information and guidance
of the troops serving in this command.
By command of the Lieutenant-General,
J. GARDINER.
Ornnon—u Persons co whim soldiers are blamed are net to
:wide, but are beard to receive them hits their houses. The
Act alluded to states ' .ittford,' and nit.' ProvidN' which is 61st
me. present year,lB29, and ed sec. year lante—Panwes.krywat;

A valuable addition has just accrued to the literature
of the country, in the publication of a life of the im-
mortal LOCK', by Lord KING. In splendour of me-
chanical appearance, it is one of the handsomest volumes '
,eerhaps ever turned out, even from the workshops of i
Connuata.A beautiful likeness of the philosopher, painted
by GREENHILL, and engraved by WoentlteGron, has
all the charm of an original painting; and the type and
paper are unrivalled. The style of the Noble Author
is easy, flowing, and perspicuous; and although we can
only present our readers with one extract, we do not the
less rejoice to see the life of such a man as Locice
written by such a pattiot as Lord Km.
1. The Essay on Human Understanding, which had
been finished during the author's retirement in Holland,
and the English version of the Letter on Toleration,
were now published oe his return to his native country.l
They contributed, as Stewart has observed in his excel-
lent Dissertation, to prepare the thinking part of his
readers, in a degree till then unknown, for the. un-
shackled use of the understanding. Perhaps it is not
too much to say, that if Lether delivered the Christian
world from the thraldom j• ails, priesthood in matters
of religion; Locke, in no less degree, contributed, by
his method of bold examination, and by his ardent
search for truth, to deliver the world fr'm the thral-
dom of errors and prejudices.
i‘ It has been observed by Mr. D. Stewart, and also
by Sir James Meckintosh,t who, both as a writer and
orator, is so eminently distinguished by his profound
research and splendid talents, that the course and cir-
cumstances of Locke's life were, in every respect, fa-
vourable to the production of such a work as the Essay
on Human Understanding. Mr. Stewart remarks, that
the study of medicine formed one of the best prepara•
tions for the study of mind ; and that the busy and
disersified scenes through which the author after wards
passed, contributed, not less than the academical retire-
ment of his former life, to enhance the peculiar and
characteristic merit of his works. On his first entrance
into life, as he himself says, • I no stoner perceived
myself iu the world, but I found myself in a storm ;'
and thus he migitt well describe the civil wars, and the
military rule, which prevailed from his childhood to his
twenty-sixth year. Educated then, to use the words of
Sir James Mackintosh, amongst the English Dissenters,
during the short period of their political ascendency, he
early imbibed that deep piettand ardent spirit of liberty
which actuated that body of men; and he probably
imbibed also in their schools the disposition to meta-
physical inquiries, which has everywhere accompanied
the Calvinistic the ;logy. Sects, founded on the right
of private judgment, naturally tend to purify them-
selves from intolerance, and in time learn to respect in
others the freedom of thought, to the exercise of which
they owe their own existence. By the Independent
divines who were his instructors, our philosopher was
taught those principles of religious liberty which they
were the first to disclose to the world. When free in-
quiry led him to milder dogmas, he retained the severe
morality which was their honourable singularity, and
which continues to distinguish their successors in those
communities which have abandoned their rigorous
opinions. His professional pursuits afterwards engaged
him in the study of the physical sciences, at the mo•
nseut when the spirit of experiment and observation
was in its youthful fervour, and when a repugnance to
scholastic subtleties was the ruling passion of the scien-
tific world. At a more mature age he was admitted
into the society of great wits and ambitious politicians ;
during the Remainder of his life he was often a man of
business, and always a mast of the world, without much
undisturbed leisure, and probably with that abated
relish for merely abstract speculation, which is the in-
evitable result of converse with society; and experience
in affairs But his political connexions, agreeing with
his early bias, made him a zealous advocate of liberty
in opinion and in government; ind ire gradually united
his zeal and activity to the illustration of such general
principles as arc the guardians of those great interests
of human society. Almost all his writings (even his
Essay itself) were occasional, and intended directly to
counteract the enemies of reason and of freedom in his
own age. The first Letter on Toleration, the most'
original, perhaps, of his works, was composed in Hol-
land, in a retirement where he was forced to conceal
himself from the tyranny which pursued him into a
foreign land; and it was published in England, in the
year of the Revolution, to vindicate the Toletatom Act,
of which the author lamented the imperfection."

f It has been said that Luther made ..very man his own Pope:
i. e. established the right of private judgmeut.
4 Vide a most admirable article in the Edisibmrsil Review. Vol.
WTI.

Life of Mary, Q,een of Scots, by JAMES GRANT, 1829.

This Life of Mary is the production of Mr. Grant, the Es:hoe of
a Newspaper in the remote and obscure town of Elgin. The object
of the writer was to present an account of the Queen in a cheap and
unpretending form, at once sufficiently concise for such as have
little leisure or opportunity for perusing historical works, and suffi-
ciently minute to furnish them with a somewhat Intimate acquaint-
ance with the more Interesting circumstances connected with ber
history. This object he has successfully accomplished. The nar-
rative Is a plain and satisfactory one, founded upon a full and free
consideration of all existing materials, without following in the
wake of any particular authority, and avoiding, for the most part,
controversial matter. Though refining to take generally the tone
of an apologist, he has briefly and collectedly summed up the
grounds of his conviction independently of other persons' conclu-
sions. That conviction is decidedly favourable towards Mary,whom
be considers as a person "far more sinned against than sinning"—
as one of an easy temperament, driven into acts and positions which
wore the aspect of indiscretions and even crimes, by the importu-
nities or the treacheries of conflicting and interested parties. The
divisions of a distracted country—the oppositions of powerful int.-
rests, and those interests headed by violent spirits, and alternately
prevailing, and in a rude and excited period—these things will
account for occasional intemperance and occasional inconsistency
in the Queen's measures. Her youth must always plead for her
with elder and sober men—her beauty will with boys and girls. It
mint, moreover, never be forgotten, that several persons were
executed for Darnley's murder, and GU au:passed the Queen. The
propriety and correctness of ber conduct during her long and
battening crinSsensent of nineteen years in England, is, with Mr.
Grant, a security that int previous and early actions in her own
country could never have been of that desperate and profligate cast
which some have ventured to represent terns. Elisabeth was her
jealous enemy ; and the friends and 24thisters of Elisabeth have
been the chief describers of Mary's life. The historian of Bisrleigh,
after esaminhg the state papers relative to Elisabetb'streamsent of
Mary though desirous of.white-wasbing the Minister
,at breat—
hes been heard to obeerve, She is as black as ebony, and Burleigh
of the saline colour." They stuck at nothing to rolunpresent her,
and prosecute their own views.—Mentlity Maganne, New &ries.