are amongst his numerous performances. The "Life of Christ in 36 small prints." "The twelve months, small circles from H. Bol.” "The women of Israel chanting the psalm of praise, after the destruction of the Egyptians in the Red Sea." This artist flourished according to Strutt and Heinecken about 1530-1550. His son, HANS or JOHN, was an excellent draughtsman and engraver. He studied some time in Rome, and afterwards settled in his native place, Antwerp, where he assisted his father in most of his great works; and afterwards published a prodigious number of prints of his own, nowise inferior to those of Adrian. The works attributed by some to one Herman Coblent, are, by Heinecken, supposed to be by this master. His prints, according to Strutt, are dated from 1555 to 1622, so that he must have lived to a great age. We shall only notice the following amongst his numerous performances: "The Life of St. Francis in 16 prints lengthways, surrounded by grotesque borders." "Time and Truth," small upright print beautifully engraved, from J. Stradanus; "The Last Judgment," a large print, encompassed with small stories of the life of Christ. M. Heinecken mentions a print by an artist, who signs himself William Collaert, and supposes him the son of John Collaert."

· COLLANGE (GABRIEL DE), born at Tours in Auvergne, in 1524, was valet-de-chambre to Charles IX. Though a true catholic, he was taken for a protestant, and assassinated as such in the massacre of St. Bartholomew in 1572. He translated and augmented the polygraphy and the cabalistic writing of Trithemius, Paris, 1561, in 4to, which a Frison, named Dominique de Hottinga, published under his own name, without making any mention either of Trithemius or of Collange, at Embden, 1620, 4to. Collange had also some skill in the mathematics and in cosmography, and left a great many learned manuscripts described in our authorities. 2

COLLE (CHARLES), secretary and reader to the duke of Orleans, was born at Paris in 1709, and died in the same city Nov. 2, 1783, at the age of 75. In his character were united a singular disposition to gaiety, and an uncommon degree of sensibility; the death of a beloved wife accelerated his own. Without affecting the qualities of bene

1 Strutt.-Heinecken.-Rees's Cyclopædia.

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ficence and humanity, he was humane and beneficent. Having a propensity to the drama from his infancy, he cultivated it with success. His "Partie-de-Chasse de Henri IV." (from which our "Miller of Mansfield" is taken) exhibits a very faithful picture of that good king. His comedy of "Dupuis and Desronais," in the manner of Terence, may perhaps be destitute of the vis comica; but the sentiments are just, the characters well supported, and the situations pathetic. Another comedy, entitled “Truth in wine, or the Disasters of Gallantry," has more of satire and broad humour. There are several more pieces of his, in which he paints, with no less liveliness than truth, the manners of his time; but his pencil is frequently as licentious as those manners. His talent at song-writing procured him the appellation of the Anacreon of the age, but here too he was deficient in delicacy. His song on the capture of Portmahon was the means of procuring him a pension from the court of 600 livres, perhaps the first favour of the kind ever bestowed. He was one of the last survivers of a society of wits who met under the name of the Caveau, and is in as much honourable remembrance as the Kit-Kat club in London. This assembly, says a journalist, was of as much consequence to literature as an academy. Collé frequently used to regret those good old times, when this constellation of wits were wont to meet together, as men of letters, free and independent. The works of this writer are collected in 3 volumes, 12mo, under the title of "Theatre de Societé." Collé was a cousin of the poet Regnard, whom he likewise resembled in his originality of genius.

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COLLET (PETER), a voluminous French divine, was a native of Ternay in Vendomois, doctor of divinity, and priest of the mission of St. Lazare. He was born Sept. 6, 1693, and died at Paris Oct. 6, 1770, at the seminary des Bons Enfans, where he resided. M. Collet published "A System of Moral Theology," 15 tom. which make 17 vols. 8vo, in Latin, because tom. 1, and tom. 13, are divided each into two, 1744 et seqq. An abridgment of this work, 5 vols. 12mo; a scholastic work in 2 vols. ; "Tr. des Dispenses," 3 vols.; "Tr. des Saints Mysteres," 3 vols.; "Tr. des Indulgences, et du Jubilé," 2 vols. 12mo; and some

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books of devotion, which are very superficial; "Sermons," 2 vols. 12mo, an abridgment of Pontas, 2 vols. 4to, &c. 1

COLLET (PHILIBERT), a learned advocate of parliament of Dombes, was born February 15, 1643, at Chatilonles-Dombes, where he died March 31, 1718, aged seventysix. He left "Traité des Excommunications," 1689, 12mo; "Tr. de l'Usure," 1690, 8vo; Notes on the custom of Bresse, 1698, fol. and several other works containing singular sentiments, more free than his church permitted. 2

COLLETET (WILLIAM), one of the members of the French academy, was born at Paris in 1598, and died in the same city February 10, 1659, aged sixty-one, leaving scarcely enough to bury him. Cardinal Richelieu appointed him one of the five authors whom he selected to write for the theatre. Colletet alone composed "Cyminde," and had a part in the two comedies, the "Blindman of Smyrna," and the "Tuilleries." Reading the monologue in this latter piece to the cardinal, he was so struck with six bad lines in it, that he made him a present of 600 livres; saying at the same time, that this was only for the six verses, which he found so beautiful, that the king was not rich enough to recompense him for the rest. However, to shew his right as a patron, and at the same time his judgment as a connoisseur, he insisted on the alteration of one word for another. Colletet refused to comply with his criticism; and, not content with defending his verse to the cardinal's face, on returning home he wrote to him on the subject. The cardinal had just read his letter, when some courtiers came to compliment him on the success of the king's arms, adding, that nothing could withstand his eminence!" You are much mistaken," answered he smiling; "for even at Paris I meet with persons who withstand me." They asked who these insolent persons could be?" It is Colletet,” replied he; "for, after having contended with me yesterday about a word, he will not yet submit, as you may see here by this long letter he has been writing to me." This obstinacy, however, did not so far irritate the minister as to deprive the poet of his patronage. Colletet had also other benefactors.

Harlay, archbishop of Paris, gave him a handsome reward

for his hymn on the immaculate conception; by sending him an Apollo of solid silver.-Colletet took for his second wife, Claudine his maid servant; and, in order to justify his choice, published occasionally pieces of poetry in her name; but, this little artifice being presently discovered, both the supposititious Sappho, and the inspirer of her lays, became the objects of continual satire. This marriage, in addition to two subsequent ones, to the losses he suffered in the civil wars, and to his turn for dissipation, reduced him to the extreme of poverty. His works

appeared in 1653, in 12mo.

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COLLIER (JEREMY), an eminent English divine, was born at Stow Qui in Cambridgeshire, Sept. 23, 1650. His father Jeremy Collier was a divine and a considerable linguist; and some time master of the free-school at Ipswich, in Suffolk. He was educated under his father at Ipswich, whence he was sent to Cambridge, and admitted a poor scholar of Caius college under the tuition of John Ellys, in April 1669. He took the degree of B. A. in 1673, and that of M. A. in 1676; being ordained deacon the same year by Gunning, bishop of Ely, and priest the year after by Compton bishop of London. He officiated for some time at the countess dowager of Dorset's at Knowle in Kent, whence he removed to a small rectory at Ampton near St. Edmund's Bury in Suffolk, to which he was presented by James Calthorpe, esq. in 1679. After he had held this benefice six years, he resigned it, came to London in 1685, and was some little time after made lecturer of Gray's Inn. But the revolution coming on, the public exercise of his function became impracticable.

Collier, however, was of too active a spirit to remain supine, and therefore began the attack upon the revolution: for his pamphlet is said to have been the first written on that side the question after the prince of Orange's arrival, with a piece entitled "The Desertion discussed in a letter to a country gentleman, 1688," 4to. This was written in answer to a pamphlet of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, afterwards bishop of Salisbury, called "An Enquiry into the present State of Affairs, &c." wherein king James is treated as a deserter from his crown; and it gave such offence, that, after the government was settled, Collier was sent to Newgate, where he continued a close prisoner for some months,

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but was at length discharged without being brought to a trial. He afterwards published the following pieces: 1. A translation of the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th books of Sleidan's Commentaries, 1689, 4to. 2. "Vindiciæ juris regii, or remarks upon a paper entitled An Enquiry into the measures of submission to the Supreme Authority," 1689, 4to. The author of this inquiry was also Dr. Bur3. "Animadversions upon the modern explanation of 2 Hen. VII. chap. i. or a king de facto," 1689, 4to. 4. "A Caution against Inconsistency, or the connection between praying and swearing, in relation to the Civil Powers," 1690, 4to. This discourse is a dissuasive from join>ing in public assemblies. 5." A Dialogue concerning the Times, between Philobelgus and Sempronius, 1690, 4to: to the right honourable the lords, and to the gentlemen convened at Westminster, Oct. 1690." This is a petition for an inquiry into the birth of the prince of Wales, and printed upon a half sheet. 6. "Dr. Sherlock's Case of Allegiance considered, with some remarks upon his Vindication," 1691, 4to. 7. "A brief essay concerning the independency of Church Power," 1692, 4to. The design of this essay is to prove the public assemblies guilty of schism, upon account of their being held under such bishops as had assumed, or owned such as had assumed, the sees of those who were deprived for not taking the oaths of the new government.

Thus did Collier, by such ways and means as were in his power, continue to oppose with great vigour and spirit the revolution and all its abettors: and thus he became obnoxious to the men in power, who only waited for an occasion to seize him. That occasion at length came; for information being given to the earl of Nottingham, then secretary of state, that Collier, with one Newton, another nonjuring clergyman, was gone to Romney marsh, with a view of sending to, or receiving intelligence from the other side of the water, messengers were sent to apprehend them. They were brought to London, and, after a short examination by the earl, committed to the Gate-house. This was in the latter end of 1692, but as no evidence of their being concerned in any such design could be found, they were admitted to bail, and released. Newton, as far as appears, availed himself of this; but Collier refused to remain upon bail, because he conceived that an acknowledgment of the jurisdiction of the court in which the bail