The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1804-07-03 00:00:00

OXFORD, 3 .e.c Xi.

Saturday the 16th inst. the Rev. John Time, Ba-
chelor of Arts, of University College, was admitted
Master of Arts.--Couingsby Waldo Sib- horn, Esq.
of Corpus Christi College, was admitted liachclor
of Arts

Monday the 1 dth. the Hon. Chas. Bagnt, Bache-
lor of Arts, of Christ Chinch, was admitted Master
of Arts.

Wednesday the 27th, Mr. Robert Clifton. of
Worcester College, was admitted Bachelor of Arts.
Thursday the 28th, the Rev. Joseph Wells, Master
of Arts, of Trinity College, and Ream- of Crowtort,
i i the county of Northampton, was admitted B 4•
chelor and Dolor in Divinity, Grand Compounder.
—The Rev. Henry Jones Randolph, of St. Edmund
Hall ; Joseph Bardgett, of Merton College ; Chas.
H.:rdinge, of University College ; and Peter Mona-
my Cornwall, of Oriel College ; Messrs. Thomas
Wynniatt, of Christ Church ; Robert Hooper, of
Pembroke College ; and John Bright, of Wadham
College, Bachelors of ;Nrts, were admitted Masters
of Arts.—Messrs John Woman Grove, of St. Ed-
mund Hall ; John Pomery, and John Bowie, of
Exeter College; John Radford, of Lincoln College ;
and Samuel Sellwood, of Magdalen College, were
admitted Bachelors of Arts.

The Bishop of Carlisle has collated the Rev. Phi-
neas Pett, Do&or of Divinity, Principal of St. Mary's
Hall, in the University of Oxford, and late first
Chaplain to his Lordship, to the Arch Deaconry of
this Diocese, vacant by the resignation of the Rev.
Dr. Paley.
The Rev. Evan Davies, ReEtor of Ilchester, is in-
stituted to the vicarage of Pilton, Somerset.

MR. DRAKE.

NOTE 7110 M K. DRAKE TO TUB BAVARIAN MI-
NISTER Or STATE, BARON MONTOELAS, DSLI-

•fIZO AT music/it r•acH 30, 1804.

" The undersigned Envoy Extraordinary teem His Britannic
Majesty, has been informed, that His Electoral Highness has
been pleased, et the requisition of the French eacrisment, to
give a hint to all Noble uen, who quitted Precise during the
Revolution, and may now be found in his dominions, to leave
the same within 10 days, without excepting that who are de-
pendent on the British Government. Although this account ap-
pears to be tolerably authentic, the undersigned cannot give any
er:dit to it without receiving a cunfinnatinn %hewer Gam his
Excellency Baron Montgelas, as he is toe well convinced of
the just and generous s...ntiments of Ilia Electoral /I ',gluten, to
believe that His Highness could have consented to such a de-
mand from a power which has fonnalli declared, by the eth ar-
ticle of its own constitution, that there are not any relations left
existing between it and the persons against whom th it measure
i. supper;ed to be taken; this deprives it of iie ease t ta
any authority with r,,,,,•et to them; a princirle your Ex-
cellency own,d yonrself, at a time when it was 1.1 azdatiu.i to
prohibit in this country the d-corations of the Fr:iich looliaichc
The Undersigned is the justified In hi. 4tl: p,..inen, that
he must have been misinformed stn this su'lect, as knowing
n iw sorely the feeling heart .if His Electoral nightie-. be
ict4, if ab4igd t i exerci-e any nitr towards person
whom no cause of reproach can be al eg-d, si it be a re•
prowls, that they have .liewir taernselvesso F.,nily devoted to
their duties, and to that Sovereign house, with w hirli Hia E:ee-
total Highness formerly stood con usxted, in so many
" The Undersigned is moreover ronvinced, that it could not
escape the enlightened wisdom •rf His Elecu.rat illieliness, that a
siniiLir exercise uf vigor, against those resoectat....., and alre.ily
an very unfortunate persons, would (min a 'taut exam, lc of
the fate awaiting those who, hi a moment of dantsw, are in-
clined tomes-sin true to their lawful Sovereign; and which ex-
ample may induce them to swerve from tacit duty, at the very
Jiro:herd when a Sovereign stands mist in used of the efforts
and actual proofs of their attachment.

" The undersigned has, therefore, the hsnoin to nreuvt /li-
mn Yon Montt, las toelear up hit doubt* on this stibje:t, cid to
inform him, whether the nicotine iu qutotion wili exteod to the
othei•ri of the late Coldest' .imay, wit ae I,l4Ched to the l-
ath Government. t rat he may he enabled to 4C411 :int his Court
thereof, and to await the cmnuuaads ut his Soveret‘u e.coed-
ingly.
" The undersigned avail., himself of this opportunity to re-
quoit Karon Von Montgeles to se:cpt the assurances of his
mu! particular regard. Se.
,• (Signori) " FRANCIS DRAKE."
1101'1 711,0111 Tilt SAME TO Tat SAME.

rs Munich, March 11.
" I have jest received a notice of so very extraordinary a na.
lure, but which is so important of itself, and for the cm istm ileneell
which may result from it, that tho' I am very far from ing
it, I think it a duty I owe to my Sovereign, to whom me person
anal services belong, as well a. to H s Highness the Elearir him,
self, immediately to iiitorre your Excellency thereof. Tile said
notice is in substance to the following purport : that a 'visor.. of
the British Ministry at Munich is in agitation, in the manner of
that which took place with rnnect to his flightless the Duke of
Erighien, at Etteuliene, its the territory of the Elector of
!laden, but with this difference, that the second seizure Will not
be effected by a body of troo:4, bet be men secretly sent to
Munich, and its neighbourhood, by different roads. With re.
spect to the moment and particulars of the execution, I have
no detailed accounts; and I own to your Excellency, that the
diffieultic, of the enterprise appeared to me from the first too
great, the proje itself too estravagint, and at the same time
oe dreadful, to be fully convinced of its e! etence: on the
other hand, it caannt be concealed, that the exert:tale of oven's
whisk have very recently occurred, as it were, under our ees,
are little calculated to inspire -inifidence. However thin may
be, and little as this notice has affected me permnally, yet it
appears to me, that I should be transcessii.g the duties which
ins post, as a public Minister, require, if I neglected informing
•oar Excellency thereof forthwith, that you may be essabl.d to
take in time such measures as the case itia) require, and to avert,
!ft proper acts of pre auu,m, the unpleasam ,esult which ni e!,l
Arlo., even from the att"inpt to e!,..xot • d •sigii of thus nature.
I •:.1 your Excellency to accept the a•t:rance,

(S,vied)

Alltelb DRAY!: ••

On Sunday se'nnighr, the lightning at the two
milk upon the road between Chester and Parkgate,
threw down the chimney of a cottage, occupied by
Isms.; HAMPTON ; removed the roof on One side
near a foot, and dashed a clock into more than an
hunlre.l pieces. Two men and a woman in the
same cottage were thrown down ; the heel of one of
the men's shoes was completely tom from ti.e quar-
ter, and the foot immediately swelled. A: Halton,
near Fordsham, it struck the vane, and entered the
chapel, and split and damaged many of the pews.
Fortunately the congregation had just quitted it.
It also entered the house of Mr. Esser, and broke
to pieces several bedsteads.

A very singular instance happened at Berry-
Barton, near Totnes, on Wednesday the 27th alt.
A man named Rosser Hot uss, a labourer of that
place, and now in the 70th year of his age, with
seven of his sons by one wife, mowed a field of
grass, for hay, a very great crop, containing nine
acres and upwards. The father took the Tend in
the morning, and kept it all day ; the sons followed
according to their respe&ive births (the youngest
now in his 20th year). In the afternoon the mother
came into the field, and assisted in helping them to
cyder, beer, &c. as they required. There were many
spedtators to witness this remarkable sight.