five guineas each, are adjudged as follows: One to Mr. William Edward Prettyman Tomline, of Trinity College, for the Greek Ode; and two to Mr. Benjamin Heath Drury, of King's College, for the Latin Ode and the Epigrams.

July 1. The Rev. Mr. Waller, of Pembroke Hall, was admitted to the Degree of Bachelor in Divinity. The Rev. Mr. Davies, of Magdalen College, and Mr. Henry Finch, of Christ's College, were admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Mr. Joseph Shaw and Mr. John Buck are elected Tancred Students in Divinity.

Mr. Benjamin Heath Drury, of King's College, is admitted a Fellow of that society.

Dr. Thomas Sampson, of Trinity College, Minister of Camberwell Chapel, Lambeth,

Dr. George Law, of Queen's College, Prebendary of Carlisle, and Rector of Willingham in this county.

5 Doctors of Physic.

Dr. Richard Patrick Satterley, of Caius College,

Dr. Charles Dalston Nevinson, of Emmanuel College.

Dr. Thomas Turner, of Trinity College.

Dr. Edward Nat. Bancroft, af St. John's College.

Dr. Johnson, of Birmingham, M. D. of Oxford, admitted ad cundem,

2 Doctors in Civil Law, Dr. John Aspinshaw, of Emmanuel College, Rector of St. Peter's, Nottingham, and Vicar of Hinkley, Leicestershire.

Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke, Fellow of Jesus College, (by royal mandate.)

3 Bachelors in Divinity.

The Rev. William Augustus Pem→ berton, Fellow of Emmanuel College.

The Rev. William Noddins, Fellow of Magdalen.

The Rev. George Butler, Fellow of Sidney.

3 Bachelors of Physic.

Mr. Thomas Charles Morgan, of Peterhouse; Mr. Thomas Woodhouse, of Caius College; Mr. Anthony White, of Emmanuel College.

10 Bachelors in Civil Law.

Mr. James Henry Cotton, of Trinity College; Mr. John Marten Longmire, of Peterhouse; Mr. John Buce of Jesus College; Mr. James Cradocke, of Trinity Hall; Mr. Henry James Davidson, of Trinity Hall; Mr. Edward Rogers, of Emmanuel College; Mr. Raby, of Trinity College; Mr. Tomkinson, and Mr. Humphreys, of Trinity Hall; and Mr. Harwood, of Queen's College.

7 Honorary Masters of Arts.`.

The Right Hon. Lord Primrose, and the Hon. Francis Edward Primrose, of Pembroke Hall, sons of the Earl of Roseberry.

The Hon, William Reede Ginkel, of Trinity College, son of the Earl of Athlone,

The Hon. William Augustus Irby, of St. John's, third son of Lord Boston.

The Right Hon. Lord Clanmell, of Trinity College.

The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, of St. John's College.

The Right Hon, Lord Henry Moore, of St. John's College, se‐ cond son of the Marquis of Drogheda.

Sir Henry Fitzherbert, Bart. of Tissington, Derbyshire, Fellowcommoner of St. John's College,

86 Masters of Arts, King's College, Messrs. Freeman, Morphew, Whitfield, Coulton, Wilkinson, Woodbine, Aylmer, Drury

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Trinity College, Messrs. Gale, Burgh,

University College, Oxford, was on Saturday admitted ad eundem in this university.

The Sermon at Great St. Mary's Church, on Sunday morning, was preached by the Rev. Dr. Law, Rector of Willingham in this coun ty, from John iii. 12. The afternoon Sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Parr, of Hatton in Warwickshire from Heb. ii. 6. and took up an hour and three quarters in delivery.

His Royal Highness Prince William of Gloucester honoured the Rev. Dr. Mansel with a visit, and arrived with his suite at Trinity College lodge on Saturday evening. On Sunday he dined with the Vicechancellor at Caius College, and attended divine service at Great St. Mary's Church both morning and afternoon. On Monday morn ing his Royal Highness held a levee at Trinity lodge, and in the evening set off, with his suite, for Liverpool.

John Martin Cripps, Esq. of Jesus College, presided as Steward of the Commencement Ball.

On Wednesday the Gentlemen of Jesus College gave a public breakfast in the Fellows' Garden, which was attended by a very numerous and genteel company, who expressed the highest satisfaction at their entertainment.

the County of Cumberland; and educated at the Grammar School at Wigton, under the Rev. Joseph Blaine. At the age of 16 he went to North America, and on entering into Orders continued faithfully and zealously to discharge the duties of a Minister of the Church, in that Country till the year 1775, when the distracted state of the British Colonies obliged him (after his property there, which was his all, was confiscated, and himself proscribed as a Traitor) to return to Great Britain. Of his exemplary conduct in the discharge of his ministerial functions in the Western Hemisphere, abundant proof will be furnished by a work published by him in the year 1797, intituled, "A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution, in Thirteen Discourses, preached in North America, between the years 1763 and 1775." In the preface to that work which contains anecdotes and observations respecting the writers and most eminent persons concerned in the American Revolution, he observes, that, "cast as his lot was, by Providence, in a situation of difficult duty, in such an hour of danger, it would have been highly reproachful to have slept on his post. Investigation on the important subjects of religion and government, when conducted with sobriety and decorum, can never be unseasonable; but they seem to be particularly called for in times like those in which these Discourses were written times when the kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers took counsel against the Lord and against his anointed, saging, Let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us." He adds, in the words of Bishop Wettenhall's preface to his Royal Sermons, printed in Ireland in 1695, that his Discourses in America were preached by him " with a sincere intention of con scientiously performing his Duty, and approving himself to God, in

his station, by doing what lay in him (at a time of exigence) to confirm the wavering, to animate the diffident, to confirm, excite, and advance all in their loyalty and firm adhesion to his gracious Majesty, our present, alone, rightful liege Lord and Sovereign." Indeed, these Sermons unequivocally demonstrate that their pious author was not to be deterred, by the personal difficulties in which the schism and faction that then prevailed had placed him, from main, taining with undaunted resolution, those doctrines, political and religious, in which he had been educated. We cannot refrain from presenting to our readers a passage from Mr. Boucher's Farewell Ser mon, preached in Maryland in the year 1775, being assured that, to our loyal readers, it will afford much gratification. At the close of this Discourse he says, "Sincerely do I wish it were not now necessary to crave your indulgence a few minutes longer-it shall be but a few-to speak of myself. If I am to credit some surmises, which have been kindly whispered in my ear (and I am proud thus publicly to acknowledge that it is to a man whose political tenets are the opposite of mine that I owe this information, communicated, no doubt, from motives of good-will and humanity) unless I will forbear to pray for the King, you are to hear me pray no longer. No intimation could possibly have been less welcome to me. Distressing, however, as the dilemma confessedly is, it is not one that either requires or will admit of a moment's hesitation. Entertaining all due respect for my ordination vows, I am firm in my resolution, whilst I pray in public at all, to conform to the unmutilated Liturgy of my Church; and reverencing the injunctions of an Apostle I will continue to pray for the King and all that are in authority under him; and I will do so, not only because I am so commanded, but

Ject the improvement of that county in every point which can render a country opulent and happy. It may, perhaps, be doubted whether its plans are practicable in the extent proposed. It is, however, observed, by a modern Cumberland author, that, "that they are in their principles, the same by which, in all ages, empires have advanced, from their first barbarous rudiments, to refinement and distinction; and, to execute them, it requires only the form and vigorous co-operation of the landholders; that, under their patronage, all the spirit, integrity, ingenuity and industry of the country may be called forth and directed to one point. Every one who is able to make comparisons must observe this inferiority and wretchedness of Cumberland. It is the fug end, the ultima Thule of the kingdom; where, with opportunities of improving their situation, men are contented to live, like their rude forefathers, in wretched hovels, on the edge of moors and mosses, amidst dust, smoke, and indigence! We pay (says the author of the pamphlet) to the county-rate; but, if one were asked what we have to shew for the sums thus collected, I should be at a loss to mention any thing but a few mean bridges, and a still meaner county-jail. I cannot at present, recollect a single public work of any kind among us, set on foot by voluntary contribution.

We have no poor-houses, nor work-houses; no county infirmary nor hospital, no agricultural societies; no canals, no public libraries; no institution to promote arts and sciences; nor even any great trading company, on any large and liberal scale, to promote either fisheries or manufactories." The author concludes his pamphlet with the following warm and patriotic wish: O that I might but live to see this my native country, now deformed by bare and barren moors, and disgraced by an unsightly and unprofitable husbandry,

and, in various other respects, lying neglected and forlorn, restored to that rank and consequence among her sister counties, for which the bounteous AUTHOR of

NATURE has so eminently quali fied her! I should then, with St SIMEON, "depart in peace;" and close the scene in the valedictory words of a Roman Emperor, Sat viri mihi, sat gloriæ." (Note XIV.) The above extract is taken from the notes to an Epistle addressed to Mr. Boucher, by Thomas Sanderson, a bard, who, though placed in a sequestered village in the North of Cumberland, appears to have cultivated the Muses with success. His address to Mr. Boucher, on his return from America, pays so just a compliment to this respectable clergyman, that we shall make no apology for transscribing the introductory lines:

The rural Musc, in warm, though

homely strains, Greets thee, my BOUCHER, on thy native plains;

And, in that honest welcome, bids thee live

To ev'ry praise a grateful heart can give.

In that great field, where brighter garlands grow

Than those with which AMBITION decks its brow,

Long hast thou toil'd, nor hast thou toil'd in vain,

If what the bosom feels be present gain

What it feels when grateful minds declare,

That to thy toils they owe the bliss they share

Owe those undying hopes that bring · relief

To the torn heart when sinking with us grief

Religion's friend the noblest lot is thine,

To draw pure doctrines from a source divine;

To mend the heart by sacred Wrs

DOM's lore, And the long Wand'rer to his soul

restore;

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