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INCIDENTS

OCCURRING IN AND NEAR LONDON, INTERESTING MARRIAGES, &c.

sistency in his conduct, and contradiction in his discourse, which occasioned the landlord to susspect that he laboured under a derangement of intellect. On Thursday he was very importunate in his solicitations to a waiter and a boy who attended him, to procure a large sharp knife to shave the leaves of a book which, he said, he had just bought, near the Garrick's Head. Upon inquiry, however, it was found that no person of his description had bought any book that day in the neighbourhood. The knife was peremptorily refused to be given him, and he quitted the house; observing that the people seemed to be extremely

JAN. 15. About two o'clock this morning, a column of fire was discovered bursting through the roof the workshop of Messrs. Holtzaile and Co. machine-makers, in Long Acre, which communicated to and soon consumed their house, and the adioining house, Messrs. Fairburn and Co.'s, leather-sellers. The Crown public-house (on the west side of Messrs. Holtzafile's premises) nearly shared the same fate as the two other houses, the greater part of which is destroyed. The most miraculous escape that perhaps ever occurred, was the saving of Messrs. Hatchett and Co.'s premises, and the circumstances attending it deserve to he recorded. Mr. Farley, of Coveut-Gar-suspicious of him, but that he would go and buy den Theatre, was passing at the time the fire broke out, and with great presence of mind went immediately to the Theatre for one of their engines, and with the two tiremen, assisted by three of the watchmen that are kept constantly in waiting, soon arrived, and having placed it near a parip in Messrs. Hatchett and Co.'s premises, where it was supplied with water by the great activity of Mr. A. Crace, of Long Acre, who took an axe and went to his own premises hard by, and knocked down a water-trunk, and fixed one end into the worth of the pump, and the other into the engine, by which means water was constantly supplied, though the fire was com pletely around. Indeed, it would not be justice o Mr. Crace, if his exertions were not mentioned, for, by his example in attacking the most dangerous parts during the fire, he kept the men constantly about him; his intrepidity and exections not only saved the whole of Messrs. Hatchett's premises, which, if they had been detroyed, mast inevitably have burnt Gyfford's brebouse, and one side of Mercer's-street.

Feb. 3. An Inquest was this day held before Authony Gell, Esq. Coroner for Westminster, on the body of a young man, mame unknown, then lying dead at the house of J. Norris, the Northumberland Armis, Great Russell-street, Covent Garden.

hiniself a knife. The landlord thought of giving him in charge to a police officer, but whilst one of his servants went in quest of Donaldson, the constable, the deccased disappeared, and the witness heard no more about hin until nine o'clock at night, when a watchman told him of the melancholy event which had taken place. By subsequent evidence it appeared that he went to a cutler's shop in Russell-court, where be bought a knife for the avowed purpose of sticking a pig with it; he had it well sharpened, as he said he had a very large pig to kill. He then paid a shilling for it, and upon getting it into his possession, told the woman of the house that he intended to cut his own throat with it.-She said "I hope you won't let the devil get such hold of you as that." He answered, "It is no matter; things have gone too far."-After a vain endeavour to coax him to let her have the knife again, she assured him that she would not for all the money in England have sold him the knife if she had known the use he was going to make of it. He said that was of no consequence, for if she had not sold it another would. He looked wild, cut some capers in the shop, and darted off. He then went to the Northumberland Arms, where he said he had just come out of Lincolnshire, and had not slept a wink for two nights, and required a bed directly. He was furnished with a bed immediately; and in a few minutes after the servant had left him, the people of the house were alarmed with his moans. Upon going into the room he was seen lying on the bed with his throat desperately cut, the bed and floor being almost covered with blood. Mr. Cole, a surgeon, was brought in: but the wind

were gone. He appeared to be about twenty-six years of age; he bad 108, 6d. in his pocket, and there was also in one of his pockets about two yards of rope, the size of bed-cord.-Verdict Insanity.

From the testimony of Mr. Thomas Harris, master of the Gontiek's Head Tavern, in Bowstreet, it appeared, that the deceased had come to his house on the preceding Tuesday, in company with another person who appeared to the witness to be a stronger to the deceased, and whom the witness supposed to be a Jew. They had break-pipe was entirely severed, and all signs of life fist, and the deceased paid for it. He continued at the Garrick's Head' the greater pait of Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, only going out at intervals to see the town, as he said, and also to go to the Oratorio and the Play. The Jew was not above twice or three times in his company; the deceased was alone the greater part of the time, still, however, continuing to live in the most extravagant style, eating uncommonly hearty and drinking very freely at all boms of the day of the most costly wines, but constantly paying for every thing as he had it. Though he had very moich the demeanour of a gentleman, yet still there was something in his dress which induced the Jandlord to think that he moved in some of the inferior walks of life; his coat was a comise brown fuck, like that generally worn by stablemen. He st one time, however, spoke about his having re- Feb. 7. The el gant Miss Elwes, danghter of Sectable connections in the country, but at an- George Flwes, Esq, eloped with a young gentleater time denied his Laving a friend in the world. man of Oxford, of the name of Duffield, who was Wom the whole, there was a good deal or incon-assisted in the plot by two others. Mr. Elwes is

A melancholy instance of the effects of fright occurred in Salisbury-square intely. A woman, who appeared very much agitated, sat down at the door of Mr. Jones; upon inquiry into the cause, it was understood from her, that her daughter was missing in the dreadiul fire took which place in Water-lane. She was invited into the house, but having resisted repeated solicitations, the door was shut. A short time after, one of the servants opened the door, and discovered the unfortunate person dead on the steps. It afterwards proved that no accident had happened to the daughter.

perhaps, the richest ready-monied commoner in England. He is heir to the peculiar virtues of his economical father, and is estimated to be worth near a million of floating disposable cash, and she is his only child. She is under age, but was not made a ward of Chancery. The plan devised by the three gentlemen was well concerted. One of them, under pretence of paying his addresses to a lady on a visit to Mrs. Elwes, contrived to be received into the family in the character of her lover, where he was treated with the utmost respect; and this gave him opportunities of arranging the matter for his friend Mr. Duffield. On Wednesday morning he prevailed on Mrs. Elwes to accompany his own intended wife a shopping; and in their absence, he handed with the utmost openness, Miss Elwes to the door, near which a chaise and four was drawn up. He met Mr. Elwes in the hall, who asked them where they were going; she was without a hat or bonnet, and said she was only going to her mamma, who was waiting for her. The gentleman proceeded with her, placed her in the chaise, by the side of her gallant, and returned to the house with the utmost uncon

cern. Mr. Elwes had inquired in the mean time, how long Mrs. Elwes had been out, and seeing her conductor return, inquired where his daughter was. He with perfect sangfroid, told him he had delivered her to the man destined to make her happy; and that she was off to Gretna Green, where he advised him to follow, and assist in the ceremony. The distress of Mr. Elwes, and still more of Mrs. Elwes, on her return, may be conceived. They both set off in a post-chaise and four, on the north road; but proceeded no farther than St. Alban's, where not having heard the least account of their route, they resolved to re

turn.

MARRIED.-At Mary-le-bone, Captain Spicer of the ed regiment of Life Guards, to Miss Prescot, sister of Sir George Prescot, Bart.-John Blenkarne, Esq. of Cheshunt, to Miss Colclough, of Beaconfield Notts, niece to General Wynyard. At St. George's, Hanover-square, James Marsh Weldon, Esq. of Kentish Town, to Miss Oliphant only daughter of Lancelot Oliphant, Esq. late of Stonfield Lodge, Cumberland.-At Camberwell, Edward Buller, Esq. of Southampton, to Anna Maria Frances, eldest daughter of Stephen Cattley, Esq.

DIED-In the London-road, St. George's Fields, Andrew Robinson Bowes, Esq. This gentleman's name was originally Stoney, but he assumed the name of Bowes, on his marriage with the late Countess of Strathmore.-He was a very singular character, and of an Irish family of respectability. The last twenty-two years of his life, were spent in the King's Bench, or within the rules of that prison. He commenced life with a fashionable extravagance, that laid the foundation for all the disappointment he afterwards met with. He was first known in public by his duel, or rather pretended duel, with the Rev. Mr. Bate Dudley, in consequence of this gentleman speaking too lightly in his newspaper of the character of the late Countess of Strathmore, to whom Mr. B. (till then Mr. Stoney) was afterwards married, and from whom he separated in the course of a few years. Mr. Bowes represented Newcastle in Parliament, and the trick he played his adversary, by getting his voters on board a ship, and bribing the Captain to run into Ostend (as if by adverse wind), will never be forgotten. Mr. Bowes was of an untractable and irascible temper, but perfectly well bred, and abounded in elegant anecdote. In the early part of his imprisonment, be formed an intimacy with an agreeable young No II Vol I-Ň S.

lady of only fifteen years of age, whose father
was incarcerated in the same walls, and by her he
has left five interesting children. Of his behavi-
our to this amiable companion in bis adversities,
the ancient maxim, "de mortuis nil nisi bonum,
silences the pen. Mr. Bowes, however, with
much persuasion, by the few friends left him, has
settled one hundred a year upon her for life; and
he has made a small provision for the children
out of his estates, which, although encumbered
with mortgages, are of very considerable value.
His only legitimate son, by Lady Strathmore, viz.
William Johnstone Bowes, who was a Lieutenant
in the navy, is supposed to have perished with
Sir Thomas Trowbridge, on board the Blenheim,
in the East Indies.-In Charles-street, St. James's
square, John Hoppuer, Esq. R. A. whose excel-
lence as a painter is attested by his numerous and
valuable productions. The merits of Hoppner
were not confined to his profession; he was a man
of general talents, with great natural strength of
understanding, and many of the attainments of
cultivation. In literature his taste was good, and
he has often exercised his pen, both in poetry and
prose, with conspicuous ability. He touched the
piano-forte, and sung with great feeling, and
was well skilled in the principles of music.-In
Argyle-street, Caleb Whitefoord, Esq.
well known in the first polite and literary circles,
and possessed great talents and information. Mr.
Whitefoord was the author of many works of ap-
proved merit, though he never put his name to
any of his productions. He struck out a new
species of humour, which was known by the name
of "Cross Readings," and when he first com-
municated it to the public, he gave the apt signa-
ture of "Papyrius Curso." Upon the whole he
was a man of distinguished talents, a zealous
friend to his country, a loyal subject, and a very
respectable member of society. His friend Gold-
smith winds up his character in "Retaliation,"
with the following appropriate lines:-
Merry Whitefoord, farewell! for thy sake I admit,
That a Scot may have humour, I had almost said
wit:

He was

This debt to thy memory I cannot refuse,
Thou best natur'd man, with the worst humour'd
Muse.

John Lynch, Esq. Barrister of the Middle Temple, aged 33. He was the author of several useful and ingenious publications, and though many have been so well received by the public as to call for repeated editions, he would never willingly avow himself their author, even to his most intimate friends.-In John-street, Bedford-row, John Roberts, Esq. many years one of the Direc tors of the East India Company, aged 71.-At Camden Town, Mrs. Byam, wife of Edward Byam, Esq. President of his Majesty's Council, Antigua. In Hanover-street, Hanover-square, Lorengo, youngest son of Lorengo Stable, Esq.At Blackheath, aged 75, James Moore, Esq.-In Hornsey-lane, in her 75th year, Mrs. Penton, relict of George Penton, Esq.-In Islington-road, in her 84th year, Mrs. Shell.-In Baker-street, North, Mrs. Hankin, relict of George Hankin, Esq. of Hanstead, Herts.-At Hackney, in his 85th year, David Powell, Esq.-In his 68th year, Mr.Gilbert Pidcock, proprietor of the Menageries, Exeter Change.-In Tenterden-street, the Hon. C. L. Dundas, second son of Lord Dundas, and M.P. for Richmond, Yorkshire-At Twickenham, the Dowager Viscountess Dudley and Ward.-At her house in Lower Grosvenor-street, the Right Hon. Lady Catharine Stanhope, at the advanced age of 95.

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PROVINCIALS,

INCLUDING

REMARKABLE OCCURRENCES, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES, &c. IN THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF GREAT BRITAIN.

BERKSHIRE.

Mr. Holt of Greenham, when digging in his garden, lately found, about a foot and a half below the surface, a curiously wrought earthen pot containing a large quantity of ancient coins, soine of as early a date as Henry II. and many supposed to be much older. They are deposited in Dr. Lamb's Museum at Reading.

DIED. At Gay's House, Maidenhead, aged 95, Lady Antonia Leslie, mother of Lord Lindores.-At Willow House, Hurst, Mrs. Round, daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Skelton, rector of Warfield.

DIED.-At Gatehouse of Fleet, Alexander Birkwhistle, Esq. aged 60. This gentleman built the cotton mill at Gatehouse, when that place did not contain more than thirty houses. Owing to the employment given to workmen it has increas ed, in the course of twenty years, to upwards of three hundred houses-At Holm Rook, near Whitehaven, Mrs Lutwidge, wife of Admiral Lutwidge-At Brampton, aged 87, Mr. John Halliburton-At Bankhouse, in Kinnyside, Mrs. Elizabeth Boadle, aged 92.-At Workington, Mrs. Grisdale, aged 87-In his 83d year, Mr. John Hayton-At Whitehaven, Mrs. Dorothy Thompson, aged 85.-At Penrith, aged 87, Mr. Mr. Spencer Smith, late Minister Plenipoten- Robert Langley.-At Dalston, Mrs. Mary Richtiary at the Ottoman Porte, and brother of Sirardson, aged 93.-At Woodside, near Wigton, in Sidney, has presented the University of Cam- her 88th year, Mrs. Wood. bridge with two valuable Greek marbles, the body of an Amphora, about three feet in length, MARRIED. Mr. T. Tucker, of Morton. from the shores of Propuntis; and a votive tablet, hampstead, to Mrs. Britton, second daughter of or Cippus, from Cyricus. The first exhibits a Andrew Kinsman, Esq.-At Modbury, Lieut. bas relief in a very high style of ancient sculp-D'Arcy, of the 13th Light Dragoons, to Miss ture; which is remarkable for the Pileus, or Athenian hat, still worn by Patriarchs of the Greek church; and of which only one other representation is preserved in ancient sculpture.

CAMBRIDGE.

DIED. At Wratting Park, aged 85, General Hall, Colonel of the Old Buffs, a brother of the late John Hall Stevenson, Esq. of Skelton Castle, Yorkshire, and grand nephew of the first Lord Lowther, Viscount Lonsdale. He was one of the oldest officers in his Majesty's service, and Aiddu-Camp to the Marquis of Granby at the battle of Minden.

CHESHIRE.

MARRIED. At Prestbury, Thomas Tipping, Esq. of Fulshaw Hall, to Anna, eldest daughter of Robert.Hilbert, Esq. of Birtles.

DIED.-At Chester, in his 84th year, Gabriel Smith, Esq. an Alderman of that city-At Nantwich, aged 100, Mr. Spencer-At Congleton, the Kev. J. Wilson, Vicar of Biddulph, and head master of the free grammar school, Congleton. CORNWALL.

MARRIED. At Crowan, Captain Handcock, to Miss Fowl.At Helston, Samuel John, Esq. of Penzance, to Mary Millett, eldest daughter of Thomas Grills, Esq.

DIED-At Helston, Caroline, daughter of the late Hender Mounsteven, Esq.-At Marazion, Jane, daughter of the late William Cornish, Esq.-At Poughill, the Rev. Digory Jose, Vicar of that place, an eccentric character, but sincerely devout man, aged 78.

CUMBERLAND.

MARRIED.At Corney, Mr. J. Jackson, of Park Nook, to Miss M. Benn, of Middleton-pláce, daughter of the late J. Benn, Esq.At Maryport, Captain Buttermere, of the Lavinia, to Miss Jane Dempsey-There was a marriage solemnized on the 27th November, in the parish church of Crosthwailte near Keswick, at which were present; two brothers, two sisters, and two Cousins; three husbands and three wives; four fathers and four mothers; four sons and four daughters; two uncles and two aunts; two nephews and two nieces; and yet the party consisted of no more than six persons.

DEVONSHIRE.

Mary Bartlett, daughter of N. Adams Bartlett,
Esq. of Ludbrooke.

Mr.

DIED At Weston House, near Sidmouth, aged 95, John Stuckley, Esq. He was a gentle. man of superior understanding, ability, and integrity. He has left the bulk of his fortune, above six thousand pounds per annum, to his relative, B. Bartlett, Esq. of the General PostOffice, nephew to Mr. Palmer, of Bath, to whom the public are so much indebted for the great improvements in that department. Stuckley has likewise left three thousand pounds per annum to another relative, Vincent Stuckley, Esq. of the Treasury.-At Exeter, John Gould, Esq. of Derbyshire-Aged 81, Mrs. Mary Newbery-At Sidmouth, John Latouche, one of the firm of Messrs. Latouche's bank in Dublin, and father of the two Members of Parliament of that nanie. At Exmouth, in her 84th year, Mrs. Mary Willis, late of Bath; a widow lady of exemplary benevolence, liberality, and piety. She survived but a few weeks her only daughter, Mrs. Mary Cure, also a widow.

DURHAM.

During the last frost at Sunderland, some dis ciples of adult baptism, and total immersion, haying to go through the ceremony, on approaching the water, did not altogether like its appearance, it being covered with ice; upon a little consul. tation the objection was soon obviated, by obtuining an indulgence from their pastor (or perhaps recollecting the liberty taken by the pilgrim to Loretto, in boiling the peas in his shoes) to thaw the ice with a quantity of comfortably warm water. This is what Dean Swift called ducking and diving for salvation."

MARRIED. At Sunderland, Marmaduke Featherstonehaugh, Esq. to Miss Hill, sister of Sir C. Hill, Esq. comptroller of the customs of that port-Warren Lamb, Esq. of Newcastle, to Miss Hunter, danghter of the late Robert Hunter, Esq. of Medomesly, in this county.

BIED.-At Durham, William Benjamin Shute, the infant son of William Thompson, Esq.-At Sunderland, Mrs. Orwin, wife of Captain Qrwin. At Darlington, aged 84, Mrs. Stamper.

ESSEX.

Some time since, a dog having symptoms of hydrophobia, was pursued, and passing in the street, at Coggeshall, in this county, was observed to bite a bread barrow, which was standing at the door of a baker in that town. The barrow was actually chained up in the yard for six weeks to prevent its being used, and a carpenter was seat for to cut out that part which was seized by the dog.

MARRIED.-At Waltham Abbey, Mr. N. Davis, Attorney of London, to Catharine, daugh ter of Thomas Wallis, Esq.-At Writtle, Samuel Simpson, Esq. of Isleworth, Middlesex, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr. Parnell, of Grays.

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Jan. 12. This morning, a fire broke out in the City of London Inn, in Dover. pears it was occasioned by a foreigner, who, it is said, went to bed intoxicated, setting fire to the bed in which he slept, having left a candle in a chair by the bed-side. The flames communicated to another bed in the same room, and soon spread to every part of the house. Most of the rooms DIED. —At Colchester, aged 80, Mr. Martin | being wainscoated, in the short space of two Riddellsdell, He was attending divine service in hours and a half the whole was consumed, leavHoly Trinity church, apparently in good health;ing only the bare walls standing. So rapid was but fell suddenly into the arms of the persons in the pew with him, and expired without a struggle. -Mrs. Craven wife of Benjamin Craven, Esq. and daughter of the late William Kersteman Esq. -At Roxwell, aged 78, Mrs. Birch, wife of the Riv. Richard Birch.-At Sible Hedingham, Mrs. Maria Sedgwick, relict of Thomas Sedgwick, Esq. of Hackney.

GLOUCESTERSHIRE,

the progress of the flames, that not a single article of furniture could be saved, and it was with difficulty that the landlord, who was awoke by the person who was the cause of this dreadful disaster, with the various inmates (one alone excepted) could escape, with their night clothes only upon them. At the back of the inn was the range of stables full of hay, straw, &c. and adjoining a large tallow-house, and nothing but The improvements recently begun at Chelten- the most unwearied exertious prevented the combam are proceeding with great spirit. The foun- munication of the flames to these buildings; had tions of the eight houses required to complete the they taken fire, the consequences, from the conCrescent, are now laying, and the new road from fined situation of the neighbourhood, would have thence to the Colonade is begun. The proprietors been truly dreadful. Most fortunately, at the of the Crescent, have purchased the meadow- moment, the water was up in the harbour, and ground in front, which is to he enclosed with iron the wind moderate, and a number of engines bepalisades and planted. These embellishmentsing procured, were worked by the inhabitants, asand additions, will render that elegant pile of building one of the first ornaments of the town. The New Public Assembly Rooms are in great forwardness. Some adjoining houses have been taken down to make room for the enlarged pian of these buildings, which, when completed, will be unrivalled for elegance, convenience, and ex

tent.

DIED. At Berkeley, Edward, eldest son of Dr. Jenner, aged 21-At Stroud, aged 95, Mrs. Grazebrook; and a few days afterwards her husband, B. Grazebrook, Esq. banker, aged so.-At Gloucester, James Sadler, Esq, one of the Aldermen of the Corporation, and who had twice served the office of Mayor.-At Overbury, James Martin, Esq. many years the upright and independent representative in Parliament for Tewkesbury. He was born on the same day as our venerable Sovereign.-At Tewkesbury, aged 101, Mrs. Cole.

HAMPSHIRE.

MARRIED. At Ringwood, N. Combe Compton, Esq. of Manor House, to Charlotte, second daughter of William Mills, Esq. M. P.-William Dyke, Esq. of Vernham, to Miss Elizabeth Steel, of Ashmondsworth.-At Cheriton, the Rev. John Courtney, to Miss Ferrers, only daughter of the Rev. Edmond Ferrers.

DIED.-At Southampton, Mrs. Alluutt, wife of John Allnutt, Esq. of Clapham Common.Mrs. Jolliffe, wife of William Jolliffe, Esq. senior, bailiff-At Winchester, Mrs. Hall, aged 94.-Mr. Downes, solicitor.-At Portsmouth, Captain Marmaduke Bailey, of the Wanderer of Hull, in the Jamaica trade. While adjusting the jib-halliards of his boat, at the mast-head, he was washed away by a heavy sea and never seen afterwards.-Aged 84, Lieutenant Richardson, formerly in the 1st Veteran Battalion.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

A new school is forming at Hereford, under the immediate patronage of the Duke of Norfolk,

sisted by the military, who proved themselves of the greatest service in extinguishing the flames, and in preserving order. The houses in front of the inn (the street being very narrow) were much scorched, and the adjoining house of Mr. Philpott, partially damaged. Several other persons in the vicinity also suffered in their windows and furniture, which they were in haste to remove. The premises were insured in in the Phonix Fire Office for £1500, not more, however, than a quarter of the loss which the proprieter, Mr. William Crow, will sustain; the furniture, the property of the landlord, Mr. G. Gimber, who had lately taken the inn, was uninsured, and is valued at £500. The stock of wine and spirits, it is said, was nearly all preserved; but the principal sufferer on this dreadful occasion was Mr. James Robinson, a cork-cutter of Canterbury. Having gone to Dover on business, which he was in the habit of doing at stated periods, he had for the first and last time, fixed his lodgings at the above inn, and on this fatal night, after supping with the fundlord, with whom he had a previous acquaintance, he retired to rest in a lower room. In the confusion incident to the event, it would seem he was forgotten, and all recollection of him buried, till on the Sunday his wife becoming alarmed at his not returning from his journey, as was expected on Friday morning, sent a messenger to Dover to make inquiry respecting him, when after digging in the ruins for several hours, about four on that day, his body was found yet smoking and dreadfully mangled. The person who was the cause of this disaster, representing himself to be a Russian gentleman, turns out to be a Frenchman, in the character of supercargo to a brig called the Elizabeth Alexevina, under Russian colours, and which has been detained there for a considerable time. He was a good deal burnt, but had no bones broken. The Ma. gistrates have since committed him to prison.

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Jan. 16.-The corning-house, No. 4, in the,, King's powder-mills, at Faversham, blew up with a tremendous explosion. Of the six men employed in the building at the time, four were blown to pieces, and their bodies and limbs scattered to a distance of upwards of one hundred yards from the site of the buildingOne of the arms was found on the top of a high elm tree. The fifth man was taken up alive, but no hopes of his recovery are entertained. The sixth man, George Holmes, the foreman of the work, singular to relate, was found alive also, sitting in the midst of the smoking ruins, with his clothes burning; but he was otherwise not much injured, and is likely to do well. At the door of the corning-house was standing a tumbril, or covered waggon, with two horses, and a driver. The waggon was blown to pieces, and the driver and the horses were killed. Of the three horses employed within the building, two have perished, but the third is living. No circumstances have transpired, from which an opinion can be formed with respect to the cause of the accident: it is the third of that kind that has happened at these mills with these seven years. A plan is in contemplation by which it is hoped that these fatal accidents may in a great measure be prevented. It is intended to simplify the machinery, so that the power of one horse only will be required, but the whole of the works are to be sunk in the

ground, with a loose roof of weather boarding, which, in the event of the composition taking fire, will fly off and give vent to the explosion.

Esq.-At Lancaster, Mrs. Bowes, wife of Thomas
Bowes, Esq.-At Hale, aged 101, Alice Barnes.
At Newton, near Warrington, Edward Ackers,
Eidsforth, wife of A. Eidsforth, Esq. aged 34.
Esq.At Poulton Hall, near Lancaster, Mrs.
LEICESTERSHIRE,

quis of Granby public-house. He was amusing
DIED. At Leicester, the landlord of the Mar-
himself in sparring with a relative, when he re-
ceived an unfortunate blow in the pit of the
stomach. He went to the outer door for the
benefit of the air, but had scarcely reached it
when he fell down, and instantly expired.
LINCOLNSHIRE.

DIED. At Stamford, aged 76, Mrs. Thompson, relict of Kerchever Thompson, Esq.-At Morton, Mr. Abraham Simpson, aged 92.-At Langton, Mrs. Bartholomew,wife of Thomas Bartholomew, Esq.-At Spalding, Fulwood Sanderson, Esq. aged 70.-At Louth, Mr. Robert Pearson, aged 78; 77-At Little Ponton, aged 80, Mrs. Pennyman, and the same day, his sister, Mrs. Westerby, aged relict of William Pennyman, Esq.-At Sudbrook Holme, near Lincoln, Hannah, wife of Lieut. Col. Ellison, M. P. for that city.

NORFOLK.

At the late Sessions for this county, a curious action was brought, in which a clergyman was plaintiff, under the fallowing circumstances :-It ioners came with her sister into the church, atwas alledged, that, on a certain Sunday, while he tended by a man, who carried a bag. The ladies was preaching, the daughter of one of his parish"with clanging stride," clattered in their pattens up the aisle-opened the door of their pew-packed the moveables therein into the bag, and, after

DIED. At Brasted-place, aged 69, Mrs. Turton, relict of Dr. John Turton, physician to his Majesty.At Sheerness, Captain Buss, of his Majesty's ship Gluckstadt.- At Queenborough, Ed-pasting a label containing the words, "a pew to ward Shove, Esq. one of the Magistrates for the fett," on the door, retreated in the same order. To County At Brookland, aged 24, Edward Snoad, punish this conduct the action was brought, but Esq.-At Northfleet, aged so, Sir Thomas Wiseman, Bart.-At Margate, Ann, wife of Jacob Sawkins, Esq. and daughter and sole heiress of Captain David Turner, Esq. of Nash-court, Isle of Thanet.

LANCASHIRE.

On Sunday, Feb. 11, the spire of St. Nicholas, commonly called the Old Church, Liverpool, fell in, about ten minutes before the time of service, extending from the tower to the communion table, all which was desolated in an instant, and now presents a most awful spectalce. It is supposed that thirty, chiefly old women, and the children of a Sunday Charity School, have been killed, besides a number with fractured limbs, skulls, and otherwise dreadfully mutilated! They had been pinning the foundation of the northwest angle of the tower; and it is feared that this dreadful accident is to be attributed to neglect, or suffering the bells to be rung whilst the tower was in this obvious state of insecurity. The spire of George's church, in Liverpool, has lately been taken down, owing to the repeated and urgent representations of the neighbouring inhabitants, and though it was in a tottering state for a considerable time, the wishes of the people in the neighbourhood were utterly disregarded.

MARRIED. At Warrington, Robert Pennington, Esq. to Miss Fawcet, both of Kendal-At Preston, James Pedder, Esq. of Greenbank, to Miss Pedder, daughter of Edward Pedder, Esq. DIED.-At Sefton, Mrs. Webster, wife of Johu Webster, Esq.-At Stockton Lodge, Maria, daughter of Captain Bover, R. N.-At Liverpool, aged 57, Caleb Fletcher, Esq.-William Potts, Esq. of Petersburgh, Virginia.-At Old Hall, near Manchester, aged 64, Wm. Douglas,

the bill was not found.

The following extraordinary coincidence in the lives and deaths of two gentlemen and two ladies, was recently recorded in the Bury and Norwich Post:-Mr. Jary and Mr. Elliott, lately residing in and near South Walsham, married two sisters on the same day, these ladies both died on the same day, one at five o'clock in the morning, and the other at five in the afternoon; and the same day, viz. the 10th inst. closed the existence of their two husbands, the first at five o'clock in the morning, and the other at five in the afternoon.

MARRIED. At Norwich. the Rev. Dr. Tur ner, Dean of Norwich, to Miss Taylor, niece of the Rev. Mr. Peele.-Starling Day, Esq. Alderman, to Mrs. Rodwell.-At Erpingham, Captain Cubitt, to Miss Churchill.

DIED.-At Norwich, Mrs. Martineau, wife of Philips Meadows Martineau, Esq. aged 58.-In her s5th year, Mrs. Ayres.-Mrs. S. Chapman, aged 88.-At Swardestone Hall, in her 98th year, Mrs. Mary Berney, last surviving daughter of Thomas Berney, Esq. who died in 1720-At Fring, Thomas Dusgate, Esq. and about three weeks afterwards his wife, Mrs. Dusgate.-At Swaffham, Mrs. Randall, relict of Robert Randall and sister of the above mentioned Mrs. Dusgate. -At New Houghton, aged 75, Mr. J. Mitchell.Mr. Reynolds, surgeon, of Massingham. He was called upon to attend the above Mr. Mitchell, and while at his house, expired by a similar fit to that which proved fatal to his patient.

NORTHUMBERLAND.

MARRIED.-At the Holystone, James ArmAt Heworth, the Rev. John Hodgson, to Miss strong, aged 85, to Margaret Craggs, aged 19

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