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Kells At Wooler, the Rev. William Gillmour, to Miss Bolton.-At Arleedon, Mr. Robert Gordon, of Skelcow, to Miss Howard of that place. Their united ages amount to thirty-four years. The father of the bridegroom is thirty-five, and the mother about the same age.

DIED At Dalton le Dale, near Corbridge, Mrs. Ann Graham, aged 94.-At Aluham, aged 100, John Rutherford. He retained his faculties nearly till his death.-At Cramlington, Mrs. Elizabeth Cartwright, one of three daughters at a birth of Mrs. Robert Smith, of Strother House, near Boldon. The other two are still living-At Ingoe, aged 64, William Dixon, Esq. At Forest Burn, near Rothbury, Mathew Hall, aged 107.At Hexham, aged 80, Mrs. Mason. At Ponteland, the Rev. John Blyth, of Hartley.-At Newcastle, Mary, widow of John Walker, aged 102.Miss Ogilvie, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Ogilvie. Aged 95, Mr. John Eden.-In his 86th year, Mr. John Coulter.-Mrs. Young. She went to bed at night in good health, and in the morning was found a corpse-In his 77th year, Nicholas Walton, Esq. one of the receivers of the revenues of Greenwich Hospital, in this district.

saucepan; that in the evening of the same day, her daughter went and hired another servant, and on their way home they called on an apo thecary, who, when he arrived at the house, found the servant dead! The new servant then carried the deceased up stairs, and placed her on a bed, with her clothes on, and she remained in that state till the following Thursday. Mrs. R. said, that her reason for thus leaving the corps was, that "the father might see her in the condition in which she expired." When asked, what food had been given her the day before, she answered, broth for breakfast and supper, and hung beef for dinner; this last assertion, however, was dis proved by the appearance of the beef which had not been cut. The father of the girl, who lives at Guilsfield, near Pool, deposed, that he came to Shrewsbury in consequence of a letter from Mrs. R. written on Tuesday, and received by him the following day, in which he was informed that his daughter was ill, although at that time actually dead! The mother of a servant, who bad formerly lived with Mrs. Ridley, stated her general food was broth made of beef's liver, and flour puddings; she was always locked up in the house whilst her mistress and daughter dined, or went from home; that she came away ill, and continued so half a year. An adjoining neighbour to Mrs. Ridley stated, that nine days ago she had heard, for several hours, violent groans in the back part of Mrs. R.'s premises, where it appeared the deceased had been confined, and exDIED-Mr. John Maggs; returning with his posed to an inclement night, in consequence of wife and son from Camely to East-Court House, having placed small coals, instead of large, upon he fell into a quarry, eleven feet deep in water, the kitchen fire! An acquaintance of the deand was drowned: he was a man greatly respect- ceased affirmed, that the girl had wept and comed, and has left a widow and four young children.plained of hunger and bard usage. The CoroThe father of the deceased lost his life by falling into the same quarry about four years since-At Oxford, the Rev. Mr. Watts, of Uffington, Berks. SHROPSHIRE.

NOTTINGHAM.

DIED. At Gamston, the Rev. Edward Mason, Rector of Heapham and Beesby, Lincolnshire.. At Long Eaton, aged 78, Thomas Hopkins, Esq. whose breed of game-cocks were highly celebrated. At Newark, aged 86, Mrs. Lacy.

OXFORDSHIRE.

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ner called a surgeon who was of opinion, that the
body was in a putrid state, and that nothing
could be ascertained by opening the
nach. This being the case, the Jury, after
patient investigation of four hours, recorded the
following verdict: "That no evidence had been

A shocking murder was committed some time ago, by John Williams, late of the Wood houses, near Whitchurch, on the body of his wife. Not-produced that the deceased had died otherwise withstanding the most diligent search, no traces of the murderer could be discovered, and it was concluded he had made his escape. A few days since, his body was found hanging at the top of a barn in Norbury, near the place where he had committed his crime. From its putrid state, it is probable he had hung himself soon after the murder.

The following wager, between Evan Morris and Thomas Hand, Beclebury, Shiffnal, Shropshire, for 101. cach, was lately decided:-Thomas Hand engaged to draw 25 sacks of wheat flour, and waggon, all at one time, up Hegford Hollow-way, near Shifnal, Shropshire, with two horses, self and son, in half an hour; which was done in 19 minutes and a half, on Thursday the 18th of January last, by himself and son, with only one horse. He could have taken 35 up with the same help. The weight is 3 ton, 18 cwt. The bank is 100 yards long, and rises 45 feet. There is a sudden turn about half way up the bank.

On Friday, Jan. 25th, an inquisition was taken, at Shrewsbury, on the body of Elizabeth Williams, of the age of 15, who was a servant of Mrs. Ridley, in Alkmond's-square. The circumstance attending this case had excited a considerable degree of commiseration for the fate of the deceased, and indignation towards her mistress. It appeared by the evidence of Mrs. Ridley, that the girl seemed rather unwell on the preceding Monday; that at noon she went to bed, and ate only some broth, which was taken to her in a

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than by the visitation of God; but that they had great reason to suspect, that the deceased had been improperly treated by her mistress."-Mrs. Ridley, who has a genteel income, and is about 60 years of age, gave her evidence with apparent unconcern; and when the verdict was read, she kneeled down, and begged the clemency of Heaven upon her friends, and its vengeance on her enemies! Notwithstanding the laudable exertions of many persons, the populace unwarrantably assembled, and broke the windows of the

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Andrew Pearce, a very industrious man, who works at Messrs. Hare and Sons' floor-cloth manufactory in Bristol, was married Jan. 20, 1801, to Hannah Taylor, by whom he has had fourteen children, in little more than six years, with a speedy prospect of a further increase to the fa mily!The children consist of three boys, born October, 1801; two boys, October 3, 1802; one boy and a girl, July 1803; two boys, May 13, 1804; one boy and a girl, February 14, 1805 one boy and a girl, January 14, 1800; and ome boy, November 10, 1807.

·DIED-At Bath, Sir Charles Turner, of Kirk-
leathan, in the county of York, Bart.-Richard
Cope Hopton, Esq. of Canon Froome, Hereford-
shire. Richard Johnson, Esq. late of Swaffham,
Norfolk.-Aged 92, Anna, relict of John Pigott,
Esq. of Brockley Court.-At Clifton, Elinor,
third daughter of T. M. Talbot, Esq. of Penrice
Castle, Glamorganshire.
STAFFORD.

MARRIED At Beighton, B. L. Clayton, Esq. surgeon of Norton, to Mrs. Midson, widow of Robert Midson, Esq. of Stowmarket.

DIED. At Ipswich, Mrs. Parish, a maiden lady, whose benevolent disposition induced her to relieve every one whose necessities appeared to call on her charity; she actually had twenty pensioners living at her house when she died, besides children supported at different schools, About six o'clock, in the evening of Tuesday, and numbers relieved by her occasional donaFeb. 6th, a dreadful explosion of gun-powder tions.-Mrs. M. Hingeston, danghter of the Rev. took place, at Lane Delph, in the Potteries, in a Mr. Hingeston, formerly Master of Ipswich joiners' shop belonging to the proprietors of the Grammar School-At Cockfield-Hall, in his new colliery, behind Messrs. Bourn, Baker, and 71st year, Sir John Blois. He is succeeded by Bourne's manufactory. A man was pouring pow-his eldest son Charles, Lieutenant-Colonel of the der out of a paper into a flask, and, by some Ouse and Derwent Volunteer Corps of Infantry. means unknown, it caught fire, and communi- In her 83d year, Mrs. Wakeham, relict of the cated to the powder in the boxes (about 24lbs.), Rev. Dr. Wakeham, Dean of Bocking. and the whole blew up, and killed the man instantly, and burnt two other men who were in the shop, but they are fast recovering.

MARRIED.-At Woolstanton, Richard Rawson, Esq. of Rose Hill, near Liverpool, to Anne, eldest daughter of Dr. Bent, of Basford,' near Newcastle.At Weston, William W. Whitinore, Esq. of Dudmaston, Shropshire, to the Hon. Miss Bridginan, only daughter of Lord Bradford. DIED.-At Tamworth. Mrs. Harper, relict of Alderman H.-At Rickerscote, Mrs. Perkins, sister of T. B. Perkins, Esq.-At Spring Hill, John, eldest son of Mr. Startin, banker, of Birmingham, aged 17.-At Braucott, aged 95, Mrs. Bentley. Walsall, in consequence of her clothes taking fire, Mrs. Middlemore.

SUFFOLK.

SUSSEX.

DIED. At Brighton, Mrs. Jones, wife of Colonel Jones, of the 18th Light Dragoons.-Mrs. Ann Pitches, daughter of the late Thomas Pitches, Esq. Accountant-General of the Post-Office.Mrs. Mary Howell, one of the female bathers, aged 76.-At Southover, aged 80, Mr. James Beadles-At Hurstperpoint, in consequence of a fall down stairs, by which she fractured her skull, Mrs. Mitchell.

WARWICKSHIRE.

On Thursday, Jan. 18, as➖➖➖➖ Brown, Esq. of Ark-Hall, near Coventry, was walking over his grounds, he met with a person in female attire, who appeared to be in great distress, saying she had lost her road; her apparent distressed situation operating upon the benevolent feelings of Mr. Brown, he took her to his house and relieved her necessities. The night coming on, she strongly solicited a bed, which was granted. Part of the family retired to rest, leaving a servant up to make the afflicted object a few articles of necessary clothing; but, to the astonishment of the servant, before she had completed the garments, she heard the stranger coming down stairs; on which she immediately secured herself in a closet, from which she could perceive the guest lay a brace of pistols and a dagger on the table, then to unlock the front door, and go out in search, as she supposed, of her companions: in the interim, the servant had the courage to lock the

means prevented the house from being plundered. It evidently appears that their guest was a man in female dress."

DIED. At Wroxhall House, Mrs. Vaughton, wife of Thomas Hall Vaughton, Esq. aged 21. WILTSHIRE.

The hoy Elizabeth Henrietta, of Papenburgh, Capt. Vanderwell, from Liverpool to Rotterdam, sprung a leak on the 1th ult. and after fifteen hours incessant toil at the pumps the men were obliged to run the vessel on shore near Kessingland, in this county. The distance from Lowestoff is near four miles; a heavy surf was upon the shore; and it was evident that unless a communication could be secured by throwing a line from the shore to the ship, the crew must inevitably perish. All the apparatus was at Lowestoff, and every possible exertion was made to facilitate its removal. The crew consisted of the Captain and seven men. The captain betook himself to the shrouds: the men secured themselves on the bow-door, secure the pistols and dagger, and by that sprit. The deck was under water, and the vessel ready to sink. In these circumstances the mortar was red; the shot and line reached the bowsprit and fell in the midst of the seven men. To this they fastened themselves, about two yards distant from each other. They then dropt in succession into the sea, and sunk till the line was hauled tight from the shore. In this manner they were dragged about eighty yards through the water,|| and then all safely landed; six out of the seven lowered themselves into the sea free from enanglement; the seventh, by accident, threw himselt on the wrong side of the rope attached to the bowsprit. The afflicting part of the narrative remains to be stated. The Captain was still in the shrouds, and saw all his people safe on shore. The signs he made shewed the anguish of his mind. All was done for his relief that could be done. A second shot was fired, and the rope attached to it was thrown on the yard of the ship where he was standing. He looked earnestly at the rope, but made no attempt to reach it. The deck was then broken up, and communication with every other part of the ship was cut off. Another shot was fired, and the rope passed the unhappy sufferer. At this instant the mast gave way, and the Captain was buried in the midst of the wreck.

MARRIED.-John Gabriel, Esq. of Calne, to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Ward, Esq. of Marlborough.-At Salisbury, Mr. Joseph Seobell, of Stonehouse, Devon, attorney, to Miss Ann Jane Cooper.-Hallifield O'Donoghue, A.B. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, to Lydia, third daughter of the Rev. Edward Spencer, Rector of Winkfield.

DIED.-At Westwood, Mrs. Southerton, wife of Mr. Southerton, Solicitor.-At Burbage, Caro line, youngest daughter of the late Rev. H. Jenner, and niece of Dr. Jenner.

YORKSHIRE.

MARRIED. At Gisburn, in Craven, Mr. Bank, to Miss Martha Hague, both of that parish. In this marriage there was an extraordinary want of SINGULARITY; for the bridegroom is a twin, and his twin brother attended; the bride is a twin, and her twin sister attended; the clergyman who officiated is a twin; and the parish clerk a twin, and his twin sister (who lives in that parish) and who has been married about twelve years, has had

twins twice, all living.-At Leeds, James Arınitage Rhodes, Esq. to Mary, only daughter of Alexander Turner, Esq.-Henry Spencer Waddington, Esq. of Cavenham, Suffolk, to Mary|| Ann, fourth daughter of the late R. Milnes, Esq. of Fryston-ball.-At Thornton Watlass, C. Chaytor, Esq. to Miss Carter, of Richmond.

DIED.---Of a consumption, in an obscure dwelling in Crossfield, Hallifax, and in circumstances of extreme distress, Mrs. Standevens, aged thirty The short history of this accomplished and unfortunate young woman is painfully interesting; but as the lesson which it teaches is full of instruction, a few particulars are added, in the hope that, as a warning example to female youth, her sufferings and melancholy fate may not have happened in vain.

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To the wear and tear of the first actor, in all parts
of a provincial theatre, Mr. Standevens' consti-
tution, originally robust, fell a sacrifice. As his
health, and perhaps his theatrical fame and his
powers of entertaining decreased, his family in-
A long sickness destroyed his only
creused.
neans of helping his wife and children, and
The leasehold
added to their embarrassments.
property, the gift of Lord Cholmondeley, had
been disposed of. About two years ago death re-
Standevens from the contemplation
of poverty and suffering, which he could not al-
leviate. It ought not to be omitted, that when
separated from his wife by sickness, whilst she
followed with part of her family the fortunes of
the company, the poor man's letters endeavoured
to cheer and support her, and breathed uuabated
tenderness and affection for her and her children.
Mrs. S. endeavoured to retain her station on the
stage, humble as it was, but in vain. On the
expiration of her engagement, it could not be re-
newed; her strength was unequal even to her
subordinate parts; the insidious disease, to which
she fell a victim was gradually undermining her
constitution naturally delicate, and her spirits
were completely broken. On foot with her chil-
dren, in rags and wretchedness, she travelled
from Tidswell, in Derbyshire, in search of her
husband's parish. About a year ago, whilst on
this route, she arrived at Halifax, and entering
at night, without any previous intimation, the
house of a distant female relation of her husband,
threw herself and her children upon her protec-
tion. But the circumstances of this relative were
unequal to such a call: she had for many years
taken care of and educated the oldest boy, and
has continued her kindness to this unfortunate
family to the present hour.

Eliza Evans was the only child of the Rev. Mr. Evans, of Malpos, in Cheshire, domestic chaplain to Lord Cholmondeley. His character, as given by one who knew him, was in every respect excellent. He was exemplary and useful in the discharge of his sacred office, noticed and caressed by the rich and the great for his acquirement and virtues, and beloved by the poor for his piety and charities. Eliza lost her mother at the early age of five years, and ten years afterwards was bereft of her father. The interval between these two deprivations was spent at the best schools which Chester and Shrewsbury afforded. Her attainments were worthy of the opportunities which she enjoyed. In addition to her native language, she became mistress of French and Italian, excelled in music and drawing, and attained eminence in the variety of fancy-work, without having neglected the more useful acquisition of plain-work. She was sent for from school to attend the death-bed of her father: he left her, at Mrs. Standevens and her children lived some the age of 15, about 800l. under the guardianship of Sir Thomas Edwards, of Frodesley. To time in a room in Copper-street, and afterwards about three months in Crossfield. Here they this little fortune Lord Cholmondeley added the life-interest of the leasehold property possessed by were supported by a small allowance from her her father, estimated at froin 60l. to 70l. per an- husband's parish-by her needle--and by her num. Her guardian died soon after his curate, teaching a few scholars-by the kindness of their and his ward continued to reside with Lady Ed- relation and by the casual bounty of the charitable. Her disease had now nearly run its course; wards. Some circumstances, which at this distance of time it were useless to detail, separated its last stage was alleviated, and the passage to her from the protection of this family, and she grave rendered easier by medical assistance. A few days before her death, she was admitted a left them, to reside with an old servant and housekeeper of her father. It is unnecessary to give home patient of the Halifax General Dispensary, any particulars of the early disappointment of and was relieved from the fund of the Benevolent Society, by the visitor of the district in which she her hopes. Young, accomplished, in some delived. She was perfectly aware of her approachgree independent, separated from any near coning dissolution. On the evening on which she nections, and womanly beyond her years, by one died, she said to a poor kind neighbour, “Də imprudent act she plunged herself into einbarnot leave me, Martha!" She poor woman knelt rassments which ended only with her life. At this period she became acquainted with Mr. Stan-beside, (the bed was on the floor) and supported the dying mother in her arms. After having in devcus, a young man of 23, the hero at that this situation been a short time engaged in prayer, time of the Shrewsbury Theatre, and who wore the sock and buskin alternately, with equal and she looked for her oldest daughter, who was kuceling at the foot of the bed, and, fixing her no mean provincial celebrity. They met at a eyes upon her serenely breathed her last.-Her musical party. They were both musical. At 16, whilst in mourning for her father, she became á dying words were, "I bequeath my children to God, and resign myself into his hands!"-She wife, and at 17 a mother. Her history is now thus commended her orphans to the protection of soon told. Her life was what may be seen in the Him who is the Father of the fatherless; and, green-room of every provincial theatre. talents were not adapted to the stage; her figure trusting to his merciful acceptance, gave back her was little, her voice had lost its sweetness, and, spirit into the hands of the widow's God. This is a sorrowful tale, but there are some circumin particular, she could not get the better of a stances on which the feelings may dwell with timidity which made her never feel at home upon the stage. She did not rise above very subordi-pleasure. The acquirements of her youth she renate parts in the theatre; and during the greater portion of her career, she was an actress, not from choice, but necessity. She dressed her face with smiles, and her person with finery, to enable her to still the clamorous craving, and to clothe the nakedness of six poor children at home.

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tained to the day of her death. In her accumu lated distresses they ministered to her support, and mitigated the sufferings which they could not

remove.

She was thus enabled to be the instructress of her children In the several towns in which the company visited, she taught drawing

of the county, and for several years a Magistrate of the same.

IRELAND.

and the use of the piano-forte, and made raffles off pictures and fancy-work, for the support of her family. Her quickness in plain-work contributed to the same end. And when her work failed, or was finished, she spent her hours in In an early part of the last century, some eighty reading. She more than once attempted to esta- years ago, there lived in Ireland a gentleman blish a school, but the world's prejudice marred named Burton, who kept a banking-house in her success" She had been a player!" and it | Dublin, and another in Clonmel; whose credit is no wonder that this laudable purpose fail- was so eminent, that it become proverbial in Ireed. Unfortunate woman! one single act of im- land, where, when the goodness of security was prudence altered entire the complexion of her described, it was usual to say it was, " as good as life. What a contrast do the two portions of it Ben Burton's." It happened, however, in the present! though in the first fifteen years she felt chapter of casualties ever attendant on human the irreparable loss of a mother, and though her affairs, that honest Ben Burton failed, and his father's death ultimately deprived her of an ad-affairs were thrown into the hands of trustees.— viser and a home, her childhood and youth were spent happily and usefully, in the acquisition of knowledge, and in the society of valuable friends. The last fifteen years present a melancholy and different picture-but, in circumstances and in society by no means favourable to virtue, her character remained without blemish and without reproach.

SCOTLAND.

"The glorious uncertainty of the law" rendered this trust an hereditary concern; and for seventyfour years the business had been involved in litigation. It was not until the last spring that the subject was brought to a final issue in Chancery, when the descendants of the first trustees paid to the posterity of the original creditors their respective dividends upon the claims of their foreAnd surely it is highly gratifying to find, that fathers; which dividends, as the whole produce the religious impressions of her infancy and of Mr. Burton's assets were thrown into the funds, youth, so far from being effaced by subsequent had accumulated very considerably; insomuch years, spent in a dangerous profession, and that one gentleman, named Fitzpatrick, the heremarked with a variety of sufferings, were recog-ditary legatee, for the original sum of £879 renized during her illness, and in her last moments; ceived as his dividend upwards of £6000.-"Betthat they did not forsake her amidst the most ter late that never." squalid wretchedness, or during the most acute sufferings; but enabled her, in circumstances of extreme distress, to die in peace, with humble resignation and hope.-Five destitute orphans near Meigle, which has had the effect of conA very curions circumstance occurred lately survive her two daughters of the ages of 12 and firmning in that neighbourhood a species of su10, and three boys of the ages of 13, 4, and 2 perstition which prevails more or less in every years; the sixth child died five years ago. To part of the country. The overseer of a bleachprevent the girls from being sent to the Work-field heard, or thought he heard, house of their parish-to save them from the dan- dreadful shriek at a particular part of the maone day, a gers incident to their sex, to their youth, and to chinery which was then going. He knew the their unprotected situation, a subscription has voice to be that of one of the young women been set on foot by a few opulent and humane who was employed at the work, and ran imcharacters, and which, we feel pleasure in stating, mediately to the spot, apprehending that some has met with a support alike honourable to the accident had befallen her. He was much surfeelings of the subscribers, and corresponding to|| prised, however, to find that neither she, nor the wants of the unfortunate orphans. indeed any body else, was within the house. At Beverly, Mrs. Mary Broadrick, sister-in-law On going out, he discovered her at a distant to the late Alderman Culson, and mother of thirty-part of the field occupied about something, two children. At Drighlington, the Rev. Geo. along with some other women. He went up to Hitchinson-At Sheffield, Mr. A. Crome; he her immediately, and questioned her if she had was author of an ingenious system of Short-hand. been near the machinery, to which she replied -At Ruswarp, near Whitby, Tho. Holt, Esq. in the negative; he then related the partiAt Wakefield, the Rev. Rich. Munkhouse, D.D. culars of what had happened. The circumstance vicar of that place. made a deep impression on the poor girl's mind, and, notwithstanding the ridicule of her companions, she grew very melancholy, from the idea that what the overseer had heard was a "death warning." This lasted for several weeks, She had not recovered her cheerfulness, however, for many days, when, happening to pass near the wheel from which the shriek appeared to issue, it laid hold of her, and killed her instantaneonsly!

WALES.

DIED. At Wrexham, aged 61, Charles Massie, Esq.-At Swansea, Samuel Hancorne, Collector of the Customs there nearly twenty-two years. At Pentre Parr, Carmarthenshire, Joshua Parr, M. D.-At Castle Piggin, Carmarthen, Thomas Blome, Esq. formerly a Captain in the Militia

London: Printed by and for J. BELL, Southampton-street, Strand.

FOR MARCH, 1810.

A New Series.

CONTAINING

A NEW SYSTEM OF BOTANY,

BY

DR. THORNTON;

AND

A SERIES OF ORIGINAL MUSIC,

BY MR. HOOK.

EMBELLISHMENTS.

1. An Elegant PORTRAIT of the HONOURABLE MRS. DAMER.

2. Three WHOLE-LENGTH FIGURES in the FASHIONS of the SEASON, COLOURED. 3. An ORIGINAL SONG, set to Music for the Harp and Piano-forte; composed exclu

sively for this Work, by Mr. Hook.

4. Two elegant and new PATTERNS for NEEDLE-WORK.

CONTENTS.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ILLUS-,, BEAUTIES OF THE BRITISH POETS.

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