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Cumberland and Westmoreland....Lancashire.

Benn, of Henfingham, to Miss Frances Years, of Carlisle.

At Whitehaven, Mr. William Wells, of Workington, to Mifs Catharine Blades, of the former place.

At Bampton, Mr. Thomas Noble, of High How, to Mifs Ann Nicholson, of Knipe, both in that parish.

At Crofthwaite church, near Kefwick, Mr. Daniel Jopfon, of Borrowdale, to Mils Betty Wilfon.

At Ulverston, Mr. Wm. Turner Seatle, to Mifs Ifabella Trinkhall.

At Cockermouth, Mr. Clark, jeweller, to Mifs Dover.

At, Morelby, Mr. Wm. Lawfon, to Mifs Jane Slater.

At Wigton, Mr. Sanderfon, merchant, to Mifs Todd.

At Wabburthwaite, Mr. Jonathan Whinnerah, of Ravenglaf, to Mifs Hannah Borrowdale, of the former place.

At Brampton, the rev. Thomas Ramfhay, to Mifs Ewart, only daughter of the late David Ewart, efq. of Brampton.

Died.] In Whitehaven, in the prime of life, Mrs. H. Skelton. In her 51ft year, Mrs. Mary Nutsford. Suddenly, Mr. John Sowerby, mariner. Mr. Robert Twedie. In his 23d year, Mr. Thomas Fleming.

At Carlisle, fuddenly, Mr. Thomas Smith, town-major.

At Kendal, in an advanced age, Mr. Jofeph Gough. Mifs Elizabeth Chambre. Mr. Giles Batty. On his return from Madeira, aged 26, Mr. Wm. Wakefield; and, on New Year's day, aged 28, his brother, Mr. Edward Wakefield, fons of John Wakefield, banker, in Kendal.

At Warnell-fell, in the parish of Sebergham, Duncan Robinfon, aged 100 years. He bore arms in the fervice of George the First, during the rebellion of 1715. He ferved afterwards in the wars, and was prefent at most of the memorable battles and fieges, that Great Britain was concerned in, till the year 1760.

At Three pthwaite, near Whitehaven, aged 94, Mr. D'Arcy Curwen.

At Neft, near Kefwick, aged 93 Mr. Jofeph Hodgson.

At Chefnut-Hill, likewife near Keswick, Mr. James Culling.

At Gil.hwaiterigg, near Kendal, Mr. Tho.
Baynes.

At Workington, aged 73, Mrs. Sarah
Cowx.
Aged 87, Mr. Jofeph Steele. Mis.

Mary Heron.
At Diflington, in her 81st year, Mrs. Doro-
thy Hefkett.

At Harrafdyke, at the advanced age of 95, James Ladly, who, for many years, was in the habit of walking the streets of Whitehaven, with a wooden leg, and leading an afs, with befoms for fale. By this occupation, and fome fmall relief from the parish of Haltwhittle, in Northumberland, (the place of his nativity) he was enabled to fupport himfetf decently, till within a few weeks of his deccafe.

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His faculties were unimpaired to the day of his death.

LANCASHIRE.

The Harriet, of Liverpool, belonging to T. Barton, efq. has made no less than 33 voyages from that port to Barbadoes, and back, during the last 10 years and three months; an, inftance of commercial expedition scarcely to be paralelled. In the courfe of her fucceffive voyages, fhe has taken and retaken a confiderable number of veffels from the enemy, and refcued several others from falling into the hands of the French.

The officers of the Rochdale Volunteer Corps have agreed to give a premium of 10 guineas to every volunteer who fhall have, in lawful wedlock, twin male children born alive, and that fuch of the officers as the parents fhall approve of, fhall ftand godfather on the occafion. Thefe gentlemen had lately an opportunity of appropriating this humane and judicious donation, the wife of one Ashworth, a private in Capt. Hamer's company, having been fafely delivered of two fine boys.

Married.] At Lancaster, Capt. Quilliams, of the fhip Flora, to Mifs Bland.

Mr.

Mr.

At Manchester, Mr. John Grime, of Bolton,
to Mi's Mary Broadbent, of the former town.
Mr. Maurice Lewis, to Mifs Daniel.
John Knowles, to Mrs. Robinfon.
Ifachar Thorn, jun. to Mifs Siddall.
Thomas Perkins, to Mifs Charlotte Finney.
Mr. James Grindrod, corn-factor, to Mifs
Stones.

Mr.

At Liverpool, Mr. James Brown, furgeon, to Mifs Sarah Skelhorne, of Everton. Mr. Jonathan Dixon, to Mifs Owen, daughter of the late rev. Mr. Owen, of Angelfea. Capt. Gawn, to Mifs Johnfon. Mr. Jonathan Garrett, to Mifs Elizabeth Matthew. Capt. John Kendall, of the Prince, to Mifs Ann Baldwin. Mr. John Tobin, to Mifs Afpinall.

At Crofby, near Liverpool, Mr. Thomas Wright, of Leeds, to Mifs Tempest, youngest daughter of the late Stephen Tempeft, efq. of Broughton-Hall.

At Salford, Mr. John Gregory, to Mifs Harkman.

Mr. Wm. Reece, of Oldham, cotton-manufacturer, to Mifs Whitehead.

At Rochdale, the rev. Wm. Hodgson, to Mifs Hay.

At Ormskirk, Mr. S. Shearfon, to Mifs Riddihough.

At Blackburn, Mr. Ruffel, of Manchester, to Mifs Ainsworth, of the former town.. Died.] At Lancaster, aged 74, Mr. John

Fofter.

At Liverpool, Mr. John Clarke, the oldest clerk in the Custom-Houfe of that port. Aged 93, Mrs. Wilfen. Mrs. Gregory. After a fevere and tedious illness, Mr. Robert Tyrer, joiner. Aged 80, Mrs. Greetham. Rebecca Brown. Mr. Henry Rigby. Mr. J.

P. Sutton. Mifs Ufher: Mrs. Baillie.

Mifs

At Manchester, aged 73, Mr. John Daniel. Mrs. Hatfield.

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Yorkshire-Lincolnshire.

In his 89th year, the rev. T. Walker, minifter of Douglas chapel, in this county. At Flixton, aged 76, Mrs. Gilbody.

At Bolton le Moors, in confequence of a fall down ftairs, Mrs. Scofield.

At Blackburn, Mrs. Sharples, widow.
At Anderton, Mr. J. Clayton.

After a long and painful illness, Mrs. Hadfield, of Travis Mill.

At Leigh, fuddenly, in his 62d year, the rev. James Hartley, of Martinfcroft, near Warrington, vicar of Leigh, and minister of Holenfare, both in this county.

At Oufeborough, near Blackburn, at the very advanced age of 103, Mr. T. Singleton. At Armley, aged 102, Mrs. Ann Simpson. At Warrington, Mrs. Wilfon.

At Liverpool, in his 67th year,

James, efq.

YORKSHIRE.

William

The Twelve Church Burgeffes, at Sheffield, have fubfcribed 50 guineas annually to the New General Infirmary at that place.

The Corporation of Hull have very patriotically refolved to fubfcribe 500l. towards the exigences of the State, in this alarming arifis. For this purpose, the falary of the Mayor is to be difcontinued; and an addrefs. has been agreed to, recommending his Worship to give no more public dinners, on any account whatever.

Beilby Thompfon, efq. befides a donation of two fat heifers and a quantity of wheat to the poor of Efcricke and Whildrake, has trapfmitted the fum of col. to the Lord Mayor of York, to be diftributed among the neceffitous poor of that city. To render this liberal benefaction as diffufive as poffible, the parish officers have been requested to furnish lifts of proper objects in their refpective districts, among whom it will be diftributed in small fums.

Married.] At York, Mr. John Morley, to Mifs E. Beale, of Dringhouses.

At Leeds, Mr. Wm. Bingley, of ChapelAllerton, to Mifs Gledhil. Sir Francis Lindley Wood, Bart. of Bowling. Hall, to Mifs Buck, eldest daughter of Samuel Buck, efq. of New Grange, near Leeds.

At Sheffield, Mr. John Hoyle, to Mifs Sarah Fox.

At Bridlington, Mr. White, furgeon in the 34th Regiment, to Mifs Taylor.

At Huddersfield, Mr. Keir, of Horrforth, to Mifs Metcalfe, daughter of Mr. Metcalfe, fupervifor at the former place. Alfo Jofeph Haigh, efq. of Golcar-Hall, to Mifs Amelia Fenton, fecond daughter of Wm. Fenton, efq. of Spring-Grove.

At Beverley, Capt. Trollope, of the 40th regiment of foot, to Mifs Mary Ford, fecond daughter of the rev. Dr. Ford, of the former place.

At Oftley, Mr. Thomas Shaw, furgeon and apothecary, to Mifs Catharine Stanhope Haddon, youngest daughter of the rev. P. Haddon, vicar of Leeds.

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At South-Ottrington, Mr. Thomas Bramley, jun. to Mifs Gilby, late of London.

At Whitby, Mr. Storr, fhipmafter, to Mifs Robinson.

At Hull, Lieut. Adamfon, of the Surry Militia, to Mifs Chriftiana Sotheran. And, on the fame day, Mr. Vernon Sotheran, jun. to Mrs. Roufby, of Croom, near Malton.

Died.] At York, Mrs. Deighton. In his 87th year, the rev. John Whittell, formerly paftor of a congregation of proteftant diffenters, at Brighthelmftone. He had been confined to his houfe for the space of 19 years, from the misfortune of a broken thigh, imperfectly fet. He retained the ufe of his faculties to the laft, and bore his long confinement with exemplary fortitude and refignation.

At Leeds, Mr. Hurft, attorney. Mr. David Lupton, fecond fo of Mr. Arthur Lupton, merchant. Mr. George Pattifon. Mr. Wm. Hardon.

At Ackworth, the rev. Charles Butter, viear of Bolton upon Dearn, and chaplain to the countess dowager of Mexborough.

At Beverley, aged 40, Mrs. Brownrigg.

At Pontefract, of an apoplectic fit, Mifs Fofs, only daughter of the late Mr. Fofs, of Bawtry. In his 40th year, Mr. Noble, furgeon and apothecary.

At Scarborough, in his 44th year, Mr. William Williamfon, landing waiter in the Cuf toms at that port.

At Leyburn, in the North Riding, aged 73, George Boustead.

At Barton upon the Humber, aged 92, Mr. Marris, formerly in the profeffion of the law, from which he had retired several years.

At Bretton, near Wakefield, Mr. Noble, many years agent' to the late Sir Thomas Blackett, bart. and fince to Colonel Beaumont, of Bretton-Hall.

At Gainsborough, aged 79, Mr.Wm. Gunor. At Market Weighton, Mr. Wm. Breighton. At Hull, fuddenly, Mr. Millfon, bookfeller and ftationer. In his 26th year, the rev. Thomas Browne, late of Bridlington, nephew to Mr. Thomas Browne, bookfeller, in Hull. In his 69th year, General Adams, formerly in the Eaft India fervice.

At the fame place, in the course of his fecond Mayoralty, and in the 81st year of his age, the Worshipful John Banks, efq.

LINCOLNSHIRE.

The Bishop of Lincoln's exertions to establish a fund for the relief of the widows and orphans of clergymen belonging to the county of Lincoln, have been crowned with great fuccefs. From the printed lift of benefactors and fubfcribers, it appears, that the benefactions already received amount to 5191. 11s. and the annual fubfcription to 6031. 15s. Both these fums, it is confidently hoped, will be confiderably increased, before the first annual meeting, next Midfummer.

Married.] At Walfall, Mr. Thomas Hepwood, of Aldridge, to Mrs. Mary France, of Gold Farm, a maiden lady, aged 63.

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At Louth, Mr. Brown, mufician, to Miss Dennifs.

Died.] At Lincoln, Mr. Robinfon. Mrs. Poyntell, fifter of Mr. Wm. Taylor, at the public office for news-papers, Warwick-square,

London.

At Stamford, Mrs. Apfey. Mr. Thomas Robinson, grocer. Mifs Lilly.

At Bridge Cafterton, near Stamford, Mrs. Robinson.

At Corrington, Mrs. Rutherford.

At Berrington, Mrs. Lawrence.
At Ellesmere, Mr. Edwards.

At Claremont Hill, Mr. John Leech.
At Neffcliff, aged 87, Mrs. Hayward.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

Married.] At Seigford, near Stafford, Wm. Phillips Inge, efq. of Thorp Conftantine, to the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Euphemia Stewart, daughter of the Earl of Galloway.

At Checkley, near Cheadle, the rev. Mr.

At Heighington, near Lincoln, Mr. John Langley, to Mrs. Okeover. Brown.

NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.

Married.] At Nottingham, Mr. W. Wainwright, jun. to Miss Elizabeth Hornbuckle, of Barfton, Leicestershire. Mr. Billiard, hofier, in Narrowmarth, to Mifs Tunnicliffe, of Afhborne, Derbyshire. The rev. R. Wolefley, to Mifs M. Middlemore. Mr. Wilfon, to Mifs Morley. Mr. J. Martin, to Mifs Henfhaw.

Richard Welby, efq. of North Muskham, to Mifs Briftowe, of Beefthorp Hall.

Died.] At Nottingham, Mrs. James.
At Eaft Retford, William Holland, M. D.

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Married.] At St. Mary's, Shrewsbury, Mr. Dixon, of Liverpool, to Mifs Boorce, of the former town.

At Ludlow, Mr. James Nah, to Mifs Boulcot: Mr. Edward rarries, to Mrs. Sheppard.

At Wem, Mr. Edwards, grocer, to Mifs Martha Harper. Mr. Badger, of Ellefmere, to Mifs Jeffreys, of Wem.

Died. At Shrewsbury, Mr. Thomas Corrie, partner in the mercantile houfe of Corrie and Craig. In his 57th year, after a fevere and lingering illness, Mr. Charles Fowler. Mrs. Morhall, Aged 87, Mrs. Pearfon.

At Ludlow, aged 72, Mr. Hammonds, baker. Mrs. Tipton.

At Market Drayton, Philip Hinton, efq. His lofs will be feverely felt by the poor in that? neighbourhood.

At Whixall, Mrs. Price, wife of the rev. Mr. Price, Curate of that place.

At Worthen, Mr Thomas Davies.

Died.] Near Stafford, aged 50, Mr. Brindley, fuppofed to be the fatteft man of his height in the kingdom.

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At Newcastle under Line, Mr. Robt. Smith, fon to Mr. James Smith, bookseller.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

Orders have been given by G. Western, efq. of the General Poft-office, that all letters, put in at Mountforrel, fhall be forwarded to Leicester and Loughborough on the day of their being delivered, and in like manner from those places to Mountforrel

Marr.ed. At Leicester, Mr. Cox, to Mifs Bruce.

At Branfton, Mr. Gregg, of Garthorpe, to Mifs Henshaw, of the former place.

At Leicester, Mr. Cort, to Mifs Ann Robinfon, fecond-daughter of the rev. Mr. Robinson. At Sebfon, Mr. Shenfton, to Mifs Lydia Shenton.

Died.] At Leicester, Mr. J. Barfoot. Aged 87, Mrs. Bland.

At Ashby de la Zouch, on the 17th inft, in his 78th, year, after an illness of two months, Thomas Kirkland, M. D. Member of the Royal Medical Society, Edinburgh, and of the Medical Society in London, Author of Medical Surgery, and many other valuable publications. By his death, the community has lost a zealous enquirer after fcience, and a moft fuccefsful practitioner, whofe ardour in his pursuits for the improvement of his profeffion, did not abate but with his death. It is hoped, that a third volume of his work, "An Enquiry inte the prefent State of Medical Surgery," which he had nearly finished before his laft illness, will be given to the world, by fome of his profeffional friends.

At Loughborough, after a fhort, but fevere Hinefs, Mifs Sophia Farrow.

At Sution Broughton, fuddenly, in the midst of converfation, and whilst making tea for company, Mits A. Beal, aged 20.

At Kegworth, Mrs. Attey.

At Folton, in her 89th year, Mrs. Kennerley.

At Blaby, aged 17, Mr. Richard Flude.
At Rearby, Mr. Morley, grazier.

At Thornton, the rev. Mr. Abbot, vicar of that place.

At Great Glyn, aged 81, Mr. George Cooper.

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poor women in the neighbourhood of her feat In this county.

Married.] At Oakham, John Parker, efq. of the Northamptonshire Militia, to Mrs. Fancourt Jeffop.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

The drover and guard of the Wifbeach mail coach were convicted, at the Cambr dge Quarter Seffions, of having fuffered a gentleman of the univerfity to drive the carriage, whereby it was overturned, and a woman much hurt. But on paying all expences, and making fatisfaction to the injured party, they were reprimanded and discharged.

Married.] At Cambridge, Mr. W. Brooks, to Mifs Elizabeth Wiles. The rev. Philip Wynter, late fellow commoner of Sidney Coilege, to Mifs Beales.

At Weft Wratting, Mr. Edward Haylock, to Mifs D. Browning, of Weston Colvile.

At March, in the Ifle of Ely, Mr. Hanslip Long, an opulent and refpectable farmer at Lynn, to Mifs Kirkby, of the former place.

At Ely, Mr. Luke Dench, attorney, to Mifs Bennington.

Died.] At Cambridge, Mrs. Adams. Mrs. Hannah Willoughby.

In Thorney Fen, Mr. Philip Bailey, farmer and grazier.

At Baffingbourn, Mr. James Ind, late St. Ives, Huntingdonshire.

At Over, Mrs. Frances Stevens.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.

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Died.] At Eynesbu¡ y, near, St. Neot's, Mrs. Coufens.

At Buckden, fuddenly, Mrs. Norman. At Eaten-Socon, fuddenly, Mr. Blofield. At the fame place, likewife fuddenly, Mrs. Sarah Bolton.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

Married.] At Hardingstone, near Northampton, the rev. Afhton Vade, to Mifs Mary Walpole, daughter of the Hon. Richard Walpole.

At Piddington, the rev. T. W. Barlow, Prebendary of Bristol, and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, to Mifs Bockett, of South Mims.

Died.] At Northampton, Mr. Jeremiah

Rudfdell.

At Stanion Mill, Mr. Wm. Osborn, who had for feveral years retired from business,on the smallest ftream, but, perhaps, with the largest property of any miller in the county. At Oundle, in an advanced age, Mrs. Cook.

At King's Cliffe, aged 73, Mr. Robert Burton.

WARWICKSHIRE.

The frauds practifed by the carriers of coals in the vicinity of Birmingham, have determined the overfeers of the poor to iffue inftructions to the keeper of the weighing machine not to fpecify on the tickets which he iffues, the weight of any waggon or cart, unless fuch waggon or cart has been previously

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weighed empty, and duly registered in the town books.

Married.] At Birmingham, Mr. Thomas Rea, of London, to Mifs Ann Wheeler, of the former place. And, on the fame day, Mr. Wm. Rea, of London, brother of the above, to Mifs Ann Wheeler, fifter of the former brile.

Andrew Hewkett, jun. efq. of MoxhullPark, to Mifs Adderley, only daughter of Ralph Adderley, efq. of Coton, Staffordshire.

At Birmingham, Mr. T. Randall, to Mifs Fleck. Mr. Chriftopher Schoolcy, of Penteride, to Mifs Bannister, of the former town. At Shuftock, Mr. John Bush, to Mifs Mary Boughey, At Birmingham, Mrs. Netchell, Mr. Jofiah Rofe. Mr.

Died.

of the Bull's Head. John Reynolds.

At Coventry, Mifs H. Hervey.

Mir. Wm. Grove, of Penn-wood. This gentleman, fome time fince, very liberally prefented a fervice of communion plate to the church of Penn.

Christopher Wren,, efq. of Wroxhall,

WORCESTERSHIRE.

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At Tewkesbury, Mr. John Vaughan Barber, of Walfal, to Mifs Elizabeth Wickes, daughter of the late rev. Dr. Wickes, of Tetbury.

At Berkeley, Mr. Ayland, of that town, to Mifs Izard, of Tewkesbury.

At North Nibley, the rev. John Rogers, of Beaminster, Dorset, to Eliz. Long, of the former place.

At Painfwick, Mr. Nath. Dimock, of Stonehoufe, to Mrs. Blake, of Brownshill.

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Died.] In College-Green, Briftol, the rev. Mr. Winter, of Lady Huntingdon's connexion. Mrs. Mary Concanen. Mrs. Arding. Mrs. Wilcox. Mr. Wm. Jenkins, late an eminent carpenter in this city. He had been severely afflicted with the gout for upwards of feven years. At the fame place, Mifs, Sarah Wyfom. In Queen-fquare, in this city, Mr. Robert Salmon. Mr. Edwards. Mr. Pring. Mr. Richard Horfley. Mrs. Phillips, milliner in Redcliff-street. Mrs. Henley, wife of Mr. Richard Henley, clerk at the ftamp-office. Aged 88, Ann Keftell. Mr. Thomas. At his houfe in Prince's-ftreet, aged 80, Thomas Deane, efq. fenior alderman of this city. His extenfive mercantile concerns rendered him eminently useful to his fellow citizens.

At the Hot Wells, Mifs Margaret Brooke, daughter of Mr. H. F. Brooke, of Bristol. Lord Lifle, of Ireland. Mr. Henry Morgan. Mifs Penny.

At Clefton, after a long illness, Mifs Elizabeth Morgan. General Sir John Dalling, K.B. in Thornbury, fuddenly, in an apoplectic fit, Mr. Jeffe Cofsham.

At Gloucester, Mr. Charles Cole, formerly a mercer in that town, but who had retired from bufinefs. Mifs P. Jones.

At Barnwood, in the 84th year of her age, Mrs. Molloy, fifter of the late Henry Pye, efq. of Farringdon, Berks.

At Cleve-hill, near Bristol, Sir John Dalling, bart.

At Evesham, fuddenly, Mrs. White, of the White Hart.

OXFORDSHIRE.

At Oxford, in her 72d year, Mrs. Pafco. Mr. Thomas Young, many years Collector of Excife in the Oxford District. Aged ;3, Mrs. Winter. After a long and very painful illness, James Remett Stockford, Lieutenant of the Oxford Light Dragoons, and furgeon to the Regiment. Alfo Mr. Jofeph Newnam.

In the 74th year of his age, the rev. Timothy Neeve, D. D. Rector of Geddington, Prebendary of Worcester, and Margaret Profeffor of Divinity in the University of Oxford.

At Broadstone Hill, near Chipping Norton, Mrs. Cogan.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

Married.] At Milton, Mr. Wm. Ratliffe, to Mifs Ellen Worley, fecond daughter of Mr. Worley, of Mear's Abbey, Northamptonshire,

HERTFORDSHIRE.

Married.] At Hinxworth, Mr. Thomas Rutiel, of Liddlington, to Mifs Williamfon, of the former place.

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At Fordham, Mr. Dobito, auctioneer, to Mrs. Redgrave, of Exning.

At Kempton, the rev. George Bell, to Mifs Denbiggins, of Northampton.

Died.] At Watford, Mr. Thomas Green. hill.

At Hatfield, Dr. Francis Penrofe, of Stonehouse, near Plymouth.

At Laurence End, Charles Hawkins, third fon of Henry Hawkins, efq. of that place. At Bishop's Stortford, aged 57, Mr. Edward Jones.

At Great Barfield, after a fevere and linger◄ ing illness, Mrs. Clarke.

ESSEX.

The fouth-west corner of that venerable pile of antiquity, Great Waltham Church, has given way, and a confiderable part of the fabric has, of confequence, fallen down. The cause of this fudden ruin is attributed to the weight of the bells, as it was first observed during the ringing a peal. If fupporters had not been placed fome time fince, it is fuppofed the whole steeple would have participated in the fall.

Married.] The rev. David James, of Stamford le Hope, to Mifs Browne, of Cripplegate Without.

At Ham, J. Pheil, efq. to Mifs Harriot Bowman, of the Upper Terrace, Illington.

Died.] At Chelmsford, Mr. Charles Brown. Mifs E. Cooper, daughter of the rev. Mr. Cooper, diffenting minifter.

At Great Coggeshall, Mrs. Mary Brightwen, for many years a fpeaker in the Quakers' meeting-houfe in this town. Mrs. Anna Unwin. At Braintree, Mr. Lambert, fen.

At Upminster, aged 75, T. London, efq. At Colchester, Mr. Glandfield, plumber. Mrs. Leaver.

At Upton, Mrs. Brown, wife of Mr. Tho mas Brown, of Gould-square.

At Boxted, aged 34, Mrs. Hooker, wife of the rev. Thomas Hooker, vicar of Rottingdeane, Suffex.

At Wormingford, aged 64, Mr. Crifp.
At Laytonstone, Mrs. Vezey.

NORFOLK.

The following memorial of the glorious naval action of the 14th of February, 1797, has been lately erected in the Council Chamber of the County Hall, at Norwich. An anchor, from the ring of which is fufpended a yard and fail, fuppofed to be torn in action, on which is infcribed :-" The fword of the Spa"nish Admiral Don Xavier Winthuysen, who "died of the wounds he received in an en

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gagement with the British fleet, under the "command of Admiral Earl St. Vincent, "14th of February, 1797, which action ended "in the moft brilliant victory ever obtained by this country over the enemy at fea; "wherein the heroic valour and cool deter"mined courage of Rear Admiral, Sir Ho"ratio Nelfon, K. B. had ample scope for "difplay. He being a native of Norfolk, ho"noured the city by prefenting this (word "furrendered to him in that action."-The Sword is fufpended from the flukes of the Anchor; underneath is the coat of arms of Sir Horatio

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