At Dorchefter, Mr. Jeffery, to Mifs El

liott.

At Wareham, Mr. George Burgefs, of Weymouth, to Mifs Chifman of Wareham. Died.] At Dorchester, Mr. James Wood, brazier. Mrs. Elizabeth Hazard.

At Marston, near Sherborne, Mrs. Elizabeth Layton, aged 75.

At Chardstock, Mifs Stephens, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Stephens, vicar of that place. Mrs Ridout, wife of Mr. T. Ridout of Scaborough.

At Wool, near Wareham, at an advanced age, Mr. Warne, fen.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

From the report of the Committee, managing the Sunday-Schools and Schools of Induftiy at Bath, it appears that 700 poor children, being all that offered, belonging to the parishes of Bath, Walcot, Widcombe, and Bathwick, have been inftructed on Sundays, and 100, felected by rotation from the Sunday, Schools, have been daily inftructed and clothed, for a total expence, during the last year of 4441. The committee have powerfully, and we truft fuccefsfully, appealed to the opulent refidents of Bath, for a continuance of their fubfcription and patronage.

Sixty ton of coals, which had been liberally fold to the Bath Provifion Con.mittee, by Meffrs. Sayce and Kelfon, at the reduced price of 18. per cwt. have fince been retailed to the poor at the further reduced price of eight-pence per cwt.

A member of the Bath Agricultural Society afferts, that he has for feveral weeks paft boiled all the corn giveu to his horfes, and has alfo given them the liquid in which it was boiled: the refult has been, that instead of 6 bushels in a crude ftate, as previously given them, 3 bushels, fo prepared, are found to anfwer, and to preferve the horfes in a higher degree of vigour, and in better working condition. A gentleman in the neighbourhood of Bristol, confirms this fact by his own experience; and the inn-keepers at Coventry and other places have adopted the fame pra&ice.

A lady has prefented 5cl. to the fund of the Afylum for the Blind, in Bristol, and rocl. to that of the Schools of Industry, at Bath.

Married.] At Bath, Mr. R. Cruttwell, printer of the Bath Chronicle, to Mifs C. George. Mr. Hathwell, jun. auctioneer, to Mis Miller. John James Bedingford, efq. of Ditchinghan Hall, Norfolk, to Mifs Pierfey. Captain Wm. Dean Staples, efq. of the 24th Dragoon Guards, to Mits E. F. Morck of Bath. Mr. Morgan, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, to Mifs A. J. Shepherd, o Walcot.

At Ilchefter, Mr. Francis, furgeon, to Mifs M. Emor.

At Wefbury-upon-Trim, John Tripp, efq. of Iwood, in this County, to Mile Nanknell,

Mr. E.

of Shirehampton, Gloucestershire. Olive, clothier, of Frome, to Mifs Crabb, of Tillisford.

At Cucklington, Mr. S. White, of StokeTrifter, to Mifs Elizabeth Morgan.

At Bristol, Mr. Ditchett, of Exeter, to Mifs S. Day. Mr. W. T. Collins, to Mifs Robe, daughter of the late Mr. W. Robe, merchant. Mr. H. Murray, to Mifs Mary Stake.

At Newland, Mr. Thomas Harrifon, jun. of Sandford Hill, to Mifs Steel, of Coleford. At Clifton, Mr. Bird, of Bridgewater, to Mrs. Petty, of Clifton. Richard Llewellin, efq. of Weftbury-upon-Trym, to Mifs Ames, daughter of Alderman Ames, of Briftol. Mr. George Wathen, attorney, of the Hill near Stroud, to Miis Leveriage, of Lypiatt. Died.] At Bath, Mr. Roger Williams, formerly an eminent linen-draper there. Mrs. Harcourt, a maiden lady. In his 75th year, the Rev. David Horndon, rector of St. Dominick, in Cornwall. Geo. Williams, efq. fon of the late Captain Williams, and grandfon of the late Major Williams, of Herringtone, Dorfetfhire. Mrs. Gaites, wife of Mr. Gaites, hair-dreffer. Mrs. James, wife of Mr. James, brush-maker. Mrs. Pugh. Mrs. Ward, wife of Mr. Ward, coach-mafter. Within a day of each other, Mr. Jofeph Salmon, formerly a taylor in Bath, and his wife; they had been married 54 years, and their joint ages were 155. In St. James's-fquare, Mrs. Sheppard. In Milfom-freet, Mrs. Ledwell, co-heirefs of Sir Thomas Bridges, of Keynsham Abbey. Mrs. Cuff, wife of Mr. Cuff, chemift. Mrs. Ann Gyde, aunt of Mr. Heaven, at the Lower Rooms, aged 78. Mrs. Hungerford, of Island, near Clankilly, Ireland, aged 86.

At South Cadbury, Mr. Mitchell, a refpectable farmer there. Mifs Rogers daughter of the Rev. James Rogers, rector of South Cadbury.

At Wincanton, Mr. Geo. Hufey, formerly an eminent linen-draper at Salisbury, and a member of the corporation of that city. At Burton, Robert Pavey, efq.

At Chedder, aged 70, Mr. Geo. Ford. In Dorfetfhire, Cox, efq. barrister at law of Bristol. Mrs. Mines, wife of Mr. Mines of Bridgewater.

At Briftol, Mr. John Colmer, jun. Mrs. Vaughan, wife of Richard Vaughan, eiq. banker. Wm. Owen, fon of Mr. Owen, of John-street. At his houfe in Park Place, Sir Wm. Mufgrave, bart. F. A. S. F. R.`S. Mrs. Powell. Mr. Merchant, of St. James'sfquare. In Park-row, Mrs. Burge. Mrs Decima Llewellin. Mis Stratton. Mr. Henry Jones, at the King's Arms on the Warmley load, near Bristol. Mrs. Cook. Mr. Thomas, fhoemaker. Mr. Reynolds, of St. J mes's, Barton. Mr. Heath, of Stoke's Cruft.

James Filer, lately in the parish of Weflon, near Bath, by falling under the wheel of his waggon, while abufing a market-woman,

(whose

bufinefs is too great to be dispatched with expedition by any fingle individual.

Perfons have lately attended the markets in Pembrokeshire, and other parts of South Wales, where provifions have in general been remarkably cheap, and, have bought up in the early part of the markets, the provifions of every kind, and fest them to Bristol, Bath, &c. The confequence has been that provifions have been raifed in price in thofe remote parts of the kingdom, equal to that of the London and Bristol markets. The pocy and legality of this growing practice deferves ferious confideration.

Died.] Mrs. Church, wife of Mr. John Church, of Brecon.

At Cardiff, Mr. R. Daniel.

At Haverford-west, R. Knethell, efq. At Trailwm, Cowbridge, Mifs M. A. Deere, daughter of the Rev. Mr. Deere, of Didmarton, Gloucestershire.

At Newcastle, Carmarthenshire, Mrs. Lewis, mother of Mr. R. Lewis, merchant, of Bristol. At Aberystwith, Mr. John Jones, an emiment merchant.

At Fronfraith, aged 17, Mr. J. Bonfall, fon of Sir Thomas Bonfall.

At Lampeter, Cardiganthire, Mr. T. Williams.

At Moyn-Hall, Flintshire, aged 64, Mr. Thomas Scott, more than fifty years a faithful fervant in the Moftyn family.

At Abergavenny, aged 98, Mrs. Blafhfield. At Trewylan, Montgomeryfhire, aged 23, Mr. T. Humphreys, attorney, fecond fon of H. Humphreys, efq. late of Pennant.

At Carmarthen, Mrs. Rofs, wife of Mr. Rofs, printer.

At Brecon, Edw. Williams, efq. only fon of Sir E. Williams, bart. of Llangoid Caftle. At Llys-Wen, Brecknockshire, aged 6 years, (of the croup) Francis Matia Thelwall, a child whofe premature expantion of mind, whofe endearing manners and benevolent difpofition had rendered her an object of affection in all the various circles of fociety in which (young as the was) the peculiar for tune of her parents had occafioned her to be known. Affection might be suspected of partial vanity did it dwell upon peculiar traits in the character of fuch an infant; and the world might be confidered as little interefted in the tale; but feldom can it have happened to any one of her tender years to be recognifed in fo many different parts of a nation as the will be.

SCOTLAND.

The population of Glafgow is faid to have increated upwards of 22,000, during the laft ten years; 1500 houfes, it is added, have been built there within that period; notwithstanding which, there are 150 more now erecting.

Mr. Lyon, a baker in Clafgow, and his wife, were lately found dead in their own house. The rain and melted now having inundated the apartments in which they

ufually flept, they retired to a small room which had no fire place, and took with them a pan of live coals, by the fumes of which it is fuppofel they were fuffocated.

The

There have been a great number of shipwrecks on the Scottish coafts, particularly the eastern, in confequence of the very stormy weather at the beginning of the year. two fifters, of Peterhead, was driven on thore on King's Barns Rocks; one man faved himself by leaping from the fhip upon a rock; the rest of the crew kept by the wreck; and when the fea ebbed, the mafter, with three men, were found frozen to death on the deck.

The Janet of Maiduff was driven ashore on the Tands of St. Andrews, the crew of which were faved by the intrepid humanity of Mr Honey, a ftudent in divinity; whofe noble exertions have been rewarded by the public gifts of an hereditary Burgefs and Guild Ticket, from the corporation of St. Andrew.

Died.] At Edinburgh, aged 87, Mr. R. Kimooh, glover. Mr. John Martin, merchant. Rev. H. Lundre. Mrs. Margaret Wallace, wife of Mr. A. Walker. Rev. Dr. James M'Knight. Mr. Alex. Laidlaw, merchant. Mr. Agnes Lundie. Mifs H. Gordon. Mrs. P. Graham. Mrs. Gibfon. Mrs. M. Kinnear.

At Aberdeen, aged 15, Mifs, M. Stewart, daughter of Mr. Stewart, of Skelmuir. Aged 83, Mrs. S. Forbes. Mr. Alex. Smith. Mr. John Bruce, fen. merchant. Mrs. Moir. At Glasgow, Mifs Jane Scott, daughter of the late Mr. T.-Scott. Mr. R. Burns, furgeon to the Infirmary. Rd. Allan, jun. efq. merchant. Mrs. Martha Crofs. Mr. John M'Farlane.

At Dundee, Mifs Mary Yeaman, eldest daughter of the late J. Yeaman, efq. of Maurie. Mrs. Guthrie.

At Hopetown-houfe, Linlethgow, Lady Lucy Hope Johnstone, youngest daughter of Earl of Hopetown.

[As a conclufion to the provincial news of this month, among other circumftances of a general nature, we remark with pleasure that, the late fevere weather, and the unufually high price of grain, have called forth into action throughout the kingdom, that ufeful fpirit of benevolence which has ever diftinguifhed this nation above all others. It has, during this feafon, been the conftant business of the great and opulent to devife the most effectual means of relieving the induftrious poor; and the happy effect of these exertions has been the introduction of modes of charity and affistance hitherto unknown, but now ge nerally adopted and found to be beneficial and effectual. Not only public fubfcriptions have every where been fet on foot, but numberlefs inftances of the bounty of individuals, many of them munificent and extenfive beyond example, have been recorded in all the pro vincial papers.]

DEATH

DEATHS ABROAD.

On December 15, at his feat in Virginia, in the 68th year of his age, George Washington, Late Prefident of the United States of America; a man fuperior to all the titles which arrogance or fervility have invented for the decoration of hereditary rank. He was one who feemed to bave been exprefsly tormed by Providence for the mighty work of establishing the independance of a people, which may one day delight the philanthropist with the view of as great an affemblage of freemen, as Europe now contains of Claves. His firm mind, adapted to all circumstances of fortune, equally inacceffible to the flatteries of hope and the fuggeftions of defpar, was kept fteady by the grand principles of pure love to his country, and a religious attach ment to moral duty. He was one of thofe truly great men, who can be cool without phlegm, difpafonate without indifference-who, confatly intent upon an important end, are little moved by the viciffitudes and fluctuations in the means which lead to it. In him, even fame, glory, reputation, were fubordinate confidera. tions to the fuccefsful performance of the high tak affigned him; and he could without impatience wait for that reward of public applaufe and gratitude, which was all he defired for fervices beyond the power of eftimate. In his character were renewed all the qualities we molt admire in the noblest names of antiquity. Timoleon, Arittides, Camillus, Fabius, did not fur pals him in fortitude, prudence, difinterestedaefs, and integrity. No one ever more effectually united decifive firmnefs, with that lenity which flows from true benevolence. No one ever paffed through the ordeal of power and influence more free from the remoteft fufpicion of felfth and ambitious defigns. To have pailed unfallied through fuch a career of glory and uefulness, is fo high and rare a bleffing, that regret for his lofs will probably, in thofe minds which are warmed by a fenfe of exalted virtue, be fank in the fatisfaction of feeing another Eluftrious name placed beyond all danger of human infirmity.

At Prague, the Cardinal Bathiany, Prince Primate of Hungary, who by his will has appropriated 38,000 florins for the expences of his funeral; and who has, among many other ufelul legacies, bequeathed his ftores of wines and provitons, eftimated at 300,000 florins, to the Emperor's magazines. He has appointed his brother by the father's fide, the Count Theodure Bathiany, heir to his poffeffions. It is thought that the primateship will remain vacant for two years, and that the crown will enjoy, during that period, its immenfe revenues.

At Buckeburg, after a fhort and painful illnefs, in her 39th year, her Serene Highness Juliana Wilhelmina Louifa, Princefs-dowager of Schaumburg Lappe, Regent and Guardian. This princefs was filter to the Landgrave of Helle Caffel, and one of the brightest ornaments of her fex and age. In many of her public and private actions the imitated the illuftrious Frederick the Great: like him, the rofe early in the morning to work in her cabinet, in the affairs of ftate; and there was hardly a petty lawfuit the judgment of which the did not revife. Like Jofeph II. fhe travelled all over the Continent, for obfervation and instruction; the fruits of her travels the applied to the good of her fmall dominions, which travellers will find more cultivated and improved than the countries which furround it.."

Marmontel expired on the laft day of the laft year, at Abbaville, in the department of the Lower Seine, in circumstances very far from eafy. He was ill only a few hours, an apoplexy being the caufe of his death. He has left a wife and two children, ill provided for.

Daubenton who fucceeded Buffon as keeper of the Botanical Gardens and the Mufeum, died in the end of December, at the age of near eighty. He had, a few days previous to his death, been elected member of the Confervative Senate, and his anxiety to take his feat under the new appointment, is faid to have hattened his death. His niece was married to the late Count du Buffon, fon of the great naturalift, but the Count furvived the marriage only a few weeks, being among the 65 perfons taken from the Luxemburg prifon July 10, 1794, and guillotined according to the acerbe forms of the revolutionary tribunal, under the fangumary Robelpierre.

Etienne Mongoitier, who is lately dead in France, and who rendered himself fo celebrious for his croftatic difcoveries, in 1782, was a manufacturer of paper, at Annoney, and was lette more than 52 years of age when he died. It was to him principally that the neceffity of importing paper froin Holland was obviated. He was the fift in France who made the vellum paper. The French topography owes to that industrious man, the credit of its rapid advances towards perfection. It was with his brother Jofeph that he tried his first experiment, with a lack of paper turned upside down, and filled with inflammable air. This gave rife to another filled with gas, fo much lighter still, than atmoj heric air, and opened the way to the conttruction of the improved balloon.