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which have appeared at different times, under 

 the signature of " W. S." and "Note of a 

 " Friend."* 



Mr. WILLIAM HENDRY, a native of Patrington, 

 who has long been a resident in this town, has 

 produced a book of considerable practical utility 

 and merit, in his " Method of calculating the 

 " value of Life- Annuities, Assurances, Fines 

 " payable on the renewing of Leases, &c., for 

 " terms of years certain and for Lives, with 

 " a large collection of Tables, &c." printed in 

 Hull, in 1820. 



Mr. ISAAC WILSON, who was born at Eggleston, 

 in the county of Durham, has identified himself 

 with this town, not only by a residence among 

 us, during the last thirty years, but from his hav- 

 ing, since his first settlement in Hull, in the year 

 1800, had the editorial management of the Hull 

 Advertiser, a weekly journal of acknowledged 

 reputation and literary merit. Mr. Wilson is 

 the author of a poem, which appeared in 1802, 

 under the title of " The Infidel and Christian 

 " Philosophers ; or the last hours of Voltaire 

 " and Addison contrasted." He afterwards pub- 



* In the Rockingham'of the 2nd of this mouth (April) there is inserted 

 a letter from Mr. Spence, containing some brief observations on the Corn 

 Laws and the Currency, dated from " Pisa, Feb. 16, 1831." It is ad- 

 dressed to the writer's intelligent friend, Mr. William Stickney, of Ridg- 

 mont, in Holderness, an Honorary Member of the Sgcicty before whom 

 the above Essay was read. 



