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Provincial Occurrences: Hants, Dorsetshire) fyc. 



[JAN. 



gallon from thence to Norwich, and the members of 

 the town have been requested to use their influence 

 in Parliament to oppose the same. 



Meetings have been held at Norwich and Lynn for 

 the purpose of not altering the Corn-Laws. At the 

 meeting at Bury, for the petition against the Corn- 

 Laws, it was asserted by one of the speakers that the 

 land owners were driving our trade to America and 

 the Continent ! at a time, too, when distress was 

 never so general and extensive as at present I 



Died.'] At Brundall, Elisha De Hague, esq., town 

 clerk of Norwich since I/!*:?, aged 72 At Barham, 

 John Jennings, 5)3, postman for C7 years: he had 

 walked in his occupation 440,000 miles, or 17 times 

 the circuit of the globe. The General Post Office 

 had very properly given him a pension of 10 per 

 annum since 1796 to his death. His great-uncle and 

 his father had been postmen in the same place for 62 

 vears, making 114 years altogether ! At Hillington- 

 Hall, Mr. J. Harrison, 90; he had lived 02 years in 

 the service of three generations of the Folkes' 

 family At Highnam, Thomas Batley, 75, commonly 

 called" Blind Tom, who had been deprived of sight 

 from his youth. He was the regular postman for 

 the conveyance of letters and parcels from Gazely 

 to Highnam, without the guidance either of a fellow 

 creature or a dog At North Waltham, Mrs. Lacock, 

 98. 



HANTS AND SUSSEX. 



There are no less than 50 prisoners in the county 

 (Hants) Bridewell for offences under the Game- 

 Laws ; besides several persons in the county goal for 

 trial on charges of having been found armed for the 

 destruction of game, contrary to the statute, which 

 is the result of our precious system of Game-Laws !!! 



The Hampshire Chronicle says, that during a late 

 visit at Somerly 1,463 head of game were killed by 

 four guns in six days, viz. 842 pheasants, 334 hares, 

 222 rabbits, 58 partridges, 5 woodcocks, and 2 

 snipes !!! Talk of the Corn-Laws, indeed ! here is 

 an evil that in an instant tells its own tale ! How 

 many families are ruined and goals filled with offend- 

 ers against the Game-Laws, to achieve a massacre 

 like this, at which a sportsman of the old school 

 would disdain to assist ! ! ! 



Died.'} At Ashling, near Chichester, Rear-Admi- 

 ral Stair Douglas At Bramore, Mrs. Emma Curtis, 

 in her 10?lh year At Chichester, Sir Justly Watson 

 Green, Bart. 72 At Southampton, Matilda, relict 

 of P. C. Methuen, esq. At Brighton, Mary, sister 

 ofSirHughPalliser, Bart. 



DORSETSHIRE AND WILTS. 



The Lords of the Treasury have been pleaded to 

 issue then: warrant granting an annual allowance to 

 the widows, as well as to the children under 14 years 

 of age, who .were rendered destitute and fatherless 

 by the loss of the crew of the Francis Freeling 

 packet. 



The repairs of the Cobb at Lyme have just been 

 finished, and it now appears a piece of beautiful 

 architecture. 



Dec. 5, a fire broke out in the fiax and rope fac- 

 tory of Mr. Parsons, at Melksham, which was 

 totally destroyed ; the damage is supposed to amount 

 to 10,000, and 200 people, by this awful calamity, 

 will be thrown out of employment. One of the 

 men has been committed to goal on suspicion of 

 setting the premises on fire. 



Thirteen persons have been committed to prison 

 at Devizes within the last week (Dec. 1C) for offences 

 against the Game-Laws, and seven to Fisherton 

 goal !!! 



Mr. Estcourt informs us, that Long Newnton pa- 

 rish contains 140 poor persons, divided into 32 

 families, principally labourers ; and that the cottage 

 system has been introduced there with such effect, 

 as to occasion the following difference in the poor- 

 rate its amount the last six months before this plan 



took effect, was 213. Ife., of which sum 206. 8*. 

 was applied to the relief of the poor while the 

 amount of the poor-rate the last corresponding six 

 months after the plan took place, was 12. 6*., of 

 which 4. 12s. Gd. was applied to the relief of the 

 poor !!! May this plan be universally followed, that 

 again we may sing with the poet 

 " That every rood of ground maintains its man!!!" 



Married.'} At Kingston Magna, the Rev. Thomas 

 Manners Sutton, to Miss L. S. Mortimer. 



Died.] At Rowde, J. Sutton, esq. 83. 



DEVONSHIRE AND SOMERSET. 

 The inhabitants of Wiveliscombe have entered 

 into a subscription for pulling down their old church, 

 and for erecting an elegant new Gothic structure in 

 its stead, which, from its superior size, will give 

 them accommodation for full 500 additional sittings. 

 The cottage system has been introduced in the 

 neighbourhood of Wells with the happiest results. 

 The Bishop has tried the experiment on 44 acres, 

 letting them at the rate of 10s. per quarter of an acre. 

 112 families, none of whom receive parish pay, 

 already enjoy its benefits. 



The blanket manufactory established at Frome, 

 for the purpose of supporting the unemployed ma- 

 nufacturers, succeeds beyond the original expec- 

 tations. 



A society has been formed at Bath auxiliary to 

 the Irish Society, for promoting the education of the 

 native Irish through the medium of their own lan- 

 guage, it appearing that at [least 1,500,000 Irish em- 

 ploy the ancient language of their country as the 

 sole and natural vehicle of their thoughts. 



At a public meeting late held at Wenmore, it was 

 resolved to make a new turnpike road from Lang- 

 port through Shapwick, Wedmore, Chedhar, Ship- 

 ham, and Rowberrow, to join the new cut of the 

 Bristol turnpike at that place. 



At the Consistorial Court at Exeter, Dec. 1, the 

 vicar of Maker instituted a suit, claiming the tytheof 

 sea-fish from the proprietors or occupiers of any fish- 

 ing-boat, scan, net or fishing croaft, at the rate of 

 l. 13,?. 4d. yearly, and one penny* out of every shil- 

 ling of the earnings of the poor men, from money, 

 share or allowance !!! The Judge dismissed the de- 

 fendants from the suit, and condemned the plaintiff 

 in their costs. We need scarcely add, that the deci- 

 sion against this ne plus ultra of tythe-ism, has given 

 great satisfaction to the natives. 



Lectures on Astronomy have been delivered at the 

 Bridgewater Mechanics' and Apprentices' Institution. 

 Its members are fast increasing, "and its usefulness 

 rapidly rising. 



Married."] At Dawlish, P. C. de la Garde, esq. to 

 Susan, daughter of the late Rev. J. Lempriere, D.D. 

 Died.'] At llfracombe, Jesse Foot, esq. 83, long 

 known in the medical world ; he was author also of 

 a Life of Arthur Murphy, the celebrated dramatic 

 writer At Holme, Sir Bourchier Wray, Bart., 76, 

 of Tavistock-Court, and of Home-Chase, Devon 

 At Plymouth, R. Creyke, esq., 80, commissioner of 

 the Victualling Board at that place At Holsworthy, 

 T. Pearse, esq., 76 -At Bath, Miss Woodward, 

 daughter of the late Bishop of Cloyne. 



NORTHAMPTON AND HUNTINGDON. 

 A petition has been presented to the Trustees of 

 Laurence Sheriff's Almshouses, by the almsmen at 

 Rugby, for an additional Is. Gd. per week, ordered 

 for them by the Lord Chancellor ever since August 1, 

 1823!!! These poor fellows say, " they are, from 

 age and infirmity, in a great measure helpless ;" and 

 well they may say so, as we find their ages in Sep- 

 tember last, thus designated " W. Overton, 74; 

 G. Collis, 78 ; A. Parker, 78 ; T. Bachelor, 79 ; 

 G. Bachelor, 80 ; T. Brookes, 81 ; J. Buckland, 81 ; 

 B. Harrod, 82 ; E. Green, 95" !!! 



