1827.] Incidents, 



was resolved to vesist the payment of the Easter 

 Offerings demanded by their incumbent, and to 

 petition Parliament to exempt them from that an- 



'jcyance. '.:*"; 



^ MARRIAGES. 



By special licence, at Lady de Clifford's, South 

 Audley-street, Edward Eustace Hill, esq., to Lady 

 Georgiana Keppel* daughter of the Earl of Albe- 

 marle, At the Chapel Royal, St. James's, Sir 

 W. S. Wiseman, bart., to Eliza, eldest daughter of 

 the late Rev. G. Davies. 



563 



DEATHS. 



In the Westminster-road, 97, W. Manners, esq., 

 fifth son of the late Lord W. Manners, of Gran- 

 tham, Lincolnshire. 84, Mr. T. Milton, the cele- 

 brated engraver. His grandfatlier was brother to 

 the immortal John Milton. In Portland-place, 94, 

 Mrs. Charlotte Holt, the last branch of the family 

 of the Lord Chief Justice Holt. In Gloucester- 

 street, 62, Mr. Charles Dignum, formerly of Drury 

 Lane Theatre. The Hon. George Villiers, brother 

 to the Earl of Clarendon. At Eufield, 79, Sir 

 Nathaniel Dance, lent. He was formerly a com- 

 mander in the Hon. East-India Company's Ser- 

 vice. The brilliant achievement with which he 

 closed a hard service of 45 years, is in the memory 

 of many living. On the 15th Feb. 1804, a French 

 fleet, under Admiral Linois, fell in with the home- 

 ward-bound East-India fleet under Commodore 

 Dance, which they had been despatched for the 

 express purpose of intercepting. The French Ad- 

 miral was beaten off and chased for several 

 hours, and a property of the value of upwards of 

 .11,000,000 sterling brought safely to England 

 In Mansfield-street, Lady Susan H. Beresfovd, 

 daughter of the Marchioness of Waterford. Em- 

 ma, youngest daughter of Lady Bridget Bouverie. 

 At Chelsea, 72, Lady Blake, mother, and also 

 at the same place, Lady Blake, the wife of Sir 



Francis Blake, bart., and M.P.At WoolwKh, 8?, 

 Colonel R. Douglas, commandant of the artillery. 

 In Chapel-street, Groavenor-square, 78, the Hon. 

 Mary Byron, relict of the late Hon. and Rev. R. 

 Byron In Pietadilly, 78, the Marquis of Chol- 

 mondeley. In Park-lane, Lady Hyacintha Vane, 

 daughter to the Marquis of Londonderry. In 

 Stanhope-street, 77, Right Hon. Charles Talbot, 

 Earl of Shrewsbury. At the house of T. Wil- 

 liamson, esq., Chalton-street, Somer's-town, 81, 

 Mrs. Sarah Baning.-ln Waterloo-place, Pall- 

 mall, 79, Esther, relict of the late John Binns, 

 e^q., banker, of Leeds, in the county of York. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 



At Malta, Lieut. G. St. Vincent Whitmore, to 

 Miss T. M. Stoddart, eldest daughter of Sir John 

 Stoddart, Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, 

 Malta. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Paris, Maria Duchess de Croiz, eldest daugh- 

 ter of the Hon. General Dillon ; also Lord Castle 

 Coote, whose estate devolves to Eyre Coote esq. 

 but whose title is extinct. At Paris,81,Duke de la 

 Rochefoucault, the great patron of vaccination in 

 France. At Vienna, Beethoven, the celebrated 

 composer. At Jersey, 94, C. W. le Geyt, esq. ; he 

 was an officer in the 25th foot at the battle of Min- 

 den. At Nantes, Euphrosine.the lady of Stapylton 

 Stapylton, esq., of Myton-hall, Yorkshire In Por- 

 tugal, Ensign Massey, of the 4th regiment ; in at- 

 tempting to ride through a pool of water to join 

 some brother officers, he sank in a quicksand, and 

 instantly disappeared. At Jamaica, the Hon. Sa- 

 muel Vaughan, Assistant Judge of the Cornwall 

 Assize Court, and one of the Representatives fn 

 the House of Assembly ; he had resided 38 years 

 in the island. At Paris, Mr. J. Douglass, civil 

 ngineer. He had attracted the notice of the 

 Emperor Napoleon, who had awarded him the 

 gold medal of merit. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 



WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 

 NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 



A beautiful figure of our Saviour, in stained 



Married.] At Monkwearmouth, Wm. Hazle- 

 wood, M.D., to Miss Guodchild. 



Died.'] Near Gateshead, Mrs. Turnbull At 



glass, was placed, on the 12th of April, in the Wynyard, Wm. Hawks, esq At North Shields 

 .* .... _. __.:.!... r ^~ -U.....I. ^ Mrs Bird At South Shields, 91, Mrs. A. Rob- 

 son. At Clifford's Fort, 97, Mr. John Sipple, 35 

 years master-gunner of Tynemouth Castle and 

 Clifford's Fort. He had nearly completed 72 years 

 in the service, having entered the Royal Artillery 

 as a rnatross on the 1st of May 1/55. He had 

 seen much service on the coast of France, the 

 West Indies, Germany, and America ; in the at- 

 tack and defeat of the American flotilla on Lake 

 Champlain in 1776, he commanded a gun-boat ; 

 and was with General Burgoyne in 1777 when his 

 army surrendered to the Americans. At Halt- 

 whistle, 80, J. Dawson, egq. 



centre of the east window of the church of 

 St, Nicholas, Newcastle. It is painted by Mr. 

 John Gibson, and as a piece of art will bear 

 comparison with any figure we have seen. 



A variety of objects of natural history have 

 lately been presented to the Museum of the Lite- 

 rary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle ; 

 amongst them is. the Blue-throated Warbler 

 (motacilla succica of Linnaeus) shot on the 

 Newcastle Town Moor, last May, by Mr. Em- 

 bleton, and presented by Mr. Hill. This bird 

 is said to be common in the north of Eu- 

 rope, but has been hitherto entirely unknown as 

 British. 



One hundred of our seamen lately sailed from 

 Shields to London in quest of employment, and 

 were all instantly engaged ; others, in conse- 

 quence, are taking their leave for the same pur- 

 pose. 



CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 



At the Westmoreland Assizes there was not a 

 single prisoner for trial. 



An explosion at the William Pitt coal-mine, 

 Whitehaven, lately took place, by which several 

 persons were burnt ; and an accident also hap- 

 pened at the Croft Pitt, by which the roof fell in 

 and destroyed four unfortunate men. 



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