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Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 



persons received sentence of death, 58 of trans- 

 portation, and 41 of imprisonment. 



Feb. 23. Meeting held at the Mansion-house of 

 thecitizensof London, presided hy the Lord Mayor, 

 to consider on the alarmingly distressed state of 

 the country, when several resolutions were una- 

 nimously passed, and a petition voted to both 

 Houses of Parliament, praying " their immediate 

 attention to the very great distress that univer- 

 sally prevails, brought on by enormous over- 

 whelming pressure of taxation, and the long, 

 bloody, and extravagant wars waged and carried 

 on against the liberties of the people of America 

 and France, during the reign of George III." 



MARRIAGES. 



At Newbattle Abbey, Col. Sir W. M. Gomm, to 

 Elizabeth Anne, eldest daughter of Lord R. Kerr. 

 Capt. H. Gaseoyne, son of General Gascoyne, 

 M.P. for Liverpool, to Elizabeth, third daughter 

 of the Archbishop of Tuanu Hon. F. 3. Shore, 

 second son of Lord Teigntnouth, to Charlotte 

 Maria, second daughter of the late G. Cornish, 

 esq. B. Knox, esq., Third Guards, to Louisa, 

 only surviving daughter of the late Admiral Sir J. 

 Button, K.C.B. T. Hankey, Jan., esq., to Miss 

 A. A. Alexander, late of Philadelphia, United 

 States, half sister to the Lord Chief Baron. 

 S. R. Bosanquet, esq., of Forrest-house, Essex, 

 to Emily, eldest daughter of G. Courthorpe, esq. 

 At Plymouth, James Cottle, esq., to Sarah Wil- 

 mot, eldest daughter of the late John Harrington, 

 esq. Capt. Patten, son of the late Admiral Pat- 

 ten, to Miss Rosina Niele. Sir John Philimore, 

 to Baroness Katherine Harriet de Regersfeld At 

 St. James's, Signer Campanile (of Rome), to 

 Ersilia, eldest daughter of Francis Cianchettini, 

 esq. At Coggeshall, Robert, second son of 

 Charles Barclay, esq., M.P., to Miss Rachel Han- 

 bury. At St. George's, Hanover-square, the 

 Rev. R. W.Shaw, son of Sir J. G. Shaw, bart., 

 to Miss Sophia Cornwall, grand-daughter to the 

 first Lord Gardner. 



DEATHS. 



At Whiteford-house, Cornwall, Lady Louisa 

 Call, wife of Sir W. P. Call, bart., and daughter 

 to the late Earl of Granard. Catharine, wife of 

 T. Reade, eq., and only daughter to Sir John 

 Hill, so well known in the republic of literature. 

 In his tent, Launton, Oxfordshire, upwards of 

 JOO years of age, James Smith, king of the wan- 

 dering people called gipsies. By his tribe he was 



looked up to with the greatest veneration and re- 

 spect. His remains were followed to the grave 

 by his widow fwhoae age is more than 100), and 

 by several of his tribe, con -isting of most of his 

 relatives, and many of his children, grand-chil- 

 dren, and groat-grand children, whose grief was 

 excessive. The widow tore her hair, and tittered 

 the most frantic exclamations, and begged to \>e 

 allowed to throw her c elf on the coffin, and be 

 buried with her tousband. At Methley-park, the 

 Earl of Mexborough. At Spring Hill, Lieut. - 

 General Sir John Henn Maxwell, bart. At 

 Bishopton, Frank Wilkinson, 105, known by the 

 name of ' the wild miller," as, in former days, 

 lie travelled the country with his Lorse and bell, 

 asking for corn to grind. At St. James's Palace, 

 Sir Frederick Augustus Barnard, 87, librarian to 

 George III. At Butt House, Lord Tamwortb. 

 In the Isle of Wight, Lord Henry Seymour, 84. 

 In Hanover-street, Lord Graves. At Fulford 

 Park, the Countess of St. Germains. The Hon. 

 Charlotte Arbuthnot, aunt to Viscount Arbuthnot. 

 Near Exeter, Lady Collier, widow of the late 

 Sir G. Collier, bart. At Cromer, G. T. Wynd- 

 ham, esq. In Warren-street, W. Lake, esq., last 

 surviving son of Sir Atwell Lake, bnrt. In Hill- 

 street, Col. Burrows, 81. At Brighton, the Hon. 

 Mrs. Charlotte Chapman, 83 ; daughter of the 

 6th Lord Falkland, and great aunt to the present 

 (9th) Viscount Falkland. At Calverton, General 

 Sir J. C. Sherbroke, 70, formerly Governor of 

 Canada. At Mirfieltf Hall, Miss C. Cartwiight, 

 93, sister of the late celebrated Major Cartwright.. 

 At Bath, the Hon. V. Knox, brother to Viscount 

 Northland. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At Paris, Viscount Charles de Montque, to 

 Caroline Susanna Spencer, daughter of Hon. M. 

 Spencer, and niece of the Duke of Marlborough. 

 At Demerara, L. Fitzgerald, esq., to Sarah An- 

 tonia, eldest daughter of Lieut.-Col. Goodman. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 



At Vienna, General Von Petersdorff, 84. At 

 Versailles, General G.Monerieff. At St.Vincents, 

 Sir Charles Brisbane, bart., Governor of that 

 island. At Boulogne, Lord Sernpill. At Paris, 

 Mr. M. St. Culham. At St. Lucia, Major Gene- 

 ral Stewart, Governor of that island. At Paris, 

 the celebrated M. de Lavallette, aid-de-camp to 

 the late Napoleon Buonaparte. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 



NORTHUMBERLAND. Feb. 15. A county 

 meeting was held at Morpeth, for the purpose of 

 taking into consideration the depressed condition 

 of the country, when a petition was unanimously 

 passed to the House of Commons, representing 

 the great distress, privations and difficulties, 

 which affect the Agricultural, Commercial, 

 Manufacturing, and Shipping interest of Nor- 

 thumberland, by the weight of the taxes, free 

 trade, &c., and begging a due inquiry may be 

 made, BO that means may be taken for obtaining 

 relief. 



A destructive fire took place at Newca-tle, in 

 the night of the 28th of January, which destroyed 



several houses, and did damage to the amount of 

 ^25,000. 



DURHAM. A roast-beef and plum-pudding 

 dinner was given lately at Darlington to 64 old 

 men in indigent circumstances, whose united ages 

 amounted to 4,224 years, averaging 66 each ; it 

 was paid for out of a fnnd formed by the accu- 

 mulation of a small annual income of between 

 three and four pounds, left many years ago to- 

 wards a dinner for the parishioners on St. Paul's 

 day. This dinner having been discontinued, the 

 money was more rationally disposed of in the 

 manner above described. 



