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Dorfetjhire — Devon fhirt. 



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this city ; a lady of exemplary piety and 

 charity. — Mr. Thomas WalmeOey, 42 ; a 

 painter of corfirierable eminence, v. hofe works 

 com ined a fuperior degree of force, tafte, 

 ana genius. As a fcene-f ainter lie m^y al- 

 moft DC faid o have been unrivalled. His 

 landfcaces oifplay an accii' ite delineation of 

 nature in hrr rom? nic fi..nes; and wil! be 

 higiilv appreci'""ed ^w the '.mid that formfd 

 them h " --eafe '. to ..ii,ve. W I't. difenga^^ed 

 from profeifjonsl pu.luits, his gcuJ humour, 

 ilore of cnteiti niiii^ anecdotes, and exi.-"!- 

 If nt o'^ferva.fions; if iti Ci' eniiven the circle 

 of liis hiends, w!io mod lincereiy regret the 

 lofs of an ad T irablc artil: ana ple-.fant com- 

 panion. — Mrs. Pievce, wid' w of William P. 

 elq. coUedlir of excife, 79 — Mr. William 

 Potter, afting ovevfeer and or^anift of the 

 parifli of Walcot. — Mrs. Stear , 7-. — Mr. 

 Philip Needes, youngeft fon of Mrs N. on 

 the day he complt-ed his 17th year — Mr. 

 Payne, lUc of th'. Pack-hone inn. He was 

 feiied withafit while pailing Pultency Bridge, 

 fell aoxn and expired 



Ac Norton St. Philip's; Mrs. Rutty, 

 daughter of the late A derman Hale, uf 

 JJath. 



At Elmeftree, near Tettury, Mrs. BrookeR^ 



63- 



' At Stow Eafton, Mrs. Miles, widow of Mr. 

 M. late of Camely. 



At Buckland Dinham, Mr. Wm. W- v r, 

 baker, and on the following day, his father- 

 in-law, Mr Walter Singer, 77. 



At Wei's, Mrs Reynell, widow of the 

 Rev. Mr. R. redor of St. James's, Rr<lol, 

 and daughter of Sir Htnry Mack worth, bart. 

 •—Mr. James Cannings, 70. 



At Hollowly houfe, mar Bath, Mrs. Shaw, 

 wife of Mr. S. co-flmerchant. 



At Aflihill, the R.v. .vlr. Alford. 



At Briflington, in th; prime of life, Mr. 

 Robert Noves, m rchant of Briftol. 



At Shipham, John Jacob, efq. 



At Briflul,Mr Petf.r Mellor, ironmonger, 

 — Mifs Butler, daughter of Denis B. efq. of 

 London. — Mr. Dutton Grimes. — Mr. Mat- 

 thews, butcher. — Mrs. Sandys. Charles 



George, fon of Mr. fames G. rrercliant.- Mr. 



John Stokes Mr. William Welch, fon of 



Mr. W. Hooper. — Mr. Hawkins Bird, tea- 

 dealer.— Mifs S. Dyer, niece of Mrs. D. — 

 Mr. Jofeph Mi.xham, formerly a Captain in 

 the 17th light dragoons, 72. — Mrs. Hull, 

 relift of Edward H. efq. of Dona^hadee, Ire- 

 land, and daughter of the late John Dawfon, 

 efq. of Kingfton, Jamaica. — Mr. William 

 Wright, at the Apple-tree, Bro^d-mead — 

 Mrs. Lee, wife of the Rev. Mr. L of Hope 

 Chapel, — Mrs. Fourke, 71. — Mrs. Catherine 

 White, a maiden lady. 



DOKSETSHIR K. 



The new-invented l.fe-boat with which 

 experiments have been m.iking at Weymouth 

 for fome time pafl, is built by Mr. Towcll, 

 of Teiynmouth, 'n Devonlh're. She is buoy- 

 ed up by eight cafes, four ga each fide, water 



tight, and independent of each other. When 

 men are faved from a wreck and landed, the 

 boat may return, and fome tons of goods may 

 be put in the cafes, if the fea wil! admit of 

 its being a ken out of the wrecked vtflel. 

 In a ftorm tne boat is difmantled, and rowed 

 by 14 men, who are all faftcned to tiieir 

 foats .-.s tne fea breaks into the boat, it 

 immediately runs out at her ftern ports. It 

 is impoliibi'' to fink her. She has fourteen 

 lif"e lifies, the ends of which floaf with cork, 

 by which men that are waflied iff the wreck 

 may hold, before they can he t<iken into the 

 boat again. She hrings bffore the wind, or 

 nearly fo, upwards" of 100 men at a time 

 from the wreck. She is as manageable with 

 lier fails as any boat of her fize The ru''der 

 is on a new principle ; flie has fourte.-n t;rap- 

 plings for a wreck, a room, ten reec wide, 

 water-tight, with copper ventilators The 

 whole of her conftru<ilion is e.itir. ly new. 



Marned'\ At Poole, .Mr. J<mes "'"urker, 

 of Newport, in the Ifle of Wight, to .Uifi 

 Sufanna Dean. 



At Yeovil, Mr. Hilborn, of Sydling, to 

 Mi'^s Elizabit'i Watts, dauglittr of Mr. 

 Watts, a;torney. 



At Chitrern, Mr Springford, of Wilsford, 

 to Mifi Mary Ingram 



D'led'l At Eattbury, Thomas Wedgwood, 

 efq thud fon of the lace Jjfiah W. tfq. of 

 Etraria, StJtJ'iir^fhire, 34.. 



At Wi;i,crhnr' e, Whitchurch, Mr Johii 

 Wm Clapcott, 17. 



At Lyme Regis, Mrs. Ann ftuart, a na- 

 t've of .America, and wifo o( th Rev. Jamei 

 S. formeily n ftor of George '1 own, a .d All 

 Saints, South Caralina. 



At .Mapperton, Mis. He .viU, wife of Mr* 

 H. 60 



At Tolier Fratrum. Mr John Whittle, an 

 eminent f^ m.r. ri;s oeatli was occafioned 

 by a fa'.l from his hods 



At Shaftclhury, on his way hom.c, Th )nnai 

 Walbeofl^', efq. of CLlbary, Radnorlhire, a 

 Captain in the royal navy. 



DEVON SHIRH. 



The Prince of Wales is ab-ut to ereft, at 

 his own expence, a chapel at Prince- Town, 

 on the forefl of Dartmoor, u-oer ihe direc- 

 tion of Thomas Tyrwhitt, tlq. Lord- warden 

 of the Stannaries — Mr. Tyrwh;tt has fug- 

 gefted to Government the propriety of ered* 

 ing a building near the above, for depoliting 

 fuch prifoners of war as (hill be brought into 

 Plymouth; who can, without difficulty, be 

 conveyed up the rivc-r Tamer, and landed a 

 few miles from the fpot. It is faid that thi» 

 plan will he afted upon forthwith, and bar- 

 racks built for the reception of a proportion- 

 ate number of troops. 



Married.J At Tiverton, Jinies Cole, efq. 

 C.iptain in the firrt- regiment of the Somerfct- 

 ftlre Militia, to Mifs M. E Carew, third 

 daughter of the l«te Sir Thomas C. of Hac- 

 conibc. 



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