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Net thumherland and Durhafn. 



[Nov. T, 



nally his intention to follow it as a profelTion, 

 his connexions* liaving led him to look tor 

 advancement in a different career. Towards 

 tlie end of George tlie Second's reign, he 

 kifled that Kin^j's hand on receiving fomedi- 

 plomatic appointment to the Court of Madrid j 

 but on tile retreat of his patron from adminif- 

 tration, about the fame time, Mr. Dc Valan- 

 fin declined the intended honour, and foon 

 a. "tcr recurred to medicine, whicli he thence- 

 forward adopted as .^ prafc/Tion, and fixed his 

 abode in Soho-fguarc. In 176S he puhlifhei 

 " A Treitife on Diet, or the Man.igcment of 

 Human Life, by J^hyficians called the Six 

 NoEnaturals," Sec. 8vo. Having removed to 

 Tore-ftreet, Cripplc^ate, he foon acquired a 

 very extcnfive addition to his praclict. About 

 1772 lie puixliafcd fonic sround near White 

 Conduit-fields, and eroded on it a houfc 

 trxtenfivc in its conveniences, but fanciful 

 enough in conftrudtion, being built on li 

 plan laid down by himfclf. To this fpot he 

 gave the name of Hermes Hill. I'entonville 

 had not tlicn begun to be built ; and this 

 ■was almolt th£ only dwelling near to the 

 fpot, except White Conduit-houfe. His pur- 

 fuit of all the branches of knowledge con- 

 jieiSed with his profellion was fedulous in the 

 extreme ; and the refiilt was, a difcovery 0/ 

 fevcral fimple preparations which he found of 

 great ferv^ce in particular cafes ; one of which, 

 named The Bjllum of Life, he prcfented to 

 Apothecaries-Hall, where it is ftiU fold with 

 hi.s name. Befides his diploma from the 

 Royal College of Phyficians of London, Dr. 

 De Valangin had, unfolicited, received others 

 from Scotland, Holland, and Switzerland..^ 

 For fomc favour conferred (but what we do 

 not learn), he was prefented by the worfhip- 

 ful company of Loriners witli the livery a( 

 that corporation, and twice fervcd the office 



* His mother (tood in fome degree of rela- 

 tlonfliip to the I'rince of Orange. 



of maftcr. By his firft wi.'c he bad thr&e 

 children, of whom two fons are ftill living, 

 and a daughter died at nine years of age, who 

 was buried by her lather's direClions in his 

 garden at Hermes Hill. He married, ic- 

 condly, about 17S2, the widow or' an emi- 

 nent i'urvcyor and builder, who had recover- 

 ed icool. for breach of promifc of marriage 

 from a pcrfon who had made her that offer, 

 but broke his word. She was a native of 

 Sheiiiig, in Ed'ex ; and her fitter married and 

 furvived Mr. Sandford, brewci, of Nc wing- 

 ton. Dr. Do Valangin had a particular taile 

 for mufic and painting ; in the former art he 

 was not an unfucccfsful peribrmer ; and, if 

 we miilakc not, has left behind him fome re- 

 marks on the tiiLory of compofition. His 

 paintings, which formed a very clioice collec- 

 tion, liave been difpcrfed by fale, according 

 to the diredlions of his will. Though far 

 advanced in life. Dr. De Valangin's end rt'as 

 hallencd, or perhaps prematurely brougliton, 

 by an accident. On the 2d of January laft, 

 alighting from his carriage at Hampftead, the 

 ground being frolly, he flipped and fell j and, 

 though not immediately confined in confe- 

 quencc, fuflained an injury that he predided 

 would Ihorten iiis life. This prcdidion was 

 verified on the ill of March, after four days 

 confinement to his bed, on the 3d of which 

 he ruptured a blood-veffel. He was interred 

 in a family-vault in Cripplegate church, to 

 which the remains of his daughter before- 

 mentioned had been removed the preceding 

 day. Asa phyfician, he was kind and confo- 

 latory in the extreme, and beloved by his pa- 

 tients of every dafs and degree. To thofe in 

 the humbler walks of lite, it was his conftant 

 cuftom to regulate the acceptance of his fees 

 by their prefumcd .ibility to afford them j and 

 the poor were always welcome to tiis gratui- 

 tous aliiftance. In a word. Dr. De Valangin 

 V •s the friend of mankind, and an honour to 

 his profellion.] 



PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 



WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS ; 



Arranged geographicaily, or in the Order of the Counties, frojn North to South. 



*,• Authentic Communication j for this Department are alwajj verj thankfully received. 



NORTHUMBEHL AND AND J>URH.fM. 



•pHE tolls of the iron-bridge at Sunderland 

 were lately let at a,o8ol. being an ad- 

 vance of 400I. on the former year. 



The agricultural fociety for the county of 

 Durham, at their late meeting held at Dar- 

 lington, adjudged and paid the following re- 

 wards, viz To Mr. Luke Seymour, of 



Woodhoufe Clofe, near Bilhop Auckland, tor 

 the beft heifer, five guineas — To Mr. Ro- 

 bert Thornton, farmer, near Darlington, for 

 the beft tup, five guineas.— To Thomas Al- 

 derfon, for having maintained, educated (to 

 r«id and write), and placed in fsrvice, the 



greateft nnmber of'Iegitimate children (eight) 

 without any affiftance froin his parifti, four 

 guinras. 



Married-'^ At South Shields, Mr, William 

 Bone, merchant and fhip-owner, to Mis. Mar- 

 fliall, relift of Mr. Cuthbert M. 



At NewcalHe, Mr. Chriitopher Liddell, 

 clerk to Meffrs Suttees and Co. to Mil's Mary 

 Ann Rebinfon, of Carville — Mr. Jamefon, 

 butcher, to Mifs Neal. — Mr. Wilby, brandy- 

 merchant, to Mifs Margaret Bailey. 



At Durham, Mr. R. Darling, to Rfifs 

 Swinburn, eldeft daughter of Mr. S. of Red 

 Sriei:.— Mr. Middletun, to Mifs Lumley. 



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