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talnty of our period of exiftence here ; ■and of 

 the juftnefs of the preacher's obfcrvacion, 

 that all is vanity ! One day he was in the 

 ftreogth and viji^our of youth, and the next 

 a lifelefs corpl'e ! 



CORNWALL. 



Died.'\ At Fiuihing, the Hon Reginald 

 Cocks, youngcil fun of Lord Somers. 



The Rev, Arc-del Rjdford, vkar of 

 Gwennap, and reitor of Nynnet Rowland, 

 Devon. ' 



NORIH BRITAIN. 



Married^ A: Port Glaf^ow, Mr. John 

 King, mafter in his Majefty's royal navy, to 

 Mifs Maria Bird, youngeft daughter of the 

 late Thomas Bird, efq. of the ifland of To- 

 bago, 



D.eJ.] At Fleurs, in the county of Rox- 

 burgh, William Ker, Duke and Earl of Rox- 

 burgh, Marquis of Bowmont, Earl of Kelfo, 

 Cefsford, and Caverto.i, Vifcount Broxmouth, 

 Baron Ker, ana Baron I'ellcnden of Brough- 

 ton. His grace was in th;: 77th year of his 

 age; and married ir» 17" 9 Mary, one of the 

 daughters of Captain lifclnno, of the royal 

 navy, and niece of Sir John Smith, of Syd- 

 lih^;, in the county of Uotfet, now his wi- 

 dow, by whom he has left no ilTue. He was 

 in polielflon of the title and e'lates not more 

 than two years, was previoally a captain in 

 the guards, and received from his preaecjflor 

 an annuity of only 200I. per an:ium. 



At briHimie Houfe, tlie Right Hon. Lady 

 Kmnaird, reliift of the late Lord Kinnaird, 

 whom (he outlived but ten days. Ker lady. 

 fl>ip was the daughter of the late Griffin 

 Ranfom, efq. of Palace-yard, Weftminfter. 

 On his marriage with tnis lady his lordlliip 

 W3S taken into the bankiiig houfe of Ranfom, 

 Morland, and Co. at wh.ch time he pofTeffed 

 only an eftate of iodoI. a year. He is faid 

 to have died polTeircd of property to the 

 amount of at Icalt io,05cl. per an.;um. 



At Dundee, Jahn joblon, fun of Mr. Ro- 

 bert Jobfon, late cafhier to the Dundee bank ; 

 and on the fame day, while giving orders for 

 liis fon's funeral, the father was fuddenly 

 taken ill, and died in the evening. 



IP. ELAND. 



A very valuable copper mine has been 

 found on part of the elhce of Hans Hamil- 

 ton, efq. in the county of Dublin, which, 

 from the prefent appearance, promifes to be 

 very beneficial to the company who are work- 

 ing it, and the proprietor. 



At a numerous nieeiiiii; lately beld by the 

 Propr'etors of the Gra:i-i Canal, for the pur- 

 pofe of receiving the halt yearly report of riic 

 diredors, on many very important fubjefts j 

 it was ftatcd that the lon^ pending n- gotia- 

 tion between the corporajion of the city of 

 Dublin and the Grand Canal' Company, is 

 about to be amicably termin.ited, by an ai,iec- 

 incnt which appears fatisiadtory, not only to 

 the parties, bui to the inhabitants yf Dublin : 

 who are thereby infured an ample fupply of 

 water. It appears alfo by the tcpoit of the 



direflors, that the difficulties which had f« 

 long impedsd the opening of the GrafiJ C'Oal 

 into the River Shannon, are at lenjtK entire- 

 ly removeH, and tlie leakage in the banks he. 

 yond Tullamoie are comjletely ftaunched, fo 

 that we may now look to a very confiderabie 

 accelTion of trade, both import and export, to 

 that city, by the attainment of a na'i>jabl< 

 communication with the above mc-ntioned 

 river. But, the matter of the greatcft im- 

 portance, contained in the report, was the 

 full and fatisfadtory afcertainmert of a valua- 

 ble colliery on a diftrift of the company's ex- 

 tenfive roy ilties in the Queen's county, which 

 it is the intention of the company to put into 

 a ftite of prolit immediately, by extending 

 tlieir canal near Athy, upon one level, to the 

 foor of the Colliery hills, and making good 

 roads or iron rail-ways, between the col- 

 liery and that extenlion. Thcfe colleries are 

 doubtlcfs, of material importance to the wel- 

 fare of the Company ; as they will produce 

 in the coarfe of another ye;r a very confider- 

 abie accelfion of revenue to its funds. But 

 what makes it a matter of national concern, 

 is their avowed determination to open thcfe 

 collieries, on fach moderate ter.ms as to bring 

 the coal into general ufe ; by means of the 

 facilities above mentioned, in lefpeft to land 

 and water carriage, this valuable and durable 

 c:>al will be fold in Dublin, at t.venty-five 

 /hillings per tian. The indubitaiile proofs 

 produced by the directors, of the great ex'.ent 

 a.id value of this colliery, and the fixed de- 

 termination exprelTjd By them to let it to 

 others, and not to woric it themfelves, pro- 

 duced general fatisfaftion among the proprie- 

 tors. 



Snme prime famples of v/Iaeat were exhibit* 

 ed for premiums at the houfe of the i.-.rmin(» 

 fociety. New Sackville-ilrect, Dublin, on the 

 20th of September. The jmge*, having 

 carefully examined the different parcels, 

 agreed unanimoudy in the decilion. The 

 lamples being afterwards weighed, were 

 found to preponderate in the exad order of the 

 abjudication, which evinccJ the accuracy of 

 the deciiioi). Mr. Homan proiugtd a fmall 

 fample of wheat, the growth of Egypt, the 

 grain very large and full. The attempts to 

 cultivate this fpecies of v/heat, CriticumCom- 

 pofitum, in this country, for two or three fea. 

 fons pait, have in general been unfuccefsful, 

 the crops ufually producing a poor grain. The 

 fickle ufcd in Cardigan, and the neighbouring 

 counties in W.iUs, ihewn by Colonel Tcnifon, 

 is formed witli a fharp and frrwoth edge. 

 With this implement a man is cxpcfled to 

 reap above an linglifh acre in a day. There 

 were not any candi lates for grafs feeds. The 

 fmall fpecimens of Alopecurus Pratenfis and 

 feduca Pratenfis, produced by Counfellnr 

 Haughter, were fair famples of hi? collediinns, 

 which, however, were not in fufiicieiit quan- 

 tities, to entitle him to heroine a candidate. 

 The only premium adjudged, was one of ten 

 pounds to George Gricrlon, efq. for the bed 

 4 t a barrel^ 



