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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH att tur MARRIAGES anv DEATHS; 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
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' NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
"Pile Agricultural Society for the county of 
Durham, at the late meeting held at 
Durham, adjudged the following rewards : 
‘To Mr. Walton, of Stanhope, 20 guineas for 
‘the best fat ox; to Mrs Wood, of Kimbles- 
worth, 10 guineas for the best penn of wed- 
der sheep ; and to J. D. Nesham, of Hough- 
ton-le-Spring, esq. 5 guineas for the best 
ig.’ 
: At Newcastle, in 1810, there were 1166 
baptisms, 711 burials, and 395 marriages. 
A monument has been erected to the me- 
“mmory of the late Rev. Mr. Moises, in the 
chapel on the south side of St. Nicholas’ 
Church, in Newcastle, where he used daily 
to attend prayers, morning and afternoon, un- 
less his official services were required at some 
-otherchurch. The monument is of beautiful 
white marbic, by Flaxman, and represents 
Religion, in the form of a female figure lean- 
Ing on a cippus, with her eyes fixed on heaven. 
On the top of the cippus is an urn, on the 
side of which is’a well-executed medallion of 
the venerable divine 5 a tablet beneath bear- 
ing the following inscription, from the pen 
of the Right Honourable Sir William Scott, 
ene of his most distinguished pupils; 
Juxta requiescit 
Reverendus HUGO MOISES, A.M. 
Collegii Divi Petri apud Cantabrigienses 
Olim socius, 
Postea per longam Annorum Seriem 
Lodi literarii in hoc oppido fundati 
; ‘ Preefectus, » 
Atque ibidem in Ecclesia omnium Sanctorum 
Verbi divini Prelector. 
Vir erat ingenio elegantict excvlto, 
Literis humanioribus apprimeé ornatusy 
Et in iis impertiendis 
Indefessus ac felix. 
In regendis puerorum animis 
Leni usus imperio sed constanti 
Moribus facillimis nec inficetis. 
Sed ad yvitz et officii sui Sanctimoniam 
Rité compositis. 
~ Omnium, quorum studiis dirigendis 
invigilaverat, . 
. Commodis in omni genere promovendis 
Amicitsimé semper, swpe utiliter, intentus. 
’ — Religionis patriz institutis stabilira 
Cultor observantissimus ; 
Et in concionibus sacris 
~ Explicator diligens, doctus, disertus 
Hoc Monumento Memoriam Nominis 
_ Monrart Mae. No. 209. 
Consecrati Voluit 
Permultorum Discipulorum 
Amor et Veneratio 
Fayente et pecunia collecta juvante 
Novocastrenfium Municipio, 
Viri de suis omnibus optimé meriti 
Gratt memori. 
Obiit anno salutis m,pcccvr, /Etatis suz 
LXXXV. 
Filiis Hugone & Gulielmo superstitibus, 
As the deceased was not more esteemed by 
the rich than beloved by the poor, a number 
of the latter have been much disappointed in 
finding his virtues recorded in Latin. 
At ameetiug of the mayor, corporation, 
and principal inhabitants, of the town and 
neighbourhood of Hartlepool, held at that 
place on the 17th of October last, it was ree 
solved that a subscription should be entered 
into for the purpose of rebuilding the pier 
forming the ancient harbour of Hartlepool. 
Married.) At Morpeth, Prideaux John 
Selby, esq. of Twizell House, to Lewis Ta- 
bitha, sister of Bertram Mitford, esq. of Mit- 
ford Castle, Northumberland. 
At Hexham, Mr. Robinson, of Roughsides 
to Miss Hammerton. 
At Lowick, Mr. Mark Jameson, of Bere 
wick, solicitor, to Isabella, daughter of Mr, 
William Enmibleton. 
At Newcastle, Mr. George Hodge, to Cae 
therine White, daughter of Gershom Young, 
esq. master of the Trinity House in that 
town.—Mr. W. Elliot, surgeon, to Miss 
Jane Green. 
At Warden, the Rev. Mr. Rea, of Chris- 
tendom, near Waterford, to Miss Rumney. 
At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. John Scott, of 
Monkwearmouth, to Miss Ann Horn, 
Died.| At Brisco, Mr. Charles Slack, 82. 
At Norton, near Stockton, Francis Smith, 
esq. 61. 
At Blyth, Mrs. Blakely, 104. ; ‘ 
At Newcastle, in his 83d year, Mr. Wil. 
liam Tate, of the Trinity House of that town, 
where he was much respected for his faithful 
services. After being one of the crew of 
Admiral Byng’s ship, in the unfortunate ex- 
pedition for the relief of Minorca, he had 
the satisfaction of being more successfully 
employed under Admiral Pococke, at the take 
ing of the Havannah in 1762.—Mr, Ed- 
ward Hall, 64.—-Mr. John Slack,.—-Mr, An- 
drew Rutherford, 71. 
Qa board the John West Indiaman, in cone 
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