: Majesty. 
Berwick upon Tweed. 
1811. 
all appertaining to the county of Kent, in his 
park, after they had been reviewed by his 
On the exact spot where the royal 
tent was pitched, in which sat the King, 
Queen, Princesses Elizabeth and Augusta, the 
Dukes of York, Cumberland, and Gloucester, 
Aogether with the late Stadtholder, a pavilion 
has been erected, by the gratitude of the 
** men of Kent.” About a year after this 
review, which must be allowed to have been 
the grandest exhibition of the kind ever seen 
in England, his Majesty was pleased to create 
his noble host an earl, by patent, dated 
June 22, 1801. For some time past, Lord 
_R,’s health has been on the decline, and he 
Prince William Frederic (now Duke of Glou- 
cester) under him. There was also a corps 
_of guides, and another of artillery. On his 
»Majesty’s apgroaching the park, a royal salute 
.of twenty-one guns was fireds on arriving in 
fiont of the centre of the line of infantry, the 
first cannon was fired, on which both lines 
presented arms, the officers saluted, the mu- 
sic played, drums beat, &c. On firing the 
second cannon, the infantry shouldered arms, 
and the officers poised their swords, his Ma- 
jesty in the mean time passing the two lines. 
-On firing-the third cannon, the infantry car- 
ried. swords, while the King passed along 
-their front, the trumpets piaying, &c. On 
firing the fourth cannon, they marched in 
Open order, officers saluting and colours low- 
ered while passing. On firing the fifth can- 
Northumberland and Durharis 
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at last yielded to the pressute of disease, of 
the 7th of March, 1811. He is succeeded, 
in his>titles and estates, by his son, Lord 
Marsham, now Earl of Romney, who mar- 
ried Miss Pitt, daughter to the knight of 
the shire for the county of Dorset, and has 
sat for many yearsas a member of the House 
of Commons, first tor the county of Kent, 
then for Hythe, &c. Of the late Earl of 
Romney, Sir Joshua Reynolds painted an ex- 
cellent picture, and there is a good engraved 
portrait of him in one of the last volumes of 
the Transactions of the Society for promoting 
Arts, Manufactures, and Sciences.] 
non, the whole of the infantry commenced @ 
fire by companies; the sixth was the signal 
-to take up their original position, and the 
seventh for a few de joye. The tables for 
entertaining the military amounted to 91, 
and the whele length of these occupied 13,333 
yards. The principal dishes, 2,200 in nume 
ber, consisted of 60 lambs in quarters, 700 
fowls, 300 hams, 300 tongues, 2¥0 dishes 
of bdiled beef, 220 roast ditto, 2¥0 meat 
“pies, 220 fruit ditto, and 220 joints of roast 
veal. The beverage consisted Of 7 pipes of 
port wine, 46 butts of ale, and 16 ditto of 
small beer, which were furnished by means 
of a pump." The temains of the entertain- 
ment were distributed among the neighbour- 
ing-cottagers, except a waggon load which 
was sent to the poor of Maidstone. 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURIIAM, 
CANNON ball, ‘weighing 96!bs. and 
measuring upwards of 50 inches in cir- 
‘cumfeience, has within these few days been 
dug out from the ruins of the old¢castle in 
According to Fuller, 
in 1405, a conspiracy was formed in Berwick 
against King Henry 1V. The Earl of Nor- 
tiumberland held possession of the castle at 
that time, who heard that Henry was bring- 
-ing against him 37,000 men, retired into 
Scotland. The royal army advanced to Ber 
wick, with some engines of destruction, which 
had never before been brought against it; and 
~which were, on this occasion, for the first 
time employed in Britain. The first dis- 
Monrary Mac. No, 212, 
Dr: Bs 
charge from one of these cannons, demolish- 
ing one of the principal towers of the castley 
the garrison was thrown into such conster- 
nation, that it made an instant surrender. 
From this account it is possible, that this is 
the identical ball which, 406 years ago, oc- 
casioned, the surrender of Berwick to the 
English arms. 4 
Married.| At North Berwick, William 
Gordon, esq. of Devonsliire-street, Londons 
to’ Charlotte, third daughter of the Jate 
Lieutenant-colonel Dalrymple, of the 19:\h 
foot. i 
At Parnard-castle, George Hod zson, esq. of 
Staindrop, to Miss Binning, daughter of 
3e At 
