1811.) 
. NEREPORDSHIRE. 
’ The storm of May 27th; extended to this 
county, where also it was productive of the 
most Jamentable consequences. It com- 
menced about three o'clock in the afternoon, 
and continued with little intermission till 
‘past eight. At Checkley Common, Little- 
hope, Fownhope, and Mordiford, the light- 
ning was so vivid that the atmosphere ap- 
peared in a blaze; and the falling solid tor- 
‘rent, collecting above Mordiford, and rushing 
‘with terrific roar down the hills and slopes, 
hurled every thing which opposed its fury tp 
the grounds below ; lofty trees, hedges, stones, 
&c. Mr. Husband, miller, at Mordiford, had 
his barn, in which was a cider mill, pig’s cot, 
éc. entirely swept away, leaving not a ves- 
’ tige of even the foundation; and the runner 
of the cider-mill, weighing several hundred 
weight, was carried tu a considerable distance. 
The corn mill was not injured. Mr. Husband 
and a young woman, in endeavouring to save 
some pigs, were, by the rapidily of the current, 
carried away, and drowned. A poor woman, 
and an infant daughter, inhabiting a cottage 
close to the brook which crosses the road, 
were both swept off with the house, and also 
perished. The water in the brook opposite 
. the Moon public-house was above eight feet 
high, and three feet inthe parlours At Lit- 
tlehope considerable injury was sustained by 
the water sweeping away the whole surface of 
four acres of hop-ground, trees, hedges, &c. 
Mr. Hadley, tanner, at Fownhope, suffered 
- severely; the water rushing from the woody 
hill above, across the road to the tan-yard, 
carried off a vast quantity of hides from the 
pits, with the bark from the vats, &c. At 
‘Tarrington, the effects of the storm were 
tremendous ; the torrent from the hills rolling 
down with irresistible force, precipitated 
every thing in its way to the grounds below 
the road, where it formed a vast sheet of wa- 
ter, and sheep and cattle were carried over 
the hedges. 
Married.| At Lugwardine, Mr. J. Aston, 
attorney, to Miss Wootton, of Lug Bridge. 
At Ross, Mr. William Fisher, to Miss 
Wear, both of Goodrich. 
Did-] At Checkley, R. Watkins, a fine 
boy, 13 years old, son of Mr. W. of that 
place, who is supposed to have lost his life 
by having picked apd eaten some -poisonous 
herb. 
At Leominster, Mrs. Dorothy Woodhouse, 
. gelict of Mr. W. late of Byton, 83. 
At Cawborough, John Giammond, esq. 
MONMOUTH. 
-  Married,] At Lianwern, Thomas Bates 
Rous, esq. of Courtyrala, Glamorgan, to Char- 
_ Jotte, second daughter of Sir Robert Salus- 
- bury, bart. of Lianwera. 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
Sune 11th,--The works having been com- 
pleted on the preceding day, the rail-road 
from Gloucester to. Cheltenham was opened 
_ fur the carriage of heavy yoyds. Svon after 
. 
Terveford—Gleucéster. 
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seven o'clock, a train of wageens, laden with 
coals, &c. preceeded from the latter place, 
along the tram-road, and, being joined by 
ethers from Leckhampton Hill, containing 
different kinds of building stone, their arrival 
at Cheltenham was welcomed by the ringing 
of bells, and the acclamations of a numerous 
_assenmiblage of persons at the wharf, near the 
turnpike. An elegant dinner-was served up 
at the George Hotel. The evening passed 
with the greatest unanimity and cordiality, 
every one appearing highly gratified by the 
completion of a measure.of such importance 
to the town of Cheltenham, and the count 
at large. 53 
On the suggestion of that ingenious and 
able physician, the late Dr. Beppoxs, three 
bathe were a few years since erected at the 
Upper Hotwell, Clifton, which not only vie 
with any in the kingdom, in point of con- 
venience, but are so constructed as to insute 
the advantages resulting from the peculiar 
purity of the water, as either bath is instantly 
filled for the sole use of each individual, by 
means of a steam engine, which raises the 
water from an immense depth, and conveys 
it into each bath directly from the spring, 
the redundance of which is such, that water- 
works are now establishing for the two-fold 
purpose, of conveying this water even inte 
the most elevated parts of Clifton, and of 
forming a capaclous reservoir, as a security 
against fire; thus obviating the objection to 
the purchase of water in casks, as a mode 
equally scanty, disgusting, and precarious, 
and at the same time removing the apprehen- 
sions of those who have been deterred by the 
dread of fire, from fixing their residence in 
that beautiful village. ‘ 
Married.] Mr, John Foxwell, of Wotion- 
under-Edge, to Miss B. Jones, youngest 
daughter of John J. esq. of Hill, near Berke- 
ley. 
At Newent, Mr. William Taylor, 82, te 
Mrs. Mary Hayward, 79. 
Died.] At Tewkesbury, Susanaah Ricketts, 
88, a pauper, in the House of Industry, hav- 
ing existed ten weeks without eating any kind 
of food, the only nutriment she received du 
ring that period being a few spoonfuls of beer 
each day. Her disease was of an apoplectic 
nature.—Mr. Benjamin Yeates. ‘ 
At Charlton King’s, near Cheltenham, 
Dame Dorothy Mill, 71, widow of Sir Ri- 
chard Mill, of Mottisfont, in the county of 
Southampton, bart. sometime representative 
in Parliament for that county, and colonel of 
its provincial regiment. She wasthe only daugh- 
ter of Richard Warren, of the Red Cliffe, in 
the county of Somerset, esq. and of his wife, 
“Henrietta, a co-heiress of Charles Yate, of 
Coldthrop, esq. by Elizabeth, daughter, and 
finally sole heiress, of Colonel Richard Yate, 
the loyalist, of Arlingham Court, both ia 
this county. By the decease, without issue, 
of the intermediate branches, her Jadyship — 
bocame reprosentative of the elder branch ¢ 
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