474 Leicestershire — Staffordshire— Warwicksh ire. 



Sfin, of Stamford, to Miss Alice Ball, of 

 Nassiiigton. — Thft Rev. Jolin Alexander 

 Lawrence, of Grantliani, to Miss Tlieodosia 

 Manners, of Spittlegate. — Mr. C. Hus- 

 nian, of Graniliam, to Miss Elizabeth 

 Rich, of Corby. 



Died.'] At Lincoln. 79, Mr. Marshall.— 

 61, Mrs. Basaley.— Mr. Bovvering. 



At Graniliam, 64, Mrs. Wilson.— Mrs. 

 Stoir. 



At Gainsborongh, 68, Mrs. Ann Mosley. 

 — Mrs. Atkinson. 



At Boston, 64, Mrs. Walker. — Mrs. 

 Ward.— IMr.J. Porter. —3'.), Mrs. A.Palnirr. 



At Louth, 19, Miss Jane White.— Mr. 

 T. Luciis.— 52, Mrs. Atkinson.— 30, the 

 wife of Mr, W. Akock. 



LEICESTER AND RUTLAND. 



The poor rates at Hinckley are said to 

 amount to r>2s. in the pound : nearly two- 

 tliirds of the town being in a state of 

 pauperism. 



Married.] Otho Manners, esq. of Goad- 

 by, to Miss Ann Singleton, of Bole.— i\Ir. 

 T. Mortin, to Mrs. Brans-ton, both of 

 Loughborough.— Mr. Jouaihan Mard, of 

 Harborougli, to Miss Susanna Giiinuss, of 

 Uppiuaham.— INIr. Machin, to Miss I'etts, 

 boih of Oakham.— Mr. Charles Butliu, of 

 Kugbv, to IVli.ss Lydia Woithington, of 

 Brockhurst.— Mr. W. Sharpe, of Great 

 Dalbv, to Miss Jane Innocent, of Wilby. 



Ditd.] At Leicester, Mrs. Carycr.— 80, 

 Mr. John Chapman, of tlie family of Sir 

 3saacNe\vton,\vhom hcstronyly resembled. 



At Hmckley, 21, IMr. Williani Scott, 

 jnstlv lamented. 



At Ashl>y <le la Zouch, Mr. J. Farnell. 



At Oakham, iiS, Mr. John Burton. 



At Vrestwould, 90, C. J. Packe, esq. — 

 At South Croxton, (iO, I\Irs. Hiiskisson. — 

 At Netlierscal, Thomas Rarber, esq.— At 

 Market Overton, IMrs. Trances Kouse. 



STAHORDSIIIRE. 



Several respectable persons residing in 

 >\'alsall, having been distrained upon for 

 their rates, weie found to be totally 

 without bedding and other household 

 liece.--sai ies, which had pre\iously been sa- 

 cnticed to tlje tax-galhcrer, to pay the 

 salaries of sinecurists and p<-nsinners, and 

 other questionable expeiices of the state. 



Miiriicd.] Edward Knight esq. j\LD. to 

 l^Iiss Elizabeth Horton, of Stafford. — Mr. 

 John Jones, to IMiss Ann Pitt, both of Wol- 

 \erliampton.--Mr. Samuel Forstcr, to Mis. 

 Jonrs, both of Lci'k. — Mr. Sauuicl Jones, 

 of Hatton, to Miss Aidtn,of Achlcy. — Mr. 

 Williau) Hood, of Walton, to Miss Jane 

 Turner, of Stoue. 



Died.] At Wolverhampton, on Snow- 

 hill, 84. Mr. Daniel Fieldliouse. 



At V/alsall, Mr. Mullender.— Sophia, 

 wife of Samuel Fletcher, e.'tj. 



At WednPsbury, 59, Mr. John Thropp. 



At Leek, suddenly, Mr. Jauies V\ ardle. 



At Newcastle, the wife of Mr. T. 

 Carryer. 



tDec. 1, 



WARWICKSHIRE. 



To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 

 SIR, Birmingham, Nov. 9, 1816. 



Many false reports liaving been indus- 

 triously circulated respecting the cause of 

 the disturbances which occurred in this 

 town on the evening of Monday, the 'j!8tli 

 ult., I now propose to give you a short 

 but impartial account of the origin and 

 progress of the atfair, and of all the lead- 

 ing circumstances connected with it, re- 

 questing yon will give publicity to the 

 same, by means of your valuable publica- 

 tion, the " Monthly Magazine." 



Mr. Jabet, a punter and bookseller of 

 this town, having exposed in his shop* 

 windows, during the course of the day in 

 question, several printed copies of a "Pa- 

 triotic Address" purporting to have been 

 written by an inhabitant of Bolton, ia 

 Lancashire, for the advice and guidance 

 of his fellow-townsmen ; many persons 

 stopt to read it as they passed, and to- 

 wards the close of the day, a great crowd 

 had collected ronud the windows, each 

 seeming desirous to have a sight of one of 

 these papers. 



Though the whole tenor of this " Ad- 

 dress" was highly recommendatory of n 

 peacefid and sid)missive line of conduct on 

 the part of the lower orders of the coni- 

 nmnity towards ministers in general, and 

 the measures pursued by government, yet 

 it contained some passa;;es which were 

 certainly but ill calculated to calm the 

 minds of people labouring under the pres- 

 sme of times like the present, when 

 thousands, and tens of thousands of per- 

 .'ons are wholly drstitute of employment, 

 or of the nicaui of obtaining a subsistence, 

 excei>t from the charitable contributions 

 of their more viealthy neighbours, or the 

 scanty pittance allowed them by their 

 respective parishes. 



In one of the passages to which I refer, 

 it is said, that " matters would not be any 

 belter at all if the plan was to be adopted 

 which IS called parliamentary reform;" and 

 that " to all piactical purposes, parliament 

 is as well constituted as it can be." The 

 absurdity and untruth of what is here ad- 

 vanced, must be evident to every en- 

 lightened and unprejudiced mind, and 

 therefore need no comment. We cannot 

 wonder that this " Address" should have 

 operated in the way it has done, when we 

 C(insi(ler that almost all parties, even of 

 opposite sentiments, unite in censuring it, 

 as calculated to produce effects the very 

 reverse of what it seems to have been in- 

 tended to produce; indeed, " so ill adapt- 

 ed" says the News, " has this compusition 

 been deemed to preserve peace and order 

 in the kingdom, that it has been decidedly 

 condemned by men whose prejudices in 

 other respects are ever in favour of pas- 

 sive obedience and non-resistance." In 

 support of -this assertion, the editor gives 

 quotations 



