ie 
oi ionins: near Kends!; Mrs. Biizateth 
f er, 90. 
Be we Alston @Mre Robert Seawes cashier for 
tlie povernor and ne, Tead mines: in 
y +B land. **. 
Al Bank: rotridy ma Hawkshead, oan 
won; esq. -B4. 
At Egeemont, Me. Robert Brovsh, bchoate 
| felict of 
Carlisle, Mr. Pibeyh Pabitien, Gay 9 
; ae near ree a aghy 
.. Ar Bro ughton ia ‘Feige, Me | srhomas 
coe 
yesq. many: years an a of 
Hill, Millon, Miles Airy, 
ec custeins at 
4 
y 5 paaiee Mrs. 
elwright, wife a. 
apesiont; nea e; Miss By Hodg-» 
i ea 
ston, ae 
: i es 
Bi eldest 
f the a * surgeon of, 
128 — John Bro 68. 
ays fea ual, abby Lan roost, ‘Mr. 
itledge 71 
—Miss M. 
Ison. — Mr. “feseph Forster. ee Mi- 
uy 
oba R 
BRagivoc, Mr. Graham. 
tan 
el Townley, dr fe gist. g 
Mr. 
D¢ At Keswick,: ‘in his 73d year, Peter 
Q the «stablisher and) proprietor of 
fat’ that place, a prsting and 
i stiohs, trom 
p-wior!ds Mr, 
yin his» native place, ia 
V7, come tbiaie aftér, his declinit 
health. render it sneccssary tor 
it the service of the, East ; eee 
iiss itehead, of Wescb, :. 
unip in 
i 
pte 
o4. 
i ae Wi. 
J) >-¥OR 
» late tuce 
y the following 
ed. ai As 
Hie Wiz.rogks, pigeons, 
ounced “ase. ce ene- 
ristsy: ani cir extermina- 
0) nei 
ec. bye 
ft ihjuri 
murit by devour. 
ae not thes egbenchits:, 
esthie 
insects, A than 
2 corn And woul owe he Bo the advan, 
f the agticultor ‘tospromote the in- 
“‘credse of bias ig = high, destroy insects, 
bot do noc des n, viz. lapwings, star- 
4 thrushes, =e eer. gentleman of the 
yWho has deservedly acquired cons.s, 
trable reputation in the agricultural world, 
his well.contrived expegimerts as ty the 
ee br Ba: vv, t ry 
Yorkshire. 
H eonyavife of Mr: Agaac HH. - Lg he 
At Kendal, eo 3 tia, Clarke; of the {si 
Mrs. veut 
illiam Hunter, 75 — 
" at Leeds, * Min 
- 
a: Holler 
4 
; “19 
most effectual -modz'of destreping the erubor 
“Jarva of the Tipula; or Tummy Long Legs, 
deteiledithe result of a very curious expefi- 
“ment which hesliad instituted for the purpose 
“of ascertaining the namber of these-inseets 
Which a nest of rooks may probally consume 
‘annually, One of-his servants was station- 
ed a whole day, ) from one’ o'clock: in the 
»morning to eight at nights in the netghbour- 
hoodiof the rookery, and kept an accurate ac- 
court of the number of times which the old 
“crows during that interval fed/their young 
~ontes, The average result of his observations 
on five nes:s, was, that sthe o'd crows made 
Seventy journeys per. day 3 dnd it haviag beea 
an d by ‘shooting one of them, just be. 
its entry into phe nest, that it thad TR the 
bag below its beak, 33 eeabe: it follows, that 
“supposing thet to feed an these insects 
throught yeur,a-family of rooks would in 
thatytime destroy 1,145,300 grubs) And 
supposing, which is a verv moderate calcula- 
tion, that grub, previous to its Assuming 
the. winged state, destroys the herbage of 
‘ four square inches, this number would con- 
sume t 1€ herbage of three roods twenty-sé- 
ven perches. © Hence the ingenious contriver 
of this admirable experiment inferred the im- 
mense, advantage which the farmer derives 
from this species of bird alone, without whose 
béniznaat service, added tu those'of its con- 
geners, she toils of the agriculturist would 
be inyvain. Another member of t':e society 
produced the crop tei a)pigeondately shot; ia 
which were- net more than a iew grains 6f 
Crosthwuite™ Whe at and abesm or two, its principle con- 
tents being the seeds.of ketlocks, and other 
noxious weeds. After an interesting discus- 
sion, the company agreed in the affirmative, 
on oth: parts ofthe question. Several spe- 
cimens of, prepared whalebone, which it fs 
d“to appiy in the man facture of 
tiddies, aad sheep- nets, were after- 
ics éxhibited: ; 
ted. | “At Northallerton, Thos. Leigh- 
+ to ‘MASS 4 Ann Dighton, second di ah 
ter 4 Mr. D. surg 
“deci Grace, merchant, 
igs Lal +f, tourthda .g ater of the 
Mec. Sa FOF Little Woodhouse. 
me Batley John a, Butuey, eldest 
son of Mr. Jolin Bs ar B yee, to Eliza- 
beth, eldest daughter of John ister, esq." 7 
At Y entworth; Mr, Rio C, Young, of 
Fiullp meen: ini, to Ann, second dauyliter of 
seph Storr, ésq. of Owstick, in Holderness. 
At be ogi dln A. Oates, esq. of Picker- 
ce) - 
to 
mei to Miss Blanchard. 
tk, Mr. ‘Thomas Aarle, attor 1ey, OF 
Midslehaiah, to Miss Ann Boulton, youngest 
daughter of Mr. Bsr, Tate, Ape ldtiney of 
Leeds; to Catherine, second daughter of the 
Rey. B. ingrara, vicar of) Wovskirk, near 
Wakefield, and tector of Cranor, Leicester- 
shi press r 
At Kildw a MrT. A, Granuer, sO'ivitor, 
of 
