1808.] 
mind and strength of understanding, He de- 
rived much pleasure from directing and as- 
Sisting the studies of young persons, and not 
_ afew are indebted to him for his gratuitous 
instructions. Conscious of his own mental 
acquirements, and the rectitude of his moral 
principles, he indignantly spurned the pride 
ead affectation of the wealthy, but the man 
of talents, or-of moral worth, alike shared 
his friendship and assistance. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND. 
A company of gentlemen, from Alston- 
moor, in this county, have obtained a lease of 
some ground inthe parishes of Wetheral and 
of Corby, near Carli$le, from the Dean and 
Chapter of Carlisle, and H. Howard, esq. of 
Corby Castle, (lords of the manor), ard, hay- 
ing engaged a number of experienced miners, 
have begun to forma drift, for the purpose 
of obtaining lead ore, a vein of which has for 
Many years past heen known to exist there. 
Married.| At Carlisle, Mr. John Atkin- 
son, to Miss Lowthian. 
At Kendal, Mr. Robert Benson, to Miss 
Noble. 
At Whitehaven, Mr. Thomas Franks, to 
. Miss Esther Breanon.—Mr. John Richardson, 
to Miss Ann Askew. 
At Seathwaite, Mr. Strickland, of Cocky- 
Beck, to Mrs. Casson, of Lowmoss-house. 
Died] Mr. Henry Addison, surgeon, for~ 
merly of Whitehaven. He was found lying 
by the side of the road, between Cockermouth 
and Bridgefoot, with little signs of life, and 
expired while some humane people were 
carrying him to an adjoining public-house. 
At Wetheral, Mr. Adam Errington. 
’ At Low Crosby, Mr. Robert Gaddes, 41. 
At Keswick, Mr. Thomas Banks, 66.— 
Mr George Rovkin, 65. 
At Workington, Mis. Mary Tiffin, relict of 
Captain T.—Mrs, Fawcett, 74. 
At Kendal, Mr. Thomas Hayton, 62.— 
Mr. Thomas Hurd, wine merchant, one of 
the aldermen of that borough, 47. 
At Thornthwaite, near Keswick, Mr. Jo- 
seph Sanderson. 
‘+ At Cockermouth, Jonathan Robinson, 75. 
At Chirnside, Mr. Jobn Ewart, whose only 
son was buried but a week preceding his ewn 
death. 
’ At Carlisle; Mr. Jonathan Wilson, 45. 
* At Moorhouse, Mr. John Ostell, 47, and a 
few days afterwards his uncle, Mr. Joseph Q. 
At Scotby, Miss Ann Dobinsony 36. 
At Eden Banks, near Armathwaite, Miss 
Ann Thompson, 21. 
AtPenrith, Mr. Walter M‘Intyre, master 
ofthe Old Grown inn, 41. 
-  * “WORKSHIRE. 
The sale of the breeding stock of the late 
Sit George Strickland, bart. of Boynton, near 
Bridlington, held a few days since, was at- 
tended by a numerous assemblage of gentle- 
mien farmers and amateuts from the surrpund- 
ing neighbourhood, and the other parts of 
‘orkshire, as well as from sev¢ra! of the ad, 
Lumberland—Westmoreland—Y ork. 
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joining counties. The stock fetched great 
prices, as might-be expected from the high 
character of the deceased owner, far a judici- 
ous and intelligent breeder.—One cow sold 
at the very great price of 1111. 6s,: and 
Another, thirteen years old, for 40 guineas, 
The whole produced near 22001. although 
twehty head had been reserved out of the 
stock by the family. After the sale, a bull 
belonging to Mr. George Coates, of Driffield, 
whose reputation as a breeder of stock is well 
known, was sold for the enormous sum of five 
hundred guineas. 
There are. now growing within 300 yards 
of the old Gothic ruins of Fountain’s Abbeys 
three miles from! Rippon, in Yorkshire, seven 
very large yew trees, generally called the 
Seven Sisters, whose exact ages cannot be ace 
curately learned, though it has been handed 
down from father to son that these seven 
yews were standing in the year 1088. And 
it is said, that when the Great Fountains’ 
Abbey was building, which is 700 feet long, 
and was finished in 1283, the masonsused to 
work their stones, during the hot summers, 
under the shade of these trees. Thecircum- 
ference of the Seven Sisters, when measured 
by a curious traveller, were of the following 
sizes:—The smallest tree, round its body, 
five yards twelve inches ; four others are 
from five yards anda half to seven yards and 
ahalf; the sixth is nine yards and a half; 
and the seventh is eleven yards and nineteen 
inches in circum/erence, being two yards and 
ten inches larger than the great yew-tree 
now growing in the church-yard at Gresford, 
in North Wales, which is nine yards nine 
inches. hese trees are the Jargest and 
oldest growing in the British dominions, 
Marrizd.| At Beverley, G. P. Grew, esq. 
major of the 45th regiment of foot, to Miss 
Harding, duughtér of Henry H, esq. of Hard. 
ing Grove, Limerick, Ireland, 
At Salton, John Snowball, esq. of New 
Malton, to Miss Abbey, of the former place. 
At North Da'ton, Mr. J. Dowker, second 
son of John Dowker, esq. of Salton, ta Elizae 
beth, daugitter of William. Buttle, esq. 
At Leeds, Mr. William Smith, merchant, 
son of Mr. George S. banker, to. Miss Bure 
rows, daughter of Mr, B. of Scott Hall. —Mr, - 
Joshua Ingram, merchant,to Miss Hall, daughe 
4er of the late Henry H. esq. 
At Kildwick, Walter Skitnow, esq. of 
Lincolns’ inn, to Mary Anne, second daughter 
of Wiliiam Wainman, esq. 
Died.) At Springfield-house, near Leeds, 
Mrs. Jowitt, eldést daughter of Joshua Wale 
ker, esq. M.D. of Leeds, 
At Horton, Mr. S. Rand, merchant, a 
young man ofa strong understanding and cons 
siderable mechanical genius, 22. 
“The Rey. Benjamin Ingham, yicar of 
Ardsley. . 
At the parsonage, Sutton-upon-Derwent, 
near York, the Rey. J, Sarrause, B.ID, vector 
of that parish, and vicar of Byssatl, aad one 
of 
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