474 
Pitt came into power and dissolved the coa- 
lition parliament, he was, although little 
known, elected m. p. for the county. 
He represented it for forty years, and, 
at his death, was sitting in his tenth 
parliament. .As he was brought into the 
ouse of Commons by Mr. Pitt, he ‘in- 
variably voted with his party. He never 
appeared to enjoy any place under go- 
vernment; but, on the failure of the re- 
ceiver-general of a county, Mr. Kynaston 
Powell was some howinvolvedin the claim 
government had against that person. In 
the year 4818 he was rewarded for his ser- 
vices to government, by a title of baro- 
netcy. He was also n.c.t. and high ste- 
ward of the town of Oswestry. Some 
years age-he assumed the name of Powell. 
WORCESTERSHIRE. 
Married.] Robert Haliburton, esq. to 
Mrs. Wainwright, both of Worcester.— 
Mr. T. Dance, of Worcester, to Miss Neal, 
of Burtonupon Trent. 
Died.] At Dudley, Mr. P. Horner.— 
Mr. J, Lee.—Mrs.Green,—Mrs. Wriglit.— 
Mrs. Woolley.—Mr. J. Spurdle. 
At Broadway, Mrs. T. Smith. 
HEREFORDSHIRE. 
An enterprising inhabitant of Leomin- 
Ster has lately erected there a mill for 
spinning flax, on an extensive scale; and 
has so laid the foundatiou of a linen mane- 
factory. 
Married.] Mr. J. Dillon, to Miss K. 
Minton, of Hereford.—J. L. Scudamore, 
esq. of Kentchurch-park, to Sarah-Laura, 
daughter of Sir Harford Jones, bart. 
- Died.) At Hereford, 22, Miss Eliza-Ann 
Duncumb.—In St. Owen’s-street, at an 
advanced age, Mrs. Anne Russell.—74, 
Mrs. Frances Maddy.—58, Mr. W. Payne, 
regretted. 
. At Clater-park,Robert Sweeting Dansie, 
esq.—At Tetbury, 65, William Wood, esq. 
banker. At the Wood House farm, 
Shobden, Mr. F. Bodenham. 
“GLOUCESTER AND MONMOUTHSHIRE. 
‘A public meeting lately took place at 
Bristol, the Mayor in the chair, to consider 
of a method of obtaining relief from the 
obnoxions clauses of the Insolvent Debtors’ 
Act. Several resolutions were unani- 
mously agreed to, as well as a petition to 
the House of Commons. The following 
was the more compreliensive part of the 
petition.—That your petitioners most re- 
spectfully represent to your Honourable 
House their firm conviction that the Act in 
question has, in no respect, answered. the 
end which it had in view; while, on the 
other hand, it has opened'a wide door to 
measures and practices, fraught with in- 
jury to national morals, and destructive of 
those habits of indnstry, economy, and pa- 
tient perseveranee, by which the British 
trader was so long characterised, and by 
3 
Worcestershire— Herefordshire—Gloucestershire, &c. 
[Dec. 7. 
which the commercial prosperity and pre~ 
eminence of tle country were so firmly ce- 
mented and upheld, 
A public meeting ‘was lately held’ at 
Cheltenltiam, Colonel Berkeley in the'chair, 
to consider the propriety of erecting 2 
bridge over the Severn, at the How pas- 
sage. It was resolved upon, and subscrip- 
tions were entered into for the purpose. 
Married.| Mr.S.Bryant,to Miss Harding; 
Mr. C. Buckland, to Miss) M. Major; 
Mr. Thomas, jun. to Miss Atkins; Mr. H- 
Fhorne, to Miss ‘Cumberland; Mr. J. 
Doran, to Miss Chandler; Mr. T. Furlong, 
to Miss E. Horler: all of Bristol.—Mr. J. 
Cc. Wilkins, late of Cirencester, to Miss. E. 
Grove, of Thornbury.—Mr. W. Tovey, of 
Bedminster, to Miss E. Granger, of Bristol. 
—Richard Clarke, esq. of Upton upon Se- 
vern, to Miss H. Barnard, of Great Elling- 
ham Hall.—Mr. J. Heath, of Harbury, to 
Miss E, M. A. Pearman, of Coventry, 
Died.j At Gloucester, in Northgate- 
street, 34, Mr. H. Jordan.—Mr. J. Whal- 
Jey, deservedly -regretted.—48, Mrs, S. 
Davis. 
At Bristol, in Gay-street, 30, Mr. J. 
Howell, of Olveston, deservedly regretted: 
—In Easton-buildings, Laurence-hill, 86, 
Mr. J. Tandy.—In Portland-square, Mrs. 
Louisa Daniel.—Mrs. A. Hingston.—Miss 
E. Adams. 
At Cheltenham, the Rev. W. $8. Willis, of 
Astrop-house, prebendary of York, and 
reetor of Preston Bissett. 
At Draycott’s Mill, 46, Mr. W. White. 
—At Stowe on the Wold, 93, Mr. Roff, 
much respected.—At Woodmancote-house, 
Dursley, 88, Thomas Tippetts, esq. greatly 
regretted.—At Wotton under Edge, Mrss 
Limbrick. : 
OXFORDSHIRE. 
Married.) Mr. B. Buggins, to Miss M.. 
Davis ; Mr. J. Kirby, to Miss H. Winney ; 
Mr. Godson, to Miss E. Randall: all of 
Oxford.—Mr. C. Tomes, to Miss C. E. S. 
James, of Oxford.—The Rev. James Gray, 
A.M. of Queen’s College, Oxford, to Miss 
C. Powell, of Brislington.—Mr. Meldrum, 
of Oxford, to Miss J. Russell, of St. Mar- 
tin’s-lane, London.—Mr. T. Peake, of Ox- 
ford, to Miss A. Sherman, of Benson.—Mr. 
J. Bazely, of Chacombe, to Miss Essex, of 
Banbury.—Mr. W. Taylor, of Didcott,;to 
Miss M. Keats, of Harwell. ; 
Died.] At Oxford, in Magdalen-parish, 
62, Mrs. Padbury, regretted.—37, Miss S. 
Wise, justly lamented.—In the Corn-mar- 
ket, 87, Mr. L. Stevens.—In Gloucester- 
green, Mr. Goddard.—In Holywell, Miss 
Caroline Parsons. 
At Dorchester, 64, Mr, W. Cox, deser- 
vedly regretted. 
At Neithrop, Mr. C. Sharpe.—At Little 
Milton, at an advanced:age, Mr. Hedges, 
regretted, 4 
BUCK INGHAM: 
