1823.] 
ended ; sixteen persons received sentence 
_ of death. 
—. 14.—The Smithfield Club cattle- 
show, consisting of a numerous and well se- 
jected group of fat cattle, sheep, and 
pigs, commenced this day. 
Same day.—Racehorse sloop lost off 
Donglas, and nine perished. 
— ¥#1.—A fire broke out in Long’s 
hotel, Bond-street, which nearly destroyed 
the whole of that extensive establishment. 
—.Forgeries, to a considerable extent, 
found to have been committed on two 
wholesale houses in London, by means of 
lithographic fac-similes. Acceptances were 
taken off by means of the lithographic 
press, and afterwards impressed on mew 
bills which were drawn. The new bills 
were discounted without hesitation, and 
the fraud was not discovered till the 
offenders had absconded. The total 
amount of the frauds is abont 40001. 
—.A numerous meeting of merchants, 
tradesmen, and others, was held at 
Cooper’s hotel, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, 
to consider of the propriety of forming a 
society for the purpose of opposing and 
prosecuting fraudulent insolvent debtors. 
Several resolutions were entered into, and 
a society formed. 
MARRIED. 
At Mary-la-bonne-church, John Brock- 
man, esq. of Cheriton, Kent, to Mary 
Anne, daughter of the late Gen. Stevenson. 
Mr. H. Drew, of Leicester-street, 
Leicester-square, to Miss Marian Smith, 
of Potton, Bedfordshire. 
Richard Henry Wigston, esq. of Dorset- 
street, to Mary Amelia, daughter of the 
late Acton Chaplin, esq. of Aylesbury. 
Benjamin Cuvie, esq. of Piesley Lodge, 
Surrey, to Miss Laura Emily Bridges, of © 
Liverstoke, Hants. 
H. W. R. W. Halsey, esq. of Henley- 
park, Surrey, to Mary Noel, daughter of 
Andvew Stirling, esq. of Pirbright Lodge, 
Surrey, 
At Camberwell, Edward W. Wright, 
M.D. of Siipston-upon-Stour, to Miss 
Martha Anne Kirkman, of Peckham. 
John Forster, esq. of Lambeth, to Miss 
Catherine Matilda Cooper, of Riverhead, 
Kent. 
John Hone, esq. of Great Marlow, to 
Miss Gage, of Kentish-town. 
Henry de la Chaumette, esq. of New- 
ington Green, to Miss Manbert, of 
Norwood. 
John Featherstonhaugh, esq. of Isle- 
worth, to Miss Clark, of Sion-place. 
Mr. Williams, of Bishopgate-street, to 
Miss Pritchett, of Banner-street. 
Charles Berwick Curtis, esq. son of Sir 
William C, bart. to Miss Henrietta Pear- 
son, of Croxall, Derbyshire. 
Mr. Edward Fitzwilliam, to Miss F. E. 
Copeland, both of Drury Lane Theatre, 
Marriages and Deaths in and near London. 
street, Strand, an attorney. 
563 
Mr. J. B. Higgs, of Monument Yard, to 
Miss Charlotte Everett, of Heytesbury, 
Wilts. 
G. Currey, m.p. of Half Moon-street, 
to Miss Mary Dennis, of Alverton, 
Cornwall, 
Mr. W. Prideaux, esq. to Miss Elizabeth 
Reynolds, of Carshalton-house, Surrey. 
John Cornwall, esq of Hendon, Middle- 
sex, to Charlotte Susan, daughter of Sir J. 
G. Shaw, bart. 
Robert Selby, esq. of York-street, to 
Miss Catherine Jackson, of Bedford-street 
Covent Garden. 
’ Robert Lawes, esq. of Change Alley, to 
Miss Eliza Bull, of Hamburgh. 
Mr. C. Howell, of Upper Cumming- 
street, Pentonville, to Miss Ann East, of 
the Parade, Edmonton. 
G. Shaw, esq. of Eglantine, county . 
Down, to Miss Maria Chippendall, of 
Fexham Grove, Surrey. 
Mr. J. Currier, to Miss C. Smith, of the 
City-terrace, New-road. ; 
Mr. Salter, to Miss Jay, of Dorset- 
street, Portman-square, 
Tkomas Eldred, esq. of Fore-street, to 
Mrs. Stubbs, widow of John S. esq. 
banker of Walsali. 
Mr. J. Roberts, of Foley-place, Mary- 
le-bonne, to Miss Harriet Roberts, of 
Bampton, Oxfordshire. 
Mr. Nathaniel Dando, of Cheapside, 
to Miss Caroline Hewitt, of Clapham 
Commen. 
G. R. Lewis, esq. of Firth-street, Soho, 
to Miss Eleanor Price, of Warham-house, 
Herefordshire. 
Robert S. Barelay, esq. of London, to 
Clotilda, danghter of Francis Edward 
Cottrell, esq. of Ballydulia. 
The Rev. William Seaton, of Wands- 
worth, to Mary Anne, widow of Charles 
Morgan, esq. 
DIED. 
At Chelsea College, Captain Roycraft, 
adjutant of the College, and late of the 
17th dragoons. 
At Camberwell, 24, Mr. Wm. Rownson, 
In Norfolk-street, Mr. G. Tralles, pro- 
fessor of astronomy at the Royal Aca- 
demy, Berlin. 
In Upper Gower-street, Mr. R. Butler. 
In Great Qneen-street, Lincoln’s-Inn- 
Fields, 58, William Rawley, esq. 
At Kensington, 65, Mrs. Surah Goodman, 
widow of Michael Samuel G. esq. of Ely- 
place, Holborn. 
Roper State Donnison Roper, esq. of 
Lincoln’s Inn, barrister-at-law. 
In Chureh-street, Stoke-Newington, 88, 
Mrs. Martha Maddox, 
In Tunbridge-street, New-road, 57, 
Mr. R. C. Andrews, late artist of Drury- 
lane theatre. 
Richard Warry, esq. late of Norfolk- 
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