1824.] 



the most intelligent andphilosoptiical men 

 in that university, the principal ana- 

 tomists, and members of other profes- 

 sions, has recently been established at 

 Edinburgh. 



Mariitd.] At Edinburgh, the Rev. 

 George BIyth, to Ellen Scott, daughter of 

 the late Henry Tod, esq. 



Difd.] At Kirkcudbright, 109, Mrs. 

 Helen Miller. 



AtKelloe, Harriet, daughter of George 

 Buchan, esq. — At Forres, George Blanch, 

 esq. late of Arundel. 



IRELAND. 



A memorial of much importance, ad- 

 dre.ssed to the Lords of the Treasury, has 

 lately been transmitted from Dublin. It 

 prays the total repeal of the Union 

 Duties, and it is signed by 3l6 of the most 

 respectable merchanis and manufacturers 

 of Ireland, many of whom were before 

 inimical to the measure. The memorial 

 stated, — " That a very considerable im- 

 provement has taken place in the trade of 

 Ireland since the cessation of part of the 

 Union Duties, and a great increase of em- 

 ployment has been thereby afforded to 

 the working classes, especially in the ma- 

 nufacture of calicoes, and other descrip- 

 tions of cotton goods ; at the same time 

 memorialists are not aware, that in any 

 branch of manufacture where the afore- 

 said duties have been removed, any of the 

 workmen engaged therein have been even 

 partially thrown out of employment. 

 With the test of experience, and a com- 

 plete change of public opinion in favour of 

 such a measure, your memorialists respect- 

 fully pray your lordships to take into con- 

 sideration the expediency of recommend- 

 ing to the legislature in the ensuing ses- 

 sion, to repeal the remnant of the Union 

 Duties, and thereby afford to your lord- 

 ships a greater facility of placing the 

 intercourse between the two countries 

 completely on the footing of a coasting 

 tiade. 



Quarries of white and green marble 

 have lately been discovered in the west of 

 Ireland, which promise to be valuable. 

 The white is said to be of a quality supe- 

 rior, for the purpose of statuary and 

 sculpture, to any Italian marble, being of 

 the texture and constitution with the best 

 Grecian marble ; and the green marble is 

 considered to be of the family of the 

 verde antique, and to rival the finest 

 specimens of that costly article in beauty. 



Murried.] Charles E. Oiken, m.d. to 

 Alicia Frances, widow of the Rev. Conolly 

 Coane, late of liath. — Dennis Brown, 

 eiu. of Brownstoini-house, county mayor, 

 to jVliss Sophia Eliza Campbell, of Barnes, 

 Surrey, 



Died.] At Dublin, Richard Cooper, 

 esq. late of Bath.— 36, Mr, Thomas 



Ireland — Deaths Abroad. 95 



Nicholson, deservedly regretted. — Lady 

 Sarah Howard, aunt tu the Earl of 

 Wicklow, — In Fitzwilliam-square, Tho- 

 mas Penn Gaskell, esq. 61, of Shan- 

 ncgarry, in the county of ("ork. After 

 being engaged forty years in a suit 

 in the Irish Chancery, and expending up- 

 wards of 20,0001. he obtained a decree to 

 possess the estate granted to Admiral 

 Penn, who captured the island of Jamaica 

 during the common-wealth, and afterwards 

 was knighted by King Charles the Second, 

 his only son was the founder of Pennsyl- 

 vania ; and, in the year 1672, he married 

 Gulielma Maria Sprinjett, the daughter 

 and co-heir of Sir Herbert Sprmjett, 

 bart. from whom the deceased was line- 

 ally descended. He married, in the year 

 1794, a daughter of the Dowager Countess 

 of Glandore, who lived but a few years ; 

 they had only one son, who died an 

 infant. After so much affliction he retired 

 from the world, and lived a very secluded 

 life. 



At Rathkeals, Robert Allen, esq. M.p. 

 — Near Dublin, Mrs. Douglas, daughter 

 of Sir Paul Crosbie, hart. — At Norris, 

 in the county of Carlow, Lady E. 

 Kavanagh. 



At the age of 126 years and three days, 

 Mr. Thadey Doortey, a respectable farmer, 

 residing near the Hill of Allen, county of 

 Kildare. He retained his faculties to the 

 last moment, and was able to take field 

 amusement within the last six months of 

 his life. He was married about nineteen 

 years ago, at the age of one hundred and 

 seven, to a woman of thirty-one years of 



DEAtHS ABROAD. 



By the last advices from America, we 

 have an account of the death of Major 

 Gen. Starke. Before the American revo- 

 lution broke out, a considerable number of 

 persons, whose circumstances were bad, 

 fled from the colonies of New York, the 

 New England provinces, and other places, 

 to avoid their creditors, and took refuge 

 in the best settlements near Lake Champ- 

 lain, in an nnciillivated country, but fruit- 

 ful, where they began settlements ; and, in 

 a few years, secured to themselves the 

 necessaries of life, and good establish- 

 ments. The land on which they settled 

 was extremely fertile, and presented so 

 fine a verdure, as to obtain the name of 

 the Green Mountains. The prospects 

 which broke in on tlie first settlers in- 

 duced many industrious persons to follow 

 them, among whom was Mr. Starke. They 

 soon introduced a government, and did not 

 acknowledge the authority of the States 

 to which they belonged. .'\t the time of 

 the revolution they took part with their 

 countrymen in opposition to Great Bri- 

 tain, and trained a militia, in which Mr. 

 Starke, 



