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80, Mrs, Cartier, widow of J. Cartier, esq., 
formerly Goyernor-Gen. of Bengal—At 
Ramsgate, 67, Sir J. Sutton, x.c.z. Admi- 
ral of the White—At West Wickham, Bb. 
Morice, esq., one of the Judges of the Mar- 
shalsea Court, and Commissioner of Bank- 
rupts—At Sheerness, the Rev. J. Fearon, 
Chaplain of the Dock yard—At Broadstairs, 
R. Wilson, esq., of Wood-house, East Ham, 
one of his Majesty’s Deputy Lieutenants, 
and a Magistrate for the county of Essex— 
At Canterbury, Lieutenant- General Disbo- 
rough, Royal Marines—Mr. J. Burgess, 
many years a chorister of the Cathedral ; 
and on the same day, within an hour of her 
brother, 88, Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess, who 
many years ago, produced a satirical piece, 
Kent, Sussex, 
called ‘‘the Maid of the Oaks.” 
SUSSEX, 
On Monday, Sept. 12, a most destructive 
fire broke out in the mansion of Major Rus- 
sel, on the East Clit? Brighton, which was 
entirely destroyed. The loss is estimated 
from twelve to fifteen thousand pounds. 
Married.| At Ovingdeen, John, eldest 
son of Mr. Beard, of Rottingdean, to Mary, 
Ann, eldest daughter of W. Stanford, esq., 
of Preston— At Chichester, by the Rev. J.Da- 
vies, Mr. Croker, to Miss Heath—At Stock- 
bridge, G. Crichton, esq. to Catherine, se- 
cond daughter of the late W. Forrester, esq., 
of Culmore, Stirlingshire—At Brighton, 
T.°L. Follett, esq., of Lyme, to Letitia, 
widow of the late Major-General Powlett— 
At Bury, R. 'T. Grundy, esq. to Elizabeth, 
eldest daughter of the late G. Openshaw, esq. ~ 
Died.| At Brighton, 55, G. A. Nash, 
esq., of Finsbury-square ; 38, the Rev. T. 
Braine, vicar of West- Wittering, near Chi- 
chester, and perpetual curate of Bareby, 
Selby; 77, W. Guy, esq., of Chichester ; 
J. Pope, esq., of the Little London; Lady 
Constable, relict of Sir T.C. Constable, bart. 
HAMPSHIRE, 
_ Some time ago fourteen human skeletons 
were discovered at Southampton, ina field 
near St. Mary’s church-yard. About six 
weeks ago two coins were dug up in the 
same field, but at some distance south of the 
spot in which the skeletons were found. 
These two coins are Saxon silver pennies. 
They were fouud near a considerable parcel 
of wood ashes, intermingled with burnt 
bones, in a kind of circular pit, wh'ch ex- 
tended to a depth of nine feet from the surface 
of the mould before the clay was removed. 
At Sarson, in this county, lately, a shep- 
herd obseryed a hawk descend and rise again 
immediately with something in its claws, 
ascending to a considerable height in the air, 
when it suddenly fell to the ground: he 
ran to the spot, and found the hawk dead, 
and a stoat, which had sucked its blood 
during its aerial ascension, making off into 
a hedge. , 
Dreadful Catastrophe at Portsmouth Dock- 
_ yard.—On Wednesday last, one of the 
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grandest spectacles that the world can afford 
—the launching of a three decker (the Prin- 
cess Charlotte), was preceded by an acci- 
dent of the most dreadful and appalling 
description. It appears, that, by the force 
of the tide, the gates of a dry dock over 
which a foot bridge was erected, which 
thousands had passed to reach the site of 
the launch, and which, at the moment, 
was crowded with men, women and 
children anxiously hastening to the 
spot, were suddenly burst open, and the 
bridge, with all. upon it, precipitated into 
the dock below—the waves quickly over- 
whelming them, and filling the dock with 
water fifteen feet deep. About twenty peo- 
ple thus lost their lives. 
Married.| KR. H. Whitelocke, esq., of 
Winchester, to Miss Frances Julia Percy 
Becher—At Milford, the Rev. H. Jones, 
A.m., to Mary Frances Ford, eldest daugh- 
ter of the late J. M. Allen, esq., of Ly- 
mington. 
Died.| At Ryde, Isle of Wight, 69, J. 
Lens, esq., his Majesty’s ancient Sergeant 
at Law—At Biddeston-house, J. G. Eve- 
rett, esq., of Heytesbury, Wilts—At Barn- 
field, near Southampton, P. Hulton, esq., 
sincerely regretted—At the rectory, Alver- 
stoke, the Rev. C, A. North, m.a. youngest 
son of the late Bishop of Winchester. 
WILTSHIRE, 
Lately, a woman was gleaning in a field 
near old Sarum Castle, when she picked up 
a mouse perfectly red. She took it home, 
and piaced it under an earthern pan, which 
on remeving, she found it surrounded by 
eight young ones. 
Married.| At Yatton Keynell, W. 
Wright, esq., late of the Rifle Brigade, to 
Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. 
Hooper, rector of Yatton Keynell—Rev. 
J. Clapp, of Carston, to Emma, second 
daughter of E. Lawrance, esq., of Kent 
Cottage, Falmouth—At Wroughton, W. 
Pinegar, gent., Manor-house, Marston, to 
Mrs. Donaldson, of Wroughton. 
- Died.| 38, J. Barnes, esq., of Apper- 
ley-bridge, near Bradford—At Highworth, 
45, Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. E. Rowden. 
SOMERSETSHIRE, 
Banwell Caverns.—The smallest of the two 
caverns is situated at the N. W. extremity of 
Bauwell-hill, and open to the Bristol Chan. 
nel between Western-super-mare and Breane 
Down. The entrance is by a low, level 
passage, proceeding under the hill’s ele- 
vation about 12 or 14 feet, and termi- 
nated by the cavern, an almost circular 
space, about 16 feet over, and in some places 
10 feet high. When discovered, the floor 
was thickly covered, to a _ considerable 
height, with the bones of quadrupeds. ‘The 
specimens shewn are of enormous size—ant- 
lers of deer, horns of the buffalo—vertebra 
of the neck and back, of astonishing dimen- 
sious. At the extremity of this. caye, is a 
precipitate 
