1825.1 
A meeting of gentlemen, residents of Sidmouth, 
lately agreed to petition the House of Commons in 
favour of the Bill now pending in Parliament, for 
the relief of the Roman Catholics. 
A very singular and rare gold coin of Richard III., 
in fine preservation, was lately discovered in an an- 
cient house in Devon, and which was unknown by 
the late Mr. Ruding, the celebrated writer on British 
coins, and hitherto not described in medallic his- 
tory. The piece is very similar to, and the full size 
of King Richard’s angel, but the R, in the last syl- 
labile of his name, is omitted, and the letters are 
misplaced in the last word on the reverse; there is 
also an abridgment, different from the angels, that 
have been described in historical accounts; the le- 
gends are as follow, viz-—obverse, ‘‘ Ricad di Gra 
x Rex Angl. z. Franc.”—reverse, ‘‘ Per Cruce x tua 
x Salva Nos XPC x Rededmt.” This curious coin 
is now in the possession of Mr. S. Woolmer, of 
Exeter. 
Married.) At Teignmouth, W. Creak, esq. lieut. 
R.N. to Jane, daughter of W. Havelock, esq. of 
Tei outh—At Plymouth, H. Hawkes, esq. of 
Oakhampton, to Lucy, eldest daughter of F.C. 
Brown, esq. of Box-hill; Mr. F. Davis, to Miss M. 
Stumbes; Mr. S. Phelps, to Miss S. Stumbles. 
Died.| At Mount Sandford, near Barnstable, 
74, Ann, wife of W. Harwood, esq.—At Dartmouth, 
R. Harris, esq.—At Egg Buckland, Miss Jane Hunt 
—At Devonport, Julia, eldest daughter of T. Briggs, 
esq.; 59, Mrs. C. Spencer—At Deniton, Swimbridge, 
70, R. 1. Bury, esq. Vice Admiral of the White, and 
magistrate of the county of Devon. 
CORNWALL. 
Married.] At Mylor, Mr. H. Hocking, of Cam- 
borne, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. i. Cloake, 
of Perran-foundery—At Madron, Mr. T. Pengelly, 
of Treneere, to Miss Jane Marshall, of Penzance— 
At Fowey, Mr. J. Pain, to Miss J. Bate. 
Died.) At Bellevue, near Penryn, Mr. B. Barwis— 
At Trehene, in the parish of St. Erme, Mr. R. 
Whetford—At Keverne, 86, Mrs. Nicholls—At Pen- 
zance, 49, Mr. J. Croker—At Poole, in Mlogan, 39, 
Mr. J. Gribble. 
WALES. 
Married.—The Rev. B. Thomas, of Narbeth, to 
Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. J. Thomas, of Red- 
stone—At Churchstoke, Mont croetyehbe, G. D. 
Owen, esq, of Oswestry, to Jane Emma, eldest 
daughter of the late Mr. S. Jones—At Cowbridge, 
Glamorganshire, the Rev. R. B. Plumptree, son of 
the Very Rev. the Dean of Gloucester, to Susan- 
nah, daughter of the late Rev. J. Nichol, D.D. of 
Ham, in Glamorganshire. 
Diets At Carmarthen, 51, Magaret, relict of the 
late Col. Williams, of Henllys; J.Alexander, only 
son of Capt. D. Jones, of Aberystwith—At Dolgelly, 
59, R. Hughes—At Broughton, Flintshire, 25, the 
Rev. C. B. Dod, A.M. second son of the late W. J. 
Dod, esq. of Cloverly-hall, Salop. 
SCOTLAND. 
At aiate Meeting of the Town-council of Edin- 
burgh, the Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, 
unanimously voted the Freedom of the City to Henry 
Brougham, esq. M.P., “* in testimony of their ad- 
miration of his powerful and ditinguished talents, 
exerted on many public occasions in behalf of ob- 
jects of important national interests.” 
Ancient Coins.—Some time ago, three workmen, 
in dressing granite for the new bridge over the Dee, 
found, near the top of the hill of Lawrin, in the pa- 
rish of Kells, in one of the most solitary places 
imaginable (and which, from the trunks of large 
trees remaining in it, must have been formerly a 
forest) nine silver coins, in a tolerable state of pre- 
servation. Three of these coins are those of James 
VI. of Scotland, five of Queen Elizabeth, and one of 
Louis XIII. of France. It is remarkable, that two 
of these coins, viz. that of Louis and Elizabeth, 
were found on the top of one of the pieces of gra~ 
nite, rising several feet from the ground, overgrown 
with moss; the rest were picked up round the bot- 
Cornwall, Wales, Scotland, Ireland. 
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tom of the rock; but how, or by what means they 
came there, it is hard to conjecture. 
A numerous Meeting of the Scottish Antiquarian 
Society was lately held at their Museum, when the 
following communications were read;—l. ‘‘ A few 
general Observations on the Vitrified Forts of Scot- 
land, illustrated by an extensive suite of Specimens, 
of the Fused Materials.” By Dr. Hibbert. 2. Com- 
munication from Sir G.S. Mackenzie, bart. of Coul, 
on the subject of ‘ Vitrified Forts.” 3. ‘* Descrip- 
tion of several Vitrified Forts in the vicinity of In- 
verness, with a Map explanatory of their relative 
situations and bearings ;” part 1. By George Ander- 
son, esq. of Inverness, F.R.S.E., communicated in 
aletter to Dr. Hibbert. 
The clerks and apprentices, to their honour we. 
report it, of the woollen drapers, haberdashers, 
&c. in Edinburgh, lately addressed a representation 
to their employers, requesting that the shops might 
be shut at such an hour as to enable them to attend 
the School of Arts, or other institutions, from which 
they might derive the means of improvement. The 
representation was immediately attended to, and all 
the principal dealers, indeed nearly all who are er- 
gaged in these branches of trade, now shut their 
shops at eight o'clock. 
Most of the tradesmen of Glasgow followed the 
laudable example of those of Edinburgh, by closing 
their shops at eight o’clock in the evening, so as to 
allow their apprentices to attend Mechanics’ Institu-| 
tions and Reading Rooms. 
Married.) At_Gretna-green, Mr. W. Fife, jyn. of 
Newcastle, to Emily, fourth daughter of the late J. 
Bainbridge, esq.—At Lockerbie, W. Richardson, 
esq. to Mary Stewart, eldest daughter of the late 
Mr. W. Johnstone—At Edinburgh, R. Bruce, esq. 
of Burravoe, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late 
Rey. D. David Young, of Foulden, Berwickshire; 
Mr. T. Waugh, to Miss A. C. Potter, of Glasgow; 
Mr. C. H. Corbett, of London, to Ann, eldest daugh- 
ter of Mr. J. Johnson, of Linton, Cambridgeshire ; 
Mr. J. Turnbull, to Mary Montague, pee daugh- 
ter of the late Mr. Ewart; Mr. J. Thomson, Ram- 
ue Berwickshire, to Christian, daughter of Mr. 
Charles Howdon, Boggs, East-Lothian—At Morton, 
Mr. J. Cockburn, Pitlessie-mill, to Jane, youngest 
daughter of John Main, esq. of Morton—At Elgin 
John Anderson, esq. to Margaret, eldest daughter of 
the late Mr. A. Johnson, Elgin—At Castles, in Gle- 
norchy, L. M‘Farlane, esq. Auchinlaugh, to Miss 
Lucy Turner, youngest daughter of Duncan Turner, 
esq. of Castles. 
Died.] At Edinburgh, Mary Henrietta, youngest ’ 
daughter of the late J. Gillespie, esq. of Mount. 
quhaine; Mr. J. Edmonstone; Capt. T: Hamilton; 
Mrs. Margaret Maitland Makgills, of Rankeilour, 
widow of the Hon. F. L. Maitland, captain in’ the 
royal navy, son of Charles, sixth Earl of Lauder- 
dale—At Dumfries, 80, Mrs. Ann Douglas—At Jed- 
burgh, 42, Miss M. Smith—At Aberdeen, R. Ogilvie, 
second son of J. Phelp, esq.—At Clunie-house, Miss 
Stewart, of Clunie—At Stranraer, J. Caird, esq. of 
Drumfadt —At Gate-house, J. Credie, esq.—At 
Springfield, near Gretna-green, Mr. J. Miller, sen.— 
At Glasgow, the Rev. Dr. W. Taylor, of St. Enoch’s, 
and one of his Majesty’s chaplains for Scotland. 
IRELAND. 
From a lemon-tree, in the orangerie of Sir John 
Newport, bart. near Waterford, seven hundred and 
sixty-two full-grown lemons were lately gathered. 
Upwards of one hundred and fifty were gathered in 
September and October last, and more than one 
hundred are left, and now growing on the same 
tree. 
A society has been lately formed, with the Pri- 
mate of Ireland at its head, to prevent ‘* Orange- 
men” getting livings in the church. 
Married.] A.S.Gray, esq. of Dublin, to Miss F. 
Green, of Liverpool. 
Died.) At Gallow, King’s County, the lady of E. 
Armstrong, esq. sister of the Right Hon. Lord Ash- 
town—At Kilkenny, Capt. J. McNiell, of the 79th 
regt.—At the Deanery-house, Ennis, the Very Rev 
G. Stevenson, Dean of Kilfenora. 
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