1826.] 
Aug. 2. C. Collison was executed at the Old 
‘Bailey for sheep stealing. 
— 6. John Fordham respited during His Ma- 
jesty’s pleasure. 
— 10. The Ambassador to Brazil embarked at 
Portsmouth. 
— ll. The largest steam-packet ever built in 
England arrived in the Thames—1063 tons; two en- 
gines of 10) horse power each; she is called Fhe Uni- 
ted Kingdom. 
— Warrants issued by the Lord Mayor against 
some inhabitants cf St. Olave, and Bishopsgate, 
forcing them to. pay poors’-rate and. tithes, which 
they had’refused in consequence of disputes between 
the parishes and their spiritual pastors. 
Aug. 14.. A stone of nearly 100lbs. weight fell from 
the upper cornice of the tower of Bow Church, upon 
the roof of Mr. Aughtie’s house, Cheapside. Upona 
report made by Mr. Guilt, the architect, it appears 
the stone was detached from the buildmg by the vi- 
bration of the tower caused by the ringing of the 
bells. : 
— 18. The King’s proclamation, issued, ordering 
the duties on American Shipping to be levied in the 
ports of the West India colonies, equal to those 
which the Americans impose on the West-India 
shipping in their ports, and restricting the entrance 
of American Ships until such duties are paid. 
" The King has appointed Lord Frederic Montague, 
to be Post-Master-General. 
The King has appoimted Sir Thomas Le Breton, 
knt. Bailiffof Jersey. 
MARRIAGES. 
Capt. W. F. Martin, R.N, eldest son of Vice 
Admiral Sir Byam Martin, comptroller of the navy, 
to Ann, daughter of Lord Chief Justice Best—Ed- 
ward Laforest, esq., to Miss Carew—Sir E. Mostyn, 
Dart., of Talacre, North Wales, to Miss Slaughter, 
of Furze-hall, Essex, daughter of the late H. Slaugh- 
ter, esq., and Dowager Viscountess Montague—The 
Rev. C. Benson, Prependary of Worcester, and Rec- 
tor of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, to Bertha Maria, 
daughter of J. Mitford, esq., 2nd grand niece to Lord 
Bedesdale—E. D. Legh csq., son of the late J. Legh, 
esq., of Booths, Cheshire, to Catherine, daughter of 
Sir C. Robinson, Advocate-General—Rev. H. R. 
Pechell, to Caroline Mary, third daughter of Lord 
Mark Kerr.. ‘ 
Marriages and Deaths. 347 
DEATHS. 
At Chatham, Capt. H. R. Mcorsom, of 11+ M.'s 
loop Jasper. He was the youngest son of Vice Ad- 
miral Sir R. Moorson, commanding in the Medway, 
and brother of Capt. Moorsom of H. M.'s ship Prinee 
Regent—In Tavistock-row, Mrs. Weybrow, the once 
favourite columbine—74, At his house South-street, 
Grosyenor-square, the Earl of Winchelsea, K. G. 
Henry George Grey, esq., deputy assistant commis- 
sary-general to the forces—R. Bell, esq., editor of the 
Weekly Dispatch, and author of many literary 
works—Mrs. Sarah Dedicot, of Pitt-street, Kent- 
read. She was in her 105th year, and’never knew 
the taste of medicine, and only kept her bed a week 
before her decease. She lived in the reigns of George 
¥, I, 111, and IV. Wer venerable remains were at- 
tended to the grave by two of her daughters, one 76, 
the other 65. She was a native of Pancras, Stafford, 
and perfectly remembered the Duke of. Cumberland 
and his army marching into the town against the 
Pretender—At Belvidere, Kent, the Countess Ger- 
soff, daughter of Lord Say and Serle—At Croom’s 
Hill, Greenwich, H. Meriton, esq., late superinten- 
dant of the East-India Company’s marine, Bombay 
—In Chesterfield-street, May-fair, Lady Sebright. 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
In April last, at Malta, W. R. Wright, esq., presi- 
dent of the High Court of Appeal, formerly recorder 
of Bury St. Edmonds, and author of a beautiful- 
poern on the Ionian Islands, and other‘pieces—June 
5th. At Sevile, Sir John Downie, Major General in 
thearmy of His Catholic Majesty, and Governor of 
the palace of Seville—123, In Kamtschatka, Michael 
Golzow. He was born in the reign of Peter. I., and 
survived the accession of ten Russian sovereigns— 
In America, Join Adams, esq., in his 92d year. 
Te was successor to General Washington as President 
of the United States of America, and father of John 
Quincy Adams, the present President—and- on the 
same day, July 4th, Thomas Jefferson, esq-, also. 
President of the United States after Mr. J. Adams— 
‘At Berne, Lieut.-General Sir Manley Power, K.C.B.. 
and K.T.S.—At Paris, the Hon. Basil Cechrane—At 
Naples, W. A. Hutton, esq. He was on antiquarian 
researches, and was relatived to the late Mr. Nutton,. 
historian of Birmingham—At Brussels, 68, Vice 
Admiral Woolley- 
MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES; 
WITH THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURIIAM, 
The Bishop of Durham made his public entry 
into Durham, July 2ist, when the ceremony of en- 
throning took place. 
At the Northumberland assizes four recorded for 
death—one transported—five imprisoned—and at 
Durham—two death—five imprisoned—one trans- 
ported. 
_ At the customary hiring for the harvest at New- 
castle, the men were engaged at twenty shillings per 
week and their victuals; and the women at fourteen 
or fifteen shillings—the largest hiring known there 
for many years. 
Married.) At Durham, the Rev. T: Harvey, to 
Miss Mary Ann Forsett—At Newcastle, Mr. G. Bul- 
mier, to Miss Ek. Watton. 
Died.) At West Jasmend, 68, Sir T, Burdon. He 
was Liet.-Col. of the Tyne Yeomanry, and Durbam 
Local Militia, and his lady was sister of the present 
Lord Chancellor, and Lowi Stewell—72, At Wark« 
worth-villa, the Rev. W. Read. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
The completion of the first voyage of the first. 
steam-vessel employed in trading between Liverpool 
and Carlisle, was witnessed on July 20th in the arri- 
val of ‘* The Solway” to Bowness from the former 
port. She is a fine vessel; her length over all 140 feet 
depth 15, and is capable of 288 tons burthern. 
Another subscription for the relief of the poor has 
taken place at Carlisle, but liberal as it has been it 
cannot cure the distress which is so prevalent that 
the local intelligence inform us, ‘‘ robberies are 
as regular as nights one comes not without the 
other.” 
There are forty paupers in Keswick workhouse, 
sixteen’ of whose ages amount to 1207—averaging 
upwards of seventy-five years each. 
At Westmoreland Assizes there was not a single 
criminal, nor one civil cause. f 
Marrted.| At Wawkeshead, E. Curwen, esq-, son 
of J. C. Curwen, ésq., M. P., to Miss Burton, of 
Low Graithwaite-hall—. T’. Copley, esq., of Nether. 
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