1829.] 



Chronology, Marriages, and Deaths. 



475 



worth, Hon. Capt. A. R. Turnour, second son of 

 Lord Winteitoii, to Miss Charlotte Fitzherbert 

 Daysli. — At AlJiiighoiinie, Viscouiit Arvlover, 

 eldest son of the Earl of Suffolk, to Isabella, 

 second daughter of Lttril Henry Howard, and 

 niece to tlie Duke of Norfolk, — At Upton Gray, 

 D. C. Macriaht, esq., to Caroline, daughter of the 

 late Sir W. Paxton. — At Cheltenham, the Rev. 

 L. Broker, to Klizabeth, niece of Culoi-.el Sir R. 

 Barclay. — At Llanbadarn fawr, the Rev. Sir il. 

 Wol.sley, Bart., 70, to Jliss Smith, 24.— At Mary- 

 Icbone, R. Harvey, esq., to Anne, daughter of 

 Vice AOiuiral ."^ir \V. H' tham. — The very Rev. 

 C. S. I.uxraore, Dean of St. Asaph, to Katharine, 

 youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Sir J. 

 isicholl.— Capt. C. 'I'. Thruston, R.N., to Eliza, 

 second daughter of Admiral Si,theby. 



DEATHS. 

 . At the Isle of Wight, Anthouy, second son of Sir 

 John Richardson. — At Brighton, Earl of Harring- 

 ton, 77.— At Foxley, Sir Uvedale Price, Bart., 

 83. — At Fulham, Adolphus, second son of Major- 

 General SirT. Jrjiahon, Bart.— Chailutte Anne, 

 second daughter of Vice Admiral Sir J. Gore. — At 

 Clapham, H. Besborongh, esq., 75, late clerk of 

 the North Road general post office.— At Orielton, 

 LadyOwen,\vifcof Sir J. Owen, Lord Lieutenant of 

 Pembrokeshire. — At Beaumaris, Frances Emma, 

 second dangliter of Sir H. Williams, Bart., and 

 Viscountess Bulkley. — At his seat at Ferntower, 

 General Sir David Baird, Bart.— At Framling- 

 ham, Dr. E. Goodwyn, 73 : upwards of 40 years 

 ago he published bis valuable and scientific work 

 " On Submersion." — At Glaston, Sir T. Which- 

 cote, Bath. — In Portman-square, Sir H. C. Lip» 

 pincott,Bart. — At BU17 St. Edinnnds, P. Callam, 

 esq., Bath King at Arms.— At Bristol Hotwells, 

 Mrs. Boucher, widow of the Rev. J. Boucber,and 

 sister to Lord Molesworth. — At Aghadoe, Cathe- 

 rine Green, 118 ; she lived in the reigns of Anne, 

 George I. \\. III. and IV., and retained her facul- 

 ties to the last, dieting constantly on oatmeal. — 

 At Lincoln, Rev. J. Carter, his antiquarian re- 

 searches stand recorded in the Transactions of the 

 Iloyal Society.— Sophia Sarah, wife of the Rev. 

 Basil Wood.— Sir Vf. Mansel, Bart., of hcocd, 



Carmarthen. — The Rev. A. Langton, son of B. 

 Langton, esq., and of Mary, Countess Dowager of 

 Rothes. — At Blaekheath, Sirs. Lee, sister to the 

 late ViscountessHabeiton.— Lady Anne Catherine 

 Lfgge, sister to Lord Sheffield.- .\t Stapleford, 

 A. Warren, esq., 73, brother to the late Admiral 

 Sir J. B. Warren, bart. — At Exeter, Mrs. Daeres, 

 76, relict of Admiral Daeres. — At Worcester, T. 

 Best, esq., of Barbadoes.— This gentleman was 

 the last antagonist of the eccentric Lord Camel- 

 ford in a duel in 1804, which terminated his 

 strange career. — At Thornton, the Rev. 31. Mac- 

 kcrcth, 85 ; he had been head master of the gram- 

 mar school at that place 41 years; he had been 

 incumbent of Old Byland 56 vears ; 47 years vicar 

 of .Aliildleton, and 2a years vicar of EUerburne. — 

 Near Oswestry, General Despard, 80; he had 

 been in 24 battles ; taken prisoner once ; had two 

 horses shot under him ; was shipwrecked thrice ; 

 when he was only 15 had the regiraejital standard 

 shot out of his hand ; he was governor of Canada 

 seven years. — At Hull, J. Alderson, esq., 72, 

 senior physician to the General Infirmary. 



MARRIAGES ABROAD. 

 At Newfoundland, Rev. W. Williams, 76, to 

 Miss Polly Candle, 14!— At Paris, at the British 

 Ambassador's chapel, Baron Henri de Maupoint, 

 of the French King's Guard?, to Rosalie, eldest 

 daughter of H. Bowles, esq., 22d dragoons. 



DEATHS ABROAD. 

 At Lisbon, Donna Maria Francisca Benedicta, 

 83, Princess of Brazil. — .it Milan, G. Losack.esq., 

 Admiral of the Blue.— At Boulogne, Antonetta, 

 wife of J. Ellis, esq., and daughter of Admiral 

 Sir Peter Parker, bart. .-At Paris, Count Dane, 

 author of " The History of Venice,'' and a ci- 

 devant Intendant-General of Buonaparte. — At 

 Newfoundland, at SI. John's, Sbawnawdithit, 29, 

 supposed to be tlie last of the Red Indians, uf 

 Boesthicks; she had lived six years captive among 

 the English, and exhibited strong natural talents. 

 Her tribe, the Aborigines of Newloundland, have 

 been dislodged, and disappeared from the earth in 

 1829, in as primitive a condition as they were be- 

 fore the discovery of the new world. 



MONTHLY PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 



NORTHUMBERLAND At a meeting held 



at the Literary and Philosophical Society at 

 Newcastle, Aug. 19, it was resolved " that this 

 society be called The Natural History Society of 

 the Counties of Northumberland, Durham, and 

 Newcastle-upon-Tyne," and that its object be tlie 

 furtherance of the study of Natural History in all 

 its departments. 



By the state of the county accounts from June 

 23, 182S, to June 30, 1829, it appears that the ex- 

 penses were XO.OOl. 48. 4d., anil that upwards of 

 .ir3,0U0 were paid for the criminal jurisprudence 

 and vagrants; ^1,269. lln. lo^d. for county 

 bridges. 



There was very little business at the Newcastle 

 and Durham asi-izcs ; and not a single case, cri- 

 minal or civil, of any interest. 



Me«»rs. Hawthorn, of llie Forth Banks, New- 

 castle, have just completed a locomotive steam 

 thraihing engine, pobscsscd of e.itraordinary 



powers, being capable of propelling itself, and a 

 tlirashing machine, four to five miles an hour. 



CUMBERLAND.— A public meeting has been 

 recently held at Carlisle, wlien it was resolved to 

 establish in that city, an Infirmary, lor the county. 

 The Earl of Lonsdale was in the chair. Dona- 

 tions to the amount of nearly .£5,000 have already 

 been received. 



At these assizes, two prisoners received sen» 

 tence of death ; one of them was 70 years of age. 



DURHAM —In opening the ground for a new 

 channel for the river Tees, below Stockton, a sub 

 tcrranean forest has been discovered. 



About om- hundred yards above the bridge, at 

 Stockton, a suspension bridge, of elegant struc- 

 ture, is now in i)rogros«, to convey the coal-wag- 

 gons belonging to the Stockton and Darlington 

 railway across the river Tees, on their way to the 

 intended depot at Middlesbrough, 



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