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purpofe of inftru&ing alarge number of the poor forefters’ 
children in the principles of the Chriftian religion, with 
an appropriate refidence, for teachers, &c. The chapel 
was not only filled on this interefting occafion, but was 
furrounded by numbers who could not gain admittance. 
The bilhop,affifted by his chaplains, performed the folemn 
office of confecration of the chapel, as alfo of a portion ot 
inclofed ground for the purpofe of a cemetery. His lord- 
ffiip delivered adifcourfe from the pulpit, moil truly pious 
and applicable to the ceremony, after which the congre¬ 
gation retired, when the right rev. prelate adminiftered 
the holy communion to many of the clergy .prefent, fe- 
veral of whom had attended from the neighbouring dio- 
cefes to witnefs fo interefting a ceremony. 
We have defignated Newland-chapel as the firft place 
of worlhip erefted in the Forell of Dean; for it is to be 
obferved, that this “ labour of love” on the tceji fide of 
the Foreft, had preceded that on the north by the Rev. 
Mr. H. Berkin, of which we have rendered an account 
under the article Mitchelde an, vol.xv. 590, 1. See alfo 
the Gent. Mag. for 1813, 14, 16. and the Glouceller He¬ 
rald for 1816. 
NEW'LAND (Peter), the fon of a carpenter at Dim- 
mermeer, near Amfterdam, was born in 1764. In his 
childhood he evinced extraordinary proofs of genius, and 
at the age of ten years produced fome excellent pieces of 
poetry; and was even then able to folve problems in ma¬ 
thematics without having had anyinilruClion from a maf- 
ter. The Batavian government appointed him one of the 
commiffioners of longitude ; and he was fucceffively pro- 
felforof mathematics and philofophy at Utrecht and Am¬ 
fterdam. He died in the year 1794. He was author of 
feveral works, among which may be mentioned the fol¬ 
lowing : 1. Poems in the Dutch Language. 2. A Tra£t 
on die Means of enlightening a People. 3. On the ge¬ 
neral Utility of the Mathematics. 4. Of the Syllem of 
Lavoifier. 5. A Treadle on Navigation. To thefe may 
be added treatifes on the Form of the Globe; on the 
Courfe of Comets, and the uncertainty of their return ; 
and on the Method of afcertaining the Latitude at Sea. 
NEW'LANDS, a village of England, in the county of 
Cumberland, once celebrated for a rich copper-mine which 
fupplied the kingdom and for exportation; but in the 
civil wars the works were dc-llroyed, and the miners killed 
or difperfed. It is three miles louth-well of Kefwick. 
NEW'LIN, a townfiiip of America, in Cheller-county, 
Pexmfylvania, on the Brandywine. 
NEW'LY, adv. Frefhly; lately.—They newly learned 
by the king’s example, that attainders do not interrupt 
the conveying of title to the crown. Bacon. 
Her lips were red, and one was thin, 
Compar’d to that was next her chin ; 
Some bee had Hung it newly. Suckling. 
In a manner different from the former: 
Such is the power of that fweet paffion, 
That it all fordid bafenefs doth repel, 
And the refined mind doth newly falhion 
Into a fairer form. Spenj’er's Hymn on Love. 
In a manner not exifting before. 
NEW'LY-BLOSSOMED, adj. Having lately put out 
bloffonis: 
I’ve feen the morning’s lovely ray 
Hover o’er the new-born day, 
With rofy wings fo richly bright, 
As if he fcorn’d to think of night ; 
When a ruddy ftorm, whofe fcoul 
Made heaven’s radiant face look foul, 
Call’d for an untimely night 
To blot the newly-bloffom'd light. Crafhaw. 
NEW'LY-GATH'ERED, adj. Freffi gathered ; re¬ 
cently plucked.—He rubb’d it o’er with 7tewly-gather'd 
mint. Dryden. 
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NEW'MAN, a town of the date of South Carolina ; 
forty-one miles north-eaft of Charleftown. 
NEW'MANSTOWN, a town of North Wales, in the. 
county of Flint: four miles north-eaft of St. Afaph. 
NEW'MANSTOWN, a town of Pennfylvania : four¬ 
teen miles north-eaft of Harrifburg, and feventy-two well- 
north-weft of Philadelphia. 
NEWMAR'KET, a market-town, fituated partly in 
Cambridgeflrire, and partly in Suffolk, England. It con- 
fifts of two parifhes, one being in each county; and is 
thirteen miles diftant from Cambridge and fixty-one from 
London. The houfes are chiefly difpofed in one long 
and w’ide ftreet, in which are the two parifli-churches of 
St. Mary’s and All Saints. The town has been twice 
nearly deftroyed by fire ; the firft time in 1683, when the 
king, queen, and duke of York, attended the races; 
the fecond conflagration was about the commencement 
of the laft century. According to the population-return 
in the year 1811, Newmarket contained 332 houfes, and 
1917 inhabitants. A market is held on Tuefdays and 
Thurfdays; two fairs, October 28 and Whit-Tuefday, 
When the town obtained its charter does not appear; the 
earlieft mention of it on record is in the year 1227 ; and 
it is probable it took its name from a market then re¬ 
cently eftablilhed. 
Newmarket Heath has long been celebrated in the an¬ 
nals of horfemanlhip as one of the fineft race-courfes in 
the kingdom. The diverfion of horfe-racing, though 
undoubtedly praftifed in this country in the time of the 
Romans, never made any confiderable progrefs, but ra¬ 
ther became extinft, till the acceffion of James I. who 
again introduced it from Scotland, where it came into 
repute from the fpirit and fwiftnefs of the Spanifh horfes. 
which had been wrecked in the veffels of the armada, and 
thrown alhore on the coafts of Galloway. From this 
period it became more falhionable; and Newmarket had 
probably a racing-eftablifhment as early as the reign of 
that monarch, who ere&ed a houfe here, which was de¬ 
ftroyed in the civil war; but was rebuilt by that diftin- 
guilhed patron of the turf, Charles II. and is ftill the re¬ 
fidence of the fovereign, when he vifits Newmarket. The. 
idea of improving the breed of horfes has, in a certain 
degree, induced the legiflature to encourage this fpecies 
of gambling ; and even the throne feems to fan&ion its 
continuance ; for, in addition to the plates given by the 
nobility, the king gives two annually. The races are 
held feven times in the year; the whole of the race-courfe 
is in Cambridgefliire. 
At the diitance of about a mile and a half from New¬ 
market, croffing the London-road, runs a remarkable ex-, 
cavation, called the Devil’s Ditch, which extends nearly 
in a ftraight line for feven miles, from Wood-Ditton to 
Reach, in the parifli of Burwell; the moll perfect part is 
for the fpace of a mile in the vicinity of Reach ; the works 
here confift of a deep ditch, with an elevated vallum, the 
Hope of which meafures fifty-two feet on the weft fide, 
and twenty-fix on the eaft; the whole of the works are 
about one hundred feet in width. From the mode of 
difpofing the excavated earth, it is the opinion of Dr, 
Stukeley, and other antiquaries, that the ditch was made 
fome centuries before the time of Cscfar, by the firft in¬ 
habitants who fettled eaftward, in order to fecure them- 
felves from the attacks of the inland aborigines. Various 
other conjectures have been formed refpecting the origin 
of this and fimilar earth-works in this part of the coun¬ 
try, which are unqueftionably of very remote antiquity. 
The Devil’s Ditch at prefent ferves for the boundary be¬ 
tween tire diocefes of Norwich and Ely. Lyfons's Magna 
Britannia , vol. ii. 
NEWMAR'KET, a fmall market-town and parifli in 
the county of Flint, North Wales, is fituated at the dif- 
tance of three miles and a half to the north of the city of 
St. Afaph. The church here is an ancient edifice; and in 
the cemetery Hands a curious Hone crofs. Here are held 
the petty-leilions for the hundred. The market is holden 
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