1S4 
Lancaster, 
[Sept. 
Rev. Thomas Clark, to Mrs. Elizabeth Mal¬ 
vina Womack Young. 
Mr. Daniel Smith, to Miss Eliza Gibbons 
Bennett, both of Liverpool. 
Mr. Edward Adamson, to Mrs. Jane South- 
ell, both of Liverpool. 
Mr. Joseph Critchley, to Miss Jane Pritch¬ 
ard Ilumson, both of Liverpool. 
Mr. George Sharpies, to Miss Eli^a Wal¬ 
ker, both of Liverpool. 
Mr. James Hardman, to Miss Hannah Red- 
fern, both of Liverpool. 
Mr. John Marsden, to Miss Moorfield, 
both of Wigan. 
Mr. Ainsworth, to Miss Marsden, of 
Wigan. 
Died.l At Preston, Mr. J. Packer, of 
Laidburn, attorney at law. 
In the prime of life, at Rochaale, of a de¬ 
cline, Mr. John Coupland, a man sincerely 
respected and lamented by his acquaintance, 
and one of the Society of Odd Fellows. The 
body was interred, on the Tuesday following, 
in the usual style, the brothers marching in 
grand procession, in their proper regalia, from 
the house of the deceased to the place of in¬ 
terment, music playing a solenm dirge, ac¬ 
cording to ancient custom, symbolical of the 
institution. 
Near Liverpool, in the dawn of his life and 
genius, the Rev. Thomas Spencer, a dissent¬ 
ing minister of Liverpool. He left his resi¬ 
dence to bathe, a little above the potteries, 
ss he had been accustomed to do. About 12 
o'clock he plunged into the water, and amused 
himself for some time with swimming, w^hen 
he was observed, by a person bathing at a 
short distance, suddenly to disappear. The 
alarm being soon given, Mr. Smith, of the 
pottery, immediately osdered two boats to be 
put off, and, with the assistance of his work¬ 
men, exerted himself most actively for the 
Tecovery of the body 5 and, after 50 minutes 
search, it was discovered at the distance a few 
yards from the spot where it had sunk. On 
the arrival of the body on the beach, the 
_water was easily and compjetely discharged 
from the lungs j it was wrapped up in flan¬ 
nel, and immediately conveyed to Mr. 
Smith’s. Every preparation had been made 
by the kind exertions of the family, which 
enabled the medical gentlemen instantly to 
adopt the usual methods of restoring suspend¬ 
ed animation, but in vain. “ Thus,” ob¬ 
serves the editor of the Li’uerbod Cc.^rier^ 
has the town been deprived of talents, 
v.'hich, when matured, were ''calculated to 
have imprcved and delighted the discernhog, 
a.nd to have roused the thoughtless and indo¬ 
lent. Kis pcpularity, as a youcti of 20 , has 
perhaps been scarcely equalled ; his manly 
form, sweet voice, and fine countenance, en- 
crgased the charms of genuine eloquence. 
J he social and pastoral duties were ende red 
hy a chaste hilarity and sweetness, and his 
etudiea were carefully pursued^ nor can poig- 
csnt regret ever cease in the breasts of inti¬ 
mates, who looked to him as a friend of the 
young, a comfort to the aged, and as holding 
forth the fair promise of long continuing a 
public blessing. The funeral took place, 
amidst an immense concourse of people, at 
Newington chapel. The scene was solemn 
and impressive, and the numbers which came 
to pay this last sad tribute of respect to h/s 
raemory, shewed how deep an interest the 
public had felt in his c.haracter and melan¬ 
choly death, in the order of the procession, 
first walked the geuitlemen of the faculty, 
and, immediately before the corpse, a number 
of dissenting ministers, four abreast. Then 
came tlie body, carried on a bier, the pall 
-supported by ten ministers, five on each side ; 
the mourners followed, and the procession was 
closed by the friends of the deceased, to the 
numberof one hundred ana thirty, in white hat¬ 
bands and gloves, six abreast. All the streets, 
through which the procession passed, were 
crow’ded to excess, as were also the windows 
and balconies of the houses. The body was 
taken into the chapel, where Mr. Charrier, 
minister of Bethesda chapel, read part of the 
doth chapter of the First Epistle to the Cor¬ 
inthians, and the 4th and 5th chapters af 
First Thessalonians, and afterwards prayed 
extempore. At the grave, an eloquent and 
impressive oration was delivered by Mr. 
Fletcher, from Blackburn, and the service 
was concluded by a prayer from Mr. Lister, of 
Lime-street chapel. The whole scene was 
affecting ; it could not be otherwise. Every 
idea which could be associated with the spec¬ 
tacle was such as to excite the deepest sympa¬ 
thy. The flower of youth, scarcely opened, 
snatched from life by a sudden and rude at¬ 
tack of mortality; a minister, who lately 
fixed the attention of crowded audiences by 
the power of his eloquence, conveyed to the 
house of silence and darkness ; the fairest 
prospects of honour and usefulness in life 
blasted ; the warm hopes of his friends wreck¬ 
ed in a moment 5 and the deep, the dreadful 
wound, inflicted in the feelings of relatives, 
and the dearest connections.” 
At Lancaster, Mr. Robert Dickenson, one 
of the oldest engineers in the kingdom, 76.— 
Mrs. Stout, relict of Mr. W. S. woollen- 
draper, 74.—Mr. Leonard Fox, 29, whose 
innocent li^e, patience, and pious resig¬ 
nation, during a long illness, were exem¬ 
plary to all who knew' him, 29.—Mrs. Ana 
Hargreaves, of Bulk, near Lancaster, 76 
At 2idmouth, Dorothea, only daughter of 
thelate Thomas Rawiinson, of Lancaster, 23. 
At Ormskirk, Mrs. Ford, wife of the Rev. 
Mr. P'. rector of North Meols. 
At Valentia, in Spain, in the prime of life, 
Mr. Charles Charlton, late merchant of Li¬ 
verpool, a man deservedly' respected. 
In Wigan, Mrs. Quirk. 
At Everton, lamented by his family, and 
regretted by a large circle of friends, Daniel 
Backhouse, esq. ma.ny years one of the most 
respectable merchunts of this place. 
