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Ann, the youngest daughter of the late 
Mr. John Lindley, ot Pontefract. 
At Scarbro’, the Rev. John Brown, who 
had been a travelling preacher in the Metho¬ 
dist Connection for nine years. The two last 
years he was in the Wakefield circuit. 
Henry Wilkinson, esq. of Winterburn, near 
Skipton. 
At his house in Wakefield, aged 71, Ti¬ 
mothy Tooham, esq. upwards of 46 years in 
the Register Office for the West Riding. 
At Elmswell, aged 77, Sir Hervey Smith, 
bart. one of the last surviving officers present 
at the death of General Wolfe, at Quebec, and 
aid-de-camp to that hero. — Mrs. Mason, wife 
of Mr. Joseph Mason, jun. of Gargrave, in 
Craven.—After a few days illness, in the 57tli 
year of his age, Richard H.irtley, esq. of 
Svvinden, in Craven.—Aged 22, Miss Eliza 
Denton, daughter of the bte Mr. W. Denton 
of Wakefield 5 and the following day, aged 
25, Miss Harriet Denton, her sister. Their 
remains were both interred in one grave. 
At Richmond, Mr. Joseph Jopling, of New¬ 
castle, marble mason.—Thomas Ward, esq. 
of Potcernewton.'—Matthew Bryan, esq. of 
Ketherton, near Wakefield. 
LANGASHIIiE. 
The committee of the School for the Blind, 
In Liverpool, state that, notwithstanding the 
Loeral contributions by which the committee 
have been induced to erect the additional 
buildings for the residence of the pupils, the 
funds prove inadequate to complete and fur¬ 
nish them to the extent of the original design. 
The importance and utility of this School in 
qualifying the Blind to support themselves 
by their own labour, the extraordinary suc¬ 
cess which has attended it, and the comfort 
s.nd happiness which it has imparted to num¬ 
bers who, without the instruction received 
within its walls, might have passed the whole 
of their lives in indolence and misery, are so 
Y,-ell known as to render it unnecessary for the 
committee to enlarge upon the subject. 
.A sensible correspondent or the Liverpool 
Mercury states, that the following are the 
consequences resulting from the Orders in 
Council :— 
1 . The loss to our manufactures of the sale 
ef goods in America, to the yearly amount of 
About ten millions sterling. 
2 . The loss to British ship-owners of the 
e-mployment of a v«ry considerable tonnage in 
the trade between America and this country;, 
an employment which, at the time of the 
prohibiiion had increased to an unexampled 
extent, and was still increasing. 
B- An e.xchange against us of 25 to S5 
p^T cent, which has caused the exportation of 
nearly all the specie of the country, but 
which would most assuredly return to us, if 
the exchange were restored to its former 
level. 
4 . The circumstance, that the Continent 
of Europe has ie.iraeu to do without colonial 
■Broiuce, 3ivi 
[Nov. 
5. That Amejica has been compelled tn 
become a manufacturing country. 
"W here, on the other hand, says he, shall 
we look for the benefits resulting from the 
Orders in Council ? After enduring them 
four years, we find the Continent more com¬ 
pletely closed against us than ever, the prices 
of foreign produce most deplorably reduced, 
many descriptions unsaleable at any price, 
and our manufactories in a very depressed 
state. 
[The following interesting account of 
Captain Paul Cuffee, of Blagh, who lately 
arrived at Liverpool, from Sierre Leone, in 
a vessel navigated by Blacks, appeared in 
a late Liverpool Mercury.] The father 
of Paul Cuffee, was a native of Africa, 
whence he was brought as a slave into Mas¬ 
sachusetts.—He was there purchased by a 
person named Slocum, and remained in sla¬ 
very a considerable portion of his life. By- 
great industry and economy he was enabled 
to purchase his personal liberty. At this 
time the remains of several Indian tribes, 
who originally possessed the right of soil, 
resided in Massachusetts ; Cuffee became ac¬ 
quainted with a woman descended from one 
of those tribes, named Ruth Moses, and mar¬ 
ried her. He continued in habits of industry 
and frugality, and soon afterwards purchased 
a farm of lOf) acres in Weftport in Massa¬ 
chusetts. Cuffee a.nd Ruth had a family of 
ten children. The three eldest sons, David, 
Jonathan, and John, are fanners Lrs the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Westport, filling respectable 
situations in society, and endowed with gdoi 
intellectual capacities. Tiiey are all married, 
and have families, to whom they are giving 
good educations. Of six diuighters four are 
respectably married, while t'wo remain single. 
Paul was born on the island of Cutterhunk- 
ker, one of the Elizabeth Islands nearlS’ew 
Bedford, in the year 1759; when he was 
about 14 years of age his father died, leaving 
a considerable property in land, but which 
being at that time unproductive afiorded but 
little provision for his numerous family, and 
thus the care of supporting his mother and 
sisters devolved upon his brothers and him¬ 
self. At this time Paul conceived that com¬ 
merce furnished to industry more ample re¬ 
wards than agriculture, and he was con¬ 
scious that he possessed qualities which 
under proper culture would enable him to 
pursue commercial employments with pros¬ 
pects of success ; he therefore entered at the 
age of 16 as a common hand on board of a 
vessel destined to the bay of Me.xico, on a 
Whaling voyage. His second voyage was to. 
the West Indies ; but on his third be was 
captured by a British sliip during the Ame¬ 
rican war about the vc&r 1776: after three 
months detention as a prisoner at New York, 
he was permitted to return home to "West- 
port, where, owing to the unfortunate conti¬ 
nuance of-hostilities,he spent about 2 years ia’. 
his agricultural pursuits. A? the time ot his 
4 father'a 
