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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
including Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerce, 
the Economy, the Police, (Sc. of every Part of the Kingdom; with Notices of 
eminent Marriages,.and of all the Deaths recorded in the Provincial Prints ; te 
awhich are added, Biegraphical Anecdotes of remarkable and diftinguifbed 
Charadters, 

NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
ORKMEWN are now employed in taking 
down the toll-booth, in Gatefhead, which 
has ftocd there, fince its laf eretion, nearly 
700 years, and wherein, for many ages, the 
.bifhops of Durham, who are Jords paramount 
~of the borough of Newcaftle, held regularly 
their manor courts. ‘This meafure has been 
reforted to for the purpofe of widening the 
public road, which runs through the central 
part of the High Fore Street. It was rebuilt 
at the expence of that venerable prelate Na- 
thaniel Lord Crewe, diftinguifhed by his 
many princely charities, in Bamboroughthire 
and other parts of the kmgdom. 
It appears from Mr. WuitTworTH’s report 
of his furvey of the projected canal, from the 
Fyne to Chefeer-le-Street, and thence to Dur- 
ham, by making the Wear navigable, that the 
fine and branch with his propofed alterations, 
ate, from the natural levels of the country, 
praGticable and eligible. It appears alfo, as 
caken from the Staith books of the different 
collieries (which, on account of the duties, are 
always attefted on oath) that the article of coals 
alone may be calculated to produce an annual 
tonnage of 22,722). 15s. exclufive of what 
may be expeéted om the opening of new 
mines; alfo that lead and other articles may be 
eftimated to fupply a farther income of 
2:3341.'38, 4d. ge 
In confequence of the alarm of invafion and 
the fearcity of fpecic, the votes of the four 
hanks at Neweaftle were poured in fo rapidly, 
that at a mecting uf the proprietors, held on 
the 2d ult. it was refolved to fu'pend payment 
till fpecie could be obtained. The banks at 
Durham ‘and Sunderland were reduced to q fi- 
milar fituation. A declaration, however, was 
figned by 689 gentlemen and tradefmen of the 
neighbourhood, purporting their refolution to 
take, as before, the notes of all the banks of 
Newcaftle, Durham, andSunderland. Similar 
engagements, relative to the notes cf the 
Bank of England, and thofe of the different 
provincial banks, have fince been entered in- 
to, by the gentlemen, principal merchants, 
&c. in all other parts of the country. ; 
Married.| — At Newcaftle, J. Davidfon, ef. 
clerk of the peace for Northumberland, to Mifs 
Hutchinfon. WN. Hall, efg. theriff of Newcaf- 
tle, to Mifs Brumell, of Spittal, near Wigton. 
Died. |\— At Newcaftle, Mrs. Lewis. Mrs, 
Rudman. Aged go, Mr. W. Kinnard. Aged 
_ 83, Mr. T. Mather. Aged 36, Mrs, Barras. 
Mr T, Mackay. Mr. R. Thompion. Mrs. 
M. Dobfon, Near Neweaftle, Mr. TI. Falcus, 
Aged 90, Mr. W. Hunnam, \ Near Gatefhead, 
Mr. R. Purvis. 
At Tynemouth, Mr. T. Stirling. At Sune 
derland, Mrs. Walker. Mrs. Lambert. ‘Mr, 
Gilkes, conftable, who fell from his horfe, 
and was fo bruifed and fra€tured, that he ex- 
pired in a few hours after the accident. Mrs: 
Ranfom. oe 
At Morpeth, Mrs. Blake, of Tilmouth, 
daughter of the late Sir F. B. Bart. of Twifel- 
caftle, Durham. 
At Stockton upon Tees, Mrs. Tidy, of 
Redman-hall; of an excellent underftanding, 
polite manners, real generofity, and unaffected 
humility. Same place, Mr. H. Cannin, one of 
the band of the Weftminfter militia; regretted 
for his honefty, worth, and facetious qualities, 
by his mufical brethren, the whole regiment, 
and a large circle of acquaintance. 
Alfo, at Stockton, L. Stapylton, efg. grand= 
fon and heir of the rev. Sir M.S, Bart. of 
Myton, York. 
At Sedgefield, Mr. Kerfley, an eminent far~ 
geon and apothecary. Mrs. Walton. 
Wilfon, of Barras-Bridge. Near Lanchefter, 
Mifs J. Greenwell, Mrs. Surtees, of Mainf- 
forth, Durham. At Low Elfwick, Mrs. Proce 
tor. Mr. J. Hunter, of Hexham, furgeon’s 
mate of the Invincible thip of war, inthe Wett 
Indies. _ 
At South Shields, aged 78, Mrs. M. Kent. 
Mr. J. Quinian, {urgeon, in Gatefhead, but of 
late a prifoner at Point au Petre, in the ifland 
of Guadalupe; having experienced much ill- 
treatment, he attempted to make his efcape, 
but was diicovered, and fhot dead, by the 
guard. 
Mafter R. L. Mecdonald, of Durham. At 
Houghton le Spring, Mr. G. Bell. R. Riddell, 
efg. of Cheefeburn Grange, Northumberland. 
The remains of the late C. Atkinfon, efg. of 
Newcaftle, whofe death we noticed in our lati, 
were lately interred in the chavel of St. Mi- 
cholas, in that town, attended by an immenfe 
concourfe of people from all the neighbour- 
ing parts; whofe unfeigned marks of, real 
grief depicted his worth more forcibly than it 
is in the power of words te defcribe. As a 
magiftrate, he was refpeCted.for his ftern and in- 
corruptible integrity, and punétual attention to 
tre duties of his office 5 and aS a man, the 
goodne(s of his heart and the affability of his 
manners gained him the affeCtions of all, His 
gemeral worth and merits préduced¢ him an ex- 
traordinary popularity, and his life was juftly 
confidered as a bright example of moral excel- 
lence, “He ever flood fah as a ftrenvous 
champ? s 
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