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[ April, 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
Including Accounts of ail Improvements relating to the Agricultme, the Commerce, 
ibe 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; to 
ewhich are 
Charaéers, 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
TTEMPTS are making to introduce the 
~~~ fieam engine of Watr and BouLton, 
into the neighbourhood of Newcaftle;-an in- 
vention which is ufed exclufively where the 
price of fuel is confiderable, but which has not 
been hitherto confidered as of great. importance 
in difiri@ts where {mall coal is of little value. 
‘Et appears, from the advertifement of a gentle- 
man who avews his only object to be “to 
refcue the mechanical part of the coal-trade, 
from the barbarifm in which it has been fo long 
enveloped,” that an engine of Mr. Bouttow’s 
was erected near Newcafile, m 1774, the 
cylinder of which was 60 inches in diameter ; 
that, in its conftruétion, the niceties required 
for faving fuel, were not attended to; that the 
engine will raife {in the common coure of 
working) with 1 cwt. of fmall coal for fuel, 
28 million pounds of water, one foot high ; 
whereas the beft common engine ufed in thoife 
parts, cannot raife, with 1 cwt. of good coal, 
more than 13 million pounds of water the fame 
height; that there is a diminution not oaly of 
the expence of manual labour and coals, but 
alfo in all the parts of the engine proportion- 
ately, on which the fire atts, viz. boilers,. 
furnace-grates, and brickwork, &c.; that the 
engine performs wich a cylinder 60 inches ia 
diameter, and one boiler of a moderate fize, 
wiat would require. in the ufual way, a 72-inch 
cylinder, with three boilers of the fame dimes- 
fions ; and, that it may be ere¢ted at no greater 
expence than the common engine, as the ex- 
pence of the few additional parts is more than 
compenfated in the firft ere€toin of the engine- 
houte, boilers, &c. The engine above- mentioned, 
has been employed, ever fince its erection, in 
diawing water, full feventeen heurs per day. 
An engineer of Elfinore (Denmark) is now 
folicitiag fubferiptions from the merchants, 
fhip owners, &c. of Newcaftle, Shields, and 
Sunderlant, to enable him to raife a new 
FLOATING LIGHT, near the Trinnels; a fhoal 
which lies direétly in the pafiage, calied the Ca- 
digat and is confidered as the moft difficult place 
in the navigation of the jound, being incum- 
bered with rocks, fhoals, and a current unufually 
fluctuating. He propofes alfo to raife a new 
light on the north end of the ifland Bornholm, 
in the Swedith fea. | 
Mr. R. WatrwortTh, in his late report on 
the propofed line of navigation ‘from Stella to 
Hexham and Haydon-Pridye, gives his de- 
Gided preference to the line of navigation 
paffing on the fouth fide or the Tyne. 
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A benefaction of 200]. has been bequeathed 
to the Newcaftle infirmary, by the late Ms» 
Doubleday, eiq. of Alnwick abbey, who left 
alfo rool. as adonation to peor houfekeepers, 
refiding in the townfhip of Alnwick. 
Lately was killed, at Berwick, a fhort-horned 
ox, four years and-eleven months old, whofe 
four quarters, when the tallow was taken out 
of them, weighed 145 ft. 31b.; the -tallew 
added, Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable and diftingwifacd - 7 
ke 
weighed 20 ft. glb.3 the hide 8 &. 1rlb,5_ 
and the head, tongue, and tripes, &e: 15 ! 
Married.|---Mr. N. Oley, 
bridge, to Mifs-B. Walker, of the Hole, near 
Cambridge. Capt. Wilkinfon, of the Durham 
militia, to Mifs E.-Hurry, of Yarmouth. Mr. 
R. Featherftonhaugh, of Windy Hall, to Mrs. 
Peart, of Coaleleugh. At Durham, G. Robin- 
fon, efq. of London, to Mifs\A. Deafon. At Mor- 
peth, Mr. Bruce, furgeon, to Miis M. A. 
Bates, of Whalton. 
Died.|---At Newcaftle, Mrs. Sheen. Mr. 
of Shotley- _ 
W. Dixon; he had procured himfelf many > 
friends, by his fociable qualities, and his unre- 
Mitting attention to bufinefs. Mr. E. Pringle, 
furgeon; he was fuddenly feized with the gout 
in his ftomach on Thuriday morning, and only 
furvived till ten o'clock the~ following day. 
Mis. Turnbull. Mrs. Liddel. Mrs. Hodgion,; 
a quaker, Mr. W.. Wilkinfon, 
After a few hours illaefs, Mr. Wy QOafler. 
Mrs. G. Hall ; in confequence, as was fuppofed, 
of the too liberal celebration of a local feitival, 
called Carlin Sunday, as the had beea obférved to 
indulge rather largely in fried peas. Mrs, Fith- 
wick, Mifs M. Brown. Mifs Smiles. “Mrs. 
Danze. Aged 30, Mr- J. Sheaville. 
Near Newcaftle, Milfs Hodge. Aged 27, 
Mr. G. Hepple.. Mr. E. Clark. Suddenly, 
Mrs. Winthip. Mr. Carr. Mr. G. Brown. 
Mr. Proétor. Mr. J. Atkinfon, fchoolmafter; 
of confiderable repute for his performances in 
painting and the mathematics. Aged $2, ‘v 
Muncatter, efq. generally regretted for his focial 
and amiable qualities. 
At Durham, aged 57, Mr. W. Wharton, one 
attorney.” 
of the common council ; of an arhiable difpofe - 
tion, and ftrict integrity in. bufineds. 
Willey. 
At Stockton, aged 61, Mr. S. Ruffel, for- 
merly fergeant in the firft regiment’ of foot. 
Mr; G: 
guards, and many years tyler of the Lodge of - 
Freemafons. Aged 77, Mrs. Jopion, reli& of 
the late Lawrence J. efq 5; pure in heart, benie- 
ficent without oitentation, and, in every fenfe 
of the word, a truly good woman, allowing for + 
human frailtics. She was fully~ prepoflefied, 
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