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[Sept 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
Tnéluding Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerce, the 
- Economy, the Police, Ge. of every part of the Kingdom , with Notices of eminent Mar- 
riage#, and of all the Deaths recorded tn the Provincial Prints: ts which are added, 
Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable and diftinguifbed Chara€ters. 

NorTHUMBERLAND AND DuRAAM. 
EASURES af about to be taken for remov- 
ing the dangerous fhoals from the har- 
our of Shields, 
Several of the inhabitants. of South Shields 
have refclved to enrol themielves into a corps 
of infantry during the war. 
‘Public notice is given of application being 
about to be made to parliament for an act ior 
a new canal from Hexham to Stella, on the 
fouth fide of the Tyne, through Stocksheld and 
Pradhoe. 
The jupiter, Berifon,and Ariel, €arby, from 
amaica, arrived lately at Shields. The Anel 
brought over a number of officers belonging to 
regiments that had fallen facrifices to the yellow 
fever.—+In one regiment there was not a fingle 
man left alive under the rank of a commifhoned 
qficer.—Colonel Beaumont’s and the Uliter 
fencible cavalry, that lately embarked here, 
have fuffered a moft dreadful mortality, and 
rieither of thofe regiments can now mutter thir- 
ty privates. —Newca/fle Chronicle. ah ia 
Married. j—At Newéaftle, G. Hall, efq. of 
Stannington Bridge End, to Mils M. Minnecan, 
~ At Heighington, John Chriftopher, efg. of 
Stockton, to Mifs D. Surtees, daughter of C. S. 
efg. of Redworth Hall. 
At Monkwearmouth, Mr. M. Balfour, fur- 
geon of the goth reg, of foot, to Mifs M. Y. 
Burns. . 
* Died.\—At Newcafle, 92, Mrs, Atkinfon. 
— Suddenly, 69, Mrs. M. Dugdale; finding 
her.elf unwell ihe propofed going to bed, but 
fell down dead before fhe could accomplifh 
Ms purpole—75, Mrs. Weadcll—56, My. R. 
sock. 
At Durham, 29, Mr. H. Hemfley—68, Mrs. 
M. Cuthbert—At Sunderland, Mrs. Charlton, 
wife of Mr. W. C. Attorney—Mr. T. Carr. 
At North Shields, Mrs. Grey—At Bowlby, 
in Yorkfhire, 70, Ms. W. Dodds, of Birken- 
fide—At Caufey-park, Mr. J. Wilfon; the 
author of many ingen ous poetical pieces under 
the fignature of Nerihumbrienfis. 
CUMBERLAND AND: WESTMORELAND. 
_ The number-of parties who have vifited the 
LAKES in the prefent iiimmer, far exceed that 
of airy former year. . 
A new fair for horfes and cattle opens: at 
Kirkby-Lonfdale on the sth and 6th of Odio- 
ber. A fortnight fair, for the fale of fat and 
lean cattle, will alfo be regularly held every 
fecond Thurfday after the above days. 
In Weftmorciand, in the month of July, two 
inches of more rain fell in that month of the 
prefent year than ufual. : 
Married. JA Whitehaven, Capt. Rookin, 
to Mifs Gunton. 
At Bifpham, Jof. Hornby, efq. of Kirkham, 
to Mifs M. W iifon. 
Died_J—At Whitehaven, 70, Mrs, B, Hel- 
len, fifter to the late Baron Hellen, one of the 
Irith judges—Mrs. Crofby, wite ef Capt. G. 
C.—Mr. jaf. Crooks, » (fs 
At Carlifle, 56, Mr. R. Buckbarrow; the laft 
of a. very old and yefpectable family ef that city. 
At Crackenthorp, 78,Capt. Kirkpatrick; @ 
native of Cumberland. . He diftinguithed him= 
felf in. the rebellion of 1745, by refeuing Gen. - 
Honeywood from the hands ofthe Rebels, tak=. 
ing one of their quarter-matters prifoner, and by 
feveral other gallant actions. He.had reficed 
about 12 years in France, the two laft of whicle 
he was a prifoner,,but obtained hisjenlargement 
foon after the death of Robeipierre. 
At. Kendal, 56, Mr. T. Cornthwaite ; his 
~ ingenuity as a whitefmith rendered him highly 
ufeful to his country. Within thefe few years 
he obtained two premiums, and one medal from 
the Society of Arts. He procured a patent for 
one lock, which was attended with complete 
fuccefs ; he was alfo the inyentor of other locks 
of various defcriptions,. aéting upon principles 
entircly new, and, which ‘are now univerfally 
approved of, and gentrally ufed in moft parts 
of the kingdom. | He was allowed to be ene of 
the beit practical mechanics in the North of 
England. Spire 
At Great Braithwaite, near Kefwick, Mrs; 
E. Wilfon—At Egremont, the Rev. C. Watts, 
Re&or of Drigg and Irton--At Cockermouthy 
Mr. Tolfou, fen. Surgeon. 
At Broughton in Furnefs, 64, Mr. John Stan- 
ley-—At Thornfby, 25, Mrs. Holmes—On his 
road from London to Penrith, Dr, Watfon, late 
of Greyftoke. : 
At Melmerby, T. Bolt; well known over 
the Northern Counties by the name of “Te 
Lame Fidler.” 
YORKSHIRE. 
Application is to be made in the next feffion 
of parliament for making of a refervoir upon 
Gadding Moor and lands, for better fupplying 
the Barnfley canal with water. Similar appli- 
cation is 2lfo to be made for the purpofe of en- 
larging the Oule Bridge at York, and widening 
the ftreets which lead to the fame. 
Morried.J—At York, by {pecial licence, Sir 
Cy Tumer, of Kirkleatham, Bart. M: P. for 
Hull, to Mifs Newcomen, daughter of Sir W. 
G. N. of Carrickglafs in Ireland, Bart. 
_ At Huddersfield, Mr. J. Wrigglefworth, of 
London, to Mifs Riley. 
The Rev. J. Umpleby, vicar of Pannal, te 
Mifs Crofby, daughter of R. C. Efq. 
At Bridlington, A. Green, efq. of Bath, to 
Mifs Litter, of York. 
At Nether Poppleton, John Druce, efq. af 
the Navy Office, London, to Mifs Dickinfon. 
Died.\—At York, fuddenly, Mr. T, Richard+ 
fon—The Rev. W. Potter, vicar of Heming- 
brough and Brayton—77, Mrs. Bufley—59, 
Mrs, §. Prieitman, Quaker— 73, Mrs. Mar- 
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