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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
Including Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerce, Whe 
Economy, the Police, ©c. of every part of the Kingdom; with Notices of eminent Mar~ 
riages, and of all the Deaths recorded in the Provincial Prinis: ta which are added, 
Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable and diftinguifbed Charaélers. 
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‘ NoRTHUMBERLAND AND DuRHAM. 
77 HE Agricultural Society, lately eftablithed 
at Durham, ate proceeding, with — great 
fpirit, to raife the leading obje& of their inftitu- 
tion, an experimental farm. Exclufive of the 
#apital already obtained in contributions, annual 
fub{criptions, to the amount of 38ol. are fecured 
‘for this valuable purpofe. 
A Society has been lately eftablifhed at 
South Shields, under the ; denomination of the 
Rational S ciety, for the purpofe of purchafing 
books, and diffeminating knowledge, moral 
and political, &c. among the poor. 
The illuftrious example of the Duke. of 
Northumberland deferves to be recorded and 
recommended to the imitation of all opulent 
landholders, &c. This patriotic nobleman, 
in all his new leafes to tenants on large farms, 
invariably referves the cottages, with a fufficient 
modicum of land, for the inauffrious labourers, &c. 
rendering them, by this means, independent of 
the great farmer, and capable of bringing the 
fiuits of their labour to a fair market. 
_ The fympathy of the inhabitants of New- 
eaftle, and its neighbourhood, towards the 
French emigrant clergy, has been, and {till con- 
tinues to be, generoufly difplayed.—W hatever 
the principles of many of thofe perfons may be, 
it 1s not congenial with the charaéter of Britons, 
to wicld the javelin, or incite animofity, againtt 
§¢ the fhorn Lamb.” 
The beautiful new fteeple lately ereGing on 
All Saints church, Newcatftle, is now completed, 
Married,|—At Newcaitle, Mr, B. Nicholfon, 
of Berwick, to Mifs Rebinfon— At Bilhop- 
Wea: mouth, Mr. T. Hartifon to Mifs Thomp- 
fon. Same place, Mr. I. Greenwell to Mits 
Embleton. At Caldbeck, Capt. H. Archer 
to Mifs Addifon. At Sunderland, Mr. G. 
Parker, of Hull, to Mifs Ingram, of Bithop- 
Wearmouth. At Newcaftle, Mr. B. A. 
M‘Ghie, of London, to Mifs E. Addifon. At 
Cockney, R. A. Ironfide, efq. to Mifs Dunn. 
At Sunderland, Mr. 1. Gray, of Newcattle, to 
Mifs Wilfon.  ~ 
Died. |—Aged 87, Mrs. Wood, of Beadnell, 
a lady juitly efteemed through ‘life, for piety 
‘and virtue, and particularly for her benevolence , 
to the poor. 
At Newcaftle, Mr. Thomas Petillo, one of 
‘the deputy-cuftomers of that port. . 
At ditto, Mrs. Pringle—Mrs. M. Harup— 
35, Mrs. M, Fenwick — Mr. R. Raine, a com- 
mon council-man—Mrs. Maugham. 
_ At Bradley, J..Simpfon, efq. At Sunder- 
Jand, Mr. Homes, Quaker-=Mrs, 1, Blagiton. 
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At Allendale, 88, Mr. C. Allfop, a much 
refpected Quaker. 
At Durham, aged 84, B. Willis,- efq — 
Lieut. Finakar—Suddenly, 54, Sir W. Apple- 
by, knight ; created fo, on the-addrefs on tite 
king’s efcape from Marg. Nicholfon—he was a 
man of much originality and eccentricity ‘of 
character, but much efteemed by a very large 
circle of friends. t 
At St. Helen’s Aukland, advanced in years, 
Mr. Michael Broadbelt, a moft ingenious clockw” 
maker, into which machines he had introduced 
a great number of improvements and novelties. 
Though his proficiency was the effe& of intui- 
tive genius, and of application unaided by any 
previous inftrudtions, his general {kill in meche= 
nics was difplayed in a great variety of curious 
inventions; fome of his clocks contain {mall 
orreriése—and others are furnifhed with chimes, 
faid to be more ftri€tly confonant to harmonic 
principles than fuch machines are commonly 
found to be. His mind, which} as well as 
his hands, was continuaily employed, appeared 
to have no bounds to its refearches; and his 
moft intimate acquaintance are of opinion, that 
he received little or no information from 
books ; he was feldom known to contult any ; 
and feemed only to have a {mall acquaintance 
with the beit fcientific writers, even on his fa- 
vourite fubjects.—-To the fuperior force, then, of 
his:native genius, muft be afcribed the nume-= 
rous produ€tions which, in a more public fitua- 
tion, would have rendered him eminent! 
Lately, he planned and conftructed an organs 
which, by competent judges, was pronounced a 
good initrument, and was lately fold to a 
mufical gentleman, for a confiderable fum of 
money. 
On the 2gth laft, at Renmore, near Taye 
mouth, the feat of the Earl of Bredalbane, in 
Scotiand, Robert Fohnfon, of Neweaitle-upon- 
Tyne— 
CA youth to fortune and ts fame unkn-wn,? 
who, if life had beén. preterved till he had 
reached the maturity of age, gave fair hopes that 
he would have carried the fine arts, in fome of 
their mof{t dificult branches, to a perfection 
they have not. hitherto attained in Bittain, 
The few perfons who were within the narrow 
circle of his acquaintance, efteemed him. not. 
lefs for the goodnefs of his heart, than they 
prized him for thofe uncommon taients which, 
in {pite of a variety of depreffing circumstances, — 
fhone forth, in him, with a fplendor that atto~ 
nifhed every one who had an opportunity of © 
ebf{eiving, and powers to appreciate, them, 
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