90 
At Great Stainbridge, Mr. Jof. Lambert, 
farmer. 
At Harwich, aged 45, Mr. Robert Culpach, 
one of the tide-furveyors for that port, and 
an alderman of the borough. 
BEDFORDSHIRE AND HERTFORDSHIREs 
Four barns, and feveral outhoufes, belong- 
ing to Mr. Young, of Horrel, near Hertford, 
were lately fet on fire in three different places, 
and entirely confumed, with about 60 loads 
of wheat therein : about five years fince the 
- whole premifes were confumed in a fimilar 
manner. 
Married.\ At Great Gaddefden, james 
Pickford, efq. of Market-ftreet, to Mifs 
Grant. 
Died.} At Potter’s Bar, Herts, the Rev. 
Mr. Riley, rector of Fobbing, Effex. 
KENT. 
It is a circumftance honourable to the in- 
habitants of the fma!l town of Sittingbourne, 
in this county, that it contains a modern 
public library, fupported by upwards of one 
hundred annual fubfcribers, at one pound each. 
This fociety has been formed thefe ten years, 
and the colle€tion of books is now very con- 
fiderable. 
Upwards of fixty dwelling houfes were 
lately deftroyed, and fixteen others materially 
damaged, by a fireat Chatham. A thatched 
farm houfe, about half a mile diftant, was 
fet on fire by the fparks, and deftroyed, toge- 
ther with a quantity of hay: feveral lives 
were loft. 
At the laft general quarter feffions of the 
peace for this county, the magiftrates, after 
having ordered a cuunty rate, direéted that 
the [pecific fum charged upon each pari/b by the 
faid rate fhould be advertifed: a very proper 
example for other counties. 
Married | At Canterbury, Mr. John Cul- 
ven, to Mifs Saffery. 
At Folkftone, Mr. Tilly, to Mifs Harriet 
Friend. 
At Milton, Mr. Cough Leefe, chemift, of 
London, to Mifs Keen, of Canterbury. 
_ At Feverfham, Mr. Hollingbury, of Little- 
_ bourn Court, to Mifs Soily. 
At Hythe, R. Montague Wilmot, M. D. 
to Mifs Deedes, daughter of the late Wm. 
Deedes, efq. 
At Ore, near Feverfham, Mr. T. Claris, 
beker, to Mifs Ann Redman. 
At Ruckinge, Mr. Ruffell, miller, of Bren- 
fett, to Mifs E. Dives. ; 
Died.| At Canterbury, Mrs. Chever, 
wife of Mr, John Chever, grocer. At St. 
John’s Hofpital, Northgate, Ann Arnold, 
widow, aged 89. 
At Margate, Mifs Caroline King, youngett 
daughter of T. King, efg. Mrs. Silver, wife 
of Mr. Silver, furgeon. 
At Tenterden, aged 76, Mrs. Mercer, wife 
of the late T. Mercer. 
At Chatham, Mr. S. Hart, baker, 
At Deal, Mrs, Oakley, widow of the late 
T. Oakley, efq. 
Bedfordfhire—Hertfordfbire—Kent—Surrey, Sc. [Auguft t, 
At Sevenoakes, fuddenly, Mrs. Whitehe2d, 
relic of the Rev. Charles Whitehead, iate 
vicar of Eaft Grinftead, Suffex. 
At his feat at Cobham, Edward Pelcher, 
efq. many years in the commifiion of the 
peace for the W. Divifion. 
At Merfham, in the 10th year of herage, 
Mrs. E. Sarjon, 
At Blean, aged 69, Mr. Gray, youngeft 
fon of the late Mr. Alderman Gray, of Cane 
terbury. : 
At Pover, Mifs Ann Charlotte Grant, 
daughter of H. Grant, efq, of Portman-fquare, 
London. 
At Helden, in a very advanced age, Mr. 
Thomas Medhurft, formerly a refpeétable 
farmer. 
At Bearftead, aged 46, Mrs. Hannah Co- 
veney. 
At Tovil, in an advanced age, Mrs, Pitt, 
wife of John Pitt, efq. ; 
At Warehorm, Mr. S. Button, aged 89. 
At Charing, aged 40, Mrs, E. Gratewell. 
SURREY. 
According to Mr. Dopp’s report on the in- 
tended Grand Surrey Canal, it is to run fom 
Kennington, Common to the left of the road 
by Stockwell, Clapham, Tooting, and Mer- 
ton, and acrofs Norbiton Common to King- 
fton. A branch from Norbiton Common will 
extend to Epfom, by the right of Maldenand 
Ewell: another branch will pafs through 
Mitcham, and acrofs Mitcham Common to 
Croydon; and from Kennington Common 
there will be other cuts extending to the 
Thames at South Lambeth, and to the King’s 
Yard at Deptford, and to Greenland Dock 
and Rotherhithe. The diftance from the 
bafon in Southwark to Epfom will, by the 
line of the canal, be 16 miles, to Croydon 
12 miles, and to Kingfton 14 miles. The 
whole line will be about 20 fat miles. Mr. 
Dodd eftimates that the total expence will 
not exceed 87,0501. and that the annual pro- 
duce to the proprietors will be upwards of 
8000, 
j SUSSEX. 
Married.} At Chicheiter, Capt, Gillam, 
of the rft regt. of Guards, to Mis Crefwell, 
daughter of the late Mr, Crefwell, of Ror- 
tam. Capt. Brifbain, of the royal navy, to 
Mifs Ventham, daughter-in-law to Capt, 
Cromwell. 
BERKSHIRE. 
Marricd.| At Stony Stratford, Mr. Smith, 
to Miis Clarke. 
At Abingdon, James Butler, efq. of Weft 
Wittering, to Mils Edrige. 
At Binfield, the Hon. Charles Herbert, 
fecond fon of the Earl of Carnarvon, to Mifs 
Bridget Augufta Foreft Byng, fecond daughter 
of the Hon. John Byng. 
At Reading, Mr. Bath, to Mifs Patriarche, 
both of the Forbury. The Marquis de Tref- 
fan, of Languedoc, in France, to Mifs de 
. 
lArdenoy, eldeft daughter of the Compte de + 
lardenoy, of Champagne, 
; Died] 
