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was lately dragged to death by a hotfe, in 
confequence of his hand being entangled in 
the halter. 
At Uppingham, Mr. Ward, miller: he was 
killed ia a boxing match with another miller, 
who is not expected to recover! Mrs. Leak, 
wife of Mr. John Leak, 
At Burley, the Rev. Mr. Louth, reétor of 
that place. 
LEICESTERSHIRE,. 
The magiftrates of Leicefter have an- 
nounced a very proper determination to punifh 
all foreftallers and regraters, and have invit- 
ed all perfons who dete&t fuch praétices to 
lodge informations againft the offenders. 
Bharried.| Mr. James Swann, of Hinck- 
ley, to Mifs A. Ofbourn, of Lockington. 
The Rev. H. Woolley, to Mifs Power, 
daughter of Mrs. S. Heyrick, of Leicefter. 
At Lutterworth, Mr. Shookleford, to 
Mifs Chapman. 
At Leicefter, Mr. John Gregory, grocer, 
to Mifs Holmes. 
Died] At Hinckley, the Rev. Mr. Nor- 
ton, D.D_ paftor of the Roman Catholic con- 
_ gregation of that place, over which he had 
prefided thirty years. He was a gentleman 
of found underftanding, extenfive knowledge, 
and great mental acquirements, and, during a 
Jong and ufeful life, tenacioufly adhered to’ 
a faithful difcharge of the miniftry, and en- 
deavoured, as much as he was able, to pro- 
mote the intereft and advance the happinefs 
of all with whom he had any concefn. 
was buried at Afton Flamville, attended by a 
numerous aflemblage of friends from the ad- 
jacent villages. 
At Waltham, aged 55, Mr. Richard Mor. 
rifon, grocer and draper. 
At Loughbro’, aged 25, Mr. W. Goyder. 
At Temple Ball, near Market Bofworth, 
Mrs. Oakden. 
At Littleover, by a fall from his horfe, 
Mr. Richard Low. By a fimilar accident, 
Mr. Gamble, of Melton Mowbray. 
At Melton Mowbray, Mrs. Lathem, wife 
of Mr. Latham, a refpectable attorney. 
At his hovfe, in Meatham Field, near 
Afhby. de la Zouch, William Aileneys efq. 
83 years of age: he was father of feveral 
fons, all gentlemen of high re{pectability in 
Derby fhire and Leicefterfhire, and was one of 
the laft of the ftaunch old whigs and indepen- 
dent country gentlemen, of whom Leicefter- 
fhire could, a few years fince, boaft of con- 
taining fo great a number. During thepro- 
greis of his long and ufeful life, he had many 
opportunities of aflifting youthful merit, and 
it was one of the pleafures cf his old age ta 
enumerate the perfons whofe fortunes he had 
been, in part, the means of making. He 
lived to lament the degenerate, corrupt, and 
fawning fpirit of the country gentlemen in 
bis county and neighbourhood, who have of 
late years preferred the {miles of the minifter 
, to the practice of that manly 
independence which, in Mr. Abney’s early 
days, did them fo much honour. A more 
worthy, patriarchal and truly Englifh charac- 
and the court 
Lev cfterfoire—Staffirdfhire—Lincalnfpire. 
He 
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ter has feldom been known, and we hope, in 
a future number, to be enabled todo it more 
juftice, by the favour of fome correfpondent 
in that part of the kingdom. 
STAFFORDSHIRE, 
Married.) At Lichfield Mr. Charles 
Simpfon, to Mifs Maria Iddins, of Birming- 
ham Heath. 
At Leek, Mr. Ely Cope, furgeon, to Mifs 
Wet. 
Died.] At Newcaftle under Lyne, Mrs. 
Cartwright, wife of Mr. John Cartwright. 
The Rev. John Downing, re&tor of En- 
ville, and one of his Majefty’s juftices of the 
peace for this county. 
At Shenftone, the Rev. C. Coates, vicar 
of that place. 
At Forebridge, near “Stafford, aged 54, Mrs: 
Kent. 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
‘The Peterborough Agricultural Society has 
adjudged a five guinea premium, for the bef 
two fhear ram, to Mr. W. Smith, of Stoke 
Doyle, and a three guinea prize, for the bef 
fhearling ram, to Mr. T. Martin, of Tanfor. 
The condu€tors of the Monthly Preceptor, 
have lately awarded their fecond prize for the 
Englith effay, to Matter Henry Walter, of 
Brigg Grammar School. 
Several prifoners received fentence of death 
at Lincoln affizes, all of whom were re- 
prievec, except William Chapman, for a rape 
on Mrs. Sarah Rofe, of Roughton. 
Mr. W. Brooke, of Lincoln, announces his 
defiga to open a new Circulating library, con- 
fitting of the beft books in every branch of li- 
terature. We mention this circumftance 
with pleafure, becaufe at prefent the county 
of Lincoln is, in re{fpeét of the general diffu- 
fion of knowledge, nearly a century behind 
many other counties inthe kingdom. 
In addition to the above, we have the fa- 
tisfa€tion to announce, that Mr. ‘T. Albin, a 
{pirited bookfeller, of Spalding, has juft cir- 
culated propofals for publithing a Lincolnthire 
Magazine, or Literary Repofitory, on the 
15th of every month, to commence on the 
15°h of January, aa It is, however, Mr. 
Albin’s defign not to proceed further in the 
work, till the names of a fufficient number 
of hihenivers are received to cover the im- 
mediate expence, and for the accommodation 
of non-refidents of the county, the work 
will be regularly fold in London, by Mr. 
Wilkie, of Paternofter-row. 
At the general quarter feffions of the 
peace for the parts of Holland, in the county 
of Lincoln, held at Bofton, July 15, 13co. 
The refolutions of the grand jury of the 
county of York, entered into at the left 
{pring aflizes, and the prcceedings of the 
Board of Agriculture thereupon, being laid 
before the magifirates, it was refolved, That 
it appears that wheat has rifen twice within 
the laft five years to more than double the 
price at which the importation of it is per- 
mitted from foreign countries, with the trifl- 
ing dutyof fixpence per quarter. 
That although two unproductive harvefts, 
fuce- 
