1800. ] 
ever remembered. 
Was very great. 
A daily poft has been eftablifhed from 
Stamford to Oakham through Empingham. 
Married,| At Uppingham, Mr. Holmes, 
ef the Eight Bells, to Miis Ingram. 
Same place, Mr. Marriott, to Mrs. Kooke, 
Died.|] At Athwell, Mrs, Webster, 
LEICESTERSHIRE. 3 
The Univerfity of Edinburgh, has conferred 
the degree of Doctor in Medicine upon Mr. 
Wirrtram Warp, formerly of Leicefter. 
» One hundred and twenty-fix of the moft 
refpectable occupiers of land in the neigh- 
bourhood of Leicefter, on the 6th, figned an 
agreement not to demand more than five 
pounds per quarter, for all the wheatin their 
poffeffion. ‘The average of wheat on the pre- 
vious market day was 51. 11s. 
At another meeting of farmers at Athby 
de la Zouch, the 13th, a fimilar agreement 
was made, to demand but four guineas. This 
advertifement was fignedby RoBertT AB- 
NEY, Exris SuHiptey Pestevr, and by 
all the moft refpeciable gentlemen in the 
neighbourhood. 
A very liberal fubfcription for the relief of 
the poor was lately fet on foot at Leicetter, in 
which we obferve that the bank of Pares, 
Paget, and Co. gave 50 guineas, the other 
banks the fame fum, and feveral individuals 
ZO guineas each. | i 
At a county meeting held at Leicefter, the 
Duke of Rutranp inthe chair, at which 
meeting was alfo prefent Eart Moira, and 
a number of other highly refpectable perfons, 
it was refolved, 1. That their tenants and all 
farmers are exhorted to bring to all the mar. 
kets a proper and regular fuppl) of wheat, 
barley, and other grain. 2. That the new 
barleybe recommended to be threfhed out,and 
The lofs in fheep, &c. 
fold to poor families for them to convert it - 
into bread. 3. That all families be recom- 
mended to'avoid the ufe of wheaten flour in 
paftry, and to prefer barley flour and rice, 
4. That affixing a limit to the price of wheat 
might produce a more alarming fearcity, and 
be particularly dangerous to the county of 
Leicefter. 5 That relief might be obtained 
_from laws prohibiting the diftilling of grain, 
and obliging the public brewers and publicans 
to ufe a large proportion of fugar or molaffes 
with maltin brewing. 6. That this country 
cannot be fcreened from a recurrence-of fcar- 
city, until it is enabled, by the inclofure of 
wafte lands, to grow fyfficient for its coa- 
fumption. Thefe important and enlightened 
refolutions do honour to this meeting. 
Such has been the public {pirited difpof- 
tion of the farmers to bring their corn to 
market, in confequence of the previous meet- 
ings, that one farmer, of the name of Stone, 
near Leicefter, has found it necefiary to apo- 
logize, in a public advertifement, for not 
bringing to market his {mall produce, alledg 
ing, that ** owing tothe late unfavourable 
Weather, it is not yet in a ftate to,get it.” 
Ruilandpire— Leicefterpoire. 
282 
It is judicioufly obferved, by the editor of 
the Leicofer Sournal, that the graziers ought 
to make fome facrifices as well as the grow- 
ers of grain.—Mutton, obferves the editor, 
might be fold by them at four-pence or four- 
pence halfpenny per pound among their poor 
neighbours, without much lofs to the graziers. 
In our monthly furvey of the provincial 
newfpapers, we have not obferyeda greater 
degree of promptnefs, intelligence, and public 
fpirit in any county in the kingdom, than has 
been evinced in Leicefterfhire during the late 
ebullition of popular refentment, in confe- 
quence of the high price of provifions. | 
Married.] - Robert Abney, efq. of Meaf- 
ham, to Mrs. Richards, of Athby. 
Mr. Devonport, of Wigtton, to Mifs Todd, 
of Swanland, near Hull. 
Died.] Of an apoplexy, Mr. John Wil- 
lows, hofier. 
Mr. Robert Walker, of Beaumont Leys, 2 
refpedtable and efteemed character. 
Mr. Bond, baker, Belgrave-gate. 
At Goatby, advanced in years, Mrs. Drake. 
Mr. Wilfon, cooper, of Leicefer. 
Aged 71, the Rev. H. Hough, reétor of 
Redmill, &c. &c. and a juftice of the peace. 
Mr. W. Sutton, of the Newark, Leicetier 5 
a well difpofed inoftenfive man. 
At Thruffington, Mrs. Cuffon, the amiable 
wife of the Rev. W. Cufion. 
Aged 74, Mr. Thomas Aftley, of Keg- 
worth. 
[ The late Dr. Matthew Norton, whofe death 
Was announced in our laft Magazine, wasa na- 
tive of Yorkfhire. His parents were proteft- 
ants ; but going early in life into Flanders, he 
embraced the Roman catholic faith; and, en- 
‘tering into the Dominican order, adumed the 
religious name of ‘¢ Father ‘Thomas.”— 
About the year1764, he was appointed pat{tor 
of a {mall congregation at Atton Flamvile, 
in Leicefterfhire (the ancient refidence of the 
Turviles); and, about 1770, removed to 
Hinckley. In the fummer of 1772, he was 
called to the office of prior of the convent of 
Bornhem, on the Scheld, between Ghent 
and Antwerp; and, in 1775, was appointed 
reCtor of the college of Louvain, where he 
was regularly admitted D. D. In 1777, a 
fociety at Bruifels offering three premiums, 
a gold medal and two filver ones, for the beft 
differtations on agriculture, draining of grounds 
and breeding of cattle, he gained. all the, 
three. “He had alfo employed much of his 
thoughts on the management of bees; but 
on this head was fomewhat too vifionary. Re- 
turning to his paftoral charge at Hinckley, 
he had the fatisfaétion of being admitted, 
under the mild laws of the prefent aufpicious 
reign, to open a {mall but regular chapel for 
the celebration of his religious duties 3 which 
he performed with fuch inoftenfive integrity, 
as gained him the efteem of thofe of every 
other Chriftian profeffion. Naturally poi- 
fefled of a found underftanding, extenfive 
Knowledge, and great_mental acquirements, 
002 he 
