1800.] 
alfo by the ableft mechanics, who have 
given it their infpeétion. There feems no 
doubt that the balance-lock-will be brought 
Jnto general ufe in all canal undertakings, 
where the faving of water is an object of 
confideration. 
Dr Parry, of Bath, has juoft publifhed a 
Narrative of faéts and obfervations, tending 
to thew the pra€ticability and advantage to 
the individual and the nation, of producing, 
inthe Britifh iflands, cloathing wool, equal 
to that of Spain, together with hints to- 
wards the management of fine-woolled fheep. 
Many of the inhabitants of Bridgewater 
having determined not to purchafe butter at 
more thon one fhillisg per pound, the price 
was in confequence reduced to that ftandard 
on the next market-day. 
At the late Taunton feffions, Michael 
Gibbs, a fubftantial farmer, of Wellow, 
near Bath, was tried for a fraud on the Com- 
miffioners of the Income Tax, by exhibiting 
a fcheoule of his property with the forged 
initials of the clerk’s name at the bottom. 
He was found guilty, and fentenced to pay a 
fine of 2001., and to be imprifoned fix 
months. 
At the late meeting of the Bath Agricul- 
tural Society, a claim was made for the pre- 
mium of five guineas, for dibbling twenty- 
four acres of wheat. The dibbling took 
place laft January and February, at the ex- 
pence of 1os. per acre; the whole quantity 
dibbled was in the proportion of about three 
pecks per acre ; whereas had the fame lands 
been fown broadcaft, at leaft ten pecks would 
have been required ; fo that the farmer and 
public faved feven pecks on each acre. 
The medium ftate of the thermometer at 
the Hot Wells, near Bath, during fome of 
the hotteft days laft fummer, was from 79 
to 81 degrees. In the afternoon of feveral 
of thedaysit fluétuated from 82 to 843. The 
inftrument was expofed taa northex afpect, 
and fheltered from the fun. 
In confequence of a late meeting at 
Bridgewater, of the proprietors of lands near 
the rivers Bruce, Ax, and Parret, to confi- 
der on the means of more perfedtly draining 
the fame, Mr. J. Eafton, of Bradford, pro- 
pofed a plan for draining all the low lands 
between Glaftonbury and Wells and the Brif- 
tol Channel ; and alfo all thofe from Lang- 
port and Ham Mills to #ridgewater ; as well 
as for the improvement of the latter port, 
and of the navigation of the Parret from 
thence to Langport. 
The 24th of July witneffed the annual 
meeting of the focieties eftablifhed at Ched- 
der by the Mifs Mores,—-the funday fchools, 
and the new inftitution for the benefit of woe 
men. The children of the inhabitants of 
this village were a few years ago as rugged 
as the rocks which they climbed. 
inftitution of the Mifs Mores, they are in- 
ftructed in religious knowledge, and are be- 
come patterns of regularity and {obriety of 
Montury Mag, No. 65. 
By the. 
Somer fet/bire. | $85 
manners, Several hundred children of both 
fexes appeared in clean and decent attire in 
the buildings appropriated to the fundaye 
{chools. The Mifs Mores have eftablithed a 
female friendly fociety, and endowea it by 
contributions which they promoted with 
fuch a fund as muft infure its permanency. 
By paying fixpence a month, each member 
becomes entitled to provifion in ficknefs and 
infirmity, with other fpecified affiftances 
Thefe privileges can be forfeited only by a 
negleét of religious duties, or an habitual 
violation of morality. It will be eafily cone 
ceived that the number of members is faft 
increafing, and that examples of decency in 
conduét are hecoming more and more fre- 
quent. ‘This was likewife the annual meet- 
ing of that fociety. At one o’clock the vil- 
lage was filled with a great concourfe of the 
neighbouring clergy, and other refpedctable 
characters, who came to witnefs fo interefting 
afolemnity. After being elegantly enter 
tained with a cold dinner by the Mifs Mores 
in the fchool-houfe, they joined the procef- 
fion of women and children to Chedder 
church, where a fermon was preached on the 
occafion. by Sir Abraham Elton. On their 
return from church, the fchool children and 
the members of the female fociety were 
again entertained by their kind benefaétrefles. 
Tothe women Mifs Martha More addrefled 
an encouraging and affeéting fpeech, in which 
fhe proved the political as well as the civil 
and moral advantages of the inftitutions 
Their property in a fundof nearly 20ol., ex- 
clufive of their fubfcriptions, ftrongly at- 
taches them to the place of their habitation. 
Two inftances of habitual immorality were 
punifhed with expulfion from the fociety 5 
and three young women, who had married 
with a blamelefs character, received each a 
bible, five fhillings, and a pair of ftockingsy 
the prefent and the workmanfhip of the Miis 
Mores. 
Married.| At Clifton, near Briftol, Mr. 
Thomas Hole, to Mifs G. Carter, Hoch of 
Exmouth. 
At Bath, Mr. R. Jeffop, to Mifs Hute 
chins. Mr. Boord, attorney, to Mifs Alice 
Elkingten. Mr. Brookenbrow, to Milfs M. 
Axford. 
At Briftol, Mr. Thatcher, of London, to. 
Mifs Ann Burnell. Mr. Charles Profler, per- 
fumer, to Mifs'Ann Thomas, of ve 
venny. Mr. Thomas Price, of Caerphilly, 
to Mifs Lewis. 
At Bedminfter, Mr. J. Keedwell, of Bar- 
row, to Mifs Betfey Porter. 
Mr. Thomas Denning, of Froome, to, 
Mifs Brown, of Marfton Magna, 
Died.|} At Bath, Admiral John Carter. 
Allen. He was ade a poft-captain in 4753, 
gar-admiral in 1787; vice-admirak in £7935 
and an admiral in 1795. Mrs. Alet:a Ete 
daile, reliét of tbe late Archibald Efiaile, 
efq, of St. Kitts. ir, Jot Beizley, of 
Worcefter, a Quaker, 
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