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peared above the tafk’; cheerful, patient, and 
perfevering under. fatigues her labour was 
ever beforehand, and the preferved abundance 
of leifure for the enjoyments of fociety. She 
was generous, humane, and charitable in all 
her dealings. Her accompiifhments were not 
of that glaring kind, which often tempts the 
poffeflor of therm to make a difplay; neither 
would her natural good fenfe and refined tafe 
have permitted her to make a fhew of gaudy 
acquirements. Her affections were all pure 
and fuiceptible; the felt keenly the aim of 
fentiment ; received and communicated every 
fpecies of kindnefs with ardour, and left no 
attempt to intereft her friendfhip unrewarded. 
Xn literary correfpondence, the force sf her 
mind became more evident: every one who 
enjoyed this happinefs, knews how to value 
her talents. Asa private character, fhe was 
beloved by all who knewher. Jn the relation 
which her widowed ftate had placed her to- 
wards an Infant family, fhe was invaluable. 
¥n herfelf fhe knew no vice, fhe had no faults, 
and her foibles, if fhe had any, were undif- 
coverable. She was one of thofe rare human 
beings, who approached, if fhe did not in 
yeality attain, the limits of the perfeétion of 
ournature. May her orphan family learn the 
true value of fuch virtues and endowments, 
and may they ever emulate’their mother’s cx- 
cellencies. 
DORSETSHIRE. 
Married.} At Dorchefter, Mr. Thomas 
Wood, to Mifs Gibbons, nieceto Mrs. Car- 
ter, ofthe Antelope inn. Mr. George Ftamp- 
ton, to Mifs. Nelfon. 
Died.] At Blandford, Mr. Thomas Wa- 
ters. 
SOMERSETSHIRE. 
The Catffon lock, eref&ted on the Somerfet 
eanal at Combhay, lately underwent a complete 
trial before the gentlemen of the committee, 
and anumerous affembly of fpeétators ; when 
the principles of its a€tion and utility were 
fully eftablithed. The defcent of the caiffon, 
from the upper to the lower level, the paflage 
of the boat therefrom to the end of the tun- 
fie], its return, and admiffion into the caiffon, 
and its fubfequent afcent and anchorage, -may 
be regarded as a complete operation, and efta- 
blifhes beyond all controverfy, the procefs of 
an invention which, in point of ingenuity and 
utility, may be confidered as the greateft dif- 
covery of the prefent age. After the firftex- 
periment, feveral gentlemen, ftruck with the 
facility and fafety of its operation, went down 
in the caiffon to a depth of more than 60 feet, 
and in like manner returned tothe upper level. 
In fome parts of the machinery, the working 
was retarded by a few obftacles altogether. ca- 
fual, and which may eafily be obviated in fu- 
ture. However, to remove all dowbt and 
anxiety on the fubje&t, Mr. Weldon, the in- 
ventor, has undertaken to pafs through the 
S2iffun lock 1§c0 ton of goods in 12 hours, 
with only one man to work the machine, and 
affiftance of the boatman 
Dorfetfrire.—Somerfet/ire. 
Married.] At Bathford, the rev. John 
Genger Barnes, M. A.fellow and tutor of Bae 
lio) coliege, Oxford, to Mifs Anna Maria 
Belcher, daughter of Geoffery Lovett Bel- 
cher, efq: of Lovett-hail, near Maldon, Effex. 
At Glaftonbury, Mifs Mary Willey, a 
young lady of genteel fortune, to one of the 
privates of the Chefhire fupplementary militia. 
Mr. John Light, of Midgill Farm, to Mifs 
Parfons of Timfbury. 
At the Quaker’s Meeting, at Sidcot, Mr. 
Self, druggift, of Briftel, to Mifs Tanner, 
ef Woodborough. ae ie 
At Bath, the hon-and rev. T. S. Twiftle- 
- ton, to Mifs Afhe, daughter of Benjamin Athe, 
efg. formerly in the fervice of the Eaft-India 
Company. Mr. Chapman, of Rodney Stoke 
Lodge, to Mifs Joan Saunders Brooks, datgh- 
ter of Jofeph Brooks, efg. of Cofley Houfe, 
near Wells. H. Brumgatten, efq. to Miis 
Brydges. The rev. William Ruch Hallet 
Churchill, of Dorchefter, to Mifs M. Tur- 
ner, of Walcott Farm, Bath. Mr. J. Hill- 
man, jun. of Chilton, to Mifs E. Spencer, of 
this city- . : 
At Wells, Mr. Oram, of Chilhampton, 
Wilts, to Mifs Crofs. =a 
At Twerton, near Bath, Mr. Spencer, an 
opulent farmer of Newton St. Loe, to Miis 
Dafter, of the former place. 
Died.] At his lodgings in Bath, on the 
28th ult. the rev. Jefle Anker. ‘The fervant 
had juft taken up his breakfaft, and was 
gone to call the landlord, whom his matter 
wifhed to fpeak to; but before he had reached 
the bottom of the ftairs, he heard the explo~ 
fion of a piftol, and inftantly returning to the 
room, found the unfortunate gentleman wel- 
tering in his blood, the ball having entered 
the right temple. Mr. Anker had refided 
feveral months in Bath, and was highly ef- 
teemed for his affability, and frank and gene- 
rous behaviour. About 18 months ago he 
loft his lady, which circumftance he took 
deeply to heart, and has been inconfolable 
ever fince. The writer of this article, who 
has been honoured with his acquaintance mas 
ny years can teftify, that he has feldom known 
him pafs an hour without bewailing his lady 
To diffipate . 
the gloom which now fettled on his mind, he 
with the moft tender poignancy. 
had recourfe to gaming, and is faid to have 
loft confiderable fums ; but not fe as materi- 
ally to injure his fortune, which was very 
ample. That he was not impelled to the 
commiffion of the above rafh aét by pecuni- 
ary diftrefs, was fufficiently evinced by the 
great amount of cafh, notes, and valuable ef- 
fects, which he poffeffed at the time of his 
death. The coroner’s jury, from thefe con- 
fiderations, returned a verdi€& of lunacy.— 
Mr. Anker was a Norwegian of a noble fa- 
mily. 
At Bath, Mr. Barlow, late an eminent mer- 
chant in London.. The hon. William William 
Hewitt, fecond fon of the late Vifcount Lif- 
ford, late lord chanccllor of Ireland. Mrs. 
Eaft: 
