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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
Marricd.] At Newcaftle, Mr. Thomas 
Stainton, to Mrs. Rutherford. Mr. William 
Murray, to Mifs Henrietta Burgoyne. ho. 
Wilkinion, efg. of London, to Mils Lyon, 
eldeit daughier of the late Hon. ‘Vho. Lyon, 
of Hetton Houfe, Durham. 
At Birtley, Mr. William Dixon, to Mifs 
H.' Dodd, of Bootland. 
Died.] At Neweaitle, aged 97, Mrs. Ann 
Dixor. Aged 83, Mrs. Efther Bulmer, 
mother of Mr.. Bulmer, print.r. Mr. J. 
Stoddart, ierjeant at mace. Maiter Charles 
Ellifon. Mrs. Coulter. 
A: Hexhim, iudderly, Mrs. V. Kirkley. 
Aged 50, Thomas Kirfopp, efq. Mr. Francis 
Bell, parifh clerk, who had filled that office 
§0 years. ei 
At Morreth, Mr. Ralph Browne, inn- 
ke-per. 
At Sunderland, aged 95, Capt. Reed. 
At Ainwick, Mits Fortter. 
- At Belford, Mr. Jofeph Hill, mafler of 
the Black Swan Inn, 
At Noron, Mrs. Hogg.  Capy. John Tay- 
Jer, Mr:. Hetchinfon. Mr. William Pratt. 
At Stockton, Jofeph Grey, efq. colleétor 
of the cuftoms. 
At Craike, aged ro4, Simeon Ellerton, a 
fingular ped ftrian, and was often employed 
on walking commifiions to Londoa and other 
places. He lived in a neat ftone cottage of 
his own bu:lding, and what is remarkable, de 
bad literally carried it on bis hesd ! it being his 
practice to bring home from every journey 
the moft fuitable ftone he could pick up. 
[We bawe been juft favoured with the following 
Memoir of Mr. Robert Clarke, of Sunderland, 
whofe Death was noticed in our Magazine for 
arch laft.}—Private life, however diftin- 
guithed by peculiar worth or talent, generally 
flows on in fuch an even ftream, as to want 
that variety and intereft, which attract the 
pen of the Biographer; But where that 
worth is of fo fuperior a caft as to offer a 
fhining example, or when thofe talents have 
been fuccefsfully exercifedin matters of pub- 
licutility, it then becomes the duty of furvi- 
ving friends to fave from oblivion thofe vir- 
tues we may imitate, and thofe talents which 
may lead to honeft emulation and improve- 
ment. 
In yoodnefs of heart and indefatigable ap- 
plication of inventive ability, few men, with- 
in the fame portion of time, have gone be- 
yond the late Mr. Roper tTCriarkeE,of Sun- 
derland, whofe death was announced in the 
Monthly Magazine of March lat. From his 
father, Mr. Cuthbert Clarke, whofe know- 
ledge and ingenuity in thé North of England 
had brought him into notice, he inherited a 
genius leading to natural and experimental 
philofophy, and in very early life difcovered 
tafte and talents in the imitative arts. At 
the period of his birth, in Auguft 1767, his 
father was engaged inagriculture in fome pan€ 
of Northumberland, and foon after at Dalton. 
in the county of Durham. His carly years 
paffed over ac Belford, in Northumbertand, 
where, under the fuperintending eye of hig 
father, the bent of his genius was allowed 
its undivided application to thofe objects and 
ftudies, in which he afterwards became fe 
conipicuous: for, at a more advanced period, 
he obtained a perfect knoWledge of the 
French and Latin languages, finding them. 
indifpenfable to the completion of his feientin’ 
fic puriuits. To unite the refearches of {cix 
ence with a courfe of practical utility, and 
to open a way to independance through the 
medium of a liberal profefiion, his father wae 
induced to fix upon furgery and the pra@tice 
of medicine, as an apt fate for the attaining 
of thefe different objects. The commence. 
ment of his profefhional career was under Mr, 
Maxwell, of Newcaitle upon Tynt, with 
whom he continued to the age of nineteen. 
He then proceeded to Edinburgh andattended 
the lectures of the different profeflors 5 
amongft which, thofe of Dr. Black on Che- 
miftry, feemed to have peculiar attrh@ions ~ 
that being a branch of fcience to which he 
became particularly attached, and in which 
he advanced to a very confiderable degree of 
proficiency. In1787, he engaged himfelf as 
anaifittant to amedical practitioner in Sunder= 
land, with whom he continued about twelve 
montus. ‘The two following years we find 
him in the employment of Mr. George Mid 
ford, of Morpeth. ‘This gentleman’s Opis 
nion of Mr. Clarke’s -abilities and general 
conduct, may be be{t gathered from a circum 
ftance that occurred fome time after, when 
Mr. Midford politely offered him an imme-. 
diate introduction to his friends and coanec= 
tions at Morpeth, then left at liberty by the 
removal of a Mr. Hawden, who had fucceed- 
ed him, and a tender of his fervices in any 
way that Mr. C. might have occafien for. 
This occurred at a time when other profpetis 
opening on his view, induced him to deeline 
the engagement. He, at this time, attracted 
the attention of Dr. Keith, with whom he 
continued a {cientific and friendly eorrefpon- 
dence, and whofe good opinion and efteem. 
were eminently ufeful to him on future oc 
cafions. 
A fhort time before he quitted Morpeth, 
his father died at Leith, after having re- 
ceived fubfcriptions fora courfe of leétures in 
natural and experimental philofophy, which 
were obftru€ted by his declining health and 
fubfequent diflulution. Mr. Clarke {oon 
proceeded to that place, and offering to returm 
the fubfcription-money or to deliver thé lece 
tures himfelf, the latter was preferred; ana, 
from every account, we have reafon to be- 
lieve the fubfcribers were much gratifed by 
his method, and the mafterly way ia whic 
he acquitted himfeif onthe occafion. For a 
Jeturer, 
