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him, with fome reluétance, to publifh this 
view, together with another elegant one of 
the Bridge inits finifhed ftate. The two 
beautiful aquatinta plates, with a plan of the 
fectional parts, now before the public are 
ample proofs of his ingenuity and minute 
application, and will remain monuments of 
his tafte, judgment and general execution, 
and what muft very much enhance the 
quicknefs and verfatility of his talents, the 
writer of this article may add, from his per- 
fonal knowledge, that though he had occafi- 
onally praétifed drawing with a view to ana- 
tomical reprefentation, this was his firft at- 
tempt at landfcape and perfpective. 
His character as a man of genius and ta- 
lents was now fully eftablifhed, and a rapidly- 
increafing practice promifed amply to reward 
his exertions; when his friends, with ex- 
treme concern, {aw in him evident fymptoms 
of a confumption. In the fpring of 1797,thefe 
appearances alermingly gained ground, and 
he was urged by his friends, in vain, to try 
a change of air: his confent could not be ob- 
tained until a removal was confidered as no 
longer advifable. A conviction of his approaching 
diffolution long attended him, and under this 
idea he committed his papers to the flames ; 
amongft which was an anatom’cal work, in 
which he had made confiderable progrefs. 
_ Occafionally the vigour of his genius feemed 
reftored, and his love of fcience to the lat 
-was prevalent with him. A few weeks be- 
fore his death, in a converfation with fom: 
intimate friends, on the early period Nature 
had frequently put to the purfuits of artifts, 
he feelingly obferved, ** fhe has put an in- 
delible ftamp en me.’? 
His illnefs gained faft upon him at the 
comm:nc2ment of 1798, and on the 24th of 
February he clofed a fhort but ufeful life, to 
the great regret of numerous admirers of his 
ingenuity and exertions, many of whom, 
fympathifing in the fate of dzparted merit, 
followed him to the grave. 
He was a man of virtue and Jiberality, with 
uncommon powers of mind, and with an in- 
tenfenefs of application truly wondrful. - He 
excelled in corre&t delimeations of the human 
figure in its anatomical relations; and his 
drawings of plans of mechanifm and philofo- 
phical apparatus, through alltheir misute and 
complicated parts and appearances, were ac- 
curate and beautiful. His figure was, genteel, 
his afpecét pleafing. His powers of excitabi- 
lity were remarkably energetic: he received 
impreffions with keen fenfibility—but h2 gave 
them back, modified by his own peculiar 
turn of thinking, with a xe-aétion, at leaft, 
equally forcible. His mind bearing con~ 
tinnally its dire€&tion on obje&s of magnitude 
and intereft, the turn of his language became 
proportionably raifed, and was, in genera’, 
a ove the cclloquial level. In difcufinz, his 
eye brightened, his features protuberated, and 
his whole countenance became ineffubly ani- 
maated. Ina word, he was one, in whom an 
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inventive genius, comprehenfive knowledge, 
and active application, were dignified by fim- 
plicity of manners, fuavity of difpofition, and 
a heart of univerfal benevolence. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND. 
There were married laft year at St. Mary’s, 
Carlifle, 57, chriftened 140, buried 1097. 
At Kendal, married 104, chriftened 219, 
buried 204. ear j 
Married.|. At Carlifle, Mr. David Donald 
to Mifs E. Hodgfon. Mr. Bonnel, druggift, 
to Mifs Lowrie, of Stanwix. 
At Whitehaven, Mr. Burns to Mifs Benn. 
Capt. Davis to Mifs Chriftopherfon. 
At Great Orton, Mr, William Sturdy, of 
Moorhoufe, to Mifs Elizabeth Norman, of 
Great Orton. Mr. George Martindale, of 
Greenfoot, to Mifs Kirkbride, of Hightown. 
At Stoney Middleton, Mr. E. B. Miller, 
in his 75th year, to Mifs Ann Prefcott, in 
her 17th year. 
At Orton, Mr. John Brown, to Mifs Pot 
ter, of Height. 
At Penrith, Rev. Mr. Grattan to Mifs 
Dixon, 
At Harton, Mr. John Anderfon-to Mrs. 
Jobfon, of the Queen’s-head, Newcaftle. 
At Whittington, Mr. A Fither, of Kens 
dal, to Mifs Moore. 
At Penfhaw, Rev. Robert Harrifon to Mifs 
Lowfon. Vanes: 
At Brampton, Mr. Thomas Bell to Mifs 
Mary Nicholfon. — Wie 7 
Died.] At Whitehaven, aged 28, Mr. Jo- 
feph Hodgfon, merchant. Aged 38, Mrs. 
Fleming. Aged 65, Mrs. Younghubband. 
Mrs. E. Hannah. Mrs, Blades. Aged 73, 
Mr. Jofeph Mafon. Mr. Barrett. 
At Kendal, Mr. Thomas Beck. Mr. Wil- 
liam Holme. Mr. Lawrence Jackfon. Mrs. 
Gandy. Mr. John Coward. 
At Workington, in the prime of life, Mr. 
Jeremiah Smith, fchooolmatter. 
At Kefwick, Mrs. Mary Banks, aged 43. 
Upon digging. her grave in the middle aifle 
of, Crofthwaite church (where five or fix 
generations of her hufband’s anceftors had 
been interred) a coffin was found entire, and 
in a place which had not been opened in the 
memory of any perfom living. This circum- 
ftance induced a minute infpection, - The 
coffin wasof ftout oak plan aninch and ahal¢ 
in thicknefs, the length fix feet two inches 
within, fixteen inehes in width at the head, 
fourteen inches at the feet, and thirteen 
inches in depth, firmly put together, and de- 
pofited five feet four inches in the ground ; 
the ikull was quite freth, and none of the 
bones impaired. It is conje€tured to be the 
remains of Sir John Banks, knt.-of the Com- 
mon Pleas in the reign of Charles the IId, 
who died in the year 1643. He was a great 
benefactor to his native place, Kefwick, to 
which he bequeathed two very fine eftates. 
At Longfledale, ayed.74, Mrs. A. Kellet. 
At Kirk Andrews-upon Etk, aged 73, Mr. . 
John Tate, parifi clerk and {choolmafter 5 in 
the 
