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‘At Widcomb, Mr, Gardner, Aged 35, 
Mr. Charles Lewis. ' 
DEVONSHIRE. 
At Cullumpton, feven houfes were burnt 
down, occafioned by the firing of a rocket 
during the public rejoicing on account of the 
defeat of the French fquadroh deftined to in- 
vade Ireland. 
Married. | 
R. Hughes, to Mifs Efcott. 
The Rev. Mr. Small, of Axminfter, to 
Mifs Whitty. 
Died.] At Exeter, aged 33, Mrs. E. Na- 
hon, Mr. Hine, Mr. Phillip Tricits, Mifs 
Cooke. 
At Exmouth, Mrs. Emlin Warnell. 
At Plymouth, fuddenly, Mrs. Nelfon, 
wife of Mr. Nelfon, banker. 
At Dartmouth, Mr. T, Eales, poftmatfter. 
At Tiverton, Mr. Hugh Sweetland. 
At Dawlith, Mrs. Green, mother of Lady 
Colnbrook, and fifter of the attorney-general 
of Ireland. 
CORNWALL. 
Married.]- The Rev. Mr. Oxenham, of 
Paul, near Penzance, to Mifs, Ann Nut- 
combe, youngeft daughter of the Rev. Chan- 
ce!lor Nutcombe, of Exeter. 
At Illuggon, William Gregory, efq. of the 
Wiltthire regiment, to Mifs Kevill, of Tre- 
venion: 
Died.] George Hunt, efq. nephew of the 
Earl/of Radnor, of the Robarts family, and 
many years member of parliament for Bod- 
myn, in thiscounty,. _ 
At Penzance, in his $ift year, the Rev, 
William Tomkin. Pi 
SOUTH WALES, 
The canal which was begun in 1794, from 
the fea at Swanfea, to the Breconshire Hills 
at Hen Noyadd, is now finiihed, it extends 
16 miles on an elevation of 472 feet, and 
has coft, exciufive of its rail roads, nearly 
60,0001. It is terminated at each end by 
lime ftone rocks, and by feveral ftrata of iron 
ftone in the vicinity, of the beft qualigy, 
and inexauftible as to quantity. The inter- 
mediate fpace of country abounds in every 
kind of coal and culm, from the hard ftone 
coal ufed for malting purpofes, andthe coal 
ufed for iron coak, tothe mot bituminoas and 
caking. The river Tawey (on whofe banks 
the canal is made) with its brooks, form 
natural levels to all thefe veins of coal, culm, 
iron ftone, and lime. The mines of the 
country running nearly eaft and weft, and 
the river and canal nearly north and fouth, 
thereby interfe€t them. Several companies 
of great reipeCtability, among whom are 
fome late takers from Whitehaven and the 
Vicinity of Coalbrook Dale, are become con- 
cerned therein, The trade of Swanfea is 
confiderably increafed of late years—in 1768 
/the number of veflels were 6943 in 1797, 
1897, and the tonnage has increafed from 
30, 631, to 116,043,~ regifter gmeafure 
which has this year received a Mill further 
~— Devonfoire....Cornwail....South Wales. 
At Plymouth-dock, the Rev. 
401 
increafe. Wery confiderable worlss are alfo 
carrying onat this place, for deepening the 
outward harbour and extending the new pier, 
which isin great forwardnef$, and which was 
planned by the judicious Captain Huddard, 
of the Trinity Houfe, with a view of large 
craft being introduced for the Weft India and 
foreign trade. : 
Died.| Lately, John Adams, efq. cf Pem- 
broke. ‘Chis gentleman, who poffeffed a good 
fortune, was fond of the ftudy of natural hit. 
tory, and employed much of his time in 
ranging along the {ga fhore and colleGting 
fhells, and other marine productions, being 
out a few days fince, employed in his fa- 
vourite amufement, and attempting to catch 
fomething which he faw, which happened 
tobe out of his reach, he unfortunately fell 
into the fea, head foremoft, and was drown- 
ed, Fle was aman of a moft amiable difpo- 
fition, and univerfally refpe€ted by the whole. 
neighourhood. It is remarkable, that he 
loft his life near to the very fpot on which 
anatural fon of his was drowned a few 
months ago, an event which we might nas 
turally be fuppofed, would have made him 
more cautious. © The branch of natural hif- 
tory which he principally fludied was conco~ 
logy. His colle€tion of fhells is very exten- 
five, and he has written fome papers on the: 
fubje&t, which appear in the Linnean Trane 
factions, | 
SCOTLAND. 
Lied.| Lady Mary Douglafs, daughter of 
the earl of Selkerk. This noble lord had, 
in £794, eight children living, half ef whom 
he hag been) deprived of in lefs than four 
years, Bafil William Lord. Daer, died in 
4795. -His next brother, who fucceeded ta 
the title of Lord Daer, died in 1757. The 
Hon. Alexander Douglas, another fon, ia 
1796, and the above daughter. 
At Kerfiebank Houfe, Mifs Jemima 
French, fecond daughter of Lieutenant-colo.w | 
lonel French, of the road regiment of Foot. 
At Yefter Houie, Lord William Hay, 
fourth fon of the,Marquis of Tweedale. 
Mr. James Rennie, merchant in Leith. 
At Edinburgh, in his 81ft year. Mr. Wil- 
ham Sibbaid. Mrs. Henrietta Nimmo, rece 
lid of the Rev. Mr. Nimmo, Minifter of the 
gofpel. Mr. Roberton. Aged 93, Mrs. 
Janet Pitcairn. 
Aged 86, Mr. Ebenezer Oliphant. Ed- 
mund Léchmere, jun. efq. repretentative in 
the laft parliament for the city of Wore 
cefter. 
Mrr. William Leflie, writer to the fignet. 
Mifs Anne Campbell. 
DEATHS ABROAD, 
A few months fince, at Carbonear in New- 
foundland, Mrs. D. Grives, wife of Mr. 
Thomas Grives, of Poole: the wasa woman 
of the moft amiable and exemplary qualities, 
and difplayed the greate{t fortitude and re- 
fignation at the approach of the moft painful 
eyent that awaits mortality. She left the 
world, 
