4800. | 
The price of ftandard wheaten bread at 
Exeter, as fixed by the mayor on the roth 
inft. was rather more than 3d. per 1b. 
Married.} At Exeter, Mr. B. W. Johnfon, 
furgeon and apothecary, to Mifs Radford, 
daughter of the late Rev. Mr, Radford, of 
Lapford. 
At Woolfordifworthy, Mr. Thomas Lake 
(one of the fortunate heroes of the late Etha- 
lion frigate) to Mifs Elizabeth Manley. 
At Totnefs, Samual Adams, efq. to Mifs 
Bentall, daughter of J. Bentall, etq. mayor 
of that pices! 
At Budock, near Falmouth, Mr. M’Quid, 
aged 32, to Mrs. E. Crabtree, aged 76. 
Died.] At Exeter, Mrs. Jarvoite, wife of 
Mr. Jarvoife. Mrs. Reed, wife of Mr. Reed, 
fadler. Samuel Milford, vee one of the pro- 
prietors of the City Banc. 
At Topfham, aged 81 years, Mrs. Lucy 
Worton, reliét of the late Mr. Robert Wor- 
ton, who, through the whole courfe of her 
life, enjoyed uninterrupted health. 
At Exmouth, Capt. Manning of the ea 
fencibles. 
At Plymouth, Mrs. Elizabeth Cockey, 
_ niece of Dr. Brooke, after a fhort illnefs, the 
effeét of a continued eeet: of fenfibility occa- 
fioned by the almoft fudden death, a few 
months before, of a loving and tender huf- 
band, 
Mifs Jane How, daughter of the late Mr. 
How. ' 
At Dittefham, near Dartmouth, Nich. Ken- 
dall, efq. 
At Columpton, Mifs Monéton, daughter 
of Mrs. Pulsford.  ~ 
At Otterton, aged 88, Mrs. Warren, relict 
of N. Warren, efq. of Mincombe. 
At Iddefleigh parfonage, the Rev.W.Tatker, 
well lenge in the literary world. for kis 
faithfal tranflation of Pindar, his fpirited Ode 
to the Warlike Genius of Great Britain, and 
many other produétions, which evince learn- 
ing and critical tafte. Like too many fol- 
lowers of the Mufes, affluence feldom deigned 
to {mile upon this their votary ; and though 
his publications procured him lyric wreaths, 
yet he conftantly had to ftruggle with Tae 
and often with oppreflion. 
WALES. 
Married.] At Llanymneck, Lieutenant 
Davies, of the 36th regt. to Mifs Ann Lle- 
wellyn, of that place. 
At Hawarden, Sam.. Grindley, efq. of 
Tregarnedd, clerk of the peace fur the county 
of Angleiey, to Mifs Bradley, of Holihead. 
At Wrexham, Mr. Sam. Hughes, grocer, 
to Mifs Ellis. 
At Glarmorgan, Mr. David Davis,. “of 
Myrthyr, to Mifs Mary Stephens, of Bath. 
Died.} At Bala, Merionethfhire, Mr. 
EvanEv a furgeon 5 a gentleman much re- 
dpeSed for his extenfive: knowledge in ether 
Wales—Scotland. 
branches of {ciénce, as W rell as for his fill in 
furgery and phyfic. “ Rich. Meredith, efq. 
of Pentrebychan, near Wrexham. 
At Talgarth, in Brecon, raged 29, Mr. 
Charles Morgan. 
At Neweaftle, in Carmarthenhhire, aged 
88, Mrs. Lewis. 
At Carmarthen, Mrs. Rofs, wife of Mr. 
Rofs, printer. 
The Rev. William Thomas, whofe death 
was noticed in our magazine for OCtober, was 
born at Eglwyrnynyd, near! Margam, in Gla- 
morganfhire, South Wales ; injtidted at Cow- 
bridge, under Dr. Durell, and {ent to Oxfoid. 
to compte te his education. He there took 
the degree of M. A. procured a fellowthip, and 
continued many years tutor in Pembroke 
College. Sir Watkin Williams Wynne and 
the Duke of Beaufort attended his inftrutions, 
and the latter ever continued in the moft ih- 
timate terms of friendfhip with him. Mr. T. 
whilft at Oxford, made confiderable enquiries 
into the Welch language: I haye feen in his 
ae a letter from Evan Evans, generally 
alled Evan brydyddbir, or the long-metre bard, 
deaiine a poem of Llywarchhén, with a 
Latin Heaieion by Mr. Evans—this poem 
was Sy by “Mr. Evans, and” others 
by Mr. Thomas, about the time that’ Offian 
firft appeared, in order to thew the literati at 
Oxford that the mufe of Cambria was as fab- 
lime and powerful as the fifter mufe-of their 
northern contemporaries. Mr, Thomas, after 
quitting the univerfity, became chaplain to 
Lord Vernon, and proceeded ardently in the 
Rudy of works of antiquity and tafte, and it 
is to his fondnefs of the Celtic or Welch lan= 
guage that we owe the ‘* Differtatio de Bardig’? 
which the indolent but erudite Evans under- 
took foen after the correfpondence before al- 
luded to, in behalf of the poets of Wales, 
His liberal way of thinking was extraordi- 
nary, and muft be attributed to his fuperior 
underftanding, his extenfive acquirements, 
and his good opinion of mankind. The Me- 
thodift and Arian, High Church and Low 
Church, Bigot and Freethinker, all felt Nis 
affeftion and friendfhip, as far as their con- 
duét tended to the good of fociety: in no in- 
ftance has he appeared illiberal to the enemies 
of the church, though he himfelf never devi- 
ated from the moft exact obfervance of church 
difcipline. 
acquaintance, and his mufe has etetnalized 
the enchanting fituation of Briton- eo) The 
prefent Bifhop of Durham when -Bifhop ‘of 
Llandaff, had fuch a ref{peé for Mr. Thomias’s 
character and talents, that he ‘appointed him 
Chancellor of the Diocefe, and fhewed every 
mark of attention and friendthip likely ‘to 
diftinguifh unafluming virtue. Ai Thomas 
at one time made. confiderable progrefs in 
the Oriental languages; a Lexicon Heptaglot- 
ton, and other works,. of which the lite 
Bifhop, now of Durham, mado him 4 
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