1800.] 
his <country. forty. years, under admirals 
Howe, St. Vincent, &c. 
At South Minfter, Mr. William Paffel, 
furgeon. 
At Saffron Walden, Mr. Jofeph Howes, 
aged 30. He pofleffed the moft thining abi- 
\jties, joined to an happy equanimity of mind, 
and a moft amiable dilpofition, 
At Willingate, Mr. Tanner, of the Bell. 
HERTFORDSHIRE. 
. On Friday the 13th, his Majefty, attended 
by the Queen, and royal family, reviewed 
the different volunteer corps of this county, 
at the refidence of the Marquis of Salifbury, 
at Hatfield, confifting of five troops of yeo- 
manry cavalry, two troops of volunteer. ca- 
valry, ten companies of volunteer infantry, 
and the county militia, exclufive of the 
Loyal Hampftead Affociation, who kept the 
ground; making in the whole,-7§ officers, 
and 1482 privates; all of whom. were after- 
wards regaled, on the lawn before the houfe, 
with a profufion of choice and fubfantial 
viands, tarts, porter, wine, é&c. while their 
Majefties and the royal family, with. their 
fuite, were moft elegantly entertained within, 
The number of fpeCtators were computed at 
10,000, 
KENT. 
Mr. James Simmons has benevolently di- 
rected a meal fhop to be opened at Abbot’s 
Mill, near Canterbury, and flour and meal 
to be retailed there at as low a price as the 
\ coft of the wheat and the labour of the mill 
will permit. He has alfo caufed large dif- 
tributions of meal to’ be made to the induf- 
trious poor, at eighteen pence per gallon, 
and this way has relieved from eight to nine 
hundred families per week. _ 
Mr. William Briftow, of Canterbury, has 
lately publifhed a large catalogue of books, 
indicative that the patrons of literature are 
numerous in the county of Kent. The thops 
of bookfellers are always a certain barometer 
by which to judge of the progrefs of mental 
improvement in a provincial diftrict, and 
Kent appears to ftand as high, in this ref- 
pect, as any county in the kingdom, 
The Earl of Thanet, after his late fevere 
imprifonment in the Tower, was affeftion~ 
ately greeted-on a vifit to his feat at Hoth- 
field, by an immenfe concourfe of moft rev 
fpectable perfons from every part of the coun- 
ty. His horfes were taken from his carriage 
at Larkfield ‘Heath, and he .was drawn 
through Maidftone, &c. sie 
At a general meeting of the Hop Planters, 
. &c. lately held at the Star Inn, Maidftone, 
the Rey. R. Warde, in the chair, it was re- 
folved that the bill pending in Parliament for 
the importation of hops till the 1ft of Janu- 
ary, 1801, duty free, would be productive 
ef the moft injurious confequences to all per 
fons interefted in the plantations of hops. 
A; committee was appointed to oppofe the 
progrefs of the bill, and a fubfcription was 
‘Entered into fer defraying the expence; at 
Herifordfhire—- Kent— Surrey. 
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the head of which ftand the Lords Camden, 
Darnley, and Sondes. 
A meeting, at Canterbury, of the planters, 
é&c. in the eaftern diftri€t, has been held for 
the fame purpofe as above, wher fimilar re- 
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folutions were entered into: G. Fauffett, efq. 
- in the chair, 
Mr. Philpot’s iran foundry, at Chatham, 
has been deftroyed by fire. 
Margate, Ramfgate and Broad Stairs begin 
to affume their wonted fummer gaiety. They 
have feldom had more company, fo early in 
the feafon, and already offer every pleafant 
accommodation and relaxation which the ine 
valid or the man of bufinefs can defire. 
Mr. Dodd, the vengineer, has begun to 
ftake out the line of the Thames and Med- 
way Canal, whiclt promifes to be of great 
local and public utility, and though but eight 
miles and a half in lemgth, will fupercede the 
neceffity of going forty-feven miles about 
by fea, between London and Rochetter, 
Married.) At Lyminge, Mr. J. Caopery 
of Barham, to Mrs. S. Hart, of Standford, 
At Rochefter, Mr. Young, furgeon in the 
navy, to Mifs Bremar, of Troy Town, 
At Sandwich, Mr. H. Woodruff, to Mifs 
Bimdock, of Rochefter. 
At Canterbury, Mr, James Wimble, to 
Mrs. Martha Palmer. 
At Aldington, Mr. W. Sonders, of Dym-~ 
church, to Mifs M. Keeler. ; 
Died.] At Smerden, Mr. John Hopper, 
_ At Wingham, Mr. Robert Beale, of the 
Red-lion Inn. He was a man generally res 
fpected, and has left a wife and fix infant 
children to. lament his lofs. 
Mrs. Holnefs, of the Eight Bells, 
; me Eaftry Court, aged 79, Ifaac Bargraye, 
efq. 
At Whitftable, Mr. Daniel Brook, fen, 
At Margate, Mrs. Thornton. 
At Maidftone, Mr. John Hills. : 
At Tinderden, aged 75, Mr. Tho. Mercer 
At Staplehurft, Mr. Thomas Bowes, a re~ 
{peCtable farmer. 
At Rodmerfham, Mr. W. Denne, 
Mrs. Stone, 
At Mereworth, the Rev. Rebert Style, 
re Ctor of that place. 
At Town Sutton, aged 78, Mrs. Pope, 
At Ramfgate, Mr. Atherden, of the Royal- 
Oak Inn. 
j SURREY. 
A dreadful affray lately happened at Farn~ 
ham, between fome Irith foldiers and the ins 
habitants of the town, which ended in the 
death of three of the foldiers and one of the 
town’s people. Thefe frequent affrays in all 
parts of the kingdom between the foldier’s 
and town’s people, require the ferious attene 
tion of government. 
Died.| Mr<R. Smith, of Chertfey. ; 
At Stoke Park, near Guildford, Willian 
Alderfey, efq. gee 
At Egham, C. T. Kerby, efq. ferjeant at 
law. 
At Walton-upon-Thames, Mrs. Horton, 
widow. 
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