662 ; 
The late Mrs. Abercrembie left 2501. 
among five of the excellent charities that do 
honour to the city of York. 
A petition has been prefented from the 
Merchants and Ship Owners of Hull to the 
Privy Council, againft the propofed plan of 
employing Neutral Ships to import the pro- 
duce of Ruffia. They affert that the ‘fhips 
now employed, with the 18,000 tons on the 
Greenland trade, are Gaver for the purpofe, 
and that the employment of neutral veffels 
would be highly prejudicial to the shipping in- 
tereft and to that nurfery of Britifh feamen 
the Baltic trade. 
The Magiftrates of Sheffield have been 
exerting themfelves hike thofe of Birming- 
ham, to prevent the practice of tippling on 
Sunday S. 
Married.} At York, Mr. James Kitching, 
glove-manufadturer, to Mifs Johnfon. Capt. 
Hill, of Seen odene to Mifs M. White of 
Merk: Mr. Wilfon, furgeon in 13th light 
_ dragoons, to Mifs Fox, of York. Mr. Richard- 
fon, to M:fs Dodfworth. 
At Halifax; Mr. Edward Righy, of Man- 
chefter, to Mifs M. Lord, of Halifax. 
At Leeds, the. Rev. James Milton, of Fewe 
iton, to Miis J. Garforth of the former place. 
Mr. John Kemplay, to Mi {fs M. Finney. 
At Batley, Mr. John Rhodes of Gemerfall, 
to Mifs Oldroyd of Batiey. 
At Badeworth, Mr. W. Hepworth of Bram- 
with, to Mifs. Mafon, ot Rogerthorpe near 
Wentbridge. 
At Stagwood Hill, near Holmfrith, Mr. 
Johnfon, ae Barnfley, furgeon, to Mifs L. 
Newton of the former lege 
At Keighley, Mr. G. Greenwoed, of Hull. 
merchant, to Mifs S. Clapham, of Tittley 
near Keighley. 
At Whitkirk, Mr. Thomas Gill of Leeds, 
to Mrs. Marxham of Hatton, near the former 
place. 
At Wakefield, Mr. Timothy Crowther of 
Little Gemeriall, merchant, -to Mifs Brocke 
of the former place. 
At Grifely, John Grimfton, efq. of Nef- 
wick, to Miis C. Dixon, daughter of the late 
J Dixon, efq. of Glednow 
At Rippon, Ae Thomas Drake, to Mifs 
Sequeira. 
Died.| At York, aged 69, Mrs. Ridfdale, 
wife of Mr. Ridfdale. Mr. G. Elhott, brick 
jayer; he was killed by the falling of a wall 
which he was repairing. Aged.49, Mr. John 
Clark. Mirs. Cartwright, wite of Mr. Cart- 
wright of the Robin Hood inn, Mr. Dun- 
canfon. Aged 75, Mr. A. Glafs, formerly a 
filverf{mith at London. 
At Leeds, Mrs. Elam, reli& of the late Mr. 
ohn Elam. “Aged zz; Mifs F. Kendall. 
Mr. C. Hopwood. Mr. ef. Floyd, furgeon. 
Mr. Denton, liquor-merchant. 
t Hull, aged 93, Mrs. Travis, a maiden 
lady. Aged 74, Mre. S. Thorley. 
At Balby, near Dencafler, Mr. Atkin, 
tanncr. 
ire 
aie. 
Yorkfbire—Lantafbire. | 
[ Sept. 
At Scholes, near Leeds, fuddenly, Richard 
Brooke, efq. lieutenant colonel of the 3d regi- 
ment 6f dragoon guards. 
At Knarefborough, aged 49, Mr. Thomas 
Wilks, brewer, 
At Morley, near Leeds, the Rev. Thomas 
Morgan, in the 8cth year of his age. He 
was the oldeft member of the Prefbyterian 
clafs of minifters in the Weft-Riding; and 
until incapacitated for a€tive ufefulnefs by a 
paralytic attack in the year 1794, one of the 
moft popular and generally acceptable preach- 
ers in that connexion. As a man, and asa 
chriftian, his condu€ throughout life was. 
highly honourable and exemplary. In his 
earlier years he was fettled at Henllan, in 
Carmarthenfhire ; but from the year 1763, at 
Morley. The chapel in which he officiated 
is a very ancient fabric, and was formerly the 
mother church of the parifh of Batley. Ia 
the year 1650, a leafe of it, together with 
the parfonage houfe, and an adjoining glebe, . 
was granted for 500 years, by the Earl of Suf- 
fex, the impropriator to a number of feoffees ; 
who, at leaft, fince the revolution, appear to 
have been ¢iffenters from ‘the eftablithed 
church, and to have maintained the diflenting 
forms of worfhip. ‘The prefent minifter, the 
Rev. Mr. Lucas, has, under his care, the ~ 
Common Prayer Book ufed in that chapel in 
the reigns of Charles 1, and James 11, with 
this infcriprion on the infide of the OWEE 
*¢ Morley town book common prayer.’ 
At Kirby Wharfe, near Tadcafter, the Rev. 
T. Radley, vicar of that place. 
At Horbury, near Wakefield, Mifs Rayner, 
daughter of Mr, W. Rayner, mevoidalt 
At Otley, after a fhort illnets, Mr. Ritchie, 
woollen-draper. 
At Jumpels, near Halifax, aged 77, Mr. 
, Ramfden. 
At Fareholm, aged 68, G. Meeke, efq. 
At Stanningly, near Leeds, Mr. Jofeph 
Varley. 
LANCASHIRE: 
‘Cowdroy’s Manchetter Gazette , contains 
melancholy details of the milchief done near 
Manchefter by the floods. 
A general annual meeting of the Manchef= 
ter Agricultural Society, was held at the 
Bridzewater’s-atms, in Manchefter, on Mon- 
day the 5th of Auguft, when the following 
premiums were Ao: 
To William Richardfon, of Lilly Hill, for 
having the pafture land of his farm iaid dowsts 
drained, fenced and improved in the campleteft 
manner—a filver cup, value feven guineas. 
To John Haflamn, of Turton, for floating - 
fix acres of land—a filver cup, value feven 
guineas. Ry 
To Michael Norton, of Pendleton, for 
raifing the greateft quantity of good compoit, 
and therewith covering twenty-two. ftatute 
acres of land—ua filver cup, value five guineas. 
To jobn Kerfhaw, of Turton, for draining 
thirty- ee. acres of land with fore—-a iilyer 
cup, value fcven guineas. 
Nir. 
