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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
At Stockton, as fome hay-makers were at 
work in a field, they were fuddeniy alarmed 
by a prodigious whirlwind, which carried 
many hundred weight of hay to an immenfe 
perpendicular height. 
R. Burdon, efq. M. P. has lately Jet a farm 
of about 70 acres, near Stockton, upon the 
following benevolent conditions:—That the 
tenant fhall conftantly keep at leaft 10 cows, 
and fhall retail the.milk to the inhabitants of 
Stockton.—A deduétion of 20k. a year from 
the rent will be allowed, if the whole of the 
new milk be retailed unadulterated at or under 
one half-penny a pint. 
Married.}| At Newcaftle, Mr. Wm. El- 
liott, tanner, to Mifs Mary Harrifon. Mr. 
Morland, linen-draper, to Mifs Yellowley. 
At Gatefhead, Thomas Humble, eiq. of 
Neweaftle, to Mifs E. Summers, of the former - 
place. 
At Durham, Mr. John Hufband, to Mifs 
S. Breeding. | 
/ At Bithop’ s-Wearmouth, the Rev. Tho- 
mas Ramfhay, L.L. B. vicar of Brampton, 
in Cumberland, to Mifs Maling, daughter of 
J. Maling, ‘efq. of ee near Sunderland, 
At Stockton-upon-Tees, Mr. G . Bertram, 
-of the George and Drage.-inn, to Mrs.- 
-‘Hutchifon. 
Died.| At Newcaftle, Mifs Jane Man- 
ners, daughter of the late Mr. E. Manners, 
‘town-marihal. Aged 58, Mr. Alexander 
Mackenzie, tin-plate worker. Aged 63, 
Mr. James Kenzell. 
At Lilburn Tower, Mrs. Collingwood. 
At Morpeth, aged 64, Wm. Fenwick, efq. 
Aged 76, Mrs. M. Marr. 
At Hexham, Mr. George Oxley, gardener 
and feedfman. Mr. Gilbert Young, book- 
binder. 
At South- ‘Shields, 
efq. 
At North-Shields, 
owner, 
At Cornhill, Mr, James Rainforth, inn- 
keeper. 
At Durham, Mr. Robert Punfhon, late.of 
‘the Queen’s Head-inin. © 
At Sunderland, Mr. Win. alate of 
the Cuftoms. 
At Stockton, Mr. Robert Lumley. 
Wm. Harrifon, fail-maker. 
wife of the Rev. Mr. 
Elton. 
At Streatlam Caftle, John Collpits, efq. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
In the neighbourhood of Whitehaven and 
Carlifle great, damage has been done by the 
late heavy rains: at the former place the 
dephth of the rain which fell in the courfe of 
twelve hours, was two inches. 
Married. ] At Carlifle, Mr. Bald, quar- 
ter‘mafter in the Princefs Royal’s own light 
aged 75, John Fairles, 
Mr. John Ware, fhip- 
Mr. 
Mrs. Rowntree, 
Rowntree, rector of 
dragoons, to Mifs Lowes. Mr. Richard San- 
derfon, of Wetheral, to Mifs M. Watts, of 
Branthwaite. . 
At Whitehaven, the Rev. Gecrpe Additon, 
formerly of Workington, reétor of Great 
Brickhill, Berks, to Mifs D. Bragg, daugh- 
ter of Mr. W. Bragg, of Whitehaven. 
At Penrith, Captain Gordon, of the Prin- 
cefs Royal’s own light dragoons, to Mifs 
Hannah Moore, of Temple Sowerby. 
_ At Workington, Jofeph Wheelwright, 
efq. of London, to Mifs Hadwen, of the 
former place. 
At Newton, near Penrith, Mr. Henry 
Heylin, OLAS of Penrith, to Mifs L. 
Nicholfon, of the former place. 
At St Bee’s, Captain Boven, to Mifs 
Storey, daughter of the late Captain Storey, 
of Whitehaven. 
Died.| At Wigton, aged 58, John Mat- 
thews, efq. It has wifely been remarked, 
that the Left of times furnifh little for, De 
hiftorian; and it is equally true, that the 
lives of the beft men furnifh little for the pen 
of the biographer. Curiofity can only be’ 
gratified by a recital of unufual and furprifing 
occurrences, and the powerful feelings of 
man can only he engaged by the difplay of 
great ftrength of character, called into acti- © 
vity by the preffure of great danger, or the 
folicitation of high gratification.—-The hero, 
the ftatefman, he who has aggrandized a 
country, or laid ene waite, is purfued by the 
eager eye of the {pectator, and inquired after 
with folicitude by all. The ravages of a 
ftorm or a thunderbolt are contemplated with. 
equal eagernefs and wonder; whilft a fertile 
field, and a cheerful atmefphere, are enjoyed 
without, emotion, and thought of without 
fenfibility. The father of wjifdom, as well 
as of poetry, well knew that the great and 
terrible alone intereft mankind, and drew the 
character of his Achillesaccordingly. John« 
fon ufed to call hiftory the annals of blood ; 
it is, indeed, little but the annals of crimes, 
and biography is little more than the record 
of great talents mifchievoufly aged. To 
render a good chara&er interefting, what pow- 
ers of reprefentation are not neceflary ? Gray 
and Burns, the pocts of the heart, were only 
equal to this. difficult tafk! To name Mr. 
Matthews, in the circle of his friends, is to 
apologize for the preceding remarks. Brought 
up in the navy, he retifed on account of ill 
health at a “very early period; he is not 
therefore intitled to any notice as a public 
or profeffional charaéter. Soon after his re- 
tirement, on the death of an elder brother, 
he fucceeded to a handfome inheritance, and 
from that time until his death, he lived upon 
his paternal eftate at Wigton. He married 
the fifter of the late Dr. Yeates, mafter of 
Cathrine Hall, in Cambridge, and by her had 
many chil dren, of whom three furvive bis 2 
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