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PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM, 
A meeting of the friends to the revival of 
@ Soup-Kitchen was held in Newcaftle on the 
14th of November. It appeared that the in- 
confiderable fubfcription of 841. 3s. 6d. had 
enabled the committee to diftribute gratis 
during the laft winter 46,000 portions of foup. 
A new committee has been appointed for the 
fame benevolent purpofe during the enfuing 
winter. Each fubfcriber of one guinea is en- 
titled to give four tickets a day; and of half- 
a-guinea, two tickets a day. . Another infti- 
tution has been propofed, and is likely to be | 
effected, for fupplying with a comfortable meal 
at a cheap rate many perfons who might not 
with to be confidered as receiving gratuitous 
bounty. The new committee for a Soup= 
Kitchen are Mefirs. Bigce, KeEentisu, 
Bracc, WALTERS, CHoRNLEY, VERTY, 
Dr. RAMSEY, andthe Rev. Mr. FawceTrT, 
ProweTT, and Turner. 
The machine for drawing coals at Felling 
Colliery has been almoft totally deftroyed by 
fire. The property was not infured. 
From the 23d of April to the 8th of No- 
vember, 1799, 9! married women have been 
delivered at their own houfes, through the 
charitable means of the Newcaftle Society; 
the number of children born is exaétly 100. 
This fociety provides the women with medi- 
cal afliftance, and every neceflary during the 
month of their confinement. 
On Tuefday morning, the 12th of Novem- 
ber, feveral meteors, or balls of fire, were 
feen at Greatham, near Hartlepool, and other 
parts of that neighbourhood. They were firft 
obferved between five and fix o’clock in the 
morning, in an ealtern direction, and con- 
tinued falling in fucceffion, and together, till 
day-break. The atmofphere was very clear, 
and the moon, which was at full, fhone with 
uncommon brilliancy.. The meteors at firft 
appeared like what are vulgarly called fhoot- 
ing or falling ftars, which foon became tta- 
tionary; they then, as it were, burft, but 
without any perceptible report, and paffed to 
~the northward, leaving behind them beauti- 
ful trains of Aéating fire in various fhapes, 
fome pointed, fome irradiated, fome in fparks, 
and others ina large column. The fire balls 
‘continued falling near two hours, and were 
fucceeded till near eight o’clock by flight 
flathes of lightning. The general appearance 
was fublimely awful, particularly to the 
Hartlepool fifhermen then at fea. To fome 
fpectators the fky appeared to open, and to 
difplay anumber of luminous ferpents moving 
in a perpendicular dire¢tion:; thefe were foon 
after broken into feparate balls, and fell to- 
wards the earth in a fhower of fire.—New- 
caftle Chronicle. 
Married.| At Newcaftle, the Rey. 
Coulthard, to Mrs. Ana Hutt. 
At Durham, Mr. Thomas Cofer, of Stock- 
ton, draper, to Mrs. Jane Hunter, of Gilligate, 
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At Stcckton-upon-'1eefe, W. N. Brockett, 
efq. of Gainford, to Mifs Mofes. 
Died.] At Newcaftle, Mrs. Rayne, pawn- 
broker. Mr. John Davidfon, hofier. Mrs. 
Ann Scarr. Mr. Thompfon, a cuftom-houfe 
officer; he was drowned in Lae ng from a fhip 
to the quay. 
Aged. 98, Catherine Cates: fhe was 
well known as an itinerant dealer in glafs, 
which occupation fhe followed till within a 
few days of her death. _ . 
At Basehor, near Elfden, aged AI, Mrs. 
Habel Scott. 
At Morpeth, Mr. M, Laidler, inn-keeper 3 
he was accidentally drowned. 
At Hexham, Robert Lauderdale; he was 
difcovered hanging in a wood. 
At Sunderland, fuddenly, Mrs. B. Hodg- 
fon. Mr. S. Hewitt, principal clerk to the 
bank of Meffrs. Ruffeliand Co. Mr. J. Mil- 
ler, brick-maker 5; his death was occafioned 
by a fall from a window, from which he pre- 
cipitated himfelf in his fleep. 
At Stockton-upon-Teefe, Mr. 
fupervifor of excite. 
At Belfis, near Stockton, aged 95, Mrs. 
Moore, relict of the late Mr. R. Moore. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, 
A violent ftorm of wind did great dae 
mage at Whitehaven, and on the eaftern 
coaft of the Irifh Channel, on Tuefday even- 
ing, November 12. On the morning of that 
day flafhes of vivid lightning, unaccornpanied 
by thunder, and fome meteors of uncommon 
magnitude were feen at Newcaftle-upon-Tyne. 
The weather became more fettled, and indeed 
very fine, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday 
following. See other Counties. 
The firft prizes of the Kendal Agricultural 
Society were adjudged on the 19th ef O&to- 
ber as follow: 
if, To Mr. Arthur Robinfon, of Kirby, 
Lonfdale, for the beft ram of the fell-breed. 
ad, To Mr. Robert Dennifon, of Beetham, 
for the beft ram of the improved low-land 
breed. 
3d, To-Mr. Jofeph Faulder, of Calgarth, 
for the two beft ewes of the improved low- 
land breed.—The prizes were filver medals. 
Married.| At Carlifle, Mr. Robert Howe, 
hatter, to Mifs Hodgfon, of Bownefs. 
At Brampton, Mr. Jofeph Dodd, of Car~ 
lifle, to Mifs A. Hetherington. 
At Stanwix, Mr. Jofeph Hodgfon, deputy 
clerk of the peace, to Mifs Nicholfon, of 
Park-Broom. 
At Whitehaven, Captain Younghufband, 
to Mifs Salkeld, daughter of Captain Salkeld. 
My. S. Sanatea fhip- carpenter, to Mifs J, 
Birkett.. M. Hartley, efq. merchant, to 
Harrifon, 
‘Mifs Lewthwaite, daughter of W. Lewth- 
waite, efq. 
At Calbeck, Mr. R. Clarke, to Mifs Irving. 
At Egremont, the Rev. P. Gold, vicar of 
Athlone, in Ireland, to Mifs Ellifon. 
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