1800. } 
DEVONSHIRE, 
Duting the week ending the 24th, Ply- 
mouth was filled with merchants from Lon- 
don, Liverpool, Briftol, &c. to attend. the 
immenfe prize-fales of goods and fhips; and 
«nearly £.100,000 worth of that fpecies of 
_ property was difpofed of. 
Married.] At Dawlihh, W. Kennaway, 
efq. merchant, of Exeter, to ifs Glafs. 
At Exeter, Mr. Wm. Dingle, corn-fac- 
tor, to Mifs Tremlett. 
Died.], At Darthmouth, Mrs. Sarah Nof- 
worthy, widow of the Rev. John Nofwor- 
thy, vicar of Townftall and S. Brent. 
At Exeter, Mrs, Daniell, wife of Dr. Da-- 
niell, of that city, and fifter to Sir Charles 
Bampfylde, bart. 
At Starcrofs, Mrs Woolcombe, wife of 
Mr. W, L. Weolcombe, formerly an eminent 
Proftor in Exeter. 
At Plymouth Dock, John Campbell, efq. 
late Secretary to Admiral Lord Neifon, in 
confequence of a wound he received in the 
battle of the Nile. 
Mifs Mary Bond, daughter of the Rev. 
John Bond, of Crediton. 
At Exmouth, Mifs Lucia Brownlow. 
At Exeter, Mr. John Tothill, furveyor to 
the chapter of the cathedral. 
Mifs Branfcombe. 
Al CORNWALL. 
Married.| At Totnes, Baldwin Fulford, 
efq. to Mifs Adams, daughter of W. Adams, 
«fq. M. P, for Plympton. 
At Falmouth, Mr. Jonathan Woon, to 
Mrs. Groves. Mr. Allport, to Mrs. Richards, 
Died.] Hender Molefworth, efq. youngeft 
fon of Sir John Molefworth, bart. of Ren- 
carrow. 
WALES. 
Married.] At Ruthin, Mr. James Parry, 
attorney, to Mrs. Jane Ellis. 
At Lianychil, the Rev. R. Ellis, of 
Gwnfryn, Carnarvonfhire, to Mifs Jones, of 
- the Lodge, near Bala. 
At Dolgeily, Mr. Thomas Richards, to 
Mifs E, Highway, of Afhted, near Birming- 
ham. . J 
At the fame place, Mr. H. Williams, to 
Mifs Jones, of Tyddyn. 
At Cadoxton, Glamarganfhire, John Ed- 
wards, efg. of the Temple, to Mifs Williams, 
of Courtherbert. 
' Died.] Mr. George Johnfon, Black Lyon, 
Moid. 
At Wrexham, Afr. Eddowes, tanner. 
At Carmarthen, Captain Rufiell, formerly 
of Briftol. 
At Hamner, in Flinthhire, in the prime of 
life, Mifs Birch. 
At Bangor, in Carnarvonfhire, Mrs, Ra. 
chael Lloyd. 
At Glyane, in Montgomery, Mis. Glynne, 
At Guanynog, near Denbigh, the infant 
fon of the Rev. Dr. Myddleton. 
At Llanfillin, Denbigh, Rev. Mr. Jones, 
Montrax Mac. No. £311. 
Devonfbire—Cornwall —W, ales— Scotland. 
1021 
Rev. Mr. James, the pious and diligent cus 
rate of that place. 
At Aberytwith, Mr. John Jones, an emi- 
nent merchant. 
~ At-Pontypool, in his 85th year, Mr. 
Nathaniel Beadles. 
SCOTLAND. 
Died] At Edinburgh, Jofeph Black, 
M. D. and profeffor of chemiftry in that 
Univerfity. ‘This eminent natural philofo- 
pher was, by birth, a native of France, bur, 
fiom his long refidence in Scotland, hag 
been, and will probably continue to be, 
ranked among the moft illuftrious charae- 
ters of North Britain. He was born about 
the year 1738, at Hourdeaux, and, after 
paffing through the ufual elementary parts 
of education, entered as a ftudent of medi- 
cine at Edinburgh: he graduated here ia 
1754,.and was foon after appointed profeffor 
of chemiftry in the Univerfity of Glalgow. , 
Ona fimilar vacancy in Edinburgh, by Dr. 
Cullen’s refignation of the chemical chair 
in 1764, Dr. Black was appointed his fuc- 
ceffor: here he continued giving leétures 
to crowded cJaifes till his declining health 
obliged him, a few years ago, to refign 
the fatigue of leéturing to Dr. Hope. By 
judicious management of his conftitution, 
his health became gradually fo far ime ’ 
proved, efpecially during the laft fummer, 
as to afford his friends and himfelf a rea- 
fonable expedtation of a few yea:s more of + 
comfort and ufefulnefs. In the beginning 
of December, however, a fudden period was 
put to his life while drinking a bafon of 
milk, after returning from his cuftomary 
walk. He died in the fixty-fecond year of 
his age, leaving behind him a reputation ine 
ferior, perhaps, to none of his predeceffors 
in the important and interefting department 
of philofophical chemiftry. Dr. Black’s firft 
publication was his inaugural differtation 
“6 de bumore acido a cibis orto, et Magnefia alial* 
1745. In this he gave promife of that ex- 
celience which appeared fo confpicucus in a 
Differtation of his, publifhed the fucceeding 
year, among the Phy/ical and Literary Efjay’s, 
Edinb. for 1755, on the Subjeét of Magnefig 
Quicklime, and other Alkaline Earths. In 
this paper he demonftrates, that the procefs ° 
of rendering alkaline fubftances cauftic, cone 
fifts fimply in freeing them from fixed air, 
and not in combining them with fire, or the 
acidum pingue, as Myer, and moft of the che- 
miifts of that day, fuppofed; that their cauf- 
ticity depended oa the rapidity with which 
they entered into combination: that io this 
ftate they were nearly pure, whereas when 
mild they. were in the fame fituation of a 
veutral falt. This he proved by thowing the 
acid properties of fixed air, and that the 
effervefcence produced by the mixture 
of mild alkalies with a mineral acid 
was owing to the difengagement of this 
weaker acid in a gafleous form, He alfo 
‘6P thowed 
