“the fund of 
- fied by the ftorm. 
Re aa, 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. - 
[ July, 
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Including Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Acriculture, the Commerce, 
the Economy, the Police, Oc. of every Part of the Kingdom; with Notices of 
eminent Marriages, and of all the Deaths recorded in the Provincial Prints; to 
which ar. 
Charaélers. 
added, Biographical Anecdotes of remarkable and. diftinguifhed 
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*..* For the Convenience of our numerous provincial Readers, th’s Department of the 
‘Magazine 1s daffed, at confiderable Expence and Trouble, inio dytind Counties, 
which are arranged geographically. 
Fa 
x Communications (Post PAID) to this Department of the Monibly Magazine, par- 
ticularly of biographical Memo:rs of eminent and remarkable CharaGers, will always 
2 received ana noticed with Gratitude. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
TX confequence of the continued fubfcriptions 
and benefattions of many liberal individuals, 
in aid of the annual payments of the members, 
that laudable inftitution the 
ScHOOL-MASTERS ASSOCIATION, is increaf- 
ing rapidly, and a profpect afforded that it will, 
at length, arrive to fuch adegree oi ftability as 
fully to anfwer the excellent purpofes of 
the original inftitutors. 
The funds of the new infirmary, at New- 
caftle, have, for fome years paft, proved ina- 
dequate to that univerfal relief which was for- 
merly given to the fick poor, by the admini- 
ftrators of that humane inftitution. ~ 
Notwithfianding the adtivity of our “cruizers, 
the North Sea has been, of late, greatly in- 
fefted by French and Dutch privateers ; the 
extent and value of our trade holding out en- 
couragement for the moft daring enterprize. 
A religious fociety has been lately formed at 
Newcaftle, for the relief of the friendlefs 
poor ; the objeéts of this infitution are to be 
enabled to attend places of public worfhip, and 
to be fupported in cafe of ficknefs, &c. 
Neweafile, Fuly 22. Qn Sunday evening 
Jaft, between five and fix o’clock, a‘mof tre- 
mendous ftorm of thunder and lightning came 
. on at Tinmouth and Whitley, which was felt all 
along the north coaft. The lightning entered 
the ftable door occupied by the Haft agd Weft 
Lothian cavalry, encamped on Whitley Links, 
and inftantaneoufly killed two horfes: three 
others were much burnt, two of which are 
fince dead ;—the remainder of the horfes were 
turned out of the ftable as foon as poffible, and 
ran off in/all direétions, being raifed and terri- 
Part of the ftable and forage 
were confumed, but fortunately none of the 
men received the laft injury, though feveral 
were very near the fpot at the time. be 
Married. |—-At Rofehall, G. Charteris, 
jun. efq. of Amisfield, to Mifs S. A. Rofs, 
of Staffold. 
ron, of Whitby, to Mils Frankland. Near 
Hexham, G. Gibfon, efg. of Staghaw Ciofe 
Houfe, to-Mifs J. Charlton, of Sandhoe. 
Died.J—At Newcaftley in the Pudding. 
At Newcaftle, the rev. If. Fea- - 
chair, aged 98, Mrs. B, Wilfon; aétive and 
hearty to the laft, in her occupation of ry€- 
bread baker. Mrs. Adams, of the Quay Side. 
At her houfe, on the Walls, aged 95, Mrs: 
Deb. Weitgarth, a maiden lady anda Quaker. 
Aged 65, Mr. G. Bell, officér of excife: Aged 
67, after a long ftate of ul health, Mr. W: 
Smith, furgeon: his profeflional talents were 
held in high eftimation, and, notwithftanding 
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the many eccentricities of his character, he . 
was very well refpeéted by thofe who knew | 
him, Mr. I. Charnley, fecond fon of Mr. W. 
C.: a young man refpeéted for his great mental 
acquirements and his amiable difpofition. The 
driver of the Manchefter waggon 3 as the wag- 
gon was pafling over Gatefhead Fell, the hortes 
took fright, and ran with fuch violence, that 
the driver, in’ endeavouring to ftop them, was 
thrown down, and the wheels" going ever his 
body, he died, in the courfe of a few hours, 
A labourer; coming down the fteep ftairs, cail- 
ed the Dog Leap, and leaping from the Caft!e 
Garth to the loweft part of the fide, his foot 
flipped, and he fell headlong, by which ac- 
cident he was fo dreadfully bruifed that he ex- 
pired almoft immediately. es nae 
At Newton, near Corbridge, Mr. W. Win- 
‘fhip. In\York, Mrs. Kingfton, reli& of the 
late Mr. C. K. of Kirkleatham. Mr. Block, 
in New Elvet, Durham. At Berwick, aged 
74, Mr. J. Soulfby. Mr. J. Hall, formerly of 
Cat Row, near Morpeth. At Dunfton, near 
Whickham, aged 65,. Mr G. Dobfon. At 
Newham near Ponteland, Mr. M. Rutherford.’ 
At S. Shields, much , refpeted-for his honeft . 
worth, Mr. R. Skipfey. Near Whitehaven, 
Mrs. Linlow, wife of the rev. J. L. of S. 
Shields. At Middleton Tyas, Mrs. M. Hart- 
ley. At-Harratan, near Chefter-le-ftreet, Mr. 
P. Crifp. A boat lately overfet near Tyne-— 
mouth, and the whole boats crew, confifting 
of twenty perfons, were’ drowned, excepting 
two. ea 3 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
At a meeting of the freemen and other in- 
habitants of the city and fuburbs of Carli fle, 
June 26, it was refolved unanimoufly, that a 
petition fhould be prefented to the King, re- 
; ) quefting. 
