1797-1 
quefting ** the removal of his prefent minifters, 
_ a3.a neceffary ftep towards procuring peace.” In 
this it is declared, ‘‘ that minifters bave in- 
volved the nat'on, in a war which might have 
“been fafely and honourably avoided, by timely ne- 
gociation’; that they have fent money out of the 
country, without the authority of parliament ; 
enacted laws, fubverfive of the Bill of Rights ; 
and, bya long feries of unwife meafures, have 
rendered the country contemptible abroad, and 
generated fuch difcontents at home, as, unlefs 
Ipeedily allayed, and the bleffings of peace re- 
ftored, will, it is feared, become dangerous to 
the fafety of the throne, and tranquillity of the 
country,” é&c. ‘The thanks of the, meeting 
were afterwards voted to J. C. CurwEn, efq. 
and Sir. F. F. Wane, bart. “ for their con- 
duct in parliament, in refitting the weak, wick- 
ed, and ruinous meafures of the prefent admi- 
niftration.”” ; 
' . Married.}—At Bifhop’s Court, Ifle of Man, 
Mr.*W. Piper, of Whitehaven, to MifS Brew, 
of Douglas. Captain B. Stewards, of White- 
haven, to Mifs Towerfon, of Swinfide, in 
Kinnyfide. HH. H. Simpfon, efg. of Richard- 
by, Cumberland, to Mifs A. Duberly, of 
Enfham Hall, Oxon, 
Died.|—At Whitehaven, Mrs. Johnftone. 
Aged 19, Mifs M. Chambre. Aged 64, Mr. 
_ J. Kendal, formerly mafter of a veflel in the 
foreign trade. ‘In the Bahamas, aged’28, Mr. 
W. Parkin, mate of the Jane, of Liverpool, 
late of Whitehaven. : 
At Workingten, while on a vifit at a neigh- 
bour’s houfe, aged 67, Mr. W. Peile. Mr. 
T. Outterfide. At Woda Bank, near Egre- 
* mont, aged 43, Mrs. FE. Hartley. At*Lamb- 
fat, in Embleton, aged 63, Mr. T. Coulthard, 
“At Kefwick, Mr. S. Norman, formerly carrier 
between. Kefwick and Penrith. Suddenly, 
after returning from Cockermouth Fair, aged 
20, Mifs Telford, of Beckbank, in Em- 
bleton. 
At Denton Holme, near* Carlifle, Mrs. L. 
Dixon. At Newport, _Gloucef%er, on her 
return from the Hot Wells near Briftol, Mrs. 
M. Spedding, relict of J. S. efg. of Armath- 
waite, Cumberland. At Cockermouth, aged 
28, Mifs R. Bowman. At Pardfhaw, near 
Cockermouth, Mr, P. Myerhoufe. At Ginns, 
Mr. White. At Kendal, Mrs. E. Coupland. 
At Kirk Ofwald, aged 73, T. Featherftone- 
‘haugh, efq. juftice of peace for Cumberland 
upwards of forty years, and high fheriff in 
1755, fincerely lamented for the many virtues 
which diffufed bleffings. around him, and for 
his great worth in public and private life. At 
the Oaks, in Cumberland, Mr. R. Blamire, 
_ftationer,-of London, 
LANCASHIRE. 
At Prefton affizes, Roger Edmundfon, J. 
Atheton, and James Barnes, on a charge for 
‘damning the king,’’ were acquitted, there 
having been no bill found againt them. This 
‘acquittal proved very gratifying to a number of 
their friends in court, but who joined in fentix 
Cumberland and VY¥eftmoreland.,.. Lancafbire, 75 
ment with fome judicious perfons, that it ought 
to operate as a cauticn'to them, to be more cir- 
cumfpect in their conduct for the futare. ; 
Some time ago, a Mr. Powyfs, of More- 
ham, near (refton, offered, by public adver- 
tifement, a reward of fifty pounds a year, for 
life, to any man who would undertake to live 
feven years under ground, without feeing a hu. 
man face; and to let his toe and finger nails 
grow, during the whole time of his con- 
finement, together with his beard. Commo- 
dious apartments were provided under ground, 
with a cold bath, a chamber-organ, as many 
books as the occupier fhould defire, and provi- 
fions were to be ferved from Mr. P.’s table ; on 
ringing a bell the reclufe was alfo to be provided 
with every convenience defired. It appears 
that an occupier offered himfelf for this fingu- 
lar refidencey who is now in his fourth year of 
“probation, a labouring man, who has a large 
family, all of whom are maintained by Mr. P. 
Some wheat, the produce of the fettlement 
at Port Jackfon, Botany Bay, «vas lately 
brought to Liverpool, which, from its fuperior 
gualities, fold for four fhillings a bufhel more, in 
the market there, than Englith wheat. 
Lately a very violent {torm caufed the fea to 
fwell with fuch violence, as to wath downa 
part of the new quay, in Dougias Harbour, 
file of Man, for the conftru€tion of which go- 
vernment had allowed fome time before 15,0001. 
Several new batteries have been erected late- 
ly, at the mouth of Douglas Harbour ; and all 
the inhabitants, from fixteen to fixty, have 
been enrolled te bear arms, 
Since the eftablifhment of the LirErary 
SocrETy, at Liyerpool, upwards of twelve 
months ago, one hundred guineas have been 
apprepriated, from the fund, to charitable pur- 
potes, after defraying all the expences of the. 
inftitution: ‘This fociety was eftablifhed folely 
for the dicuffion of literary and moral queftions : 
every attendant who is not a fub{criber piys one 
fhilling for admifiion. The general eftablith- 
ment of fuch focieties would probably tend to 
promote the diffufion of ufeful knowledge.—=—. 
Our laft Supplement exhibits a refpe@table fpe- 
cimen of the talents of one of the members. 
Lately, at Newton Common, ‘in Lanca- 
fhire, a veffel, heavy laden with copper flag, 
paffed along the Sankey canal, without the 
aid of haulers or rowers, the oars performing 
eighteen ftrokes a minute, by the applica- 
tion of, fieam only! After a courfe of ten 
miles, the veffel returned the fame evening, 
by the fame means, to St. Helen's, whence 
fhe had fet out. This ingenious difcovery, by 
an orig’nal torm and motion of the oars, may 
be ranked among the moft ufeful of modern 
inventions, and, in particular, promifes the 
higheft benefits to inland navigation. 
On auditing the general account of the re- 
ceiver of the dock duties, at Liverpool, it ap- 
pears that 4528 veffels have. arrived in the 
port, in the period from June 24, 1796, to 
June 24,1797; and that the amount of the 
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