


gion,.é&c. and He contributed largely to many 
uléful undertakings and benevolent inftitu- 
tions, for the benefit or improvement of man- 
tind 5: particulatly to fuch as had a tendency 
to amend and ‘reform’ the manners of the 
rifing generation, Though he regalarty de= 
voted 20001. a year to charitable Tes, he is 
well known. to nave difburfed maby atd large 
eccafional fums, &c. as he had ever a heart to, 
feel for the diftreffes’of the indigent, and a hand 
teady to afford them liberal relief. He was th® 
greateft land-owner in this coanty, and aifo 
pote ffed large eftates in Oxfordthire and 
Hampfhire. His renteroll is teppofed to have 
amounted to 40,cool. per annum. He was 
high-fherif; for. the , county, n.i750 5° and* 
was M.P, fer Barnflaple in two 
ments. 
- Near Exetér; in an advanced age, James 
Pitman; efq. a man fo penurious as almoft 
to deny himfelf and, his family the common 
neceffaries. of life, although he died poffeffed 
of property to the amount of nearly 200,000] ! 
accumulated, for. the moft parts by avarice and 
the oppreffion of his relaH On tenants, &c. 
For many years patt he lived 
tages acting andes the impxeffion that “ fav- 
ing is getting,’ “and let to reat the family 
man fion- houfe, becaufe he chefe to forego the 
comforts which wealth produces, and to fhut 
eut hofpitality from his family at large. A 
few years ago he was made one of the Ggicee 
of the peace for the county, bie foon perceiv-: 
ing the fma'lnefs of the perquifites, é&c. acctu= 
ing from the office, his mercenary ambition 
Ted him to commit numberlefs paltry depre~ 
dations on the purfes of the poor individuals 
who ‘elicited from hits an equal diftribution of 
the Jaws; at length, however, he was ig= 
nominioufly eje&ed from the lif of juftices. 
patlia= 
ina fmall cot- - 
4. Deveit..sCornwall...i Wales....Treland.,.. Agricultural Report. t July. 
This debafement of his public charaéter did 
pot check his ufual avaricious carecf 3 he even 
went { far as to treat his children, who had 
independant fortunes; which mut have de 
volyed on htm at thelr death, with fuch inbu-, 
manity, that they abfolutely fank under the 
\ weight of biS ufage, and diéd, untimely, im 
early, youth. On his death-bed he wouid not 
perm: t the ufual attendants on ficknefs to be 
near him 3 nor would he fuffer even @ farthing 
rufe-lightto thed its dim rays round his thatched 
wails. ‘To fum up his charaéter, it may be 
affirmed, thgt in him each natural feeling 
was aoe ificed to guld5 ahd that, as he lived 
detefted by fociety, he. died amid the filen§ 
rejoicings of his friends. 
CORNWALL. 
Died, J=At Tonacomb, Mrs. Waddor. 
we WALES. 
W. Oakley, efq of Tany Bwich,. county 
of Merioneth, has made confidtrable improve= 
ments on “his eftates, by raifing embank- 
menrs againt {pring tides and tand floods; he 
has alfo drained, fenced, and improved up 
wards of 240 acres of nari: land. . 
TRELAND. 
Divifions have appeared, lately, in many of 
the volunteer corps; on. the fubje of pro 
claiming martial law; fifty gentlemen of 
the merchants? corps, of Dublin, declared 
againft ity as tending to éenflave Ul&er. A 
fimilar fchifm exifts in the Linen-hall corps. 
An addrefs from the titular archbithop of 
Dublin, -has been read . Jate ely in all the Ro- 
man Carhclic chapels of that city, recom- 
medine to their charitable benevolence the. 
cafe of twerty-thoufand perfons, chiefly un- 
employed manufa¢turers, “who are, at this 
time, ina fituation little — or seein 4 
ftarving. 

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JULY, sey : 
Our accounts from the weft of England agree in reprefénting the crops as re- ° 
markably luxuriant and healthy in their appearance. 
eighth of the WHeEaT is laid. 
better in any feafon 
well. 
ther. 
Northwards, the continu 
Not more than a ffth or 
The BARLEY, Oats, and Peas, never looked 
The TURNIPS are generally up, aad promife remarkably 
Much: of this | improved appearance ariles from the late dry and warm wea 
ance of cold and wet weather has done more lating ine 
jury 5 yet, on the whole, the crops on the ground are great. 
The early corn has 
been conhderably chilled; and in many places, it is to be feared, will not All-or 
ripen kindly, 
Hay is fill getting in, even in fome parts not far from London; 
and they who have waited for. ithe fi fine weather, will be well repaid by the Towel 
and gooc inefs of the product. 
Crover and Rys-GRAss have not yielded fo we 
as the natural graffes. Turnips are promifing in moft parts where they*are cultis 
vated, but fome traéts have ne from the fly. 
out welle i 
The prices or cat 
le have decir in the north. 
Poratoss feem Piet to turn 
At St. Bofwell’s fair, im Scotland; 
July 18th, was one of the greatett fhews of fheep ever known, which fold 30° per 
cent. cheaper than before. Black cattle alfo'went off dull, and Horfes were a cigs 
Butcher’s meat has fallen proportionally in thofe parts 
On the whole, there is great reafon to hope,’ that the prefent fine weathe er will | 
confiderably repair the damages of the earlier part of the year, ; and thkt the harvett 
wil prove an abundant, though probably. a late one. ' 
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