1797] 
At Kirk Whelpington, aged 71,.Mr. T. 
Mitchelfon, near fifty years a peaceable inha- 
brtant, and refpe€table fhop-keeper of that 
place. At Billirgham, near Stockton, Mrs. 
Moore. At his houwfe, in Norton, near 
Stockton, Mr. Sipling. At Sedgefield, Mrs, 
Mitchell. At Stockton, Mr. T. Sharp, fail- 
maker. Mrs. Catherick, The rev. Mr. 
Armftrong, of Belford; a pious concern for 
his paftoral charge ever feemed the great ob- 
ject of his cares and labours. At Overacres, 
Mr. W. Armourer. At Kenton, Mr. G. Ro 
binfon, one of the elder brethren of the Tri- 
nity Houfe, Newcaitle. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, 
Hutchinfon’s valuable’ Hiftory of Cumber- 
Yand eftimates the territory of Cumberland at 
§70,000 acres, and its population at 114,320 
inhabitants. It adds, that in the county are 
3000 acres of water, 342,000 acres of moun- 
tain land, (and thefe are, he admits, much 
admired as mountains) and 150 000 acres of 
common land, capable of great improvement, 
that is, that there are at prefent, 473,000 
acres of inclofed ground, and almoft one-third 
ef that quantity unimproved, although con- 
vertible to the purpofes of agriculture. 
At the affizes at Carlifle, Birbeck 
was found guilty on a charge of ftealing cattle, 
and received fentence of death, but was 
refpited. 
Married.|—Mr. Relph, mercer, of Car- 
tile, to Mifs Carrick, of Etterbury Hall. 
The rev. Mr. Sharp, of Dearham, Cumber- 
Jand, to Mifs Griffith, of Whitehaven. 
Mr. J. Smith, furgeon, in Carlifle, to Mifs 
Barker, of Stocklewath. 
Died.J|—-At Carlifle, in an advanced age, 
general Bell. 
At Darwenthaugh, aged 83, Mr. M. Simp- 
fon, 48 years. officer of excife in the counties 
of Cumberland and Weftmoreland. 
; LANCASHIRE. 
The undermentioned premiums were late- 
_ fy adjudged and diftributed, by the Manchef- 
ter Agricultural Society: viz. a filver medal 
to Mr. R. Jones, of Peel Chapel, for keep- 
inz the drains and water-courfes of his farm 
in the beft and neateft manner; and, alfo, a 
filver cup for raifing the greateft quantity of 
good impoft; a large filver cup to Mr. W. 
Greenhall, of Ecclefton, for having kept his 
‘farm in the neateft and moft exaét order5 a 
» Gilver cup to Ifaac Ogden, for remaining in 
the fervice of Mr. Kay, near Bury, 37 years; 
a filver medal to Ellen Hunt, for continuing in 
the fervice of Mrs. Legh, of Golbourne, as 
dairy-maid, 18 years; feven guineas to D. 
Bridge, of Werneth, for bringing up fourteen 
children without parochial affiftance; five 
' guineas to A. Taylor, of Hyde, for bringing 
up eleven children ; four guineas to R. 
Higginfon, of Bootle, for bringing up ten 
children ; 3 a large fiiver cupto Mr. I. Long- 
worth, of Heaton, for draining sthe greateft 
quantity of land with ftone or brick; a filver 
medal and the thanks of the fociety to Ed. 
‘ward Haworth of Turton, tor the next great~ 
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eft quantity ; a filver cup to Mr. Charles Hill, 
of Bury, for the third greateft quantity; a 
filver cup to R. Whitlows, of Drakelow, for 
watering the greateft quantity of paiture Jand; 
a large filver cup to Mr. Gregory, of Long- 
worth Hall, for planting the the greateft 
quantity of white-thorn hedge; and five 
guineas, or a cup of that value, to Mr. W. 
Atkins, of Worfley, for plafhing the greateft 
length of fence, in the beft manner. 
It appears, from a report of the committee 
of the fociety, at Liverpool, for RELIEVING 
WOUNDED SOLDIERS AND SEAMEN, or the 
WIDOWS and CHILDREN of fuch as may be 
killed in the fervice, that the total amount of 
the fubfcriptions received (includingythe inte- 
reft allowed by the banks, at Liverpool) from 
the commencement of the inftitution, ig 
June, 1794, to July 5, in the prefent year, is 
13731. 18s. red.3 and that 920 objects have 
been relieved by the faid {um ; out of which, 
however, 247]. 16s. was voted, at a general 
meeting of the fubfcribers, to oe difpofed of 
in aid of the inftitution allowing weekly re- 
lief to the relatives of feamen, feiving in the 
navy. 
Within the period from June 24, 1796, to 
June 24, 1797, 4528 veffels have arrived in 
the port of Liverpool, of which 680 were 
never there before. 
Preparations are making for erecting the 
buildings intended for an eye for the blind, 
at Liverpool. 
A number of clergy and refpeftable inha- 
bitants of Manchefter, have lately formed 
themfelves into a fociety, for the purpofe of 
promoting religious knowledge among the poors 
ona plan fimilar to the fociety eftablifhed in- 
London, Popular traéts, calculated to fem 
the torrent of profanenets and infidelity, and 
to infpire principles of morality and virtues 
are to be diftributed gratis, &c. 
Atthe late afiizes at Lancafter, it was re- 
marked by the judge that more cafes of man- 
flaughter had occurred “im this county, for 
fome years paft, than in all the reft of the 
kingdom taken together. 
At the late annual prize-fhow of goofeber¥ 
AE? at Livefay, a berry was exhibited by 
John “Aftin, of Over Darwin, which 
Sota r4adwts. ! 
The very elegant yatch lately belonging 
to the earl of Uxbridge, and allowed to be 
one Of the, fineft veffels of the kind ever 
built in this kingdom, is to be added to the 
eftablifhed packet-boats which regularly ply 
between Liverpool and Dublin. 
Married.]|—At ‘Dobcrofs, Mr. W. Burton, 
to Mifs J. Kenworth Mr. W. Lomas, of 
Strangeways, to Mifs Haward, of Manchefter. 
Mr, R, Fogg, cotton-merchant, of Manchef- 
ter, to Mifs Bailey, of Dolefield. Mr. _..¥, 
Williams, of ‘Thetford, Nottingham, to Mifs 
M. Woodroff, of Manchefter. At Kirk Brid- 
don, Iffe of Man, Mr. H. Brewer to Mifs 
S. Swainfon, of Caftle, near Hawktherd. 
At Liverpool, Mr. Oman to Milfs Gibfon. 
Captain R. Smith, of the fhip Active, to Mrs, 
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