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the boatfwain’s depofition was reported to 
Philips, fufpeéting his intellects to be deranged, 
ph dri him to have recourfe to fome profefii- 
onalperfon. ‘Fhis Philips promited to do; but 
two days after his difcharge from prifon he dif- 
appeared,and has,it feems,not fince been heard 
of. He is, we are informed, a very fenfible, 
well educated young man, and his connegtions 
are faid to be refpceetble. 
Married. J—At Abbey Milton, Reuben 
Joyce, efq. of Bath, te Mifs Langdon, eldet 
daughter of the Rey. Gilbert Langdon, vicar of 
Milton. At Dorchefter, Mr. Fentiman, of 
London, te Mifs Nicholles. Mr. Ballard,of Lon- 
don, filk merchant, to Mifs E. Gritton, At 
fame place, Mr. Johns to Mifs Vincent. At 
Blanford, Mr I. Galpine to Mifs C, Clapcott. 
Died.j}—At Dorchefter, Mrs. Edwards, wife 
of the rev. Mr. Edwards. At Sherborne, Mrs, 
Malmoth. WNear the fame place, Mr. Rofe, 
farmer. The Rev. W. Storeyy A.M. of 
Hixton. 
DEVONSHIRE. 
As the workmen, employed in building a 
bridge near 'Callompton, where cutting off the 
centres, on which the arch was turnedy the 
whole building fuddenly fell in, killed two 
men upon the fpet, and wounded feveral others. 
The rev. W. C. Tucker, rector of Wath- 
ford Pyne, to Mifs E. Small. © At Farfdon, G. 
Sydenham Farfdon, efq. captain in the cleventh 
dragoons, to Mifs Harriot Rodd. 
Died }—At Portimouth, in a very advanced 
age, Geo. Gayton, efq. vice admiral of the 
Whites. . 
At Plymouth, after a long and painful ill- 
nels, the rev. Mr. Love, rector of Hitterfley. 
He was fitting up in his bed, and defired Mrs. 
Love to give him a fharp pen-knife to pare his 
nails. Suddenly he was feized with a rifing 
of the lights, and a fuffocation in the throat, 
He forced up his hands under both jiws to re- 
lieve himfelf, but part of the blade of the knife 
being above his gripe, he feparated the caro- 
tide artery, and inftantly bled to death. His 
wife and children were in the room at the mo- 
ment of this unhappy accident. 
At Plymouth, aged 38, Mrs. Fanfhawe, 
widow of admiral Fanfhawe. At fame place, 
Francis Kroeger, many years conful to his 
Danith majefty. 
Died.J—At Port Eliot, the hon. EB. J. 
Eliot, eldeft fon of lord Eliot, M.P. for Lif- 
keard, remembrancer of the court of exche- 
quer, and a commiffioner for the affairs of 
India. Mr. Eliot was married in Sept. 1785, 
to Lady Harriot Pitt, who died in Sept. 1786, 
in confequence of a cold contraéted during her 
' tying-in. The grief which preyed upon her 
hufband from this period, brought on a feries 
of phafmodic attacks, in one of which he fud- 
denly expired. . 
SCOTLAND ¥, 
‘Tue Mizitra Act for Scotland, has been 
received with general diffatisfaGtion and sefift- 

* This article will be continued bya valye 
able cosrefpondent at Edinburgh, 
Derfetfbire. Cornwall... Scotland, 329 
anee. Thofe whofe fervices as volunteers, had 
been rejected, when we were lately alarmed 
with menaces of inyafions, being {till indig- 
nant at the affront, were univerially unwilling 
te become the yoke-fellows of what they ac- 
counted a meaner and harder fervice. It has 
been generally and warmly affirmed, that the le- 
vying of Fencible Regiments 5 the recruiting of 
the o/d regiments; the drawing away of fuch 
confiderable fupplies tothe nuwy; and the for- 
mation of fo many volunteer corps; have toe 
tally exhauited Scotland of all thofe fupplies to 
the national military force, that can be reafona- 
bly drawn from it. It is alledged 5 that, while 
the fons of the landholders enjoy the rank of © 
officers in the army or the navy 3. while lawyers, 
merchants, andthe moft opulent farmers are ene 
rolled, as gentlemen, in the volunteer corps 5 
while the rich can fo eafily rid themfelves of the 
burthen of the militia-fervice : this ‘burthen falls 
entirely upon the poor, and forms an intolera- 
ble addition to the other miferies entailed upon 
them by. the war, and by the other meafures, 
in general, of the prefent adminiftration. It is 
affirmed, that, the reftritions, exceptions, and 
modifications of this ac7v, are of fuch a nature, 
as to make the weight of it fall chiefly upan the 
labourers in agriculture, the more virtuous and 
induftrious clafs of the labouring poor 3 and to 
make it operate with eftects more baneful to 
agricultural improvement. Even by the warmef 
advocates for the prefent adminittration, it is 
allowed, that there muft be fomething wrong 
in a meafure that -has fo fuddenly provoked 
the univerfal refiftance of a peaceable and loyal. 
people ! 
At Tranenn, the Cingue-port Cavalry have 
had the honour to dye their maiden fwords in 
blood. And the yarious accounts of this un- 
lucky tranfaction ; itis generally agreed, that 
more confiderate precautions on the part of the 
deputy-lieutenant for that diftri€t; and greater 
coolnejs in the troops, might have certainly 
fpored a part of the bloodfhed at TRANENT. 
The blood there fhed will not quickly cesfe to be 
remembered by the commonality of Scotland, Some 
warm-hearted people now fcruple not to aver, 
that all Scotland is to be confidered as being at 
this moment virtually under a military govern 
ment, All the effects of fear, of cajoling ar- 
tifice, of mifreprefentations in minifterial newf. 
papers, of proffered pecuniary aid from the 
higher rankks, are ftill found infufficient to ree 
concile to this meafure thofe who are princi 
pally affected by it. Little progrefs has been 
hitherto made in carrying it into execution, It | 
is the opinion of the beft friends of government, 
thet it onght to be, for the prefent, aban- 
doned. 
Died.) At Edinburgh, Mr. A. Weir, painter. 
This gentleman was well known for his great 
fk'll in natural and artificial curiofities. Hig 
mujfeum, the fole produétion of his own induftry, 
will ferve as a lafting monument of his tafte, 
ingenuity, and perfeverance, whether we cone 
fider the beautiful variety of the ubjeéts, the 
propriety with which they are placed in the 
exhibition rooms, or the neatnefg with which 


