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ENov. 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
Lncluding Accounts of all Improvements relating to the Agriculture, the Commerce, 
the Economy, the Police, Sc. 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 
** For the Conwemence of our numerous Provincial Readers, tbis Depariment of the 
Magazine is claffed, at confiderable Expence and Trouble, into diflin Counties, 
which are axranged Geographically. 
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XS Communications (post PAID) to this Department of the Monthly Magazine, pat- 
ticularly of biographical Memoirs 
be received and noticed with gratitude. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
T a mecting of the committee appointed to 
prepare and digeft a plan of an Agricultu-— 
ral Society and Experimental Farm, held at the 
White Swan Inn, in Alnwick, on the 3d in- 
ftant, it'was refolved, that a general mecting 
of the Janded proprietors and farmers fhould be 
convened, at the town hall, on the 22nd of 
December next, at twelve o’clock in the fore- 
noon, to determine upon the expediency of 
eftablifhing the faid Agricultural Society and 
Experimental Farm. Outlines of a plan alrea- 
dy arranged were ardered ta be advertifed, in 
the Newcaftle papers. 
On the 4th ef next month, the charitable in- 
ftitution for relieving the diftreffes of the poor, 
by the preparation of foups, upon Count Rum- 
ford’s plan, will be renewed for the winter 
months. This benevolent undertaking was 
carried on with unexampled fuccefs laft win- 
ter; upwards of 180 perfons, on an average, 
being furnifhed with a daily meal of whole- 
fome and palatable food, from the firft of 
January to the 31ft of March laft. The com- 
taittee hope to be able to extend their plan, 
and ;ender it permanent. Subferibers of five 
fillings have a right to iffue one ticket daily to 
any neceffitous perfon; thofe who fubfcribe 
half a guinea iflue two, and fo on in propor- 
tion. 
At St. Nicholas Church, Durham, Mr. 
Robert Richmond, of Newcaftle, to Mifs Jane 
Garth, of Durham, 
Lieut. Wm. Bowfer Garth, of the North 
York Militia, to Mifs Colt, of Kildon. 
At Sunderland, Mr. James Sargent, of Lon- 
don, to Mifs Diana Simpfon, daughter of Mr. 
Andrew Simpfon, fhip-owner, in Sunderland. 
Died J} —At Neweaitle, Mrs. Rudman. In 
his 63d year, Mr. William Chriftopher, of 
Stockton. 
At Lavericklaw, in the parith of Lowick, 
' after a fevere and tedious illnefs, Mrs. 
-. Eleanor Park. 
In Grindon Chare, m Newcaftle, at the 
advanced age of 99 years and 6 months, Mrs. 
E. Sommerbell ; fhe retained her intellectual 
faculties to the laft. ; 
Mr. Ralph Flintoff, of Durham Mills. The 
rev. Chriftopher Robinfon, curate of Painthaw, 
of eminent and remarkable Charadters, will always 
in the county of Durham. At Sellaby, in the 
fame county, Mrs. Vickers. 
The wife of an anchor-fmith, near the Bal- 
Taft hills, put an end to her exiftence, on the 
z8th of Odtober, by hanging herfelf; She had 
attempted her life no lefs tham five timeS pre- 
vious to this rafh aét, but had always been - 
prevented from accomplifhing her purpofe, by 
being difcovered and cut down. — 
At Hauxley, in his 66th year, John Wid- 
drington, efq. a juftice of the peace, anda 
partner in the Old Bank, at Newcaftle. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND, 
J. Whirlings, efg. is eleéted mayor of Car- 
lifle, for the fixth time. 
Married.|—At Penrith, Mr. Richard Habi- 
fhaw to Mifs Elizabeth Workman. 
At Morpeth, Mr. Laidman to Mifs Mel- 
burn. 
At Cockermouth, the rev. John Wheatley, 
A.M. to Mifs Benfon. 
At Kendai, Arthur Shepherd, efq. of 
‘Grayrigge, to Mifs Harrifon,-daughter of Robt, 
Harrifon, efq. mayor of Kendal. 
At Crofby, near Carlifle, Mr. R. Beaty to 
Mifs Nicholion. Mr. Lucas, ef Cleator Hall, 
to Mifs Bouch, of Over-End. Captain Coi- 
lins, of Whitehaven, to Mifs Steele. 
Died.]—At Morrefley, near Whitehaven; 
in an ‘advanced age, Mr. John Phillipfon, 
At Whitehaven, Mr. Wm. Reed. | : 
At Carlifle, aged 48, Dr. R. MéCafland, 
author of a late publication, entitled ** E/fays 
Moral and Political.’ (See a bicgraphical notice 
of this gentleman, in page 404 of this Number. 
At Kendal, Eleanor Bonsfield : during the 
annual {cene of contfufion which charaéterizes 
the anniverfary of the Gunpowder Plot, a 
young man, of the name of Empfom, wanton- 
ly fired off 4 fowling-picce, the charge or wad- 
ding of which fruck the deceafed, at about 
the diftance of two yards, and fraétured her 
fkull. Several other perfons were wounded by 
the fame piece, The wadding, which occa- 
fioned the death of this unfortunate young 
woman, confited of wet paper, clofely rammed, 
and of a fufiicient firmnefs to have penetrae 
ted a three-quarter inch board. A  yerdié& 
of manflaughtes was returned by the jur 
“again 
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