1802.] 
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river is the moft acceffible of any on thie coatt. 
A ftranger may expeét to receive confide- 
rable fatisfa&tion from, vifiting the Cambrian 
pottery, at Swanfea, moit admirably conduc- 
ted by Mr. Haynes and his partners. ‘They 
already employ upwards of 100 of the in- 
habitants, who get a comfortable living by 
their labour, in the various branches. of thefe 
works. The demand for their goods in- 
creafes daily, and it is with difficulty they 
can keep up for fale a fufficient ftock of their 
different articles. 
The propofal lately made by Mr. Homfray, 
for opening a road acrofs the mountains from 
Swanfea and Neath to Abergavenny, is likely 
to meet with many active fupporters. By 
this meafure, the difance from the town of 
Neath to Abergavenny, will be diminithed at 
leaft 14 miles, and the road, when compleated, 
will become one of the readieft means of ac- 
eefs to fome of the moft fertile diftricts of 
South Wales, A meeting on this fubjeé was 
lately held at Merthyr, at which many gen- 
tlemen from Swanfea attended, and from the 
refolutions entered into, there is little doubt 
bet the new road will be rendered paflable 
for carriages, in the courfe of the enfuing 
year. There is likewife an oyfter fithery, at 
the Mumble village, and on the coatk near 
Swanfea, which is of no trifling moment to 
the employ and maintenance of many indivi- 
duals, Above five millions of oyfters are faid 
to be taken annually, on ‘an average, from 
Auguft to May, by about 40 {mall craft, na- 
vigated by more than 180 men. With thefe, 
floops are difpatched to Briftol, Gloucetter, 
Worcefter, and round the coatt of Somerfet, 
Devon, and Cornwall ; and the facility of ac- 
cefs, afforded by inland. navigation to the 
Jarge towns in the interior, has lately occafi- 
oned a ‘confiderable increafe of this trade ; 
the oyfters being of excellent quality, and 
fold very cheap. 
Married.} After a courtfhip of forty years 
and upwards, Mr. A. Wathen, batchielor, to 
Mifs L. Bevan, fpinfter, both of Talbenny 
Hall, in thé*county of Pembroke. 
united*ages amount to 320 years. 
At Swanfea, Mr. S. Bennet, poft-mafter, 
to Milfs Eves, . 
At Carmarthen, Major Edmunds, of the 
Glamorganfhire Militia, to Mifs Davies. 
At Dilcoyd,Radnorfhire, P./Emiliusirving, | 
efq. to Mifs Pritchard, of i. Felin.——J" 
Owen, efq. of Maindif¥- -court, near Aber- 
gavenny, to Mrs. E. Gwynne, widow, of 
Glanbran Park, Carmarthenfhire. 
Died.] Inthe Weft Indies, W. Wilkins, 
fon of J. W. Wilkins, efq. of Brecon. 
At Dolgare, in his 23th year, Mr. 
Thomas, eldeft fon of E. Thomas, efq. of 
Lwynmadock, Breconfhire. 
At Monmouth, advanced in yeats, Mrs. 
A. Gardiner, a lady related to fome of the 
moft refpe€table families in that county, ~ 
SCOTLAND. 
Married.| At Pierfhill, near Edinburgh, 
F Af 
‘Their 
bs 
Sehiare: 
95 
R. Aynfworth, efq. of the 4th Dragoon~ 
guards, to Mifs Leatham, daughter of Maj or 
Leatham, of the faid regiment. 
Died.| At Dunot ae A. Allardyce, sty. 
of Dunottar, M. P. for the Aberdeen diftricé 
of burghs. | 
At Borowftownnefs, A. efqe 
comptroller of the cuftoms. ; 
At Paifley, Mrs. C. Harvey, wife of Mr. 
AG Mackerrel, manufacturer. 
AE Gistoew, Mrs. M, Ruffell, wife of Mr. 
R. King, writer. 
At Edinburgh, Lady Elizabeth Kemp, 
wife of the Rey. D. Kemp, one of the minil- 
ters of the city, and filter to the Earl of 
Hopetown. —Major Robert Wallace, of the 
17th regt. of foot, eldeft fon of A. Wallace, 
efq. banker. 
At Dumfries, Mifs Culton, of Auchnabo- 
ny.—In his goth year,-Mr. F. Mitchell, 
writing-maiter, and gldeft freeman oF the in- 
corporation, 
At his houfe at Gannochy Burn, Kincar- 
dinefhire, General Lord Adam Gordon, Col. 
of the Firft, or Royal Scotch Foot, Gover- 
nor of Edinburgh Caftle —By niftake theje 
promotions qere laft month annexed to the name off 
the Earl of Aber deen, Who was ever in the 
army. A 
On Saturday, the 3d of January, Catha- 
tine Douglas, wife to Major James Mercer, 
of the late North Fencible Regiment. She 
was fifter to the prefent Lord Glenbervie. 
Tt was of her that Cunningham compofed 
the beautiful fong, Kate of aberddan. This 
amiable and accomplifhed woman had lan- 
guifhed feveral years under a fevere illnefs, 
which fhe bore. with fortitude, tempered 
with Chriftian fubmiiiion, ‘ 
At Elgin, in the county of Moray, Tho- 
mas Stephens, efq. He was bern in 1724, 
in the fame houife where he afterwards es : 
as a magiftrate he was exceedingly popular, 
having always been the ftrensous friend and 
protector of the poor; he alfo maintained and 
afferted, on various occasions, the franchifes 
of his native place ; took the lead in politics 
againft the firft families in the neighbour- 
hood, and contributed to the profperity of an 
adjoining fea port, called Lofliemouth, where 
he occafionally refidced. His faculties were 
vifbly on the decay for a confiderable time 
before his death, which occurred in the 77th 
year of his age:. this circumftance expofed 
him to much impofition, an “inftance of 
which may be afforded in the lofs of 
near one thoufand pounds in money_and notes. 
The familw of Mr, Stephens was greatly 
attached to the Houfe of Brunfwick, at‘a 
time when the partifans of the defcendants 
of James II. were both numerous and power- 
ful in Scotland. His uncle, James Stephens, 
efq. who, in confequence of his own cha- 
radler and fortune, as well «as by his marriage 
with the danghter of Sir H. Innes, of Innes, 
bart. and his connection with the Lord Prefi- 
dent Forbes, polielicd confiderable Influence 
wes’ 
Stewart, 
