-1802.] 
gay, fparkling with wit, full of anecdote and 
merry ‘ftories; and never, in company, fuf- 
fered his avecation tooperate churlithly on the 
hilarity of thofe around him. Inthe language of 
his own Church,let us fay, Reguiefcat in pace ! 
His works are, ‘** Several Addreffes to the 
Catholics of lreland.”—‘* Remarks on Mr. 
Welley’s Defence of the Proteftant Affo- 
ciation;” inwhich controverfy he is thought to 
have had the advantage.’— * Defence of 
his Condu& inthe Affair of the Infurrection 
in Munfter, 1737."—** Review of the im- 
portant Controverfy between Dr. Carrol and 
the Rev. Meflrs. Wharton and Hopkins.”— 
** Faft Sermon at St. Patrick’s Chapel, Soho, 
March 8, 1797." — ‘A Collection of his 
Mifcellaneous Traés,” in 1 vol. 8vo.—** A 
Defence of the Conduct and Writings of the 
_ Northumberland and Durham: 
179 
Rev. Arthur O’Leary, éc. 3 written by hime 
felf,in anfwer to the ill-grounded Infinuations 
of the Right Rev. Dr. Woodward, Bithop of 
Cloyne, 1788,” 8vo.—-The Bifhop, in his cor= 
troverfy with Mr. O’Leary, acknowledges that 
he reprefents matters /frongly and efoyuently 5 
and that, Shakefpeare-ltke, be is well acquainted 
with the human heart; and Mr. Wefley, 
calls him, an axch and lively writer.. His ftyle 
was voluble, bold, and figurative; but de- 
ficient in grace, manlinefs, perfpicuity, and 
fometimes grammar; but he was diftinguithed 
as a friend to freedom, liberality, and tolera- 
tion ; and was highly complimented on this 
account by Mefirs. Grattan, Flood, and other 
members of the Irith parliament, in their 
public fpeeches. ] 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH att THE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS, 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
*_* Authentic Communications for this Department are always very thankfully received ' 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
On the 7th of January laft, between twelve * 
and one o’elock, part of the wall, to the 
length of 60 or 70 feet, of All Saints church 
yard, Newcaftle, next to Silver-ftreet, and 
Near the middle thereof, fell down with a 
tremendous crafh, to the unfpeakable terror 
of the inhabitants of the houfes oppofite, 
many of whom thought it had been an earth- 
quake from the effeéts it occafioned. The 
lower part of one houfe, with the window 
and door were con)pletely broken in, and fe- 
veral houfes above and below the fame are 
materially injured. This wall has been long 
{uppofed to be in a dangerous ftate, it having 
perceptibly leaned and fhrunk from the 
. Church yard, being evidently preffed by an 
uncommon weight of foil on that fide, while 
there was no fupport at all on the other to- 
wards the ftreet, where it was near 20 feet 
high; it was likewife compofed of mafiy 
ftones, which in the fall wece accompanied 
by a great body of earth from the fide of the 
bank, laying open to view feveral coffins, and 
innumerable quantities of human bones. It 
is a fortunate circumftance that the above ac- 
cident took place at a jate hour of the night, 
The ruins prefented a very awful appearance. 
The following obfervations, which lately 
appeared in the Newcaftle Chronicle, though 
they do not enter into a. profound chemical 
difquifition of the nature-and mode of the ope-" 
Yation of lime, yet prefent a fhort fketch of 
the new hypothefis refpeéting the ufe and* 
_ ation of this manure in promoting vegeta- 
-tion, on the feveral varieties of foil, which 
has been lately advanced by Mr. Stancliffe, 
of that town. “ It may be demonfirated by 
feveral fimple but clear experiments, that 
lime poflefles a power of combining with 
carbonic acid in two proportions, in one of 
which itis infoluble in water, but in a high- 
er it becomes again foluble as when pure. 
For inftance, if to lime-water >be added 
fome common mephitic water, the mixture 
becomes turbid by the precipitation of the 
carbonated lime, but if the fuperfaturated 
miephitic water be added, not only the mix- 
ture does not become turbid, but even the 
turbid water of the former experinient be= 
comes tranfparent by the time being re-dif- 
folved. To apply this to the ufe of lime 
in vegetation: It feems now pretty gene- 
rally agreed that the earth.is merely the 
medium by which ‘utriment is conveyed to 
plants ; and it may be prefumed that this nu- 
triment is of fuch a nature as the elements of 
the fubftances into which plants may be re- 
duced. But the greateft conftituent of plants 
is carbon; it may therefore be prefumed that 
this conftitutes the bafis of the food of plants 5 
that it is beft prefented in the form of carbo- 
nic acid gas, and thatthisis moft conveniently 
applied to the inhaling veffels of plants, in 
the form of this redundant quantity of car- 
bonic acid inthe lime. The lime may then 
be fuppofed toaé&t thus. By abforbing a fu- 
per-abundant quantity of carbonic. gas from 
-the atmofphere, and efpecially from the de- 
compofing vegetable matter in the manure, 
which it in the mean time probably helps to 
decompofe, it becomes foluble and capable of ~ 
clofer application to the veffels of the plants, 
to which giving out its f@®per-abundant gas, 
it becomes again infoluble; and fo, by perpe- 
tual re-abforptions and re-folutions, it iscapa~ 
ble of continuing its ufeful a€tion of convey- 
ing food to the growing vegetable for an in- 
definite length of time.” THe-correfpondent 
.of the above paper then adds; ‘* Whatever 
may 
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