1802. ] 
LANCASHIRE. 
Lately at Liverpool, at an annual veftry, 
or general meeting of the inhabitants, at St. 
Nicholas Church, April 20, among other 
refolutions unanimoufly voted, were the fol- 
lowing :—That the income of the Reverend 
the Reétors of Liverpool is inadequate to 
their fervices, and the duties of their high 
Station—and that it be referred to the Com- 
mittee of the parifh of Liverpool, to make 
fuch a reafonable addition to the income ef 
the reétors, out of the rate to be laid for the 
churches and clergy, as fuch Committee 
fhall think proper. Likewife, that the mo- 
ney neceflary for the completion of the Fever 
Ward, or Houfe of Recovery, directed by the 
laft annual veitry to be ereéted, and for car- 
rying into efteét the contraéts made for the 
purchafing of the ground mentioned in the 
Committee’s report, be raifed by a rate on 
the inhabitants, to be made diftin& from the 
other parochial rates, and that the furplus, 
if any there fhall be, be applied in the aid of 
the poors-rate. It appears, from the report 
lately publifhed in the Liverpool Papers, of 
the above proceedings of the annual veftry, 
that the long contefted point in difpute be- 
tween the parifh and the merchants, relative 
to the right of taxing fhipping in the docks, 
or at the port, by the parifh overfeers, con- 
fidered as {tock in trade, is at length put to 
reit, the merchants, in general, having ac- 
guiefced in the rate, and in the propofed mea- 
fure of taxation, in which, though fhipping 
be not named, yet the profits arifing there- 
from, as a {pecies of perfonal property, are 
admitted and included. From this improved 
mode of rating the merchants and tradefmen, 
é&c. it appears, that inftead of 20371. ros. gd. 
which was the quantum of the rate on fhip- 
Ping and on perfonal property, in the year 
1800, the amount of the prefent rate, arifing 
by thofe means only, is no lefs than $5021, 
Thus many of the merchants have already 
paid, fome two, fome three, fome four times 
more than the fums at which they ftand rated 
in any of the former books. It is remark- 
able, that the Chairman of the Committee 
of Merchants, who oppofed the affeflment on 
thipping as it was originally laid, was the 
firft who paid the tax on his perfonal pro- 
perty, under the prefent rate, although it 
far exceeded the amount in any former year, 
dt appears, likewife, that the Committee, 
under the advice of the faculty, have aban- 
doned the fituation originally propofed, fora 
Fever-houfe, viz. the open fpace of ground 
belonging to the parifh, fouth of the work- 
houfe, and have purchafed a field to the eaft- 
ward of the workhoufe, and that an hofpital 
for the reception of paupers, in cafes of fever, 
is now building, upon an economical plan, 
to anfwer the end propofed. The expence of 
the building is eftimated at soool. and has 
hitherto been borne by the. rate for the poor, 
becaufe the ufe of. it is to be confined to per- 
fons of that defcription, and as, upon the 
Lancafhire. 
50S 
whole, there will be a very confiderable 
faving tothe parifh, by the propofed eftablifha 
ment, and as it will alfo tend to the decreafe 
of fever in the town. The fum of 12001. 
has been expended in the purchafe of land— 
the fum of 1400], has been likewife laid out 
by the Committee (appropriated from a part 
of the poor-rates) in the purchafe of ground 
near the alms-houfe, for a cemetery, or place 
of interment. The Committee have added 
2s. per week to the fum allowed by the pa~ 
rifh, for the fupport of thofe truly unfortunate 
paupers of the Lunatic Afylum, who are 
under the care of the faculty attending the 
inftitution, 
A very curious mechanic at Bamber-bridge, 
near Prefton, has lately invented a machine 
for beating cotton, for which he is about, 
fhortly, to procure a patent. It is likely to 
be an important faving to manufacturers, in 
time, labour, and expence, but yet the 
greateft improvement is ftated to be its fim- 
plicity. . 
Married | At Chrift Church, Mr. M, 
Jarvis, watch-tool-maker, to Mifs P. Lead- 
beater, of Liverpool. 
At Manchefter, Mr. J. Elliott, to Miis 
Slack. 
Mr. J. Green, of Manchefter, to Mifs B. 
Grundy, of Bolton-le-Moors. 
At Wood Plumpton, near Prefton, Mr. 
W. Maiman, of Blackburn, to Mifs Moon. 
At Winwick, Captain Hargreaves, of the 
Royal Lancafhire Volunteers, to Mifs Orme~ 
rod, of Ormerod-houte. 
At Blackburn, Mr. T. Eddleftone, to Mifs 
M. Duckworth.—Mr. J. Gardiner, maltman, 
to Mifs Barton, both of Poulton, by the 
Sands.—Lieut. Clegg, of the Royal Lanca- 
fhire Volunteers, to Mifs Pollitt, of Garley- 
hall, in Chefhire. 
At Liverpool, Mr. G. Houlding, mer- 
chant, to Mifs M. Hardiker —Mr. J, Dick-- 
fon, merchant, to Mifs E. Maddocks.—Mr. 
A. Eidfworth, to Mifs Tounley, of Ortner, 
in Wyerfdale.—Mr. J. Brown, chief-mate of 
the Rofalind, to Miis C. Woods.—Mr. W. 
Hardman, to Mifs A. Brownrigg—Mr. R, 
Berry, liquor-merchant, to Miis C. Leech, 
of Ulverfton.—Mr. R, Roberts, printer, late 
of Chefter, to Mifs E. Woods.—Mr. J. Bug- 
geln, fugar-refiner, to Mifs Halton, milliner. 
—Mr. C. Smith, engraver, to Mifs E. Tel- 
ford, milliner.—A. B. W. Nicholfon, efq. 
Captain in the fecond regiment of Lancahhire 
Militia, to Mifs H. Rofe, third daughter of 
W. Rofe, efq. of Liverpool, 
Died. | At Liverpool, aged 96, Mrs. Travis. 
—Aged 35, Mr. J. Atherton, black{mith. 
Suddenly, aged 60, Mr. C, Roberts, fhip- 
carpenter. He left his work about fix o’clock 
in the evening, and before ten he became a 
lifelefs corpfe. 
Aged 65, Mr. W, Dalrymple, formerly a 
Captain for feveral years in the Wet{t india 
trade. —Aged 88, Mrs. Baines, reliét of Mr, 
Hi. Baines, cabinet-maker,—Captain R,Smith, 
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