£802.] 
The Rev. T. Hambly, of Murdock Houfe, 
Herts. 
At Prittlewell, Mr. Ellcock, miller.— 
In his 63d year, Mr, Healey, of Great Berk- 
hamftead, Herts. 
KENT. 
At alate General Board of the Governors 
of the County-hofpital, it appeared from the 
auditor’s reports, that there was a furplus re= 
maining to-the hofpital, of 104]. 2s. r3d.3, 
which, with a legacy from the late Mrs. 
Knatchbull of rool. and another from the late 
Mrs. Sherwin of tool. with other fubfcrip- 
tions and benefaétions, gives, at once, a very 
pleafing profpe& of its future fupport. 
In addition to the elegant fet of hot and cold 
baths, to be ereéted at Tunbridge Wells, (as 
Mentioned in our laf number) Mrs. Baker is 
now erecting there a new and elegant theatre, 
on a large and extenfive fcale, for the ac- 
commodation of the company, the enfuing 
feafon. 
Married.| Mr. J. Ramfden, to Mrs. Clap- 
fon, both of New Romney. 
At Fordwich, Mr. J. Mantell, te Mifs 
Webs. . 
At Folkeftone, Mr. R. Godden, te Mifs 
. Golder. 
“W. Huggefien Huggeffen, efq. of Stodmarth, 
to Mifs Lambert, of York. 
At St, Nicholas, Thanet, Mr. G. Solly, of 
Sandwich, to Mrs. Elgar, of Sarr.—-Mr. D. 
Sutton, taylor, of Wye, to Mifs C. Sutton, 
of Chilham, 
At Maidftone, Mr. J..S. Stevenfon to Mifs 
A. Smith, 
Died.] At Canterbury, Mr. T. Goodban, 
one of the lay-clerks of the cathedral. —Mrs. 
Denn. 
At Maidftone, Mr. J. Elvy; draper.—In her 
2d year, Mrs. E. Poole.—Mrs. Scott, at the 
Marquis of Granby public-houfe. 
At Margate, Mrs. Pound, wife of Mr. D. 
Pound, fifherman.—Aged 76, Mr. J. De La- 
fons, formerly of the Broadway, Blackfriars. 
At Queenborough, Mrs. Green, relict of 
the late Mr. J..Green, jun. of Maidftone. 
At Sheernefs, Mrs. Shrubfole, widow of 
the late Reverend Mr. Shrubfole, of Bethel- 
chapel.—Mrs. Baftard, wife of Mr. J. Baf- 
tard, foreman to the bricklayers, in Sheernefs- 
yard, 
At Greenwich, Milfs E. C. Hughes, late of 
Belfhanger. 
At Folkftone, in an advanced age, Mrs. M. 
Siadden.—Asged 79, Mrs. Spearpoint.——Mifs 
M, Gittins. 
In her 21ft year, MifsC. Abbott, daughter 
of Mr.Abbott, brewer, of St. Dunftan’s, Can- 
terbury ; a young lady much lamented by 
her family, friends, and acquaintance, for her 
youth, beauty, and amiable difpofition. 
Aged 19, Mr. J. D. J. Grinfield, attorney’s 
clerk ; highly refpeéted as a dutiful fon, a 
Joving brother, a mild, fober, fteady youth, 
_ agda chearful companion, 
Kent—Suffex. 
509 
Suddenly, Mrs. Earle, of Bonnington. 
Mr. J. Noyes, of Crundale ; the manner of 
his‘death is unknown as he was found dead in 
his bed. 
At Upleefe, near Feverfham, Mre. Ben- 
ftead. 
SUSSEX. 
At a late meeting at Saddlefcombe, of gen-« 
tlemen interefted in the growth and culture of 
hops, the following refolution was agreed toy 
among others, that the ‘¢ ufe of Quaffia and 
other drugs, in the making of beer, is very 
prevalent, and in adegree highly injurious 
to the planters of hops.” The chairman was 
defired to communicate the refolutions of the 
meeting to the members for the county, andy 
in the name of the meeting, to requeft them 
to ufe their endeavours that a claufe may be 
introduced into the a& for impofing an ad- 
ditional duty on hops, for the effeétual pre- 
vention of the ufe of fuch bitters in making 
of beer—-and likewife, that a proportionable 
increafe of duty be added.on the importation 
of foreign hops. ; 
A public corn-mill has been lately built 
at Lewes, by fubfcription, and is now ready 
for working, to grind corn at a moderate 
price, for ready money, the full produce of the 
corn being returned to the employer. 
Died.] At Brighton, Mr. Alfrey, avery 
refpectable yeoman, of Frifton, near Eaft- 
Bourne. 
Near Hellingley, William Reed, a youth 
aged about 15 ; while employed in driving a 
plough-team, he incautioufly ate part of tHe 
root of a plant turned up by the plough, 
and brought thither with a quantity of mould, 
colleéted from cleaning out the moat which 
furrounded Horfe-lunges-houfe ; in botany, 
if is named enanthe crocata, and commonly 
called hemlock dropwort, ordead tongue. Ja 
three quarters of an hour after having eaten 
the root, he was feized with dizzinefs, fick= 
nefs, locked-jaw, and a violent convulfive 
conftruétion of the mufcles of the throat, and 
all the other fymptoms ufually produced by 
poifon, and notwithftanding various efforts to 
give him medical relief, he died in four 
hours, in the moft agonizing contorfions, 
Mr. Long, the apothecary, declares he ever 
beheld the human body to endure. Another 
boy who partook of the fame root was at- 
tacked,.at the fame time, with. the like 
fymptoms, but was relieved from its deadly 
effeéts, by a ftrong emetic, confifting of large 
and powerful dofes of white vitriol, from 
I5 to 20 grains, and repeated in fmaller 
quantities, the active operations of which is 
more expeditious than any other remedy, 
Acids he took alfo, todecompofe the noxious 
matter, but afterwards combined with alkalf 
in the a& of effervefcence, to excite a frefh 
action on his ftomach., Hemlock is a fpecies 
of vegetable poifon, which does not deftroy 
life, by producing inflammation or other cauf- 
tic ¢ffeéts on the coats of the ftomach (as 
3U mineral 
