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vigable, in the parts between Clydach, and 
Brecknock, and nearly compleated, but as it 
cannot be brought to its moft profitable ftate, 
unlefs the water-communication be com- 
pleated to Pontynuille, and unlefs the main- 
rail road be made more efficient for the fup- 
ply of the faid canal, it is in contemplation to 
apply to Parliament for power to continue 
and compleat the faid navigation, from Cly- 
dath to the junétion with the Monmouth- 
fhire-canal, and for power to alter or amend 
the main rail road, from the faid canal, to or 
near Wain Dew, &c. &c. 
Lord Grofvenor has derived upwards of 
$0,000l. per annum, for the laft two years, 
from his ne wl y-difcovered lead-minesin Flint- 
fhire ; and another vein has recently been found 
which promifes to be equally produétive. 
It is intended to enclofe the extenfive waite 
in Fiintthire, called Cluberier, or Long Path: 
it contains feveral thoufand acres of land com- 
petent to every purpofe of ufeful hufbandry. 
The Prince of Wales is likely to derive a 
confiderable addition to his revenues, by the 
intended drainage of Redland Marth, in Flint- 
fhire 5 it is of vaft extent, and excellent qua- 
dity; fubje&t, however, in its prefent ftate, 
to inundations from the fea at {pring tides. 
Tenby, in Pembrokethire, has, of late 
‘years, become a place of fuch fafhionable 
refort, that at fome recent fales, old tene- 
mests in the town were fold at near forty 
years purchafe, for the purpofe of being re- 
built, and converted into lodging-houfes, for 
the accommodation of the numerous vifitants. 
Propofals have been lately advertized in 
the Shropfhire and other Papers, to be re- 
ceived by Mr. W. Roberts, at Gwydir, from 
any perfon willing to contra& for cutting a 
new channel for the river Conway, at a place 
called Cil y Gwelyd, within a mile of the 
town of Lanhurft, in the county of Denbigh. 
"The faid cut or channel to be 492 feet in 
length, on the eaft fide, 88 feet in breadth, 
at top, 60 feet at bottom, and feven feet 
deep. And alfo for making a dam or em- 
bankment acrofs the prefent river, at the 
fouth end of the intended cut, as high as the 
furface of the ground on each fide of the 
river, fufficient to turn the whole body of 
water through the propofed cut; and likewife 
for keeping the faid works in repair for feyen 
years to come. 
Died.] Mr. J. Lloyd, of Bettus, in the 
county of Merioneth.—Aged 66, Mr. W, 
Evans of Parky Twil, near Denbigh.—In 
his 7oth year, Mr. T. Foulkes, fhop-keerer, 
of Machynleth, above 40 yeags a preacher 
among the Welth methodifs. 
SCOTLAND. 
Died{ At Edinburgh, - Alex. Hamilton, 
M.D. profeffor of midwifery in the Univer- 
fity, and feunder and proprietor of the Lying- 
in-hofpital there; a gentleman of well- 
‘known abilities and high charaéter in his pro- 
fefiion. 
At Fort William, Dr. John Mackintyre, 
eminently diftinguifhed for his knowledge in 
Scotland—TIreland. 
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botany; which knowledge is reported to have 
been handed down to him from father to fon, 
for many generatiors. 
IRELAND. 
A company has been lately eftablifhed at 
Silvermines, in the county of Tipperary, for 
working the valuable copper and lead mines 
at that place, long difufed. 
Died.| On Wednefday, April 19, aged. 
45, Alexander Henry Haliday, M.D. a 
gentleman who, for the fpace of half a cen- 
tury, has illuftrated his native towa of Bel- 
faft, by a charaéter diftinguifhed for private 
worth, confiftent public {pirit, much elegant 
accomplifhment, and high profeflional repu- 
tation. Of all the liberal profeflions, that 
of medicine is perhaps the moft liberal. 
No one which, in a more eminent degree, 
combines the ufeful and the amiable qualities 5 
the folid talents which dignify, and the 
{weet courtefies which decorate, character. 
No one which fupplies more ample opportu- 
nity of forming a juft eftimate of human life, of 
appreciating tle weaknefs and the worth of hu- 
man nature. Noone which, ina political point 
of view,has maintained ,amidft the felfithnefs of 
fects and the intrigue of fa€tions, a more virtu- 
ous independence,a more dignified impartiality. 
This general remark has never hada truer 
application than in the life, conduct, and 
converfation of Doétor Haliday. Of his 
profeffional merits, the profeifion itfelf muft 
fupply the moft adequate judges: but the pub- 
lic, at large, may perhaps form as true am 
eftimate from the long popularity which as’ 
a praétitioner of phyfic he poffeffed, not 
merely in his native town, but throughout _ 
the whole province of Ulfter—a popularity 
neither made, nor maintained, by any finifter 
arts, by the patronage of the higher ranks, 
nor the puffing of the lower; but the well» 
earned fruit of an excellent education, en- 
grafted on an excellent underftanding. His 
fuccefsful and extenfive praétice was the na- 
tural and neceflary refult of a fhrewd and 
fagacious intellect, always kept in a ftate of 
the higheft cultivation by the habit of reading 
and refleétion, by joining the inquifitivenefs 
of the fludent to the experience of years, and 
efpecially by a difpofition of mind which 
defired to keep pace with the progrefs of 
fcience and the medical art; andnever from pride 
or indolence rejcéted improvement, under the 
invidious name of innovation. His exterior 
announced intrinfic worth 3 his art of healing 
commenced with infufing the faith of being 
healed. He poffefled a mild and gracious ~ 
dignity ,of manner, which commanded re- 
fpeét, while it ‘conciliated confidence. How 
often have thofe black and ill-omen’d ideas, 
that evil genius, which ‘trangely haunts even 
the mof virtuous minds, felt the influence of 
his afpe&, and fled from the benignity of his 
{mile |\—How often have affe€tionate rela> ~ 
tives, when bereft of all other hope, looked 
out, with alat anxious hope, for a vifit from 
Doétor Haliday! In propriety, in probity, in 
afliduity, in natural avility, aad acquired en- 
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