1801.] 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORLAND. 
A mufhroom was taken up on Underbarrow 
common, near Kendal, on the roth of June, 
which meafured 22 inches in height, with- 
out the ftalk, 64 im diameter, 20% 
cumference, and weighed 3% pounds ! 
Married.| Mr. J. Hewer, of Sebergham, 
to Mifs Scott, of Hefket, Newmarket, 
At Workington, Mr, E. Parkins, mate 
of the brig Induftry, to Mifs Lawfon.—Mr. 
J. Armftrong, officer of excife of Caftletown, 
Derbyfhire, to Mifs Tye, daughter of Mr. 
Jj. Tye, Taylor.—Mr. H. Carr, to Mifs 
Chriftopherfon, both of Seaton. 
At Whitehaven, Mr. G. Wilkinfon, mer- 
chant, of Ulverftone, to Mifs Yowart, Mr. 
R. Sanderfon, cooper, to Mifs D. Hudfon. 
At Kendal, Mr. C. Gardner, brazier, to 
Mifs Garnett, of Kirkland.—Mr. R. At- 
kinfon, to Mifs Hewitfon,—Mr. Coward, 
of Elter Hall, to Mifs Jackfon, of Yew- 
dales, near Conifton. 
Died.] At Carlifle, aged 55, Mrs. M 
Lawrie, reli& of Mr. M. Lawrie, clock- 
maker.—In the bloom of youth, Henry, the 
youngeft fon of J. O. Yates, efg. of Ski- 
ruth Abbey. 
At Whitehaven, aged 63, Mrs. Stitt, wi- 
dow.—Aged 25, Mrs. E. Jefterfon. 
At Workington, in the prime of life, Mrs. 
Ellwood, wife of Mr. R. Ellwood, of Crofs 
Hill. 
At Wigton, in the prime of life, J. W. 
Auguftus Elliott, efq. 
At Kendall, at the houfe of Mr. Romney, 
aged 65, Mr. We. Cockin, late of Burton, in 
Kendal. In the former part of his life he 
taught writing and Arithmetic at St. Bees, 
and afterwards for many years in Lancafter, 
and at Nottingham. As a teacher, he was 
univerfally allowed to be at the head of his 
profeffion ; nor was he more remarkable for 
the folidity,depth and vigour of his underftand- 
ing, than fora peculiarly happy and original 
method of conveying inftruétion, Though 
the author of feveral publications of very 
fuperior excellence, yet fuch was his modef- 
ty and diffidence, that, excepting his arith- 
ea and a fingle volume of poems, pub- 
lithed folely for the ufe of a few fele& 
friends, no perfuafions could ever induce him 
to prefix his nametoany ofthem. Notwitk- 
ftanding this ftudied folicitude to pafs through 
life in obfcurity, his eflay on delivering 
written language, with other philofophical 
¢flays, his volume of poems, intitled Ode to 
the Genius of the Lakes, his Fall of Scepti- 
cifm and Infidelity Predi€ted, his Revifion of 
Wett's Guide to the Lakes, with notes, ad- 
denda, &c. his Theory of the Book on 
Arithmetic, &c, probably will hand his 
name and reputation down to the Jate® pof- 
terity. But though thus indifferent to the 
praifes of men, he was by no means inatten- 
tive to his better interefts: in the practice of 
moral and religious duties, he arrived at the 
Sreatet perfetion; ifelf-government and 
Cumberland and Wftmorland—Yorkhire. 
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duty with him went hand in hand. He was 
the admirer, the friend and the champion of 
the church of England, which he defended 
with manly fpirit and refolution, againft the 
attacks of the doubtful fceptic, as well as 
againft the more openly daring infidel. Had 
he lived, it was his intention to give the 
world a work, now ready for the prefs, on 
mifcellaneous fubjeéts. It is to be hoped, 
that fome friend to deceafed merit will. not 
fuffer fuch a literary treafure to be buried in 
the tomb with its author. 
The Rev. J. Coward, M. A. of, Queen’s 
College, Oxtord, and mafter of the free 
grammar fchool of Kendal. 
At Ennerdale, Mr. J. Tyfon, paper-maker. 
At Kefwick, aged 34, Mr. J. Clark. 
In her 14th year, Mifs Armftrong, daugh- 
ter of the Rev. J, Armftrong, of Unthank. 
YORKSHIRE. 
Onthe night of June 19, between the 
hours of r2 and 1, a moft beautiful pheno- 
. menon was obferved at Hull, towards the 
S. W. part of the horizon, refembling, on 
being firft feen, an immenfe moon, with a 
black bar acrofs ; it feemed then gradually 
to form itfelf into feven {mall diftin@ moons, 
or globes of fire, which difappeared for the 
{pace of a few feconds. ' Its re-appearance 
was equally brilliant, at firft fhewing itfelf 
like what we are told of the face of the 
moon ; afterwards into 5 circular balls, and 
laftly like feveral fmall ftars, which gradu- 
ally faded away, leaving the whole atmof- 
phere beautifully illumined and clear. Dur- 
ing the time of its being vifible, a faint blue 
light fell upon the furrounding objeéts, like 
that of diftant torches, but when entirely 
gone, the appearance was ferene, like a fine 
_fummet’s morning. 
The fhip Brothers, captain Marthall, of 
Hull, having lately arrived there, from Da- 
vis’s Straits fithery, (with 609 butts, a quan- 
tity of loofe blubber, and about 13 tons of 
whale fins, the produce of 20 fifh) reports 
that there has not been in the annals of the 
whale fifhery a fuccefs fo great as, what has 
occurred this year. Eleven fhips in Davis’s 
Straits and the adjoining feas, took 128 ; and 
probably the whales were taken in the fpace 
of little more than a month. Reckoning 
each of thefe whales to produce about 30 
butts of blubber, which may be confidered 
a moderate computation, as the whales 
of thofe feas are confiderably larger than 
what are taken, in Greenland, the cargoes 
of thefe eleven fhips will amount to 3840 butts 
of blubber, which, at the rate of 3 butts to 
one ton, will be found to yield, on the 
article of oil alone,a clear gain to the coun- 
try of 44,8001, 
‘There is now growing in the pay of 
Mrs. Betheil, of Rife, a cucumber feventeen 
inches long, dnd fix in circumference. 
The names of fixty-five perfons, in different 
places of the Weft Riding—fhopkeepers, 
grocers, badgers, millers, meal-fellers, &c. 
through 
