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houfes and even new ftreets have been built 
in the room of thofe pulled down, he re- 
plies, **furely, but not near fo many. 
Moft of the new houfes occupy the ground. 
of double the number of old ones; neither 
are the new ones fo fully inhabited, and 
svhere many well inhabited ones formerly 
ftoced, there are nothing now but warehoufes. 
About the Exchange, three-fourths of the 
rooms are let to attornies and brokers, for 
their offices. Befides, many, very many 
trade{men now occupy two houfes; one only 
to dwell in, the other as a warehoufe; 
which was not the cafe formerly. Having 
thus fufficiently accounted for the decreafed 
population of the city, Mr. New gives it 
as his opinion, (of which he is thoroughly 
convinced), that the parifhes in the fuburbs 
will more than make up the deficiency, and 
prove that the population will not fall fhort 
of 100,000. Mr. New further adds, hav- 
ing been indulged by the refpective 
incumbents with the examination of their 
tegifters, that the parifhes of St. James, St. 
Michael, and St. Auguftine, had confiderably 
increafed in population between the years 
4770 and 17803 and feveral new ftreets have 
been built fince 1780, and are well inhabited, 
in St. Michael’s and St. Auguftine’s, to fay 
nothing of St Paul’s or St. James's. The 
number of perfons then in St. James's he 
eftimated at 15 or 16000, and not lefs in St. 
Auguftine’s, Mr. New proceeds to infert 
the following ftate of his own parifh, St. 
Philip’s, the greateft part of which is out of 
the liberties of the city, as procured from 
the proper officers, adding, that juft twenty 
years ago, he took almoft the fame fteps to 
afcertain the population of his parifh, as have 
Been now enjoined upon every parifh in the 
Kingdom by parliament. He went from 
houfe to houfe) and from room to room, 
{where there were more than one family ina 
houfe, and took the number of houfes and 
inhabitants, diftinguifhing the males from 
the females, and the void houfes from the 
inhabited ones. In 1781, he found 1529 in- 
habited houfes, and 9850 inhabitants. In 
801, 1720 inhabited houfes, and 10761 
inhabitants, an increafe of 191 houfes and 
911i inhabitants, notwithftanding 8 or Io 
houfes have been pulled down in the in-pa- 
rifh, and that the out parifh has furnifhed the 
navy and army with feveral hundred men this 
war. 
It appears from a report of the Committee 
of the Briftol Society for the Relief and 
Difcharge cf Perfons confined for Small Debts, 
-lately publithed, that the Society has li- 
berated, in the courfe of the laft year, feven 
difconfolate debtors, whofe petitions came 
well recommended, and that thofe forlorn 
objects. had feven wives and twenty-one 
‘children to deplore and participate of their 
calamities ; and they have, alfo, in particular 
cafes of abfolute diftrefs, adminiftered relief 
te igveral other prifoners, whofe indigence 
Somerfet/hire. 
[Oober 13 
and urgent neceffities rendered them proe 
per obje&ts of the charity; and that the 
whole fum which has been advanced for thefe 
beneficial purpofes, including all charges, 
amounted to no more than forty feven pound, 
eight fhillings, and eleven pence. It appears, 
likewife, that in the courfe of a little more 
than twenty-feven years, no lefs than 605 
debtors have been emancipated by this cha- 
rity, out of the yloomy recefies of a dreary 
jail, who had 438 wives, and 1266 children 
to look up to and depend on them, not 
fo much for the comforts as even the com- 
mon neceflaries of life ; and that it has alfo, 
‘inthe mean time, afforded merciful: relief, 
fo as to alleviate the diftrefles, of a great num- 
ber of other objeéts, and who during their 
confinement, were reduced to the moft in- 
digent and deplorable condition; and that 
the whole amount advanced in this laudable 
labour of love, has not exceeded 29571. 
1s. aid. ; 
The new Affize-hall at Bridgewater has 
juft been compleated. The two courts are 
commodious, fpacious and airy, extremely 
well adapted for the accommodation of the 
judges, counfel, witneffes and auditors. No 
place in the kingdom can now boaft of a fu- 
perior hall for the adminiftration of juftice, 
and it certainly does credit to the archite& 
who planned.it, and refleéts honour on the 
county, and particularly fo on the town of 
Bridgwater. 
Married.| At Bath, Sir Marcus Somer- 
ville, bart. M. P. for the county of Meath, 
to Mifs Meredith, daughter of Sir Richard 
Gorges Meredith, bart.—Mr. Smith, apo- 
thecary, to Mifs C. Walfh.—Mr. C, Banbue 
ry, grocer, to Mifs Davis. 
Mr. Chamberlain, to Mifs Crane, both of 
Walcott, 
J. A. Lowe, efq. of Stourport, Worcefter- 
fhire, to Mifs C. Barlow, late of Briftol. 
At Swimbridge, the Rev. N. Dyer, te 
Mifs E. Nott, of Torrdown Houfe, near 
Barnftaple. 
At Briftol, Mr. T. Haynes, of the Cui 
toms, to Mifs Ridler. 
At Clifton church, near Briftol, Mr. Wil+ 
liam Roe, of Blandford, Dorfet, to Mifs Eli- 
za Banifter, fecond daughterof Mr. John Ba- 
nifter, Broad Mead, Brittol. 
Died. At Bath, aged 27, Mr. T. Jelly, 
attorney.—P. Walth, efq. 
At her lodgings in this city, the lady of 
J. Butler, efq. of Caerleon, Monmouthhhire.. 
Her lofs will be feverely felt by her indigent 
neighbours, all of whom occafionally expe- 
rienced the effects of her beneficence, and 
many of whom were wholly indebted to her 
for fupport. 
The lady of Dr. Smith.—Mr. Barretty 
butcher.—J. Roberts, efg. of Chrift’s 
Hofpital, London. 
At Brittol, Mr. Charles Harford, mere 
chant. 
In Henrietta-ftreet, Bath, Milfs Mary an 
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