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At Plymauth, aged nearly $0, Mr. S. 
Brooking. 
At Okehampton, in his 79th year, Mr. 
H. Luxmore, furgeon, eminent in his profef- 
fien, interefting and inftru€tive as a compa- 
siiua, and exceeded by few in the practice of 
Chrifian morality, and every focial duty. 
At Dawliih. Mrs, Maunfell. 
At Great Torrington, J. Mallet, efq. 
At Peavytree, aged 21, J. Hamilton, ef. 
fon to W. Hawmiltobs efq. of Blackheath; a 
young man of great expectations, on whom 
his parents and friends had formed their fond- 
eft hopes. 
At Warminfter, Mrs. Smith, relift of the 
late T. Smith, efq. of Heytefbury. 
Imof fuddenly, in the prime of life, the 
Rev. J. Arundel, rector of Cheriton, Fitz- 
payne, and Liften. 
CORNWALL: 
Died.] At Lifkeard, leaving a widow 
and young family, Mr. J. Auftin, woolien 
manufacturer. 
At Fowey, Mifs Auftin. 
‘ WALES. 
Application is intended to be made to Par- 
Hamest in the next feffion, for a Bill for 
making and maintaining a navigable canal 
from. Spitty, in the parifh of Lianelly, 
to. or near the town of Llandovery, in the 
fame county, which canal is propefed to pafs 
through the feveral parifhes of Lianelly, 
Liongennech, Llanedy, Liandebye, Liandin- 
gar, &c all in the county of Carmarthen. 
Lately was carried from Berfham Iron- 
works, near Wrexham, to the Glafs-works, 
near St. Hicien’s, Lancatter, a large iron-plate, 
of 13 tons, 41 cwt. upon a carriage con- 
fiructea tor the purpofe, and drawn by 12 
horfes. This amazing weight is fuppofed to 
be the firf or the kind that was ever carried 
over land in England. 
Application is intended to be made to Par- 
liament, in the eniuing feifion, for an A& 
for building a bridge acrofs the Streiyhts of 
Menai, from the county of Carnarvon to the 
eppofite fhore in the county of Anglefea, at 
Or near ogni y-ferry, at the Swelly 
Rocks. 
A fimilar One is intended to be made 
for an A& for building a bridge and embank- 
ment acrofs the ferry at Conway, in the 
county of Carnarvon, from or near Conway 
Caftle, in the parith of Conway, to the op- 
- pofite sash in the parifh of —— in oie 
jaid county 
There is now growing cn the eftate of Ar- 
thur B- rege efg. of Glyn Ciriog, near 
Chirk Caftle, Denbighfhire, an oak-tree that 
meatures the following uncommon dimenfions: 
length to thecrown 23 feet 5 circumference 
at bottom, two feet from the ground, 51; ditto, 
in the middle, 32'; making a total of no lefs 
than 1472 cubical feet; which, at 5s. the 
foot, the common itade-price, amounts to 
3681. EE fale Pe ep 
Cornwall—Wales—Scotland. 
The Wrexham Agricultural Society have 
offered a number of premiums for the enfuing 
year, confifting of four filver medals, one 
premium of 7 guineas, three of 5 guineas or 
a filver cup, two of five guineas, four of 3 
guineas, one of 2 guineas and a pair of buck- 
fkin breeches, three of 2 guineas, and ten of 
I guinea refpetively, for laying down the 
greateft quantity of water meadow, not lefs 
than 5 acres, making the beft refervoir for 
the reception of dung water, raifing the beit 
crop of turnips, thoroughly cleaned from 
weeds and thinned by hoeing, and for cultivat= 
ing the greateft breadth of potatoes, not lefs 
than 4 acres, in rows not above 3 feet afun- 
der, the cleaning and earthing of the inter- 
vals, to be performed with the plough ; alfa 
for the greaceft number of ftocks ' of bees, 
greazeft quantity of grafs feed, the beft cart 
ftallion, the beft Chapman's: fiallion, the 
beft fleece of wool, erecting the beft ‘fone 
dry wall, the beft ploughin: bee 
Married.| At Liangadwalladyr 
of Anglefea, A. E Fuller, efg 
Houfe, Suifex, to Mifs Meyri 
, in the Ifle 
of Athdown 
cle, of Podor- 
gan, Anglefea.—J N. Myers, efq. of Cadox- - 
ton-place, Glamorganfhire, to Mifs M. abe 
of Plymouth Lodge. 
Died.] Mr. Jones, of Dolydd, near avs 
narvon,—Mrs. Wynne, wife of the Rev. T. 
Wynne, of Furnace, near Conway.—Mr. 
Lawrence, hofier, of Builth.—Mils Marment, 
of Pyle, Glamorganfhire.  ~ . 
At Milford, Pembrokefhire, aged 71, eine 
Abigail Starbuck, a Quaker. + = 
“SCOTLAND. 
At Leith, on’ May ta, the foundation. 
ftone of thie new and extenfive Wet Docks > 
was laid by-Robert Dundas, of Melvilie, efq: 
Deputy Grand Mafter of the Craft of Free 
and Accepted Mafons in Scotland, in abfence 
of the Grand Mager, the Right Hon. Charles 
Earl of Dalkeith. The proceffion confifted 
of the Lord Provoft, Magitirates, and Coun- 
cil of the city of Edinburgh, with the Ma- 
giftrates of Leith, in their robes, preceded 
by the ufval infignia of office. Next follow- 
ed the Grand Lodge of Scotland, the brethren 
of the different Lodges in and near the city, 
the Mafter, Wardens, and brethren of the 
Trinity Houfe, Leith, &c. &c. attended with 
feveral excellent bands of mulic, and by a 
large guard of militia, &c. © The proceffion 
clofed by a great number of the moft refpec- 
table merchants and inhabitants of Edin- 
burgh, the whole forming a very grand and 
pleafing fpectacle. 
> For many years paft the trade of Leith has 
been greatly on the increafe, and it muft 
afford high fatisfa€tion to every friend of the 
country to contemplate the honourable and 
fuccefsful exertions of our merchants, who 
have embarked large capitals in extenfive 
commerce, thus adding opulence to the me 
tropolis of Scotland, and placing her in ‘a 
qememnercia! point of view, far more refpeétas’ 
widen ee, aS 
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