372 Gloucefter fhire Horrible Inftance of Suicide. 
At Machynleth, Mrs. Edwards, of Guildf- 
field, reli& of the Rev. Dr. Edwards, seu 
of Machynleth. 
GLOUCESTERSREIRE. 
Application is intended to be made toParlia- 
ment, to obtain ana& for making a turnpike- 
road, from the prefent turnpike-road which 
leads from Rodborough, to Caincrofs, in the 
parifh of Stonehoufe, to join the turnpike- 
road which leads from Cirencefter, to Stroud, 
at or near the feventh mile-ftone from Ciren- 
cefter, (and to pafs through the lower end of - 
the town of Stroud, to Bowbridge and Brimf- 
combe, along the. valley of Chalford, and 
through or near Cowcombe) with a branch 
from feels intended road, at or near a ftream 
called Painfwick Wares, to join the prefent 
road which leads from Stroud, to Caincrofs, 
at or near a place called Stratfords, both in the 
parifhes of Stroud and Painfwick. —~ 
An application is alfo intended to be made 
to Parliament, for taking down the bridge, 
called the Weftgate Bridge, in the parithes of 
St. Nicholas dnd St. Mary-de-Lode, in the 
city of Gloucefter, and for building a new 
bridge acrofs the riyer Severn, in the faid pa- 
rifhes, at or near the place where the {aid 
Weftgate Bridge now ftands, and for making 
proper roads andavenues to and from the fame. 
A fimilar application is alfo intended, for 
making a navigable canazl from the town of 
sity are to the river Avon, at or near 
the town of Tewkefbury, to pafs through the 
feveral parifhes or townthips of Cheltenham, 
Swindon, Uckington, Elmftone Hardwicke, 
ElmftoneT redington and Tewkefbury, all in 
this county. 
At d late meeting at Briftol, of the gen- 
tlemen, natives of this county, M. H. Beach, 
efq. Prefident, the fum of 170]. 5s. 6d. (in- 
cluding the liberal tenefaétions of abfentees) 
was contributed for the laudable purpofe of 
apprenticing poor boys, fons of natives of the 
county, and for relieving, in the hour of 
child-birth, poor women, natives, or the 
Wives of natives of the county. 
Married.| At Gloucefter, the Rev. Mr. 
Cornell, aged 69, to Mifs Pervis, aged 25. 
T: Bold, efq. of Breckneck, to Mifs Baily, 
of Hambrook, inthis county. 
' At Sere H. Howard, efq. of Thorn- 
borough, and M., P. for the city of Gloucefter, 
to Mifs Long. 
Died.| At Gloucefter, Mrs. Ellis, widow 
of Mr: G, Ellis, iatean emisent ironmonger. 
—Mifs E, Palmer, fecond eae of the 
Jate Rev.Mr.Palmer, re€tor of St. Michael’s. 
~-Mifs Bouz shton, daughter of the jate Mr. 
Boughton, curries, 
ae Kington, Mr. Bartlett, an opulent far- 
me 
ve her 22d year, Mifs P. Beard, fifth daugh- 
ter of the late Mr. Beard, of Beards Mill, in 
toe parith ef Leonard Stanley. 
At Tew kefbury, the Rev. J. Robinfon, 
At Winchome, Mr. - is. niger! of 
[Nov. I, 
Pep uieeerthi —In his 24th year, Mr. T. ; 
Cornbill, bookbinder, late of Great Chapel- 
fireec, Weftminfer. 
At Berkeley, Mrs. Hale, mother of Mr. 
Hale, tanner, of Gloucefter. 
At Barnwood, near Gloucefter, Mr. W. P. 
H. Mainwaring, youngeft fon of the late C, 
H. Mainwaring, efqg.—Mr. C.. Adkins, of 
Wefton-upon-Avon; a man of exemplary piety 
and charity. 
At Cheltenham, T. Velley, efq. lieut. 
colonel of the Oxfordfhkire militia. He had, 
for many years paft, made the city of Bath 
his principal refidence. 
At Newent, in his 71% year, M. 
formerly af Burftock, Dorfetthire. 
Mifs S. Buckle,2d daughter of Mr. Buckle, 
of Uckington. 
At the Hill Houfe, Grimley, in his 76th 
year, Mrs, Bedford, relict of the late W.Bed~- 
ford, efq. formerly ‘of Worcefter, 1 
OXFORDSHIRE. 
Paul, efq. 
A moft horrible example of a crime almof’ 
new to human nature lately oceurred at 
Wood{tock —A woman appears deliberately 
to have deftroyed her three children, and af- 
terwards herfelf, in the lake belonging to 
Blenheim park !!!—The circumitances which 
attended fo unprecedented an aét of parricide 
will be anxioufly enquired into by readers of 
fenfibility ; and we fhall endeavour therefore, 
as briefly as poffible, to fatisfy a curiofity fo - 
natural.—This woman’s name was Watts. 
Her hufband was a hagd working day-la- 
bourer at Barton, about fix miles “north of 
Woodftock.. They had been married nearly 
thirty years, and had had nineteen children 5 
nine of whom had died in their infancy ; 
the others were grown up and married. Dur- 
ing various pregnancies fhe had evinced a 
difpofition to be very low -{pirited, and had 
three or four times left her hufband’s hovie, 
and rambled and concealed herfelf in the 
fields; excepting on thefe accafions, her con- 
duét was regular, induftrious, and affec- 
tionate to her family. No indigent perfons 
could have'a better charaéter in their parith 
during a great number of years, than had 
this induftrious couple. In February laft, 
being at that time about five months gone re 
her zoth pregnancy, fhe had fome difpute with 
her hufband about the expenditure ‘of a gui- 
nea. After forme loofe and paffionate declae 
rations that fhe would deftroy herfelf, the 
availed herfeif of the abfence or her hat. 
band, and of her fon who refided at home, 
both of whom were gone to their daily labour, 
and abfconded from her cottaze, accompanied 
by her eldeft girl about eleyen, a boy about 
eight, and another ‘boy about four. What- 
ever might have been her original intentions 
on leaving her own houfe, it appears that 
fhe left a fmall bundle, containing a change 
of cloaths for her children, at the houfe vf 
an acquaiatance at Wotton,’ near Wooditock, 
directing that it fhould be fent back to her 
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