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chitect, of Bedford, to hold” 33 in-patients, 
fo weil calculated for the purpofe, that the 
committee do net hefitate to recommend it to 
zhe adoption of the meeting. 
Been indefatigable in his enquiries as to the 
contraction of the feveral infrmaries of the 
belt repute; and the oy) recommended ap- 
pears co the committee, to combine the ex~ 
ecliencies; and to aha} e the defects of thofe 
already built. Mr. Wing has further pro- 
pofed to the cemunittee, to contract for the 
building, to be fintthed by the firft of June, 
2803, for the fum of 58001. Mr. Whit- 
Sscad hes prepofed to tue committee to furnith 
to the treafurer the funds nec-ffary for the 
payment of quarterly inftalments of sool. 
each {tne firft inftalment to be made at 
hides next) out of the legacy of his fa- 
ther, till the whole of the goocl. the fum 
zpprocriated for the building ‘fhall be ex- 
haufied; ta which as committee: have 
The resort likewife fates, that the 
ce have fixed upon a fpot of ground 
ne building, iouth-weft of the town of 
Bedford, ina clofe, called Thomas’s clofe, fo 
eligible, that they have net hefitated to treat 
with the Duke of Bedford (to whom the 
gvound belongs} for the purchafe of three 
ive building and its appendages, garden, air- 
ng~-ground, &e, and that no part of the 
feafon might be loft. they have ven- 
o arder the seg of a larze quantity 
ef bricks. It app ral s Stan the expences in- 
curved for printii-g, &c. amount to eal. 3s. $d. 
sad the treafurer ‘has ce hand the tum of 
7s- The amount of donations, added 
fum appropriated to the building by 
ate Mr. Whitbread, appears adequate to 
xpence 5 but befides the building, there 
art icles of immediate and neceflary 
e to be provided, before patients can be 
ed, the moit obvious of which are the 
furniture, fforesand medical apparatus, which 
wil take up cag fums; in the event of any 
xcefs above the whole fum required, it will 
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be added ta the fund eftablifhed for the per- | 
manent endowment of the hofpital. At the 
abeve meeting, the report, and the plan of 
the building propofed by the committee, 
were unanimouily adopted, and a permanent 
committec, confiiting of the Duke of Bedford, 
Lord jobn Rufiel, Mr. Ofocrn, Mr. Pym, 
‘as appointed, with full powers to contract 
for the building, draw: upon the Treafurer for 
the difcharge ae neceilary expences, &c. &c. 
NOR THAMPTONSHIRE. 
eais that in the management ‘of that 
ee the General Infirmary, at Nor- 
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xe fick and ead peor, of ali ceunties, 
erfons have been relieved fince the 
r in 1744. The colleétion lately made at 
the.church doors, Northamptcn, amounted to 
rors. Bs. 7d. 
Rarsi cd] At viemoi lg Ms, W. Turnbell, 
Northamptonfbire-—Cambridgefbire—Nor folk— Effex. 
Mr. Wing has - 
eres, fo mach being deemed neceffary for. 
Mr. Riggins, Mr. Whitbread; and Dr. Yeats,- 
intended for the reception ‘and re- - 
al foundation of the Old County Hof-_ 
mercer, to Mifs S$. Mofley, daughter of Mr, 
Mofley, timber-merchant.—Mr. Myers, at- 
torney, of Daventry, to Mrs. Humphreys, 
widow of the late Rev. Mr. Humphreys, late 
of the fame place. 
Died.| At Kingfhorpe, near Northamp- 
ton, W. J. Lockwood, efq.—In her 74th 
year, Mrs. Wildgoofe, of Daventry. 
Mrs. J. Farrer, relict of the Rev. R. Farrer, 
reCtor of Athley 5 a lady of exemplary charity 
and Chriftian piety. 
Mifs S. Berrill, 
J. Berrill, farmer, &c. cf Yardley, Haftings. 
At Kettering, Mrs, Dath, wife of Mr.Dafhy 
bookfelier. 
CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 
Muarried.| B. Montague, efq. barrifter, of 
Gray’s-inn, London, and formerly of Chrift’s- 
college, Cambridge, to Mifs Ruth, eldeit 
daughter of Sir William B. Ruth, knt. of 
Roydon. 
Mr. R. Rogers, printer, of Newmarket, to 
Mifs A. Wiifon, milliner, late of Bury.— 
Mr. Smooth, of Carlton, to Mifs R. Wake- 
field, of ‘Great Chefterford Park.—Mr: Pal- 
mer, whitefmith, of Ely, to Mrs. Palmer, 
widow, of Cherryhinton. 
At Stoke, near Clare, J. T. Hervey Elwes, 
efq. to Mifs Payne. 
At Newmarket, Mr. Day, of the Half- 
moon-inn, to Mifs Jackling. f 
At Larhbeth, the Rev. A. Jobfon, M.A, 
late of Trinity- college, Cambridge, and Mi- 
nifter of March, in the Ifle of Ely, to Mrs. 
Budd, of Piince’ s-place. = 
Died. ]_ At Cambridge, in his 46th year, 
Mr. W. Palmer, apathecary.—In her 8oth 
year, Mrs-M.Sharp, mother of Mr.T. jnnnee 
peruke. maker. 
Aged 33, Mr. J. Wells, bricklayer, - He 
was weil known to ‘the gentlemen of the 
Univerfity, asa remarkably fine tkaiter. 
‘ NORFOLK. 
A two-fhear wether, belonging to Mr, 
Moneyhill, of Waterden, on being lately kil- 
led, was found to weigh ninety-four pounds, 
and the bone. weighed only four pqunds and a 
half: the proportion of meat to bone being 
carly as twenty to ‘one. This proportion 
fhould be more generally attended to, in order 
tothéw the fair refults of fuch experiments. 
Marrted.| At Lynn, Mr, S. ihesbeithe ta 
Mifs Locket. 
At Swaffham, the Rev. W. Taylor, reétor 
of Earl Soneham, in Suffolk, to Mifs Rolfe, 
daughter of the late Rey. R, Rolie, caches of 
Hi lboro’, in this county. 
ESSEX. 
A curious cireumftance occurred lately near 
Safiron Walden, which was witnefled by fe- 
veral fpectators. A vat number of tcf: and 
fwallows had affembled in the air, apparently 
for the purpofe of taking their departure to 
another climate, when a_ battle. enfued, in 
which feveral of them were killed. 
gentleman picked up feven which had perifhed 
in the conflift. None others of the feathered 
tribe mingied in the fight, which did not a 
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