1802.) 
fequence, be materially benefited, by obtaining 
a iupply of excellent coal at acheap rate, and 
the cimoer and other articles ready to be con. 
veyed will create a very confiderable trade 
immiediaicly. 
Marriza.\ At Aldbourn, Mr. W. Smith, 
jun. aved 19, to Mrs. Pizzy, a widow lady, 
"aged upwards or 60, with a handfome for- 
tune.——W. Higginton, efq. of Salifbury, tq 
Mrs. Reading, reli of Mr. T. Reading, at- 
torney. 
“Mr. T. Gale, of Tunbridge, to Mifs Pike, 
of Great Bedwin, in thiscounty. ,, 
' Died.| At Ramfbury, fuddenly, on his 
return from church, aged 33, Mr, J. 
Lewes. 
SOMERSETSHIRE. 
Married.] At Briftol, Mr. C. Morris, 
broker, to Milfs E. Holloway.—Mr. W. 'Tho- 
mas, cabinet- maker, to Mifs E Jones, of the 
Three Boars Heads public-houfe. 
Mr. Luxton, ironmonger, of Briftol, to 
Mifs Summerhags, of -Broadwoud Kelly, 
Devon. 
At St. Elizabeth’s, Jamaica, Mr. Chefter, 
late druggift, of #riftol, to irs. Samuel, re- 
li of W. Samuels efq. of Richmond Hill, 
Jamaica, 
At Bath, $. Senhoufe, efq. to Mifs M. Le 
Mefiurier —W. F. Count de |’Age de Labre- 
tollier, to Mifs S. Palmer, oni’ daughter of 
J. Palmer, efq. of Afton Hall, Stafford- 
Shire, 
Died.| At Briftol, Mr. Verry, land: fur- 
veyor: ‘a man juftly efteemed for his profef- 
fional abilities, and no lefs highly valued and 
endeared to his acquaintance for his amiable 
difpofition. 
_ Aged 71, Mr. J. Hood, ironmonger.— 
Mrs. Lediard, wife of Mr. Lediard, dry- 
falter.—-Mr. W. Dyer, arefpectable accomp- 
tant. 
_ Mrs. Hagley; ‘an amiable woman, pof- 
fefled of an innate goodnefs of mind, joined 
to fingular purity of heart, and extreme be- 
nevolence to the poor. 
Mrs. A. Houfton, widow of the late Mr. 
G. Houlton, broker.—Mr. F. A. Brookman, 
youngett fon of Mrs. Brookman, confeétioner. 
——-Aged70, Mr. R. Collins, formerly a malt~ 
fter and brewer.——-Mrs. Skone, mother of 
.. Mr. Skone, grocer.—Mr. Grifiths, plane- 
maker.—Iin the prime of life, Mr. J, Pro- 
thero, late afliftant to Mr J. Evans. 
’ At Bath, Mr. Andrews, cheefemonger. 
DORSETSHIRE. 
Addition to page 377.—Dr. Pui TENEY, 
whofe death was noticed in the Monthly 
Magazine for November, was born at Mount- 
forrel, in Leicefterfhire, in 1730, and known 
to the public as the author of ** the General 
View of the Writings of Linnzus;” of 
‘6 Hiftorical and Biographical Sketches of the 
Progrefs of Botany in Engiand;” and many 
viher valuable pieces upon botanical and me-~ 
dical fubjects. He tirit prattifed as a fur- 
oo 
‘ 
f 
Somerfetfire— Dorfetpire, 
geon and apothecary at Leicefter, and, upon 
obtaining the degree of, Do&or of Phyfic ina 
way fingularly honourable to himfelf at Edin- 
burgh, he commenced pra¢tice as a phyfician 
at Blandford thirty-feven years fince. Hav- 
ing accumulated a very rare foitune, he has 
bequeathed a number legacies among 
bien and cata inftitutigas, | and to 
feveral individuals refpe€table- for their ta- 
lents and attainments. To this brief : accounty 
we give place with pleafure to the following: 
character of him communicated by a valuable 
correfpondent :— 
Dr. Pulteney’s works in ‘natural hiftory 
Were neither nuynerous, or of an unweildy 
magnitude ; but they were the valuable re- 
fult of laporious and long continued re- 
fearch, and evidenced a mind ftimulated by 
an ardent paflion for the purfuit of phyfical 
{cience, and that was, in an eminent degree, 
adapted, both by original genius and habitual 
activity, for prognoting its diffufion and ad 
‘vancement aia mankind. The conf{cien- 
tious, attentive, and cautious manner in 
which, during a long, ufeful, and highly 
reputable career, he difcharged the important 
dutiés of a moft awfully refponfible ‘profeffion, 
excited and permanently fecured to him the 
confidence and regard of alf who from their 
local refidence, were fo fortunate as to be 
within convenient reach of his ‘medical af- 
fiftance and advice. A young phyfician might 
have learned equally from the excellence oF 
his precepts, and the purity of his ete 
The writer of this article regrets, now, alas 
_ unavailingly regrets, opportunities he has 
neglected, of enjoying the converfe, and of 
liftening to the inftruCtions, of fo wife a mo- 
nitor, and fo faithful and invaluable a friend. 
Dr. Pulteney’s uncommon merit was not re- 
ftricted to the praétice of phyfic, or to the pre~ 
fecution of fcience ; it fhone equally confpi~ 
cuous in every fcene and department of his 
life. The moft amiable, at leaft, if not the 
moft {fplendid, part of his share: was un= 
folded in focial,and more efpecially in dometftic 
and Giclee arerconre: No perfon could be in 
his company without, for the time,being ren= 
dered not only the happier, bur alto the 
wifer, and the better for it. By the mild 
gaiety, and well-regulated playfulnefs of his 
fancy, he amufed and delighted; he inftru&ed 
by the folidity of his judgment, and there 
was a commanding fomething in his prefence 
and demeanour, which, even from the hearts 
of the moft obdurately depraved, could not fail 
to extort at leaft a temporary veneration for 
virtue. That for fo confiderable a portion of his 
long life, a man of Dr. Pulteney’s fuperior 
caft, fhould have exifted in a ftate of almoft 
complete exile from the intelleétual world, 
and fo long have fubmitted to the drearineis 
and mental folitude of an ob{cure provincial fitu- 
ation, mutt afford no {mall matter of wonder 
and of regret to thofe who are capable of ap- 
preciating the value of extraordinary talents, 
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