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In Gatefhead, Mrs, Bulman, fhopkeeper. 
At Durham, in his 22d year, J. Ports, efq. 
He had lately come tothe pofieflion of a very 
confiderable fortuné: 
At Alnwick, aged 69, Mr. J. France, inn- 
keeper, and formerly an officer in the excife. 
—Aged 89, Mr. R. Ruffel.—Aged 28, Mifs 
E. Fenwick. She fuddenly fell from her 
chair, and expired immediately. 
, At Tynemouth, fuddenly, Mr. Rofe. 
Ac Morpeth, Mrs. M. Englifh, widow.— 
Aged 1c2, Mrs. A. Dixon, innkeeper.—Mr. 
H. Sadler, publican.—Aged 52, Mr. T. Hud- 
fon, butcher.—Aged €8, Mr. J. Embleton. 
At Darlington, Mr. W. Aikew, better 
known by the whimfical name of Roaring 
‘Fokn. — Aged 36, Mr. S. Hodgfon, late a wine 
merchant at Richmond in Yorkthire.-—Mr, 
G. Harperley, formerly a confiderable manu- 
fa&turer. 
At Sunderland, Mifs Ifab, Punfhon, daugh- 
ter of Mr. T. Punfhon, fhip owner.—Aged 
55, Mrs. Sharp. ; 
At Bifhop Wearmouth, in the parifh houfe, 
Mr. Turner Wilfon, formerly game-keeper to 
the late Sir Richard Hilton, of Hilton Caftle. 
At Berwick, aged 23, Mr W. Good, printer. 
At South Shields, Mr. J. Wilfon, {chool- 
mafter.—Aged 77, Mrs. E. Smith, mother- 
in-law of Mr. Wilfon—Aged 80, Mr. J 
Greathead, late comptroller of the falt duties 
of the port and diftriét of Newcaftle.—Aged 
70, Mr, Cuthbert Marfhall, fhip owner.—Mr. 
J. Hepple, butcher. 
In Oftober laft, in the ifland of Jamaica, 
Mr. R. Pewter Morton, fon of Mr. W. Mor- 
ton, late of Chefter Hill. 
Aged 72, Mr. J. Pringle,tenant in CliftonCote. 
At Chefter-le-ftreet, aged 91, Mrs. S. 
Salkeld, widow.—Aged 33, Mrs. Rogers. 
At Uigham, near Morpeth, aged 82, Law- 
fon Armftrong, efq. 
At Bofton, in New England, Mr. R. Ridley, 
brother of Mr. B. Ridley, of Newcaflle. He 
ferved asa lieutenant in the Britifh Navy, 
during the whole of the American war. 
Aged 36, the benevolent Mrs, Allgood, of 
Nunwick, in Northumberland; a lady of 
truly amiable life and manners, whofe lofs 
“will be feverely felt by her domeftics, and the 
neighbouring poor. 
In his 37th year, at Ravenfworth Hillhead, 
near Newcaftle, Mr. J. Rawling, jun. 
" At the Oufeburn, aged 77, Mr. H.Watfon, 
many years principal mafon at Blagdon, 
At Cullercoats, near North Shields, Mrs. 
Shevill, innkeeper. 
’ At the Low Lights, North Shields, Mr. Ab. 
Brown, chimney-fweeper and razor-grinder ; 
in which humble occupations, by management 
and economy, he was enabled to accumulate 
the fum of one thoufand pounds. He was a 
kind mafter to his numerous apprentices. 
At Warkworth, aged 62, Mr. H. Muers, 
mafter of the Sun inn. 
_ At Brunton, R. Fofter, efq. one of the 
Duke of Northumberland’s commiffioners, 
Northumberland and Durham. 
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Aged 77, Mr. Luke Long, of eccentric me- 
mory 3 better known to his fellow townfmen 
by the appellation of Dr. Lonc. Atan early 
period of his life, he was employed as a fur- 
geon or a furgeon’s mate, in different fhips on 
the coaft of Africa 3 and hence his exploits, ad- 
wentures, and hair-breadth efcapes, became, 
ever after, during life, the common topics of 
his, if not prolix, yet certainly unlaconic, con~ 
verfation, and, particularly fo, on convivial oc< 
cafions. Having early acquired, by happily 
copying the fages of his profeflion, a fort of 
dignified countenance, and a folemn, pompous 
demeanour, accompanied with a venerable 
mode of addrefs, he was frequently admitted 
tosthe company of men much ahove his own 
rank and ftation in life; and being a jovial 
member of the feftive buard, it was no un- 
_common thing to fee him placed in a refpeét- 
able feat at corporation dinners, and other dif- 
tinguifhed feftivals. The flafhes of his wit, 
on thefe occafions, being never fpoiled with 
too much polifhing, were happily calculated 
to create the animated pun, and by exciting 
merriment, **to fet the table on a roar.’” 
His metrical compofitions, which, to fay the 
truth, were never too much loaded with eru- 
dition, will, doubtlefs, be long remembered 
by the vifitors at the Manfion-houfe, as fam- 
ples of the doftor’s humour; and the fongs 
which were prepared for fuch occafions, and 
fung by him with wonderful animation, and 
with no fmall fhare of fapient glee, will, no 
doubt, be quoted as proofs of his good-natured 
genius. In the early part of his life, after he 
became ftationary in Newcaftle, he was for 
fome time employed as an apothecary in the 
town; but the various improvements that 
had taken place in the fcience haying greatly 
outrun his former ftudies and early acquire- 
ments, the bufinefs gradually dwindled into 
infignificance, and he was afterwards obliged 
to ftock his fhop with other articles befides 
thofe of Daffy’s elixir, Anderfon’s pills, &c. 
The fingular medley he thus aflociated toge- 
ther would form a curious catalogue, contain= 
ing, like the village barber’s fhop: 
<* Pomatum pats, rollers, and mufty perfumes, 
‘Remnants of ftumps, a broken cafe of lancets ; 
Leaches and genuine corn-falve, made a fhew.”® 
Befides a good affortment of ribbons, tapes, 
blacking-balls and brufhes. The doétor had 
fomething to relate of every perfon and fub- 
ject 5 but every thing new was almoft fure to 
meet his reprehenfion, and the difappoint- 
ments and failures of others, which he pre- 
tended to have forefeen, the feverity of his 
farcafms. He had a particular fluency for 
telling {tories ; and, on the whole,we may ap- 
ply to this eccentric charaéter, the following. 
parody on our great dramatic poet: ° janie. 
‘¢ Noting his flippancy, to myfelf I faid, 
And if aman did with to hear’a tale, 
Secrets of families, or affairs of ftate, 
Here lived an oily tongue would tell i¢ him,” 
