188 York/fhire. 
himfelf to refpectable circumftances. He 
was a man of perfevering induftry, exemplary 
probity, and extenfive charity, which latter 
virtue he liberally exercifed, in adminiftering 
fo the relief of the poor. 
At Uledale, in the prime of: life, Mr. 
Green, fhoemaker. 
At Langrigge, aged §9, Mrs. Ifabella Ro- 
binfon. 
At Bottom-houfe, Sephton, aged 64, Mr. 
E, Darwin. : 
Lately, in London, aged4i1, Mr.J.Hodgfon, 
fon of Mrs. Hodgfon, of Harraby; ficar Car- 
tifle. He was formerly ¢efident in the Eaft 
Indies, from whence he had returned to Eng- 
land only a few months ago. 
At Morton Head, near Carlifle, Mr. J. 
Stoddart, manufacturer. 
At Scaleby, aged 92, Mr. J. Gibfon, for- 
merly of Buller Syke. 
At Etterby, near Carlifle, aged 32, Mr. T. 
Stage. 
At Little Bampton, in his r9th year, Mr. 
W.Wills. This is the 6th lamentable death 
that has happened in the fame family, con- 
fitting of feven perfons, in the fpace of eight 
years, viz. father and mother, two fons and 
a daughter, at the refpective ages of 63, 53, 
22, and 19. i 
At Newton, Mr. J. Johnfon, mate of the 
thip Difpatch. 
At Dalton, near Burton, in Kendal, aged 
70, Mr. J. Smith. 
E. Bolton, efg. of Afkham-hall, in Weft- 
moreland. 
YORKSHIRE, 
A meeting was lately held at the Cutler’s 
Hall, in Sheffield, forthe purpofe of taking 
into confideration, the propriety of an appli- 
cation to parliament, to obtain an att for 
making a navigable canal frora Tinfley to 
Sheffield, a fpace of about four miles diftance, 
when it was refolved that the fumof 30,0001. 
fhould be raifed by voluntary fubfcription, in 
iiares of 100]. each, to carry this long-wifhed 
for meafure into execution; a- confiderable 
part of the faid fum was then fubfcribed, and 
the whole amount has been completed fince. 
The receipt of cuftoms at the port of the 
town of Kingfton upon Hull, laft year, a- 
mounted to near 400,0ool. fterling ! 
The following fingular -hiftery of a cer- 
tain {mall ifland fituated in, or near, the 
mouth of the river Humber, called Sunk 
ifland, iscopied from a late Hull paper. This 
Curious and interefting ifland, was originally 
formed by the accumulation of mud, &c. 
and continued gradually increafing till the 
year 1666, when it was of fufficient magni- 
tude to be demanded as a grant, by Anthony 
Gylby, efg. to whom a grant was made for 
an annual rent of 51. to commence from the 
ernbankment of the firft 100 acres. Little 
progrefs, however, was made in that worl, 
‘till a new leafe was given, in the courfe of 
which the eftate devolved to Mr. W. Gylby, 
p 3 
{March 1, 
by whofe exertions; not lefs than 1500 acres 
were embanked and divided into farms, by 
the year 1744. In1755, a third leafe was 
made to Mrs. Margaret Gylby, which ex- 
pired on the r5thi of March laft, at the annual 
rent of tool. and the fine amounting to 15001. 
The reprefentatives of the family of Gylby, 
have now agreed to expend the fum of 10,0001. 
on a new leafe within three years,and to pay a 
rent of 7o4l. 2s. $d. in the firft year; 2000]. 
for the fecond year, and 3rgol, for the re- 
mainder of a term of 31 years. The leffees 
have already expended to the amount of 
90,0001]. and 2835 acres have been added to 
the lands already reclaimed, the whole eftec- 
tually fecured by a ftrong embankment. | 
Married] The Rev. Mr. Hodgfon, of 
Campfall, Vicar of Eaft Drayton, in Notting- 
hamfhire, to Mifs Newcombe, of Barmby, 
near Barnfly. 
At York, Mr..Gordon, wine-merchant, 
to Mifs Scott, both of Gilling, near Rich- 
mond, 
Mr. T. Triebner, of Leeds, fon of the 
Rev. Mr. Triebner, of Hull, to Mifs Rhodes, 
of Holbeck. 
At Hull, Mr. M. Andrew, to Mrs Fearn- 
Jey, widow of the late Mr. J. Fearnley, mer= 
chant.Mr. J. Berry, to Mrs. Jackfon.— 
Mr. J. Levit, of Welton, to Milfs Metley, 
niece of Mr. O. Kirkbride, merchant. 
Died.] At York, in his 72d year, R. 
Jardine, efg. late of Louth, in the county of 
Lincoln.—-Aged 41, Mr. J. Sherwood, fur- 
rier.—Aged z1, of the {mall-pox, Miis Hob- 
fon.—Aged 50, Mrs. Bardcaftle.—Aged 55, 
T. Hamrnond, efq. brother to G. Hammond, 
efq. Under Secretary of State in the Foreign 
Department.—Aged 24, Mr. J. Benfon,wine- 
merchant. 
At Hull, aged 82, after one weeks illnefs, 
Mrs. Eggleftone. She had been married to 
Mr. Eggleftone 63 years.—Aged 63, Mrs. 
Twining, relict of the Jate Rev. J. Twining, 
formerly minifter of the Baptift congregation 
in this town. Aged 55, Mr. Theophilus Mit~- 
chell, baker —Aged 70, Mr. R. Beaumont, 
lighterman.—Aged $3, J. Barrett, efq. 
At Sheffield, Mr. Jofeph Frith, a Quaker. 
He was a partner in the fa€tory called the 
fteam mill grinding wheel, where he having 
entered aroom, and being fuddenly taken 
with a fort of vertigo or dizzinefs, he unfor- 
tunately fell among the wheels, and was 
hurled twice round before the works could 
be ftopped; Mr. Frith, was then taken out 
quite dead, a fhocking fpeétacle, having his 
back broke, and being otherwife dreadfully 
mangled. Itisrathera fingular circumftance, 
that when the works were firft ere€ted, Mr. 
Frith ordered a partition to be made, for the 
patticular purpofe of preventing accidents, 
in the very fame place where he received his 
death, and previous to the melancholy acci- 
dent, was the perfon whe had dire&ted it te 
be taken down. He had returned from the 
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