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them, which, though not generally known, 
feems to be very neceflary, as fhe and five of 
the children eating of them became apparent- 
ly poifoned; one of them, three years of 
age, died within an hour anda half after eat- 
ing; but medical ailiftunce priderved the 
other four. A coroner’s inqueftfat on the 
body, and returned a verdiét of—aAccidental 
death by eating unwholefome food. 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
In the courfe of the laf year, at St. Mary’s, 
Carlifle, theré were 62 marriages, 193 chrif- 
tenings, and 182 burials. At St. Cuthbert’s, 
20 marriages, 93 chriitenings, and 136 burials: 
making together, $2 marriages, 286 chriften- 
‘ings, and 318 burials. 
The Earl of Carlifle, with his accuftomed 
liberality, has diftributed to’ the neéceiflitous. 
poor in the neighbourhood of Caftle Howard 
35 chaldrons of coals, 160 ftones of beef, 16 
quarters of good wheat, ts quarters of good’ 
barley, gol. in cath, and ros. 6d. and warm 
cloathing to each poor widow on the eftate 
ef Lady Carlile. 
A foup-kitchen has been opened at Work- 
ington by voluntary fubfeription, from which 
200 indigent houfeholders are daily fupplied 
with a pint of foup each, and a fuitable por- 
tion of bread. 
Miarried.| At Workington, Mr. Hodgfon, 
to Mifs Robinfon. 
At Kendal, the Rev. T. Briggs, to Mifs 
Threlfal. Bk 
At Afkham, Mr. Bracken, to Mifs White, 
both of Hilton. 
At Bampton, Mr. Holme, to Mifs Whar- 
ton. ‘ 
At Underbarrow,T. Gregg, efq. of Lupton, 
to Mifs M. Hervey, daughter of the Rev. T. 
Hervey, curate of Underbarrow. 
At Burgh, by Sands, Mr. Thomas Hodg- 
fon, of Grinfdale, to Mifs Mary Barwife, of 
Longburgh. 
At Laneruft Church, Mr. T. Foretter, to 
Mifs M. Nixon. 
Died.] At Carlifle, in the Abbey-ftreet, 
Mr. Jobn Carnaby, aged 70.—Mr. W. Dick- 
fon, ot Epfom.—Mrs. Beck, of the Botcher- 
gate.—Mr. T. Egan. ; 
Lately at Longburgh, Mr. J. Robinfon. 
At Knells, Mrs. Pattrickfon, wife of Mr. 
W. Pattrickfon. 
At Sebergham, Mr. Samuel Rolph, at an 
advanced age. 
At Kendal, in the 53d year of his age, | 
Mr. John Wilfon, one of the people called 
Quakers LF 
"At Witton le Wear, Mrs: Bell, of Sunder- 
Jand, fifter of Lieutenant-Colonel Boles, of 
the Company’s troops on the Bombay efta- 
blifhment. 
At Brampton, Eleanor Liverick, widow, 
aged 100 years. 
At Caterend, in the prime of life, Mrs. A. 
Young. 
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At Penruddack, at an advanced age, Mrs. 
A. Wilkinton. 
At Whitehaven, aged 68, Mr. T. Rout- 
ledge, butcher. 
At Burnefide, aged 75, Mr. T.Smith. 
At Wigton, in the 29th year of his age, 
Mr. Daniel Sanderton, draper, whofe piety, 
and attention to bufinefs had procured him 
general efteem. 
At Workington, Mr. John Barton.—Mrs. 
Weltray, aged 75. 
At Belville, George Duncan, efq. comps 
troller of the ftamp-duties for Scotland. 
YORKSHIRE, 
Some gentlemen at Hull recently under- 
took to infpeé&t and regulate the parochial 
expenditures in that town3 in confequence 
of which the poor are better provided for, 
and the poor-rates have been reduced from 
8320 to 44$ol. per annum. 
At Wakefield, a very numerous meeting 
of merchants, woolftapiers, manufaéturers, 
&c.,took place the beginning of the month, 
‘to take into confideration the propriety of pe~ 
titioning the King to procure a {peedy peace, 
which was carried in the affirmative. Several 
refolutions were then entered into, the pur- 
port of which were 4$ follow: 
‘¢ That, from the alarming and unprecedented 
decay of trade, from the rapid increafe of 
poor-rates and taxes, and the high price of 
grain, and other necefiaries, that part of the 
kingdom was in a ftate ferioufly diftrefsful, 
and which imperioufly called for prompt and 
efectual relief. ' } 
‘< That the war was the principal caufe of 
thefe eviis, 
‘© That an immediate peace was the only 
event that could effectually remove thefe in- 
creafing calamities, and reftore confidence at 
home and abroad, which was fo eflential to 
the advancement of our commercial profpe- 
rity. 
‘¢ That, impreffed with this conyition, an 
humble petition fhould be prefented to his 
Majefty, to make every exertion to reftore 
peace to the, fuftering country.” 
The petition, then read and propofed, © 
was unanimoully adopted. 
John Wilkinfon, efq. is chofen Lord 
Mayor of York for the prefent year. 
At Bradford, a petition for peace was re~ 
folved upon) by a very numerous mecting of 
merchants, manufacturers, Sc. 
Some of the newfpapers attached to the 
Jvcopbant party in this county find it neceffary 
- te iupport the finking intereft of Mr. Wilber- 
force, by detailing his fpeeches in parliament 
as articles of iocal intelligence, with vaft en- 
comiums on his wifdom and fincerity, on the 
profperity of the country, and on the glorious 
fuccefs of the war! 
It is lamentable to obferve clergymen fo 
much loft to every fenfe of fhame, and a dye 
re{pect for the precepts of their hoiy religion 
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