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cies were given and bequeathed, during the 
year, to the amount of 7031. rgs. rod.; that 
during the year 1800, the averaged numbet 
of patients on the diet-lift amounted to 102 5 
and that there were confumed in theif fup- 
port 706 butheis of flour, 498 buflicls of 
malt, and 734 fcore pownds of meat; and 
that the charity now labowrs under dithcul- 
ties, &c. which muft be attributed fo the ad- 
vanced price of every article of provifions, 
and to the increafed number of patients fuf- 
tained in the Koufe. 
Marricd.} Mr. T. Vick, butcher, of Ep- 
ney, to Mifs Knipe, of Frampton upon Se- 
vern,—«Lieutenant Darke, of the oth regt. 
Dragoon-guards, to Mifs S. Caruthers, of 
Brownfhill, Painfwick.—Mr. A.W. Watkins, 
of High Meadow-farm, to Mifs }. Grindall, 
triece to N. Evans, efq. of the Cherry Orchard- 
farm; both in the parifly of Newland.—Mr, 
J. Williams, ef Thornbury, to Mifs M, Bed- 
good, of Tytherington. 
Dizd.j At Gloucefter, Mrs, Holt, wife 
of Mr. Holt, grocer.—Afcer a long illnefs, 
Mrs; Sadler, wite of Mr. E. F. Sadler, mer- 
_cer—-Mrs. H. Neale, youngeft daughter of 
the late G. J. Bucre, efq. Governor of Ber- 
muda. 
At Coleford, Mrs. Bennett, wife. of Mr. 
Bennett, 
plafterer. . meen 
Near Little Dean, Mr. E. Teague, one of 
the proprietors of the coal-works, gear that 
place. oa meen 
In his 79th year, Sir. Howe Higks, bart. 
of Whitcombe Park. ; 
At Cheltenham, Mrs. Sprowle, reli@ of 
A. Sprowle, efg. of Kemerton. 
At Arundel’s Mill, near Stroud, Mr. B. 
Cooke, a confiderable manufatturer.in the 
clothing-line, 
At Cirencefter, in the Soth year of her 
age, Mrs, Sarah Palmer, a lady of extraordi- 
Raty. endowments and virtues. Her under- 
flanding, in point of folid and ufeful talents, 
was of the very firft order; nor was fhe defti- 
tute of that imagination and fenfbility which 
is requifite to the nice perception of beauty, 
whether in nature or in art. Her mind was 
fiored with information on fubjeéts which 
have ufually and juftly been contidered as in- 
timatély conneéted with human virtue and 
happinels, namely, morals and theology ; 
while elegant literature, in general, had not 
been negleéted by her. Imprefled witha jutt 
fenfe of the fuperlative value of the moral 
principles of religion, fhe was perfectly free 
from prejudice in matters of fpeculation which 
did not appear to her to involve practical con- 
fequences. The writer of this article weil 
recolle&s an inftance in which at about the 
age of 70, fhe unreluCtantly gave up a reli- 
gious fentiment which fhe had believed from 
her infancy, upon a tingle perufal of a deci- 
five tract, confifting only of a few vages, in 
which that tenet wasiefeted. At the fame 
Oxfardjiires 
ironmonger.——-Mr, .W. Grindall,. 
465 
time fhe was Very tenacious where fhe con= 
ceived that the interefts of morality, or the 
perfection of the divine attributes would be 
endangered by conceflion, Her education had 
not included an acquaintance with the gramx- 
mar of the Englith language; a circumftance 
which would not have defervzed: mention, ‘had 
fhe not written the language, withthe gram- 
matical .principles of which dhe was unac— 
qguainted, withs a correéne/s and elegance not 
often exceeded: an additional proof of fupe= 
riority of intelle&, But the powers of ter 
underftanding, though great and, diverfified, 
muft perhaps. yield to the qualities: of her 
heart. As her views of the divine Being 
were moft exalted and reverential, her pietg 
was fervent, and at the fame time chearful 
and rational. Her benevolence was moft ene 
larged and aétive, and made the diftrefles of 
others her own to a degree ‘that has perhaps: 
Jearcelyever been equalled. Her exertions to 
relieve the diftrefles which the thus painfally 
realized were of confequence proportionabl y 
prompt and unremitted. nftances might be 
enumerated in which fhe denied herfelf for 
the good of others in points of great impor- 
tance to her perfonah comfort and enjoyment. 
Her general tenfioilities were moft lively and 
acute, and her judgment of charatter decided 
and almoft irrevocable. if the had a charac- 
teriftic failing, it was a {mall defe& of can- 
dour, after fhe had once made up her mind en 
the gualities of thofe with whom fhe was 
conne&ted, But thisin her wasrather a mif{- 
take of the judgment, than an error of the 
heart. The vice which fhe moft abborred,. 
as it was repugnant to every feeling of her 
mature, was that grofs felf-intereft, which, 
while it feeks perfonal advantage, pays na 
regard to the comfort and happinets of others, 
Ina few words, if exemplary piety, and hene- 
volence, the moft free from every debating 
mixture of felfifhnefs, comftitutes human cx- 
cellence, fhe may be confidered as having 
ranked among the firft of human charaters, 
The regret of her friends for the lofs of her 
fociety, which in her happier moments dif- 
fufed rational chearrulnefs wherever fhe ap- 
peared, can only be mitigated by the refec- 
tion that for many years of lier life the had 
fufigred deplorably from a nervous affection 
which admitted oceafional relief, but for 
which no effe€tual remedy could be found, 
The writer of this account feels a fincere con- 
viction, that he has now been paying the laft 
tribute of refpe€t to one whofe character pre- 
fented a ftriking proof of the value and effi- 
cacy of chofe religious principles, by which’ 
her lite had been uniformly revulated, 
OXFORDSHIRE. 
The poor’s rate lait year, if the hundred 
of Bampton, amounted to upwards of 17,0001. 
of which fum 53311. 2s. $d. was raifed in the 
parith of Witney only. This may give fome 
idea of the vait fums levied in the county at 
. larges 
