462 : Lancafire: 
At Harrowgate, after a few days’ illnefs, 
Mr. J. Irvine, wine-merchant, in partnerfhip 
with Mr. Pearfon; of Leeds. 
Mr. J. ‘Tinker, of Birkhoufe, near Hud- 
dersfield ; he was in perfect health to all 
appearance the very moment previous to hi 
death. 
Mr. S. Frier, merchant, of Raiitrick, neat 
Halifax. 
Very fuddenly, Sir Walter Vavafour, bart. 
of Haflewood, near Aberford; dying with- 
out iflue, the title and eftates devolge on his 
brother, now Sir Thomas Vavafour, bart. 
At Barthorpe, in the Eaft Riding, Mr. 
Butterfield, farmer and gragier.—Mifs Fifher, 
of Monk Fryftone, near Ferrybridge.—In 
his 77th year —— Bramley, efq. of Carlton- 
houfe, near Leeds.—T. Cotton, efq. of 
Haigh Hall, near Wakefield. 
At Raweiiffe, Mr. Barker, fen. 
At Mount Pleafant, near Northallerton, 
in his 47th year, S. Peat, efg—-Mr. R. 
Petch, of Great Broughton, in Cleveland. 
On his pafiage from China to Madras, Mr. 
E, Terry, fon of Richard Terry; efq. mer- 
chant, of Hull; the veffe) in which he fail- 
ed, left Canton on the roth of December 
laft, and is fuppofed to have foundered at fea 
in a violent ftorm, which arofe the next 
day. 
At Brickwall, Herts, on his journey from 
London, in his 29th year, Mr. W. Horner, 
of New Malton.—Mrs. Harrifen, of Dry- 
pool, near Hull. 
At the Eccles, near Rotherham, Mr. R. 
Hinchliffe, an ingenious artift of the Sheffield 
manufacture. 
Mrs. Hatfield, wife of W, F. Hatfield, 
efq. of Hatfield ; the marriage of this lady, 
which took place about three weeks before, 
is announced in this very Number. 
Mrs. Hoyle, of Roundhay, near Leeds, one 
of the fociety of Quakers.—Mrs. E. Kenyon, 
of Knayton, near Thirfk, and formerly of 
Knowftrop, near Leeds. 
AtThorp Arch, Mrs. Watfon, relict of the 
late Mr. Watfon, formerly of the Tontine- 
inn, at Shefheld., 
Suddenly, in his 85th year, Mr. C. Gill, 
of Marton cum Grafton —Mrs. Barker, wife 
of Mr. Barker, merchant, of Hargrave, and 
daughter of Mr. Holdforth, of Leeds.—~Sud- 
denly, Mrs. Mufgrave, of Chapel Town, 
mear Leeds,—In her gift year, Mrs. Raimes, 
of the Wheldrake, near York. 
LANCASHIRE. 
Avery large fubfcription has been entered 
into at Prefton, and its neighbourhood, for 
the laudable purpofe of ereting aa Infirmary 
in that town. 
Confiderable improvements are now mak- 
ing on the high roads in the town and neigh- 
bourhood of Manchefter, efpecially in that 
which leads from St. Peter’s Church, through 
Oxford-ftreec, to Ruthholme, Wilmflow, &c. 
by widening the bridges, paving the roads, 
&c. &c. As Oxford-ftreet is now completed, 
iDec. 1; 
the road to Didfbury, &c. is rendered not 
only much nearer than by the way of Ard- 
wick, but alfo better ; andit is, confequente 
ly, become more generally travelled by per- 
fons going to Staffordfhite, to Birmingham; 
and the Weft of England. Indeed the com- 
munication between the town of Manchef- 
ter, and thofe parts of the kingdom, is daily 
and rapidly increafing. . 
A correfpondent of the Blackburn Mail, in 
a fhott Defcriptive Sketch of this County, 
after a refidence in it df thrc? months, ob- 
ferves, that Lancafhire may be juftly confi- 
dered as one of the leading counties of the 
kingdom ; meriting regard; not fo much fot 
extent of furface, as for the degree of its 
population, and the attive fpirit of the inha- 
bitants ef all defcriptions. Notwithftanding 
a Jate prodigious decreafe of people, Lanca- 
fhire appears to be inferior in population to 
.Middlefex only, claiming, according to the 
lateft calculations, 425,000 inhabitants, and 
about 1,129,600 acres. This extenfive and 
_ delightful diftri& is, however, in an uncul- 
tivated condition, decked, it feems, with in- 
variable green. The lové of pafturage pre- 
vails here to a great excefs. Agriculture, 
the parent of a thoufand convefiiences and 
comforts, though not contemned, is much 
neglected. The whole tra€& of land, low 
and fertile, is highly favourable to culture ; 
but few fields, however, are allowed to fuffer 
or to enjoy the preffure of the plough. It is 
not by proper periodical tillage, but rather by 
perpetual reft given to the grounds, that 
riches are expected. A park is covered with 
corn once in twelve years, of even feldomer, 
if the old grafs be not fo deteriorated, as to 
be unfit for praAice. The rage of manufac- 
tures and commerce completely triumph here 
oyer agricultural purfuits. The faétory 
brings more profit than the farm. All the 
ingenuity, the fpirit, the perfeverance of 
man, are vigoroufly exerted to invent or per- 
feé various arts of life, while the firft, the 
fimple art of operating on the foil, obtains — 
only afecondary or tranfient attention, The 
fituation, indeed, of Lancafhire boafts of ad- 
vantages particularly fuited to the views of 
manufaéturing and commercial men, which 
few other countries poflefs. Mines of coal 
and fountains of water, navigable rivers and 
numerous canals, found every where, natu- 
rally invite enterprifing individuals to form 
fettlements in a country wafhed by the 
ocean for many miles of coaft. Lancafhire 
can export a world of multifarious fuperflui- 
ties, and recei¥e, in return, all the articles 
that neceflity, curiofity, cupidity, or caprice, 
can demand. External intercourfe with fo- 
reign nations is eafy ; internal navigation is 
commodious. A nobleman of immenfe for- 
tune (the Duke of Bridgwater) highly to his 
credit, devotes much of his attention to com- 
merce, and, by means of a canal of his own, 
ftretching, at leaft, through a length of forty 
miles, with a Gngle lock, covered with ee 
fels 
