‘pending fate. 
Ae hi 
of Mr. Rowling, brufhtmaker,.—Mri Sum- 
merfum, cooper.—Mars. Eythest- bt. Hate, 
formerly a baker. 
At Boxted, i in her 76th, year, Mrs, S. Bra- 
wander. che had. been frity. years @ fervant 
in the family of Mrs, Cooke, the whole, of 
whofe family, three . generations, at cended 
her remains to, thé grave. 
Mr, J, Fither, farrper, ,of Woodham Wal- 
ter Lodge ~— Mr. B. Shorey, farmer.—in her 
a7th year, in a deep decline, Mis. Brewfter, 
of Chipping Hill, Witham, 
At Sc, Pee hatec » Mrs. Kirkpatrick, for+ 
merly of the King’s ‘Baal Inn, Maldon. 
At Thaxted, iMits, Philpot, wite of Mr, 
Philpot, jun. 
KENT. e 
Melanchily Shipwreck—On Tuefday morn- 
ing, November 23, during a moft violent gale 
of wind, and rain, a Dutch fhip, called the 
Vreide, Capt. Scherman, from Amfterdam 
for the Cape and Batavia, laden with ftores, 
and having troops on-board, drove from her 
anchor in Hythe-bay, where fhe had brought- 
to, and was driven with fuch uncommon ve- 
locity towards Dymchurch-wall, as to refit 
all the eftorts of the crew to avoid their im- 
The fhore cf Dymchurch, it 
is well known, is prote€ted from the encroach- 
ments of the fea by overlaths and immenfe 
piles, extending from Brockman’s Barn to the 
extreme end of the Wall, a diftance of more 
than two miles, and Srtlias defended by large 
wooden jetties-szhich ftretch to confiderable 
diftance ech fea. As the unfortunate 
veffel approaclg the fhore, fhe ftruck on the 
firft jetty, near Brockman’sBarn, with fuch vi- 
olence as immediately to break her back, when 
the inftantly funk, and lamentable to. relate, 
out of 472 fouls on-board, only 18 were faved. 
The following is given as a ftatement of 
the: number of perfons on-board :—Soldiexs 
320—Officers gz2—Seamen. 63—Women 22 
—Children 7—Pafiengers 20.—Total 472. 
The vefiel foon went to pieces, the. cargo 
was, nearly all deftroyed, and the coaft has 
been fince ftrewed with dead bodies: thele 
were afterwards laid in rowsin Hythe church, 
yard, previous to interment ; and other bodies 
were fent to Chefter and the adjoining pa- 
tifhes for interment. 
A confiderable alteration is fhortly to be 
made in the great road which leads from Lon- 
don, through Rochefter and Canterbury. It 
is intended that the mails and other carriages, 
which have never come nearer than three 
quarters of a mile of Gravefend, fhall, in 
future, pafs through that town ; and, for 
that purpofe, a new road has been lately cut, 
or is now cutting, between it and the village 
of Northfleet. Stages will only touch at 
the top of the town, and then pfoceed by 
Milton church, and come into the old road 
fear Denton. About three miles of this lait 
toad will thus be rendered completely utelefs, 
Kent. ' am * 
‘to grey. 
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and will, no doubt, be converted hereafter to 
the purpotes of agriculture. ‘ 
The Boule which inclofes the large fteam- 
engine lately erected at Gravefend, for the 
purpofe of cleating the works of the tunnel 
of watery having lately taken, fire, ,all, the 
timber-work in ‘the interior of the. houfe Wy 
nearly confumed. The caufe of the above 
difafter is as yet unknown. This accidents 
however, will by no means of itfelf endan- 
ger the fate of the undertaking, as, fromthe 
difficulties already overcome, together with 
the further means that may yet be reforted 
to, the moft fanguine expe@tations are, it 
feems, entertained of final fuccefs. ‘To the 
curious in mineralogy, it may be interefing 
ta know what difficulties Nature prefents in 
the accomplifhment of this great undertaking. 
Under the bed of the river are fubterraneous 
ftores of water, which, in quantity and fitu- 
dation, are as uncertain as their ramifications 
are various. All, however, that the conduc- 
tors of this plan have as yet met with, are, 
we are told, effeCtually penned out, or arch- 
ed, from their excavations. The work, in 
its‘ route beneath the river, will mine 
through chalk and fiint only, which, from 
Borne, and other local refearches, appear to 
lie alternately, in an horizontal pofition, to 
ach other, nearly eaft and .weft; but from 
{suth to north under the Thames, from 
Gravefend to Tfibury. Fort, the fame ftrata 
of chalk and flint run vertically, from the 
{urface of the Kentifh fhore to the depth of 
feventy-two feet on the Erlex coaft, which 
is {ucceeded, or rather preceded, up to the 
furface by ftrata of clay. The chal is hard 
and fragile, and at 146 feet deep from a level 
with the furface of the water, is near thrice 
the denfity of that which lies near the fur- 
face of the earth, and in colour approaches 
The beds vary in thicknefs from 
three'to eight feet, and form laminz from 
three to fix inches deep, clofely united inthe 
dire€tion of the ftratum ; between thefe the 
water penetrates into the mine, but does not, 
however, tranfudate perpendicularly. The 
Bint, in fome places, forms entire and com- 
pect layers ; there is one now excavat ed 
through, that does not exceed a quarter of an 
inch in depth ; fome are difperfed fingly, dif- 
fering in rHikeaeds up to above eighteen 
inches, increafing in hardnefs and luftre, acs 
cording to the depth, affuming a blacker 
tinge, and throwing cut abundant fire when= 
ever it comes in cvllifion with feel. 
Married.| At Canterbury, Mr. W. Mon}, 
faddler, to Mifs Gowland.— Cobden, 
efq. late of the Eftafette-corps, to Milfs Ss, 
Gurney. 
At Greenwich, Captain W, sie, of 
the Royal Navy, to Mifs E. Manfell, late of 
Kench-hill, Tenterden. 
At St Lawrence, Aan, Mr. T. Elgar, 
to Mifs E. Spurgen, of Ramfzate.—Mr. Bal- 
ding, riding-officer at Hearne, to Mifs Hol- 
tum, of jaca akCR W. Richards, linen 
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