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was appointed captain commandant of the 
depét of-recruits at Chatham barracks, by 
the late General Samuel Townthend, infpec- 
tor- general of the recruiting fervice. About 
two years afterwards he fold his company in 
the 19th regiment, and accepted of the ad- 
jutancy of the Weft Norfolk militia. In that 
regiment he ferved till his death as captain 
and paymafter, having refigned his former 
ftaff commiffion, in confequence of the num- 
ber of years limited by a& of parliament, and 
receiving the allowance of 6s. per diem in vir- 
tve thereof. While in the 19th regiment, 
Sir William Gordon married a daughter of 
Colonel Irvine, of the 15th regiment of foot, 
who, during the American war, was lieute- 
nant-guverfor and commander in chief of the 
ifland of Guernfey, and father to the prefent 
Lieutenant- general Irvine, colonel of the 6th 
garrifon battalion, By this marriage, Sir 
William had a numerous family, of which 
only two fons and three daughters remain. 
The eldeft fon, now Sir fohn Gordon, ‘is an 
officer in the corps of engifeers belonging to 
the Eaft India Company at Bengal; his fee 
cond fon, Orford, is.a captain in the 7th bat- 
talion of royal referve; his eldeft daughter 
was matried fome years ago to Major- general 
Cameron, chief engineer at Bengal; the fe- 
cond daughter was married to Col. M‘Kenzie, 
of the retired lift of the Eaft India Company’s 
fervice; and the third daughter is unmarried. 
Sir William Gerdon was a moit worthy maa, 
Northumberland and Durham. 
| March f, 
highly refpected by a numerous circle of 
friends, and will be long lamented by his’ 
family, to whom he was an indulgent huf- 
band and good father. His funeral, which 
wes in the military ftile, (having died with 
his regiment,) was attended by General Sir 
James Henry Craig, K. B. commanding the | 
Effex diftri€t, and all the officers of the nu~ 
merous garrifon of Colchefter, to pay the laft. 
tribute to a veteran defervedly efteemed by 
all ranks ] , 
[The late Mr. Dru Drury, whefe death was 
announced in our laf? Number, had been former= 
ly a goldfmith and jeweller-in the Strand, 
but had retired from bufinefs fome years. 
He had fuffered many years from a complaint 
that was thought to be an enlargement of 
the proftrate gland; but, on examination af- 
ter his deceafe, there were found, at the neck 
of the bladder, three large ftones of a round 
oval fhape, upwards of two inches long, and 
a full inch deep, which weighed about two 
ounces each ftone. Mr. Rrury was a fellow’ 
of the Linnean Society, and~had been many 
years acolleétor of fubjects in natural hif> 
tory, particularly infeéts, which hehad pro- 
cured latterly to a great extent. He had even 
written three quarto volumes on the fubject, 
a work well known to the profeffors of ento-’ 
mology. He was of a very ancient family, 
and, it is believed, was lineally defeended 
from Sir Dru Drury, in Queen Elizabeth’s 
time. } 
SO tial 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES. 
WITH aLt THE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS, 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
© Authentic Communications for this Department are always very thankfully received. 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM, 
The ladies of Newcaftle, having fometime 
ago eftablifhed a charitable repoGtory in the 
town, wherein all kinds of fancy work, of 
their own manufaéture, mighe be expofed 
firft to view and then to fale, fer the benefit 
of certain public charities for females within 
the town, nearly the whole cf the articles 
have been lately difpofed of; and the exhi- 
bition is now, of courfe, clofed for a time. 
The admiffion money was cne fhilling, which, 
however, was returned, on purchafing any ar- 
ticle; and the room, on the fir vpening, 
afforded a fight allowed to be weil worth the 
money. A copfiderable fum of money has 
been raifed by this means, and diftributed 
agreeably to the intention of the patronefs 
Lady Rid'ey, and the other fair contributors. 
Marrizd) At Durham, M. Duna, efq. 
alderman, to Mifs Braffington—Mr. ]. Hep- 
worth, linen-draper, to Mifs M. Wheldon. 
At Hexham, Mr. E. Tweddell, common- 
carrier between Carlifle and Newcaftle, to 
Mifs M. Baty, of the Grey Bull ina. 
At Newcaftle, C. T. Aveling, efg. furgeom 
on the ftaff in this diftri€t, to. Mifs M. At- 
kinfon, of the Shaleefpeare tavern—-Captaim 
Wayt, of Southwold, Suffolk, to Mifs.Is. 
Smith. 
Died] At Durham, Mrs. Henderfon,, 
wife of Mr. R. tenderfon, matter taylor.— 
Aged 58, Mr. J Simpfon, mafon. 
At Newcaltle, Mr. H. Swan, keeper of 
the rendezvous houfe for imprefied feamen. 
He fuddenly dropped down whilft feated in 
his chair, after waiking fome time upon the 
quay, and a]moft inftantly expired. 
In her 63th year, Mrs. B. Henzell, for- 
meriy of the White Hart inn. 
Mr. T. Hutchinfon, broker, lately theriff’s 
- officer for this county, and formerly one of 
the bailiffs of Durham, He diftingu‘fhed 
himfelf not a little by ingenuity and aétivity 
in his office, and was frequently employed in. 
cafes that required fingular dexterity and ad- 
drefs, in which he generally fucceeded. ‘ 
Mrs. Storey, keeper of the Guildhall or, 
Towns Court —Aged 63, Mr, J. Stepnen- 
‘ fon, 
