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to acanal, from its being to be executed at 
lefs than half the expence ; and that expence 
certain, from its requiring 13,000 fewer acres 
of land, from its not injuring the fprings 
of rivers, and thereby deftroying the property 
of mills and company 3 from the certainty of 
Conveying of merchandife in all feafons, in 
a given time, ata lefs price; and from the 
advantage of its being to be compleated in a 
fifth lefs time, by which the fubfcribers 
will in two years receive intereft for their 
capital ; fhould this laft plan fuecceed, we 
may foon expeét to dee Portimouth rank 
amongtt the firft clafs of commercia! ports in 
the Bricith empire. 
Married. } At Winchefter, D. Page, Efq. 
barrack-matter, to Mifs C. Tiller, of Eling. 
Died.| At Winchefter, Mr. Lingard, car- 
penter —-Mirs. Nell. 
At Tichfield, Mrs: Dodd, wife of Mr. 
Dodd, head mafter of the free grammar 
{chool, - WER 
At his parfonage houfe, near Rumfey, the 
Rev. Mr. St. John, Rector of Mottisfont- 
church, whofe benevolent and charitable 
difpofition to the poor will make him to be 
long regretted in that neighbourhood. 
At Scethampton, Mr.. Beare, painter.— 
Mr. Smich, butcher.—Mrs, Byrnes, houfe- 
keeper to Nathaniel Middleton, Efq. of 
Vown-hill—Mr. Daniel Linden. 
Of arapid decline, in the bloom of youth, 
MMifs Steele, daughter of Mr. Steele, wine- 
merchant. This young lady, who at the 
age of 16, pofieffled much beauty, and many 
accomiplifhments, was to have been married to 
a re{pectable young tradefman, the very month 
in which fhe terminated her mortai career. 
At Shifley, Mr. Craig. 
At Newport, in the [fle of Wight, the 
Ret. Hon. Leonard Troughear Holmes, Lord 
Holmes of Ireland. 
Lately, in Cleveland-row, London, Ro- 
bert Drummond, Efg. bankers, of Cadland’s 
park,in this county, a younger fon of Vif- 
count Strathallan, who diftinguifhed himfelf 
fo much at the battle of Culloden, and whofe 
title was afterwards forfeited. 
mond, when a youth, came up from Scotland 
to London, in coniparatively moderate cir- 
cumftances ; and has died poffeffed of an im- 
menfe fortune, the bulk of which, (goool- 
per annum) goes to his eldeft fon, Andrew 
Berkeley Drummond, Efg. of Caftle Mal- 
wood, Hants. 
On the 16th of December laft, at the Ifle 
of Wight, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Wil- 
liam Farquhar, Deputy Infpeétor General 
of the Army Depét, in his 46th year. He 
was the fon of Lieutenant Coionel Farquhar, 
of the 44th regiment, who died at Niagara, 
fhortly after it was taken from the French 
in 1759. The family name was originally 
Reid, but changed for a property left by 
will on that ton: izion. 
article was placed at an early age at the 
Royal Academy at Woolwich, where he 
Hamppire. 
Mr. Drum-_ 
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made confiderable progtefs in tis tudies, but 
difliking entering into the Artillery or Engi- 
neers, he purchafed an Enfizney in the 69th 
regiment ‘in the year 1775, and was thortly 
after removed into the 29th regiment, thea 
under orders for the relief of Quebec, at” 
that time invefted by Generals Montgomery 
and Arnold. With this meritorious corps, 
he croffed the lakes in the campaign of 
1776, and was on board the Carleton Schooner, 
commanded by Lieutenant (now Admiral) 
Dacres, during the actions on Lake Champ- 
lain with General Arnold, on the asth and 
13th of Oétober that year. In the fir& 
mentioned Mr. Farquhais detachment fufered 
very confiderably, having five men killed, 
and feveral more ‘wounded. The feamen 
likewife loft fome men. The following 
campaign he ferved under General Burgoyne, 
and greatly diftinguithed himfelf as an aétive, 
enterprizing young officer. After the un- 
fortunate convention of Saratoga, Mr. Farque 
har, as belonging to a regiment in Canada 
(the flank companies of the 29th being only 
with General Burgoyne) was with many 
other officers in the fame fituation, permitted 
to return to Quebec, on parole. The Con- 
grefs having toon after refufed to ratify the 
convention, the Britifh Commander in Chief 
in Canada, ordered all the officers on their 
parole in that country to do duty, with their 
refpective corps. On which Mr. Farquhar 
joined ‘the 29th. He fhortiy after gor the 
rank of Lieutenant, and on every occafion 
where officers of talent and enterprize were 
wanted, in the different inroads made inte 
the American States to annoy the enemy, he 
was conftantly employed. After the return 
of General Sir Frederick Haldimand to Eu- 
rope, and the appointment of Brigadier Ge- 
neral Barry St. Leger, to a€t as Commander 
in Chief, Lieutenant Farquhar, was telected 
by that excellent and difcerning officer to be 
his confidential Secretary, an office which he 
was well fitted for, With his fucceflor 
Brigadier General Henry Hope, he held the 
fame appointment. About a year before the 
29th returned from Quebec, which took place 
in the autumn of 1737, Lieutenant Farquhar 
vifited England on his private affairs, and 
joined the regiment at Worcefter a few 
weeks after it landed. Unwilling to quit a 
regiment to which he was attached by the 
ftrongeft ties of perfonal regard, Pefprit de 
corps, and in which he had ferved as a Su- 
baltern above fifteen years, though fully 
enabled to purchafe into another regiment, 
yet he preferred waiting till 1790, that a 
company became vacant which he purchafed. 
In the beginning of 1793, the prefent Majcr 
General Brownrigg then fecund in command 
inthe Army Depot at Chatham, being or- 
dered to the continent with His Royal High- 
nefs the Duke of York, Captain Farquhar. 
was pitched upon as a very proper perfon to 
act for him at that place. About two years 
after he got the brevet rank of Majer in 
that 
