1308.] 
At Warkworth, the infant son of Henry 
David Erskine, ¢5q. 
At Sunderland, Mr. Mattes Thompson, 
_ 87.—-Mr. John WikiteweiMIn! Robert Newton, 
ship-owner.—-Mr. Thomas Hodgson, 51. 
At Berwickhill, Mr. Joseph Reay, 74. 
At Broomhdise, sous Wilkie, esq. 74. 
- At Newham, near S:ockton, Mrs. Simp- 
son, wife of Thomas S. esq. 
At Ridbyhall near Haltwhistle, 
Maughan, esq. 69. - 
At Morpeth, Miss Barbara Marr, slg 
Mr. John Bates, 77.—\Miss Richardson, 43. 
At Falstone, Dr. Wood, late of Jedburgh. 
At Biggs’s Main Staith House, Mrs. Eli- 
zabeth Hunter, relict of Mr. John H. of Hex- 
bam, $2. 
At Durham, in the 96th year of his age, 
William. Cloyd. Among the many-eccentric 
tricks of his youth, he once-undertook to de- 
scend upon a rope fear the steeple of St. Giles’ 
church, to the Bower Banks adjoining, and 
accomplished it unhurt. In 1739 he was 
with Admiral Vernon at the taking of Porto 
Bello and Carthagena.. In 1742 he was de- 
prived of his eyesight -by lightning upon the 
African coast, anid: after that became famous 
tor dressing sheep’s feet, which proved a very 
profitable trade-to him, and enabled him te 
procure his quantum of alé, of which he con- 
sumed ne small quantity. At cards and bow- 
ling “matches Cloyd was generally one of the 
foremost, and frequently betted very freely. 
He enjoyed, in general, a very good state of 
health, and within the last 20 years has 
been seen to run round-the feet of a large 
stool, turned topsy-turvy, with his boots on. 
About 26 years ago he was at a bowling 
match on Gilesgate Moor, when a violent 
altercation arose about the position of the 
bowls, which had nearly ended in blows, 
when Cloyd starting from the crowd, cried 
out, ** Lead me to the place where the bowls 
are:’” On his arrival. there, after groping 
awhile for the bowls, he cried out, ** Any 
body may see that bowl is first.” ‘This crea- 
ted a loud faugh, and put all the parties in 
good humour again. About 18 years ago he 
John 
received one of Hetherington’s benefactious | 
of 101. a year to blind men, upor which he 
subsisted till his decease: 
At Bees Bank, near Durham, Mr. Henry 
Rutherford. He was in perfect health and 
Spirits, during the whole afternoon of the 
day en which he died, 
CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. 
‘The preparations for erecting the court- 
houses at Carlisle, are going on with great ac- 
tivity,.and an engineer has arrived in that 
ity to directthe work. In appropriating the 
two massive towers*to the above-mentioned 
laudable purpose, their antique appearance 
is to be preserved throughout, which will 
give to the whole, whem finished, a truly no- 
ble and majestic appearance. 
The Whitehaven Library, which was in- 
sstituted the 20th of February, 1797, (as a 
permanent and accumulating depository of 
Cumberland and Westmoreland. . 459 
literature) now consists of upwards of one 
thousand volumes; all of them genuine edi- 
tiens. These may be classed as follows: 
Antiquity, 18 vols, Theology, Morals, &cs 
103; Voyages and Travels 147; History 
103; Biography 515,Poetry, in sets 68; 
ditto, ‘In single volumes 22; Science 46; 
Miscellaneous 300; Novels $2; Plays singles 
and insets, 144. The GL hecebiue (the list 
of which is honoured with the names of the 
Ear] and Countess of Lonsdale) are accomoda- 
ted with two suitable apartments (a library 
and areading room) is Lowther-house, Low- 
ther street. > 
While some. workmen, were lately em- 
ployed in digging a cellar in Fisher-street, 
Carlisle, they discovered, several feet be~ ° 
low the surface, the handle of a Roman 
vase madé of stone, highly ornamented, and 
a.small hand-mill, both of Roman origin, 
These remains of antiquity were found be- 
neath two distinct pavements, which the 
workmen had discovered in excavating the 
eavth. Pieces of pavement have been fre- 
quently found at the depth of ten or eightees 
feet, under many parts of that-city; which 
prove beyond doubt. the frequent devasta- 
tions, during the incursions of the Picts and 
Danes, before it was built in its present form 
by King William Rufuse The ground in 
Fisher-street is much below the level of any 
other part of the town, yet it is considerably 
higher than the ground without the city 
walls. A little below the surface, about 
twenty years ago, were discovered, at the 
lower end of this street, a most valuable col- 
lection of silver Roman coins, in a high state 
of preservation, which were bought up im- 
mediately by antiquaries, and are now depo- 
sited in the collections of the curious. They 
were principally coins of Adrian and Trajan. 
Married.} At Morresby, Mr. Thomas 
Manley, of Manly Devon, to Miss Sarah 
Johnstone, youngest daughter of Edward J. 
esq. of Whitehaven. 
The Rev. J. Sharp, vicar of Kirby Lons- 
dele, to Miss Garnett, sister of the late Dr. 
G. protessor of chemistry. 
Died] At Whitehaven, Mr. Isaac Brown 
rigg, son of Captain 8. of the Apollo, 19.- 
Mr. Abraham Greenup.—Mr Henry Brogg, 
55.—Miss Mary Cass, 55.—Mr. Adam 
Little, 63.—-Mr. John Johnstone, 26.—-Mr. 
Henry Mawson, 61.—Mr. William Findlater, 
76——-Mrs. Birkett, relict of Captain Bum 
Miss Tremble, 46.—Mrs. Gieen.—Mrs. 
Vickers — Mrs. Hawthorne. 
At New Houses, near Whicchaven, Mt. 
Alexander Armstrong, 70.——At Harrington, 
Mrs. Tolson, widow, 103. 
At Workington, John Kay, esq. one of 
the justices of peace forthe county, 57.— 
Mrs. Ann Casson, 81.—-Mér. Richard Irwin 
75.—-Mr. Joseph Hall, surgeon, 53.—Cap- 
tain ‘Tiffin of the Grace or this port.—-Miss 
Kay, 18.--Mrs. Ann Green, 76. 
At Lays in Lamplugh, -Mr. John Crackell, 
sen. 82. 
