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promptitnde, pe skill, in ‘all the branches of 
his profession, 48.—Simon Villers, -esq., late 
of: Wolverhampton.—Mr. John Collins, the 
facetious author of the Morning.Brush. Mr. 
Collins was a native of Bath, and very early 
in life made_his appearance on that stages 
where, in the progress of a few years, he 
filled as great a variety of characters as wete 
ever so respectably performed by any actor 
whatever. Parts in tragedy, genteel comedy, 
lew comedy, and the old men and country 
boys, in farce and operas, were all admirably 
sustained by him. But the chief merit of 
Mr. Collins lay in his lyric compositions, and 
the feeling, comic, and unaffected style, in 
which he sang them. Those who have heard 
his €* Down-hill of Life,’* ‘¢ The Chapter of 
Kings,” €* The Golden Days of Good Queen 
Bess,”? and scores of similar effusions, will 
not lose the remembrance of the pleasure they 
afforded. He was. the most suceessful of all 
George Alexander Stevens’s followers, as an 
original and humorous lecturer; by which 
exertions of his mental powers, he happi- 
Zy acquired a competency. that made. the 
downhill of his life smooth and comfort- 
able. 
At the Green Bank, near Birmingham, 
Mrs. Armfield, 76. 
At Coventry, 
Bull. 
_. At Nuneaton, Mrs. Sharpe. — Mrs. 
Beazley, wife of Mr. Beazley, linen-dra- 
per, of that town, aged 26. The circum- 
stances attending the death of this amiable 
woman were truly melancholy: returning on 
April 17th, with a young lady, about 12 
years of age, and her husband (to whom she 
had been married but five wecks), in a one- 
horse chaise, from a visit to her father, a re- 
spectable farmer, living at Ansley, four miles 
from this town, tle horse, as it approached 
fowards it, suddenly took fright, and ran 
with great fury to the bridge over the river 
Anker, where her husband, fearful that the 
enfuriated animal would jump into the river, 
advised Mrs. Beazley. to leap out behind, 
whicl: attempting to do, part of her dress 
caught in the hind part of the chaise, and be- 
fore she could be extricated by the by-standers, 
her head had been several times dashed against 
the parapet of the bridge. She was conveyed 
heme in a senseless state, as well as her hus- 
band. She survived the accident but three 
days, and died regretted by ail who had had 
the pleasure of knowing her, for her urbanity 
of manners, and mild and amiable virtues and 
wualifications. 
“At Srivichall, near Coventry, Mr. Smart, 
Mrs. Allen. Mr, Jos. 
Jo. 
“ae Smethwick, Mrs. Bate, 62. 
* At Keresley, Mr, N. Oldham. 
* At Kenitworth, Mr. Dolphin, wife of 
James D. esq. 
At Woodcote, Elizabeth, second daughter 
of s apie « Mallory, esq. 
_ Shropshire—Wortestershire 
At Warwick, Mrs. Asley, wife of Mr 
Samuel A, 
SHROPSHIRE. 
The new road from Oswestry to Caregen by 
which upwards of four miles will be sayedy is 
in such a state of forwardness, that it is ex- 
pected to be opened as far as Glyn slate quar- 
ries by. Christmas next, and the remainder in 
in the course of the following spring. 
Married.| At Shrewsbury, Samuel Tuffley 
Harding, esq. of Tamer tie banker, to 
Miss Bage. 
~ At Whitchurch, Lieutenant Clarke, of .the 
Reyal Navy, to Miss Ann Joyce, second 
daughter of Mr. J. 
At Ludlow, Mr. Felton, printer and book- 
seller, to Miss Rawlings. 
The Rev. T. Baker, of Oriel College, Ox- 
ford, -to Julia, youngest daughter of the Rev. 
R. mins of Worthen. 
_, At Welsh Pool, Mr. James Roberts, drug- 
gist, to Miss Powell. 
Died.| At Shrewsbury, Mrs. Phillips.— 
Mr. Stainer, many years serjeant-major of 
the Shropshire militia.—Mr, Patrick Conolly, 
of Burr, King’s County, lreland.—Mr. Thes. 
Parry, son of Mr. Henry P.—Mrs. Eleanor 
Powel, late of Moat Hall. 
At Ellesmere, Mrs. Briscoe, wife’ of Mr. 
Wm. B. of the Three Tuns.—Mr. John 
Marsh. 
At Wem, Mrs, Shaw.—Mrs. Bickerton, 
70. 
At Whitchurch, Mrs. Joyce, wife of Mr. 
J. watchmaker.—Mrs. Hewitt. 
At Longnor, Mr. Tyler, many years a 
schoolmaster there. 
At the Moat, neat Stapleton, Mrs. Sted- 
man, 
At Oswestry, Mr. Jones, parish clerk. 
At Edge, Miss Gardiner. 
WORCESTERSHIRE. 
Married.) At Overbury, Mr. William 
Smith, of the Woolpack Inn, Tewkesbury, 
to Miss Chambers. 
At Bewdley, Mr. Thomas Probert, of Bir- 
mingham, to Miss Griffin. 
At Ribbesford, Mr. Wm. Buckloe, of 
New York, to Miss Barron, of Bewdley. 
Mr. John Smith, of Mathon, to Miss 
Woodyat, of Earl’s Court, 
Died. | At Bromsgrove, Mrs. Bonaker, 
relict of Mr. B. of Norton, near Evesham. 
At Worcester, Mr. mihdets Fowke.= 
Mr, Richard Sterry. . . 
At Lyehampton, Mrs. Lambe, 68. 
At Stone, Mrs. Steward, wife of John Ss. 
es 
Tne Caudhills, near Pershore, Mr. Whit- 
taker. | 
_ At Eastington, Mr. « higuages 
At Rashwood Hill, near ‘Droitwich, Mr. 
Jacob Corbett. 
At Cookhill, in the parish of Inkberrows, 
in his 87th year, John Fortescue, esq. €ap- 
tain in the royal Davy j the. oldest officer Bg 
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