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all eager to add their mite to the encourage- 
ment of fo laudable an inftitution. In the 
evening there was a brilliant ball at the af-. 
fembly room, which was fully attended 3 and 
the merry dance contributing at once to the 
mirth of the companys and the profits arifing 
from the ball to the relief of poor fick lying- 
in women, afforded pleafure to every feeling 
heart. It is with fatisfaGtion it can be faid, 
that the fubfcriptions keep pace with the ar- 
dent wifhes of the friends of humanity. 
Some valuable mines of copper have re- 
cently been difcovered on the Duke of Bed- 
ford’s eftate in Devonfhire, onand about Mor- 
well-down, on the banks of the Tavy and 
Tamar, The tunnel now forming through 
Morwell-down, which is a hill about 700 
feet above the level of the fides of the rivers, 
has sibel about 300 yards; it Is to be 
about 134 miles long, and the excavation is 
to form an aquedu& over a vailey more than 
4o feet high; the tunnel croffes a rich vein 
of copper ore. 
Married.| At Fremington, near Barnfta- 
ple, Mr. Thomas Rendall, of Bridgewater, 
to Mifs Sarah Hutton, 
At Colyton, 
friars-road, to Mrs, Efther Crags, of Coly- 
ton. 
At St. Decuman’s, Mr. R.-Morle, to Mrs. 
Slucock 5 and at Skilgate, Mr. Gimlett, 
Merchant, of Watchett, to Mifs Morle, 
daughter of the above gentleman. 
At Newton St, Cyres, John Trufectt, 
efq. a lieutenant in the fervice of the Hon. 
Eat India Company at Bengal, and fon of the 
late Admiral Trufcott, of Exeter, to Mifs 
Mary L. Gorwyn, of Drewfteignton. 
In London, Mr. Thomas Gooch, 
Mifs Beal, both of Exeter. — John Par- 
tridge, uae of Great Torrington, to Mifs 
Anne Jervis, daughter of the late ‘Philip 
Jervis, efq. of Netherfeale, Leicefterfhire — 
Mir. Oram, of Kenton, to Mifs Beard. 
At Plymouth, by the Rev. Dr. Hawkes, 
his third fon, the Rev. Mr. Hawkes, of Mag- 
dalen-hall, Oxford, to Mifs Vincent, niece 
of N. Vincent, efq. Admiral of the White. 
At Powderham, Captain Foy, of the royal 
artillery, to Mifs Sophia Courtney, fifter of 
Lord Vifcount Courtney. 
Died.| ‘ At Newport, near Exeter, the 
Hon. Samuel Mitchell, prefident of his Ma- 
jefty’s Council at Grenada. 
greateft part of his ufeful life in that ifland, 
where, during a period of dangerous revolt, 
the wifdom of his meafures, and the promp- 
titude with which they were executed, pre- 
vented its falling into the hands of the French. 
For this condaé&, fo highly honourable to his 
chara€ter, he received a vote of thanks from 
the Council, and the grateful tribute of all 
thofe who were interefted in this important 
event. In private life he was a man whofe 
Mmiid virtues eminently endeared him to his 
family'and his friends ; and whofe attive be- 
Devonjhire. 
Mr. Chapple, of White- 
to 
He had fpent the 
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nevolence diftufed happinefs through a widely 
extended circle. 
At Barnftaple, Mr. Gore, fchoolmafter, a 
young man of great abilities, and Meer ia 
ble in his profeffion. 
At Plymouth, aged-73, Mrs. Wheeler; 
the wife of Mr. Wheeler. She was an ex- 
emplary, a tender, and afteétionate mother, 
and a fineere friend. 
At Stonehoufe, near Plymouth, Mifs 
Elizabeth Langton, daughter of the late 
Bennet Langton, efg. or Langton, in the 
county of Lincoln, and the Dowager Countefs 
of Rothes.—Mifs Carpenter, many years a 
much refpetted performer at. the Plymouth 
and Exeter theatres, leaving an aged, wretch- 
ed mother, very fair advanced in years, for 
whofe fupport her profeffional eddedvours 
had long been exerted, and for whom her 
needle had of late produced a fcanty fub- 
fiftence. 
Mrs. Biges, a eomaey lady, fifter to Mier 
Biggs, of the royal marines. 
Mr. Jones, tide-furveyor of excife at Ply- 
mouth. He left Stonehoufe late in the even- 
ing, attended by four of his boatmen, on the 
look-out for fmugglers. By fome accident, 
his boat ftruck ona rock in going over the 
Bridge, near Mount Edgecombe, and being 
of a very flight conftru€tion, fhe parted in 
the middle. Mr. Jones, who was a corpu- 
lent man, and unable to fwim, was very 
foon drowned, and the boat’s crew were picked 
up by a boat belonging to a frigate in the 
Sound. ° . 
At his feat, at Denbury, near Newton 
Abbot, Thomas Taylor, efq. one of his Ma- 
jefiy’s juftices of the peace for rhe county of 
Devon. : 
At Tiverton, Mrs Mary Follett, wife of 
the Rev. Mr. Follet:, diffenting minifter. 
At Hatherleigh, aged 29, Mrs. Wivell, 
wife of Mr. Wivell, attorney at lawoMaw: 
Hale, widow of Charles Hale, efq. of Ingf- 
don, in Ilfington, near Afhburton. 
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At Marwood, George Ley, efq. late major — 
of the North Dewte militéa. 
At his feat near Bideford, Henry Downe, | 
efq. formerly a captain in his Majefty’s army, 
and late lieutenant-colonel commandant of. 
the North Devon regiment of volunteers. 
At Exeter, Lady Milner, wife of Sir 
William Mordaunt Milner, bart. M. P. for 
the city of York, and daughter of Hum-~ 
phrey Sturt, efq. M. P. for Dorfetfhire. Al« 
though long confidered as one of the moft. 
beautiful and accomplifhed women ia the fa-. 
fhionable world, yet fhe more excelled in the 
difcharge of the demeftie and focial duties. 
As a daughter, a wife, amother, and a friend, 
fhe had few-equals, no fuperior. For the laft 
two years her ladythip had been in a very de- 
clining ftate of health, and obliged to with- 
draw from thofe fcenes of elegant hfe over 
which her tafte and accomplishments had fo’ 
long fhed a luftre, She. had been lately. ar 
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