1305.]. 
ed by the liberality of the public mei 
pace with the demands of the objets of the 
fociety’s ne ty, particularly at this time, 
when the h’\ price of provifions, and 
the fickly “fiteation of many poor fami- 
lies, place them fo much in need of affift- 
ance from thofe who have the-power to give 
it: Thofe who have fo generoufly contribut- 
ed to furnifh the indigent with comfortable 
bedding, ought to be informed, that the dif- 
tribution of blankets having been completed, 
from eight hundred to one thoufand families 
are now énjoying the benefits of their 
bounty. 
The long wifhed for communication be- 
¢ween the port of Hull, and the towns of 
Doncafter, Rotherham, Sheffield, Barnfley, 
&¢. with Liverpoal, is at length effefted, 
by the completion of the Learne and Dove 
and Rochdale canals ; fo that. veflels may 
now  pafs from the eaftern coaft by the 
sivers Humber and Dun, the Dearne and 
Dove and Barnfley canals, and the upper 
Calder: navigation ‘to Halifax, and’ from 
thence by the Rochdale canal and Lancathire 
navigations, to Manchefter and Liverpool — 
The eieas and Dove canal, im refpeé to 
locks, bridges, aqueduds, &c. all built of 
the beft Afhler ftane, is equal, if not fupe- 
rior, to any canal in the kingdom, The 
Jocks are Jarge enough to admit veffels of 
from fifty’ to fixty tons burthen. About 
%40,000 tons of coals, and a great variety of 
other important articles, have already patled 
upon this canal fince it was opened; and the 
Ke between the populous county of Lan- 
‘cater and the Welt-Riding of the county of / 
York, is likely :to be 2 yet increafed by this 
very interefting connenion, by canals, of the 
rivers Dunand Calder with the Merfey navi- . 
Zation and the Weftern coaft. 
A fpring, that has the power of decompof- 
ing or-petrifying mofs and other vegetables, 
has been difcovered near Clifton, in the pa-~ 
tith of Conifbro’.: It isfrongly impregnated 
with a calcareous earth. ~ A gentleman of 
Clifton is trying feveral experiments with 
the water, By introducing the vitriolic acid 
in a quart of water, ‘he colletied, by fltra- 
tion, fifteen grains ‘of lime, deducting a 
proper portion for the fulphureous part of the 
Vitriolic acid. 
The firft ttone has beew laid for a new fef-. 
fions houfe and’ houfe of corre&ion, intended 
to be built at Beverley, for thé Eaft Riding 
ofthis county. ~~ 
Married ] Near Barnfley, Mr, Thomas: 
Lifter, to Ann Moxon. ‘The ceremony took. 
piace during: divine ferxice, in confequence. 
of a gentleman beckoning to the clergyman 
with his finger, ‘which was returned by the 
fame motion ; he then left the pulpit and 
his fermon unfinifhed, tothe great furprife 
of the. congregation. The clergyman was 
informed, in a low tone, that a couple 
Wanted to be married; who replied, it 
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could not be done that day, they muft 
come to-morrow. 
gentleman), they fhall go to Bradford.”— 
At length, however, the parties were mar- 
ried, and the clergyman returned to conclude 
his fermon, and made a long apology to his 
hearers for detaining them fo long, 
At Northallerton, William Welbank, efq. 
of Hull, to Mifs Mary Ann Hirft, daughter 
of Mr. Hirk. 
At Thornhill, Mr. William Riehardfor, 
an eminent fclothien’ to Mifs Mary Dickin- 
fon, of Flockton Moor. 
At Halifax, Mr. Lancelot Taylor, of Man- 
chefter, to Mifs Betfy Carpmeal, youngeft 
daughter of Mr. Carpmeal, of Halifax.—. 
Mr. Greenroyd, tanner, of Wheatley, te 
Mifs Shay. 
Mr, Michael Milton, attorney at law, Pon- | 
tefraG@, to Mifs Routhwaite, daughter of 
Mr. Reed Routhwaite, of Ledtham. 
At Hull, Charles Ey Broadley, efg. mer 
chant, to Mis Willock, daughter of the late” 
Alexander Willeck, efq. of Bedford-fquare, 
London. 
At Bilton, Captain Croft, of the Royal 
Navy, fon of Stephen Croft, efg. of Sti- 
lingten, to Mifs Plumer, daughter of Hall. 
Plumer, efq. 
At Scarborough, William Pearfe, efq, 
lieutenant colonel of the.rsth infantry, to’ 
Mifs Thomas, daughter of the Rev. Dr., 
Thomas, rector of Kirby Mifperton. 
Died.] The Rev, John Waller, ip ward, 
of forty years curate of Ingleton. 
‘At Scarborough, aged 4t, Mrs, Tindall, 
wife of Robert Pinal, efq.—Mr. Thomas” 
Davifon, many years a captain in the’ Baltic . 
trade:—Mr, George Sellars —Mrs. Huntrifs, 
relict of the late ‘Jofeph Huntrifs, efq.—Aged™ 
74, Mr. Richard Woodall, poit- -mafter.— 
Aged 81, Mr. Robert Burt. 
“AL York, aged 65, Mr. Jonathan Sede.” 
watchmaker. Mr. John Shaw,  brewer.——a* 
Aged 63, Mr. John Hooker —Aged 32, Mr. 
William Soraton, of the Duke of Cumber- : 
land Coffee-houfz, and late proprietor of the 
Exhibition Room, Little Blake-ftreet.—Mr. ” 
William Farmer, -trother ‘to’Mr.- Farmér, | 
attorney at Jaw,—In his 33d year, Joha 
Ort, efq. infpector of taxes. —Aged 85, Mrs. ° 
Frances Gill, wife of the late Mr. Edmund 
Gill. — Mrs, Jewitt, wife of Mr, William’ 
Jewis. —Azged27, Mr. George Forth, a pri- 
vate inthe York volunteer corps.— —Mr. Ralph 
Sedgwick, linen -draper. 
At Doncafter, Mrs. Stringer, relif of Mr, 
Stringer, attorney. 
At Wakefield, Mrs. Hodgfon, wife of Mr. 
William Hodgfon, -merchant.—Mrs. Shep- 
hard, relict of the late Mr. Shephard. 
At Leeds, in his 62d year, Renry Hall, 
efq. one of the aldermen of that place. He 
ferved the office of mayor in 1797.—In the 
Sift year of her age, Mrs, Dally, relict of St. 
George Pa efg. She has bequeathed one 
3F2 theifand 
‘¢ Then, Sir (faid the 
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