1805. } 
At Frome, Mr. Benjamin Crocker, Jand- 
furveyor, eldeft fon of Mr. Crocker —In 
the prime of life, Mr. George Clement, of 
Lothbury, cloth-factor, fonot Mr. Clement, 
of Frome. 
At Stourton, Mr. William Chafin. 
At Uatfield Place, Widcombe, William 
Hall, efq. 
Mr. Bailey, of Holt. He had been mif- 
fing nearly fix weeks, when his body was 
found in the canal, near Swindon, with ap- 
pearances that too plainly indicated that he 
had been murdered. The fkull had been 
perforated, the orifice. being about the fize 
of a piftol ball, and a heavy fione was tied 
to the neck to keep the body down in the 
water. Some peculiarities in the behaviour 
ef a man who had worked on the navigation, 
excited a fufpicion that he knew the deceafed 
had been murdered, and thrown Into that 
part of the canal; which occalioned it to be 
dragged, and on the body being found, the 
man was taken into cuftody, and committed 
to prifon. 
DORSETSHIRE. 
Married.] At Yeovil, Mr. J. Slatter, of 
Iiminfter, to Mifs E, Bulton, daughter of 
Mr. Bulton, of the Cuftom-loufe, London. 
Died.| At scart SeS Mrs. foan Ford, 
aged 104 years. She was many years mif- 
trefs of the Ship inn in that town, but had 
tor fome time retired. . 
At Dewlifh, —-—— Gundry, efq. He was 
of amild and affable difpoftion, liberal and 
kind to his domeftics. In him’ the poor 
found a ftrenuous friend, and to all who vi- 
fited his heufe the hofpitable board was yene- 
roufly fpread. . 
At Camborn, Mr. John Newton, many 
years proprietor of the hotel there. 
At Dorchefter, aged 238, Mr. George 
Eyles. P 
At Blandford, Mrs. Tice, wife of Mr. 
Tice. 
DEVONSHIRE. 
. As fome workmen were lately removing a 
large heap of ftones, to repair the turapike- 
road near Afhburton, they difcovered fewen 
celts, placed clofe to eachother, in regular 
erder, 
At a meeting of the V/eftern Apiarian So- 
ciety, held at Exeter, a preminm of the firtt 
rate was adjudged to. Mr. J. Ifaac, for having 
haft year taken the greatelt quantity of honey 
without deftroying the bees.— Premiums were 
alfo adjudged to J. Ellis and J. Wealake, for 
having taken fromtheir bees the value or one 
year’s rene of their cottages and gardens. 
Among. the other improvements taking 
place at. Plymouth for the comfort and con- 
venience of the inhabitants and ftrangers, an 
act of parliament is juft pafied for making a 
new coach and horfe road, from the Lower 
Glacis of the Citadel, through Higher Mill | 
Lane, by Mill Prifon, over Stonehoufe Hill, 
through Stonehovfe, to Cornwall Pafiage: 
this will be a great convenience to thole per~ 
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fons who have occafion to travel to the fouth- 
weft coaft of Cornwall. The very elegant 
and fpacious new market, for which ro,cool, 
has been raifed by the mayor and commonalty 
on tontine fhares, fituate in Bloody Field, be- 
hind the Pig-market and Old Town, goes on 
rapidly, and when finifhed wiil be equal to 
any market-place in the United Kirgdom. 
Married.} At Ottery, Mr. Jonathan Glyde, 
corn merchant, of St. Thomas, to Mifs Evans, 
daughter of Mr. Evans, fergemaker. =~ 
Died.] At Southbrook, near Exeter, Mrs< 
Farnham, wife of Mr. Farnham, 
At Alphington, Mrs. Forfhall, wife of 
Captain Forfhall, of the Royal Marines. © 
At Tiverton Cafile, Sir Thos. Carew, bart. 
At Exeter, aged 26, Major Wm. Erifkine, 
of the 71{t regiment of foot, and youngeft fom 
of the late James Erfkine, efq. of Cardrofin, 
Perththire —The Rev. Mr. Clark, one of the 
prebendaries of that cathedral, and re€tor of 
Kenn and Moreton-hampttead in this county. 
—Mrs. Sufannah Towgood, daughter of the 
Jate Rev. Micaijah Towgood, of this city. 
—Aged 27, Mifs Harriet Trewman, fourth 
daughter of the late Mr. Robert Trew- 
man, printer. The amiable foftnefs of her 
manners, and the unaffeéted goodnefs of 
her difpofition, endeared her not only to her 
relatives, hut to all her acquaintance, by 
whom her lofs is moft fincerely lamented. 
‘At Chulmleigh, Mrs, Stukely, wife of 
Mr. Stukeley, furgeon. 
At Ottery, Mrs. Elizabeth Mundy, relict of 
Mr. T. Mundy. 
At Laymore, in the parifh of Thorncomb, 
Mr. Daniel Dampier, formerly captain of a 
merchant veffel which he had built at Wey- 
mouth. 
At Mr. Batt’s, in Chudleigh, "4r. Nicholas 
R. Broad, aged 21, only fon cf Mr. William 
Broad, of Penzance, in Cornwall. He was 
truly generous and charitable 5 highly re- 
{peéted when living, and died fincerely la- 
mented by his family, friends, and acquain- 
tance. - 
CORNWALL. 
The Society of Arts have voted their filver 
medal and fifteen yuineas to William Pearce, 
near Helfton. Whioen fifty years old (eighteen 
years fince) he began the improvement of 
twelve acres.cf barren down 3 his whole ca- 
pital one mare and one fhilling per day, earned 
by hard Jabour. In 1303 this land produced 
ten bufhels of Cornith barley, nine trufles cf 
hay, two hoxfheads of oats, and ten bufhels of 
wheat, befides' pafture for cattle. He has 
brought up feven children, of whom two fons 
have fallen in defence of their country, and 
two are now volunteers. ‘Pearce’s houfe and 
out-buildings are of turf walls and thatch, 
and the whole executed by hiarfelf. 
Marrted.| Capt. Bonlderfon of the Prince 
Adolphus Packet, to Wifs Carne, daughter of 
Tohn Caine, efq. of Falmouth.—Captain Ea- 
ward Clarke, of the brig Jofeph,.to Mifs 
Elizabeth Stevens, of St. Sves.—The Rev. 
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