1810.] 
At Wilton, Mr. William Whitmarsh, sur- 
geon, and one of the coroners fay the county. 
At Salisbury, Mrs, Mary Webb, 62.— 
Somerset Charles Talbot, second son of the 
Dean oF Salisbury. 
' At West Dean, Mr. Oliver Coster, 2 ao. 
At Allington, Mrs, Horn, 
At Ludwell, Mr. Robert Foot, jun. 19 
Four days before his death he was going out 
with his joaced gun, but stopping to converse 
with a friend, he incautiously rested cn the 
muzzle of the gun, which went off at half- 
cock, and nearly the whole charge of shot 
passed through his left hand, grazed his side, 
and lodged in his shoulder. e had just 
quitted an affectionate mother, in the full 
glow of heaith and youthful.spirits; he re. 
turned to her maimed and streaming with 
blood! From the direction in which the 
shot had passed and lodged, little hope was 
from the first entertained of his recovery : 
he endured his sufferings with great forti- 
tude and patience, tovk an afieenanec leave 
of his friends, and requested that this state- 
ment might be made public in the hope that 
it would induce others to be more careful, and 
thereby prevent the recurrence of a similar 
iscat accident. 
BERKSHIRE, 
© Married.) At Reading, Alexander Blake, 
esq. of London, to Ann, second daughter of 
Thomas Ovey, esq. 
At Windsor, ME. Sherwill, esq. captain 
in the Stafford militia, to Lucy Maria, eldest 
daughter of James Lind, M. D. 
At Wantage, Mr. John Davies, of Bath, 
to Miss Ormond, daughter of Mr. O, Seda 
and apothecary. 
Henry Pinck Lee, esq. of Maidenhead” 
Thicket, to Miss Matilda Batson, of Wink- 
field Place. 
Died.} At Windsor Castle, John Beckett, 
esq. one of the poor knights of Windsor, 
which he was appointed thirty-six years. 
At Shippon, Clement Saxton,esq. 85. He 
served the offce of high sheriff in 1778, and 
for many years was Lieutenant-colonel of the 
militia, a magistrate and deputy-lieutenant 
for the county.’ ' 
At Aldermaston, Mrs. Byle, sen. 82. 
At Speen Hill, aged 61, the Rev.. Lewis 
Fouqueret, late canon of Laval in France. 
At Newbury, Mrs. Faithorn, wife of Mr. 
Tohn F. surgeon, of London. 
At’ Maidenhead, William Poulton, esq. 
banker. 
At Henley upon Thames, Robert Apple- 
ton, esq. 75. 
At Reading, Mr. Richard Aldridge, 49. 
At Winterbrook, Maria, youngest caughter 
_of Mr. Ormond, surgeon, of Wantage. 
: ' SOMERSETSHIRE, 
It is proposed to make a canal from the 
city of Bristol, to join the Wiltshire and 
Berkshire canal at or near Poxham. By 
this communication, a regular, safe, and 
certain nayigatioa will be opened, by means 
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Berkshire—Somersetshire. 
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of the Wiltshire ahd Berkshire, the intended 
western junction, and the grand junction 
canals, to and from the parts of London and 
Bristol, and all towns and places contiguous 
to, or communicating with, the said.cawals. 
The sum of 400 ,0001. which is proposed to 
carry this plan into execution, has been sub- 
scribed. 
A monument has j just been erected to the 
memory ofthat highly-distinguished and mes 
ritorious officer Colonel Vassal, in St. Paul’s, 
in Bristol, where his remains were deposited 
on being brought from South America. It is 
a chaste, classical, and elegant piece o Mala 
ture, very afiecting and impressive, and tells 
the heroic tale in a striking "manner. . The 
design is by that inimitable master, Flaxman,. 
The monument is evected by Rossi, is in that 
eminent artist’s best stile, and accords with 
the finest specimens of Greek sculpture. 
An experiment in ploughing, for the pre~ 
miums of the Bath and West of England So- 
ciety, on Green Ore Farm, in the parish of 
Chewton, was recently tried by the extraor- 
dinary exhibition of a single WMS IA: drawa 
by one horse, and a double plough by two 
oxen; the first ploughed its half acre ina 
most masterly manner in the’space of two 
hours and twenty-three pita and the 
other in two hours and thirty-two minutes. 
The soil was an old sward, the ae abovt 
four inches, and the breadth about eight 
inches. The premium of ten guineas was, 
after much difficulty of de a nination, ade 
judged to the single Scotch piough, the pro- 
perty of Mr. Kendal, of Hazel Farm, in the 
neighbourhood. ‘The cther plough is enti- 
-tled to the second premium, six guineas, A 
fresh proof has hereby teen made of the great 
waste of strength hitherto complained of, 
At the dinner at Old Down inn, which was 
numerously attended, an ingenious device 
was submitted to the company, suggested by 
the Rev. Chas. Pine Coffin, of East Dowa, 
Devon; it was a substitute for marking 
sheep, which cannot be obliterated, nor is. 
the wool itself deteriorated. Its simplicity 
is equal to its ingenuity, being nothing move 
than marking on either side of the nose of 
thre sheep the initial of the owner’s name, and 
on the opposite side any number by which 
he may choose to designate the particular 
sheep ; this is effected by a small iron letter 
or figure, about an inch iong, which being 
dipt in common oil colours mixed with ture 
pentine to dry them more readily, is placed 
on the part described, and will continue till 
the next shearing season. ‘This process is 
attended with very little trouble or expence, 
and what is more desirable, with no pain to 
the aifimal ; the case is far different either 
with tattooing or cauterizing, which have 
this additional disadvantage that they cannot 
be obliterated with the change of owners, 
The inventor has left specimens of ‘the iron 
letters and figures, forthe inspection of tie 
public, at Hetling House, Bath. 
Married.] 
