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dately cut through a complete cemetery, in 
«which were found immense quantities of hu- 
‘man bones of a very large size. From the 
position, and the confined state they were 
discovered in, it is highly probable this spot 
avas the burial-place ofa vast multitude, who 
perished nearly at the same time,-either by 
pestilence or the sword, at. some very rémote 
period. : 
At a meeting of the gentry, clergy, and 
freeholders of the county of Anglesea, held 
at Beaumaris, it was-resolved to petition the 
Hiouse of Commons, for leave to take the 
mecessary measures for erecting a bridge across 
the Straits of Menai, a plan that promises 
much public benefit. ; etre 
Dfarried:| At Tregaron, Tames Rabone, 
esq. of Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire, 
to Miss Jones, eldest daughter of John f.-esq. 
of Pennybout. é 
Rees Williams, esq. of Llwyncelyn, Car- 
marthenshire, to Mrs. Baker, of Lanéovery. 
At Voylas Chapel, Denbighshire, Hugh 
Jones, €sq. of Havodre Ucha, to Miss Roberts, 
of Havodre.Issa, Pe 
_At Llaniestyn, the Rev. John Kyfin, 
vicar of Bangor Cathedral, to Miss Ann 
Owen, sezond daughter of the Rev. Edward 
O. rector of Llaniestyn, 
Died.} At Lianely, William Yalden, 
esq. 58. ae: 
At Robson Hall, Pembrokeshire, the 
infant son of Charles Phillips, esq, a 
At Bodlewyddan, near St. A8aph, the seat 
of Sir John Williams, bart. Mrs. Williams, 
relict of Hugh W. esq. of Tyfry, Anglesea, 
and mother of Lady Williams. 
At Sxynlass, Breconshire, Thomas Beavan, 
esq. = 
At Gravel Hill, near Llansainiffraid, Mrs. 
Griffiths, relict of the Jate 
Crew Green, and sister of the late Thomas 
eymcocks, esq. of Bronhyddon, Montgomery- 
shire.: . 
At Bod Fér, John Lewis, esq. of that place, 
and of the Hermitage, Beaumaris, aged 70; 
senior member of that. corporation, and a 
magistrate for the county. By his death, 
the branch of Llanvihangel from Llowarch. ap 
can, Lord of Cwmmwd Menai, is extinct ‘in 
the male line; in the female, the represen- 
tation is in John.-Hampton, esq. of Henllys, 
his sister’s son. eae 6. is 
At Denbigh, in the 71st yearof his age, 
Mr. Thomas .Edwards, (alias ‘¢ Twm o'r 
Nant” and ‘ Cambrian Shakespeare”) the 
oldest and most celebrated Welsh bard of the 
present age, . btese a pahig saa ios 
. At Milford, Thomas Gibbon Shawe, esa. 
Mr. Wm. Yawkins, commander of the 
Berwickshire packet. 
At’ Cyfartha, Glamorganshire, Richard 
Crawshay,,esq..71. He was one of thegmost 
eminent and wealthy iron-founders in the 
kingdom. : ee a # 
. &t Lwyngwair, George Bowen, ¢59. father 
~ a 
North B ritdtir. 
—G, esq. of 
van 
of the late Capt. George B. R. N. and uncle 
to Vice-admiral B. . F Sas 
At Wrexham, Richard Phillips, esq. late 
of Tynyrhos, Salop.=-Mrs. M. Jones, of the 
Golden Lion Inn. Prards te. 4 
In the Parsonage-house, at WNolton, in 
Pembrokeshire, in the 68th year of his age, 
the Rev. Moses Grant, A.M. rector of that 
' place, vicar'of Roch, ‘and prebendary of St. 
David's: a man of most unaffected piety and 
true Christian benevolence. ap . 
At Liangharne, Carmarthenshire, Capt. 
“Morgan Liangharne, R.N. : 
At ‘Penaily-Cenit, Pembrokeshire, the 
Rey. Thomas Row, recter of Yerbeastou, 
and Loveston. - 
NORTH BRITAIN: 
Some ancient siiver-medais were a few 
days since found in the peat-earth cast out of 
the bottom of a deep moss ditch at Cross- 
woodhill, the property of Andrew Steele, 
€sq. writer to the signet, in the parish of 
Westcalder, in the county of Edinburgh: 
they are in’ great preservation. It ‘is pro- 
bable, as there was a Roman camp in the 
neighbourhood; that these coins had beloriged 
to some Roman oifficers stationed there—< 
perhaps in the time of the emperor Marcus 
Aurelius Antoninus, as ene of the medals 
bears his name, ahd others have the names 
of the empress Faustina, his wife,-and of his 
predecessors Domitian, Trajan, Adrian, and 
Pius. From the -circumstences in which 
these coins were found; it is probable they — 
were dropped on the surface of the ground 
upwards of {1600 yearsago.- That the ground 
was then covered with growing wood is ob- 
vious, from the branches’ of birch-trees that 
have still their form and back entire, in which 
the coins were enveloped. Even. the peat 
boz into which this wood is now converted 
{the Romans, whiie in possession of this 
country, having commonly burnt down.or 
otherwise destroyed the woods) still bears the 
name~of Cobinshaw, i. e. the -herd’s wood. 
The medals were lying five feet beneath the 
present surface, and the solid peat-earth 
formed above the remains of the wood, and 
composed. of half-decayed sphagnum, and 
other moss plants, must have taken all the 
above-mentioned number of years to increase | 
five feet in thickness. + : Ree fe ne 
‘<In digging a foundation for rebuilding one > 
of the-oldest houses in-Dunfermline, a few 
weeksago, the workmen came upon a wooden 
box, filled with small silver-coins. As it 
was early in the morning, and no one was 
present who knew their value, they foolishly 
_ threw them -out amongst the rubbish, and 
they were picked up by the by-standers. - Jt 
appears that. there were about 500 in ail. 
The proprietor, John Wilson, esg-.of Tranay, _ 
has recovered 176 of them. . They are mostly 
of Edward I. of England, anda few of Robert 
Bruce of. Scotland; but the most Yare are 
thyec of Alexander 1. of Scotland. 
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