1810,] 
near the Ship-vard.. A great number of 
warebouses, workshops, &c. have been re- 
moved, and s¢véral houses are immediately 
to be pulled down to make room for further 
improvements, and for the erection of a 
steam-engine, to be employed in grinding 
and pulverizing the, stones found under the 
Beacon cliff, which have lately been dis- 
covered to possess a quality that will render 
a cement composed of them, as durable as 
stone itself. he corporation is said to have 
refused 15,Q@00l. for the stones of this kind 
now lyingander the cliff, ‘Lhe light-houses 
va shortly be pulled down and rebuilt, and 
y@ehted by sea-coal, will afterwards 
ME Ge hed with lamps, with reflectors like 
the other. The spire of the steeple recently 
taken cown, on account of its decayed state, 
will not be rebuilt, the Trinity-house con- 
sidering it of no consequence as a Sea-mark. 
Married.) At Colcheszer, Mr. Peter De- 
vail, jun. to Miss Mary Taylor, daughter of 
the late Mr. fames T. 
“At Chelmsford, Mr. Richard Parr, of the 
White Horse, to Miss Sarah Field, second 
daughter of Mr. F. of Great Waltham. 
At Great Sadduw, John M‘Lachlan, esq. 
of London, to Anna, daughter of Abraham 
Bullen, esq. 
At Braintree, Mr. T. Nash, to Miss Sarah 
Lambert, youngest daughter OF the fate Mr. 
Joseph L. 
At Maldon, Mr. Henry Wells, to 
Mary Ellis. 
At Woodham, Walter Edward Perry, esq. 
of Maldon, to Miss Hance, daughter of John 
H. €5q- 
Died-} At Chingford Hatch, William 
Bell, esq. 
At Stanford le Hope, aged 46, Mr. George 
Evans. He was on hoard the unfortunate 
Grosvenor East Indiaman, When she was 
wrecked on the coast of Caffraria, oa the 4th 
of August, 1782, and was one of the few who, 
after experiencing unparallcled sufferings, 
during 2 journey of 117 days continuance 
across the deserts of that inhospitable coun- 
try, arrived at their native home, and is sup- 
posed to have survived that catastrophe the 
longest of any of those unfortunate suf- 
erers. 
At Sandon, Mr. Sewell, 
At Colchester; Mrs, Winnock, relict of 
Mr. Samuel W,—Mr. Codsell.—Mrs. Ram, 
widow of James R, gent. late of Monkwick 
Berechurch.-Mr. Samuel Bullock, of Great 
Wigborough, 41.—William Hearn, gent. 
comptroller of the customs of this port. 
At Chelmsford, Mr. William Hayward. 
Miss Howlett, detdh-er of Mr. H. iate of 
London, apothecary.—Mrs, Martha Summers, 
widow of Mr. S. whom, she survived but 
fifteen months, 28. 
At Great Baddow, Mr. Charles Moss. 
At Great Waltham, Mrs. Goodeve. 
_. At Mountnessing, Mr. Robert Barker, of 
the George inh. 
Miss 
4719, 
At Rivenhal!, Mrs. Hutley. 
At Sohingdeld: Mr. Partridge. 
At Stratford, 
sheriff of the county. 
At Birdbrook, Mr. Samuel Fiteb: 
KENT. 
About ten o'clock in the morning of the 
24th of Sepréinder, one of the powder-mills 
at Dartford, toget! 1ér with some adjacent 
buildings, Llew up; the report was tremen- 
dous, and was heard for several miles around + 
indeed, so terrific was its explosion, that te 
shook the earth at a distance of abouta mile 
and a half, with as much force as an earth- 
quake could have done. Two persons lost 
their lives. ‘This is the third time within 
these six years, that accidents of this kind 
have happened at Dartford, 
The project of an archway through part of 
Shooter’s hill, has been revived, and formal 
notice given of an intended application ta 
parliament for a bill to carry it into effect 
At the last.general quarter sessions of the 
peace, for the western division ef this 
county, the magistrates finally decided on the. 
scite on which the new county hall, county 
gaot, and other public buildings are to be 
erected, and the ground, fourteen acres, un 
the north side of Maidstone, extending nearly 
from Week-street to the barracks, has beca 
stumped out, and approved of. ‘These pub- 
lic edifices are to be on a grand and extensive 
scale, with a spacious vate round the walls to 
connect with the vublic roads, and will be in 
every respect creditable, as well as ornamental 
to the county. 
Application will be made to parliament in 
the ensuing session, for an act for making a 
navigable Raat from ®Brandbridges, in- the 
parish of East Peckham, in thts county, to 
the river Rother, in the parish of Iden, Sus~ 
sex, with a collateral cut to certain ch allt 
hills, near Wye, and a cut, or railway, as 
shall be deemed most expedient to Cian- 
brook. 
Maurried.] At Chatham, Lieutenant Jeans, 
RN. to Eleanor, daughter of William Mad- 
dock, esq, of Se BERS. 
At Wingham, the Rev. John Taddy, to 
Cathaiina, third daughter of Samuel La- 
tham, esq. of Dover. — 
At Tenterden, Mr. Hughes, of Cooling, 
second son of Edward H. esq. of Mersham, to 
Charlotte, younyest daughter of the late 
Wiiliam Mantell, esq. of “Kench-hill, Ten- 
‘terden. 
Died.] At Ramsgate, Sir Alexander Mon- 
‘yo, of Novar, N.B. a commissioner of his 
Majesty’s customs, 83. 
At Sydenham, Josiah Dornford, esq. a 
justice of the peace for this county, 76. ; 
_ At Margate, Mr. G. “Readhead, of the 
house of Hogg, Readhead, and Co., Philpot 
Jane, London, = > ; 
At Dover, John Knap, esq. captain and 
Paymaster of the Royal Miners’ light in- 
fanttys 
fat 
Thomas Daite, mea undére 
