1811.] 
At Whitehaven, Mr. Nicholas Green, 85, 
—Mrs. Ornaby, 82.—Mrs. Plasket. 
On his passage from Carlingford, Captain 
William Richardson of the Mona, of White- 
haven. 
At Brampton, Mr. Thomas Bell, of the 
Bush Inn.—Mrs. Burns, 
At Berkby, Mrs. Scaife, wife of Mr. Robert 
S. 63. 
-At Penrith, Isabella, wife of Mr. William 
Hodgson, 815 and thenext day, her husband, 
in his74th year.—-Mrs. Dinah Nicholson, 53. 
a— Mrs. Workman.—Mrs.Adamson,—lIsabella, 
wife of Mr. Joseph Smith, 77; anda few days 
afterwards, her husband, in his 81st year. 
At Carlisle, Mr. John Barnfather, 68.—= 
Mrs. King, 77.—Mr. William Taylor, 45 — 
Jane, wife of Mr. Jobn Wardrope, 25.—Mrs. 
Jane Carr, 81,——Margaret, wife of Mr. Thos. 
Sergeant, 28.—-Miss Frances Irving, 21. 
YORKSHIRE. 
About one o’clpck in the morning of the_ 
29th November, the Driggle Reservoir at 
the top of Stanedge in Marsden, about nine. 
miles west of Huddersfield, burst, and the 
water flowing in an easterly direction, in- 
undated the whole of the adjoining valley. 
This reservoir, formed for the purpose of 
supplying. the. Huddersfield canal, covered 
about 28 acres of land, and such was the de- 
structive impetuosity of the flood, that. it 
Swept. away a cottage occupied by James 
Scholfield, standing on the declivity of a 
hill, and his wife and four children perished 
in the flood. Rushing forward in its fatal 
course, the water advanced to the mill of 
Messrs. Horsfall, andso completely inundated 
the house of the miller, James Balmforth, that 
himself and his wife were floated out of their 
beds ; he seized the stone-work in the win- 
dow, and for some time held his wife in his 
embrace; but she was at length forced from 
him 3 and the next morning her lifeless body 
was taken up ata place called The Paddock, 
two miles from Huddersfield; the husband, 
however, kept His hold of the window till the 
water subsided, and by that means preserved 
his life. Besides these fatal accidents, in 
which six lives were lost, many others of less 
consequence occurred. 
December 10th, the first stone of the new 
bridge over the rivet Ouse, at York, was laid 
with the formalities usual on such occasions 
by the Lord Mayor, attended by the city- 
officers, and the lodges of free-masons. 
The procession having reached the ground 
where the ceremony was to take place, Mr. 
Peter Atkinson, the architect, presented to 
the Lord Mayor a plan and beautiful eleva- 
tion of the intended bridge, and addressed his 
lordship in an’ appropriate speech. The Lord 
Mayor having received the plan of elevation, 
which he described to the Provincia] Grand 
' Master, replied. He then proceeded to jay the 
stone, and deposited therein the different and 
latest current coins of the present king, to- 
gether with a medal struck in commemoration 
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577 
of his Majesty having entered into the 51st 
year of his reign, which were placed in a glass 
vessel, and covered by a brass plate, on which 
the following inscription was engraved: 
‘© The first stone of this bridge was laid De. 
cember 10th, in the year 1810, and in the 
fifty-first year of the reign of George the 
Third, by the Right Hon. George Peacock, 
Lord Mayor: Peter Atkinson, Architect. 
After which his lordship, in a neat and brief 
speech, congratulated his fellow citizens on the 
magnitade and utility of a work which was 
to be of such great benefit to the public at 
large, and to the further aggrandistment of 
the ancient city of York. The procession 
then returned to the Guildhall, in ie same 
order in which it had come. ; 
Marvied.| The Rev. Stephen Allen, jun. 
of Lynn, to Catherine, second daughter of 
the Rev. Godfrey Wolley, of Hutton Bush- 
ell. ' 
At Thirsk, John Bentley, esq. to Miss M. 
Flintoff, daughter of Thomas F. esq. of 
Thirkleby. . 
At Sheffield, Mr. John Gascoigne, to Miss 
Jane Saynor. . 
At Hall, the, Rev. John Simpson, of 
Hook Halt, near Howden, to Miss Robinson, 
eldest daughter of Mr. Michael R. 
At Wakefield, Mr. Timothy Beaver, attor- 
ney, to Miss Audsley. wing 
George Kelk, esq. of Sutton Hall, near 
Bawtry, to Miss C. Fisher, of Selby. 
At Leeds, Mr. Christopher Bolland, attore 
ney, to Eliza, daughter of the late W.. Fearne, 
Ns as 3. 
At Scrayingham, John Hutchinson, esq. 
of Kayingham, to Miss Benson, of Hows 
sham... =. , 
At Paul, Edward Lorimer, esq, of Tunstall, 
to Miss Frances Hardy, of Newton’ Garth, 
Holderness. 
At Pontefract, Louis Lazenby Fox, esq. 
to Miss Atkinson, sister of Mrs. Rideal 
Died. |] At Summergangs, Mrs. Jane Davi- 
son, 79. } 
At Swanland, Mr. John Westerdale, 67. 
At Whitley Hall, near Huddersfield, 
Richard Henry Beaumont, esq. one of his 
Majesty’s justices of the peace for the West 
Riding. Herserved the office of high sheriff: 
for the county in the year 1793, aged G1. 
At Sheffield, Mr. Thomas Regester.— Mr, 
Linsitt.—Mrs. Turner, relict of Mr. Jonathan 
'T. 535.—-Mr. Benjamin Scott, sen.—Mrs. 
Dawes.—Mrs. Mary Corker.—Mrs, Gould. — 
Mr. Samuel Broadley, 65.—Mr, Benjamin 
Smith. 
At York, aged 91, Mr. William Readshawe 
He served as commonecouncilman for Monk 
Ward upwards of 60 years, which office he’ 
resigned about two yearsago. Mr. Readshaw 
was the youngest of twenty children. His 
grandfather lived to the age of 933 and his 
father to 84. He retained his faculties'to the 
last; and has outlived all his relatives. — 
Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr, Rylah, gov re 
nor 
