taining toretfer six hundred and eighty feet. 
The advénturers seem not to have considered 
that thete ts already a canal communication 
between the several places before mentioned, 
and: that in point of distance it will be shorter 
than theirs, particularly when the intended 
improvements are made on the Oxford canal 5 
and-also, that their proposed line has upwards’ 
ef one thousand feet more. lockage than the 
present, with two miles more of tunnels. 
There is another matter which seems not to 
have been in their contemplation, namely, 
that as the sum to be necessarily expended’ 
will be enormous, the tolls must be high in 
proportion, and if high, then but few goods 
will pass, since the existing canals take ouly 
a moderate toll, and would’ of course take 
less rather than lose the trade. 
“Married | At Bakewell, Samuel Perkins 
Ward, esq. of the Island af St. Helena, to 
Miss Ann Pidcotk; of Doves Wood, near 
Worksworth. 
At Ashborne, Mr. T.. Hawthorn, printer, 
to Miss Frith, daughter of Mr.’ John F. 
Died} At-Ticknall, G. Wilkinson, la- 
bourer; 104, This poor man, on the Jubilee 
-day (Ottober 25, 1809). satat the head of the 
first table,’ when the labouring poor of Tick- 
nall and their families, to the number of near 
one thousand, were entertained with a plen- 
tiful dinner. 
At Stanton; Mr. William Briggs, yeoman. 
This ~persom had -accumulated a considerable 
property, and ‘bis attachment to it was ex- 
cessive, he deemed it-an act of great extra- 
vagance to wear a shirt, and he indulged 
himself in doing it’ only om two days in the 
year, viz. when he attended © the races at 
Derby anda: Lichfield. 
At rGlaestertiehis John Cock,:esq. 
At Derby, Mr. ‘Samuch Fletcher, soap ma- 
nufacturer. He was attending a copper of 
boiling soap, whem he unfortunately fell in, 
and was~so terribly scalded that he survived 
the accident only three hours. 
At Allestree Hall, Sabina Elizabeth, 
dest daughter of J. C. Girardot, esq. 15. 
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. 
Morried.] At Mansfield, E. Kendall, esq. 
to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of Mrs. Dar- 
ling-—Mr. J: Wragg, to Miss Ann Curtis. 
” Mr. ‘Fhomas Brothwell, to Miss Mary 
Kitche ae pe 2 
At ark, Mr. laiAay. Curtis, to Miss 
Jane Bottomley, of Carlton-upon-Trent. 
amMr. Robert Hall, to Miss Flint. 
At Tythby, Mr. Slack; jun. of Bingham, 
to Miss Mary Fester. 
Mr. Chapman, of Nbitthighaissj to Miss 
Gill, daughter of the Rev. Mr. G. of Wil- 
ford. 
Ditd)} At Newark, William Handley, 
aaa 
a Senvaliticcley, Mre. Marsh. 
At SonthweéH, Rowland, ‘son of the Rev. 
G@adfrey Heathcote. 
At Nottiigham, Foha Rich asides gent. 79. 
el. 
Noii inghamshire—L incolushire. 
{Jan. t, 
—Mr. Wigley.—Mrs. Barwick, wife of Mrs 
B. keeper of St. Jolin’ s prison.——Mrs. White= 
head, 80. 
“At East Retford, Mrs. Marshall, relict of 
Thomas M, esq. ~ 
“At Wilford, Mary, daughter of the late 
Mr. ‘Benjamin Bradley, of Newark, 15. 
At Langar, near Bingham, Mrs, Rowboe 
tham, 59. 
At Swinderly, near Newark, Mr. Henry 
Pounders, 70). 
At Bridgeford on the Hill, Joseph Caunt, 
gent. 75. 
At F arndon, Mrs. Horsepool, late of 
Newark. 
~ At Cransley, John Robinson, esq. brother 
to Sir George R. bart. — 
LINCOLNSHIRE. 
“A subscription has been entered into at 
Grantham, for the purpose of establishing 2. 
school on the Lancastrian System. — 
The pillar on Lincoln heath was built in 
the year 1751, by a spirited individual (Sir 
Francis Dashwood) who dedicated it to public 
‘use. It stands in the parish of Dunston, and 
is a square pillar, encompassing a flight of 
Steps, ninety-two feet high. Until within a 
few years it had at the top a lantern, fifteen. 
feet and a half high, fe the reception of 
which the structure’ was designed. The. lan= 
tern was lighted up at night, and served as a 
beacon to travellers over the ‘dreary. and ex- 
tensive heath. As soon as the circumjacertt 
tractbegan, by inclosures and the formation. 
of good reads, to lose something of its wild- 
ness, the lighting of the lantern was discon-. 
tinued ; and for about thirty years the pillar 
hag been of no use, beyond that of perpetu=_ 
ating. public admiration of the liberal s 
of the founder. The estate upon whi 
stands, is now the property ‘of the Earl af 
Buckinghamshire ; and his Jordship has put, 
the column to a noble use, by placing, in the . 
part lately occupied by the lantern, an ex= 
tremely well finished colussal statue. of our 
veneral King, It has been’ executed by Codes 
in artificial stone, measures fourteen feet in. 
height, and stands upon a pedestal nine feet 
high. Though its elevation from the ground , 
be one hundred and fifceen feet, yet the fea- 
tures of the statué are perfectly distinguish- 
able, and have been admired by many hun- 
dreds of visitors. His. Majesty stands erect, . 
crowned with a sceptre in his_ right hand. 
Of the west side of the pillar, ‘(two feet above 
a short Latin inscription of Sir F. Dashwood, } ” 
is‘affixed a tablet with the. following : 
* ¢ The statue upon this pillar. 
was erected A.D. 1810, 
by Roterix Earl of Buckinghamshire, 
to commemorate the 50th anniversary 
of the reign of his Majesty ‘ 
King George the Third.” 
‘The rapid improvements of drainage im. 
this county will, very shortly, dry almost the 
whole of the’ marsh grounds ; and the systema. 
now pursued of uniting the waters of as many . 
‘Grains’ 
’ 
