ais | DORSETSHIRE. 
Married.} At Poole, Heury Kemp, esq. to 
Miss Crew, daughter of T. C. esq.—David 
Lander, esq, collector, of Poole, to Miss 
Weston. 
At Wimborne, Mr. J. Abbott, to Miss M, 
Prarvey?,"". 
At Rampisham, Mr. Henry Brookes, of 
Charlton Horethorne, to Miss Ann Meggs, of 
Higher Kingstone, near Dorchester. 
At Sturminster Marshal, Mr. John Bald- 
win, of Child Okeford, third son of John B. 
esq of Wyke Farm, to Miss Barnes, eldest 
daughter of John B. esq. 
~ At Dorche _ Mr. Samuel Bond, of Ho- 
niton, to Miss Mowlam, of the Black Horse 
inn, Dorchester. 
» Died] At Wareham, Mr. Jonathan Lau- 
rence, ‘mayor of that borough, -65.—-Mrs, 
Mould, wife of Mr. Joseph M. of the paper- 
mills.—The Rev.John Brown, rector of Win- 
terbourne Abbots, with Winterbourne Stee- 
pleton, and formerly fellow of Lincoln col- 
iege, Oxford, M.A. June 17, 1784, B.D. 
June 30, 1794. 
At Shaftesbury, Mrs. Hannah Dowland. 
‘At Pentridge, Mr. Robert Oke, many years 
an eminent merchant at Poole. 
At Blandford, Mr. D. T. Biggs, youngest 
sot of the late Mr. B. of that place, 28. 
At Sherborne, Mr. Miller.—Mr. Corp, 86. 
‘At Lyme, Mrs. Tucker, wife of Mr. T. 
attorney, of Chard. — 
‘DEVONSHIRE. 
On the night of Friday the 9th, and the 
whole of Saturday the 10th of November, the 
neighbourhood of Exeter was visited by the 
gréatest fall of rain that has been remem- 
beted for many years past. The river Exe 
yose in consequence to ‘am unprecedented 
height, overflowing the country for an extent 
of'many miles, and carrying of in its. rapid 
and tremendous course, ricks of hay, parts of 
houses, ‘bridges, cattle, &c.3 an immense 
gwintity of apples have also been washed 
away; from the parish of Ide alone, it is 
supposed the quantity Jost would have made 
ene hundred hogsheeds of eyder. In the 
evening of Saturday, the utmost consternation 
prevailed amongst the inhabitants of St. 
Thomas, from the recollection of the severe 
jnjuries sustained by former inundations. At 
midnight, the water was five feet high in 
most of the houses ; and in the road leading 
from Oakhampton-stréet, it was six feet 
sbove the footpath. All the roads in every 
direction were impassable, and the coaches 
could ‘not arrive until the next morning.— 
At ‘the Exeter quay, three vessels were 
driven a-shore on the wharf, and were got of 
with much difficulty on the following day. 
Another arch of Cowley-bridge was washed 
away, waich renders that road, for the pre- 
ent, impassable. -The bridge near Laun- 
ceston, which divides Devon from Cornwall, 
is nearly destroyed. “At Budleizh Salterton, 
the streamlet was 20 swellen, that two new e 
Dorseishire—Devonshire: 
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built houses were completely sweptaway, and 
carried, with great part of the furniture, into 
the sea. All parts of thid neighbourhood 
have, in a greater or less degree, felt the 
effects of the flood; .indeed every rivulet sud- 
denly increased to an immense river, carry 
ing with it cottages, cattle, barns, corn and 
hay-ricks, and almost every article that was 
moveable, leaving the poor suffering inha- 
bitants in the greatest distress, deprived of 
their property and, their homes, and exhi- 
biting a grand scene of desolation where- 
soever it extended. Various accounts have 
reached us frorn different parts equally cala- 
mitous; but we most feelingly lament the 
very severe losses which numereus .indivi- - 
duals must have experienced in the general 
wreck which. the sterm has occasioned. 
_ Dawlish, the most delightful watering-place 
on the Devonshire coast, has suffered severe- 
ly: the improvements which had been made’ 
in this beautiful village, had been the admi- 
ration of all who had visitedit; the rivulet 
which had been formed into a canal, was a 
charming object, and the ground on its banks 
which, had been ornamented*with gravels | 
walks, planted with shurbs, and enclosed as 
a pleasure-ground for the comfort of invalids 
who could not endure the more keen air of ~ 
the sea-beach, as well as to en¢rease the 
charming appearance of the place ; all this 
was in a few hours swept away, together 
with several very good new-built houses on 
each side of its banks, and three Jarge hand- 
some wooden bridges, which were placed over 
the canal, of a size to admit the passage of 
carriages of every description: indeed, se 
rapid was the swell of the water, ahd so vio- — 
lent the current, that there was not even 
time to remove any part of the furniture of 
several houses; the whole was hurried away, 
and the inhabitants narrowly escaped the 
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At a respectable meeting of the inhabitants 
of Totnes, and-its vicinity, held on the 95th 
of October, it was unanimously resolved that 
a library, on a Hberal and permanent basis, 
should be established in that town, under the 
cenominaticn of the South Devon Library ; 
that it should be raised by donations, and. 
supported by subscriptions not exceeding one 
guinea annually. : Tha 
The Mayor and. Commonalty of Ply- 
‘mouth, have resolved to erect a ball-roow, ~ 
a commodious hotel, with suites of rooms for 
noblemen and gentlemen’s families, and also 
a theatre, for the greater convenience, ac- 
commodation, and amusement, of persons re~ 
sorting to this town, as well as of the inha- 
bitants, than it now affords; they propose to: 
take up the sum of twenty thousand pounds 
to assist them in carrying on the work, by the: 
grant.of annuities onthe lives of persons to: 
be named by the subscribers ; mo subscription: 
to be less than one hundred -pounds on eacte: | 
nominee. it is intended to appropriate part: 
ef one of the buildings toa public library. 
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