1809.) Dorsetshire—Devonshire—Wales—North Britain. | A441 
DORSETSHIRE, 2 
Married.] At Weymouth, the Rey. Lewis 
Clutterbuck, of Newark Park, Glocester- - 
shfre, to Frances, second daughter of Edward 
Elton, esq. of Glocester Place, London. 
At Sherborne, Mr. Dowding, bookSeller, 
of Salisbury, to Miss Eliza Pew, of Castle 
Cary. 
Died.] At Lyme, the Hon..Miss Wynd- 
ham Arundell, second daughter of Lord A. 
At Sherborne, Edward Ford, esq. surgeon- 
extraordinary to the iccimiheler General 
Dispensary. 
at Gillingham, Mrs. Neave, 
DEVONSHIRE. 
A new market, built by subscription of 
the principal inhabitants of Stonehouse, 
Plymouth, was opened on the Vth of Oc- 
tober. 
Married.| At Honitons R. C., Bartlett, 
esq. of West Water Cottage, near Axminster, 
to .Miss E. Sophia Thomas, dangbter of 
Captain Lf. fate of the South Devon milizia. 
At Topsham, Philip Meadows, esq captain 
jn the Royal Artillery, to Miss Pattison, 
eldest danghter of the late Mark P. esq. of 
the saine corps. 
At Stoke Damarel,, James Budd, esq. of 
the Ordnance OBiee,. to Miss Ballhatchet, 
both of Plymouth Dock. 
Died.] At Upton Helions, Charlotte, se- 
cond daughter of the Rev. John Polson. 
At Teignmouth, Mrs. Pratt, of the Old 
London Inn, Exeter: 
At Exeter, Lieutenant Tucker, of, the 
Sowth Devon militia, 19.—Hugh Down- 
man, M.D. 
At Dartmoor, General Jago, a black 
Frenchman, 
WALES. 
_ Married] At Tenby, the Rev. John 
Griffiths, B.D. of Emanuel College,: Cam- 
bridge, to Mrs. Hughes, of Park house, Pem- 
brokeshire. . 
Died.| At Aberystwith, Wm. Robert, 
esq. barrister, formerly of Manchester. 
- At Rouse, Glamorganshire, Mrs. Jay, re- 
Jict of the Rev. Rowland J. 
At Cardiff, Mary Anne, daughter of Tho- 
mas Reurne,.esq collector of the customs at 
‘that port, 16. 
In his 58th year, the Rev. David Jones, 
A.M. Rector of Gladestry, Radnorshire, 
where he had resided 54 years, discharging 
with zeal, piety, and uprightness, his various 
duties as a divine, ana an active ee 
for the county of Radnor. 
Near Ruthin, in consequence oF a fall from 
his horse, Mr. Baurress, music and dancing- 
master,,of Denbigh, in North Wales. He 
wasa man of a most extraordinary genius. 
As a musician, though he never composed 
any thing beyond a march, or a country- 
dance, he was not a stranger to countrepoint 
_ @r thorough-bass. He could perform, in a 
_ , ¥ery respectable manner, on the piano-forte, 
harp, violin, violoncello; flute, clarionet, 
Stacatto, trumpet, and bugle horn. . He alsa 
tuned a set of bells, and fixed them in-a 
frame, with keys,. like a piane-forte. He 
used to play the treble of any tune on, the 
bells, and the bass on the, piano-forte, which 
had an agreeable effect: healso framed a set 
of musical glasses, which he used to touch in 
avery sup crior manner. Asa mechanic, hé 
was an Exceboue cabinet-maker, and finished 
his work in the neatest manner: he made se- 
veral harps and violins. Besides almost every 
articie In the cabinet-making branch, he had 
alathe, and was avery expert turner. He 
was extremely well acquainted .witn the art 
of building. He erected a music-room en- 
tirely by himself; that is to say, he planned 
it, and executed the mason’s, bricklayer’s, 
plasterer’s, and joinet’s. work, with the as- 
sistance only of a labourer. -He .was also a 
respectable botanist, and an excellent gar- 
dener. Myr. B. was a very pleasant compa- 
nion, full of anecdotes, which he used to re- 
late in a very spirited manner.. He was lat~ 
terly trampeter.to the Denbigh cavalry, and, 
notwithstanding his genius and abilities; he 
died very ‘poor. 
NORTH BRITAIN. 
On the 16th of August, a great number 
of persons from Doraoch, and other pagts of 
Sutheriand, on their way tothe fair at Tain, 
fan ea crowded into the passage~boat, 
at the Meikle ferry, where the Frith of Dor. 
noch is about a mile and a half broad, to the 
number of upwards of 140, being considerably 
beyond its burden. They had scarcely pro- 
ceeded half way, when the boat. sunk, and 
out of the number on buard only 13 were 
saved. There is scarcely a family in Dvor- 
noch, and its netghbourhood, which has not 
to lament a parent, child, or other rela~ 
tive; many have hy this misfortune become 
destitute widows and orphans, and. seve-al 
aged parents are bereft of their support and 
hope, through the loss of their grown aad 
useful chil?xen, A subscription has been 
opened for the relief of these distressed rela» 
tives of the unfortunate sufferers. 
Married.| At Niddry, John Spottiswoode, 
esq. of Spottiswoode, to Miss Helen Wau- 
chope, second daughter of Andrew W. esq. 
of Niddry Marischal. 
At Coldstream, Thomas Douglass, esq. to 
Miss Alice ‘Thompson, daughter ot Mr. 
Adam T. merchant. 
-At Edinburgh, Alexander Munra, esq. of 
Livingstone, to Miss Anne Jane Brown, se- 
cond daughter of the late Patrick B. esq.—= 
Sir Thomas Livingstone, bart, captain in 
the royal navy, to Miss Stirling, only caughter 
of the late Sir James S.—M- Jor Jans Mouat, 
ef the Bengal engineers, to Wilhelmina, 
fourth daughter of Capt. Mouat, R. N.—At 
Puccleugh Place, Mr. Wright, to Miss Bal- 
four, daughter of the late Charles Balfour, 
esq. of Jamaica.—The Kev. George Brown, 
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