an 
and Worcestershire‘Canal Company, in which 
situation his probity and experieace recom- 
mended him to the confidence and esteem of 
his employers. His amiable maoners vand 
goodness of heart wtll liye long in the re- 
gnembrance of his relatives and triends. 
WARWICKSHIRE. 
eamington was last year honoured withthe 
Bewir of many of the nobility, and otuer 
families of the first character and distinction 
in the kingdom. The arrivals were very nu- 
merous, it having been ascertained that not 
Jess than fifteen hundred persons visited the 
place for the benefit of the waters during the 
season, exclusive of servants and children. 
Notwithstanding the accommodations: in- 
crease very rapidly, they are not yet ie 
fo the demand of the company; but that 
3nconvenience will be shortly ooviaied by the 
extensive and commodious houses now erect- 
ing there by the Leamington Building Socie- 
ty, and other spirited individuals. Many 
poor invalids, who sought the benefit of the 
waters in distressed diteuttetanves, were libe- 
sally relieved from a fund established there 
¥or that laudable purpose; and returned, re- 
stored to health, sincerely grateful for the 
assistance they had obtained irom that bene- 
ficent institution. . 
A meeting of the inhabitants of Warwick 
was lately held at the Court House, to take 
$nto consideration the we ese of new pav- 
jng that borough 5 the company present were 
generally of apinion that the pian was a most 
desirable one, “and that the font-paths should 
be laid with flag-stones to the extent of five 
feet in width. A subscription was immedi- 
ately entered into, when upwards of one thou- 
gand potnds was raised by tw caty gentlemen 
present, but as the total expense is ealculaced 
at six or seven thousand pounds, it is ‘expert. 
éd that an application will be made to Partia- 
ment for an act to enable sie to ecconsplish 
the plan. 
* Married.] At Henley in Arden, William - 
Lees, esq. of Stone, to Miss Edkins. 
At Birmingham, Mark Sandérs, esq. to 
Mrs. Bingley. 
Died.] At Birmingham, im his fifty-se- 
cond year,‘ fames Belcher, printer and book- 
$eller, a man who, to use the language of a 
very eminent scholar concerning him, ‘had 
diligence, integrity, and the true spirit of a 
Christian.’” With so much personal merit, 
ft was his feast honour to be descended from 
worthy ancestors. His paternal grandfather 
was, for many years, minister of a dissenting 
congregation at Henly in Arden; and, jode- 
Ing from scme of his manuscripts which are. 
in the hands of the family, he appears to 
Rave been a man of considerable knowledge 
and observation. . Mr. Belcher served his ap. 
prenticestrip at Coventry, and, at the expira- 
tion of this service, went to Lichfield, 
sist and superintend in the cflice of a gentle- 
man, whem, from ‘that period, he ranked’ 
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among his friends. With the view of ime 
proving himself in his art, he visited Lon- 
dom, and, during his residence there, worked 
in but one office: ity had been’the celebrated 
Richardson’s, of whom its master was fore 
merly the apprentice, and its overseer the 
servant. Mr. B. quitted the metropolis in 
consequeace of a contested election at Co- 
ventry, of which city he was a freeman ; and 
here he very soon afterwards formed a matri- 
monial ‘connection that added greatly to his 
happiness. His next and last removal was 
to Birmingham, his native. town, where he 
entered into the employment of the late Mr. 
Pearson. About the year i790, he began 
business for himself, and printed Dr. Priest- 
Jey’s Sermon, occasioned-by the death of Mr. 
Robinson. An Authentic Account of the 
Riotsin Birmingham, onthe 14th,15th, 16th, 
and 17th days of July, 1791, &c. &c. was the 
production of his own pen. This pamphlet, 
which contains the only succinet and faithful 
narrative of the scenes, &c. that i it professes to 
describe, reached a second edition, and is a 
very favourable specimen of the compiler’s 
temper aud abilities. In 1792 he took a 
house in a more public part of the town, and, 
during the following year, was selected for 
prosecution, in consequence of his selling 
Paine’s works ata time when they were sold 
by all the booksellers in Birmingham. The 
sentence, though comparatively light, was of 
serious importance to a man who had not 
been long in trade, and the support of whose 
family-depended chiefly on his own exertions. 
However, the prosecution, and his conduct 
under it,: strengthened the attachment of 
those who knew him 3 and he was in the 
highest degree gratified by their friendly ef- 
forts and spontaneous aid. His release from 
confinement was followed, naturally enough, 
by a serious illness. For many years before 
his death his health was weak ; and, having 
fer the Jast two months of his life, experienced 
an affection of his lungs, he sunk tranquiliy 
under the pressure of disease. He was a man 
of thought and reading: his feelings were re- 
markably kind, his manners gentle and un- 
assuming. As atradesman, he was skilful, _ 
assideous, upright? and his pure and’ inde- 
pendent mind, revolted at every thing like 
selfishness and mere worldly wisdom. -Heace, 
as well as for his general character, he ob- 
tained the esteem of the very learned and able 
person whose testimony to his worth has ale 
ready been adduced: -hence he is unafiectedly 
regretted by all who knew him, whether m- 
imate! y or otherwise; and, thus. discin- 
guished by habi-s of r¢sigious virtue, he has 
left to his ‘amily and friends 
“© A fair example low to live aid die.” 
At Birmingham, Mrs. Crowder. Shh. 
Piércy.— Mr. Samvel Osbourne.— Mr. James 
Roberts, 63.—Mrs, Merrcat.—In consequence 
of-her clothes taking fire, Miss Pemberton — 
Mrs. Martin, 76.<-irs Horton, relict of Mr, 
H, an eminent gaa-maker, 80. 
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