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390 Berkshire—Soimerseishire. 
»Died.} At Chippenham, Mr. Richard Un- 
eles, 32. 23 : 
“At Salsbury, Mr. Lewis..—Mrs. Crad- 
Sock.—William: French, esq, 2a eminent 
apothecary, and an alderman and justice of 
peace for this city, 58.——Mrs E. Lenton, 70. 
Av Fisherton Anger, Mrs. Ann Smith, 92. . 
At Cricklade, Mrs. Randall, wife of Ri- 
chard R. esq, SH ues 
At Wishford, Mes. Eve. ee 
At Stoke park, Mrs Smith, wife of Joshua 
§. esg. M. P. for Devizes. very 
At Hollwell, Mr. Christopher Graham, 
At Reals, Mr. W. Porward. 
_* BERKSHIRE. ' 
‘In digging for peat, sear Newbury, great 
sumbers of trees are frequently found at 
various depths: The nearer they lie to the 
surface, the less sound is the wood. These 
trees are generally oaks, alders, willows, and 
firs, besides some others not easily ascer- 
-tained. No acorns are found in the peat, but 
spany cones of the fir-tree and nut-shells, 
are dug out. A great number of horns, heads, 
and bones, of sevetal kinds of deer, the horns 
of the amtelope, the heads and the, tusks of 
boars, the heads of beavers, and other ani-~ 
mais, are also occasionally discovered. | An 
vrna of a light brown colour, and large enough 
£9 contain above a gallon, was found at four 
_teet from the surface. It wag unfortunately 
‘Injured by the spades and was brought up in 
small pieces. Nodcoins have ever been dis- 
covered. The ground in which the péat is 
found, is meadow-land, and consists chiefly of 
2 whitish kind of earth. The top of the 
true peat is met with at various depths, from 
one foot to eight feet below the surfaces ;_and 
the depth of the peat also various, from one 
foot to eight, or nine feet. The ground below 
it is very uneven, and generally.gravel. 
Marvied.] At Wallingford, Charles Brad- 
ley, A. M. master of the grammar-schoul of 
chet town, to Miss Catharine Shepherd, of- 
Vattenden. 
As Hurst, Richard Westbrook, esq. of 
Reading, to Mrs. Wheeler, of Sinsom. | 
.* Died.] At°Ray Mill Cottage, near Mai- 
-denhead, Mrs. Gowland, wife of Thomas.G, 
esq. and daughter of the late Honutrable 
Thomas Beach, esq. formerly Attorney-gene- 
yal and chief justice of the Island of Jamaica. 
‘At Windsor, Captain Vallancey, adjutant 
to the King’s own regiment of militia, 62. 
He was the son of General Vallancey, of the 
Trish engineers, whois president of the Royal 
Society of Antiquaries, at Dublin, dnd well 
known in the literary circles of that kingdom, 
At Reading, Mrs. Willsdon.—Miss Trapp, 
daughter of the late Dr. T.—Mrs, Boult.—— 
Mrs. Eliz. Iremonger. « 
At Shalbourny Mr. John Barns.—My, Bar- 
ford, 82:° 7 ; 
At Wokingham, Sir George Ernest James 
Wright, Bart. * 
_ At Dunsdon Green, Mr. Chaxles Siramondsy, 
eS : 
. 
- [March 2, 
, SOMERSETSHIRE, “* | 
The intended Commercial Coffee-room 9 IR 
Bristol, is to be erected in Corn-street, ope 
posite the Bank of Messrs. Harford, Davies,, 
_and Winpenny, under the direction of Mr. 
C. A. Busby, architect, of London, as early) 
as possible in the present year. The front 
> will.be of frez-stone, in the centre of which 
will be a beautiful portico, of the Ionic orders 
the pediment will be surmounted by a statue 
representing the city of Bristol, on whose 
right and left will be Navigation and Com- 
merce ; and over the entrance-doors will: be, 
placed, a basso-relievo, in which Neptune 
will be seen introducing che four quarters of 
the world to Britannia. 
The intentions of the Benevolent Society 
established in Bath, for the relief of all the 
desezying gebtors which were confined in the 
' gaols of this city and county, on the jubilee 
day, have been crowned with success, The 
captives have been set free ; and it is the fur- 
ther intention of the committee, sanctioned 
by the respective subscribers, to appropriate. 
the surplus'in hand into afund for the relief 
of persons confined for small debts, in the 
before-mentioned gaols,- on a plan similar to, 
those in London and Gloucestershire. Such 
an establishment, growing as it will, if 
effetted, out of. the Jubilee subscriptions, 
may fairly be called ** Phe Bath and Somerset 
Jubilee Fund," and will refiect eternal credit 
and praise on the committee who first sug- 
gested the happiness that would be occasioned 
by an institution so disinterested and noble. 
A general meeting of the proprietors of the 
Kennet and Avon canal, and of gentlemen in- 
terested in the trade of South Wales, was lately 
‘held at Bath, when, in addition to 206,0007, 
reported at a former meeting, 160,000 were 
subscribed for effecting a Junction between 
the Kennet and Avon and Basingstoke canals, 
and other purposes connected therewith; also, 
109,000/. towards extending the Kennet and, 
Avon canal to Bristot; and 36,2001 for 
making docks at Newport, ia Monmouthshire 5 
which latter subscrivtion now exceeds 50,0007. 
~ At the late meeting of the Bath and West. 
of England Agricultural Society, the shew _ 
of cattle was large aid excellent; manyin- 
genious and jmproved instruments of husband- : 
ty were exhibited, as well as several pieces 
of superfine cloth made from improved British 
wool, which were judged superior to those 
made from either Spanish or Saxon, Perm 
- haps one of the finest bulls of the North-de- 
von breed, «ver seen, was exhibited. * This ° 
noble animal js the property of Mr. Reynolds, 
of Shobrook, Devon, who likewise exhibited, _ 
a fine cow and calf, with two yearling heifers - 
of tha same stock. ‘A pen of Dr. Parry’s 
Anglo-merino sheep, highly improved since 
the last exhibition, obtained the premium. 
Méarried.} At Frome, John Shewell, esq. 
of Stock well Common, Surrey, toMiss George, 4 
“enly daughter of George Gvesg. 
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