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rector of Alderley, Cheshire, to Catherine, 
eldest daughter of the Rev. Oswald Leyces- 
ter, rector of Stoke, in this county. 
"At Wem, George Neville Adams, esq. of 
London, to Rebecca, youngest daughter of 
George Walford, esq.—Wm. Jones, esq. 
banker, of Bridgenorth, to Miss Davies, 
~ @aughter of Mr. D. of Broseley. 
Died.] At Whitechurch, the Rev. Coven- 
try Lichfield, D.D. late fellow of Magdalen 
College, Oxford, rector of Boyton, Wilts, 
and vicar of Honnington, Warwickshire. 
At Shrewsbury, Mr. Thomas Hodges, 
printer, 49.—-Mr. Lynn, many years master 
of the subscription Charity School. 
At West Lullingfield, Mr. Atcherley. 
At Harcourt Park, John Wood, esq. 63. 
At Walton, Mr. John Shuker, sen. 63: 
At Oswestry, Mrs. Windsor.——Mrs, Wil- 
Lams. 
At Wroxeter, Mrs. Upton, 
At the Argoed, in the parish of Church- 
stoke, Wm. Morris, esq. surgeon. 
. At Newport, Mrs. Lowe. 
At Oldbury, Mrs. Cutler. 
At Hordley, Mrs. Cureton. 
At Ludlow, Mr. Pryce:-—Quarter-master 
Hodge, of the 3d Dragoon Guards. 
At Shifinal, Frances Fleming, the infant 
daughter of Robert Fisher, esq. 
WORCESTERSHIRE, 
Married.| At Eastham, Mr. Biggerton, 
druggist, of Worcester, to Miss Wehb, of the 
Park, near Tenbury. 
At Bromsgrove, W. Emuss, esq. to Miss 
Sanders. 
Died.} At Worcester, Caroline, daughter 
of Mr. Barr, of the Royal China works, 11. 
—Mr. Wheeler, apothecary.—Mr. Samuel 
Richards, jun. 20.<-Mrs. Reynolds —Miss 
Jane Stinton, grand-daughter of the late 
oseah Severne, esq. of Thunderfield, Here- 
. tordshire, 17.—Myr. Stanton. 
At Stourbridge, Mr. S. Hodgson, 65. 
At Bewdley, Mr. S. Bishop, 40. 
At Longbridge, King’s Norton, Mr. T. 
Cartwright, formerly engineer to the Wor- 
cester and Birmingham Canal. | 
At Henwick, near Worcester, Mr. Joseph 
Smith, 65 
‘The Rev. Dr. Jackson, rector of Pendock 
and vicar of Eldersfield. 
HEREFORDSHIRE. 
Died.] At Hereford, of a decline, aged 
96, at his mother’s house, Fitzowen 
George Skinner, esq. a commander in 
the R.N. and late captain of his Majesty’s 
sloop of war Tripcule. In him the service 
has suffered a severe loss, and it is not right 
that such a man should steal unnoticed to his 
grave, without some brief memorial of his 
virtues and his talents. Captain Skinner was 
brought up under Sir H. B. Neale, who at 
that time commanded the St. Fiorenzo, and 
wes with him when he. brought his ship with 
so much judgment: from amongst the mutineers 
at the Nore: he was also with Sir H, 5B, 
Worcester— Hereford. 
Neale, when, in company with the Amelia, 
[July 1, 
he fought three French frigates on the coast - 
of France ; but which escaped, in consequence 
of the latter being dismasted, and being close 
in with the French ports. In the course of 
their service, his captain, whose character 
needs no eulogium, became sincerely attached 
to him, and finding him, in every respect,ain 
admirable officer, in the year 1804, succeed- 
ed in getting him made acommander. On 
the breaking out of the present war, which 
succeeded the short peace of Amiens, Captain 
Skinner made perpetual offers of his services, 
and was at length, in the beginning of the 
year 1808, appointed to the Hindostan of 24 
guns and 150 men, which was employed as a 
store-ship in victualling Sir Charles Cotton's 
Fleet, at that time blockading Lisbon. In 
the autumn of the same year, he was appoint- 
ed to the Goldfinch of 10 guns and 74 men, 
one of a class of vessels built on a plan of 
General Benthams, well-calculated for sailing 
but for no other purpose, and intended for the 
destruction of the small French privateers 
which infest the straits of Dover; but une 
accountably as it may seem, hardly ever em- 
ployed upon this service. In this vessel, on 
the 18th of May last, as he was cruizing off 
Bilboa in the night, he fell in with a large 
French corvette of 14 guns and 130 men, 
called La Mouch, which he engaged about 
three in the morning, and continued in close 
action till about eight, when the French 
captain took advantage of.a breeze of wind to 
make his escape, and the Goldfinch having 
suffered much in the masts and rigging, was 
incapacitated from following him. Captain 
Skinner had three men killed and twelve 
svounded. A few days afterwards the cor- 
vette-was taken off St. Andero by the Amelia, 
Captain Irby, who, in his letter to the Ad- 
miralty, made honorable mention of Captain 
Skinner’s spirited conduct. It appeared from 
the French captain that in the action with 
the Goldfinch, he lost two men killed and 
nine wounded, Upon this occasion Captain 
Skinner received the most flattering letters 
from the admiral of the fleet, and the -post — 
admiral, and his conduct was considered such 
as intitled him toa better ship. Before he 
returned, therefore, from his subsequent voy~ 
age to Cadiz, he received from the Admiralty 
an appointment to the Trinculo, at that time 
just launched, and one of the finest sioops im 
the service, There, was now an opportunity 
opened to him of distinguishing himself, 
which was as suddenly closed by one of those 
unforeseen events which baffle all human cal- 
culation, and all his hopes of fame and honor 
were closed for ever: he had contracted a vio- 
lent cold, on his return from Cadiz, in conse- 
gence of his keeping open his cabin-window 
at night, for the accommodation of a gentle- 
man who came home with him as a passen- 
ger, and who was afilicted with an aschma. 
By the time he arrived off Falmouth, his 
disorder increased considerably, and in his_ 
anxiety” 
