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[May 1, 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH ati tuE MARRIAGES anp DEATHS: 
Arronged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
** Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly au- 
thenticeated, and fent free of Poftege, are always thankfully received. Thofe are 
more particularly acceptable which deferibe the Progrefs of Local Improvements of 
any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent 
er remarkable Charaéters recently deceafed. 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
PD RE laft annual report of the Durham blue- 
coat charity fchool, places in a moft plea- 
fing point of view, the benevolent exertions 
of the governors and vifitors, the ability and 
attention of the teachers, the docility and re- 
gularity of the fcholars, and the urgent de- 
fire which parents manifeft to have their off- 
{pring admitted to the benefits of this inftitu- 
tion. An excellent fyfiem of education and 
induftry has been recently introduced, and 
has already been productive of the moft bene- 
ficial effects. Though the funds are in a ftate 
of unprecedented profperity, they are very in- 
adeeuate to the number of applications; and 
twenty fupernumerary {cholars have been ad- 
mitted for education only, till increaling means 
or regular vacancies open to them the bene- 
fits of cloathing. Several boys have been ap- 
pointed monitors, and fuperintend the lower 
claffes. Six of the girls have been appointed 
affiftants, and, having difcharged their duty 
with diligence and propriety, three of them 
have been placed out in creditable and advan- 
tageous fituations of fervice, after having been 
liberally furnifhed with every neceflary, un- 
der the dire@tion of the ladies of the Commit- 
tee. Shouid meritorious objects arife in the 
{chool, the like rewards will be beftowed 
yearly. 
“ Amiong the many noble and ufeful improve- 
ments which are now carrying into efiect by 
the magiftrates of Newcaftle, for the fecurity 
and comfoft of its inhabitants, there is none 
which is more worthy of being recorded, than 
their benevolent views to better the condition 
of the poor belonging to the diferent hofpi- 
tals under the patronage of the Corporation. 
In addition to the general repairs which the 
buildings are at prefent undergoing, by an act 
of Common Council, a generous addition has 
been made to their allowance. 
Married.| At Hartlepool, William Sedge- 
wick, efq. captain in the Hartlepool volun- * 
teer artillery, to Mifs M‘Donald. 
At Warden Church, rear Hexham, Mr. 
James Mulcafter, one of. the principal agents 
of the governors of Greenwich Hofpital, at 
Langley Lead-mill, to’ Mifs Wallace, of 
Middle Deanraw. ie 
Died.] At Newcaftle, Lieut. Thornton, 
of the Suffex militia, 22.—Mrs. Mary Jack- 
fon, a maiden’ lady, 80.—Mr. James Trin- 
ham, 78.—Mr. James Thompfon, a partner 
, 
in the houfe of Thompfon and Robertfen, 
woollen-drapers, 29.—Mr. Wm. Harrifon, 
partner in the houfe of Shortridge and Co.— 
Mrs. Ord, a maiden lady.—-Mr. fohn Re- 
naldfon, fhipbuilder, 89.—-Margaret Glanton, 
in her 100th year. She retained all he. fa- 
culties till within a few days of her deathn— 
Mr. James Stobie, 75. oe 
At Ryhope, Mr. Hall, upwards of forty:, 
‘years one of the taing officers of the cuftom= 
at Sunderland, 88. 
At Brunton, John Dawfon, efq. 54. 
At Helmington Hall, Durham, the feat of 
the Rev. Robert Spencer, Lady Maxwell; re- 
li& of the late Sir Robert M. bart. of Or- 
chardfon, in Scotland, and aunt to Mrs, 
Spencer. 
At Stamfordham, in his 77th year, Mr. 
William Johnfon, who for upwards of 53 
years, with much credit, kept an inn at that 
place. He was alfo for many years furveyor 
of bridges for tke county of Northumberland, 
and under his direétion the prefent ufeful 
firu€tures acrofs the Tyne at Chollerford and 
at Hexham, were ereéied. 
At Durham, Mrs.-Mary Maynard, 98.— 
Mr. W. Mather, 90.—-Mrs. Robinfon, wife 
of Mr. Thos. R. 47.—Mrs. Lambert, relict 
of Mr. John L. 59.—Mr. Theos. Wardell, 24. 
—Mrs. Mary Hutchinfon.—On his way from ~ 
London, Charles Keith, M. D. 
At Benton, in child-bed, Mrs. Dodds, 
wife of Mr. Ralph D. viewer of Benton col- 
_lerye 
At South Diffington, Mrs. Eliz. Mafon, 86. 
At Acomb, near Hexham, the Rev. James 
Mewborn, furrogate of the diocefe of York, 
45, ; 
At Jardine Hall, Sir Wm. Jardine, bart. 
of Applegarth. 
At Richardfon’s-ftead, near Berwick, Ann 
Fergufon, pauper, 107. Ske never ufed {pec- 
taclés, and till within a year of her death, 
wathed and mended her own clothes, cay: 
At Belford, Mr. Abraham Logan, fchool- 
mafter, 75. > . 
At Low Burton, Charles Francis Forfter, 
efq. one of the juftices of peace for Northum- 
berland, 78. 
-At Hexham, Mr. Wm. Bel!, of the White 
Hart inn, 86.—George Delavad Shafto, efg. 
of Carrycoais, 44.—Mr. Bird, many years an 
officer of excife, 79. 
At Hill Houfe, Berwick, John Somerville, 
efq. of Ivelaw, 82. ~ : 
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