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fluence of religious principles, prevented his 
adopting the more cuftomary method of de- 
fending his chara€ter by an appeal to the 
laws of honour. A verdict was given in his 
favour, and he publithed and difperfed the 
trial: but it cannot. be doubted, that this 
unfortunate circumftance increafed the natu- 
ral thynefs of his manners, and very much 
embittered his life. When he fucceeded his 
uncle, he adopted habits of economy, that 
he might clear the eftate from incumbrances, 
and difcharge his uncle’s and his father’s 
debts. He received from his eftate only 
Té6col. per annum, till he difcovered (when 
Mr. Pitt’s income tax compelled him to 
learn, and to itate the amount of his in- 
come) that be had been grofsly defrauded by 
his fteward: he took legal fteps to redrefs the 
injury he had fu@ained, and by the diligence 
of-a friendty folicitor he recovered a very 
confiderable fum, From this time his pro- 
perty increafed rapidly, for his habits were 
fixed, and his expenciture was fmall; he 
lived at Ipfwich in a very private maoner, 
and neither there nor in London was defirous 
of afiociating with perfons of high rank and 
fafhion. In political life, Lord Chedworth 
may be confidered to have been aWhig, and of 
the Rockingham fchool: he was, of courfe, in 
Northumberland—Durbam 
[Jan. 1, 
oppofition during the greater part of the time 
he fat in the Houfe.of Lords; but he never 
conneéted himfelf with party, nor took any 
active thare in the bufinefs of the Houfe. In 
private life he wa$ moft gratified by literary 
converfation, and the acquaintance of a few 
friends. He derived no pleafure from the* 
ufual gratificaticns of high life, and had 
fomewhat of a witty and farcaftic temper of 
mind, which inclined him to dwell upon any 
thing ridicuious, even in the friends whom 
he efeemed the moft. In the diftribution of 
his property, after a numtber of legacies to — 
perfons with whom he was in the habits of 
acquaintance, he appears to have been prin- 
cipally directed by the return he owed to one 
gentleman, who had been extremely ufeful 
to him in the management of his eitates, 
and by the regard he bore to another, be- 
tween whom and himfelf had exifted a long, 
an .unbieken, and a perfe&tly independent 
friendfhip. He died in the fame room, and 
on the fame hed, on which his mother (whofe 
memory he highly refpe@ed) had expired 5 
and was buried (according to his exprefs de- 
fire), the fifth day after his deceafe, in the 
fame vault in which fhe had been interred, in 
St. Matthew’s church-yazd, Ipfwich.] 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH att rot MARRIAGES anp DEATHS; 
Arranged geographically, or in the Order of the Counties, from North to South. 
* .* Authentic Communications for this Department are aiways very thankfully received, 
NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
On the 17th of Odtober was held, at New- 
caftle, the quarterly meeting of the affocia- 
tion of Schoolmatters, for the counties of 
Cumberland, Weftmorland, Durham, and 
Northumberland. This beneficial inftitu- 
tion has fubfifted thirty years, and has been 
of extenfive advantage to a number of fuper- 
annuated fchoolmafters, and to: widows and 
orphans of deceafed members. In the laf 
ten years, by the afiiftance of benefaGors, the 
fum of 8721. has been paid, by the treafurer, 
to fuch as had claims upon the fund; and as 
the number of claimants is annually increaf- 
ing, the benefits paid during the Jaft year 
amount to riol. 12s. 
Marricd.| At Tynemouth, Mr. Thomas 
Howard, of Hinghan, to Mrs, Reynolds, wi- 
dow of the late lieutenant Reynolds, of the 
navy, and ‘coufin to Sir Sidney Smith. 
At Hawick, Captain Irvine, of the royal 
navy, to Mifs-Janet Dickfon, daughter of Mr. 
ames Dickfon. 
At Berwick, John Henderfon, efg. for- 
merly a lieutenantin the Eaft India company’s 
fervice, and. now captain commandant of the 
Berwick artillery company of volunteers, to 
Mifs Selby, of Holy Ifland, in the county of 
Durham. 
At Harrington, Mr. Adam Rutherford, of, 
Workington, aged 65, to Mifs Jane Patterfor, 
aged 62; fo anxious were the young couple 
to be united, that they very earneftly re- 
quefted to have the banns publifhed twice ia 
one day, 
At Berwick on Tweed, Captain Wilkin- 
for, of the royal navy, nephew of Sir Philis 
Stevens, to Mifs S. Worth, of Norwich. 
Died.} At’ Hexham, in the qgth year of 
his age, Mr. William Bearpark, formerly 
ferjeant-major in the Northumberland mi- 
litia, but lately ‘n the Hexham volunteers, 
His conduét as a foldier, his attention to his 
duty, and his conciliatory deportment, ob- 
tained him the efteem of the whole corps. 
At Hentlaw, near Ponteland, at the age of 
Too years, Mr. John Lumfden, who, not- 
withftanding the privation of fight, enjoyed, 
tiil within a few-hours cf his death, the mot 
unihterrepted flow ef health and fpirits. 
At Chefter-le-ftreet, in the prime of life, 
Richard Bell, efqg. major of the Chefter-le- - 
treet volunteers, 
In coafequerce of a fall through the rail © 
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