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_ DEVONSHIRE. 
Died] ~At Exeter, aged 63, Mrs. Eyre, 
widow of Samu: Eyre, efq. a juftice of the 
peace for the counties of Wilts and Devon, 
and formerly M-P. for Salifbury—M. W. 
Fryer Tucker, late a refpectable glazier, but 
who had for fome time paft retired from bufi- 
nefs.—Mrs, Townthend, widow of the late Mr. 
Townthend. 
At Exmouth, aged 50, Mrs. Carfon, wife of 
W. Carfon, efg. of South Carolina, and for- 
merly of Exeter. 
At Teignmouth, Lieut. Brewer. - 
At the houfe of Rear admiral Boger, of Ply- 
mouth, his lady, Mrs, Boger, aged 60, 
CORNWALL. 
An earthy fubitance has lately been found 
jn a mine, in the parifh of Gorran, which bids 
tair to reward the dilcoverers, and.to be of con- 
fiderable advantage to the arts. “It may be ap- 
plied to the fame purpofes as umber ; and in 
the burnifhing of gold and filver it is equal, if 
not fuperior, to hematites. A fpecimen of it 
being analyzed, was found to contain of filica, 
72—oxide of iroa, 12.5—oxide of manganete, 
g.5—alumine, 3- Total 97. 
Married.] At Bodmin, Mr. Will, Benney, 
plaifterer, to Mifs Sally Tabb. 
Died.| At Truro, of a paralytic ftroke, 
Mr. William Plumber, wocl-comber. 
At Lanrhydrock Houfe, near Bodmin, Mrs, 
‘Higgs, houfekeeper, which office fhe had faith. 
fully ferved above 30 years. 
On his paifage trom Jamaica, Mr. George 
Smythe, aged 25, firit mate of the Mary, of 
London, Capt. Thompfon, and fon of Mrs. S. 
Smythe, of Heliton. 
WALES. 
Application is intended to be made to par- 
jiament for leave to bring in a bill or bills to 
amend various roads in the countyof Glamor- 
gan, and to make new ones in different direc- 
tions; an improvement which cannot fail of 
being productive of very. beneficial confes 
‘quences to that part of the principality. 
It is likewife in contemplation to apply for 
an act to improve the port, quays, and docks 
at Carmarthen ; and jor another for the pre- 
fervation of the fithin the different rivers of 
that county. 
An aquedu& for the purpofe of fupplying the 
populous town of Carmarthen with water, from 
fome fprings in the neighbourhood, is about to 
be immediately eretted, a plan for that praife- 
worthy undertaking being completed. 
The building of a mew theatre at Swanfea is 
_Ginally determined upon. Jt is to be ereéted 
‘on the old fite at the expence of C. R. Jones, 
efq. and is intefided to’ be completely ready for 
next feafon, 
Married:] At Cardigan, Henry Peach, efq. 
* fate of Briftol, to Mifs Bowen, only daughter of 
Mr, Johan Bowen, furgeon.—Mr. Cooktey, 
furgeon, to Mifs Jones, both of Prefteign. 
t Tenby, — shaw, efq. to Mifs Lawton. 
- At Nath, “near Newport, Monmouthfhire, 
. Mr. William Arney, a celebrated Welth poet, 
aged 81, to Mifs Ann 
_ place, zged ty. , 
SCOTLAND. 
Digd.] At Edinburgh, George Mattocks, 
quitted his poft. 
Francis, of the fame - 
DevonfrireCornwall—Wales—Scotland-— Ireland. [Nov. t, 
efq. formerly ‘of Covent-garden theatre, after- 
wards manager of Liverpool, and latterly ftace 
manager in Edinburgh. Though there are 
fome comedians ftill living who have attained 
a greater age, none of them have been fo long - 
“upon the ftage ;- and, therefore, for a confide- 
rable time, ke has had the appellation of 
‘¢ Father of the Drama.*? He was a generous 
friend, a chearful companion, and a really ho- 
neft man. His remains, attended by a number 
of refpectable gentlemen and all the. theatrical 
perfons now in that town, were interred in the 
Calton burying ground. 
At Dumfries, General Sir Robert Laurie, of 
Maxwell town, bart. colonel of the 8th regi- 
ment of Dragoons, M.P. for the county. of 
Dumfries, which he reprefented for thirty 
years, and Knight marfhal of Scotland. Sig 
Robert was the gentleman celebrated in Burns’ 
poem of the Whiftle. He is fucceeded in his 
title and eltate by his fon Robert, captain of 
the Cleopatra frigate. ne uaa 
IRELAND. 
Died.) At Duffy Hall, the feat of Cafay 
Calclough, efq. at the advanced age of 96, near: 
fixty years of which he paffed in the Colclough 
family, Owen Carrol, the celebrated Irifk 
huntiman, Being originally a farmer, he: had 
fuch an inclination for hunting, that he always 
kept a horie of his owny and hunted with the 
hounds of Colonel Colclough for many years 
but when the late Adam Colclough fet up a 
pack of his own, he came and hunted his 
hounds at firft for his amufement; but, as he 
lived at too great a diftance to be always regu- 
lar, Mr. Colclough gave hima farm near-him, 
and he acted in the triple capacity of huntf- 
man, fteward, and matter of the family. Due 
ring the rebellion in 1798, he and his family 
acted with uncommon fidelity to their employ- 
ers; as one of his fons, when Mr, Colclough 
was obliged to fly, came down and remained to 
protect the houfe and property, and he never - 
Another of his fons broughe 
off ‘horfes and clothes to his mafter, at the 
rifque ot his life, when he was informed where 
to tind him; and during that period the old 
man buried a larg: quantity of the family plate, 
which he afterwards conveyed to a place of 
fafety, Until the laf year of his life, he re- 
gularly went out with the hounds; and his 
voice retained its clearnefs and fweetnefs. He. 
was well knowa to every fporifman in that. pare 
of Ireland; and Mr. Kelly, the iate judge, 
about his own age, fome time finee {pent a day 
at Duffy Hall, ior the purpofe of feeing» and 
hunting with a perfon of whom he had heard fo 
much. At one period, his and his horfe’s age: 
amounted to 106 years,-and yet neither could 
be beat by the youngeft {portfman. As the 
cuftem in Ireland is to attend funerals, for fe- 
venty years he ‘never mifled ong within mang 
miles. _ i sale 
At Ennifkillen, in his 31ft year, the Hon, 
and Rey. .’ Montgomery Cole; third fon of 
the late Ear} of Ennifkillen, and brother to the 
prefént Earl; a gentleman of moft amiable 
qualities, and recently appointed by Lord Hard- 
wicke to the deanery of ‘Waterford. . He wens 
to bed at night in perfect health, and was found 
dead the next proxning, 
DRSTas 
