At Louth, W. Harvey, gent. to Miss White, At Spalding, Lieutenant Allenby, of the South Lincoln militia, to Miss Betham, eldest daughter of the late Mr. B. surgeon.

Died.] At Grantham, at the house of Dowager Lady Whichcote, Harriet, wife of Jas. Atty, jun. esq. of Esk Hall, Yorkshire, and daughter of Sir Thomas Whichcote, bart. of Answarby, 21.

At Alford, Mrs. Ellis, relict of the Rev. William E. 71.

At Lincoln, Miss Colton, daughter of Mr. Alderman C.-Mrs. Martin. -Mrs. Bean, of the Bull's Head Tavern.-Thomas Preston, esq. one of the aldermen of this city.-Robert Lowrie, esq. 70.

At Willoughton, Mr. John Strawson, 69.
At Askham, Mr. W. Scrimshaw, 65.
At Frieston, Mr. Saywell.

At Pinchbeck, Mr. Henry England, 56. At Gainsborough, Mrs. Cawkwell.-Mrs. Clough, 57.-Mr. Booth-Mrs Sawyer, 36. At Boston, Miss M. F. Hodgson, daughter of the late George Fitzwilliam, H. esq. of Claybrook Hall, Leicestershire.

At Louth, while on a visit to her grand. father, Miss Scott, of Hull, 20.- Mrs. Mary Sherwood, 82.-Mrs. Mahitabel Carter, a maiden lady 68. Mrs. Greenwood, of Brackborough, 63.-Mrs. Parker, 84.-Mr. George Maddison, 99, father of Martin M. esq. banker, of Southampton.

At Harmston, Mrs. Anson, 91.-Mr. Checkley.

At Sutterton, Mr. Maltby, of the White Swan Inn.

At Waddingham, near Brigg, Mrs. Bowerbank, wife of the Rev, Mr. B.

At Grimsby, at the advanced age of 103, Mr. John Campbell. He had been gardener in the family of George Tennyson, esq nearly 80 years, a period of service perhaps unequalled.

At Sleaford, aged 51, Mrs. E. C Brooke, relict of Lieutenant B. of the Royal Navy. Her death was occasioned by her clothes hav ing caught fire eight days before, during which time she languished in the greatest misery. And also, at Sleaford, her sister, Miss Harriet Brooke, 43.

At Winterton, in the 94th year of his age, William Feanby. He retained all his faculties to the last: taught a school; could write the Lord's Prayer on a paper the size of a sixpence; and wrote a hand that would be taken for a boy's of 17. He had engraved his own grave-stone, and had his coffin in his own house. He had no one to live with him, and refused to live with his son, who had long wished him to let his wife attend him.

LEICESTERSHIRE.

At Leicester, Mr. John Wilson, son of Mr. W. surveyor, of Doughty-street, London Mr. T. Bellamy, youngest son of the late Mr. Alderman B.-Mr. Daniel Dunneley, many years a schoolmaster of this town.—Mr. James Collison, 72.

At Enderby, George Freer, gent. 74. At Sileby. William King, esq. formerly a captain in the Leicestershire militia, 37.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

Married.] At Wolverhampton, Mr. John Comberbatch, attorney, of Eccleshall, to Miss Sarah Proud, second daughter of Mr. P. surgeon, of Bilston.

At Norbury, Mr. R. Parton, surgeon, of Eccleshall, to Miss Turner.

At Shuttington, Richard Henry Crossier, M.D. to Lucy Anna, fourth daughter of John Roby, esq. of Ancote Hall, near Tamworth.

Died.] At Lichfield, Mrs. Lloyd, relict of the Rev. John L. formerly of Paston, Northamptonshire, 76.-Mr. Hubbard.—Mr. J. Dugmore, 77.

At Madeley, Mrs. Edmunds, relict of Mr. E. princer.

At Maple Hays, near Lichfield, Frances, relict of John Furnivall, esq.

At Etruria, Mrs. Birch, wife of E. J. Birch, esq.

At Wolverhampton, Mr. Samuel Vaughan, 20. Mr. John Perks, attorney.

At Gnosall, Mr. James Bennett, 36. At Comberford, Mrs. Egleston. At Stone, Mrs. Catherine Hilditch, 76.Mr. George Hulme, 78.

At Uttoxeter, Mrs. Symonds, widow of Mr. Wm S. formerly supervisor of excise at Derby, 73.

At Brewood, Mrs. Smith, 69.

WARWICKSHIRE.

Married.] At Birbury, Captain William Parker, R. N. to, Frances Anne, youngest daughter of Sir Theophilus Biddulph, bart.

At Birmingham, the Rev. Wm. Bosworth, to Miss Smith, daughter of W. Smith, esq. banker. Mr. George Richards, to Miss Chippendall, daughter of Mr. C. of Soho.

Died.] At Green Bank, near Birmingham, Mr. Wm. Mobbs, 63.

At Hatton, Miss Madelina Wynne, youngest grand-daughter of the Rev. Dr. Parr.

At Birmingham, Mrs. Kindon. -Mrs. Bayley, 86.-Mr. Benjamin Davis.-Mr. Hartcop, 81.-Mrs Mary Ethell, 26.

At Eastington, Evelyn Shirley, esq. At Lapworth, Eliza, wife of the Rev. James Way, rector of Adwell, Oxfordshire. At Kingsbury, Mr. John Pemberton, 76. At Harper's Hill, Mrs. Webster. At Hockley, John Gibbons, gent. 71. At Coventry, Mr. Thomas Eld, 53. At Folesin!, Mr. Joseph Eld, 66. At Warwick, Mrs. Williams, 75.

SHROPSHIRE.

Married.] The Rev. Edward Stanley,

rector

rector of Alderley, Cheshire, to Catherine, eldest daughter of the Rev. Oswald Leycester, rector of Stoke, in this county.

At Wem, George Neville Adams, esq. of London, to Rebecca, youngest daughter of George Walford, esq.-W. Jones, esq. banker, of Bridgenorth, to Miss Davies, daughter 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. Williams.

At Wroxeter, Mrs. Upton.

At the Argoed, in the parish of Churchstoke, Wm. Morris, esq. surgeon. At Newport, Mrs. Lowe. At Oldbury, Mrs. Cutler. At Hordley, Mrs. Cureton. At Ludlow, Mr. Pryce Hodge, of the Sd Dragoon Guards.

Quarter-master

At Shiffnal, Frances Fleming, the infant daughter of Robert Fisher, esq.

WORCESTERSHIRE.

Married. At Eastham, Mr. Biggerton, druggist, of Worcester, to Miss Webb, 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 Joseph Severne, esq. of Thunderfield, Herefordshire, 17.--Mr. 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 Worcester and Birmingham Canal.

At Benwick, 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 26, 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 Trinculo. 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 was with him when he brought his ship with so much judgment from amongst the mutineers at the Nore: he was also with Sir H. B.

Neale, when, in company with the Amelia, 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, an admirable officer, in the year 1804, succeed, ed in getting him made a commander. Un 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 £4 guns and 150 men, which was employed as a store-ship in victualling Sir Charles Cotton's Fleet, at that time blockading Lisbon. Ia the autumn of the same year, he was appointed to the Goldfinch of 10 guns and 74 men, one of a class of vessels built on a plan of General Benthamis, well calculated for sailing but for no other purpose, and intended for the destruction of the small French privateers which iufest the straits of Dover; but un accountably as it may seem, hardly ever employed 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 Goldinch having suffered much in the masts and rigging, was incapacitated from following him. Captain Skinner had three men killed and twelve wounded. A few days afterwards the coryette was taken off St. Andero by the Amelia, Captain Irby, who, in his letter to the Admiralty, 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 fattering letters from the admiral of the fleet, and the pose admiral, and his conduct was considered such as intitled him to a better ship. Before he returned, therefore, from his subsequent voyage to Cadiz, he received from the Admiralty an appointment to the Trinculo, at that time just launched, and one of the finest sloops in 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 calculation, and all his hopes of fame and honor were closed for ever: he had con racted a violent cold, on his return from Cadiz, in conse gence of his keeping open his cabin-window at night, for the accommodation of a gentleman who came home with him as a passen ger, and who was allicted with an asthma. By the time he arrived off Falmouth, his disorder increased considerably, and in his anxiety

anxiety to land dispatches from the Marquis Wellesley, then at Seville, he was exposed to a great deal of bad weather, in the latter end of last October; and after making use of the speaking trumpet, when it blew a sale of wind, in a fit of coughing he broke a blood vessel. However, as it was the first wish of his heart to go out in his new ship, he proceeded to Portsmouth, and had nearly fitted her for sea, when he broke the ruptured vessel a second time. The physician of the fleet then gave it as his opinion, that it was certain death to enter into active service, and ordered him home, where he gradually declined till death put a period to his sufferings. Such is a brief sketch of the life of this ex

cellent young man. As an officer, his merits were of the very highest order, and gave promise of his one day earning the right to be enrolled in the annals of his country, amongst those who have done so much honor to it, by their courage and capacity. An attention to his duty that was unremitting, a perfect knowledge of his profession, an intripidity that never failed him when present death was before his eyes, for then have we witnessed him; but above all, a lively regard to the comforts of his crew formed only a part of those qualities which formed his title as an officer. On board his ship he never allowed the meanest cabin boy to be struck, and perhaps there was no other in which there were fewer punishments. Those only, who knew him intimately, can form an adequate idea of the kindness and virtues of his noble heart, he was the delight of his friends, and it may be said of him, with the greatest truth, that he was one of the brightest ornaments of the arduous and honorable profession which he

had chosen.

Cheltenham will be highly improved by the completion of the iron rail-way now making from Glocester to that place, which will be effected in the course of the summer, and enable the inhabitants to procure their coals at 17s. 6d.; for which they now pay 45s. per ton.

Married. At Cirencester, Mr. White, jun, to Miss Horton.-James Cornock, esq. or Gossington Hall, Slimbridge, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Mr. Taylor, of Newnham.

The Rev. H. Portmore Cooper, vicar of MONTHLY MAG. No. 200.

Evesham, Worcestershire, to Margaret Hudson, youngest daughter of the Rev. Wm. Scott, rector of Willersey.

The Rev. George Wasey, rector of Whitington, in this county, to Miss Frodsham, eldest daughter of Captain F. of the royal navy.

Died.] Atthe Hoggins Farm, St. Briavell's, Mr. William Allen.

At Cirencester, Mrs. Wilkins, relict of Wm. W. esq. 84.-Mr. Charles Wilkins.Mr. Thomas Griffith.

At Twigworth, Mrs. Herbert.

At Gloucester, Mrs. Cooper, of Bath. Mrs. Crump, 83.

At Cheltenham, John Lucas, esq. 53.Charles Northwood, esq. 58.

At Sevenhampton, Walter Laurence, esq. 81.

At Newent, Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Mr. Aycrigg, surgeon.

At Tewkesbury, at the house of her uncle, H. W. Harris, esq., Mary Anne, eldest daughter of C. S. Timins, esq. R.N.

OXFORDSHIRE.

As some workmen were lately making a cut for a thrashing machine, through the rick-yard of Mr. Wood, of Peaconsfield farm, on the estate of G. Stratton, esq. of Great Tew, they came to a subterraneous vault, which, when opened, appeared to have been a burial place, as it was built in a dry sand bed, and was as perfect as when first made. The entrance to the south was 18 feet wide, with an ante-passage, and the length was the same, with a half-circle of rough stone at the end; the other walls were plastered; the height was 7 feet. The partitions for the bodies were made with red tile planks of the following sizes: 8 inches and a half by 8 and a half, 11 and a half by 11 and a half, and 21 inches by 11; every one of which was. (although a thousand years old) as perfect as from the kiln, they were 2 feet and a half high, and about the same length, but no coffins were to be found; they were covered over with large tile planks, 23 inches and a half by 23 and a half. The planks were ornamented with little squares of stone and pottery-work, stuck in mortar; the ornaments were a vase, fish, and circular variegated lines, some of which are preserved. It would not have been destroyed, but the men, on account of the buildings, could not alter the intended water course. The bones were large, and teeth most perfect in the jaw bones. There were flues made of square burnt clay. It was found in a place that had been pasture land, and was about 4 inches under ground to the first row of planks. The farm is an old enclosure, the oak trees on which are going to decay.

Died.] At Oxford, the Rev. Wm. Finch,, one of the lecturers of this city, rector f Tackley, Oxon and Avington, Berks.-Mr. Wm. Fielding, scholar of Corpus Christi College, and son of the Rev. Mr. F. of Cat

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terbury. The Rev. T. C. Bailey, curate of Chiselhampton, Stadhampton, and Balcon, 38.-Margaret, wife of Mr. C. Cox, jun. 32. At Blount's Court, Lady Price, 85.

BUCKINGHAMSHIRE.

An alarming fire broke out, on the night of May 26th, at the house of Captain Smith, at Thorney, which consumed the house, together with four out-houses and six fine horses. The whole loss is estimated at 80001. not one-third of which was insured.

Married.] At High Wycombe, W. Rose, esq. to Miss Baly.

Died.] At Great Hall Barn, Beaconsfield, Edmund Waller, esq. a lineal descendant of the poet of that name.

At Bradwell, Mrs. Head, 73.

At Winslow, Mrs. Yeates, wife of Thomas Y. gent. Mr. R. Barton.

At Hagendon, Mr. Thomas Goodson, 71. At Tingewick, Mr. John Perry, many years of the Waggon and Horses Inn, Banbury.

At Milton, Rosetta, only daughter of Mr. Wm. Ratcliffe.

HERTFORDSHIRE.

Died.] At Hertford, Captain F. O. G. Skinner, late commander of his Majesty's sloop, Trinculo, 25.

At East Barnet, W. Ashhurst Smith, second son of the late Dr. H. S. of Trevor Park.

BEDFORDSHIRE.

Marrsed. At Bedford, Barham Livius, esq. of Bartley, Lodge, Hants, to Lucy, daughter of John Foster Barham, esq. of Exeter.

NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.

Died.] At Laddington, Thomas Palmer, esq. eldest son of Sir Thomas P. of Charlton, 59. Mr. P. married Sophia, third daughter of Sir Justinian Isham, bart. who, with three children, survives him.

At Daventry, the Rev. Thomas Robins, 75.

At Northampton, Mr. Inwood, 46.

At Peterborough Charles Moore, esq. 69. At Higham Ferrers, Mr. Charles Malin, post-master.

At Walgrave, Mr. Wm. Barker.

At Dingley, Frances, daughter of the Rev. Edward Grifin, 23.

At Holcot, Mr. Robert Ekins, 78.

HUNTINGDONSHIRE.

Ded] At Hemingford, Wm Desborough, sq. one of the aldermen of Huntingdon. At Huntingdon, Mrs. Atkinson.

At Hilton, Mrs. Oakley.

At Buckden, Mrs. Gilby, 41.

At Addersley Hall, near Stoke Gudington, Colonel Skene, formerly an American loyalist, 94,

CAMPRIDGESHIRE.

NORFOLK.

The Lancastrian School Committee of Norwich, have purchased a most eligible spot of ground in College-court, between Tombland and St. Martin's Palace Plain, where they purpose erecting a school room.

A very rare and curious fish, called the Opah, or King Fish, was found on the 24th of May, cast on the beach at Mundesley. It is of that genus which Linnæus disticguishes by the name of Chatodon, and is said to be very common on the coast of Guinea. Pennant, in his British Zoology, says, that there have been only five instances of this fish being in our seas; four were caught in the north, and a fifth, at Brixham, Devonshire, 1792.

Married] At Lynn, Mr. G Hartwood, of the Custom house at that place, to Miss Hemington, daughter of J. H. esq.-Thomas Brightwell, esq. to Miss Wilkin, daughter of the late W. W. esq. of Costessey.

At Norwich, Captain Richard Chetham, of the 47th regiment, to Miss Tomlinson, daughter of the late Rev. Robert T. of Cley.

James Hales, esq. to Barbara, younge:t daughter of the late J. G Baseley, esq.Captain Alexander Campbell, of the royal ar tillery, to Constantia, daughter of the late Francis Gostling, esq. of Coulsey Wood, Suf. folk.-John Cobb, esq. of Lynn, to Miss M. G. Mundford, of East Dereham.

Died.] At Wells, Mr. William Nettle

ton, 77.

At Happisburgh Hall, Mr. Thomas Carr, 76.

At Woodton, Mr. Richard Matthews, 75. At Starston, in her 100th year, Mrs. Walne.

At Brockdish, Mrs. Hastings, 25.
At Hemsby, Mrs. Hunting on, 70.

At Lynn, Mr Putterill, 35.

At Swaffham, Miss Charlotte Marcon.
At Deopham, Mrs. Taylor.

At Shotesham, the Rev. Mr. Ansdell, 97. At Loddon, Mrs. Woodrow, wife of Mr. W. schoolmaster.

At Fordham, Mrs. Wright, wife of John W. gent.

At Booton, Thomas Rump, esq. 65.

At

At Norwich, Susanna, daughter of Mr. John Bolingbroke, 30.-William Shanke, esq.-Mr. T. Lorter, 77.-Mr. Seth Death, 53.-Mrs. Atkins, 72-Mr. William Cattling, 28-Mr. Nicholas Watson-Mr. Thomas Swaine, 76.-Mr. Holmes, 72.Mr. Charles Leeds, master of the Nag's Head Inn, 52-Mr. Samuel Phillips, 65.-Miss Rusbrooke, youngest daughter of the late Barham R. esq. of West Stow Hall, Suffolk.

At Norton, Elizabeth, wife of Mr. H. Bumpstead, 49.

Married.] At Sheering, the Rev. Thomas Mills, vicar of Pumstead Helcon, to Hester, only daughter of the late G. Parris, esq. of Quickoury.

At Great Yedlham, the Rev. F. Merewether, vicar of Haverhell, Suffolk, to Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late G L. Way, esq. of Spencer Farm, Yeldham. The Rev. Thomas Castley, of Cavendish, Suffolk, to Miss Griggs, of Pention.

Died.] At Harlow, Mrs. Flower, wife of Mr. B. Flower, printer, 39.

At Colchester, in the 88th year of her age, Mrs. Thompson, relict of the late William Thompson, of Mile-end, near Colchester,who was a grandson of the rector of Kettlebarston, Suffolk, of the Thompsons near Kendal, Westmoreland. Mrs. Thompson was the daughter of Samuel Halls, of Col. chester, in the profession of the law, who died there in 1725, and mother of Mr. Lawrence, the Agricultural writer.

At Duke's Place Layer Marney, Mrs. Ley, relict of the Rev. Mr. L. 86.

At Prittlewell, Mary Ann, second daughter of Mr. Lacell, 17

At Navestock, Ms. Witham.

At Braintree, Th mis, son of Mr. Thomas Maxim, of the Bell, 24.-Mr. John Shave,

23.

At Eastwood, Mr. S. Fulford, 76.

At Farmbridge Farm, White Notley, Mr. Abraham Barnard, one of the chief constables of Witham hundred, 68.

At Hadleigh, Mrs. Higgs.

At Foxearth, Mr. Giles Austin.
At Totham, Mr. Belsham.

At Waltham Bury, Mr. George Poole,

KENT.

Married.] At Ashford, Mr. John Elliott, bookseller, to Harriett, daughter of Mr. George Knott.

At Chatham, Mr. H. Clarke, to Miss Conquest, daughter of George Conquest, M.D.

At Swingfield, Mr. Richard Friend, yeaman, to Miss Sarah Sayer, eldest daughter of Henry S. esq. of Sandwich.

At Upper Deal, the Rev. George Farbrace, rector of Eythorn, to Miss Poynter, eldest daughter of J. M. Poynter, esq.-Edward Chambers, esq surgeon, of Deal, to Miss Ann Farbrace, of Faversham.

At Aylesford, Wm. Bowles, esq. of Fitzharris House, Abingdon, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of John Spong, esq.

At Gillingham, Thomas Spong, esq. of Mill Hall, to Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of G. Nash, esq.

Died At Dover, Mrs. Pascall, 64.Mrs. Church.-Mrs. Brickel.-Mrs. Stred

wick.

At Smarden, Mr. Isaac Homewood, 77.
At Ramsgate, Mrs. Swain.

At Thannington, Mrs. Fasham.

At Deal, Mr. T. Minter, 71.-Mr. Edward Davies, purser of the San Domingo, of 74 guns.

At Canterbury, Mrs. Spicer, 76.—Mr. Wm. Norwood.

At Whitstable, Mrs. Graves, 25.

At Winchcheap, Mrs. Mary Green, 71. At Folkestone, Mr. Robert Marsh, 30. At Sheerness, Mr. George Slater, of his Majesty's dock yard.

At Maidstone, Mrs. Williams.

At Faversham, John Smith, esq. of Throuley.

SURRY.

At Birch-ha, William, third son of Charles Round, esq. of Colchester.

At Chelmsford, Mrs. Morgan, wife of the Rev. John A. rector of that parish.

At Barking, Mrs. Uvedale, relict of the Rev. Mr. U.

kingdom, assembled on Fair-mile Farm, near Cobham, the seat of Lord Somerville, to examine the unparalleled flock of Merino sheep of the true Leonesa breed, imported some years ago by his lordship, since improved by a careful selection under his own imme diate care, and now, for the advantage of the

country