HERTFORDSHIRE.

viation from the hope of recovery, for more than nineteen months, with The first meeting of the noblemen, the most exemplary fortitude and regentlemen, and farmers, lately assosignation. She was ever most sensible ciated under the name of the "Hertof, and thankful for, the good which fordshire Agricultural Society," was she enjoyed, and she never repined held at the King's Arms Inn, in Great at her allotted portion of the ills of Berkhampstead, in order to witness this life; but whatever were the trials the match between several ploughs, which she had to sustain, the energies which, to the number of 20, started, of her mind rose in proportion to the in a field previously measured out, difficulty of the occasion, and her about one mile from the town, as conduct always manifested that it was competitors for the prizes offered by the earnest wish of her heart to per the society. form her part well, and to live and die in perfect christian charity with

all mankind.

John Ellman, John Field, and John Woodman, were the three umpires appointed, and were instructed to cleanness and well turning of the furtake duly into their consideration the rows, the evenness of the bottom, and comparative lightness of draught.

The soil of the experiment field was flinty, with a tolerable mixture of clayey loam, which the late seasonable rains had rendered in good order for ploughing. During the trial it was observed, that the old Hertfordshire,

Died.] Joseph Worth, aged 24, son of William Worth, esq. of Hayreford, in Norfolk, firs: lieutenant of his Majesty's sloop Nautilus, and one of the unhappy number lost in the wreck of that ship off the island of Cerigotto, in the Archipelago. He and some which were called new Hertcommenced his naval life at an early fordshire, ploughs, drew much harder age, as cadet, under the Hon. Capt. than the West Sussex and improved Blackwood, in the Brilliant and Pe- ditto; and that next to these fast, in nelope frigates; and successively point of ease and draught, might be served in different ships as midship- mentioned the new Hampshire plongh mian. Whilst in the Beaulieu, capt. of Mr. Plenty's make; an improved Poyntz, he volunteered in the com- Berkshire plough of Mr. Pope's had mand of one of the boats of that ship, many admirers, and was of light under lieutenant (now captain) Keith draught. Maxwell, at the cutting out and After the ploughs had all finished bringing off the Chevrette, in Ca- their work, and the umpires had remaret-bay, near Brest. He was then tired for some time, their report was too young to be rewarded (as others read to the company by the earl of were for this service) by promotion. Bridgwater, the president, who, in But after having some time duly consequence awarded the premiums passed examination, he was, in May as follows, viz. 1804, received as midshipman on Ten guineas to Mr. Howard, of board the Ville de Paris, and in a few Kingsworth, as the owner of the best days had the honour to be presented plough; Mr. Wood's West Sussex with a lieutenant's commission by the plough, improved since its adoption Hon. admiral Cornwallis,commander- in Hertfordshire last year. in-chief, which was directly followed Three guineas to Daniel Lovett, by the ill-fated appointment to the servant to Mr. Pope, of WhelpleyNautilus. He was a young officer of hill, as the best ploughman, with the much promise, and his untimely end improved Berkshire plough. is greatly lamented by his triends. At Vicar's-bill, near Lymington, aged 82, Mrs. Gilpin, relict of the late Rev. Win. G. vicar of Boldre, and prebendary of Salisbury. The Rev. C. Javell, rector of Brington cum Bythorn, and fellow of Clare-hall, Cambridge.

Two guineas to Wm. Mules, servant to Mr. Pickford, of Marketstreet, as the second best ploughman, with Mr. Wood's West Sussex plough.

One guinea to Wm. Grace, servant to Mr. John Cooper, of King's Langley, as the third best ploughman, with the improved Berkshire plough,

LINCOLNSHIRE.

Died.] At Louth, N. Wigglesworth, esq. He has bequeathed 5000l. for the relief of poor debtors.-Fred." L'Oste, esq. father of the corporation of Louth, of which he had been nine times warden.

NORFOLK.

After this, the company examined Liverpool.-At Liverpool, aged 80, several pens of very fine South Down Mr. Thomas Milner, bookseller. sheep, exhibited by the earl of Bridgwater, and Thomas Pickford, esq.; and soon after, upwards of one hundred of the members and their friends sat down to an excellent dinner, the earl of Bridgwater in the chair; besides a very numerous second table in an adjoining room, for farmers' servants, &c. Died.] At East Dereham, John Died.] Mrs. Moncrieffe, relict of Frere, esq. of Roydon, and of Finthe late Alderman M. lord mayor of ningham, in Suffolk, late M. P. for the city of Dublin, in the year 1766. Norwich.-At Heydon-house, aged 53, Wm. Earle Buliver, esq. a coDied.] At Lydd, Robert Cobb, esq. lonel of the army, and late brigadieraged 63.-At Tunbridge Wells, Miss general of volunteers.-At Lynn, Mr. Catherine Harvey, youngest daughter Daniel Brown, lieutenant in the Lynn of Samuel Harvey, esq. of Sandwich. volunteer corps, who are on perma-At Deptford, George Hutton, esq. nent duty; and while on guard at the -Wm. Wheatley, esq. aged 64, of market-cross on the Monday precedLesney-house, and a deputy lieute- ing the day of his death, he suddenly nant of this county.-At Towlers, fell in an apoplectic fit. Mrs. Frances Bridger, sister of Sir John B. and only surviving daughter of the late John B. esq. of Combeplace, Sussex.

KENT.

LANCASHIRE.

OXFORD.

The new statute, relative to the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Arts, has at length been passed in convocation. Public examinations A stone weighing one pound ten will in future, therefore, take place ounces was found on opening a fine only in the Michaelmas and Easter cart-horse, which died in Liverpool a Terms; and there will be two lists, in few days ago. The stone resembles a which the names of those, who have heart pretty nearly, but not so regu- distinguished themselves most emi-, larly formed, and the apex is flatter, nently, will be inserted, and classed the circumference at the end is be- according to their several merits. tween eight and nine inches, and at the small end between five and six inches; its height about three inches and a half. The colour is bronze, or of copper deeply tarnished, very hard, and where the outward lamina was broken through, would admit of an excellent polish by rubbing with a piece of smooth iron.

The method of conferring honours, instituted by the late statute, being done away, we recognize, in the mode now adopted, something similar to the Cambridge plan, except that the mathematics will here only retain their due proportion of weight with the rest of the sciences and classical literature. There will, moreover, in fuDied.] At Warrington, Charles ture, be no examination for the degree Dalrymple, esq. of the 4th dragoon of master of arts. These are some of guards, second son of the late Lord the principal heads of the new statute, Westhall.-At Bury, Mr. R. Topping, which has several times been debated, nephew of James Topping, esq. bar- and has since been finally confirmed rister-at-law, and late M.P.-At Lan- in full convocation.

caster, Richard Postlethwaite, esq. The Chancellor's Prizes have been aged 73, brother of the late Dr. Pos- adjudged to Mr. John Taylor Allen, tlethwaite, master of Trinity-college, B.A. of Brazen Nose College, for the Cambridge. At Blackburn, aged 46, English Essay on “Duelling;" and Mr. Robert Butler, editor and pro- to Mr. William John Law, Student prietor of the Blackburn Mail.-At of Christ Church, for the Latin Verse, Lewton, Thomas Darwell, esq. of "Plata Fluvius." The Prize, by an Manchester, clothier and manufac- unknown benefactor, has been adturer. At Ulverstone, Capt. Wm. judged to Mr. Matthew Rolleston, Forster, late of the ship Bacchus, of Scholar of University College, for the

English Ver es, "Moses, under the dire tion of Divine Providence, conducting the Children of Israel from Egypt to the Promised Land."

At Lord Crewe's Annual Commemoration of Founde$ and Benefactors to the University, several honorary degrees were conferred. The Crewe ian Oration was spoken by the Rev. Edward Copleston, M.A. Fellow of Oriel College, Professor of Poetry, and one of the Proctors of the University. The Chancellor's Prize Compositions were recited by the gentlemen to whom they were adjudged.

SOMERSETSHIRE.

The village of Huish, near Langport, has been almost totally destroy ed by fire, scarcely a house being left except the parsonage, and it was with great difficulty that the town of Langport escaped.

June 3, came on the election of a surgeon to the Bristol Infirmary, in the room of the late Mr. Bowles. The gentlemen who appeared as candidates, were Mr. Hetling, Mr. Lowe, and Mr. Smith. Upon casting up the numbers, there appeared for— Mr. Hetling Mr. Lowe

395 167 Mr. Smith 74 The first candidate was declared duly elected. Died.] At Bristol, Mr. Francis Cheyne Bowles, one of the surgeons of the Bristol Infirmary.-At Bath, aged 81, Lady Gibbons, relict of the late Sir John Gibbons, bart. K.B. and mother of the present Sir Wm. Gibbous, bart.-Mrs. Francis Mitford, sister of Lord Redesdale.-Mrs. Parkyns, wife of Parkyns, Esq. cousin of Lord Ranclife.-R. Whyte, Esq. General of his Majesty's Forces, and Colonel of the 24th regiment of foot.

SHROPSHIRE.

STAFFORDSHIRE.

Died.] At Stauord, aged 82, Mr. Bullock, basket-maker, whose general habits of life were as rare as they were exemplary By horest industry he supported a large family, and for the last thirty years he had been in the constant habit of appropriating the profits of four hours labour every day, to the use of the poor. Whenever this sin ular character felt disposed to yield to the ebullitions of anger, or the murmurings of discontent, it was his constant practice to retire into a private apartment, where he kept for the purpose a coffin, in which he used to remain till he had subdued the irregularity of his passions by the efforts of reason.

Died.] At York, in consequence of severe wounds received in the service of his country, at the storming of Morne Fortuné, in the island of St. Lucia, Edward James Chaloner, Esq. late captain of grenadiers, in the Died.] At Shrewsbury, Jas. Rey- first, or royal regiment of foot. nish, Esq. His death was owing to a His remains were interred with mimelancholy accident:-being on a litary Fonours, the officers of the party of pleasure down the Severn, the day before, the wadding of one of the guns, which was discharged from the boat, penetrated his side, and he languished in extreme pain till the following day. The Rev. Forrester, Leighton, vicar of Condover, and rector of one of the Portions of PonBesbury.

Inniskillen dragoons being desirous of paying this last tribute of respect to that gallant officer.-At Fulford, aged 76, Mr. Richard Kitson. He served the office of sheriff for the city of York, in 1796.-At Uull, Mr. William Chamberlaine, portraitpainter, and formerly pupil of the late Mr. Opic.-At Rippon, W. John

Darnborough, attorney-at-law.-Near of communication between the north Wakefield, the Rev. John Lonsdale, and south of Scotland, and the advanvicar of Darfield, and curate of the tages of such an excavation are suffiperpetual curacy of Chapelthorpe- ciently obvious, and the great quesAt Doncaster, the Rev. S. Moore, tion is its practicability. On this point A.M. vicar of that town, and preben- it is observed, that tunnels of equal or dary of York, and formerly chaplain greater extent have been already to Robert, Archbishop of York.-John formed in England. The grand JuncHeelis, Esq. of hipton Castle, agent tion Canal for instance, in one place of the Right Hon. the Earl of Thanet. passes through a mountain for the -At Coxwold, the Rev. Thos. New space of two miles and a half. But ton, rector of St. Cuthbert's, vicar of the greatest of all these excavations Trinity Church, both in York, and are the tunnels in the Duke of Bridgemany years curate of the perpetual water's Canal at Walkden Moor becuracy of Coxwold.-At York, aged tween Worsley and Belton, in Lan28, Mr. Benjamin Blanchard, eldest cashire, where the tunneling extends son of Mr. W. Blanchard, printer; for no less than eighteen miles. Butand a few days after, Mr. J. Blanch- besides this, coal mines have, in vaard, aged 70, brother of Mr. W. B.- rious places, been extended a great Mr. John Donaldson, aged 61, an way under the sea, which is a cireminent organ builder, and one of the cumstarce still move analogous to the common council for Brotham Ward present subject. Thus, the workings -At Sa tmarsh, near Howden, aged in the coal mines at Whitehaven ex23, Miss Ann Catherine Saltmarsh, tend to the distance of a mile under youngest daughter of the late Phi- the Irish Channel, whilst at Borrowlip Saltmarsh, Esq.-At Malton, Mr. stonness, at no great distance from Elias Inchbald, attorney-at-law.-At Queen's Ferry, they are carried under Leeds, aged 62, the Rev. James Kitch- theFrith for a mile. In all these works ing, vicar of Pickhill: Mr. J.Wright. no water has ever penetrated the -At his house, near Scarborough, superincumbent strata, and found its aged 75, Sir Richard Bempde John- way into the mines. There is, therestone, bart. His regular and exem- fore, no reason to fear that the pasplary performance of religious duties, sage would be rendered damp, and rendered him at all times" a burning the more so, as there is every likeli and shining light" to his family, neigh-hood that a stratum of freestone passes bours, and dependants; hi patriot- below the Frith at Queen's Ferry isin, his hospitality, his high sense of honour and integrity, his attachment and liberality to his old and respectable tenantry, will cause his name to be long revered, and his loss to be seriously deplored. His amiable manners, and the great and numerous virtues which endeared him, when living, to his nearer and dearer connections, cannot fail of proving to them, at the present crisis, a source of lasting and real consolation.

Scotland.

from the one side to the other, which of all others is a substance the most desirable for cutting through. The expense of the undertaking is estimated at 160,000l. and they calculate the revenue from it in the first year at 16,000.

The foundation-stone of St. George's Church, to be built in Buchananstreet, Glasgow, fronting the west-end of George-street, has been aid, with the sole unity usual on such an occasion. The Lord Provost, magistrates, and council, were accompanied by the clergy, and the members of the merchants and trades-houses

A tunnel across the Frith of Forth, similar to that proposed at Gravesend, is at present in contemplation. It is to be carried across the Frith at The cut ing of the Glasgow, PaisQueen's Ferry, near Edinburgh, to lev, and Androssan canal, is now gothe opposite shore of Fife. A trea- ing on vigorously, within two miles tise has been published by Dr. Miller of Glasgow. This is a barge canal, and Mr. Vazie, to shew the practica- the first in Scotland, on the plan of bility of such a tunnel, and the ad- those inland navigations, which in vantages that would result from it. the manufacouring counties in EngThe Queen's Ferry is the great point land, have been productive of im

mense advantages to the country, and great part of the foundation of the walls to canal proprietors.

laid, which are nearly to surround it, and advancing in height. There are two other harbours to be excavated, and to have a communication with each other, with large and commodious storehouses, warehouses, &c.

Died.] At Barnton, Wm. Ramsay, esq. of Barnton, banker in Edinburgh. This truly respectable and worthy man, to an unassuming simplicity of manners, united firmness of mind, a correct judgment, and an upright heart. In the exercise of his public duties his aim was to be useful, modestly declining those situations which seed. This is found to destroy the might place him in the glare of life. ova, or eggs of the insect, by which His piety was unaffectedly sincere, the damage is occasioned. his benevolence extensive, devoid of Died.] At Newtown, Limavady, ostentation. By all who knew his Derry, Rob. Cambell, esq. one of the worth his memory will be revered; oldest and best established Bleachers his particular friends, while they in the North of Ireland; with a fair deeply regret his loss, must ever re- character and close application to member him with the most affec- business he acquired property to a tionate esteem.-At Dunbar, Captain very large amount, which, as he died John Fraser, of the Inverness-shire without issue, has descended to his militia. At Leith, Mr. Thos. Brown, nephew and heir-at-law, John Campprinter and editor of the Leith Com- bell, esq. Barrister-at-Law.-At Dub mercial Shipping List.-At St. An- lin, Sir Boyle Roche, Bart.-At his drews, Nicholas Vilant, Esq. profes- seat at Castle Martyr, in the County sor of mathematics in the United Col- of Cork, in the 80th year of his ge, lege of St. Andrews.-At Aberdeen, the Right Hon. Richard Boyle, Earl Mr. John Davidson, goldsmith. He of Shannon, Viscount Boyle, Baron has bequeathed 1000l. to be vested, on of Castle Martyr in Ireland, and Baron security, in the hands of the treasurer Carleton in England; Knight of St. of Aberdeen, until it accumulate to Patrick, Custos Rotulorum of the the principal sum of 1100l. the interest County of Cork, and a Privy Counof which his trustees are appointed to sellor in both kingdoms. He marapply in founding a school for the edu- ried Miss Catharine Ponsonby, cation, gratis, of the children of the daughter of the late Right Hon. White Fishers, and pilots, in and John Ponsonby, by Lady Elizabeth about Footdee; as well as the chil- Cavendish, daughter of the third dren of such seafaring people in the Duke of Devonshire, by whom he has neighbourhood, as cannot afford them left two children, the Countess of proper education.

Sir W. J. Jervis has tried successfully to prevent the fly in turnips, by sowing flower of juniper with the

Ireland.

Bandon, and Lord Viscount Boyle, now Earl of Shannon. His Lordship The examination for Fellowships was a politician by birth, his father of Trinity College, Dublin, has been having been Speaker of theIrish House concluded, when, after a very rigorous of Commons, and the most leading and protracted enquiry into the pre- ministerial character of his day. Betensions of the respective candidates, fore the Union, no man possessed the high distinction was conferred on greater parliamentary interest than Monday upon Messrs. Sandy and the Earl of Shannon; insomuch, that Crampton. Mr. Elrington received no Vice-Regent felt easy on his throne, the first premium of Sool. the second until he secured his Lordship's friendof Gol. was conferred upon Mr. Hart; ship, who was considered a sound Mr. Whitley, whose answering did politician, but no orator. His health him great credit, was honoured with was always delicate, but for some the third of 401. and Mr. Burke with the fourth of 401. also.

The first harbour of the Royal Canal, adjoining the aqueduct that crosses the Broad Stone Road at the upper end of New Church-street, Dublin, is not only laid out, but a

years he has been confined to his seat, at Castle-Martyr, where he lived in the most princely style, surrounded by his family and friends.-At Dublin, William James, esq. one of the Aldermen of that city. The day before he died he rode out and returned in ap