the other representative of Nottingham, LORD RANCLIFFE, for a Parliamentary Reform. How honourable it proves to the public spirited electors of Nottingham to have choosen for their representatives in the national conncils, two gentlemen who prefer the performance of their sacred duties to their country to the gratifications atforded to ignoble minds by the temporary favours and concessions of ministers! If other bodies of electors felt their duty, and honestly performed it like the people of Nottingham, how different at this time would have been the condition of this deluded nation! Married. Mr. March, of Hickling, to Miss E. Smith, of Elford Loc. Mr. T. Voce, to Mrs. Hall, both of Nottingham. Mr. W. Peat, of London, to Miss S. : Nightingale, of Nottingham. Mr. John Bennett, of Bestwood Park, to Miss Pilkington, of Cropwell Bishop. At Newark, Mr. Wm. Greaves, to Miss M. Pilworth.-Mr. J. Polson, to Mis Sarah Gunson. Mr. John Andrews, to Miss S. Harrison. Mr. J. Bettison, to Miss Mary Bettison. Mr. Higginbottom, surgeon, of Nottingham, to Miss Anne Hall, of Basford. At Radcliffe-upon-Trent, Mr. Furley, of Nottingham, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. J. Davenport. The Rev. D. Lysons, of Hampstead Court, to Josepha, daughter of J. Gilbert Cooper, esq. of Thurgarton Priory. Died.] At Nottingham, 59, Mr. G. Ragg, of Cheapside.-Mrs. Hopkins, of Derbyroad. On the Derby-road, 74, Mrs. Mary - Machin.-In Fletcher-gate, 46, Mrs. Hop kinson. In the Crown-yard, 83, Mrs. Jane Clark,.-24, Thomas, eldest son of John Wright, surgeon. At Berhampore, 22, Mr. J. Place, eldest son of Mr. P. of Nottingham. She was 35, Mrs. Wild, wife of Mr. John W. færmer and grazier of Tollerton. brought to bed of two boys on the 13th of April, from which time she was unable to rise from her bed. At Newark, 79, Mr. W. Morton.-54, Mrs. M. Spencer.-26, Miss M. Marshall. At Fulwood, near Sutton-in Ashfield, Mrs. E. Litchfield, much respected. At South Collingham, Robert Watkin son, esq. At Harness Grove, Mrs. Willock; she rose from bed at her usual hour, and afterwards took a walk in the garden, but on returning she suddenly expired. LINCOLNSHIRE. Married.] Mr. Allsop, of Louth, to Miss Hardy, of Loughbro'. Mr. Wm. English, of Newark, to Miss Eleanor, of Dunnington. At Gainsbro', Mr. Woolsep, to Miss Sawyer. At Barton-upon-Humber, Mrs. Collins, wife of the Rev. Mr. C. of Providence Chapel. Reli At Gretford, 61, Mrs. Willis, relict of the late celebrated Rev. Francis W. M.D. The deceased, though of humble origin, was destined by Nature to move in an exalted sphere, and her actions shed a instre on that station in society in which it was her good fortune to be placed. Her life was eminently distinguished by the practice of the Christian virtues. gious and charitable, unaccompanied by ostentation; her good works will best pourtray the sincerity of her motive, and the grief of the poor of Gretford and its neighbourhood will best bespeak her worth. It was her custom to seek out the abode of wretchedness,-to contribute to the happiness of its afflicted inhabitants, by administering to their many necessities, and to alleviate the sufferings of the sick, by her unwearied zeal and attention to their comfort. LEICESTERSHIRE. A great storm of thunder, lightning, and rain, lately visited Leicester, and a boy of the name of Mee, who resided near Al Saints Church, was killed in a room, while in the act of seaming stockings with a bright needle. His mother, who was also in the room, received a slight injury; but no particular mark of violence appeared upon the deceased, except an incision behind one of his ears. Among the patriotic labours of the press, in this singular crisis, the exertions of the Leicester Chronicle merit particular commendation, as tending, in concert with the Stamford News, and the Nottingham Review, to retard the rapid progress of political delusion in that part of the kingdom. Never did men deserve better of an abused people than the proprietors and editors of those papers, and every zealous friend to the honour, existence, and freedom of Bri. tain, should, on public grounds, exert himself to extend their sale and promote their interests. Referring to one of the late maneuvres of the war-faction, the editor of the Leicester Chronicle wittily observes, "that the celebration of the victory of Vittoria served to drown all GRUMBLING and MurMURING by the firing of guns, the ringing of bells, and the harmonious shouting of tax-gatherers, assessors, exciscmen, lawyers, bumbailiffs, gaolers, church-wardens, sextons, grave-diggers, nightmen, stockjobbers, cattle-jobbers, land-jobbers, un der der-writers, contracters, shoe-blacks, post- A farmer at Gedney lately treated a va- Married.] At Husbands Bosworth, Mr. Mr. Kilby, of Leicester, to Sarah, eldest Mr. T. Barber, of Derby, to Miss Tomlin, of Leicester. Mr. Banks, of Newark, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Ashby, of Burton Overy. The Rev. Mr. Roberts, master of Uppingham grammar school, to Miss Pochin, daughter of the Rev. Mr. P. of Morcot, Rutland. J. J. Slater, esq. of Haslebech, to Eleanor, daughter of G. Henton, gent. of Saxby. Mr. T. Jones, to Miss Anna Warburton, both of Leicester. Died.] In childbed, at Birstall House, Sarah, the wife of John Mansfield, esq. an eminent and much respected banker at Leicester. Under most severe sufferings she was a bright example of piety and fortitude. At Loughborough, of an inflammation in the liver, produced by the gall stone, 55, John Hunt, esq. a distinguished surgeon of that town. Besides his professional eminence, which was not confined to the vicinity of Loughborough, nor his practice to the same neighbourhood, Mr. HUNT was known to the public as the author of several original. Treatises on the Natural History and Physiology of Agricultural Stock, and also of some medical works, particu. larly of a History of Surgery. He was a man of powerful intellect, and of undaunted independance in all his opinions, whether political, religious, or professional. As the father of a family he was a good example; as a politician, what every Englishman ought to be; and as a philosopher, an ornament of the county of which he was a native. Nor should it be forgotten that he was the neighbour and companion of BAKEWELL; and probably he imbibed from that great man his originality of thinking on all subjects, an increase of the natural manMONTHLY MAG. No. 244. liness of his own character, and those sound 1 At Woodthorpe, 67, Mr. S. Martin, sen. He was one of the Society of Friends, and formerly resided in Loughborough. At Appleby, 71, G. Moore, esq. sheriff of the county in 1793, when he made him self conspicuous at some political meetings. At Stapleford, Gilbert Bullivant, esq. a grazier of that place, and for many years one of the greatest beast salesmen in Smithfield market. In Wigston poor-house, near Leicester, 116, Elizabeth Freer, a Kentish woman; she retained her faculties, and could pursue her necessary employment in the house till within a few days of her decease. At Sileby, Robert Canner, who put a period to his existence the day before, by taking a quantity of opium. He was a widower, and is said to have committed the rash act in consequence of a denial of marriage from a widow who resides in the neighbourhood! At Leicester, 62, the Rev. T. Willows, an inoffensive man, who, on his examination on taking holy orders, was said to have replied, that the Archbishop of Canterbury was the mediator between God and man, and he was in consequence familiarly called the Archbishop.-Miss Robinson, daughter of Mr. J. R.-Mr. Hall, of Woodgate.84, Mr. John Simons, gaoler. 84, Mr. Darman, of Melton Mowbray. At Sawley, Miss Mary Smith, daughter of Mr. E. S. At Scraptoft, 60, John Edw. Carter, esq. formerly an eminent solicitor in Leicester; from his honourable practice in which profession he had retired several years in favour of his worthy partner and relative Mr. Cardale. Since his retirement he had accepted the command, as lieutenant-colonel, Benevolence of heart, the most of the Leicester division of the local militia. engaging suavity of manners, and an amiable modesty of character, were the dis tinguishing features of this excellent man. Though educated in a profession which tends torender its memberssuspicious and illiberal in their intercourse with the world, which commonly steels their hearts against every invocation of suffering humanity, and which often makes them the terror of widows, orphans, and other forlorn neighbours, Mr. CARTER proved, by long and well-known practice, that law so abused serves but as an excuse for the passions of petty tyrants, that benevolence is not entirely inconsistent with English legal practice, and that wealth may be acquired in this profes siou, as well by protecting the helpless and unhappy, as by devouring every unsuspecta lawyer's ing and destitute person who comes within M a lawyer's grasp. In a word, a more per fect character seldom calls for description than that of John Edward Carter. STAFFORDSHIRE. Married.] Charles Smith Forster, esq. banker, Walsall, to Miss Eliz. Emery, of Burcott House. Mr. William Goodall, Newcastle, to Miss Challenor. At Burton, Mr. John Spencer, to Miss Elizabeth Farmer. At Stoke-upon-Trent, Mr. Thomas Mayer, of Newcastle, to Miss Smith, of Spring Fields. Mr. Fernyhough, to Miss Allport, both of Rugeley. At Stoke, Mr. Joseph Leigh, to Miss Lucy Holdcroft. Mr. Birks, of Newcastle, to Miss E. Yates. Mr. Nicklin, of Cobridge, to Miss Hales. Mr. William Fox, to Miss Sarah Legge, both of Wolverhampton. Mr. William Bagley, of Walsall, to Miss Margaret Ashmall. Mr. John Phillips, of Garsall-green, to Miss Lydia Gilbert. Died.] At Newcastle, John Smith, gent. of the Stamp Office.--Mrs. Chell. Aged 83, Thomas Gibbons, esq. banker, of Wolverhampton. At the Vicarage in Sandbach, the Rev. Charles Lockett. At Freeford, near Lichfield, Richard Dyott, esq. At Burslem, 27, Mr. Thomas Multock. Mr. Hood, farmer, of Walton, near Stone. At Shelton, in the Potteries, 54, John Baddeley, gent. formerly a respectable manufacturer. 69, Mr. John Ward, of the Hammer. House, near Eccleshall.-58, Mrs. Thropp, of Wednesbury. At Burton, 25, the Rev. Octavius Collins, curate. WARWICKSHIRE. Mr. Thacker, late assistant at Rugby school, undertook for a wager of 51. to make 2,000 pens in ten hours, which he performed nearly two hours within the time. The new Church, Birmingham, was consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry. Upwards of one hundred vocal and instrumental performers assisted. It has been deemed expedient to establish a Commercial Society in the town of Birmingham, for the purpose of collecting and comparing the opinions of its principal merchants and manufacturers of acting as a medinm of communication with Ministers and the Legislature on the subject of trade, and of co-operating with other parts of the United Kingdom, on all questions affecting the general prosperity of the manufactures and commerce of the British Empire. This seems to be a commendable design, but we fear there is dan ger that such a society may degenerate, without great caution, into a tool and pa rasite of Ministers. If independent, its advantages are manifest. Married.] Mr. James Belles, of Birmingham, to Miss Charlotte Porter, of Lincoln. Mr. Pole, of Temple-street, to Miss Harriet Williams, of Liverpool. Mr. Thomas Keeling, of Great Hamp. ton-street, to Mrs. Ball. At St. Mary's, Warwick, Mr. John Perks, to Sophia, relict of the late Mr. R. Topp. Mr. William Sargeant, to Miss Coudrey, both of Edgbaston. At Aston, Mr. John Collins, of Birmingham, to Miss Francis Osborne, of Meriden. Died.] At Birmingham, 19, Miss Eagles, of the Sand Pits near this town. Mr. John Nutt, of the Crescent.-46, Mr. George Tildersley, of Wharf-street.—84, Mr. Mordecai Solomon, forty years in the pencil trade.-Mr. Samuel Armfield, of Legge street; a man of a benevolent disposition, which manifested itself in unceasing acts of charity.-Mr. Billings, of Bradfordstreet.--Miss Elizabeth Reed, of Edmundstreet. In Church-street, 33, Miss Mary Rogers.-45, Mr. Thomas Black.-22, Miss Ann Richards, of Paradise-street.Mr. Haynes, coach proprietor, of Hurst street. Very suddenly, Mr. Hurlston, of Hethcote, near Newhold Pacey, farmer and grazier, 80. 83, Mr. Phillips, gardener and seedsman, of Barford. 22, Jane, the wife of Mr. James Tompson, mercer and draper, of Atherstone. At Shipstone-upon-Stour, Mr. J. S. Findon, solicitor, who rode out in apparent good health, and was soon afterwards found dead in a field, owing to the rupture of a blood-vessel. At Weston Subedge, in her 100th year, Mrs. Phillips; a liberal benefactress to the and if in silver, two thousand :—or it would pay the expense of supporting 20,000 families for a year; or bring under cultivation twenty thousand acres of the worst waste land in England; or build two hundred handsome churches; or erect and endow for ever, two thousand-alms houses for as many poor widows, each receiving a shilling per day; or make a good road from the Land's End to John O'Groat's house, with a convenient Inn at every ten miles, and a small cottage at the end of every mile; or, it would build two handsome towns upon dreary and unprofitable wastes, the expenses being as under: £5,000 5,000 2,500 in this ELEVENTH YEAR of a disastrous war, that has carried care, distress, and gloomy forebodings to a large majority of our once cheerful fire sides.-"The arrival of Mr. Webb in Shrewsbury, was mentioned (says the Editor) in our last Chronicle; and although it was not his intention to distribute any sums of money, yet the applications were so numerous and importunate, that they became irresistible. Six orphan boys, from Knighton and Leominster, for whom he had not provided masters in Ludlow, followed him hither, and have been clothed and apprenticed to respectable masters. On the report of his arrival, the doors of the Lion inn were besieged by the wretched and unfortunate, who were relieved in different ways. One day he visited the Infirmary, the House of Industry, the Royal Free Grammar School, those founded by Bowdler and Allatt, those on the 2,500 system of Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster, and 5,000 also St. Chad's School of Industry; and on 10,000 the following day, he visited and relieved 2,500 many abodes of private distress. Among numerous cases he relieved the following: A family, where there had been 4 children, 2 of which were living-one lame, the other diseased: A blind man, his lame wife, and diseased daughter: A journeyman shoemaker who had reared 11 children, and paid taxes 17 years, without parochial relief: To 2 orphan girls 201.: Å bankrupt's son 10l. A distressed clergyman's family 251.: A widow and 6 children 201.: A haulier, who had lost 3 horses, 30!.: To the Public Charities, viz. the Infirmary 21.; Prison Charities 211.; Bell's School 51.; Lancaster's 51.; St. Chad's School of Industry 5.; General Sunday School 51.; Union Sunday School 51.; Swanhill School 5.; and the Sick Man's Friend Society 51. 2,500 250,000 100,000 385,000 Two Towns .... £770,000 Leaving 230,000l. for contingences and collateral improvements!"-At the end of a year, it will be worth while to look back and examine what good has really been effected by means of the said million, as disposed of by the Ministers and Parlia ment. Another Howard, and even a GREATER THAN Howard, lays claim to our warm est admiration and applause, in the person of a country gentleman of the name of WEBB, a man who has chalked out a new path to GLORY, in which he will be hailed by all good men with blessings, instead of being execrated like military conquerors and weak wailike princes, with the anathemas of the world. When this gentleman began his godlike career, we thought the Editors of the Provincial Papers, who recorded his bounties, intended to sport with our credulity, or to be sarcastic on the egotism of their wealthy neighbours; but the circumstantial details of the Shrews bury Chronicle, leave us no longer in doubt, that such a phenomenon as the good and benevolent WEBB does really exist; and on making the discovery, we exclaim spontaneously, God bless, preserve, and prosper him; for never did any country stand in such need of active benevolence as England, -For the purpose of apprenticing 29 boys, he gave premiums of from 15. to 351. amounting in the whole to about 7001. He then appointed a Cominittee, consisting of the Rev. W. Rowland, Dr. Johnson, and the Rev. E. P. Owen, to select cases, from the applications which he himself could not examine, and left in their hands 601. besides 50l. to clothe and educate boys; he also left 107. with the Rev. Mr. Weaver, to relieve cases of distress; and a like sum with the Rev. Mr. Palmer. The Mayor offered to confer the freedom of the borough upon Mr. Webb, but he declined accepting it, observing, that he should feel flattered if the honour was bestowed on Dr. Johnson, who had given him so much of his time and attention.”—The Editor observes that "the most unblemished conduct cannot escape the pestilential blasts of spleen; and as the selfish and uncharitable are wholly unable to comprehend the motives which actuate a mind like that of Mr. Webb, his liberality has M 2 been been attributed by some to a disordered mind, and by others, to vanity! These whisperings are not unknown to Mr. Webb, but they have not checked him in his bene volent career. The various sums amounted to upwards of 1000l. which Mr. Webb distributed to the destitute and afflicted, or conferred on the public charities established in Shrewsbury. It appears, that in February, he was at Norwich, where the wretched state of the poor first excited his attention. At Yarmouth, he left 300l. to be distributed, and gave benefactions to every charity; at Wrentham, he gave 301. in silver to the poor: at Yoxford 201. in provisions, and 71. to seven destitute families: at Framlingham 400l.: at Ipswich SOOL. Colchester between 3 and 4001: and remaining a month in the Metropolis, he subscribed to the principal charities. In April he arrived at Cheltenham, gave away considerable sums, and apprenticed 13 boys, giving premiums of from 204. to 301., and there he determined to direct his charities chiefly to orphans. At Bath, he contributed liberally to the schools and public institutions: at Bristol he appren ticed a number of orphans: at Gloucester he put out 40 apprentices: at Tewkesbury 8: at Worcester 11: at Malvern he gave 351. to the necessitous: at Ledbury he ap prenticed two orphans: at Hereford 35; and relieved the distressed at their own habitations at Leominster he apprenticed and clothed 30 orphans, at a cost of 6001.; leaving also a sum for charitable purposes. He then visited Shrewsbury, where his memory will be long and affectionately cherished. As his private fortune conld not be sufficient to enable him to continue this princely bounty, he has expressed his intention of closing his purse for the present year. The rental of his estates, amounting, it is said, to nearly 12,000l. per annum, are situated in the counties of Oxford, Berks, and York."-Of so extraordinary and truly Christian a character, (a man who gives all he is worth to the poor), we should be glad to receive some further ac count. Married.] Charles Smith Forster, esq. banker, of Walsall, to Miss Elizabeth Emery, of Burcott House. Mr. Tomkinson, of Cound, to Miss Margaret Beddoes, of Harnage. Mr. John Winnal, of Gatley Park, to Miss Ridley, of Claverley. Mr. Hall, surgeon, Bridgnorth, to Miss Parsons, of the Theatres at Stafford, Newcastle, &c. Ir. Holyoake, of the Oaks, to Miss Ridge, of the Common. Mr. Roberts, of Penybryn, to Miss Price, of Shrewsbury. Died.] At Cound, Miss Joyce Hampton. The Rev. W. Curtis, of Woolsaston. At Stapleton, Miss Allen. At Sutton Maddock, Mary, daughter of Mrs. Broughall. 81, Mr. George Gilbert, of Alkington. At Wallibrun, Mrs. Ellis. At Terrick Hall, near Whitchurch, Mrs. Brookes, widow of the late Mr. J. B. Mr. Thomas Morris, second son of Thomas Morris, esq. of Newport. Mr. Thomas Vaughan, auctioneer, of Ellesmere. At Ludlow, Mrs. Noakes, wife of Mr. John N. At Much Wenlock, 69, Mrs. Maria Weale. Mr. Edward Williams, wine-merchant, of Oswestry. WORCESTERSHIRE. Married.] Mr. T. L. Hall, of The Lea, near Cleobury Mortimer, to Miss M. A. Banks, of Bewdley. At Hales Owen, Mr. W. Allday, jum. of Birmingham, to Miss Ann Bissell, of Honington. Mr. Bayley, mercer, to Miss Bunch, both of Dudley. Mr. James Christie, of Bath, to Miss Ann Hornblower, of Stourport. Mr. Ashdown, to Miss Harding, daughter of S. Harding, esq. of Grindle. Died.] At Bromsgrove Lickey School, Mr. Ailbut, sen. aged 61, sincerely regretted by his numerous relatives and friends. Indefatigable attention to the duties of his scholastic profession conspicuously marked the last thirty years of his useful life. Mr. Meredith, of Cradley, near Stourbridge. At Worcester, aged 66, Mr. J. Martin, an eminent heraldry and sign painter. At Pershore, Mr. Giles. At Hanley Castle, Mrs. Merriman. Mr. Charles Staples, of New-street, Worcester, 72.-Mr. Samuel Gordon, formerly an eminent merchant in London, and twenty-seven years accountant at the Old Bank, in Worcester. Mrs. Dolphin, of Stourbridge. [The late Richard Harington, who died so very lately at his house, Hagley Park, near Stourbridge, was formerly rector of Whitstone and Powderham, only brother of the late Sir Ja. Harington, bart. of Merton, Major of Horse Grenadier Guards. He has left an only son, Arthur Champer. nowne, esq of Dartington, late high sheriff, who succeeded in right of his mother to the Dartington estate, dropped the name of Harington, and took that of Champernowne. The ancestors of this departed worthy were the ancient Lords and Barons of Haverington, "De Haveringtono," say the medals," in comitatu Cumberlandia." Like several of their potent neighbours, however, they appear at a late period to have |