have agreed to the reduction of their annuities one-half on the rebuilding of the theatre, and have also come to the resolution of making a deposit of 10,0001. in addition to the insurance-money, in order to set the work in motion. it is said, that the proprietors, with the concurrence of the trusters and new renters, have resolved, that the new theatre shall not be built upon too large a scale; but that the size shall be between that of the old theatre, and that which was built by Mr. Holland. It is in fact intended, that it shall hold no more than 5001. and consequently the expense of condu ting it, as well as the erection, will be proportionally light. On the 1st of January, about eleven o'clock at night, a dreadful fire broke out in the premises of Mr. Pocock, a coal and timber merchant, at Whitefriars Wharf, between Blackiriars-bridge and the Temple. Those extensive premises were soon completely in flames, and continued burning until the whole of their valuable contents, consisting of immense piles of coals and timber, were entirely consumed. The extensive range of stabling, belonging to Mr. Pocock, and seve ral valuable horses also, shared the same fate. The greatest apprehensions were entertained for the houses which surround the timberyard, but they escaped destruction, though not without considerable damage. The great beat which this immense body of fire threw out, prevented the engines from approaching near enough to produce any effect. Some apprehensions were entertained for the Grand Junction Canal Store-bouse, and, even in the Inner Temple several engines were brought down to the bottom of King's Bench Walk, under the idea that the fire might possibly extend to that quarter. The fire consumed near 30,0001, worth of timber, 70001. of which had been landed but a few days before, and was not insured. Of eighteen horses, only seven were saved. A large elegant building has lately been completed near the west gate of the Tower, for excise-officers, for the better accommodation of the mercantile interest, as being contiguous to the Custom house. The new Mint, to the east of the Tower, is nearly completed; from which a grand opening is to be made, to afford a view of Trinitysquare. MARRIED. At Mary-le-bone, John Goodford, esq. of Yeovil, Somerset, to Charlotte, fourth daughter of the late Sir Montague Cholmeley, bart.-Joseph Minet, esq. to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late John Brissault, esq. of Southampton.-George Hannam. esq. of Bromston House, Isle of Thanet, to Charlotte Louisa, youngest daughter of the late John Bristow, esq. of Calcutta.-W. J. Eldridge, esq. captain in the Hon. East India Company's service, to Miss Tadman, eldest daughter of the late Lance Tadman, esq. of New House, in Northfleet. Robert Smyth, esq. of Upper Guilford street, to Miss Julia Pemberton, of Gough House, Chelsea. Robert Metcalf, esq. to Jane, youngest daughter of Samuel Wharton, esq. of Scarbo rough. Stephen Oliver, esq. of Keisby, Lincolnshire, to Miss Roberts, of Leatherhead, Surry. At Cripplegate church, Mr. James Goolden, to Miss jeffreys, only daughter of the late Zachary J. esq. of Kingsdown House, Wilts. At Lambeth, E. Briggs, esq. to Miss Sarah Stow, of Ripley, Surry. At Newington suits, Mr. Theakston, of Christ-church, solicitor, to Miss Holdsworth, only daughter of Thomas H. esq. of Walworth.-Olinthus Gilbert Gregory, L.L. D. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, to Miss Beddome, eldest daughter of Brandon Beddoine, esq. of Walworth. At Chiswick, Lord Granville Leveson Gower, brother of the Marquis of Stafford, to Lady Harriet Cavendish, daughter of the Duke of Devonshire. At St. George's, Hanover-square, Charles Sherriff, esq. to Mary Ann, daughter of Mr William Brown, of Green-street, Grosvenor. square.-Thomas Darly Coventry, esq. to Miss Esten, of Half-moon-street. At St. Andrew's, Holborn, Henry H. Aysh ford, esq. to Miss Carr, of Thavies' Inn. At St. John's, Clerkenwell, Charles Thomas Macklin, esq. of Huntingford, Herts, to Charlotte Susanna,eldest daughter of Mr.John Moore, of St. John's-square. At Hackney, Mr. William Kemmish, printer, of the Borough, to Miss Rhodes, of Shacklewell Lodge. Wilham Payne Georges, esq. of Foley Place, to Julia Ann, daughter of the late Captain Tupper. At Stepney, Mr. T. H. Bennett, of Wat ling-street, to Charlotte, daughter of Wm. Tyler, esq. of Mile-end. At Greenwich, Joseph Pitt, esq. of Plymouth, to Miss Eliza Ann Symons, of New ington. Rev. John Hooper, M.A. to Sophia, se- In the City Road, where she was on a visit, In Gower street, Mrs. Wombwell, widow of John W. esq. At Clapham, Miss Bacon, eldest daughter of the late John B. esq. R. A. At Kennington, Mr. James Redfern, of the Bank of England, 40. Ar Maryland Point, Stratford, Mrs. Sophia George, wife of Mr. Edward G. of the Bank of England. George Swaffield, esq 87, late cashier of the Victualling department of the Navy Office, the duties of which situation he inost faithfully performed more than 60 years. In Stanhope-street, Vice-Admiral Dacres. 2 At Stanmore, Richard Corbet, esq. Mrs. Young, relict of William Y. esq. of Chancery-lane. In Hill-street, Berkeley-square, Sir Henry Strachey, master of the King's Household. In Abingdon street, Mrs. Ashley, relict of the late, and mother of the present, manager of the oratorios. Mrs. Barlotu, relist of Francis B. esq. of the Crown Office, 79. In Mansion House-street, Henry Jones, esq. In Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square, Mrs. Wainwright, 74. In Montague-street, Russell-square, Wm. Norris, esq. In Lombard street, John Reeves, esq. man, esq. In Charterhouse-square, Mrs. Bridges. In Duke-street, Grosvenor-square, Caven Dilane, esq. At Ealing Barrs, Charles Roberts, esq. 20. At Walthanistow, Jobn Allen, esq. 69. In St. Paul's Church-yard, Mrs. Baker, wife of John B. esq. At Lambeth, Mrs. Northcote, relict of Henry N. esq. In Newman-street, J. D. Engleheart, esq. In Bell's Buildings, Salisbury-square, Job Barton, esq. jun. solicitor, 38. In John-street, Bedford-row, in his 68th year, Nathaniel Newnham, esq. Alderman of the city of London, and Colonel of the West London Militia. His abilities, integrity, and manly firmness of character, early brought him into public life, and raised him to situations of the highest trust and dignity in the city. In 1774, he was chosen alderman of the Vintry Ward; in 1776 he served the of. fice of sheriff; in 1780, he was returned one of the members for the city; in 1783, he was chosen Lord Mayor; in 1781, he was again returned for the city of London; and in the next Parliament he sat for Ludgershal, in Wiltshire He afterwards withdrew entirely from parliamentary business, and divided his attention between his regiment and the extensive concerns of his banking-house. He was likewise president of St. Thomas's Hospital, and at the time of his death was serving, for the second time, as master to the Mercers' Company. How greatly he was respected in his public capacity the above facts of themselves declare; in every relation of domestic life he was endeared by his sweetness of disposition, his generosity, his benevolence, and the warmth and steadiness of his attachments. Few men ever lived moze beloved, or died more ore régretted. At Ham Common, Mary, Countess of Courtown, wife to the Earl of Courtown, and daughter and co-heiress of Richard Powys, esq. of Hintlesham Hall, in Suffolk, by Lady Mr. Levi, a diamond and pearl merchant, of Haydon-square. He threw himself from the top of the Monument, and was dashed to pieces. It appears that he went to the person who has the charge of the Monument, and said he expected to meet three ladies there; after waiting some time, he paid his money, and said he would go up, and requested he would send the ladies to him. In a few minutes the keeper found he had thrown himself from the top. Mr. Levi had been on 'Change about eleven o'clock, perfectly well, and had made appointments with several gentlemen to meet them in the afternoon. He walked several times round the outside of the iron railing before he sprang off, and in falling, the body turned over and over before it reached the ground. When near the bottom, it came in contact with one of the griffins which ornament the lower part of the building. He alighted at last on his head, in Monumentyard, and expired without a groan. vulsive motion of the shoulders was all the appearance of life the body exhibited, when approached immediately after the fall. His head was terribly shattered, and the brain protruded at different parts. The face was so much disfigured, that he was with difficulty recognised. The immediate cause of the act is supposed to have been a failure in a commercial speculation. His age was about 45, and his character very respectable. А сол Mrs. Catharine Arnold, of the Commercial Road, relict of Mr. William A. late of St. George's in the East. She was exemplary as a wife, widow, and friend; and remarkable for strength of mind, power of memory, and acuteness in discriminating characters. At the house of Messrs. M'Andrews and Co. in Thames-street, Mr. William Mr. Shirley, of Crosby-row, Walworth. Shirley left home in the morning in his usual state of health: having business to transact at the house of Messrs. M'Andrews and Co. he was there seized with a violent complaint in the stomach, and had scarcely reached the dining room when he suddenly expire. It is not possible, in the small space allotted to this notice, to do justice to the excellent character of the individual whose death it records. His memory will be perpetuated in the hearts of his relatives and friends. Integrity of mind, and amiableness of manners, were never more strikingly displayed than in the life of Mr. Shirley. In Wells-street, Oxford-street, Tiberias Cavallo, esq. F.R.S. This gentleman was the son of an eminent physician of Naples, where he was born in the year 1749. His original destination was to be initiated at London into a mercantile profession; and he came to EngJand with that view is the year 1771. But the A Aëro Medical Electricity, was to announce the improvements then lately made in the administration of this new and singular medicine. The Treatise on Air is a very useful performance, especially when considered in reference to the state of this interesting branch of philosophy at the time of its publication. The great number and variety, as well as the importance, of the discoveries then lately made by Dr. Priestley, and other philoso hers here and on the Continent, upon this subject, and in various other branches of experimental philosophy connected with it, rendered a collection of the most important facts and observations, methodically arranged under distinct heads, peculiarly useful to those wishing to cultivate this extensive and interesting part of experimental knowledge. somewhat similar, but smaller compilation, had been before executed by the ingenious au→ thor of the Treatise on Gases; as likewise by M. Macquer, in the last edition of his Dicti onary of Chemistry; but Mr. Cavallo performed the task in a much more comprehensive and particular manner, his object having been to instruct those possessed of little or no previous knowledge of the subject. The ju dicious and entertaining volume on station is divided into two parts; one containing the history, and the other the practice, of the art. The first experiments on this subject appear to have been made by Mr. Cavallo himself, early in the year 1782; and an account of them was read to the Royal Society on the 20th of June, in that year. They were not indeed successful, because they were made on too small a scale; and, it is well known that the Montgolfiers succeeded in France, by happily making the trial, in large, on a principle by them misunderstood. His publication, however, laid the public under considerable obligations to Mr. Cavallo, as no one in this country had yet written scientifically upon this new and philosophic art. In the mineralogical tables the excellent system, sketched by Cronstedt, corrected and improved by Bergman, and farther enlarged by Kirwan, is disposed in two very useful tables, each filling one side of a large sheet. One of them contains the four classes of minerals, divided into orders and genera, with the principal properties of each: the other, all the particular specics and varieties, ranged under the respective divisions; those which are compounded of "wo o. more ingredients, being placed in that class or order to which their principal ingredient belongs. The treatise on magnetism exhibits a comprehensive view of our knowledge on that subject. The ingenious uthor has collected from former writers whatever was useful or curious, and added many new observations. He has disposed the various particulars, in that order, which naturally leads the reader from the simplest to the most intricate part of the subject, by the paths which are plainest and shortest. It is not quite forty years the study of nature displaying superior attractions, he was seduced from the accompting-house, to embrace the leisure of a philosophical retreat; and acquired a well-merited reputation as a digester and elucidator of philosophical discoveries. In the year 1779, he was admitted a member of the Neapolitan Academy of Sciences, as well as of the Royal Society of London. The publications of Mr. Cavallo have been as follows:-A Complete Treatise of Electricity in Theory and Practice, with Original Experiments; one volume, octavo, 1777, (enlarged to three volumes in 1795.)-An Essay on the Theory and Practice of Medical Electricity; one volume, octavo, 1780.-A Treatise on the Nature and Properties of Air, and other Permanently Elastic Fluids, (with an Introduction to Che mistry;) one volume, quarto, 1781.-The History and Practice of Aerostation; one volume, octavo, 1785.-Mineralogical Tables; folio, (accompanied with an octavo explanatory pamphlet,) 1785.-A Treatise on Magnetism, in Theory and Practice, with Original -Experiments; one volume, octavo, 1787. -Description and Use of the Telescopical Mother-of-Pearl Micrometer, invented by T. C. a pamphlet, octavo, 1793-An Essay on the Medicinal Properties of Factitious Airs, with an Appendix on the Nature of Blood; one volume, octavo, 1798. For the progress and diffusion of science, we are indebted not more to the happy efforts of ori. .ginal genius, than to the judicious industry of these authors, who from time to time, employ their talents in digesting and eluci-. dating successive discoveries. The distinguished rank which Mr. Cavallo held in this useful class of philosophie labourers, is sufficiently known. His treatises on popular and interesting branches of physics, may be justly esteemed the best elementary works which are extant in our language. They possess every requisite of such performances, perspicuity of style, proper selection of materials, and clear arrangement. The merit of Mr. Cavallo is not, however, the merit of a merely judicious compiler. He never aspires indeed to form new and comprehensive views; yet he generally improves, in some degree, the stock of valuable facts, by his own occasional experiments. More than thirty years have elapsed since the Treatise of Electricity was first presented to the public. During the interval it has passed through repeated impressions, and the recent discoveries in electricity affording large additions of curious and useful matter, the work was successively augmented from one volume to three. It is unquestionably the neatest, the clearest, and the most sensible, elementary treatise to be found on this popular science; and it is excellently adapted to furnish the mind with those brilliant images and facts, which proroke inquisitive genius to closer and more profound researches. The principal intention of the Easy on the Theory and Practice of since the artificial aerial fluids began to be administered as Jemecies to the human body. The uncertainty, and the errors of the early applications, rendered the progress of the practice slow and doubtful; nor has the experience, or the success, of recent and more numerous practitioners, been sufficient to determine the precise power of the serial fluids, or to dissipate the doubts which are still entertained concerning their use. A desire of extricating the subject from the conflicts of contrary opinions established prejudices, and opposite interests, induced Mr. Cavallo to his last publication; and his principal aim in its compilation has been, to exhibit a concise view of ascertained facts, to separate them from suppositions and hypotheses, and to point out the ways of investigating the farther uses of factitious airs. Mr. Cavallo was also the author of several papers, published at different times in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. In St. Martin's-street, Leicester-fields, Mrs. Jones, but who had for some time resu med her maiden-name of Mits Paris. She was the daughter of Monsieur Paris, a French emigrant of rank, who, together with his wife and child, was protected by the benevolence and liberality of Mr. Pearce, member for Northallerton. Her father has been dead sunre years: her mother died lately. Miss Paris was placed by this gentleman in a respectable school, near Brunswick-square, and one even ing at the Foundling Hospital formed an acquaintance with a gentlemar of the name of Jones, a very respectable young man, serving in the navy. Having found out his lodgings, without invitation on his part, she eloped to him in the dead of night.-He received her, but respecting her situation, and with a tenderness which is creditable to him, restored her to her governess. Shortly afterwards he visited in the family, made proposals of marriage; was accepted by Mr. Pearce, and, in his presence, and by his consent as her guardian, he was married to Miss Paris. Some trifling settlement, not exceeding sixty pounds per annum, was made by Mr. Pearce upon this young lady, and we believe that Mr. Jones received scarcely any pecuniary advantage by the marriage. He was in the navy, and the son of a wealthy and respectable tradesman, we believe an army clothier. He fook his wife to his father's house, who received her with parental attention, and of fered to contribute every thing to her happiness. But such was the perverseness and unhappy indiscretion of this young woman, that she soon quarrelled with her husband's family, and obliged him to remove her to lodgings, either in Camden Town, or Edgeware road. They lived here about a month, when, having reason to be dissatisfied with her extravagance and conduct, he procured her to be watched, one evening, out of the house, and she was traced, in company with a young officer, whose arm she appears t have seized casually in the strect. to a noto rious brothel. In these circumstances, Mr. Jones proceeded with remarkable tenderness; but, upon taxing his wife with her infidelity, she made no justification, acknowledged it without reserve or hesitation; protested her insuperabie hatred and contempt of her huss band; slighted his proffered conditional forgiveness; eloped from his house, and immediately went upon the town. Her prostitution was undisguised and promiscuous; she became, with respect to personal virtue, wholly abandoned; and the consequence was, that she was compelled, very lately, to take refuge in a hospital-the asylum of crim nal disease, and indigent indiscretion. Upon being restored to health, she disdained all invitation to repentance, which the kindness of her friends incuced them to make. She again broke out into her profligate courses; and it is to be feared, that mortification and violence of passion, concurring with interperance, upon a mind wholly vacant and unimpressed with moral and religious principles, induced her to shorten her course, and terminate her career of profligacy by poison. It is, however, but charitable to conclude that her mind was disordered. Her person was extremely beautiful, her age seventeen; her figure light and delicate, and her manners truly prepossessing. She sung, and understood music well, and possessed many of the customary accomplishments of females; but of real solid education, of mental improvement, of moral and Christian knowledge, she had not the faintest vestige-never was Savage in this respect more unenlightened. This statement is made, from personal knowledge, in justice to those who survive her. With respect to her death, the circumstances are truly dreadful. She had prepared three phials of opium, two of which she swallowed and she is said to have died with a spirit of dreadful--we should almost say, diabolica} perverseness; for no persuasion nor force could make her, when seized, with the nausea of the poison, to take any antidote to the draughts. She would not suffer the medical men to approach fier; and though after stupefaction came on, they administered every known medicine, they all failed of effect. From the concurrent testimony of several witnesses, at the coroner's inquest, held to inquire into the circumstances of her, death, the jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of insanity. In Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Captain Donald Stewart, of the Lord Nelson Harwich packet. In Cleveland-row, Westminster, `after a long illness, the Rev. C. De Guiffaraiere, rector of Newington Butts, Middlesex, and of Great Berkhamstead, Herts, one of the French preachers at the chapel at St. James's, and a prebendary in the Cathedral Church of Sarum, 69. PROVINCIAL 4 PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, Communications for this Department of the Monthly Magazine, properly au thenticated, and sent free of Postage, are always thankfully received. Those are more particularly acceptable which describe the Progress of Local Improvements of any Kind, or which contain Biographical Anecdotes or Facts relative to eminent or remarkable Characters recently deceased. Died.] At Durham, Mr. Matthew Young, At Berwick, Mrs. Nicholson, 39.-Roderic M'Kullock, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, 80. At Wedderburne House, Berwick, Genesal Home, of Wedderburne, 85. At Holy Island, Mrs. Lewins, 83, At Langley Ford, Mr. King, 80. -At Birtley, Mrs. Oliver. At Sunderland, Mrs. Wilkinson, 67. Mrs. Nicholson. Mrs. Dickinson, of the Crown inn, 46. 60. At Bolam, Robert Horsley, esq. At Elford, Mary, relict of Mr. Edward Prior, of Killingworth, 85. At Newcastle, Mrs. Hood.-Isabella, wife of Mr. George Montgomery.-Miss Crofton, 62.-Miss Jane Paxton-Mr. William Angas.-Mr. Samuel Arthur, 79. At Nunland's House, near Berwick, Mrs. Wood, relict of James W. esq surgeon, aud mother of Dr. W. of Newcastle, 79. At Dukesfield, near Hexham, Mr. Westgarth, agent to T. R. Beaumont, esq. At Morpeth, Mrs. Midford, wife of George M. esq. 66. At Bishopwearmouth, Mr. Robert Smart, 62—Mrs. Ness.—Mrs. Marshall.-Mr. Wil liam Coxen, 84. CUMBERLAND AND WESTMORELAND. On the 4th of December, a school was opened at Rally-green, in the county of Cum berland, solely instituted and supported, by the Rev. Mr. Myers, or Shipley-hall, rector of Edenham, in Lincolnshire, for the instrucMONTHLY MAG. No, 193. tion of twenty girls, in succession for ever, in all the necessary and useful branches of female education, whose parents (sober and industrious labourers), belong to the united parishes of Millom and Thwaits. About a year ago, a few individuals in Kendal established a society, under the name of the Kendal Female Society, for visiting and relieving the sick poor; and by the report of the committee, just published, it appears that the society has distributed, in provisions and clothes, to 145 persons, the value of 671. 5s. 64d. exclusive of three casks of wine, which cost 61. 1s. 6d. and that the general supply of clothing in use, and resumable consists of blankets, sheets, bolsters, shirts, flannel bed-gowns, &c. The number of christenings, marriages, and deaths, during the year 1809, in the two pårishes in Carlisle, independent of christenings at the several dissenting places of public worship, is as follows: ST. MARY'S. Christenings.... 238 Marriages.. 55 Deaths..... ... ST. CUTHBERT'S, Christenings.. 176 Marriages... ****** 36 Deaths... 207 161 Total-414 christenings, 91 marriages, 368 deaths: being an excess of 46 births above the deaths, in the year 1809. And, since 1808, an increase of 68 births; a decrease in the marriages of 44; and an increase in burials of 53. The school established in Carlisle on the plan of Dr. Bell and Mr Lancaster, opens a prospect of the most extensive utility. Lood Lonsdale, some time ago, very liberally granted for the use of the school. a part of his premises in Fisher-street; where the committee have visited, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the rapid progress made by the children. As, however, the institution was in some respect rather deficient as to plan, a master of abilities has been enaged, and Mr. Curwen, who may justly be denominated the father of the establishment, has, with great liberality, sent the master of his own school from Workington, to put it upon a still more respectable footing. It must give the philanthropic mind the sincerest pleasure to ob. ser, that in every place the spirit of illibe rality which would deny the great bulk of the people the blessings of education, is nearly, Y M if |