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    Jlfr . J . CaMcrway . —Mrs . Levy . —Peter andSamuelSmith . —Mr . Hardirtg ifentit y * Jo hn Jackson * £ s $ . —Gulllet . —Mrs . Ltngworth . —Mr * Wilson and Child *

    July 15 , after a lingering illness , aged 6 % , Mr . J . CALLAWAY , Sen . of North Gate , Canterbury . During the American war , when the fallingoiF of the silk * trade was so considerable , that many skilful workmen were much reduced , he introduced a new manufacture called Canterbury muslin , which afforded them employment and subsistence . He also established an

    historical society , and always appeared happy in diffusing the extensive knowledge of which he was possessed . July 17 , at an humble apartment in the E'dgeware Road , aged 70 , a celebrated Jewess , named LEVY , possessed cf 3000 L acquired by pretences to

    divination , which she had carried on for 13 years , havirlg been originally a washerwoman . She was patronized by several females of distinction , whom she attended ; and had her fixed hours for accomodating customers at home , where numbets came to her at two

    shillings each . She imposed on the credulous by a pack of cards of a curious make ; or affected to foretel events by the planets . July 25 , < tTiversall Colliery , Notts , PETER SMITH , and his son SAMUEL . Cleansing the water-way in a pit that has not been worked for

    6 ome time , symptoms of the damp appearing they came up to the top , when Peter recollecting they had left a spade in the works , his son returned to letch it , brought it to the bottom of the shaft , and got into the trunk in order to be drawn up by the father . The

    latter had scarcely raised him from the ground , before the foul air had so powerful an effect upon the son , that be fell from the trunk ; the father called for assistance and urged on by parental feelings , insisted on being immediately let down in hopes of saving him . He fell from the trunk in which he was

    descending and both shared the same fate . The damp continued so strong , that several hours elapsed before the bodies could be got out .

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    July , " in the course of one week , the whole family of Mr * HARDING , of Ringam , near Brampton , Northamptonshire , consisting of two sons , and two daughters , were carried off by an infectious fever , introduce ^ by 4 servant , newly come to the house , who had just recovered . " July , « JOHN JACKSON , Esq . F . S . A . author of a * Journey from India towards * England , in the year J 797 » by a route , commonly called over-land , * and several tracts . ' July , in the Bicitre , at Paris , where

    he was confined , GUILJLET , who proposed to Mr . Fox the assassination of the Emperor Napoleon . He was immediately sent out of this kingdom and apprehended on his arrival in France .

    July , at Blackburn , Lancashire , aged 100 , Mrs . LONO WORTH , who retained the use of her faculties till her last illness , and never wore spectacles . Her youngest daughter is above 60 . Aug . I , at Hanley , in the Potteries , the eldest son of Mr . WILSON , a respectable manufacturer of that place and

    his INFANT CHILD . As a preparation for celebrating the wakes , the succeeding week , three of the sons of Mr . W . had placed three pieces of small cannon in the garden of the elder brother , charged "with powder and wadding , and disposed at a short distance from : each other . When one of the

    brothers wks in the act of firing the first piece , the elder with his infant child in his arms , was in the front of the third . The priming communicated to the others , by which accident the father and child were literally blown to pieces , in the presence of a wife , mother , and brother . Their mangled

    remain s , in c I osed in | tit s amc coffin , were deposited in the SFnily vault , in the presence of numerous spectators . This distressing event cast such a . gloom on the surrounding neighbourhood , as all the hilarity attendant on the , season was not able to dispel .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1807, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2384/page/43/