1738 Nathaniel Clayton mayor, William Greenwell sheriff 1739 Cuthbert Fenwiek mayor, Cuthbert Collingwood sheriff 1740 Edward Collingwood mayor, Ralph Sowerby sheriff 1741 Robert Sorsbie mayor, John Ord theriff 1742 John Simpson mayor, William Peareth sheriff 1743 Ralph Sowerby mayor, George Collpitts sheriff 1744 John Ord mayor, Aubone Surtees sheriff 1745 Cuthbert Smith mayor, Henry Partis sheriff 1746 Nicholas Fenwick mayor, Henry Eden sheriff 1747 The fame mayor, William Watson sheriff 1748 Walter Blackett mayor, John Vonholte sheriff 1749 Robert Sorsbie mayor, Robert Herron sheriff 1750 Ralph Sowerby mayor, William Clayton sheriff 1751 Matthew Ridley mayor, Matthew Scarfe, sheriff 1752 Henry Partis mayor, Francis Rudston sheriff 1753 Henry Eden mayor, John Harrison sheriff 1754 Cuthbert Smith mayor, William Rowell theriff 1755 William Clayton mayor, William Harbottle sheriff 1756 Sir Walter Blackett mayor, John Erasmus Blackett, sheriff 1757 Matthew Bell mayor, John Scurfield sheriff 1758 Ralph Sowerby mayor, Edward Mosley, sheriff 1759 Matthew Ridley mayor, Matthew Stephenson sheriff 1760 Henry Partis mayor, John Baker sheriff 1761 Aubone Surtees mayor, Fletcher Partis sheriff 1762 Cuthbert Smith mayor, Hugh Hornby sheriff 1763 William Clayton mayor, Francis Forster sheriff 1764 Sir Walter Blackett mayor, Thomas Blackett theriff 1765 John Erasmus Blackett mayor, Charles Atkinson sheriff. 1766 Matthew Scaife mayor; John Hedley sheriff 1767 Edward Mosley mayor, Richard Lacy sheriff 1768 John Baker mayor, William Coulson sheriff 1769 Francis Forster mayor, William Reed sheriff 1770 Aubone Surtees mayor, James Liddell sheriff 1771 Sir Walter Blackett mayor, Christopher Wilkinson sheriff 1772 John Erafmus Blackett mayor, James Rudman sheriff 1773 Matthew Scaife mayor, till on his death he was succeeded

by Edward Mosley, William Yeilder sheriff 1774 Sir M. W. Ridley mayor, Francis Johnson sheriff 1775 Charles Atkinfon mayor, William Cramlington sheriff

1776 John Baker mayor, Thomas Loraine sheriff 1777 John Hedley mayor, Robert Clayton sheriff 1778 Hugh Hornby mayor, James Wilkinson sheriff

1779 Francis Forster mayor, Ifaac Cookson sheriff 1780 John Erasmus Blackett mayor, William Surtees sheriff 1781 Edw. Mosley mayor, John Wallis and Geo. Collpitts sheriffs 1782 Sir Matthew White Ridley mayor, Richard Bell sheriff

1783 Charles Atkinfon mayor, Chriftopher Soulsby sheriff

1784 James Rudman mayor, Edward Dale sheriff 1785 William Yeilder mayor, Aubone Surtees jun. sheriff 1786 Francis Johnson mayor, Richard Chambers sheriff 1787 William Cramlington mayor, Joseph Forster sheriff 1788 John Hedley mayor, Robert Newton Lynn sheriff 1789 Hugh Hornby mayor, Nathaniel Hornby sheriff 1790 John Erafmus Blackett mayor, Chas. J. Clavering sheriff 1791 Sir M. White Ridley mayor, Shaftoe John Hedley, sheriff 1792 James Rudman mayor, Matthew Pringle sheriff 1793 William Yeilder mayor, Henry John Hounsom sheriff 1794 Francis Johnson mayor, Archibald Reed sheriff 1795 Richard Chambers mayor, Anthony Smith sheriff 1796 William Cramlington mayor, Nicholas Hall sheriff 1797 Anthony Hood mayor, Thomas Hood theriff 1798 John Wallis mayor, William Wright sheriff 1799 Shaftoe John Hedley mayor, Henry Cramlington sheriff 1800 Archibald Reed mayor, Aubone Surtees jun. theriff 1801 Jofeph Forster mayor, Matth. Hedley and Ifaac Cookson,

jun. sheriffs.

Thus have we arrived at the terminating period of our work. In tracing the origin of Newcastle, its gradual progress through barbarous and bleeding ages, from forming only a part of a mighty barrier of a powerful ambitious people, afterwards the uninteresting refidence of swarms of religious, to its arrival at that pitch of greatness to which it has now attained, we feel ourselves affected with the most pleasant sensations, while we respectfully hope that we have presented, in a fuccinct yet lucid view, an account of the walls, streets, churches, public buildings, the government and municipal conftitution, the numerous trades and incorporated companies, the commerce, in its various enriching ramifications, which pervade the whole mass of a numerous and industrious people; in a word, whatever is interesting in and about Newcastle. Nor does a retrospective view of what it has been excite an apprehenfive figh, foreboding of a fufpicion

fufpicion of its having arrived at the summit of its greatness: on the contrary, when we confider the internal resources of an active and enterprizing people, the many public improvements at present going forward; but, above all, when our hopes of a Canal, from the eastern to the western seas, to be speedily begun, bave almost a certainty of being realised, our profpects of the future grandeur of the fubject of our history expand to our delighted imagination. Nor have we any doubts that the friends of the polished arts of life, and of useful science, will continue and increase their efforts to diffuse their benign influence among the inhabitants of the town; and ardently hope, that every barrier erected againft the interests of knowledge and virtue, by interested and defigning men, will fall to the ground.

In looking over our work, we observe many miftakes, feveral of which were pointed out to us by our candid and worthy friends. A lift of the most mate-** rial errata is subjoined. And as gratitude is one of the most amiable virtues, we cannot close our obfervations without fincerely hoping that we feel its in. fluence, in its full force, towards our fubscribers, many of whom are in the first class for literary and scientific accomplishments. For their kind and useful observations, their friendly corrections, and that partiality which they have uniformly shewn towards our work, our best wishes for their profperity, in their various stations in fociety, will ever attend them, and will be coeval with our lives.

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N our account of the glass-works (p. 512) we accidentally ommitted mentioning those at Lemington, where there are two houses for the manufacture of crown glass, belonging to the Northumberland Company, under the firm of Waldie and Co. One of these buildings is faid to be the highest conical glass-house in the united kingdoms. The duties paid to government, for the Lemington glafs-works, amount to about two thousand seven hundred pounds, every fix weeks. Nearly one hundred work. men are employed in these two houses.

To the manufactories in the vicinity of Newcastle may likewife be added the extenfive paper-mills of Mr. Robert Rumney, at Warden; Meffrs. A. and J. Annandale, at Haughton; and Mr. John Smith, at Langley; who make confiderable quantities of all forts of paper, and have large warehouses in Newcastle, constantly stored with that article.

Three surveyors are stationed at Shields, who, in rotation, hail all vessels that enter the harbour, to know their names, from whence they come, and their cargoes, for the purpose of announcing their arrival, at the Exchange, in Newcattle.

The original life-boat, we find, was built at South Shields, by Mr. Greathead, about twelve years ago; that at North Shields was constructed by the fame gentleman, fome time afterwards, under the patronage of the duke of Northumberland, who gives an annual donation of twenty pounds towards its fupport. It is about thirty feet long over all, and ten feet broad, built in a flauching manner, and decked at the floor heads, rows with twelve oars, fixed with grummets on iron pins, steers at both ends, and covered with cork on the outside two or three Arokes down from the gunwale, will carry thirty people well, and live in a most tremendous broken-headed fea. In page 563 we mention that fix or eight men are able to manage it; which statement we find, upon minute enquiry, to be erroneous, fourteen being the exact number. The subject of the life-boat is at present under the confideration of parliament, and the merit of Mr. Greathead, for this truly laudable invention, will doubtless be amply rewarded.

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There are four banks in Newcastle, namely, Meffrs. Surtees, Burdon, and Co. in Mosley street; Sir M. W. Ridley, Bell, and Co. in Pilgrim-ftreet; Sir William Loraine, Baker, and Co. in Church-street; and R. J. Lambton, Bulman, and Co. in Dean. street.

Among the cork-cutters in Newcastle, the most confiderable are the following: viz.-Mr. Rowley, George's-stairs; and Mr. Brass, fen. Pepper-corn-chare, Quay-fide.

A most ingenious and yet simple combination of machinery, for the purposes of regulating the conveyance of waggons, laden with coals, down an inclosed plane, from Benwell colliery, on the north fide of the Tyne, to the staith at the border of the river, and for bringing up the waggons, when unloaded, by the fame power that resisted its projectile impetus in the defcent, was, in the year 1798, perfected and brought into use by the late Mr. Barnes. The length of the rail-way, on which the waggon runs, is 864 yards, which distance it descends in two minutes and a half, and re-afcends in the same space of time; so that a loaded waggon can be let down with ease and fafety, the coal difcharged, and the empty waggon returned to the pit, within the compass of feven minutes! The impelling and the refifting powers of motion are derived from a plummet, weighing 164 cwt. which the waggon, in afcending and descending, alternately raises and lowers the depth of 144 yards. The rope, by which the waggon is impeded and accelerated, winds round the axis of a large wheel, in a niche or groove in the middle, that gives the rope only space to coil round upon itself, and thereby guards against all poffibility of entanglement. Near to the axis of the large coiling wheel, there is an oblique indention of caft iron, which corresponds with and works into a fimilar conformation on the rim of a smaller wheel, round which the plummet rope is coiled or warped, and is, in consequence therefore, moved round only once in fix rotations of the suspending and retracting wheel, which exactly corresponds with the elevation of the weight and the defcent of the waggon. To preserve the rope from injury, by dragging on the ground, rollers with iron pivots and brais fockets, for it to run upon, are elevated in the middle of the rail-way, but fufficiently low to prove no obstruction to the waggon, which passes over them.

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