Skelfhill, to Marion M. Dickson, youngest daugh- Aug. 20. At Augusta, Georgia, Thomas Gardter of Archibald Dickson, Esq. of Housebyres. ner, Esq. of Savannah, formerly of Glasgow. 4. At Edinburgh, George Forbes, Esq.of Spring. - At sea, off St Helena, on his return from hill, Aberdeenshire, to Wilhelmina, daughter of Java to Europe, for the recovery of his health, the late Captain James Walker, of the Hon. East John, son of the late John Mackenzie, Esq. KinIndia Company's service. craig, Ross-shire. 6. At Edinburgh, John Williams, Esq. of the 25. At Jamaica, the Rev. James Daun, M. D. Hon. East India Company's Civil service, to So. Rector of Westmorland, and Chaplain to the Hon. phia, daughter of the late Dr William Roxburgh, House of Assembly. also of the Hon. East India Company's service. Sept. 16. At Demerara, Harriet, daughter of 7. At Thomson's Place, Leith, Mr John Find- the late James Rose, Esq. depute-clerk of Session. lay, Paislev, to Jessie, third daughter of the late 21. On Providence Estate, Island of Jarnaica, Mr Jaines Thomson, Oatridge, Linlithgowshire. Thomas Jones, Esq. In March last, and on the Sth Nov. re-married 22. At New Orleans, Mr Thomas Bogle, merby the Very Reverend Principal Baird, at No. 41, chant, formerly of Glasgow. St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, Patrick Syme, Oct. 13. At Naples, Mr Andrew Craigie, late of Esq. Queen Street, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter Edinburgh, second son of Mr David Craigie, of Claud Irvine Boswell, Esq. of Balmuto, late Leith. one of the Senators of the College of Justice. - At Filleigh, Devonshire, aged 78, the Rev. 9. At St Andrews, near Elgin, Major Dunbar, John Burges Karslake. This gentleman, when an of the 3d Regiment of Bengal Cavalry, to Jessie, infant, was saved by his nurse-maid jumping out daughter of ihe Rev. William Leslie, of Balna- of the window with him in her arms, when his sageith, Morayshire. ther, mother, and two brothers, were destroyed 12. At St John's Place, Leith, James Scarth, by fire at South Molton, January 30, 1749. Esq. merchant, Leith, to Eliza, daughter of John - At Culblair, Colin Shaw, Esq. Dudgeon, Esq. - At Pinebush, in the town of Montgomery, 15. At Forres, Morayshire, Lieutenant Evelyn New York, Captain Archibald Hunter. The cirNorie, R. N. to Isabella, daughter of the late cumstances of (aptain Hunter's death, are some James Anderson, Esq. of Windyhill. what remarkable." As he was opening a cow, up18. At Edinburgh, Mr John Croley, surgeon, posed to have been poisoned in some way or other, to Helen, eldest daughter of Mr John Mein, sur- he received a slight wound, which became imme geon. diately impregnated with the poison, and in less - At Plewlands, John Meiklejohn, Esq. writer than an hour it was diffused over the whole systo the signet, to Catherine, youngest daughter of tem, in consequence of which he died in about ten Mr Alexander M'Callum, farmer, Plewlands. days. - At Montrose, Alexander Melville, M. D. sur- 21. In Dublin, Lady Ann Jocelyn, only sister of geon of the 25th Regiment, to Elizabeth, young- the Earl of Roden. est daughter of Captain George Sutherland, of that 25. At Ayr, Mrs Ross, widow of Captain Jaines place. Ross. - At Cupar, Dr Andrew Bowes, physician, At Leuchars, Mr Daniel Robertson, late of King's Kettle, to Helen, only child of Mr Jaines the Black Bull, Edinburgh. Macnaughton, Rossie. 27. At Portobello, Mrs Anne Dick, wife of Mr 21. Ai Westertown of Pitfodels, James Gordon, John Gillies, and sister to Mr Douglas Dick, late Esq. of Aberlour, to Margaret, third daughter of merchant in Glasgow. Mr Macnab. 28. At Kincardine Lodge, Mrs Gordon of Kin25. At Straloch, Major George Turner, of Me. cardine. nie, to Margaret, third daughter of the late John 31. At the Manse of Biggar, the Rev. William Ramsay of Barra, Esq. Watson. - At Arbroath, David Louson, Esq. of Spring- - At Bath, Rear-Admiral Puget, Companion field, town clerk of Arbroath, to Aune Forbes, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. This dargliter of the Rev. George Gleig, minister of excellent and lamented officer had sailed round the the gospel there. world with the late Captain Vancouver, had com- At Keir Street, the Rev. James Mitchell, to manded various men of war, and was many years Jessie, youngest daughter,of the late Mr William Commnissioner at Madras. Kinnaird, cheinist, Edinburgh. Nov. I. At kirkealay, Mrs Douglas, relict of 26. At Pirbright Church, near Guilford, H. W. John Douglas of Pinkerton. R. W. Halsey, of Henly Park, Surrey, Esq. to - At Hamilton, Robert Burns, Esq. of WestMary Noel, third daughter of Andrew Stirling, port, Bothwell. This gentleman was the fourth Esq. of Drumpellier, Lanarkshire. pupil of the celebrated Mr Braidwood of the Ed. 27. At St Pancras, Middlesex, William David. inburgh Deaf and Dumb Institution, when, at an son Blair, Esq. of Glasgow, to Miss Jane Bruce, early period of life, he made such astonishing proof Upper Gower Street, Bedford Square, only ficiency, that he felt but very little inconvenience daughter of the late Dr Bruce. from the want of hearing, being naturally a genius 28. At Annfield, Mr John Hutcheson, merchant, of great perception. So sensible was the deceased North Leith, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr of the advantage he derived from the Deaf and W. Mackenzie, of the revenue cutter Prince Re- Dumb Institu:ion of Edinburgh, that he has left gent. £100 for its support. 30. At London, Charles Berwick, Esq. young- 2. At Edinburgh, James M'Kinnon Campbell, est son of Sir William Curtis, Bart. to Henrietta, Esq. of Ormaig. second daughter of the late Rev. B. Pearson, of - At Chelsea, Patrick Paterson, Esq. late surCroxall, Derbyshire. geon of the 25th Regiment Light Dragoons. 3. At Mary Place, Stockbridge, Alexander Mit* DEATHS. chell, sen. Esq. March 16. A few days after leaving Madras, - At Sandford Hall, Shropshire, Thomas Hugh homeward-bound from India, Mr Alex. Durward, Sandford, Esq. of Sandford. Chief Officer of the ship Fame. 1. Near Leghorn, Robina Henrietta, youngest April 2. At Wallajahbad, of an epidemic cho- daughter of David Kennedy, Esq. of Kirkmichael. lera, B. M‘Millan, Esq. Assistant-Surgeon, Walla- At St Andrews, Mrs Tullideph, relict of jahbad Light Infantry. John Tullideph, Esq. of Kilmux. May 20. At Madras, Mrs Robson, wife of Cap- 6. At Paris, M. Bertholet, the celebrated chetain Felix Robson, 16th Reginent Madras Native mist. Infantry. 7. At Linlithgow, Mr William Kenmore. 28. At Malacca, Dr Milne, the author of several - At St Mary's Isle, of an inflammatory illlearned works on the literature of China, and the ness of nearly three weeks' duration, James Wedhistorian of the first Ten Years of the Chinese derburn, Esq. his Majesty's Solicitor-General for Mission. Scotland. July 8. At Calcutta, the Right Rev. Thomas - At Ruthven Manse, the Rev. Patrick M. Fanshaw Middleton, D. D. Lord Bishop of that Laren. Presidency, after a short but severe illness. 8. In Charles Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Anne 18. At the Grotto, Westmorland, Jamaica, Traill, relict of James Traill, Esq. of Westove. Christian Speid, youngest daughter of the late - At Kerswell, Mrs Jean Lockhart, widow of Ilomer Blair, Faq. William Bertram, Es. of Nesbit. 9. At Pitlour House, Fifeshire, Mrs Lucy Hay, 18. In Richmond Place, Edinburgh, at the grea widow of Patrick Moncrieff of Reidie, Esq. age of 105 years, Mrs Agnes Anderson, relict of - In Albany Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Warrand. Mr George Mackenzie of Stockbridge. It is be At Biggar Park, Jane, daughter of George lieved she was the oldest inhabitant of Edinburgh, Gillespie, Esq. of Biguar Park. and was born and brought up here, as well as her - At Maulsden, Christina Elizabeth, daughter ancestors for many generations. In 1745, after of Colin Gib, Esq. aged 10 years and 7 months. witnessing the reception of the Pretender at Holy. - At Dundee, Dr Andrew Ross, physician, rood House, she was struck with a musket ball aged 71. fired from the Castle, while carrying her eldest 10. At Bankfoot, Miss Hay, only surviving son, who bore her head to the grave. daughter of the deceased James Hay, Esq. of Pit- 19. At Edinburgh, Mrs Henderson, many years four. matron of the Charity Workhouse of this city. - At Leith, George Gillon, second son of the Among other legacies, she has left one of 501. to late Mr John Gillon, shipmaster, Leith. that Institution. - At Aberdeen, in the 7'1th year of his age, 20. At Dunkeld, Mr Charles Leslie, surgeon, Patrick Copland, LL.D. Professor of Natural Phi. R.N. aged 42 losophy in the Martschal College and University, - At Edrom Manse, Berwickshire, suddenly, in which he taught, with great reputation and the Rev. John Ha tie, ininister of that parish, in success, for upwards of fifty years. Ilis remains the 60th year of his age. were attended to the grave from the Hall of the - Suddenly, at Dunbar House, Master John Marischal College, by the students, walking in Balfour, eldest sou of James Balfour, Esq. of procession, the Professors of both Universities, Whittinghame. the Magistrates of Aberdeen, his relatives, and a 29. At Dunkeld, John, second son of Williamn numerous company of citizens. Mowbray, merchant in Leith. 11. At No. 10, St Leonard's Street, James, eld- - At Leith, Mrs Rebecca Wightman, aged 92. est son of Mr James Dickson, stationer, Edin- - At Abotshall Manse, Dr James I hytt, for. burgh. merly of Charles-Street, Edinburgh. – Suddenly, in Portland Street, near Port-Eg. 23. At Edinburgh, Mr David George, printer. lington, the Rev.John Leech, (formerly of Largs), 27. John Dun Stewart, Esq. of Tonderghie. teacher of Hebrew, and lecturer on Sacred Criti- 28. At Dublin, the Hon. and Rev. Hely Hutchcism in Glasgow, aged 58. inson, youngest brother of the Right Hon. the 12. At Edinburgh, Mrs Wilson, relict of Mr Earl of Donoughmore. George Wilson, late tenant of Blanerne, Berwick. - At 66, Great King-Street, Mrs Paton, wife of shirc. Mr John Paton, builder. - At Kirkcaldy, Mrs Reid, reliet of the Rev. - At Bath, Don Francisco Antonio Zea, miniJames Reid, some time minister of the parish of ster of the Columbian Republic. His health had Kinglassie, Fiteshire. been in a declining state for more than twelve At his house in Sloane Street, London, in months. his 62d year, the Right Hon. William Lord Grant. 30. At London, Asher Goldsmidt, Esq. aged 71. ley, Baron Markinfield, in the county of York, 31. At Cowhill, Major Charles Scott, late of the Lord High Steward of Guildford, Colonel of the 10th regiment of foot. 1st Royal Surroy Militia, F. S. A. &c. His Lord At Crieff, Captain R. Macdonald, late of the ship is succeedeat in his titles and estates by Flet- 19th regiment of fooi. cher Norton, Esq. the eldest son of the late Hon. Lately. At No. 5, Nelson-Street, Miss Jean Fletcher Norton, senior Baren of his Majesty's Adair. Court of Exchequer in Scotland, who was second At Rachan House, in the 86th year of his brother to the late Lord. John Loch, Esq. of Rachin. 13. At Leicester, Mrs Bisset, relict of Com At his seat, Oxfordshire, Ralph Sheldon, missary-General Robert Bisset. Esq. N. P. At Barachny, Williain Hamilton, Esq. Mr - At Bath, Sir Henry White, K.C. B. MajorHamilton was the last representative of the an General in the Bengal army. cient House of Monkland. - At Naples, M. Contugno, the author of nu- Rear-Admiral John Sprat Rainier. merous important anatomical discoveries, distin14. Dr James Cassels, physician in Lancaster, guished also, as an elegant writer, both in Latin eldest son of the late Andrew Cassels, Esq. Leith. and Italian. 15. At Glasgow, Mrs Stirling, relict of John - In the commune of Beauphy, France, DoStirling, Esq. minqua Espansen, aged one hundred and eight - Ai Paisley, Major Alexander M‘Dougall, for- years and fifteen days. He never was sick, and merly of the 12d Regiment, and only surviving was, froin his great age, an object of veneration son of the late Coll M.Dougall, Esq. of Creggan to all the countıy. nish, Lismore, Argyllshire. Captain George Johnston, of Greenock. He - In Upper Gloucester Street, Regent Park, crossed the Atlantic no less than 172 times; and London, Mr John Debrett, formerly an eminent that not merely without once being wrecked or bookseller in Piccadilly, captured, but also without having met with a 15. At Paris, Medaine the Countess of Perre- casualty of any kind, so as to have occasioned a gaux, of the family of Macdonalt. loss to the underwriters on the ships under his - At Paris, Maclame the Marchioness de Vil- command. lette, the adopted daughter of Voltaire, who was At Marguise, near Calais, Richard Usher, called by him the beautiful and good." Esq. This gentleman, who is said to have been - At Edinburgh, in the 7th year of her age, one of the handsomest men in Europe, was killert Hannalı, only daughter of the Rev. Dr Muir. by his gun going off accidentally, owing to the - Of consumption, in his father's house, Wil- trigger coming in contract with a twig. liam Dymock, teacher, Hulme, son of Mr Dy- - At Rome, Madame Letitia Buonaparte, momock, Glasgow, late Rector of the Grammar ther of the late Ex-Emperor of France. The School of Kelso. Inconsiderately leaping into a chief heir to her immense wealth, is her grandson, river with his clothes on, about twelve months the young Napoleon. To her eight children now ago, to save the life of a favourite dog, proved the living, viz. Jos ph, Lucian, Louis, Jerome, Eliza, • immediate cause of inducing the disorder, which Paulinc, Caroline, and Hortensia, she has be. at first slowly, but afterwards rapidly, un termin- queathe. 150,000 scudi (37,0001.) ench; and to her ed his constitution, and brought him to the grave brother, Cardinal Fesch, a superb palace, fitted up in the 29th year of his age. in the most costly inanner. INDEX TO VOLUME XII. to one, 69 Account of the life of Donald M‘Bane, Layman on the, 3Letter of a Catholic Layman on the above, 414 Question of a composition with the na- 357-Remarks on the controversy be- Chief, the, and his tail, an excellent new Childhood, reflections on, 139 of sisting, 523 Never distinguished by their tartans, but 355 No. VII, 775 Congress at Verona, remarks on the, 651 master of Birchendale, 595– Introduc. Country ball, packing up after an English Dale's Irad and Adah, review of, 61 Lindsay, 205 De Stael, Madame, on the politics of, 586 -Hints to country gentlemen on, 482, 624 Missions, 147 doner, but no Cockney, 268_Plan for -Letter on the proposed new High- Elder Jonathan, 476 671 Elizabeth, Queen, anecdote of, and Dr England, the lakes of, remarks on Green's Faustus the Enchanter, and Queen Eliza- Ferguson and Burns; or, the Poet's Re- his speech on the Catholic Question, 3 Franklin, Captain, return of, from an Arctic ture, 632 Fresco Painting, sketch of the process of, - The Levee, 276_The King's Court, 278– The Drawing-room, 280-Proces. Greenock Folk, 306_Paisley Bodies, &c. 492.- The Banquet, 495 - The Landing, 324_Fire works and come to see the King, 306 Drawing-room, 327_The Finish, 329 Laird, the, 477 Pericles and Aspasia ; the Genius of Guide to the, 84. ty of, to consider the state of agricul. on the controversy between, 359_Ex- Lemur, the, a Halloween Divertimento, tings and Lord Byron's, 713 Letter from a Protestant layman, on Mr lic Peers, 3 Christopher North, Esq. 48; and Post. from a gentleman of the press to Mr from an Oxonian, 93 terly Review, No. 53, 94 contributor's lament for the Yellow and subject of the agricultural distress, 482 to Mr Charles Nodier, author of a Tour to the mountains of Scotland, 191 from Paris, 215 tion of an ode of Horace, 217 of a Celt, in answer to Glengarry, 367 garry, 367 of a Catholic layman, on that of a Prc. on the agricultural distresses, 436, 482, 624 Edinburgh, 756 Cattiana, 194 of Glengarry, relative to the Celtic from Italy, No. I. 429. No. II. 433. 433.-No. III, 531.-No. IV, 726 Life of Donald M.Bane, account of the, 741 land, 253—His landing at Leith, and litical character, 91 of the King's visit to Edinburgh, 268, by a Londoner, but no Cockney, 268— Love, Leigh Hunt's art of, 775 Mail from London to Edinburgh, a plan 303---The parthenon, the theatre, 304 --the farewell, 305 of the Totum-fog on a cruise, ib.-Read- 93 Ledyard, a lyrical ballad, 145— Negro's tributor's lament for yellow and blue, ib.-Review of Wordsworth's Sonnets, Redditum, ib.—The King's master, 326 The King's visit to Scotland, 350- The chief and his tail, 351_Ferguson den, 412–The route, 427—The sword favour of gin-twist, 635—– The lemur, a tion from Buchanan, 671_Stanzas to an infant, 672–Song by Odoherty, 695– Song by Tickler, 69:1—Song by Hogg, 705_Nuptials in jeopardy, 721—The address to the statue of his son, 760_ poet, 773—Sonnet to Charlotte M., 774 L'Envoy to Leigh Hunt, 781 100. No. y. scene Ambrose's back VII. 775 Poet's reverie, the, 352, 497 Political economy, elements of save-all. ism, 526 Philomag, with his answer, 48 and a the, 586 Prices current, 124, 245, 511, 687, 798 Process of fresco-painting, sketch of the Promotions, appointments, &c., 126, 247, 513, 689, 800 Publications, monthly list of new, 117, Quarterly Review, No. LIII. letters on -His account of the King's visit to Remarks on Green's Guide to the Lakes of |