BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Dec. 12, 1817. At Calcutta, the lady of Captain W. D. Playfair, a son.
April 13, 1818. At Boston, the lady of George Sholto Douglas, Esq. Charge des Affaires of his Britannic Majesty, a son.
16. At Stockholm, Viscountess Strang- ford, lady of his Britannic Majesty's Am- bassador at that Court, a son and heir.
27. At Somborne, Hampshire, the Right Hon. Lady Kennedy, a son.
28. At Fareham, the lady of Lieutenant- Col. Campbell, 46th regiment, a daugh
At Haughton, Mrs Farquharson of Haughton, a son.
6. At Banff, the lady of James William Mackenzie, Esq. younger of Pittrichie, a son and heir.
9. At London, the lady of the Hon. D. M. Erskine, a daughter.
At Edinburgh, Mrs Craigie of Dum- barnie, a daughter.
- At Bralian Castle, the Hon. Mrs Stewart Mackenzie of Seaforth, a son and heir.
10. Mrs Gordon, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, a son.
-At Edinburgh, the lady of Roderick Macleod, Esq. jun. of Cadboll, a son. 13. At Paris, Lady Harriet Drummond, a daughter.
The wife of Stephen Souten, a la- bouring man of the parish of Sollinge, of her 26th child in 25 years.
16. At Relugas, the lady of Thomas Lauder Dick, Esq. a daughter.
17. At Edinburgh, the lady of Sir James Montgomery, Bart. M. P. a daughter. 19. The lady of Sir A. O. Molesworth of Pencarrow, Cornwall, Bart. a son.
21. At Edinburgh, Lady Heron Max- well, a daughter.
23. At Springfield, Mrs Macduff of Bon- hard, a son.
26. At Edinburgh, Mrs Johnstone of Alva, a son.
Mrs W. Buchanan, 16, Duke Street, Edinburgh, a son.
28. At Cathlaw House, Mrs Riddell, younger of Camieston, a daughter.
29. At London, the lady of Lieutenant. Colonel James Allan, 94th regiment, a
31. At Logie Green, Mrs Alexander Gordon, a son.
Lately-Lady Fitzherbert, a son. At Castletown, Isle of Man, the lady of General Cumming, a daughter.
Dec. 6, 1817. At Calcutta, John Trotter of Castlelaw, Esq. to Matilda, fourth daugh- ter of the Hon. Sir Francis Macnaughton, Judge in the Supreme Court of Bengal.
April 30, 1818. At Aberdeen, Captain Hector H. M Lean, of the 93d regiment of foot, to Miss Ann M'Leod, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Mr M'Leod, minister of Kilfinnichin and Bannessan, Mull.
May 5. At Cuckney, the Rev. William Rogers, minister of Rescobie, to Miss Ann Oldham, of Milthorpe, parish of Norton Cuckney, Nottinghamshire.
11. At Auchencruive, Thomas Spencer Lindsay, of Hollymount House, county of Mayo, Esq. to Margaret Hester, only daughter of R. A. Oswald of Auchen- cruive, Esq.
second daughter of Robert Scott, Esq. of this city.
May 19. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant Jo- seph Hume, R. N. to Miss Dorothy Ro- bertson, daughter of the late Alexander Robertson, Esq. of Prenderguest.
21. At Cheltenham, Sir William Cun- ningham Fairlie, Bart. of Robertland and Fairlie, to Anne, only daughter of the late Robert Cooper, Esq. banker, Woodbridge. At Urquhart, the Rev. Archibald Baird, Auchtermuchty, to Miss Margaret Mudie, daughter of James Mudie, Esq. Cockley, Kinross-shire.
27. At London, the Count de Lusi, of the 1st regiment of Prussian guards, to Miss Maria Giffard, daughter of the Mar- chioness Dowager of Lansdowne.
June 1. At Garscube, the seat of her grandfather, Sir Ilay Campbell of Succoth, Bart. Sir George Sitwell of Renishaw, Bart. to Susan, eldest daughter of Crawfurd Tait of Harvieston, Esq.
2. At Edinburgh, J. C. Macleod, Esq. junior of Geanies, to Miss Stewart Su- therland, youngest daughter of the late Captain Alexander Sutherland, 30th regi-
Oct. 6, 1817. At Kedgeree, on his pas- sage to Europe, Cornet Alexander Leigh Strachan, 6th regiment Bengal cavalry, eldest son of James Strachan, Esq. Edin- burgh.
Nov. 26. Killed in the attack upon Nag- pore, by the Berar Rajah, in the 21st year of his age, Mr H. D. Niven, assistant-sur- geon Hon. East India Company's service, second son of the Rev. Dr Niven, Dun- keld.
Jan. 1, 1818. Fell, in a sally from Kore- gaum, near Poonah, (having volunteered his services,) Thomas Wingate, assistant- surgeon to the second battalion 1st native infantry, and eldest son of Dr Daniel Wingate, Stirling, aged 21.
13. On board the William Pitt East In- diaman, William Hall, Esq. a partner in the house of Messrs Palmer and Co. Cal-
burgh, and grand-daughter of the late Rev Thomas Boston of Ettrick.
30. On his passage home, on board the William Pitt East Indiaman, Archibald Seton, Esq. of Touch.
April 12. In the guard-room of Kinross jail, in extreme wretchedness, Andrew Ni- col, well known in the Court of Session and caricature shops under the name of the Kinross Lawyer. From a tradesman in easy circumstances and of decent character; he reduced himself, by his most litigious and quarrelsome temper, to the state of a beg- gar, and finally an outcast from all society. Rather than give up his pretended rights to the famous midden-stead, he obstinately refused all supply from the poor funds of his native parish : and, in order that he might retain what he conceived would be the means of bringing him once more within the walls of the Parliament House, wandered about from place to place, until at last, from his habits of life, and his habits both of body and mind, he became such a nuisance, that, disowned by every relation, and shut out from every house, it was found neces- sary to convey him to the common prison, which he quitted only for that asylum, . where the wicked cease from troubling, and where the weary are at rest."
22. At Topsham, in the 78th year of his age, Captain Carter, R. N. With the ex- ception of Admiral Schank, he was the only surviving officer who went to the North Cape of Lapland, to observe the transit of Venus in 1768, in the Emerald, commanded by Sir Charles Douglas, of which the deceased was then First Lieute- nant.
23. At Avignon, Colin Macdonald Bu- chanan, younger of Drummakill.
27. The Rev. James Scott, late senior minister of Perth, at the advanced age of 85. Mr Scott was ordained minister of Kinfauns in 1759; admitted minister of Perth 1762; and resigned his charge, in consequence of the infirmities of age, in 1807.
28. Mr Robert Wilson, merchant, Leith. At Gartur, John Graham, Esq. 30. At Berwick upon Tweed, Mrs Bar- bara Hodgson, aged 88, relict of the late Dr Henry Hodgson, formerly Mayor of that town.
May 1. At London, the Hon. J. Dong- las. The deceased was grandfather to the present Marquis of Abercorn; he was fa- ther to the Countess of Aberdeen; and he was son-in-law to the Earl of Harewood, having married the Noble Earl's daughter, Lady Frances Lascelles, who died last year.
At London, John Crawford, Esq. late of Monorgan, in Perthshire.
2. At Kinloch, Mr Hog of Kinloch. 3. At Glasgow, Mr James Russel, jun. grocer, High Street. Mr Russel has leit
report of the de city of, 83 Asement of the
of Eschylus, s on the, 112 Reports, 92, 386, 493, 591 the political 18 Treatment an slaves there, Lavages of the in, 373-Death 'ey of, 479 ription of the pas- the Simplon, 10 Spanish colonies ographical sketch -State of the con- between the insur- and the Spanish rities, 7, 101, 277,
United States of, ing of Congress, 81 state of the finances the army of, 173- ogress of the navy, 373 Emigrations from Eu- pe to, ib.-Rigorous clusion of British West adia vessels from the orts of, 578-Dispute etween, and Spain, ib. alytical notices of foreign journals, 158
aecdote, remarkable, of a Bohemian Gypsey, 107 nimal, unknown, one of immense size reported to exist in America, 531 Arabian Nights Entertain- ments in Arabic, notice of, 159 Armorial bearings in St
Giles's cathedral, Edin- burgh, 538 Army of Britain, state of,
Assembly, General, report
by, respecting the mode of providing for the poor in Scotland, 503-Proceed- ings of the Assembly, 581 Atheist, the, a French Tra- gedy, review of, 562 Bacon, Lord, remarks on
the influence of his philo- sophical writings, 466 Baillie, Robert, of Jervis-
wood, account of his ini- quitous trial and execu- tion, 323
Joanna, remarks on her Plays on the Passions, 517
Bank of England, accounts presented to Parliament from the, 581 Bankrupts, lists of English and Scotch, 92, 191, 293, 393, 497, 595 Barbour, the, a vapour a-
rising from the sea, so called in Halifax, 17 Battle of Sheriffmuir, ac-
count of the, 240 Beppo, a Venetian story, review of, 348 Binning, Lord, on his bill for erecting lunatic asy- lums in Scotland, 410 Birds, on the natural his- tory of, 110, 320—On the incubation of, 526 Birkbeck, Mr, review of his journey in America, 253 Births, register of, 94, 192, 294, 393, 498, 596 Blood-money conspiracy dis-
covered in London, 282 Bright, Dr, review of his
Travels in Lower Hun- gary, 549 Britain, revenue of in 1816 and 1817, 181-State of the currency, 237—Pub-* lic debt of, 281-Gold and silver coin issued in, ib. Bank of England notes in circulation, 282 -Army estimates, ib. British Legislation, 26, 181, 488, 586
Brown, Dr Thomas, review
of his poem of Agnes, 153 Bruce, Dr, of New York,
notice of his death, 335 Buenos Ayres, geographical sketch of, 101 Burgh reform, proceedings
in Scotland on the sub- ject of, 85, 190, 284, 382, 488, 585
Burgh elections, proceed- ings in the Court of Ses- sion respecting those of E- dinburgh, Aberdeen, and Inverness, 284-that of Edinburgh declared null and void, 585 Burghs, Scottish, report of the state of, ordered by the Convention in 1691, 307 Burkhardt, M., the African traveller, notice of his death, 272 Burns, Robert,
poetry of, 70-Poetical epistle of, 130-Propos- ed monument to, 282- Original Letter and Poem by, 527 Byron, Lord, review of his Fourth Canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 449 Cabinet, the, No. I. 547 Canals, commencement of one between Edinburgh and Glasgow, 283-Pro- gress of the great Caledo- nian, 585 Caraccas,geographical sketch of, 7 Celestine, discovery of, in theCaltonhill, Edinburgh, 507 Cemetery, remarkable sub-
terraneous one near Mon- trose, 316 Ceylon, insurrection in the island of, 479 Chaucer, remarks on his
poetry, 327-Sonnette on a Grete Capitaine, ascrib- ed to, 363 Chaussier, Professor, obser-
vations of, on the death of General Pichegru,
135 China, review of the pro ceedings of the late em bassy to, &c. 143 Chinese books in the Royal Library at l'aris, notice of, 168 Church records, curious ex- tracts from, 103
of Scotland, view of the constitution of, review 01, 259
the following donations :-To the poor of the Relief Chapel, Campbell Street, Glas- gow, L. 200-Sabbath Evening Schools, L. 50-To the Royal Infirmary, L. 150— To the Lunatic Asylum, L.-50-To the poor of his native parish, Falkirk, L. 50. May 4. At Brechin, the Rev. Mr Will, minister of Guthrie.
At Stround on the Green, near Kew, William Mactavish, Esq. of Dunardry, son of the late Simon Mactavish, Esq. of Montreal, Canada.
At Wilson Park, Portobello, John Philip Donaldson, Esq. assistant-surgeon in the Fifeshire militia, and surgeon in Portobello.
14. At Walkhampton, John Williams, at the advanced age of 100. He was the eldest of eighteen sons, of Jane Williams, late of Brentor, Devon, (who died in her
11th year,) seventeen of whom are now alive and in perfect health, and their joint ages amount to 1379 years. -John Williams retained his faculties to the last, and had strength sufficient to gain his livelihood by hard labour, until within a fortnight of his dissolution.
11. At Burdiehouse Mains, Mr Alex- bookseller. ander Peacock, architect, aged 85.
13. At Edinburgh, in the 73d year of his age, Mr William Scott, teacher of elo- cution and geography. Mr Scott was the father of elocution in this country, and for a period of upwards of 40 years distin guished himself by his extensive useful- ness in his profession, having instructed in this elegant accomplishment a great pro- portion of our countrymen who have risen to eminence in the senate, the pulpit, and at the bar. He is also well known as the author of several useful and popular ele mentary works on subjects connected with education; amongst others, a system of geography, and a pronouncing dictionary of the English language, which has always
18. At Milnholm, near Langholm, in the prime of life, William Keir, Esq. con- ductor of improvements to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry in the district of Eskdale, and late Captain in the Dumfrieshire yeomanry cavalry.
At Eden Farm, in the 60th year of her age, Elinor, widow of the late Lord Auckland.
19. At Edinburgh, Mr Charles Hunter, eldest son of Lieutenant-General Hunter of Burnside.
The Hon. Mrs Grenfell, Lady of Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. M. P. of Taplow House, Bucks, and sister of Lord Viscount Doneraile of Doneraile, in the kingdom of Ireland.
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