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Holyer, W. G. Woodchurch, Kent, butcher Hooper, J. Leigh, Worcestershire, carpenter Horder, T. W. New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, dealer in lace

Hunt, J. Oxford, chemist

Hutchins, N. B. St. James's-street, china and glasswarehouseman

Ingham, J. Bradford, Yorkshire, silk-mercer
Jackson, J. Derby, lace-manufacturer

Jackson, T. and R. Shaw, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, corn-merchants

Jackson, W. Deighton, Yorkshire, woollen-cordcutter

Jackson, M. Cheltenham, dealer

Jenkins, T. Castle-street, Finsbury, timber-merchant

Johnson, S. Watling-street, London, painter and glazier

Jones, J. Liverpool, hatter

Jones, W. New Bond-street, linen-draper
Kay, R. Bury, Lancashire, cotton-spinner
Kamp, C. Stoke-Newington, builder

Kent, J. K. Chelmsford, Essex, surveyor

King, W. and E. Lower Thames-street, cheesemonger

King, C. Lewisham, Kent, miller

Kinnear, J. City, merchant

Land, T. Leeds, flax-spinner

Lankester, R. Cheapside, warehouseman
Large, J. Cheltenham, builder

Lees, G. Hebden-bridge, Yorkshire, cotton-manufacturer

Leeming, R. and T. Tatlock, T. Great Winchester-street, silk-brokers

Lee, J. Leeds, brewer

Leigh, J. Pinner's-hall-court, London, merchant
Lewis, W. Finch-lane, Cornhill, printer

Little, J. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, linen-draper
Lowe, W. Aylsham, Norfolk, builder

M'Beath, A. Ryder's-court, Leicester-square, jeweller

M'Dowall, J. Regent-street, Piccadilly, bootmaker

Macfarlan, J. George-street, Hanover-square, dress-maker

Manton, J. Hanover-square, gun-maker

Man, J. Overbury, Worcestershire, silk-throwster Marsden, W. Salford, Manchester, machine-maker Marshall, J. Brightelmstone, Sussex, builder Maskall, R. S. Basinghall-street, builder and plas

terer

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Neal, T. E. and T. junior, Basinghall-street, clothfactors

Neestrip, T. Cateaton-street, Cheapside, warehouseman

Nelson, W. Manchester, timber-merchant
Owen, R. Warrington, Lancashire, corn-dealer
Page, J. Chatham, grocer

Pareira, R. Hatton-wall, Hatton-garden, cabinetmaker

Pearse, W. H. Basinghall-street, London, clothfactor

Pearson, W., W. H. and J. London, ironmongers Penswick, R. Ashton-within, Mackerfield; and W. Bone, Winstanley, Lancashire, cotton

manufacturers

Pittis, F. Newport, Isle of Wight, auctioneer
Phillips, G. Portsmouth, merchant
Pike, J., W. Horwill, and T. Pike, Lombard-
street, bankers

Pool, J. Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, brewer
Prat, J. R. Wellclose-square, miller
Prin, W. Spangle-place, Kent-road, carpenter
Radcliffe, W., J. and S. Stockport, Cheshire, cot-
ton-manufacturers

Ratcliffe, S. Mellor, Derbyshire, cotton-spinner
Rigby, J. Charing-cross, clock and watch maker

Roach, J. Fordingbridge, Southampton, linendraper

Robinson, P. Littledean, Gloucestershire, maltster Rogers, H. King street, West-Smithfield, twinemanufacturer

Roy, F. Von, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant Samuda, B. Stockwell, Surrey, coal-merchant Sanderson, J. and J. Walker, Lancaster, merchants Santer, J. Benenden, Kent, miller

Schofield, J. Barnsley, Yorkshire, linen-clothmanufacturer

Schwieger, G. E., F. and J. Buchanan, of Modiford-court, Fenchurch-street, merchants Scowcroft, W. Haverford-west, shopkeeper Shaw, S. junior, Manchester, small-ware-manufacturer

Shaw, S. senior, Manchester, merchant

Shaw, S. junior, and T. Bateman, Manchester, small-ware manufacturers

Shotter, J. S. Shoreditch, cheesemonger Silvey, R., and G. Sanderson of Norwich, bombazine-manufacturers

Smith, T. Whiston, Eaves, and J. Locker, Hanley, Staffordshire, bankers

Smith, R. Eashing, Surrey, paper-maker
Smith, R. St. Mary-at-Hill, tallow-broker
Stafford, J. Bingham, Nottingham, machine.
maker

Starling, S. Poole, hatter

Stein, R. and A. H. Sim, Tower-Brewer, Towerhill, brewers

Stephens, A. G. Wandsworth, baker

Stonard, J. Millbrook, Southampton, florist.
Stockham, W. Bristol, baker

Stock, J. Bristol, coal-merchant

Taylor, C. Fleet-street, bookseller

Taylor, J. N. Cateaton-street, dealer

Taylor, T. Marple Bridge, Derbyshire, victualler
Taylor, J. Nottingham, boot-maker
Thomas, J. Huddersfield, grocer

Treble, J. Pembroke, wine-merchant
Triquet, E. G. Birchin-lane, printer
Trollop, H. Whitechapel, sugar-refiner

Trout, T. Kingsland-road, Middlesex, Roman

cement-manufacturer

Turner, M. T. London Wall, merchant
Tyas, J. Huddersfield, grocer

Underdown, J. Ramsgate, Kent, blacksmith
Wodsworth, J. Macclesfield, silk-manufacturer
Wakeford, J., W. and R. Andover, Southampton,

bankers

Walker, I. Hounslow-Barracks, dealer
Walters, J. Holme, Herefordshire, drover
Wallington, J. New-road, St. Pancras, dealer
Watts, Wood-street, warehouseman
Waugh, T. C. Turnwheel-lane, Cannon-street,
London, merchant

Webb, J. and E. Beckinsale, Copthall-buildings, merchants

Webster, G. Liverpool, merchant

Weston, R. Fore-street, Cripplegate, warehouseman and draper

Wetherell, J. Litchfield-street, St. Anne, Westminster, bricklayer

Wheatley, J. Moorcroft, Staffordshire, dealer Whitehead, J. Denshaw, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, woollen-manufacturer

White, E. Birmingham, grocer
Whitworth, F. M. Derby, milliner

Wilks, J. and J. Wilks, junior, Sowerby, Yorkshire, flax-spinners

Williams, T. W. Northwich, Cheshire, banker Wilde, J. Hustead's-mills, Yorkshire, woollencloth-manufacturer

Williams, W. H. Bernard-street, Russell-square, Wilson, J. Thorney-street, Bloomsbury, coachmanufacturer

Wilson, J. Cock-brook-mill, Ashton-under-Lyne,
Lancashire

Winser, E. Tenterden, Kent, grocer
Wood, J. Manchester, general-dealer
Wood, J. Nelson-square, Blackfriar's-road, jeweller
Wood, T. George-street, Mansion-house, cloth-
factor

Wood, T. Horncastle, Lincolnshire, tailor and draper

Wood, W. Botolph-lane, fruit-broker

Wood, D. H. Dean-street, London, coach-maker
Woodfall, J. junior, Liverpool, grocer
Woodcock, W. Hyde, Cheshire, shopkeeper
Wrigley, J. and Newlin, W. Brick-lane, Spital-
fields, London, brewers

ALPHABETICAL LIST of SCOTCH BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced April 1826; extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette.

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Andrew, James, junior, and Co. carpet-manufacturers in Kilmarnock

Angus, John, lately flesher in Edinburgh
Black, James, merchant in New Cumnock
Brodie, M. D. and Co. brass-founders in Glasgow
Buchanan, James, junior, merchant in Glasgow
Buchanan and Liddell, dyers and merchants in
Glasgow

Buchanan, Alexander and Son, brewers at St.
Ninians

Charters, William, merchant in Glasgow
Cormack and Clyne, builders, Stockbridge, near
Edinburgh

Cowan, William, distiller at Chartershall, Stirlingshire

Dennistoun, Richard, merchant in Glasgow
Duke-Street Twist-Company, in Glasgow
Elder, Adam, carver and gilder in Edinburgh
Ewing, William, and Co. merchants and cotton.
yarn-agents, in Glasgow

Findlay, James and Alexander, spirit-dealers in
Glasgow

Findlay, Duff, and Co. merchants in Glasgow
Finlay, Thomas, builder in Edinburgh
Fraser and Mitchell, builders in Edinburgh
Fraser and M'Lennan merchants in Inverness
Franklin and Co. clothiers and merchants in Edin-
burgh

Glass, Thomas, carter and builder in Glasgow
Gibson, George, and Co. merchants in Leith
Gibson, James, of Hillhead, merchant in Glasgow
Gillespie, George, builder in Edinburgh

Gray, William, junior, and Co. grocers and spiritdealers in Kirkintilloch

Hart, Henry, plumber and glazier, Leith Walk,
Edinburgh

Hart, James, manufacturer in Paisley
Heriot, William, builder in Edinburgh
Houstoun, Robert, and Co. agents and ship-bro-

kers in Glasgow

Jardine, William, merchant-tailor in Glasgow Kerr, Charles, and Co. manufacturers in Glasgow Kilgour and Paterson, paper-makers at Balerno,

near Currie, and at Loch Mill, Linlithgow M'Eachern, John, merchant in Campbeltoun Mackie, Archibald, coalmaster, spirit-dealer, and merchant in Glasgow

M'Lellan, James, manufacturer in Paisley Morrison, Colin, spirit-dealer in Edinburgh, lately distiller at Ratho

Niven, Robert Balfour, merchant, and soap-maker in Glasgow

Paxton, Henry and Joseph, wholesale-glovers and lacemen, Edinburgh

Park, Thomas, grain-dealer and victualler in
Glasgow

Park, James, merchant in Glasgow
Paterson, Robert, merchant in Stirling
Proudfoot, Euphemia, glover in Glasgow
Peddie and Thomson, bleachers, starchers, and
merchants in Glasgow

Reid and Johns, callenderers in Glasgow
Ramage, John, hatter and cloth-merchant in
Paisley

Robertson, Archibald, distiller and dealer in spirits at Denny

Robertson, Duncan, merchant in Dunfermline Rollo, Sylvester, and Co. late merchants in Glasgow

Russell, James, and Company, merchants in Glas. gow

Shireff, Robert, junior, merchant in Edinburgh Skeen, Lawrence, ship-owner in Leith

Smith, John, and Co. power-loom cloth manufac turers, Tradestoun of Glasgow

Stewart, William, cattle-dealer, Greenhill, parish of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire

Steven, Thomas, general-merchant and commission-agent in Edinburgh

Stevenson, Robert, wine and spirit-merchant in
Edinburgh

Steven, David, ironmonger in Aberdeen
Thomson, James and John, lately corn-merchants

in Dundee and Perth

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JOHN BRUCE ESQ.

Obituary.

John Bruce, Esq. of Grangehill and Falkland, died at his seat of Nuthill, in the county of Fife, on Sunday the 16th of April, in the 82d year of his very active life. He was the heir-male and undoubted representative of the ancient family of Bruce of Earlshall, one of the oldest cadets of the illustrious house of Bruce; but he did not succeed to the estate of his ancestors, which was transferred by marriage into another family. He inherited, from his father, only the small property of Grangehill, near Kinghorn, the remains of a largar estate, which his family acquired by marriage with a grand-daughter of the renowned Kirkcaldy of Grange.

Mr Bruce received a liberal education at the University of Edinburgh, where he was early distinguished for his abilities and extensive erudition; the consequence of which was, that, at an early age, he was appointed Professor of Logic in that University. He rescued that science from the trammels of the Aristotelian School, and the syllogistic forms of arguing and teaching, and his lectures, particularly on pneumatology, were much celebrated. At the same time, during the

absence of Dr Adam Fergusson, he was prevailed on, at very short notice, to teach his class of moral philosophy, and, during the greatest part of that winter, besides revising and often recasting his own lectures, he actually composed in the evening the lecture which he was to deliver in the class next forenoon. Soon after this, he resigned his chair in the University, having, through the interest of the late Lord Melville, to whose family he was distantly related, received a grant of the reversion, along with the late Sir James Hunter Blair, of the patent of King's Printer and Stationer for Scotland, an office, however, which did not open to them for fifteen or sixteen years.

Lord Melville was well aware of Mr Bruce's abilities, and duly appreciated them, and, in order to give the public the advantage of them, he procured for him the offices of Keeper of the State-Paper Office and Historiographer to the East-India Company. Mr Bruce was also for a short time Secretary to the Board of Control, and sat in Parliament for some years. In these various offices he was not idle. The place of Keeper of the State-Paper Office had been made by his predecessors very much of a sinecure, the conse

quence of which was, that the valuable papers therein deposited were in the greatest confusion; but, by his indefatigable exertions, and methodical arrangements, the whole were soon brought into the greatest order, so as to be available to the different departments of the Government, whose chiefs had occasion to refer to them.

Mr Bruce was the author of several valuable works, some of which, though printed by Government, were not published for sale, and therefore are not so extensively known as they deserve; and it is believed that he has left in manuscript, at the State-Paper Office, several memoirs in re lation to that department. His printed works are, Elements of Ethics, being the Heads of his Lectures on Moral Philosophy; Plans for the Government of British India; Report on the Renewal of the East-India Company's exclusive Privileges, 1794; Report on the Internal Defence of England against the Spanish Armada in 1588, with a view to the Defence of Britain in 1796, on which Mr Pitt grounded his measures of the Provisional Cavalry and Army of Reserve; Report on the Union between England and Scotland, with a view to the projected Union with Ireland; Annals of the East-India Company.

Mr Bruce, when a young man attending the University of Edinburgh, was one of six distinguished individuals, who, in 1761, founded the Speculative Society, of whom he was the last sur

vivor.

During the latter years of his life, he spent several months at his seat of Nuthill; on which estate, and his extensive purchases of Falkland and Myres, he was carrying on improvements on a most extended and liberal scale, giving employment to great numbers of tradesmen and labourers of all descriptions. He also laid out a large sum in repairing what remains of the Palace of Falkland, so as to preserve, for centuries to come, that relick of royalty in Scotland. In short, he entered on the profession of a country gentleman with the same ardour and ability which he displayed in the various other situations which he filled; and his death will be deeply lamented by those friends who enjoyed his society, and had opportunities of appreciating his highly-cultivated understanding, as well as by the inhabitants on his estate, to whose wants and comforts he so materially contributed.

THE LAST MOMENTS OF DAVID, THE PAIN TER.

David died at Brussels, on the 29th of December 1825, at a quarter before ten o'clock in the morning. On the 19th, he went to the theatre to see Tartuffe, and remained during the whole performance. This imprudence was fatal. From that moment disorder triumphed. He was almost always delirious; but whether in possession or not of his faculties, his conversation, his gestures, his motions, all related to the arts. One of his pupils, an eminent painter, called to see him two days before his death. David gave him some advice respecting a picture he was about. The energy with which he made his observations fatigued him, and his voice became so feeble, that he found it impossible to speak any longer; but he continued to express, by the position of his body and by the movement of his hands, his opinion with regard to one of the figures in the picture. On the day after, a proof was brought to him of the engraving after his Leonidas, by M. Langier. This roused him from a kind of lethargy into which he had sunk." It is well,' he remarked;" bring it nearer to me, for my sight is already so weak!" After having examined it, he ordered it to be pinned against a wall opposite to hun, and his arm-chair to be wheeled towards it. Then, rallying the little strength which he retained, he pointed out, with the end of his stick, the parts which he thought deserving of remark. Gradually he became animated; his criticisms were very important, and full of taste; he resorted to the fively and picturesque expres sions of all men of genius, who speak of an art in which they excel; and even asked for a crayon, in order to touch several figures which he thought the graver had not sufficiently kept down. flis friends and his children entreated him to tire himself no more on the subject, but to take some rest.

He yielded to their wishes, and from that moment he never spoke. His funeral was cele. brated with great pomp, and was attended by a crowd of the most eminent men in Brussels, and by deputations from Ghent, Bruges, and other towns.-David's pencils and palette were laid on the coffin, as well as his costume as a member of the Institute, and his cross of the Legion of Ho

nour.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

1825. Nov. 1. At Madras, the Lady of Capt. J. Chisholm, of the artillery, Hon. East-India Company's service, a son.

1826. Jan. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, the widow of Alex. Deans, Esq. Master in Chancery there, a son.

2. At Macknie, the Lady of Dr Innes, Four Paths, Clarendon, Jamaica, a son.

March. At Malta, the Lady of William Filder, Esq. Deputy-Commissary-General, a daughter. 18. At Netherton House, the Countess of Stirling, a son.

20. At Shelburn Bank, the Lady of Lieut. Forrest, R. N. a daughter.

At Knoxland, Dumbarton, Mrs Jaffray, a son. 21. At Wartnaby House, Melton Moubray, the Honourable Mrs Davidson, of Tulloch, a daugh

ter.

22. At Cupar Fife, Mrs John Shaw, a daughter. 29. In Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the Lady of Sir John Gordon, of Earlston, Bart. a son. 50. At 5, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the Honourable Lady Fergusson, a son.

-At Friar Bank, Jedburgh, the Lady of James Grant, M.D. a son.

-At Portobello, the Lady of Donald Charles Cameron, Esq. a son.

-At Belmount Place, Kelso, Mrs Jerdan, a son. April 1. In York-Street, Portman Square, London, the Lady of Dr Clarke, Physician to the Forces, a daughter.

2. At 6, Bellevue Crescent, Edinburgh. the Lady of Captain J. H. Tait, R. N. a daughter. -At Kemnay House, Mrs Burnett, a son - At Inverugie, near Elgin, Mrs Stuart, a on.

ter.

3. At Jedburgh, Mrs Ninian Douglas, a daugh-At No. 62, Great King-Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Graham, a daughter.

5. At Westham, the Lady of James Webster, Esq. of Balmure, Forfarshire, a son.

son.

At Bankend, Carlaverock, Mrs Nicholson, a

-At Balgownie, Mrs Forbes, a daughter. - At Dee-Street, Aberdeen, the Lady of Captain John Shepherd, of the H. C. S. a son.

7. Mrs Johnston, 2, Minto-Street, Newington, Edinburgh, a daughter.

8. At Kentish Town, near London, Mrs James Block, a daughter.

-in London, the Lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Plenderleath, a son.

-In Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the Lady of Captain Cunningham Dalyel, R. N. a son. - Mrs Christie, Rosemount, a daughter. 10. At Logie, (the seat of John Kinloch, Esq. of Kilrie) the Lady of the Hon. Donald Ogilvy of Clova, a son.

12. Mrs Haldane, 16, George-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

13. At Dublin, the Lady of Robert Magee, Esq. a daughter.

16. At Brighton, the Lady of John Gibson Lockhart, Esq. a son.

17. At Farme, the Lady of James Farie, jun. Esq. a daughter.

son.

At Foulden Manse, Mrs Alex. Christison, a

18. At Kelso, Mrs George Main, a daughter. 19. At St. Anthony's Place, Leith, Mrs William Wyld, a daughter.

April 21. At Queensferry, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Dimma, a son.

22. At Malta Terrace, Edinburgh, Mrs Somervell, a son.

23. At Logie, near Forres, the Lady of Charles Halkett Craigie, Esq. of Dumbarnie, a daughter. 24. At Edinburgh, the Lady of Robert Baillie, Esq. of Culterallers, a son.

Lately. At Mill-hill House, Billericay, Essex, the Lady of Colonel C. Bruce, C. B., a son.

MARRIAGES.

1825. Nov. 24. At Coel, Bengal, Donald Eneas Mackay, Esq. First Lieutenant Bengal artillery, to Agnes Anne, fourth daughter of William Spottiswoode, Esq. Clayquhat, Perthshire.

1826. March 6. At Knockdolean, Mr Thomas Murray, surgeon, Colmonell, to Miss Mary, fourth daughter of Robert M'Ilwraith, Esq. of Auchenflower, Ballantrae.

18. At Stoke Courcey, Somerset, the Rev. James A. Stewart, B.A., late of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Henry Sweeting, Esq. of Sherbon.

23. At Norman Lockhart's, Esq. York Place, Edinburgh, by the Rev. Dr Lee, John Dinwoodie, Esq. to Winifred Jane, eldest daughter of Colonel Archibald M'Murdo, Dumfries.

27. At Maryfield, Mr Robert Johnston, merchant, Glasgow, to Eliza Walker, eldest daughter of James Johnston, Esq. Glasgow.

-At Edinburgh, Andrew Buchanan, Esq. youngest son of David Carrick Buchanan, Esq. of Drumpellier and Mount Vernon, to Miss Bethia Hamilton Ramsay, youngest daughter of the late William Ramsay, Esq. banker, Edinburgh.

-At Catherine Bank House, Arthur Craigie, Esq. merchant in Leith, to Susanna, daughter of the Rev. Dr Ireland, minister of North Leith.

28. At Glasgow, James Home, Esq. of Linhouse, to Miss M'Naught, daughter of John M'Naught, Esq.

Lieutenant A. Barclay, R. N., Oakwood Cottage, to Ann, daughter of Mr Henry Daun, farmer, Kirkton of Echt.

29. At Comely Gardens, William Mitchell. Esq. of the Commercial Bank of Scotland, Edinburgh, to Lillias, eldest daughter of the late David Cross, Esq. Pilrig Street.

At Auchteraw, the Rev. John Macintyre, minister of Fort Augustus, to Eliza, eldest daughter of Thomas Clark, Esq. Auchteraw.

30. At Dunse, the Rev. John Birrell, one of the ministers of Cupar, in Fife, to Isabella, fourth daughter of the late John Turnbull, Esq. of Abbey St. Bathans.

-At Newliston House, Patrick Fraser Tytler, Esq. advocate, to Miss Rachel Elizabeth Hog, third daughter of Thos. Hog of Newliston, Esq. April 1. At Liverpool, Richard Benson, Esq. of Fathom Park, county Armagh, Ireland, to Agnes, eldest daughter of the Rev. James Gray, chaplain in the Hon. East India Company's service, Bombay, late of the High School, Edinburgh.

3. At Edinburgh, Capt. Cumming, Lessendrum House, Aberdeenshire, to Miss Lane, daughter of the late Rev. John Lane, Vicar of Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, and niece of the late Sir E. Impey of Newark Park, Surrey.

- At Edinburgh, Mr William M. Bathgate, surgeon, Clyde-Street, to Maria Wood, youngest daughter of Mr Janies Lorimer, 65, York Place. 4. At Leith, Mr William Dick, shipowner, to Miss Crouden, Madeira-Street.

-At Glasgow, Alexander Glasgow, Esq. merchant, to Helen, youngest daughter of the late William Smith, Esq.

At Farnham, Surrey, Thomas Pearse, of Highway House, Froyle, Hants, Esq. to the Honourable Caroline Ker, eldest daughter of the late Lord Charles Beauchamp Ker, and niece of the late Marquis of Lothian.

-At Dumfries, the Rev. John Smith, A.M. missionary to the Chinese, to Mary, second daughter of Mr Robert Bland, merchant, Dumfries.

5. At Stirling, John Murray, Esq. of Livilands, to Anne, daughter of the late Major Alexander Macgregor of alhaldies.

AL Heathfield, Ross-shire, J. Humphreys, Esq. surgeon, London, to Margaret, youngest daughter of Gustavus Aird, Esq. of Heathfield.

6. At Laverock Bank, Edinburgh, Dr William

Cullen, to Henrietta, youngest daughter of Sir Henry Jardine, King's Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer in Scotland.

April 6. At Dunbar, Mr Samuel Watson, son of the late James Watson, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh, to Miss Jane Home Landell.

11. At Glasgow, Mr John M'Kinnon, surgeon, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr Wm. Dick, manufacturer.

12. At Cartneil, Lancashire, Alexander Murray, Esq. advocate, son of the late William Murray, Esq. of Polmaise, to Johnina, second daughter of the late John Wilkinson, Esq. of Castlehead and Brymbo.

At Whitby, the Rev. George Young, M.A. author of the History of Whitby, &c. to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr Robert Hunter of that place.

13. At St. Philip's Church, Liverpool, Robert Hunter, Esq. Manager of the Provincial Bank of Ireland, in Limerick, to Jane, daughter of Mr More, Chatham-Street, Liverpool.

-At Tixall, in Staffordshire, Miss Constable, eldest daughter of the late Sir Thomas Constable, Bart of Burton Constable in the county of York, to Captain Chichester, of the 60th, or Duke of York's Own Rifle Regiment. The bride was given away by the Right Hon. Lord Clifford, and after a splendid dejeune a la fourchette, the happy couple left Tixall, in their travelling chariot and four for Malvern, in Worcestershire.

-At the house of Leonard Horner, Esq. by the Rev. Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, Bart., William Horton Lloyd, Esq. of Bedford Place, London, to Mary, youngest daughter of George Whitelocke, Esq. of Seymour Place, Portman Square.

14. At Richmond, Surrey, the Earl of Clare, to the Hon. Elizabeth Julia Georgiana Burrell, only daughter of the late Lord Gwydir and the Baroness Willoughby, of Eresby.

17. At Lochmaben, Matthew Graham, Esq. of Priesthead, to Robina, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Henry Laurie, minister of the parish of Lochmaben.

At Edinburgh, Andrew Johnston, younger of Rennyhill, advocate, Esq. to Barbara, eldest daughter of David Pearson, Esq.

At Dysart, William Hunt, Esq. W. S. to Mary, only daughter of James Normand of Baltilly, Esq.

18. Sir Hedworth Williamson, Bart, to the Hon. Anne Elizabeth Liddell

-At Lambden, Capt. Alexander Drysdale, 27th regiment, to Barbara, third daughter of the late James Nisbet, Esq. of Lambden.

19. Francis Grant, Esq. second son of the late Francis Grant, Esq. of Kilgraston, to Miss Farquharson, eldest daughter of the late Captain Farquharson Ross of Invercauld.

25. At Edinburgh, the Rev. James Grant, jun. first minister of South Leith, to Mrs Jessie Ann Campbell, widow of Major Archibald Campbell, of Bragleen.

-At Carlton Place, Glasgow, Henry Dunlop, Esq. to Anne, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Caírnie, Esq.

-At Glasgow, Walter Crum, Esq. merchant, to Jessie, youngest daughter of Win. Graham, sen. Esq.

At Glasgow, Robert Urquhart, Esq. merchant there, to Jane, daughter of David M'Haffie, Esq. of Overton.

27. At Greenock, James Boyd, Esq. surgeon, Hon. East-India Company's service, to Isabella, second daughter of John Pringle, Esq. Greenock.

Lately. In Van Diemen's Land, LieutenantGeneral Sir H. Todd, of the Bengal Establishment, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Captain Ewen M. Grimanist, North Uist.

-At Kirkcudbright, Captain Hannah, of the Duke of Lancaster East Indiaman, to Miss Mary M Kinnel, third daughter of Provost M'Kinnel, Kirkcudbright.

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Register.-Deaths.

Samuel Guise Thomson, son of Alex. Thomson,
Esq. late Captain in the 46th and 100th regiments.
Oct. At Rangoon, of cholera, Thomas Mure,
Esq. of his Majesty's ship Boadicea.

9. At Agra, John Burnett, Assistant-Surgeon,
second son of the late K. W. Burnett, Esq. of
Monboddo.

10. At Meerut, Captain James Innes Gordon, 35th regiment Bengal native infantry, third son of the late James Gordon, Esq. of Rosieburn.

16. In the cantonment of his regiment, in the island of Calabah, near Bombay, East Indies, Alexander John Ralph, Esq. M.D., Assistant-Surgeon, 2d (Queen's Royal) regiment of foot, aged 28 years.

9. In Virginia, aged 114, Alexander Berkeley,
a native of Scotland. On the 9th January his
wife died, aged 111.

Nov. On his voyage to China, George, second
son of the late John Urquhart, Esq. of Craigston.
While serving at Rangoon, Capt. Alexander,
R. N. C.B.

3. At the Preside: ey, Captain Gilbert Melville, 1st regiment Bombay light cavalry. This gentleman had arrived only three weeks from his native country, to return to that service in which he had passed sixteen years of his life, much to his honour as a public servant, whilst his associates looked to à renewal of that friendship for which he was so much distinguished. By his brother officers he will be long and most deservedly regretted, as well as by all who knew him. The high respect paid to his remains will be some consolation to his friends, if only as a proof with what feelings all ranks regarded him.

1826. Jan. 13. On board the ship Pomona, while on a voyage to Jamaica, Lieutenant-Colonel Mark Howard Drummond, of Kelty, late of the 72d or Albany Highlanders.

-At Concordia, in the island of Tobago, Dr Andrew Kenney, formerly physician in Edinburgh.

15. At Jordanhill estate, island of Trinidad, Francis Brown, Esq. aged 30.

18. At Kingston, Jamaica, Mrs Waddell, relict of the late James Waddell, Esq. of St. Andrew's, in that island.

Feb. At New Orleans, Mr Robert Bogle, merchant there, formerly of Glasgow.

18. At Mamee Gally, Jamaica, Mrs Shand, wife of William Shand of Arnhall, Esq.

March 1. At St. Thomas, Mr Archd. Galbraith. 14. At Larkhill, Worcestershire, where he had gone for the education of his family, after a few days illness, John Halliday Martin, Esq. Major of the Kirkcudbright Gentlemen and Yeomanry Cavalry, much and justly regretted by every member of the corps.

15. At Belham, Mr Walter Oswald, late of Hallhill, parish of Colessie, Fifeshire.

16. At Magnera, Mrs Ann Mulholland, at the
advanced age of 122 years.

At Halle, Professor Vater, the celebrated
Orientalist.

17. At Derby, Lieut. George Castle, R. N., only
surviving son of the late Samuel Castle, Esq. solí.
citor, Durham.

18. At Haddington, Georgina, youngest daugh-
ter of Mr James Miller, printer.

-At Brora, in the 111th year of his age, Alex-
ander Urquhart, late tidesman of the customs.
This honest, but eccentric veteran, was born at
Tain in the year 1715. Possessing the full use
of his reasoning faculties, and his memory re-
maining unimpaired to the last, he was a living
and faithful record of several interesting parti-
culars regarding the memorable rebellion in 1745,
-many of the leading characters of which, par-
ticularly the celebrated Colonel John Roy Stuart,
he had frequently seen.
share in the conflicting troubles of that eventful
Honest Sandy bore no
period; but he had his bloody fields notwithstand-
ing-and his gun was seldom or never out of his
hand. It was not, however, in the sanguinary
warfare where man is opposed to his fellow-man,
that Sandy wielded his arms; he never at any pe-
riod of his life was a soldier; but he was a sports-
man, acknowledged by those who were qualified
to judge, of the first rate abilities--as cool. deli-
berate, and deadly a shot as ever took the heather.
Employed in the capacity of gamekeeper to the

[May 1826.

late Earl of Sutherland, he had frequent occasion to be in the moors with those noblemen and gen. tlemen who usually resorted to the north, to enjoy the sporting seasons. Sir John Gordon of Embo, and the late General With Baron Norton, Wemyss, he was a particular favourite. Many of his anecdotes and repartees on this and other occasions are still remembered-to be laughed at right heartily; for, though he was a plain unassuming sort of man, his mode of conversation was tinctured with a venial kind of bluntness and sarcastic humour peculiar to himself, that rendered the aptness of his remarks irresistible, and no person, how dignified soever in rank, was exempted from his satire. Sporting was his ruling passion, but it did not deprive him of the enjoyment of fishing; he was a most expert ang ler-a true sportsman in all respects; and like his famous prototype, old Isaac Walton of angling memory, whom he very much resembled, it was almost impossible to be long in his company with out being smit with his love of the art. of hooks, rods, and flys, he would talk with enthu siasm; but of the more modern improvement of gut and seaweed casting lines, &c. he spoke with contempt, as being the "only resource to which novices would resort in sustaining a strong pull with bad management." He would consider it a sort of insult to recommend these things to his notice. By the interest of Lord Ankerville, who always maintained a high regard for him, he was appointed on or about the year 1780, Tidewaiter of the Customs at Inverness, from whence he was soon after transferred to the port of Brora, but wes supperannuated in 1812, with an allowance of £.23 a-year, which he enjoyed till his death. He was a man of very temporate habits-was never known to have been, even once, intoxicated. He would most willingly take one glass of spirits, but no persuasion would induce him to go beyond that, as he always considered one dram his gage, as he called it, and above that was hurtful. He never complained of ill health, till within about the last twelve months of his life.-His dress was invariably the same; full round-breasted coat, a vest of old-fashioned cut, and a small flat blue bonnet. A lady once made a present to him of a fine hat, but he considered it such an invasion on the ancient rights of the bonnet, that it was laid aside and never used. He was married, and has left his widow, a very aged woman, still living at Brora, in a house which they have long occupied, rent free, through the kindness of Lady Stafford; but the widow is otherwise unprovided for, as the superannuation allowance has ceased at her husband's death.

19. Mrs Guy, eldest daughter of the late Sir Francis Elliott, of Stobbs, in the county of Roxburgh, Bart.

20. At Whitethorn, Milnathort, Mr James Mor rison.

21. At his house, St. Vincent-Street, Glasgow, James Murdoch, jun. Esq. merchant.

-At Aberdeen, in the 56th year of his age. George Kerr, Esq. surgeon, after a protracted and severe illness, which he bore with his characteristic fortitude. Dr Kerr's abilities and attainments were of a very high order. Without fortune or patronage at the outset of his medical career, be raised himself to a distinguished rank in his profession; he had an extensive acquaintance with general history, was skilled in most of the scien ces, and had a very correct taste for the fine arts. Early in life he attracted the notice of the late Lord Monboddo, from whom he imbibed an enthusiastic admiration of ancient literature, accompanied, no doubt, with some of his prejudices against modern innovations. How deeply he was imbued with a taste for the abstract philosophy of antiquity, is sufficiently evinced by his communications in the Classical Journal, under the title of "Vindicia Antiquæ," and he has left behind him, we understand, some MSS. which contain the most unquestionable proofs of his acquaint ance with the works of the Stagirite and of his Alexandrian commentators. To study their sys tem, and to recommend it to others, were the occupations in which he took the most delight; nor could any objections alter his decided opinion, that all our recent departures from the spirit of this philosophy have been deviations into error.

Ruthven & Son, Printers, Edinburgh.

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