Course of Exchange, London, May 16.- Amsterdam, 12 : 8. Ditto at sigh! 12 : 5. Rotterdam, 12 :9. Antwerp, 12 : 9. Hamburgh, 37 : 8. Aitona, 31: 9. Paris, 3 days sight, 25 : 70. Ditto, 26 : 0. Bourdeaux, 26 : 0. Frankfort-05the-Maine, 156. Petersburgh, 85, 3 U. Berlin, 7. Vienna, Ef. fo., 10:22 Trieste, ditto, 10: 22. Madrid, 351. Cadiz, 354. Bilboa, 354. Barcelona, 35. Se ville, 35. Gibraltar, 31. Leghorn, 474. Genoa, 431. Venice, 26: 50. Buenos. Ayres, 43. Naples, 384. Palermo, per oz. 115. Lisbon, 50%. Oporto, 504. Rio Janeiro, 43. Bahia, 47. Dublin, 11-Cork, 14 per cent. Prices of Bullion, OZ.-Portugal Gold in coin, £.0.0.0. Foreign Gold in bars, £.31117,68.-New Doubloons, £.0.0.0. New Dollars, Os. Od. Silver in bars, standard, Os. Od. Premiums of Insurance at Lloyds.Guernsey or Jersey, 158. 9d. a Os Cork or Dublin, 155. 9d. a 20s.-Belfast, 15s. 9d. a 20s.-Hamburgh, 203. a 30s.- Madeira, 20s.--Jamaica, 25s. a 30s.-Home, 6s. a 8 Gs.-Greenland, out and home, 0 < 0 Weekly Prices of the Public Funds, from 19th April to 17th May 1826. April 10. April 26. May 3. | May 10. May 17. . . . . . . . Bank Stock.......... 200 3 pcent. reduced.... 784 3 pcent. consols. 31 pcent. do................... 4 p cent. do................. Ditto New do.............. India Stock.................... Bonds............... Exchequer bills,........ Consols for account.... 795 French Rentes......................96 f. 75 c. 10 Prices of Stocks.-Edinburgh, 19th May 1826. Shares. | Paid :p.1 Price. Royal Bank of Scotland, ........... £.100 0 0 £. 100 0 0 E. 165 00 Bank of Scotland,... 83 6 8 83 60 190 00 Commercial Banking Company of Scotland,.. 500 0 of 100 0 0 No Sale National Banking Company,..................... 100 0 0 0 0 9 se British Linen Company,......................... 100 0 0 100 0 0 No Sales Edinburgh Friendly Insurance Company,... 100 00 Caledonian Fire Insurance Company,.......... 100 0 0 14 00 Hercules Insurance Company,............... 100 00 13 06 North British Insurance Company,............ 200 0 0 Edinburgh Life Assurance Company,.... 100 0 0 10 0 0 Insurance Company of Scotland, ...... 10 00 0 0 9 10 e Scottish Union Insurance Company,...... 20 0 0 1 0 0 0 16 0 West-of-Scotland Insurance Company,......... 10 0 0 10 00 Edinburgh Coal Gas Company,.............. 25 0 0 21 2 61 36 00 Ditto Oil Gas Company,.......................... 25 0 0 16 100 Leith Oil Gas Company,........................ 20 0 O 20 00 Edinburgh Portable Gas Company,.......... 10 0 0 4 0 0 Edinburgh Joint Stock Water Company,..... 25 0 0 25 00 Forth and Clyde Canal Company, ......... Average. Union Canal Company,...... ................. 5000 35 00 Australian Company,............. 100 0 0 O No Sales Caledonian Iron and Foundry Company,...... 25 0 0 Shotts Iron and Foundry Company, t.......... 50 0 0 Edinburgh and Leith Glass Company,......... 12 00 Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Alloa Glass Co.... 20 00 North British Loan Company,................... 50 0 0 London, Leith, Edin., & Glasgow Shipping Co. 000 Scotch Porter Brewery Company, .............. 20 0 0 14 0 0 Leith and Hamburgh Shipping Company,... 0 0 0 0 0 0 Caledonian Dairy Company,........ 25 0 0 10 0 0 ALPHABETICAL LIST of ENGLISH BANKRUPTS, announced between the 24th of March and the 21st of April 1826 ; extracted from the London Gazette. Abbott, R. S. I. Skinner-street, Snow-hill, boot- Coleman, T. Highwood, Herefordshire, and E. maker Williams, Ludlow, Shropshire, bankers Andrews, R. Kingsbury-green, Middlesex, victual Colledge, T. Killesby, Northamptonshire, cattieler dealer Ansley, J. Little Distaff-lane, London, merchant Cook, C. junior, Wootton-under-edge, Gloucester. Archer, W. Hertford, oilman shire, victualler Ashton, E. Ashill, Somersetshire, butter-factor Cook, W. Huddersfield, Yorkshire, merchant Aston, W. Toll-end, Tipton, Staffordshire, iron. Cook, J. Sheffield, victualler master Congreve, H. and R. Hill, jun., Wood-street, Bache, C. West, Bromwich, Staffordshire, iron Cheapside, silk-manufacturers bedstead-inaker Correy, J. S. Fletcher, and P. Correy, Leeds, cornBackler, H. Walworth, and T. W. Blyth, Crorner millers street, Gray's-inn-lane, builders Corrie, W. and E. Liverpool, brokers Barrett, W. L. Shepherd's-bush, Middlesex, house. Cox, E. H. J. Downes, and B. Thorpe, Kingstonpainter upon-Hull, merchants Barter, J. and H. Poole, timber-merchants Cruickshanks, J. Fleet-street, London, commisBarns, C. T. C. Brightelmstone, Sussex, stable sion-agent keeper Cullimore, J. Castle-court, Budge-row, Irish pro Barns, J. R. Bristol, wheelwright vision-agent Bath, J. Cheltenham, silversmith Curtoys, c. L. Braxbourne mills, Hertfordshire, Baxter, R. Hoghton, Lancashire, cotton-spinner miller Bayley, W. Macclesfield, Cheshire, silk-throwster Curwen, J.J. Great Eastcheap, tea broker Beil, S. and W. Davis, Sambrook court, Basing. Curtis, J. Birmingham, chandler hall-street, factors Curtis, J. Hounslow, Middlesex, dealer and chap. Bell, W. Fenchurch-street, London, merchant' man Bently, H. and J. Fogg, Eccles, Lancashire, bleach- Dale, G. and R. Walton, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, en ship-broker Birch, J. junior, Manchester, merchant Dalrymple, C. Old Broad-street, merchant Blagg, E. Yarmouth, grocer Davis, M. Nicholas-passage, Nicholas-lane, Lom. Blanshard, G. Manchester, corn-factor bard-street, merchant Black, J. Chapel-place, Oxford street, London, Darby, T. and J. Birmingham, dry-salters merchant Dealey, C. Dursley, Gloucestershire, paper-maker Bloor, J. Wheelock, Cheshire, silk-throwster Desanges, C. S. Queen Charlotte-row, New-road, Booth, J. Manchester, dealer London, bill-broker Booker, T, Warrington, Lancashire, timber-mer Dix, S. Cheltenham, grocer chant Drew, T. Exeter, linen-draper Borrocks, W. Liverpool, corn-dealer Easterley, J. Fenchurch-street, ship-owner Bowley, J. Bridges-street, Covent-garden, auc. Edmonson, J. Keighly, Yorkshire, worsted-ma. tioneer nufacturer Boys, T. Ludgate-hill, bookseller Edwards, J. Brightelmstone, Sussex, boot-maker Boyson, A. Nelson-square, commission-agent Ellis, T. and J. Blackman-street, Southwark Bradbury, J. L. Manchester, calico-printer Embden, H. D. Park-lane, Islington, dealer Brawley, T. Bristol, baker Escolt, I. M. Liverpool, merchant Bremner, J, W. Yates and A. Smith, Manchester, Evans, S. Ryeford-mill, Glos'tershire, clothier merchants Ewbank, J. Loughborough, Leicestershire, linenBriggs, T. A. Bloomsgrove, Radford, Notting draper ham-shire, lace-manufacturers Farmer, J. Brampton, Bryan, Herefordshire, Brown, J. Liverpool, merchant dealer in cattle Browne, O. E. Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, cloth- Farror, J. Birmingham, wine-merchant manufacturer Fisher, T. Leeds, factor Brown, J. and C. Belson, High Wycombe, Bucks, Foster, T. Maidenhead, Berkshire, draper drapers Francis, A. High Holborn, linen-draper Broughton, F. W. Bedford-row, London, money. French, R. Cromer-street, Gray's-inn-lane-road, scrivener baker Brown, H. H. Winchester-house, Old Broad- Fryar, H. Sunderland, near the sea, Durham, street, merchant coal-fitter Buckley, B. R. and J. Manchester, cotton-spinners Gelson, T. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, victualler Burwash, T. Bishopsgate-street-without, pawn Gleadhill, J. Oldham, cotton-spinner broker Goodwin, J. Bristol, coal-merchant Burton, J. and M. Charlesworth, Derbyshire, Goodeve, J. senior, Devonport, Devon, grocer cotton-spinners Graham, W. Angel-court, Throgmorton-street, Burdwood, J. and W. H. Coltman, Devonport, upholsterer linen-drapers Grenup, W. senior, Eccleston, Lancashire, coal. Caffall, T. Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, meal proprietor man Greenwood, R. Dewsbury, Yorkshire, and J. HaCare, J. Ledbury, Herefordshire, grazier merton, Wakefield, linen-drapers Call, G. J. Bognor, Sussex, banker Gresham, G. Kingston-uponHull, cloth-merchant Calvert, M. and G. Milner, Knaresborough, flax Hall. Tvrel, and W.P. Hallows. Basinghall-street, spinners Blackwell-hall, factors Camp, G, Cheapside, warehouseman Hamer, H. Liverpool, wine-merchant Capp, R. T. St. Dunstan's-hill, London, ship Hankinson, C. Hale, Cheshire, tanner broker Harper, T. and E. Ystradgunlais, Brecon, dealers Carrington, J. Ludgate-street, linen-draper Harrison, J. Woodchester, Gloucestershire, cloCarroll, o. Bristol, provision-merchant thier Carr, R. Preston, Lancashire, corn-dealer Harries, J. Narberth, Pembrokeshire, draper Caslon, W. Rugely, Staffordshire, chemical-ma Haskins, S. Bristol, grocer and builder nufacturer Haworth, J. Manchester, glue and varnish.manuChapman, C. G. Torquay, Devonshire, linen-dra facturer per Hendricks, H. Throgmorton-street, merchant Clarke, w. Y. Whistone, Worcestershire, glove Henderson, W. Warwick-row, Blackfriars, oilman manufacturer Henry, A. Haydon-square, Minories, merchant Cleverley, C. and J. Hutcheson, Chiswell-street, Hewsod, J. and J. Stewart, Manchester, silk-malinen-drapers nufacturers Close, J. senior, T. Close and S. Reinhold, Man Hickson, C. Addle-street, Wood-street, woollenchester, merchants draper Coleman, T.J. Morris, J. B. Morris, and T. Mor Hill, W. Worcester, bootmaker ris, Leoininster, bankers Holl, T. Manchester, grocer Holyer, W. G. Woodchurch, Kent, butcher Roach, J. Fordingbridge, Southampton, linenHooper, J. Leigh, Worcestershire, carpenter draper Horder, T. W. New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, Robinson, P. Littledean, Gloucestershire, maltster dealer in lace Rogers, H. King street, West-Smithfield, twineHunt, J. Oxford, chemist manufacturer Hutchins, N. B. St. James's-street, china and glass Roy, F. Von, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant warehouseman Samuda, B. Stockwell, Surrey, coal-merchant Ingham, J. Bradford, Yorkshire, silk-mercer Sanderson, J. and J. Walker, Lancaster, merchants Jackson, J. Derby, lace-manufacturer Santer, J. Benenden, Kent, miller Jackson, T. and R. Shaw, Kings Lynn, Norfolk, Schofield, J. Barnsley, Yorkshire, linen-clothcorn-merchants manufacturer Jackson, W. Deighton, Yorkshire, woollen-cord Schwieger, G. E., F. and J. Buchanan, of Modicutter ford-court, Fenchurch-street, merchants Jackson, M. Cheltenham, dealer Scowcroft, W. Haverford-west, shopkeeper Jenkins, T. Castle-street, Finsbury, timber-mer. Shaw, S. junior, Manchester, small-ware-manuchant facturer Johnson, S. Watling-street, London, painter and Shaw, S. senior, Manchester, merchant glazier Shaw, S. junior, and T. Bateman, Manchester, Jones, J. Liverpool, hatter small-ware manufacturers Jones, W. New Bond-street, linen-draper Shotter, J.S. Shoreditch, cheesemonger Kay, R. Bury, Lancashire, cotton-spinner Silvey, R., and G. Sanderson of Norwich, bombaKainp, C. Stoke-Newington, builder zine-manufacturers Kent, J. K. Chelmsford, Essex, surveyor Smith, T. Whiston, Eaves, and J. Locker, HanKing, W. and E. Lower Thames-street, cheese ley, Staffordshire, bankers mnonger Smith, R. Eashing, Surrey, paper-maker King, c. Lewisham, Kent, miller Smith, R. St. Mary-at-Hill, tallow-broker Kinnear, J. City, merchant Stafford, J. Bingham, Nottingham, machine. Land, T. Leeds, flax-spinner maker Lankester, R. Cheapside, warehouseman Starling, S. Poole, hatter Large, J. Cheltenham, builder Stein, R. and A. H. Sim, Tower-Brewer, Tower Lees, G. Hebden-bridge, Yorkshire, cotton-manu hill, brewers facturer Stephens, A. G. Wandsworth, baker Leeming, R. and T. Tatlock, T. Great Winches Stonard, J. Millbrook, Southampton, florist. ter-street, silk-brokers Stockham, W. Bristol, baker Lee, J. Leeds, brewer Stock, J. Bristol, coal-merchant Leigh, J. Pinner's-hall-court, London, merchant Taylor, C. Fleet-street, bookseller Lewis, W. Finch-lane, Cornhill, printer Taylor, J. N. Cateaton-street, dealer Little, J. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, linen-draper Taylor, T. Marple Bridge, Derbyshire, victualler Lowe, W. Aylsham, Norfolk, builder Taylor, J. Nottingham, boot-inaker M'Beath, A. Ryder's-court, Leicester-square, Thomas, J. Huddersfield, grocer jeweller Treble, J. Pembroke, wine-merchant M•Dowall, J. Regent-street, Piccadilly, boot Triquet, E. G. Birchin-lane, printer maker Trollop, H. Whitechapel, sugar-refiner Macfarlan, J. George-street, Hanover-square, Trout, T. Kingsland-road, Middlesex, Roman dress-maker cement-manufacturer Manton, J. Hanover-square, gun-maker Turner, M. T. London Wall, merchant bankers Wallington, J. New-road, St. Pancras, dealer Mills, T. and C. Spencer-street, Northampton Watts, Wood-street, warehouseman square, carpenters Waugh, T. c. Turnwheel-lane, Cannon-street, Mills, G. A. Everett-street, grocer London, merchant Mills, T. Spencer-street, Northampton, carpenter Webb, J. and E. Beckinsale, Copthall-buildings, Minett, W. London-road, brewer merchants Moody, J. Trowbridge, Wiltshire, cheesefactor Webster, G. Liverpool, merchant Morice, R. Great Trinity-lane, baker Weston, R. Fore-street, Cripplegate, warehouseMorgan, J. Norwich, linen-draper man and draper Mowatt, T. Thornbury, Gloucestershire, grocer Wetherell, J. Litchfield-street, St. Anne, WestMurphy, P. Youghal, Ireland, corn-merchant minster, bricklayer Nantan, J. St. John, Bedwardine, Worcestershire, Wheatley, J. Moorcroft, Staffordshire, dealer maltster Whitehead, J. Denshaw, Saddleworth, Yorkshire, Neal, T. E. and T. junior, Basinghall-street, cloth woollen-manufacturer factors White, E. Birmingham, grocer Neestrip, T. Cateaton-street, Cheapside, ware Whitworth, F. M. Derby, milliner houseman Wilks, J. and J. Wilks, junior, Sowerby, York. Nelson, W. Manchester, timber-merchant shire, flax-spinners Owen, R. Warrington, Lancashire, corn-dealer Williams, T. W. Northwich, Cheshire, banker Page, J. Chatham, grocer Wilde, J. Hustead's-mills, Yorkshire, woollenPareira, R. Hatton-wall, Hatton-garden, cabinet cloth-manufacturer maker Williams, W. H. Bernard-street, Russell-square, Pearse, W. H. Basinghall-street, London, cloth. Wilson, J. Thorney-street, Bloomsbury, coachfactor manufacturer Pearson, W., W. H. and J. London, ironmongers Wilson, J. Cock-brook-mill, Ashton-under-Lyne, Penswick, R. Ashton-within, Mackerfield; and Lancashire W. Bone, Winstanley, Lancashire, cotton Winser, E. Tenterden, Kent, grocer manufacturers Wood, J. Manchester, general-dealer Pittis, F, Newport, Isle of Wight, auctioneer Wood, J. Nelson-square, Blackfriar's-road, jeweller Phillips, G. Portsmouth, merchant Wood, T. George-street, Mansion-house, clothPike, J., W. Horwill, and T. Pike, Lombard factor street, bankers Wood, T. Horncastle, Lincolnshire, tailor and Pool, J. Brent Eleigh, Suffolk, brewer draper Prat, J. R. Wellclose-square, miller Wood, W. Botolph-lane, fruit-broker Prin, W. Spangle-place, Kent-road, carpenter Wood, D. H. Dean-street, London, coach-maker Radcliffe, W., J. and S. Stockport, Cheshire, cot. Woodfall, J. junior, Liverpool, grocer ton-manufacturers Woodcock, W. Hyde, Cheshire, shopkeeper Hatcliffe, S. Mellor, Derbyshire, cotton-spinner Wrigley, J. and Newlin, W. Brick-lane, SpitalRigby, J. Charing-cross, clock and watch-maker fields, London, brewers gow ALPHABETICAL List of Scotch BANKRUPTCIES and DIVIDENDS, announced April 1826 ; extracted from the Edinburgh Gazette. Park, Thomas, grain-dealer and victualler in Glasgow Aitken, George, writer and corn-merchant, Cupar Park, James, merchant in Glasgow Parka Paterson, Robert, merchant in Stirling Proudfoot, Euphernia, glover in Glasgow turers in Kilmarnock Angus, John, lately flesher in Edinburgh Peddie and Thomson, bleachers, starchers, and merchants in Glasgow Black, James, merchant in New Cumnock Reid and Johns, callenderers in Glasgow Ramage, John, hatter and cloth-merchant in Buchanan and Liddell, dyers and merchants in Paisley Robertson, Archibald, distiller and dealer in spi. rits at Denny Buchanan, Alexander and Son, brewers at St. Ninians Robertson, Duncan, merchant in Dunfermline Charters, William, merchant in Glasgow Rollo, Sylvester, and Co. late merchants in GlasCormack and Clyne, builders, Stockbridge, near Edinburgh Russell, James, and Company, merchants in GlasCowan, William, distiller at Chartershall, Stirling. shire Shireff, Robert, junior, merchant in Edinburgh Dennistoun, Richard, merchant in Glasgow Skeen, Lawrence, ship-owner in Leith Duke-Street Twist-Company, in Glasgow Smith, John, and Co. power-loom cloth manufae. turers, Tradestoun of Glasgow Elder, Adam, carver and gilder in Edinburgh Ewing, William, and Co. merchants and cotton Stewart, William, cattle-dealer, Greenhill, parish of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire yam-agents, in Glasgow Findlay, James and Alexander, spirit-dealers in Steven, Thomas, general-merchant and commisGlasgow - sion-agent in Edinburgh Findlay, Duff, and Co, merchants in Glasgow Stevenson, Robert, wine and spirit-merchant in Finlay, Thomas, builder in Edinburgh Edinburgh Fraser and Mitchell, builders in Edinburgh Steven, David, ironmonger in Aberdeen Fraser and M.Lennan merchants in Inverness Thomson, James and John, lately corn-merchants Franklin and Co. clothiers and merchants in Edin in Dundee and Perth burgh Torry, Archibald, merchant in Edinburgh Glass, Thomas, carter and builder in Glasgow Wilson, James and George, spirit-dealers, High Street, Edinburgh Wilson, William, horse-dealer and merchant, Gillespie, George, builder in Edinburgh Quarryton, Glasgow Gray, William, junior, and Co. grocers and spirit Wright, James, merchant at Kepp, Stirlingshire Yuil. Gavin, baker, and grain-dealer in Hamilton dealers in Kirkintilloch Hart, Henry, plumber and glazier, Leith Walk, DIVIDENDS, Barber, Henry, brewer, and wine and spirit-merHeriot, William, builder in Edinburgh chant in Castle Douglas; by Sinclair and GilHoustoun, Robert, and Co. agents and ship-bro lespie, writers there kers in Glasgow Ferguson, Alexander, junior, sheep and cattleJardine, William, merchant-tailor in Glasgow dealer at Corriden; by W. Wedderspoon, wriKerr, Charles, and Co. manufacturers in Glasgow ter in Perth Kilgour and Paterson, paper-makers at Balerno, Gibson, Thomas, mason and builder in Perth; near Currie, and at Loch Mill, Linlithgow by Robert Greig, merchant there M'Eachern, John, merchant in Campbeltoun Hosie, Andrew, merchant in Glasgow; by W. Mackie, Archibald, coalmaster, spirit-dealer, and Scott Moncrieft, accountant in Edinburgh merchant in Glasgow Hunters, Rainey and Morton, merchants in GlasM Lellan, James, manufacturer in Paisley gow; by Dugald Bannatyne, merchant there Morrison, Colin, spirit-dealer in Edinburgh, lately M'Guffie, Archibald, sometime merchant in distiller at Ratho Greenock; by M Nair and Linton, writers Niven, Robert Balfour, merchant, and soap-ma there ker in Glasgow Stevenson, John, and Co. dyers, printers, and Paxton, Henry and Joseph, wholesale-glovers merchants in Glasgow; by James Grieve, and lacemen, Edinburgh writer there Obituary. absence of Dr Adam Fergusson, he was prevailed John Bruce, Esq. of Grangehill and Falkland, on, at very short notice, to teach his class of modied at his seat of Nuthill, in the county of Fife, ral philosophy, and, during the greatest part of on Sunday the 16th of April, in the 820 year of that winter, besides revising and often recasting his very active life. He was the heir-male and his own lectures, he actually composed in the undoubted representative of the ancient family evening the lecture which he was to deliver in of Bruce of Earlshall, one of the oldest cadets of the class next forenoon. Soon after this, he rethe illustrious house of Bruce; but he did not signed his chair in the University, having, through sicceed to the estate of his ancestors, which was the interest of the late Lord Melville, to whose transferred by marriage into another family. He family he was distantly related, received a grant inherited, from his father, only the small proper of the reversion, along with the late Sir James ty of Grangehill, near Kinghorn, the remains of Hunter Blair, of the patent of King's Printer and a largar estate, which his family acquired by mar Stationer for Scotland, an office, however, which riage with a grand-daughter of the renowned did not open to them for fifteen or sixteen years. Kirkcaldy of Grange. Lord Melville was well aware of Mr Bruce's Mr Bruce received a liberal education at the abilities, and duly appreciated them, and, in orUniversity of Edinburgh, where he was early dis- der to give the public the advantage of them, he tinguished for his abilities and extensive erudi- procured for him the offices of keeper of the tion: the consequence of which was, that, at an State-Paper Office and Historiographer to the early age, he was appointed Professor of Logic in East-India Company. Mr Bruce was also for a that University. He rescued that science from short time Secretary to the Board of Control, and the trammels of the Aristotelian School, and the sat in Parliament for some years. In these vasyllogistic forms of arguing and teaching, and his rious offices he was not idle. The place of Keeper féctures, particularly on pneumatology, were of the State-Paper Office had been made by his much celebrated. At the same time, during the prcclccessors very much of a sinecure, the conse but, by ngements order, so the Gothen. valuable quence of which was, that the valuable papers THE LAST MOMENTS OF DAVID, THE therein deposited were in the greatest confusion; PAIN TER. but, by his indefatigable exertions, and methodical arrangements, the whole were soon brought David died at Brussels, on the 29th of Deceminto the greatest order, so as to be available to the ber 1825, at a quarter before ten o'clock in the different departments of the Government, whose morning. On the 19th, he went to the thcatre chiefs had occasion to refer to them. to see Tartuffe, and remained during the whole Mr Bruce was the author of several valuable performance. This imprudence was fatal. From works, some of which, though printed by Govern that moment disorder triumphed. He was almost ment, were not published for sale, and therefore always delirious; but whether in possession or are not so extensively known as they deserve; not of his faculties, his conversation, his gestures, and it is believed that he has left in manuscript, his motions, all related to the arts. One of his at the State-Paper Office, several memoirs in re pupils, an eminent painter, called to see him two lation to that department. His printed works days before his death. David gave him some adare, Elements of Ethics, being the Heads of his vice respecting a picture he was about. The Lectures on Moral Philosophy: Plans for the Go energy with which he made his observations vernment of British India; Report on the Re fatigued him, and his voice became so feeble, newal of the East-India Company's exclusive Pri that he found it impossible to speak any longer; vileges, 1794; Report on the Internal Defence of but he continued to express, by the position of England against the Spanish Armada in 1588, his body and by the movement of his hands, his with a view to the Defence of Britain in 1796, on opinion with regard to one of the figures in the which Mr Pitt grounded his measures of the Pro picture. On the day after, a proof was brought visional Cavalry and Army of Reserve; Report to him of the engraving after his Leonidas, by on the Union between England and Scotland, M. Langier. This roused him from a kind of with a view to the projected Union with Ireland; lethargy into which he had sunk. « It is well." Annals of the East India Company. he remarked ; “ bring it nearer to me, for my Mr Bruce, when a young man attending the sight is already so weak!" After having examined University of Edinburgh, kus one of six distin it, he ordered it to be pinned against a wall opguished individuals, who, in 1764, founded the posite to him, and his arm-chair to be wheeled Speculative Society, of whom he was the last sur towards it. Then, rallying the little strength vivor. which he retained, he pointed out, with the end During the latter years of his life, he spent se of his stick, the parts which he thought deserving veral months at his seat of Nuthill; on which of remark. Gradually he became animated; his estate, and his extensive purchases of Falkland criticisms were very important, and full of taste; and Myres, he was carrying on improvements on he resorted to the lively and picturesque expresa most extended and liberal scale, giving employ sions of all men of genius, who speak of an art ment to great numbers of tradesmen and labour in which they excel; and even asked for a crayon, ers of all descriptions. He also laid out a large in order to touch several figures which he thought sum in repairing what remains of the Palace of the graver had not sufficiently kept down. His Falkland, so as to preserve, for centuries to come, friends and his children entreated him to tire that relick of royalty in Scotland. In short, he himself no more on the subject, but to take some entered on the profession of a country gentleman rest. He yielded to their wishes, and from that with the same ardour and ability which he dis moment he never spoke. His funeral was cle. played in the various other situations which he brated with great pomp, and was attended by a filled ; and his death will be deeply lamented by crowd of the most eminent men in Brussels, and those friends who enjoyed his society, and had by deputations from Ghent, Bruges, and other opportunities of appreciating his highly-cultiva. towns.-David's pencils and palette were laid on ted understanding, as well as by the inhabitants the coffin, as well as his costume as a member of on his estate, to whose wants and comforts he so the Institute, and his cross of the Legion of Homaterially contributed. nour. BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS. isholm, ofAt MaRTHS. 1825. Nov. 1. At Madras, the Lady of Capt. J. Chisholm, of the artillery, Hon. East-India Com. pany's service, a son. * 1826. Jan. At Spanish Town, Jamaica, the widow of Alex. Deans, Esq. Master in Chancery there, & son. 2. At Macknie, the Lady of Dr Innes, Four Paths, Clarendon, Jamaica, a son. March. At Malta, the Lady of William Filder, Esg. Deputy Commissary-General, a daughter. 18. At Netherton House, the Countess of Stirling, a son. 20. At Shelburn Bank, the Lady of Lieut. For rest, R. N. a daughter. - At Knoxland, Dumbarton, Mrs Jaffray, a son. 21. At Wartnaby House, Melton Moubray, the Honourable Mrs Davidson, of Tulloch, a daughter. 92. 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 3. At Jedburgh, Mrs Ninian Douglas, a daughter. - 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. - At Bankend, Carlaverock, Mrs Nicholson, a son. - 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, ncar 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, Es 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, jan. Esg. a daughter. - At Foulden Manse, Mrs Alex, Christisos, a son. 18. At Kelso, Mrs George Main, a daughter. 19. At St. Anthony's Placc, Leith, Mrs William Wyld, a daughter. |