12. At Leith, Jane Kirkwood, aged 66, wife of William Dods, smith there.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Mansfield, wife of William Mackenzie, Esq. writer to the signet.

-At Glasgow, Hamilton Macfarlane, merchant. 13. At Boroughmuirhead, near Edinburgh, Miss Christian Campbell, only daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. Perth.

Mary Jane, aged 11, youngest daughter of John Thomson, Esq. Forth-street, Edinburgh. -Sarah Firth of Bradley, Yorkshire, aged 75, who, within the last 16 years, had been persecuted as a witch by an illiterate set of people.

14. At Edinburgh, Mr James Welsh, late baker there.

-At Edinburgh, Miss Jane Campbell, daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. cashier of the royal bank of Scotland.

-At Leith, Alexander Shirreff, Esq. merchant there, aged 68.

-At Maryfield, near Edinburgh, aged 19, Agnes, only daughter of Mr William Elder, Leith.

16. At 134, George-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Elizabeth Constable, wife of Mr Robert Cadell, bookseller.

17. Of a fit of apoplexy, at the house of the Rev. Christopher Bird, High Hoyland, where he was receiving his education, Richard Henry Liulphus Lumley, third son of the Hon. and Rev. John Lumley Savile of Rufford, Notts. He was born September 16, 1800. His remains were deposited in the vault of the Savile family, at Thornhill.

18. At her house, 3, Roxburgh-place, Mrs Ann Allan, relict of Mr William Dick, attorney at law in Gibraltar.

- At the Manse of Buncle, the Rev. John Campbell, minister of that parish.

19. Christina Dorothea Hamilton, infant daughter of Thomas Ewing, teacher, 41, North Hanover

street.

- At Ayr, aged 13, Mary Riddel, daughter of the late Dr David Linton, physician in the island

of Grenada.

20. At Edinburgh, aged 16, John Henderson, only child of Mr Henderson of Johnson's-court, Fleet-street, London.

21. At Edinburgh, aged 19, Agnes, second daughter of Dr William Farquharson, physician.

21. At his house, in the Canongate, Mr John Henderson, tailor, aged 76.

23. At Bellwood, Henrietta Anna Jane, only daughter of John Young, jun. Esq..

24. At Argyle house, London, the Right Hon. Lady Caroline Catherine Gordon, second daughter

of the Earl of Aberdeen.

William Hutton, engraver in Edinburgh. At Edinburgh, Patrick, the infant son of John Campbell, Esq. of Achalader.

At Goodrich-house, near Ross, Herefordshire, Miss Ann Colquhoun Bruce, eldest daughter of Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, Bart.

25. At Edinburgh, Marion, daughter of Mr John Nicol, Buccleuch-street.

26. At Edinburgh, William Jeffrey, Esq. 28. At Edinburgh, Alexander Hamilton More head, youngest son of the Rev. Robert Morehead. 29. At Ormsary, Miss Katherine Campbell, daughter of the deceased William Campbell, of Orinsary.

50. At No 2, Mound-place, Eliza Orr, relict of William Raeburn, perfumer, Edinburgh.

-At Drumsheugh, Jemima Barbara, youngest daughter of Sir John Hay of Smithfield and Haystown, Bart.

Lately-Mr Henry Richardson of Northallerton, Yorkshire, well known to the sporting gentlemen as an extensive breeder of game dogs.

In Barcelona, Captain-General Castanos, the com Thander-in-chief at the celebrated battle of Baylen.

At Eye, Thomas Wayth, Esq, solicitor. He was attending the election ball given in honour of the newly-elected members for the burgh of Eye, and partaking of the amusement of dancing, when he in a moment fell motionless, and instantly expired. At Portobello, near Sheffield, Mr Joseph Youle, a self-taught mathematician of some eminence in that neighbourhood, and an able instructor His de th was caused by keeping the windows of his school-room open during the whole of the Wednes day preceding, to avoid as much as possible the inconvenience of the intense heat of that day, by which he caught an inflammatory fever, which oc casioned his death.

At Ferney Gre n, on the banks of Windemere, Westmorland, the seat of the late Mr Pringle, Robert Allan, Esq banker, Edinburgh, aged 72.

At Greenhill, in the parish of Ruthwell, Andrew Rome, in the 76th year of his age. This od man, with his brother, who still survives, and is about 10 years older, is among the last of a daring and enterprising race of smugglers, who carried on an ex. tensive contraband traile in Annandale, before the exclusive privileges of the Isle of Man were bought up and regulated by government. He was a native of the border parish of Dorneck, but for the last 40 or 50 years resided in the parish of Ruthwell, where he rented a farm under the Earl of Mansfield. The character of this old smuggler was strongly marked with the peculiar features of his illicit occupation, and would have formed a fine subject for the graphic pen of the author of Guy Mannering.

Count Kalkreuth, the governor of that city. This distinguished officer lived to his 85d year, having spent no less than 67 years in the Prussian service, and been actively employed during the whole military career of his great friend and instructor, Frederick II.

At Calcutta, Sir John Hadley D'Oyły, Bart.

At Bombay, David White, Esq. second member of the medical board of the Bombay presidency.

Richard Miles Wynne, Esq. of Eyart-house, many years governor of Cape Coast Castle, Africa

At Leamington Spa, Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart. D. C. L. long and deservedly celebrated for his philanthropic labours and writings for promoting the public charities and other useful institutions of the kingdom.

At Pisa, where she went for the recovery of her health, the Hon. Charlotte Plunkett. She was sister to Lord Cloncurry, and married, in 1803, Edward, eldest son of Lord Dunsany, by whom she has left two sons and one daughter.

He

At Dundee, in the 100th year of his age, John Fraser, a native of strathspey, and one of the few remaining adherents of Prince Charles Stuart, having fought under that unfortunate Prince during the whole of the rebellion in 1745 and 1746. was buried at the church-yard of 1 ogie; and the company who attended his remains to the grave followed the ancient Highland custom of drinking some bottles of whisky before leaving the buryingground.

On his passage home from Jamaica, the celebrated author, M. 6. Lewis, Esq. well known by the

name of Monk Lewis.

At Lynn Regis, Mr Gavin Mitchell, son of the deceased Dr Mitchell, minister of Kinellar.

At Newport, in this county, after a lingering illness, the Hon. Andrew Foley, M. P. for Droitwich, in Worcestershire, brother of the late Lord Foley, and father of Colonel Foley, one of the county members in the last parliament.

At Trinidad, in the end of March last, Thomas Bogue, eldest son of Jacob Bogue, lieutenant of police, Edinburgh.

At Trieste, a Greek, at the great age of 125. He

lived in three centuries.

worshipped and loved by all; but by few, very few, was she understood. The expression of one of her heroines was suggested, we doubt not, by her knowledge of herself; " il est des choses qui ne s'expliquent pas; et je suis peut-etre une de ces choses la."

A Treatise on the Life and Writings of Madame de Stael has already been promised to the world by her illustrious friend William Augustus Schlegel, whose kindred genius and attainments, and long domestic intimacy with the family of Copet, may certainly well entitle us to expect from him a most interesting as well as masterly specimen of biography and criticism. During the expectation of a work such as this is likely to prove, there would be presumption, as well as idleness, in any elaborate investigation which we might institute, either into the personal or the literary his tory of its subject. In the mean time, however, we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of devoting a few pages to the consideration of her posthumous work on the French Revolution-a performance less finished indeed in its style, but containing, we imagine, more true wisdom than any of its predecessors-composed during the intervals of disease,-in great part under the near expectation of death,-and forming, indeed, a legacy worthy of being bequeathed by Madame de Stael, and of being received with the admiration of England, and the gratitude of France.

This book, by whomsoever it might have been written, must always have been a most valuable present to the world; for it embodies, we think, more good observation and practical sense, in regard to the events of the revolutionary period, than we have elsewhere met with. But it is doubly interesting, and doubly instructive withal, when considered as the last work of this remarkable person, the whole of whose feelings and thoughts had been developed or tinged by the incidents of that strange time-whose life and genius bear vividly the stamp of that unequalled convulsion, which has run first like a fever, and then like a palsy, through the whole moral and intellectual circulation of her country. Into whichsoever of the works of Madame de Stael we may look, we shall be at no loss to detect the traces of this great presiding influence. The

first of all her writings, her Essay on the character of Rousseau, shews how early she had seized the full scope and tendency of those fervent declamations which first incited, not the light and the sarcastic, but the meditative and enthusiastic spirits of the world to a crusade of Change.* Her celebrated Defense de Marie Antoinette, which appeared a few years afterwards, is filled with the expressions of a wise and thoughtful generosity, and-where could higher praise be found?-is worthy of being read and admired, even by those who are familiar with the still more energetic masterpiece of Burke. The same may be said of her "Reflexions sur la paix adressees a M. Pitt et aux Francais," which were published in the year 1795. Neither is the bent of her spirit, the main and centre point of all her thoughts, less distinguishable even in those of her works which are not professedly or formally political. In Delphine, the agitation of generous souls deprived of the star and compass of principle and religion, and abandoned to the mingling winds and waves of scepticism and passion, is depicted with a power which can never be undervalued but by the obtuse, and a purpose which has never been

* In this work, which is not much read in our country, but which, when regarded

as the first effort of a female author of twenty, must always be worthy of much attention, we find the character of Jean Jacques pourtrayed at least as well as it has ever since been by more mature critics. "Rousqu'on ner emarquoit point, quand on le voyseau," says she, devoit avoir une figure oit passer, mais qu'on ne pouvoit jamais oublier quand on l'avoit regardé parler; de petits yeux qui n'avoient pas un caractère à eux, mais recevoient successivement celui des divers mouvemens de son âme. Il portoit presque toujours, la tête baissée; mais ce n'étoit point la flatterie ni la crainte qui colie l'avoient fait pencher comme une fleur que son propre poids ou les orages ont inclinée. Ses traits étoient communs; mais quand il parloit, ils étinceloient tous. Son esprit étoit lent, et son âme ardente: à force de penser, il se passionnoit; il n'avoit pas de mouvemens subits du moins en apparence, mais tous ses sentimens s'accroissoient par la réflexion. Je crois que l'imagination étoit la première de ses facultés, et qu'elle absorboit même toutes les autres. Il rêvoit plutôt qu'il n'existoit, et les événe mens de sa vie se passoient dans sa tête, plutôt qu'au-dehors de lui, &c."

l'avoit courbée; la méditation et la mélan

misrepresented but by the cold, the heartless, or the hypocritical. In the De l'Allemagne, but above all in the Corinne, (perhaps the most original work, either of poetry or of prose, which has appeared in our time) a depth of feeling and reflection, and a strength of glowing and tender eloquence, such as have scarcely ever been conjoined in the person of any writer besides herself, are poured out to express the sorrow with which she had witnessed, in her own country, the deadening influence of the philosophy of persiflage, and the ardent zeal with which she contemplated the effects of the old and more generous habitudes of religious and poetical enthusiasm upon the souls and characters of men. Other romances are read, because they please the comparatively trivial faculties by portraitures of comparatively trivial feelings; but, with the exception of a few of the fine solemn passages in Don Quixote, and some things in the works of the author of the Tales of my Landlord, we recollect of nothing in that department of literature which touches the nobler and more mysterious parts of the spirit so powerfully as the representation of filial piety, and of the sentiments of Christianity in Corinne.

In each and all of these works, there prevails a tone of thought and passion which cannot be supposed to have existed at any period other than a revolutionary one. It is evident from every page, that the author lived among men whose intellects had been all unhinged by some extraordinary concussion, whose feelings, opinions, principles, had all been taken out of their order, and jumbled together, to use a vulgar simile, like the stones upon a necklace, by the cutting of the string. From the earlier of her writings, it must be admitted, there appears reason to conclude, that she herself had been drawn, for a season, within the circle of the mental anarchy around her. She soon escaped from the evil, and in so doing, she parted not with the good which was to be learned from the doctrines of the times. The original principle of the French Revolution she always continued to defend, and who, excepting perhaps a Spanish monk, or an old French emigrant, will now have the boldness utterly to condemn it? But from the moment she began to consider things maturely and

calmly, she never for a moment swerved from the conviction, that no revolution could be conducted well, or he expected to end well, in the hands of a set of men devoid of firmness of principle and depth of knowledge, like the demagogues of France-babblers, who talked of virtue, while they hated it,

"And honour, which they did not understand."

She was of the same opinion which Burke expressed concerning not the first speculative, but the first active movers of the Revolution.* She

"The legislators who framed the antient republicks knew that their business was too arduous to be accomplished with no better apparatus than the metaphysicks of an under graduate, and the mathematicks and arithmetick of an exciseman. They had to do with men, and they were obliged to study human nature. They had to do with citieffects of those habits which are communizens, and they were obliged to study the cated by the circumstances of civil life. They were sensible that the operation of this second nature on the first produced a new combination; and thence arose many diversities amongst men, according to their birth, their education, their professions, the periods of their lives, their residence in of acquiring and of fixing property, and actowns or in the country, their several ways cording to the quality of the property itself, all which rendered them as it were so many different species of animals. From hence they thought themselves obliged to dispose their citizens into such classes, and to place them in such situations in the state as their peculiar habits might qualify them to fill, and to allot to them such appropriated privileges as might secure to them what their might furnish to each description such force specifick occasions required, and which as might protect it in the conflict caused by the diversity of interests, that must exist, and must contend, in all complex society: for the legislator would have been ashamed, that the coarse husbandman should well know how to assort and to use his sheep, horses, and oxen, and should have enough lize them all into animals, without provid of common sense not to abstract and equaing for each kind an appropriate food, care, and employment; whilst he, the economist, disposer, and shepherd of his own kindred, subliming himself into an airy metaphysi cian, was resolved to know nothing of his flocks but as men in general. It is for this reason that Montesquieu observed very justly, that in their classification of the citizens, the great legislators of antiquity made the greatest display of their powers, and even soared above themselves. It is here that your modern legislators have gone deep into the negative series, and sunk even below

expected not that the poverty of Plebeian heads and hearts could be covered long or effectually with the "all atoning name" of liberty. She had some idea what virtue and virtuous liberty are, and could not endure to see these sacred names taken into the polluting mouths of those whose love of change sprung only from their meanness and their envy.

There may be some little danger of our speaking too much from our partialities, but we imagine that the perpetual admiration of England expressed in this work, is not, after all, better adapted for pleasing us, than for instructing our neighbours. The impression which had been made upon her imagination by the character and effects of our public institutions, had already, as we have hinted above, been abundantly testified in her Corinne. But in the Considerations, she has proved that her love was not blind; that the most masculine part of her nature had been consulted in its formation; and that the zeal with which she every where preached up the imitation of England, was not that of a mere wild enthusiast, but of a convinced and rational believer. In truth, the whole scope of the book is to shew, in the course of an unaffected narrative, the progress of her own thoughts -the nature of the successive impressions to which, in the midst of continual observation, her mind became their own nothing. As the first sort of le

gislators attended to the different kinds of

citizens, and combined them into one commonwealth, the others, the metaphysical and alchemistical legislators, have taken the direct contrary course. They have attempted to confound all sorts of citizens, as well as they could, into one homogeneous mass; and then they divided this their amalgama into a number of incoherent republicks. They reduce men to loose counters, merely for the sake of simple telling, and not to figures whose power is to arise from their place in the table. The elements of their own metaphysicks might have taught them better lessons. The troll of their categorical table might have informed them that there was something else in the intellectual world besides substance and quantity. They might learn from the catechism of metaphysicks that there were eight heads more, in every complex deliberation, which they have never thought of, though these, of all the ten, are the subject on which the skill of man can operate any thing at all."

Qualitas, Relatio, Actio, Passio, Ubi, Quando, Situs, Habitus.

subjected-the steps, as it 'were, by which her first ebullient and generous hatred of despotism came slowly and modestly to be subdued into a temperate and wise love of that authority which is according to the laws. These things are still too near to us to be very dispassionately or very leisurely contemplated. But what a rich present to posterity! with what gratitude will the studious and reflective of after times peruse these portraits of one of the greatest and most illustrious spirits which ours has produced, presenting her in every variety of colouring and attitude, and affording, as it were, a perpetual index and commentary to the more formal chronicles which may come into their hands. Madame de Stael might, without arrogance, have concluded her work in the language of the greatest genius that ever wrote history. "The strict fidelity of my narrative may render it less amusing than it might have been. But they who read in order that they may know the past, and be wise as to the future, when similar events, as is the nature of human affairs, may happen to recur, will not on that account despise it. I have been ambitious to form a possession for eternity, rather than an amusing tale for the ears of my contemporaries."

We cannot find opportunity within the limits of such a work as this, either to give a complete analysis of the book, or to supply that defect by its pages. We shall, however, venture means of very copious extracts from upon transcribing a few of the most interesting and graphical passages, and shall begin with the description of the Baroness's feelings on the first opening of the States General, on the 5th of May 1789.

"I shall never forget the hour that I saw the twelve hundred deputies of France pass in procession to church to hear mass, the day before the opening of the assembly. It was a very imposing sight, and very new to the French; all the inhabitants of Versailles, and many persons attracted by curiosity from Paris, collected to see it. This new kind of authority in the state, of which neither the

Το μη μυθώδες αυτων ατερπέςερον φαίνεται. Όσοι δε βελησονται των γενομένων το σαφές σκοπείν, και των μελλόντων ποτε αιθίς, κατα το ανθρωπινον, τοιέτων και παραπλησίων επεσ θαι, ώφελιμα κρίνειν αυτα αρκαντως εξει κτημα δε ες αει μαλλον η ες το παραχρήμα KYWIIU« ARHIN vynuta. Thucyd. lib. I.