DIVIDENDS.

Adam, Alexander, Falkirk, tanner; by G. H. Simpson, leather-merchant, Edinburgh. Anderson and Brown, Glasgow, tanners; by W. Scott, leather-merchant there.

Galbraith, William, and Co. Greenock, merchants, by the trustee, Edinburgh.

Laird, James, jun. and Co. Murthill, mill-spinners; by David Jobson, jun. Dundee.

Laird and Co. Greenock, merchants; by J. Dunlop there.

Moodie, James, Dumferline, merchant; by J. Hutton, the trustee.

Rae, John, Aberdeen, merchant; by J. Robertson there.

Robertson, James, Anstruther, merchant; by Mr F. Conolly, writer there.

Scott and Balmanno, Glasgow, merchants; by J. M'Gavin, accountant there.

Scott, Hugh, Greenock, haberdasher; by Mr Glasford there.

Smith, Ishmael, Aberdeen, merchant; by the trustee there.

Young, John, and Co. Edinburgh, merchants and general agents; by Alex. Spence, Leith.

THE death of this gentleman (which is recorded in our obituary,) is a national calamity. His loss cannot be adequately supplied by any living artist, for, though we have many able engineers, we know of none who so eminently possess solidity of judgment with profound knowledge, and the happy tact of applying to every situation, where he was called upon to exert his faculties, the precise form of remedy that was wanting to the existing evil. Whether it was to stem the torrent and violence of the most boisterous seato make new harbours, or to render those safe which were before dangerous or inaccessible to redeem districts of fruitful land from encroachment by the ocean, or to deliver them from the pestilence of stagnant marsh-to level hills, or to tie them together by aqueducts or arches, or, by embankment, to raise the valley between them-to make bridges that, for beauty, surpass all others, and for strength seemed destined to endure to the latest posterity-Mr Rennie had no rival. Every part of the United Kingdom possesses monuments to his glory, and they are as stupendous as they are useful. They will present to our children's children objects of admiration for their grandeur, and of gratitude to the author for their utility. Compare the works of Mr Rennie with the most boasted exploits of the French engineers, and remark how they tower above them. Look at the breakwater at Plymouth, in comparison with the cassoons at Cherburg-any one of his canals with that of Ourke-and his Waterloo bridge with that of Neuilly. Their superiority is acknowledged by every liberal Frenchman. He cultivated his art with the most enthusiastic ardour, and, instead of being merely a theorist, he prepared himself for practical efficiency by visiting, and minutely inspecting every work of magnitude in every country that bear similitude with those which he might be called on to construct; and his library abounds in the richest collection of scientific writings of that of any individual. The loss of such a man is irre

parable. Cut off in the full vigour of his mind, his death seems to suspend for a time the march of national improvement, until the just fame of his merit shall animate our rising artists to imitate his great example, and to prepare themselves, by study and observation, to overcome, as he did, the most formidable impediments to the progress of human enterprise, of industry, and of increased facility in all the arts of life. The integrity of Mr Rennie in the fulfilment of his labours, was equal to his genius in the contrivance of his plans and machinery. He would suffer none of the modern subterfuges for real strength to be resorted to by the contractors employed to execute what he had undertaken. Every thing he did was for futurity, as well as present advantage. An engineer is not like an architect. He has no commission on the amount of his expenditure; if he had, Mr Rennie would have been one of the most opulent men in England, for many millions have been expended under his eye. But his glory was in the justice of his proceeding, and his enjoyment in the success of his labours. It was only as a mill-wright that he engaged himself to execute the work he planned, and in this department society is indebted to him for economising the power of water, so as to give an increase of energy, by its specific gravity, to the natural fall of streams, and to make his mills equal to fourfold the produce of those which, before his time, depended solely on the im petus of the current. His mills of the greatest size work as smoothly as clockwork, and, by the alternate contact of wood and iron, are less liable to the hazard of fire by friction. His mills, indeed, are models of perfection.

If the death of such a man is a national loss, what must it be to his pri vate friends and to his amiable family!— Endeared by all who knew him, by the gentleness of his temper, the cheerfulness with which he communicated the riches of his mind, and forwarded the views of those who made useful discoveries or im

provements in machinery or implements, procured him universal respect. He gave to inventors all the benefits of his experience, removed difficulties which had not occurred to the author, or suggested alterations which adapted the instrument to its use. No jealousy nor self-interest ever prevented the exercise of this free and unbounded communication, for the love of science was superior in his mind to all mercenary feeling. Mr Rennie was born in Scotland, of humble parents, and was bred a mill-wright; but his great talents soon developed themselves, and early in life he proceeded to London, and devoted himself to the art of a civil engineer. He was the intimate friend and companion of his excellent countryman, the late Mr Watt; their habits and pursuits were similar. They worked together, and, to their joint efforts are we chiefly indebted for the gigantic power of the steam-engine in all our manufactories. He married early in life Miss Mackintosh, a beautiful young woman, whom he had the misfortune to lose some years ago, but who left him an interesting and accomplished family. They have now to lament the loss of the best of parents, who, though possessed of a constitution and frame so robust as to give the promise of a very long life, sunk under an attack at the early age of 64.

Mr Rennie was buried with considerable funereal pomp, on the 17th of October, in the cathedral church of St Paul's. The funeral procession was chiefly composed of the eminent scientific characters with whom the deceased had associated In his lifetime, and some of the distinguished patrons under whose auspices Mr Rennie had carried on those works which attest the extent and solidity of his professional acquirements. It was expected that the procession would be brought over Waterloo Bridge, (that last ing monument of Mr Rennie's skill and genius); but this ceremony the friends of the deceased thought proper to dispense with. The vault for the deceased is near Lord Collingwood's, where a monument

will be erected to his memory. But he has himself erected monuments which will attest his fame to posterity as long as the stupendous works which he planned in Dublin harbour, and at the breakwater at Plymouth, endure for the use and benefit of mankind. The interior of the cathedral was crowded to excess, but the utmost order reigned during the whole of the imposing ceremony.

The inscription on the coffin of Mr Rennie was simply as follows:JOHN RENNIE, Esq. Died

4th Oct. 1821,

In the 64th year of his age

A marble slab was placed over the opening, on which we presume another inscription will be engraved. The fol lowing gentlemen were among those who attended in mourning coaches, and followed the body into the crypt:

The four sons of Mr Rennie, (the el dest, Mr C. Rennie, chief mourner,) Sir T. Lawrence, Sir Humphry Davy, Mr J. W. Croker, Mr Hamilton, Under Se cretary of State, Sir Byam Martin, Sir R. Seppings, Sir James Shaw, Sir J. Graham, Sir Joseph Yorke, Mr Abercromby, Mr Barrow, Mr Chantrey, Mr Smirke, and several Royal Academicians; Mr Steuart, Mr Stewart, Mr Giles, Messrs Bolton and Watt, Mr Galloway, and other distinguished engineers; also the gentlemen in Mr Rennie's department, among whom we observed Mr Jones, Mr Hollingsworth, Mr Knight, Mr Walker, Mr Townsend, Mr Richards, and Mr Thomas.

We understand that the Court of Direc tors of the Waterloo Bridge Company, as a means of handing down to posterity the memory of this matchless artist, have it in contemplation to erect a small obe lisk at each end of the bridge, where the division bars now stand, on which shall be an inscription, stating simply the name of the architect under whose superintend ance this noble structure was raised, the time it took in building, and the expence incurred by the great undertaking.

April 8. In York Place, Edinburgh, the Lady of the Hon. H. T. Liddell, of Ravensworth Castle, Durham, a son and heir.

-At Government House, Jersey, the Lady of his Excellency Sir C. Halket, K.C.B. and G.C.H. daughter.

9. In York Place, Edinburgh, the Lady of Rear-Admiral Otway, a daughter.

10. Mrs Orr, 26. Albany Street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

At Drummond Place, Edinburgh, the Lady of Major Nickle, of the 88th regiment, a daughter. 12. At Hartfield House, Mrs Macdonald of Bolisnald, a daughter.

-At 51. Queen Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Greig of Hallgreig, a daughter.

-At Boulogne-sur-Seine, the Right Hon. Lady Jane Lindsay Carnegie, a son.

13. At No. 9. King's Head Court, Broad Way, Westminster, Mrs Ann Gregory, wife of a private soldier in the 3d regt. of foot guards, three sons. 14. At Lathrisk, Mrs Johnston, a son.

Mrs Tod, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, a daughter.

-At St Andrew's, the Lady of Capt. William Playfair, a son.

15. At Aberdeen, the Lady of Major Henderson, Royal Engineers, a son.

16. In Great Cumberland-Street, London, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Glammis, a son and heir, which died the same day.

At London, the Lady of William Davidson, Esq. younger of Muirhouse, a daughter.

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daughter.

17. At Edinburgh, Mrs George Wauchope, a daughter.

At the house of Mrs Grant, sen. of Kilgraston, Mrs Fraser Tytler of Burdsyards, a son.

At Loudham-hall, Suffolk, the Lady Sophia Macdonald, a son.

18. In Harcourt-Street, Dublin, the Countess of Erroll, a daughter.

19. At Campbelton, Argyleshire, the Lady of the late Dr Alex. M'Larty, physician, Kingston, Jamaica, a posthumous daughter.

Lately, at Agra, in the East Indies, the Lady of Lieut-Col M'Leod, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 10. At Leghorn, the Hon. Arthur Hill Trevor, eldest son of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Dungannon, to Sophia, daughter of Georges D'Arcy Irving, Esq. of Castle Irving, county of Fermanagh, Ireland.

24. In the British Chapel at Leghorn, John Christie, Esq. of Hoddesdon, in the county of Hertford, to Caroline, eldest daughter of John Falconar, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul General for Tuscany.

At Mary-le-bonne Church, London, James H. Markland, Esq. of the Inner Temple, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Francis Freeling, Esq. of the General Post Office.

Oct. 1. At Glasgow, James Hill, Esq. writer, Edinburgh, to Margaret, daughter of William Kelly, Esq. merchant

-At Netherlay, Alfred Harvey, Esq. of Bristol, to Margaret, daughter of the late Joseph Innes, Esq. of Pitmedden.

At Edinburgh, Mr James Denham, of the Register Office, Edinburgh, to Isabella, youngest daughter of James Glover, Esq. Broughton.

2. At Inver Dunning, Mr Alexander M. Anderson, writer, Nelson-Street, Edinburgh, to Catharine, eldest daughter of Alex. Stewart, Esq. of Inver Dunning.

-At St James's Church, Westminster, Major James Hackett, of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Marguerite, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Gledsdale, of Whitehaven, Cumberland.

3. At Edinburgh, Henry Sibbald, Esq. W.S. to Agnes, only child of the late James Edmund, Esq. Glasgow.

4. Robert Renton, M.D. to Christina, youngest daughter of the late Dr Adam, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh.

6. At Valleyfield, John Hay, Esq. younger of Smithfield and Hayston, to Miss Anne Preston, daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. George Preston, of the Royal Marines, and niece of Sir Robert Preston of Valleyfield, Bart.

Oct. 8. At the manse of Urray, Alex. Mackenzie, Esq. at Kinnahaird, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the Rev. Donald Macdonald, of Urray.

-At Fountainhall, near Aberdeen, Alexander Murchison, Esq. M.D. of Jamaica, to Mary, only daughter of Dr Patrick Copland, Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University and Marischal College of Aberdeen.

-At Penrith, John Cowan, Esq. brewer, Anderston, near Glasgow, to Alice, daughter of William James, Esq. banker in Penrith.

9. At Kinninghouse, Archibald Grahame, Esq. writer in Glasgow, to Barbara Loriston, daughter of the late John Dixon, Esq. of Knightswood.

10. At Barnes Church, Surrey, Charles Stuart, Esq. of Rothsay, to Miss Leake, of Barnes.

11. At Ellister, island of Islay, Duncan Campbell, Esq. Kilchoman, to Ann, eldest daughter of Neil M'Neill, Esq.

At Glasgow, David Prentice, Esq. editor of the Glasgow Chronicle, to Mary, daughter of Thomas Craig, Esq. late of Nantwich, Cheshire.

15. At Old Aberdeen, Captain George Thomas Gordon, of the Hon. East India Company's light cavalry, upon the Bombay Establishment, to Margaret Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Roderick Macleod, D.D. Principal of King's College, Aberdeen.

16. At Dumfries, John Hyndman, Esq. advo cate, to Maria Lemaistre Macrae, daughter of the deceased James Macrae, Esq. of Holmains.

17. At the Church of Overton, the Rev. Dr Dewar, minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow, to Susan, youngest daughter of Edward Place, Esq. of Skelton Grange, Yorkshire.

22. At Paisley, William Mercer, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Ro bert Maxwell, Esq. Paisley.

23. At St George's Chapel, Edinburgh, Captain J. Thornton, half-pay 78th regimnt, son of John Thornton, Esq. of Kensington, to Miss Helen Smail, daughter of the late John Smail, Esq. of Overmains, Berwickshire.

25. At Edinburgh, William Johnston, Esq. 30. Northumberland-Street, to Mrs Reidie, widow of Dr Reidie, physician, Brechin.

Lately, in Maitland Street, Edinburgh, William Fraser, Esq. of Madras, to Mrs Mary Turner, daughter of the late Captain William Bruce, of the Hon. East India Company's service, Madras. DEATHS.

Feb. 10. In an attack at night on the British camp at Zoor, on the coast of Arabia, whilst gal lantly defending himself against seven men in front of the lines, and after receiving thirty-five wounds, Capt. Charles Parr, of the Bombay European regiment of infantry, youngest son of the late William Parr, Esq. of Norfolk-Street, Strand, London, and Pentonville.

17. At Zoare in Arabia, while on duty with the 2d regiment, Lieutenant James Paoli Boswell, of the Hon. East India Company's 10th regiment of native infantry, second son of William Boswell, Esq. Advocate.

March 11. At Madras, of the cholera morbus, Mr Robert Stevenson, a native of Kilmarnock. Mr Stevenson was resident at Manilla when the late shocking massacre took place, and escaped the poniard of the assassin only by flying to a convent.

29. At Dinapore, in India, Colonel Alex. M'Leod, C. B. commanding his Majesty's 59th regiment

April. At Elchipore, in India, Mrs Ogilvie, wife of Capt. Duncan Ogilvie, 2d regiment Madras N.I. and daughter of the Rev. Dr Duncan, Ratho.

10. At Cochin, East Indies, George Brown, son of the late Rev. John Brown, Falkirk.

24. At Roseau, in the island of Dominica, John Reay, Esq. a native of Dalmellington.

May 8. Near Calcutta, aged 68, Colonel Colin Mackenzie, C. B. of the Madras engineers, Surveyor-General of India. The services of Colonel Mackenzie, as an engineer or surveyor on the continent of India, in Ceylon, and in the eastern islands, have been acknowledged by the different Governments under which he was employed, and by the Hon. the Court of Directors, on many occasions, during a long public life of more than forty years.

12. At Madras, Lieut.-Colonel Samuel Dalrymple, C. B. of the Madras Artillery.

17. In Campbell county, Virginia, aged 121, Mr

Charles Layne, sen. He was born in Albemarle, near Buckingham county, in the year 1700. He has left a widow aged 110 years, and a numerous and respectable family down to the third and fourth generation.

July 15. At his house, in Stromness, John Loutit, Esq. of Banks, merchant in Sromness.

Aug. 6. In the island of Jamaica, Mr Thos. Ker, youngest son of Gilbert Ker, Esq. late of Gateshaw.

9. At Rome, in the 80th year of his age, Sir Walter Synnot, Knight of Ballymoyer, in the county of Armagh, of which he had been an active Magistrate for thirty years, and had materially contributed to the civilization and improvment of that part of the county, by a constant residence, and the opening of new roads, and extensively planting. His ancestors held large possessions in the county of Wexford, all of which they were de prived of by Cromwell, for fighting for their King and country, and never restored to them by Charles. Colonel David Synnot was Governor of Wexford, when besieged by Cromwell, whose army broke in during a capitulation, and put two thousand of the garrison to the sword. Seven brothers of this family sat at one time in the Irish Parliament.

29. At Kinchurdy, Mrs Grant, relict of the late J. Grant, Esq. Kinchurdy.

31. At Kingston, Jamaica, Mrs Mary Mackie, widow of the late Robert Mackie, Esq.

Sept. 17. At Fraserburgh, in the 32d year of his age, Lieutenant William Alex. Green, R. N.

20. At Naples, the Lady of James Dupre, of Wilton Park, Esq. and second daughter of the late Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, Bart.

21 At Guernsey, John Condamine, Esq. late his Majesty's Comptroller, or Advocate-General of the Royal Court in that island.

22. At Aberdeen, Captain Alex. Stuart, late of Leslie House, in the 84th year of his age.

24. At Paris, Alexander Govan, Esq. late surgeon, Dalkeith.

-At Garliestown, James Nish, Esq. of Balsarroch.

25. At Glasgow, in the 90th year of his age, Robert Geddes, Esq.

26. At Ross, John Forbes Aikman, Esq. of Ross and Bromelton, in the 86th year of his age.

-At Culchenna, Mrs Ann Campbell, spouse of Duncan Campbell, Esq.

27. At Peebles, the Rev. Thomas Leckie, 27 years minister of the Associate congregation there. 28. At Cray, Catharine Anabella, eldest daughter of Major James Robertson of Cray.

29. At Calder Bank, Alex. Drummond, Esq. late of Jamaica.

30. At Frankfort, Lady Charlotte Hill, eldest daughter of the Marchioness of Downshire, Baroness Sandys.

Oct. 1. At East Dalry, Richard Shirreff, Esq.

- At Bellaberta, in the county of Berwick, Miss Veronica Hogg, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Robert Hogg, minister of Roxburgh, aged 63. -At Noranside, John Mill, Esq. of Noranside. 2. At Greenlaw House, in the stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Lady Gordon.

In the south of France, after a painful illness, George Maxwell, Esq. younger of Carruchan, and Lieut.-Colonel of the Galloway militia.

3. At Cromarty, Mrs Hugh Tulloch, in the 83d year of her age.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Robertson, relict of the late William Smellie, Esq. printer, Secretary to the Royal Society of Scottish Antiquaries, author of the Philosophy of Natural History, Translator of the works of M. de Buffon, &c.

At Pilrig Avenue, Leith Walk, James Allison, sen. in his 102d year. Mr Allison was a native of Gargunnock, in Stirlingshire, and a gardener by profession. Although upwards of 40 years when he first married, he buried three wives, and lived to see the fourth generation. He retained his faculties till within three days of his death, but for some time had been unable to walk. His memory was very remarkable; and of the revolutionary movements in the year 1745-46, by far the most imposing event in Scottish history during the 18th century, he had a vivid recollection, and possessed a fund of anecdote. A life prolonged so far beyond the usual term of human nature was dis

tinguished by the discharge of those duties and the exercise of those virtues which are at once its or nament and pride. To-early formed habits of temperance he adhered rigidly through life. Frugal, industrious, conscientious, the merit of being wise in his day and generation" might be applied to him with much sincerity.

-At Thornhill (Perthshire) William M'Ewan, Esq. W.S.

4. At her house, No. 45. North Frederick-Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Charles Mackenzie, widow of the late Charles Mackenzie, Esq. writer in Edinburgh. At Dunkeld, Mrs D. Landale of Kirkaldy.

At his house in Stamford Street, London, in the 64th year of his age, John Rennie, Esq. the celebrated engineer. Mr Rennie had been com plaining for some time, but appeared to be recovering, when, on the morning of the 4th curt., he suffered a severe relapse, which carried him off the same evening at seven o'clock.

6. At Cunninghamhead, Neil Snodgrass, Esq. of Cunninghamhead, in the 82d year of his age. 7. At Whitehaugh, John Scott, Esq. of that place.

9. At manse of Deer, the Rev. John Craigie, in the 81st year of his age.

10. At Edinburgh, Mr Gifford Cuming, surgeon, R.N.

At Greenock, John Holmes, Esq. merchant 11. At Wellhall, Thomas Boyes, Esq.

At Perth, Mr David Marshall of Manchester, youngest son of William Marshall, Esq. Perth. At Edinburgh, Henry, infant son of Mr Drysdale, W.S.

18. At Belfast, Major Andrew Patison, late of the 29th regiment, in which he bravely served nearly 24 years, with much credit to himself, in many of the engagements of the late eventful warlatterly of the 8th Royal Veteran Battalion. During the short period he was in that corps he recei ved the thanks of the Lord Lieutenant and Sheriff of the county of Perth for his services. He was interred by the 31st regiment, in garrison at Belfast, with military honours, on the 24th.

20. At Drylaw, Mrs Ramsay, widow of the late William Ramsay, Esq. of Barnton, in the 77th year of her age. Of her it may be truly said, that she has departed from this world possessing the unfeigned esteem and respect of all with whom she was connected. After a long and useful life, occupied in the strict and conscientious discharge of every duty which adorns a private station, she endured, with pious resignation, the infirmities attendant upon increasing years, and regarding the approach of death with that calm composure of mind, which true religion only can bestow, after a short, but severe illness, resigned her spirit to the God who gave it her, leaving behind her a name and charac ter, which will ever be cherished in the recollection of her family and friends. Possessing the strongest natural understanding, and the soundest judg ment, with the most unaffected simplicity of manners, Mrs Ramsay was peculiarly remarkable, as well for self-possession on all trying occasions, as for strength and tranquillity of mind under the pressure of misfortune; and amidst the vicissi tudes to which human life is liable, whether when the wife of one of the wealthiest Commoners in this county, or in the more retired situation which she afterwards occupied as his widow, was ever seen affording the most effectual encouragement to honest industry-was ever known as the friend of the widow and the parent of the orphan-and, in the pure spirit of Christian benevolence, was daily employed in administering to the wants of the suffering poor in all the various branches of useful charity. Religion was ever considered by her as the first of blessings which Heaven has sent on earth in mercy to mankind, and the strict principles of integrity which regulated her conduct sprung from its sacred source. It was seen to diffuse its genial influence over her general character, by creating a habitual peace of mind and cheerfulness of disposition; and in regarding, with fond regret, the memory of one so truly good, so truly estimable, it may confidently be affirmed, that if ever there lived a human being, who never indulged a thought upon earth which might not have been registered in heaven, it was the late Mrs Ramsay.