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Wheat. 1st,......43s. 6d. 2d, ..41s. Od.

Barley.

1st,......42s. Od.

3d,......38s. Od.

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2d,......38s. Od. [ 2d,......25s. Od. | 2d,......30s. Od.
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Average of Wheat, £2:0:2: 8-12ths.

Note.The boll of wheat, beans, and pease, is about 4 per cent. more than half a quarter, or 4 Winchester bushels; that of barley and oats nearly 6 Winchester bushels.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

Aug. 7. At St Helena, the lady of Lieutenantcolonel Wynyard, a son.

Sept. 3. At Washington, the lady of Mr Bagot, minister plenipotentiary to the United States, a daughter.

17. At Paris, the Right Hon. Lady James Hay, a daughter.

23. At his Lordship's seat, Bournhouse, near Caxton, Cambridgeshire, the Countess De la Warr, a daughter.

-At Rotterdam, Mrs Kay, a son.

27. At Edenside, Mrs Tait, a daughter.

At the Castle, Edinburgh, the lady of Lieut.colonel Macgregor, 88th regiment, a son.

30. At Newbattle Abbey, the Marchioness of Lothian, a son.

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-At Park, the lady of Thomas Gordon, Esq. of Park, a son.

Oct. 3. At Gorhambury, in the County of Herts, the Countess of Verulam, a son.

4. In Grattan-street, London, the lady of Capt. Menzies, royal marines, a son.

At Oldhein, the lady of David Henderson, Esq. younger of Stemster, a daughter.

6. At Ruchill, the lady of William Baillie of Polkemmet, Esq. a son.

The lady of Dr Ferguson, inspector of hospitals, a daughter.

9. Mrs Dr Maclagan, George-street, Edinburgh,

a son.

-At Grange, Mrs James Cadell, a son.

10. The lady of George Holmes Jackson, Esq. of Glenmore, a daughter.

-At Hurst-house, Lady Berkeley, a son.

14. Mrs Blackwell, York-place, Edinburgh, a

son.

15. The wife of John Henderson, carrier in Cupar Angus, was safely delivered of two girls and a boy, who, with their mother, are all doing well. 16. At Wharton-place, Edinburgh, Mrs Alston,

a son.

17. The lady of James L'Amy of Dunkenny, Esq. advocate, a daughter.

The lady of Colonel Fraser of Castle Fraser, a son and heir.

18. At 50, St Bernard-street, Leith, Mrs Robertson, a son.

20. At Mayen, the lady of Robert Abercromby, Esq. of Brightonbogue, a son and heir.

Mrs Hart, the wife of a respectable farmer and grazier at Raventhorpe, in Northamptonshire, was safely delivered a few days since, of three fine female infants, and all apparently likely to do well.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 21. At Edinburgh, Mr David Steedman, merchant, Fisherrow, to Margaret, only daughter of the late Mr Adam Marshall, Edinburgh.

28. At Peterhead, George Anderson, Esq. surgeon, Madras Establishment, to Miss E. Alexander, only daughter of Gilbert Alexander, Esq. of that place.

At Montrose, Alexander Ross, M.D. surgeon of the royal navy, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late John Lingard, Esq, of Heaton Norris, Lancashire.

At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Bruce, upholsterer, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr James Sanson, merchant.

29. At Drogheda, Lieutenant D. Mackenzie, of the 42d regiment, to Miss Mary Bell, third daughter of Mr Charles Bell, Leith.

30. Lieut.-colonel Lord Greenock, permanent assistant quarter-master-general, to Henrietta, second daughter of Thomas Mather, Esq. The cere mony was solemnised by the Rev. Sir John Head, Bart, at the Chateau de Denacre, in France, the residence of Lieut. colonel Staveley.

Oct. 1. At Seven Oaks, William Lambard, Esq. eldest son to M. Lambard, Esq. of Seven Oaks, Kent, to Harriet Elizabeth, fifth daughter to Sir James Nasmyth, Bart. of Posso, Peeblesshire.

2. At Kensington, Henry Riddell, Esq. W. S. to Miss Agnes Gilchrist, daughter of the deceased Archibald Gilchrist, Esq. Edinburgh.

5. At Edinburgh, in St George's Chapel, Yorkplace, Duncan Mackenzie, Esq. to Jessie, daughter of the late John Mackenzie, Esq. of Strathgarve.

7. At St James's Church, London, Gerard Callaghan, Esq. M. P. for Dundalk, son of Daniel Callaghan, Esq. of Lotobeg, in the county of Cork, to Louisa Margaretta, eldest daughter of John Calvert Clark, Esq. of Teddington-place, Middlesex.

-At Corry, Skye, Lieut. Duncan Henry Mackenzie, of the Madras horse artillery, to Mary, second daughter of Lauchlan Mackinnon, Esq. of Letterfearn.

8. At Edinburgh, Mr David Grieve, merchant, Leith, to Jessie, youngest daughter of John Brown, Esq. Park-street.

At Barcaldine, the Rev. Mr Hugh Fraser, minister of Ardchattan, to Miss Maria Campbell, daughter of the late Alexander Campbell, Esq. of Barcaldine.

13. At St Andrews, the Rev. Robert Macnair, minister of the parish of Ballantrae, to Jane, second daughter of Principal Hill.

14. At Fala-house, the Rev. Robert Smith, minister of Newtyle, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Alexander Thomson, Esq. Buccleughstreet, Edinburgh.

16. At Dunbar, Mr James Lockhart, wine-mer. chant, Edinburgh, to Miss Eliza Wight.

-At Newton, Roxburghshire, Robert Milne, Esq. Langlands, to Catherine, youngest daughter of Andrew Hunter, Esq.

22. Hugh Graham, Esq. Meadow-place, Edinburgh, to Martha, youngest daughter of the late Robert Walker, Esq. of Preston Tower.

At St Pancras Church, Joseph Greenway, Esq. to Ann, only daughter of Crofton Cooper, Esq. of Judd-street, Brunswick-square, London.

DEATHS.

Feb. 15. At Vizagapatam, East Indies, Captain Henry Shute Lee, of the 2d battalion 21st regiment, native infantry.

April 9. At Cuttock, Midnapore, India, Major Hamilton of the 18th native infantry.

May 11. At Bombay, in the house of David Mal. colm, Esq. Major Hugh Scott, deputy adjutantgeneral of the Madras army.

At Bombay, George Dick, Esq. in the Hon. East India Company's Civil Service, on that Establishment.

Sept. 5. At St Kitt's, the Right Hon. James Edmund, Lord Cranstoun.

17. At Banff, Elizabeth Boyd, widow of the deceased Alexander Garden, shipmaster, aged 103.

20. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Greig, spouse of Mr John Finlayson, Parliament-square.

22. At Trowan, near Crieff, Mrs Marjory Fraser, widow of the late Hugh Fraser, of Tomavoit, Inverness-shire, aged 97.

23. At George's-square, Edinburgh, Agnes Helen, daughter of the Rev. Dr Anderson, aged 12.

At Blair, aged 74, Thomas Mill, Esq. of Blair.

25. At his house, Leith-street, Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Donaldson, confectioner.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Kerr, daughter of the late Rev. Mr Kerr, minister of Carmunnock, and wife of Mr John Ormiston, solicitor-at-law.

26. At Beaumont-place, Edinburgh, Mary, daughter of the late Captain and Adjutant Henry Bevan, Dumfries-shire militia, in her 12th year.

27. At Largs, Helen Campbell, wife of Mungo N. Campbell, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.

-At her brother's house, in Soho-square, London, Sarah Sophia Banks, sister to Sir Joseph Banks, aged 74 years.

-At Boulogne, Sur Mer, Ensign Robert Macdougall, of the 71st regiment, in the 20th year of his age. It is but a tribute due to the memory of this amiable young man to say, that he carried with him to the grave the sincere regret of his brother officers, who will long remember his virtues.

At Dublin, William Earl of Wicklow. 28. At Murrayshall, John Murray, Esq. of Murrayshall.

Aged 63, the French Admiral Gantheaume. -At Sornbeg, Miss Annabella Wilson, daugh ter of the deceased Hugh Wilson, Esq. Northumberland-street, Edinburgh.

At Dysart, Mr Thomas Spittal, ship-owner there.

29. At London, Mrs Phoebe Lloyd, relict of the late Lord Stonefield.

At Norton Court in Kent, the Right Hon. Lady Sondes, only daughter of Richard Milles, Esq. of North Elmham, in Norfolk, and Nackinton in Kent.

30. Colonel John Drouly, late of the 1st regiment of life guards, and governor of Cades Castle. -At her residence, Hermitage-house, near Leith, Dorothea, Dowager Countess of Fife.

At Lausanne, in Switzerland, James Durham Calderwood, Esq. of Poltoun, and of the 12th regiment of lancers.

st. 1. At Langley Park, Mr's Gerard, widow of

the late Dr Alexander Gerard, King's College, Aberdeen, in the 89th year of her age.

-At Queen's-place, Leith Walk, Margaret, youngest daughter of George Forrester, Esq. comptroller of the customs, Leith.

2. At Dunbar, Mr Richard Coles, surgeon, at the early age of 22 years.

3. In her 79th year, the Right Hon. Lady Northwich, widow of the late, and mother to the present Lord Northwich.

-In the Charity Workhouse, Edinburgh, Lauchlan Macbain, commonly knon here by the name of "Roasting Jacks," aged upwards of 102 years. This very old man retained his faculties, and was even cheerful, to the last. He was a native of Old Meldrum, Aberdeenshire; was bred a tailor: had been in the army, but had no pension.

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At Crooks, Mrs Christian Forman, wife of Mr Phipps Turnbull.

4. At Cunningham-head, Mrs Colonel Reid. 6. At his house, No 10, Terrace, Mr William Murray, spirit-dealer, much regretted.

-At Culross, Miss Ranken, daughter of the late Robert Ranken. Esq. of Coldon.

7. At the house of Sir Andrew Lauder Dick, Bart. Fountainhall, Captain Andrew Brown, R. N. of Johnstonburn.

At Simson's Court, Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Willson.

9. At Edinburgh, Mrs Susanna Prentice, wife of Richard Prentice, Esq. solicitor at law.

-At Glasgow, Mrs Rachael Pettigrew, spouse of Mr John Reid, late of the Tontine-hotel there. At Edinburgh, Mr Jacob Bogue, lieutenant of

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11. At Leith, Margaret, infant child of Mr George Webster, surgeon.

At his seat at North Court, Isle of Wight, after a very long and suffering illness, Capt. Bennet, R. N. in his 48th year.

13. At Fortrose, Ross-shire, Mr Kenneth MacLean, messenger at arms.

14. At Edinburgh, at the house of John Morgan, Esq. in Queen-street, Mrs Morgan, his mother, aged 85 years and nine months.

15. At Killin, Perthshire, Mr Duncan Campbell, aged eighty-six years.

16. Catherine, wife of Robert Davidson, Esq. advocate, professor of law in Glasgow College. 17. At Glasgow, James Corbett Porterfield, Esq. 18. At Kirkness, Henry Clephane, Esq. writer to the signet.

At No. 5, George-street, Edinburgh, John Gordon Thomson, eldest son of Dr Thomson. -At Fisherrow, Mr W. Ballantyne Crichton, of the Customs.

At Wormiston, Miss Lindesay, of Wormis

ton. 20. At Edinburgh, Janet, only daughter of Mr James Smyth, W. S. aged fifteen.

At Hillhead-house, Lasswade, Alex. Macdonald, Esq. of Boisdale, in the fifty-eight year of his age.

21. At Edinburgh, in the twenty-first year of his age, Mr William Brown, writer.

At Glasgow, the Rev. Dr Robert Balfour, after an illness which attacked him suddenly on the street in the preceding day, which did not admit of his reaching home, and which terminated fatally in the friend's house to which he had been conducted, in about thirty-two hours. Dr Balfour was born and educated in Edinburgh. After being licensed a preacher of the gospel, he declined an invitation to the pastoral charge from the congregation of Lady Glenorchy's Chapel; and, having preferred a presentation to the parish of Lecropt, was ordained a minister of that parish, where he officiated for about five years. In the beginning of the year 1779, he was removed to the Outer High Church of Glasgow; and he continued in that charge till the close of his valued life. He died in the 71st year of his age, the 45th of his ministry, and the 40th of his pastoral incumbency in Glasgow. It is not easy, in a short paragraph or two, to do justice to a character, in which so many excellent qualities were associated: qualities of the mind, and of the heart; developed in public, as well as in private life; and securing to their possessor an equal measure of admiration, of esteem, and of love. One of the principal charms

of this character, which pervaded, and animated, and endeared the whole, was, warmth of heart-a cordial kindness of disposition. His affections were remarkably strong:-his temper, naturally warm, was subdued and chastened by the reigning power of religious principle:-and with the finest and tenderest sensibilities, he united an uncommon firmness of mind, the product, at once, of natural constitution and gracious influence; which, whilst it marked his general deportment, was especially conspicuous under the afflictions of life; enabling him, in private, to maintain a dignified Christian composure, and in some of his public appearances, even when his spirit was burdened with the heaviest griefs, to rise above himself, and to elevate his charmed, and arrested, and melted audience along with him, to the purest and sublimest heights of devotional feeling.-In the intercourse of private life, no man could more emphatically be said to enjoy his friends than Dr Balfour. In the social circle, he opened his heart to all the reciprocations of kindness:-his countenance beamed with pleasure; and even in age he retained the glow and the vivacity of youth. His familiar conversation was characterised by a cheerful and facetious pleasantry :-but he ever turned with delight to sacred subjects: no man could make the transition more rapidly and entirely; and on these he was always at home, speaking out of ti e abundance of his heart." Having himself experienced the bitterness of domestic afflictions, and the sweetness of the consolations of religion, he excelled as a comforter of the mourners. He was a wise, affectionate, and faithful counsellor, to the young especially, who, on sacramental or other occasions, came to converse with him on religious concerns, he displayed a paternal tenderness, and a condescending and insinuating gentleness, which won his way to their hearts, and drew them to the paths of piety with the cords of love. The bitter tears of surviving relatives bear testimony to his domestic virtues, and to the delight which his presence diffused through the family circle; the deep-felt sadness of the intimates of his early days, to the sincerity, the cordiality, and the steadiness of his friendships; and the acute and pensive sorrow of a mourning people, to the long-tried and sterling worth of his pastoral administrations. The distinguishing characters of his preaching were,-a clear and comprehensive view of his subject-textual distinctness of arrangement-luminous exhibition of truth-pointed discrimation of character-a thorough intimacy with the labyrinths of the heart, and with the varieties, genuine and delusive, of Christian experience-warmth of persuasive earnestness -faithful closeness of practical application-and exuberant command of appropriate and powerful expression. He adhered, with exemplary constancy, to the Apostolic determination, "not to know any thing amongst his hearers save Jesus Christ, and him crucified." All his pulpit addresses, whe ther doctrinal or hortatory, bore, through their entire texture, the impress of the cross. The doctrines of salvation by free grace were held forth in all their scriptural purity and simplicity; and the necessity of practical godliness, as the result of the faith of these doctrines, was urged with unremitting fidelity. His was not the icy coldness of speculative orthodoxy. His preaching was truly the utterance of the heart. Those who have listened to him in his happy moments of warm and impassioned elevation, have heard him pour forth the fulness of an affectionate spirit; warning, alarming, inviting, persuading, beseeching-his whole soul thrown into his countenance; and in his penetrating eye, the fire of ardent zeal gleaming through the tears of benignity and love. During the long period of his ministry, he grew every day in the affectionate admiration and esteem of the people of his charge; to whom no charms of novelty or variety could ever fully compensate for the absence of their own beloved instructor; and amongst whom there were many, who, with the peculiar tenderness of filial attachment, looked up to him as their spiritual father. Twelve years ago he had occasion to give practical evidence of the strength of his reciprocal attachment to his flock, by declining, in opposition to a variety of secular inducements, a pressing all to a charge in the metropolis. Although himself attached to the Established Church of Scotland, he exemplified a generous and cordial liberality toward those who dissented from her communion. Christians of every persuasion united in esteeming and loving

him;-and, by a uniform consistency of personal and ministerial deportment; by zealous "readiness to every good work," for advancing the interests, whether temporal or spiritual, of individuals, of his city, of his country, or of the great family of mankind, he secured an approving testimony in the consciences of all. Never was reputation, during so long a period of trial, more unblemished. If the breath of slander ever touched him, it was breathing on a mirror of steel;- he dimness passed away in an instant, leaving the polished surface brighter than before. In him, the institutions for the dissemination of the Scriptures, the propagation of the gospel, and the general advancement of religion, ever found a zealous patron, and to them his loss will be incalculable. Living, he was respected, honoured, and admired, and his death will occasion a chasm which it will be difficult to fill up. The mortal remains of this estimable man and valued minister were attended to the narrow house by a large assembly of sincere mourners, and amidst an unprecedented concourse or spectators, along all the streets through which the fune ral procession passed; affording an impressive testimony of the universality of the public sentiment of regard, and of that deserved popularity as a minister, which, from the first, was uncommonly high, and which continued without abatement from the commencement to the close of his career." The Memory of the Just is Blessed!"-Glasgow Herald.

[The above vivid and striking portraiture of Dr Balfour's character was drawn by the Rev. Ralph Wardlaw, who has since published a Funeral Sermon full of eloquence and a truly christian spirit. We cannot bestow higher praise on this Sermon than to say that it is such an one as the high talents and virtues of Dr Balfour deserved, and shews that the preacher was worthy of having enjoyed the friendship of that universally lamented Minister of Christ.]

Editor.

On Friday the 23d ult. the remains of Mr John Theodore Jonas Cramer, late band master to the 88th regiment, were deposited in the Canongate church-yard. Mr C. was in his 26th year, and died of a consumption. He was much respected as a musician and composer by the officers, and his good humour will long endear his memory to his gallant surviving companions.

26. At Minto, Roxburghshire, the Right Hon. Wm Elliott of Wells, M. P. Mr E. though connected with Scotland by descent and property, was born and educated in England. Intimate in early youth with the son of Mr Burke, he was soon distinguished by the friendship of that great man, and by that of his celebrated scholar Mr Windham. With him the bright society of their friends and followers is nearly extinct. By his death his country has lost one of her most accomplished gentlemen, and Parliament is bereaved of an ornament which can hardly be replaced. Few men have united so much dignity in public with such amiable qualities in private life as Mr Elliott, and there is no man whose loss will be felt with more sincere and unmingled regret. His eloquence was peculiarly his own. He spoke seldom in Parliament; but with a mild gravity, with evident marks of conscious deliberation, and with an urbanity and equity towards his opponents, which gave an authority to his speeches unattained by the greatest orators of his time. His utterance, his figure, and his countenance, were suited to his eloquence. He had a great power of condensation, a talent peculiar to those minds only who have gained a complete mastery over the subject of discourse. His most ingenious reasonings were conveyed in transparent language. His diction was pure English, correct beyond the level of public speaking, always elegant, and on fit occasions it naturally rose towards Majesty. In a word, he wanted no quality necessary to instruct, to conciliate, and to persuade.— Others have spoken with more force, but no man ever spoke with more permanent possession of the honest partiality of an audience. It is true that a part of his gentle ascendant over the House of Commons flowed from the character of the man as much as from the powers of the orator. His spotless life, his unbending integrity, and his lofty sense of honour, were too generally known, and too perceptible through his modest deportment, not to bespeak attention and favour for whatever fell from him. These moral qualities were still more important in the relations of private life.In society, his good sense, and various knowledge,

were adorned by a most pure taste, and by an unusual degree of unaffected elegance in familiar conversation. As he was modest and delicate, he had somewhat of the neighbouring quality of reserve; and though his polished manners pleased those who were strangers to him, the charms of his society were felt only by his intimate friends. In the midst of the praises offered by a whole Parliamest to the memory of Mr Horner, none of the affecting speeches delivered on all sides, conveyed more evidently the tribute of a kindred spirit than that of Mr Elliott. As his own constant friendship survived the shock of political difference, he reaped the reward of this excellent part of his nature, in never exciting alienation in his friends when he differed from them the most widely and at the most critical moments. On one occasion he was compelled to dissent from that venerable person (Lord Fitzwilliam), whom he called "the last link in his public and private friendships." It was a grievous calamity; but it served more brightly to display the firmness of his princ ples, and the tenderness of his friendship. Both these excellent persons reverenced each other the more for their conscientious difference; and their friendship was consolidated (for a time, alas! too short) by that which dissolves vulgar connexions.

Lately-At Kenton, aged 96, Mr Joseph Carnall. He lived fifty-three years in the service of the present and late Lord Viscount Courtenay, and rode post from Powderham Castle to Exeter every day (and frequently twice a-day) during the above pe riod of time, without experiencing an hour's ill

ness.

In these repeated journies he had travelled upwards of 300,000 miles, being more than twelve times the circumference of the whole earth.

At Ferry, near Gainsborough, aged 104 years and six months, perfectly sensible to the last, and till a few days before her death in good health, Mrs Barbary Dodgson.

At the village of Ruthwell, aged sixty-two years, Mr Stewart Lewis, a most singular and eccentric character. He was a native of Ecclefechan; and his father, who was of jacobitical principles, named him Stewart, after the unfortunate House of that name: he had a brother, who was called Charles, after Prince Charles, commonly called the Pretender. The life of poor Stewart was chequered in the extreme. In his early years, he herded cows in the neighbourhood of Ecclefechan. Shortly after, he engaged in a mercantile concern near Chester, but was deceived by the villainy of his partner, who fled to America, with a considerable sum, leaving Lewis to answer all demands. He voluntarily gave up all; but this misfortune hurt his feelings so much, that he began to live rather freely-a habit which he never afterwards could relinquish. After some time he returned to Scotland, and married the first and only woman he ever loved. He then travelled for some time in Dumfries-shire, selling cloth, and occasionally cultivating his vein for the Muses. When Lord Hopetoun raised his fencible regiment, he entered into that corps, and continued till they were disbanded in 1799. He then got employment from a Mr Melville in Dysart, at a spinning mill near Leslie, he remained there four years, and then went to Glasgow; being unable to procure employment there, he proceeded to Edinburgh, where he resided many years, living chiefly upon what his poems produced, which his wife went about selling. She, however, died in the spring of 1817, and he continued to lament her loss till the last moment of his existence. After this the life of Stewart had something truly romantic in it. He travelled, vending his productions, along with his son; but, from a principle of modesty, always the companion of real genius, he never applied personally to any one;

when he came near a house of respectability, he sent a card by his son hoping they would purchase a copy. After nearly twice completing the tour of Scotland, he fell sick and died at Ruthwell, as above mentioned. What is very singular, he is interred in the same grave which contains the remains of his father, grandfather, and great grandfather. While Stewart lived in Edinburgh, his house was the common resort of the students from Dumfries-shire. In the summer of 1817, he tra velled all over the Highlands, and remained nearly a whole day on the lofty summit of Ben-Nevis. During the present year Lewis perambulated the counties of Cumberland, Westmoreland, and Durham, Berwickshire, Fifeshire, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, and lastly Dumfries-shire. He wrote "Fair Helen of Kirkconnel Lee," the "African Slave," and several other pieces of merit. He has left one son and three daughters. His funeral was respectably attended; and we understand that a stone is to be erected to his memory, by the admirers of this singularly unfortunate bard.

At Falkirk, at the early age of 25 years, Mr William Maxwell Wilson, of a consumption. This young gen leman was brought up to the seafaring line-got the command of a ship, in which he traded to America. He at one time saved the cargo and ship Sibyl, of 300 tons, which he found at sea deserted by her crew, and carried her safe into Charleston; and, again returning from Jamaica, he saved the crew of the ship' Orpheus, from Liverpool, and the ship filling fast, with the greatest difficulty Captain Wilson and his boat's crew escaped the vortex of the sinking vessel. This last exer. tion brought on a consumption which terminated his existence-justly regretted by all who knew

him.

At Strachur, Argyleshire, Dr Ivie Campbell. On the morning of the day on which he died he enjoy ed excellent health, and had eaten a hearty breakfast. As the day happened to be rainy, he overheated himself by joining too actively with his servants in housing corn. Having got up at an early hour, it was thought he had fallen asleep, when he had leaned over some sheaves that were placed before him, but, alas! it was the sleep of death! A blood-vessel had burst, which instantly deprived him of sense and life.

In the Trinity-house, Hull, in his 90th year, Mr Joseph Wilson, the oldest shipmaster belonging to that port. He was at Lisbon at the time of the great earthquake in 1755.

The celebrated Swedish botanist, Schwartz, whose name has been given to two plants.

At her house, in Baggot-street, Dublin, the Hon. Mrs Jocelyn, relict of the Hon. George Jocelyn, brother to the Earl of Roden.

At Oaksey, Wiltshire, aged 80, Mr Fozard, of Ecclestone-street, Pimlico, formerly of Park-lane. At Dunfermline, in the 83d year of her age, Mrs Anne Lamont, widow of Mr James Tait, writer, Edinburgh.

At his lodgings, Adam-street West, Portmansquare, London, Mr John Murphy, long celebrated as an eminent professor of the union pipes: a man steady in friendship, and of sound integrity. His loss will be long felt by the admirers of Scotch and Irish music.

At Cork, John Bernard Trotter, Esq. late private secretary to the late Right Hon. C. J. Fox.

At Crookedstone, in Killead, Mr John Montgomerie, farmer, in his 105th year. His ancestors were distinguished for their longevity, his grandfather reached 120 years.

At Edinburgh, three weeks after having given birth to a son and heir, Elizabeth, wife of the Hon. Charles Noel Noel, of Barham Court, Kent.

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