25. At Maryville, by Haddington, Mrs Mary Hepburn, relict of the late Patrick Downey, Esq. of Prestonpans. At Dunfermline, aged 59, Captain John Wardlaw, late of the Royal Marines, in which respectable corps he served, with unstained reputation, between 30 and 40 years. Wrecked at sea, on her passage to Aberdeen, Jean Inglis, aged 18, (far advanced in pregnancy,) wife of Lieutenant William Drumbeck, of the royal navy. - At Edinburgh, William Gibbes, the infant son of Harbourne Gibbes Straghan, Esq. 27. Dr Primrose Blair, physician to his Majesty's fleet, at his apartments in St Martin's lane, London. At Edinburgh, George Edward, eldest son of the Rev. Henry Grey. At Drummochy, in Fife, Miss Magdalene Coutts, only daughter of Mr Ebenezer Coutts. 28. At Riccarton, James Hay, some time a soldier in the 56th regiment of foot, aged 111. He served as a soldier 36 years, and has now been 35 years an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital. 29. At Glasgow, Captain John Maxwell, of the 14th regiment of foot, 30. At Cahir-house, county of Tipperary, the Right Hon. Richard Butler, Earl of Glengal, and one of the representative peers of Ireland. His title devolves on his eldest son, the Hon. Richard Butler, Lord Viscount Cahir. At her family-seat, Leslie-house, in the county of Fife, the Right Hon. Henrietta Ann, Countess of Rothes, Baroness Leslie and Ballenbreich, in the 29th year of her age. Her ladyship has left six children (two sons and four daughters) by her husband, George Leslie of Leslie, Esq.; and is succeeded in her honours and estates by their eldest son, George William Evelyn Leslie, now Earl of Rothes, Lord Leslie and Ballenbreich. At Leith, Mr Richard Ged, jun. -Mary Carson L'Amy, eldest daughter of James L'Amy of Dunkenny, Esq. advocate. 31. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Cunningham, relict of the late Mr James Cunningham, writer, Edinburgh. -At Leith, William Lanigan, gunner, royal navy. At Portobello, Mrs Creelman, wife of William Creelman, Esq. At Irvine, the Rev. John Duncan, minister of Ardrossan, in the 71st year of his age, and 30th of his ministry. Feb. 1. At Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, Lady Elizabeth Boyle, second daughter of the Earl of Glasgow. At Edinburgh, Mrs Susan Smith, relict of Mr David Buchan, General Post-Office, Edinburgh, -At Dumfries, in the 91st year of her age, Mrs Isabella Kelburn, relict of Mr Allan M'Lachlan, printer and bookseller. 2. At Glasgow, John Riddell, M.D. a gentleman well known in the literary world. In Wimpole-street, London, Jane, eldest daughter of the late Robert Arbuthnot, Esq. of Edinburgh. 3. At Castle-street, Edinburgh, in the 17th year of his age, Andrew, third son of the late James Tod of Deanstoun, Esq. Mrs Jean Auchinleck, spouse of Mr Ninian Richard Cheyne, St John street, Edinburgh. 4. At Edinburgh, Thomas Young, only son of Mr William Young, Stamp-office. At Edinburgh, Mrs Kirkhom, late of Brumpton, Middlesex. At Cheetwood, Lancashire, James Banks Robinson, late of the royal navy, in his 71st year. He was 50 years in his Majesty's service, and fought in twelve general engagements, among which were those of the Nile and Trafalgar, when he acted as pilot to the fleet. He commenced his career with the celebrated Bruce, and was one of the desperate few who carried up the bowl of punch, and sacrificed to Bacchus, on the top of Pompey's Pillar. 7. At Edinburgh, Jane Gordon Peterkin; and on the 9th, James Charles Peterkin, youngest children of the late James Peterkin, Esq. of Grange, 8. At Portobello, much and justly regretted, Miss Anne Nicolson, sixth daughter of the late G. Nicolson of Jerviston, Esq. At Crieff, Mr James Wright. At Hume, at an advanced age, Mr Thomas Shephard; and, on the 10th, Isabel, his wife. 9. At her mother's house, Nicolson-square, Edinburgh, aged 20, Martha, eldest daughter of the late William Renton, Esq. 10. At Barns-street, Ayr, William Logan, Esq. major of the late West-Lothian Fencibles. - At Edinburgh, George Campbell, Esq. late comptroller of the customs at Dunbar. 13. Mr Michael Watson, shipbroker, Leith. -At Walgram, in Northamptonshire, the Rev. Alexander Payne, father of the Rev. Geo. Payne, Edinburgh. At his father's house, in Bank-street, Edinburgh, Alexander, second son of Mr Brown, solicitor-at-law. 14. John Sackeouse, aged 22, a native of the west coast of Greenland. 15. At Lauriston-place, Edinburgh, Mary Jane, youngest daughter of Mr Murdoch Cunningham. At Edinburgh, Jessie, the infant daughter of Mr Alexander Milne, Royal Bank. At Edinburgh, Mrs Davidson of Ravelrig, 16. At Ashton-hall, Lancashire, in the 79th year of his age, his Grace Archibald, Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, &c. His Grace was the second son of James, Duke of Hamilton, by Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Spencer, Esq. He succeeded his nephew, Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, in 1799. Married, in 1765, Lady Harriot Stewart, daughter of Alexander, Earl of Galloway, by whom he has left Alexander, now Duke of Hamilton; Lord Archibald Hamilton, M.P. for Lanarkshire; the Duchess of Somerset, Lady Anne, and the Countess of Dunmore. The present Duke married Miss S, E. Beckford, daughter of William Beckford of Fonthill, Esq. by whom he has one son, William, now Marquis of Douglas, and a daughter. - Of a consumption, in South St David-street, St Andrew's-square, Mrs Jane Bland, of Frederickstreet, Edinburgh. At Leith, Mr Robert Craig, intendant of the police of that town. At Edinburgh, Simon Frazer, Esq. late of the ordnance-department in the island of Bermuda. 17. Mrs Agnes Murray, spouse of Mr John Panton, Knockymill, Aberdeenshire. - At Edinburgh, of an inflammation in the liver, George Ranken, Esq. late superintendant surgeon on the Bengal establishment. At his house, Bromley, Kent, in the 74th year of his age, William Walmisley, Esq. nearly 20 years clerk of the papers of the House of Lords. Lately-At Notter, near Landrake, LieutenantColonel O'Docherty, of the royal marines, one of the most eccentric characters, perhaps in England. At Garlieston, Wigtonshire, Mr John Dunsmore, miller, at an advanced age, leaving property to the amount of £14,000, the whole of which he acquired at Garlieston. He was confined only three weeks. In his desk were found eleven hundred pounds, packed up with old iron, nails, &c.; he kept the key of his treasure under his head till he expired. By the last arrivals from Madras, accounts have been received of the death of Major-General James Innes, third son of the deceased John Innes of Edingight, Esq. in the county of Banff. At her residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the Dowager Countess of Sefton. Her ladyship was in the 71st year of her age; she had been ill about three months. At London, Major-General John Wilson, colonel of the late 4th Ceylon regiment. At his seat, Thorpe-lee, Surrey, in the 67th year of his age, Sir Henry Tempest, Bart. of Tonghall, county of York, and Hope-end, county of Hereford, the last branch of the very ancient family of the Tempests of Tong. At Toulouse, Marguerite Reinaud, at the age of 117 years. She was born in 1701, was married in 1721, and became a widow in 1735. She had lived free from infirmities, and preserved to the last mement the full use of her faculties. ACADEMICAL Institution, on the prospects of a new one at Edinburgh, 217. Administration, on the present state of the, Africa, hints concerning the colonization of, Ægina marbles, remarks on the, 420. American sea serpent, account of, 100.- Ancient city, remains of an, discovered near literature, on the revival of a taste for our, 264. Anecdote, singular one, 330. Antar, remarks on the romance of, 385. Arabians and Persians, on the trade &c. of, Ascent to the south needle of Chammouni, Asteria, a Roman lady of the fourth cen- Automaton che-player, exhibiting in Lon- Balfour, Dr, of Glasgow, character of the Blue mountains of Jamaica, account of an Books, notices of reprints of curious old Böttiger, translation from the German of, Brahmin Rammohun Roy, on the English Breakwaters of Plymouth Sound, and of Bride of Corinth, a poem, from Goëthe, 688. Callender, Mr, of Craigforth, his notes on Campaign of 1815, remarks on General Gourgaud's account of the, 220, Candide of Voltaire, remarks on, 155. Carriages without horses, account of, 237. Catalogue of pictures at Augsburg, 318. Censorship, literary, remarks on, 176. Chammouni, ascent to the South needle of, Character and manners of the Tyrolese, 585. Civita Vecchia, breakwater of, 561. Colonization of Africa, hints respecting, 652. Commercial Reports, 110, 247, 373, 496, Congelation, limit of, 99. Corinth, the Bride of, a poem, 688. Crusades, remarks on the, (from the Ger- Births, lists of, 116, 251, 380, 508, 636, Dandy Club, the, a pantomime, performed 767. in London, account of, 448. Deaths, lists of, 117, 252, 381, 509, 637, in Paris, during 1817, 489. D'Israeli, Mr, review of his work on the literary character, 14. Domestic Letters of the Earl of Rochester, Dragoon, a heavy, remarks on poems by, Drama, acted, in London, notices of, No. Dressing-room of a rich Roman lady, scenes Dressing-box of a Roman lady of the fourth Edinburgh, remarks on the new academical Edith and Nora, a pastoral poet's dream, Education in the United States, on the Naval, remarks on, 345. 257. Esquimaux, account of a tribe of, discover- eouse, the, 656. Fascinating power of serpents, example of, 102. Fortune (from the Italian of Guidi) 162. Franklin, Dr, the only American philoso- Funds, public, on the principles of the, 55, Garrick, anecdotes of, 52. Gas, discovery of a new inflammable, 100. Goethe, on the critique of his life in the Gourgaud, General, on his account of the Gray the poet, letter of, to Count Algarotti, Greece, remarks on the present state of civi- Greenland, on the temperature of, 234. Hills, height of, in Scotland, 99. Edinburgh, prospectus of the, 488. Nature, remarks on the capacities of, 649. Jerry, St, the Eve of, by Ensign Odoherty, India, mineralogy of, 599. Instrument, notice of one to hear by the Interlude, account of a religious one per- Kalendar, Perpetual, notice of a, 694. Kempf herhausen, translations from the Ger- Knebelite, account of a mineral so named, Knowledge, of its effects upon society, 80. Lake School of Poetry, essays on, 257. Landaff, the late Bishop of, on the Edin- of the Hon. Horace Walpole, 40.- Letter of the Emperor of Morocco to concerning Hayti, and its black emperor, 130. to Professor Pictet, on ascents to from an officer concerning the polar on the present state of administra- from Lieut. King, on his survey of s of Dr Sternstare, on the national from Lausanne, 198, 277. from the Lakes, 396, 735. Literary Censorship, remarks on, 176. Ludlow, General, monument of, in Swit- Mackenzie, Lieut., account of his system of Manners and character of the Tyrolese, 585. Medical instrument, account of a new one, Medical Schools of Dublin and Edinburgh, Memnon's Head, on its removal from The bes to Alexandria, by M. Belzoni, 417. Memoirs written in the fifteenth century, 407. Meridian, measurement of an arc of, in Metaphysics, on the decline of a taste for, Meteorological Reports, 109, 246, 377, 495, Meteorological observations, abstract of, for Mineral called Knebelite, account of, 237. Minstrel, the, of Bruges (concluded), 5. Mogul, the Great, account of, 121. Moore, Thomas, remarks on his poetry, 1. Morocco, letter of the Emperor of, to Queen Narrative illustrative of Pastoral Life, 663. Natural History, inaccuracies of poets in, Naval Education, remarks on, 345. Northern Herculaneum, searches for a, in North Pole, account of the expedition to, North-west passage, progress of the expedi- Pugilism, on the connexion between, 722. Parisina, the story of, 411. Pasquinades on the late French ministry, Pastoral Life, narrative illustrative of, 663. measuring the length of the, 182. Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk, observations Phillips, Charles, remarks on his speech in Pictet, Professor, of Geneva, his account of 561. by a Heavy Dragoon, remarks on, 76. The Complaint of Ceres, 161.- Poetry, on the Lake School of, 257. of the Agricultural and Pastoral English, remarks on Campbell's spe- Painting, Statuary, Politics, and Poets, on their inaccuracies in Natural Polar Expedition, account of the, 95.- Politics, Statuary, Painting, Poetry, and Prediction, observations on, 266. Pride and Vanity, on the difference between, Provençal Language and Literature, Schle- Publications, monthly list of new ones, 106, Purchas, versification of a passage in, 344. Reflections on the Theory of Population, Religion and Patriotism of the Edinburgh 220.-On the Religion and Patriotism of Review of Mr D'Israeli on the Literary Review, Edinburgh, on its account of the Revolt of Islam, a poem, observations on, 475. Rochester, Domestic Letters of John Wil- Rogers, Samuel, Review of his Poem, Hu- Roper, W. remarks on his Life of Sir Sabina (from the German of Böttiger), 42, Sackeouse, John, the Esquimaux, account Savoy, Sketches of Scenery in, 582. Scheffer's Essay on English Politics, re- Schiller, translations from the German of, Schlegel, observations by, on the Provençal Scientific and Literary Intelligence, 99, 234, Scoresby, Captain, on the temperature of Scotland, height of hills in, 99. Scottish Peasantry, poetical because they are Selections from Athenæus, 23, 413. |