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the Hon. John Tuchet, succeeds to the title and estates.

- At Edinburgh, Mr James West, late leathermerchant, Netherbow, aged 87.

25. At Milton of Durno, in the 78th year of his age, James Garioch, Esq. of Gariochsford.

At Valenciennes, Colonel Sir Wm. Douglas, K.C.B. 91st regiment.

26. At Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Helen M'Lagan, wife of Mr James Inverarity, merchant there.

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At his son's house, 32, Thistle-street, Edinburgh, in the 67th year of his age, George Smart, Esq. of London. He was one of the founders and treasurer of that excellent institution, the New Musical Fund.

27. At her house in George-street, Edinburgh, Lady Ann Hope Johnstone of Annandale, wife of Rear-admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, K.C.B. member for the county of Dumfries. Lady Ann belonged to that class of characters whose deaths are justly regarded as a public calamity as well as a private loss. In her own family she was every thing that is amiable and excellent; the most affectionate wife, and the most indulgent, yet the most judicious mother. When she mingled in the fashionable world, her demeanour was such as befitted the daughter of a Scottish nobleman, and the spouse of a British admiral; but home, the native soil of all the domestic virtues, was the scene of her truest enjoyments; and there are few who have visited her hospitable mansion without retaining a warm sense of the unbounded goodness of her heart, and the unaffected simplicity of her manners. To every victim of misery and misfortune she was the unwearied and beneficent friend. Indeed, to the poor in general, as well as to her own family, her loss is irreparable.

At Rednock-house, Robert Graham, Esq. W.S.

-At Leith, Mr Mungo Henderson, merchant

there.

29. At Crieff, Mr James Arnott, aged 61. -At his house at Banner-Cross, near Sheffield, in the county of York, Lieut.-general Murray.

-At Jersey, Major Wall, of the royal artillery. The death of this officer, in a few hours, was occa sioned by the bursting of a blood-vessel. He had been married only about three weeks to a very amiable lady (Miss Edwards of Arundel). The He started circumstances were truly afflicting.

from his bed, and ran to the window, complaining of a pain in his chest. His terrified wife hastened to his assistance just in time to receive him in her arms a breathless corpse!

30. At Canaan Grove, Robert Wilson, Esq. accountant in Edinburgh.

-At Dumfries, Thomas Clark, Esq. adjutant of the Dumfries-shire militia, aged 40.

31. At Airfield, Mr John Scott, late merchant, Dalkeith.

-At the Holt, near Bishop's Waltham, Admiral Sir Robert Calder, Bart. in the 74th year of his age. Sept. 2. At Dunbar, Mrs Elizabeth Drysdale.

3. At Glasgow, in the 60th year of his age, Mr John Bell, merchant. He was distinguished for his learning in the Oriental languages, his industry and benevolence.

-At Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Scott, surgeon,
Edinburgh.

At Arbroath, Mrs Kyd, wife of Provost Kyd. 4. At Belfast, Mr James Crossen, cotton-manufacturer there, in the 67th year of his age, and 26th of business.

-At Richmond, the Right Hon. Lady Hervey, widow of Lord Hervey, eldest son of the late Eari of Bristol, Bishop of Derry.

-At Dalkeith, Mr Thomas Milne, supervisor of excise.

5. At Inch, by Dunkeld, Captain Alexander Fraser, royal navy.

6. At Powderhall, near Edinburgh, Thomas Currie, Esq. merchant in Glasgow.

7. At her house in Arundel-street, Strand, Lon-
don, Mrs Morton, widow of the late Mr John Mor-
ton, many years printer of the Sunday Review.

In Drummond-street, Edinburgh, aged 78,
John Bogue, Esq. writer to the signet.

-At St Andrews, in the 92d year of her age,
Mrs Helen Tullideph, daughter of the late Prin-
cipal Tullideph, and relict of the Rev. James
Jobson, late minister of Errol.

At Bucharn, the Rev. Robert Leith, minister of Towie.

-At Bath, Maria Elizabeth Margaret, wife of Major-general Orde, eldest daughter of William Beckford, Esq. of Fonthill Abbey, and sister of the Marchioness of Douglas.

8. At Muircoat, near Alloa, William Geddes, Esq. one of the partners and chief manager of the late Alloa Glass-house Company.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Dundas, widow of the Right Hon. Robert Dundas of Arniston, Lord President of the Court of Session.

9. At Cassels Place, Leith, Grace, infant daughter of Mr Walter Cowan, merchant there.

-At Teddington, near London, William Forbes, the infant son of Dr Ashburner, Fitzroy-square.

10. At Ashtead Park, Surrey, in the 75d year of her age, the Hon. Frances, wife of Richard Howard, Esq. daughter of William Viscount Andover, and sister to Henry, the 12th Earl of Suffolk.

After a short illness, aged 71, Mr Stephen Jackson, 45 years editor of the Ipswich Journal, and nephew of the late Mr William Craighton, who first printed it on the 17th of February 1758-9.

11. At Edinburgh, Miss Mary Cunningham Macvicar, youngest daughter of the late Neil Macvicar, Esq. of Fergushill.

- At his Mines at Leadhills, Lanarkshire, John Horner, aged 65 years.

14. Mrs Park, wife of Mr Archibald Park, collector of customs, Tobermory, Mull.

15. At St Andrews, Mrs Dr Melville. 16. At South Shields, of typhus fever, Mr Wil. liam Beveridge, baker.

17. At her house in Castle-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Congalton, relict of Dr Charles Congalton."

At Paris, the Right Hon. Lady James Hay. -At his seat at Uffington, near Stamford, Lincolnshire, aged 74, the Right Hon. Albemarle Bertie, Earl of Lindsey, a general in the army, colonel of the 89th regiment of foot, and governor of Charlemont. His Lordship is succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest son, Albemarle, Lord Bertie, born 14th November 1814.

18. At Kirkcaldy, Miss Jane Landale.

19. Miss Scott, James's Court, Lawnmarket. Edinburgh.

-At Ford, Path-head, Miss Catherine P. Torrance, daughter of the late Mr David Torrance. 20. At Glasgow, Mr James Ritchie.

21. At Urrad, John Stewart, Esq. of Urrad.

At Edinburgh, John Robertson, Esq. of Bellemont, St Elizabeth, Jamaica, many years a medical practitioner in that island.

25. At Canterbury, Captain Alexander M'Intosh, of the 48th regiment, of disease contracted by fatigue in the service of his country during the Peninsular war, in which he was wounded at the battle of Albuera. He was a brave officer and worthy man, much esteemed by his friends and brother officers.

Lately-In the 69th year of his age, the Count of Oxinstein, the father of the Swedish nobility. This nobleman translated Paradise Lost, and was esteemed one of the first poets of his country.

James Bindley, Esq. one of the commissioners of stamps for upwards of half a century.

At Lyons, the Right Hon. Lady Cecilia Charlotte Leeson, eldest daughter of Lady Cloncurry, and Her rank as an carl's only sister of Earl Milltown.

daughter had only a few months ago been confirmed by order of the Prince Regent. She was in her 17th year, and one of the most accomplished and admired ladies of her country.

At Littlecot, Colonel W. Kelly, C.B. and lieutenant-colonel of his Majesty's 21th regiment of foot. The services of this gallant officer were extended to the four quarters of the globe. In Egypt, the Peninsula, America, and latterly in India, he alike distinguished himself; and repeated official reports of the Duke of Wellington, as well as of the Marquis of Hastings, bear ample and honour. able testimony to the gallant conduct of this brave and excellent officer. His death was occasioned by a wound he had received at the battle of Vittoria, from the effects of which (though subsequently commanding a brigade in India) he never recovered.

The last report of the African Institution announces the death of the well-known black merehant, Captain Paul Cuffee.

At Richmond, Lady Harvey.

Oliver & Boyd, Printers.

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AND JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, LONDON;
To whom Communications (post paid) may be addressed;

SOLD ALSO BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM.

[OLIVER & BOYD, Printers.]

WE have received the following articles, which shall be inserted (if possible) in the course of the winter:-Remarks on Schlegel's Essay on the Language and Poetry of the Provençals-Anecdotes of the present King of Persia-“ An Elder,” (we shall be happy to hear from this Correspondent upon subjects of a less limited interest)-On the Works of the Duchess of Newcastle-Observations on Training-Review of Surtees's History of Durham-Letter on Leith, by a Young Dantzicker-Account of Donald Bane's Art of Defence-Memoirs of Thomas Purdie-The Dyvot-Flaughter, a Pastoral Poet's Midnight Dream-A Godlye Ballade, shewinge forthe the sudden and wonderful conversion of the Edinburgh Reviewers-Parallel between Hugh Peters and a Modern Fashionable Clergyman-A Poetical Epistle from Aix-la-Chapelle, by William Wastle, Esq.-Observations on the Revolt of Islam, a Poem, by Percy Bysshe ShellyOn Canova's Head of Helen-On Chantry's Statues of Lord Melville and President Blair -On Turner's Liber Studiorum-On Puppet Shows-Two Epistles, in Verse, to Thomas Moore, Esq.

The " Elegia sopra la Morte flebilissima del Marchese Ottone" is deferred till we have leisure to inquire, accurately, whether the fatal event it deplores has really taken place. We are induced to be the more careful in this matter, because we received last week a very sorrowful ditty (to the tune of "Like Leviathans afloat") upon the death of one of our most valued Correspondents, which we were just sending off to the Printer, when we observed the supposed Naufrage brushing along the pavèe, “tres audacieusement.”

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No XX.

NOVEMBER 1818.

VOL. IV.

AN ACCOUNT OF ACBER II. THE PRESENT GREAT MOGUL, OR EMPEROR OF DELHI, WITH THE MODERN HISTORY OF THAT CITY TO A RECENT DATE.

A MIGHTY dynasty, which long filled the chief place in the history of India, has gradually disappeared from its annals; and although still possessing both, by many is not known to have either a local habitation or a name. It may consequently be supposed that some account of the existing sovereign of Delhi, of his ancient capital, and of the political relations in which he stands towards the British government, will not be unacceptable or destitute of interest, now that the cessation of European warfare has restored to India that portion of attention to which it was always entitled, but which has been for many years suspended by the vital importance of the tremendous conflict, at length brought to so happy a conclusion. As introductory to the subject, it will be necessary to give a brief sketch of the long, eventful, and disastrous reign of the present prince's father and predecessor, Shah Allum the Second.

This monarch ascended the throne in 1761, and commenced his reign by an unprovoked and ill-conducted attack on the British possessions in Bengal, then recently acquired; but being baffled and repulsed by the Company's troops, and foreseeing that he was more likely to benefit by their friendship than hostility, he altered his system of politics, and voluntarily surrendered himself at the British camp, without treaty, condition, or stipulation. On the acquisition of the Dewanny by Lord Clive, in 1765, a pension of 26 lacks of rupees was assigned to him, with a considerable tract of fertile territory in Upper Hindostan, both of which he forfeited in

1771, by quitting the protection of his benefactors, and repairing to Delhi, where he became a prisoner and political instrument in the custody of the Maharattas.

These marauders, by a series of continual encroachments and conquests, after the dissolution of the Mogul empire, had extended their dominions over a great part of Hindostan; about 1770, Delhi, its ancient capital, came also under their sway, and was governed by officers of their nation when Shah Allum put himself under their protection. The inefficiency of this protection he afterwards most wofully experienced; for in 1788, Gholaum Kaudir the Rohillah, having, by a sudden irruption, made himself master of Delhi, seized the unfortunate emperor, and after exposing him for many weeks to every species of insult and degradation, in order to extort the disclosure of supposed concealed treasures, concluded by piercing his eyes with a dagger, so as completely to extinguish the sight. For the attainment of the same object, he massacred, starved to death, and tortured, many of the royal family and of the chief inhabitants of Delhi, but was himself soon overtaken by a retribution; for being compelled to quit the city by a detachment from Sindia's army, he was captured during his flight, and expired under tortures exactly like those which he had so mercilessly inflicted. A detail of the atrocities committed by this wretch, or madman, would only create disgust; but some exposure seemed necessary, that the reader might b enabled to compare the prior felicit

(as it has been called) of the Mogul emperor, with the oppression which, with equal truth, it has been asserted, his descendants suffer under the British domination.

Nor was the misery of his condition alleviated by the transfer in Jaghire, which about this period took place, of Delhi and some adjacent territory, to the French officers commanding the corps of disciplined infantry retained in the service of Madhagee, and afterwards of his nephew, Dowlet Row Sindia; for although the aged emperor came successively under the ostensible superintendence of M. de Boigne, M. Perron, and M. Drugcon, he effectively remained a prisoner in the hands of the native Maharatta officers, and subjected to all their proverbial rapacity. During 1802, when there were fifty-two sons and daughters of the emperor, the monthly stipend allowed to each prince of the imperial family did not exceed 15 rupees per month (£21 per annum); and the sums disbursed by M. Drugeon, who had charge of the emperor's person, for the aggregate expenses of his Majesty, the royal family, dependants, and establishments, amounted to only 17,000 rupees per month, or £23,664 per annum, while, with an avarice and meanness almost unparalleled, the Maharattas retained and converted to their own use all the gardens and houses, in and about the city, which were royal property.

Upon this wretched pittance the descendants of a monarch (Aurengzebe), whose revenue was under-estimated at 32 millions sterling, were compelled to subsist, or rather to starve; for there is reason to apprehend they were frequently destitute of the commonest necessaries, and certainly of all the comforts of life. But low as Shah Allum's income had fallen, his authority had fallen still lower; for his name was never brought forward but to sanction some unjust claim, or to legalize extortion. The individual placed near his person by the Maharattas, administered justice and injustice on all occasions, without the slightest reference to his imperial prisoner; great cruelties were exercised in his name, for the basest purposes; commerce was obstructed, or rather annihilated; and the city became the asylum of all sorts of banditti who could purchase impunity.

Such was the desolation of this ancient capital in 1803, when Lord Lake, having defeated the army of Dowlet Row Sindia, six miles from Delhi, on the 11th of September, entered it next day, to the infinite joy of the aged emperor, whose subsequent conduct, however, evinced a greater eagerness to profit by the existing confusion, than any sense of gratitude to the brave army which had effected his liberation. Soon after his arrival, Lord Lake was informed, that a sum of money, amounting to six lacks of rupees, had been lodged in the care of M. Drugeon, the commandant of Delhi, for the payment of his troops, of which sum that officer had only disbursed 60,000 rupees; and that on the approach of the British army, to prevent their obtaining it, the Frenchman had transferred the balance to the emperor's treasurer, Shah Nawauz Khan. The commander-in-chief being satisfied that the treasure in question was enemy's property, thus attempted to be fraudulently withheld, claimed it for the British forces, his Majesty, after some deliberation, despatched the amount to the camp. This tardy act of justice was accompanied with a message, stating the money to be a donation from the emperor to the troops that had relieved him from his captivity with the Maharattas, and placed him under the long-desired protection of the British nation.

Lord Lake received the money, and referred the decision of the question to the Marquis Wellesley, then governorgeneral, who, without delay, informed the commander-in-chief, that the sum being unquestionably enemy's property, its surreptitious transfer, on the advance of the British army, could not alter its nature, and that it consequently could be accepted in no other light than prize-money, the legitimate right of the captors. The state of indigence and misery to which his Majesty, the royal family and household, had been subjected by the Maharattas,

the degraded and destitute condition to which the imperial house of Timour had been reduced by Sindia's officers,-and the utterly deplorable circumstances in which Lord Lake found the emperor on the surrender of Delhi,-precluded the possibility of supposing that M. Drugeon, by a sudden impulse of generosity, intended so large a sum to alleviate the sufferings

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