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16. In Queen-street, Edinburgh, the lady of Alexander Norman Macleod, Esq. of Harris, a son. 17. At Dalkeith, Mrs Wr. Graham, a daughter. Lately At Eaglesham, the wife of John Biggar, a weaver, was safely delivered of three female children, who, with the mother, are all doing well. Mrs George Bell, 32, St Andrew-square, Edinburgh, a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

Oct. 12. At Hart-street, Edinburgh, Robert Boog, Esq. solicitor before the Supreme Courts, to Mrs Henrietta Scott, relict of Lieut.-Colonel William Scott, late in the service of the Honourable East India Company on the Bengal establishment.

13. At Bess Brook, Ireland, Mr Michael Reynolds, aged 81, to the accomplished Miss Ann Rea, Carrickcruppen. Immediately after the hymeneal knot, the bride, a slip who only hath attained her 73d year, supported by a crutch, repaired with her rib to a neighbouring alehouse, to spend in festivity the nuptial hour.

-At Westbury, Daniel Fripp, Esq. to Miss Sarah Steuart Powell, youngest daughter of Timothy Powell, Esq. Bristol.

23. At Falkirk, Mr Thomas Gibb, merchant, Edinburgh, to Miss Mary Colvin.

24. At Foss, Joseph Stewart Menzies, Esq. of Foss, to Margaret, only daughter of the late Mr James Pollock, Edinburgh.

26. Captain James Crerar, of the royal navy, to Joan, daughter of Captain John Clyne, shipmaster in Leith.

- At Dumblane, Mr John Ferguson, surgeon in Dumblane, to Mary Ann, daughter of the late Rev. Robert Stirling, minister of the gospel there.

30. At East Breech, Mr William Potts, merchant, Edinburgh, to Lilias, second daughter of Thomas Sym, Esq. of East Breech.

Nov. 1. George Stuart, Esq. captain of the 3d, or Buffs, to Alicia Inston, only daughter of the late Rev. Henry Dunkin, rector of Glassough, county of Monaghan, Ireland.

2. At Biggar, the Rev. Alexander Jack, Dunbar, to Elizabeth, daughter of James Hamilton of Badensgill, Esq.

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At London, Mr Joseph Louthian, to Janet, youngest daughter of David Tod, Esq. Cold Bath Square.

3. At Lockerbie, Mr William Maxwell Little, S. S. C. Edinburgh, to Ann, daughter of William Martin, Esq. of Blackford.

4. James Dickson, surgeon, royal navy, to Miss Janet Jeffrey, daughter of George Jeffrey, Esq. New Kelso, Ross-shire.

6. At Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Brown, merchant, Edinburgh, to Helen, youngest daughter of Mr William Gibb, merchant there.

-At Edinburgh, Captain Albert Cummings of London, to Margaret, only daughter of the deceased Rev. Joseph Johnstone, minister of Innerleithen.

9. At Stobo Manse, Mr Charles Balfour Scott, writer to the signet, to Eliza, youngest daughter of the Rev. Alexander Ker, minister of Stobo.

10. At Bowland, Samuel Sproull, Esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late William Walker, Esq. and niece of Colonel Walker of Bowland.

At Glasgow, Mr Peter Forbes, merchant, Edinburgh, to Jane, second daughter of William Irvine, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.

At Edinburgh, John Hood, Esq of Stoneridge, to Jane Anne, second daughter of the late Alexander Low, Esq. of Annfield.

At Glenfernate, R. R. Bruce, Esq. Honourable East India Company's service, to Miss Catherine Barron Spottiswoode, daughter of William Spottiswoode, Esq. of Glenfarnate.

12. At St James's, Westminster, the Rev. James Glen, one of the ministers of that parish, to Margaret, widow of the late W. Bruce, Esq. of Couden.

16. At his Grace the Duke of Athol's, at Dunkeld, George Fairholme, of Greenknow, Esq. Berwickshire, to the Hon. Caroline Elizabeth Forbes, eldest daughter of Lieut.-General Lord Forbes. His Royal Highness the Archduke Maximilian of Austria and suite honoured the nuptials with their presence, being on a visit to the family there at the time.

19. At Edinburgh, Captain Nickle, of the 88th regiment, to Elizabeth Ann, daughter of William Dallas, Esq. writer to the signet.

Lately-At Lisbon, Lieutenant Thomas Mitchell of the rifle brigade, eldest son of the late Mr Mit

chell, collector of shore-dues and harbour-master, Grangemouth, to Mary, eldest daughter of Lieut. General Blunt, Major-General in the British army.

DEATHS.

In India, in January last, Captain John Beaumont, 5th regiment, native infantry, son of the late Mr Francis Beaumont.

At Calcutta, in May last, Mr Alexander Cassels, late of the Honourable East India Company's service, youngest son of the deceased Andrew Cassels, Esq. Leith.

June 1. At Calcutta, Mrs Susan Tod, wife of Major George Cadell, 12th Madras native infantry, Adjutant-General subsidiary force, Hydrabad.

Sept. 1. At Havannah, on his way home from South America, Mr John Dickie, only son of the late Mr Alexander Dickie of this city.

3. At Hamilton, Bermuda, Mr Colin Falconer Taylor, eldest surviving son of Mr Taylor, rector of the grammar school of Musselburgh."

25. At Paris, Miss Isabella Bethune Morison, daughter of the deceased William Bethune, Esq. of Blebo.

Oct 1. At Ramsgate, in the 70th year of his age, after a lingering illness, Finlay Fergusson, Esq. F. R. S. of Bentinck-street, Manchester-square, London.

9. Mr Matthew Laycock, carrier between Manchester and Skipton. About two months ago, when returning from the former place, he was bit by a dog supposed to be mad, on which he took the medicine at Colne usually administered in such cases; but when returning from Manchester, on Tuesday, the 6th ult. he began to be unwell, and strong symptoms of the hydrophobia appeared. On the Friday following, he expressed a fear of the returning malady, and wished to see his children; they were brought to him; he gave each of them a kiss; and very soon after, the malady returned, and he died the same day in the greatest agony, barking like a dog.

10. At Haddington, of the palsy, after four days illness, Mr Charles Herriot, aged 69. He taught a private school there for the space of thirty years, with credit to himself. Previous to that, he was a bookseller in the Parliament-square for above 12 years.

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13. At Handsworth, Staffordshire, in the 116th year of her age, Ann Smallwood, widow. was born in 1702, the year Queen Anne came to the throne. She was the mother of 16 children, the eldest of whom, now living, is 80 years old. She had been nearly blind a few years, but all her other faculties she retained to the last.

18. At Lockerby, Mary and Biddy Chambers, sisters. They had lived together nearly the whole of their lives, and expressed a singular solicitude that they might die together: in this their prayers were heard, as they died on the same night, the one at ten, the other at twelve o'clock, and were buried in one grave.

19. In the 56th year of her age, at Colonel Vincent's, Cullen's Wood, near Dublin, the Right Ilon. Catherine, Lady Mount Sandford, daughter of the late Right Hon. Sir Oliver, and relict of the late Lord Mount Sandford.

20. At Perth, Thomas Black, Esq. late Provost, and Collector of the Customs there.

22. At Morpeth, Andrew Marjoribanks, Esq. deputy commissary-general.

At Edinburgh, Mr Matthew Fortune, of the Tontine.

23. At No 1, Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Gall, wife of Mr John Gall, coachmaker, Edinburgh.

At Kirkhill, in her 14th year, May, youngest daughter of Charles Adamson, Esq. paymaster, Aberdeenshire Militia.

At Barr-house, Argyllshire, Miss Sophia Campbell Macalister, only daughter of Colonel Macalister of Barr.

26. At Minto-house, the Right Hon. William Elliot of Wells.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Eliza Hunter, daughter of the late William Hunter, Esq. of Glenormistoun, and spouse of William Campbell, Esq. writer to the signet.

27. At the Harebills, near Leeds, Yorkshire, Mr Griffith Wright. He had attained the advanced age of 87, and was perhaps the oldest proprietor of a newspaper in this kingdom, if not in the world, having established Wright's Leeds Intelligencer, A. D. 1751, nine years before his present Majesty's

accession to the throne. He retired from business more than 35 years since.

- At Mid Calder, Mr James Goodsir, surgeon. 28. At Newington, William Cooper Blyth, son of R. B. Blyth, merchant, Edinburgh.

-At Dee-mount, near Aberdeen, Lieut.-Colonel P. Black, late in the Honourable East India Company's service, on the Bengal establishment, aged 55.

At Edinburgh, at the house of Thomas Adair of Genoch, Esq. clerk to the signet, her grandfather, Agnes, the infant daughter of John Ross, Esq. R. N. captain of the Isabella, and commander of the Northern Expedition, which sailed in May last upon a voyage of discovery.

29. At Berwick-upon-Tweed, in his 75th year, Mr William Graham, carpet-manufacturer there, after a lingering illness, which he bore with the most exemplary fortitude.

-At Mount Edgecumbe (the seat of his father), the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Valletort, after a long illness. His lordship was born in the year 1794.

30. At Buccleugh Place, Edinburgh, Anne, daughter of Mr Young of the Excise.

31. At Edinburgh, after a short illness, Lieut. John Blackburn, of the Dumfriesshire Militia.

John Alston, Esq. banker, Glasgow, in the 75th year of his age.

-At Musselburgh, after a few days' illness, Mrs Susanna Small, relict of Charles Spalding, Esq. late merchant in Edinburgh.

Nov. 2. At Hatfield, Yorkshire, Sir Hector Maclean, Bart. of Marvaren, North Britain.

At Glasgow, Thomas Hotchkis, Esq. brewer in Edinburgh.

4. Stephen Rowan, Esq. of Bellahouston, merchant in Glasgow.

5. At Edinburgh, after a short illness, Francis Ronaldson, Esq. surveyor, General Post Office.

At the Mains of Kellie, John, son of Mr Alexander Bowie, farmer there.

6. At Kenleith, Mr James Proven, paper-maker. -At Boulogne, Mary Jane, the infant daughter of Captain Coll Macdougall.

8. At Stanwix, near Carlisle, aged 83, Mary, the wife of Mr John Carruthers. This woman bore ten children at four births, namely, four, three, two, and one.

9. At his house, in George Square, Edinburgh, Alexander Schaw, Esq. aged 93.

-At Fountainbridge, Edinburgh, Mr John Robertson.

At Corsbie, aged 89, the Right Hon. Lady Euphemia Stuart, sister to the late Earl of Galloway.

10. The Rev. William Ramsay, minister of Cortachy.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Cochrane, wife of William Drysdale, Esq. writer to the signet.

- At Edinburgh, Mrs Maria Christie, spouse of Archibald Christie, Esq. younger of Baberton, and daughter of the late J. Reeves, Esq. of Lanley, Wiltshire.

11. At a very advanced age, at Southwoodhouse, near Ramsgate, Charlotte, Dowager Countess of Dunmore. Her ladyship was a daughter of Alexander, seventh Earl of Galloway, and was married the 21st of February 1759, to John, fifth Earl of Dunmore, who died in March 1809, and by whom she had five sons and four daughters, including George, the present Earl of Dunmore; Augusta, now Lady Augusta D'Ameland, married at Rome, April 4, 1793, to his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and secondly, December 5, 1793, at St George's, Hanover-square, London, which marriage was declared null and void by the Prerogative in 1794; and Virginia, born in Virginia, and named after it at the request of the Council and Assembly of Virginia, of which his lordship, her father, was then governor.

-At his house, Fountainbridge, Alexander Gardner, Esq. Deputy Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer in Exchequer.

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At Edinburgh, Mr William Brydon, painter and glazier.

12. At her house, 56, George-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Major Drummond of Vellore, Stirlingshire.

13. At Buccleuch-place, Edinburgh, Mr James Masson, late merchant, Edinburgh.

14. At Arniston-place, Edinburgh, Mr Robert Kirkwood, engraver.

-At Perth, in the prime of life, after a short illness, Mr John Greig, merchant,

- At his house, Clyde-place, Edinburgh, Mr Andrew Laurie, senior, teacher of dancing.

15. At Edinburgh, Miss M'Cormick, eldest daughter of the deceased William M'Cormick, Esq. Dundas-street.

16. At his house, No 24, Society, Edinburgh, William Wotherspoon, Esq. accountant.

-At Edinburgh, Miss Vere Fergusson, daugh ter of the late Rev. Adam Fergusson, minister of Mouline.

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At Sanquhar, William Marshall, aged 102 years, son of the famous William Marshall, King o' the Randies," and Chief of the Galloway Tinkers, who died at the advanced age of 121 years, feared or respected by all his "ain kind o' folk," as well as the chief part of the inhabitants of the district in which he resided. William, the subject of our obituary, was born, as is generally believed, at Colmonell, in 1716: he himself said the year be fore; but from his father having been with the army in Flanders, as a soldier (which he seems to have left that he might attend Kelton hill Fair), and from other circumstances, it is most probable that he was only 102 years old. Marshall, the younger, ostensibly exercised the vocation of tinker at Minnigaff; but his real occupation was smug. gling,-a business as unsubstantial as the foam that is dashed from the bows of the vessel freighted with the goods. Like unto thousands, Marshall at one time had realized some property in that ephemeral profession; he had twa gude houses in Minnigaff," but like the foresaid thousands, after having spent the summer of his days in it, nothing remained to him in the autumn of his life, as the fruit of his privations and his toil, save an irritated temper, and vicious propensities. It would appear that Marshall had some hard skirmishes with the dragoons, called in to assist the revenue officers. In one of these, his "braw mare" was shot under him; in another, we could clearly trace that his party had used fire arms against the military, but that there were "nae lives lost." For these fourand-twenty years past, Marshall has resided at Sanquhar; and until within the last three years, he was wont to go round the farmers exercising his vocation of horner. Until a month before his death, he had been looking for his bawbee to buy tobacco;" and although his walk was tottering and slow, and in his person he read Sphinx's riddle, yet his back was as straight as that of any man living, and over shoulders he was as square as when his sinews were strong with the vigour of thirty.Dumfries and Galloway Courier.

18. Alderman Goodbehere. He returned to his house, China-terrace, Lambeth, in apparent good health, to dress, as he was going out to dinner, and he immediately went up stairs. Soon after the servant heard a violent noise, as if something heavy had fallen; she immediately ran up, and found her master lying on the floor quite dead-it is supposed that he died in an apoplectic fit. Mr Goodbehere has left a widow and a son, his only child, about 20 years of age, who is a member of the University of Cambridge.

19. At Edinburgh, Miss Francis Weir, at her house in Charlotte-street.

Lately-At Norwich, Mrs Anne Plumptre, the author of many ingenious publications. This lady was particularly skilled in German literature.

At Pickering, in Yorkshire, W. Marshall, Esq. the very eminent writer on " Rural Economy, and Agriculture in general."

At East Cowes Castle, in the Isle of Wight, the seat of John Nash, Esq. Lady Romilly. Her ladyship had borne a long and painful illness with exemplary patience and resignation.-The death of Lady Romilly will be felt most severely by the unfortunate. Her ladyship distributed £1000 per an num privately amongst worthy families who had been reduced by misfortune.

At his seat, Neuvillar, Marshal Clarke, the Duke of Feltre. He was of Irish extraction, and one of Bonaparte's generals, by whom he was created Duke de Feltre, and a field-marshall.

At Portland, in the United States of America, about the middle of September, Andrew Scott, Esq. a native of Paisley. He had recently arrived at New York from a voyage to the East Indies; and, while on a visit to his family, the very evening of his reaching home, he was deprived of life by a shock of the palsy.

At her house, Castle-street, Mrs Dougal, widow of the deceased James Dougall of Easter-house.

Oliver & Boyd, Printers.

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No XXII.

JANUARY 1819.

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Contents.

Remarks on the Romance of Antar... 385 A Church-Yard Dream...

Thoughts on Novel Writing... 394
Letters from the Lakes.

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St Helena. April 1818
The King's Crutches, and the Royal
Vision

An Historical and Geographical Essay

on the Trade and Communications of the Arabians and Persians with Russia and Scandinavia, during the Middles Ages. (Continued from page 300)

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Three original Sonnets by W. Wordsworth, Esq.; suggested by Westall's Views of the Caves in Yorkshire 471 Abstract of Metecrological Observations for the Year 1818

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Observations on the Revolt of Islam 475

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The Ægina Marbles....

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Specimen of an unpublished Translation of Aristophanes...

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Dr Sternstare's Letters. No II.
Scheffer's Essay on English Politics
Notice of Archibald Campbell, Author
of the Voyage round the World... 437
The Medical Schools of Dublin and
Edinburgh...

WORKS preparing for PUBLICATION. 490 MONTHLY LIST OF NEW PUBLICA

MONTHLY REGISTER.

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Of an Instrument to hear by the Eye and to see by the Ear

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Notices of the Acted Drama in London. No VII.

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Promotions and Appointments

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Births, Marriages, and Deaths....... 508

EDINBURGH:

WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, NO 17, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH;
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 gratefully acknowledge the receipt of the "Narrative of a Disputation held between two Christian and three Mahometan Doctors; translated from an Arabic MS. in the Bodleian Library, Oxford." This very singular paper shall appear in our next Number.

We regret extremely that the "Letters of a celebrated Nobleman” did not arrive till the present Number of our Magazine was made up.

The long and laborious Essay "On the History of the Superstitions of the Middle Ages," shall be divided into sections, and printed in the course of the present year. The Section, on "Albertus Magnus," probably in our next

Number.

The "Exmoor Courtship" shall appear as soon as possible.

We have received several communications concerning the late interference of the Customhouse officers at Leith, in regard to the specimens sent from the Polar Expedition to a scientific gentleman in Edinburgh. Among these is a very cutting epistle in verse, addressed to the Collector at Leith, which we would have willingly inserted had talent been the only thing which we esteem requisite in such compositions. We are willing, however, to ascertain the truth of the whole matter by a careful examination into the facts of the case, and shall for this purpose depute one or two of our most intelligent friends to hold a communing with the Collector himself, and report to us the result. For the greater convenience of that officer, we shall permit the scrutiny to be gone into at his own dwelling-house, any day he pleases, at 5 o'clock, P. M.

Our highly respected Correspondent T. must excuse us for once declining to insert a paper of his. On looking over the past Numbers of our Work, he will easily perceive that our plan quite excludes such communications as reviews of Single Sermons. The importance of one topic handled in the Synod Sermon, on which our Correspondent has commented, might perhaps have induced us to transgress our rule at some less busy period of the year; but we hope its eloquent and energetic Author (Dr Hodgson) may be induced to place his ideas in a shape better adapted for our purposes.

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THE few detached passages translated into German in the Mines de l'Orient, can scarcely be said to have done more than excite the attention of scholars to this Arabian Romance. The merit of having introduced even them to any thing like an acquaintance with its merits, belongs exclusively to Mr Hamilton. We are not aware that any so considerable addition has for a long time been made to our stock of oriental knowledge and amusement as by his excellent production; nay, we almost think that when he has furnished his version, he will have conferred on us a favour only second to that which has immortalized the name of Galland.

Antar, or Antara, of whom, on a former occasion, we have spoken a few words, is the knight-errant (Kar' sgxn) of Arabia; and our readers will be able to judge for themselves, whether he be not also, in all probability, the original and prototype of the knights-errant of Europe. His adventures bear a likeness which can scarcely be supposed to be entirely accidental to those of our western Palmerin and Amadis; or rather, perhaps, we should say, to our romantic stories of Coeur-de-Lion and the Campeador. The history was, it is supposed, compiled from the oral narratives of the story tellers, and thrown into its present form by Osmay, one

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of the scholars who frequented the court of Haroun-al-Raschid; but there is no reason to doubt the real existence of its hero. Antar was a poet as well as a warrior; and the well known production, which goes under his name,and which forms part of the Moallakhat, is introduced into the body of this romance itself, although Mr Hamilton has not yet reached it in his translation. Smaller pieces in verse every where scattered throughout the narrative; a mode of composition very common, both among the Persians and Arabs. For even in the thousand and one nights, although the European reader would scarcely suspect it to be so, the more passionate speeches aud descriptions are all in verse. The style has indeed much higher authority in its favour, for the prophetic books of the Old Testament, and even some of the historical ones, abound in the same sort of intermixture. The time when the incidents of the story occur is in the century before Mahomet, when the Arabs still drank wine, and "blasphemed in ignorance."

Nothing can be more delightful than the feeling which attends us in our first perusal of Antar. We are transported into a scene of which we have before seen nothing, but in which we recognise at once, as if by intuition, the glow, the wildness, the vastness

Antar, a Bedoueen Romance; translated from the Arabic. By Terrick Hamilton, Esq. Oriental Secretary to the British Embassy at Constantinople. London, Murray, 1819. pp. 298.

+ See Magazine, No XVII. for August 1818-Article, On Menil's edition of Antara's Poem.

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