14. At Port Antonio, Jamaica, in the prime of life, Dr Thomas Reid, eldest son of the late Mr Robert Reid, land surveyor, Perth; a young gentleman universally esteemed, and sincerely lamented.

Jan. 1, 1820. At Demerara, Milliken Craig, Esq. of Ballewan, late Commander in the Hon. East India Company's service. 9. In Charlestown, North America, Mrs Starr Barrett, after fully completing one hundred and twenty years of an active and various life. This venerable lady was born in the year 1699 of the Christian era, and 1078 (solar calculation) of the Hegira of the Mahomedans, about a vear before the death of Charles II. King of Spain-to which country her family had emigrated at an early period of her life. She was born in one of the Barbary States, which could not be ascertained by the writer, but it is supposed under the Empire of Morocco. Peter I. was then Czar of Muscovy a title now enlarged to that of Emperor of all the Russias; Frederick Augustus was King of Poland; Charles XII. was King of Sweden; Frederick IV. (son to Christian V.) was King of Denmark; William III. King of England; Peter IV. King of Portugal; and Louis XV. King of France.

10. At Stirling, John M'Gibbon, Esq. of Southlodge, who for 50 years discharged the duties of Town Clerk of that burgh, and for 34 years those of Sheriff Substitute of the county. Such was the estimation in which Mr M'Gibbon was held, that the Magistrates and Town Council ordered the Established Churches of the town to be hung with mourning, for five weeks after his interment; they also voted that a monument should be erected to his memory in the West Church, in one of the niches appropriated to those who have rendered great and essential services to their native place.

12. At Quebec, William Scott, Esq. younger of Wooll.

13. In the 82d year of his age, Mr John Thomson, parish schoolmaster, Muthil. He was much esteemed for his social and affectionate manners; was an excellent classical scholar, and upwards of 66 years a public teacher of youth.

Lieutenant-Colonel Nasmyth, late of the 7th West India regiment.

17. Mr Philip T. Meyer, the eminent Composer and Professor of the Harp, in the 88th year of his age. He is supposed to have been the first person who introduced the pedal harp into this country, in the year 1776.

18. At Belwood, John Young, Esq. late of London.

21. At Moyhall, Sir Eneas Mackintosh, of Mackintosh, Bart. Captain of Clanchattan, in the 69th year of his age. He was a gentleman of the greatest worth. During the late distressing period, he gave up to a great proportion of his tenants a full third of their rents, for three successive years, and enabled farther such of them as had particularly suffered from the severity of the seasons, to re-stock their farms with sheep and cattle. His funeral was attended by upwards of forty carriages of all descriptions, and a large concourse of common people, both on foot and horseback.

Six of the family servants in deep mourning, and three pipers, playing the Clan's Lament, &c. preceded the hearse and six horses, which was followed by the family chariot and four, empty, and three mourning carriages, containing the more immediate connections of the deceased.

At Bathgate, the Rev. Patrick Connel, minister of the Associate Congregation there, in the 55th year of his age, and 33d of his ministry.

24. On board the Castle Huntly East Indiaman, for Bengal, James, eldest son of James Hay, writer to the signet.

At Naples, Cardinal Caracciolo, Bishop of Palestine. Diegna Ignatius Caracciolo was born on the 16th of July 1759, at Martin. Having entered the Prelacy, he followed Pope Pius the Sixth into France, and was with that Pontiff when he died at Valencia. It was in honour of his attachment to the Head of the Church that Pius VII. made him a Cardinal, on the 11th of August 1800. This was the first hat given by the present Pope.

25. At Scone, Mrs Brodie, widow of the Rev. John Brodie, late minister of Kin

loch.

Miss Stair Primerose, youngest daughter of the late Sir Arch. Primerose, Bart. of Dunipare.

1. At Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, Mr Robert Horsburgh.

At Perth, Widow M'Lean, whose maiden name was Elspet M'Gregor, aged 102 years, and three months. She retained her faculties to the last, and was never confined to bed before the beginning of the late storm. Although infirm, she had the complete enjoyment of sight, and never required the use of spectacles. Her husband was many years a tenant on the estate of Breadalbane, and she herself was. a servant at an inn at Killin, in the year 1745, when Prince Charles was there, with whom she shook hands, and often boasted of the honour. She has left a son living, aged 72 years, and had a daughter, who died last midsummer, aged 70.

2. At Berwick, James Hogarth, Esq. aged 76, deeply regretted.

At his house, in York Place, London, Joseph Madocks, Esq, of an inflammation in his chest. This gentleman (who was well known in the gay world some years since, as the "gayest of the gay," he be ing the life of every circle) died so suddenly as to preclude the last offices of his nearest friends. It is said that he was actually sitting up in his bed at the time. It was only a few days since he was walking among his friends in St James's Street. Mr Madocks was the first amateur actor of his day. His performance of Falstaff was truly, excellent. He was long the convivial companion of Frank North, afterwards Earl of Guilford.

At Ardfreck, in the Isle of Sky, Mrs Macleod, Dowager of Talisker, at the advanced age of 91. This excellent and accomplished lady had passed the earlier years of her life in the politest circles of society in Europe; her husband, the late Colonel Macleod, having risen to high rank and deserved estimation in the service of the States General of Holland. In the se clusion of a country life in one of the remotest of the British isles, their hospitable mansion became, for many years, the resort of their numerous friends and acquaintances, who flocked from all parts of the world to visit them in their delightful retirement. On the Colonel's death, in the year 1798, she retired to her jointure house, where she passed her disconsolate widowhood, an eminent example of female worth and dignity to her sex, in the duties of fervent Christian devotion and extensive charity. Throughout the whole of her useful life she was uniformly distinguished by the elegance of her manners, by the unaffected ardour of her piety, and by her kind concern for the temporal and spiritual interests of those within the sphere of her active beneficence. Few have ever been

able, by the prudent management of a limited income, to do more general good to the poor and needy.

3. At Irvine, the Rev. James Henderson, minister of Irvine.

At Edinburgh, Gideon Duncan, Esq. Assistant Commissary-General. 4. At Manley, Devonshire, Mrs Manley, of Manley.

At Queensferry, William Mackenzie Henderson, in the 21st year of his age, son of the Rev. John Henderson, minister of that parish.

At St Andrew's, the Rev. Wm. Richard, aged 79.

At Blithfield, in Staffordshire, Louisa Lady Bagot, relict of the late, and mother of the present, Lord Bagot.

5. At Dublin, suddenly, in an apoplectic fit, Peter Digges La Touche, Esq.

6. At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Alison, bookbinder there.

7. At the Garland, near Kilbagie, Mr John M'Leay, in the 74th year of his age, much and justly regretted.

At Edinburgh, Alexander Scrymgeour, eldest son of Henry Scrymgeour Wedderburn of Wedderburn and Birkhill, Esq.

& At London, the Right Hon. Sir Vicary Gibbs, late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.

10. At Paxton House, George Home, Esq. of Wedderburn.

- At Berlin, the Princess Ann Elizabeth Louisa, relict of his Royal Highness Prince Ferdinand of Prussia:

11. At Bath, the Rev. Thomas Haweis,. LL.D. M.D. Rector of All Saints, Aldwinkle, Notts, Chaplain and principal trustee to the late Countess of Huntingdon, founder of the London Missionary Society, and Father of the Missions to the South Sea Islands.

shire, in his 98th year, General the Hon. Sir Alexander Maitland, of Clifton, Bart. 15. At Edinburgh, Mr William Bell, merchant. Nicolson Street.

At Hillhouse, very suddenly, William M Kirrel, Esq. of Hillhouse.

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At Dublin, Leonard M'Nally, Esq. of the Irish Bar. He became seriously indisposed on the Saturday preceding-his malady increased, and baffled all medical skill, until it terminated in his death, about three o'clock in the afternoon of Tuesday. He was in the 68th year of his age, and was called to the Irish bar in 1776.

16. At London, the Right Honourable Lady Mary Henrietta Erskine, sister to the Earl of Rosslyn.

At Leitchestown, near Fochabers, Georgina, youngest daughter of Lieut.-Col. George Gordon.

At Brighton, Major-General John

Sir David Dundas, G.C.B. Governor of the Royal Military College, Chelsea.

At the house of her father-in-law, Sir Wathen Waller, Bart. the Honourable Marianne Curzon, only daughter of the Right Honourable Baroness Howe.

19. At Stirling, Mr George Taylor, merchant.

At her house, Hill Street, Mrs Joanna Hamilton, relict of the late Edward M'Cormick, Esq. advocate, Sheriffdepute of Ayrshire, and Solicitor of Teinds for Scotland.

Esq.

At Rothesay, in his 83d year, John Blain, Esq. late Collector of the Customs there, Sheriff-substitute of the county of Bute, and Commissary of the Isles, &c.

12. At Burntsfield Links, Martha S. Simpson, eldest daughter of John Simpson, late Captain in the 27th foot.

13. At Annat Lodge, near Perth, Lieut. General Robert Stuart of Rait, of his Majesty's army in India, and also a Lieut. General in the service of the Hon. East India Company.

At Edinburgh, Jane, the youngest daughter of Colin Mackenzie, Esq. of Portmore, P.C.S.

14. At Leith, Charles Gordon, Esq. late Collector of Excise, Kelso.

Suddenly, near Kilsyth, on his way from Glasgow to Edinburgh, Mr John Smith, shipowner, Leith.

15. At Rosehill, Totteridge, Hertford

21. At Ayr, Mr Henry Cowan, jun. writer and banker.

The Rev. Dr George Lawson, of the Associate congregation of Selkirk, in the 71st year of his age, and 49th of his ministry, and after having been 33 years Professor of Divinity to the church with which he was connected.

22. At Melville House, the Right Hon. Alexander Earl of Leven and Melville, aged 70 years. His Lordship succeeded his father in 1802. He married, in the year 1784, Jane, the late Countess, only daughter of John Thornton, Esq. of Clapham, in Surrey, and has left five sons and three daughters, of whom the eldest, Viscount Balgonie, inherits the family titles and estates. The late Earl of Leven and Melville was Comptroller-General of the Customs for Scotland, and one of the Trustees for Manufactures, &c. Amongst the

At Edinburgh, Miss Mary Campbell, third daughter of Lord Succoth.

26. At Montrose, in the 60th year of his age, Captain David Valentine, of his Majesty's navy, much and justly regretted. Captain Valentine was an officer of a truly gallant spirit, and was ever ready to expose his life at the call of his country or of humanity, when an opportunity offered of serving the cause of either.

James Watt, Esq. many years in the service of the Hon. East India Company.

27. At Torr House, in the prime of life, David Irving, Esq. surgeon.

28. At Grange, Miss Ann Lauder, eldest daughter of the deceased Sir Andrew Lauder of Fountainhall, Bart.

At Knock, Banffshire, Alexander Stronach, Esq. universally respected and lamented.

At Edinburgh, Mr William Martin, late bookseller there, aged 78.

Major David Carstairs, of the th regiment of native infantry, after one day's illness, of cholera morbus, at Cannatore, near Madras, whither he was journeying to embark for England.

At Louth, aged 97, Mr Edward Blyth, for many years a very eminent grazier and dealer in stock, and an extensive wool. merchant, of which article he has been known to purchase 100,000 tons in one

year.

At Maismore, near Gloucester, John Rogers, at the advanced age of 107 years. He had lived in five reigns, and enjoyed good bodily health till within about a year of his death.

At Angus, in France, in the 17th year of her age, of the small-pox, Georgiana Clephane Brooke, eldest daughter of Sir Joseph Brooke, Bart.

At his house in Great George Street, Westminster, John Hosier, Esq. in his 67th year.

At Aird, Isle of Skye, Mrs Macdonald, widow of Captain Charles Macdonald.

On board his Majesty's ship Sapphire, in the West Indies, in December last, Mr Andrew Hutchison, surgeon, second son of Mr Andrew Hutchison, Town Clerk of Burntisland.

At Nagpore, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Munt, C. B. of the 6th Light Cavalry.

At Negapatam, Lieutenant and Adju tant Archibald Rankin, 2d Battalion 23d Regiment.

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Canzone of Tasso......................342 Historical Notices of the Popular Superstitions, Traditions, and Customs of Tiviotdale

ib.

British Legislation.

350

369

373

376

Appointments and Promotions, &c... ib. Meteorological Table........ 383

of Sir George Mackenzie

ib.