Sept. 3. At Gogar-house, the lady of James L'Amy, of Dunkenny, Esq. advocate, of a son. At Largs, Mrs Smith, of Craigend, of a son. 5. At Clifton, the lady of Dr Dickson, of a son. -Mrs Dickson, 132, George Street, of a son.

At Carnousie-house, Mrs Duff of Carnousie, of a son.

-In Bernard Street, Russell Square, London, the lady of John Fraser, Esq. of a son.

-At Annat Lodge, the lady of Kenneth Bruce Stuart, Esq. of Annat, of a daughter.

The lady of the Hon. and Rev. L. Dundas, of a son.

-At Hopes, Mrs Hay, of a son.

6. At Kirkmichael House, the lady of Captain Houston Stewart, R. N. of a son.

At Inchdairnie, Mrs Aytoun, of a daughter. -At the manse of Crawfordjohn, Mrs Goldie, of a son.

8. Mrs William Young, jun. Cassels Place, Leith, of a son.

-Mrs Pringle, Howard Place, of a son. 10. At Coldstream, the lady of Captain A. D. M'Laren, Berwickshire Militia, of a son.

11. At No. 9, Abercromby Place, the lady of James Greig, Esq. of Eccles, of a daughter.

12. At the Manse of Cavers, Mrs Strachan, of a daughter.

13. The Right Hon. Lady Eleanor Balfour, of a daughter.

Mrs Megget, Drummond Place, of a son. At the Chateau de Bystervel, North Brabant, the lady of John Turing Ferrier, Esq. of a son. 15. At Drummond Place, the lady of William Milliken Napier, Bart. of a son.

Lady Charlotte Seymour, of a son and heir. At Warrieston-place, the lady of Captain Ross, of a son.

17. At Inveraray, Mrs Campbell of Duncholgin, of a son.

18. At Glenarbach, Dumbartonshire, the lady of Mr Robertson of Prenderguest, of a son, who lived only a few hours.

20. At Langley, the lady of Godfrey Meynell, Esq. of Meynell, Langley, Derbyshire, of a son. 22. At London, the lady of M. Stewart Nicholson, Esq. of Carnoch, of a daughter.

24. Mrs C. Tawse, Gayfield Square, of a daugh.ter.

27. Mrs Chancellor, of Shieldhill, of a son.
-At Kilbagie, Mrs Stein, of a son

- Mrs George Robertson, Albany Street, of a daughter.

28. MrsBurnet, Queen Street, of twin daughters. 29. At Woolwich, the lady of Lieutenant William Cochrane Anderson, Royal Horse Artillery, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

July 20. At Kingston, Upper Canada, Mr John Turnbull, merchant, (late of this city,) to Charlotte, youngest daughter of Major Evivitt.

Aug. 1. in the island of St Vincent, Pemberton Hobson, Esq. barrister-at-law, to Margaretta Jane, second daughter of John Wilson Carmichael, Esq. late captain in his Majesty's 53d regi

ment.

Sept. 3. At Heriot Hill, Mr Alexander Wingate, merchant, Glasgow, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late John Birkmyre, Esq.

-At Glasgow, Mr James Weir, merchant, Edinburgh, to Jacobina Anna Dunbar Murray, daughter of the late Alex. Murray, Esq. of Inglis tone, Dumfries-shire.

-At Edinburgh, Henry Meredith Warter, Esq. of Sibberscript in the county of Salop, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the late celebrated Mungo Park.

At Linlathen, Captain James Paterson, youngest son of the late George Paterson of Castle Huntly, Esq. to Miss Davie Erskine, youngest daughter of the late David Erskine, Esq. clerk to the signet.

At Cadder, the residence of Charles Stirling, Esq. Thomas Dunmore, Esq. Commissary-General, to Mrs Stirling, widow of the late Robert Stirling, Esq.

6. The Reverend Mr Anderson, minister of Dunbarny, to Miss Thomson, daughter of David Thomson, Esq. Newburgh.

7. At Vogrie, John Cockburn, Esq. to Eliza, youngest daughter of James Dewar, Esq. of Vogrie.

8 At Abinger, in Surrey, John Campbell, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at law, to Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of James Scarlett, Esq. M.P. for Peterborough.

10. At Kingoldrum, by the Reverend Robert Aikman, Walter, second son of the Reverend William Haldane, to Susan, daughter of the late Mr Charles Hill, Forfar.

- At Edinburgh, Mr John Wilson, surgeon, R. N. and surgeon in Stirling, to Miss Mary Glas, eldest daughter of Mr Wm. Glas, wood-merchant, Stirling.

12. In Pitt Street, Mr Andrew Thomson, surgeon, Edinburgh, to Mary, the eldest daughter of Mr William Troquair, builder.

17. At Dornoch, Mr George Rule, Cyderhall, Sutherlandshire, to Jessie, second daughter of William Taylor, Esq. writer there.

18. At Edinburgh, Charles Doyle Straker, Esq. to Miss Catharine Cornelius Story, daughter of the late Captain George Story of the 8th light dragoons.

At Aberdeen, William Knight, LL.D. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Institution of Belfast, to Jean, eldest daughter of the late Dr Glennie, Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College, and one of the ministers of Aberdeen.

- At Stanwix, near Carlisle, Mr William Dewar, of Glasgow, to Jane Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Oliver Davis, Esq. of the Navy Office, Somerset-house.

25. At 55, Hanover Street, by the Reverend Mr John M'Lachlan of Wemyss, Mr John Cunnison, to Isabella, second daughter of the late Mr David Salmon, ship-owner, East Wemyss.

Lately, In the parish church of Plympton, St Mary's, Richard Lapthorne, to Mary Ford. This is the fifth time the bride has been married in the same church, and her four last husbands were buried in the same church-yard.

DEATHS.

Jan. 3. At Madras, James Chalmers, Esq. of the Honourable East India Company's service, and civil surgeon at Palamcattach.

Feb. 10. In an attack at night on the British camp at Zoor, on the coast of Arabia, whilst gallantly defending himself against seven men in front of the lines, and after receiving thirty-five wounds, Captain Charles Parr of the Bombay European regiment of infantry, youngest son of the late William Parr, Esq. of Norfolk Street, Strand, and Pentonville.

17. Át Zoare in Arabia, while on duty with the 2d regiment, Lieutenant James Paoli Boswell, of the Honourable East India Company's 10th regiment of Native infantry, second son of William Boswell, Esq. advocate.

March 1. Of small-pox, near Aurungabad, where he was serving as lieutenant of artillery and adjutant in the army of the Nizam, Ensign Thomas Fleming, of the 10th regiment Native infantry, Bengal, son of the Rev. Dr Fleming, one of the ministers of this city.

19. At Chowringhee, in India, Lieut-Colonel Archibald Campbell, of the 26th regiment of native infantry, son of the late Dugald Campbell, Esq. of Kintarbet. We extract the following paragraph from a Calcutta newspaper announcing his death:-" Died on the forenoon of the 19th instant, at his house in Chowringhee, Lieut.-Col. Archd. Campbell of the 26th regiment, N. I., after a short but extremely severe illness, which he bore with that placidity of temper and resignation to the Divine will which characterized him through life;-gifted with excellent natural abilities, and always conspicuous by an active and intelligent discharge of the duties of his profession, this officer was, at an early period of his service in India, selected for situations of high trust and responsibility, and having preserved throughout a long and distinguished career of public life the strictest integrity and the most unblemished honour-combined as these superior qualities were in this instance with a remarkable warmth of heart, and a disposition so uniformly humane, considerate, and

kind, that it was felt by all with whom he had any intercourse. It may be safely asserted that it has fallen to the lot of very few to live so generally respected and beloved, or to die so deeply and sincerely regretted."

April 10. In Cananore, East Indies, Captain Gilbert James Blair, of the 25th Native infantry.

19. At Rio Janeiro, in his 77th year, Field Marshal John Shadwell Connell, Councillor of War, and Knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword.

24. At Roseau, in the island of Dominica, John Reay, Esq. a native of Dalmellington.

May 25. At Nicolaef, Captain Samuel Moffat, Imperial Russian navy.

June 17. At Malta, Mr John Munro, of his Majesty's ship Cambrian, eldest son of the late George Munro, Esq. of Glasgow.

July 27. At Corfu, William Hamilton Campbell of Winton, Esq.

Aug. 6. In the island of Jamaica, Mr Thomas Ker, youngest son of Gilbert Ker, Esq. late of Gateshaw.

7. At Lisbon, Lady Maria J. Macdonell, widow of Lieutenant-General Alexander Macdonell of Lochgarry.

20. At Leith, Miss Millar, daughter of the late Mr Patrick Millar, merchant there.

23. At the East India College, Hertford, in the 18th year of his age, James, youngest son of James Grant, Esq. of Bught, county of Inverness.

24. At Bristol, John Duncan Gerard, Esq. son of the late Dr Gilbert Gerard, Professor of Divinity in the King's College and University of Aberdeen.

28. At Ormiston, Mrs Jane Ferguson, daughter of the Honourable James Ferguson, Lord Pitfour.

29. At London, James Robinson Scott, F.R.S.E. F.L.S. late senior President of the Royal Medical Society of Edinburgh, Lecturer on Botany, &c.

At Bourdeaux, the widow of Gen. Moreau, who was killed at the battle of Dresden.

30. At Tranent, David Aitken, aged 23, eldest son of Mr William Aitken, late merchant in Dunbar.

Suddenly, in a steam-boat on his way to Helensburgh, Mr James Marshall, woollen-yarn merchant, Glasgow.

31. Christian Paterson, daughter of Mr Andrew Paterson, writer, Albany Street, Edinburgh. At Portobello, Mrs Wardrobe of Charlotte Place, Edinburgh.

Sept. 1. At London, Wm. Kinnaird, Esq. senior magistrate of the Thames Police.

2. At Edinburgh, Mr Benjamin Waters, late merchant in Leith.

4. At Edinburgh, the Honourable Margaret Drummond, relict of George Haldane of Gleneagles, Esq.

5. At Edinburgh, John Herey, Esq. of Hawthorn, Berkshire, Master of Arts of St John's College, Cambridge, a member of the Royal Medical, and one of the Presidents of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, and assistant to Dr Hamilton, physician to the Royal Infirmary. His death was occasioned by a puncture which he received when examining the morbid appearance of a dead body. His remains are deposited in the same grave with those of one of his respected countrymen, the son of Darwin, in the burial-ground of Dr Duncan, senior Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, and Physician to his Majesty for Scotland.

6. At Tunbridge, at the house of his son the Rev. Thomas Knox, the Rev. Vicesimus Knox, D. D. Rector of Rundell and Ramsden Crays, Essex, aged 68. Dr Knox has been long known as an elegant writer and accomplished scholar.

7. At Ashover, in Derbyshire, James Hay Milnes, midshipman in his Majesty's navy.

At her house, No. 22, Society, Miss Jean Belsches Brymer, eldest daughter of the late Reverend John Brymer, minister of the gospel at Marykirk.

8. At Odelbe Castle, near Bedford, in her 84th year, the Right Hon. Isabella, Countess of Eg

mont.

9. At Leith, Bethes, youngest daughter of Mr John Crawford, merchant there.

At Versailles, in the 69th year of his age, of an aneurism of the heart, after a few hours illness, John Peter Addenbroke, Esq. formerly major in the 54th regiment of foot, gentleman usher to her late Majesty Queen Charlotte, equerry to her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte, and re tained upon the establishment of his Royal High ness the Prince of Saxe Cobourg.

10. At Old Meldrum, in the 70th year of his age, Bailie George Cooper, parochial schoolmaster of Meldrum for 41 years.

At Whitehorn, Milnathort, Jane White, wife of Mr William Morrison.

11. In her house, North Frederick Street, Edinburgh, Mrs General George Cunninghame. -At Edinburgh, George Johnston, Esq. fourth son of the late David Johnston, Esq. of Lathrisk. 12. At his house, No. 46, Queen Street, Mr John Forman, jun. writer to the signet.

In King Street, Borough Road, Southwark, Mrs Gillon, aged 48.

13. At Balfron, the Rev. John Cooper, minister of the United Association.

At the Manse of Morebattle, Thomas, son of the Reverend Walter Morrison.

-At Glasgow, Mr John Wood, merchant. 14. At Lenoxlove, Miss Lindesay, daughter of the late Patrick Lindesay, Esq. of Eaglescarnie. At Reigate, in Surrey, Mrs Jean Paterson, widow of the late George Paterson, Esq. of East Sheen, Surrey, and eldest daughter of the late Joseph Cumine of Auchrey, Esq. county of Aberdeen.

15. At her mother's house in Heriot Row, Miss Grace Donaldson, third daughter of the late Alexander Donaldson, Esq. some time Captain in the 36th regiment.

At Kirkton, Burntisland, Mrs Lowrie, wife of Mr John Lowrie, inspector of Excise cutters, Leith.

At Dover, Miss Delicia Taylor Sutherland, only daughter of Dr Sutherland.'

16. At Dean Street, Stockbridge, Mrs Lockhart, relict of the late Reverend Dr William Lockhart of St Andrew's Church, Glasgow.

At the Manse of Ratho, Mrs Margaret Be thune, wife of the Reverend Dr Duncan.

At Queensferry, Mr William Murison. At Dalkeith, Captain Hector M'Lean, late of the 4th, formerly of the 10th Royal Veteran Battalion.

-At Palmerston, near Limerick, aged 112, the widow of Mr Thomas Bucknor. She retained her faculties to the last, and was able, until within a few days, to attend to the business of her house. She had a full recollection of the death of Queen Anne, and lived to witness five reigns.

17. At the advanced age of 108 years, Mr Robin Kay, of Patside, near Patley-bridge, farmer.

At Crieff, Christian, third daughter of Mr M'Comish.

-At Kirkcaldy, Mrs Janet Brown, wife of Mr Richard Tosh, writer there.

- At Airdrie, Mr John Cleland, surgeon. 19. At Braehead, John Darling Wilson, second son of Mr Samuel Wilson, merchant, Glasgow.

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At Queensferry, Margaret, infant daughter of Mr Wishart, writer to the signet.

Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Mr V. Moinet, merchant in Edinburgh.

W. S.

At Ely, Isabella, daughter of Mr Speid,

In her 76th year, the Dowager Landgrave Caroline of Hesse Homburg.-Her Highness was daughter to the Landgrave Lewis IX. of Hesse Cassel, born March 2, 1746. She married on the 27th of September, 1768, the late Landgrave Frederick Lewis of Hesse Homburg.

20. At Glasgow, Captain Andrew Fraser, late of the 92d regiment.

23. Mrs John Luke, Muircambus Mill, Fife, aged 83. At her house Summerfield, near Leith, Mrs Craig, aged 79, widow of John Craig, Dolphing

ton.

William, infant son of Mr H. D. Dickie, secretary to the Caledonian Insurance Company, Edinburgh.

24. At Garliestown, James Nish, Esq. of Bal sarroch.

At Paris, Alexander Gowan, Esq. late surgeon, Dalkeith.

20. At Culchena, Mrs Ann Campbell, wife of Duncan Campbell, Esq.

27. At Greenwich, Lieutenant-Colonel William Frederick Macbean, formerly of the 6th regiment of foot, youngest son of the late General Forbes Macbean of the Royal Artillery.

Lately, While passing from India to Arabia, Captain James Irving of the 2d Native infantry, and late of Annan.

Killed in the engagement with the Arabs, at the capture of Beni Bocali, in the Persian Gulf, Mr John Gordon, assistant-surgeon in the service of the Honourable East India Company, son of the Rev. W. Gordon, minister of Elgin.

-At Conanore, East Indies, Captain Gilbert James Blair, of the 25th Native infantry.

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In the parish of Kenmore, Mrs M'Laren, aged 106. This venerable matron retained her faculties to the last. The oldest people in Perthshire, who have of late closed their eyes on life's sleeping scene, have died nearly of the same age. Thus James Stewart of Graysmount, and Stewart the tinker in Aberfeldy, were both gathered to their fathers at the mature age of one hundred and five years.

-At Warsop, Nottinghamshire, George Wragg, and Grace, his wife, aged about 80. They both expired within the short space of half an hour of

each other.

Lately, At his house in Cecil Street, Limerick, David Stevenson, Esq. Mr Stevenson was a native of Mauchline, and, during a number of years, in which he had been extensively and successfully engaged in business in that city, he uniformly upheld the reputation of a most upright and respectable merchant.

-At Cullumpton, Devonshire, of voluntary starvation, Mortimer. He had a small property by which he had been supported for some years; but finding he was likely to outlive it, as it was reduced to about £150, and feeling the apprehension of want more than the natural love of life, he came to the resolution of ending his days by starvation. To effect this dreadful purpose he took nothing but water for a month before he died; at the end of three weeks his body was wasted to a skeleton, and a medical gentleman was called in, who advised him to take some nourishment; but this he refused, and even discontinued the use of water. In this way he subsisted another week, when nature yielded the contest.

-In three contiguous parishes in the county of Aberdeen, viz. Logan, Buchan, Ellon and Cruden, widow Hutcheson, aged 92, Jean Brown, 100, and John Tawse, 106, all, particularly the two last, retaining their faculties unimpaired till very nearly the time of their decease.

Oct. 4. At his house in Stamford Street, London, in the 64th year of his age, John Rennie, Esq. the celebrated engineer. Mr Rennie had been complaining for some time, but appeared to be recovering, when, on the morning of the 4th inst. he suffered a severe relapse, which carried him off the same evening at seven o'clock.

The death of Mr Rennie is a national calamity. His loss cannot be adequately supplied by any living artist, for, though we have many able engineers, we know of none who so eminently possess solidity of judgment with profound knowledge, and the happy tact of applying to every situation, where he was called upon to exert his faculties, the precise form of remedy that was wanting to the existing evil. Whether it was to stem the torrent and violence of the most boisterous sea-to make new harbours, or to render those safe which were before dangerous or inaccessible-to redeem districts of fruitful land from encroachment by the ocean, or to deliver them from the pestilence of stagnant marsh-to level hills, or to tie them together by aqueducts or by arches, or by embankment to raise the valley between them-to make bridges that for beauty surpass all others, and for strength seemed destined to endure to the latest posterity, Mr Rennie had no rival. Every part of the united kingdom possesses monuments to his glory, and they are as stupendous as they are useful. They will present to our children's children objects of admiration for their grandeur, and of gratitude to the author for their utility. Compare the works of Mr Rennie with the most boasted exploits of the French engineers, and remark how they tower above them. Look at the Breakwater at Plymouth, in comparison with the Cassoons at Cherburg-any one of his canals with that of Ourke, and his Waterloo-bridge with that of Neuilly. Their superiority is acknowledged by every liberal Frenchman. He cultivated his art with the most enthusiastic ardour, and, instead of being merely a theorist, he prepared himself for practical efficiency by visiting, and minutely inspecting every work of magnitude in every country that bear símilitude with those which he might be called on to construct, and his library abounds in the richest collection of scientific writings of that of any individual. The loss of such a man is irreparable. Cut off in the full vigour of his mind, his death seems to suspend for a time the march of national improvement, until the just fame of his merit shall animate our rising artists to imitate his great example, and to prepare themselves by study and observation to overcome, as he did, the most formidable impediments to the progress of human enterprize, of industry, and of increased facility in all the arts of life. The integrity of Mr Rennie

in the fulfilment of his labours was equal to his genius in the contrivance of his plans and machinery. He would suffer none of the modern subterfuges for real strength to be resorted to by the contractors employed to execute what he had undertaken. Every thing he did was for futurity, as well as present advantage. An engineer is not like an architect. He has no commission on the amount of his expenditure; if he had, Mr Rennie would have been one of the most opulent men in England, for many millions have been expended under his eye. But his glory was in the justice of his proceeding, and his enjoyment in the success of his labours. It was only as a mill-wright that he engaged himself to execute the work he planned, and in this department society is indebted to him for economising the power of water, so as to give an increase of energy, by its specific gravity, to the natural fall of streams, and to make his mills equal to four-fold the produce of those which, before his time, depended solely on the impetus of the current. His mills of the greatest size work as smoothly as clock-work, and by the alternate contact of wood and iron, are less liable to the hazard of fire by friction. His mills, indeed, are models of perfection.

If the death of such a man is a national loss, what must it be to his private friends and to his amiable family? Endeared to all who knew him by the gentleness of his temper, the cheerfulness with which he communicated the riches of his mind, and forwarded the views of those who made useful discoveries or improvements in machinery or implements, procured him universal respect. He gave to inventors all the benefits of his experience, removed difficulties which had not occurred to the author, or suggested alterations which adapted the instrument to its use. No jealousy or self-interest ever prevented the exercise of this free and unbounded communication, for the love of science was superior in his mind to all mercenary feeling. Mr Rennie was born in Scotland, and from his earliest years devoted himself to the art of a civil engineer. He was the intimate friend and companion of his excellent countryman, the late Mr Watt; their habits and pursuits were similar. They worked together, and to their joint efforts are we chiefly indebted for the gigantic power of the steam-engine in all our manufactories. He married early in life Miss Mackintosh, a beautiful young woman, whom he had the misfortune to lose some years ago, but who left him an interesting and accomplished family. They have now to lament the loss of the best of parents, who, though possessed of a constitution and frame so robust as to give the promise of a very long life, sunk under an attack at the early age of 64.

No. LVII.

VOL. X.

THERE are few anticipations more common among naval men in these times, than that the best days of their profession are at an end. Their own number, they observe, in consequence of the unusual length and feverish activity of the late war, is become so great, so disproportioned to any demand which their country can ever again have for their services, their commissions are mere honourable retirements, and scarcely one in twenty can hope to survive until the course of seniority shall bring each in succession to the top of the list. Opportunities, meanwhile, of acquiring personal distinction are become so rare, it is a matter of necessity that merit should remain in obscurity, and interest alone distribute the few prizes yet remaining in the wheel. There is no more chance of prize-money, at least for the present; and worse than all this, while the navy is thus a toy during a long peace, a spirit of insubordination is creeping in among its lower ranks, and of injudicious lenity among its upper, subversive of all those principles of discipline on which its efficiency has hitherto been maintained. On the other hand, a certain class of religionists on shore, when they talk of the navy, at the same time that they seem to delight in picturing its past history in the blackest imaginable colours, array the future with regard to it in unmingled VOL. X.

brightness. The moral excesses of which its members have been hitherto currently guilty, they represent as enormous, inexcusable, scarcely illustrated, and in no degree redeemed, by a reckless bravery and profusion disguised under the specious names of skill, courage, and generosity. Now, however, these things are to disappear, and a new era is to commence. They themselves, the good people to whom we allude, are about to go forth among this people with the modification of Christianity which they profess, conquering and to conquer in its might. The wilderness is to become a fruitful field under their ministrations; and sailors, hitherto the outcasts of religious society, and still, for aught which appears in these anticipations, doomed to remain surrounded by precisely the same circumstances of temptation as before, are yet henceforth to become its ornaments, a peculiar people, the converse, as it were, of the Jews, zealous of good works and principles under every disadvantage with which frail human nature can contend. And although the chief difference between these two sets of anticipations seems at first sight to consist in the different interests and spheres of action contemplated in each; when extended to all the particulars which they severally embrace, they will be found on some points very directly to conflict, and

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