BIRTHS.

son.

-At Dundas-street, Edinburgh, Mrs A. Gillespie of Sunnyside, a son.

-At Broomhill-house, Mrs Bruce, a daughter. 28. At Rosebank, near Wick, Mrs Macleay, a daughter.

At Birmingham, Mrs Shortt, 6th dragoon guards, a daughter.

-At Gifford, the wife of David Crie, a labouring man, three sons, who, with the mother, are all doing well.

-At Erracht, the lady of Lieut. Col. Cameron, C. B. Kt. St. A., a son and heir.

30. At Newbattle-manse, Mrs Thomson, a son. June 1. At George-street, Edinburgh, the lady of Major-General John Hope, a son.

3. At St John's-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Carteret Scott, a daughter.

At Ruchlaw-house, Mrs Robert Hawthorn, a daughter.

4. At Carriden-manse, Mrs Fleming, a daughter. -At Irvine, Mrs Sillar, a daughter.

At Chevening, the Countess Stanhope, a son. 6. At London, Lady Catherine Halkett, a son. 8. At Ashby de la Zouch, the lady of the Rev. William Macdonald, a daughter.

9. Mrs James Simpson, Northumberland-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

10. At Edinburgh, the wife of Mr John Menzies, engraver, a son.

At Eskbank, Mrs Wood, a daughter. 12. Mrs John Brougham, a son.

13. At Portsmouth, Mrs Captain Dalzell of Glenae, a daughter.

15. At Ruchill, the lady of Duncan Campbell, Esq. of Barcaldine, a son.

At Stirling, the lady of John Cusine, Esq. a daughter. At Edinburgh, Mrs Cochrane of Ashkirk, a

MARRIAGES.

Dec. 2. At Columba, in the island of Ceylon, Mitchel Gibson, Esq. to Miss Thomson, only child of Captain Thomson of the 83d regiment.

19. At Calcutta, Daniel Elliott, Esq. son of the late Sir William Elliott, Bart. of Stobs, to Georgina, youngest daughter of Lieut.-General Russel, of the Honourable East India Company's service.

March 11. At Cape Town, Cape of Good-Hope, Robert Shand, Esq. surgeon, R. N., to Margaret, second daughter of the late Alexander Millar, Esq. of Montrose.

26. At Biggar, John Minto, for fifty-three years carrier on the road between Glasgow, Biggar, and Edinburgh, to Kathrine Ritchie. The bridegroom was seventy-three, the bride fifty-three, and the bridegroom's eldest son by a former marriage, forty-three years of age.

30. At Malta, Lieutenant Robert Tait, R. N., to Lucy, eldest daughter of John Allen, Esq. physician there.

April 14. At Cadiz, Mr Daniel Macpherson of Inverness, to Miss Josepha Hemas of Cadiz.

May 17. At Stonehaven, Mr J. Tindal, writer, to Jessie, youngest daughter of the late William Park, Esq.

20. At Clerkseat, William Straton, Esq. to Mary, eldest daughter of Thomas Black, Esq. of Watridgemuir.

23. At Cabra, James Christie, Esq. surgeon, Deer, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Mr James Smith of Milhill.

24. Andrew Sword, Esq. Mungall-head, to Mrs Brock, Falkirk.

-At Glasgow, Mr Robert Auld, manufacturer, Saltcoats, to Jane Mercer, daughter of Mr J. Findlay, accountant, Glasgow.

27. At Glenstockdale, Appin, Lieutenant Donald Campbell, late of the 57th regiment, to Jessey, eldest daughter of the late Captain Anderson.

28. At Moreland-cottage, Canaan, Alexander Zeigler, surgeon, to Miss Ann Zeigler, daughter of Mr William Zeigler, goldsmith.

31. At Orchardton, Lieutenant-Colonel Maxwell, of the 30th regiment, to Miss Douglas, daughter of James Douglas, Esq. of Orchardton.

June 1. At Leith, Mr Archibald Brown, merchant, Leith, to Miss Mary Johnston, eldest daughter of Mr William Johnston, merchant there,

- At London, John Whyte Melville, Esq. of Bennochy and Strathkinness, to the Right Hon. Lady Catherine Osborne, only daughter of her Grace the Duchess Dowager of Leeds.

-At Knockbrex, Jonathan Brown, Esq. Whitehaven, to Miss M'Haffie, niece of the late Sir William Douglas, Bart. Castle-Douglas.

In St John's-chapel, Edinburgh, John Cay, Esq. advocate, to Emily, second daughter of William Bullock, Esq. secretary of the Island of Ja maica.

-At Edinburgh, Mr John Duncan, manufacturer, Kirkaldy, to Mrs Elizabeth Graham.

2. At Tiviot-row, Dr James Sanders, lecturer on the Practice of Medicine, to Miss Megget, only daughter of the late John Megget, Esq. merchant in Edinburgh.

3. At Leith, Mr Robert Liston, surgeon, Edinburgh, to Christiana, daughter of Mr John Crawford, Leith.

At Blackford, William More, Esq. to Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Forbes of "Blackford, Esq.

-At Oatridge, Linlithgowshire, Mr Archibald Prentice, merchant, Manchester, to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr James Thomson, Oatridge.

4. At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Grant, R. N. to Miss Dorothy Brown, only daughter of Mr J. Brown, Leith..

7. At Perth, Mr Matthew Walker, wine-mer. chant, Edinburgh, to Emily, eldest daughter of Mr James Davidson, Perth.

At Dumfries, John Symons, Esq. M. D. to Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Hugh Maxwell, Esq.

-At Carnegie-park, John King, Esq. of Sherwood-park, in the island of Tobago, to Margaret, only daughter of James Foster, Esq. of Carnegiepark, near Port-Glasgow.

-At the manse of Newton-upon-Ayr, the Rev. William Robison, minister of Stair, to Mary, daughter of the Rev. Dr William Peebles.

8. At Boreland, John Menzies, Esq. to Miss Sarah Lucy Campbell, daughter of John Campbell, Esq. of Boreland.

10. At Ruletownhead, the Rev. Andrew Scott, Cambusnethan, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Mr Thomas Laidlaw.

-At Macduff, George Hunter, Esq. merchant, Aberdeen, to Helen, daughter of David Souter, Esq. of Gauldwell, Banffshire.

12. At Queen's-square-chapel, Bath, Sir Thomas Ramsay of Balmain, Bart. to Mrs Chisholm of Chisholm.

14. At Edinburgh, Captain A. Campbell, of the Honourable East India Company's artillery, to Margaret, youngest daughter of Charles Hay, Esq. Great King-street.

15. At London, Colonel Sir Dudley St Leger Hill, to Caroline Drury, third daughter of Robert Hunter, Esq. of Kew, Surrey.

16. At London, the Honourable Henry F. C. Cavendish, M. P. major in the 9th regiment of Lancers, to Frances Susan, widow of the Honourable Frederick Howard.

-Alexander Oswald, Esq. to Miss Dalrymple, youngest daughter of the late Sir H. D. Hamilton of North Berwick and Bargany, Bart.

17. At Aberdeen, Dr Blaikie, R. N. to Eliza, eldest daughter of Captain Livingston.

-At Church of Lerwick, Mr Lewis Macdonald, surgeon, Coldstream, to Alice, second daughter of James Bell, Esq. Woodside, Northumberland.

-At St George's, Bloomsbury, Robert Lowis, Esq. younger of Plean, to Margaret, eldest daugh ter of David Hunter, Esq. Montague-street, Russel-square, London.

19. At London, the Honourable Robert Clive, youngest son of the Earl and Countess Powis, to Lady Harriet Windsor, daughter to Lord and Lady

Amherst.

21. At London, Charles Pascoe Grenfell, Esq. M.P. to the Right Honourable Lady Georgina Isabella Frances Molyneux, eldest daughter of the Right Honourable the Earl of Sefton."

At Merksworth-cottage, near Paisley, James Maxwell, Esq. younger of Brediland and Merksworth, to Anna Maria, daughter of the late John Ainslie, Esq. M.D.

22. At Birkwood, James Moore Nelson, Esq. writer, Glasgow, to Miss Ann Hennery.

-At London, Edmund Hungerford Lechmere, Esq. eldest son of Sir Anthony Lechmere, Bart. of the Rhyd, in Worcestershire, to the Hon. Maria Clara Murray, maid of honour to her late Majesty, and second daughter of the late David Murray, Esq. brother to Lord Elibank.

29. At Leith, by the Rev. Dr Johnston, Mr John Gillon, wine and spirit-merchant, to Jane, eldest daughter of Robert Douglas, Esq. of North Leith.

DEATHS.

Nov. 5. At Badulla, in Ceylon, Thomas Wyllie, Esq. surgeon in the service of the Honourable East India Company at Madras.

19. At Ellickpore, in the East Indies, Lieutenant Alexander Tweedie, 6th regiment Madras native infantry, third son of the late Alex. Tweedie, Esq. of Quarter.

At Calcutta, in November last, Andrew Johnston Henderson, in the twenty-third year of his age, assistant-surgeon of the Marchioness of Ely East Indiaman, son of the Rev. John Henderson, minister of Queensferry, a young man of promising hopes. Dec. 7. At Caira, in the Presidency of Bombay, Caroline, wife of George William Anderson, Esq. of the East India Company's civil service.

Jan. 7. At Jamaica, in the 24th year of his age, Mr Donald Macqueen, surgeon, son to the late Rev. Edmund Macqueen, minister of the island of Barra.

In March last, Mr Alexander Gillies, late supervisor of Excise. He was amanuensis to Dr Adam Smith, and transcribed for him his celebrated work, "The Wealth of Nations." For some time past he was supported by the Doctor's nephew, Lord Reston, who but a very short time survived him.

April 29. At Nice, of a deep decline, the Hon. William Brodrick.

-At Portaskaig, island of Islay, Mr John Hill. May 1. At Spring-bank, John Taylor, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.

3. At Loanhead, Mr Robert Riccaltown, Esq. surgeon, R. N.

5. At Jedburgh, Mr J. Thomson, town-clerk, which office he held nearly thirty-five years,

8. At Bath, Matilda, wife of Colonel Robison, 24th regiment, and niece of the Right Honourable Lord Colville."

10. At Glasgow, Mr R. Lindsay, many years a partner in the house of James Lindsay & Co.

12. At Inzievar, James Harrowar, Esq. of Inzie

var.

13. At St Bris, near Auxerre, in France, Euphemia Jane, daughter of the late John Hunter, M.D. and F.R.S. and niece of the late Lieut.-General Hunter, governor and commander în Chief in Upper Canada.

15. At Haddington, Mr Alexander Whyte, baker, George-street, Edinburgh.

16. At Edinburgh, Jane Hamilton Craufuird, daughter of Archibald Craufuird, Esq. writer to the Signet.

17. At Berwick, Mrs Helen Home, relict of A. Home, Esq. of Bassendean.

At Kippen, Christiana, daughter of Alexander Graham, Esq. of Kirkhill.

18. At Spearvale, county of Cavan, William Spear, Esq. aged 81. one of the oldest lieutenants in his Majesty's service.

At Perth, Jane, daughter of Alexander Malcolm, Esq. supervisor of Excise.

19. At Inveresk, Archibald Skirving, portraitpainter.

blae.

At Perth, Major Cristopher Seton of Ballin

20. At Wootcot, near Stonehaven, Mrs Garden, relict of William Garden, Esq. Braco-park.

21. At Kennet, James Bruce, Esq. naval officer, Leith.

-At Manse of Rayne, in the 76th year of his age, and 44th of his ministry, the Rev. Patrick Davidson, D.D. upwards of 40 years minister of that parish.

-At Brighton, John Stirling, Esq. of Blackgrange, third son of the late John Stirling, Esq. of Kippendavie.

Brown, youngest son of the late Mr William Brown 22. At London, of a rapid decline, Robert Hume

of Trinidad.

At the house of Greyfriars, near Elgin, Mrs Munro of Newmill, aged 84.

-At Grant-lodge, Miss Jane Grant, daughter of of the late Sir James Grant of Grant, Bart. and sister to the Right Hon. the Earl of Seafield.

-At Bridport, Dorsetshire, Anne, second daughter of the late Simon M'Tavish, Esq. of Montreal, Lower Canada.

23. At Paris, Miss Margaret Grant, daughter of William Grant, Esq. of Congalton.

24. At Ayr, Miss Kennedy of Drumellan.

At his house in Charlotte-street, Edinburgh, John Ferrier, Esq. late of the island of Jamaica. 26. At Islington, the Rev. Dr Jarment, many years pastor of the Scottish-chapel in Oxendon

street.

At Dalmarnock, near Glasgow, in the 81st year of his age, the Rev. Dr James Playfair, Principal of the United College, University of St Andrews.

-At Summerfield, in the 71st year of her age, Mrs Jacobina Todd, wife of George Fulton, Esq. Samueyears, -At Grange, Burntisland, aged 8 lina Paterson, youngest daughter of the Rev. Rob. Culbertson, Leith.

-At Leith, Mrs Elizabeth Martin, relict of the late Mr Adam Watson, Dunbar.

At Greencroft, near Annan, Mrs Douglas, wife of Colonel Douglas of Greencroft.

-At Hayfield, Christian Maclagan, youngest daughter of the late Mr J. Maclagan, Carse of Gow

29. At Auchtermuchty, Ebenezer Marshall Gardiner, Esq. of Hilcairnie.

-At Lochmaben, in the 71st year of his age, Mr John Gardiner, late bailie of that burgh.

30. At Dumfries, Mrs Dick Glencross, daughter of the late Alexander Ferguson, Esq. of Caitloch. -At Ashgrove, Jane, daughter of James Coull, Esq. of Ashgrove.

31. At Edinburgh, William Lawson, Esq. late of Girthead.

-Edward, infant son of Robert Forsyth, Esq. advocate.

-At Dornoch, John Law, Esq. advocate in Aberdeen, sheriff-substitute of the county of Sutherland.

June 1. In consequence of a fall from his horse, aged 30, Mr James Weir of Clonkeen, surgeon.

At Cassencarie, Mrs Campbell, wife of Geo. Muir Campbell, Esq. writer to the signet.

-At his house, Howard-place, Edinburgh, the Rev. Thomas Miller, D. D. minister of Cumnock, Ayrshire, aged 80 years.

-At her aunt's house, Thistle-street, Edinburgh, Elizabeth Campbell Dallas, aged 4 years and 10 months, only child of the late Torquill Dallas, Esq.

2. At Lauder, Mrs Jessy Allan, spouse of Alex. Dawson, Esq. chief magistrate of that burgh. 3. At Edinburgh, Mrs Graham of Orchill. -At Cockenzie, William Thornburn, Esq. late of the North West Company.

- At Kilmarnock, Thomas Greenshields, Esq. 1. At Anderston, the Rev. James Stewart, minister of the relief congregation there, in the 74th year of his age, and the 44th of his ministry.

5. At London, Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell of Inverneil, Bart. G. C. H. and K. S. F.

At her house, James's-square, Edinburgh, Mrs March, in the 80th year of her age, much regretted. 6. At Barnton-house, Jean, fourth daughter of the late George Ramsay of Barnton, Esq.

-At Sanquhar, Mr William Otto, lately provost of that burgh.

- At Edinburgh, Mrs Janet Tait, spouse of Mr William West, St Andrew's-street.

- At Edinburgh, John Young, Esq. of Bellwood, Perthshire.

At Kirkhill, aged 15 months, Jane Mary, youngest daughter of John Tod, Esq. writer to the signet.

7. At the manse of Leuchars, Isabella, infant daughter of the Rev. David Watson.

8. At Bowmore, in Islay, Mr Fulton, for many years schoolmaster of the parish of Killarrow.

-At Sunnyside, Samuel Sandys, Esq. formerly of Liverpool, aged 85.

-At Warriston-crescent, John Drummond Orr, the infant son of Mr John Orr.

-At Edinburgh, Charles Augustin Hallard, eldest son of Mr Hallard, George-street.

9. At Beverley, aged 86 years, General George Garth, colonel of the 17th regiment of foot.

11. At Portobello, aged 17 months, William, eldest son of Mr William Watt, surgeon.

- Mr Archibald Dickson, junior, seedsman, Hawick.

-At Ludin-house, James Mayne, Esq. late of Powis and Logie.

12. At Edinburgh, suddenly, Mrs Janet Strathenry, Nicolson-street.

13. At Edinburgh, William Arnot, Esq. of Lumquhat.

At Orchardhead, in the parish of Inverkeithing, Mrs Alison Cunninghame, spouse of Mr William Walker, farmer there.

-At Walkinshaw, Miss Campbell, Blythswood. 14. At Edinburgh, Graham Craufuird, daughter of Archibald Craufuird, Esq. writer to the signet. At Tillery, John Chambers Hunter, Esq. of Tillery.

15. In her house, North St David-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Georgina Walker Wilson, widow of James Fraser, Esq. treasurer to the bank of Scotland.

-At Colebrook-terrace, London, John Gardner, Esq. late banker in Edinburgh.

At Aberdeen, Mr William Knight, bookseller. 16. Alexander, eldest son of Mr James Dickson, Pilrig-street, Leith-walk, Edinburgh.

17. At Saw-mills, Leven, Mr John Balfour, in the 89th year of his age.

17. At Spleenhill, Berks, Miss Ann Wilson, daughter of the late Alexander Wilson, Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow.

At Arniston, the Right Hon. Robert Dundas of Arniston, late Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer.

18. At Edinburgh, John Anstruther, Esq. of Ardit.

-At his house at Hawkfield, Mr John Crokat. 20. Mr Robert Howdon, farmer, West Garleton. 21. At Duddingstone, Edward, youngest son of Mr Edward Sandeman, Forth-street, Edinburgh.

-At Newton Stewart, Mrs Jean Scott, widow of the late Rev. Dr Scott of Foulshields, minister of Twynholm.

- At London, a few days after his return from India, Lieut. Thomas Carmichael, of the Hon. East India Company's service.

- At Glassmount, Alexander, youngest son of the late Burridge Purvis, Esq. of Glassmount.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Marion Begg, widow of William Begg, Esq. Leith.

- Mrs Isabella Webster, wife of Mr Charles Campbell, teacher, Canongate, Edinburgh.

22. At Leith, Alison, youngest daughter of Mr William Lindsay.

-At Leith, Margaret, third daughter of Mr Thomas Newbigging, wine-merchant.

-At Grange, Burntisland, Jane, youngest daughter of Mr James Hamilton, accountant-general of Excise.

24. At Edinburgh, aged 85 years, Gavin Ralston, Esq. of Ralston, barrackmaster of Piershill barracks. He was the chief of the very ancient and respectable family of Ralston of that ilk, who held large estates in the county of Renfrew and Ayr.From his social and convivial disposition, and the genuine goodness and benevolence of his heart, he. was highly esteemed during life, and his death regretted by his friends.

Lately-At his lodgings on the North Parade, Bath, Dr Samuel Solomon, of Gilead-house, Liverpool.

The Earl of Stamford and Warrington, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Chester. His Lordship was the fifth Earl of Stamford, and first Earl of Warrington. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, George Harry, now Earl of Stamford and Warrington, born in 1765.

At Saint Maur, near Paris, aged 20 years, Madame the Countess Jules de Polignac.

At London, Phillip Dauncey, Esq. King's counsel, and a distinguished ornament of the English

bar.

Stamp, Esq. of Queenborough, aged 80, who had been mayor of that burgh several times. He is reported to have died worth £30,000, but his appearance indicated even abject poverty: he has left no issue, and is said to have bequeathed his sis ter (the inmate of a neighbouring poor-house) the interest of only £500; the rest to persons of no kin: he put on a new suit of clothes to die in.

At the Royal Military College, London, Janet, the wife of Colonel Butler, the lieutenant-governor.

At a very advanced age, at his residence in Poland-street, London, the reverend and venerable Dr Strickland, grand provincial of the English Je suits, and rector magnificus of the great college of Stoneyhurst, in Lancashire. Dr Strickland being the head of the very ancient family of Strickland, of Sizher-park in Westmoreland, and Standish-hall in Lancashire, inherited an estate of upwards of £16,000 per annum, which he relinquished in favour of his second cousin, the present Mr Standish Strickland, as his vows as Jesuit would not permit of his having any worldly property.

At Highfield-park, Hants, the Hon. Lady Pitt, relict of General the Right Honourable Sir William Augustus Pitt, K. B. &c. and sister to the late Admiral the Earl Howe.

At Mansfield, George Cartwright, Esq. aged 80, formerly aid-de-camp to the Marquis of Granby in Germany, and afterwards author of a Journal of his Residence and Adventures for some years in Labrador.

At Brook-green, London, aged 19, William, eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel John West, late commanding the 3d royal veteran battalion.

At Lane-lodge, at the advanced age of 105 years. Major Leary.

MR EDITOR,

The public attention appearing to have been much roused by an article on the subject of the National Monument, in your last Number, I trust you will give admission to a few remarks on the same topic, for the reception of which that article has ably paved the way.

Complaints have been made, that the country has been backward upon this occasion; and the reasoning used in the article alluded to, endeavours to exexplain this, by supposing, that the patriotic principles which lead nations to raise such trophies in remembrance of past glories, are not fully understood. It is to be hoped, that in this respect the writer of the article in question is not quite correct. If he be, however, his strain of argument is well calculated to remedy the evil of which he complains.

The true cause, however, of the evident tardiness (not to call it lukewarmness) of the public on this occasion, seems to arise very naturally out of the uncertainty which prevails, as to the plan and situation of the monument itself.

We are described as being a cautious nation; but caution such as ours is not the offspring of cold indifference; nor of the narrow prudence of selfishness; it is the wise circumspection of a deliberating and enlightened people; and is quite compatible with the warmest and most enthusiastic nationality; and with those ennobling feelings of pride and patriotism, which ought to spring from the recollection of triumphs in which Scotland has had so eminent a share.

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We are not, however, so highly ex cited as to throw away our money for no other purpose, than to give a show of sincerity to the expression of these strong emotions. We feel, that instead of contributing to the national honour, we should be degrading it, were we to countenance the erection of a monument inadequate to the full expression of our sentiments. While we are in the dark, therefore, as to the plan of any proposed monument, we must be in perpetual alarm lest, by raising an edifice unworthy of so great an object, our triumphs, as well as our appreciation of them, would come to be undervalued by posterity, and thus one of the most obvious advantages of the national monument would be destroyed. Nor should we, in our own day, be free from some feeling of humiliation, were we to display to our rivals in arms, a memorial that, instead of sustaining, should tend to depress the lofty character we have so nobly achieved.

It is no answer to this to assert, that such fears are groundless. We must judge on this as on every other occasion, by what we know. And what does this knowledge furnish? Let us look over the whole empire-shall we anywhere find, amidst modern structures, one edifice in any respect worthy of the object in view?-or can any person be found bold enough to prophecy for the works of this country, a celebrity as undeviating and enduring as that which, for more than two thousand years, has been bestowed on the magnificent structures of Antient Greece!

Innumerable attempts have been

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