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Exchanges.

Lt. Col. South, from 20. F. with Lt. Col. Ogilvie, h. p. 8 F.

Bt. Lt. Col. Lord C. Fitz Roy, from 55 F. with Major Mill, h. p. 27 F.

Fitz Simon, from 65 F. with Major Dumas, h. p. York Chass. Major Broomfield, from 16 F. with Lt. Col. Shaw, 22 F.

Capt. Simson, from 6 R. Vet. Bn. with Bt. Major Spinluff, h. p. 18 F.

Hadden, from 6 Dr. rec. diff. with Capt. Irwin h. p. 20 Dr.

Edgell, from 4 F. with Capt. Hovenden, h. p. 60 F.

Ginger, from 81 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Gordon, h. p. 6 F.

Stewart, from 82 F. with Capt. Meech, h. p. 39 F.

Barry, from 2 W. I. R. with Capt. Parsonage, h. p. African Corps Lieut. Drake, from 7 Dr. Gds. with Lieut. Everard, 24 F.

De Lorentz, from 7 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Bourke, h. p. 1 F. G.

Dobree, from 22 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Potenger, h. p. 36 F.

Crosby, from 45 F. with Lieut. Butler, h. p. 73 F.

Colls, from 63 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Harding, h. p. Rifle Brig.

Harris, from 77 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Maclean, h. p. 3 F. G.

Goodwin, from 89 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Keith, h. p. 69 F.

Cathcart, from 91 F. rec. diff. with Lieut.

Burne, h. p. 64 F.

Cor. & Sub-Lt. Honeywood, from 1 Life Gds. with Ensign Fletcher, 45 F.

Cornet Hall, from 6 Dr. Gds. rec. diff. with Cornet Daintry, h. p. 21 Dr.

Dent, from 3 Dr. with Cornet Trollope 10

Dr. Ensign Brown, from 3 F. with 2d Lieut. Everard, h. p. Rifle Brig.

Cameron, from 3 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Burchell, h. p. 2 Prov. Bn. of Mil.

Blythe, from 3 F. with Ensign M‘Nabb, h.

p. 94 F.

Miller, from 3 F. with Ensign Piggot, h. p. 7 W. L. R.

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Waldt, late 2 W. I. Gar. Comp. Fort Nugent, Jamaica 2 Oct. Cort. 2d Lt. & Ens. Waller, 21 F. Tobago Nov.20 Gulston, late of 3 Dr. Browne, h. p. 92 F. Foxborough, Roscommon 24 Feb. 20 Paymast. Nolau, 11 Dr.Cawnpore, Bengal 29June 20 Robertson, Pembroke Militia 31 Dec. Quar. Mast. Coghlan, late of 11 F. Gibraltar Dec.20. Horsington, h. p. Berwick Fencible Cav. 29 Aug. Surgeon Thomas, h. p. 3 Gar. Bn. Wandsworth 1 Nov. 20 Ollive, E. Midd. Mil. Holloway 8 Jan.21 Assist. Surg. Donnelly, Royal Eng. Barbadoes 8 Nov. 20

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

June 22. At Moreshedebad, Bengal, the lady of Mr John Campbell, Civil Service, of a son.

Aug. 22. At Calcutta, the lady of George Swinton, Esq. Civil Service, of a son.

24. At Madras, the lady of Captain Tweedie, 2d regiment Madras Native Infantry, of a son. 25. At Cannanore, Madras, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Robert M'Dowall, of a son.

Nov. 17. At the island of Madeira, Mrs John Keir, of a son.

Dec. 24. At Leicester, the lady of Major Dalzell of Glenae, of a son.

Jan.. The Marchioness of Blandford, of a daughter.

At Llynon, county of Anglesey, the lady of H. H. Jones, Esq. of Llyndn of a daughter. 3. At Upper Belgrave Place, London, Mrs Charles Graham, of a daughter.

At Leith Mount, Mrs Glover, of a daughter. 4. At Dalkeith, Mrs Alexander Wilson, of a son. 5. At Canterbury, the lady of Robert Grant, Esq. of the 4th Light Dragoons, of a daughter.

-At No. 8, Low Calton, Mrs Tyrie, an out patient of Dr Thatcher's dispensary, and wife of Mr Tyrie, shoemaker, of a son, being her first child, in the forty-eighth year of her age, and having been married 21 years. Both the mother and infant are doing well.

6. At Picardy Place, the lady of Major James Harvey, of a son.

7. Mrs Wishart, York Place, of a daughter. At Nottingham Place, the lady of Robert Hartshorn Barber, Esq. of a son.

At Ruchill, the lady of William Baillie of Polkemmet, Esq. of a daughter.

8. The lady of Woodbine Parish, Esq. jun. of St James's Place, London, of a son and heir. 10. Mrs A. Clephane, 15, Dundas Street, of a

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At Shivas, the lady of Alexander Forbes Irvine, Esq. of a daughter.

19. At Edinburgh, the lady of A. Maitland Gibson, younger of Clifton-Hall, of a son.

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At Great King Street, Mrs Thomas Kinnear, of a son.

20. At Bassendean, Mrs Hewat, of a son. -At Holland Lodge, Newington, Edinburgh, Mrs Colonel Walker, of a son.

25. In Charlotte Square, the lady of the Lord Justice Clerk, of a son.

26. At Duke Street, Mrs Paul, of a son. 28. At Edinburgh, the lady of John Scott, Esq. of a daughter.

At Baberton-house, the lady of Archibald Christie, Esq. of a son and heir.

MARRIAGES.

July 7, 1820. At Madras, Captain Duncan Ogilvie, 2d regiment of native infantry, to Jane, daughter of the Rev. Dr Duncan, Ratho.

At Madeira, in November last, on board his Britannic Majesty's ship Esk, John Telling, Esq. to the illustrious Lady Donna Juliana Leonora de Cunha Bella.

Dec. 7. At Auchnacraig, Mull, John MacLean, Esq. of Ardow, to Christian, only daughter of Alexander Campbell, Esq.

- At St Pancras Church, London, William Hendrickson, Esq. of the island of Nevis, to Elleanor, youngest daughter of the late William Fyfe, Esq. of the island of Jamaica.

27. At London, William Fullarton Lindsay Carnegie, Esq. of Boysack, to Lady Jane Christian Carnegie, fourth daughter of the Earl of Northesk.

29. Mr Thomas Dickson, builder, Edinburgh, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr John Baillie, Edinburgh.

30. At Mellendean, Charles Abraham Leslie, eldest son of Sir John Leslie, Bart. of Wardes and Findrassie, to Anna, third daughter of Adam Walker, Esq. of Muirhouselaw, Roxburghshire.

Jan. 2. At Inveresk-house, Joshua Heary Mackenzie, Esq. advocate, to the Honourable Helen Anne Mackenzie, youngest daughter of the late Right Honourable Lord Seaforth.

4. At Aberdeen, George Wilson, Esq. younger of Glasgowego, advocate, to Agnes, second daughter of William Dyce, M. D.

8. At Jessfield, John MacVicar, Esq. merchant, Hamburgh, to Isabella, fourth daughter of the late Robert Burn, Esq. architect.

At Glasgow, William Wallace, Esq. to Janet Crawford, eldest daughter of Samuel Cooper, Esq. of Ballindalloch.

9. At Great Baddow, in Essex, Major-General ⚫ Robert Douglas, to Mary, eldest daughter of William Packer, Esq. formerly of Charlotte Street, Bloomsbury.

At Leith, Mr Alexander Simson, solicitor, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr Thomas Barker, brewer there.

10. At Edinburgh, Robert Haig, Esq. Dublin, to Eliza, youngest daughter of George Chalmer, Esq. lately of Westcombe-house, Somersetshire, and formerly of Madras.

At Montrose, James Smart, M. D. of the Madras Medical Establishment, to Louisa, eldest daughter of Thomas Dougal, Esq. banker there. 12. At Craig, the Rev. William Ramsay, minister of Alyth, to Mary, daughter of Mr M Nicoll, factor for the Earl of Airly.

At Balaphetrish, in the island of Tyree, Neil Maclachlan, Esq. Mingary, Mull, to Mrs Campbell, widow of Malcolm Campbell, Esq. late of Barmalloch, and eldest daughter of Colin Campbell, Esq. of Kilmartin.

16. At Morton-of-Pitmilly, Mr William White, Craigfoodie, to Ann, eldest daughter of John Adamson, Esq.

18. At Rosehill-house, fn Hampshire, James Cruikshank, Esq. eldest son of James Cruikshank, Esq. of Langley Park, in the county of Angus, to the Right Honourable Lady Anne Letitia Carnegie, second daughter of the Earl of Northesk.

19. At Dunkeld, William Ranken, Esq. Eskmount, to Janet Susanna, daughter of Robert Cargill, Esq.

21. At Edinburgh, W. Smith, Esq. to Miss Jessy Hoy, daughter of the late Mr William Hoy, surgeon, New York.

22. At Edinburgh, John Penistone Millbanke, Esq. of Halnaby Hall, Yorkshire, to Mrs Elizabeth Gray, widow of Thomas Gray, Esq. M. D.

At Wytham Abbey, the seat of the Earl of Abingdon, Charles John Baillie Hamilton, Esq. second son of the late Archdeacon Hamilton and Lady Charlotte Hamilton, to the Right Honourable Lady Caroline Bertie, sister to the Earl of Abingdon.

25. At Edinburgh, Robert Cadell, Esq. bookseller, to Anne Fletcher, eldest daughter of George Mylne, Esq. Howe Street.

26. At North Berwick, Mr John Cousland, merchant, Haddington, to Ann, fourth daughter of the late Mr Somerville, merchant, North Ber wick.

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April 11, 1820. At Hassingabad, of the jungle fever, Lieutenant John Campbell, of the 10th regiment of Bengal native infantry.

Oct. 22. At Braemar, St Mary's, Jamaica, Walter Pollock, Esq.

June 5. At Nagpore, in India, Alexander Muir Campbell, assistant-surgeon on the Madras establishment, son of the late Matthew Campbell, Esq. Wigton.

At Surat, much lamented, Captain Robert Campbell, of the Bombay army. He distinguished himself particularly in the late Indian war, and was brother to Captain Colin Campbell, of the navy, and Major John Campbell, late of the 55th regiment, who was severely wounded, being shot through the body at Bergen-op-Zoom-the only two surviving brothers out of seven brought up in the service of their country.

Sept. 1. At Nassau, New Providence, in the prime of life, Anne Susan, wife of LieutenantColonel Frederick Tomkins, and eldest daughter of Commissioner Woodriff, of the navy; and, on the 4th of the same month, Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Tomkins, aged 42.

Dec. 1. At Edinburgh, Mr William Whyte, solicitor, Supreme Courts.

5. Mr Holmes, the musician. He was the first performer of his day on the bassoon; and if he was ever equalled, can never be excelled, for science, skill, taste, and expression, on that instrument. He was, besides, a most worthy man in private life, and will be deeply lamented by all who knew him, for the unaffected simplicity, good sense, and benevolence of his character. He lived in Sloane-street, Chelsea, and as he was walking in apparently good health, he fell down suddenly in Piccadilly, and expired in an instant.

13. At Burn of Aberarder, Mrs McTavish, relict of Duncan M'Tavish of Garthbeg.

20. At Sandymount, near Dublin, John Archibald, second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Hart, Inspecting Field Officer of the recruiting district

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James Dickson, Esq. of Alton, merchant, Hawick.

Jan. 1, 1821. At Leith, aged 24, Mr Andrew Walker, teacher there--a young man of the most promising abilities.

At Sanquhar, in the 88th year of her age, and in the entire possession of her faculties, Mrs Nicolas Murray, relict of Mr James Leslie, who was one of the ministers of Kilmarnock, and only child, by his first marriage, of James Murray, Esq. formerly of Upper Inglestone, Glencairn.

At Edinburgh, after being delivered of a still-born son, Mrs Catharine Rannie, wife of John Swinton, Esq. of Broadmeadows.

2. At Edinburgh, in her 87th year, Miss Grisel Gray, second daughter of the late William Gray, Esq. of Newholm.

In Rose Street, Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Wallace, aged 80.

-At Montrose, aged 76, Mrs Mary Gairdner, relict of William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Leith. At Castle Howard, Ireland, William Parnell, Esq. M. P.

At Edinburgh, John, third son of Coll Macdonald, Esq. writer to the signet.

3. At Glasgow, John Falconer, Esq. merchant in Hamburgh.

-At No. 1, Hanover Street, Dr Peter Fair, of the Honourable East India Company's service.

- At Bath, General William Monro, of Ansham-house.

-At Sundrum, aged 82, John Hamilton, Esq. of Sundrum.

4. At Bath, Mrs Maria Maxwell, eldest daughter of the late Major Hamilton Maxwell, Ardwell, and widow of Adam Gordon, Esq. formerly Collector of the Customs, Portpatrick.

8. At Borrowstounness, Elizabeth, daughter of Mr Robert Henderson.

-At his house, 16, Greenside Place, Mr William Murray, formerly wine-merchant, head of New Street, Canongate.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Boston, relict of the late Rev. Robert Paterson, Biggar.

9. At Edinburgh, Mrs Charlotte Johnston, relict of Mr Patrick Plenderleath, writer in Pitten

weem.

10. At St John's Street, Edinburgh, aged two years and ten months, Mary Scott Ballantyne, daughter of Mr James Ballantyne, printer.

11. At his house, in the Canongate, Mr John Mactavish, writer in Edinburgh.

12. At Edinburgh, Mr Peter Megget, late Lieu tenant of the 4th, or King's Own.

At his house, No. 12, Thistle Street, Edinburgh, very suddenly, Mr Robert Dick.

14. At Craigflower, Mrs Isabella Colvile of Ochiltree, relict of the late James Wedderburn Colvile, Esq.

14. At Bellshill, the Rev. John Brown, minister of the relief congregation in Falkirk, in the 41st year of his ministry. Mr Brown was a man of a vigorous and discriminating mind; he had much general knowledge, and was an excellent biblical scholar.

At Edinburgh, Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Hill, of the Bengal artillery.

12. At his house in Brompton Grove, at an advanced age, Sir John Macpherson, Bart. for many years a member of the Supreme Council at Bengal, and afterwards Governor-General of India.

13. General Gwynn, Colonel of the King's Dragoon Guards, and Governor of Sheerness.

-At his house at the Bowling Alley, near Nottingham, in the 77th year of his age, John Cramond, Esq. a native of Ardlair, in the county of Angus, North Britain, and formerly a captain in the 4th, or King's Own.

15. At Hamilton, the Rev. Dr Alexander Hutchison.

14. At Boulogne, Lady Anne Digby, sister to Earl Cassilis. Her ladyship survived her husband only five weeks.

18. At West Grange, near Edinburgh, Charlotte, only surviving daughter of David Millar, Esq. of Ballumbie.

21. In London, Frances Anne, youngest daughter of the late George Lawson, Esq. of Kensing

ton Gore.

At No. 12, Queen Street, Mr Pietro Lottini. He was highly respected as a conscientious teacher, and an upright man.

-At his house, St John's Hill, Mr William Bruce, late banker in Edinburgh, much respected. 22. At Jamaica Street, Tobago Street, aged 85, Mr John Ferguson, late merchant, Dalkeith.

24. The infant daughter of Mr Michael Anderson.

-At his house, Warriston's Close, after a lingering illness, Mr John Tod, flesher.

22. At Portsmouth, suddenly, Sir George Camp bell, G. C. B. Admiral of that port. Sir George had endeared himself to every individual by his many amiable qualities, and the poor have to regret the loss of a most kind benefactor. Sir George was 59 years of age; he entered the navy very early in life; he was made a Post-Captain in 1781, Rear-Admiral in 1801, Vice-Admiral in 1806, and Admiral of the White in 1814. He was appointed Port Admiral at this station in 1817; his term would have expired in April next.

At his house, near Edinburgh, a few weeks ago, the celebrated Herman Boaz, in the 84th year of his age. Mr Boaz, by universal consent, had long worn the chief laurels of legerdemain, being at once the most expert, most various, and most graceful in the performance of his tricks. For nearly twelve years past he had been disabled by a paralytic affection, and though a popular and eminent performer for the greater portion of his life, he had not been able to lay up" for his helpless and declining years, and it is understood that his family have been left unprovided for. Having frequently enlivened the masonic meetings in this place with his stores of anecdote and song, he was attended to his grave by six of the lodges in their regalia, and buried with masonic honours-and it is gratifying to learn, that, consistently with the true principles of that order, this was done less with a view to vain and idle rade, than as the prelude to some exertions in behalf of his widow and family.

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At Paris, aged 60, M. Marietti, ex-conventionalist, who voted for the imprisonment of Louis XVI.

At Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, in the 37th year of his age, Alexander Jaffray, Esq. of Kingswells, Aberdeen. He is supposed to have fallen a vietim to his active humanity, while endeavouring to save a gentleman in whose company he was skaiting. Both were unfortunately lost.

At Bombay, Colonel John Griffith, commandant of the 2d battalion of artillery at that Presidency.

Feb. 7. At his house at Preesall, county of Lancaster, Thomas Bourne, Esq. aged 41.

Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. XLVIII.

MARCH, 1821.

VOL. VIII.

EXTRACTS FROM A LOST (AND FOUND) MEMORANDUM BOOK.

Preliminary Letter-Extracts-Strictures on Political Economy, wherein a Remedy for the Poor Laws is Divulged-Diary-Cockney Letter and Love Song-The Somnambulatory Butcher, an Episode-Ailie Mushat's Cairn-Hora Sinicæ, No. II. Ode on the death of Yahmahsseero-Stanzas on Despair, and Thoughts on a New Conjugation.

To CHRISTOPHER NORTH, Esq.

SIR, While lately travelling through part of England, a thing which is customary with me twice a-year, for the transaction of business, I happened, in the stage between Bath and to meet with a circumstance, which is the

occasion of my now addressing you.

As I do not happen to be of the melancholic temperament, and am rather fond, than otherwise, of society, it is not unusual for me, as I am a bachelor, and have the happiness or misery of travelling alone, when I fall in with a landlord of genteelish manners, and good nature, to ask him to a participation of my supper. By good luck, it fell out that I here found a man to my mind. After supper was discussed, and our rummers charged for the second time, the spirit of my host began to expand; and, in the midst of his hilarity, he let me in to numerous anecdotes of his own; some of which might have been spared, and many of which were entertaining enough. I shall confine myself to that, which is the subject of my present epistle.

About two years ago, a military gentleman, of what rank he could not learn, except that his companions sometimes called him General, took up abode with him for eight days; and lived, during the whole of that time, to use a proverbial expression, at rack and manger." Every stranger that arrived within that time, at the inn, seemed to be of his acquaintance; or, if they were unknown to him, a friendship was soon begun and cemented; and ere they were a couple of hours together, one could have sworn that they had been born in the same village-educated at the same school-or, to bring forward a still stronger link of association, which the author of Rob Roy has mentioned, “had read from the same Bible at church." Whoever was with him, whether the social VOL. VIII.

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or the serious, he regularly obliged them to sit till three in the morning, when he sent them, or, more properly speaking, led them, to their bed-rooms.

At length, having ordered breakfast one morning, he disappeared, and the landlord could never afterwards find one token or trace of him. He left behind him a green-net purse, (containing more than the amount of his bill,) and the chambermaid drowned in tears. He was remarkably tall, of rather a spare habit of body, wore neatly curled brown whiskers, a grey surtout, Wellington boots, with spurs, and a South-Sea cap, with a gold band. He had no baggage with him; and the only relique of his visit was a little book, which he had inadvertently left in his bed-room.

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I begged a sight of this relique from my host, and was not a little struck with its contents. It is a small volume, in red binding, fastened with tapeon the back, in gilt letters, is marked " Memorandum Book." After looking over a few pages, I was highly amused with its contents, and expressed myself so to my host, who obligingly told me it was of no use to him, and that I was most welcome to it. Its contents are of a most miscellaneous nature, and written, in some parts, in a rather illegible hand. I have made one of my young men transcribe a piece from it, here and there, which you will receive along with this, and which you may make public if you please. Should I observe this to be the case, I may transmit you a few farther extracts from time to time. I remain yours, &c.

February 10, 1021.

J-T-N.

EXTRACTS.

No. I.

STRICTURES ON POLITICAL ECONOMY, WHEREIN A REMEDY FOR THE POOR LAWS IS DIVULGED.

Insula, sole occidente, viridi, seculis plurimis elapsis, præclarus vir militaris appare bitque florebit. Ille non modo omni sapientiæ re, sed omni philosophiæ discet et docebit; poeta etiamque celebris.

It is only of late years that political economy has raised itself to the dignity of a science. Doctrines, that men believed to be as true as Father Paul's history of the Council of Trent, were nevertheless neglected; and other theories, as unsubstantial as the morning mist, though known and acknowledged to be false, substituted in their stead, and acted on. As Jeffrey said of Wordsworth's Excursion, "this would never do." The chaff has been sifted from the wheat-the truth has been purified from the error-and the facts that before were scattered, like the twelve tribes of Israel, over the face of society, have been brought together, and cemented into a regular and almost complete fabric; under the auspices of Malthus, Godwin, Weyland, Say,

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But what is the rising of the stocks to him who has no capital?-What is the question about the balance of trade to him who has no merchandize? And what is the worth of our knowing the right principles, if we find it impossible to act on them ?-It is of no use to know the nature of the disease, if we have not a plaster to apply, or a remedy to prescribe.

We cannot make as good silks in England as we can get from India; nor can we afford to sell them as cheap, we want materiel. But then it would overpower the feelings of our humanity to ruin the 40,000 families, that are employed in that branch of manu

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