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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

May 28. At Hale Hall, the lady of John Ireland Blackburn, Esq. M. P. a son and heir.-31. At Stappleton Park, the Right Hon. Lady Sophia Witchcote, a son.

Lately-At Balgray, parish of Cannobie, the wife of Edward Irving, of twins, making four children in eleven months.-At London, the lady of Colonel Carmichael Smith, R. E. a son.-The lady of Robert Michaelson, Esq. of the Isle of Barra, a daughter. The Right Hon. Lady Rivers, a daughter.

June 1. At Parkhouse, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon, a son.-At 24, Queen Street, Edinburgh, Mrs J. S. Robertson, a son.-2. The lady of James Ker, Esq. younger of Blackshiels, a son.At Pennycuick House, the lady of Sir George Clerk, Bart. a daughter.-3. At Knowel Farm, Sussex, the wife of MajorGeneral Beatson, a son.-4. At Musselburgh, the lady of Major Dodds, late of the Royal Scots, a son. At the Chateau de Neuilly, the Duchess of Orleans, a daughter. -5. At Whitehouse, Mrs L. Horner, a daughter.-10. At St Omers, the lady of Captain Bonnycastle, royal engineers, a daughter.-11. At Edinburgh, Mrs Molle of Mains, a daughter.-At London, Lady Elizabeth Campbell, the lady of the Right Hon. J. F. Campbell, a son and heir.-16. The lady of Sir Robert Dick of Prestonfield, Bart. a daughter.-17. At Rosebank House, the lady of Kenneth Macleay, Esq. of Newmore, a son.-18. Lady Flint, a son. -20. At Brignall Vicarage, near Greta Bridge, the Hon. Mrs Kilvington, a son.21. At Ruchill, the lady of William Baillie, Esq. of Polkemmet, a son.-26. At Dalhousie Castle, the Right Hon. Lady Robert Ker, a daughter.-At Rotterdam, Mrs William Jay, a son.-27. At Findrack, Mrs Fraser, a son.-28. In Hanover Street, Edinburgh, the lady of Dr Irving, deputyinspector of hospitals, a son.-29. At Crawfurdland Castle, the lady of William Howison Crawford, Esq. a daughter.-30. At Inverness, the lady of Andrew M'Farlane, Esq. a son.

MARRIAGES.

May 15. Henry Blount, Esq. son of Michael Blount, Esq. of Mapledurham, Oxon. to Eliza, fourth daughter of the late Lord Petre.-Colonel MacMahon of Thomond, French consul at Cork, and knight of the order of St Louis, to Mary, third daughter of Thomas Austin, Esq. of Waterfall, co. Cork.-19. Francis Whitmarsh, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Caroline Winston,

daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Scott of Springhill, Southampton.-22. Osmond Ricardo, Esq. eldest son of David Ricardo, Esq. of Gatcombe Park, Gloucester, to Harriet, youngest daughter to Robert H. Mallory, Esq. Woodcote, co. Warwick.—24. Edmund Phelps, Esq. to Anne Catherine, Countess of Antrim.-29. Captain R. H. Snead, Bengal cavalry, to Jane, youngest daughter of the late William Dumber, Esq.

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Lately-The Right Hon. Lord George William Russell, second son of the Duke of Bedford, to Miss Elizabeth Anne Rawdon, only child of the late Hon. John Raw don, and niece to the Marquis of Hastings. -Mr Milbank, to Lady Augusta Vane, second daughter of the Earl of Darlington. June 2. At Stratforth, near Barnard Castle, Mr C. Addison, to Miss F. BowThis lady had been long detained a prisoner in the Seraglio of the Dey of Algiers, from which she lately made her escape.-3. At London, Sigismund Marquis de Nadaillac, son of the Duke d'Escars, to C. Maria, daughter of Mr Mitchell, Charles' Street, Berkley Square.-4. At Edinburgh, Mr Adam Black, bookseller, to Isabella, only daughter of James Tait, Esq.-At Warkworth, the Rev. Thomas Erskine, son of J. F. Erskine, Esq. of Marr, to Charlotte, daughter of the late Major Watson, 61st regiment.-5. At Broughton Park, Edinburgh, Captain Robert Clephane, R. N. to Anne, daughter of the late Archibald Borthwick, Esq.-At Pittenweem, William Scott, Esq. stockbroker, London, to Miss Anne E. Nairne, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr Nairne of Clermont.-6. * At Edinburgh, Mr John Easton, to Miss Margaret Smith.-7. At Drummuie, Lieut.Col. J. G. Ross, 2d West India regiment, to Barbara, second daughter of the late Rev. Dr Bethune of Dornock.-9. At Lisbon, William Traill, Esq. of Woodwick, Orkney, to Miss Sarle, daughter of Charles Sarle, Esq. of Lisbon.-10. At Howden, Alexander Cleghorn, Esq. inspector-general of imports and exports for Scotland, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Tho. Farquharson, Esq. of Howden.-14. At Montrose, the Right Hon. the Earl of Kintore, to Miss Juliet Renny, third daughter of the late Robert Renny, Esq. of Borrowfield.-16. At the Manse of Anstruther Wester, Lieutenant Charles Gray of the royal marines, to Jessie, daughter of the late Thomas Carstairs, Esq. of King's Barns. At Largnean, George Whitehorn Lawrence, Esq. to Jane Fordyce, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Wight of Chapelearne.-17. At Greenock, Mr Williani Carrick, merchant, Glasgow, to Mary, second daughter of Mr Daniel M‘Lachlan,

merchant, Greenock.-20. At Edinburgh, Count Flahault, to the Hon. Miss Mercer Elphinstone of Aldie.-21. At London, Charles Pasley, Esq. major in the service of the Hon. East India Company, and late charge-d'affaires at the Court of Persia, on the part of the Supreme Government of India, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Simon M'Tavish of Montreal, Canada, and Dunadry, N. B.-23. At Lancaster, Captain Wilson, R. N. son of the late Judge Wilson of Howe, to Dorothea, daughter of Charles Gibson, Esq. of Quermore Park, Lancashire.-24. At London, Charles Shaw Lefevre, jun. eldest son of Charles Shaw Lefevre, Esq. M. P. of Heckfield, Southamptonshire, to Emma Laura, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Whitbread.-30. The Rev. Henry Wastell of Newborough, Northumberland, to Anne, second daughter of Thomas Henderson, Esq. chamberlain of Edinburgh.

DEATHS.

March 13. At Sydney, Mr Walter Lang, merchant, Van Diemen's Land, son of the deceased Walter Lang, Esq. late one of the magistrates of Glasgow.

April 10. At Montreal, Lower Canada, Rev. J. Mountain, D. D. brother of the bishop of Quebec, rector of Montreal and of Peldon, Essex.-25. At Paris, W. Augustus Miles, Esq. formerly private secretary to the late Right Hon. William Pitt. -26. At Vanceville, Virginia, John Pollock, Esq. of Logie Green, W. S.-28. At the Peace and Unity Hospital, Durham, aged 101, Mrs Anne Dinsdale, who had been a widow 66 years. When 99, she had the misfortune to have her thigh bone broken, of which she was cured in the Infirmary; and about six weeks previous to her death, she had her shoulder dislocated, of which she had also recovered.

May 10. In the House of Industry, Chester, aged 39, Mr James Lewis, late of the Chester, Glasgow, Haymarket Theatres, &c. Improving the characteristic of his profession, hastened his death. He was an actor of considerable reputation.-At Antigua, aged 76, John Otto Bayer, Esq. a member of council in that island, and formerly in the 82d regiment.-At Rome, the celebrated Cardinal Maury, who was in some measure under Bonaparte, and during the captivity of the Pope, the head of the catholic church. He fancied he saw a change of colour in his lips, that denoted his having swallowed poison; and by taking counterpoisons, he killed himself. He lived the life of a miser, and persuaded himself that he was conspired against by all mankind. He was born at Vaurias, near Avignon, 26th June 1746, and had been created a Cardinal by Pius VI. 21st February 1792. Although rather in disgrace since the downfall of his master and

the restoration of the Pope, his funeral was attended by all the Cardinals. His riches are left to a brother, who is in the church, and resident in France.-14. At London, Joseph Alder, Esq. of the firm of Hazard, Burne, and Co. Royal Exchange.-16. At Barley Wood, Mrs Sarah More, sister of the celebrated Mrs Hannah_More.—At Brighton, in her 22d year, Right Hon. Lady Frances Browne, sister of the Earl of Kenmore.-16. Off Cape Finisterre, Captain Robert Foulis Preston of the Euphrates frigate, aged 33.-At Bath, the Countess of Newcommon.-23. At Gort, co. Galway, in his 76 year, the Right Hon. John Pendergast Siryth, Viscount Gort, governor of the county of Galway.-At Pittodrie, Aberdeenshire, the wife of Lieut.-Col. Erskine of Pittodrie.-26. In the 82d year of his age, Thomas Salt, Esq. of Litchfield, father of Henry Salt, Esq. his Majesty's consul-general for Egypt.-28. At Dundee, aged 60, Ebenezer Anderson, Esq. late agent for the Bank of Scotland there.

June 9. At the advanced age of 108, Ca, therine Prescott of George Leigh Street, Manchester. She retained her faculties in a wonderful degree, having learned to read her Bible, without the aid of spectacles, partly in the Lancasterian School, and partly in the St Clement's Sunday School in that town, since she was 100 years of age. -At Brompton, J. Adams, Esq. late of Peterwell, Cardiganshire, and formerly M.P. for Carmarthen, aged 71.-4. At Brucefield House, Clackmannanshire, Mrs Elizabeth Johnstone, wife of Lieut.-Col. Dalgliesh of Dalbeath, aged 44.-5. At Bath, in the 88th year of her age, Lady Riddell, widow of the late Sir James Riddell, Bart. of Ardnamurchan and Sunart, Argyleshire.-At Myrehead, Maj.-Gen. George Dyer of the royal marines.-8. The Rev. Alexander Macadam, minister of Nigg, Ross-shire, in the 69th year of his age.-9. At Brechin, in the 80th year of his age, Joseph Lowe, M. D.-12. At Larkfield, Robert Jamieson, Esq. one of the magistrates of Glasgow. At Kilwinning the Rev. Robert Smith, late minister of the gospel at Auchinleck, in the 84th year of his age, and 57th of his minis try.-13. At Edgeworthstown, Ireland, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. father of the celebrated Miss Edgeworth.-15. At Roseneath, in the 83d year of his age, Mr James M'Ewan, late one of the magistrates of Glasgow.-At Chateau de la Challière, near Lausanne, Mrs Stratford Canning, wife of his Majesty's envoy-extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary to the Swiss cantons.-18. In Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Moodie, wife of Mr Chas. Moodie of the Exchequer.-19. At Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, the lady of Major Charles Irvine of the 6th dragoon guards. -20. While the tragedy of Jane Shore was performing at the Leeds Theatre, the part of Dumont, by Mr Cummins, that highly

respected veteran had just repeated the benedictory words,

"Be witness for me, ye celestial hosts, Such mercy, and such pardon, as my soul Accords to thee, and begs of heaven to show thee;

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May such befall me, at my latest hour-" When he fell down on the stage, and instantly expired. The performance, of course, immediately closed. time, Mr Cummins (the circumstances of whose death so nearly resemble those of Mr Pahner), had laboured under that alarming malady designated by the name of ossification of the heart, or a change from the membranous into a boney subst.mce:-and to this circumstance, added to the strength of his feelings in the mimic scene, his death is to be attributed.-21. George Leith, Esq. of Overhall, co. Aberdeen, and Bladud's Buildings, Bath. He was paying a morning visit at the house of Robert Aberdein, Esq. when he fell from his chair and instantly expired.-23. At Edinburgh, Patrick Orr, Esq. of Bridgeston.-At London, the Right Hon. Dowager Viscountess Hereford.-At London, Mr Samuel Horracks of Bread Street, aged 35.-24. At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Sommerville, relict of William Donald, Esq. late merchant in Greenock.25. At Ayr, Mrs Campbell, wife of Dugald Campbell, Esq. of Skerrington, and daughter of the late Hon. William Baillie of Polkemmet.-26. At West Calder, Mrs Muckersy, wife of the Rev. John Muckersy, minister of that parish.-27. At Deal, Mr Alexander Henry Hamilton of his Majesty's ship Severn, eldest son of Daniel Hamilton, Esq. of Gilkerscleugh.-30. At Inveresk House, Dame Henrietta Johnstone, wife of Sir James Gardiner Baird of Saughtonhall, Bart.-At Flemington Mill, James Murray, Esq. of Craigend.

Lately-At Clifton, Lady Cosby, wife of Lieut-gen. Sir H. Cosby, of Barnesville Park, Gloucestershire, daughter of the late S. Elfiot, Esq. of Antigua, and eldest sister of the late Countess of Errol, the present Lady Le Despenser, and Mrs Cambden Cope.— At Brookehill, Woolwich (at the house of his brother, Captain Napier, R. A.), Vernon Napier, Esq. youngest son of the late J. Napier, Esq. of Tintonhall, Somerset.- -Mary, the wife of Gen. J. Leveson Gower, second daughter of the late P. Broke of Broke's Hall in Nacton, and sister to Sir P. B. V. Broke, Bart. captain of the Shannon. In York Place, Baker Street, in his 73d year, William Lewis, Esq. formerly of the East India Company's civil service, and member of the Council at Bombay. At Brancepath Castle, Durham, in his 83d year, W. Russel, Esq. whose mild and amiable qualities had not less endeared him to his family and friends, than his genuine benevolence and public spirit had titled him to universal respect and es

teem. Among the many instances of his well-directed munificence and patriotism may be mentioned an hospital, which he founded and liberally endowed some years ago in the county of Durham, for a considerable number of aged persons, with a school attached for a large establishment of boys and girls. In 1795, Mr Russel was prominently instrumental in raising a large body of infantry in the county of Durham, to the expense of which he mainly contributed; and subsequently, at the cost of several thousand pounds, entirely borne by himself, he raised and equipped a numerous corps of sharp-shooters, esteemed one of the most complete in the kingdom. During the late distresses, and up to the moment of his death, he received and maintained the poor, coming from all quarters, in barracks constructed for the purpose, where every requisite comfort and accommodation was provided for them, while he kept alive their habits of industry, by employing such as were able in various works upon his extensive estates. In short, it appeared that the chief gratification arising to him from the immense possessions which the honourable application of his talents had accumulated, was the power they bestowed of more completely discharging the duties of a good subject and a practical Christian. He has left a widow, the daugh ter of the late Admiral Milbanke; one son. Mat. Russel, Esq. M. P. for Saltash; and two daughters, one of whom is married to Lieut-Col. Banbury, and the other to Lieut. Gen. Sir Gordon Drummond, G. C. B.— In St Giles's Workhouse, Thomas Wicham Kent, a very interesting old man, whose hard fate has for several years past excited the commiseration of many persons connected with the arts, from believing him to be the natural son of a Peer, the grandfather of a Duke. He used to say he was born at Bradwell, near Tideswell in Derbyshire, in 1744; had a good education given him; and at a proper age was articled to Mr Joseph Wilton, a celebrated statuary of the day; and having acquired proficiency in this art, went to Rome to complete his studies. For many years afterwards he was employed in the shops of several of our first artists; but this employment somewhat failing him, and being a proficient in music, about the year 1795 he entered into the band of the 101st regiment, in which he remained till about 1800; after which, for a short time, ho kept a plaster figure shop in Whetstone Park, near Holborn. About a year ago he became too infirm to make his accustomed calls on the private benefactors, by whom he has for some years been chiefly support. ed, and some of whom are believed to have tried every effort to get him provided for in a more appropriate way than in the common workhouse; but at last starvation, drove him thereto.

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No V.]

EDINBURGH
Monthly

MAGAZINE.

AUGUST 1817.

Contents.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Observations on " Macbeth and King Richard III. an Essay, in Answer to Remarks on some of the Characters of Shakespeare; by J. P. Kemble, "......456 Cursory Remarks on Music, especially on the Sources of the Pleasure which it communicates. (Concluded from page 347.) Some Account of Billy Marshal, a Gypsey Chief. Fragment of a Literary Romance. (Continued from page 387.)-465 Account of a Thunder Storm in the neighbourhood of Leadhills, Lanarkshire, by Mr J. Braid, Surgeon.....471 On the Exportation of Cotton Yarn......472 On the Education of the Children of the Poor

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ORIGINAL POETRY.

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Reply to the Article "On Sitting below
the Salt, and the Stewarts of Allan-
ton;"-Vindication of the Accuracy
of the Author of the "Memorie of the
Somervilles ;" with a veritable State-
ment of the Original Ancestry of the
Family of Allanton....476
Amber found imbedded in Limestone,

in the Province of Santander in Spain 483 Nuga Literariæ. (I. The Black Prince.

II. Spenser. III. Quaintness of Expression. IV. Stage Directions.)....484 Account of Cromlix, or Dunblane Mineral Spring, and a Descriptive Sketch of the Scenery in the Vicinity, &c.....485 Sketches of Foreign Scenery and Manners, No III........ .......487

SELECT EXTRACTS. Maritime Discoveries in Australasia......493

ANTIQUARIAN REPERTORY. Sale of Lands in the Thirteenth Century 496 • Commissioun for Examinating of Witcheis,'-1591......

Commission for trying John Stewart and

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To a revered Female Relative.....ib.

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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE three following articles have been unavoidably delayed; but they are already in types, and will not fail to enrich our next Number: "Memoir of James Grahame, author of the Sabbath,”. "The Evils of Inconstancy, illustrated by the History of a Scots Tutor," and "Remarks on the Study of some Branches of Natural History."

In our next will also appear a short notice of Colonel William Cleland, with extracts from his poems printed in 1697;-Conclusion of the article concerning the Scottish Gypsies ;-Continuation of the Remarks on Greek Tragedy ;— and Reviews of " Poetical Epistles and Translations,”—of " Dramatic Tales, by the author of the Poetic Mirror,"-and of Byron's "Lament of Tasso."

We have received a very able paper under the signature of P. M., but as the subjects of which it treats appear rather to belong to one particular class of Periodical Works than to a General Miscellany, and as the writer acknowledges that the substance of it has already been given in several other publications, we have some doubts in regard to the propriety of inserting it, and it is for the present postponed.

We ought to have acknowledged in our last the receipt of two papers on the subject of Mr J. P. Kemble's merits as an Actor, one of them drawn up with very considerable fairness and ability. These, and an article "On Popular Notions," are now under consideration.

Another paper has been sent us in answer to "Candidus," on the genealogy of the Stewarts of Allanton; but we are half afraid of enlarging further on such subjects, since a reverend person, under the signature of Haggai M'Briar, seems very much displeased with what papers of this sort we have already published, and exhorts us, in somewhat imperious language," rather to insert a few simple recipes, useful in household economy," such as his " daughter Martha's improved method of brewing ginger beer," &c.; and, in words of more grave authority, admonishes us " to avoid foolish questions, fables, and endless genealogies, and contentions and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.”

No VI. will be published in Edinburgh on the 20th of September, and in London on the 1st of October.

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