BIRTHS.

May 7. Mrs Hamilton, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, a daughter.-22. At St Helena, Mrs Vernon, wife of the Rev. B. J. Vernon, a daughter.-27. Mrs Bell, 32, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, a daughter.-28. At Stranraer, Mrs Ross, spouse to Captain Ross of his Majesty's ship the Driver, a daughter.

June 1. Mrs Guild, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, a son.-3. Mrs John Gibson, Dundas Street, Edinburgh, a daughter.-5. Mrs Beveridge, North St James's Street, Edinburgh, a son.-8. At Kemback-house, Mrs Macgill, a daughter.-22. At Upper Pol lock-house, Mrs Forlong, jun. a daughter. 23. Mrs Colonel Munro, George's-square, Edinburgh, a daughter.-26. At Irvine, Mrs Hair, a son.-30. At Geneva, the Countess of Minto, a son.

July 5. At Gordon-hall, the lady of Sir James A. Gordon, K.C.B. royal navy, a daughter.-6. At Blandeques, in France, the lady of Lieut. Col. Cameron, 79th regt. a daughter.-7. At Perth, the lady of Capt. James Ross, of the Carmarthen, a daughter.

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-8. At Kilbagie, Mrs Stein, a daughter. Mrs Grey of Millfield-hill, a son.-10. At Wauchope, Roxburghshire, Mrs Scott of Wauchope, a son.-21. At Dysart, Mrs John Barclay, a son.-23. At Powfoulis, Stirlingshire, the lady of James Bruce, Esq. a daughter. Mrs Macknight, Londonstreet, Edinburgh, a son.-25. Mrs Lyon, Forth-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.-At Glasgow, Mrs William Copland, a son.-At Perth, the lady of James Nairne, Esq. of Dunsinnan, a son.-27. The lady of the Hon. Lord Cringletie, a son.

Lately-At Clifton, the lady of the late William Chisholm of Chisholm, Esq. a daughter.-At Wootton-hill, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. T. L. Dundas, a daughter.-In Brunswick-square, London, the lady of Robert Gillespie, Esq. of Montreal, a daughter.

John White, assistant commissary-general on that establishment, daughter of the late Chevalier de Grenier de Fonclane and the present Lady Chalmers.

May 29. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Stodart, merchant, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Gray, Broughton, Peeblesshire.

June 2. At Aberdeen, John Brand, Esq. writer in Stonehaven, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr Burnett, writer, Stonehaven.-5. At Edinburgh, Mr Campbell Winton, to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Grieve, Esq. Sheriff-hall.-6. At Portobello, Mr Simon Kemp of Port-Glasgow, to Gracie, second daughter of the late Alexander Ferrie, Esq. writer in Edinburgh.-9. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant Robert Ford, royal marines, to Miss Euphemia, daughter of John Kermack, Esq. Edinburgh.-At Glasgow, David Bannerman, Esq. Manchester, to Mary Harrower, eldest daughter of James Alexander, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.-14. At Cronstadt, Russia, Mr Vertue of Great St Helen's, London, to Erskine C. Booker, daughter of John Booker, Esq. British viceconsul at Cronstadt.-16. At Ardtarig, Argyllshire, Mr Alexander Brown, purser, royal navy, to Catherine, eldest daughter of George Campbell, Esq.-23. At Langley Park, Captain Robert Ramsay, third son of the late Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain, Bart. to Margaret, daughter of the late Patrick Cruickshank, Esq. of Stracathro.-30. At Roxburgh Place, Lieut. Angus Macdonald of the 92d regiment, to Robina, daughter of the late Walter Macfarlane, Esq. of Ledard.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Charles Ritchie, Esq. merchant, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Reid, Esq. architect.--3. At Glasgow, the Rev. Archibald M'Intyre, minister of the Relief Congregation, Newlands, to Miss Mary Lockhart, Glasgow. 5. At Pencaitland-house, S. M. Thriepland, Esq. late advocate-general in the Hon. the East India Company's service, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Walter Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield.-7. At Edinburgh, William Black, Esq. of the Devanha brewery, Aberdeen, to Miss Dorothea Blair Field, daughter of the late Dr James Field, physician at Petersburgh, North America.-8. At Monymusk, Henry Iveson, Esq. of Black Bank, to Miss Jessie Grant, third daughter of Sir Archibald Grant, Bart.-9. At Glasgow, Professor Thomson of Belfast, to Margaret, daughter of the late William Gardner, merchant.-16. At Edinburgh, Robert Hunter, Esq. advocate, to Catherine, eldest daughter of Mr Archibald Gibson, W. S.-18. At Leith, James Shirreff, jun. Esq. merchant, Leith, to Miss Jess Millar, second daughter of Archibald Millar, Esq. merchant there. -21. At Prestonpans, H. F. Cadell, Esq. Cockenzie, to Miss Buchan Sydserff of Ruchlaw.-22. At Bath, Major-general Sir John Buchan, K.C.T.S. to Laura, only daughter of Colonel Mark Wilks of Kirby,

in the Isle of Man, late governor of St Helena.-24. William M'Leod Bannatyne, Esq. of Bath, third son of the late General Bannatyne, to Miss Young, only child of Captain Young.-26. At London, Captain William Johnson Campbell, third son of the late Lieutenant-general Colin Campbell, to Anna Maria, only daughter of the late Sir Francis Vincent, Bart. of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.-28. At Airly Lodge, near Dundee, William Gourlay, Esq. surgeon in the East India Company's service, to Margaret, daughter of Alexander Balfour, merchant, Dundee.-29. At Edinburgh, John Campbell, Esq. quartus, W. S. to Miss Mary Kirkpatrick Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Esq. late of the island of Tobago.

Lately-At Fantington church, John Douglas, Esq. of Lockerby, to Sarah, youngest daughter of James Sholto Douglas, Esq. Denworth, Sussex.-At Kerse, Robert Walker, Esq. merchant, Falkirk, to Christina, third daughter of John Borthwick, Esq.-At Anchorfield, near Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Proudfoot, formerly of Liverpool, now merchant in London, to Mrs Borthwick, only daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.-At Berlin, George Sholto Douglas, Esq. secretary to the British legation, to Miss Rose, eldest daughter of his Majesty's plenipotentiary at that court. At Edinburgh, Henry Gordon Dickson, Esq. W.S. to Eliza, second daughter of the late William Gillespie, Esq. merchant in Edinburgh.-Lord Viscount Ebrington, to Lady Susan Ryder, eldest daughter of the Earl of Harrowby.

March 28. At St Helena, Mrs Porteous, wife of Henry Porteous, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's service.

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May 14. At Lound, near Retford, aged 22, Esther, the wife of John Walker, Esq. This lady fell a victim to a second attack of the small pox: she took the infection from a person infected with the disease, and exposed publicly on the high road. Walker's former attack was about seventeen years ago.-19. In Piershill barracks, Edinburgh, the lady of Major Charles Irvine, of the 6th dragoon guards.-20. In the house of correction at Durham, where he had been kept nearly 46 years, a man, usually called Dicky, a lunatic, whose real name could never be made out, but which is supposed to have been Richard Williamson. This extraordinary man was first discovered in 1771, in a complete state of nudity, in an out-building in the fields near Newton-hall, then the seat of Thomas Liddell, Esq. It has been generally conjectured, that he had been a lunatic confined in some receptacle, whence he had escaped. He was never able either to tell his name, or to give the smallest account of himself; nor could any discovery ever be made where he came from,

or to whom he belonged, though from his dialect he seemed to have come from some of the southern counties. He was perfectly harmless, and appeared to have had a good education, from his being able to repeat many parts of the service of the church, particularly the morning service, which he frequently did with great propriety. He is supposed to have been 75 or 80 years of age.-24. At Glasgow, Lieutenant John Ferguson, of the royal Lanark militia. At Glenlyon-house, Miss Janet Campbell, daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Glenlyon.-At Heckington, Lincolnshire, Mr Samuel Jessup, an opulent grazier, of pill-taking memory, aged 65. He lived in a very eccentric way, as a bachelor, without known relatives, and has died possessed of a good fortune, notwithstanding a most inordinate craving for physic, by which he was distinguised for the last thirty years of his life. In 21 years (from 1794 to 1816,) the deceased took 226,934 pills, supplied by a respectable apothecary at Bottesford, which is at the rate of 10,806 pills a-year, or 29 pills each day; but as the patient began with a more moderate appetite, and increased it as he proceeded, in the last five years preceding 1816, he took the pills at the rate of 78 a-day, and, in the year 1814, swallowed not less than 51,590. Notwithstanding this, and the addition of 40,000 bottles of mixture, and jalaps and electuaries, extending altogether to 55 closely-written columns of an apothecary's bill, the deceased lived to attain the age of 65 years!-29. At Gibraltar, D. A. Com. General Walter Porteous.-31. In the 77th year of his age, James Baird, Esq. of Broompark, formerly of Virginia.

June 5. At Hieres, in the south of France, Grace Dundas Rae, eldest surviving daugh ter of the late Sir David Rae of Eskgrove, Bart.-6. At Edinburgh, John Thomson, Esq. royal navy.-8. In the Royal Military Hospital at Fort Pitt, by Chatham, aged 24, and a native of Leven, Fifeshire, James Alexander Oswald, Esq. M.D. The cause of his death is awfully interesting, and affords a serious warning to all of the medical profession. Being an assistant in the hospital, whilst dressing a patient labouring under a mortal disease, he unwarily exposed an ulcerated surface to the morbid poison, which being conveyed into the system, and almost imperceptibly creeping up the arm, fixed in the axilla and breast, and put a period to a most painful state of existence, under which he had languished for three weeks, notwithstanding every effort of his medical friends, and the most assiduous attention of James Daese, Esq. of Fort Pitt Hospital, one of the most skilful surgeons of the army.9. At East Sheen, near Richmond, the Hon. Charles Ramsay, second son of the Earl of Dalhousie.-10. At Edinburgh, John Macfarquhar, Esq. W. S.15. At Edinburgh, in consequence of the bursting of a blood vessel, Lieut. Alston, of

his Majesty's ship Ramillies.-17. At Brucefield-house, Clackmannanshire, in the 17th year of her age, Miss Hannah Dalgleish, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgleish, of Dalbeath.-18. At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Dundas, daughter of the late Dr Thomas Dundas.-19. On his passage from Jamaica, Dugald Campbell, Esq. of Saltspring.-20. At Peers, Salop, aged 75, Thomas Hill, Esq. third son of the late Sir Rowland Hill, Bart. of Hawkstone Park, and uncle of the present Lord Hill.-At Edinburgh, Mrs H. Kerr, relict of the late William Kerr, Esq. of the General PostOffice.-21. At Greenock, in the 97th year of her age, Mrs Barbara M'Pherson, relict of the Rev. Alexander M'Leod of the Isle of Skye, and mother of the late LieutenantColonel Donald M'Leod of Achagoyle and St Kilda. At Kensington Place, Glasgow, Mr James Buchanan, merchant.-27. At London, Lady Suttie, wife of Sir James Suttie, Bart. of Balgonie, M.P.-29. At Cupar Fife, Captain and Adjutant John Roy, of the Aberdeenshire militia. He has left a wife and seven daughters to lament his loss.At Glasgow, Captain James Somerville of the royal navy.-30. At Banstead, Surrey, Richard Parry, Esq. one of the Directors of the East India Company.-At Madeira, Captain the Hon. James Arbuthnot, royal navy. He had gone there on account of ill health, occasioned by the wounds which he received while in command of his Majesty's ship Avon.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Captain James Nicholson, royal navy.-3. General Philip Martin, colonel commandant of the 6th battalion of the royal artillery.-4. At London, William Bruce, bookseller, in the 73d year of his age. He was in the above line for upwards of fifty years, and was much respected by all who knew him.-5. At Westfield, near Elgin, Thomas Sellar, Esq.

S. At Edinburgh, Alexander, and on the 13th, David, youngest sons of Captain Watson, royal navy.-At London, the Right Hon. George Ponsonby. He was born on the 5th of March 1755. He was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, March 25, 1806, which office he resigned, and was latterly member for Tavistock. On the 18th of May 1781, he married Lady Mary Butler, eldest daughter of Brinsley, the second Earl of Belvedere, by whom he had several children. Mr Ponsonby was, we believe, one of those very estimable characters who fill a private station in the most amiable and exemplary manner, and a public one with propriety and integrity. His talents were more useful than splendid; more suited to the arrangement of affairs, and the detail of business, and the tranquil investigation of truth, than capable of obtaining a command over the understanding of others, of dazzling by their brilliancy, or controlling by their powers. In truth, he was an honest, sincere, steady man; and his eloquence was naturally adapted to the

level tenor of his mind. He never aspired to the lofty and even dignity of a Pitt, and was alike incapable of the quick conception and rapid elocution of a Fox. He was less fertile in expedients, less perplexing in argument, and less pertinacious in debate, than Mr Perceval. The ardent spirits of his own party so far ran beyond him in their attacks, that they almost forgot they fought under his colours; to whom, therefore, he was rather a point d'appui after the battle than a leader in the field.-10. At Northumberland-house, London, his Grace the Duke of Northumberland. This distinguished nobleman had been for years a martyr to the gout, and for several weeks past had been considerably indisposed, but was recently supposed to be better, and his death at last was rather unexpected. The Duchess and his sons, Earl Percy and Lord Prudhoe, were, however, with him at the time of his death. His complaint latterly was supposed to be a species of rheumatic gout. His Grace was born 25th August 1742, and was therefore in the 75th year of his age. He succeeded his father, Hugh, the late Duke, 6th June 1786; married first, 2d July 1764, Lady Ann Stuart, third daughter of John, third Earl of Bute, by whom he had no issue, and which marriage was dissolved by act of Parliament in 1779. He married, secondly, May 25, 1779, Frances Julia Burrell, third daughter of Peter Burrell, Esq. of Beckenham, Kent, sister to the Marchioness of Exeter, the Countess of Beverly, and Lord Gwydir, by whom he had issue five daughters, three of whom are dead, and one is married to Lord James Murray, second son of the Duke of Athol; and two sons, Hugh, Earl Percy, born April 20, 1785, now Duke of Northumberland, who was some time since called up to the House of Lords, to sit for the barony of Percy; and Algernon, born December 15, 1792, lately created a peer, by the title of Lord Prudhoe. The Duke of Northum. berland has been uniformly distinguished by the most munificent liberality, and his loss will no doubt be deeply felt. The present Duke was recently married to a daughter of the Earl of Powis.-At Acharnish, in Strathspey, Major Charles Grant, late of the Hon. East India Company's service.13. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Walker, wine and spirit merchant.-14. At London, Mrs Sarah Holland Walker, daughter of the late Major Holland, aid-de-camp to General Wolfe, and wife of LieutenantColonel Robert Walker, Lieutenant-Governor of Sheerness.-At Bath, in the 54th year of his age, Lord Arundel. His Lord. ship is succeeded in his titles by his eldest son, James Everard Arundel, who married Mary, the only daughter of the late Marquis of Buckingam.-15. At Paris, the cele brated Madame de Stael.- At Inveresk, Edmund Ferguson, Esq. of Baledmund..

16. At Persey, Perthshire, Miss Frances Farquharson of Persey.-18. At London, Grace Jane, youngest daughter of Alexander Boswell, Esq. of Auchinleck, M.P.19. At Bath, Colonel John Jacques, late of the 51st. The Colonel served under General Murray at the siege of Minorca, at which time the late Sir John Moore was a subaltern in his (then Captain Jacques) company.

At Bath, aged 79, John Palmer, Esq. many years city architect and surveyor. Perhaps no architect of his day has built so many churches and chapels, all designed and executed with appropriate solidity, classical elegance, and utility.-25, At Clifton, Dr Walter Craufurd.-At Peebles, Captain Alexander Dickson, formerly of the royal artillery.-26. At Edinburgh, John Mackenzie, Esq. of Dolphinton.--31. Stephen Wight, M.D. aged 21. He had gone to bathe between Leith and Portobello, and was seen to fall almost immediately upon entering the water, it is supposed from the effects of a paralytic affection. The body was carried to the Seafield Baths, and medical assistance procured from Leith as soon as possible; but the usual method employed to restore suspended animation proved ineffectual.

Lately-At Malacca, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, Lieutenant William Carstairs Bruce, 4th native infantry, third son of the late James Bruce Carstairs, Esq. of Kinross.-At Thornton Rust, Wensleydale, Yorkshire, Mrs Jane Robinson, aged 105.-At Whitwell, parish of Paul's Walden, Herts, Captain William Fothergill, royal navy.-In Kirk Lonan, Isle of Man, aged 84, Mrs Ann Currin, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, of 104 children.-At Brighton, in her 90th year, Lady Ann Murray, sister of the late Lord Chief Justice Mansfield.Lady Hackett, wife of Sir C. Hackett, Knt.

Mr Charles Roland Drummond of Hartstreet, Bloomsbury. He was killed by being thrown from his horse in Hyde Park. He died in a few hours after.-At Bulogurteen, in the county of Kilkenny, James Carrol, at the extraordinary age of 106. A few years ago an elder brother of his died, aged 117, who was attended to the grave by 80 children and grandchildren, the least of whose ages was above 50 years, and a son of his now alive, who is nearly 100 years old, and enjoys good health, and the perfect possession of all his faculties.-At Deme rara, Captain Charles Dutchman, of the Cognac packet of Hull, who, with his brother Henry, and a boat's crew, had been to the assistance of a vessel in distress; they were caught by a heavy squall, when all unfortunately perished. These make six sons Mr Dutchman, senior, has lost, viz. three killed in action with privateers, and one by an accident at a ship launch in America.