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Quin, M.P. for Limerick, to Caroline, only daughter of T. Windham, esq. M.P. of Dunraven Castle, Glamorganshire.

At Liangre, Radnor, Thomas Higgins, esq. of Hay, to Miss Fortane Williams second daughter of John W. esq. of Cwm, Rad

norshire.

Captain Martin, R.N. late of Trenewydd, to Miss Thomas, of Narberth.

At St. Clear's, Carmarthen, Wm. Mathews, esq. captain in the Hon East India Company's service, on the Madras establishment, to his cousin, Miss Murray, eldest daughter of Alexander M. esq. of Hattongarden, London.

At Pembrey Church, Carmarthen, Captain Joshua Wedge, to Miss Roe.

Evan George, esq. of Plas-Crown, Pembrokeshire, to Miss James, eldest daughter of

the late Rev. Mr. J. vicar of Llandilo.

At Tenby, Lieut. James Morgan Strangway, of the Marines, to Lucretia, daughter of the late Mr. Hudson, solicitor, of Hampstead.

Capt. James Lewis, of St. Clear's, to Mrs. Price, widow of the late Mr. P. of Tenby. Died.] At Swansea, Capt. Diamond.

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At Glanbairen, Montgomery, Pryce Buck ley, esq. 79.

At Garn, near Denbigh, Mrs. Griffith, relict of John G. esq.

At Tenby, aged 31, the Rev. Edward Hughes, many years rector of that place. Endeared to a large and respectable circle of friends by his gentlemanly manners and benevolent disposition, few men ever lived so beloved, or died so regretted. Active in the service of all who required his assistance, and strict in the performance of every domestic and social duty, he may be said to have passed through life without ever gaining an enemy, or losing a friend.

At Wrexham, the Rev. Edward Davies, A.M. for many years master of the graminar school in that town, and rector of Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog.

NORTH BRITAIN.

The Monthly Farming Club, at Dalkeith, in Scotland, has offered a premium of five hundred pounds to any person who shall produce a machine at an expence not exceeding sixty pounds, capable of being wrought by one or two horses, and two men, and which upon trial, in presence of a committee appointed by the club, shill at any time previous to the 30th of September, 1812, cut down two Scots acres of corn, in a satisfactory manner, within five hours. If two or more machines are produced, the premium will be adjudged to that which shall be considered to possess the highest merit.

Mr. Isaac Jopling, of Gateshead, county of Durham, has presented to Anderson's institution, Edinburgh, several specimens of beauti. ful marble, from his own quarries, Sutherlandshire. This gentleman lately presented to the Society for the Encouragement of the

Arts, no less than thirty-six specimens, all British, twenty-two of these were Scotch, and 14 of the most beautiful his own, for the discovery and working of which he secured the society's gold medal. We understand, Mr. Jopling has wrought the Scotch marble with great success, and in the greatest variety of colours, suitable for chimney pieces, and other ornamental furniture, equal to the Itslian, so that we are not now dependant on a precarious foreign supply for an article with which our own mountains abound.

In consequence of the present distressing state of the country, many of the operative manufacturers have been deprived of employment. The gentlemen of Kinross shire have, on this occasion, resolved to purchase on their own risk, cotton and linen yarn, and give it out to the weavers to be manufactured into cloth, under the direction of persons appointed for the purpose. Four thousand pounds have already been subscribed to carry the measure into effect, and the subscription is still going on.

When lately repairing and new seating the church of Inverkeithing, the workmen in removing some rubbish lying within the adjoining steeple, discovered, and carefully dug Qut, the baptismal font stone which had been used in the Popish service, and been hid there at the time of the reformation. It is of the figure of a hexagon, is quite entire, and is a beautiful piece of workmanship. The height of it is two feet, and upon its pedestal is three feet and nine inches; its breadth is three feet and six inches, and the diameter of the basin is two feet broad and one foot deep. Upon each of the six sides there is the figure of an angel, with expanded wings, and enclosed within the extended hands is a coat of arms, finely wrought out, one of which is the royal arms of Scotland: the other five are not exactly known, and must have belonged to some of the ancient and noble families in the neighbourhood, at the remote period when the church was originally built.

There was lately found on Tyringham sands, near Dunbar, the dead body of a large

wolf. There were several wounds on its head, and a cut on its neck, and, from the appearance of the body, it had not been long dead. It was immediately skinned and stuff. ed, and is in good preservation. The colour is light dusky yellow; black ridge down the back, and nearly white in the belly and breast. It has a sharp snout, erect ears, strong fore parts, and a bushy tail. The length from the snout to the tip of the tail is six fect. The legs are shorter than usually described. It is conjectured the creature had been aboard some of the vessels lately wrecked on the

coast.

It is long since the dangers and difficulties attending the navigation sound the Peninsula or Mull of Cantyre, in Argyllshire, suggested the importance of a canal, by which these perils might be avoided; and, in 1792, a subscription

scription was opened for that purpose. This canal is now finished, from Loch Crinan, on the west, to Loch Gilp, on the east; communicating with the Firth of Clyde; and the masters of the vessels which have gone through it, acknowledge the great facility and safety of the passage; advantages that are open to all vessels navigating the west coast of Scotland and England, and east and north coasts of Ireland, besides affording them immediate shelter from a stormy sea, and an opportunity to be laid dry to repair damages. The length of the canal, from sea to sea, is nine miles. The present depth of water is 11 feet. The locks are ninety-six feet long, and twenty four feet wide, in the clear.

Married.] At View Forth, Mr. William Marshall, Edinburgh, to Miss Calder, daughter of the Right Hon. William Calder, Lord Provost of Edinburgh.

Died.] At Aberdeen, Robert Eden Scot, esq. professor of philosophy in King's College.

At Braehead Abbey, in the parish of Paisley, Marion Stevenson, aged 95 years. She was married in 1723, had only one son and daughter, and has left 15 grand-children, 40 great grand-children, and 10 great great grand-children. She had seen 7 generations, five of whom were alive at one time.

At St. Margaret's Hope, Orkney, William Sutherland, esq. 70. Much of his time and fortune was spent in acts of benevolence and charity. He has bequeathed 2001. sterling to the poor of the north parish of South Ro naldsay, his native parish,

At Craigow, Dr. John Rutherford, physician. This ingenious gentleman, besides many other scientific and useful discoveries, was the inventor of a very curious instrument, the self-regulating thermometer, by which the greatest degree of cold, that has happened during the day or night, can be ascertained with the greatest accuracy.

At Bogbain, near Inverness, Alexander Macrae, a native of Kintail, at the advanced age of 104. He managed until very lately, the grazing of Bogbain, belonging to Mr. M'Kenzie, banker in Inverness, and retained his mental faculties until the last.

At Hope-street, Edinburgh, Miss Helen Amelia Colquhoun, youngest daughter of the late Humphrey C. esq. of Jamaica.-Mrs. Greig, wife of Captain Charles G. late in the service of the East India Company.

At Glasgow, in the 63d year of his age, Mr. John Reekie, teacher of the Greek and Latin languages. Though his whole life had been laboriously devoted to the instruction of youth in the principles of Greek and Roman literature, he yet found means to acquire a critical acquaintance with the ancient classics, and a profound knowledge of the structure of their languages, which has not been surpassed in any period; and is perhaps without parallel in the present. A happy sagacity, aided by memory uncommonly retentive, had ena

bled his unwearied zeal to surmount many obstacles which had baffled the most celebrated scholars; and his numerous manuscripts display, in every page, proofs of original and luminous investigation. It is to be lamented, as an irreparable loss to the learned world, that these writings, rich in new views and illustrations of many of the most intricate and obscure pages of antiquity, sacred and profane, should have been left by his death, in the state rather of desultory notes, than of commentaries fit for publication. His extensive library is composed chiefly of the scarcest and most valuable editions of the classics, supposed to contain a collection of Greek grammars, perhaps unequalled by any other in the kingdom. His vast erudition was not encumbered, as we too often see it, with pedantic state, and solemn ostentation; on the contrary, he was characterized by a playful simplicity of manner, and a liberal dispo. sition to communicate, in the plainest and most expressive style, his stores of learning. His last illness was lingering and painful. He bore it with the firmness of a philosopher, and contemplated its issue with the pious resigna tion of a christian.

At Wigton, Mrs. Elizabeth Furness, 105. At Crimond, John Cowie, bellman, 108. At Dumfries, aged 90, Mr. John Gass, barber and wig maker, who used to boast of having done what no other man dared;-of having taken the Pretender by the nose, in 1745.

At Endinburgh, lady Sarah, wife of Daniel Collyer, jun. esq. Wroxam, Norfolk, and youngest daughter, of the earl of Fife, 21.

At Maudslie Castle, Thomas, earl of Hynford, lord Carmichael.

At Castle Grant, Sir James Grant, bart. His virtues, as an individual, will long be cherished in the recollection of his friends; the excellence of his public character will be not less warmly remembered in the district over which he presided, not so much by holding the property of the soil, as by possessing the attachment, the gratitude, and the confidence of its inhabitants. He had all the affections, without any of the pride, or any of the harshness of feudal superiority; and never forgot, in attention to his own interests, or in the improvement of his extensive estates, the interests or the comforts of the people. Amidst the varied situations, and some of the severe trials of life, he was uniformly guided by rectitude of principle, benevolence of disposition, and he most fervent, though rational piety. From these, he derived support and resignation during the long progress of a painful disease, and felt their best consolations, at the close of a life devoted to his family, his friends, his dependents, and his country.

At Aberdeen, James Allardyce, esq. col. lector of the customs of that port,

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At Balfron, the Rev. William Fuller, pastor of the associate congregration there, in the 50th year of his age, and 24th of his ministry. His death was sudden, and the circumstances attending that event rendered it impressive in no common degree. had just finished the services of the day, which inability had compelted him somewhat to abridge, when, after having advanced a very short way towards home, he sunk down, and expired in the arms of one of his elders, without a groan.

At Greenock, in the 64th year of her age, Mrs. Margaret Forsyth, bookseller, which business she had followed for 42 years.

IRELAND.

The commissioners appointed by parliament to inquire into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, with the practicability of draining and cultivating them, bave made their first report, in which they state, that the bogs comprise more than onefourth of the entire superficial extent of Ireland, or about one million of English acres; that they form, as far as they have been examined, a mass of the peculiar substance called peat, of the average thickness of 25 feet, no where less than 12, nor found to exceed 42; this substance varies materially in its appearances and properties, in proportion to the depth at which it lies: on the upper surface it is covered with moss of various species, and to the depth of ten feet composed of a mass of the fibres of similar vegetables in different stages of decomposition, generally, however, too open in their texture to be applied to the purposes of fuel: below this is a blackish turf; at a greater depth the fibres of vegetable matter cease to be visible, the colour of the turf becomes blacker, and its properties as fuel more valuable: near the bottom of the bog it forms a black mass, which, when dry, has a strong resemblance to pitch or bituminous coal, and having a curvilinear fracture in every direction, with a black shining lustre, and susceptible of receiving a considerable polish. The commissioners divided all the bogs, containing above 500 acres, in the counties of Kildare, King's County, Tipperary, Westmeath, and Longford, into seven districts, which they assigned to an equal number of engineers; with directions to examine and report thereon. Only one of the reports has been made out, namely, that in the eastern division, which, accor ding to the engineer, may be drained with facility, at an expence of about 147,000!. and which would gain 22,490 Irish, or 36,430 English acres, and be convertible to all the purposes of husbandry.

Died.] At Cappaghvicr, near Castlebar, Mr. Edward Maley, 110.

At Annadale, the seat of his brother, the Hon. William John Skeffingto 1. He was the younger son of the fifth Lord Massarecne

in lineal descent, and brother to Henry, the present Earl of Massareene.

In Dublin, Mr. David Bourke, editor of Saunders's News-Letter, which office he filled for 37 years, and its duties he discharged with exemplary fidelity to his employers, and satisfaction to the public at large.-In an obscure lodging in Leeson street, in his 631 year, Augustine Pentheny, esq. a miser of the most perfect drawing that nature has ever given to the world. From the low and laborious condition of a journeyman cooper, he accumulated the enormous sum of 300,0001. in the island of Antigua and Santa Cruz He was born in the village of Longwood, county of Meath, and was very early in life encouraged to make a voyage to the West Indies, to follow his trade, under the patronage of his maternal uncle, another adventurer of the name of Gaynor, better known amongst his neighbours by the name of Peter Big Brogues, from the enormous shoes he was mounted in, on the day he set out on his travels. Peter acquired an immense fortune, and lived to see his only child married to Sir G. Colebrook, chairman to the East India company, and a banker in London, to whom Peter gave with his daughter 200,0001. Mr. A. Pentheny saw mankind only through one medium; his vital powers were so diverted from generous or social subjects, by the prevailing passion of gold, that he could discover no trait in any character, however venerable or respectable, that was not seconded by riches; in fact, any one that was not rich he considered only as an inferior animal, neither worthy of notice, nor safe to be admitted into society. This extraordinary feeling he extended to female society, and, if possible, with a greater degree of disgust. A woman he considered only as an incumbrance on a man of property, and therefore he never could be prevailed upon to admit one into his confidence. As to wedlock he utterly and uniformly rejected any idea of it. His wife was the public funds, and his children guineas; and no parent or husband paid more deference or ease to the comforts of his tamily. He was never known to separate his immense hoard, by rewarding a generous action, or elevating a premature or accidental misfortune by the application of one shilling to such purposes. It could scarcely be expected he would bestow a gift or extend charity to others, he was so niggardly of comforts to himself. The evening before he died, some busy friend sent a respectable physician to him, at which the old miser did not shew any apparent dislike, until he recollected the doctor might expect a fee; this alarmed him, and imme. diately raising himself in the bed, he addressed the Irish Esculapius in the following words: "Doctor, 1 am a strong man, and know my disorder, and could cure myself, but, as Mr. Nangle has tent you to my assis

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tance, I shall not exchange you for any other person, if we can come to an understanding; in fact I wish to know what you will charge for your attendance until I am recovered?" The dector answered, eight guineas." "Ah! sir," said the old man, “if you knew my disorder you would not be exorbitant: but to put an end to this discussion, I will give you six guineas and a half." The doctor assented, and the patient held out his arm with the fee, and to have his pulse considered, and laid himself down again. His relations were numerous, but not being, in his opinion, qualified, for want of experience in the manage ment of money, to nurse his wealth, he bequeathed the entire of it to a rich family in the West Indies, with the generous sum of 41. annually to a faithful servant, who lived with him 24 years. In the will he expresses great kindness for poor John, and says he be queathed the 41. for his kind services, that his latter days may be spent in comfortable independence! Like Thallusson, he would not allow his fortune to pass to his heirs imme. diately, as he directed that the entire should be funded for 14 years, and then, in its inproved state, be at the disposal of the heirs he has chosen. For the regulation of his last will and testament he appointed Walter Nan gle, esq. and Major O'Farrell, late of the Austrian army, his executors, and the Right Honourable David La Touche, and Lord Fingal, trustees.

DEATHS ABROAD.

At Lisbon, Colonel James Wynch, of the 4th regiment, or King's Own, who was promoted to the command of a brigade, and put on the staff a short time before his decese. This gallant officer had lon; distinguished himself by his uniform exertios and bravery in defence of his king and country. He had served successively in every expedition of importance undertaken du ing the war. At the Helder he was severely wounded, and at the battle of Corunna was shot through the body; from which latter wound he never entirely recovered.

At Trocifal, Portugal, of a violent fever and delirum, (the consequence of over fa tigue) William How Campbell, esq. brigadier-general in the Portuguese service, colonel and lieut.-colonel of the 2d battalion, 31st foot. His indefatigable zeal for the good of the service, and the individual comfort of the soldier, endeared him to all; devoted from his earliest youth to the enthusiastic study of his profession, his talents and abilities prognosticated a career of glory, had he not thus early (at the age of 33) met a fate lamentable and untimely. His family have to deplore their blighted prospects; his country, the loss of a valuable officer.

On board the Crocodile frigate, at Sierra Leone, in the 35th year of his age, Thomas Ludlam, esq. lately appointed by his Majesty

a commissioner for special purposes on that coast; and eldest surviving son of the late Rev. Wm. Ludlam, of Leicester. The premature death of this excellent young man is not only a subject of sincere lamentation to his numerous filends, but is in some degree a national loss. Inheriting no small portion of his father's natural talent for scientific pursuits, and cultivated by a sound classical edu cation, his first views in life were turned to the liberal profession of a printer; and in that capacity we gladly hear testimony to the excellence of his contact during a regular apprenticeship. Gentle and unassuming in his manners, and industrious in his habits of business, his concuct gave general satisfaction both to his equals and his superiors. Soon after the expiration of his apprenticeship, an opportunity occurred, which was thought favourable both to his health and his future fortune, of entering into the service of the Sierra Leone Company; and in that infant Colony he was for a considerable time one of the council, and at length became governor. On the colony being taken into the hands of the administration, a new governor was appointed by the crown; but Mr. Ludlam obtained an especial commission, with power to visit such parts of the coast of Africa as might be thought useful to the interests of Great Britain and the general cause of humanity; a commission for which, by his mild conciliatory manners, and by the experience acquired during a long residence at Sierra Leone, he was most eminently qualified. But his bodily strength was not equal to the task he had undertaken; and he fell a victim to disease, originally arising from a weak constitution; but with the pleasing consolation, both to himself and his surviving friends, that his life, though not a long one, was wholly passed in endeavours to be useful to all mankind.

At sea, on board his Majesty's ship Dromedary, Colonel William Paterson, lieute nant-colonel of the 102d regiment, fellow of the Royal Society, member of the Asiatic Society, and many years lieutenant-governor of New South Wales, from which colony he was returning to England in the command of the 102d regiment.

On the Jamaica station, Captain William Charlton, commanding his Majesty's ship Garland. He commenced his naval career under the late circumnavigator, Captain Cooke, and was with that officer when he met his death.

At Kingston, in Jamaica, Ann, the wife of Colonel Thomlinson, of the 18th regiment of foot, and eldest daughter of the late Rev. William Plumbe, rector of Aughton, in the county of Lancaster.

On his passage to India, Lieut. Allen Ca. meron, of the 70th Highland regiment, son to Lieut. John C. of the 6th royal veteran

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battalion. When a little more than ten years of age, he carried the regimental colours at the battle of Maida, and though these were much torn by the enemy's shot, he had the good fortune to remain untouched. He afterwards served with the battalion in Egypt, and as adjutant to the battalion of detachments from the Isle of Wight on the Walcheren expedition, where he unfortunately contracted the fatal disorder to which he fell a youthful victim.

At the settlement of Hobart, New South Wales, Lieutenant-governor Collins. He died whilst sitting in his chair conversing with his surgeon, who had attended him during a short illness of six days. His funeral was attended by all the officers of the settlement, Lieut. Lord, of the marines, following the bier as chief mourner. Upwards of 600 persons attended to pay the last duties of respect to their revered commander.

At the head quarters of the British army in Portugal, at Cartaxo, after a short illness, occasioned by an aneurism of the heart, and the bursting of a large blood-vessel, in his 49th year, the most excellent Sanor Don Pedro Caro y Sureda, Marquis de la Romana, Grandee of Spain, Grand Cross of the Royal Spanish Order of Charles III. and CaptainGeneral of his most Christian Majesty. He was born in the city of Palma, in the island of Majorca. After an education suitable to his high birth, during which he made a rapid progress in the learned languages, with the classics of which he was familiarly acquainted, emulous of his father, who died gloriously in the field of honour in the expedition to Algiers in 1775, he began his military career in the Marine Guards of the Royal Navy, There he continued till the war of the French Revolution; at which period, being the captain of a frigate, he entered, with the rank of colonel, the army of Navarre, commanded by his uncle, Lieut. gen. Don Ventura Caro; and afterwards that of Catalonia. In these armies, by his valour and distinguishes services, he rose successively to the rank of lieutenant-general. In 1801 he was appointed captain-general of Catalonia, and president of the Royal Audiencia of that province; in which capacity he found opportunities of displaying his extensive knowledge and sound policy. He was afterwards appointed direc. tor-general of engineers, and counsellor at war.

The insidious plans which the tyrant

of Europe already cherished, led him to withdraw from Spain, the Marquis of la Romana with her best troops. In the command of these the marquis displayed an intelligence and delicacy which are well known, till the situation of his beloved country coming to his knowledge amid the snows of the north, from that moment he vowed to succour her; sur mounting, with that view, a thousand- dangers and dithculties. In the command of the army of the left, which he soon obtained, he executed the most skilful movements and retreats, suspending and frustrating the plans of the always superior forces of the enemy. By his conduct and military skill, he finally succeeded in expelling them from Gallicia, even to their own astonishment, and to the surprise of all who knew the small means he had at his disposal. Soon after he was summoned to the Central Junta; where he presented himself, not as a victorious general, but as an unassuming representative, displaying all the force of his character only in that vote which he gave in October 1809, on the necessity of forming immediately a council of regency. On the 24th of January, 1810,the supreme government being dispersed by. the entrance of the French into Andalusia, he returned to take the command of the army of Estremadura. His presence was of such great importance, that to it was owing the enthusiasm displayed in Badajoz, and in the whole province. The efforts which the enemy had made since that time are well known, and likewice the skill with which the marquis contrived to keep them in check, and frustrate their plans. Estremadura being at last cleared of the enemy, and Massena having advanced in front of the lines at Torres Vedras, the marquis marched in hatte, with two divisions of his army,' and had since constantly been by the side of his illustrious friend, Lord Wellington, who, in one of his official dispatches, has so justly appreciated his merit and virtues, and where eulogy will serve to mark the loss which Spain has suffered by his death, as well as the common cause of the allies, even though we had not numerous proofs of the public enthusiasm which his name and fame inspired in all quarters. His body was conveyed by witer to Lisbon, and there deposited with suitable honors and ceremonies, in the mo•* nastery of St. Jerome, till it shall be removed to Spain.

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