BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. June 18, At Florence, Lady Burghersh, wife of his Excellency the British Plenipotentiary at that court, a son. July 18. At Stockholm, Viscountess Strangford, a daughter. 21. At Lausanne, Lady Harriet Hoste, a son. 26. At Edinburgh, the lady of Lieut.-Col. James Irvine, a daughter. - At Edinburgh, Mrs Johnstone, No 1, George street, a son. 27. In Arlington-street, London, Lady Arabella M'Leod, wife of Lieut.-Col. M'Leod, of the Royal Scots, a son. 28. Mrs Cleghorn, Dundas-street, Edinburgh, a daughter. 29. At Yester, the Marchioness of Tweeddale, a daughter. Viscountess Normanby, a son and heir. Lady Rendlesham, a daughter. 30. At Houston, Linlithgowshire, Mrs N. Shairp, a son. 31. At Knockrioch, near Campbeltown, the lady of Captain Laing of the Argyle militia, a son. August 2. In Dorset-street, London, the lady of T. W. Ramsay, Esq. a son. -At General Sir Hew Dalrymple's, Bart. Upper Wimpole-street, London, the lady of Captain Dacres, a daughter. -At Stuart-hall, county of Tyrone, the Countess of Castlestuart, a daughter. -At Prinee's-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Nicoll of Mains and Strathmartin, a daughter. 2. At Edinburgh, Mrs Bishop, West Bow, a son. 4. At Northumberland-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Irvine, a daughter. -The Countess of Euston, a son. 5. At Pouloulis, the lady of James Bruce, Esq. a 13. At Coldstone, James Black, Esq. to Mar Ann, third daughter of the Rev. Robert Farquharson, minister there. 17. At Liverpool, James Wallace Monteath, Esq. of Greenock, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Alex. Anderson, Esq. of Liverpool. 19. At Kilmarnock, the Rev. Robert Stirling, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr William Rankin, winemerchant and postmaster there. 20. At Alness, the Rev. J. Welsh, A.M. to Isabella, daughter of Mr D. Munro. 22. At Aberdeen, Dr Williamson, physician, to Mary, youngest daughter of the Rev. John Craigie, Old Deer. 24. At Hadly-church, John Aitken, Esq. to Miss Harriet Beaslee. 26. At Leith, Lieutenant William Riddock, of the 4th, or King's own regiment, to Isabella Telfer Taylor, daughter of the late Mr Alexander Taylor, of the Customs, Leith. - At London, Captain the Hon. Robert Rodney, royal navy, brother to Lord Rodney, to Ann, youngest daughter and co-heiress of the late Thomas Dennet, Esq. of Lock Ashurst. 29. At Crookstone, Peebles-shire, Mr Watson, Broughton-place, Edinburgh, to Jean, eldest daughter of Mr Anderson, Cramilt. August 2. At Stobs-mills, Mr Robert Leef, to Miss Jane Miller, daughter of George Miller, Esq. Hope Park. 3. At Warriston-crescent, Robert Dryborough Menzies, Esq. to Agnes, second daughter of the late Rev. David Pyper, minister of Pencaitland. -At Edinburgh, Mr Galletti, Glasgow, to Miss Bucknall, daughter of the late Mr Bucknall, Cob ridge, Staffordshire. At Corsbie, Adam Walker, Esq. younger of Muirhouselaw, to Catherine, third daughter of John Murray, Esq. of Uplaw. -At Killermont, Walter Long, Esq. of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, to Miss Mary Anne Colquhoun, daughter of the Right Hon. Archibald Colquhoun, Lord Register of Scotland. -At Few-house, Alexander Scot, Esq, of Trinity Mains, W.S. to Helen Sutherland, only daughter of the late Ebenezer Marshall Gardiner, Esq. of Hillcairney. 5. At Altyre, the residence of Sir W. G. G. Cumming, Bart. the Earl of Uxbridge, son of the Marquis of Anglesea, to Miss E. Campbell, second daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield, and niece to the Duke of Argyle. 9. At her father's house, John Flint, Esq. son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Flint of the 25th regiment, to Jane, second daughter of John Ewart, Esq. Newington, Edinburgh. At Kingston-place, Glasgow, David Rankinė, Esq. rifle brigade, to Barbara, daughter of the late Archibald Grahame, Esq. banker in Glasgow. 9. At St George's chapel, York-place, William Henry Murray, Esq. to Miss Dyke, both of the Theatre-royal, Edinburgh. At Clifton-hall, William Logan White of Howden, Esq. advocate, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander Charles Maitland Gibson, Esq. of Clifton-hall. 9. At Byth, John Murray, Esq. surgeon to the forces, to Mary Anne, eldest daughter of the late Captain William Urquhart. 10. At Threepland, Mr William Ferguson, merchant, Glasgow, to Margaret, second daughter of William Somerville, of Windales, Esq. -At Tunbridge, Lieut.-Col. Steele of the Coldstream Guards, to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of the Duke of Manchester. At Quidenham, Norfolk, James Macdonald, Esq. M. P. only son of the Right Hon. Sir Archibald Macdonald, Bart. to the Right Hon. Lady Sophia Keppel, eldest daughter of the Earl of Albeimarle. -At St George's Hanover-square, Lieut-Colonel the Hon. James Henry Keith Stewart, M. P. brother of the Earl of Galloway, to Henrietta, Anne, second daughter of the Rev. Spencer Madan, D. D. 12. At the chapel at Holkham, the Earl of Rosebery to the Hon. Miss Anson, sister of Lord Vis count Anson, and grand-daughter of T. W. Coke, Esq. of Holkham-hall, M. P. 16. At St Gregory's church, London, Alexander Harley, Esq. of Clunie, Dumfries-shire, late of the Hon. East India Company's medical establishment, Bengal, to Sarah, eldest daughter of John Hyslop, Esq. surgeon, Doctors' Commons. At Dirlington-manse, Mr John Stewart, merchant, Leith, to Euphemia, only daughter of Mr John Brown, shipmaster there. 17. At Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Young of the Customhouse, Edinburgh, to Jane, daughter of Alexander Kincaid, Esq. 19. At Jedburgh, Mr William Rutherford, jun. writer there, to Miss Martha Somerville, youngest daughter of the Rev. Dr Somerville. Lately-At St Mary's Nottingham, Mr Hawkins, aged 40, to Mrs Bowman, aged 60, being the lady's seventh husband! A great concourse of people waited to greet the happy pair on their return from church. At Brigham, near Cockermouth, the Rev. George Coventry, M.A. eldest son of Dr Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Dr Head of High-cross, county of Cumberland. At Edinburgh, John Richardson, Esq. to Lewis Hatby, fifth daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, royal engineers. DEATHS. Aug. 18. At his house, Queen-street, Edinburgh, Adam Rolland of Gask, Esq. advocate, and Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Scotland. The death of Mr Rolland makes one of those blanks which cannot easily be supplied--an accomplished gentleman, an elegant scholar, an eminent lawyer, a truly sincere and pious Christian, a man of unsullied probity and honour, of liberal and beneficent habits, and an ardent lover of his country. He received the first rudiments of his education at Dunfermline, near which lies his paternal estate of Gask. He went through a regular course of study at the University of Edinburgh, and early gave promise of that character which he afterwards so eminently maintained. The study of the law, he used to say, had never been to his liking, and he followed it in deference to the opinion of his friends. He passed advocate in 1758, the same year with Sir Ilay Campbell, Bart. and the late Mr Andrew Crosbie, and though he did not fall so immediately into general practice as those two great lawyers and celebrated pleaders, yet his worth and talents were at length duly appreciated; and for many years before he retired from the bar, he stood in the very foremost rank of those lines of practice to which he confined himself. No lawyer was more resorted to for written pleadings and for opinionsparticularly in feudal questions and in arbitrations of importance and intricacy. The leading features of his mind were strength of judgment, a correct and delicate taste, a strong sense of propriety, a high feeling for, and constant attention to, personal dignity, honour, and independence. His understanding was clear and exact, and his memory retentive. In few minds was treasured up more various and useful knowledge, better arranged, and more at command. An acute observer of men and manners, he had an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, which was never introduced but with point and effect. He had an exact and critical knowledge of the Latin language. The classical epitaph on his father's monument in the Dunfermline cemetry will now be perused with peculiar interest from the affecting circumstance, that there, mutatis mutandis, is drawn with a master's hand, his own character. The English language, though in his youth it had not been much attended to in this country, he, from the very first, made it his particular study to speak, as well as write, with purity and elegance. The habit became quite natural to him. In conversation, he spoke with ease and fluency, in the most appropriate and significant words, the most elegant turn of expression, the justest pronunciation and emphasis; and he read and recited with a taste and feeling, that gave the author a force and effect not perceived when read by another. He did not, however, speak in public when he had to stretch his voice beyond the tone of conver sation, but early confined himself exclusively to written pleadings and giving opinions-a division of professional labour, in which he had no example, and has had no successor. He intermeddled little with politics. But in the years 1790 and 1791, when he apprehended danger to the country, from the spreading of the democratical principles, engendered by the French Revolution, he thought it his duty to depart from his usual habits, and give the weight and sanction of his name to the measures which appeared to him necessary for repelling the danger. He was always an admirer of Mr Pitt, and a personal friend of the late Lord Melville, to whom he was much attached, and, from the purest motives, a steady and decided approver of their public measures. It does not indeed appear that he ever regarded any thing in the power of ministers as an object of ambition. He was repeatedly asked to accept a seat on the Bench as a Judge of the Court of Session prior to 1796; when he was strongly solicited by Lord Chief Baron Dundas, then Lord Advocate, no longer" to resist the general wish of the court, and indeed of the country;" and he declined a similar offer after the division of the court into two chambers. He had, for some time before been abridging his business, and he soon after withdrew from practice altogether-when his health and faculties were still entire, his line of practice most enviable, and his consideration at the bar as high as ever. This he did, from no disgust or discontent, but from the conviction that, with the competence he had ac quired, he could pass his remaining years in a manner more suited to his inclination and time of life. He had, some time before, been appointed one of the Directors of the Bank of Scotland, and he continued for several years to devote a good deal of attention to its affairs. On the death of Patrick Miller, Esq. of Dalswinton, he was appointed Deputy Governor. He delighted to relax occasionally in the society of a few select friends. His conversation was instructive, lively, and fascinating. His knowledge and good taste were not confined to philology and polite literature, but extended through the whole circle of the liberal arts. A threatening of an attack of apoplexy a few years after his retirement, and his increasing deafness, made him afterwards seclude himself, in a great measure, from general company. But he continued to the last to keep up with the increasing knowledge of the age, took a warm interest in the public and private occurrences of the day, and was always ready to countenance by his name, and aid by munificent donations, every charitable plan that appeared to him to be recommended by its utility. His charities, both of a public and private kind, were liberal and extensive, and many who were re lieved by his bounty will lament his death. He was a zealous Presbyterian, and regularly attended public worship until his deafness rendered him incapable of hearing. The Sunday he carefully kept sacred both from business and company. Amid the unceasing round of engagements, great, he said, was the benefit he had derived from that rule which gave him the command of a portion of time to himself. From this state of dignified and useful retire ment, and in the enjoyment of general respect and esteem, Mr Rolland was removed by the attack of his last illness, in the 85th year of his age. Polite, cheerful, affable, benevolent, regular, orderly, and dignified-his character was strikingly pourtrayed by his personal appearance-a little above the middle size; erect, without any tendency to stoop, even in his declining years; his features as well as person elegantly formed, with a graceful demeanour and fine expression of countenance; exact in his dress without any approach to frivolitya finished gentleman of the former age; but without any of that peevish nonconformity with the present time, which is often the weakness of age, but which lessens that usefulness, which men so respectable as Mr Rolland have always in their power, and which he never failed to exercise to his friends, his neighbours, and the public. Legacies to the following amount have been left by this distinguished person to the undermentioned charitable institutions: Society for propagating Christian Knowledge £1000 Lunatic Asylum...... .....1000 Society for relief of the Destitute Sick.1000 1819. Senior Female Society.. Register.-Deaths. .1000 500 500 500 500 Edinburgh Bible Society.. Royal Infirmary. Charity Work-house................................................ Orphan Hospital..... Asylum for Industrious Blind.... House of Industry...... Edinburgh Education Society. 500 Parochial Institution for the Education of the Poor.... Society for promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor...... 500 500 Society for the Suppression of Begging..... 500 £13,000 25. At his seat of Heathfield, near Birmingham, in the 84th year of his age, James Watt, Esq. the great improver of the steam engine.-By the death of this truly great man our country is deprived of Mr Watt one of its most illustrious ornaments. may justly be placed at the very head of those philosophers who have improved the condition of mankind by the application of science to the prac tical purposes of life. It was by the inventions of this great and extraordinary man, that the action of the steam-engine was so regulated as to make it capable of being applied to the finest and most delicate manufactures, and its power so increased as to set weight and solidity at defiance. By his admirable contrivances, it has become stupendous alike for its force and inflexibility-for the prodigious power which it can exert, and the ease, and precision, and ductility, with which it can be varied, distributed, and applied. The trunk of an elephant that can pick up à pin or rend an oak is as nothing to it. It would be difficult to estimate the value of the benefits which these inventions have conferred upon the country. There is no branch of industry that has not been indebted to them; and in all the most material, they have not only widened most magnificently the field of its exertions, but multiplied a thousand-fold the amount of its productions. It is our improved steam-engine that has fought the battles of Europe, and exalted and sustained, through the late tremendous contest, the political greatness of our land. It is the same great power which now enables us to pay the interest of our debt, and to maintain the arduous struggle in which we are still engaged, with the skill and capital of countries less oppressed with taxation. But these are poor and narrow views of its importance. It has increased indefinitely the mass of human comforts and enjoyments, and rendered cheap and accessible all over the world the materials of wealth and prosperity. It has armed the feeble hand of man, in short, with a power to which no limits can be assigned, completed the dominion of Mind over the most refractory qualities of matter, and laid a sure foundation for all those future miracles of mechanic power which are to aid and reward the labours of after generations. It is to the genius of one man too that all this is mainly owing; and certainly no man ever before bestowed such a gift on his kind. The blessing is not only universal but unbounded; and the fabled inventors of the plough and the loom, who were deified by the erring gratitude of their rude contemporaries, conferred less important benefits on mankind than the inventor of our present steam-engine. His manners were marked by the simplicity which generally characterises exalted merit; he was per 759 fectly free from parade and affectation; and though His health, which was delicate from his youth upwards, seemed to become firmer as he advanced in years; and he preserved, up almost to the last moment of his existence, not only the full command of his extraordinary intellect, but all the alacrity of spirit, and the social gayety which had illuminated his happiest days. His friends in this part of the country never saw him more full of intellectual vigour and colloquial animation-never more defightful or more instructive than in his last visit to Scotland in autumn 1817. Indeed, it was after that time that he applied himself, with all the ardour of early life, to the invention of a machine for mechanically copying all sorts of sculpture and statuary, and distributed among his friends some of its earliest performances, as the productions of a young artist just entering on his 83d year. He This happy and useful life came at last to a gentle close. He had suffered some inconvenience through the summer; but was not seriously indisposed till within a few weeks from his death. then became perfectly aware of the event which was approaching; and, with his usual tranquillity and benevolence of nature, seemed only anxious to point out to the friends around him, the many sources of consolation which were afforded by the circumstances under which it was about to take place. He expressed his sincere gratitude to Providence for the length of days with which he had been blessed, and his exemption from most of the infirmities of age, as well as for the calm and cheerful evening of life that he had been permitted to enjoy, after the honourable labours of the day had been concluded. And thus, full of years and honours, in all calmness and tranquillity, he yielded up his soul without pang or struggle-and passed from the bosom of his family to that of his God! He was twice married, but has left no issue but one son, long associated with him in his business and studies, and two grandchildren by a daughter who predeceased him. He was a Fellow of the Royal Societies both of London and Edinburgh, and one of the few Englishmen who were elected members of the National Institute of France. All men of learning and science were his cordial friends; and such was the influence of his mild character and perfect fairness and liberality, even upon the pretenders to these accomplishments, that he lived to disarm even envy itself, and died in the 84th year of his age, without a single enemy. Lately.-At Gibraltar, Captain Stafford of the 27th regiment. This gallant officer was descending a very narrow and dangerous passage from Windmill hill to Europe Flats, when he fell down a precipice, and was killed on the spot. A rope was used for descending this passage by the officers, which was chaffed by rubbing a sharp point of the rock. When Captain Stafford laid hold of the rope it gave way, and he was precipitated more than forty feet; the rope was found in his hand clenched. He has left a widow and six children to deplore his loss. At Penang, Mr Adam Gordon, seventh son of the late Rev. Dr Gordon, one of the ministers of Aberdeen. In Granby-row, in the 90th year of his age, the Hon. Ponsonby Moore, brother to the most noble the Marquis of Drogheda. A few days ago, John Lachlan, shoemaker in Ayr, known as an intelligent, lively, and facetious companion. He was better known by the epithet of Sutor Johnnie, by which title he is immortalized by Burns in his exquisite poem of " Tam o' Shanter." At Irvine, Captaim William Douglas, residing at Springback. On his passage from Greenland to Peterhead, Mr Alexander Geary, master of the Dexterity. INDEX TO VOLUME V. ACTED Drama in London, notices of Advice, letters of, from a Lady of Distinc- Africa, mission from Cape Coast Castle to Algiers, account of the expedition to, 81. Arabia, notice of Mr Bankes's discoveries Arabic poem, translation of an, 15. Ashantee, account of a mission to the king- Ashantees, sketch of the history of the, 303 Asiatic society, proceedings of, 102. Athens, proposal to copy the Parthenon of, for the national monument, 384, 509. August, the twelfth of, true and authentic Bainbridge, G. C. remarks on his fly-fisher's Bait-fishing, observations on, 585. Ballantyne, Mr John, rencontre of the Edi- Bankes, Mr, notice of his discoveries in Ara- Bankrupts, lists of British, 111, 246, 367, Bassompierre, Marshal de, remarks on his Belzoni, on the pyramid of Cephrenes late- Berzelius Pendragon, memoir of, 688. Bibliotheca Britannica, remarks on Dr Billy Routing, a lyrical ballad, 434. 757. Blackwood's Magazine, minutes of a meet- Bluntness of the English, observations on Bonaparte and Mr Jeffrey, 662. Books, curious old ones, notices of reprints Botanic garden, remarks on Darwin's, 153. Bowles, Mr, remarks on his answer to Mr Campbell, on the subject of the poetical Boxiana, or Sketches of Pugilism, No. I. Brande, Tobias, letter to, from Ebenezer Bride of Lammermuir, a novel, review of Bristol Hunt, and Hapstead Hunt, parallel Broom Fireship, loss of the, 92. Brougham, Henry, trial of, for mutiny, 90 570-Timothy Flickler's remarks on, 659. Banks of the Carron, 686. Brunton, the late Mrs, memoir of, and re- marks on her novel of Emmeline, 183. Campaigns of 1811, 1812, and 1813, two Cape of Good Hope, on the proposed plan Carmen Diabolicum, 628. Cephrenes, on the pyramid of, lately open- Chalmers, Dr,remarks on his sermons, 462- Charnel-house explored, the, 334. Cockney School of Poetry, remarks on the 97. Cockney Politics and Cockney Poetry inti- Colony at the Cape of Good Hope, account Commercial reports, 109, 244, 365, 497, Common-place people, remarks on, 556. Cornwall, Barry, remarks on his poems, Crabbe, Rev. George, remarks on his tales Crichton, the admirable, remarks on Ty- Cross, Dr, on the foot and leg, remarks on, Curious old books, notices of reprints of, Curran, remarks on his letters to the Rev. H. Weston, 192. Darwin's botanic garden, remarks on, 153. Diabolicum, Carmen, 628. Discoveries in Arabia, notice of, 485. Don Juan, a poem by Lord Byron, remarks Drama. See Acted Drama. Drama, Old English, cursory sketch of the, Dramatic scenes, &c. remarks on Cornwall's, Dry-rot in timber, observations on the pre- Earth, notices on the central seat of the, Edmonston, Thomas, Esq. letter to, from Emmeline, by the late Mrs Brunton, re- England, remarks on Bassompierre's em- English manners, on some of the faults of, 3. Erudition, little or none in Scotland, 3. Expedition to the Orinoco and Apuré, ac- Expression, Musical, remarks on, 694 Family worship in Scotland, notice of, 590, Fatal union, a tragedy, remarks on, 33. Fishing excursion in Dumfries-shire, ac- Fly-fisher's guide, remarks on the, 123. Foreman, lines to Miss Fanny, by the edi- Foster's discourse on Missions, remarks on, Fox party in Britain, causes of their un- Francalanzi, Signor, his excellence in fenc- France, the libraries of, 101-New works French officer, killed at Waterloo, memoir Gas light, application of to domestic uses, Geneva, Lake of, scenery of the, 8. Germany, the libraries of, 101. Gillon, Joseph, memorabilia of, 632. Glenwhargan, in Dumfries-shire, account Hastings, Matthew Paris's account of the Hebrew Points, remarks on, 714. |