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Nov. 17. At Barmuckity, near Elgin, Patrick Sellar, Esq. of Westfield, to Ann, second daughter of Thomas Craig, Esq.

26. At Brussels, at the hotel of his Excellency the British Ambassador, Ann Blayney, daughter of the Right Honourable Lord Blayney, to Captain Charles Gordon, R. N.

- At Inverness, John Jameson, Esq. agent for the British Linen Company, to Mary, second daughter of the late Rev. David Denoon, minister of Killearnan, Ross-shire.

27. George Reid, senior, Esq. farmer, Bonnyrigg, to Christian, second daughter of the late Andrew Cowper, Esq. engineer, of that place.

Dec. 4. At Edinburgh, the Rev. John Glen, minister of the Chapel of Ease, Portobello, to Sarah Isabella Whyt, daughter of the late John Whyt, Esq. of Kingston, Jamaica.

At Catherington, Hampshire, Steuart Boone Inglis, Esq. formerly of the King's late German Legion, to Sholto Charlotte, widow of Major-Gen. James Pringle, East India Company's Service, daughter of the late Sir John Halkett of Pitfirrane,

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7. At Kelso, Alexander Macdouall, Esq. Stranraer, to Margaret, eldest daughter of William Gillespie, Esq. collector of excise.

At Montrose, by the Rev. John Dodgson, James Leighton, Esq. town-clerk of Montrose, to Isabella, second daughter of Colin Alison, Esq. writer there.

8. At Cheltenham, George Barclay, Esq. son of Colonel Barclay, his Majesty's Commissioner for the American boundary, to Matilda, only daughter of Anthony Aufrere, Esq. of Hoveton Hall, Norfolk, and grand-daughter of the late General Count Lockhart of Lee and Carnwath.

9. At Bonnington-place, Edinburgh, William Craig, Esq. writer to the signet, to Margaret Ann, youngest daughter of the deceased Gillion M'Laine, Esq. of Scalasdle, Mull.

10. At House of Hill, Mr Alexander Binnie, Drylaw, to Jessie, eldest daughter of Mr Archibald Wilson, House of Hill.

11. At her father's house, Nicolson's-square, Edinburgh, Mr John Mann, jeweller, to Miss Elizabeth, second daughter of Dr John Borthwick Gilchrist.

-At Collington, Mr William Young, to Miss Marion Waugh, the only surviving daughter of the late Mr James Waugh, victual dealer, Collington.

-At Rossie, George Ballingall, Esq. of Bainkirk, to Grace, second daughter of Mr David Dun, Rossie.

14. At Braidwood, Henry P. Palmer, Esq. of Grenada, member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London, to Mary, fourth daughter of George Ferme, Esq. Braidwood.

- At Crail, Matthew Forster Conolly, townclerk, Anstruther, to Catharine, second daughter of Robert Murray, Esq. Crail.

15. At Dumfries, Walter Ferrier, Esq. writer to the signet, to Miss Henrietta Gordon, only daughter of the late Thomas Gordon, Esq. wine merchant.

16. At Edinburgh, Henry Meredyth Jervis White Jervis, Esq. eldest son of Sir John Jervis White Jervis, of Bally Ellis, county of Wexford, Bart. to Marion, third daughter of the late William Campbell, Esq. of Fairfield, Ayrshire.

17. At Edinburgh, Mr George Elliot, Jedburgh, to Miss Jean, daughter of William Bell, Esq. of Menslaws Lanton.

18. At Edinburgh, John Jameson, writer in Edinburgh, to Cecilia, daughter of the late John Bett, Esq. of Denhead, merchant, Cupar Angus.

22. At Harrow, near London, Lachlan Mackinnon, Esq. younger of Letterfearn, to Catharine, daughter of the late Duncan Macdougall, Esq. of Ardintruie.

24. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Welsh, second son of William Welsh, Esq. of Mossfennan, to Mary, eldest daughter now in life of Mr Alexander Tweedie, late in Dreva.

Lately-At the palace of Corfu, Lieut.-Colone Hankey, private secretary to his Excellency Sir T. Maitland, to Mrs Caterina Vaslamo, of the island of Corfu.

DEATHS.

April 6. At Bombay, Lieut. George Strachan of the rifle corps, son of the Rev. William Strachan of Coulter.

May 18. Killed in action, at the siege of Malegaum, in Kandeish, Lieutenant Thomas Davies, late commanding engineer of the army of the Deckan, to the inexpressible regret of his family and friends.

June 2. At Cannanore, Captain John Scott, Assistant-Adjutant-General of the Madras army, and son of the late Francis Scott, Esq.

4. At Salem, Madras Presidency, after a short illness, Charles Carpenter, Esq. commercial resident there. Mr Carpenter exercised his important office for many years, with the greatest advantage to the Company; and died universally regretted, as a man of the highest honour and integrity.

Sept. 26. At sea, on his passage from Savannah, where he had caught a fever, Mr James Forbes, merchant in New York. On the 8th Oct. his son, William; and, on the 10th October, another son, John; both having taken the infection, by dutiful attendance upon their father, who was the youngest son of the late Dr James Forbes, physician in Aberdeen.

Oct. 11. At Urafirth, Shetland, Margaret Bruce Watson, third daughter of the Rev. William Watson, minister of Northmavine.

Nov. 5. At Zurich, aged 92, the widow of the celebrated Solomon Gessner.

14. At Aberdeen, Miss Elizabeth Ramsay, daughter of the late John Ramsay, Esq, of Barra, aged 26 years.

16. At his house, near Kirkwall, Malcolm Laing, Esq. of Strynzie.

21. At Edinburgh, Captain and Adjutant George Hume, 1st Mid Lothian local militia.

22. At Perth, after a short illness, Mr Thomas Whitson, writer there.

25. At Brooklyn, after a short illness of typhus fever, Mr John Williams, long better known, both in England and Ireland, by the name of Anthony Pasquin.

At Leith, James Dennison, Esq. St Giles'street, aged 85 years.

At Hatfield, James Penrose, Esq. M. D. surgeon extraordinary to the King, and surgeon to his Majesty's household.

At Errol Manse, the Rev. David Dow, minister of Errol.

24. Mrs Jane Heriot, wife of Mr John Young, grocer, Candlemaker-row, Edinburgh. -At Edinburgh, Mr James Dow, surveyor of taxes.

25. Georgiana Susan, daughter of Sir James Graham of Netherby, Bart.

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At Allan, Ross-shire, Charles Monro, Esq. of -At Edinburgh, Mrs Anne Cleghorn, wife of Mr James Muirhead, printer.

-At Elgin, the Honourable George Duff of Milton, third son of William, Earl of Fife, in the 83d year of his age.

26. At Shavington, Viscountess Killmore, of Shavington Hall, in the county of Salop, and eldest sister of Lord Combermere of Combermere Abbey, in the county of Chester.

At his house in Abercromby-place, Edinburgh, Alexander Anderson, Esq. of Fingask.

At Rosshill, near Queensferry, Mrs Ross of Rosshill.

At Tours, in France, after a very long and painful illness, Elizabeth, the wife of G. Vanbrugh Brown, Esq. of Knockmarloch, and daughter of the late Robert Reid Cuninghame, Esq. of Auchinharvie, Ayrshire.

28. At Holme-street, Kilmarnock, Mrs Bruce, who bore a long indisposition with cheerful and Christian patience, from the 16th Oct. 1816, to the day of her death. She was tapped 42 times, and 500 Scots pints of water drawn off, a quantity al

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most incredible, in the short space of 25 months, amounting in weight to 2000 lbs.; nevertheless, she was able to attend divine service until a few days of her death.

At her daughter's, at Collins's ottage, Harrowgate, Mrs Ann Dawson, aged 101. This aged matron served the army in the time of the Rebellion, with butter, eggs, and cream, when encamp. ed near Preston.

-At his house, No 46, Hanover-street, Edinburgh, Dr William Brown, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. His respectability as a professional character, and a member of society is well known.

29. At Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Hutton, late of the island of Nevis.

At Kincardine, Mrs Ann Duncan, wife of Mr John Wilson, officer of excise, Crieff, aged 23. 30. At Kirkaldy, Miss Catharine Landale.

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Suddenly, in the prime of life, Mr Francis Davie, schoolmaster of Kinneff.

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Within a few days of his lady, Robert, Lord Viscount Kilmore, aged 72.

Dec. 1. At Leven Lodge, Edinburgh, Patrick Hadaway, Esq. late brewer in Leith.

Atusselburgh, Miss H. Nelson

3. At Marseilles, in the twenty-second year of his age, Thomas Buchan, Esq. younger of Auchmacoy.

4. At his house in Bedford-square, London, John Lunsden, Esq. a member of the Honourable the Court of Directors for the affairs of the Hon. East India Company.

-At Perth, in the 84th year of his age, Mr David Foggo, who was schoolmaster in the parish of Tibbermuir upwards of 60 years.

-At her father's house at Newington, Jamima, youngest daughter of Robert Gordon, Esq.

-At Lumphinnens, Fifeshire, Mr James Hogg, senior, at a very advanced period of life.

5 In the 78th year of his age, Mr Hargrove, the well-known historian of Knaresborough, Harrowgate, and the surrounding country; author of

The Yorkshire Gazetteer," "Anecdotes of Archery," and other literary productions; also, compiler of 16 folio and quarto volumes of manuscripts, chiefly relative to the history of Yorkshire.

in Grenville-street, Brunswick-square, London, Mrs M'Nab, widow of Captain A. M'Nab, of the Henry Dundas East Indiaman,

At the Manse of Crossmichael, Mary, eldest daughter of the Rev. John Johnstone, minister of that parish, in the 22d year of her age.

6. At Castlewigg, Wigtonshire, John Hathorn, Esq. of Castlewigg

At Elswick Bank, Orkney, Mrs Mary Balfour, relict of George Craigie, Esq. of Saviskail.

At Edinburgh, after a short illness, Janet Wright, only daughter of the late John Wright, Esq. of Easter Glins, writer in Edinburgh.

7. At Cockermouth, in her 74th year, Jane, the wife of James Clarke Satterthwaite, Esq.

Mrs W. J Dawson, spouse of Mr Giles, upholsterer, Edinburgh.

8. In Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, Margaret, eldest daughter of Henry Cockburn, Esq. advocate. 9. At Edinburgh, John Hill, Esq. late accountant in Edinburgh.

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At Boulogne, Frances, eldest daughter of Dr Grant, inspector-general of hospitals.

10. At Glasgow, Arch. Young, Esq, surgeon. 12. At Inverary, Miss Alexa Campbell, youngest daughter of Captain Archibald Campbell, chamberlain of Argyll.

13. At London, Mr Alexander Christie late publisher of the "Literary Journal."

At Gilead House, Liverpool, aged 38, Mrs Solomon, wife of Dr Solomon of that place.

Mrs Janet Forbes, daughter of the Rev. Wm Forbes, late episcopal minister in Musselburgh, and wife of James Skinner, writer in Edinburgh.

15. At Eton, aged 72, Mr Rich. Atkins, printer, who, for 55 years, had been employed as a compositor of the Greek and Latin books for the use of Eton school; during which time, he has never been known to spend an idle day, or even an idle hour.

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At Edinburgh, Captain John Cowe, R. N. At Musselburgh, Helen, daughter of Henry Jardine, Esq.

16. In a fit of apoplexy, Captain William Raw. lins, R. N

18. At Stirling, Elizabeth Maitland Girvan, eldest daughter of the late Mr Girvan, minister of Langtoun.

-At Edinburgh, Lady Hay, widow of Sir Alexander Hay.

At his father's house, Charles, eldest son of Mr James Reoch, merchant, Leith, aged 17 years. At Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Avery, wife of Mr Thomas Duncan, Prince's-street, aged 41 years, possessed of many amiable qualities.

19. At Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Balfour, spouse of the Rev. Dr Brunton.

At Edinburgh, Janet Elizabeth, daughter of George Lyon, Esq. W. S aged 16 months. -At his house in Tobago-street, Edinburgh, Mr James Marshall, builder, and tacksman of Redhall Quarry.

At her house, Mrs Jane Davie, wife of Andrew Morris, Esq. and fourth daughter of the late John Davie, Esq of Gravieside.

22. At Gayfield-square, Edinburgh, Mr John Demaria, a native of Italy, ag d 85.

At his house in Gayfield-square, Edinburgh, Mr David Skae, builder in Edinburgh

23. At Stockbridge, near Edinburgh, James Syme, Esq.

Lately In Galway, Ireland, Miss Elizabeth O'Flaherty, proprietress of "The Connaught Journal" newspaper.

At Blairston, Mr Adam M'Intosh, at the advanced age of 102.

At Kelso, Mrs Grieve, wife of Mr Hugh Grieve, late of the Excise.

Mrs Jane Hardie, relict of Mr Wm Dalrymple, merchant, Edinburgh.

In Wickham-street, Portsea, in the 113th year of his age, Thomas Bolwell, a native of that town. He formerly, during many years, sold water about the streets, and afterwards, when the infirmities of age had incapacitated him for that employ, he kept a small shop for the sale of wood and coals. His memory was good up to his last moments; he would frequently recur to the total eclipse of the sun, on the 22d of April 1715, of which event he ever retained a perfect recollection. He was mar ried to one wife 80 years, who died in the 101st year of her age.

At Everton, Liverpool, Alexander Taylor, M.D. formerly of Paisley.

At Brompton, London, Francis Classon, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, barrister at law.

At Worcester, aged 91, Mr Jasper Debrissay, formerly an officer in the 4th dragoons. He carried the colours at the battle of Culloden in 1745.

Lieutenant-colonel Charles Duke, Deputy-adjutant-general to the forces serving under the Earl of Dalhousie, Nova Scotia

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At Dungannon Park, Ireland, in the 99th year of his age, Lord Viscount Northland, a governor and custos rotulorum of the county of Tyrone, and a representative peer for Ireland. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, the Hon. Thomas Knox, member in a former parliament for Tyrone.

In the island of Trinidad, Frederick T. Lynch, Esq. M. D. a native of Limerick, but many years settled on that island, where his great professional abilities and accomplished manners, procured him the esteem and respect of the entire settlement. And in September last, his widow, an amiable and interesting lady, also died, leaving two orphan daughters to the sole care of the Doctor's brother, Jeffrey Lynch, Esq. of the same island, who, we lament, also died on the 12th October last.

At Paris, Lady John Campbell, in a few days' illness, by a defluxion of the chest; she was sisterin-law of the Duke of Argyle, and eldest daughter of William Campbell, Esq. of Fairfield.

At Bishopswearmouth, George Wilson Meadley, Esq. well known as the biographer of Dr Paley, and the author of " Memoirs of Algernon Sidney. On board the British vessel Angelica, which lately foundered while on her passage from the Cape of Good Hope to the Isle of France, John James Armstrong, Esq. late American consul at Teneriffe, and his family, consisting of Mrs Armstrong, seven children, two nephews, and servants.

At London, the lady of General Sir C. Grant.

Oliver & Boyd, Printers.

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