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Register-Commercial Report.

Taylor, William, lately residing at Troon, Ayrshire,
now in Edinburgh

Wallace, Robert, grain-dealer at Gateside, near
Paisley

Walker and West, merchants, Leith, and William
Walker and William West, the individual part-
ners of that Company

Young, John, and Company, merchants and gene-
ral agents, Edinburgh, and John Young, the sole
surviving partner of that Company

DIVIDENDS.

Brodie, John, ship-owner, Dysart; by Alexander
Spence, merchant, Leith

Bryce and Aitken, Alexander Bryce, and Alexander
Bryce and Son, Glasgow; by the trustee, on 22d
March

Hardie, Peter, dyer and wool-carder, late at Dasher,
near Kippen; by John M Callum, the trustee
Forbes, William, merchant and shipbuilder, Peter-
head; by William Garnock, writer there
M'Cormick, John, late merchant, Glasgow, now
deceased; by Messrs M'Grigor and Murray, writ-
ers there, 12th March
M'Culloch, Robert, and Company, manufacturers,
Paisley, and John Campbell, one of the partners;
to be paid on 9th March to creditors who have
lodged claims before 20th February

Sempill and M'Nab, brewers in Hutchinstoun of
Glasgow, as a Company; and Hamilton, Collins,
Sempill and Peter M'Nab, the individual part-
ners; by John M'Gavin, accountant, Glasgow,
on 16th March

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2d,......35s. Od.
3d,......32s. Od.

HADDINGTON.-MARCH 5.

Barley.
1st,......38s. Od.

Pease.
1st,......25s. Od.
..22s. Od.

Beans.
1st,.....25s. Od.
2d,......22s. Od.

2d,.

Oats.
1st,......25s. Od.
2d,......38s. Od. ( 2d,......22s. Od.
3d,......32s. Od. 3d,......19s. Od.
Average of Wheat, £1: 15: 6:3-12ths.

3d, ......19s. Od. | 3d,......19s. Od.

Note. The boll of wheat, beans, and pease, is about 4 per cent. more than half a quarter, or 4 Winchester bushels; that of barley and oats nearly 6 Winchester bushels.

London, Corn Exchange, March 1.

Fine..
Superfine

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Liverpool, March 1.

8. d. s. d. Pease, for. 53 0 to 60 0 6 Rice, p.ewt. 0 0 to 0 0 6 Flour, English,

8. d. 8. d. s. Wheat, 54 to 56 per 70 lbs. 11 0 to 11 52 English .10 6 to 11 56 Scotch 50 Welch... 11 0 to 11 6 p.280lb.fine62 0 to 64 0 ..11 0 to 11 3-Seconds. 54 0 to 60 0 53 Irish 25 Dantzic. 11 6 to 12 0 Irishp.240lb. 51 0 to 53 0 29 Wismar.. 11 6 to 12 0 Ameri. p. bl. 43 0 to 45 0 29 American. 11 0 to 11 6-Sour do.. 33 0 to 37 0 -White 33 Quebec... 9 6 to 10 0 Clover-seed, p. bush. 29 to 33 Barley, per 60 libs.

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64 to 70 Small Beans

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Foreign...

78 to 80 Feed Oats...
56 to 80 Fine..

22 to

26 to

Rye

.44 to 46 Poland do

27 to

30 to

34 to

Fine .....50 to 54 Fine.
Barley.... 38 to 46 Potato do.
Fine..... 50 to 54 Fine
Superfine... 56 to 58 Flour, p, sack
Malt, ... 65 to 78 Seconds
Fine
Hog Pease.
Maple

80 to 84 North Country
.52 to 56 Pollard
..58 to 60 Bran

Seeds, &c.-Mar. 5.

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35 English,grind.6 3 to 6 6-Red
55 to 60 Irish.
60 to 65 Malting.

50 to 55 Scotch

20 to 28 Foreign

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70 to 74 Irish
Malt p.9gls. 11 6 to 13 3
Rye, foreign 42 to 44
Oats, per 45 lb.
4 4 to 4
Eng. new.
8.Scotch pota. 4 3 to 4
43 to 4
.. 65 to 70 Irish,
4 0 to 4
21 Hempseed
14 to 24 Linsced, crush. 56 to 65 Common.
40 to 4
-New, for Seed 78 to 84 Foreign..
.10 to 40 Welsh
... 43 to 4
.... 17 to
Ryegrass,
Beans, pr qr.
Turnips....to
Clover, Red,. 110 to
-White. 105 to
Coriander. . 25 to
New Trefoil. 60 to

Must. Brown, 12 to
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Average Prices of Corn of England and Wales, from the Returns received in the Week ended 20th February 1819.

Wheat, 80s. 3d.-Rye, 58s. 8d.-Barley, 63s. 5d.-Oats, 34s. 2d.-Beans, 69s. 7d.-Pease, 70s. 2d.— Beer or Big, Os. Od.-Oatmeal, 39s. 7d.

Average Prices of British Corn in Scotland, by the Quarter of Eight Winchester Bushels, and Oatmeal, per Boll of 128 lbs. Scots Troy, or 140 lbs. Avoirdupois, of the Four Weeks immediately preceding the 15th February 1819.

Wheat, 67s. 5d.-Rye, 44s. 7d.-Barley, 48s. Od.-Oats, 28s. 3d.-Beans, 46s. 7d.-Pease, 46s. 6d.→ Big, 41s. 2d.-Oatmeal, 23s. 2d.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

1. ECCLESIASTICAL.

Mr Allan of Errol has presented Mr James Grierson, preacher of the Gospel, to the church and parish of Errol, vacant by the death or the Rev. David Dow.

James Johnston. Esq. of Alva, has presented Andrew Bullock, A. M. preacher of the Gospel, to the church and parish of Alva, vacant by the translation of the Rev. John M'Lauchlan to the church and parish of West Wemyss.

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Brevet Lieut. H. W. Rideout, to be Lieut. vice
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2d Lieut. J. Barnes, from h. p.

to be Ens. vice Robinson

1 April

3 Cey. Rt.

2 March

A. Scott, from h. p. 3 Cey. Rt. to be Ensign, vice Davis 2 May Thomas Bayly to be Ensign, vice Rideout 3 do. Lieut. A. Tovey, from h. p. to he Paym vice Bloomfield, 4 D. Gds. 4 Feb 1519 Ensign H. Astier to be Qua. Mast. vice Spence, dead II do.

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P. J. Leith to be Ensign, vice Astier da.
Ensign J. Harrison, from h. p. 57 F. to be
Ensign, vice Birch, 18 F.
Gent. Cadet W. M'Kay to be Ensign, vire
Brett

2 an -W. H. E. Dermott to be Ens. vice Stapleton, res. do. Ensign Hon. R. King, from 5 F. to be LL. vice Van Batenburg, prom. 24 Dee 1818 Ensign Lord F. Lennox, from 91 F. to be Ensign, vice Russell, prom. 21 Jan. 1819 Ensign V. H. Mairis to be Lieut. by purch. vice Cameron, prom.

Major or Colonel in the Army

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28 do. W. Hamilton to be Ens. by purch. vice Mairis do. Lieut. S. S. Burns to be Capt. by purch. vice Dashwood, ret. 11 Feb.

4 Feb.

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Ensign J. J. Brett, from 51 F. to be Cornet

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28 Jan.
Cornet E. Clive to be Lieut. by purch.
vice Ommanney, 24 Dr.
21 do.

R. Macdonald to be Ensign by purch. vice

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Major by
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Licut W. Grenfell to be Captain by purch.

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vice Montagu, prom. Ensign J. J. Slater to be Lieut. by purch.

M Queen do. Lieut. W. Penny to be Adj. vice Burns do. Lieut. E. F. French to be Capt. by purch. 7 Jan.

vice French

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Gent. Cadet R. P. Charleton to be Ens. by

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purch. vice Slater Ensign W. O'Neil to be Lieut. vice (rut

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vice Grenfell

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well, dead 22 May 1818 J. Burleigh to be Ens. vice O'Neil do. J. Campbell to be Ensign, vice Lennox 21 Jan. 1819 1 W. I. R. Ensign J. Peters to be Lieut. vice Pilki gton, dead 12 Dec. 1818 T. V. Durell to be Lieut. vice Brown, dead 13 do. J. R. Young. from 3 W. L. R. to be Lieut. vice Morgan, dead 14 do. G. Johnston to be Ensign, vice Jenks,

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H. Lowth to be Ensign by purch. vice
Bourke, 1 F. Gds.
4 Feb.

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Ensign J. W. Birch, from 45 F. to be Ens.
vice Burnet, ret. on h. p. 37 F. 11 do.
Lieut. P. C. Lamphier to be Capt. vice
Jones, dead
19 April 1818
R. M'Donald to be Capt. vice
Langton, dead
4 Feb. 1819
Ensign F. Robinson to be Lieut. vice Bea-
ver, dead
25 March 1818
T. H. Davis, to be Lieut. vice Ra-
per, pro.
26 do.

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W. I. R.
1 Cey. Rt.

2

26 Jan. 1819

dead Gent. Cadet J. Magee to be Ensign, vice Peters 27 do. A. M. Gray to be Ensign, vice Durell 28 do. Qua. Mas. W. Fair, from 4 W. I. R. to be Qua. Mast. vice Mackenzie, ret. on h. p. 4 W. I. R 21 do. Corporal T. Brunt, from R. Horse Gds. to be Ens. vice Young 28 do. Ensign J. Kent to be Lieut. vice Studdy, dead 24 Dec. 1818 Lieut. A. Mylius to be Capt. vice Gray, dead 29 April 2d Lieut. S. Braybrooke to be Lieut. vice Mylius do. Lieut. J. W. Summerfield, from 83 F. to be Lieut. 24 Dec.

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Hospital Staff.

Apoth. P. J. Macdonald, from h. p. to be Apoth. to the Forces, vice Gylby, ret. on h. p. 25 Jan. 1819 Hosp. Assist. W. Knott, from h. p. to be Hosp. As. to the Forces, 21 July 1818 G. Home, from h. p. to be Hosp. Asto the Forces. vice Pickells, dead 5 Feb. 1819

Exchanges.

Capt. Murdoch, from 91 F. with Capt. Gibbons, h. p. 56 F.

Crawford, from 11 Dr. with Captain Duberly, h. p.

Brooks, from 29 F. rec. diff. with Captain Hickin, h. p. 66 F.

Chartres, from 54 F. with Captain Coote, h. p. 24 F.

Elliott, from 2 Life Gds. with Captain Ridout, 11 Dr. Lieut. Harnet, from 27 F. rec. diff. with Lt. Beaufoy, h. p.

Murray, from 57 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Logan, h. p.

Lewis, from 15 F. rec diff. with Lieutenant Drought, h. p.

R. Mackay, from 21 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Rowlands, h. p. 22 F.

A Mackay, from 21 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Mackenzie, h. p. 6 F.

Davies, from 38 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Windus, h. p. 50 F.

Hasker, from 55 F. with Lieut. Blackhall, h. p. 12 F.

M'Bean, from 18 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut. M'Duffie, h. p.

Anderson, from 25 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Ditmas, h. p. 31 F.

Cornet Earl of Belfast, from 18 Dr. with Cornet Ives, h. p. 7 Dr.

Ensign Hunter, from 39 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Balfour. h. p. 62 F.

Gordon, from 33 F. with Ensign Robertson, h. p. 98 F.

Ensign M'Mahon, from 48 F. with Ensign Hayes, 80 F.

57 F.

Ring, from 55 F. with Ensign Ralston, h. p.

Crossgrove, from 77 F. rec. diff. with Ens. Champain, h. p. 101 F.

Macbeath, from 2 W. I. R. with Ensign Wells, h. p. 89 F.

Assist. Surg. Pollock, from 53 F. with Assist. Surg. Maclean, h. p.

Robson, from Rifle Brigade, with As. Surg. Morrison, h p. 1 Dr.

Resignations and Retirements.

Captain Tritton, 24 Dr.

-Dashwood, 80 F.

Ensign Stapleton, 52 F.

Appointments Cancelled.

Captain Herbert, 55 F.
Lieut. Spotiswood, 21 F.
Ibbotson, 21 F.

Nunn, 50 F.

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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

Jan. 22. At Douglas, Isle of Man, Mrs Scott, relict of William Scott, Esq. receiver-general of the island, a son.

At Santa Maura, the lady of Colonel Patrick Ross, of the 75th regiment, resident and commandant of that island, a daughter.

24. Mrs Terrot, Albany-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

-In Edinburgh, the lady of John L. Campbell, Esq. of Achalader, a daughter.

25. At Douglas, Isle of Man, Mrs Forbes of Culloden, a son and heir.

28. Mrs John Smith, George's-square, Edinburgh, a daughter.

29. At Balthayock, the lady of Adam Ferguson, Esq., a son.

In Upper Seymour-street, London, the lady of the Hon. William Fraser, a daughter.

30. In Charlotte-square, Edinburgh, Mrs Alexander Wood, a son.

In Heriot-row, Edinburgh, the lady of Sir James Douglas, K.C.B. a daughter.

31. At Edinburgh, the lady of Captain Hugh Stevenson, a daughter.

Feb. 2. At Alderton, the lady of the Hon. and Rev. A. Turnour, a son.

- Mrs Innes, Queen-street, Edinburgh, a daugh

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- At Ashburnham-house, Hayhill, the Countess of Ashburnham, a son, being her lady-hip's twelfth child. Eleven of her children are living. -At Prince's-street, Edinburgh, Mrs Murray of Murray's-hall, a daughter.

- Mrs Wylie, Charlotte-street, Edinburgh, a daughter.

7. At Monreith, the lady of Sir William Maxwell of Monreith, a son.

8. At Aberdeen, Mrs Dr Barclay, a daughter. 10. At Nicolson-square, Edinburgh, the lady of John Macalister, Esq. junior of Strathaird, and East India Company's civil service, a son.

11. Mrs John Linning, Mary's-place, a daughter. 13. The wife of Robert Rennie, mason, Taylor'sclose, Old-wynd, Glasgow, was delivered of a son, and on the 14th, of another son and daughter, who, with the mother, are all doing well.

15. At Kirkmay-house, the lady of Robert Inglis, Esq. of Kirkmay, a daughter.

17. Mrs A. Clephane, Dundas-street, Edinburgh,

a son.

20. The lady of Sir Robert Keith Dick, Bart. of Prestonfield, a son.

MARRIAGES.

June 24. At Coolreach, near Calcutta, the seat of G. Lavi, Esq. Lieutenant Holmes, of the 4th regiment of Bengal native infantry, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late James Robertson, Esq. surgeon in the honourable East India Company's service.

July 25. At Kidderpore, Calcutta, Captain R. R. Young, of the honourable East India Company's Bengal native infantry, to Sophia, daughter of the late Hickey, Esq. R. N. and niece of General Thomas of Brockhill, near Exeter, Devons

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Jan. 21. At Aberdeen, Peter Macfarlane, Esq. to Hannah Kidston, youngest daughter of the late Mr Alexander Scott.

25. At Bo'ness, Lieutenant Petrie, R. N. to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Walter Grindlay, Esq. shipowner there.

26. At St Pancras, Sir John Maclean, Knt. commander of the most honourable and military order of the Bath, to Sarah, only child of Benjamin Price, Esq. of Highgate.

7. At Burrowinuirhead, Mr James Smith, corkmanufacturer, Leith, to Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Mr William Kippen, Mid-Calder.

31. At Liverpool, at St James'-church, Samuel Solomon, M.D. to Miss Mackinney.

Feb. 1. At Linlithgow, Alexander Learmonth, Esq. of Crossflatts, to Anne, youngest daughter of Thomas spens, Es. Collector of Excise there.

At Falkirk, James Simpson, Esq. iron-merchant, to Miss Christian, second daughter of the late William Mungali, Esq. merchant in Falkirk.

2. George Cuming Menzies, Esq. to Marion, eldest daughter of the late Peter Martin, Esq. Newington.

3. At Portobello, Joseph Pearce, Esq. of Breminster, Dorsetshire, captain, royal navy, to Forbes, youngest daughter of the deceased G. M'Kay, Esq. of Bighouse.

6. The Rev. William Fortescue, second son of the Hon. Matthew Fortescue, to Isabella Barclay, second daughter of the late James Christie, Esq. of Durie.

8. At Drumsheugh-house, George Forbes, Esq. banker in Edinburgh, to Mary, eldest daughter of Sir John Hay, Bart.

10. At Edinburgh, Captain Houston Stewart, R. N. second son of Sir Michael Shaw Stewart of Greenock and Blackhall, Bart., to Martha, youngest daughter of Sir William Miller of Glenlee, Bart. one of the Seuators of the College of Justice.

il. At St James'-church, London, Thomas Viscount Anson, to Louisa Catherine, youngest daughter of the late Nathaniel Phillips, Esq. of Slebeckhall, Pembrokeshire.

12. At Monktonhill, John Lennox, Esq. of Catrine-holm, to Miss Jane, daughter of John Gardner, Esq. Monktonhill.

15. Mr James Hume, merchant, to Martha, third daughter of the late Andrew Carmichael, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.

At Perth, Mr John Archer, to Agnes, daughter of John Malcom, Esq. collector of Excise there. -At Edinburgh, Captain Charles Sotheby, R. N. to the Hon. Jane Hamilton, daughter of the late William Lord Benhaven and Stenton.

16. At Edinburgh, Mr James Duncan, printer to the University of Glasgow, to Margaret, only daughter of Mr James Johnston, tobacconist.

At Kilgraston, Captain Lindsay, Grenadier Guards, eldest son of the Hon. Robert Lindsay of Balcarras, to Mary Anne, daughter of the late Francis Grant, Esq. of Kilgraston.

Lately-At Benares, William Wilberforce Bird, Esq. judge and magistrate of Benares, to Miss H. E. Brown, second daughter of the late Rev. David Brown, formerly senior chaplain of the presidency of Bengal, and Provost of the College at Calcutta.

At Boulogne, in France, George Watson, Esq. of the 3d (or King's own) light dragoons, to Ani Perceval, eldest daughter of the late Joseph Martyr, Esq.

DEATHS.

May 27. At Almorah, in India, James Bain, from Elgin, surgeon in the honourable East India Company's service, in the 27th year of his age.

July 19. At Allahabad, Henry Gibson, Esq. resident surgeon there, eighth son of the late William Gibson, Esq. merchant in Edinburgh.

August 12. At the fort of Callinger, in the Presidency of Bengal, John Wauchope, Esq. second son of Andrew Wauchope, Esq. of Nidrie, marischal, civil and political agent to his Excellency the Governor-General of India.

31. At Calcutta, Robert Pearson, Esq. merchant there.

Sept. 2. At Calcutta, Andrew Anderson, Esq. of the honourable East India Company's civil service, third son of the late John Anderson, Esq. of Inchyra.

4. At Mynepoonie, on the Bengal establishment, Alexander Donaldson, Esq. lieutenant of the 11th regin ent of native infantry, eldest son of the late

Alexander Donaldson, Esq. of Heriot-row, Edinburgh.

Oct. 5. At Lyssons, Jamaica, Mr Thomas Lawson, eldest son of William Lawson, Esq. late of Girthead.

- Accounts have been received from Nassau, in New Providence, of the melancholy death of John Macdonald Esq. late of Long Island, where he had resided a considerable number of years. He lost his life in a small vessel, which sailed with him for Nassau, but was unfortunately, in consequence of a leak, wrecked in one of the gales then prevailing, near the island of Exuma, where his body was found and interred. He was the second son of the late James M.Donald, Esq. in Kincardineshire.

13. At Bellemont, Trelawny, Jamaica, Mr Ro bert Willis.

Nov. 14. At Quebec, Captain John Liston, of the Brig Ann of Leith.

At Jamaica, Mr William Gray, third son of Ardrew Gray, Esq. of Craigs.

Dec. 23. In Chelsea, Captain Wolf, a descendant of the late celebrated Lord Kilwarden, who fell a victim in the Irish rebellion. The captain had contracted habits of great eccentricity, attributed principally to the severe loss he experienced in the death of his lady, to whom he had been married but six months, and who was extremely beautiful and accomplished. A subsequent disappointment in his profession tended much to increase a disre lish of all intercourse with the world: hence be could not endure the presence of any human being. He has left extensive property, which, it is understood, goes to a nephew, who has for some years belonged to a company of strolling players.

25. At his seat of Wolfsburgh, in the 56th year of his age, his excellency the minister of state, Count of Schulenburg-Wolfsburg.

23. At her house in Upper Berkeley-street, in the 94th year of her age, Mrs Scott, relict of Edward Scott, Esq. Scott's-hall, Kent. She was web nurse to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent; she has left two sons and four daughters.

Jan. 5. Alexander Dalziel, Esq. of West-Linton, formerly of Port-Glasgow.

6. At Glasgow, aged 86 years, Mrs Tait, relict of Mr Peter Tait, printer.

8. At Huntlaw, Roxburghshire, Mrs Hannah Robertson, wife of Mr Thomas Robertsou, late farmer of Glenhornie, East Lothian.

10. At Hanover-street, Edinburgh, aged 86. Mrs Charlotte Jardine, relict of Dr Robert Walker, Edinburgh.

14. At Leith, Jane Bonnyman Broadfoot, the infant daughter of Mr John Broadfoot, merchant, Leith.

- At Hamburgh, Mr T. Stodart, merchant.

15. At Windy walls, in the parish of Spronstem, aged 102, Alison Bruce, relict of Robert Davidson, some time tenant in Sprouston-hill. She survived her husband upwards of sixty years, and retained her faculties enure to the very last.

-At Ayr, after a short illness, Mr Alexander Temple, surveyor of the customs at that port, in the 45th year of his age.

16. At Port-Glasgow, Mr Robert Henderson, surgeon there, aged 42.

17. At Edinburgh, Roby James Farquhar, yeungest son of the late John Farquhar, Esq. of Pit candly, Forfarshire.

19. At Summerfield, Gilbert Grierson, Esq. merchant, Leith.

20. At Glasgow, Mr David Tait, printer.

Mr Robert Jardane, many years traveller for Messrs Duffins', vinegar-makers, Edinburgh. -At New-street, Edinburgh, Mr John Megget, merchant, aged 77.

21. At Dirleton, Mr Thomas Bryce, farmer, aged 87. Also his son, Jaines, at Portsmouth, en the 25th December last, aged 47.

At his house, Bristo-street, Edinburgh, Mr Gec. Cairncross, architect.

-At Montrose, James Smith, Chelsea pensioner, at the advanced age of ninety. He served at the siege of Belleisle and the taking of the Havannah, and was wounded in both these memorable actions He was a sober, honest man, and a loyal subject. It was his boast, among his rustic contemporaries, that, in the career of military glory, he had obtam ed what enabled him to dine every day on roast and boiled like a gentleman.

23. At Edinburgh, Ann, second daughter of Mr John Burke, upholsterer, in the 18th year of he age.

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Register-Deaths.

25. At Maryville, by Haddington, Mrs Mary Hepburn, relict of the late Patrick Downey, Esq. of Prestonpans.

-At Dunfermline, aged 59, Captain John Wardlaw, late of the Royal Marines, in which respectable corps he served, with unstained reputation, between 30 and 40 years.

-Wrecked at sea, on her passage to Aberdeen, Jean Inglis, aged 18, (far advanced in pregnancy,) wife of Lieutenant William Drumbeck, of the royal navy.

-At Edinburgh, William Gibbes, the infant son of Harbourne Gibbes Straghan, Esq.

27. Dr Primrose Blair, physician to his Majesty's fleet, at his apartments in St Martin's-lane, London. -At Edinburgh, George Edward, eldest son of the Rev. Henry Grey.

At Drummochy, in Fife, Miss Magdalene
Coutts, only daughter of Mr Ebenezer Coutts.

28. At Riccarton, James Hay, some time a soldier in the 56th regiment of foot, aged 111. He served as a soldier 36 years, and has now been 35 years an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital.

29. At Glasgow, Captain John Maxwell, of the 14th regiment of foot.

30. At Cahir-house, county of Tipperary, the Right Hon. Richard Butler, Earl of Glengal, and one of the representative peers of Ireland. His title devolves on his eldest son, the Hon. Richard Butler, Lord Viscount Cahir.

-At her family-seat, Leslie-house, in the county of Fife, the Right Hon. Henrietta Ann, Countess of Rothes, Baroness Leslie and Ballenbreich, in the 29th year of her age. Her ladyship has left six children (two sons and four daughters) by her husband, George Leslie of Leslie, Esq.; and is succeeded in her honours and estates by their eldest son, George William Evelyn Leslie, now Earl of Rothes, Lord Leslie and Ballenbreich.

At Leith, Mr Richard Ged, jun.

Mary Carson L'Amy, eldest daughter of James
L'Amy of Dunkenny, Esq. advocate.

31. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Cunningham,
relict of the late Mr James Cunningham, writer,
Edinburgh.

-At Leith, William Lanigan, gunner, royal

-At Portobello, Mrs Creelman, wife of William Creelman, Esq.

At Irvine, the Rev. John Duncan, minister of Ardrossan, in the 71st year of his age, and 30th of his ministry.

Feb. 1. At Hawkhead, Renfrewshire, Lady Eli-
zabeth Boyle, second daughter of the Earl of Glas-
gow.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Susan Smith, relict of Mr
David Buchan, General Post-Office, Edinburgh.

At Dumfries, in the 91st year of her age, Mrs
Isabella Kelburn, relict of Mr Allan M'Lachlan,
printer and bookseller.

2. At Glasgow, John Riddell, M.D. a gentleman well known in the literary world.

-In Wimpole-street, London, Jane, eldest daughter of the late Robert Arbuthnot, Esq. of Edinburgh.

3. At Castle-street, Edinburgh, in the 17th year
of his age, Andrew, third son of the late James
Tod of Deanstoun, Esq.

-Mrs Jean Auchinleck, spouse of Mr Ninian
Richard Cheyne, St John-street, Edinburgh.
4. At Edinburgh, Thomas Young, only son of
Mr William Young, Stamp-office.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Kirkhom, late of Brump-
ton, Middlesex.

-At Cheetwood, Lancashire, James Banks Robinson, late of the royal navy, in his 71st year. He was 50 years in his Majesty's service, and fought in twelve general engagements, among which were those of the Nile and Trafalgar, when he acted as pilot to the fleet. He commenced his career with the celebrated Bruce, and was one of the desperate few who carried up the bowl of punch, and sacrificed to Bacchus, on the top of Pompey's Pillar.

7. At Edinburgh, Jane Gordon Peterkin; and on the 9th, James Charles Peterkin, youngest children of the late James Peterkin, Esq. of Grange.

8. At Portobello, much and justly regretted,
Nicolson of Jerviston, Esq.
Miss Anne Nicolson, sixth daughter of the late G.

At Crieff, Mr James Wright.

At Hume, at an advanced age, Mr Thomas
Shephard; and, on the 10th, Isabel, his wife.

9. At her mother's house, Nicolson-square, Edin
burgh, aged 20, Martha, eldest daughter of the late
William Renton, Esq.

10. At Barns-street, Ayr, William Logan, Esq. major of the late West-Lothian Fencibles.

-At Edinburgh, George Campbell, Esq. late
comptroller of the customs at Dunbar.

13. Mr Michael Watson, shipbroker, Leith.A
-At Walgram, in Northamptonshire, the Rev.
Edinburgh.
Alexander Payne, father of the Rev. Geo. Payne,

-At his father's house, in Bank-street, Edin-
burgh, Alexander, second son of Mr Brown, solici-
tor-at-law.

14. John Sackeouse, aged 22, a native of the west coast of Greenland.

15. At Lauriston-place, Edinburgh, Mary Jane, youngest daughter of Mr Murdoch Cunningham. -At Edinburgh, Jessie, the infant daughter of Mr Alexander Milne, Royal Bank.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Davidson of Ravelrig.

16. At Ashton-hall, Lancashire, in the 79th year
of his age, his Grace Archibald, Duke of Hamilton
and Brandon, &c. His Grace was the second son
of James, Duke of Hamilton, by Elizabeth, daugh-
ter of Edward Spencer, Esq. He succeeded his ne-
ried, in 1765, Lady Harriot Stewart, daughter of
phew, Douglas, Duke of Hamilton, in 1799. Mar-
Alexander, Earl of Galloway, by whom he has left
Alexander, now Duke of Hamilton; Lord Archi-
bald Hamilton, M.P. for Lanarkshire; the Duchess
of Somerset, Lady Anne, and the Countess of Dun-
more. The present Duke married Miss S. E. Beck-
ford, daughter of William Beckford of Fonthill,
Esq. by whom he has one son, William, now Mar-
quis of Douglas, and a daughter.

- Of a consumption, in South St David-street,
St Andrew's-square, Mrs Jane Bland, of Frederick-
street, Edinburgh.

-At Leith, Mr Robert Craig, intendant of the police of that town.

- At Edinburgh, Simon Frazer, Esq. late of the ordnance-department in the island of Bermuda. 17. Mrs Agnes Murray, spouse of Mr John Panton, Knockymill, Aberdeenshire.

-At Edinburgh, of an inflammation in the liver, George Ranken, Esq. late superintendant surgeon on the Bengal establishment.

-At his house, Bromley, Kent, in the 74th year of his age, William Walmisley, Esq. nearly 20 years clerk of the papers of the House of Lords.

Lately-At Notter, near Landrake, LieutenantColonel O'Docherty, of the royal marines, one of the most eccentric characters, perhaps in England, At Garlieston, Wigtonshire, Mr John Dunsmore, miller, at an advanced age, leaving property to the amount of £14,000, the whole of which he acquirIn his desk were found eleven hundred pounds, ed at Garlieston. He was confined only three weeks. key of his treasure under his head till he expired. packed up with old iron, nails, &c.; he kept the

By the last arrivals from Madras, accounts have been received of the death of Major-General James Innes, third son of the deceased John Innes of Edingight, Esq. in the county of Banff.

At her residence in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, the Dowager Countess of Sefton. Her ladyship was in the 71st year of her age; she had been ill about three months.

At London, Major-General John Wilson, colonel of the late 4th Ceylon regiment.

At his seat, Thorpe-lee, Surrey, in the 67th year of his age, Sir Henry Tempest, Bart. of Tonghall, county of York, and Hope-end, county of Hereford, the last branch of the very ancient family of the Tempests of Tong.

At Toulouse, Marguerite Reinaud, at the age of 117 years. She was born in 1701, was married in free from infirmities, and preserved to the last mo 1721, and became a widow in 1735. She had lived ment the full use of her faculties,

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