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14. At Mayne, the lady of Colonel Hay of Westerton, a son.

-Near Hampton, Mrs R. Boog, a son.

16. At Houndwood House, the lady of Captain Collison, royal navy, a daughter.

-In Sackville Street, Dublin, the lady of James Traill Hall, Esq. a daughter.

19. At Schivas, Aberdeenshire, the lady of Alex. Forbes Irvine, Esq. a son.

20. At Newington, Edinburgh, Mrs Mowbray Stenhouse, a son.

25. At Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, the lady of John Douglas, Esq. of Lockerby, a daughter.

At Maryfield, East-road, Mrs Anderson, a son.

MARRIAGES.

June 5. At Port-Glasgow, Captain_Robert Gilkinson, to Eleonora, daughter of R. Brown, Esq. Port-Glasgow.

24. At Morefield, near Aberdeen, John Cameron, Esq. surgeon, R. N. to Eliza, only daughter of Andrew Third, Esq.

28. At Dundee, Robert Stirling Graham, Esq. of Kincaldrum, to Miss Mary-Ann Jobson, eldest daughter of John Jobson, Esq. of Rosemount.

At Liverpool, the Rev. James Macgowan, master of the academy, Seel Street, to Miss Susannah Jackson, of the county of Westmoreland.

29. At Ralston House, Robert Orr, Esq. eldest son of John Orr, Esq. Dublin, to Eliza, third daughter of the late William Orr, Esq. of Ralston.

-At Craigleith House, William Fleming, Esq. banker, Cupar, to Helen, eldest daughter of Alex. Bonar, Esq. of Ratho, banker in Edinburgh.

July 1. At Gallanach, Dugald Campbell, Esq. late of Islandree, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Patrick Macdougal, Esq. of Gallanach.

2. At Corslie, Robert Allan, Esq. of Strawberry Hall, to Rebecca, daughter of the deceased John Lawrie, Esq. of Lowherriot.

5. At Dunfermline, Mr James Orrock, merchant, to Miss Jessie Malcolm, youngest daughter of the late Finlay Malcolm, brewer there.

6. At Edinburgh, Mr Henry Ovendon Collard, to Grace, only daughter of Mr Thomas Gilchrist, Edinburgh.

- At London, William Yates Peel, Esq. M. P. second son of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. to Lady Jane Moore, second daughter of the Earl of Mount Cashell.

8. At London, I. R. G. Graham, Esq. M. P. eldest son of Sir James Graham, Bart. of Netherby, to Fanny Callander, youngest daughter of James Campbell, Esq. of Ardkinglass. His Royal Highness the Duke of York gave the bride away, and the Duchess of York was present at the ceremony. 9. At Edinburgh, at St Paul's Chapel, Robert M'Queen, Esq. younger of Braxfield, to Zepherina, eldest daughter of Henry Veitch, Esq. of Eliock.

12. At Ladysmill, Alexander Balloch, Esq. of Middlefield, to Margaret, third daughter of the late Robert Melville, Esq. Falkirk.

At Edinburgh, Alexander Thomson, Esq. W. S. to Ann, eldest daughter of Charles Hay, Esq. Great King-street.

13. At Edinburgh, Mr J. F. Williams, landscape painter, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Mr James Pillans, printer in Edinburgh.

- At Edinburgh, William Bogue, Esq. of Kirkland, in the county of Haddington, to Miss Elizabeth West, only daughter of the late LieutenantColonel John West.

- At Laverock Bank, John Street, Esq. royal regiment artillery, to Catherine, second daughter of Henry Jardine, Esq. of Harwood.

14. At Erskine Manse, James Haldane Tait, Esq. captain in the royal navy, to Stewart, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Robert Cunninghame of Balgownie.

13. At London, Charles Drummond, Esq. jun. to the Honourable Mary Dulsebella Eden, sister of Lord Auckland.

-At Aberdeen, William Allen, Esq. to Ann, daughter of the late P. Duncan, Esq.

16. At Edinburgh, Mr James Stephens More, teller, Royal Bank, to Catherine, eldest daughter of the late Walter Lockhart, Esq. depute clerk of Session.

17. First at the church of the Assumption, Rue St Honore, and afterwards at the chapel of the English ambassador, and in presence of his Excellency, Colonel the Comte de Mondreville, of the king's garde du corps, knight of the royal military

order of St Louis, commander of the Legion of Honour, &c. to Lady Maria Caroline Brundenell Bruce, eldest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Aylesbury.

19. At Edinburgh, Mr R. Robertson, jun. Glasgow, to Clementina, daughter of the late Mr J. Carmichael, Aithrey, Stirlingshire.

-At Paisley, Deputy Assistant CommissaryGeneral J. Paterson, to Eliza, youngest daughter of the late Mr John Miller, manufacturer.

-At London, the Honourable Frederick Sylvester North Douglas, only son of Lord Glenbervie, to Harriet, eldest daughter of William Wrightson, Esq. of Cusworth.

21. At Edinburgh, Major Orr, of the Royal Fuziliers, to Sarah, eldest daughter of the late Spencer Boyd, Esq. of Pinkill, Ayrshire.

22.

At Broughton Street, Edinburgh, James Crauford, Esq. to Miss Eliza H. Bell.

DEATHS.

Oct. 1818. At Calcutta, Mr George Hamilton, second son of the late John Hamilton, Esq. of Polmont Bank,

Dec. 23. In the interior of India, Ensign James Rainnie Anderson, of the Honourable the India Company Engineers, youngest son of John Anderson, Esq. of Winterfield.

Jan. 13, 1819. At Bangalore, after a short illness, William Simpson, Esq. merchant, Madras. March 27. At Golden Grove Estate, island of Tobago, after a severe illness, Archibald Campbell, Esq. aged 24 years, son of Lieutenant-Colonel Campbell of Glenderual, Argyleshire.

In March last, off Vera Cruz, of a malignant fever, aged 15, Henry Symons; and five days after, through excess of grief at the loss of his brother, George Symons; both midshipmen on board his Majesty's ship Sybille, and twin sons of J. W. Symons, Esq. of Bath.

Near Falmouth, Jamaica, in the end of March last, Joseph Wood, Esq. an amiable and excellent character, whose valuable and endearing qualities will be long remembered by his surviving relations and friends.

June 5. At Edinburgh, at Mr Hay's, Heriot Row, Major Thomas Broughame, late of the Honourable East India Company's service.

15. At Beaumont Place, Edinburgh, in her 20th year, Miss Elizabeth Lightbody, only daughter of the late Mr James Lightbody, hat manufacturer in Glasgow; and on the 21st, his son, Mr James Lightbody, hatter, in his 22d year.

Suddenly, Mr James Weatherly, tenant in Hopridge, aged 72.

At Bermuda, Richard Fred. Baird, youngest son of Sir James Gardiner Baird of Saughtonhall, Bart.

Drowned, between Coll and Ardnamurchan, Mr Donald Macdonald, distiller in the island of Tyree.

17. At London, aged 82, William Wallis, Esq. the oldest surgeon in the British navy, and last remaining of those who, in the year 1784, under the command of Captain Phipps, afterwards Lord Mulgrave, in the Racehorse and Carcase, went the expedition to the North Pole, in which enterprise he was surgeon on board the Carcase.

18. At Glasgow, Mr J. Hepburn, writing-master, aged 57; and on the 21st, his son James, aged 11. They were interred in one grave.

19. At Moray Street, Leith Walk, Mr William Wilkie.

-At Perth, Mrs Stewart of Bonskeid.

- At Hackness, Margaret Anne, wife of George Johnstone, Esq. and eldest daughter of the late Sir R. V. B. Johnstone, Bart.

20. At Zurich, in the 55d year of his age, Mr Henry Lavater, physician, son of the celebrated physiognomist of that name.

21. At Newton-upon-Ayr, James Turner, aged 100. He was a sergeant in the king's army in the year 1745.

At Dundee, aged 19, Thomas, youngest son of Mr James Duncan, jun. Castlehill, Dundee.

22. At her house in Park-street, London, Mary, Baroness Mordaunt of Turvey, aged 82. By her death this old peerage descends to his Grace the Duke of Gordon, who also succeeds to the entailed estate of Durris, in Kincardineshire.

23. In Easter Duddingstone, Mr Patrick Meik. At Airdrie, the Rev. Andrew Duncanson, minister of the associate congregation there, in the

52d year of his age, and 27th of his ministry. He possessed, in an eminent degree, the various qualities which constitute an amiable character.

-At Milton, the infant son of Sir David Hunter Blair.

-At Bath, Captain Philip Dumaresq, R. N. 24. At Cheltenham, Lieut.-General Charles Reynolds, of the Honourable East India Company's service, on the Bombay establishment.

-At Edinburgh, Mr John Richmond, merchant, Blair-street.

-At Hursley Park, in Hampshire, Sir William Heathcote, Bart. He represented the county of Southampton in three successive Parliaments, but retired from public life at the general election in 1806, on account of ill health.

-At Smeaton, in the 81st year of his age, Sir George Buchan Hepburn, Bart. of Smeaton, formerly one of the Barons of the Court of Exchequer.

27. At Middleton House, John Hepburn Mitchelson, youngest son of the late Archibald Hepburn Mitchelson, Esq. of Middleton.

29. At Abbeville, on his way to Paris, Marmaduke Constable Maxwell, Esq. of Terreagles, county of Dumfries, and of Everingham, in the county of York.

July 1. At Kingston, John Burn, Esq.

Anne Sophia Shipley, aged 17, daughter of William Green, Esq. of Stanway Hall; and in the evening of the same day, her twin sister Harriet Mary Frances.

-At Dunbar, of scarlet fever, Marion Hepburn, eldest daughter of George Sandilands, Esq.; and on the 3d, George Macfarlane, son of Mrs Sandilands and the late Duncan Macfarlane, Esq. Glasgow.

2. At Stockwall, Mr James Mackay, of the Foreign Department of the War Office.

At Newbyth, Mrs Maria Hearsy Gavin, spouse of Robert Baird of Newbyth, Esq.

3. In Salisbury-street, Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Walker, formerly a brewer and bailie of this city. -At Paris, H. Crawford, Esq. late of Greenock.

At Paris, Laurence Oliphant, Esq. of Gask. - At Viewfield, near Stirling, Major Alexander Stewart, Fasnacloich, in the 84th year of his age. 4. At Newabbey, Miss Isabella Anderson, daughter of John Anderson, Esq. of Fermoy, Ireland. - At Glammis, Patrick Proctor, Esq. of Halkerton.

-At Oban, Mrs Marion Steel, spouse of Mr Hugh Stevenson, senior, universally regretted.

5. At Torbain, aged 14, Helen Robertson, daughter of William Scott, pewterer, Edinburgh. -At Edinburgh, Miss Ann Hamilton, youngest daughter of Alexander Blair, Esq. W. S.

At his house in Charles-street, Edinburgh, Mr John Ranken, late of Portugal-street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.

At his seat at Newlands, in the county of Southampton, the Honourable Admiral Sir Wm Cornwallis, G. C. B. Vice-Admiral of England, &c.

&c.

6. At Forbes Lodge, Alexander Forbes, Esq. of Invernan.

At Haddington, Mr Adam Christison, surgeon, aged 21.

7. At Portobello, Charles, second son of Henry David Erskine, Esq. of Ammondell.

At her house, Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Murray of Mitchelstone.

-At Elder-street, Edinburgh, Miss Catherine Cameron, daughter of the late Mr John Cameron, merchant, Leith.

-At St Andrew's, Mr William Paterson, hairdresser.

8. At Milnathort, after a short illness, the Rev. Andrew Imrie, in the 72d year of his age, and 34th of his ministry.

-At Canaan Grove, in the neighbourhood of Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Campbell, daughter of the late Mr James Campbell of Glasgow.

9. At Rothesay, George Cunninghame, Esq. Surveyor-general of the Customs for Scotland. - At Inglismaldie, Kincardineshire, after a few days illness, Juliet, Countess of Kintore.

-At Milnfield, after a lingering illness, Mrs Ann Bean, aged 55, wife of Mr Macdonnell, writer, Inverness.

10. At his house in Sloane Street, Chelsea, James

Hay, Esq. formerly speaker of the honourable
House of Assembly of the island of Grenada.
11. At Stirling, Captain James Crichton, of the
Briton Indiaman.

12. At Dalkeith, Mr George Rae, merchant there.

13. At Dunbar, of scarlet fever, Peter, aged three years, eldest son of George Sandilands, Esq. -At Seaton House, Hannah Charlotte Georgiana, the infant daughter of Lord James Hay.

-At Edinburgh, Mr William Ford, of the Caledonian Glass Works.

14. At Kensington Palace, Lady Porter, relict of Sir Stanier Porter, Knight.

15. At the manse of Pittenweem, in the presbytery of St Andrew's, the Rev. Dr James Nairne of Claremont, minister of that parish, in the 69th year of his age and the 44th of his ministry. Dr Nairne died the father of his presbytery, as his grandfather and father had done. The family have been favoured in Providence by a long tract of public usefulness in the sacred function; the Doctor's grandfather and father having been parochial ministers in the same presbytery with himself, the one for 68 and the other for 53 years. Their united incumbences amount to 164 years, while for 116 successive years their names have stood in the pres bytery roll. Although in a state of great debility of body, insomuch that latterly he had to sit in the pulpit, Dr Nairne's mind continued to be in full vigour to the last; and the variety of his duties the last time he preached is striking :-on the second Sunday before his death, he not only did his usual forenoon duty, but in addition, ordained elders, dispensed the sacrament of baptism, and celebrated a marriage.

16. At Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Fraser, relict of Mr John Rae, surgeon.

17. At Gallatown, near Dysart, Mr Dav. Thomson, late merchant there; and, at Coaltown, on the preceding evening, his son, David.

18. At Kersewell, William Bertram, Esq. of Nisbet.

19. At Edinburgh, Isabella, only daughter of Mr Andrew Brown, bookseller, Leith-street.

20. At his house, Albany-street, Edinburgh, at an advanced age, John Playfair, Esq. Professor of Natural Philosophy in the university of this city. No man ever, perhaps, deserved or enjoyed a larger share of the public esteem. By the world at large he was respected for his great and various acquirements, both in literature and science, while to the circle of his private friends, he was, in a peculiar manner, endeared, by his mild and unassuming character. He was one of the greatest ornaments of the university of Edinburgh.-Monday, the remains of the much-lamented Professor were interred in the old Calton burying-ground. The corpse was preceded by a great number of gentlemen who had been pupils of the deceased, and the members of the Speculative Society, in fours; it was followed by the Magistrates of the city, the mace and halberds of their officers covered with crape-the Professors of the University, the mace also covered with crape the members of the Royal, Medical, and Physical Societies-the Astronomical Institu tion--the Wernerian Natural History Society, and a great number of private friends. About half-past two, the melancholy procession moved from his late residence in Albany Street, through a vast concourse of spectators, who appeared deeply impressed in beholding this tribute to departed excellence. On reaching the burying ground, the gen tlemen who preceded the corpse opened, two and two, and uncovered, as it passed to the place of interment.

-At Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Miss Murray, only daughter of the late Hon. and Rev. Dean Murray of Killaloe, in Ireland.

Lately-At Clifton, Mrs Spear, the lady of Capt. Joseph Spear, R. N. She was the second daughter of the late Ludowick Grant, Esq. of Knockandow, and a near relative of the Duke of Gordon and the Earl of Aboyne.

On his passage to Bermuda, in consequence of 3 fall from the poop of his Majesty's ship Newcastle, Lieutenant George C. Yeo, only brother of the late Commodore Sir J. L. Yeo.

At Oze, in the Isle of Skye, Captain Alexander Macleod.

Oliver & Boyd, Printers, Edinburgh.

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To JAMES HOGG ESQUIRE of Eltrive Lake Yarrow, commonly called the Ettrick or Chaldean Shepherd. Author of the Queens Wake, Pilgrims of the Sun, llogg on Sheep and many celebrated articles in this Magazine, Member of the Dilettanti Society of Edinburgh, the Dirty Shirt of Glasgow, the Shakespeare Club of Alloa and the Parmers Club of Hawick & &c &c &ee This Print is inscribed by

Holy Rood House.

1819.

Morgan Odoherty.

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No XXX.

SEPTEMBER 1819.

VOL. V.

The Tent.

We have no wish to inform the public of all the difficulties we had to encounter in bringing out the last Number of our valuable Miscellany. It was on the evening of the 16th of August that we arrived in Edinburgh from our Tent; and as we had to ship off to London on the 20th, the hurryskurry and the helter-skelter at the Printing-Office may be more easily imagined than described. Immediately on stepping out of the Aberdeen coach, we came bob against Mr Blackwood, who exclaimed, "My gracious! Mr Editor, this is a fine prank you have been playing us all! The cry for copy is most terrible-dog on it

But goodness be praised, here you are come away up to Ambrose's." We soon found ourselves sitting before a sirloin of beef and a pot of porter; and Mr Ambrose, who saw there was something in the wind more than usual, brought in the Steel Pen, our best japan ink, and a quire of wire-wove. Having travelled much in coaches during the early part of our life, we even now ate our dinner as in fear of the horn; so that in less than quarter of an hour the sirloin was removed with a deep gash on his side, and the empty porter pot rose from the table at a touch. We scarcely took time to wipe our mouths, and fell to, "totis viribus," like a giant refreshed, to the "Twelfth of August," an article which we finished at a sitting, and which we are happy to find has given very great and general satisfaction. Ebony, meanwhile, lost not a moment in running down to the Printing-Office with a packet we had brought from the Tent-and on his return, by way of shewing his satisfaction, he whispered mine host to place near our right hand a small bowl of cold punch, which a Glasgow gentleman in the adjacent parlour had been kind enough to manufacture; and we felt it to be no less our duty to ourselves than to Messrs Blackwood and Ambrose, to VOL. V.

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take a bumper at the close of every paragraph, which may possibly account for their being somewhat shorter than is usual in our full, free, and flowing style of composition.

For three days-and we may almost add nights, there was no occasion to say to us "sæpe vertas stylum," for we boldly dashed at every thing, from Don Juan to Slack the Pugilist; and flew in a moment from the Cape-of-Good-Hope to the Pyramids of Egypt. " My gracious, your versatility is most fearsome," murmured our astonished publisher: "It will be one of our best Numbers after all." The truth is, that we felt nettled by the remark of Dr Morris, in his " Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk," that we only laid plans for others to execute, and were determined to shew the physician and all the rest of the world,-first, that we are no sinecurists, and, secondly, that our seat is not at a board under government.

We are not personally known at the Printing-Office, so we hobbled down one midnight along with Ebony to witness the operations. What motion of many twinkling hands among compositors! What display of brawney arms among pressmen! What a stir of printers'-devils! "The Editor's MS. is growing worse and worse every month," said a long sallow-faced stripling, with a page of the Twelfth of August close to his eyes, as if he were going to apply a bandage-" What makes the young lads ay sae sair on Hairy Brougham, I wonder," quoth another-" Here's another slap at Macvey," said a third, "that's really too bad." "I would not grudge sitting up all night at another Canto of the Mad Banker of Amsterdam," added a fourth-but not to be tedious, we were pleased to observe, that on the whole a spirit of good humour and alacrity pervaded the Office, and above all, that that vile Jacobinical spirit, unfortunately but too prevalent among persons of their profes

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