At Edinburgh, Mr John Richmond, merchant, Blair Street.

25. At Bath, John Blackwood, Esq. late of Quebec, a Member of Council of the province of Lower Canada.

26. Of an apoplectic fit, Thomas Philip Lamb, Esq. M. P.

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 of 1806, on account of ill health.

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

28. At Dumfries, Miss Lawrie of Crofts.

At Leith, William Chisholm, Esq. late merchant in Inverness, and for many years one of the Magistrates of that town.

29. At Paris, the Hon. Alice Emily Perry, second daughter of Lord Louvaine, in the eleventh year of her age.

30. At Crosby Lodge, near Carlisle, in consequence of a fall from his horse, Da

vid Kennedy, Esq. one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, and Deputy Lieutenant for the county of Cumberland.

30. At Abbeville, suddenly, Marmaduke Constable Maxwell, Esq. of Everingham, in the county of York, and Nithsdale in Scotland. After the funeral ceremony, which was performed with great pomp, ac cording to the Catholic ritual, Miss Maxwell walked round her father's coffin, and kissed it several times.-Paris paper.

At London, Major-General Thomas Hawkshaw, late of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal establishment.

At Edinburgh, William Lawson, Esq. late of Girthead.

July 1. Anne Sophia Shipley, daughter of William Green, Esq. of Stanway Hall; and, in the evening of the same day, her twin sister, Harriet Mary Francis.

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.

At Kelso, in the 102d year of his age, John Wight, for many years fisherman at Craigover, near Maxton.

2. At Auchencairn, in the parish of Kirkmahoe, aged 75, Mrs Mary Anderson, relict of the late Alexander Walker, Esq. of Auchencairn.

At Inverness, in his 67th year, universally regretted, Mr James Wills, who has been one of the teachers of the Inverness Academy since its institution.

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

3. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Walker, formerly a brewer and bailie of that city. At Viewfield, near Stirling, Major Alexander Stewart, Fasnacloich, in the 84th year of his age.

At Edinburgh, Major Thomas Broughame, late of the Hon. East India Company's service.

At Paris, Laurence Oliphant, Esq. of Gask.

James Hill, Esq. of Busby.

4. At Glammis, Patrick Proctor, Esq. of Halkerton.

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.

This will be the fame of Watt with future generations; and it is sufficient for his race and his country. But to those to whom he more immediately belonged, who lived in his society and enjoyed his conversation, it is not, perhaps, the character in which he will be most frequently recalled-most deeply lamented-or even most highly admired. Independently of his great attainments in mechanics, Mr Watt was an extraordinary, and in many respects a wonderful man. Perhaps no individual in his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information,-had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and well. He had infinite quickness of apprehension, a prodigious memory, and a certain rectifying and methodising power of understand ing, which extracted something precious out of all that was presented to it. His stores of miscellaneous knowledge were immense, and yet less astonishing than the command he had at all times over them. It seemed as if every subject that was casually started in conversation with him, had been that which he had been last occupied in studying and exhausting; -such was the copiousness, the precision, and the admirable clearness of the information which he poured out upon it without effort or hesitation. Nor was this promptitude and compass of knowledge confined in any degree to the studies connected with his ordinary pursuits. That he should have been minutely and extensively

skilled in chemistry and the arts, and in most of the branches of physical science, might perhaps have been conjectured; but it could not have been inferred from his usual occupations, and probably is not generally known, that he was curiously learned in many branches of antiquity, metaphysics, medicine, and etymology, and perfectly at home in all the details of architecture, music, and law. He was well acquainted, too, with most of the modern languages-and familiar with their most recent literature. Nor was it at all extraordinary to hear the great mechanician and engineer detailing and expounding, for hours together, the metaphysical theories of the German logicians, or criticising the measures or the matter of the German poetry.

His astonishing memory was aided, no doubt, in a great measure, by a still higher and rarer faculty-by his power of digesting and arranging in its proper place all the information he received, and of casting aside and rejecting, as it were instinctively, whatever was worthless or immaterial. Every conception that was suggested to his mind seemed instantly to take its place among its other rich furniture, and to be condensed into the smallest and most convenient form. He never appeared, therefore, to be at all encumbered or perplexed with the verbiage of the dull books he perused, or the idle talk to which he listened; but to have at once extracted, by a kind of intellectual alchemy, all that was worthy of attention, and to have reduced it for his own use, to its true value and to its simplest form. And thus it often happened that a great deal more was learned from his brief and vigorous account of the theories and arguments of tedious writers, than an ordinary student could ever have derived from the most painful study of the originals,—and that errors and absurdities became manifest from the mere clearness and plainness of his statement of them, which might have deluded and perplexed most of his hearers without that invaluable assistance.

It is needless to say, that, with those vast resources, his conversation was at all times rich and instructive in no ordinary degree: but it was, if possible, still more pleasing than wise, and had all the charms of familiarity,