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His death will be lamented by the most distinguished characters in this country, and will be an irreparable loss to the poor in his neighbourhood. He was formerly Preceptor to the Prince Regent.

Sept. 1. At the advanced age of 101, Mrs Susannah M'Kec, relict of Mr William M Kee, late of Drumwhey, parish of Newtonards. Her lawful issue were 11 children, 36 grand-children, 66 greatgrand-children, and 10 great-great-grandchildren-in all 123. It is worthy of observation that her mother, in the same house, died at the extraordinary age of 100.

confirmed in March 1816 by Louis XVIII. by causing the estate of Aubigny to be as signed to him, and granting him the honours of the Louvre, as enjoyed by his Grace's ancestors. He was a LieutenantGeneral in the army, Colonel of the 35th regiment of foot, Governor of Plymouth, Governor of Upper and Lower Canada and their dependencies, Lord Lieutenant of the county of Sussex, and High Steward of Chichester. His Grace was born in 1764, succeeded his uncle Charles, the late Duke, in 1806, and married, in 1783, Charlotte, daughter of the Duke of Gordon, by whom he had issue seven sons and seven daughters, all of them now living, except his third son, Henry Adam, R. N. who fell overboard the Blake, as she was sailing into Port Mahon in 1812, and was drowned. His Grace was distinguished early in life by his duel with his Royal Highness the Duke of York. He was of an open, candid, generous temper, and of plain and unaffected manners, qualities which were particularly conspicuous in Ireland when viceroy of that country. His Grace is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles, Earl of March and Darnley, born in 1791, and married in 1817 to Lady Caroline Paget, eldest daughter of the Marquis of Anglesey, by whom he has issue a son, now Earl of March.

27. At his house in Balranald, in Skye, Donald Macdonald, Esq. of Balranald, at the advanced age of 87.

30. Colonel Galbraith Hamilton, of the Madras Establishment.

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At London, Mrs George Napier, wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, 3d guards.

At his seat at Felpham, near Bognor, in Sussex, Dr Cyril Jackson. The Doctor has been Dean of Christ Church for 26 years, and was admired for his learning, and revered for his virtues. The Prince Regent, during his late aquatic excursion, visited the Doctor, and expressed much concern on finding him in so reduced a state, but the Doctor felt his heart cheered, and his last days brightened, by a sense of the honour which he had thus received. He might have risen to the highest honours of his profession, if he had not preferred the enjoyment of lettered leisure to the temptations of worldly ambition.

2. At Paris, Sir Robert Wolseley, Bart. 3. At his house in Great Queen Street, Westminster, Elizabeth Flockhart, wife of Thomas Longlands, Esq. solicitor, and daughter of the late John Flockhart, Esq. formerly Clerk to the Register of Hornings.

At Grange House, Burntisland, Mrs Hamilton, wife of Mr James Hamilton, Accountant-General of Excise.

At Montrose, John Keith, Esq. late Collector of the Customs.

At Inverness, in the 78th year of her age, Jane, relict of the Hon. Archibald Fraser of 'Lovat, and sister of the late Sir William Fraser, Bart.

4. At Moncrieff House, George Hugh, son of the late Encas Mackay, Esq. of Scotston.

At Rothesay, Mrs Wilson, wife of the Rev. Dr Wilson, minister of Falkirk.

At Dublin, R. Trotter, Esq. late of Broomdykes, Berwickshire.

At Edinburgh, Dame Matilda Theresa Cochrane Wishart, wife of Sir Thomas Cochrane, Knt. R. N. and daughter of the late Sir Charles Ross of Balnagown, Bart. 5. At Edinburgh, Miss Harriet Erskine.

At Bessborough, Maria Jane, second daughter of the late Thomas Riddell, Esq. of Bessborough.

6. At Whitehaugh, Aberdeenshire, Theodore Forbes Leith, Esq. M. D. F.R.S. in the 74th year of his age.

At his cottage in Eastbourne, Sir Arthur Piggott, M. P. in the 69th year oi his age. His strict integrity as a barrister is well known to the public, and we believe he has been for a considerable time the Father of the Bar. He has left a numerous circle of friends to lament his loss, and a disconsolate widow, who has been his wife upwards of 46 years. The death of this eminent lawyer causes a vacancy among the benchers of the Middle Temple, of which society Sir Arthur was a member.

At Glasgow, Mrs Grizel Johnstone, in the 9 st year of her age. This lady's mother died in the 104th year of her age.

7. At Ramsgate, in the 17th year of his age, the Hon. William Boyle, youngest son of the Earl of Glasgow.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Gibson,

widow of the late Dr William Dalgleish, minister of Peebles.

8. At the Palace in Tuam, after a tedious illness, in the 77th year of his age, his Grace the Archbishop of Tuam.

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William Somerville, Esq. of Ampher

9. Aged 82, Mrs Weeks, midwife of Exeter, and also to the Exeter Lying-in Charity. She followed her avocations almost to the last; was the mother of 22 children, all of whom were baptized; and had attended at the delivery of more than 11,000 infants.

10. At Aberdeen, William Forbes, Esq. late of Skellater, aged 88.

11. At London, the Right Hon. Lady Essex Ker, second sister of his Grace the late John, Duke of Roxburghe, Groom of the Stole to his present Majesty.

12. At Brompton, near London, aged 17 years, Robert Dalrymple Horn, eldest son of R. D. Horne Elphinstone, of Horn and Logie Elphinstone.

13. On his passage to London, William A. Downs, Esq. Auditor of his Majesty's Customs in Scotland.

At Edinburgh, in the 89th year of her age, Mrs Ann Campbell, relict of the late Major Thomas Wood, of the Royal Marines, and daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Ottar.

At his house in Bury St Edmund's, William Smith, Esq. in the 89th year of his age, formerly of Drury-lane Theatre. Mr Smith, from the propriety of his conduct, his mental accomplishments, and the superior grace and elegance of his manners and appearance, was designated by his friends Gentleman Smith. His perform ance of Charles, in the School for Scandal, has been considered one of his most perfect representations on the stage.

At Edinburgh, Captain Archibald Mercer Macgachan, 22d regiment of foot. 16. At Ayr, David Limond, Esq. many years town-clerk of Glasgow.

17. At Carronpark, William Cadell, Esq. of Banton, aged 82. Mr Cadell was one of the original founders of the Carron Ironworks; and, during the whole course of an active life, was engaged in many useful and important commercial undertakings. -His memory will be long cherished by his numerous friends.

At Fulham House, Sir James Sibbald, Bart.

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17. At Belfast, Robert Bradshaw, Esq. banker, and President of the Chamber of Commerce of that town.

18. On board the Cornwall Indiaman, near the port of Liverpool, Mr Da niel Edward M'Cormick, surgeon, third son of the late Edward M'Cormick, Esq. advocate, Sheriff-depute of Ayrshire, and Solicitor of Teinds in Scotland.

At Berryhill, Mrs M Lean, wife of Capt. Hector M'Lean, late of the 42d Reg. 20. Mrs Erskine, wife of William Erskine, Esq. of Kinnedder, advocate.

At Montrose, Mr Robert Baird, one of the public teachers in that place.

21. Mr. George Coulter, preacher of the gospel; a character well known in Ayrshire, Lanarkshire, and Galloway.

22. At Edinburgh, Jane Hay Malcolm, wife of Dr Hennen, Deputy-Inspector of Hospitals for North Britain.

At Hills Cottage, Lochwinnoch, Elizabeth, only daughter of Hugh Montgomerie, Esq. younger of Broadley..

At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Robertson, engraver, who has rung the mu sic bells of this city for many years.

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At Crookston, George Borthwick. Esq. second son of John Borthwick, Esq, of Crookston.

At Barley Wood, near Bristol, aged 72, Martha, the benevolent sister of the justly celebrated Mrs Hannah More.

23. At Trimdon, Mr J. G. Bailey, eldest son of the late J. Bailey, Esq. Chillingham, Northumberland.

At Croalchapel, in the parish of Closeburn, Mr John Ferguson, shoemaker. He was one of the most dexterous curlers in the district in which he lived, and engaged with extraordinary spirit in the bon spiels of his own with the neighbouring parishes. By his exertions on these occas sions he contributed not a little to raise the Closeburnians to their present envied su periority in that ancient and manly amusement; and the hearty roar with which he hailed the approach of victory will be long and gratefully remembered by his numer ous and affectionate companions in the art.

24. At Gravesend, on his passage from London to Inverness, Mr William Ettles, bookseller in Inverness.

At Englefield-Green, Colonel Sir Felton Harvey, Bart. Aid-du-Camp to the Prince Regent, Secretary to the Duke of Wellington, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the 14th dragoons,

25. At levernholme, Helen, second daughter of John Wilson, Esq. of Thornly. -At Ford, Simon Fraser, Esq. of Ford.

At manse of St Fergus, Mrs Mary Grott, spouse of the Rev. William Anderson, minister of that parish.

26. At Linlithgow, Mrs Jane Hewit, wife of Thomas Spens, Esq. Collector of Excise, much and justly regretted.

26. At his seat Moccas Court, in the county of Hereford, Sir George Cornewall, Bart. in the 71st year of his age.

27. At Morningside, near Edinburgh, Mr Robert Sprot.

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At Ayr, Mrs Aitken, wife of John Aitken, Esq. one of the magistrates of Ayr. 28. At Blackstone, Miss Napier, senior, aged 76.

At Tannock, near Maybole, Mr William Hutchison.

29. At Edinburgh, Flora, eldest daugh ter of Mr Andrew Duncan, Sheriff-substitute of Zetland, aged 26.

At Wharton Place, Margaret, youngest daughter of Thomas Bell, Esq.

30. At Annan, Miss Ann, second daugh. ter of John Little, Esq. Provost of that burgh.

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At Clifton, Lieut. Colonel Richard Thompson, formerly of the 68th regiment. This gallant officer lost his right arm at the siege of Flushing in 1809, which obliged him to retire from the army.

At Dumfries, Mr Alex. Young, Supervisor of Excise

At Glasgow, after two days illness, Mr James Macarthur, teacher.

Oct. 1. In Craven Street, London, Benjamin Ross, Esq. of Tain, Ross-shire.

2. At the manse of Aberlady, the Rev. Andrew Kemp, minister of that parish.

At St Andrew's, in the 90th year of her age, Mrs Magdalene Monypenny. 3. At North Berwick, Mr Francis Buch

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At Society, near Hopetoun House, Mr John Lyon, in his 87th year.

At Southwick, Clementina, daughter of the late Hugh Baillie, Esq.

6. At Gourock Bay, Duncan M'Kellar, Esq. merchant in Glasgow.

At Edinburgh, Mr John Porteous, student of medicine.

8. At Scotstoun, George Oswald, Esq. of Auchincruive, aged 84.

-At No. 50, Hanover Street, Mrs MRae Smith, widow of the late Captain Robert Gairdner, of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal artillery.

9. At Edinburgh, Major-General Dewar of Gilston.

11. At Burntsfield Links, Mr Douglas Gourlay, golf-ball maker.

In the Dock-yard, Portsmouth, Captain Wainwright, Governor of the Royal Naval College, which appointment he only enjoyed since the promotion of Admiral Gifford, about ten days.

Lately, At Kriblowitz, in Silesia, FieldMarshal Prince Blucher, in the 76th year of his age.

On the march from Russelpoor to Jaulnah, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Heath, of the Hon. East India Company's ser vice.

At Demerara, Mr Andrew Hay Robinson, surgeon, only son of the late Dr James Robinson, of that colony.

At Porto Rico, West Indies, Captain John Boyd, second son of William Boyd, Esq. Berryhill, parish of Kilmarnock, much regretted.

In the island of Antigua, at the residence of her only son, Samuel Auchinleck, Esq. the representative of the ancient Barons of that Ilk, a gallant and distinguished Lowland race, honourably alluded to in Miss Porter's historic novel of the "Scottish Chiefs," Elizabeth, relict of the late Samuel Auchinleck, Esq. many years Collector of the Customs at Antigua.

At Perth, after a very short illness, John M'Omie, LL. D. long known in that city as a diligent and zealous teacher. This amiable and respected individual was, during a period of 10 years, rector of the academy at Inverness, but the state of his health having rendered it necessary for him to retire from that situation, he returned to Perth, his native city, where he continued till his death to employ his leisure hours in giving private instructions in drawing and geography. Dr M'Omie was in the 64th year of his age, and had long filled, with much credit, the office of Secretary to the Literary and Antiquarian Society of Perth, in the success of which he always took a very warm interest. It is somewhat remarkable, that his funeral took place on the very day for which he had intimated, a few days before, the annual meeting of the society. In conse quence of a wish expressed by the Presi dent, the Right Honourable the Earl of Kinnoull, the day of meeting was, out of respect to his memory, postponed to a future day.-Perth Courier.

At Chichester, Helen Anne, youngest

10. At Craigorthy, Oliver Gourlay, Esq. daughter of the late Rear-Admiral Thompin his 80th year.

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