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Ayr, John Wilson, Esq. for many years publisher of the Ayr Advertiser.

6. Archd. Smith, Esq. of Jordonhill, in his 72d year.

7. At Coldstream, aged 63, Mrs Turnbull, relict of Mr Turnbull, Leehouses.

At Sandbed of Dalswinton, William Howatson, Esq. of Hazliebrae, W. S. in the 28th year of his age.

8. At Edinburgh, Mr Andrew Wood, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, in the 80th year of his age.

9. At Atherb, John Bruce, weaver, aged 113. He never slept a night out of his native parish of Old Deer till aged 102; and was never but once more than 10 miles from his place of nativity.He wrought regularly at his business till upwards of 100 years of age.

11. At Apsley House, of internal inflammation, the Marchioness of Worcester. This interesting, amiable, and beautiful young lady had attended the late drawingroom at Buckingham Palace, and also the ball given on the night of the same day at Carlton House. On her return to Apsley House, where she was on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, her Ladyship felt indisposed, and on the next day took a cold bath, which, it is feared, had caused or aggravated her complaint. Her Ladyship was one of the most intimate and favourite friends of the late Princess Charlotte.

In Ireland, the Hon. Mrs Maule of Panmure.

— At Eyemouth, James Todd Home of Wedderburn, Esq.

12. At Marshall Place, Perth, Mrs Ann Macvicar, in her 78th year.

13. At Younston, in the 80th year of his age, Wm. Stewart, Esq. of Grains.

At the Manse of Mid-Calder, Mrs Sommers, wife of the Rev. Dr John Sommers, minister of that parish.

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Laurence Dalgleish, Esq. of West

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At Edinburgh, Miss Mary Ballantine, eldest daughter of the late Patrick Ballantine, Esq. of Orchard.

At Prestongrange House, Margaret, eldest daughter of Sir James Grant Suttie, Bart. of Prestongrange and Balgone, M.P.

At Edinburgh, Frederick L. Maitland, younger of Rankeilour.

14. At Resolis, the Rev. Robert Arthur, minister of the united parish of Kirkmichael and Cullicudden, in the 78th year of his age, and 47th of his ministry.

At her house, No. 6, Castle Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Barbara Dun, in her 90th

year.

15. In the neighbourhood of Bristol, Dr Callcott, the celebrated musical composer. -John Bonnycastle, Esq. Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Acade. my at Woolwich.

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24. At the Manse of Old Monkland, very generally regretted, the Rev. John Bower, minister of that parish.

25. At Isle of Nith, Mr John Goldie, third son of James Goldie, Esq. of Knockcauchly.

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Lately, In the West Indies, Colonel Clarke, of the 5th regiment of foot. was the oldest man in the regiment.

At Caerwent, near Chepstow, Monmouthshire, at the age of 107 years, Charles King, a labourer. He was a remarkably healthy man, and until the last two years of his life worked on the roads as a stone-breaker.

At Nelson's Gardens, Bedminster, near Bristol, at the advanced age of 105 years, Mr Giles Vickery.

At her house, in the Crescent, Bath, Lady Dunalley, mother of the Earl of Charleville, Lord Dunalley, and the Hon. F. Prittie.

At Exeter, aged 82, Lady Mary Hamilton, great-aunt to the Earl of Leven and Melville, and aunt to the Earl of Northesk.

At Paddleton, Mrs Stanley, the Dowager Queen of the Gipsies of the counties of Wilts, Hants, and Dorset. Her Vagrant Majesty was in her 101st year. A numerous crowd attended the funeral.

At Colinton Mains, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Rev. David Pyper, minister of Pencaitland.

At Brussels, aged 86 years, Randal, thirteenth Lord Dunsany, Second Baron of Ireland, one of the most accomplished and bravest men of his day.

In the Island of Jamaica, John Stevens, aged 35 years, after a residence of 10

years.

ACCIDENT, shocking one near Linlith-
gow, 82-Melancholy one at Loch Tay,
578

Adeline, from Bürger, 369

Agricultural Reports, 88, 182, 288, 391,
488, 584

Albaneserin, the, a German tragedy, re-
marks on, 439

Allied Sovereigns, important documents
emanating from the, 571
America, United States of, opening of
Congress and speech of the President,
79-New States added to the Union, 80
-Finances of the, 172-Re-election of
Mr Munro as President-speech on the
occasion, 384

South, armistice between Boli-
var and Morillo, 80-Allowed to expire,
573

American steam frigate, account of a new
one, 563

Anderson, the late Samuel, Esq. notice of,

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Annals of the Parish, extracts from, 511
-remarks on, 555

Antarctic land, notice of the newly dis-
covered, 373

Antwerp, letter from, to a friend in Edin-
burgh, 238

Appointments, Promotions, &c. 85, 180,
286, 389, 486, 582

Arctic regions, journal of a voyage to the,
remarks on, 464-Preparations for a
new voyage to the, 470

Aubin, St, or the Infidel, a novel, notice
of, 356

Auld Reekie, the Weigh-house to the in-
habitants of, 201

Ayrshire dialect, letter in the, 351

Baillie, Miss, remarks on her Metrical
Legends, 260

Balfour's poems, remarks on, 154
Bankrupts, alphabetical lists of British, 91,
185, 291, 394, 491, 587

Biographical notices of three modern Ger-
man poets, 45

Brown, the late Dr, remarks on his lec-
tures, 201

Buenos Ayres, distracted state of the go-
vernment of, 172

Burdett, Sir Francis, convicted of a sedi-
tious libel, and sentenced to three months
imprisonment, and a fine of L. 2000,
280

Bust of Memnon, account of the colossal,
267

Byron, Lord, story on which his tragedy
of Marino Faliero is founded, 54
Caius Gracchus, an Italian tragedy, re-
marks on, 515

Cameronian Dream, 112

Canova, the celebrated sculptor, anecdote
of, 334-Sonnet to the Hebe of, ib.-
Biographical sketch of, 365

Canzone from Petrarch, 335
Carbonari, remarks on that sect, and on
the Neapolitan revolution, 421
Carlile, Mrs, sentenced to two years im-
prisonment for a seditious libel, 178
Carlyle, Dr, anecdote of, 529
Catholic claims, letter on the subject of
the, 342-Bill for granting them passed
in the House of Commons, 485-But
thrown out in the Lords, 483

Caves at Ellore in India, account of, 166
Caxton printing-office in Liverpool de-
stroyed by fire, 280

Chalmers, Doctor, observations on a speech
of, in the General Assembly, 506
Charitable benefactions, 578
Chevalier de Johnstone's Memoirs of the
Rebellion in 1745-6, remarks on, 228,
456

Child, extraordinary one in Lanarkshire,

282

Christian doctrines, dialogue on the, 316
Christianity, on the origin and progressive
influence of, 308-On the evidences of,

312

Christie, Mr, kills Mr Scott in a duel, 283
Circuit Intelligence, 581

Cobbett, Mr, convicted of libel, damages
L. 1000, 83

Coleridge's "Friend," remarks on, 51
sketch of the late Mr Robert Commons, House of, motion for restoring

Thomson, 186

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the Queen's name to the Liturgy lost by
a majority of 101, 175-Message of the
Queen refusing the provision made by
Parliament, ib.-L. 50,000 a-year voted
to her Majesty, ib.-Second motion for
restoring the Queen's name to the Li-
turgy lost by a majority of 120, 277-
Discussion on the Grampound dis-
franchisement bill, ib.-On the Catholic
emancipation bill, 278-On the army
estimates, 386, 387, 485-Pass the Ca-
tholic relief bill, 485-Negative motions
for reform in, 575-And motion for in-
quiry into the disturbances at Manches-
ter, 576-Imprison the printer and edi-
4 F

tor of the John Bull newspaper for a
libel on a member, 576
Commercial Tables, &c. 90, 184, 290,
393, 490, 586

Congress at Laybach, termination of, and
declarations of the allied sovereigns, 571
Contemplation and other poems, by A.
Balfour, remarks on, 154
Constant, M. Benjamin, review of his Me-
moirs of the Hundred Days, 17
Cross-breed, notice of one between the
common cat and the pine-martin, 70
Dante's Inferno. Canto V. notice of, 417
Death of the celebrated Moffat alias Mac-
Coul, 83

Deaths, lists of, 94, 189, 294, 398, 494,
590

Decameron, the Modern, No. IV. 64
Desultory Thoughts in London, and other
poems, remarks on, 158
Demerara, journal of a voyage from, up
the Orinoco, 144, 209

Dialogues on Natural and Revealed Reli-
gion, 132-On the moral attributes of
God, 135-Letters on the Dialogues,
214-On the origin of evil, 216-On
the immortality of the soul, 223-Let-
ter from Philotheus on the, 299- On the
character of the Jews, 305-On the ori-
gin and progressive influence of Christ-
ianity, 308-On the evidences of Christ-
ianity, 312-On the Christian doctrines,

316 Conclusion of the Dialogues, 319
Diving machine, notice of a new one, 472
Domingo, St, revolution in, and death of
Christophe by suicide, 80--Conspiracy
in, 482

Drama, the-Mirandola, Conscience, the
Medea of Euripides, 361-Thérèse, or
the Orphan of Geneva, 369-the City of
the Plague, the Doge of Venice, 437
Dramatists, remarks on the early English,
No. VIII. 149

Dreamer, the, No. I. 452

Duel, fatal one near London, 283
Early English dramatists, remarks on the,
149

Earthquake at Wanlockhead, in Scotland,
81

Easter, Russian hymns for, 372
Edinburgh, decision of the Court of Ses-
sion regarding election of magistrates of,
178-Compromise between the parties
in the action, 281-Proceedings of the
Royal Society of, 434-Projected his-
tory of the medical school of, 526-No-
tice of the school of arts in, 561
Egmont, a tragedy, remarks on, 321
Election. account of a Scotch county one,
551

Elegy on a withered hawthorn tree, 257
Emperor Alexander, letter to from an old
woman in Stirling, 528
Evil, on the origin of, 216

Execution of John Dempsey for murder,
82-Of Samuel Maxwell for robbery,
177

Explosion of a steam-boiler at Lochrin dis-
tillery, 389

Extracts from the romance of Kenilworth,
12-From Coleridge's Friend,51-From
the tragedy of Mirandola, 66-From
Report of Committee of the Society for
Prison Discipline, 110-From Il Conte
di Carmagnola, a tragedy, 123-From
journal of a voyage up the Orinoco, 144,
209-From Poems by A. Balfour, 156
-From Poems by Charles Lloyd, 159
-From Goethe's tragedy of Egmont, 325
-From the Venetian Festivals, 330-
From Benger's Memoirs of Ann Boleyn,
353 From Maturin's Melmoth, 413,
537-From the Annals of the Parish,511
-From Monti's tragedy of Caius Grac-
chus, 515-From the Furies, by Eschy-
lus, 520

Extraordinary child, account of one in La-
narkshire, 282

Fall of a mountain, 166
Fatal affray at Kilsyth, 81

duel near London, 283
Fate of feeling, the, a tale, 522
Female courage, example of, 280
poetry, 358

Fire at Brussels, 77-Fatal one in Lon.
don, 82-Destructive one at Kirkby-
Lonsdale, ib.-Destruction of the As-
sembly Rooms at Bath by, 83-Destruc-
tion of Surinam by, 275-Destructive
one at Liverpool, 280-At Whitehouse-
mill, East Lothian, ib.-At Sunbury
distillery, 281-Dreadful one at Nor-
folk, America, 482-Destructive one at
Prinlaws, Fifeshire, 579

Fossil oyster shell found on a high hill in
India, 71

Foster, Mr, on his Essay on Popular Ig-
norance, 444-Queries suggested by,

448

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God, on the moral attributes of, 135
Goethe, remarks on his tragedy of Eg-
mont, 321

Gregory, Dr, notice of the late, 396
Greek insurrection, remarks on, 427-Par-
ticulars of, 480-Execution of the Pa-
triarch, &c. 571

drama, remarks on, 519
Hamilton, Lord Archibald, fate of his mo-
tion regarding the arrest of a clergyman
in Scotland for praying for the Queen,
278

Hawthorn, the withered, 257

Hemans, Mrs, familiar epistle to, 62
Hesse Darmstadt, new constitution of, 78
Hoar frost, on the cause of its forming re-
gular figures on windows, 69
Holy Alliance, declarations issued at the
separation of the Congress, 571
Horn-book, the, from the German, 244
Hundred Days, the, review of M. Con-
stant's Memoirs of, 17

Hunt, Mr, of the Examiner, convicted of

a libel on the House of Commons, 282
Hunter, the late Mrs John, biographical
notice of, 187, 265
Hymns, Russian, for Easter, 372
Ignorance, Popular, remarks on Foster's
Essay on, 444

Immortality of the soul, dialogue on the,

223

Indian wild ass, notice of an, 71

Infidel, St Aubin or the, a novel, notice of,
356

Ireland, disturbed state of, 81
Italian literature, No. III. 122-No. IV.
515

sculptors, Canova and Thorwald-
sen, notices of, 365

poets, patriotic effusions of the, re-
marks on, 513
Italy, see Naples, and Piedmont
Jeffrey, Mr, account of his installation as

Lord Rector of the University of Glas-
gow, 57-His speech on the occasion,

58

Jews, dialogue on the character of the, 305
Johnstone, the Chevalier, remarks on his
Memoirs of the Rebellion, 228, 456
Journal of a voyage up the Orinoco, 144,
209

of a voyage to the Arctic regions,
remarks on, 464
Justiciary, High Court of, proceedings in
the, 177, 281, 284

Kemble, Mr John, sale of his library, 267
Kenilworth, a romance, review of 10-Ad-
ditional remarks on, 103

King, the, speech of, on opening Parlia-
ment, 173-Visit of to the theatres, 281
Körner, Schenkendorf, and Shultze, three
modern German poets, biographical no-
tices of, 45

Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human
Mind, remarks on, 201

on Passion Week, by Bishop
Sandford, 371

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in the Ayrshire dialect, 351

from an old woman in Stirling to
the Emperor Alexander, 528
Libel, conviction of Mr Cobbet for a pri-
vate one, 83-0f Sir Francis Burdett for
a seditious one, 280-Of Mr Hunt for
a libel on the House of Commons, 282
Life of Nicholas Poussin, 499
Lines written by a clergyman on the re-
port of his own death, 359

written on hearing that the Austrians
had entered Naples, 370

to the memory of a late distinguish-
ed character, 453

Literary and Scientific Intelligence, 69,
165, 267, 373, 469, 561
Lithography, improvement in, 563
Liverpool, Caxton printing office there
burnt down, 280

Lloyd's Poems, remarks on, 158
Loadstones, account of two large ones, 374
Lords, House of, discussion on the subject
at Naples, 276-Debate on the Queen's
case, ib.-Throw out the Catholic eman-
cipation bill, 483

Lot, the, of thousands, 266
M'Culloch, Dr, notice of his work on geo-
logy, 469

Manilla, massacre of foreigners residing
there, 481

Manzoni Alessandro, remarks on his tra-
gedy of Il Conte dé Carmagnola, 122
Marriages, lists of, 93, 188, 293, 397, 493,
589

Marino Faliero, story on which the trage-
dy of is founded, 54

Massacre at Manilla, 481

Maturin, Mr, remarks on his Melmoth,
412, 537

Medea of Euripides, translation of part of,

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Mountain, fall of one into the Moselle, 166
Murder in Dublin, 579

trial for at Dumfries, 582
Naples, departure of the King of, to meet
the Allied Sovereigns at Laybach, 78
-Declaration of the allies against the
revolution in, 171-Letter from the
King, and resolutions of the Parliament
to fight for independence, 273-Defeat
of the army by the Austrians, and over-
throw of the revolutionary government,
381-Remarks on the revolution in, 421
-Return of the king to, 571
Natural and revealed religion, dialogues
on, 132, 214, 299

Netherlands, destruction of the Prince of
Orange's palace by fire. 77
Newgate, account of a visit to, in a letter
from a lady, 255

Newspapers, number of stamps issued for
in two years in Britain, 178

New Royal Society, proposed institution
of a, 69

New South Wales, discoveries in, 275
Shetland, notice of a voyage

to, 373

New year, reflections for a, 7
Niger, the, supposed discovery of its ter-
mination, 268

Origin of evil, dialogue on the, 216
Orinoco, journal of a voyage up the, 144,

209-Thunder-storm on that river, 213
Paintings, modern, on the exhibition of,
403

Paisley, whipping of criminals there, 579
Parson's tale, a, 164

Parliament, opening of the session of, and
speech of the king, 173

Patriotic effusions of the Italian poets, 513
Peter the Great, triumphal column erected

at Pultowa, in honour of his victory
over Charles XII. 71
Pedo-motive machine, notice of a, 165
Philotheus, remarks on his dialogue on re-
vealed religion, 430
Piedmont, revolt of the troops of, procla
mation of the Spanish constitution in,
and abdication of the king, 382-Revo
lution put down by the Austrians, 480
Poetry-Familiar epistle to Mrs Hemans,
62 To a lady, with the music of the
Lady of the Lake, 64-Cameronian

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dream, 112 The battle of Maclodio, an
Italian ode, 125 The pig, porter, and
patrole, 164-Addresses to the reader,
197 To a lady on completing her 96th
year, 208-Elegy on a withered haw-
thorn-257-Sonnet to the Hebe of Ca-
nova, 334-Canzone from Petrarch,
335-The star of 1srael, 336-The win-
ter rose, 359 The ivy, ib.-Lines writ-
ten by a clergyman on the report of his
own death, ib.-Scottish national melo-
dy, 360-Adeline from Bürger, 369—
On the Austrians having entered Naples,
370 Helen Dhu, 371-Russian hymns,
372 Translation of Dante's Inferno,
Canto V. 418-To the memory of a
late distinguished character, 453-Con-
templations on Arthur's Seat, 468-On
seeing a lady burst into tears, ib.-Patri-
otic effusions of the Italian poets, 513-
Address to Crawick, 544

Political study, on the importance of, 55
Popular ignorance, on Foster's essay on,
444 Queries suggested by, 448
Portugal, resolutions of the Cortes of, 276
-Inquisition abolished in, 479
Poussin, Nicholas, life of, 499
Prätzel, K. G. translation of his tale of
the Horn Book, 244
Printer the, to the reader, 3

Principles of the science of mind, remarks
on, 27

Prison discipline, on the report of the com-
mittee of the society for improving,
107
Prologomena, 195

Promotions, appointments, &c. 85, 180,
286, 389, 486, 582

Prudent Squire, the, a tale from the Ger-
man, 454

Public meetings in Britain and Ireland to
petition the king for a change of mini-
sters, 84
Publications, monthly list of new ones, 73,
168, 270, 377, 475, 566

Queen, the, motion for restoring her name
to the Liturgy lost in the House of Com-
mons, 174-Sends a message to Parlia
ment refusing any provision, while ex-
cluded from the prayers of the church,
175-L. 50,000 a-year voted to her by
the Commons, ib.Writes a letter to
Lord Liverpool, accepting her annuity,

284

Queries suggested by Foster's Essay on
Popular Ignorance, 448

Reader, the Printer to the, 3 The Geni-
us of the Scots Magazine to the, 99-
Poetical addresses to the, 197
Rebellion in Scotland in 1745-6, remarks
on Memoirs of the, 228, 456
Reflections for a new year, 7
Religion, natural and revealed, dialogues
on, 132, 214, 299

Remarks on Principles of the Science of
Mind, 27-On the Life of William Lord
Russell, (concluded,) 29-On Ring's

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