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ous and meritorious officer served his country most actively for more than 40 years. He commanded the Chatham brig, which attended Capt. Vancouver on his voyage round the world, and explored all the interior of California; and, whilst accompanied by the present Capt. Thomas Manby, of the navy, he discovered and explored the great river Columbia, on the north-west coast of America.

2. On his passage home, in the 27th year of his age, James Carnegy, Esq. late merchant in Malacea, and third son of the late Patrick Carnegy, Esq. of Lower.

3. At Madeira, Captain John Murray, R.N. second son of the late William Murray, Esq. of Polmaise.

9. John Hillman, Esq. of Leitrim, in the county of Londonderry, at the age of 115 years. This gentleman maintained both vigour of mind and body to his last day.

10. At Orleans, Capt. Coll Macdougall, late of the 42d regiment.

11. Mrs Janet Macdonald, widow of the late Captain John Murchison, of the North Carolina Highlanders.

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12. At Banff, the Rev. A. Gordon, in the 63d year of his age. His gentle and generous nature, and the amenity of his manners, endeared him not only to his afflicted family, but to every member of the congregation over which he held the pastoral charge for a period of 28 years. melancholy occasion of his funeral, the inhabitants of Banff seemed to be moved by one feeling, which carried them irresistibly to testify their respect and sorrow at the grave of their beloved pastor. The Literary Society, of which he was Honorary President, the Incorporated Trades, and the Students of the Academy, lined the way from the manse to the church-yard. During this most affecting solemnity, all the shops in the town were shut.

17. At Leith, Mrs M'Gibbon, the late only survivor of the sad catastrophe which took place there two weeks ago.

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mains were deposited in the same grave with those of her husband, her son, and daughter-in-law, all of whom fell victims to suffocation, (as formerly mentioned,) in a very confined apartment one night.

At Boulogne-sur-Mer, Duncan Monro, Esq. of Culcairn.

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Mrs Ann Bell, wife of Mr James Alison, merchant in Leith, aged 41 years. At Edinburgh, Miss Jane Charters Hardie, second daughter of the late Dr Hardie, minister of Ashkirk.

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At Stephen's Green, Dublin, Mrs Plunkett, wife of the Right Hon. W. C. Plunkett.

At Johnstonbank, near Ecclefechan, Mrs Sunderland of Johnstonbank.

26. At Crofthall, near Glasgow, Miss Helen Pasley, aged 22, daughter of the late John Pasley, Esq. of Edinburgh.

At Ranby Hall, near Retford, very suddenly, General Crawford, by whose death the Dowager Duchess of Newcastle becomes again a widow.

At Merstham House, Surrey, the Right Hon. Lady Ann Simpson, relict of John Simpson, Esq. of Bradley Hall, Durham.

27. Suddenly, at Gatehouse, in a fit of apoplexy, Alexander Brown, Esq. of Drum shangan, aged 58.

At Woolwich, Davidona Frances Stuart, youngest daughter of Major John Sutherland Sinclair, royal artillery.

At Shacklewell, of a decline, in the 26th year of her age, Miss Jane Menzies,

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At his house in Pall Mall, London, in the 82d year of his age, Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury, Bart. He represented the county of Suffolk in Parliament for many years, and was one of those independent country gentlemen whom the lateness of the hours of sitting in the House of Commons induced to resign his seat.

April 1. At Brighton, Sir Charles Edmonstone of Duntreath, Bart. M.P. for the county of Stirling.

3. At Drumnin House, Argyleshire, John Maclean, Esq. of Boreray.

At Banff, Mr John Massie, mer

chant there, aged 60.

At Dundee, Mr Thomas Maxwell. - At London, Charlotte, second daughter of the Right Hon. Sir James Mansfield, Knt.

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ing the medal for long service, having been gardener to the present proprietor for 38 years. This is the first death that has happened at Stratyrum in the course of nearly 39 years, the family consisting of ten persons, besides five servants, in the farm and garden, with their families, in which there have been fifteen children, thirteen of whom have arrived at the age of majority.

4. In her 89th year, Viscountess Pery. 5. At Dumbarton, John Gray, Esq. Sheriff-Substitute.

-At Gallanach, in Argyleshire, John Macdougall, Esq. surgeon in the Honourable East India Company's service, son of the late Patrick Macdougall, Esq. of Gallanach.

6. At Coats Crescent, Edinburgh, Lieut.Colonel Robert Swinton.

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At Dumfries, Mrs Margaret Corson, wife of the Rev. Andrew Fyfe, minister of the Relief congregation there.

9. At Aberdeen, in the 32d year of his age, Mr John Waddel, of the Academy, Elgin, eldest son of the Rev. D. Waddel, Belhelvie.

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At Leith, after a long and painful illness, Mr John Palmer, shipmaster.

12. Suddenly, of water on the chest, Sir John Charles Richardson, Bart. Commander in the royal navy.

At Bath, Alexander Oswald, Esq. 13. Suddenly, at Greenock, the Rev. Kenneth Bayne, minister of the Gaelic Chapel there, in the 54th year of his age, and 29th of his ministry.

At Bognor, Mrs Troubridge, sister of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bart.

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EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

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LITERARY MISCELLANY.

JUNE 1821.

LIFE OF NICHOLAS POUSSIN.

WE will not repeat the trite common-places about the biography of illustrious men, and the importance of transmitting to posterity a faithful and honest record of the mental achievements of those who have risen to eminence in the walks of literature, science, or the arts, by the combined efforts of genius and perseverance; or, by fortunate inventions and discoveries, have extended the range of human knowledge and power-these are topics which make part of that intuitive knowledge of which every man possesses more or less, as the range of his mind is circumscribed within a smaller or larger circle, and which may be weakened, but cannot be enforced, by the formality of a technical statement and illustration. On the present occasion, however, while we would avoid truisms and tritical remarks with the most sedulous care, we may, nevertheless, be permitted to observe, that there is no individual biography on record, at least we are acquainted with none, which affords, at once, so much instruction and unalloyed pleasure, as that of the illustrious artist who forms the subject of the present memoir. Moralists have often said that idleness is the parent of vice: and, if this maxim be true, it must follow, conversely, that constant and unre

Chiefly abridged from the Life of Nicholas Poussin; by Mrs Graham. Longman and Co. London, and Constable and Co. Edinburgh, 1820.

mitting exertion is, if not the parent of virtue, at least the best safeguard against temptation, in every possible form. The restless mind of man has an incessant craving for sensation and excitement; and unless this propensity be happily directed to the attainment of objects in themselves desirable and honourable, it will compass its own gratification at the expence of every sober and virtuous habit, and of every reasonable and acknowledged moral restraint. Where the field is uncultivated or neglected, the devil sows tares. The morality of a character seems, in fact, mainly to depend on the tone given to the mind towards some active pursuit; and hence men, whose tempers and dispositions are neither amiable nor virtuous, but who are immersed in business, or the votaries of ambition, are, on the average, far less vicious and depraved than they would have become had their minds been thrown back on their own resources, and had they been left without any marked line of conduct to pursue, or any enviable or desirable object to attain. But if such be the beneficial influence of exertion, even on minds of no amiable or divine mould, the inference is certainly fair, that, on gentle and quiescent spirits, strangers equally to the stormy and malevolent passions of ambition and envy, and unschooled in the vices, and craft, and sophistications, of the world, the effects of constant and enthusiastic devotion to a favourite pursuit will be, to preserve, in their characters and morals, a sort of primitive innocence and in

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