The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany

April 13. At his brother's house, Douglas, Mr John Black, merchant, aged 86 years. And, on the 29th, Me Samuel Black, his brother, aged 84 years. They were both interred in one grave.

14. At his house in Newcastle, aged 76, sincerely regretted by a large circle of friends, General John Dickson, brother of the late Admiral W. Dickson, and of the late Admiral Sir Archibald Dickson, Bart. He entered the army the year of his present Majesty's accession.

24. At Malta, General Thomas Murray.

At Edinburgh, in the 69th year of his age, Mr James Robertson, printer and bookseller.

25. At Langstone Cliff Cottage, near Dawlish, aged 67, Thomas Johnes, Esq. of Hafod, in Cardiganshire, Member in Parlament for that county, Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum. He was a great literary character, and his death will prove a source of deep regret to all who had the pleasure of knowing him.

29. At Allanbank House, Sir John Stuart, of Allanbank, Bart. in the 60th year of his age.

May 2. At Eyre, in the Isle of Skye, Mrs Macleod, widow of the late Dr Macleod, of Eyre, in the 86th year of her age, much and justly lamented.

5. At Edinburgh, the Right Hon. Dowager Lady Belhaven and Stenton.

7. At Kingston Cottage, Glasgow, Mr Roderick Young, jun. late of Demerara, much and justly regretted.

8. At Edinburgh, Major John Scott, late of the 73d regiment.

At Edinburgh, Captain Arthur Law of Pittilock, Jate of the 40th regiment.

10. At Peterhead, Patrick Murray, Esq. Ardiff'rie, aged 78.

11. At Aberdeen, Miss Douglas, Tilwhil ly, in the 72d year of her age.

13. At her house, in Portobello, Mrs Scott of Seabank.

At Berwick, Mrs Cameron, dowager of Lochiel, aged 75.

At Auchry, in the house of her daughter, in the 84th year of her age, Mrs Robinson, relict of William Robinson, Esq. Bantl This venerable woman lived to see her descendants to the fourth generation, consisting of one son and five daughters; 39 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren, and one great-great grandchild; the amount, of course, of her living descendants, at the time of her death, being 85; and this exclusive of 30 deceased, several of whom fell fighting the battles of their country.

14. At bis house in Curzon street, Mayfair, Londen, Pope Barrington Blachford,

Esq. M. P. one of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty.

May 14 At Liverpool, Lieut.-Col. Cochrane, of the 36th regiment, brother of Lord Cochrane.

15. At his house, in Ballyversal, Ireland, in the 82d year of his age, the Rev. John Logan, who had been for upwards of 50 years ordained pastor of the presbyterian congregation of Ballrashane, in the vicinity of Coleraine.

17. At Newcastle upon Tyne, Mr Wil liam Anderson, a native of Elton, in Aberdeenshire, aged 71 years, upwards of 50 years a merchant and wharfinger in New

castle.

18. At Haddington, Mr John Briggs, wright, in the 81st year of his age. He was 51 years a member of the incorporation of masons and wrights, and 10 years deacon of the latter in that burgh.

20. At Edinburgh, Miss Cunningham, eldest daughter of the late Sir William Cunningham Fairlie of Robertland, Bart.

22. At Colzium, Mrs Davidson, wife of James Davidson, Esq. writer to the signet. 23. Mrs Jane Alder, wife of David Hume, Esq. one of the Principal Clerks of Session. - At his house, Dundas Street, William Trotter, Esq. senior, in the 85th year of his age.

At Norbury, near Stockport, Robert Littlegood, in his 108th year.

24. Aged 81, Prince Charles Jerome de Palfy, chief of one of the most iliustrious Houses of Hungary, and formerly Supreme Chancellor of the Kingdom.

At his house, Balbedie, Fifeshire, Sir John Malcolm, of Balbedie, Bart.

25. At Mary Bank, Mrs Ann Chisholm, relict of Roderick Mackenzie, Esq. of Scots burn.

At Maryculter House, near Aberdeen, General the Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie, Colonel of the 21st regiment of foot, in the S1st year of his age.

At Callander, in Perthshire, Francis Macnab, Esq. of Macnab, at the age of 82. 26. The wife of a journeyman baker, in Somerset Street, Bath, being suddenly cal led down stairs, and unexpectedly meeting her son, just returned from London, the joy had such an effect upon her, that she died. Whilst taking him by the hand.

27. At Holyrood-house, Cooper Craw ford, Esq. late of the city of Dublin.

28. James Buchan, Esq. of Hunting. tower, in the 89th year of his age. -At Rutherglen, John Galloway, late of Tanfield, Edinburgh.

At Carnwath Manse, the Rev. George Mark, minister of the parish of Carnwatb,

in the 87th year of his age, and 50th of his ministry.

May 29. Joseph Straton, Esq. of Kirkside, rauch and justly regretted by all his friends and acquaintances.

-At Hopetoun House, the Right Ho. nourable James Hope Johnstone, Earl of Hopetoun. His Lordship, at an early period of his life, entered into the army, and served in the glorious battle of Minden in 1759, when only eighteen years of age and retired from the service in consequence of the ill health of his elder brother Lord Hope, with whom he travelled on the Continent in 1764. In 1781 he succeeded his father, and the year after was elected one of the 16 Peers of Scotland. In 1766 he married Elizabeth, daughter of the late Earl of Northesk, by whom he had several daughters, all dead except Lady Anne, who married Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, who succeeds to the estates in Annandale, to which his Lordship succeeded in 1792, by the death of his uncle, the late Marquis. At Inverness, after a short illness, in the 22d year of his age, Simon Fraser Macintosh, son of Campbell Mackintosh, Esq. During a short life of the most exemplary conduct, the many good qualities of this excellent young man won the regard of all who knew him. A kind and affectionate relation the warmest and most faithful of friends of a happy disposition, and well informed mind-the stay of his afflicted parents, and the hope of their rising familyhe has left many dear relatives and frier.ds to deplore his early death.

30. At Blairgowrie House, Colonel Allan Macpherson of Blairgowrie.

June 1. At Inverness, Lieutenant Charles Solomon Tackle, R. N. sincerely regretted by a numerous circle of acquaintances. His death was occasioned by a fall he received from an eininence, in returning home from a friend's house in the neighbourhood.

7. At Huntly, Lady Ann Chalmers, sister to his Grace the Duke of Gordon.

S. At his house in Queen Street, Mayfair, Lord Frederick Campbell.

-At Annfield, William Muter, Esq. of Annfield.

9. At Dysart, Mrs Margaret Campbell, relict of the late Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Largs.

10. At Sharpham, near Totnes, aged 60, Edm. Bastard, Esq. formerly Lieut.-Colonel of the East Devon militia, and during many successive Parliaments one of the Representatives for the borough of Dartmouth. The remains of Mr J. P. Bastard hid arrived from Gibraltar, for interment, only a few

days previous to the dissolution of his bro

ther.

June 10. At Malvern, in the 55th year of his age, William Frankland, Esq. second son of the late Admiral Sir Thomas Frankland, of Thirkleby, in Yorkshire, Bart.

11. At his house, Forth Street, George Wilson, Esq. late of Lincoln's Inn, one of his Majesty's Counsel.

12. At Inverary, Miss Elizabeth Harriet Wingate, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Wingate, Esq.

- In the island of Guernsey, James, son of William Grant, Esq. of Congalton.

At her Ladyship's house, Merrion Square, Dublin, the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Tyne, daughter of the late John, Earl of Aldborough, and sister of the present Earl, aged 86.

14. At Coates House, near Edinburgh, the Hon. Allan Maconochie of Meadowbank, one of the Senators of the College of Justice, one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary, a Lord Commissioner of the Jury Court, and Vice-President of the Royal Society. His Lordship came to the bar in the year 1770, and was called to the bench in 1796.-Lord Meadowbank's professional character stool very high; and in acuteness and vigour of intellect, it is generally admitted that he had few equals. In private life he was universally respected.

15. At the Royal Military College Sandhurst, near Bagshot, Surry, in the 16th year of her age, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr W. Wallace, one of the Professors of Mathematics in that Institution. With amiable dispositions, and a vigorous and culti vated mind, she had a maturity of understanding beyond her years. She was highly esteemed by all who knew her, and she was the pride and joy of her parents, who had indulged the hope of seeing her an ornament to her sex.

In Lower Grosvenor Street, London, aged 97, the Countess of Conyngham, widow of Henry, Earl of Conygham, great uncle of the present Marquis.

17. At Kippenross, John Stirling, Esq. of Kippendavie.

19. At Montrose, William Ford, senior, Esq. in the 88th year of his age.

22. At Cheltenham, Major-Gen. Daniel Cuningham, of the Hon. East India Com. pany's service, Bengal Establishment.

30. At Polgonie Cottage, near Aberdeen, Wm. Brebner, younger of Learney, Aberdeenshire, in the 25th year of his age.

At East Ord, Mary, wife of Mr Humphrey Arnett, husbandman, who, together with four children, died of a putrid malignant fever, in the space of 15 days.

At Darlington, aged 53, Adam Yar

ker,

ker, better known by the name of Blind Adam, having been blind from his birth. He possessed a strong memory, which he particularly applied to registering the number of deaths, &c. which occurred for upwards of the last 40 years in Darlington. Without hesitating a moment, he could tell how many deaths had been in any given year or month, the exact day when the individual died, to whom they were related, &c. He was noted for keeping of poultry, in which he greatly excelled; his hens, owing to his superior management, laid their eggs in the winter season; he knew them from each other, and could tell the name, colour, &c. as soon as he got them in his hand. Although he descended from poor parents, and had but a small pittance, called the blind's bounty, with the benevolence of a few charitable individuals, the profits arising from his poultry, &c. enabled him to realise £. 200.

July 1. At Brechin, after a short illness, David Reedie, Esq. surgeon, much and justly regretted.

2. At her house in Gloucester Place, the Dowager Baroness Nollekin, relict of Baron Nollekin, Ambassador from the late Court of Sweden, in the 75th year of her age.

-At Green Merse, Mr John Kerr, farmer there, aged 78, much regretted.

At Jedburgh, deeply regretted, Dr Robert Rutherford, aged 20, the eighth son of the late Mr Andrew Rutherford there.

3. The Hon. W. A. Townshend. M. P. Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir Brydges Trecothick Henniker, Bart. of Newton Hall, in the county of Essex. He was youngest son of the late, and brother of the present Lord Henniker.

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July 3. At Mayville, Ayrshire, Miss Su sanna Baillie, daughter of the late Hugh Baillie Esq. of Monkton, in the 91st year of her age; a lady of exemplary piety, charity, and benevolence. Having uniformly enjoyed the blessing of good health, and retained the use of her mental faculties to the close of life, she was thereby enabled to mingle in the society of her friends, and with a pleasing tranquillity and composure to perform the various duties of social life. Having lived beloved, esteemed, and respec ted, her memory will be long held in endearing veneration, by an extensive circle of friends and connections.

4. Robert Innes, second son of John I. ncs, of Durris, aged 22.

The Rev. William Paterson, minister of Logie Buchan, in the 65th year of his age, and 42d of his ministry.

5. After a short illness, at his house in the Rue de la Modeleine, at Paris, the Earl of Mountnorris. He is succeeded in his ti tle and estates by his eldest son, Arthur Viscount Valentia.

At Margate, (the day after his arrival from Africa,) Edward William White, Esq. late Governor in Chief of the British forces and settlements on the Gold Coast.

6. At Bath, aged 85, the Rev. Thomas Webster, D. D. a minister of the Establish. ed Church of Scotland-a man of truly un affected piety, and of real charity without ostentation.

Lately, At Mount Pleasant, Cheltenham, General Cunningham.

Aged 105, Mrs Noon. She was a native of Scotland, born in the reign of Queen Anne, and resided many years in St Mary's Hospital, Leicester.

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