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Vice-Admirals of the Red-Edward Tyrrel Smith, Esq. Sir Thomas Graves, K. B. Thomas M'Namara Russel, Esq. Sir Henry Trollope, Knight, and Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, Bart.-to be Admirals of the Blue.

plaint from the sentence of the Kirk-Session, Whitshed, Esq.-to be Admirals of the but that he had been unable to procure, either the original, or an extract thereof, to be laid before the Presbytery. After a short reasoning, it was moved by Dr Inglis, and unanimously agreed to, that the Kirk-Session of Canongate should be summoned to attend the next meeting in September-that the minutes of the Kirk-Session since March 1811, should be laid before the Presbytery -and that the Session-Clerk of Canongate should be summoned to compear and produce, at the same meeting, the original, or a copy of Mr Garnock's dissent, which had been lodged in his hands.-After which, the farther consideration of this business was delayed till the ordinary meeting on the last Wednesday of September.

Since the beginning of August, there has been a great take of herrings on the north, east, and west coast of Scotland. Vast quantities were caught off Dunbar and Eyemouth. They were pretty large, and of a fine quality, and have been a seasonable relief to the poor.

On the evening of Tuesday the 11th, and early on the morning of Wednesday the 12th of Aug. a rural festival was given by the Earl of Buchan, at Dryburgh Abbey, at the masonic dedication of a very simple and pleasing building of the Ionic Order, which was founded on the 12th day of August last year, with the design of doing honour to the memory of Thomson, the Poet of the Seasons, on the banks of his native stream. With this dedication was combined the celebration of the birth-day of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent.

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Vice-Admirals of the White-Sir Isaac Coffin Greenly, Bart. John Aylmer, Esq. Samuel Osborn, Esq. Richard Boger, Esq. John Child Purvis, Esq. and Theophilus Jones, Esq.--to be Vice-Admirals of the Red

Vice-Admirals of the Blue-John MacDougall, Esq. James Alms, Esq. Eliab Harvey, Esq. Sir Edmund Nagle, Knight, John Wells, Esq. Richard Grindall, Esq. George Martin, Esq. Sir Richard John Strachan, Bart. and K. B. Sir William Sidney Smith, Knight, and Thomas Sotheby, Esq.-to be Vice-Admirals of the White.

Rear-Admirals of the Red-Robert De vereux Fancourt, Esq. Sir Edward Buller, Bart. Hon. Robert Stopford, Mark Robin. son, Esq. Thomas Revell Shivers, Esq. Francis l'ickmore, Esq. John Stephens Hall, Esq. John Dilkes, Esq. William Lechmere, Esq, and Thomas Foley, Esq.-to be Vice Admirals of the Blue.

Rear-Admirals of the White-Rowley Bulteel, Esq. William Luke, Esq. Isaac George Manley, Esq. John Osborn, Esqu Edmund Crawley, Esq. Charles Boyles, Esq. Sis T. Williams, Knt., Thos. Hamilton, Esq. Sir T. B. Thompson, Bart. John Laugharne, Esq. William Hargood, Esq. George Gregory, Esq. John Ferrier, Esq. Richard Incledon Bury, Esq. and Robert Moorson, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the Red.

Rear-Admirals of the Blue - William Bligh, Esq. Lawrence William Halsted, Esq. Edward Oliver Osborn, Esq. Sir Harry B. Neale, Bart. Sir Joseph S. Yorke, Knight, Hon. Arthur K. Legge, Francis Faverman, Esq. Earl of Galloway, Thomas F. Freemantle, Esq. Sir Francis Laforey, Bart. Philip Charles Durham, Esq. Israel Pellew, Esq. Alexander Fraser, Esq. Benjamin Hallowell, Esq. George Johnston Hope, Esq. Lord Amelius Beauclerk, William Taylor, Esq. James Nicoll Morris, Esq. George Burdon, Esq. William Brown, Esq. and Thomas Byam Martin, Esq.-to be Rear-Admirals of the White.

The following Post Captains were promoted
to the rank of Rear-Admirals of the Blue.
Wm. J. Hope, Esq. S. H. Linzee, Esq.
Lord H. Paulétt. Jas. Carpenter, Esq.
Chas. W. Patterson, Robert Barton, Esq.
Esq.
Graham Moore, Esq.
M. H. Scott, Esq.
Joseph Hanwell, Esq.
Henry

G. Cockburn, Esq.
Thos, Surridge, Esq.

Henry Wm. Bayn- Ed. J. Foote, Esq.

tun, Esq.

Hon. F. F. Gardiner. Sir R. King, Bart. Ed. Griffith, Esq.

Richard Lee, Esq. W. Pierrepont, Esq. Peter Halkett, Esq. Wm. Bedford, Esq.

Captains Pulteney Malcolm, C. V. Penrose, James Bissett, and the Hon. Charles Elphinstone Fleming, to be Colonels of the Royal Marines, in the room of Admirals William Johnstone Hope, Lord Henry Paulett, George Cockburn, and Samuel Hood Linzee.

Whitehall, Aug. 15. This day the Prince Regent granted the dignities of Baron, Earl, and Marquis of Great Britain and Ireland, to Charles, Earl of Northampton, and his heirs male, by the titles of Baron Wilmington, Earl Compton, and Marquis of the county of Northampton.

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The dignities of Earl and Marquis of Great Britain and Ireland, to John Jeffreys Earl Camden, K. G. and his heirs male, by the titles Earl of the county of Brecknock. and Marquis Camden.

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- The dignities of Viscount and Earl of Great Britain and Ireland, to Edward Baron Harewood, and his heirs male, by the titles of Viscount Lascelles, and Earl of Harewood.

Whitchall, Aug. 18. This day, the Prince Regent granted the dignity of a Marquis of Great Britain and Ireland to Arthur Earl of Wellington, K. B. and his heirs male, by the title of Marquis of Wellington.

War Office, Aug. 18. In consideration of the King's German Legion having so frequently distinguished themselves against the enemy, and particularly upon the occasion of the recent victory obtained near Salamanca, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent is pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, to command, that the officers who are now serving with temporary rank in the several regiments of that corps, shall have permanent rank in the British army from the date of their respective commissions.

Whitehall, Aug. 21. This day, the Prince Regent nominated Lieut.-Gen. Sir Stapleton Cotton, Bart. to be an extra Knight of the Order of the Bath.

Whitehall, Aug. 25. The Prince Regent was this day pleased, by an especial warrant, to grant to Arthur Marquis of Wellington, K. B. and Commander in Chief of his Majesty's forces in Spain and Portugal, his Majesty's royal license and permission, that he and his descendants may bear, as a royal

augmentation, in the dexter quarter of the arms of Wellesley, AN ESCOCHEON CHARGED WITH THE CROSSES OF ST GEORGE, ST ANDREW, AND ST PATRICK, being the Union Badge of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as a lasting memorial of the glorious and transcendant achievements of the said Arthur Marquis of Wellington, on various important occasions, but more particularly in the recent brilliant and decisive victory obtained over the French army, by the troops under his coinmand, near Salamanca, on the 22d day of July last.

Whitehall, Sept 1. This day, the Prince Regent appointed the Earl of Buckinghamshire, Viscount Castlereagh, Earl Bathurst, Viscount Sidmouth, the Earl of Liverpool, the Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, Lord Teignmouth, the Right Hon. Thomas Wallace, Viscount Lowther, the Right Hon. John Sullivan, and Lord Apsley to be his Majesty's Commissioners for the management of the affairs of India.

July 27. The Univerrity of Edinburgh conferred the degree of Doctor in Divinity on the Rev. Alexander Irvine, minister of Little Dunkeld.

The University and King's College of Aberdeen have conferred the degree of Doctor in Divinity upon the Rev. John Bethune, minister of Dornoch; and the Rev. Alex. Downie, minister of Loch-Alsh.

Edward Hay Mackenzie, Esq. of Newhall and Cromarty, has presented the Rev. Charles Mathieson, to be assistant and successor to the Rev. John Mathieson, minister of Kilmuir Easter Presbytery of Tain.

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At Edinburgh, William Little, Esq. Lieutenant in his Majesty's 92d regiment of foot, to Miss Martha Louisa Robson, daughter of the late Colonel Robson, Governor of St Helena.

7. Richard Henry Bonnycastle, Esq. of the Royal engineers, to Frances, second daughter of Captain William Johnston, of Edinburgh.

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At Salisbury Green, John Smyth, Esq. writer to the signet, to Miss Anne Dick. second daughter of the late Sir William Dick, Bart. of Prestonfield.

8. At London, Lieutenant-Colonel Me!lish, of Hodsack Priory, in the county of Nottingham, to Harriet, daughter of the Marchioness Dowager of Lansdowne, and co-heiress of the late Sir Duke Gifford, Bart.

10. At Eskmount, James Carnegy, Esq. of Balnamoon, to Miss Mary Anne Hunter. daughter of the late David Hunter, Esq. of Blackness.

11. At London, William Howe Knight Erskine, of Pittodrie, Esq. Lieut.-Colonel

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in the 27th regiment of foot, to Miss Normand, only daughter of Captain James Normand, in the service of the Honourable East India Company.

Aug. 15. At Montrose, Mr John Parke, of London, to Christian, second daughter of James Dickson, Esq. of Montrose.

17. At Edinburgh, Thomas Rutherford, Esq. of Ancrum Craig, to Miss Bunyan, daughter of Mr Thomas Bunyan, farmer, Cavers Mains.

18. At Stonehouse, Mr George Paterson, of the Bank of Scotland, to Jane, eldest daughter of Mr James Neilson, merchant, Baltimore.

19. At Tain, Mr David Ross, writer there, to Christian, youngest daughter of the late William Sutherland, Esq. SheriffSubstitute of Sutherland.

21. At Shields, Captain and Adjutant Thomas Clark, Forfar militia, to Miss Jean Munro, daughter of Quartermaster Munro.

31. At Glen-Stewart, Henry Alexander Douglas, Esq. third son of the late Sir William Douglas, Bart. of Kelhead, to Elizabeth Dalzell, youngest daughter of the late Robert Dalzell, Esq. of Glenae.

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At Mount Floridon, David Kay, Esq. of Duntiglenan, merchant, Glasgow, to Mrs Jane Reid.

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ancient family of his name in the Highlands of Scotland.

21. At Lucea, Jamaica, Mr Don. Campbell, second son of the late Archibald Campbell, Esq. of Lerags, Argyllshire.

23. At Salamanca, while gallantly leading on his company to an attack on the French forts at that place, Captain Sir George Colquhoun, Bart. of Tillyquhoun, of the 2d or Queen's Royals, much and justly regretted. At Falmouth, Jamaica, Mr William Gillespie, eldest son of the late William Gillespie, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh.

July 4. At London, Donald Malcolm, Esq. of Mountpelier, Jamaica; general in the provincial militia, and member of the House of Assembly in that island.

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10. At Berlin, Professor Wildenow, the celebrated botanist.

15. At Ballisparden, near Fort George, Capt. Allan M'Pherson, of the 9th Royal Veteran battalion.

17. Mrs Sophia Heriot, widow of the deceased Captain Robert R. Campbell, late of the 36th regiment of foot.

23. At Lochfinehead, Hugh Fletcher, in the 90th year of his age; who at times followed the occupation of a fisher, and, till within ten days of his death, was seen frequently to his waist in the water, when pursuing his favourite sport.

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Aged 94, John Davies, Esq. first cousin to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk, and Captain in the Royals.-This gallant veteran took his degree at Cambridge, in the year 1733, and soon afterwards entered into the above regiment, in which he served with great reputation at the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and during all the German war. He was selected to succeed the immortal Wolfe as aid-de-camp to the celebrated General Hawley. In the year 1762 his Majesty, at the particular request of William, Duke of Cumberland, was most graciously pleased to permit his retiring on full pay.

29. At the manse of Colmonell, Mr Robert Mochrie, late postmaster, Bathgate. 30. At Rathleague, in the Queen's county, Sir John Parnell, Bart.

At Knowsouth, Roxburghshire, Mrs Ainslie, widow of the late Thomas Ainslie, Esq. of Overwells.

At Edinburgh, Miss Christian Cheape. Aug. 1. At Worthington, aged 70 years, Ambrose Serle, Esq. one of the Commissioners of the Transport Board.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Taylor, widow of the late John Taylor, Esq. writer to the signet.

2. On the coast of Norway, Mr J. Landers, Assistant-Surgeon on board his Majesty's ship Horatio, of the wounds he received when cutting out two Danish armed ves

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sels, and an American, their prize. He was able Lord President Miller, and Lord Glena most amiable and much respected young

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At Edinburgh, Capt. Alexander Chisholm, of the 72d regiment, in consequence of wounds received at the taking of the French colony at the Cape of Good Hope, under Lieutenant-General Sir David Baird, accelerated by a severe cold, caught when in camp in the county of Donegal, Ireland, in the summer of 1811, the combined effects of which he bore with that fortitude and patience so peculiarly his own.

8. At Dublin, General Vallencey, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Dublin Society.

At Bilboa, Mr Henry Hann, for many years factor to the late Right Honour

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11. At Strathmartin House, Rear-Admiral Laird, of Strathmartin.

14. At Edinburgh, Mrs Eliz. Houston, wife of John Campbell, Esq. Receiver-Ge neral of the Customs for Scotland.

15. At Edinburgh, Mas Mark Douglas, widow of William M.Ewan, Esq. of Muckly, writer to the signet.

16. At Carlourie, Robert Stewart Falco ner, youngest son of David Falconer, Esq. of Carlourie.

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At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Wemyss, late Deacon of the Incorporation of Bonnet. makers, Council and Dean of Guild officer of that city. In public and private life he was greatly respected as a worthy honest man, and his death is much regretted by his relatives, and a numerous circle of friends and acquaintances.

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