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Angust 22. In the British camp near the city of Batavia, Lieutenant Kenneth M Kenzie, (third son of the late G. M'Kenzie, Esq. of Pitlundy,) of the 5th regiment of Bengal native infantry, and Assistant Deputy Commissary General with the armies serving against Java, under the command of his Excellency.

27. At Fort Cornelis, Batavia, (Island of Java), Dr John Leyden. This gentle man accompanied Lord Minto, in his expe dition to Java, for the purpose of acting as interpreter to his Excellency, and of aiding him in forming those arrangements by which the property of our new colony was to be secured. Thus has been lost to his friends, to his country, and to mankind, in the full vigour of life, a character who was amply qualified to delight and enlight en the world. He went to India in 1802; he was employed a short time before his death in translating the gospels into various Oriental languages. To his other at tainments, Dr L. added that of poetry; and it is no small honour to him to have been associated with his countryman, Mr Walter Scott, in preparing for the press, the work by which that gentleman first be came known to the world as a poet, viz "The Ministrelsy of the Scottish Border," But the work by which Dr L.'s poetic fame is most likely to be established, is entitled, "Scenes of Infancy, descriptive of Teviotdale," which was written on the eve of his departure for India.

At Bombay, the Honourable Jonathan Duncan, Governor of that Presidency, where he was long and deservedly respected.

Sept. 14. At Shrewsbury, United States, Major-General Green, one of the early promoters of the American Revolution.

October 18. At Dantzic, Baron Alexander Gibson, in the 83d year of his age, for many years his Majesty's Consul there.

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At Bartholomew, Samuel Rowley, Esq. Admiral of the Blue, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's squadron on the Ja

maica station.

· Nov. 2. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant Malcolm Macleod, of the 1st West India regiment.

9. At Edinburgh, Captain James Harvey, of the 27th foot.

10. At St Andrew's, the Rev. Dr John Trotter, Professor of Church History. Endowed with a warm heart, and a vigor-. pus enlightened mind, he possessed the

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12. At Lisbon, Brigadier-General Colman, in the Portuguese service. His death was the consequence of fever and debility, brought on by exertions in his profession too great for his constitution. He was buried at Lisbon, on the 14th, with distinguished military honours. His funeral was attended by all the Portuguese regiments in garrison, and all the English General and Field Officers of our army in that eity, including Generals Leith, Sir Stapleton Cotton, Peacock, Stopford, &c. By the death of this very amiable and respectable gentleman and excellent officer, the valuable place of Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons becomes vacant.

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At Leven, in the prime of life, after long and painful sufferings, Mr Andrew Brown, surgeon, most sincerely regretted. At Roucan, Mr James Kelton, farmer.

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At Dumfries, John Callender, aged 102. He was in the service of George IL as a non-commissioned officer of marines for several years in the East Indies, in his younger days, and afterwards as a soldier in the 30th regiment of foot, in the West Indies and Gibraltar.

13. At Dumfries, Mr William Comrie, Supervisor of Excise.

15. At Loanhead, James Reid, Esq. late manufacturer, at Sciennes.

At Edinburgh, Richard, son of Mr George Irvine, one of the Masters of the High School.

At May Park, aged 91 years, Sir James May, Bart. of Mayfield, in the county of Waterford, which county he represented for 48 years. He was grandson to Lord Besborough, and nephew to Poer, Earl of Tyrone. He is succeeded by his eldest son the present Sir Edward, M. P. for Belfast, aud father to,the present Marchioness of Donegall.

At Edinburgh, aged 67, Mr John

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20. At Edinburgh, Mr Daniel Lamb, builder, aged 65 years.

21. At Dublin, Dr Hall, Lord Bishop of Dromore. Dr Hall was only consecrated Bishop of this see on the preceding Sunday.

The Hon. Lawrence Pleydell Bouverie, third son of the Earl of Radnor. 22. At St Ninian's, Mr William Niven, late merchant in Glasgow.

23. Mr Peter M Killer, for many years well known in Carlisle as a drover. While driving some beasts at Stanwix, apparently in good health, he fell down and instantly expired.

24. At Maybole, the Rev. James Mather, of the associate congregation there. As the pastor of a church, he was faithful and diligent; as a subject of the state, loyal and patriotic ; as a Christian, circumspect, inoffensive, and pious,

25. At Eppling, Sir Thomas Coxhead, formerly M. P. for Bramber, aged 77. 26. At Blenheim, her Grace the Duchess. of Marlborough.

At Greenock, George Christie, Esq. Agent for the Bank of Scotland there. - Mrs George Williamson, Parlia ment Square.

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At Barnes Common, Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt Jones, Esq. Bart. M. P. for Shrewsbury.

27. At Houston Mill, in the county of East Lothian, in the 93d year of his age, the celebrated Andrew Meikle, inventor of the improved threshing mill; and at Knows Mill, on the 29th ult. his son George Meikle, who invented the water wheel, erected at Blair Drummond.-To the Meikle family, Scotland, and the agricultural world in general, are much indebted. The mill for making pearl or hulled barley was first introduced by them into this country. The Water Wheel at Blair Drummond will always remain a lasting monument of their ingenuity; and the improved threshing mill may be safely pronounced the most valuable implement in the farmer's posssesion, and taking all

its advantages into consideration, the greatest agricultural improvement that has been introduced into Great Britain during the present age. Andrew Meikle has left two children behind him, a son and daugh-... ter; and it was a great consolation to him, in his dying hour, that he was enabled to leave them in comfortable circumstances, by the voluntary donations of his grateful countrymen.

28. At Foswell Bank, Colonel John Henderson of that place.

29. At Leith, Mr William Robertson, shipmaster, aged 73.

30. At Edinburgh, Mr William Thomson, printers-joiner.

Dec. 1. At Abdie Manse, the Rev. Robert Thomas, minister of Abdie.

5. At Aberdeen, in the 59th year of his age, after a tedious illness, the Rev. Dr Gordon, one of the ministers of Aberdeen, &c.

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At Montrose, Miss Agnes Gardner, daugther of the deceased David Gardner, Esq. of Kirktonhill.

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Gardner, relict of the late Sir William At Camberwell, Dame Frances Baird, of Saughtonhall, Bart. eldest daugh

ter of Colonel Gardner, of Bankton, and of Lady Frances Erskine, sister of the late and aunt of the present Earl of Buchan. 8. In London, the Right Honourable 1 Theophilus Jones.

At Warblington, Hants, in the 20th year of his age, Hector Alexander Monro Esq. of Novar.

At Edinburgh, John Robertson, Esq. writer there, aged 86.

9. At Edinburgh, John Cunninghame, of Balgownie, Esq.

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At Tregoyd, Breconshire, the Right Hon. Marianna Devereux, Dowager Viscountess Hereford.

10. At Crieff, the Rev. James Barlas, Minister of the Associate Congregation there, in the 67th year of his age, and 45th of his Ministry.

At Dawlish, Mrs Grant, mother of the Master of the Rolls.

At London, the Right Honourable Lady Huntingfield.

13. At the Manse of Croy, in the 22d year of his age, Mr Alexander Calder, preacher of the Gospel.

EXTRAORDINARY MORTALITY.-At Society, near Queensferry, on the 10th Dec. Isabella Merhell, aged 3 years. On the 11th Dec. William Miller Mennell, aged 7 months. On the 13th Dec. Mary Mennell, aged 7 years, and Margaret Mennell, aged 5 years, son and daughters of William Mennell.

16. The Right Rev. Dr Charles Moss, Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of Bath and Wells, &c.

His Lordship had the misfortune to break a blood-vessel some time ago, from the effects of which he never recovered.

17. At Aberdeen, George Tower, Esq. several years a respectable magistrate of that city.

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At Glasgow, in the 81st year of his age, the Reverend George Thomson, formerly preacher of the Gospel there. At Burnside, George Lorimer, Esq. of Holmhead.

21. Sincerely lamented, the gallant veteran Sir Peter Parker, Admiral of the fleet of England.

At Bathgate, the Reverend Walter Jardine, in the 72d year of his age, and 31st of his ministry, deeply lamented. 29.

At Forfar, David Mann, writer. Jan. 11. 1812. At Dalkeith Palace, his Grace Henry Scott, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Marquis of Dumfriesshire, Earl of Dalkeith, Sanquhar, and Drumlanrig, Viscount Nith, Torthowald and Ross, Lord Scott of Eskdale, Douglas of Kinmount, Middlebie, and Dornock:

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Also Earl of Doncaster and Lord Tyne. dale in England, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland, &c.-His Grace was born in 1746, and succeeded his grandfather in 1752.-He was the only son of Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, by Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of John, the Great Duke of Argyle. In 1786, his Grace married Elizabeth Montagu, only daughter of the last Duke of Montagu, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and Henry James, Lord Montagu, and four, daughters; viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Home, Marchioness of Queensberry, and Countess of Ancram; all of whom have families.

His Grace is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles William, Earl of Dalkeith; who married Harriet, daughter of the late Viscount Sidney, and has several children.

His Grace succeeded at an early age to a princely fortune, which gave him the means of indulging his natural disposition to public spirit and private liberality, to which purposes, accordingly, a considerable part of his immense funds were known to be applied. He was exceedingly affable in his manners; and what deserves to be recorded of a person so greatly exalted both in rank and fortune, was generally accessible to the poor. liberality was well known; he was easy of As a landlord, his access, and always ready to take an active part in any scheme of benevolence and humanity.

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SCOTS MAGAZINE,

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Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR FEBRUARY 1812.
With a View of Threave Castle, in Galloway.

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