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18. At Dumbarton, Robert Mackenzie, Esq. of Broomfauld, Sheriff Clerk of Dumbartonshire, in the 67th year of his age.

19. At Edinburgh, Mrs Grace Rose, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel John Macdonald of Huntfield, late of 81st regiment.

-At Potterrow, Mr James Dickson, in the 78th year of his age.

- At Edinburgh, William Roxburgh, M. D. F. L. S. chief botanist to the Honourable East India Company, surgeon on the Madras Establishment, and many years superintendant of the Company's botanic garden near Calcutta. Dr Roxburgh was the intimate friend and pupil of the celebrated Konig, and, with Sir William Jones, Mr Warren Hastings, Lord Teignmouth, and the principal scientific characters in Bengal, first laid the foundation of the Asiatie Society. Dr Roxburgh was the author of many valuable tracts on the vegetable kingdom; his large work, entitled "Coromandel Plants," will do immortal honour to his memory. In the extent and profundity of his knowledge on Botanical subjects he was unrivalled, being held in estimation as the first of Botanists since the days of Linnæus.

- Of a typhus fever, aged 36, Ralph Oliver, (commonly called Little Ralphey) of the Ouseburn, near Newcastle, shoemaker. He did not exceed thirty-eight inches in height, was of a robust make, and his head remarkably large, in proportion to his

stature.

20. At London, in the prime of life, Mr David Thomson, landscape painter, a native of Edinburgh, whose professional talents and genius for poetry and music, united to the most amiable disposition, render his death an irreparable loss to his friends.

22. Major-General Adam Gordon, aged 49; who, during the last two years, has had the command of the Aberdeen district. His unremitting attention to every department of public duty, in the different objects under his charge, joined to a very conciliatory disposition, and pleasant manners, has rendered his death, to all with whom he had intercourse, a subject of sincere regret.

23. At Paisley, James Dow, late baker in Paisley in the 100th year of his age. He was a quiet, inoffensive man. For many years previous to his death, he had a pride in telling, that he was the only survivor of a party who volunteered from the parish of

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At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Ogilvy, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel James Cunningham, of the Scots brigade, in the service of the States of Holland.

In Framwellgate, Durham, aged 76, Mrs Macdonald, relict of Mr Thomas Macdonald, of Leith, surgeon, and daughter of Major Macdonald of Frindnish.

27. At Dunblane, Mr John Rob, sheriffclerk.

At Whitehaven, Mr William Reed, aged 32.. He was a native of Montrose, and inventor of a very useful instrument called the trigonometer, for which he had a patent.

28. At Prince's Street, Alexander Liston Ramage, Esq. writer to the signet..

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At Govan House, Isabella, the youngest daughter of Mr Stewart Douglas.

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At South Bridge, Mr Francis Allan,

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die, senior, in the 91st year of his age; and, on the 21st of March 1814, his eldest son, John Moodie, of Roslin hill, Jamaica, after a residence in that island for upwards of

forty years.

commanded the allied armies against France in 1793 and 1794.

Lost in the Sylph sloop of war, wrecked on Long Island on the 18th of January last, Mr Archibald Lundie, midshipman on

March 5. William Douglas Heron, son of board of that vessel, second son of Mr John Heron, Esq. of Ingleston.

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Archibald Lundie, writer to the signet.

Lately, at Hutchesontown, Glasgow, Mr Simon Fraser, Collector of Excise, in the 100th year of his age. A humble Christian, loving and obeying the truth: he was distinguished throughout his long life for the sweetness of his temper, the simplicity of his manners, and the integrity of his character. On the night preceding his death he was as well as usual. He expired at four in the morning, without a struggle, dying as he lived-in peace.

MISS HUTCHINS.-We are sorry to announce the death of this eminent young lady. The many discoveries she has made in the most difficult departments of British Botany, (mosses and sea-weeds) have raised

12. At York Place, Mr James Cochrane, her name to the first rank in the science, printer.

13. At Dalkeith, John Wardlaw, Esq. agent there for the Commercial Banking Company of Scotland.

14. At Harrowgate, Miss Eleanor Primrose Dundas, third daughter of the deceased Major-General Thomas Dundas, of Fingask.

14. At Greenock, in the 82d year of his age, Mr Archibald Wilson, sen. deputy treasurer to the town of Greenock.

15. At Dalry, near Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Stewart, formerly of Upper Hermitage, in the 88th year of his age.

Lately at Cobourgh, in the 77th year of his age, the Prince of Saxe-Cobourgh, who

and some time ago procured for her the high distinction of having a genus named after her, Hutchinsia. She spent much of her time in exploring the marine productions of Bantry Bay, and the minute accuracy of her descriptions could be equalled only by the delicacy and fidelity of her pencil. Many testimonies to her excellence are to be found in the splendid and justly celebrated botanical works of Mr Turner, Mr Hooker, and Sir J. E. Smith, with all of whom she maintained a scientific correspondence for the last ten years, which was interrupted only, about a year ago, by the unfortunate illness now proving fatal.

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THE

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

AND

Edinburgh Literary Miscellany,

FOR MAY 1815:

With a View of the Castle of CESSFORD.

CONTENTS:

Page

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Register of the Weather for May,....... 322
High Water at Leith for June,...........................
Description of Cessford Castle,........... 323
Remarks on the Advantages of the
North, or Level Line of Canal, be-
tween Edinburgh and Glasgow, over
the Line of the Union Canal,......... ib.
Remarks on the Exhibition of Paintings
by Scottish Artists in 1815,....
Monthly Memoranda in Natural His-
tory,..
Military Ensigns during the Civil
Wars......

Report of Mr Telford, civil Engineer,
on the intended Edinburgh and Glas-
gow Union Canal,................
Biographical Account of the late Mungo
Park,..........

327

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336

337.

339

Celtic Etymologies and Antiquities,.... 344 Report of the Proceedings of the French

348

National Institute for the year 1814, 346 Record of Kirk-Session Proceedings in the year 1708,....... General Prospectus of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Canal,....... Documents in the Charge against Dr Mylne, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the College of Glasgow,...... 352 Account of the final Settlement of Presbyterian Government in Scotland at the Revolution,...............

SCOTTISH REVIEW.

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Intelligence from Italy,

389

Domestic Intelligence.-Meetings to oppose the War,

390

355

A New Edition of Toland's History of
the Druids, with an Abstract of his
Life and Writings, and a copious
Appendix, containing Notes Critical,
Philological, and Explanatory. By
H. Huddleston, (concluded.).......... 361

New Works published in Edinburgh,... 372 Literary Intelligence,...........

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Stocks and Markets,

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400

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