Robert Oliphant of Rossie, county Perth, Esq.; was born at Hopen-House, county of Linlithgow, gust 17, 1765. He completed an cellent education by foreign travel, which he was attended by Dr Gilnow his Majesty's historiogra zer. He joined the army as a volunteer his 15th year, and entered it in 34, as a cornet of 10th dragoons. served with great bravery and tinction. In 1786, he was appointlieutenant 27th foot; captain of ch dragoons, 1789; major to the or royal regiment of foot, 1792; utenant-colonel 25th foot, 1793. e was appointed adjutant-general the forces serving under the late llant Sir Ralph Abercromby in the eward Islands, in 1794; had the nk of brigadier-general in the West dies, where he was actively emoyed in the campaigns of 1794, '95, 1796, and 1797, being particurly noticed in general orders, and the public dispatches of the comander-in-chief, particularly, as hang" on all occasions most willingcome forward and exerted himself times of danger, to which he was ot called, from his situation of adjuint-general." In 1796, he was elected M.P. for The county of Linlithgow. In 1797, he resigned his place as djutant-general to the forces serving In the West Indies. On the 7th of August, 1798, he narried, at Lea Castle, county of Worcester, his cousin Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the Hon. Charles Hope Weir, of Craigie-Hall and Blackwood; but by her, who died March 20, 1801, had no issue. He accompanied the British troops into Holland in August 1799, as deputy adjutant-general, being appointed to that station August 13; but was so severely wounded at the landing at the Helder, on the 27th of that month, that he was compelled to return. On his recovery, he was appointed adjutant-general to the army serving under his Royal Highness the Duke of York, October 19, 1799; and the same day, the Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Hope, his half-brother, by his father's third marriage, was appointed to succeed him in the station of deputy adjutant-general. In 1800, he accompanied Sir Ralph Abercromby as adjutant-general on the memorable expedition to Egypt; and on the 13th of May, was appointed brigadier-general, in the Mediterranean only. At the battle of Alexandria, March 21, 1801, he was wounded in the hand, and the army was thus for a time "deprived of the service of a most active, zealous, and judicious officer." He proceeded with the army to Cairo, where, in June 1801, he settled with General Belliard, the French commander, the convention for the surrender of that place," after a negotiation of several days, which was conducted by Brigadier-General Hope, with much judgment and ability." On the 11th of May, 1802, he was promoted from the rank of colonel of the North Lowland Fencible Infantry to that of major-general in the army. On the 9th of February, 1803, at Ballindean, he married, secondly, Louisa-Dorothea, third daughter of Sir John Wedderburn of Ballindean, county of Perth, Bart., by his second wife Alicia, daughter of Col. James Dundas of Dundas, M. P., and has left issue John, now Earl of Hopetoun, born November 15, 1803, eight other sons, and two daughters. June 30, 1805, he was appointed Deputy-Governor of Portsmouth, an office he resigned the same year, on being nominated to a command with the troops sent to the continent under Lord Cathcart. January 3, 1806, he was made colonel of the 92d regiment of foot, and a lieutenant-general, May 7, 1808. In 1808, he accompanied the British army to Spain and Portugal, and was second in command in the expedition to the Baltic, under Sir John Moore, in May, and then accompanied the British forces to Portugal, where he landed in August. On the 24th of December, he marched with his division to Majorca. On the 30th, he marched within two leagues of Astaga, where he halted. At the battle of Corunna, January 16, 1809, in consequence of the death of Sir John Moore, and the wounds of Sir David Baird, the command devolved on his lordship, (then Lieutenant-General Hon. John Hope,) "to whose abilities and exertions," said the dispatches, " in the direction of the ardent zeal and unconquerable valour of his Majesty's troops, is to be attributed, under Providence, the success of the day, which terminated in the complete and entire repulse and defeat of the enemy at every point of attack." His lordship's dispatch containing the account of this battle, is inserted in the Register for 1809, in a letter to Sir David Baird, and who transmitted it in his dispatches to this country. Never was a sensation more powerful produced throughout the kingdom, than by this dispatch. He went, when the British army had embarked, into every public-house, street, and alley, in Corunna, to see that not a single soldier should be left to become a prisoner of the French, then close to the walls. He had no companion, but his sword, and he was the very last man who stepped on board of ship. On the 25th following, in the House of Lords, the can fort 1 the in offi Earl of Liverpool, and in the H ford His lordship's operations in Je were moved up the Scheldt to his Kn 1st oth sta Con wh sec At ver the out me the bli dia to ma 18 Jol осо wa 10 the ed de T te onade for some hours, but were ed to retire by the guns from the consequence of his exertions in victories obtained over the enemy pain in 1810, he was one of the ers appointed to wear the medal manded to be worn by his Ma7, September 9. His lordship's installation, as a ght of the Bath, took place on the of June, 1812, when twenty-two r new knights were likewise inCed. lis next appointment was that of mander-in-chief in Ireland, from ch he was removed in 1313, to be nd in command in the peninsula. the battle of the Nivelle in Nober, he headed the left wing of army, and drove in the enemy's -posts in front of their entrenchnts on the Lower Nivelle, carried redoubt above Orogue, and estahed himself on the heights immetely opposite Sibour, in readiness ake advantage of any movement de by the enemy's right. On the h, the enemy reconnoitred Sir in Hope's advanced posts, on which asion Brigadier-General Wilson unfortunately wounded. On the h of December, in the morning, enemy moved out of the entrenchcamp with nearly their whole army, 1 drove in the picquets of the light vision, and of Sir J. Hope's corps, d advanced upon his posts on the zh road from Bayonne to St Jean Luz. Near the mayor's house of aritz, Sir John took 500 prisoners. he Duke of Wellington, in his distches, dated December 14, says, he cannot sufficiently applaud the abiy, coolness, and judgment of Lieunant-General Sir John Hope, who, th the general and staff-officers unr his command, shewed the troops example of gallantry, which must ve tended to produce the favoura ble result of the day." In this engagement he received a severe contusion, but not such as to hinder him from service. The enemy again drove in his picquets, and attacked his posts; but with the same want of success, being repulsed with great loss. The attack was recommenced on the morning of the 12th, with the same result. On the 23d of February, his lordship crossed the Adour below Bayonne, and took possession of both banks of the river at its mouth. On the 25th, he invested the citadel; and on the 27th, more closely invested it, and attacked the village of St Etienne, which he carried, having taken a gun and some prisoners from the enemy. On the 14th of April, 1814, in a sortie made by the garrison of Bayonne, he was very severely wounded, and his horse being shot dead, fell upon him, so that he could not disengage himself from under it, and was unfortunately made prisoner. He was wounded in two places, (arm and thigh,) which crippled him a long time. On the 3d of May, he was created a peer of the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Niddry of Niddry, county of Linlithgow. In June, the Chancellor of the Exchequer moved a grant to several of the distinguished generals, but his lordship declined accepting any pecuniary grant. On the 2d of January, 1815, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Bath. On the death of his half-brother James, third earl, May 29, 1816, he succeeded to the family titles.-August 12, 1819, he attained to the rank of general. As a soldier, he was cool, determined, and brave; and his conduct as a nobleman, landlord, and friend, was such as eminently adorned his high station. To his numerous family and relatives his loss is much to be lamented; and none of his rank have died who have been more sincerely regretted by all classes of the public. The remains of this much-lamented nobleman were interred in the family vault at Abercorn on the 1st of October, as privately as circumstances would permit. A subscription has since been raised to erect a monument within the county, expressive of the singular esteem in which he was held. MATTHEW BAILLIE, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Sept. 23.-At his seat, Duntisbourne House, near Cirencester, Gloucestershire, in his 62d year, Matthew Baillie, M.D. F.R.S. L. & E. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh, &c. Dr Baillie was born Oct. 27, 1761. He was the son of the Rev. James Baillie, D.D. Professor of Divinity in the University of Glasgow, a supposed descendant of the family of Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Dorothea, a daughter of Mr John Hunter of Kilbride, county of Lanark, a descendant of the family of Hunter of Hunterstown. He had an elder brother, who died very young, and two sisters who survive him, Mrs Agnes and Mrs Joanna Baillie, the latter well known in the literary world as the author of the series of plays on the Passions, and of the Metrical Legends. The two celebrated anatomists, Dr William Hunter and Mr John Hunter, were his maternal uncles. He married Sophia, a daughter of the late Dr Thomas Denman, whom he has left, with a son and daughter, to lament their common loss, with the consolation, however, whenever shall be able to make use of it, ing shared and added to his e ments. 1 1 1 1 He began in 1773 his college cation in Glasgow, where he guished himself. In 1778 be from that university to Bali 41 lege, Oxford, on the same found on which Adam Smith and c eminent men had gone before and when he was of the usual ing, took his degrees in arts a physic at Oxford. In 1780 he his medical studies, by attend anatomical lectures of Dr W Hunter, and then or soon af lectures of Mr John Hunter. E the great advantage of residing Dr Hunter, and, when he w ciently advanced in his studies, ing employed to make the neces preparation for his lectures, duct the demonstrations, and perintend the operations of the dents. In the museums and dissec rooms of those great men, was the foundation of all Dr Bail ture acquirements and reput He soon distinguished himsed a expert and skilful anatomist, as. two years from the commencera of his studies, became chief tea in the anatomical theatre. He not been thus employed more twelve months, when Dr W Hunter died, bequeathing to his phew, as long as he should anatomy, the use of that m which is now deposited in the la versity of Glasgow, and forms s ble a monument of its fourader. may be here remarked, as a mas traordinary circumstance, that brothers should have collected: two most splendid and most ext sive museums extant ; and it is " ly possible for any person wh visits them, to conceive that ca 1 1 1 1 1 uld have been the work of a single lividual. Two years after his uncle's death, Baillie gave his first complete urse of anatomical lectures. As a turer, he soon attained great emiace, being remarkable for the simcity and perspicuity of his demonations, the order and method of his le, and the clearness and distinct38 of his delivery. The taste which the Hunters crea1 in this country for the study of orbid anatomy, marks the period which they lived as one of the ost important, perhaps, and prouderas in medical history; and their phew soon acquired a taste for this anch of medicine, which he cultited with great assiduity. Surrounded by the labours of his cles in morbid anatomy, it was not ng before he made an admirable e of the valuable stores contained their museums. A multitude of imrtant pathological facts were there ustrated, which he subsequently arnged, and made the basis of his ork on Morbid Anatomy, first pubhed in 1795,—a work which, wheer we consider the subject or the anner in which it is treated, must e estimated as a most valuable acuisition to medical science. Till that eriod, the information to be found 1 this subject was scattered through e writings chiefly of Bonetus and Iorgagni; so that the distinct and oncise account of the diseased hanges of different organs given by Or Baillie, formed not only a most ccurate elementary work, but was o less useful as a general treatise. The estimation in which it was held broad, was shown from the fact of ts having been translated into both French and German soon after pubication. There is no profession, perhaps, in which the progress of even those best qualified is so slow as in the practice of physic; this necessarily arises from success depending entirely on individual exertion and assiduity; and it is a well-known fact, that most of those medical men, who have had the greatest share of public confidence, have all previously been considerably advanced in years. This was the case, in a remarkable degree, with Dr Baillie; for, when the great celebrity of the latter years of his life is considered, it might have been expected that he would have early enjoyed no small portion of his fame. It was not, however, till he had reached his fortieth year, that he found himself fairly established in private practice; but it should seem as if he had only required to be known; for, from that period, he became at once completely engaged in the practical part of his profession, and, in a very few years, rose to that eminence so universally acknowledged. It is curious to trace the variety of circumstances which have led medical practitioners to celebrity in this metropolis. Dr Baillie was one of the very few physicians of his day, whose success is to be attributed wholly to professional skill, adorned with the most estimable private virtues. Minute anatomical study had been too much disregarded by physicians, and conceived necessary only for those who practised surgery. His comprehensive knowledge of anatomy, therefore, could not fail to give him immense advantages over those who were competing with him for private practice. Whenever more than ordinary scientific precision was wanted, he was now resorted to; and the advantages which his anatomical skill afforded him, completely established his reputation among the better informed members of his profession. Dr Baillie possessed, in an eminent |