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26. At Kirkliston, Miss Elizabeth Ross,

At Edinburgh, in the 74th year of her age, Mrs Margaret Kirkland, relict of Mr Maitland Bannatyne, late merchant in Edinburgh.

27. At Bath, the Hon. Cosmo Gordon, brother to the late Earl of Aberdeen.

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At Falkirk, Mr James Carruthers, student of divinity in the Hall of Selkirk, and son of Mr James Carruthers, Langholm, aged 24 years.

At Montrose, Captain James Deacon, Royal Navy. In him were united in a high degree, the virtues of exemplary piety and true Christian morality. On many occasions, as a brave officer, he distinguished himself, and bled in the service of his king and country-he was the first man who boarded the Ville de Paris, the flag ship of the enemy, taken on the glorious 12th of April 1782.

March 5. In Jersey, Ensign Colin Campbell, of the 96th regt. of foot, third son of Captain John Campbell of Boreland, in the 18th year of his age.

- At Ballindalloch, William, the infant son of George Macpherson Grant, of Ballindalloch and Inveresshie, Esq.

6. At London, Francis Newton, Esq. late merchant there, in the 87th year of his age.

In the 58th year of his age, and 32d of his ministry, sincerely lamented, the Reverend John Blackhall, minister of the Associate Congregation in Berwick.-He was eminently pious, earnest, and sincere in the discharge of his ministerial duties.

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7. At South Malling, near Lewes, the Countess Dowager of Chichester. Her Ladyship had retired to rest the preceding. night in good health. She was Anne, daughter and heiress of Frederick Maynard Frankland, Esq. sixth son of Sir Thomas Frankland, Bart. and had a numerous fa mily by the late Earl, who died Jan. 8th, 1805.

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At London, Mrs Douglas, widow of A. Douglas, and mother of G. Douglas, Esq. of Cavers.

10. Mrs Elizabeth M Cormick, relict of Dr James Macknight, late one of the ministers of Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Elizabeth Reoch, widow of the late Mr William Muirhead, merchant in Edinburgh.

-At Rossend House, Mrs Beatson, of Rossend.

11. At Linlithgow, Mr Andrew Mitchell, writer, in his 19th year.

In Gillespie's Hospital, Mr John Aitken, aged 79, who, for a long series of years, was justly celebrated as a teacher and singer of Scots music. He, for several years, had the lead and direction of the vocal band at George Heriot's anniversary.

12. Of the hooping cough, Margaret, aged 16 months; and on the 20th, Robert, aged 6 years, children of Robert Haig, Esq. of Dodderbank, near Dublin.

13. At Edinburgh, Charles' Innes, Esq. youngest son of the late George Innes, Esq. of Parkside.

-At Dunbar House, Lady Charlotte Maitland, youngest daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale.

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At Edinburgh, Margaret Hallam, wife of Alexander Kerr, merchant, Edinburgh, much and justly regretted.

At Lanark, Mr John Gairdner, twenty-four years rector of the grammar school of that place, an intelligent and skilful teacher, and a worthy and respectable man.

15. At Melbourne Hall, aged 74, Sir Henry Vavasour, Bart. of Melbourne and Spaldington.

-At Lesmahagow, James Whyte, Esq. of Newick, aged 77.

-At Dunkeld, Mr Alexander M'Christie, gardener to the Duke of Atholl. This honest and industrious man had been in

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22. At Edinburgh, Miss Jane Gordon Cameron, youngest daughter of the late Ewen Cameron, Esq. of Glenevis.

23. At London, her Royal Highness, Augusta, Duchess of Brunswick, only sister to his Majesty, and mother of her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.-Her Royal Highness was in her 76th year-born 31st July 1737; and married his Serene Highness Charles, late Duke of Brunswick Wolfenbuttle, 17th Jan. 1764.-Her Royal Highness had been subject to an asthmatic complaint for some years, which was increased by the epidemic disorder now prevalent, with which she was attacked about two days ago, but no alarm was excited till the morning of Tuesday. About five o'clock her Royal Highness seemed better, but a spasm came upon her chest about eight, and her Royal Highness expired at a quarter past nipe o'clock, without pain.

At West-thorn, Mrs Mary Ann Dennistoun, spouse of James Sword, Esq. of West-thorn.

24. In George Square, Mrs Ross, widow of Major John Ross, of Balkie.

25. At Edinburgh, Whitelaw, second son of Mr Ainslie, W. S.

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April 3. At Heriot Row, Alexander Thomas, the infant son of Major-General the Honourable Alexander Duff.

Lately, At Wellington, Herefordshire, aged 108, Mrs Ursula Evans. She retained the perfect use of her faculties till within a few days of her death.

In Danaghmore, Mrs Mary Meighan, at the advanced age of 129 years. She had her perfect recollection and memory until the last two years. During the last thirty years of her existence she lived in the greatest penury and distress, and would not afford herself any kind of natural support, relying for subsistence on the aid of a gen

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erous public; yet, after her decease, there were found buried under the place where she lay, £.1600, which her son-in-law, an auctioneer, and valuer of wares, now pos

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At London, Mahommed Kauzim, one of the two Persian youths sent by his Royal Highness Prince Abbas Meaza to this country for education. He was the son of the painter of the Prince, and was intended to succeed his father, for which the astonishing genius displayed by him in painting, aided by the scientific instruction he would have received in this country, must have eminently qualified him.-He was a youth of very promising talents, and pleasing man. ners, and his premature death is very much to be regretted.

At Gatehouse, in Liddesdale, Thomas Oliver, in the 98th year of his age. He had always been temperate and healthy, was cheerful and communicative to his acquaintances, and seemed to have suffered little from the effects of age. A small farm, which the characterestic goodness of his Grace the Duke of Buccleugh allowed him, free of rent, he cultivated, with his own hands. Only the season before last, he set out in the morning on foot, to a village three or four miles distant, returned and mowed a rick of hay, and did several other pieces of work before evening. He has left a numerous progeny, affording before his death, the extraordinaay instance of fe generations alive at the same time.

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