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ham, Miss Jamima Carnegie Napier, youngest daughter of the late Major-General the Hon. Mark Napier.

30. At the Manse of Alvie, Charlotte Grant, wife of the Rev. Mr John M'Donald, minister of that parish.

-At Braehead House, Miss Margaret Howison Craufurd, eldest daughter of the Rev. James Howison M. Craufurd, of Braehead.

31. At Edinburgh, Miss Mary Ogilvie, youngest daughter of the late Alex. Ogilvie, Esq. Auchiries. April 1. At Orwell, near Kinross, James Skel

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-At his house in Portsburgh, Mr Jas. Inglis. -At Edinburgh, George Russell, Esq. of Inch, writer to the signet.

3. At Edinburgh, James Bell, Esq. advocate. - At Windsor Street, Cecil Joseph, youngest son of Samuel Joseph, Esq.

- At his house, in Smith's Place, Leith Walk, in the 63d year of his age, and 38th of his ministry, the Rev. Thomas Aitchison, pastor of the first United Associate Congregation, Leith.

4. At Leslie, Mrs Ireland, aged 79. -At Knockbay, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Colonel John Porter of Knockbay.

- At Dreva, Mr John Tweedie, junior, writer in Edinburgh.

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-At Mayfield, May Ferguson Robertson, third daughter of the late James Robertson, Esq. writer to the signet.

-At Leith, Charles John, eldest son of Lieut. Charles Smith, Royal Navy.

6. At Glasgow, Major Alexander Mackay, Laggan, Islay.

-At Shaftsbury House, Bayswater, William Davidson, Esq.

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9. At North St James's Street, Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Mr James Saunders, writer to the signet, and wife of Mr Thomas Beveridge, writer, Edinburgh.

10. In the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, of typhus fever, caught in the discharge of his duty, Mr Samuel Gordon, physician's clerk.

At Ann Street, Stockbridge, Christina Hogarth, third daughter of Mr Alex. Ballantyne. At Newtonlees, near Dunbar, aged 76, Mr Grive Wilson.

11. At Newton Don, near Kelso, after a very short illness, occasioned by a spasmodic affection of the stomach, Sir Alexander Don, Bart. M.P. of Newtondon.

At Edinburgh, Ann Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Coll. Macdonald, Esq. writer to the signet.

At her house, Euston Place, New Road, London, the Hon. Mrs Boyd, widow of the Hon. Charles Boyd, and daughter of the deceased Alex. Lockhart, Esq. Lord Covington, one of the Senators of the College of Justice."

-At Edinburgh, the Rev. Duncan Forbes, M. D.

12. At Lanark, Captain John Todd.

13. At Edinburgh, in her 79th year, Mrs Helen Waite, relict of Mr John Tait, farmer in Roxburgh West Mains.

13. In Regent Street, London, Mrs Fauntleroy, mother of the late unhappy Henry Fauntleroy. 14. Agnes Bailie, daughter of Mr H. G. Dickson, writer to the signet.

At Monton Corbet, the only son of Colonel Hargreaves of Ornerod Hall, Lancashire.

15. At Dundonnell-house, Ross-shire, Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq. of Dundonnell.

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-At his house, in Minto Street, Newington, Thomas Riddell, Esq, younger of Cammiestown -At Norton Place, Mr John Nicholson.

17. At the manse of Muthill, the Rev. Jeho Russell.

-At Newcastle, aged 67 years, the Rev. Dard M'Indoe of the Scotch Church, in the Great Market.

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At Glasgow, Peter Buchanan, Esq. of Aucu

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-At Leith, Mr William Hunter, tide-surveyor of customs there.

18. At Dalyell Lodge, John Charles, only son of John Dalyell, Esq.

-At 17, Abercromby Place, Edinburgh, Miss Isabella Wedderburn Scrymgeour, daughter of Henry Wedderburn, of Wedderburn and Birkhül, Esq.

At her house, Heriot Row, Mrs S. C. Campbell, relict of Major John Campbell of the 76th regiment of foot.

19. At her house, India Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Stewart of Stenton.

20. At Edinburgh, Mr James Millar, late writer and surveyor of taxes in the county of Fife.

-At Stirling, after a long illness, Hugh, eldest son of the late Alexander M'Lean, Esq. Auchatenny, aged 16 years.

-At Edinburgh, James, youngest son of John Tawse, Esq. advocate.

21. At his house, Marine Cottage, Pirmiefield. John Rhind, Esq. cashier to the Edinburgh Friendly Insurance Society.

At Nelson Street, Mr Thomas Ivory, en

graver. 22. At West Lauriston, Elizabeth Hamilton Glen, youngest daughter of the late Captain Glen, Royal Navy.

At his seat, Conon House, after a short illness of inflammatory fever, Sir Hector Mackenzie of Garloch, Bart., Lord Lieutenant of the county of Ross.

23. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant the Hon. Frederick Forbes, of the 17th regiment of foot, third son of General Lord Forbes, in his 23d year.

At 33, Ann Street, St Bernard's, Mrs Jean Lundie, spouse of Mr Archibald Lundie, writer to the signet.

-At Edinburgh, Miss Janet Leslie, only daugh ter of the late George Leslie, Esq. of Coberty. At India Street, Sophia Marianne, only daughter of the late Mr Douglas, Orchardfield Place.

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- At No. 3, Mound Place, Mrs Jane Wright, widow of Mr Robert Norrie.

29. At Vogrie, James Dewar, Esq. of Vogrie. 30. At Bo'ness, William, second son of Mr Stephens of the Grammar School.

At his lodgings, James' Square, D. J. Stewar, Esq. apothecary to the forces.

Lately. At Carthagena, on his way to Bogota, in the service of the Colombian Republic, Colonel William Henry Hamilton.

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INDEX TO VOLUME XIX.

Abjuration, 25

Byron papers, remarks on the, 335

Acted Charades, No. I. 558—No. II. 560 Charades, acted ones, 558
-No. III. 564

Adamson, Gabriel, story of, 252
Africa, review of Denham and Clapper-
ton's discoveries in, 687
Agriculture, remarks on, 287-Clamour
against the corn-laws, 289-Interests
of agriculture, commerce, and manu-
factures undivided, 290-The new sys-
tem of free trade considered, 294-Its
operation on agriculture, 297-On the
cultivation of light lands, 294-Conse-
quences of allowing free importation
of corn, 300-The ruin of agriculture
must be followed by those of commerce
and manufactures, 302-Effects of a
free trade in corn on the nation gene-
rally, 304-The restrictive system the
foundation of the wealth, happiness,
and grandeur of the country, 311
Airlie, Adam, the elder, and his family,
story of, 254

Ambrosianæ, Noctes, No. XXIV. 211—
No. XXV. 490-No. XXVI. 737
American Ornithology, review of Wil-
son's, 661

Anspach, Margravine of, remarks on an

article concerning her in the New
Monthly Magazine, 470

Appointments and promotions, military,
99, 234, 620, 760
Aristodemo, review of Monti's tragedy
of, 173

Atlantes, the island of, 87

Auto-biography of Mansie Wauch, tailor

-The bloody business, 76-My first
and last play, 347-The barley-fever
and rebuke, 574

Axel, a popular Swedish poem, free
translation of, 184

Balmaquhapple, the great muckle village
of, a song, 739

Bankruptcies, list of British, 236, 623,
763

Birds, observations on, 105-Introduc-
tory remarks, ib.-The black bird, 106
-The thrush, 107-The starling, 108
-The grey lintie, 109-A confession
of first love, ib.-British song birds,
110-Remarks on confining birds in
cages, 111

Births, 102, 239, 625, 764

Bismark, Count, and his works, remarks
on, 590

Blackwood's Magazine, observations on,
remarks upon it in the French Globe,
205

Brookman, Will, a smuggler, history of,

529

Buccleuch, Duke of, songs on his birth-
day, by the Ettrick Shepherd, 217

Christmas gifts, remarks on various pub-

lications intended for, 80

Church of England, remarks on the pre-
sent state, and probable future pros-
pects of the, 36-On the use of the
word "Trinity," ib.-On the titles be-
stowed upon the King, 37-On the
mode of administering the Lord's Sup-
per, 38-On Baptism, ib.-The burial
service, 40-Extracts from the book of
canons, 41-Remarks on these, 42
Clapperton and Denham's travels in Af-
rica, review of, 687

College, a wedding at, 550

Cook and Housewife's Manual; by Mrs
Margaret Dods, of the Cleikum Inn,
St Ronans, remarks on the, 651
Corn markets, 37, 232, 617, 757
Cottages, observations on, 241-Contrast
between a town house in Heriot-row,
and a cottage in the country, ib.-
Comforts of a cottage to a family from
town, 242-Smoke, creepers, ib.-
Moths, beetles, rats, mice, &c. 243-
Cattle, ib.-Bees, damp, 244-Com-
forts of sleeping in a cottage, 245—
Beauties of a bona fide cottage, 246—
Cottage of Hill-foot; the schoolmaster
and his wife, 248-Cottage of Windy-
knowe, the gudewife and her three
daughters, 250-The Rowan-tree hut,
Aggy Robinson the carrier, 251-Cot-
tage of the Seven Oaks and its wretch-
ed inmates, ib.- Cottage of the Broom,
Gabriel Adamson and Alice Gray, 252
-Leaside cottage; Adam Airlie, the
elder and his family, 251-Highland
cottages, 256-Blind Donald Roy, 257
-Address to a wild-deer, 258-West-
morland cottages, 264

Country Curate, the, Chap. I. The
poacher, 5-Chap. II. 9-Chap. III.
13-Chap. IV. The shipwreck, 137-
Chap. V. The fatalist, 143-Chap. VI.
The smugglers, 529

Dead girl, to the picture of, 88
Deaths, 103, 239, 627, 765
Denham and Clapperton's Discoveries
in Africa, review of, 687
Devil's walk, the, 136

Diary of an old citizen, excerpts from
the, 272

Distress, public, observations on the, 429
Dods Meg, remarks on her System of
Cookery, 651

Dramatic powers of the author of Waver-
ley, on the, 152

Dramatic criticism, on cant in, 197
Dream, remarkable one, 736
Duke Phranza, the regicide, 344

Edwards, Charles, Esq. posthumous let-
ters of, 18

Emblems, 87

Ettrick Shepherd, the, his notions on ga-
ming, 496-on cruelty to animals, 503
-His description of a storm on Yar-
row, 743-Opinions on preaching, 745
-Quackery, 749-and concerts, 750
Excerpts from the diary of an old citizen,
272

Excursions among the villages of La Ven-
dée, 275

Fatalist, the, 143

First love, a confession of, 109

Free trade, remarks on Mr Huskisson's
speech on, 474

French Globe and Blackwood's Maga-
zine, remarks on the, 205
Friendly epistle to John Bull, Esq. from

One of the Old School, 631
Galley stories, 358, 361, 364, 368
Geography of Central Africa, review of
Denham and Clapperton's Travels, 687
Grillparzer, Franz, review of his tragedy
of Sappho, 404

Hannibal, Greek translation of Livy's
character of, 734

Hebrew mother, the, 85

Hodges, Dr, the means by which he pre-
served himself from the infection of
the plague, 134

Holy Alliance, copy of the treaty of the,

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Laws and policy of the country, epistle

on the innovations made on them by
ministers, 631

Letter from Major Spencer Moggridge, 1
from London, 462

from the Rev. John Russell, A.M.

489
Letters of E. B. Waverley to Malachi
Malagrowther, remarks on the, 596
Lingard, Dr, remarks on his History of
England, 313

Literaria Nuga, No. I. 133

Livy's celebrated character of Hannibal,
Greek Translation of, 734
Love, disappointed, story of, 392
Love's Victory, or the School for Pride,
a comedy, review of, 49

M'Culloch, Mr, remarks on his evidence
before a committee of the House of
Commons on the state of Ireland, 55
Malagrowther, Malachi, remarks on E.
B. Waverley's letters to, 596
Man, the Last, 284

Man of War's-Man, the, Chap. XVIII.

Halifax hospital, 161.-Chap. XIX.
Story of Jack Adams, 165-Account
of the mutiny at the Nore, 166-Chap.
XIX. Story of the mutiny continued,
317.-Chap. XIX. Mutiny continued,
415.-Chap. XX. Story of Jack Adams
continued, 671

Marriages, 102, 239, 625, 735
Matilda, a tale of the day, review of, 27
Maxims to marry by, twenty-one, 568
May, the first of, 735
Melée, a, 358

Meteorological tables, 233, 619, 759
Metempsychosis, the, by a modern Py-
thagorean.-Chap. I. 511-Chap. II.
518.-Chap. III. 521.—Chap. IV. 524.
-Chap. V. 526

Military appointments and promotions,
99, 234, 620, 760

Modern comic drama, remarks on the,
46-Love's Victory, or the School for
Pride, 49

Moldavia and Wallachia, sketch of these
provinces, 721

Monthly Magazine, the new, remarks on
an article in, 471

Monti, Vincenzo, review of his tragedy
of Aristodemo, 173

Moore's Life of Sheridan, review of, 113
My dog's epitaph; by the Subaltern, 685
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in

Northern and Central Africa, review
of, 687

Naval Sketch-Book, review of the, 353
Noctes Ambrosianæ, No. XXIV. 211—
The Academy and High School, 213
-The Shepherd and the yeditor o'
Blackwood's Magazine, 214.-No.
XXV. 490-Gaming, 496-Cruelty to
animals, 503-Political economy, 506
No. XXVI. 737-Opening the Balaam
Box, 738-Song, the great Muckle
Village of Balmaquhapple, 739-Who
are the wittiest men of the day, 742
Storm in Yarrow, 743-Preaching, 745
-Quackery, 749-Concerts, 750-A
shepherd's life, 765-Song, Meg o'
Marley, 756

Nuga Literariæ, No. I.-Grattan, 133-
Wellington, ib.-Most offensive of
monuments, ib.-Ambergris, 134-
The plague, ib.-The devil's walk,

135
Observations on birds, 105-On cottages,
241-On streams, 375-On the causes
of public distress, 429

Old school, friendly epistle from one of
the, to John Bull, Esquire, 631
Ornithology, review of Wilson's Ameri-
can, 661

Parody on the Exile of Erin, 224
Plagiarism, two kinds of, 135
Plague, on the contagion of the, 130-
Dr Hodge's account of the means by
which he preserved himself from it, 134
Play, my first and last, 347
Poachers, history of a family of, 5
Poetry-Abjuration, 25-The poet's den,

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82-Ode to a steam-boat, 83-The
Hebrew mother, 85-The trumpet,
86-Emblems, 87-The island of At-
lantes, ib.-To the picture of a dead
girl, on first seeing it, 88-Questions
and answers, 89-Stanzas for Music,
90-The dead trumpeter, ib.-To my
birdie, 131-The devil's walk, 136
-Axel, a popular Swedish poem, 184
-Verses by Master Ambrose, 212-
Song to the Rhine, 215-A shepherd's
life, 216-On the Duke of Buccleuch's
birth-day, 217-Wat o' Buccleuch, 218
The life of an editor, 222-Verses to
the eagle, 223-Parody on the Exile
of Erin, 224-Address to a wild deer,
258-The saint and the Demon, 266
-Duke Phranza, the regicide, 344-
Song, "St Patrick was a gentleman,"
386-To a wood-pigeon, 460-My
dog's epitaph, 685-Holyrood, 733-
On the first of May, 735-The great
Muckle Village of Balmaquhapple,
739-Meg o' Marley, 756
Poetry, private, 587
Poet's Den, the, 82

Political economy, vituperation of the
new system of, adopted by ministers,
631

Posthumous letters of Charles Edwards,
Esq. No. VI. 18

Prandiology, lectures on, 195

Preface to Vol. XIX. of Blackwood's
Magazine, i

Prices current, 98, 618, 758
Private poetry, 587

Prodigality of words, remarks on, 578
Promotions and appointments, military,
98, 234, 620, 760

Public distress, on the causes of, 429-
Paper currency not the only cause of
fluctuation in the price of wheat, 431
-The additional amount of currency
put into circulation was not the cause
but the effect of, the rise in prices, and
the increase of trade, 435-Foreign
loans not the cause of the distress, 439
-which is imputed to overtrading, in-
duced by the new system of free trade
introduced by ministers, 439-Effects
of the money panic, 442-Interfe-
rence with the Scotch banks depre-
cated, 443

Publications, monthly lists of new ones,
93, 230, 610

Quarterly review of Dr Macmichael, on
the contagion of the plague, remarks
on the, 130

Questions and answers, 89
Regicide, Duke Phranza, the, 344
Remains and Memoirs of the Rev. Charles
Wolfe, review of, 223
Remarkable dream, 736

Remarks on the present state, and pro-
bable future prospects of the church of
England, 36-On Mr M'Culloch's evi-
dence on the state of Ireland, 55-On
birds, 105-On the Quarterly Review

of Dr Macmichael's opinion on the
subject of contagion, 130-On the dra-
matic powers of the author of Waver-
ley, 152-On cant in dramatic criti-
cism, 197-On the French Globe, and
Blackwood's Magazine, 205-On cot-
tages, 241-On agriculture, 287-On
Dr. Lingard's History of England, 313
-On the Byron papers, 335-On the
causes of the public distress, 429-On
the rise and progress of the empire of
Russia,447-On Mr Huskisson's speech
in defence of free trade, 474-On the
prodigality of words, 578-On Count
Bismark and his works, 590-On the
letters of E. B. Waverley to Malachi Ma-
lagowther, 596-On Denham and Clap-
perton's discoveries in Africa, 687-
Meg Dods's system of Cookery, 651
Reminiscences-Irish travelling. Messrs
Flood, Fitz-Gibbon, Grattan, Curran,
&c. 267

Review-of Matilda, a tale of the Day,
27-Of the comedy of Love's Victory,
49-Of Moore's Life of Sheridan, 113
-Of the tragedy of Aristodemo, 173
-Of Remains and Memoirs of the
Rev. Charles Wolfe, 323-Of the Na-
val Sketch-book, 353-Of Wilson's
American Ornithology, 661
Review, Quarterly, of Dr Macmichael on

the plague, remarks on the, 130
Russell, Rev. John, letter from, 489
Russia, remarks on the rise and growth
of, 447-Sketch of the war against Na-
poleon, 449-Russia the last hope of
the continent, 451-Battle of Borodi-
no, and ruin of the French army in its
retreat from Moscow, 455-Treaty of
the Holy Alliance, 459-Death of
Alexander, 460

Russian claims on the provinces of Wal-
lachia and Moldavia, 721

Saint, the, and the Demon, 266
Saints at sea, 368

Sappho, a German tragedy, review of, 404
Schoolmaster, the, 248

Sheridan, review of his Life by Thomas
Moore, 113

"" more last words of, 351
Shipwreck, account of one on the coast
of Kent, 137
Smugglers, the, 529

Song, St Patrick was a gentleman, 350
Stanzas for music, 90

to my birdie, 131
Steam-boat, ode to a, 83
Streams, observations on, 375-The great
want about Edinburgh is a river, 377-
St Mary's Lake, 378-Ettrick and Yar-
row, 379-The Orchy, ib--The Falls
of the Beauley, 380-Song, ib.-The
Fall of Foyers, 382-A Highland shep-
herdess, 383-Journey from Edinburgh
on the top of the Dumfries mail-coach,
384-The Bagmen, ib.-The Tweed,
387-The Crook Inn, ib.-Tweedside,
389-Linn of the Rookan, 391-Dis-

appointed love, 392-Angling in the
Tweed, 397-A ruined castle, 398-
Tale of a shepherd and his family, ib.
-Breakfast on Tweedside, 399-An old
beggar and his wife, 400-Exaggera
tion, 401-Lasses bathing in the Silver
Pool at Talla-Linns, 402

Subaltern, the, his epitaph on his dog, 685
Tales of the wedding, No. I. 548-a wed-

ding at college, 550-No. II. A wed-
ding in hospital, 710

Tegner, Esaias, translation of his poem
of Axel, 184

Titus, letter of, from London, 462
Trumpeter, the dead, 90

Twenty-one maxims to marry by. Ad-
dressed to single gentleman, 568
Vendée, La, excursions among the vil-
lags of, 278

Verses to a wood-pigeon, 460

on the First of May, 735

Voice from the deep, 361

Wallachia and Moldavia, on the claims
of Russia to the supremacy of these
principalities, 721

Wat o' Buccleuch, 218

Wauch, Mansie, tailor, from the auto-
biography of, 76, 347, 574

Waverley, on the dramatic powers of the
author of, 152

Waverley, E. B. remarks on his letters to
Malachi Malagrowther, 596
Wild deer, address to a, 258
Wilson's American Ornithology, review
of, 661

Wolfe, Rev. Charles, review of Remains
and Memoirs of, 228-Evidence of his
being the author of lines on the funeral
of Sir John Moore, 489
Wood-pigeon, verses to a, 460
Words, remarks on prodigality of, 578
Works preparing for publication, 91,
228, 608

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