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Aggregate Averages of the Twelve Maritime Districts of England and Wales, by which Importation and Duty are regulated in Great Britain. Wheat, 85s. 4d.-Rye, 47s. 4d.-Barley, 45s. 8d.-Oats, 26s 11d.-Beans, 51s.2d.-Pease, 51s. 1d.

Rapeseed, 106s. 6d..-Oatmeal 32s. 6d.

Average Prices of Scotland for the Four Weeks immediately preceding 15th Dec.
Wheat, 736. 1d.-Rye, 48s. 5d.-Barley, 42s. 6d.-Oats, 325. 6.-Beans, 55s. 10d.-Pease, 54s. 11d.-
Oatmeal, 27. 5d. Bear or Big, 428. Sch

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

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November 18. At Greenock, Arthur Cughterson, Esq. of Barbadoes, to Helen, only daughter of the late Archibald Robertson, Esq.

21. At Ballenstadt, the Prince Frederic of Prussia, to the Princess Wilhelmina Louisa of Anhalt Bernbourg.

27. At London, George Stanley Repton, Esq. of Dover Street, to the Hon. Elizabeth Scott, daughter of Lord Eldon.

December 1. At Ayr, Peter Mactaggart, Esq. one of the magistrates of Ayr, to Miss Mary, second daughter of Bailie John Aitken.

- At Dumfries, the Rev. James Hamilton, minister of Newabbey, to Miss Harriet Smith.

December 3. At the seat of her uncle, Sir William Bellingham, Bart. Eliza, eldest daughter of Allan Bellingham, Esq. to John Stein, jun. Esq. of Kennetpans, Clackmannanshire.

8. At Edinburgh, Captain Coll Macdougall, late of the 42d Royal Highland Regiment, to Jane Cameron Macdonald, only daughter of the late Alexander Macdonald, Esq. of Glenco.

11. At Corbalton, county of Meath, Ireland, the Hon. Lord Killeen, only son of the Right Hon. the Earl of Fingal, to Louisa, only daughter of Elias Corbally, Esq.

24. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Alexander Welsh, minister of Heriot, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Rev. John Lindsay, Johnstone, Renfrewshire.

27. At Ardincaple Castle, Miles Angus Fletcher, Esq. advocate, to Charlotte Catherine, only daughter of General and Lady Augusta Clavering.

29. At Drumpellier, Robert Graham, Esq. M. D. Glasgow, to Miss Elizabeth Belsches Buchanan, youngest daughter of David Buchanan, Esq. of Drumpellier.

Lately, At Charlotte Square Chapel, Edinburgh, the Hon. Thomas Bowes, to Lady Campbell of Ardkinglass.

At Paris, the Hon. Colonel Pakenham, brother to the Earl of Longford and her Grace the Duchess of Wellington, to the Hon. Emily Stapleton, daughter of Lord Le Despencer.

At Genoa, the Count Gurge de Very, to Emily, grand-daughter of William Ogilvie, Esq. of Ardglass Castle.

At the Municipality of the city of Lisle, in France, Louis Andre Levasseur, Lieutenant in the Legion of Eure et Loire, and member of the Legion of Honour, to Anne, third daughter of the late Mr William Archibald, of Kelso, Roxburghshire.

DEATHS.

April 14, 1817. At Bangalore, in India, Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Campbell, younger of Jura. He was buried with military honours, and attended to the grave by the 22d dragoons and 69th regiment and the officers of his own corps have, as a mark of regard and esteem for their la mented late commanding officer, directed a handsome mausoleum to be erected over his remains in the church-yard of Bangalore.

19. At Seringapatam, Mrs Caroline Grant, the Lady of Colonel J. G. Scott, of the Ma dras artillery.

April 28. At Calcutta, James Philip Inglis, Esq.

May 4. At Calcutta, Dr James Campbell. Dr Campbell was third son of the late John Campbell, Esq. cashier of the Royal Bank, Edinburgh.

June. At Fort William, East Indies, where he remained confined 17 years, 3 months, and 4 days, on account of his treacherous murder of Mr Cherry, and others, at Benares, the famous Vizier Ally; his age was only 36.

October 9. At Grenada, Samuel Harrison, Esq. Deputy-Assistant-CommissaryGeneral to his Majesty's forces, aged 21. 14. In Jamaica, Neil Snodgrass, Esq. late of Paisley.

November 3. At Quebec, Colonel Myers, Quarter-Master-General in North America, an officer universally esteemed.

18. At Mauchline, Mr John Mair, in the 105th year of his age. To a masculine understanding he united poignant wit, genuine humour, and a rare vivacity. As a teller of stories, he was almost without an equal. His mental energies and bodily strength continued unimpaired until shortly before his death. He was born in the parish of Galston, in March 1713.

19. At Tranent Lodge, aged 79, Mr William Wood, late of Gifford. What is worthy of remark, Mr Wood was among the first who introduced the two-horse plough into East Lothian.

22. Of typhus fever, at Belle Cottage, Ireland, Pierce Frederick Blair, Esq. brother of the late Sir D. Blair. His fortune, consisting of £22,000, in Government securities, he bequeathed to his four nieces; the reversion of his beautiful cottage, in the county of Wicklow, to his nephew, Frederick Gustavus Moore, Esq. of Dublin.

23. At Stockbridge, near Dunbar, the Rev. George Campbell.

25. At Glasgow, Adam Bogue, Esq. merchant.

28. At London, in the 43d year of his age, Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser, 76th, or Hindostan regiment. He was a brave and most meritorious officer; he also possessed those virtues which add so much lustre to the human character in private life,-an affectionate husband, a tender parent, and a faithful friend.

30. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Hay of Haystoun, in the 98th year of her age.

At Jedburgh, James Potts, Esq. late Sheriff-clerk of Roxburghshire, in the 79th year of his age.

At Armhouse, in the county of Roscommon, Ireland, Thomas O'Connor, Esq. brother of the late Dominick O'Connor Don of Cloonalis, and of the present Alexander O'Connor Don, now the only lineal male descendant of Roderick O'Connor Don, King of Connaught, and Monarch of Ire land.

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At Wauchope, Ann Scott, aged four years and nine months; and on the 6th, Charles Scott, aged three years and six months, children of Walter Scott, Esq.

3. At Edinburgh, Mrs Lindsay, relict of the Rev. William Lindsay, minister of Kilmarnock.

At St Andrew's, Mrs Jane Tod, wife of William Fernie, Esq. of Newgrange.

6. At Dornoch, aged 92, Miss Margaret Gordon, sister of the late Sir John Gordon of Embo, Bart.

7. At Waterford, Ireland, Alderman Simon Newport. He was the oldest member of the common council, and consequently the father of the city of Waterford. He was also one of the oldest commercial men in Ireland. He had completed the age of 90 years, having been born on the 11th of November 1727.

In London, aged 63, Vice-Admiral William Bligh, F. R. S. of Farningham House, Kent.

9. At Lossit, Hector Macneal of Ugadale, Esq.

Mr Cuthbert Mills, of the Low Lights, Shields, ship-owner, aged 92. He was with Rear-Admiral Hawke on the famous 14th of October 1747, and was accounted one of the most intrepid seamen in that glorious but running fight.

11. At Edinburgh, John Ross, Esq. writer to the signet.

At Manse of Gartly, the Rev. James Scott, in the 88th year of his age, and in the 48th year of his ministry in that parish.

12. At his house in North Charlotte Street, Edinburgh, Sir John Henderson of Fordel, Bart.

At Shelburn Bank, by Newhaven, Captain David Wishart.

13. At Aberdeen, John Anderson, Esq. late of the island of Tobago, aged 65.

14. At Edinburgh, William Sibbald, Esq. merchant, and Admiral of Leith. Mr Sibbald was one of the oldest and most public spirited merchants in Leith. As a mark of respect to his memory, the magistrates, ministers of South and North Leith, and the masters of the four incorporations, with their assistants, on Thursday last, the day of the funeral, in their official capacity, met the body at the foot of Leith Walk, and. accompanied it to the family burying-place in South Leith church-yard, the church bells tolling at broken intervals. This gentleman's death will long be felt as a public loss to the town of Leith.

15. At Polmadie, Mrs Steven of Polmadie.

16. At Renfrew, Miss Mary Orr, Hillhouse, parish of Lochwinnoch, authoress of "Letters from the Desart."

18. At London, Mrs Jackson, Lady of Colonel Jackson of Enesive, and third daughter of William Blair, Esq. of Blair.

In the 25th year of his age, after a few days illness, at his lodgings in Cambridge, the Hon. and Rev. Charles Fox Maitland, M. A. youngest son of James Earl of Lauderdale. By this afflicting dispensation of Providence, was cut off in his early career of honour and usefulness, a gentleman whose talents and virtues shed a lustre upon his high rank. He was endued by nature with a noble and undaunted mind a vigorous understanding-and a most feeling heart. He nursed and cherished every kind and generous sentiment, until the actions that they prompted became no effort, but the pleasing business of his life. This goodness of spirit rendered him anxious to discover good qualities in all; but in those whom he loved, it was his delight to dwell upon whatever there appeared of excellence-to please himself with the thought that he bestowed his own affections well, and to recommend the objects of them to others. In a word, every action of his life, every expression of his thoughts, were but different indications of the various modes in which generosity and benevolence prompted him. He was charitable, not only in action, but in opinion. His liberal and candid construction of the conduct of others is known to all who had the happiness of his acquaintance. His deeds of charity are recorded elsewhere, though the objects of his beneficence seldom knew on whom their prayers invoked blessings. He is wept by the grave and the gay-the thoughtless and the severe. For his active intelligence-his sportive and easy wit-the manly sincerity of his intercourse-his nice sense of honour-made up a character in which all those who had worth themselves might distinguish the qualities which were most dear to them. Those who knew him best, knew that his worth surpassed words. His magnanimous spirit would have rejected undeserved praise-nor does it avail the living to dress out the object of their love and regret in imaginary virtues: "Thy friends shall seek thee, but they shall not find thee. Thou shalt come at times to their dreams, to settle peace in their soul. Thy voice shall remain in their ears, they shall think with mournful joy on the dreams of their rest.”—Mr Maitland lies buried in the chapel of Trinity College a distinction which marks the love and re

spect in which he was held by the whole society, and which has been conferred on none but fellows of the college for the last two hundred years. The ceremony was most feelingly solemnized by the Bishop of Bristol, Master of the College.-Cambridge Paper.

19. At Kilbarchan, in the 77th year of her age, Miss Jean Semple, daughter of the late Robert Semple, Esq. of Beltrees.

At Newburgh, within an hour of each other, Mr David Henderson, aged 74, and Mrs Jean Taylor, his wife, aged 74, after a long and harmonious matrimonial union of 45 years.

20. At Belsize House, Hampstead, the Most Noble the Marchioness of Ormonde, wife of the Marquis of Ormonde, in the 28th year of her age.

23. At the Manse of Girthon, the Rev. Robert Gordon, in the 49th year of his age, and the 26th of his ministry.

24. At Ballimartin, Islay, Donald Campbell, Esq.

25. At Gordonbank, Alexander Low, Esq. of Whitsomelaw, aged 74.

28. A few days before his attaining the age of 60 years, the Rev. Dr Charles Burney, Rector of Deptford. He has long been known and eminently distinguished as one of the first Greek scholars of his time, and was of a family remarkable for literary and scientific eminence. His father was the celebrated Dr Charles Burney, Mus. D. His brother, still living, has published two or three volumes of Voyages of Discovery, &c.; and one of his sisters, also still living, is the celebrated authoress of the novels of Evelina, Cecilia, &c. whilst another sister has published several pleasing and popular novels.

At Oakley-park, near Ludlow, Lady Clive, in the 84th year of her age, relict of Robert, the first Lord Clive, the founder of our empire in Bengal. Lady Clive was in various parts of India when her husband commanded the army there. She joined him in Calcutta after the re-taking of that town and the decisive battle of Plassey. The death of Lord Clive took place in 1774.

Lately-At the Manse of Ledgertwood, Mrs Isabella Cupples, aged 70, relict of the late Rev. George Cupples, 44 years minister of the gospel at Swinton.

At Ballymore, Ireland, Michael Pendar, at the advanced age of 107. He had been a pensioner for 72 years.

At Ballybouglan, in the King's County, Ireland, Mrs Jane Devereux, at the advanced age of 110. She retained her faculties to the last, and has left an immens property behind her.

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Curious Facts in Natural History 111
Observations on the Agamemnon of
Eschylus, illustrated with translations
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Curious Remains of Popular Supersti-
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Observations on some of the Causes of
the want of Patronage for Musical
Performances in Edinburgh; with
Hints for the formation of a Philhar-
monic Society

On the Employment of Watson's and
Thomson's Charitable Funds, in re-
ply to the inquiries of Amicus Pau-
peris, Junior

Life and Writings of James Hogg (Continued)

Epistle to the President of the Highland Society. By Burns

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REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Life of Bishop Watson; written by himselef. Published by his Son, Richard Watson, L. L. B.

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