of foot. His death was occasioned by a lingering indisposition, from the effects of the wounds and contusions he received at the storming of Fort Calliger, in the East Indies, on the 2d February 1812; when leading the grenadier company up to the breach, he was precipitated down the perpendicular rock on which the fort is built. Feb. 15. At Killin, Perthshire, Mr Peter Campbell, aged 34 years, third son of Mr Duncan Campbell, late of Dalgirdy. 16. At Aberdeen, Clementina Brander, relict of the late Mr Charles Kilgour, in the 83d year of her age. 17. At London, Mr James Dobie, sen. surgeon, royal navy. 18. At Rome, in the 22d year of his age, the Hon. Brownlow Charles Colyear, son of Viscount Milsintown, and grandson of Brownlow, late Duke of Ancaster. 21. At Stirling, Mrs Elizabeth Bennet, spouse of Robert Banks, Esq. of Craighead. At Leven, Fifeshire, Lieut. Thomas Younger, R. N. late Commander of his Majesty's ship Theodosia, in the Mediter At Buchany, near Doune, Duncan Balfour, glazier, aged 81. He was a man of superior abilities, of a ready country wit, possessing an astonishing fund of anecdote concerning the great families in Scotland; a firm adherent of the unfortunate Prince Charles Edward, in memory of whom he preserved, with the utmost care, a silver quegh, out of which the Prince is said to have drank on his way through Doune, immediately before the battle of Culloden. He remembered the Highlandman's year, and boasted of having once seen the Prince. At her house in George Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Joass, wife of James Alexander Haldane, Esq. 28. At his house of Broomhill, near Lasswade, Captain Robert Forbes, of the royal navy. Feb. 28. At Knockbuy, near Campbeltown, Augusta Clavering, daughter of Lieut-Colonel John Porter. At Helensburgh, Dumbartonshire, Brian Stapleton, Esq. third son of the late Miles Stapleton, Esq. of York. March 3. At Woodside, Miss Anne Scott, daughter of the late Walter Scott, Esq. of Harden. At Farr, Inverness-shire, Miss Ann Mackintosh, eldest daughter of James Mackintosh, Esq. of Farr, after a long and painful illness. VOL. IV. Esq. At Dalry Mills, Andrew Veitch, Mrs Janet Buchan, spouse of Mr Andrew Brown, bookseller, Edinburgh. In Hertford Street, May-fair, London, Lady Ellenborough, spouse of the present Lord Ellenborough. Her Ladyship was Catharine Octavia, youngest daughter of the Marquis of Londonderry, sister of Lords Castlereagh and Stewart, and niece of Marquis Camden. She was born 14th October 1792, and married to the Hon. Edward Law, now Lord Ellenborough, on the 11th December 1813. 6. At Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, the lady of Robert Downie, Esq. of Appin, after being delivered of a still-born child. - At Dublin, Major-General Thomas Trotter, Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery, and commanding the Royal Artillery in Ireland. It has seldom fallen to our lot to perform a more painful task than that of recording the death of this most amiable man and revered veteran, who terminated his honourable career, after having nearly completed in the service of his King and country half a century-his first commission in the regiment being dated the 10th of January 1770. Major-General Trotter went to America in the year 1773, where he continued to serve throughout the whole of the American war; after returning to England, he went to America a second time, and served in Canada three years. He afterwards served under the command of the Duke of York in Flanders, where he had the honour, upon one occasion, of receiving, in public orders, the thanks of his Royal Highness. MajorGeneral Trotter has served in Ireland since the year 1801, during which period the benevolence of his disposition, and suavity of his manners, had endeared him to an extensive circle of acquaintance. At Maxwelitown, Paisley, Robert Fulton, Esq. of Hartfield. 3 с After a short illness, Mr Thomas Stewart, pastor of the Associate Congregation, Strathaven, in the 61st year of his age, and 27th of his ministry. 9. At his house, Merchant Street, Edinburgh, Mr Adam Freer, late merchant in Edinburgh. -At Ayr, Mrs Sarah Mair, relict of the Rev. Dr Wright, late minister of May bole. At Content, near Ayr, Jane, wife of Captain Archibald Fullarton, and daughter of the Rev. Dr Peebles. 13. At Fairliecrievoch, Mrs Langmuir, wife of Gabriel Langmuir, Esq. of Fairliecrievoch. At Ladyfield Place, Edinburgh, Alexander Ferguson, Esq. of Baledmund. 14. Of an apoplectic fit, Sophia Elizabeth, wife of Colonel John Shedden of Elms, near Lymington, aged 38. At Dalnavat, Badenoch, Capt. Alex. Clark, aged 63. At Seggieden, Mrs Margaret Richardson, wife of James Hay, Esq. of Seggieden. At his house, Salisbury Place, Newington, George Andrew, Esq. writer in Edinburgh. 15. At Arbroath, James Bell, Esq. merchant. 16. At Elgin, Lady Dunbar, wife of Sir Arch. Dunbar of Northfield, Bart. At Annan, Mrs Ellen Ainsworth, aged 82 years, wife of Mr George Anderson, late Bailie, to whom she had been married for the long period of 60 years. At Clapham, E. Parratt, Esq. aged 72, who filled, with great ability, the important office of Clerk of the Journals of the House of Lords for 24 years. At Colzium, Margaret, second daugh of James Davidson, Esq. W. S. At Ayr, Mrs Jean Muirhead, aged 90, spouse of Mr Hugh Parrot. At Stirling, Mr Alexander Maclaurin, teacher, in his 74th year. 11. At Hawick, Miss Margaret Lang-ter lands, daughter of the late George Langlands, Esq. of Langlands, in the 89th year of her age. She was the last of the ancient and once wealthy family of Langlands of that ilk. In her will she left twenty pounds to be distributed among the industrious poor of the parishes of Hawick and Wilton. 17. At Greenock, Ann, second daughter of Patrick Nicolson, Esq. of Ardmore. At Rose Terrace, Perth, Miss Agnes Ballingall. 18. At Glasgow, Mr William Osborne, late merchant in Ayr. 19. At Newton, Bailie James Reid, aged 85 years. At Dundee, in the 62d year of his age, and 23d of his ministry, the Rev. Malcolm Colquhoun, minister of the Gaelic Chapel there. At Castle Fogerty, near Thurles, the Hon. Montague Matthew, representative in Parliament for the county of Tipperary. At Castle Douglas, Mr John Forrester, Supervisor of Excise. 20. At Dumfries, Mary Anne, second daughter of the late William Carruthers, Esq. of Dormont. At Monymusk, the Rev. Alexander Walker, Episcopal clergyman there. -At Fort Street, near Leith, George Barclay, Esq. late of the island of Barbadoes. George Ramsay and Co. Printers, Edinburgh. THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY, BEING A NEW SERIES OF The Scots Magazine. MAY 1819. CONTENTS. Letters from London, by an Islander.389 | Remarks on Bishop Sandford's Ser Gottingen during the Summer of 1818.394 Alloa Speeches. The Mermaid. A Scottish Ballad, by James Hogg...................................... The Prison House Inscription for a Hermitage 398 | Remarks on Mrs Brunton's Emme line........... 400 On Lithography 444 401 402 Verses addressed to an Infant 450 447 Inscription for a Cave at — North Coast Joe, an English Story, founded on fact..403 Particulars of a late Visit to New Zealand, and of the Measures taken for rescuing some English Captives there, (Concluded). ~~~~405 On the English Dramatic Writers who preceded Shakespeare. No. IV.......409 Remarks on the Life and Poetical Remains of the late Dr John Leyden.414 Letter from Spain. The Congress of Vienna. St Helena, an Epigram. The Vampyre, and Peter Bell LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC London Museum.-Singular Effects of MONTHLY REGISTER. Foreign Intelligence.459 Parliamentary Intelligence 422 423 British Chronicle 425 Public Amusements, &c. 468 ib. Appointments and Promotions................................47] 427 Meteorological Table 473 ib. 429 Commercial Report ............475 Anecdotes of Bonaparte's Campaign of Agricultural Report. 1809......... The Kingdom of Ashantee .........................................432 | Births, Marriages, Deaths... 1 EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY: The Correspondents of the EDINBURGH MAGAZINE AND LITERARY MISCELLANY are respectfully requested to transmit their Communications for the Editor to ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE and COMPANY, Edinburgh, or LONGMAN and COMPANY, London, to whom also orders for the Work should be particularly addressed. Printed by George Ramsay & Co. THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY. MAY 1819. Cavendish Square. HERE I am, dear Flora, far enough from the din isle of mist, yet more misty than ever, that is, I have not yet had my eyes sufficiently purged with euphrasy and rue, to see through the intellectual mist that surrounds me., Novelty, confusion, and the restlessness of mind they produce, have in a manner dimmed my faculties. I should have wrote to you sooner, but I wished to give you some idea of merry England, which I can hardly do till I have felt myself merry, at least easy, in it. You and I are not quite so little qualified to think and judge about these matters as people here may imagine. They think us as great strangers to the world, as the sunbeam of Dunscaich herself would have been in the days when Cuchullin went to Innisfail. OI have so many things to say, that I do not know where to begin. But I have got over the provocation of being wondered at by these Saxons, for having common sense and decent manners, after having been wholly educated in Skye. I cannot, like Madam Stael, be always boasting of my parents. That is only vanity once removed, and do now, dear Flora, come here, and I know they would not like it. Pray tell these people that my father represents an ancient family; that our domain is inherited from a race of chiefs of old renown; that he had a classical education, and was a colonel of the Scotch Dutch, that twice learned, and thrice valiant body of soldier scholars; that my mother, still loved for worth and charming manners, was once the star of the court at the Hague, admired by the very Hollanders for beauty, and by all others for her lively talents; and that I, by myself I, was the object of assiduous culture to both these parents, and had the range of their well chosen library. All this I cannot tell myself, but want you to tell for me. People here, who live on the surface, and catch every floating straw, and watch every evanescent bubble, have little idea how leisure nurses thought in a mind once opened to intelligence; or how deep those dive for pearls, who have early learnt to know their value. You expect a brilliant account of every fine thing and person I have seen, and here am I telling you all you know already. ' Novelties have not yet taken such hold of my mind, as to exclude recollections. The roar of the waterfall that dashes into the sea from the rocks of Taliskar comes over my ear, and drowns the music of a full orchestra, when my reveries carry me near the |