་ the Flemish, the French, and the Spanish Schools, are all fully represented in this parliament of genius-all ages, and the perfections of almost every great master, have their specimens here. It would be improper to pass over the glorious works froin His Majesty's collection, and from that of the Prince Regent. The former have been little seen for many years, and never beyond a very limited circle. But the liberality of the Prince has now placed before every eye some of the finest Gaspar Poussins in existence, besides productions of Titian, Claude, Rubens, Vandyke, Parmegiano, A del Sarto, Tintoretto, Holbein, and the splendid Cartoon of The Sacrifice. The Prince Regent has also sent fine Cuyps, Rembrandts, Potters, &c. &c.; the Duke of Wellington some excellent Flemish drolls, and masterpieces of Synders, together with two examples of Platza, a painter unknown to us The Earl of Carlisle is the donor of many most interesting pictures, the Earl of Darnley of some grand Salvators; the Marquis of Bute of an incomparable Hobbima, &c.; the Right Hon. Charles Long of Teniers' Misers, &c.; Viscount Ranelagh a delicious Cuyp.-Lit. Gaz. The fifteenth annual exhibition of the Society of Painters in oil and water colours -commenced at the Great Room, Spring Gardens, also on Monday the 19th April. There are 350 pieces, many of which confer so much fame on our contemporary native artists, that we can look at the glorious display of ancient art which we have just noticed, without any other feeling than that it is a stimulous worthy of their genius rather than an overwhelming spectacle to confound their hopes.-Lit. Guz. Sir John Leicester's Gallery continues to attract visitors in great numbers. Mr Fawkes's collection of Water-colour Drawings, Grosvenor Place, was opened to the public on the 6th of April, by the liberal issue of admission tickets. The principal feature in this Exhibition is composed of the drawings of Mr Turner-forty in number. The singular style and extraordinary powers of observation, selection, combination, and execution, of this painter, are neither subject to the ordinary rules of art, nor, perhaps, to be duly estimated by the superficial observer of the common and every-day appearances of nature. If this exalted style has given to some of Mr Turner's more familiar scenes a character less recognisable than strict imitation would have imparted to them, it may well be pardoned, for the sake of the sublime scenery with which he has made us acquainted. Lit. Gaz. EDINBURGH. The Theatre-Royal closed here for a week after the conclusion of Mr Kean's engagement, for the purpose of enabling the corps dramatique to make an excursion to Glasgow with that celebrated actor-the management of both Theatres being in the same hands. The plays Mr Kean appeared in at Glasgow were, Othello, Brutus, Macbeth, Richard III. A New Way to Pay Old Debts, and Douglas; and the Theatre, though too large to be generally filled, was crowded every night. The Theatre was again opened on Monday the 26th April, with Miss Kelly, from the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, in the Country Girl. This lady, though neither very pretty nor very handsome, has something of that frank and undisguised openness in her manner, which is often more attractive than a handsome exterior; and in Peggy, though certainly inferior to some of her predecessors in that part, gave proofs of talent very favourable to her future fame. In some scenes, indeed, she was eminently successful; but in others, she looked more knowing than beseemed a country girl of an age so long gone by; and her deceptions of her guardian looked rather like the tricks of one practised in guile, than the unpremeditated effusions of an untaught rustic. Some of the exclamations also struck us as being given with an em phasis rather too marked. Otherwise she went through the part well. Mr Mackay (whose performance of Bailie Jarvie in Rob Roy has made him a favourite) was the John Moody of the piece; but his personation of this character, and of most others which have been put into his hands, seem to indicate that, as a general performer, he will not be very successful. He has little plasticity of feature or variety of manner; and, though his conception of his part be generally just, and his execution accurate, so-far as it goes, yet whether he performs Touchstone or Moody, Don Cæsar or Marall, the generic distinctives of Mr Mackay preponderate over the specific peculiarities of his assumed character. Mr Jones was excellent in Sparkish. Of the other performers much cannot be said. The after-piece was the Deserter of Naples, in which Miss Kelly sustained the character of Louisa. Her performance of this part showed very considerable powers in the delineation of the stronger passions, and her acting was loudly applauded. Mr W. Murray personated Henry with much effect; and Mr Hamerton in Skirmish proved that he can undertake characters the most opposite with equal success. The other plays in which Miss Kelly ap peared were, The Will, The Belle's Stratagem, the Touchstone, Rich and Poor, A Bold Stroke for a Husband, Wild Oats, and The Honey-Moon.-The Benefits at this Theatre have now commenced, and it is hoped that those who contribute so much to the rational entertainment of the Public may not, on this occasion, feel the want of substantive marks of public approbation. 1 APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL. April 6.-Hardinge Gifford, Esq. to be Chief 13.-Francis Martin, Esq. to be Windsor Herald, in room of F. Townsend, Esq. deceased. 29-Andrew Clephane, Esq. to be Sheriff-Depute of Fifeshire. John Wood, Esq. Advocate, to be Sheriff-Depute of Peebles-shire. Members returned to serve in the present Borough of Orford.-Edmund Alexander Macnaughton, Esq. Borough of Boroughbridge.-Marmaduke Lawson, Esq. Burghs of Inverkeithing, Stirling, &c. Hon. Francis Ward Primrose. Borough of Fowey.-Mathias Attwood, Esq. County of Banff-Right Hon. James Earl of Fife, &c. County of Monmouth.-Hon. Granville Charles Henry Somerset. County of Tipperary.-Hon. Francis Aldborough Prittie. 7 Dr. J. W. Phillipps to be Cornet by purch. vice Phillipps, ret. 7 22 Borough of Camelford.-John Stewart, and Lewis Allsopp, Esqrs. 27 Borough of Westbury.-William Leader Maberly, Esq. 30 II. ECCLESIASTICAL. March 12. The Associate Congregation of Stonehouse unanimously called Mr William Fraser, preacher, to be their minister. 50. The Congregation of the Scots Presbyterian Chapel in Carlisle gave an unanimous call to Mr Hunter, preacher of the Gospel, to be their tor. pas April 15. The Presbytery of St Andrew's ordained the Rev. James Brown, preacher of the Gospel, to the church and parish of Kilrenny, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Joseph Duncan. 19. An harmonious call was given by the Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Eaglesham to Mr Peter Macindoe, preacher of the Gospel. 22. The Town Council of Glasgow presented the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D. D. of the Tron Church, to the church and parish of St John's newly erected;-and the Rev. Mr Marshall, to be minister of the Outer Chuch of that city, in room of Dr Balfour, deceased. The Associate Congregation of Original Burgher Seceders, Cupar-Fife, gave an harmonious call to Mr Ebenezer Anderson, preacher, to be their pastor. The Associate Congregation of Lesmahagow gave an unanimous call to Mr William Logan, preacher, to be their minister. The Reformed Presbyterian Congregation of Chirnside and Kelso gave a most harmonious call to Mr Peter Macindoe, preacher, to be their minister May 5. The Original Burgher Seceders of Cumbernauld made choice of Mr Peter Currie to be their minister. C. Mr William Jaffrey was ordained minister of the church and parish of Dumbarton. Mr Robert Cameron was ordained minister of the church and parish of Kilmalcolin, III-MILITARY. 1L. G. Hon. W. L. L. F. de Roos, to be Cornet and Sub-Lieut. vice Lambton, res. 29th Mar. 1819. 1 D. G. Acting Vet. Surg. G. Spencer to be Vet. Surg. vice Clarkson, ret. h. p. 25th do. 1st April. E. K. L. Bayard to be Cornet by purch. Wm. Harcourt to be Cornet by purch. 18th March. W. Bulkley to be Cornet by purch. vice Sth Apr. Graham, dead 3 5 8th April. Lieut. T. W. Harrington to be Capt. vice 18th Mar Cornet W. Potts to be Lieut. by purch. vice Cockburn, Qua.-Mast. 1st Dec. 1817. -C. St J. Fancourt to be Cornet, 8th Apr. 1819. vice Potts Capt. J. F. Paterson to be Maj. by purch. 18th Mar. vice Broome, ret. Cornet R. G. Davidson to be Lieut. vice 20th Jan. 1816. Bromwich, dead Cornet J. Bolland to be Lieut. vice Tris tram, 15 Dr. 1st Sept. 1817. R. G. Davidson to be Cornet, vice Rol25th Dec. 1813. land Cornet R. Swinhoe, from 25 Dr. to be 1st Sep. 1816. Cornet, vice Davidson Lieut. T. Macan to be Capt. vice Kear27th April 1813. ney, dead Cornet W. Alexander to be Lieut. by 22d Mar. purch. vice Llewellyn, ret. Cornet H. Shepherd to be Lieut. by purch. vice Macan 27th Apr. James Ralston to be Cornet, vice M'Dou- 20 Foot Gent. Cadet D. Darroch to be Ensign, 25th do. Lieut. H. M. Straith to be Adj. vice 1st Apr. 1818. Ready, res. E. Wilmot to be Ensign, vice Dewson, 11th Mar. 1819. prom. Ensign E. Macpherson to be Lieut. vice 1st Apr. Charles, dead W. J. Cross to be Ensign, vice Macpher- son do. Ensign M. Dalrymple, from 20 F. to be 25th Mar. Ensign, vice Miller, dead Lieut. W. Booth to be Adj. vice Daly, res. 16th Feb. 1818. Assist. Surg. W. Pollock to be Surg, vice 11th Mar. 1819. Papps, dead Ensign C. Hogan to be Lieut. vice Holmes, dead Ensign R. G. Wallace to be Lieut. vice White dead 23d July 1818. 4th May 1816. Ensign A. G. Faden to be Lieut. R. G. Wallace to be 20th June 1818. Ensign, vice Faden, 17th Dec. 1815. from 65 F. to be En 20th Nov. 1816. Ensign, vice Lang1st Aug. Major by purch. vice 11th Mar. 1819. 69 77 Capt. R. Place to be Westcott, ret. Lieut. St J. A. Clerke to be Capt, by purch, vice Place do. do. Ensign J. D. Harris to be Lieut. by purch. vice Clerke H. Hamilton to be Ensign, by purch. vice Harris do. Lieut. J. Pratt to be Capt. by purch. viee 24th Jan. Ensign W. A. Cuninghame to be Lieut. by purch. vice Pratt do. G. Edwards to be Ensign by purch, vice Cuninghame 1st Apr. Rifle Br. 2d Lieut. J. Hannay to be 1st Lieut. by York Ch. Ensign C. Jessop to be Garrisons. Colonel J. N. Smyth, 26th Dec. 1818. h. p. 8 W. 1. R. Scilly Island, vice Lieut. vice Mac 1st Apr. 1819. Ensign J. Hamilton, h. p. 4 W. I. R. to be Town Major of Galway, vice Pilot, dead 1st April 1819. Roy. Art. M. Gen. F. Laye. from h. p. to be Colonel Comm. vice Trotter, dead 7th Mar. 1819. Med. Staff. Assist.-Surg. Tho. Howell, from h. p. 6 Dr. to be Assist. Surg. to the Force 25th Feb. 1619. J. H. Ludlow, fm. h. p. 35 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. J. W. Watson, M.D. from h. p. Staff C. of Cav. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. J. Farnden, from h. p. 70 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. J. Dempster, from h. p. 83 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. W. G. Watson, M.D. from h. p. 95 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. S. Hill, from h. p. 71 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces 25th Mar. T. Napier, from h. p. Meuron's Reg. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces do. A. D. Anderson, from h. p. 49 F. to be Assist. Surg. to the Forces Exchanges. do. Brevet Lt.-Col. Watson, from 54 F. with Brevet Lt. Col. Walker, 71 F. Thomson, from 74 F. with Capt. Wilson, h. p. 98 F. Major Barrington, from 87 F. with Capt. Blair, 91 F. Capt. W. Clarke, from 1 F. with Capt. Cowell, h. P. Robertson, from 78 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Lardy, h. p. Meuron's Reg. Humfrey, from 46 F. with Capt. Edwards, 86 F. Redding, from 59 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Gordon, h. p. Anderson, from 19 F. with Capt. Cairnes, h. p. 60 F. Reeves, from 54 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Grindley, h. p. 24 F. Hook, from 74 F. with Capt. Jones, h. p. York Rang. Licut. Buss, from 9 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut Ferguson, h. p. 8 Dr. Fallou, from 15 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut. Bayard, h. p. 23 Dr. 67 F. Beaufoy, from 27 F. with Lieut. Everet, Stopford, from 33 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Kerr, h. p. 55 F. Mosse, from 18 F. rec. diff. with Licut. French, h. p. 94 F. Major, from 30 F. rec. diff, with Lieut. Sutherland, h. p. 58 F. Ready, from 34 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. M'Leod, h. p. Denison, from 55 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Hart, h. p. 74 P. Heatley, from 50 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Vinicombe, h. p. 105 F. Maclean, from 59 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Howard, h. p. Dickson, from 67 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Jones, h. p. h. Battersby, from 84 F. with Lieut Ottley, p. 50 F. Lord Wallscourt, from 85 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Fox, h. p. W. I. Rang. Burnet, from 3 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut. M'Queen, h. p. 25 Dr. Dunkin, from 18 Dr. rec. diff. with Lieut. Monckton, h. p. 1 F. G. Lieut. M'Dermott, from 8 F. rec. diff, with Lieut. Miles, h. p. 36 F. Colthurst, from 34 F. with Lieut. Ashhurst, h. p. 8 F. Vavasour, from 64 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Montagu, h. p. 58 F. 95 F. Noble, from 89 F. with Lieut. Snow, h. p. Smith, from Rifle Br. rec. diff. with Lieut. Gossett, h. p. Chapman, from Rifle Brig. rec. diff. with Lieut. Webb, h. p. Cornet and Sub-Lt. Parry, from 1 Life G. rec. diff. with Cornet Burdett, h. p. 25 Dr. Ensign Denny, from 3 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Carmac, h. p. 83 F. Macintire, from 53 F. with Ensign Lut yens, 45 F. Milliken, from Staff Corps, with Ensign Robe, h. p. Haydon, from 14 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Largent, h. p. 20 F. Fraser, from 72 F. with Ensign Ryneweld, Cape Corps. Schneider, from 92 F. with Ensign Mansell, h. p. 97 F. Foskey, from 2 W. I. R. with Ensign Williams, York Chas. Assist. Surg. Dempster, from 93 F. with Assist. Surg. Raleigh, h. p. 81 F. Resignations and Retirements. Major Broome, 22 Dr. Westcott, 77 F. Lieut. Llewellyn, 24 Dr. Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Lambton, 1 F. G. Appointments Cancelled. 1st Lieut. Brownrigg, Rifle Brig. Deaths. Colonel Fitzherbert, h. p. 98 F. 3d Apr. 1819. Herries, Lt. Horse Vol. Lt. Col. Vigoureux, Lt. Gov. of Scilly West, late 3 R. Vet. Bn. Wardell, h. p. 66 F. Major Cumming, 31 F. Coxon, 1 Ceylon Reg. Capt. Jenkins, late 4 Vet. Bn. Sherrard, h. p. 99 F. Lieut. Tomlinson, 25 Dr. Hatherly, 19 F. Layton, 1 Ceylon Reg. Graham, 7 Dr. G. Henry Davis, 22 Dr. Savage, 70 F. M'Nab, 83 F. Barbier, 2 Ceylon Reg. Dr. 30th Mar. 28th do. 9th Apr. 27th Sept. 18is. 9th Feb. 1819. 25th Sept. 1818. 20th July 31st Jan. 1819. 3d Oct. 1818. 16th Sept. 3d Aug. 17th Sept. 6th Apr. 1819. Ensigns. Apr. 1819. 26th Sept. 1818. 14th Apr. 1813. 29th Sept. 1818. 30th Oct. Nagel, h. p. 1 Lt. Inf. K. G. L. 23d Feb. 1813. Assist. Surg. Considine, h. p. 11 F. Miscellaneous. Ensign M'Donell, Town Major, Prince Edward's Dr Tice, Phys. to the Forces. 27th Dec. 1818. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill. N.B.-The Observations are made twice every day, namely, at eight o'clock in the morning, and eight o'clock in the evening. The morning observations in the first column are made on the Register Ther mometer. WITH the exception of a few days about the middle of April, in which vegetation was checked by showers of snow and hail, and a pretty severe frost, the weather has continued favourable for all the operations of husbandry. The early sown spring crops are, in general, very forward, and wheat promises to yield a large return, though, in some places, the blade has acquired a yellowish and sickly tinge. The oats, particularly, have sprung up with a rapidity almost unprecedented. In England the pastures will be open for stock earlier than has been known, and there is a promise of a vast crop of grass. Lucerns, cinquefoils, and winter tares, promise a most abundant crop. The hops are said to be full of fine, strong, and healthy shoots; and potatoe planting will be soon finished in most of the counties. Since the conclusion of the oat seed-time, the farmers have been employed in barley sowing, planting potatoes, and preparing ground for the turnip crop. The corn markets are still on the decline, and potatoes are now selling at very reduced prices.-May 13. In the forest, the flowers appeared on larch and elm trees by the 15th March; the Orobus vernus came in flower by the 18th; the Draba muralis, a small native plant, by the 24th; the dog's tooth-violet (Erythremum dens canis) on the 26th; the leaves of the larch tree were expanded by the 27th and the Fumaria bulbosa was in flower by the 30th. The Sanguinaria Canadensis, a native of North America, and the Hyacinthus botryoides, a native of Italy, were in flower on the 3d April; the flowers of gooseberries were open by the 4th; the balsam poplar was in leaf by the 7th; the Ranunculus gramineus, and the sloe thorn, were in flower by the 9th; the wild primrose by the 15th; the wood anemone by the 18th; the marsh marigold (Caltha palustris) on the 20th; the leaves of the common maple were expanded on the 21st; the Saxifraga granulata was in flower in the field, and the Saxifraga geranoides in the flower border, on the 26th; the Polemonium repens was in flower on the 28th, and the Veronica multifida on the 30th; the elm tree was in full leaf by the 1st May; the Hyacinthus non scriptus in the woods, and the Gentiana acaulis in the garden, were in flower by the 4th; the flowers of the scarlet strawberry began to appear on the 6th; the mountain ash was in leaf by the 7th, and the leaves of the beech, service, and lime trees were fully expanded by the 11th. Tulips that appeared in the winter months are now beginning to blow, and are at least three weeks earlier than usual.--May 11. 174 3 s. d. s. d. April 10 76 653 9 17 74 7 52 11 May 24 74 5 50 7 48 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. S. s. d. s. d. s. d. 29 1054 1 59 11 28 651 857 1 054 7 949 9 Average Prices of Grain in Scotland for the Four Weeks immediately preceding 15th April 1819. Wheat 65s. 8d-Rye, 45s. 8d.-Barley, 44s. 3d.-Oats, 27s. 4d.-Beans, 42s. 11d.-Pease, 44s. 5d. Oatmeal, per boll, 22s. 4d.-Bear or Big, 37s. 8d. |