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Caithnefs Legion, to Mifs Bower, of Enfham houfe, eldest daughter of Edmund Bower, Efq; of Profpect Hill, Berks

22. At Edinburgh, John Gordon, Efq; of Whitehill, to Miss Eleanor Maitland, daughter of the deceased Pelham Maitland, Efq;

23. At Menie, Thomas Buchan, Efq; of Auchmacoy, to Mifs Euphemia Turner, eldeft daughter of Robert Turner, of Menie. BIRTHS.

At Castle Howard, the Countefs of Car life, a fon.

Jan. 4. At Cavill, Mrs Thomas Robertfon, a daughter.

January 7. This morning, between nine and ten o'clock, the Princess of Wales was happily delivered of a Princess. His Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester, his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Prefident of his Majefty's Council, his Grace the Duke of Leeds, his Grace the Duke of Devonshire, the Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Chamberlain, and the Earl of Jerfey, Master of the Horse to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, the Right Hon. Lord Thurlow, and the Ladies of her Royal Highness' Bedchamber, were prefent. Lond. Gaz.

8. At Kinnaird, the Lady of Sir David Carnegie of Southesk, Bart. a daughter.

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In Auguft laft, at Rome, of a putrid fever, that celebrated artift, Mr James Durno.Prince Auguftus, Lord Wycomb, and all the British at Rome, attended his corps to the grave.

In October laft, at Savanna La Mar, Ja maica, Mr William Forbes, merchant there. In November laft, At St Domingo, Capt. William Hay, of the 83d regt. fecond fon of the Hon. William Hay, Efq; of Lawfield.

At Peterwoodíky, Madam Poulterazky, fecond daughter of Charles Gafcoigne, Efq. At Tortola, Capt. George Gordon, of the Hope of Greenock.

At Hampstead, Mathew Barton, Efq; Admiral of the White.

Thomas Dunckerly, Efq; of Hampton Court, natural fon of George II

Hon Mrs Robinson, Lady of Colonel Robinson, and fifter to Lord Clive.

Anthony Hunt, Efq; fecond Captain in Greenwich Hofpital.

At Kilkenny Caftle, Ireland, the Rt Hon. the Earl of Ormond, primier Earl of Ireland. At St Vincent's, Capt. Robert Vaughan, of the 59th regt.

At Duddington, near Stamford, Mrs Walden, aged 100.

At Edinburgh, the Rt Hon. Frances Vifcountess Kenmore.

At Dublin, Mrs Beresford, in the 103d year of her age, grand aunt to the Marquis of Waterford.

At Twickenham, T. Wildman, Efq; M. P. for Hindon, Wilts.

Leonard Coward, Efq; aged So, thrice Mayor of Bath.

At Riga, Mr James Balfour, merchant. At Vienna, Prince Charles of Lichtenstein, of a wound he received in a duel.

At Grenada, Major Norman Maclean, of the 68th regt. This brave officer defended the poft of Gouyave for five months, with a handful of men, without once being infulted by the Brigands. But the moment they heard of his death, they attacked it, and got poffeffion of it the fourth day after his interment. Every individual at Grenada regrets his death; and even the negroes teftified, by their grief at his funeral, that they had loft their protector.

At Bromyard, Mofes Phillips, aged 105 years. He was by trade a basket-maker, but had ferved in the army during the reigns of George I. II. and his prefent Majesty.

At Cape Nichola Mole, Lieut. Col. Boyd Manningham, of the 81ft regt. commandant of that place.

At Gibraltar, Charles Strickland, Efq; Major of the 82d regt. of foot.

On his paffage from Madrafs to Bengal, Mr Alexander Kellie, furgeon, second son of Mr George Kellie, furgeon, Leith.

Jan. 1. At Edinburgh, Mrs Elizabeth Cleghorn, widow of the late Mr Janies Hotchkis, brewer.

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26. At Newcastle upon Tyne, in the 71ft year of his age, the Rev. Richard Jamefon, fometime minifter of the Epifcopal Congregation at Dumfries, and afterwards Chaplain to the English factory at Dantzig.-Mr Jamefon, by the advantage of a learned and liberal education at Edinburgh, which he improved, during the eight years of his refidence at Dumfries, by affiduous converfations with the late Reverend and celebrated Dr Blacklock, acquired a correct and elegant tafte in polite literature. Fond of moral philofophy, he joined practice to theory; blessed with a chearful temper and an enlightened mind, he

was an agreeable and inftructive companion; poffeffed of a vigorous and independent fpirit, and of a benevolent and feeling heart, he was a warm and fteady friend, a lover of public order, and an enemy to licentiousness, on the one hand, and to tyranny, on the other. Many have furpaffed Mr Jamefon in fplendid talents; but in few has human nature appeared more pure and more refpectable.

29. On board the Baffet, in the Downs, Wm Hamilton, Efq; commonly called Lord Belhaven, a Major in the army. His title was called in question ac last election, and the Houfe of Peers fet afide his vote. Mr Hamilton of Wishaw is fupposed to have the preferable right.

29. At Lancafter, Mr Alexander Stevens, fenior, the celebrated architect.

PREFERMENTS.

Lieut General Thomas Trigge, to be Lieut. Governor of Gibraltar, vice O'Hara. Major General Cornelius Cuyler, to be Lieut. Governor of Portsmouth, vice Trigge. The Lord Advocate, Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

W. Laurence Brown, D. D. Principal of the Marifchal College Aberdeen, in place of Dr Campbell, refigned.

Dr Gafken at Plymouth, and Dr Stewart, Perth, to be Fellows of the Royal College of Phyficians, Edinburgh.

Alexander Moire, Efq. of Scotstown, to be Sheriff-depute of Aberdeenfhire, vice Alex. Elphiniton, Efq. dead.

Mr John Bell, to be Minister of the parish of Carriden.

Mr Hugh Macdougall, to be Minister of the parish of Killin.

SEQUESTRATIONS.

Jan. 2. Alex. Grant, late vintner in Stonehaven.

7. Andrew Bauld, merchant, Arbroath. 15. David Carmichael, corn and cattle dealer in Mount turpie.

Prices of Grain at Haddington, Jan. 29. Wheat, 48s. 9d. Barley,28s. Oats, 23s. 6d. Peafe, 218. Beans, 219.

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Sold by JAMES WATSON & Co. No 40. South Eridge;
And by the Principal Bookfellers in Town and Country,
By ALLEN & WEST, No 16. Paternofter-row;
And MARTIN & BAIN, No 184. Fleet Street, London,

A METHOD TO PREPARE A SULPHUREOUS MINERAL WATER.

GRIND four drachms of the flowers of fulphur with an equal quantity of magnesia, in a glass mortar. Work up the mafs gradually with water, to the amount of a quart, and then pour the liquid mixture into a clofe veffel, which may be conveniently fhaken two or three times every day for three weeks. After it has fettled for two days, the liquor is to be decanted. The fame ingredients will impregnate a like quantity of water, two or three times, to an equal degree of ftrength. One ounce of this folution, diluted with a quart of pure water, forms a medicine fit for use. It is an effectual remedy for the chronic rheumatism, and cutaneous diforders; it is also useful for the fcrofula and

worms.

RECEIPT FOR MAKING STILTON CHEESE.

TAKE the night's cream, and put it to the morning's new milk, with the rennet; when the curd is come, it is not to be broke, as is done with other cheeses; but take it out with a foil-difh altogether, and place it in a fieve to drain gradually; and, as it drains, keep graudually preffing it till it becomes firm and dry; then place it in a wooden hoop; afterward to be kept dry on boards, turned frequently, with cloth binders round it, which are to be tighted as occafion requires.

FOR MAKING POTATOE BREAD.

THE following method of making potatoe bread has been laid before the Bath Agricultural Society, of which a fpecimen was produced, and met with general approbation : "To any given weight of flour put half that weight of potatoes. Let the potatoes be well boiled, peeled, and mafhed; mix them up with flour, while warm; then add the yeast, and proceed as in the common method of making bread: obferving to make the bread as dry as poffible.”

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RECEIPT FOR SWEETENING BUTTER.

AS butter is very apt to be tinctured with a turnip taste at this feason, when cattle is much fed on that root, the following method to fweeten it, may be acceptable to country readers,

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"Put into your cream-pot, a piece of falt-petre: put your cream upon it daily, as it is skimmed off your milk, and ftir it up as ufual. Every time clean out your cream-pot, to churn, fupply it with the like quantity of falt-petre, A piece the fize of a nutmeg, is fufficient for a quantity of cream that will produce fix pounds of butter and fo in proportion for a larger or fmaller quantity.

SCOTS MAGAZINE,

For FEBRUARY 1796.

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ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE OF ADAM SMITH, L. L. D.
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 6.

BOUT two years after the publication of "The Wealth of Na tions," Mr Smith was appointed one of the Commiffioners of his Majesty's Cuftoms in Scotland; a preferment which, in his eftimation, derived an additional value from its being bestowed on him at the request of the Duke of Buccleugh. greater part of these two years he paffed at London, in a fociety too extenfive and varied to afford him any opportunity of indulging his tafte for ftudy. His time, however, was not loft to himfelf; for much of it was spent with fome of the first names in English literature. Of these no unfavourable fpecimen is preferved by Dr Barnard, in his well known verfes addreffed to Sir Joshua Reynolds and his friends:

If I have thoughts and can't exprefs 'em,
Gibbon fhall teach me how to dreis 'em,
In words fele&t and terfe;
Jones teach me modesty and Greek,
Smith how to think, Burke how to speak,

And Beauclerc to converse.

In confequence of Mr Smith's ap pointment to the Board of Customs, he removed, in 1778, to Edinburgh, where he spent the last twelve years of his life; enjoying an affluence which was more than equal to all his wants; and what was to him of fill greater value, the prospect of paffing the remainder of his days among the companions of his youth. His mother, who, though now in extreme old age, still poffeffed a confiderable degree of health, and retained all her faculties unimpaired, accompanied him to town; and his coufin Mifs Jane

Douglas, (who formerly had been a member of his family at Glasgow, and for whom he had always felt the affection of a brother,) while fhe divided with him thofe tender attentions which her aunt's infirmities required, relieved him of a charge for which he was peculiarly ill qualified, by her friendly fuperintendence of his domeftic œconomy.

The acceffion to his income which

his new office brought him, enabled him to gratify, to a much greater extent than his former circumftances admitted of, the natural generofity of his difpofition; and the ftate of his funds at the time of his death, compared with his very moderate eftablishment, confirmed, beyond a doubt, what his intimate acquaintances had often fufpected, that a large proportion of his annual favings was allotted to offices of fecret charity. A smail, but excellent library, which he had gradually formed with great judgement in the felection; and a simple, though hofpitable table, where, without the formality of an invitation, he was always happy to receive his friends, were the only expences that could be confidered as his own.

The change in his habits which his removal to Edinburgh produced, was not equally favourable to his literary purfuits. The duties of his office, though they required but little exertion of thought, were yet fufficient to walle his fpirits and diffipate his attention; and now that his carreer is clofed, it is impoffible to refl. &t on the time they confumed, without lamenting that they had

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