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commemorated on Monday, the 29th, at Edinburgh, by a numerous and most respectable meeting, where persons of the first rank, wealth, and distinguished talents, were assembled, to shew their veneration for the memory, and their determination to maintain the political principles of that great statesman.

Five hundred and ninety-eight tickets were delivered by the Stewards, by whose orders ample accommodation was prepared in the Assembly Rooms, George Street. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, supported by the Lord Provost, the Marquis of Huntly, the Earl of Haddington, and Lord Melville, presided in the great room, and were admirably assisted by the Stewards in the other end of the room, the Earl of Dalkeith, Lord Doune, the Hon. Colonel Douglas, Sir Alexander Don, and Capt. Johnstone Hope. Other Stew. ards placed themselves at the differ. ent tables, where their attentions could be most useful in this room 400 persons dined.

The large tea-room was also elegant. ly fitted up. The Duke of Athole, a long with a great proportion of rank and distinction, filled this room. His Grace was supported by Lord Gray, Lord Seaforth, the Lord Advocate, the Lord Chief Baron, Sir Henry Hay Mak. dougall; Donald Smith, William Ramsay, Andrew Bonar, Esqrs. &c.

Among other Noblemen, &c. were present the Earl of Kellie, Lord Elibank, Lord Calthorpe, Lord Cathcart, General Leslie, several of the North British Staff, officers of the army, militia, &c, Rear-Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle, several of the Judges of the Court of Session, the Barons of Exchequer, the Lord Advocate, and Solicitor-General; the Lord Provost and Magistrates, Principal Baird, and several of the Professors of the University, Principal Hill, and several of the Clergy.

The commemoration was conducted with the utmost propriety and good order, and did the greatest honour to the Stewards. After dinner "Non Nobis Domine" was given, with great effect, by Mr Incledon; and the King's health being drunk, the whole company joined the music in God save the King; many excellent, constitutional and ap. propriate toasts were drunk, with pro

per accompaniments, by Mr Gow's excellent band, and suitable songs by Mr Incledon, Mr Trueman, and other gentlemen.

When the Health of Lord Melville was given, by the Marquis of Huntly, as the friend and coadjutor of Mr Pitt in his great measures, his Lordship, in a most elegant and pathetic speech, gave a short character of that eminent patriot, and paid a handsome eulogium to his memory, hoping that his bright example would be imitated to the latest posterity. The immortal memory of William Pitt, and the memories of our departed heroes, Nelson, Abercromby, and Moore, were each of them drunk with the greatest enthusiasm, accompanied by solemn music.

When the health of the Marquis of Huntly was given by the Earl of Dalkeith, his Lordship observed, that the Marquis had shewn his warm attachment to the cause of the meeting, by performing a journey of 800 miles for the express purpose (being to return immediately to London.) The Marquis replied in a neat speech, that he thought no trouble too great to attend such a meeting of friends to their coun. try and the constitution.

Mr Incledon sung, with great effect, Mr Canning's elegant song of the Pilot that weather'd the Storm-also God save the King-Britannia rules the Waves--Britons strike home-and many other loyal and constitutional songs.

So liberally was the meeting conduc ted, that there was not during the whole of it the least asperity against any po. litical party whatever.

TOASTS.

The King. The Queen.

The Prince and Princess of Wales, and the test of the Royal Family.

The immortal memory of Mr Pitt. The King and Constitution-may the one live long, and the other last for ever. The two Houses of Parliament. Prosperity to the United Kingdoms. Success to his Majesty's arms. His Majesty's Ministers-may they maintain the principles of Mr Pitt, and emulate his virtues.

The old and steady friend of Mr Pitt, Lord Melville, was given by Lord Huntly. Lord

Lord Melville gave, the Duke of Buccleuch.

The Duke of Athole was given, who presided in the other roem.

The Friends of Mr Pitt celebrating the day in other places.

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Proved Friends and proved Systems. May the Liberties of the People never be crushed by Despotism, nor rent in pieces by Democracy.

May the Constitution, in Church and State, be ever maintained by the practical principles of Mr Pitt.

PRINCE OF WALES'S BIRTH-DAY. The anniversary of the birth of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales was celebrated at Edinburgh in the Assembly Rooms, George Street, on the 12th of August. There were present, on this occasion, among other respec table individuals, the Earl of Lauderdale, Lord Kinnaird, Lord William Russell, the Hon. Henry Erskine, Lord Bannatyne, Sir John Lowther Johnston, &c.;-And the Lord Provost and Magistrates, the Lord Dean of Guild, and the Convener of the Trades, attended as visitors of the Stewards. The Earl of Lauderdale presided.

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Centenary Anniversary-Tuesday the 6th of June, being the centenary anniversary of the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian knowledge, a most excellent discourse was preached before the Society, &c. in the High Church, by the Rev. Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, Bart. from Colossians, There is no institution whatever that has had so great an effect in promoting religion and virtue, and in civilising the people in different parts of the country, as this excellent Society has had, during the hundred years in which it has been established. Some gentlemen came upwards of forty miles to attend the centenary. After divine service, the Society dined together at Oman's tavern, the Right Hon. Lord Napier, his Majesty's Commissioner for the Church of Scotland, in the Chair. The Society spent a most agreeable day, such as the feelings arising from so benevolent an institution were calculated to inspire.

LUNATIC ASYLUM.

On Thursday June 8. the foundation stone of a Lunatic Asylum, at Edinburgh, was laid by the Right Hon. the Lord Provost, accompanied by the

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The foundation stone is laid in an inclosure of four acres in extent, at Morningside, about two miles from Edinburgh. On the foundation stone was cut the following inscription:

"An Asylum for the cure or relief of mental derangement, founded June 8, 1809, by the Right Hon. William Coulter, Lord Provost of the city of Edinburgh."

In a hole, cut in the foundation stone, was deposited a tin box, containing a copy of the plan and elevation of the intended building, of the royal charter, of the address to the public, &c. The ceremony was concluded by an appropri ate and impressive prayer from the Rev. Dr Campbell, one of the ministers of Edinburgh.

The great object of this much wanted institution is, to afford every possible advantage in the treatment of insanity. The unfortunate patients may be put under the care of any medical practitioner in Edinburgh whom the relations may chuse to employ; while paupers will be attended, gratis, by physicians and surgeons appointed by the Managers.

To the subscriptions already collected at Edinburgh, for the erection of this building, upwards of eleven hundred pounds have lately been added from Madras; but for completing the plan, farther aid is still necessary.

UNIVERSITY OF Edinburgh.

On Saturday June 24. the Senatus burgh conferred the degree of Doctor Academicus of the University of Edinin Medicine on the following gentlemen, after having gone through the appointed examinations, and publicly defended. their inaugural dissertations:

From Portugal.-John Climac dos Reys.
From the West Indies.
1. H. Cutting, of Bar-Daniel Wane, Hug
badoes
Jo. Carey, of Jamaica Patrick M'Kenzie
gins, of St Vincent
James T. B. Watt, of Samuel Woodcock
J. Daniell

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June 30.-The election of a Member of Parliament for the Glasgow district of burghs, in room of Mr Campbell of Blythswood, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds, took place at Rutherglen, when A lexander Houstoun, Esq. of Clerkington, was elected. The burghs of Glasgow, Dumbarton, and Renfrew, voted for Mr Houstoun, and the burgh of Rutherglen for William Stirling, Esq. of Eldershaw. A protest was taken by Mr Stirling against the return of Mr Houstoun, on the ground

of a collusion between him and the late member.

MARRIAGES.

July 14. At St Andrew's, the Rev Mr Stirling, minister of Cargill, to Miss Margaret Adamson.

17. At Stirling, Lieut. Donald Maclauchlane, of the 75th regiment, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Mr Archibald Sawers, of that place.

21. At Girvan, Mr John Rowan, merchant, to Agnes, eldest daughter of Bailie Thomas Ballantine.

21. At Lasswade, the Rev. James Young, minister of Eckford, to Harriet, eldest daughter of Mr Hume, schoolmaster.

24. At Myres, Fifeshire, Mr Jas. Thomson, clerk to the signet, to Miss Moncrieff, daughter of the late Patrick Moncrieff of Reidie, Esq.

24. At Stitchel, the Rev. David Gordon, minister of Morebattle, to Janet, daughter of the Rev. Andrew Scott, minister of Stitchel.

25. At Edinburgh, Mr George Simpson, cast-iron founder, to Miss Sally Dilworth, daughter of James Dilworth, Esq. of Lan

caster.

31. At ditto, Mr Henry Moncreiff, writer to the signet, to Miss Charlotte Erskine Rollo, daughter of the late Hugh Jas. Paterson Rollo, Esq.

31. At Meadow Park, John Warden, Esq. merchant, Glasgow, to Bethia, eldest daughter of James Carrick, Esq. Meadow Park.

At Catterick, James Kirkstopp, Esq. of the Spittal, Northumberland," to Eliza, youngest daughter of the late Sir Alexander Livingstone, Bart. of West Quarter.

The Rev. Archibald Douglas, Rector of Carnallway and Oughtreach, in Ireland, to the Right Hon. Lady Susan Drew, daughter of the late Earl of Dunmore.

At Kinsale, Lieut. Joint of the Roscom. mon militia, to Miss Fraser, daughter of Lieut.-Colonel Fraser of the Fraser Fenci

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Aug. 1. At Glasgow, Mr Hugh Foulds, bleacher, Arthurlee, to Clementina, daughter of Ronald Macdonell, Esq. of Scothouse.

2. At Edinburgh, Mr James Auld, late of the island of Jamaica, to Miss Nicholas Campbell, Union Street.

2. At ditto, Lieut. Alexander Aitken, Madras infantry, to Janet, only daughter of the deceased John Aitken, Esq. of Thorn

ton.

7. At Jedburgh, Mr William Borthwick, merchant there, to Miss Robison, daughter of Mr Richard Robison.

7. At Cardoness House, Andrew Watson, Esq. younger of Bridge Castle, writer to the signet, to Miss Harriet Maxwell, third daughter of Sir David Maxwell, Bart. of Cardoness.

BIRTHS,

July 14. the Lady of Brigadier-General Skinner, a son.

20. At Bath, the Lady of Capt. A. G. Fisher, a daughter.

21. At the Vice-Regal Lodge, Phoenix Park, Dublin, her Grace the Duchess of Richmond, a daughter.

22. At Edinburgh, the Lady of Major Innes, 24th regiment, a son.

24. Near Edinburgh, Mrs Campbell, wife of Major Colin Campbell, late of the 60th regiment, a son.

28. At Bræhead; Mrs Dennistoun, young er of Colgrain, a son.

29. At London, the Lady of Alexander M'Leay, Esq. of the Transport Office, of a son, being her fifteenth child.

30. The wife of John Mackelvie, collier at Hurleford, parish of Riccarton, of two girls and a boy, who, with the mother, are all doing remarkably well.

31. At Meadow Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Colonel Lauriston, a daughter.

Aug. 1. At Dunbar barracks, the Lady of Capt. Walter Brown, of the Edinburgh militia, a daughter.

3. At Louth Hall, the Lady of the Right Hon. Lord Baron Louth, a son and heir. 4. At Edinburgh, the Lady of George Bell, Esq, surgeon, a son.

8. At ditto, Mrs Graham Stirling, of Duchray and Auchyle, a son.

DEATHS.

March 1808. On his passage to the Cape, where he was going for the recovery of his health, Mr Francis Strahan, of the Hon. East India Company's service, Madras.

Dec. 20. Henry Brown, Esq. Commercial President at Ramnaad, India.

On his passage from India, for the reco

very of his health, in his 21st year, Charles Stuart, Esq. second son of Sir John Stuart of Allanbank, Bart.

May 9. 1809. At Barbadoes, R. Stewart, Ensign in the Royal West India Rangers, and Assistant Secretary to General Beckwith, son of Mr Patrick Stewart jun, merchant, Perth.

15. At Edinburgh, aged two years, Alexander; and on 28th July, aged four years, Thomas, sons of Mr Thomas Mason, Register Office, Edinburgh.

June 5. At Fort Royal Martinique, after an illness of four days, of a violent fever, Miss Ramsay, aged 18, only daughter of General Ramsay, Adjutaut-General to the Forces in the Leeward and Windward islands.

8. At -in America, Thomas Paine, the celebrated author of many singular political works upon republican principles.

15. At Manse of Aberdour, the Rev. Andrew Youngson, minister of that parish, in the 83d year of his age, and 43d of his ministry. He was long and severely distressed, but bore his afflictions with the greatest fortitude.

18. At Irvine, in the 89th year of his age, Charles Fleeming, Esq. of Montgo meryfield. At an early period of his life he went out in the expedition to Carthagena, under Admiral Vernon, as a surgeon in the navy: when the fleet returned to Jamaica, his ship, with many others, was lost in the dreadful hurricane that happened at that time; he then came to Europe, but was taken on his passage, and carried into Morlaix, from whence he soon after came over, and settled, in Irvine, as a surgeon (in the year 1745,) where he has ever since continued to practise, with much success and reputation, till within a year or two of his death.

28. At Cadiz, Mr Alexander Ettles, aged 22, of the house of Gordon, Shaw, and Co. son of the late Mr John Ettles of In

verness.

At Montego Bay, Jamaica, William Tharp, Esq. Lieutenant-Colonel of the St James's regiment of militia, who, on his return from reviewing the regiment, was thrown by a young restive horse, and conveyed speechless to his house, in which state he remained till his dissolution.

July 6. At Arndilly, Mrs Johanna Maria Murray, widow of John Stewart, Esq. Judge Advocate General of Bengal.

7. Mr William Barclay Mountney, of the Melpomene frigate, nephew of Sir Robert Barclay, Bart. He lost his life in a recent gallant action with the Russian flotilla in the Baltic.

8. At Paisley, aged 16, Mr John Thomson, stone engraver. 10. At

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July 10. At London, Col. Francis Carruthers, late of the 61st regiment.

12. At Fairley, near Winchester, Mr David Pitcairn, late of Kinnigmond.

14. At Vallay, North Uist, Mrs Macdonald, sen. of Vallay.

17. At Herbertshire Printfield, Mr Rebert Carnie, son of Mr Neil Carnie.

18. At Gorgie, Mr Walter Somerville, baker in Edinburgh.

20. At Edinburgh, Miss Catherine Neilson, daughter of the deceased John Neilson, Esq. of Corsock.

21.At Girvan, Ann Rodger, aged 96. 21. At Oxford, in the 27th year of his age, the Rev. Alex. M'Kenzie of Christ Church, A. M. and son of John M'Kenzie, Esq. Bishopgate Street, London.

21. At Melrose, Mr Hugh Cairncross, architect, Edinburgh.

21. At Glasgow, Mr John Scrymgeour, bookseller, and printer to the Universisy.

21. At Northbar, Robert Corse Buchanan, only son of James Buchanan, Esq. of Northbar, in the 13th year of his age. 22. Mr William Kennedy, late merchant Berbice.

23. At Edinburgh, Mrs Penelope Hazell, wife of Dr Hazell of South Carolina, and daughter of the late Bentley Gordon Bently, Esq.

23. At Milntown Printfield, Mr Robert Miller.

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24. At Dublin, Thomas Fleming, Esq; one of the Aldermen of that city. His death was occasioned by a melancholy accident: He was preparing to make a summer excursion to Wexford, and was examining his travelling pistols, previous to his setting out, when one of them went off, and the ball entered below his nostril, penetrated the brain, and produced immediate death. He died in very affluent circumstances, and was a very useful, upright, and active Magistrate.-During the dreadful year of 1798, he was Lord Mayor of Dublin, and eminently serviceable to his fellow-citizens in that period of peril and difficulty.

24. At Balquhain, in the 62d year of his age, Mr Alexander Hall, merchant, Fisher

row.

25. At Blandfield, Christiana Warwick, eldest daughter of Mr Thomas Jameson,

Leith.

25. At Edinburgh, Mrs Janet Reid, wife of Mr Allan Bar, manufacturer.

26. At Dundee, in the 17th year of her age, Miss Mary Doig, daughter of the Rev. Robert Doig, minister of Trinity Chapel, Aberdeen.

27. At Bathgate, Mr John Dick, tanner. 30. At Sherriffston, John Forsyth, Esq. late merchant, and agent for the Bank of Scotland in Elgin.

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We shall be happy to insert, in our next, the communication relative to the
Orphan Hospital.

The curious article, which the Earl of Buchan has done us the honour to
transmit to us, will also appear in our next.

Several other pieces are received, and are under consideration.

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