age, and 45th of his ministry. He is well known to the learned by his papers in the printed transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of which he was a member. In his private character he was greatly distinguished by an unvarying and affectionate attachment to his relatives and friends, and a mild but persevering exertion to encourage and assist the friendless and deserving. Aug. 8. At Dunstaffnage Castle, Lieutenant Donald Macdougall, Royal Navy. 9. At Stonehouse, Ensign Thomas Millar, Royal Lanark militia, son of Thomas Millar, Esq. of Newfield. At Ayr, Mr Richard Polson, innkeeper. On going over the old bridge, finding himself unwell, he turned to go home, but before he reached his own house, was seized with an apoplectic fit, of which he died in a few hours. 12. At Brighton, in the 44th year of his age, Francis James Jackson, Esq. late his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States of America. At Dundee, Mrs Helen Murray, widow of the late Henry Crawford, of Monorgan, Esq. in the 88th year of her age. 13. At Stirling, Alexander Cuningham, writer, much and justly regretted. Lately, R. Ladbrooke, Esq. He has left property to the amount of £.400,000, acquired chiefly by commerce. At Calcutta, J. Blyth, Esq. in the 78th year of his age, formerly a commander in the country service. Captain Blythe went to India in 1763, and by industry and economy accumulated a large fortune, of which he has bequeathed £.10,000 to Greenwich Hospital; the principal part of the remain Prices of Stocks. der, amounting to nine or ten lacks of ru pees, is left to his grandchildren. Lately, Captain William Greig, son of Wm. Greig, Esq. Gayfield Place, Edinburgh. At Drumcondra, near Dublin, in his 112th year, James Beaty, farmer, a native of Noyalty, in the county of Meath, where he worked as a weaver in his early yearsAt the time of his death he had three sons by three different wives, the eldest 84, and the youngest seven; the mother of whom is a fine young woman, and was particularly at tached to her husband, which she proved till his death, by the most unremitting kindness and affection. He was a hard drinker til he was 60; since that, had uniformly drank three pints of porter, two glasses of whisky, walked eight miles, and shaved himself every day, even within two days of his deHe never lost a tooth. - cease. At Lochmaben, in January last, in the 116th year of his age, William Ruthven, who was born at Whiteshawgate, in the parish of Avondale, in May 1698. As there was then no register of births kept in that parish, his name does not stand on record; but, from the period of his birth having been written on a blank leaf of his mother's Bible, and from the time he was in the army, and other circumstances, he satisfied the people of that parish that he was in or about that age. He was long a cooper at the Bridge end of Dumfries, and, for many years be fore his death, he travelled the country, in summer, with his relations, who are tinkers. When he last visited his native place, in April 1813, he was in his ordinary good health, and sound in his judgment-though he had been long blind, and a little para. lytic. Prices of Grain per quarter Corn Exchangt, London. Barley. Oats. Pease. Sept. 5. 254 24 disc. 65 12. Sept. 5. 42 82 28 36 17 26 139 50 17 26 39 50 19. 20 30 † 43 52 20 29 40 50 E Prices of Grain at Haddington. 1814. Wheat. Barley. | Oats. | Perse. Bolls. Price. 28 32 19 23 123 Sept. 6. 310 17 16 61 13 Sept. 2. 36 42 28 32 22 25 18 2 13. 37 42 28 32 20 24 Í 17 21 16. 36 42 28 32 23. 36 42 26 30 SCOTS MAGAZINE, AND Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, FOR OCTOBER 1814. With a View of KILWINNING STEEPLE. CONTENTS: Page ib. Register of the Weather for October,... 722 High Water at Leith for November,.... Description of Kilwinning Steeple, with 724 HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. 725 an Account of its recent Fall,......... 723 Abstract of Mr Bald's mineral Survey of the Tract of the Canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow proposed by Mr Rennic...... -Comparative View of the above Line with that of the proposed Union Canal. By Mr Paterson,...... Monthly Memoranda in Nat. History, 733 Notices of Eminent Characters recently deceased, Captain Flinders,.......... 735 Commercial Intelligence, ........ Correspondence on the proposed Union Canal, (concluded,)......... Inquiries respecting the Temples, as well as the Judicial and Religious Circles of the Druids, (concluded,)... 739 Parliamentary Report on Weights and Measures,....... 736 737 -His Voyage to Elba,.................. -His last general Order,...... -Declaration and Proclamation of Louis XVIII.,..................................... 774 775 776 -Public Rights of the French,......... 777 -General Treaty of Peace with France and the Allied Powers.......... AMERICAN WAR. Official Details from the London Gazette,............. 782 -Capture of Washington,...... -Successful Expedition to the Penobscot,.......... ib. 786 -Unsuccessful attack on Fort Erie,... 788 Accounts from Spain, Holland, and Germany,......... Domestic Intelligence.-Lord Cochrane, 789 790 -Ireland,............. SCOTTISH CHRONICLE. |