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were gilded with the prospect, and cheered with the acclamations of victory.-Like Wolfe, also, his memory will for ever remain sacred in that country which he sincerely loved, and which he so faithfully served."

While his untimely fall is thus lamented, let his country do justice to his merits. "I hope the people of England will be satisfied,I hope my country will do me justice," were among the last words of the expiring hero. Yes, illustrious spirit! thy country is satisfied, and thy countrymen will do thee justice. Actuated by the glorious motives which influenced all thy conduct, let them renounce the intrigues and violence of parties; and, like thee, seek the glory and the interest of their country, by a life devoted to her service. May thy proud atchievements inspire them with virtuous emulation, to excel in what is beneficial to the state; may thy career of glory teach them to follow thy footsteps for its attainment; and, if doomed like thee to perish in the hallowed field of glory, may they, like thee, exclaim," I have always wished to die in this manner." Thus the surest barrier of national defence will be formed; which, amidst the wreck of expiring kingdoms and subversion of empires, will bid defiance to the tyrant of France, and may, at last, open the for the salvation of bleeding way Europe. Edinburgh, 15th Feb. 1809.

Proceedings of the HIGHLAND CIETY of SCOTLAND.

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of one hundred, and, among others, the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Cathcart, Lord Viscount Duncan, Lord Robert Kerr, Lord Seaforth, Lord Macdonald, Sir John Sinclair, and Sir Alexander Macdonald Lockhart, Baronets, with many of the most considerable landed Proprietors in the country, Gentlemen of rank in the army, and of the law, and commercial interest. The Right Hon. Lord Viscount CATHCART, Vice-President, in the Chair.

Before proceeding to other business, Mr Macdonald, the treasurer, read to the meeting a letter from his Grace the Duke of Athol, president of the Society, stating his regret at being prevented from attending the Society on this occasion, being detained on particular business in the country.His Grace, at same time, expressed the anxious interest he takes in the prosperity of the Society, and his desire to promote its patriotic views, which gave satisfaction to the meeting

The Society then proceeded to ballot for new Members, when the following Noblemen and Gentlemen were duly admitted members of the Socie ty, their names ordered to be recorded, and public notifications of their election given, viz.

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Right Hon. Robert Lord Viscount DunJ. E. Lieut.-General the Hon. John Leslie Major the Hon. Charles Cathcart

The Hon. William Mackenzie of Seaforth

Sir James Dunbar of Durn, Bart. So- Vice Admiral of the Blue Sir William George Fairfax, Banneret

HE anniversary general Meeting of this Society, agreeable to the Charter, was held in their Hall, High Street, Edinburgh, on Tuesday, January 10th, at which there was a very respectable and full attendance of the Members, to the number of upwards

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Robert Stewart, Esq. of Alderstone
Adam Gillies, Esq. Advocate, Sheriff-
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Henry Home Drummond, Esq. young-
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John Stewart Esq. of Binny
William Spalding, Esq. of Glenkillry

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The Society next took under consideration the proceedings of their Directors since the general meeting in June last, and approved of their continued attention to different objects of improvement, as appeared from the premiums voted by them, for the year 1808, for raising green crops, meliorating the breed of cattle, to ploughmen for improvement in plough ing, and for the introduction of woollen manufactories into the Highlands; also, for essays, containing information on different useful subjects. The Meeting directed a list of these premiums, with the names of the persons to whom they had been adjudg-ed, to be published in the newspapers; and the Society approved of the zeal and attention shown by the Conveners March 1809.

of Committees, and other resident Members of the Society in the country, who had paid proper attention to the black cattle and ploughing competitions, the last of which had been found to excite much emulation and approbation in the districts in which they had been given. The Meeting were gratified to find, that in several districts the country gentlemen and farmer societies had begun competitions of this sort; and that the exertions of these societies, in promoting improvement in agriculture, were found to be very beneficial in the districts where they had been instituted.

The Society having, at last general meeting, voted premiums for the erection of machinery, and the introduction, into Kintyre, Argyllshire, of a manufactory for carding and spinning of wool, and making the same into cloth; it appeared, by a letter from he had already, besides the operations Mr D. Clark of Campbelltown, that of carding and spinning, manufactured nearly 2000 yards of cloth, and would soon be able to carry on this useful branch upon a more extensive scale. The Meeting referred Mr Clark's letter, with one from Mr Thomas Parker of Yorkshire, relative to the introduction among the tenantry in the Highlands, of small machines, or frames, for the spinning of wool, and the proper mode of sorting, or stapling it, to the Directors; and the Meeting expressed their acknowledgements to Mr Parker for this communication.

The Society also approved of the resolution of the Directors, to vote a premium of twenty guineas, to Mr James Veitch, at Inchbouny, near Jedburgh, for an improved plough, constructed by him, and other machinery. These had been examined and tried by Lord Viscount Cathcart, who took the trouble of acting as Convener, assisted by other resident Members of the Society; and, from a very accurate report, given in by his Lord

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ship to the Directors, it appeared that Mr Veitch's plough is of light draught, executes its work in a superior manner, and is particularly steady and firm in the ground. The Meeting, at the same time that it adjudged the above-mentioned premium to Mr Veitch, voted the thanks of the Society to Lord Cathcart, for the trouble his Lordship had so readily taken in the business.

A plan for the establishment of a Caledonian Asylum in London, for the maintenance and education of the sons and daughters of Scottish sailors, soldiers, and marines, brought for ward by the Highland Society of London, and communicated by them to this Society, through Sir John Sinclair, Bart. was laid upon the table, with the report from the Directors thereupon. It is proposed that, in this institution, besides reading, writing, and arithmetic, the boys shall receive such preparatory instructions as may be necessary to qualify them for the royal navy, the army, merchant service, or the fisheries. The girls also to receive an education suited to their situation in life; and for the purpose of bringing up the children in habits of industry, it is sed to introduce into the establish ment certain manufactures or mecha nic arts, adapted to their subsequent pursuits in life. Due attention is also to be paid to the morals and religious tuition of the children. Contributors to this benevolent Asylum are to have votes in the management of it, with the privilege of presenting children for admission. The Society unani mously expressed its highest approbation of the establishment of such an Asylum, and their satisfaction, that so many Noblemen and Gentlemen of this society had already come forward in its support. While the object of it is humane and laudable, it appears peculiarly proper to provide for the families of Scots soldiers, sailors, and marines, who have on every

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occasion upheld the high military fame acquired by their ancestors.Therefore, and as the plan of this institution seems well calculated for attaining its purpose, the Society take the liberty of recommending the establishment as an object worthy of encouragement and patronage from the Members of this Society and the Public.

The attention of the Society was now called to the highly meritorious and spirited conduct of two individuals, who, among many others of our gallant countrymen, had particularly distinguished themselves at the battle of Vimiera, so as to attract the notice of Major-General Ferguson, under whose command the 71st Highland Regiment, to which they belonged, had been placed. General Ferguson, in his letter, states, that Angus MacKay (then a corporal in the 71st Regiment, but who had since been very deservedly promoted to a commission) was the person who had, on the above occasion, refused to accept of the French General Bernier's watch and purse, when tendered to him by that Officer, at the time he was taken prisoner-and that Geo. Clark, the piper of the grenadier company of the same regiment, had, after being severely and dangerously wounded, continued to play upon his pipe, to animate the men. General Ferguson expresses a hope that this Society would confer some public mark of its approbation upon those men for their conduct.

The meeting, with much approbation, and agreeably to the suggestion of the Directors, unanimously resolved, that a Gold Medal, with suitable device and inscription, should be presented by the Society to Mr MacKay, as a mark of the sense the Society entertains of his meritorious, manly, and disinterested conduct, as above stated; and, that a handsome stand of Highland pipes, with a proper scription engraved thereon, shall be given to Clark, the piper, for his

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highly spirited and laudable conduct at the battle of Vimiera.

A memorial and representation, from the adventurers in the herring fishery at the port of Campbeltown, relative to the act passed last Session of Parliament, for the encouragement and regulation of that fishery, was laid before the Meeting. The Society directed the Secretary to inform those concerned in that trade, that, under the said act, a Board having been now established at Edinburgh, specially for the purpose of the white herring fishery, the Society considered that Board the proper channel to which representations and communications on the subject of the herring fishery should, in future, be addressed, in place of this Society.

A letter from Robert Rennie, D. D. minister of Kilsyth, to the Secretary, was laid before the Meeting, stating, that he expects soon to be able to publish the additional parts of his work on the important subject of Peat Moss as a Manure and as a Soil, which is intended to be dedicated to

this Society. The Meeting was pleased to find that this treatise was in such forwardness, as Dr Rennie has paid much attention to, and takes an extensive view of the subject.

Mr Macdonald, the Treasurer, congratulated the Society upon its flourishing state, and increase of its funds, as recapitulated by him, and appeared from an accurate state thereof, prepared by Mr Wilson, accountant in Edinburgh, the Society's Auditor of Accounts, upon the table. From the liberal support which the Society continues to receive from the Noblemen and Gentlemen of Scotland, and even of England, as this day's ballot evinces, the Meeting were enabled to vote a considerable sum, to be laid out by the Directors in encouraging proper objects of improvement, by premiums, in the year 1809.

The Society having proceeded, on the motion of the Treasurer, to the

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Mr John Campbell, Translator of the Gaelic Language, in place of the Rev. Mr M'Intosh, deceased.

Besides thirty Ordinary Directors, chiefly resident in Edinburgh, for ma naging the affairs of the Society, whereof seven go out by rotation an nually, the Meeting also made choice of the following Noblemen and Gentlemen as Extraordinary Directors, several of whom are only occasionally in town, and cannot regularly attend the stated meetings:-viz.

His Grace the Duke of Argyll
Right Hon. the Earl of Dalhousie
Right Hon. Lord Gray

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Sir William Bruce of Stenhouse, Bart. Sir James Montgomery of Stanhope, Bart.

Sir Alexander Macdonald Lockhart of

Lee and Carnwath, Bart. John Francis Erskine, Esq. of Marr James Ross Farquharson, Esq. of In.

vercauld, Captain Royal Navy Thomas Miller, Esq. of Glenlee.

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munications from Sir John Sinclair, Bart. and Mr Henderson at Brechin Castle, upon the cultivation of spring wheat, and the smut in wheat; and from Mr Wilson of Kelvinbank, relative to oak and fir woods. The Meeting then voted the thanks of the Society to Lord Viscount Cathcart, for his conduct in the chair, and the support given by his Lordship, on every occasion, for promoting the views of the institution.

formed various ablutions; the Brahs mins all this time, as well as at her arrival at the pile, prostrating themselves at her feet, as to a superior being. At her return from the river, she sat down near the opening of the pile, and the body of her husband was placed beside her. The body was then uncovered, on which she, with one of the most emphatic, expressive smiles I ever saw, bowed her head towards his face, and said in a mild tone of voice, in the Moorish language, "Ah, my husband!" Her look to me indicated more; as though she would have said

Account of an INDIAN woman burning Never mind, my husband, we shall

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(From an East India Paper.)

Surat, June 30. 1808. YESTERDAY, a Suttee, or ceremony of a Brahmin woman burning herself with the body of her deceased husband, took place at Phooltarah, a village about two miles from Surat, on the banks of the Taptie. I went there very early, and arrived at the spot long before any preparations were made for the approaching solemnity. At length twelve slight poles were fixed as uprights in the ground, round which a wall of Jewarrie stalks was placed, as was a roof also of the same stalk, forming a shed of six or seven feet square, and about six feet high, with a small door-way facing the river. A platform, or bed, was then formed of billets of wood, six feet long, and between two and three feet wide, and two feet high. This was the funeral pile. In a short time after, the body of the deceased arrived, preceded by tomtoms, and followed by the Suttee, surrounded by Brahmins, and attended by her son, a youth of about 18 years. The deceased was an old man, with gray hairs, the woman appeared about forty, and was very stout. She sat down before the door of the pile, and after performing a few ceremonies, she attended the body of her husband to the river, where she per

not be long separated.-The body of the deceased was then carried into the inclosure, and placed lengthway on the funeral pile. She then went thro various mysteries and ceremonies, too intricate for me to understand; but among others she poured Ghee several times on the sacred fire which was placed before her, when her son took some of the ashes and put them in her mouth, which she swallowed. She then drank three separate times of consecrated water. On returning the Loote to one of the officiating Brahmins, he found a little left, which he swallowed with uncommon avidity; she then received a few rupees at two different times from her son, and presented them as offerings to the Priests.

Three female relations were then allowed to approach her; they threw themselves at her feet, and seemed imploring for something; she touched all their foreheads, and gave each some grass, rice and flour, and they departed. I must not omit mentioning, that blades of grass, were invariably used even in the most trifling ceremonies.

She was then decorated with a necklace of camphire, and bracelets of the same-as also a wreath forming a turban, indicative of her throwing off the nature of womanhood, and assuming that of the man; all these mysteries being concluded, she arose, and prepared to walk round the pile

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