ten days. Some hogs which ate of the flesh of the cow also died.

Sept. 21. At Kingston, Jamaica, Mr Richard Syme, Captain of the Adeona of Dumfries, and third son of John Syme, Esq. of Ryedale.

29. At George Town, Demerary, Colin Campbell, Esq. of Good Success, Issequibo.

Nov. 9. At Dundee, Dr Andrew Ross, physician, aged 71.

17. At Glasgow, Mr George Mercer, merchant, aged 39.

18. At Selkirk manse, Mrs Robertson, wife of Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Robertson, of the Bengal engineers.

19. At her house in Stirling, Miss Jaffray, Glassingall.

20. At Dunkeld, Mr Charles Leslie, surgeon, R.N. aged 42.

21. At Stranraer, Mr Thomas Baird, merchant, aged 82 years.

22. At Leith, Mrs Rebecca Wightman, aged 92. -At Abbotshall manse, Dr James Whytt, formerly of Charles Street, Edinburgh.

At Speddoch Mill, Holywood, at an advanced age, Mrs John Callender, daughter of the late Dr James Callender, and grand-daughter of the late Rev. James Hill, Kirkpatrick, Durham. Mrs Callender had children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, amounting to 15.

23. Mrs Jane Fleming, relict of the late William Scott, Esq. formerly of Madeira.

24. At Achairn, in the parish of Wick, in the 100th year of his age, Mr Wm. Mackay, late tacksman of Achoul, Strathnaver.

25. At Peterhead, John Harlaw, Esq. aged 80. 26. At Dumfries, after a short illness, Colonel Arente Schulyer De Peyster, at the advanced age, it is believed, of 96 or 97 years. For more than fourscore years he held the Royal commission, and in the course of the long and active career, commanded at Detroit, Michelimackinac, and other parts of Upper Canada, during the most stormy period of the American war, and among nations not only fierce and savage, but decidedly hostile to the British Government.-Among his other services, the late Colonel de Peyster at one time commanded the garrison at Plymouth, and while discharging that duty, he had occasion to be introduced to the Prince of Wales, then, it is presumed, a very young man.-This circumstance his Majesty perfectly remembered, and while conversing with the Marquis of Queensberry, during his late visit to Scotland, he very kindly inquired whether his old friend the Colonel was still alive. His Lordship replied in the affirmative, and at the same time stated, that nothing but the advanced age and growing infirmities of his spouse had prevented him from visiting Holyrood on so interesting an occasion. "Well," said his Majesty, "I am very sorry for it; they were always loving, and now must be a truly venerable couple, for one of the oldest things I remember is having danced Monimusk with Mrs de Peyster."

27. John Dun Stewart, Esq. of Tonderghie. 28. At Bath, Don Francisco Antonio Zea, Minister of the Columbian Republic. His health had been in a declining state for more than 12 months.

- At Dublin, the Hon. and Rev. L. Hely Hutchinson, youngest brother of the Right Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore.

At 66. Great King Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Eleanor Roper, spouse of Mr John Paton, builder, in the 45th year of her age. Her death has deprived eleven children of an affectionate parent, and a numerous acquaintance of a sincere friend. -At London, Sarah, wife of Captain Edmund Buchan Craigie, of the Bengal Establishment. 30. At Edinburgh, George Winton, Esq. architect.

-At Muirhead of Pitcullo, James Walker, Esq. of Muirhead.

Dec. 1. At Provan Place, Glasgow, Mr John Stenhouse, merchant, in the 80th year of his age. - At Burntisland, Charles Stewart, late master of his Majesty's revenue cutter Princes Royal. - At Brechin, George Anderson, Esq. writer

Dec. 2. At Backhill of Carberry, near Musselburgh, Mrs Susannah Spalding, wife of Mr Alex. Vernor.

-At Campfield, Wm. Scott, Esq. of Campfield. 3. At Edinburgh, Mr John Caird, many years Surveyor of Taxes in this city.

5. At Peterhead, John Forbes, M.D. -At Glasgow, Boyd Dunlop, Esq.

-At Grangemouth, Robert Wood, shipmaster, Dunbar.

-At his house in Merion Square, Dublin, William Jameson, Esq.

6. At Peterhead, Mr James Anderson, sen. merchant there.

-At Retreat, by Dunbar, Thomas H. Coles, Esq. after a long and painful illness, which he sustained with great patience and resignation.

7. At his house, in Ilanover Street, Dr Andrew Wardrop.

At Burrowmuirhead, Lieut. Edward Wightman, of the royal marines.

At Stoke Newington, John Aiken, M.D. &c. in his 76th year; a man whose literary life was devoted, with undeviating consistency, to the support of moral truth, and the best interests of mankind.

8. At Newbyth, Miss Sidney Baird, daughter of the late William Baird, of Newbyth, Esq.

9. At Dundee, Alexander Riddoch, Esq. of Black Lunan, in the 78th year of his age. Mr Riddoch repeatedly held the office of chief Magistrate of Dundee, and was for many years one of the deputy Lieutenants of Forfarshire.

At Dumfries, the Rev. Samuel M'Knight, after a lingering illness.

- Dr Henderson, of Westertown, deeply regretted by a numerous circle of friends.

10. At Inverness, Mrs Jane Fraser, widow of the late Hugh Fraser, Esq. of Struy, in the 66th year of her age.

-At his residence at Walton, the Right Hon. Charles, Earl of Tankerville, Baron Ossuiston, &c. &c. He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his son Charles Augustus, Lord Ossulston, Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed.

-At Auchindinny Mill. Mrs Agness Aikman, wife of Mr George Laing, paper manufacturer.

11. At Port-Glasgow, Charles Anstruther, Esq.

merchant.

12. At Mill of Allardyce, near Bervie, Mr Robert Milne, farmer, in the $21 year of his age; and, at Bervie, on the 7th current, Mrs Barclay, his sister, aged 91. It is remarkable that Mr Milne, in the course of his long life, never slept out of his own house but one night, on which occasion he had come to Falkirk tryst to purchase cattle, and returned home to the neighbourhood of Bervie next day.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs L. F. Kennedy, relict of Licut.-Col. Kennedy, of the 19th light dragoons,

14. At her house, Prince's Street, Edinburgh, Mrs Maitland, widow of the late Major Robert Maitland, and daughter of the late Nathaniel Gordon, Esq. of Whitehill, Lanarkshire.

At Bailieston House, Archibald Coats, Esq. 15. At Burnfoot, parish of Stapleton, Cumberland, Mr George Forster, at the great age of 103. He retained his mental faculties to the last, and was so little failed in bodily powers as to assist in getting in the late harvest. Above 80 years ago he was a grocer and spirit-dealer in Newcastle; and on that account was called the "Old Merchant" till his death. Though addicted to the use of ardent spirits, he never experienced sickness in his life.

16. At Eweford, Mr James Waterston, farmer. --At Brompton, William Henry Boys, Esq. se. cond Lieutenant-Colonel of the marines quartered at Chatham.

17. At Southampton, aged 26, Charles K. Young. Esq. son of the late Professor Young of Glasgow.

At Colinton Bank, James Weddell, Esq. of Pendriech.

At Dunfermline, Mr John Hutton, writer. -At Cumnock, the Rev. David Wikon.

At Glasgow, Mr Robert Streng, merchant. 19. At Edinburgh, Wm. Jobson, Esq. of Locho.e. 20. At his residence Ranelagh House, Chelsea, in the 60th year of his age, General Wilford, Colonel of the 7th dragoon guards.