June 2, At Queen Street, the lady of E. W. H. Schenley, Esq. of a daughter. 5. At Portobello, the Countess of Kintore, of a daughter. At Grandholm Cottage, the lady of Lieut.Colonel Lindsay, 78th Highlanders, of a daugh ter. 7. At Edinburgh, the lady of John Hay, Esq. of the East India Company's service, of a daugh ter. -At Craigie Manse, Mrs Dr Stirling, of a daughter. 9. At Links Place, Leith, Mrs Donaldson, of a son. 10. The lady of Warren Hastings Sands, Esq. writer to the signet, of a son. -Mrs Jolly, 20, Windsor Street, of a daughter. 11. At Greenhead, Glasgow, the lady of Captain T. D. Stewart of the Bengal Cavalry, of a son. 12. At Edinburgh, Mrs Johnstone, Albany Street, of a son. 13. At Park House, Kent, the lady of Sir Henry R. Calder, Bart. of a son. 15. In Lower Mount Street, Dublin, the Hon.. Mrs James Caulfield, royal navy, of a son. ter. 16. Mrs Borthwick, 83, George Street, of a son... 17. At Edinburgh, Mrs Snells, of a daughter. 19. At Rafford Manse, Mrs Mackay, of a daugh 20. At North Berwick, Mrs Hawthorn, of a son. - In Hill Street, Mrs William Colin Clarke, of a daughter. At Park Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Grant of Congalton, of a son and heir. Mrs Richard Mackenzie, Abercromby Place, of a daughter. 22. Mrs Cook, Northumberland Street, of a son. 23. In Charlotte Square, the Hon. Mrs Duncan, of a son. - At Edinburgh, Mrs Stewart, of Glenormiston, of a son. 24. At his house, at the Admiralty, the lady of Sir George Clerk, Bart. M.P. of a son. 25. At Findrassie House, Mrs Leslie, of Findrassie, of a son. 26. At Dundee, Mrs Mylne, of Mylnefield, of a daughter. 27. At Portobello, the lady of Donald Charles Cameron, Esq. of a son. 28. At Logie, the lady of the Hon. Donald Ogilvy, of Clova, of a son. Mrs Dr Christie, 13, Calton Street, of a son. 30. In Northumberland Street, the lady of George Brodie, Esq. advocate, of a son. - Mrs Lang of Broomhill, of a son. Lately, At the Upper Lodge, Bushy Park, the lady of Colonel Fitzclarence, of a son. MARRIAGES. Nov. 12, 1823. At Masulipatam, Captain Kyd, of the Madras European regiment, to Mary Anne, daughter of George Rose, Esq. of Crookham, Newbury, Dec. 22. At Nusseerabad, William Seton Charters, Esq. M.D. of the Bengal Medical Establishment, to Louisa Scott, youngest daughter of the late George Smith, Esq. of Canton. March 29, 1824, At the Cape of Good Hope, Major Thomas Webster, of Balgarvie, in the service of the Hon. East India Company, to Agnes, daughter of the late John Ross, Esq. Meadow Place, Edinburgh. May 31. Philip Anglin, Esq. M. D. of the island of Jamaica, to Catharine Margaret, eldest daughter of the late Col. John Robertson. 23. In the Isle of Wight, John George Campbell, Esq. lieutenant in the 32d regiment of foot, and youngest son of the late Colonel John Campbell of Shawfield, to Ellen, fourth daughter of Sir Fitzwilliam Barrington, Bart. of Swainston, in the Isle of Wight. 25. At Banff, George Craigie, Esq. M. D. of the Bengal medical service, to Jane, only daughter of John Wilson, Esq. June 1. At Burntsfield Place, William Bowden, Esq. of Hull, to Margaret Sawers, eldest daughter of Archibald Anderson, Esq. At Edinburgh, Dr James Kellie, physician in Dunbar, to Mary, second daughter of the late Mr George Wauchope. At Libberton Place, Mr Thomas Torrance, farmer, Meadow Head, to Margaret, daughter of Mr Bagrie, farmer, Miller Hill. - At Craighead, James Chrystal, Esq. jun. writer in Stirling, to Patricia Bennet, daughter of Robert Banks, E. q. of Craighead. At Drumpellier, Lieutenant John Hay, R.N. to Marion, eldest daughter of David Carrick Buchannan, Esq. of Drumpellier. 2. In Gayfield Square, David Arthur Davies, Esq. surgeon, Llanally, to Spencer Boyd, eldest daughter of Andrew Sievwright, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh. 4. At Edinburgh, Mr John Waddell, Shoemaker, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Mr Lauchlan Wilkie, flesher, Musselburgh. 7. At Tunbridge Wells, William Thomas Thornton, Esq. to Hannah Isabella Cornelia, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Halket Craigie, of Hallhill in the county of Fife. 8. At No. 10, Dublin Street, Mr Alexander Huie, to Eliza Gordon, second daughter of John Edgar, Esq. surgeon, Berwick-upon-Tweed. At Haddington, Mr John Richardson, writer, to Margaret, second daughter of the late Mr Hay Walker, Haddington. -At Perth, Mr Henry Russell, merchant, Dunfermline, to Margaret, fourth daughter of the late Mr George Gray. -At Glasgow, Mr John Honeyman, merchant, Glasgow, to Isabella, eldest daughter of the late Mr Patrick Smith. 9. At Windsor Street, Leith Walk, Mr John Connell, merchant, to Miss Elizabeth Johnson. 11. At Warriston Crescent, David Cannan, Esq. surgeon, to Mary Stewart, eldest daughter of John Reid, Esq. 12. At Edinburgh, A. T. Smith, Esq. surgeon, Kirkaldy to Mary Anne, daughter of James Burn, Esq. manufacturer, Edinburgh. 15. At Pilrig Street, Robert Blackie, Esq. to Eliza, daughter of the late Burridge Purvis, Esq. of Glassmount. -At Summerfield, Leith, Mr William Nelson, merchant, Leith, to Jane, second daughter of Mr James Tait, merchant there. - At Liverpool, William Blair M'Kean, Esq. merchant, Leith, to Marianne, daughter of John M'Culloch, Esq. M.D. Liverpool. 16. At Craighead, Archibald Smith, merchant, Glasgow, to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas MCall, Esq. of Craighead. 18. Mr Robert Dempster, aruggist, to Janet, youngest daughter of Mr William Stark, builder. - At Leith, Mr Alexander S. Bisset, to Frances, eldest daughter of Mr A. Thom, Brechin. - At St George's, Hanover Square, London, Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M. P. to Julia, daughter of Major-General the Hon. Henry Brand. 19. At St George's Church, Hanover Square, London, Captain Fox, son of Lord Holland, to Miss Mary Fitzclarence. The amiable bride was given away by his Royal Highness the Duke of Work and Sir Charles Poole. 21. At Edinburgh, Munro Ross, Esq. of Rosshill, to Grace, youngest daughter of the late John Cumming, Esq. At Park Place, Edinburgh, the Right Hon. the Earl of Leven and Melville, to Elizabeth Anne Campbell, second daughter of the Hon. Lord Succoth. 22. At Glasgow, Thomas Campbell, Esq. to Agnes, second daughter of Kirkman Finlay, Esq. of Castle Toward. - At Cliftonhall Mains, Mr George Lindsay, merchant, Edinburgh, to Agnes, daughter of the late Mr Wm. Thomson, farmer. 24. At Dairsie, Dr James Spence, physician, Cupar, to Robina, daughter of the late Rev. Robert Coutts, one of the ministers of Brechin. 28. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Andrew Kennedy, of Keith, to Miss Mary Mutter. 29. At Maybole Castle, James Dow, Esq. of Montrose, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late William Douglas, Esq. merchant, Leith. Lately, At St George's Hanover Square, London, the Hon. Captain W. L. Fitzgerald de Roos, of the 1st regiment of Life Guards, to Lady Georgiana Lennox, daughter of the Duke of Richmond. DEATHS. Oct. 23, 1823. At Bencoolen, James Patrick Drummond, eldest son of the late James Drummond, Esq. of Comrie, Perthshire. Jan. 2, 1824, At Madras, John Fraser Lane, Esq. Collector of Masulipatam, Hon. East India Company's service. 8. At Ceylon, Dr Thomas J. Wharrie. 12. At Madras, J. Waddell, Esq. 19. At Batavia, Henry Band, son of the late Mr Henry Band, merchant, Leith. 24. At Montreal, suddenly, of asphyxia, the Rev. T. Hill. March 25. At St Andrews, Jamaica, at Islington Pen, at an advanced age, the Hon. James Stewart, custos, and late one of the representatives in the Hon. House of Assembly for that parish. April 23. In Virginia, Dr James Murray Brown. May 19. At Bervie, Dr Robert Napier, deeply regretted. 22. At Leith, Mr Alexander Paterson, ironmonger (late of Stirling ;) and on the 8th June, Alexander, his second son, in his 14th year. -At Bedford Place, Alloa, Captain Robert Henderson. - At Florence, William Crosbie, Esq. his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Tus cany. 25. At Ditton Common, Surrey, David Stewart, Esq. shipowner, St Andrews, Fifeshire. 26. At Montcallier, near Turin, Capel Loft, Esq. an author of great celebrity. 28. At Banff, Mrs Gordon, widow of the Rev. Abercromby Gordon, minister of Banff. -At London, John Locke, M. D. late of Glasgow. 28. At his seat, Hawkstone, Salop, Sir John Hill, Bart. in the 84th year of his age. Sir John is succeeded in the baronetcy and in his extensive estates by his grandson, Rowland, one of the representatives in Parliament for the county of Salop. 28. At Bourdeaux, Charlotte, youngest daughter of Alexander Maclean, Esq. of Ardgour. 29. At Hastings, in Sussex, Robert Alexander Paterson Wallace, Esq. only son of the deceased Major Robert Wallace of the 17th foot, and grandson of the late Alexander Wallace, Esq. banker in Edinburgh. 30. At Kirkaldy, Mr Douglas Morison, merchant. - At Torquay, Devonshire, Miss Euphemia Ballantine, daughter of the late Patrick Ballantine, Esq. of Orchard. 30. At Square Point of Crossmichael, William Rae, Esq. late of Dunjarg. 31. At Bath, the lady of Sir George Abercromby Robinson, Bart. June 1. At Musselburgh Mrs Charles Stewart, jun. At St Andrews, David Meldrum, Esq. of Dron. 2. At Edinburgh, Samuel Watson, Esq. solici tor-at-law. -At Fintry, Stirlingshire, Janet Waters, aged 100. She had 13 children, 53 grand-children, and 40 great-grand-children; total 106. At Dysart, Mrs Grace Reddie, relict of Lieutenant James Black, Royal Navy. 3. At Heatherwick-house, Margaret Milnes, youngest daughter of the late James Milnes, Esq. -At Fyvie, the Hon. Mrs Gordon, relict of General the Hon. William Gordon of Fyvie. - At London, Miss Crachami, the celebrated Sicilian dwarf, (only 19 inches high,) after a short illness, produced by the late changes in the wea ther. She was a most interesting child. 64. 2. At Edinburgh, Daniel Ramsay of Falla, aged 4. At Dalzell house, William, infant son of A. J. Hamilton, Esq. of Dalzell. - At Edinburgh, Mrs Helen Murray, spouse of Mr James Callender, Parliament Stairs. -At Edinburgh, Francis, son of Mr John Howden, jeweller. -At Edinburgh, Mrs Abercrombie, widow of the Rev. George Abercrombie, one of the ministers of Aberdeen. 5. At Bogton, Cathcart, Miss Pagan of Bogton. -At Lauder, Alex. Dawson, Esq. Chief Magistrate of the burgh. 6. At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Johnston, wife of William Johnston, Esq. of Lathrisk. 7. At View Forth, John Henry Thin, son of Mr Thin, architect. At his house, York Place, John Blackwell, Esq. Advocate. 8. At Malvern, Lieut.-Colonel Hugh Houstoun. 9. Suddenly, at his house, in Drury Lane, Mr Oxberry, the comedian. -At Kirkwall, in Orkney, the Rev. Robert Yule, Minister of the Gospel there. In South Audley Street, London, Thomas Chevalier, Esq, Surgeon Extraordinary to the King, and Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the Royal College of Surgeons in London. 10. At Rankeillour House, Mrs Mary Maitland, widow of Charles Maitland, Esq. younger of Rankeillour. 11. Mrs Mary Gordon Porteous, wife of Mr Alex. Callender, surgeon. At Stirling, the Rev. Archibald Bruce, one of the ministers of that parish. At Edinburgh, Thomas Fergusson, Esq. of Baledmund. 13. At his house, Blythswood Place, Glasgow, William Montieth, Esq. - At Canonmills, Margaret, only surviving daughter of Mr Alexander Ritchie. 14. At Thurso, Mrs Pringle, wife of Mr Robert Pringle, Collector of Excise. -At Waukmills of Letham, on the 14th instant, Mr Patrick Stirling, aged 82 years. 15. At Stirling, on the 15th ult. Mrs Gleig, wife of the Right Rev. Bishop Gleig. 16. At No 2, Arniston Place, Major Colin Campbell, of Strachur. At St John's Hill, Robert Home, youngest son of Mr Robert Armstrong, jun. brass-founder. - At Weymouth, George Mellis, Esq. of Perthshire. At Paisley, in the 77th year of his age, John Orr, Esq. formerly Provost of the burgh." -- After a few days illness, at his residence in Lower Grosvenor Street, London, the Right Hon. Lord Henry Thomas Howard Molyneux Howard, Deputy Earl-Marshal of England, and brother to his Grace the Duke of Norfolk. His Lordship represented the city of Gloucester in several Parlia ments, and sat in the present Parliament for Steyning. In Parliament Street, Dublin, Walter Thom, Esq. of Aberdeen, formerly Editor of the Correspondent, and, for the last few years, joint Proprietor and Editor of the Dublin Journal. 19. At his house in Welbeck Street, London, in the 51st year of his age, the Right Hon. Alexander Wentworth, Lord Macdonald, the representative of the ancient Lords of the Isles in Scotland, leaving no family. He is succeeded in his title and estates, by his next brother, the Hon. Major-General Godfrey Bosville. -At her residence, No 13, Seymour Place, Little Chelsea, Donna Maria Theresa del Riego y Riego, widow of General Don Rafael del Riego y Riego. 20. At Bath, the Hon. Alexina Duncan, the eldest daughter of Viscount Duncan. --At Edinburgh, Lieut. John Fraser, formerly of the 71st, thereafter of the 87th regiment of foot. He entered the 71st regiment at the youthful age of sixteen. He passed with approbation through the grades from private to officer in the short space of eight years. His signal bravery at the taking of the Cape of Good Hope induced the Commanding Officer to report him for an officer's commission; for he was one of a party of thirty, who, on that occasion, volunteered to storm a battery, and the only one of the party who survived (but not unwounded) the capture of it. -At Colinton Manse, James, son of the Rev. Lewis Balfour, minister of Colinton. 21. At Scotstown, Alexander Moir, of Scotstown, Esq. 22. At Edinburgh, Mrs Christian Henderson Grandison, widow of the Rev. Joseph Johnston, minister of Innerleithen, Peebles-shire. 23. At Warriston House, Miss Mary Brown, eldest daughter of the late Captain Robert Brown, Leith. 25. At his house, Charlotte Street, Leith, Mr Peter Scott. -At Currie, Mr Thomas Hamilton, sen., late builder in Edinburgh. 26. At Ruchill, Miss Dreghorn, daughter of the late Robert Dreghorn, of Blochairn. -At Stranraer, Provost Kerr, of Stranraer. -At Heatherwick-house, East-Lothian, George, eldest son of Captain W. H. Hardyman, Hon. East India Company's naval service. 30. At Edinburgh, John, youngest son of Mr William Boyd, W. S. --At Burrowmuirhead, Mrs Jane Spottiswood, spouse of Mr John Robertson of Lawhead. Lately, At Paris, General John Murray, aged 85. He had served his Majesty sixty years in different parts of the world, and was twelve years a prisoner in France, under Napoleon's government. His eldest son, Major-General Murray, was late Governor of Demerara. - At No. 1, Salisbury Road, Erskine, R. C. youngest son of John Gordon, Esq. -At Plymouth, Rear-Admiral William Cumming, C. B. Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. Edinburgh. THERE is one quality in the North American character which is generally overlooked, and which I have never perceived in that of any other people to the same degree. It is a sort of serious versatility. The French have a greater, or rather a pleasanter sort, and accommodate themselves more readily to circumstances; and the ancient Greek had an excess of what we call versatility in his temper and power. But, in the Frenchman, it is more of a constitutional habit, a more trivial and less respectable property, than it is in the American; although, to my notion, a thousand-fold more agreeable. And, in the versatility of the Greek, there was always more of the bright, changeable caprice of geniusmore of the spiritual, more of heroic audacity, and less of steady, invincible determination, than in that of the North American. The Frenchman is never without resources, but then his resources are always of a light and brilliant character. It is the smallest possible coinage that can be made use of, which a Frenchman will contrive to disburse in any extremity. He would maintain himself, though he had been a general officer, or peer of the realm, at home, if he were shipwrecked upon a foreign shore, by expedients of which none but a Frenchman would ever dream; nay, give him but one of the silver pennies which are distributed here on VOL. XVI. his Majesty's birth-day, and I would answer for him, in a strange country, if there were no other way, he would maintain himself by making plaster medallions of that little coin. Throw him among savages, and he will teach them to dance, (not that I believe the story of Chateaubriand ;) among wild beasts, and he will find some way of reconciling them to his presence, (where another man would make war upon them outright,) either by pulling thorns out of their feet, or dressing their manes; upon a desolate island, and he will grow old in carving "L'Empereur" upon a cocoa nut, arranging coloured sea-shells into flowers, and birds, with wings like butterflies; or in making clay models of everything upon the island. The basket-maker in the fable was undoubtedly a Frenchman, and the spider that Robert Bruce beheld in the barn, was as undoubtedly a French spider; no other would ever have repeated the same experiment, precisely over and over again, so often. We all know what the versatility of a Frenchman is; and when I call to mind what I have actually seen, nothing that could be said of their power to employ or maintain themselves would seem to be extravagant. I have known a French prisoner spend every leisure hour, for many years, in manufacturing a line-of-battle ship, out of the little splinters of R bone which he found in the soup. I have known another, who began by planting coffee trees, in St Domingo, with his own hand-realized a princely fortune-lost it during some insurrection; began again-became very wealthy-lost that in the same way; narrowly escaped with his life, and a few dollars, to America; began to teach French, while he was precisely in the situation of George, in the Vicar of Wakefield, who set off to teach the Dutchmen English, and never recollected, until he had arrived in Holland, that, to teach them English, he himself should know something of Dutch-realized a little money, and laid it out in a law-suit-in the purchase of claims, which he spent about eighteen or twenty years in bringing to a determination-himself, a great part of the time, upon the water between America and France, with testimony which never failed, for many years, to be informal, inadequate, or inapplicable. But he prevailed after all, and is now independent. This was, perhaps, the most extraordinary case of what I have called serious versatility, in a Frenchman, that was ever known. That a French prisoner of war, a good scaman, (for a Frenchman,) should employ himself, year after year, in miniature ship-building; substituting beef bone for oak timber, and converting what other men would hardly have had the patience or the power to make a tooth-pick of, into accurate and beautiful machinery, is no very surprising matter. There is a sort of serious pleasantry-a kind of busy, industrious trifling in it, altogether French; and very like what one would look for in the occupation of any Frenchman, after the quicksilver of his blood was precipitated by misfortune. It was only the mimickry of naval architecture. But that a West Indian-a planter-and, above all, a Frenchman, should venture to lay out the wreck of his whole fortune upon American justice, without understanding one word of American law; and before he could say in English, so as to be understood, "Your humble servant, sir," is a thing so incredible, that, if I did not know the story to be true, I would not repeat it. Yet, such a speculation would have been quite in character for an American; perfectly reconcilable to the presumptuous versatility of his temper; for, when the spirit of adventure is disturbed in a genuine American, he appears to reckon upon miracles and phenomena, as other men do upon chances. Thus, I have known two American partners in a large mercantile house. One had been educated for the bar; had practised at the bar; and was believed to be in the way to great authority in his profession, when he married, fell sick, consumed all his property, and went into business with another adventurer, who had made and lost, already, about half a dozen fortunes: The other (of the two first named) had no education at all; had been put apprentice to a retail shopkeeper, at the age of twelve; and had grown up to manhood, in a course of adventure, that, in any country but this, would have been thought romantic and wonderful-as well as a complete disqualification for every kind of serious business. These two, as I have said, were partners in the same house. They soon extended their operations all over the United States; made money-speculated-and failed. A council was held between them. The younger of the two-he who had no educationspent several hours in determining whether he should become a soldier, (for he was weary of mercantile affairs)-go to India, and upset the British power there; or to South America, and help to revolutionize two or three empires in that quarter: A clergyman; (but upon that profession he hardly bestowed a second thought, after the reflection occurred, that, in America, there was neither rank, revenue, nor dominion, for the clergy ;) a physician; a lawyer; an actor; an auctioneer; or a politician. The result was, that he concluded to become a lawyer-the law in America being the highway to the highest honours of the government-while his partner, at the same time, resolved to become a divine. The first went forthwith to his room-laboured night and day for several years (supporting himself, in the meantime, by what nobody but an American, in such a situation, would have thought of-in America-his pen;) became distinguished; and is now a counsellor-at-law in the Supreme Court of the United States. And yet-hardly eight years have passed since he was a broken mer |