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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

May 21. At Malta, Mrs Cusine, 95th regiment, of a daughter.

July 28. At Concordia, Tobago, the lady of Dr Kenney, of a daughter.

Aug. 3. At Florence, the lady of John Craufurd, Esq. of Auchenames, of a son.

Sept. 1. At Braigar House, Kent, the lady of J. D. Boswall, Esq. of Wardie, captain in the royal navy, of a son and heir.

2. At Edinburgh, the lady of Stair Stewart, Esq. of Physgill and Glasserton, of a son and heir.

3. At Coxley, near Wells, Somerset, Mrs Alexander Fraser, of Thavies Inn, London, of a daughter.

5. At Edinburgh, Mrs Clarke, 51, George Square, of a daughter.

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At Dun, the Lady Anne Brird, of a daugh

6. At Dumbarnie House, Mrs Craigie, of Dumbarnie, of a son.

9. At the Dowager Viscountess Duncan's, the Hon. Mrs Dundas, of a son.

-At Portobello, Mrs Glen, Brighton Place, of a daughter.

-At Westquarter, the lady of Thomas Learmonth, Esq. of Laurence Park, of a daughter.

11. Mrs John Brougham, of a daughter. -At Stobo Castle, the lady of Sir James Montgomery of Stanhope, Bart. of a son.

12. At 46, Albany Street, Mrs Begbie, of a

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-At 49, Albany Street, Mrs John Gardiner Kinnear, of a daughter.

13. Mrs Miller, Frederick Street, of a son. -At Crescent, Perth, Mrs George Seton, of a daughter.

At Edinburgh, the lady of Major Menzies, 42d Royal Highlanders, of a son.

14. Mrs Scott, Albany Street, of a daughter. -At Kirkaldy, Mrs J. L. Cooper. of a son. 15. At Ruchil, near Glasgow, the lady of Major Stephenson, 6th Dragoon Guards, of a son.

At his Lordship's house, at Cowes, Isle of Wight, the lady of Lord Francis Levison Gower, M.P. of a son.

-In Pitt Street, Mrs Richardson, of a son. 18. At Ramornie, Mrs Heriot of Ramornie, of a daughter.

- At Stirling, Mrs J. Telford, of a daughter. 20. At Frankfield, Mrs Murray, of a son. -At 16, Nicolson Street, Mrs Huie, of a son. 23. Mrs Patrick Robertson, of a daughter. - At Llynon, county of Anglesey, the lady of H. W. Jones, Esq of a son.

-At Banchory, the lady of Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, of a son.

24. Mrs Bowie, 19, Albany Street, of a daugh

ter.

25. At Edinburgh, the lady of Mr Sinclair, of Covent-Garden Theatre, of a son.

- At Rozelle, Mrs West Hamilton, of a daughter.

26. At Losset, Mrs Macneal of Ugadale, of a daughter.

Lately, At her residence at Tunbridge Wells, the Right Hon. Lady Cochrane, of a son.

MARRIAGES.

Nov. 5, 1823. At Montreal, Roderick Matheson, Esq., paymaster late Glengary Light Infantry, to Miss Mary Fraser, daughter of Captain Robertson, of Inverness.

Aug. 18, 1824. At Parkhead, near Perth, Mr William Bruce, merchant, Edinburgh, to Agnes, daughter of William Morison, Esq.

23. At the Manse of Panbride, the Rev. Wil liam Robertson, of Carmylie, to Dorothea, daughter of the Rev. David Traill, Panbride.

30. At the Manse of Crailing, Mr Robert Strachan, London, to Elizabeth, fourth daughter of the Rev. David Brown.

Sept. 2. At Bonnington, John Adair, Esq. Genoch, Wigtonshire, to Christina, eldest daughter of the late John Haig, Esq.

-At St James's Church, London, Lord Elliot, only son of the Earl of St Germain's, to the Right Hon. Lady Jemima Cornwallis, third daughter of the late Marquis Cornwallis.

-At Manse of Daviot, the Rev. Henry Simon, minister of Chapel of Garioch, to Mary, second daughter of the Rev. Robert Shepherd.

3. At Leith Walk, Mr James Murray, surgeon, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth Wilson, eldest daughter of Mr James Allison, vinegar maker.

5. At Kirkmichael, James Crawford, Esq. M.D. to Miss Ann Whitford, eldest daughter of David Kennedy, Esq. of Kirkmichael.

6. At Lymington-Lodge, Alexander Wardrop, Esq. of Madras, to Jessie, third daughter of the late Robert Burn, Esq. architect, Edinburgh.

7. At Cowie, Stirlingshire, Mr John Forrester, merchant, Glasgow, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late James M Nab, Esq. distiller.

11. At St Margaret's Church, Westminster, John Mitchell, Esq. M.P. to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Elliott, Esq. of Pimlico Lodge.

13. At Comely Bank, Mr Robert Kirkwood, engraver, to Bathia, youngest daughter of Robert Dunbar, Esq. Tax Office.

14. At Edinburgh, John Gibson, jun. Esq. W.S. to Charlotte Ellen, eldest daughter of John Gordon, Esq. of Salisbury Road.

15. At Leith, Mr John Niven, merchant, to Mrs Mary Spalding, widow of Dr Alexander Spalding, Port Maria, West Indies.

-At Dalton, Dumfries-shire, John Hennay, Esq. W.S. to Miss Eliza S. Kennedy, only daughter of the late J. Kennedy, Esq.

- In London, Lord Ellenborough, to Jane Elizabeth Digby, only daughter of Rear-Admiral Digby and Viscountess Andover.

16. In Stafford Street, Major-General Hamilton, to Mary Augusta, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Bower, Esq. of Kincaldrum.

-At Bolton, Percy, in Yorkshire, George Baillie, jun. Esq. eldest son of George Baillie, Esq. of Jerriswoode, to Georgina, youngest daughter of Mr Archdeacon Markham.

21. At St Andrews, Mr John Buchan, writer, St Andrews, to Anne, daughter of Mr Alexander Thomson, merchant there.

27. At Montrose, the Rev. John Wood, A.M. to Annabella, second daughter of Captain Brydon, of that place.

28. Lord Henry Seymour Moore, to Mary, second daughter of Sir Henry Parnell, Bart. M.P. and niece to the Marquis of Bute and the Earl of Portarlington.

DEATHS.

March 21. Off the Cape Coast, of fever, Mr Charles Hope Hunter, Midshipman, of his Majesty's ship Driver, second son of the late Rev. William Hunter, minister of Middlebie.

May. At Buenos Ayres, Captain Peter Sherriff, of the Antelope, second son of the late Mr Thomas Sheriff, shipmaster, Dunbar.

June 11. In the Island of St Croix, Dr James Hill, of Dumfries.

21. At Jamaica, after a few days' illness, Alexander Cunningham, Esq. son of the late William Cunningham, of Cairncurran, Esq.

July 27. At Demerara, Mrs Marsh, wife of Thomas Marsh, Esq. of that place.

Aug. 2. At Gowally, Perthshire, Agnes, second daughter, and, at Greenock, on the 30th August, Michael Boston, fourth son of the late Rev. Dr Alex. Simpson, Pittenweem.

6. At Pendreich, near Lasswade, aged 57 years, Mrs Margaret Melrose, wife of Mr James M Leish, merchant, Edinburgh; also, at No. 12 Montague Street, on the 12th August, Helen, their daughter, aged four months.

18 At Lochbuy House, Mrs Maclaine, sen.

21. Near Rome, Mrs Erskine, rehet of John Erskine, Esq. eldest son of the late Mr Erskine of Cardross.

22. At Peebles, Mr Thomas Gentle, nursery and seedsman.

-At Woodend, Jane, daughter of the late William Corbett, Esq. Collector of Excise.

23. At Paris, Lady Margaret Arbuthnot Ogilvy, aged three years and five months, youngest daughter of the Earl and Countess of Airly.

24. At Busby, Mrs Macfarlane, relict of Malcolm Macfarlane, Esq.

-At Cadiz, Mrs Hamilton of Dalzell, Lanarkshire.

27. At Ayr, John Aitken, Esq.

30. At 38, Dublin Street, Mr John Bell. -At Lanark, Mrs Vere Wilson, relict of William Thomson, Esq. of Castle Yett.

At Brighton, in the 75th year of her age, the Hon. Mrs Frances Wall, daughter of the late Lord Fortrose, and sister of the late Earl of Seaforth.

At the house of the Earl of Airly, in Paris, Mrs Clementina Graham, relict of Gavin Drum. mond, Esq. of Forth Street, Edinburgh.

31. At Edinburgh, Mrs Susan Christie, wife of Thomas Christie, Esq. eldest son of the late James Christie, Esq. of Durie, Fifeshire.

Sept. 1. At Tranent, Mrs Alexander Allan, in the 81st year of her age.

-At Tarbes, South of France, Bryan, third son of Captain Hodgson, Royal Navy.

2. At Darsie, the Rev. Robert Macculloch, D.D. in the 85th year of his age, and 53d of his ministry.

3. At Northampton, Dr William Kerr, physician there.

6. In Minto Street, Newington, Mrs Jean Robertson, widow of the Rev. James Robertson, late minister of Ratho.

-At Edinburgh, Isabella, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Andrew Chatto, of Mainhouse.

7. At Musselburgh, Mr John Thom, late merchant in Edinburgh.

-At Kincardine O'Neil, Patrick Henderson, Esq. advocate in Aberdeen.

At Southfield by Auchtermuchty, Mr William Couper, late upholsterer in Edinburgh.

-At Wall Bury, in Essex, Amelia, wife of Joseph Grove, and eldest daughter of the late Lieut.General Goldie of Goldielea, Dumfries.

8. At Edinburgh, Mrs Elizabeth Helen Hunter, wife of John Jeffrey, Esq. George Street.

9. At Balarno, near Currie, Mr John Logan, paper-manufacturer.

-Lord Viscount Hampden. His Lordship had enjoyed his title only a few days, and is succeeded in the entailed estates by George, Earl of Buckinghamshire.

10. At Fauxblanc, near Lausanne, Switzerland, the infant son of the Right Hon. Lord Sinclair. -At Portobello, Mrs Margaret Pringle, widow of John Pringle, Esq. surgeon, Royal Navy.

- At Edinburgh, Mr James Boyd, merchant. 11. At St John's, Ayrshire, Margaret Isabella, youngest daughter of David Ramsay, Esq. writer to the Signet.

- Mr William Andrew, writer.

12. AtColdstream, Mr James Bartie, youngest son of Captain A. D. M'Laren, Berwickshire Militia. -At his seat, near Southampton, the Rev. Sir Charles Rich, Bart. in his 73d year.

13. At Blackheath, Stephen Robert, second son of Captain R. H. Barclay, Royal Navy.

-At 112, Canongate, Henry Prager, Esq. -At Dalkeith, Mr Alex. Innes, watchmaker. 14. At Edinburgh, Mr Charles H. Simson, son of the late Mr Alex. Simson, Dundee.

16. At the Manse, Falkirk, after a long illness,

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Elizabeth, only daughter of the Rev. Dr Wilson minister of Falkirk.

16. At Auchtertool Manse, Mrs Moffat, Kirkaldy. In Baker Street, London, Lieut.-Genera Andrew Anderson, of the Hon. East India Com pany's service, on their establishment at Bombay 17. At Mount Melville, Maria Louise, youngest daughter of John Whyte Melville, Esq.

At Grandholm Cottage, James Martin Lindsay, eldest son of Lieut.-Colonel Lindsay, 78th Highlanders.

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Ann Stevenson, relict of Mr Henry Watson, late merchant in Edinburgh. 18. At Edinburgh, Mr John Finlayson, sen. Buchanan's Court, Lawnmarket.

-At Sand Bank, Argyllshire, Mary Anne, infant daughter of Alexander Scott Broomfield, Esq.

At No. 1, Fettes Row, James, infant son of Captain Pearson, R. N.

20. At Aberdeen, Helen, only daughter of Alex. Lyall, Esq. Comptroller of the Customs there.

22. At Leith, Jane, daughter of the late Mr Henry Band, merchant there.

22. At 22 Forth Street, Margaret Anne, eldest daughter of the late John Thomson, Esq.

-At Grange House, Robert Forrester, Esq. treasurer of the Bank of Scotland.-In noticing the death of this estimable character, we speak the feelings of our fellow citizens, when we state how severely his departure is lamented, and how much his loss will be felt. For above half a century, Mr Forrester filled different departments in the Bank of Scotland, and for many years previous to his death, was the treasurer, or principal officer, of that establishment. The public know the fidelity with which he discharged the functions of that responsible situation, blending the firmness of official duty with the mildness and kindness of a benevolent heart. Himself the son of a Scottish clergyman, he was the founder of the Society of the Sons of the Clergy, and displayed his usual zeal in originating and promoting an institution, which has proved of incalculable advantage to the families of many. Through life the faith and precepts of the Christian religion never failed to animate him. He was for more than forty years an elder in the New Greyfriars Church. Unassuming manners, joined to a temper highly cheerful and social, rendered his company most engaging, and endeared him not only to his particular friends, but to society at large.

At his house, Brunton Street, Crescent, London, Major John Cartwright.

-At Bath, Captain Brathwaite Christie, late of the 5th Dragoon Guards, third son of the late Admiral Christie of Baberton.

-At Gunton, Norfolk, Georgina, Lady Suffield, wife of Edward, Lord Suffield.

25 At Glasgow, Mrs Marianne Hutton, relict of the Rev. Alex. Perrie, Glasgow.

26. At Chelsea, after a short illness, Henry Cooper, Esq. barrister.

Lately, after a short illness, the Princess Kutusow Smolenski, widow of Field Marshal Blucher. - In Dublin, the Rev. Benjamin M'Dowal, D.D. senior minister of the Scots Church, Mary's Abbey.

Suddenly, at his house, Keir Street, Mr Robert Paisley, session-clerk of St Cuthbert's parish. -At Linstead Lodge, Kent, the Right Hon. John Roper, Lord Teynham.

-At North Shields, while sitting alone writing a letter, Mr W. Richardson, notary public, the elegant translator of the Odes of Anacreon, and author of several works of genius.

DEATH OF LORD CHARLES MURRAY.

Extract of a letter from Missolonghi, 30th July -11th August-1824:-"It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the death of Lord Charles Murray, youngest son of the Duke of Atholl. His lordship was attacked by the fever of the country, on his journey from Napoli to Missolonghi, at the residence of Mr Georgio Sestini, in Gastouni, where he expired in the prime of his youth, on the 11th of August, new style, at 10 a. m. He was aged 25 years; and although so young, had evinced, from the moment his foot pressed our country, the most noble and philanthropic sentiments, with an ardour to fulfil them as far as lay in his power. Before leaving this place, he had united his name to that of our countrymen, and had furnished the means

of erecting a battery on our frontier line, to which is given the name of one of his most illustrious relations. His amiable disposition had endeared him to all who had the honour of his acquaint ance; and his talents and accomplishments shewed him to be a worthy descendant of the noble race from which he sprung. His remains were interred with every mark of the highest respect at Gastouni. General Constantine Bozzanis and Georgio Sestini, all the Suliotes, and the whole population of Gastouni, followed them to the grave. The Archbishop Chirito pronounced the funeral oration. The Greek Chronicle of Missolonghi states, that the feeling of deep sorrow for the premature death of this amiable, accomplished, and enterprising young nobleman, is universal in Greece.“

DEATH OF DR WALTER OUDNEY.

Extract of a letter from Lieutenant Clapperton to Mr Consul Warrington, dated Kano, 2d Feb. 1824;

The melancholy task has fallen to me to report to you the ever-to-be-lamented death of my friend Dr Walter Oudney. We left Kuka on the 14th day of December, 1823, and by easy journeys arrived at Bedukarfea, the westernmost town in the kingdom of Bornou. During this part of the journey he was recovering strength very fast, but on leaving Bedukarfea and entering the Beder territory, on the night of the 26th and morning of the 27th, we had such an intense cold, that the water was frozen in the dishes, and the water-skins as hard as boards. Here the poor Doctor got a severe cold, and continued to grow weaker every day. At this time he told me when he left Kuka, he expected his disorder would allow him to perform all his country expected from him, but that now his death was near, and he requested me to deliver his papers to Lord Bathurst, and to say he wished Mr Barrow might have the arrangement of them, if agreeable to the wishes of his Lordship.

"On the 2d of January, 1824, we arrived at the city of Katagum, where we remained till the 10th, partly to see if the Doctor, by staying a few days, would gain a little strength to pursue his journey. On leaving Katagum he rode a camel, as he was too weak to ride his horse. We proceeded on our

road for 10 miles that day, and then halted, and on the following day 5 miles further, to a town called Murmur. On the morning of the 12th, he ordered the camels to be loaded at daylight, and drank a cup of coffee, and I assisted him to dress. When the camels were loaded, with the assistance of his servant and me he came out of his tent. I saw then that the hand of death was upon him, and that he had not an hour to live. I begged him to return to his tent and lie down, which he did, and I sat down beside him-he expired in about half an hour after.

"I sent immediately to the Governor of the town, to acquaint him with what had happened, and to desire he would point out a spot where I might bury my friend, and also to have people to wash the body and dig the grave, which was speedily complied with. I had dead-clothes made from some turbans that were intended as presents ; and as we travelled as Englishmen and servants of his Majesty, I considered it my most indispensable duty to read the service of the dead over the grave, according to the rites of the Church of England, which happily was not objected to; but, on the contrary, I was paid a good deal of respect for so doing. I then bought two sheep, which were kill ed and given to the poor; and I had a clay wall built round the grave to preserve it."

Printed by James Ballantyne and Company, Edinburgh,

BLACKWOOD'S

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE.

No. XCIV.

NOVEMBER, 1824.

VOL. XVI.

THE BIBLE AND THE ROMAN CATHOLICS OF IRELAND.

NOT many months have passed away since we strongly insisted upon the necessity of giving to the people of Ireland religious instruction; we enumerated this as one of the things essential for permanently reforming and pacifying the peasantry; we spoke warmly against the system which shut the mouths of the regular clergy, and we avowed our conviction, that, if the education which the government meant to give was confined to reading, writing, and arithmetic, and excluded religion from the schools, it would have small success in its leading object. It is, therefore, very natural for us to take some notice of the scenes which have lately been exhibited in Ireland.

In urging what we did, we thought of something more than abstract opinions, and mere names and forms. We believed that a due knowledge of Christianity could only be obtained by the ignorant and the young from proper instruction, that such knowledge was essential for producing the practice of Christianity, and that the practice of Christianity was essential for making the people of Ireland good subjects and good members of society. The state of Ireland, as it was exhibited to the world, proved that the people did not possess such instruction, that they were strangers to the knowledge and practice, and that they were turbulent and depraved. We knew that the education which the British nation wished to give them was, not merely education that would benefit them in the arts of life, but VOL. XVI.

education that would make them moral, peaceable, orderly, loyal, and free.

When the government distinctly disclaimed all wish for making proselytes-when the legislature did the same-when the British nation, in one voice, called for the instruction of the people of Ireland-when the Catholic clergy were recognized by the state in no other character than as religious teachers-when they durst not say that any other character belonged to them-and when the people were proved to be so ignorant, vicious, and disorderly; it might have been expected that the Catholic clergy would zealously co-operate in any measure that had for its object the reformation of their flocks, and the extension of genuine Christianity, without contemplating any injury to Catholicism. It might have been expected that they would have been led to this by regard for their own character-for the temporal welfare of their followers-for the general weal of the state-for the awful responsibility that rests upon them-and for the fearful account which they must one day render of their earthly conduct. If even the government and the nation had remained silent, it might have been expected that the horrible and damning proofs of the ignorance and depravity of their flocks might have convinced them that some change in their system was necessary, and goaded them into the familiarizing of their followers with the Scriptures.

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to have still greater influence with the more respectable part of the Catholic laity. An opportunity was given them to shew their loyalty and patriotism, their attachment to genuine Christianity, and to their more ignorant brethren, and it might have been hoped that they would eagerly embrace it. They have a less interest in sacrificing the people to the priesthood, and their country to their church, and, therefore, it might have been expected that they would be more willing to adopt a change of system, than their clergy.

It might have been expected that the Catholic clergy, and the higher part of the laity, would stand forward, and thus address the government and the British nation: We have been slandered, and you now enable us to shake from us the slander-we have been charged with being hostile to civil and religious liberty, with being intolerant and bigotted, and with being the enemies of the circulation of the Scriptures and the diffusion of religious knowledge. A small portion of us have been represented to exercise the most pernicious despotism over the remainder. It has been alleged against us that we wish to keep the vast mass of the people of Ireland in the most deplorable ignorance and bondage. We will now convince you how greatly we have been calumniated. You invite our co-operation, and we will render it-we will assist you in forming schools, provided. you keep from them books that attack our religion;-we will make concession for concession, and sacrifice for sacrifice;-we will labour to familiarize our ignorant brethren with the Scriptures;-we will keep from them inflammatory topics; we will permit them to exercise every legal and constitutional right, and our authority over them shall only be used to make them good Christians and good subjects.

This, we say, might have been expected, but what are we presented with ?

On the 9th of September, a meeting of the Cork Ladies' Hibernian School Society was held. Its object was thus described by one of the speakers, the Reverend Richard Pope :

"The present meeting is professedly a meeting of the Cork Ladies' Hibernian Society. The immediate members of that institution, and some other

persons interested in its objects, were invited, in order to receive a suggestion from two gentlemen who have visited this country with the benevolent intention of promoting the moral improvement of our population. That proposal we have heard-may I be pardoned for again repeating it-that the ladies who have hitherto been employed in collecting funds in aid of the Munster Hibernian School Society, should not only continue their active and useful services in this department, but that they should actualÎy take the female schools in connexion with the Society under their immediate superintendence and protection."

The two gentlemen here alluded to were the Honourable Mr Noel, an Englishman,and Captain Gordon,a Scotchman. Of their particular religious principles we know nothing. The Morning Chronicle intimates broadly that they are fanatics; but on such a point it is no authority. Nothing certainly could be more sober, sensible, and judicious, or farther removed from fanaticism, than their speeches. The attempt to establish schools among the barbarous and depraved Irish peasantry, in which the Scriptures only are used, without reference to any particular creed, cannot be fanaticism, if the Christian religion ought to be tolerated; and to this they strictly limited themselves. At the outset, the chairman declared the meeting to be a private one. Mr Noel and Captain Gordon detailed their sentiments; they enforced the necessity of making Christianity the basis of education, and of supplying the people with Bibles, without note or comment, but they were silent touching Protestantism and Catholicism.

Into this Protestant meeting-this ladies' meeting-this private meeting -this meeting, having merely for its object to consider of the best means of promoting scriptural and beneficial instruction among the people, without recommending one creed or attacking another-into this meeting certain Catholics obtruded themselves. And who were they-the Catholic gentry and their ladies, anxious to co-operate in the good work, when the object was only to spread the grand and common creed of Christianity? No! Then were they Catholic priests, wishing to make amicable objections to some parts of the system, and to point out the modifications that might secure their cordial assistance? No! they were the

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