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Island, North America, the Rev. Mr Andrew Nicholl, minister of that place.

15. At Balise River's Mouth, in the Bay of Honduras, Miss Pringle Home, daughter of the late Alexander Home, Esq. formerly of Bassendean, in Berwickshire Tarde 矗

21. On his passage from the island of Ceylon, to his native land, Captain John Ritchie, of the 73d regiment, eldest son of Mr James Ritchie, Rhynd.

31. At Sierra Leone, Mr Henry Alex. Elliot, Royal Navy, youngest son of the Rev. Robert Elliot, of Maitland Street, Edinburgh.

June 9. At Demerara, in the 27th year of his age, of an alarming epidemic fever prevalent at that place, Captain James Grant, of the brig Glory of Aberdeen.

21. On board the ship Hibberts, Captain Peat, on his passage from Jamaica to this country, Robert Murray, Esq. of Knap'dale, in that island.

27. At Blackriver, David Hutchison, Esq. of Coffee Grove, in the parish of Manchester, Jamaica.

July 3. At Trieste, Colonel Simpson, of the Royal Imperial Marines, (a native of Fifeshire,) Scotland.

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19 16. At Easthouses, aged 78, Gideon Walkinshaw. He was father to 12, grandfather to 64, and great-grandfather to 41, making a total of 117; 30 of whom are dead, and 87 living; he had been in the employ of the Marquis of Lothian for 61 years; 84 of his progeny are yet at his Lordship's works.

17. At Blairlogie, Susan Wallace, wife of the Rev. William Anderson, minister of the gospel there, aged 42.

24. At Kelso, in the 21st year of his age, Mr James Gillies, younger son of Mr 'George Gillies, rector of Kelso grammar school.

At Alloa, Mrs Margaret Cowie, wife of John Drummond, Esq. writer there." At Newbottle, Diana, eldest daughter of the late Colonel Donald Macleod, of St Kilda.

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26. At Hamilton, Mr Archibald Allan, architect.

At Holywood Manse, the Rev. Dr Crichton, minister of that parish.

28. At Burnside, Thomas Crichton, Esq. formerly in the service of the Honourable the East India Company.

29. At Joxtith Park, near Liverpool, Eliza Anna, wife of Mr Jolin Macintyre, merchant, and daughter of General Ferrier, Dumbarton Castle, aged 32.

- At Inverness, James Errol Gray, Esq. surgeon.

30. At Stobcross, Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr Thomas Rowan, writer.

At Glasgow, in the 88th year of his age, John Love, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.

30. At Worksop, Nottinghamshire, Robert Barber, Esq. in the 85th year of his age.

31. At Chessels's Court, Edinburgh, Wilhelmina Marjoribanks, wife of William Jamieson, merchant.

At his house, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, Dorothea Clerk, eldest daughter of Joseph Bell, Esq. surgeon.

August 1. At Blackness, Linlithgowshire, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, Mr George Allan, merchant in Liverpool, son of Mr James Allan, merchant in Glasgow.

At Allanfield, near Leith, Mrs Allan, relict of the late Mr John Allan, of Allanfield.

2. At Chapel, Fifeshire, Robert Arnott, Esq. in the 78th year of his age.

At Edinburgh, the Rev. David Dickson of Persilands, one of the ministers of this city.

3. At Glenpark, Janet Agnes Bell, daughter of Thomas Bell, Esq. Wharton Place, Edinburgh.

4. At Balstack, in the parish of Hutton, aged 69 years, David Graham, Esq. banker, and late Mayor of Basingstoke, Hants.

5. At Brussels, Major-General Sir Wm. Nicholson, Bart.

At Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Boswell, the last of the name in the direct line of the ancient family of the Boswells of Balmuto.

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At Paisley, Thomas Smith, Esq. late merchant in Glasgow.

6. At Stank, in the parish of Ruthwell, in the 85th year of her age, Miss Sophia Richardson.

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At Forres, William Tulloh, Esq. of Bogton, and formerly of Calcutta.

At his house, St Andrew's Square, Edinburgh, David Craigie, second son of Joseph Bell, Esq. surgeon.

7. In Duke Street, Westminster, in her 86th year, the daughter of the late Dr Hutton, more than half a century ago Archbishop of Canterbury.

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At Whitsome Manse, Berwickshire, the Rev. George Drummond.

At Walls, Miss Jane Ker, eldest daughter of Gilbert Ker, Esq.

At his house, Edinburgh, Thomas Brown, Esq. bookseller.

On 26th July, Jane, infant daughter, and on 7th August, Mary, in her 14th year, then only daughter of Mr Richard Tosh, writer, Kirkaldy.

At London, John Urquhart, Esq. of the Ordnance Office.

8. At Coombe House, Surrey, aged 64 years, Beeston Long, Esq. one of the Directors of the Bank of England.

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At Gilmerton, Miss Christian Trotter, daughter of the late Thomas Trotter, Esq. merchant Edinburgh.

8. At Taybank, Mrs Bridget Yeaman, spouse of Charles Guthrie, Esq. of Taybank.

At Kirkbean Manse, Miss Isabella Little, daughter of the late Mr Little, minister of Colvend.

9. At Liverpool, the celebrated Miss Margaret M'Avoy, whose faculty of distinguishing colours, &c. by the touch, gave rise to so much discussion about three years since.

10. At Ulcombe Place, Kent, in the 51st year of his age, the Most Honourable Walter, Marquis and Earl of Ormonde, in Ireland, and Baron Butler in England, K. P. and Governor of the county of Kilkenny. He is succeeded by his next brother, James, now Earl of Ormonde and Ossory.

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At Norwich, aged 46, Captain Robert Tinkler, R. N. who signalized himself by his intrepid bravery in several engagements, in which he had received 21 wounds. Captain Tinkler was cabin boy on board his Majesty's ship Bounty (Captain Bligh) at the time the crew of that ship mutinied in the South Seas, in the year 1789, and was one of the 12 persons who, with the Captain, were turned adrift in a boat by the mutineers.

12. At Edinburgh, Mr John Swanston, merchant.

At Dumfries, in the 23d year of his age, Mr David Jefferson, writer.

Miss Frances Dysart Home, daughter of the Rev. Robert Home, minister of Polwarth.

13. At Edinburgh, Mrs Finlayson, widow of Mr William Finlayson, formerly of Savannah-la-Mar, Jamaica.

At Kingsburgh, James King, Esq. 14. At Edinburgh, Mr Richard Cleghorn, solicitor at law.

16. At Edinburgh, John Livington Campbell, Esq. of Achalader.

17. At Edinburgh, John Livingstone, Esq. of Shortridge-head, writer in Edinburgh.

At Edinburgh, Mr James Johnston,

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At Clova, Lady Niven Lumsden of Auchindoir.,

27. At Carlisle, Mr Francis Jollie, late proprietor of the Carlisle Journal.

28. At Edinburgh, Mrs Rachell Ann Morrieson, widow of Major David Morrieson, of the Hon. East India Company's service.

31. In the 72d year of his age, Mr William Young, for many years acting partner in the Caledonian Pottery, Glasgow.

Sept. 1. At Montrose, in his 80th year, Bailie John Milne.

Lately. At Paris, William Thomas Sandiford, Esq. formerly a Major on the Bombay Establishment, and Aid-de-Camp to General Abercromby during the Mysore

war.

At Bouverie Street, London, of apoplexy, in his 80th year, James Dobie, Esq. solicitor, for 34 years secretary to the Scottish Corporation.

On board the Streatham, East Indiaman, on his passage from Bengal to China, in October last, Richard Turnbull, Assistant-Surgeon, third son of the late John Turnbull, Esq. of Branxton.

At Cape Castle, on the coast of Africa, in the month of April last, of a fever, occasioned by exposure to the effluvia from the marshes, when botanizing, Mr Joseph Wilson, surgeon of the ship Indian of Liverpool, son of Mr J. Wilson, Middlemains of Salton.

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A Correspondent has brought a charge of Plagiarism against the writer of "LIVING AUTHORS, A DREAM," which appeared in one of our late Numbers. We have too high an opinion of that writer's originality to suppose that any other person ever dreamed his dream; but, like people who are fond of repeating their dreams, he may, for any thing we know to the contrary, have related it before. We wish, to put the matter out of doubt, that he would send us his third dream, without delay, and, if it is akin to the former, and has never been seen elsewhere, the accusation will be laid to rest.

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THE

EDINBURGH MAGAZINE,

AND

LITERARY MISCELLANY.

OCTOBER 1820.

ABSTRACT OF SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF

WESLEY.

creases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that thing be in itself." The perusal of " Jereis sin to you, however innocent it may my Taylor's Rules of Holy Living and Dying," made a deeper impression on his imagination, and led him

to resolve to dedicate all his life to God. The doctrine of predestination mother advised him to employ his next engaged his attention; and his time and his powers in making his own calling and election sure.

We have already made our readers acquainted with the peculiar circumstances in which the childhood of Wesley was passed; and suggested the probability of their having so influenced his temper, judgments, and pursuits, as to give a colouring to his character in manhood.* At Oxford, while an undergraduate, his manners were free and cheerful; and he was distinguished by his attention to his studies, his knowledge of Hebrew, Dr Potter, Bishop of Oxford, and in In 1725, Wesley was ordained by and dexterity in wielding the weapons of logic. He wrote to his father fellow of Lincoln College. From this the ensuing spring he was elected a concerning some scruples which he time he began to keep a diary,—a pracfelt as to the motives which ought to influence those who take orders, and both history and biography have been tice formerly very general, to which was answered by the good old man, greatly indebted. Eight months after that he did not like "a callow cler- his election to a fellowship he was apgyman" but his mother advised pointed Greek lecturer and moderator him to become a deacon as soon as he of the classes. At this period he decould, that he might have the greater voted "Mondays and Tuesdays to inducement to apply himself to the the classics; Wednesdays to logic and study of practical divinity. As the ethics; Thursdays to Hebrew and view which is taken of Christian du- Arabic; Fridays to metaphysics and ties in the noted work De Imitatione natural philosophy; Saturdays to oraChristi, revolted him at first, he ap- tory and poetry, but chiefly to complied to his parents for advice on the position in these arts; and the Sabsubject, and was thus judiciously an- bath to divinity. It appears by his swered by his mother: "Would you diary also, that he gave great attenjudge of the lawfulness or unlawful- tion to mathematics." But though ness of pleasure," said she, " take he had resolved to adhere to this this rule-whatever weakens your scheme for several years at least, he reason, impairs the tenderness of your was soon convinced, "that there are conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish of spi- know." Yet he continued full of bumany truths it is not worth while to ritual things,—in short, whatever in-siness, and found time for writing by rising an hour earlier in the morning, and going into company an hour late

See Numbers for May and July 1820.

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