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from his Grace's liberal subscriptions to all works of splendour or utility.

We have one trait to add to this portait it is the last, and the most important. As the Duke of Buccleuch held his high situation for the happiness of those around him. he did not forget by whom it was committed to him. Public worship was at all proper seasons performed in his family; and his own sense of devotion was humble, ardent, and sincere. A devout believer in the truths of religion, he never, even in the gayest moment, permitted them to be treated with levity in his presence; and to attempt a jest on those subjects, was to incur his serious reproof and displeasure. He has gone to receive the reward of these virtues, too early for a country which will severely feel his loss, for his afflicted family and his sorrowing friends, but not too soon for himself, since it was the unceasing labour of his life to improve to the utmost the large opportunities of benefiting mankind, with which his situation invested him. Others of his rank might be more missed in the resorts of splendour and of gaiety frequented by persons of distinction; but the peasant, while he leans on his spade, age sinking to the grave in hopeless indigence, and youth struggling for the means of existence, will long miss the generous and powerful patron, whose aid was never asked in vain when the merit of the petitioner was unquestioned.

THE LATE ADAM ROLLAND, ESQ.

Died at his house in Queen Street, Edinburgh, on the 18th of August, ADAM ROLLAND of Gask, Esq. Advocate, and Deputy Governor of the Bank of Scotland.

The death of Mr Rolland makes one of those blanks which cannot easily be supplied an accomplished gentleman, an elegant scholar, an eminent lawyer, a Christian from conviction, a man of unsullied probity and honour, of liberal and beneficient habits and an ardent lover of his country.

He received the first rudiments of his education at Dunfermline, near which lies his paternal estate of Gask. He went through a regular course of study at the University of Edinburgh, and early gave promise of that character which he afterwards so eminently maintained. The study of the law, he used to say, had never been to his liking, and he followed it in deference to the opinion of his friends. He passed Advocate in the year 1753, the same year with Sir Ilay Campbell, Bart. and the late Mr Andrew Crosbie; and though he did not fall so immediately into general practice as those two great Lawyers and celebrated Pleaders, yet his worth and talents were, at length, duly appreciated;

and for many years before he retired from the Bar, he stood in the very foremost rank of these lines of practice, to which he confined himself. No lawyer was more resorted to for written pleadings and for opinions-particularly Feudal Questions and in Arbitrations of importance and intricacy.

The leading features of his mind were strength of judgment, a correct and delicate taste, a strong sense of propriety, a high feeling for, and constant attention to, personal dignity, honour, and independence. His understanding was clear and exact and his memory retentive. In few minds was treasured up more various and useful knowledge, better arranged, and more at command. An acute observer of men and manners, he had an inexhaustible fund of anecdote, which was never introdued but with point and effect. He had an exact and critical knowledge of the Latin language. The classical epitaph on his father's monument in the Dunfermline cemetery will now be perused with peculiar interest from the affecting circumstance, that there, mutatis mutandis, is drawn, with a master's hand, his own character. The English language, though in his youth it had not been much attended to in this country, he, from the very first, made it his peculiar study to speak, as well as write, with purity and elegance. The habit became quite natural to him. In conversation he spoke with case and fluency, in the most appropriate and significant words, the most elegant turn of expression, the justest pronunciation and emphasis; and he read and recited with a taste and feeling, that gave the author a force and effect not perceived when read by another.

He did not, however, speak in public when he had to stretch his voice beyond the tone of conversation, but early confined himself exclusively to written pleading and giving opinions a division of professional labour in which he had no example, and has had

no successor.

He intermeddled little with politics. But in the years 1790 and 1791, when he apprehended danger to the country, from the spreading of the Democratical principles, engendered by the French Revolution, he thought it his duty to depart from his usual habits, and give the weight and sanction of his name to the measures which appeared to him necessary for repelling the danger.

He was always an admirer of Mr Pitt, and a personal friend of the late Lord Melville, to whom he was much attached, and, from the purest motives, a steady and decided approver of their public measures. It does not indeed appear that he ever regarded any thing in the power of Ministers, as an object of ambition. He was repeatedly asked to accept a seat on the Bench, as a Judge of the Court of Session, prior to

1796; when he was strongly solicited by Lord Chief Baron Dundas, then Lord Advocate, no longer "to resist the general wish of the Court, and indeed of the country;" and he declined a similar offer after the division of the Court into two Chambers. He had, for some time before this, been abridging his business, and he soon after withdrew from practice altogether-when his health and faculties were still entire, his line of practice most enviable, and his consideration at the bar as high as ever. This he did from no disgust or discontent, but from the conviction that, with the competence he had acquired, he could pass his remaining years in a manner more suited to his inclination and time of life.

He had, some time before, been appointed one of the Directors of the Bank of Scotland, and he continued for several years to devote a good deal of attention to its affairs. On the death of Patrick Miller, Esq. of Dalswinton, he was appointed Deputy Go

vernor.

He delighted to relax occasionally in the society of a few select friends. His conversation was instructive, lively, and fascinating. His knowledge and good taste were not confined to philology and polite literature, but extended through the whole circle of the Liberal Arts.

A threatening of an attack of apoplexy a few years after his retirement, and his increasing deafness, made him afterwards seclude himself, in a great measure, from general company. But he continued to the last to keep up with the increasing knowledge of the age, took a warm interest in the public and private occurrences of the day, and was always ready to countenance by his name, and aid by munificent donations, every charitable plan that appeared to him to be recommended by its utility. His charities, both of a public and private kind, were liberal and extensive, and many who were relieved by his bounty will lament his death.

He was a zealous Presbyterian, and regularly attended public worship until his deafness rendered him incapable of hearing. The Sunday he carefully kept sacred both from business and company. Amid the unceasing round of engagements, great, he said, was the benefit he had derived from

that rule which gave him the command of a portion of time to himself.

From this state of dignified and useful retirement, and in the enjoyment of general respect and esteem, Mr Rolland was removed by the attack of his last illness, in the 85th year of his age.

Polite, cheerful, affable, benevolent, intelligent, regular, orderly, and dignifiedhis character was strikingly pourtrayed by his personal appearance-little above the middle size, erect, without any tendency to stoop, even in his declining years; his features, as well as person, elegantly formed, with a graceful demeanour and fine expression of countenance; exact in his dress, without any approach to frivolity-a finished gentleman of the former age-but without any of that peevish nonconformity with the present time, which is often the weakness of age, but which lessens that usefulness, which men so respectable as Mr Rolland have always in their power, and which he never failed to exercise to his friends, his neighbours, and the public.-Edinburgh Advertiser.

This distinguished person has left the following legacies to the under-mentioned institutions.

Society for Propagating Christian
Knowledge

Lunatic Asylum

Society for the Relief of the Destitute Sick

Senior Female Society
Junior Female Society
Magdalene Asylum
Edinburgh Bible Society
Royal Infirmary
Charity Workhouse
Orphan Hospital

Asylum for Industrious Blind
House of Industry
Edinburgh Education Society
Parochial Institutions for the Edu-
cation of the Poor
Society for Promoting Religious
Knowledgs among the Poor
Society for the Suppression of Beg-
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Society for the Sons of the Clergy - 500 For a free School in Dunfermline - 1000 L. 13,000

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

June 18. At Florence, Lady Burghersh, wife of his Excellency the British Plenipotentiary at that Court, a son.

July 18. At Stockholm, Viscountess

Strangford, lady of his Excellency Viscount Strangford, his Majesty's Envoy at that Court, a daughter.

21. At Lausanne, Lady Harriet Hoste,

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At Leith, Mrs Dr Macaulay, a daugh

13. At Dunvegan Castle, the lady of J. N. Macleod, Esq. of Macleod, a daughter. 14. The lady of Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, a daughter.

15. At Balbirnie, Fifeshire, the lady of Major-General Balfour, a daughter.

16. At Boulogne, in France, the lady of Major Macdougall, 85th regiment, a son.

At Drums, Carse of Gowrie, the wife of a labouring man, named Alexander Moodie, was safely delivered of three children, a boy and two girls, who are all doing

well.

20. At Edinburgh, the lady of Robert Montgomery, Esq. a daughter.

23. At Paisley, the lady of John Lowndes, Esq. a daughter.

24. At Stirling, Mrs Captain Forrester, a daughter.

26. Mrs Gray, Chesterhall, a daughter. 28. In Curzon Street, London, Lady Caroline Ann Macdonald of Clanronald, a son and heir.

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July 17. At Liverpool, James Wallace Monteith, Esq. of Greenock, to Margaret, eldest daughter of Alexander Anderson, Esq. of Liverpool.

27. At Gatehouse, Thomas M'Courtie, Esq. of Walltrees, to Miss Mary M'Nae, Fleet Street. Gatehouse.

28. At Glasgow, Archibald Brown, Esq. to Miss Grace Hamilton, second daughter of the late Claude Hamilton, Esq.

August 2. At Stobs Mills, Mr Robert Leef, to Jane, daughter of George Miller, Esq. of Hope Park.

3. At Brigham, near Cockermouth, the Rev. George Coventry, M. A. eldest son of Dr Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the University of Edinburgh, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Dr Head, of High Cross, county of Cumberland.

At Warriston Crescent, Robert Drybourgh Menzies, Esq. to Agnes, second daughter of the late Rev. David Pyper, minister of Pencaitland.

At Few House, Perthshire, Alexander Scot, Esq. writer to the signet, to Helen Sutherland, only daughter of the late E. Marshall Gardiner, Esq. of Hillcairney. At Killermont, Walter Long, Esq. of Rood Ashton, Wiltshire, to Miss Mary Ann Colquhoun, daughter of the Right Hon. Arch. Colquhoun, Lord Register of

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At Corsbie, Adam Walker, Esq. younger of Muirhouselaw, to Catharine, third daughter of John Murray, Esq. of Uplaw.

4. At Marchhill, Francis Maxwell of Liverpool, Esq. to Margaret, eldest daughter of William Boyd, Esq. of Marchhill.

5. At Altyre, the residence of Sir W. G. G. Cumming, Bart. the Right Hon. the Earl of Uxbridge, son of the Marquis of Anglesea, to Miss E. Campbell, second daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield, and niece to the Duke of Argyle.

7. At Islington, James Buchanan, Esq. of Glasgow, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of the late William Finlayson, Esq. of St Elizabeth's, Jamaica.

9. At Tunbridge, Licutenant-Col. Steele, of the Coldstream Guards, to Lady Elizabeth Montagu, daughter of the Duke of Manchester.

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At Maybole, W. B. Kennedy Lawrie, of Woodhall, Esq. to Antonia, daughter of Arthur Robertson, Esq. of Woodfordale, in the island of Trinidad.

12. At Seaton Farm, Old Aberdeen, Mr William Aikman, of the Bank of Scotland, Aberdeen, to Ann, eldest daughter of Peter Nicol, Esq. Old Aberdeen.

At Holkham Hall, the Right Hon. the Earl of Rosebery, to the Hon. Miss Anson, sister of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Anson, and grand-daughter of T. W. Coke, Esq. of Holkham Hall, M. P. for Norfolk.

Lieutenant-Colonel Cowper, of the Hon. East India Company's Bombay engineers, to Lydia, eldest daughter of Dr Richard Reece.

13. At Tradestown, Glasgow, Captain John Clerk, of the 27th regiment, to Miss Elizabeth Graham, daughter of the late Roger Graham, Esq. of Ardnachkaig, Argyllshire.

16. At St Gregory's Church, London, Alexander Harley, Esq. of Clunie, Dumfries-shire, late of the Hon. East India Company's Medical Establishment, Bengal, to Sarah, eldest daughter of John Hyslop, Esq. surgeon, Doctors' Commons.

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riet, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Reginald Pole Carew.

23. At Mollance, William Renny, Esq. W. S. and solicitor of legacy duties, to Margaret, second daughter of John Napier, Esq. of Mollance.

24. At Crailing manse, the Rev. James Strachan, minister of Cavers, to Jane, second daughter of the Rev. David Brown.

25. At Luss manse, the Rev. Mr James M'Lagan, to Miss Stuart, daughter of the Rev. Dr Stuart, Luss.

27. Carl Gustaw, Baron von Bulow Wischendorff, to Helen Hay, third daughter of the late Henry David Inglis, Esq. advocate.

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At Glasgow, William M'Fie, Esq. Greenock, to Miss Janet Marshall, second daughter of the late Claud Marshall, Esq.

Sept. 1. At Eastwood manse, Wood Sinclair, Esq. Leith, to Helen, daughter of the Rev. George Logan.

Lately, At St Mary's, Nottingham, Mr Hawkins, aged 40, to Mrs Bowman, aged 60, being the lady's seventh husband! A great concourse of people waited to greet the happy pair on their return from church.

At Edinburgh, John Richardson, Esq. to Lewis Hatby, fifth daughter of the late Lieutenant Colonel Hay, royal engineers.

Sir Henry Roddam Calder, Bart. of Parkhouse, Kent, to Lady Frances Selina Pery, third daughter of the Earl of Limerick.

At St Mary-le-bone, London, John W. Grieve, Esq. of the 2d regiment of life guards, to the Hon. Mrs Sidney Bowles, sister to Lord Norwick.

At Kensington, the Rev. George Croly, A. M. to Margaret Helen, second daughter of the late P. Begbie, Esq. of the Stamp Office.

At St John's Cathedral, Bengal, James Jameson, Esq. to Frances Jane, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Patton.

At Chinsurah, East Indies, Mr Charles Barber, to Mary Elizabeth Theresa, eldest daughter of Capt. Mitchell, commanding officer at that place.

DEATHS.

Oct. 24, 1818. Mr William Auldjo, youngest son of the late George Auldjo, Esq. Chief Magistrate of Aberdeen.

Dec. 7. Lost, in the China sea, Mr Christopher Lundin, second surviving son of the deceased Christopher Lundin, Esq. of Auchtermairny.

20. At Hussingabad, Capt. Hugh Inglis Ker, of the 7th Bengal cavalry, youngest son of the deceased William Ker of Kerfield, Esq.

Jan. 31. 1819. At Vizagapatam, William Marshall, eldest son of John Marshall, Esq. of Edrington.

Feb. 3. At Sourabeya, Java, Mr Peter Kirkwood, midshipman.

March 1. At Madras, the Hon. Mrs Elliot, wife of the Right Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras.

20. On her passage to Bombay, on board his Majesty's ship Minden, the Lady of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard King, Commander in Chief in the East Indies.

May 18. At Port-au-Prince, in St Domingo, Robert Sutherland, Esq. formerly 3 merchant in Kingston, Jamaica.

June. At Pointe-au-Petre, Guadaloupe, Charles, fourth son of the Rev. Dr Barclay, minister of the gospel at Kettle.

July 5. At his seat at Newlands, in the county of Southampton, the Hon. Admiral Sir William Cornwallis, G. C. B. Vice-Admiral of England, &c. &c. The naval annals of this country are graced with the names of few individuals who star d so preeminent as that of the late Sir Wm. Cornwallis.

6. At Forbes Lodge, Alexander Forbes, Esq. of Inverernan.

7. At Portobello, Charles, second son of Henry David Erskine, Esq. of Ammondel. At her house, Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Murray of Mitchelstone.

At Gallatown, near Dysart, Mr David Thomson, late merchant there; and at Coaltown, on the preceding evening, his son David.

8. At Canaan Grove, near Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Campbell, daughter of the late Mr James Campbell, of Glasgow.

At Campbelton, Janet Black, spouse of Mr Robert Lamb, writer there.

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and most affectionate parent, the qualities of a cheerful and intelligent companion, and a sincerely faithful friend. To her family her loss is irreparable, and it will long be felt by the very many objects of her private benevolence.

10. At Chelsea, James Hay, Esq. formerly Speaker of the Hon. House of Assembly of the island of Grenada, much and deservedly regretted by his family and friends.

At Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Anne Ram, wife of Thomas Hamilton Miller, Esq.

At Kew Green, Lieutenant-General William Wynyard, late Equerry to his Majesty, and Colonel of the 5th regiment of foot.

11. At Stirling, Capt. James Crichton, of the Briton Indiaman.

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At Stranraer, Mr Kelly, farmer in Stillock. He was a member of Sir William Maxwell, Bart. of Monreith's troop of cavalry, which was then on duty at Stranraer, and having been warm and much fatigued with drill the day before, when he came in from the field he had taken a draught of beer rather hastily, upon which he was seized with a violent cold and inflammation in the bowels, of which he died next day.

12. At Dalkeith, Mr George Rae, merchant there.

13. At Seaton House, Hannah Charlotte Georgiana, the infant daughter of Lord James Hay.

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At London, James Bell, Esq. of Russel Square.

14. William Woddrop, Esq. of Dalmarnock.

At Kensington Palace, Lady Porter, relict of Sir Stanier Porter, Knt. 15. At Cumnock, Mr Charles Macvitie, aged 72.

At the Manse of Pittenweem, the Rev. Dr James Nairne of Claremont, minister of that parish, in the 69th year of his age, and the 44th of his ministry. Dr Nairne died the Father of his Presbytery, as his grandfather and father had done. The family had been favoured in Providence by a long tract of public usefulness in the sacred function; the Doctor's grandfather and father having been parochial ministers in the same Presbytery with himself, the one for 68, and the other for 53 years. Their united incumbences amount to 164 years, while for 116 successive years their names have stood in the Presbytery roll. Although in a state of great debility of body, in so much that he had latterly to sit in the pulpit, Dr Nairne's mind continued to be in full vigour to the last; and the variety of his duties the last time he preached is striking-on the second Sunday before his death, he not only did his usual forenoon duty, but, in addition, ordained elders, dispensed the sacrament of baptism, and celebrated a marriage.

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