17. In Malone, Alexander Dunlop, at the age of 85 years, 49 of which he lived with the same family, and had the management of the farm, in succession, of William Leg, James Templeton, and John Templeton, with all of whom he was considered more as a disinterested friend than a servant.

At Leith, James Mitchell, Esq. of Shettleston.

18. At Kerswell, William Bertram, Esq. of Nisbet.

relict of John Howden, Esq. R. N. late of Skedsbush.

31. At Edinburgh, Margaret, infant daughter of Mr John Stark.

At Muckhart, Perthshire, Isabel Marshall, lady of Captain Thomas Harrison.

At Wells, aged 80, the Hon. Samuel Knollis, Lieutenant-Colonel in the army, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for Somersetshire.

At Oze, in the Island of Skye, Cap.

29. At Cupar Fife, Mr George Constable, jeweller.

30. At St Augustine's Priory, Shrewsbury, Thomas Hawley, Esq.

At Aberdour, in the 8th year of his age, Gregory Buchanan, son of Mr D. Buchanan, Gayfield Square, Edinburgh.

At Craig Lodge, Miss Helen Robertson, youngest daughter of the deceased Alexander Robertson, Esq. of Parson's Green.

August 1. At her residence, at Mount Edgbaston, in the 57th year of her age, Isabella, widow of the late Mr John Braidwood of Hackney, and mother of Mr Braidwood, instructor of the General Institution for Deaf and Dumb, near Birmingham.

At Leadenurquhart, Mrs Keith Low, relict of Mr Henry Ballingall of Leadenurquhart.

At Aix-la-Chapelle, after a painful illness, James Forbes, Esq. of Albemarle Street, London, F. R. S. in the 71st year of his age.

At Glasgow, Mr Mathew Taylor, writer, son of the Rev. Principal Taylor. Mr Robert Thomson, coachmaker, Mound Place.

9. At Knightsbridge, James Kennedy, Esq. Clerk of the Check of Sheerness Dock-yard, aged 48.

10. At Forbes Lodge, Mrs Forbes of Inverernan, in the 67th year of her age.

At Lancaster, Mrs Parker, relict of the late Thomas Parker, Esq. of Parknook, Cumberland.

12. At Douglas, Isle of Man, Robert Whiteside. Esq merchant, in his 34th year. At Weymouth, Mrs Glendining, wife of J. Glendining, Esq. of Burton Crescent. At Maxweltown, Miss Marion Maxwell of Carruchan, in the 79th year of her age.

At Old Aberdeen, Thomas Buchan,

Esq. of Auchmacoy.

At Leckie, Robert Moir, Esq. of Leckie, M. D. aged 38.

At Dalkeith, Mr D. Chalmers. 25. In the 84th year of his age, James Watt, Esq. (For a character of this very eminent man, see p. 203.)

-At Edinburgh, Mrs Janet Hannay, wife of James Ogilvy Mack, Esq. writer in Edinburgh.

27. At Kelso, Mr Alexander Dove, inn. keeper.

At Hillhead, Mr John Sommerville, sen. merchant, Glasgow.

28. At Paisley, Mrs Mary Thomson, relict of the late Mr Thomas Kirkaldie, manufacturer, Dunfermline.

Lately. At Port Royal, Jamaica, William Monro, Esq Captain in the Royal Artillery, and Lieutenant of Fort Charles and the fortifications of Port Royal.

At Vera Cruz, Lieutenant Gee. Beckwith, Royal Navy, second son of John Beckwith, Esq. and great-grandson of the late Rev. Dr George Wishart, one of the Deans of the Chapel Royal, &c.

John Lachlan, shoemaker in Ayr, known as an intelligent, lively, and facetious companion. He was better known by the epithet of Sutor Johnnie, by which title he is immortalized by Burns in his exqui site poem of" Tam o'Shanter."

At Carmarthen, Lieut.-Colonel Stewart, one of the Deputy Lieutenants of that county.

At Rotherhithe, Captain John Boyd, many years commander of the ship Hibberts, in the Jamaica trade.

At Penang, Mr Adam Gordon, seventh son of the late Rev. Dr Gordon, one of the ministers of Aberdeen.

At his house, in Gloucester Street, Dublin, in the 61st year of his age, Sir Thomas Featherstone, Bart. M. P. for the county of Longford.

At Durham Place, Chelsea, Thomas Richardson, Esq. in his 81st year.

At Clifton, Mrs Spear, the Lady of Capt. Joseph Spear, of the royal navy. She was the second daughter of the late Ludovick Grant, Esq. of Knockandow, and a near relative of the Duke of Gordon and the Earl of Aboyne.

At Linz, the celebrated Austrian General, Count Beaulieu, aged ninety-three years. He retained the possession of his faculties to the hour of his death.

At Limberg, of a dropsy, the Baron Von Hiller, another celebrated Austrian General.

PHRENOLOGY, MORALS, METAPHYSICS.

THE great aim of an enlightened and benevolent philosophy, is not to rear a small number of individuals, who may be regarded as prodigies in an ignorant and admiring age, but to diffuse, as widely as possible, that degree of cultivation which may enable the bulk of a people to possess all the intellectual and moral improvement of which their nature is susceptible.-The most important of all qualities is a sincere and devoted attachment to truth, which seldom fails to be accompanied with a manly confidence in the clear

conclusions of human reason. It is such a confidence, united, as it generally is, with personal intrepidity, which forms what the French writers call force of character, one of the rarest endowments, it must be confessed, of our species; but which, of all endowments, is the most essential for rendering a philosopher (or any other man) happy in himself, and a blessing to his species.

DUGALD STEWART.

NOTWITHSTANDING the abstruse aspect of our title, we hope to manage this article in such a manner as that the most mercurial of our readers may get smoothly through it; but if it should prove otherwise, we trust he will find something else in our monthly bill of fare not altogether repulsive. A Magazine ought to contain food for various palates, and the more diversified the better, if there be no delete rious or poisonous matter in any one of the varieties. If all be in a good spirit, something may be found acceptable and beneficial to all readers. The most useful work of this nature, we are aware, is that which forms the most faithful record of the times. When that department is well executed, it becomes of permanent value; but then, it is obvious, that, to be a complete record, it must attend to those manifestations of thought and feeling which are peculiar to the age,

as well as to what are more strietly' called historical details. The former are to be gathered more accurately, perhaps, from the free and almost unstudied speculations which men of acknowledged powers may indulge in during a leisure hour, or which genius not yet confident in itself may be willing to put forth anonymously, than from those more formal and systematic works which are avowed by their authors; and every one knows that such occasional productions are exactly those which are most likely to be obtained for a periodical publication.

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It is certainly not our wish, whatever may be our practice, to neglect any department or species of literature, which is important in itself, or which may be turned to any useful purpose. present we mean to offer a few remarks on that study, or science, as it is wished to be made, which Dr RoGET calls Cranioscopy, but which its followers denominate by what they consider the more appropriate term of PHRENOLOGY.

We are quite aware that this subject can hardly be adverted to, with out exciting the risible faculties of many of our readers. In most minds there is something ludicrous respecting bumps on the head, and manifes tations of singular organs, associated with the names of GALL and SPURZHEIM; but the feeling which arises from this association is soon dissipated, if we begin to look seriously at the new doctrines concerning the brain. We are not ourselves converts to these doctrines; but we are anxious to do them and their professors justice; and the number of the latter, we conceive, is already so great, as to furnish something like grounds of reproach against all those who pretend an entire indifference. It has been remarked by one of our greatest liv