26. At Rosebank, Broughton Road, Mrs Margaret Alexander, relict of Captain Andrew David

son.

At Pembroke, in her 76th year, Miss Campbell, sister of the late Lord Cawdor.

At Burgie, Mrs Dunbar Brodie, of Lethen and Burgie.

-At Dunfermline, the Rev. Alexander Fisher, Minister of the Associate Congregation, QueenAnne Street.

Suddenly, of inflammation, while on a visit to his friend, Temple Sinclair, Esq. of Lybster, County of Caithness, the Hon. Eric George Sinclair, fifth son of the late, and brother to the present Earl of Caithness, in the 28th year of his age. 27. Mr George Forrester, writer, Edinburgh. -At 4, Lothian Street, Mr Walter Scott Drysdale, watchmaker.

-At Double Bridges, Thorne, Yorkshire, Mrs Caroline Gunby, in her 103d year.

28. At Rugby, Warwickshire, William Chambers, Esq. Rear-Admiral, in the 82d year of his age. -At Leith, George Kellie, Esq. M.D.

29. At Clifton, in his 77th year, Richard Newman Newman, M.D. of Thornbury Park, Gloucestershire.

-At Portobello, Miss Anne Bannerman, author of "Poems, chiefly Lyrical," Tales of Superstition and Chivalry," and other ingenious and elegant performances.

30. At Southwold, Henry Robert Gooch, Esq. son of William Gooch, Esq. of Upwell.

At the Manse of Dunfermline, Isobel Barbour, wife of the Rev. Allan M'Lean.

- At Dumfries, Mrs Mary Butter, relict of James Carruthers, Esq. of Warmanbie.

Oct. 1. At Edinburgh, the Lady of General Sir William Maxwell of Calderwood, Bart.

2. At Edinburgh, Bernard Bedwell Richardson, infant son of Mr James Richardson.

At 17, Elm Row, Mr Alexander Muckle, merchant.

-At Pisa, in Tuscany, Emma Warrington, wife of Thomas Wood, Esq. British Vice-Consul at Bengazi.

3. At Paisley, Mrs Carlisle, wife of Warrand Carlisle, Esq.

-At Lasswade, Jane, eldest daughter of John Buckham. Esq. formerly of the Bush.

4. At his house. 7, Nicolson Square, after a short illness, Mr James M'Donald, (formerly of Dunfermline,) teacher of English, &c. 24, Waterloo Place.

-At Everton, near Liverpool, Sir John Reid, Bart. R.N. formerly commander of the Cheerful revenue cruiser.

-Mr Robert Barclay, late farmer, Southside Bank.

5. At Wallacetown, Ayr, Mrs Barbara Campbell, widow of Major Campbell of the 92d Regi

ment.

At Perth, Miss Kinnear of Kinnear.

At Warmanbie, near Annan, the Rev. Robert Hankinson Roughshede, M.A. in the 81th year of his age.

-At his house, Walker Street, John Horner, Esq.-This venerable and highly respectable citizen was the acting partner in the well-known firm of Inglis, Horner, and Company, afterwards Horner, Baxter, and Company, and latterly, John Horner and Company, manufacturers in Edinburgh. He was father of Mr Horner the celebrated Barrister and Member of Parliament, who was unfortunately cut off at an early period of his brief but brilliant Parliamentary career. Mr Horner's only remaining son is Mr Leonard Horner, the originator of the School of Arts in this city.

6. At her father's house, East Sallon, Mrs Janet Swinton, wife of Mr James Dods, Edinburgh, aged 27 years.

-At Kilmarnock, Mrs Helen Duncanson, widow of George Freer, Esq. of Woodlands, near

Perth.

7. At Wardie, Sarah, daughter of the late James Donaldson, Esq. and sister to Captain J. D. Boswell, Royal Navy.

8. At 3, Albany Street, North Leith, Margaret, daughter of the late Mr David Wishart, ship

9. At Hastings, Jane, fourth daughter of Robert Spear, late of Mill Bank, Cheshire, Esq. deceased.

At the Duke of Buccleuch's, Richmond, Lady Isabella Cust, wife of the Hon Captain Peregrine F. Cust, M.P.

10. At No, 17, Shandwick Place, Mrs Beatrix Pringle, widow of David Hogarth of Hilton, Esq. 11. At No. 32, Gayfield Square, the infant daughter of Thomas Ferguson, Esq. writer to the signet.

12. At Dumfries, Archibald M'Murdo, Esq. late Lieutenant-Colonel of the Dumfries-shire Militia.

At the Manse of Burrowstounness, Robert, eldest son of the Rev. Dr Rennie.

At Bath, Major-General Sir John Pringle Dalrymple, Bart. the last male representative of the family of Dalrymple, of Hailes.

At Hewell, Worcestershire, the Hon Frederick Campbell Amherst, second surviving son of Lord Amherst.

13. At Glasgow, Catherine, wife of Lauchlan M'Kinnon, Esq. and daughter of the late Duncan M'Dougall, Esq. of Arnentrive.

14 At Glasgow, Mr James Syme, teacher. -At her house, Grosvenor Square, London, the Countess Dowager of Radnor, in the 71st year of her age.

15. At her house, No. 16, New Street, Miss Elizabeth Whitehouse.

At John Street, Portobello, Josiah Maxton,

Esq.
At Kentish Town, George Dawe, Esq. R.A.
Member of the Imperial and Royal Academies of
Arts at St Petersburg, Stockholm, Florence, &c.

16. At High Halden Rectory, Kent, Robert, third son of Robert Badham, Professor of Medicine, Glasgow.

-At Stirling, Mrs Agnes Stevenson, relict of the Rev. John Thorburn, minister of the gosrel at Edinburgh.

At Hamburg, John Maclean, Esq. late merchant, Edinburgh.

17. At Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Maxwell, relict of the Rev. James Hall, D.D. of Broughton Place Chapel.

18. At the Manse of Farnel, the Rev. James Wilson, minister of that parish. in the 73d year of his age, and 51st of his ministry.

19. At Gargunnock House, Stirlingshire, Jane, daughter of the late Robert Dennistoun, Esq. Glasgow.

Aged 18 years, Jean, second daughter of Mr John Hope, Castle Mains, Sanquhar.

- At Dunse, Mr. Richard Bertram, writer there.

20. In the 70th year of his age, Mr John Mills, of Irlam's-oth-Height, a man well known for his patriotism. He was one of those who undertook the hazardous task to relieve General Elliot with provisions at the siege of Gibraltar.

At Round Haugh, John Leyden, aged 83. This venerable person was father of the celebrated Dr John Leyden.

21. At No. 10, Shandwick Place, Eleanor, wife of Lieut-Colonel James Leatham, in her 74th year.

22. At Mount Juliet, county of Kilkenny, the Countess of Carrick.

At Esperston, near Fushie Bridge, Christina, second daughter of Mr John Watson.

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At Barbreck, Lochawside, Mr John M'Arthur, surgeon, in the 55th year of his age. -At the Manse of Moffat, Catherine, daugh ter of the Rev. Alexander Johnstone, minister of Moffat.

23. At Kensington, in his 30th year, Horatio Nelson Head, R.N. only son of Guy Head, Esq.

24. At No. 1, Bellevue Crescent, William Davidson, only child of Andrew Dun, Esq. writer to the signet.

-At Edinburgh, George Douglas Cameron, M.D. Liverpool, fourth son of the late Rev. William Cameron, minister of Kirknewton.

-At Lauriston Castle, Miss Ellen Allan, youngest daughter of Thomas Allen, Esq. of Lauriston, in the 16th year of her age.

Oct. 21. At Northwick Terrace, London, Henrietta Anne, wife of the Hon James Stewart. 25. At the Wester Bush, Isabella Gifford, in the 88th year of her age.

25. At Cheltenham, Lord Frederick Lennox, brother of the present, and son of the late Duke of Richmond. His Lordship was in the 28th year of his age, and had been suffering long under a most painful indisposition.

26. At Middlehill, Mr George Deans, aged 89 years.

27. At his residence in Stephen Street, Dublin, Lieutenant-General William Fyers, commanding Royal Engineers in Ireland.

28. At No. 6, Mansfield Place, Adam Anderson, only child of Mr John Anderson, jun. bookseller.

- At her house in Maitland Street, the Right Hon Lady Jane Stuart, widow of the Hon Sir John Stuart of Fettercairn, Bart, one of the Barons of Exchequer.

-At Edinburgh, Robert Cameron, Esq. accountant, second son of the la'e Rev. William Cameron, minister of Kirknewton.

- At Waterbeck, the Rev. Daniel Struthers, minister of the Relief Congregation there.

29. At Hampstead, Christian, eldest daughter of John Richardson, Esq. Fludyer Street, Westminster.

At Ayr, Mr Hugh Donaldson, merchant, aged 88, one of the oldest and most respectable inhabitants.

30. At Sedgwick, near Kendal, John Wakefield, Esq. banker in that town.

At 17, Great King Steeet, Mary, third daughter of James Cathcart, Esq.

At his house, No. 21, Union Street, Mr James Robertson, ironmonger, High Street. 51. At Campbell own, Captain Frederic Campbell, late of the 94th regiment.

At his residence of Lincluden House, Gilbert Young, Esq. Commissary General.

Nov. 1. At Broughton Place, John, the infant son of Thomas Maitland, Esq. of Pogbie.

-At the marine villa of the Earl of Egremont, Brighton, Lady King, mother of Lord King.

At Claremont Square, London, David Gordon, Esq. second son of Sir Alexander Gordon of Culvennan.

- At No. 58, Northumberland Street, Margaret, infant daughter of Andrew Johnston, younger, of Rennyhill, Esq.

2. At No. 19, Queen Street, aged 27 years, of a lingering decline, Mrs Jones, wife of Mr. Jones, late of the Theatre Royal, and, in the same hour, after a few days' illness, their son, Richard Alexander, aged eight months.

-At No. 6, Salisbury Place, Newington, Miss Elizabeth Broughton, daughter of the late Henry Broughton, Esq. Collector of Excise.

At Edinburgh, Harie Guthrie, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.

-At Edinburgh, Miss H. Ramsay Grant, daughter of the late Dr William Lewis Grant, of Calcutta.

3. At Sandgate Street, Ayr, Patricia Khanim, second daughter of William Fullarton, Esq. of Skeldon.

1. At Leith Street, Edinburgh, Mr William Somerville.

-At Kelso, George, the infant son of Mr Geo. Jerdan, writer, Kelso.

5. At Minmore, Banffshire, William Gordon, Esq. aged 74.

At Pitt Street, Portobello, Miss R. W. Beech, only daughter of W. Beech, Esq. of Santa Cruz. 6. At No. 1, Salisbury Road, Newingten, Mrs Elizabeth Ross, wife of Alexander Ross, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh.

7. At his house, No. 104 High Street, Mr John Johnstone, printer.

8. At Blackadder House, Thomas Boswall of Blackadder, Esq.; and on the 12th, at the same place, Mrs Boswall, mother of that gentleman. --At his house, No. 23, St Leonard's Hill, Edinburgh, Mr Patrick Davidson, writer.

9. At his house in Hart Street, Bloomsbury Square, London, E. Roche, Esq. the Editor of the Courier.

-At Kirkland Cottage, Dumbartonshire, Mr Robert Davie, teacher of writing, South Bridge, Edinburgh.

10. At Ayr, Mr Roderick Mackenzie, late Comptroller of the Customs, Isle Martin.

-At Carlisle, David Carrick, one of the Society of Friends, and above forty years a banker in that city.

11. At his house, 1, Erskine Place, Mr David Ogilvy, painter.

12. In the 64th year of his age, the Hon. John Coventry, second son of the late Earl of Coventry. - At Branxholm, Miss Riddell, daughter of the late Patrick Riddell, Esq. of Muselce.

13. At No. 35, South Bridge, Edinburgh, Miss Edgar Pillans.

-At her mother's house, Prince's Street, Miss Mary Campbell of Dalziell Park, daughter of the late Patrick Campbell, Esq. teller, Royal Bank of

Scotland.

- At Devonshire Terrace, Regent's Park, London, Mrs Fitzgerald, wife of the Right Hon. Maurice Fitzgerald.

- At Port Nellan, Loch Tuminell, Capt. Gilbert Stewart, late of his Majesty's 61st Regiment. 14. At Harehead, East Lothian, Mrs Eliza Dods, wife of Mr John M'Gregor, writer, Edinburgh.

-At Sauchfield House, Mr Alexander Milne, merchant, Glasgow.

15. At Longbank Mearns, Renfrewshire, Mr John M'Diarmid, in the 92d year of his age.

16. At Stirling, Mrs Agnes Stevenson, relict of the Rev. John Thorburn, minister of the gospel at Edinburgh.

18. At Edinburgh, Mr Wm. Newbigging, eldest son of Wm. Newbigging, Esq. F.R.S. Edinburgh. - At his house in Grosvenor Place, London, Thomas Garth, Esq. General in his Majesty s service, and Colonel of the First, or Royal Regiment of Dragoons, aged 85 years.

19. At Dunse, Mr Richard Bertram, writer, there.

-At No. 8, Charlotte Square, Robert Ramsay, Esq. W.S.

20. At Kedleston, the Hon. Augustus Curzon, son of Lord Scarsdale.

At Cumnock, the Rev. John Fraser, minister of that parish.

21. At No 19, Salisbury Street, Edinburgh, Mr Malcolm Hennen, second son of the late Dr John Hennen, Inspector of Military Hospitals.

22. At Hermitage Place, Leith Links, Anabella Catherine, youngest child of D. Matheson, Esq. advocate.

23. At his house, No. 13, Bank Street, Mr James Reid.

At Torquay. Anne, youngest daughter of William Mure, Esq. of Caldwell, Ayrshire.

At Caplebrae, Fifeshire, Mr David Mitchell, aged 78 years.

Jane L. Brown, aged nine, eldest daughter of Mr Gordon Brown, 32, Buccleuch Place.

24. At his house, No.1, Moray Street, Mr James Geddes, late storekeeper of his Majesty's Customs for Scotland.

27. At Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Boyd.

At No. 10, Hanover Street, Mr James Brown, solicitor-at-law.

Lately. At Barham Court, the Right Hon. Lady Barham. Her Ladyship was married to the present Lord Barham, June 29, 1820.

At Berlin, the celebrated Field-Marshal Count Von Gneisman.

-At Nice, in the 19th year of her age, Lady Emily Caulfield, only surviving child of the Earl and Countess of Charlemont.

At Greenwich, in his 88th year, Robert Robertson, M.D. FR.S. and F.S.A.

- On the coast of Africa, of the fever incidental to the climate, Lieut. Charles David Watson, Commander of his Brazilian Majesty's brig Duqueza de Golaz.

At Gallanach, Island of Coll, Charles M'Lean, Esq. aged 68.

-At Aix-la-Chapelle, Lieut.-Col. Colquhoun Grant, son of the late Duncan Grant, Esq. of Lingoston, of disease contracted at Arracan, where he commanded a brigade of the army.

- At Lausanne, after a few days' illness, the Most Noble the Marquis of Headfort.

We have long wished for a proper opportunity to write an Essay on Epic Poetry-and here is one; while, unluckily, deuce an idea will rise up in the dark interior of our pericranium. The truth is, we have read Mr Atherstone till we have become almost-you would not believe us, did we say wholly-as stupid as himself; and how stupid that is, you perhaps partly may know, by reading either this Article or the Fall of Nineveh. Whether Christopher North or Edwin Atherstone is at this hour the stupider individual, it would be highly presumptuous in us to affirm positively; but we may venture to hint that the advantage lies rather on our side, and that the effect is greater than could be explained on philosophical principles-greater even than its cause. To speak more precisely, our stupidity, viewed as an effect of him the cause, leaves the author of its existence so much in the background, that it becomes difficult to affiliate it upon Mr Atherstone; and yet as certainly as that the sun is not now clear at noonday, he is the parent at whose door our stupidity must be laid; and if he have any bowels, he will treat kindly this his Crying Sin.

We feel as if the perusal of this

poem had effected a startling change on our mental constitution. Stupid enough for common occasions we had often been before that perusal, as all our readers will cheerfully allow; but since that perusal our stupidity has not only assumed a more settled aspect, but a far firmer form, and, we verily believe, a more determined character. That which was, in other days, transient as a cloud, is now permanent as a hill-top. Our stupidity, like that of the other patient's, is no less chronic than acute; so the world must not wonder, if in a few years, say half a century, Blackwood's Magazine should become, in sheer stupidity, not far inferior to the last number of the Monthly Review-a periodical which, under its present very skilful management, it is interesting to see keeping just below that degree of stupidity, above which it was proved-by the death of the Critical that nothing mortal can breathe, any more than a frog in an air-exhausted receiver.

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that; for as Homer would, of course, be restored to blindness, during Mr Atherstone's recitation of his poem, we might erroneously suspect the old Grecian of being asleep-as, on the other hand, we might just as unjust ly accuse the old gentleman of being awake. Our perplexity would, how ever, in all probability be ended erelong by a portentous snore, enough to shake to its foundations the Temple of Ninus, and effect the Fall of Nineveh.

For old Homer would be intolerant of prosing-and in prosing Mr Atherstone excels all the children of men. He has unluckily acquired considerable power over a considerable number of words in the English language, which obsequiously obey his commands, issued with an air of authority which smells of the schoolmaster. But his mind is as slow as an expiring top. It does not, " spinning, sleep," though it dozes; and you wonder, while it continues wambling on, that it does not all at once fall down stone-dead. It was quite the reverse with the mind of old Homer, His was indeed a striking specimen of the Perpetual Motion-and not only swung, but sung and shone like a planet. No man of woman born ever fell asleep over the Iliad. A few lines of it has cured the most comatose; that prescription has made lethargy leap up from his chair, and roam the house like a somnambulist. One paper of Atherstone's powders, again, can lull even an evil conscience. Under its benign influence we ourselves, with two gouty great toes, walked at the rate of five miles an hour into the Land of Nod. In a quarter of an hour or less, has his patent soporific changed a family naturally feverish into the Seven Sleepers.

Very dim, indeed-as of all things else-is our memory of the Iliad. But we do remember this, that there was one Hector, whom we did dearly-devoutly love; and for whose sake we loved Troy-town almost like Auld Reekie. For and with an old man called Priam, we remember having wept till we were blind; for the eyes of a boy are as suddenly filled with tears as tulips are with rain, and as suddenly, too, shake out the shower to the first air of joy that comes rustling by with the wakened

sunshine. What we were to Hecuba, we know not; but what Hecuba was to us, we do know-Why, she was the very image of our grandmother! As for Andromache, there seems to reside a spirit of sadness in the name! It breathes to us of all most Wifelike in the Beautiful. We know not why-but we love Mrs Gentle for her sake! As for poor Helen-she was hated only-by herself; in spite of her fatal sin, Troy loved and pitied her-Hecuba, Priam, Hector, Andromache and alland perhaps the member of the Royal Family who cared least for her at last was-Paris. As for Achilles, we feared him, so brave and beautiful, so swiftfooted, and, as we dreamt, invulnerable. Had it not been for Hector, we might have loved the son of Thetis ; but round the waving crest of the Bien aime, all our hopes and fears kept watch, as if to ward off the weapon of that dreadful demigod!-Turning from Troy to Nineveh, the mind of a man undergoes as violent a revulsion as if he were torn away by Fate from a Noctes Ambrosianæ, and set down to a lecture on Phrenology in the Society's Hall in Clyde Street. He experiences within one little hour the extremes of human life-the ut most imaginable brightness and glory

the last pitch of opacity and gloom; and wonders if he indeed be still an inhabitant of one and the same world! In presence of the Iliad every man is a hero. Reading old Homer is like marching along with a full band of instrumental music. You would willingly walk on to death. But the drone of Atherstone absolutely inspires cowardice. You are transmogrified into Corporal Fear-would fain hide yourself among the baggage-waggons-sigh for the society of Friends, and on your relinquish ment of a military life, resolve to be come a Wet-Quaker.

Whether Sardanapalus kills Arbaces we are alluding now to Mr Atherstone's two chief heroes-or vice versa, is to us a mere matter of moonshine

of as utter indifference as the issue of a battle between any two wasps when about to enter the mouth of a bottle of sugar of lead, placed for the protection of a royal race of red hairy gooseberries. His Queen of Nineveh is an absolute scold-and