25. On his passage from Lisbon, Thomas Stodart, Esq. Cardrona Mains. -At Montreal, Captain Alexander Webster, of his Majesty's 50th regiment of foot. -At his house at Greenock, Patrick Nicolson of Ardmore, Esq. June 3. At his house in London, the Right Honourable John, Earl of Strathmore. 6. On his passage home from Demerara, Robert M'Laren, Esq. merchant, Demerara. 8. At Charleston, South Carolina, John Marshall, Esq. eldest son of the late Dr Hugh Marshall, Rothesay. 14. Clonfecle Glebe-house, aged 80, the reverend William Richardson, D. D. well known to the literary world by his refutation of the Huttonian theory of the alternate decay and production of the earth; by his discovery of marine exuviæ in unformed basalt; and his curious researches into the whyn dykes of the north of Ireland; and the agriculturalist will long remember the zeal with which he brought into notice the valuable property of the fiorin grass, and promoted its cultivation. 20. At Leith Walk, Mr John Marshall sculptor, 22. At the Manse of Aberfoyle, Miss Mary Sum 28. Mrs Raitt of Carphin died there. 29. At his seat, Hyde Hall, Hertfordshire, the Earl of Roden, K. St P. 30. At Edinburgh, after a long continued illness, William Griffith, umbrella-manufacturer, aged 56. At Redpath, Mrs Neill, aged 81. At Clyde Cottage, Richard Henderson, Esq. one of the city clerks of Glasgow. At Dunbar, Mr John Goudie, late manufacturer in Glasgow. July 2. At Edinburgh, after a long and painful illness, Isabella, wife of Alexander Nicholson, Esq. At Brechin, Mr James Morris, bookseller there. At Barrock-House, Caithness, John Sinclair, Esq, of Barrock. 4. At Dovan, Mr Daniel Wardrop, aged 92. The infant son of John Tod, Esq. W. S. Charlotte Square. At his seat at Fulham, the Right Honourable Thomas, Lord Viscount Ranelagh. 5. At Wiek, William Macleay, Esq. late provost of that burgh, in the 80th year of his age. 6. At Edinburgh, Ann, eldest daughter of James Moncrieff, Esq. advocate. 6. At Slateford Manse, John Houston, the infant son of the reverend Dr Belfrage. -In Charlotte Square, George William, the infant son of H. St John Tucker, Esq. 7. At Pitliver, Robert Wellwood, Esq. of Garvock. At Montrose, Alexander Paterson, Esq. merchant there. At his house, Broomhill, near Lasswade, William Swanston, Esq. late of St Kitts. 8. At Balgonie Cottage, Fifeshire, Major James Douglas, late of the 7th royal veteran battalion. 8. At Parkhill, Stirlingshire, Mrs Catherine Mil. ler, relict of Andrew Muirhead, Esq. Castle Ranken. 9. Mrs Morison of Greenfield, near Alloa. At Kippenross-House, Mrs Stirling, widow of the late John Stirling, Esq. Kippendavie. 10. At Largs, James, only son of George Stirling, Esq. Glasgow. At Kilsyth Manse, the reverend Robert Rennie, D. D. 11. At Glasgow, Mr James Bredie, aged 73. - In Queen-street, Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Keay, sen. -At Glasgow, Dame Robina Crawfurd Pollock of Pollock, aged 83, relict of Sir Hew Crawfurd, Bart. of Jordanhill. In Tobago-street, aged 29, Agnes Scott, wife of Samuel Wright. 12. At his Palace, in Chelsea, after a long illness and gradual decay of nature, the Honourable Brownlow North, D. C. L. Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Order of the Garter, Provincial Sub-Dean of Canterbury, and Visitor of Magdalene, New Trinity, St John's, and Corpus Colleges, Oxford, F. A. and L. S. His Lordship was aged 79, having been nearly 40 years bishop of that diocese. 13. On his passage from Demerara, Francis James Adam, Esq. youngest son of the Lord Chief Commissioner of the Jury Court. 14. At Clayhall, near Windsor, Mrs James Lind say, wife of Captain Lindsay, grenadier guards, aged 23. 16. At Beith, William Fleming, Esq. writer. In the 75th year of his age, the right reverend William Bennet, Bishop of Cloyne; a prelate most respectable for his learning, and most excmplary for his uprightness, benevolence, and piety. He was promoted to the see of Cloyne in the year 1790. The value of his bishoprick was estimated at nearly L.6000 per annum. 18. At London, John Anderson, Esq. of Fermoy, county of Cork, in the 74th year of his age, a native of Dumfriesshire. Every person acquainted with the history of Ireland, will long remember that he was the father of the mail-coach system in that kingdom, and like all other first improvers, he had great, and to a less energetic character, insurmountable difficulties to encounter in the accomplishment of that object. He lived, however,} ~ € to see the effectual triumph of this, the great pur suit of his early life. 22. At Clifton, Thomas Mackmillan Brown, aged A 20. At No 17, Shakspeare-square, in the 83d year of her age, Miss Graham, only remaining daughter of the deceased James Graham of Balquhapple, Esq. - The infant son of Michael Stewart Nicolson,* Esq. of Carnock. At Inverness, after a short illness, Mrs Su- |-sanna Macalister, wife of Norman Macdonald, Esq. - Scalpa. At Montrose, Mrs Elizabeth Straton, daugh+194 ter of the deceased John Straton, Esq. of Laurieston, aged 86. 21. At Portobello, John Mackintosh, late ac countant of the Royal Bank. 22. At Mansefield, Hugh Humphrey Wilson, son of the reverend John Wilson, minister of Lesmahagow. ་ ག་་་ 23. At Berwick, Mr Archibald Mackie, youngest son of the late Mr William Mackie, Ormiston, East Lothian. 24. James Towers, Esq. Professor of Midwifery 42 in the University of Glasgow. 25 At his house, George's Square, Colonel Ro-[Y bert Baillie, late of the Honourable the East India Company's service. Lately-At Horndean, in Hampshire, Edward Oliver Osborn, Esq. Vice-Admiral of his Majesty's fleet. At Bankfoot, near Dalkeith, Miss Ramsay. At Edinburgh, aged 17 months, Alexander, only son of Alexander Davidson, lecturer in natu ral philosophy. - At St Croix, in the West Indies, in April last, George Allan, Esq. nephew of the reverend Alexander Allan, late Episcopal minister in Edinburgh. - At Cuddalore, coast of Coromandel, East Indies, William Johnston, Esq. eldest son of Mr John Johnston, Ayr. Suddenly, near Armagh, supposed by apoplexy, in consequence of bathing when in a state of excessive perspiration and debility, John Stowa bridge, Esq. formerly lieutenant in the 59th foot. At Eye, in Suffolk, in the 89th year of his age, the reverend Robert Malyn, who was chapiain on board the Prince Frederick man of war, at the taking of Louisburgh, and was present at the death of General Wolfe and the taking of Quebec in 1759. For the last 59 years this venerable clergyman had been rector of Kirkton, in Suffolk. EDINBURGH MAGAZINE. No. XLII. SEPTEMBER 1820. VOL. VII. Ode to Marshal on his Return. Contents. By an Irish Gentleman, lately deceased587 The Elder.meness Extracts from the "Historia Major" of 589 598 On Sweetness of Versification...641 648 (Continued from vol. vi. p. 276.)605 | Extracts from Mr Wastle's Diary. NoIII. Semihoræ Biographicæ. No I.610 Tentamen, or an Essay towards the 651 Re-Interment of King Robert Bruce_623 Translations from the Less Familiar 663 Classics. No I. Propertius.614 Hunt's Indicators. 664 Alexander Restores to Athens the Spoils 624 Hora Scandicæ. No II. Note from Dr Morris, enclosing a Let- Young Hopeful," the Village LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC WORKS PREPARING for PUBLICATION693 631 695 MONTHLY REGISTER. 633 635 636 Simplicius on the State of Ireland Promotions and Appointments an 703 637 Births, Marriages, and Deaths.................... 704 The Village Funeral The Dying Villager. EDINBURGH: WILLIAM BLACKWOOD, NO 17, PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH ; AND T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, STRAND, LONDON; To whom Communications (post paid) may be addressed. SOLD ALSO BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. [OLIVER & BOYD, Printers, Edinburgh.] SIR, By an Irish Gentleman, lately deceased. I SEND another specimen of my deceased friend's poetry, and, mirabile dictu, it, as well as the former, bears a similitude to an Ode in Horace; indeed, I believe he wrote a set of parallel Carmina to the Horatian, and if Archdeacon Wrangham were to see them, I think he would give up for ever the idea of attempting to lay his versions before the public, for which reason I hope he never will see them. to attend a I am working away arranging the papers, and in a month or so they will be prepared finally. Another month will be occupied in writing my friend's life, so that I shall be ready to face the booksellers by next October. away I should say more, but that I am in a hurry, being called coroner's inquest over the body of one Timothy Regan alias Tighe a Breeshtha, who was killed yesterday, fighting at a fair in a feud, a bellum intestinum, between the Shanavests and Caravats. I can only add, that I have procured fewer notes for this than for the former Ode. I remain, sir, your servant, Drummanigillibeg, August 6th, 1820. HOR. Od. 7. Lib. ii. Felicem ex infelici militià reditum O saepe mecum tempus in ultimum Pompei, meorum prime sodalium? Malobathro Syrio capillos. Tecum Philippos et celerem fugam humble PHILIP FORAGER. 1. O WELCOME home, my marshal, my colleague true and good, When under brave Napoleon we dabbled long in blood; Who brought you back to Paris in Bour Was it Madame Bonaparte's man, our own With thee I robbed thro' Prussia, thro' Por- With thee I marched to Russia, and then- And with thee I raised the war-song of jolly+ P. F. + Jolly! Quoi? Jolly! Ma foi, voila une epithete assez mal appliquè. VOL. VII. Sir Hudson Lowe is a very bad man in not letting the Emperor escape. LAS CASES. He is a man of no soul. The world cannot decide whether Bonaparte or Wellington is the greater general-I am sure the former is, without a second battle of Waterloo; and here we have a simple knight preventing the solution of the question. He is an imbecile. I am sure he never had the taste to read my Amyntas. LEIGH HUNT. + It was an instrument of superstition; and I, therefore, although a water-drinker, approve of its being turned to any other use, just as I approved of the enlightened revolu tionists of France turning the superstitious bells of Paris into cannon, although, on principle, a declared enemy of war. SIR R. PHILIPPS. Bonaparte was fond of Chambertin. Teste Toм MOORE. I prefer whisky. P. F. § A pet poet of Lady Morgan's. Vide her France. I wonder what the medical Knight, her caro sposo, says, when he catches her reading" La Guerre des Dieux." P. F. On this I must remark, that six and thirty tumblers is rather hard drinking. My friend, Rice Hussey, swears only to six and twenty, though he owns he has heard he drank two and thirty, but could not with propriety give his oath to it, as he was somewhat disordered by the liquor. There is not a Frenchman in France would drink it: I will lay any wager on that. In fact, I back Ireland against the world. A few years ago, the Northumberland, a very pretty English militia regiment, commanded by Lord Loraine, who endeared himself wherever he went in Ireland by his affable and social manners, arrived in the city of Cork. His Lordship gave a dinner to thirty officers of his regiment, who each drank his bottle. When the bill was called for, he observed to the waiter with a smile, that the English gentlemen could drink as well as the Irish. "Lord help your head, sir," said the waiter," is that all you know about it? Why, there's five gentlemen next room who have drank one bottle more than the whole of yees, and don't you hear them bawling like five devils for the other cooper,coming gentlemen!" P. F. In Horace it is Edoni, not Irishmen ; but that is quite correct. The Irish are of Scythian descent, so were the Thracians. THOS. WOOD, M.D. |