late Robert Kirk, Esq. of Welham Lodge, Leicestershire.At Edinburgh, George White, Esq. one of the magistrates of that city, aged 70. Mr White has held the office of magistrate four times, besides various other important stations in the towncouncil. He has left the following legacies to charitable and pious institutions; thus evincing the same desire for their prosperity and extended utility after his death, to which he so amply contributed during his life: To the Edinburgh Bible, Missionary, and Gaelic School Societies, £150 each; Destitute Sick Society and Magdalene Asylum, £100 each; the poor of Bristo Street congregation, £120; the free school of Bristo congregation, £100; and Orphan Hospital, £50.-At Dumfries, Elizabeth Rose Laing, youngest daughter of Dr John Laing, physician there.-13. At Milton, Urr, Mr John Copland. At his house in Bedford Square, London, Sir William Fraser of Leadclune, Bart.-At Torbreck, in the 76th year of her age, Mrs Ann Russell, the lady of Alexander Fraser, Esq of Torbreck. At his seat, Dunnichen, Forfarshire, in his 86th year, George Dempster, Esq. many years representative in parliament for St Andrews, &c.--At Melville-house, Jane, Countess of Leven and Melville.-At Edinburgh, Miss Blair Richardson, eldest daughter of the late Mr William Richardson, solicitor-at-law, aged 69.—At Blackethouse, Mrs Mary Bell, relict of Mr Christopher Smyth of Eastfield, at the advanced age of 91 years. At Inverness, Mrs Marjory Fraser, spouse of Mr Alexander Tolmie, merchant, Glasgow.-At Glasgow, of typhus fever, Mr William Gardner, jailor.-At Perth, John Rutherford, Esq. writer, procurator-fiscal of the county of Perth.-At East Dalry, Mrs Shirreft.-16. At her house in York Place, Edinburgh, Dowager Lady Sinclair of Murkle.-At Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Moncrieff, daughter of the late Colonel George Moncrieff of Reidie. In the 25th year of his age, at the house of Dr Winterbottom, Wistoe, near Shields, on his way to London from Dumfries-shire, of which he was a native, George Macaulay, Esq. collector of the customs at Sierra Leone, grandson of the author of the History of St Kilda, and near relative of the celebrated Zachary Macaulay, Esq. London.-17. At Springwoodpark, Mary, daughter of the late Admiral Sir J. Douglas, Bart. Miss Douglas, who had been for some time in a delicate state of health, was induced, by the genial warmth of the weather on the day of her decease, to walk within the grounds of Springwoodpark, on the margin of the river Teviot; and two ladies, who were the only spectators of the scene, happened to be on the opposite side, under the ruins of Roxburgh Castle. They observed her stoop, as if to pick something from the ground, when she lost her balance and fell into the river. A female relative,

who followed to join in her walk, heard the alarm from the ladies on the other side, and procured the help of workmen who were near. The body was taken out after having been five or six minutes immerged, and the best medical assistance was immediately applied; but alas! the spirit had quitted its tenement of clay.-At St Andrews, Lieut.colonel John Macgill, late of his Majesty's 19th regiment of foot.-18. At Edinburgh, Mr William Millar, No 7, St James's Square, aged 55.-At Edinburgh, in his 64th year, Mr Thomas Dewar, late merchant there.-20. At Edinburgh, in her 22d year, Sarah Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Robert Preston, Esq, of New Sydney Place, Bath.-At Powder Hall, Mrs Christian Simpson, wife of Captain Rattray.21. Isabella, youngest daughter of Dr Gregory, physician in Edinburgh.-At Edinburgh, Mrs Janet Montgomerie, matron of the Royal Infirmary. She held this situation for several years, and performed its various and laborious duties with great integrity and unabated zeal for the benefit of the charity, till within a few days of her death. Her remains were attended to the place of interment by the managers and office-bearers of the institution, as a mark of the high respect they entertain for her memory.-In Misses Erskine's house, Lauriston Lane, after a very long and severe illness, Mrs Miller, aged 71 years, housekeeper to the late Rev. D. John Erskine of Carnock, and, since his death, to his surviving daughters. She lived in the family for more than 47 years. After a lingering illness of from nine to twelve months, Mrs Jean Kidd, spouse of Mr James Thom, Buccleuch Pend, Edinburgh.- -24. At Edinburgh, much regretted, Mr David Davidson, of the Exchequer.-25. At Edinburgh, Charles, infant son of John Tawse, Esq.

Lately-At Mount Hindmost estate, Clarendon, Jamaica, Mr Charles Masson, son of Mr James Masson, Calton Hill, Edinburgh. At her house, Great Portland Street, London, Miss Jane Elliot, daughter of the late Robert Elliot, Esq. of Midlemmiln. On his passage to Ceylon, in his 25th year, Lieut.-colonel Erskine, youngest son of Lord Erskine.-At London, the Rev. Joseph William Daniel, one of the officiating clergymen of the Roman Catholic chapel in Virginia Street, who fell a victim to the typhus fever in the discharge of his sacerdotal duties.-At Cannock, in Staffordshire, in the 89th year of his age, Mr John Sheet, said to be the only remaining soldier of those employed under General Wolfe at the siege of Quebec. He had occupied a farm at Cannock for about fifty years.-At London, Lieutenant-colonel Ward, of the Bombay establishment.-At London, the Right Hon. Lady Mary Ker, in the 72d year of her age, third sister of his Grace the late John Duke of Roxburghe.

ABERDEEN, report of the trustees for the
creditors, 461.

Acoustic experiment, remarkable one, 699.
Acted Drama in London, No I. 426.
No II. 567.-No III. 664.
Agricultural Reports, 235, 470, 722.
Alison, Rev. Archibald, on the pulpit elo-
quence of, 318.

Allan, William, on his character as an art-
ist, and his picture of the Circassian cap-
tives, 315.

Alpina's Reply to "An Old Indian,"
539.

America, South, Guyana, taken by the
patriots, 106.

Anecdotes of the shepherd's dog, 84, 417,

621.

of a spaniel bitch taught to be

a shop-lifter, 85.

of a highwayman's horse, 85.
illustrative of the state of the
Highlands after Forty-five, 155.

of the Fife gypsies, 282, 523.
of the late Dr Witherspoon in

1745, 433.
Animal Magnetism, on its present state in
Germany, 36.

Flower, account of a plant so called
in St Lucia, 701.

Animals, large ones the least prolific, 647.
Ape, account of the species of, called Titi,
699.

Appointments, Promotions, &c. 115, 240,
356, 466, 602, 713.

Argyllshire, curious meteorological pheno-
mena there, 18.

Arragonite, discoveries on the optical pro-
perties of, 218.

Artists of Scotland, letters on the living
ones, No I. Allan, 315.
Autobiography of Bishop Watson, review
of, 499.

Balls and routs, remarks of an Old Indian
Officer on, 396.

Balmouto, laird of, letter of James VI. to,

313.

Bankrupts, lists of English and Scotch,

113, 239, 353, 466, 600, 719.
Barbadoes, remarks on the reasonings of
the Edinburgh Review on the insurrec-
tion in, 44.

Bargain, breach of, trail for, 711.
Bachelor, letter of an old, 192.
Battle of Pentland Hills, account of, 635.
Benefit societies, case relating to, 592.
Bessy Bell and Mary Gray, a poem, 165.
Biographia Literaria of Coleridge, review of,
3.-Letter to the reviewer, 285.
Biography of Bishop Watson, review of, 479.
Birds, change in the plumage of, 635.
Births, lists of, 117, 244, 356, 472, 606,
723.
VOL. II.

Blacklock, Dr T. notices of, 495.
Blind, restoration to sight of a person born
so, 223.

Bloody Garland, the maiden's, a poem, 266.
Boiling springs of Java, account of the, 448.
Bonaparte's military carriage exhibited in
Edinburgh, 711.

Books, notices of reprints of old ones, No I.
214. No II. 370.

Bothwell, Earl of, account of his attempt
on Holyroodhouse in 1591, 30.
Boxing match at Wimbledon, Latin verses
on, 669.

Breslaw, account of a riot there, 103.
Brewster, Dr, on the optical properties of
mother-of-pearl, &c. 33, 140.-Expe-
riments of, on the optical properties of
arragonite, 218.-and on the optical struc-
ture of ice, 219.

Buckhaven, queries respecting the colony
of Danish fishermen established there,
626.

Burgh Reform, meetings in Edinburgh in

favour of, 314.-In Dysart, 707.-In
Wigton, 789.

Burns, the shade of, to its tormentors, 205.
Burns' Works, vindication of a letter of
Wordsworth, on a new edition of, 65.-
Letter occasioned by the vindication, 201.
Byron, Lord, review of his poem,
"The
Lament of Tasso," 142.

Caldwell, laird of, letter to, from James VI.
628.

Calumnies against the dead, observations on
some, 400.

Cameleon mineral, curious experiments on
the, 218.

Carr rock beacon, destroyed by the sea, 343.
Catullus, observations on, 486.
Chalmers, Rev. Dr, on the pulpit eloquence
of, 131.

Church history, on the original mode of
editing, 305.

Circuit Intelligence, 229.
Child-stealing, trial of Janet Douglas for,

109.

Coleridge, Mr, review of his " Biographia
Literaria," 3.-His self-importance con-
trasted with the unostentatious writings
of Scott, Campbell, Moore, &c. 6, 7.—
Letter to the reviewer, 285.

Comet, discovery of a new one, 447.
Commercial Reports, 118, 237, 348, 463,
596, 715.

Common speech, improprieties in, 514.
Cornwall, notice of the steam engines in,
448.

Constable, the Lord High, letter to him
from Mr Dinmont, 35.

Cookery, remarks on, 300.
Correspondence of Dr Lettsom, extracts
from, 636.

5 B

Hills, altitude of some remarkable ones in
England, 451.

Hints to the Ladies, by an Old Fellow, 377.
-Reply to them by a Young Fellow, 513.
Hogg, James, the Ettrick Shepherd, elegy
by, 47.-A Hebrew melody by, 400.-
Letters to, from Timothy Tickler, 501,
654.
Holyroodhouse, account of Bothwell's at-
tempt upon it, in 1591, 30.
Horæ Historica, No I. 170.
Juridicæ, No I. 176.

Scandicæ, No I. 570.
Sinicæ, 630.

Hunt, Leigh, criticism on his poem of
Rimini, 38, 194.-Letter from Z. to

414.

Hunter, Mr, account of his ingenious in-
strument for nautical observations, 331.
Hygrometer, description of a self-register-
ing one, 643.

James VI. documents respecting the pecu-
niary distresses of, 312.-Letter from, to
the Laird of Balmouto, 313.-Letter of,
to the Laird of Caldwell, 628.
Jarvie, Nicol, tertius, letter of, to the au-
thor of Rob Roy, 662.
Java, account of the boiling springs of, 448.
Ice, optical structure of, 219.

Polar, Captain Scoresby's observations
on the, 363.

Icelandic poem, notice of one, 570.
Innocent men, remarkable instances of the
condemnation of; 213.

Inverness, severe shocks of an earthquake
felt there, 111.

Italy, on the scenery of the north of, 544.
Jumpers, the, a new school of poetry, 555.
Jury Court of Scotland, report concerning

the, 457.-Trial for crim. con. in, 462.
-For breach of bargain, 711.
Justiciar, or Justice-general, antiquity of
the office of, 391.
Justiciary, High Court of, trial of three
Irishmen for rape and robbery, 108.

Of Janet Douglas for child-stealing, 109.
-Of Robert Reid, a chimney sweeper,
for murder, 110.-Of John Jeffray, for
murder, ib.-Of Robert Tenant, for theft,
592.-Of R. Dingwall, for murder, 594.
Kean, Mr, criticism on his acting, 664.
Kemble and Kean, their acting of Hamlet
compared, 510.

Knights Errant, the, No I. 169.
Kraken, remarks on the history of the, 645.
-Proofs of its existence, 650.-Is the
same with the animal known among mo-
derns by the name of the cuttle-fish, 651.
Ladies, bints to the, from an Old Fellow, 377.
-Observations of an Old Indian Officer,
addressed to them, 396.-Reply to the
Old Fellow's hints to the, 513.-Reply to
the Old Indian, 539.

Lakes of Italy, description of the, 547.
Lamp, account of one without flame, 699.
Learning, the progress of, a poem, 81.
Leith, completion of the second wet dock
there, 234, 342.

Leslie, Bishop, account of a manuscript his

tory of Scotland by, 52.-Extracts from
it, 54.

Letter from an Old Fellow, 377.

from an Old Indian Officer, 396.--
Reply to it, 539.

from a Young Fellow, 513.
Lettsom, the late Dr, extracts from his cor-
respondence, 636.

Life Boats, new invented one, 98.-Expe-
riments at Bristol with a new one, 111.
Lines written in a burial-ground in the
Highlands, 295.

Literary and Scientific Intelligence, 97,
218, 330, 447, 582, 699.
Literary Gleanings, 237.
Lithography, progress of, 449.
Liverpool, remarks on the Royal Institution
of, 534.

Loo-Choo, account of Captain Hall's voy-
age to, 576.

M'Avoy, Miss, a lady pretending to be
blind, and to tell colours by the touch,
and the German somnam-

219.

bulists, 437.

a Portuguese one, 496.
Macgregor, Rob Roy, memoir of, 74, 149.
-His treatment of a factor of the Duke
of Montrose, 77.-And of a messenger
sent from Edinburgh to apprehend him,
79.-Instances of his generosity, 150.-
Encounter of, with the Earl of Athol,
152. His uncommon strength of arm,
154-Memoir of some branches of his
family, 288.-Escape of James Macgre-
gor from Edinburgh Castle, ib.-Letter
of James to Prince Charles Stuart, 289,
-Letters to the chief of the clan, 290.
Mad dogs, remedy for the bite of, 97.
Magic Lanthern, Time's, No I. Machiavel's
death-bed, 689.

Magnetism, Animal, state of in Germany,
36.--Extraordinary power of, 343.—Ex-
traordinary cure of a boy by means of, 439.
Mammoth, account of one found in Ame-
rica, 333.

Mandeville, review of Godwin's novel of,
268.-Remarks on review, 402.
Marble, beautiful mass of, discovered in
Fife, 342.

Marlow, essay on his drama of Edward II.
21.-On his Jew of Malta, 260.
Marriages, lists of, 118, 244, 358, 472, 606,
724.

Mary Queen of Scotland, curious facts re-
lative to her abdication, 31.-Account of
a diamond ring belonging to, 115.
Medical Report of Edinburgh, 48, 550.
Meteor, account of a brilliant one at Ips-
wich, 449.

observed by Dr Clark at Cam
bridge, 516.

Meteoric stone, new variety of, 332.
Meteorological phenomena seen in Argyll
shire, 18.

Mineral, description of a new one, 549.
Minerals, a new arrangement of, 299.
Mont Rigi, in Switzerland, account of an
ascent of, 255.-A night's residence on
its summit, 259.

Montrose, warrant of the king in council
for a poll election of magistrates for, 231.
Mother-of-pearl, on the optical properties
of, 33.-On communicating its colours
to other substances, 34, 140.-On the
incommunicable colours of, 141.
Murder, trial of a father, two brothers, and
a son, for, 111.

Narrative of a fatal event, 630.

National calamity, occasioned by the death
of the Princess Charlotte and her infant,
reflections on the, 250.
Natural history, notices in, No I. 378.-
Proofs of the increasing taste for, 380.-
No II. 640. Changes in the plumage of
birds, 641.-Tenuity of the spider's web,
642.

North Pole, notice of an expedition to the,
700.

Ode on the breaking of a china quart mug,
317.

Odoherty, Adjutant, account of the life and
writings of, 562, 685.

O'Neil, Miss, criticism on her acting, 567.
Opinion of a late celebrated Judge on the
Scots law of divorce, 539.
Othello, conjectural emendation of a passage
in, 267.-Answer to it, 431.
Paris, table of deaths and births there in
1816, 105.-Prizes proposed by the So-
ciety for Encouragement of the Arts in,
334.

Pargasite, a new mineral, description of, 549.
Paterson, Walter, verses by, 74.
Peace, a poem, 620.

-

Pecuniary distress of James VI. curious
documents respecting the, 312.-Letter
of James to the Laird of Balmouto, 313.
To the Laird of Caldwell, 628.
Pentland Hills, battle of, 635.
Petrarch, translation from, 296.
Platinum, curious compound of, 219.
Poetry, on the Cockney School of, 38, 194
-Elegy by the Ettrick Shepherd, 47.—
Lines written in a Lady's Album, by
W. Paterson, 74-The Progress of
Learning, 81.-Verses written in Killar-
ney, 87.-Bessy Bell and Mary Gray,
165. Waking Dreams, a fragment,
174. On leaving the North Highlands,
by a Lady, 185.-Specimens of that of
the late John Finlay, 188.-The Shade
of Burns to its Tormentors, 205.-The
Maiden's Bloody Garland, 266.-Lines
written in a lonely Burial-ground, 295.—
Translation from Petrarch, 296.-On the
Death of a Brother, ib.-Ode on the
Breaking of a China Quart Mug, 317.-
Prince's Street Sketches, No I. 369.-
To my Dog, 378.-Unpublished Verses
of Allan Ramsay, 383.-The Dejeuné, a
Pindaric Ode, 394.-Sonnet to Walter
Scott, Esq. 399.-Verses written on the

5th November 1817, 400.-A Hebrew
Melody, ib.-To a Lady reading Romeo
and Juliet, 424.-On seeing the place
where the Maid of Orleans suffered, 425.
Unpublished Pieces of the late John
Finlay, 490.-Sonnets to Mr Words-
worth, 512.-Lines to Crookston Castle,
515.-On a Dying Sister, ib.-The Bat-
tle of Sempach, 530.-The Passion, 533.
-Elegy on an Idiot Girl, ib.-Elegy on
the Death of an Infant, 620.-Peace, ib.
-Sonnet, 621.--The Roses, ib.-Hora
Sinicæ, 639.-Boxing Match at Wim-
bledon, 669.-On the discovery of the
Regalia of Scotland, 691.

Polar Ice, Captain Scoresby's observations
on the, 363.

Poll election at Montrose, royal warrant
for, 231.

Potatoes, discovery of a new product from,

221.

Preservation from death at sea, remarkable
case of, 490.

Prince's Street Sketches, a poem, No I. 369.
Prizes proposed by the Society in Paris for
encouraging the arts, 334.

Prussia, lines by the late Prince Louis of,

533.
Publications, Monthly Lists of new ones,
99, 225, 338, 453, 586, 705.

new French ones, 101, 227,
341,456,590.-New Americanones, 590.
Fulpit Eloquence of Scotland, on the, 131.
Queen Mary, curious facts relative to her

abdication, 31.-Account of a diamond
ring belonging to, 115.

Ramsay, Allan, unpublished verses by, 283.
Rape and robbery, trials for, in the Justi-

ciary Court, Edinburgh, 108.

Regalia of Scotland, verses on the, 691.
Remarks on Godwin's " Mandeville," 402.

-On the history of the kraken and great
sea serpent, 645.-On the periodical cri-
ticism of England, 670.
Revenue of Britain, produce of it in the
years 1816 and 1817, 117.
Review of Coleridge's "Biographia Litera-
ria," 3.-Of Byron's "Lament of Tas-
so," 142.-Of Godwin's " Mandeville,"
268. Of the Autobiography of Bishop
Watson, 479, 692.-Of Roscoe's Dis-
course at the Liverpool Institution, 534.
-Of Frankenstein, or the Modern Pro-
metheus, a novel, 613.

Edinburgh, on an article in it en-
titled, "Present State of West India
Affairs," 41.

Quarterly, on the review of Stewart's
Dissertation in, 57, 159.
Roscoe, Mr, remarks on his discourse at the
Royal Liverpool Institution, 534.
Roses, The, a poetical piece, 621.
Roy, Rob, Macgregor. See Macgregor.
letter to the author of, 662.
Royal Society of Edinburgh, proceedings
of, 444, 579, 697.