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merchant, Greenock—20. At Edinburgh, Count Flahault, to the Hon. Miss Mercer Elphinstone of Aldie.—21. At London, Charles Pasley, Esq. major in the service of the Hon. East India Company, and late charge-d'affaires at the Court of Persia, on the part of the Supreme Government of India, to Mary, eldest daughter of the late Simon M'Tavish of Montreal, Canada, and Dunadry, N. B.—23. At Lancaster, Captain Wilson, R. N. son of the late Judge Wilson of Howe, to Dorothea, daughter of Charles Gibson, Esq. of Quermore Park, Lancashire.—24. At London, Charles Shaw Lefevre, jun. eldest son of Charles Shaw Lefevre, Esq. M. P. of Heckfield, Southamptonshire, to Emma Laura, youngest daughter of the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Whitbread—30. The Rev. Henry Wastell of Newborough, Northumberland, to Anne, second daughter of Thomas Henderson, Esq. chamberlain of Edinburgh.

March 13. At Sydney, Mr Walter Lang, merchant, Van Diemen's Land, son of the deceased Walter Lang, Esq. late one of the magistrates of Glasgow.

April 10. At Montreal, Lower Canada, Rev. J. Mountain, D. D. brother of the Bishop of Quebec, rector of Montreal and of Peldon, Essex—25. At Paris, W. Augustus Miles, Esq. formerly private secretary to the late Right Hon. William Pitt.—26. At Vanceville, Virginia, John Pollock, Esq. of Logic Green, W. S.—28. At the Peace and Unity Hospital, Durham, aged 101, Mrs Anne Dinsdale, who had been a widow 66 years. When 99, she had the misfortune to have her thigh bone broken, of which she was cured in the infirmary; and about six weeks previous to her death, she had her shoulder dislocated, of which she had also recovered.

May 10. In the House of Industry, Chester, aged 39, Mr James Lewis, late of the Chester, Glasgow, Haymarket Theatres, &c. Improving the characteristic of his profession hastened his death. He was an actor of considerable reputation.—At Antigua, aged 76, John Otto Bayer, Esq. a member of council in that island, and formerly in the 82d regiment.—At Rome, the celebrated Cardinal Maury, who was in some measure under Bonaparte, and during the captivity of the Pope, the head of the catholic church. He fancied he saw a change of colour in his lips, that denoted his having swallowed poison; and by taking counterpoisons he killed himself. He lived the life of a miser, and persuaded himself that he was conspired against by all mankind. He was born at Vaurias, near Avignon, 26th June 1746, and had been created a Cardinal by Pius VI. 21st February 1792. Although rather in disgrace since the downfall of his master and the restoration of the Pope, his funeral was attended by all the Cardinals. His riches are left to a brother, who is in the church, and resident in France.—14. At London, Joseph Alder, Esq. of the firm of Hazard, Burne, and Co. Royal Exchange.—16. At Barley Wood, Mrs Sarah More, sister of the celebrated Mrs Hannah More.—At Brighton, in her 22d year, Right Hon. Lady Frances Browne, sister of the Earl of Kenmore.—16. Off Cape Finisterre, Captain Robert Foulis Preston of the Euphrates frigate, aged 33.—At Bath, the Countess of Newcommon.—23. At Gort, co. Galway, in his 76th year, the Right Hon. John Pendergast Smyth, Viscount Gort, governor of the county of Galway. At Pittodrie, Aberdeenshire, the wife of Lieut-Col. Erskine of Pittodrie.—26. In the 82d year of his age, Thomas Salt, Esq. of Litchfield, father of Henry Salt, Esq. his Majesty's consul-general for Egypt.—28. At Dundee, aged 60, Ebenezer Anderson, Esq. late agent for the Bank of Scotland there.

June 2. At the advanced age of 108, Catherine Prescott of George Leigh Street, Manchester. She retained her faculties in a wonderful degree, having learned to read her Bible, without the aid of spectacles, partly in the Lancasterian School, and partly in the St Clement's Sunday School in that town, since she was 100 years of age.—At Brompton, J. Adams, Esq. late of Peterwell, Cardiganshire, and formerly M.P. for Carmathen, aged 71.—4. At Brucefield House, Clackmannanshire, Mrs Elizabeth Johnstone, wife of Lieut-Col. Dalgleish of Dalbeath, aged 44.—5. At Bath, in the 88th year of her age, Lady Riddell, widow of the late Sir James Riddell, Bart of Ardnamurchan and Sunart, Argyleshire.—At Myrehead, Maj.-Gen. George Dyer of the royal marines.—8. The Rev. Alexander Macadam, minister of Nigg, Ross-shire, in the 69th year of his age.—9. At Brechin, in the 80th year of his age, Joseph Lowe, M. D.—12. At Larkfield, Robert Jamieson, Esq. one of the magistrates of Glasgow. At Kilwinning, the Rev. Robert Smith, late minister of the gospel at Auchinleck, in the 84th year of his age, and 57th of his ministry.—13. At Edgeworthstown, Ireland, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Esq. father of the celebrated Miss Edgeworth.—15. At Roseneath, in the 83d year of his age, Mr James M'Ewan, late one of the magistrates of Glasgow At Chauteau de la Challiere, near Lausanne, Mrs Stratford Canning, wife of his Majesty's envoy-extraordinary, and minister plenipotentiary to the Swiss cantons.—18. In Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Moodie, wife of Mr Chas. Moodie of the Exchequer.—19. At Piershill Barracks, Edinburgh, the lady of Major Charles Irvine of the 6th dragoon guards.—20. While the tragedy of Jane Shore was performing at the Leeds Theatre, in the part of Dumont, Mr Cummins, that highly