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John White, assistant commissary-general on that establishment, daughter of the late Chevalier de Grenier de Fonclane and the present Lady Chalmers.

May 29. At Edinburgh, Mr Alexander Stodart, merchant, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Thomas Gray, Broughton, Peeblesshire.

June 2. At Aberdeen, John Brand, Esq. writer in Stonehaven, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Mr Burnett, writer, Stonehaven.—5. At Edinburgh, Mr Campbell Winton, to Eliza, eldest daughter of John Grieve, Esq. Sheriff-hall.—6. At Portobello, Mr Simon Kemp of Port-Glasgow, to Gracie, second daughter of the late Alexander Ferrie, Esq. writer in Edinburgh.—9. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant Robert Ford, royal marines, to Miss Euphemia, daughter of John Kermack, Esq. Edinburgh.—At Glasgow, David Bannerman, Esq. Manchester, to Mary Harrower, eldest daughter of James Alexander, Esq. merchant, Glasgow.—14. At Cronstadt, Russia, Mr Vertue of Great St Helen's, London, to Erskine C. Booker, daughter of John Booker, Esq. British vice-consul at Cronstadt.—16. At Ardtarig, Argyllshire, Mr Alexander Brown, purser, royal navy, to Catherine, eldest daughter of George Campbell, Esq.—23. At Langley Park, Captain Robert Ramsay, third son of the late Sir Alexander Ramsay of Balmain, Bart, to Margaret, daughter of the late Patrick Cruickshank, Esq. of Stracathro.—30. At Roxburgh Place, Lieut. Angus Macdonald of the 92d regiment, to Robina, daughter of the late Walter Macfarlane, Esq. of Ledard.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Charles Ritchie, Esq. merchant, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Reid, Esq. architect.—3. At Glasgow, the Rev. Archibald M'Intyre, minister of the Relief congregation, Newlands, to Miss Mary Lockhart, Glasgow.—5. At Pencaitland-house, S. M. Threipland, Esq. late advocate-general in the Hon. the East India Company's service, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Walter Campbell, Esq. of Shawfield.—7. At Edinburgh, William Black, Esq. of the Devanha brewery, Aberdeen, to Miss Dorothea Blair Feild, daughter of the late Dr James Feild, physician at Petersburgh, North America.—8. At Mcnymusk, Henry Iveson, Esk. of Black Bank, to Miss Jessie Grant, third daughter of Sir Archibald Grant, Bart.—9. At Glasgow, Professor Thomson of Belfast, to Margaret, daughter of the late William Gardner, merchant.—16. At Edinburgh, Robert Hunter, Fsq. advocate, to Catharine, eldest daughter of Mr Archibald Gibson, W. S.—18. At Leith, James Shirreff, jun. Esq. merchant, Leith, to Miss Jess Millar, second daughter of Archibald Millar, Esq. merchant there.—21. At Prestonpans, H. F. Cadell, Esq. Cockenzie, to Miss Buchan Sydserff of Ruchlaw.—22. At Bath, Major-general Sir John Buchan, K. C. T. S. to Laura, only daughter of Colonel Mark Will's of Kirby, in the Isle of Man, late governor of St Helena.—24. William M'Leod Bannatyne, Esq. of Bath, third son of the late General Bannatyne, to Miss Young, only child of Captain Young.—26. At London, Captain William Johnson Campbell, third son of the late Lieutenant-general Colin Campbell, to Anna Maria, only daughter of the late Sir Francis Vincent, Bart, of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey.—28. At Airly Lodge, near Dundee, William Gourlay, Esq. surgeon in the East India Company's service, to Margaret, daughter of Alexander Balfour, merchant, Dundee.—29. At Edinburgh, John Campbell, Esq. quartus, W. S. to Miss Mary Kirkpatrick Campbell, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Esq. late of the island of Tobago.

Lately—At Fantington church, John Douglas, Esq. of Lockerby, to Sarah, youngest daughter of James Sholto Douglas, Esq. Denworth, Sussex.—At Kerse, Robert Walktr, Esq. merchant, Falkirk, to Christina, third daughter of John Borthwick, Esq.—At Anchorfield, near Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Proudfoot, formerly of Liverpool, now merchant in London, to Mrs Borthwick, only daughter of Thomas Wilson, Esq. writer, Edinburgh.—At Berlin, George Sholto Douglas, Esq. secretary to the British legation, to Miss Rose, eldest daughter of his Majesty's plenipotentiary at that court.—At Edinburgh, Henry Gordon Dickson, Esq. W.S. to Eliza, second daughter of the late William Gillespie, Esq. merchant in Edinburgh.—Lord Viscount Ebrington, to Lady Susan Ryder, eldest daughter of the Earl of Harrowby.

March 28. At St Helena, Mrs Porteous, wife of Henry Porteous, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's service.

May 14. At Lound, near Retford, aged 22, Esther, the wife of John Walker, Esq. This lady fell a victim to a second attack of the small-pox: she took the infection from a person affected with the disease, and exposed publicly on the high road. Mrs Walker's former attack was about seventeen years ago.—19. In Piershill barracks, Edinburgh, the lady of Major Charles Irvine, of the 6th dragoon guards.—20. In the house of correction at Durham, where he had been kept nearly 46 years, a man, usually called Dicky, a lunatic, whose real name could never be made out, but which is supposed to have been Richard Williamson. This extraordinary man was first discovered in 1771, in a complete state of nudity, in an out building in the fields near Newton-hall, then the seat of Thomas Liddell, Esq. It has been generally conjectured, that he had been a lunatic confined in some receptacle, whence he had escaped. He was never able either to tell his name, or to give the smallest account of himself; nor could any discovery ever be made where he came from,