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or to whom he belonged, though from his dialect he seemed to have come from some of the southern counties. He was perfectly harmless, and appeared to have had a good education, from his being able to repeat many parts of the service of the church, particularly the morning service, which he frequently did with great propriety. He is supposed to have been 75 or 80 years of age.—24. At Glasgow, Lieutenant John Ferguson, of the royal Lanark militia.—At Glenlyon-house, Miss Janet Campbell, daughter of the late John Campbell, Esq. of Glenlyon.—At Heckington, Lincolnshire, Mr Samuel Jessup, an opulent grazier, of pill-taking memory, aged 65. He lived in a very eccentric way, as a bachelor, without known relatives, and has died possessed of a good fortune, notwithstanding a most inordinate craving for physic, by which he was distinguished for the last thirty years of his life. In 21 years (from 1794 to 1816), the deceased took 226,934 pills, supplied by a respectable apothecary at Bottesford, which is at the rate of 10,806 pills a-year, or 29 pills each day; but as the patient began with a more moderate appetite, and increased it as he proceeded, in the last five years preceding 1816, he took the pills at the rate of 78 a-day, and, in the year 1814, swallowed not less than 51,590. Notwithstanding this, and the addition of 40,000 bottles of mixture, and jalaps and electuaries, extending altogether to 55 closely written columns of an apothecary's bill, the deceased lived to attain the age of 65 years!—29. At Gibraltar, D. A. Com. General Walter Porteous.—31. In the 77th year of his age, James Baird, Esq. of Broompark, formerly of Virginia.

June 5. At Hieres, in the south of France, Grace Dundas Rae, eldest surviving daughter of the late Sir David Rae of Eskgrove, Bart.—6. At Edinburgh, John Thomson, Esq. royal navy.—8. In the Royal Military Hospital at Fort Pitt, by Chatham, aged 24, and a native of Leven, Fifeshire, James Alexander Oswald, Esq. M.D. The cause of his death is awfully interesting, and affords a serious warning to all of the medical profession. Being an assistant in the hospital, whilst dressing a patient labouring under a mortal disease, he unwarily exposed an ulcerated surface to the morbid poison, which, being conveyed into the system, and almost imperceptibly creeping up the arm, fixed in the axilla and breast, and put a period to a most painful state of existence, under which he had languished for three weeks, notwithstanding every effort of his medical friends, and the most assiduous attention of James Daese, Esq. of Fort Pitt Hospital, one of the most skilful surgeons of the army.—9. At East Sheen, near Richmond, the Hon. Charles Ramsay, second son of the Earl of Dalhousie 10. At Edinburgh, John Macfarquhar, Esq. W. S.—15. At Edinburgh, in consequence of the bursting of a Wood vessel, Lieut. Alston, of his Majesty's ship Ramillies.—17. At Brucefield-house, Clackmannanshire, in the 17th year of her age, Miss Hannah Dalgleish, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Dalgleish of Dalbeath.—18. At Edinburgh, Miss Elizabeth Dundas, daughter of the late Dr Thomas Dundas.—19. On his passage from Jamaica, Dugald Campbell, Esq. of Saltspring.—20. At Peers, Salop, aged 75, Thomas Hill, Esq. diird son of the late Sir Rowland Hill, Bart, of Hawkstone Part., and uncle of the present Lord Hill.—At Edinburgh, Mrs H. Kerr, relict of the late William Kerr, Esq. of the General Post-Office.—21. At Greenock, in the 97th year of her age, Mrs Barbara M'Pherson, relict of the Rev. Alexander M'Leod of the Isle of Skye, and mother of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Donald M'Leod of Achagoyle and St Kilda.—At Kensington Place, Glasgow, Mr James Buchanan, merchant.—27. At London, Lady Suttie, wife of Sir James Suttie, Bart, of Balgone, M. P.—29. At Cupar Fife, Captain and Adjutant John Roy, of the Aberdeenshire militia. He has left a wife and seven daughters to lament his loss.—At Glasgow, Captain James Somerville of the royal navy.—30. At Banstead, Surrey, Richard Parry, Esq. one of the Directors of the East India Company.—At Madeira, Captain the Hon. James Arbuthnot, royal navy. He had gone there on account of ill health, occasioned by the wounds which he received while in command of his Majesty's ship Avon.

July 1. At Edinburgh, Captain James Nicolson, royal navy.—3. General Philip Martin, colonel commandant of the 6th battalion of the royal artillery.—4. At London, William Bruce, bookseller, in the 73d year of his age. He was in the above line for upwards of fifty years, and was much respected by all who knew him.—5. At Westfield, near Elgin, Thomas Sellar, Esq.—8. At Edinburgh, Alexander, and on the 13th, David, youngest sons of Captain Watson, royal navy.—At London, the Right Hon. George Ponsonby. He was born on the 5th of March 1755. He was appointed Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, March 25, 1806, which office he resigned, and was latterly member for Tavistock. On the 18th of May 1781, he married Lady Mary Buder, eldest daughter of Brinsley, the second Earl of Belvedere, by whom he had several children. Mr Ponsonby was, we believe, one of those very estimable characters who fill a private station in the most amiable and exemplary manner, and a public one with propriety and integrity. His talents were more useful than splendid; more suited to the arrangement of affairs, and the detail of business, and the tranquil investigation of truth, than capable of obtaining a command over the understanding of others, of dazzling by their brilliancy, or controlling by their powers. In truth, he was an honest, sincere, steady man; and, his eloquence was naturally adapted to the