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and zealously to employ your Majes ty's royal donation of one thousand pounds for propagating the knowledge of the gospel in the Highlands and Is lands of Scotland.

We entreat your Majesty to be at all times assured of our affectionate attachment to your person and Government. And that Almighty God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, may protect your Majesty and prosper your Councils; that he may bless abundantly our gracious Queen, the Prince and Princess of Wales, and all the members of your illustrious house; that he may long continue to us the inestimable benefits which we enjoy under your Majesty's reign; and that he may bestow upon you hereafter a crown of glory, are the prayers of, may it please your Majesty, your Majesty's most faithful, most obedient, and most loyal subjects, the Mi. misters and Elders met in this National Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Signed in our name, in our presence, and at our appointment, by

Andrew GranT, Moderato

Edinburgh, May 21. 1808.

May it please your Majesty, We, your Majesty's most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Ministers and Elders of the Church of Scotland, met in General Assembly, embrace the earliest opportunity of approaching your throne at this interesting juncture, to express our sincere and inviolable attachment to your Royal Person and Government. We join most cordially with our fellow subjects in every affectionate testimony of loyalty to our most gracious Sovereign, and of zeal for the honour and happiness of our country.

As servants of the God of Peace, we deplore the continuance of war and its attendant miseries. We behold with astonishment and concern the alarming progress of the arms of France on the continent of Europe; and while we see our implacable enemy overturning the thrones of Princes, and trampling upon the rights of nations, we are sensible of the danger to which our dearer interests as a nation are exposed; but we derive much encouragement from reflecting that the vigilance, wisdom and vigour of your Majesty's Councils have hitherto, by the blessing of Heaven, frustrated

the hostile designs of the unnatural com. bination formed against us; and we trust that your Majesty, supported by the wise and generous patriotism of your faithful subjects, will be enabled under God to bring this arduous contest to an issue successful and glorious for Britain.

We regard it as our immediate duty, in such a time of national exertion, to be indefatigably diligent in the functions of our sacred office, that we may lead those intrusted to our care to a due consideration of the awful judgments which are in the earth, impress them with a deep sense of their manifold transgressions, and incite them to such a reformation in their hearts and lives, as may, through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, avert from our country the calamities which our iniquities justly deserve.

That the God of battles may crown with victory your Majesty's fleets and armies; that the present war may speed. ily terminate in an honourable and lasting peace; and that your Majesty may long reign the beloved Sovereign of a free and happy people, are the sincere and earnest prayers of, may it please your Majesty, your Majesty's most duti ful, most faithful, and most obedient subjects, the Ministers and Elders met in this General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Signed in our name, in our presence, and at our appointment, by ANDREW GRANT, Moderator.

Edinburgh, May 21. 1808.

A meeting was held at Edinburgh on the 27th May, of those clergymen whose stipends are small, and teinds exhausted, to consider what measures they should adopt to obtain relief. A great number of their livings have not been augmented for more than 100 years. Some of them are little more than 3cl. a-year, and a list was in their hand, of above So parishes under 1ool. The hardship of this case is so obvious, that there is little reason to doubt that Government will grant some relief as soon as a proper representation is made. It is intended to apply, as soon as a complete list of the parishes where the teinds are exhausted can be obtained; and we learn that the General Assembly has entered into these views.

CIVIL APPOINTMENTS.

His Majesty the King of Sweden has been pleased to create the Right Hon. the Earl of Kellie, a Knight and Governor of the order of Gustavus Vasa, as a testimony of his respect for his Lordship's exertions in favour of the Swedish nation.

His Majesty has appointed Earl Camden Lord Lieutenant of the county of Kent.

His Majesty has appointed John Bailey, Esq. Serjeant at Law, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, in room of Sir Soulden Laurence, removed to the Court of Common Pleas, and has also conferred on him the honour of Knighthood.

Rear Admiral William Domett is appointed a Lord of the Admiralty, in room of Lord Gambier, who is appointed to command the Channel Fleet, in room of Lord Gardner, resigned.

The Prince of Wales has appointed Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. ReceiverGeneral of the Duchy of Cornwall, vice Lord Lake, deceast.

His Majesty has conferred the honour of Knighthood on James Gambier, Esq. Consul General to the Portuguese Court at Brazil.

Downing-Street, May 27.—His Majesty has been pleased to appoint James Montgomerie, Esq. Brigadier-General in his Majesty's army, to be Governor and Commander in Chief of the island of Dominica. Major-General J. R. Mackenzie is elected Member of Parliament for Sutherlandshire, in the room of the Right Hon. Wil liam Dundas, resigned.

William Freemantle, Esq. is elected Member of Parliament for the northern district of boroughs, in room of Maj.-Gen. Mackenzie, now Member for Sutherland,

Joshua Jonathan Smith, and Stephen Claudius Hunter, Esqrs. aldermen, have been elected Sheriffs of London and Middlesex for the ensuing year.

Mr William Pringle, writer in Edinburgh, is appointed one of the Depute Clerks of Session, in the room of Mr Alexander Stevenson, deceased.

Mr James Sibbald is appointed one of the Extractors in the office of John Pringle and Colin Mackenzie, Esqrs. Register Office, in place of Mr James Spence, de

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to the High Church of Edinburgh, vacant by the death of Dr Finlayson.

MARRIAGES.

April 26. By special license, at Downes, the seat of James Buller, Esq. M. P. ViceAdmiral Sir John T. Duckworth, Bart. to Miss Buller, daughter of the late Dr Buller, Lord Bishop of Exeter.

May 19. At Aberdeen, Adam Cumine, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's service, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of E. W. Burnett, Esq. of Monboddo.

19. At London, Lord Viscount Primrose, eldest son of the Earl of Roseberry, to Miss Harriet Bouverie, second daughter of the Hon. Bartholomew Bouverie.

20. At Edinburgh, Mr John Mitchell, merchant, Glasgow, to Agnes, eldest daughter of Adam Dawson, Esq. Bonnytown.

28. At Dunoon, Mr Daniel Gillespie, late of the 9th Royal Veteran Battalion, to Miss Jane Lamont.

26. At Cherry Bank, Mr Alexander Gray, merchant in Leith, to Miss Ann Anderson.

28. By special license, at the Duke of Atholl's house, Portman Square, London, by the Hon. and Rev. Mr Cathcart, Capt. Murray, of the 15th Light Dragoons, only son of Sir John MacGregor Murray, of Lanrick, Bart. to the Right Hon. Lady Elizabeth Murray, youngest daughter of his Grace.

30. At Kirkcudbright, James Niven, Est. writer, to Mrs Pince.

Alexander Harper, Esq. wine-merchant in London, to Miss Stery, daughter of John Story, Esq. of Antigua.

June 1. At Edinburgh, the Rev. William Hardy Moncrieff, minister of Annan, to Agnes, eldest daughter of Mr James Gibson, surgeon in Edinburgh.

1 At ditto, James Home Rigg, Esq. of Downfield and Morton, to Mary, young est daughter of the late Major Melvill, of Cairnie.

1. At ditto, Mr James Robertson, salici tor at law, to Mary, daughter of the late Mr John Tennent, printer in Edinburgh.

1. At Greenock, Thomas D. Douglas, Esq. merchant, Glasgow, to Rosina, third daughter of the late James Hunter, Esq.

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June 6. At Lasswade, Henry M Veagh, Esq. of Lurgan, Ireland, to Miss Mary Crichton, daughter of the late Robert Crichton of Auchinskeooh, Esq.

6. At Glasgow, Mr James Ogilvie Mack, writer in Edinburgh, to Miss Hannay.

6. At Ayr, James Russell, Esq. to Miss Margaret Smith, youngest daughter of Alexander Smith, Esq. of Abbothill.

7. At Greenock, James Eccles, Esq, merchant in Glasgow, to Elizabeth, 3d daughter of Mr George Robertson.

8. At Edinburgh, the Rev. William 1.ake Pinder, of Barbadoes, to Miss Harriet Wilson, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr Charles Wilson, Professor of Church History in the University of St Andrew's,

8. At Edinburgh, Capt. William Gavin, jun. of Leith, to Miss C. Reid Innes, of the same place.

10 At Kirkhill, near Ayr, Mr Robert Thomson, merchant in Edinburgh, to Miss Elizabeth Forsyth, only daughter of Alexander Forsyth, Esq. of Kirkhill.

13. At Edinburgh, Mr Ritchie, Stockbridge, to Catharine, daughter of the late Mr Richard Richardson, merchant, Edinburgh.

13. Charles Skene, Esq. M. D. physician, Aberdeen, to Miss Margaret Anderson, eldest daughter of the late Mr Charles Anderson, of Huntly.

13. At Paisley, Mr Thomas Wilson, merchant, to Miss Margaret Tait, youngest daughter of Mr William Tait, merchant, Paisley.

14. At Edinr. William Howison Crawfurd, of Crawfurdland, Esq. to Miss Jessy Whyte, daughter of James Whyte of New Mains, Esq.

14. At ditto, Capt. Ramsay, of the Royal Horse Artillery, to Mary Emilia, eldest daughter of the late Lieut.-General MacLeod of MacLeod.

14 At Greenock, Henry Dundas Beat. son, Esq. commander of the Melville Castle revenue cruiser, to Margaret, second daughter of Roger Stewart, Esq. merchant in Greenock.

16. At Borrowstounness, Mr Walter Reid, writer in Leith, to Joanna, youngest daughter of Mr John Short, surgeon in Borrowstounness.

27. At Edinburgh, George Ross, Esq. advocate, to Miss Hunter, eldest daughter of the Rev. Dr Andrew Hunter of Barjarg, minister of the Tron Church, Edinburgh.

Lately, at Gretna Green, Lord Viscount Glentworth, son of the Earl of Limerick, to Miss Edwards, daughter of the late Captain Tennison Edwards, of Oldcourt, Wicklow. The Lady's mother, now, by a second marriage, Mrs Beaumont, the wife of an

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eminent solicitor in Dublin, is under prosecution in the Court of Chancery in Ireland, on a charge of contriving this marriage. The bridegroom is only 19 years of age, and the bride 17, a young Lady of singular beauty.

BIRTHS.

April 19. At Verdun, in France, Mrs In

nes, a son,

May 3. At Aberdeen, the Lady of George More, Esq. Provost of Aberdeen, a daughter.

18. At Edinburgh, the Lady of James Wolfe Murray, Esq. advocate, a daughter. 18. At Howick, Northumberland, the Countess Grey, a son.

21. At Edinburgh, Mrs Elouis, a daugh

ter.

23. At ditto, Mrs Dr Erskine, a son. 24. At ditto, Mrs Hay, wife of James Hay, Esq. W,'S. a daughter.

25. Mrs William Gordon McCrae, a daughter.

31. At London, the Right Hon. Lady Forbes, a son.

June 1. At Blunham, Bedfordshire, the Lady of John Campbell, Esq. a daughter. 3. At Ayr, Mrs Dr Donaldson, a son.

3. At Spott House, Mrs Hay of Law, field, a daughter.

13. At Wester Livilands, Mrs Rind, a daughter.

Lately, at Bath, the Lady of Maj.-Gen. Campbell, a son.

The Lady of John Mackenzie, Esq. of King's Arms Yard, a son.

In Devonshire Place, the Lady of James Campbell, Esq. a son.

At Berwick, Mrs Willoby, wife of M Willoby, town-clerk, a boy and girl.

Lately, at Arbroath, Mrs Frazer, wife of the Manager of the Theatre there, a daughter, being her 19th child.

DEATHS.

In India, Walter Grant, Esq. late Master in Equity of the Supreme Court.

At Demarary, Adam Knight, Esq. of Portsoy.

Lately, at Kiel, in Holstein, Professor Fabricius, the celebrated naturalist.

At Vienna, the Hon. John Theophilus Rawdon, brother to the Earl of Moira.

March 8. At Kingston, Jamaica, Peter Belch, Esq. Advocate, Edinburgh.

13. At Gibraltar, Mr John Hyndman M'Pherson, midshipman on board the Renommee frigate, son of the late Alexander M'Pherson, Esq. merchant in Glasgow.

April 7. Off Memel, Lord Royston, eldest son of the Earl of Hardwicke. This unfortunate young nobleman had resided at Petersburgh about two years; when hosti

lities breaking out, he had leave, alongst with some other English gentlemen, to enme home. They sailed for Liebau, as they were not permitted to go over direct to Sweden. On the 2d of April they left Liebau, in a ship called the Agatha, an old huik, seemingly unfit for any voyage.When within 40 miles of Carlscrona, a violent storm came on from the west, which drove them back to Memel on the 7th, with five feet water in the hold. The gale in creasing, the ship struck with such violence on the bar, as to beat off her rudder. All the masts were then cut away, and the boats cut loose and launched, when Lord Royston and four others jumped into them, but were upset in an instant, and all perish ed. Besides these, Col. Pollen, and a manservant, Mrs Barnes's man-servant, maidservant, and youngest child, Mr Renny, and Mr Halliday's servant, were all washed overboard. Mr Focke died on board from cold, and Mr Becher and Mr Perreyra were taken from the wreck in the life-boat, but died soon after. All that were saved by the life-boat were, Mrs Barnes and two children, Mrs Pollen and two servants, Mr Halliday, the Captain, and three sailors.

April 10. Mr Knox, schoolmaster of Whitsome. He had been at Swinton on that day, in good health, with some other teachers, on parochial business, and on going home, it is supposed, felt himself unwell, for, when found, he was in a sitting posture, on the roadside, quite dead. A widow and six children are left to lament his loss.

17. At London, James Paul, Esq. representative in a former Parliament for the borough of Wendover. He was a native of Perth, where his father still lives. He went to India, in the civil line, about 20 years ago, from whence he returned in 1802, with a competent, but not large fortune. Having got into Parliament, he adopted the political principles of Sir Francis Burdett and Mr Horne Tooke, with whom he formed an intimacy, which, however, was not of long continuance. In the session 1806, he conimenced a most furious attack on the conduct of Marquis Wellesley in India, a topic not easily nor generally understood, and therefore not much relished by the House. When the Parliament was dissolved in April 1807, he boldly, though perhaps presumptuously, stood forward a candidate for Westminster, alongst with Sir Francis Burdett, against Lord Cochrane and Mr Sheridan. In this election contest he was grievously disappointed. Having only received about 220 votes, he withdrew his name from the poll on the third day.Conceiving himself not to have been pro perly supported in his canvass on this oc

casion by the Baronet, he had the rashness to send him a challenge, when they met at Kingston upon Thames, and were both wounded; Sir Francis in the knee, and Mr Paul in the calf of the leg. The former was a long time confined with his wound; but the latter never perfectly recovered, and suffered considerable pain from several operations that were at different intervals performed. Mr Paul possessed an ardent mind, and his temper was considerably sou red by serious disappointments both in pub fic and private life. His expectations appear to have been all disappointed, and his circumstances were, from losses at play, and a liberality approaching to profusion, alto, gether irreparable, when he formed the desperate resolution of putting an end to his existence, by shooting himself thro' the head with a pistol. This dreadful act, which he appears to have meditated for a long time, he effected about five o'clock in the afternoon, in his dressing room. His servant, hearing the report of the pistol, immediately ran up stairs, and found bis master dead on the floor. The Coroner's Jury found a verdict of Lunacy.

20. At Edinburgh, Mr Mathew Shirrel, cabinetmaker there.

22. At London, James Bruce, Esq. Lientenant Governor of the island of Dominica.

22. At the isle of Whithorn, Mrs Nice las Blair, eldest daughter of the late Alexder Blair, Esq. of Senick, and widow of the late Edward M'Culloch of Auchingool, Esq.

27. At London, William Lowndes, Esq. one of the Commissioners of Excise. 27. At Glasgow, Mr James Brown, colourman, in the 59th year of his age.

29. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Hunter, relict of Mr Patrick Heron, late of Glasgow.

29. At ditto, in the 90th Mr Robert Dewar, glazier.

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May 5. At Musselburgh, Miss Janet Gourlay, daughter of the late Mr David Gourlay, Provost of Stirling.

7. At London, Capt. M'Intyre, Glenoe, in the 27th year of his age; a youth of amiable manners and dispositions, much and justly regretted by his disconsolate relations, and a numerous circle of acquaintan

ces.

9. At Strowan, Perthshire, General Sir Thomas Stirling of Strowan, Bart. Colonel of the 41st regiment of foot.

9. At Edinburgh, Mrs Mary Brown, relict of Mr Andrew Wight, of Ormiston.

10. At Greenock, Henry Liston Dunlop, youngest son of Alexander Dunlop, Esq. present chief Magistrate of that town.

18. At Thurso, William Brodie, Esq. Sheriff Substitute of the county of Caith

ness.

15. At Glasgow, after a lingering illness, Mrs Mary Mitchell, spouse of Mr James Watson, manufacturer there.

16. At ditto, Miss Maxwell M'Brair, daughter of the late Mr Archibald MacBrair, merchant, Glasgow.

16. At Spottes hall, Dumfries-shire, the Rev. Dr James Muirhead, of Logan, minister of the gospel at Urr, in the 68th year of his age, and 38th of his ministry.

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16. At Cambusmore House, Mrs Murray Kynyumound Buchanan, wife of John Buchanan, Esq. of Cambusmore, and the last surviving child of Patrick Edmondstoune, Esq. of Newton,

17. At Bath, Admiral Brown, aged 57. 17. At Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, in his 81st year, John Lord Delaval, Baron Delaval, of Delaval, in the county of Northumberland. Leaving no issue male, the title is extinct.

17. At Wheatfield, near Edinburgh, Mrs Marion Sprott, spouse of Mr Benjamin Yule, of Wheatfield.

17. At Edinburgh, Mrs Hay, relict of Colonel Hay, of Warrieston, and sister of Sir Alexander Munro of Novar, Bart.

18 At Edinburgh, Mr John Buchan, Accountant to the General Post Office.

19. At Clifton, the Right Hon. Lady Ann O'Brien, daughter of the late Earl of Inchiquin, and Anne Countess of Orkney, and sister of the late Countess of Orkney. 19. At Dumfries, aged 86, Miss Marga

ret Learmont.

19. At Leith, on his way to Glasgow, Mr John Marshall, lately dyer at Stockton, aged 72 years.

19. At Grosgerau, in his 49th year, his Serene Highness Frederic George Augus tus, Landgrave of Hesse.

20. At Goldielee, Dumfries-shire, Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Lieut.General Goldie, of Goldie-leer

22. At Glasgow, Mrs Alison Scott, wife of Dr William Meikleham, Professor of Natural History in that University.

23. At Clochfoldich, Lieut.-Col. Alexander Stewart, late of the 42d regt. of foot. He served in that regiment SO years, and commanded it on the 21st March 1801, in the memorable battle of Alexandria.

23. At Greenock, Mr John Gillies, merɲ chant, Greenock.

23. At Edinburgh, aged 89, Mrs Elliot, widow of Mr Thomas Elliot, saddler in Edinburgh.

24. At ditto, aged 17, Dorothea Jane, eldest daughter of Hugh Mosman of Auchtyfardle, Esq.

24. At Dornoch, George Lowther, sen. Esq. in the 83d year of his age.

24. At Sciennes Bank, Mrs Anne Maitland, relict of Mr John Ainslie, Abbey, Haddington.

27. At Edinburgh, Robert, infant son of the late Robert Semple, Esq. advocate. 27, At Gifford, Mr Robert Wright, of the Royal Navy.

At Cameron Bank, Mr Crawford, shipmaster, Dundee, aged 82.

27. At Dumfries, Miss Emily Hepburn, eldest daughter of the late Provost Ébenezer Hepburn, of that place.

28. At Craig, Mr Thomas Paterson, far

mer.

28. In the 76th year of his age, Colonel James Fraser, of Belladrum.

29. At Paisley, in the 80th year of his age, Mr Andrew Sim.

29. At Asleed, Captain John Coutts, aged 82 years.

30. At Leith, in the 66th year of his age, Mr James Wilson, malster.

30. At Belfast, in consequence of a fall from a vessel in the quay, Robert Gemmill Esq. merchant there, in his 64th year.

50. At West Craigs, parish of Corstorphine, Mr James Barron, farmer there.

30. At Edinburgh, in the 78th year of her age, Miss Mary Maclachlan, daughter of the deceased Lachlan Maclachlan, Esq. of Maclachlan.

31. At Fisherrow, Miss Jean Smith, youngest daughter of the late Pat. Smith, of Hillend, Esq.

At Hartlebury Castle, aged 88 years, the Right Rev. Richard Hurd, D. D. Lord Bishop of Worcester. By his merit, and the recommendation of the Earl of Mansfield, he became Bishop of Litchfield.

At Blackheath, aged 83, P. Macleod, Esq. London.

Lately at Bath, William Perry, M. D. At Bath, Mrs Jeffrey, relict of Alderman Hayley, and sister to the late John Wilkes, Esq.

Lately, at Birmingham, aged 68, Mr J.
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