Charlotte, only surviving daughter of 18. At the residence of Lord Castlecoote, First Commissioner of Customs, Dublin, Lady Castlecoote. Her Ladyship was Elizabeth Ann, eldest daughter and coheiress of Henry Tilson, D. D. of Eagle Hill, in the county of Kildare. 21. At Bellericay, in the county of Essex, Mrs Douglas, after a very lingering and painful illness. At Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, aged 15, Margaret, second daughter of Mr Alexander Lawrie, surgeon. At his house, St John's Hill, Mr William Bruce, late banker in Edinburgh, much respected. At No. 12, Queen Street, Edinburgh, Mr Pietro Lottini, very much regretted. In London, Frances Anne, youngest daughter of the late George Lawson, Esq. of Kensington Gore. 22. At Aberdeen, aged 68, William Copland, Esq. Advocate, Town Clerk Depute, and Collector of Cess for the city and liberties since 1788. At Jamaica Street, Tobago Street, Edinburgh, aged 85, Mr John Ferguson, late merchant, Dalkeith. At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Lesslie, hatter, 4, North Bridge. 23. At Portsmouth, suddenly, Sir George Campbell, G. C. B., Admiral of that port. The feelings of his amiable lady, and indeed of the whole town, at this sudden event, cannot be described. Sir George had endeared himself to every individual by his many amiable qualities, and the poor have to regret the loss of a most kind benefactor. Sir George was 59 years of age; he entered the navy very early in life; he was made a Post Captain in 1781, Rear Admiral in 1801, Vice Admiral in 1806, and Admiral of the White in 1814. He was appointed Port Admiral at this station in 1817; his term would have expired in April next. Lately, in America, whither he proceeded about two years ago, Abraham Thornton, whose trial for the murder of Mary Ashford, and the singular circumstances arising from the appeal of murder, are well known to our readers. At Anetto Bay, Kingston, Jamaica, of the yellow fever, Alexander, youngest son of the late Mr Alexander Pew, Leith. At his house in Hill Street, Berkeley Square, London, the Right Hon. the Earl of Malmesbury, in the 75th year of his age. At Exeter, George Gifford, Esq. eldest brother of his Majesty's Attorney General. At Cowbridge, Glamorganshire, aged 37, Alexander Jaffray, Esq. of Kingswells, Aberdeen. He is supposed to have fallen a victim to his active humanity, while endeavouring to save a gentleman in whose company he was skaiting. Both were unfortunately lost. At his house at Charlton, Thomas Longlands, Esq. in his 79th year. At Bombay, Colonel John Griffith, Commandant of the 2d battalion of artillery at that Presidency-a man equally distinguished by an active benevolence and courteous demeanour in private life, as by an honourable and meritorious career of military duty. Thomas Jones, Esq. of Llandysilio Hall, near Llangollen, Denbighshire. Having no very near relation, it is said that the Lords of the different manors intend to take possession of his estates that are situHis real ate in their respective manors. and personal property is supposed to amount to little short of L. 100,000. It is believed that he has made a will, but none has yet been found, although considerable rewards are offered for such information as may lead to the discovery of a will. Mr Jones was a great admirer of the arts, and some of the most eminent artists of the day always met with a hearty welcome at Llandysilio Hall, whenever they visited the romantic vale of Llangollen. At Guntoor, in the East Indies, William Adamson, Esq. of the Civil Service, Madras, and son of the late Alexander Adamson, Esq. of Bombay. But for At his house, near Edinburgh, the cele brated Herman Boaz, in the 84th year of his age. Mr Boaz, by universal consent, had long worn the chief laurels of legerdemain, being at once the most expert, most various, and most graceful in the His profession performance of his tricks. al visits to Edinburgh were marked by one unvarying and honourable circumstance -the profits of a night's performance were every time dedicated to charity. nearly twelve years past he had been disabled by a paralytic affection, and though a popular and eminent performer for the greater portion of his life, he had not been able to lay up" for his helpless and declining years, and it is understood that his family have been left unprovided for. Having frequently enlivened the masonic meetings in this place with his stores of anecdote and song, he was attended to his grave by six of the Lodges in their regalia, and buried with masonic honours; and it is gratifying to learn, that, consistently with the true principles of that order, this was done less with a view to vain and idle parade, than as the prelude to some exertions in behalf of his widow and family. Printed by George Ramsay and Company. The Weigh-house to the Inhabitants o' Remarks on Dr Brown's Lectures. ib. To Mrs Violet Ple on her complet- Natural History-Sillocks ~~~~~~~. ib. Extracts from a Private Journal of a Voyage from Demerara up the Ori- noco in the year 1808, (concluded)....209 College Museum-Institution for the Encouragement of the Fine Arts- Mr Kemble's Library-Birmingham Institution-Colossal Bust of Mem- Works Preparing for Publication........269 Remarks on Memoirs of the Rebellion in 1745 and 1746, by the Chevalier A Letter from Antwerp to a Friend in Miscellanea. · Peace Societies- Mrs The Rhyme Translations from DANTE and EURIPIDES have been necessarily delayed, but shall appear in our next.-Then, too, the Life of POUSSIN. The Correspondents of the EDINBURGH MAGAZINE AND LITERARY MISCELLANY are respectfully requested to transmit their Communications for the Editor to ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE and COMPANY, Edinburgh, or LONGMAN and COMPANY, London; to whom also orders for the Work should be particularly addressed. Printed by George Ramsay & Co. THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MISCELLANY. MARCH 1821. PROLEGOMENA. [THE following Prolegomenon, though bearing to be from the Editor, was received among other communications for the Magazine. We suspect that we are indebted for it to our unknown friend the Genius, at least we judge so from the similarity of the writing. We cannot help wishing, however, that he had continued to adhere to his own' immaterial character, instead of making free with ours; for "the satirical rogue" somewhat too plainly insinuates" here, that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, though we most powerfully and potently believe, yet we hold it not honesty to have it thus set down."] Prologues precede the piece, in mournful verseAs undertakers walk before the hearse. As the Printer and the Brownie or Genius of the Scots Magazine have taken it upon them to hold correspondence with its readers, it might be considered as unbeseeming if we our◄ selves were behind-hand in our duty to the public. We have, therefore, judged it proper also to compose an epistle, containing something by way of preface, proemium, or prolegomena, to the present Number; and we are further warranted in supposing that this will not be displeasing to a discerning public, from the number of addresses that have lately been presented to the two highest personages in this country, and to the two great bodies of its legislators. We are not party men, and we had once meditated to send a loyal address from our own person to each of the individuals above alluded to, as well as to both Houses of Parliament, expressive of our obedience to all that they have enacted, or should in their wisdom think proper to enact, for our welfare or otherwise, and had so far carried this idea into execution, that we have at this moment by us draughts of four addresses, for the above-mentioned purposes, in our own handwriting;but the very term address having now become merely expressive of "sound Prologue to the Apprentice. and fury," and generally " signifying nothing," as William Shakespeare hath it, and we being loth to lose our trouble, we hereby offer them to all and sundry such burghs, corporations, or public bodies, who have not hither to expressed their sentiments in a petition or address, provided there be any such in this kingdom, warranting them, the said addresses, to embody the sentiments of all parties in a very classical and parliamentary manner, and only requiring the blanks to be filled up with the name of the place and body addressing the price of the addresses to be five shillings for each, exclusive of twopence for pa per. We had written thus far when our friend Mr Andrew Kittlecrony called to accompany us to a sale of old china our te equipage being reduced by time and accident to one cup and two saucers, the tea-pot moreover wanting the handle; and, as we have a strong affinity, as the chemists would term it, for the patterns which were displayed by the matrons in our youthful days, when tea-parties were much more frequent and infinitely more amusing than now, we felt a strong desire to secure to ourselves a few cups and coffee-jugs at the sale of our old friend Pitfour's furniture, that we might be able to personate to our now spectacled vision, and to the real enjoyment of our younger nephews and nieces, the glories of an ancient teaequipage, where plates of whigs, cuckies, and petticoat-tails, contended with buttered bread and jellies for the preference of being eaten. What a change in Edinburgh! Our old friend's house, in spite of the creation of a new city of palaces, still remained in the Luckenbooths, not far from our own dwelling; and though, of late, there was rather a different neighbourhood from that which occupied the adjoining houses fifty years ago, he honourably persisted in keeping up the town residence of his ancestors. We verily believe that this is the last instance of a gentleman of fortune and a member of Parliament occupying a floor of a house in the High Street of the Old Town; and we sighed involuntarily as we passed the Advocates' Close, and went up stairs, to think of the days of former years, gilded in our mind with recollections and associations, which scarcely reconcile us to the present state of manners. What would the Faculty now-a-days say if they were obliged to reside in the Advocates' Close, or the Writers to the Signet if they were forced to take up their abode in Writers' Court? We sincerely believe that We are uncertain why these delectable cates are called in Scotland by such strange names. Whigs can mean nothing but Whigs, though, reasoning a priori, we should rather have expected the tea-bread of Edinburgh to have belonged to the Jacobite or Tory party. Cuckies sounds very like a word which we have Shakespeare's authority for accounting "unpleasant to a married ear." But why Whiggery should have been peculiarly associated with Cuckies, or with those whom an ingenious friend terms Knights of the Crown Matrimonial, (the most numerous and comprehensive order, perhaps, in Christendom,) we are at a loss to conjecture. The late transactions relating to the Queen, however, would almost insinuate a natural, if not a necessary connection between Whigs and petticoat-tails. But this discussion, so important in an economical as well as a political view, must be the subject of a separate essay. We trust that, in the mean time, we neither compromise our principles nor our taste, in declaring that we like whigs, are very fond of cuckies, and are not averse to petticoat-tails. the very proposal would occasion a rebellion in the Parliament House; and yet we have seen men as accomplished, and ladies as beautiful, as any who now inhabit the modern palaces of the New Town, pouring out from the mouths of the funnels called closes, in all the pomp of toupees and hooppetticoats, to be delivered from a sedan-chair into the mouth of another close, not far distant, where the assemblies of that day were held. We have seen ranges of these chairs, decorated with brass coronets and emblematical designs, in the High Street of this ancient city, of which the modern natives have no conception. We have ourselves, indeed, often attended such chairs with their precious cargo, our hair in silken bag-head whitened with the farina of wheat-hat in hand, and sword by side-in our satin breeches, which are still extant-in our cambric stock, fastened behind with a diamond buckle, which we still preserve and ruffled to the knuckles with the best Brussels lace while the very houses resounded to the echo,-" Shentlemans comingmak room tere for te lady, an be tam!" We have also had the honour, once in our life, after a tavern party in Janet M'Gillivray's in the Covenant Close, to be carried to our present lodging in one of these same chairs, after demolishing we know not how many stoups of her best claret. Whether we had been reasoning with our joyous friends upon the principle of gravitation till the centre of our own gravity was doubtful, we cannot, at this distance of time, venture to say; but, our mischievous companions having made the knaves remove the bottom of the leathern casement, we were hurried along as fast as the animals could trot, in spite of our calls to stop, which were answered in a language we understood not, accompanied by a smothered laugh, which showed the rascals had been instructed. But we run on, as our friends say, without stopping, when we get upon old stories. To return: As above premised, we went to the sale of china, and, thinking we should not be detained very long, left our address, as far as we had proceeded, lying upon our table. Our purchases at the sale, which was numerously attended, were not very costly; but we were much satisfied with our acquisi |