perfect tranquillity, and to the regret of all. On his departure he was presented with complimentary addresses by all the public bodies. Immediately on his return to England from Canada, Sir James Kempt was appointed master-general of the ordnance, on the 30th November, 1830; the office of lieutenant-general of the ordnance being thereupon abolished. On this occasion he was sworn in a privy councillor; and he continued master-general until December, 1834. Sir James Kempt attained the rank of lieutenant-general in the army on the 27th May, 1825; and the full rank of general on the 23rd November, 1841. He was removed to the colcnelcy of the 40th Foot on the 8th January, 1829; to that of the 2nd Foot on the 23rd December, 1834; and to that of the 1st Royals on the 7th August, 1846. He died at London, England, on the 20th December, 1855. HON. J. H. DUNN. MR. DUNN came to this country in 1820, having been appointed receiver-general and a member of the Executive and Legislative Councils of Upper Canada, which offices he held until the union of the provinces. He died in London, England, on the 21st April, 1854. HON. AND REV. ALEX. McDONELL, D.D. THE subject of our present memoir was born at Glen Urquhart, on the borders of Lochness, Scotland, in the 1769. He was of the family of Glengarry, and manifested, from his earliest years, that deep and abiding attachment to his countrymen for which he was, through life proverbial. The heroic highlanders, who had left the States during the revolutionary war, and who fought their way to the banks of the St. Lawrence-enduring every conceivable horror from hunger, thirst, weather, want of sleep, and fatiguesettled in various parts of the frontier of Upper Canada, then a dense and unthreaded forest. They took up their abode on the Niagara frontier, on the Bay of Quinte, on the banks of the St. Lawrence, called the John-town District, and in the Eastern District, in the counties of Glengarry and Stormont. These virtuous royalists, having succeeded in their formidable undertaking, wrote to their suffering kindred at home; and many voluntarily joined them, on account of the statements which they were receiving from time to time. Between the years 1780 and 1790, consolidation of the small farms took place in the Highlands of Scotland to a great extent, causing incredible distress to the dispossessed tenants. Owing to the restrictions then existing to emigration, the virtuous bishop obtained occupation for these men, to the number of nearly a thousand, in the manufactories at Glasgow, accompanying them himself as their chaplain and guide. Not long after this, from the depressed state of trade, these men were thrown out of employment, and the bishop then gave proof of that innate and intense loyalty which he so often exerted in after-life. He obtained permission from the king to raise a Catholic regiment, to which he was appointed chaplain, and which was the first raised in the British dominions since the period of the reformation. In 1798, this regiment performed most efficient service in Ireland in the suppression of the rebellion: on the one hand, firmly maintaining the rights of the Crown; on the other, restraining the excesses of a fanatic yeomanry. By their combined loyalty, good feeling, and prudence, they succeeded in inducing the terrified inhabitants to return to their habitations and occupations; restoring harmony, tranquillity, and peace. During the short peace of Amiens, in 1802, this regiment was bisbanded, and again were these intrepid highlanders once more reduced to want. It then occurred to the bishop how desirable it would be to obtain land for their settlement in Canada, where so many of their brethren had already secured their independence; accordingly, he made a representation to the premier, Lord Sidmouth, then Mr. Addington, who, feeling great admiration of these noble but suffering men, offered the most tempting conditions to induce them to go to Trinidad, just then ceded by Spain to the British Crown. The objection Mr. Addington had to their settlement in Canada, was the apprehension that the British government held that colony by a slender tie. Disregarding equally the apprehensions of Mr. Addington, as to the maintenance of the British sway in Canada, and the splendid offer of land, and slaves, &c., &c., in Trinidad, the bishop at once declined taking them to a colony with a climate so unsuited to the highlanders as that of Trinidad. Again and again did he urge the measure of emigration to Canada; and at length succeeded, in 1803, in obtaining for every one of the late Glengarry regiment who chose to go to Canada, a grant of 200 acres of land. Difficulties, discouragements, and impediments met him at every step; at length, during the years 1803 and 1804, he succeeded in his object, and planted on that soil a population who have become independent, and who have defended the British power against inward assault and outward aggression. The bishop by his perseverance succeeded in obtaining for his settlers patent deeds for 160,000 acres of land. When the United States declared war againt Great Britain in 1811-although the British government were fully occupied in Europe--and the Americans vainly imagined that the conquest of Canada was most easy of execution; when, Dr. Eustis, the secretary of war of the United States, said: "We can take the Canadas without soldiers; we have only to send officers into the provinces, and the people, (two-thirds of them American settlers,) disaffected towards their own government, will rally round our standard;"-and when Mr. Henry Clay said, "It is quite absurd to suppose that we shall not succeed in our enterprise against the enemy's provinces. We have the Canadas as much under our command as Great Britain has the ocean; and the way to conquer her on the ocean, is to drive her from the land. I am not for stopping at Quebec, or any where else; but I would take the whole continent from them, and ask them no favors. Her fleets cannot rendezvous at Halifax as now; and having no place of resort in the north, cannot infest our coast as they have lately done. It is as easy to conquer them on land, as their whole navy would conquer ours on the ocean. We must take the continent from them I wish never to see a peace till we do. God has given us the power and the means-we are criminal if we do not use them. If we get the continent, she must allow us the freedom of the sea." Entertaining these principles, and acting on these convictions, Canada was invaded; the bishop, then Mr. McDonell, formed a Glengarry fencible regiment, which, with the two militia regiments raised in the eastern district, consisting principally of Scotchmen, were inspirited by the presence and counsel of the venerable subject of our memoir, who accompanied them to the field of action, and who, not only defended their own shores, but carried war into the enemy's country, and succeeded, after a desperate battle, in taking the important post of Ogdensburgh, with a quantity of artillery, ammunition and other stores. For these, and other eminent services, rendered to the government, Earl Bathurst, secretary of state to the colonies, suggested that Mr. McDonell, who was to be consecrated bishop, should be a diocesan bishop, and consented that his title should be that of Kingston, to which was also added a salary of £400, afterwards augmented to £600 per annum. : Thus was this virtuous ecclesiastic rewarded; first made the first Catholic chaplain since the reformation; secondly, received the thanks of the Prince Regent for his efficient services; and thirdly, consecrated first diocesan Catholic bishop in the British dominions since the reformation. His consecration took place at Montreal, in 1826. By virtue of authority vested in him, he established a Highland Society in Upper Canada, and was elected president of it. Seeing the indispensable necessity of encouraging a large and systematic emigration from the Highlands, as a measure of relief to his suffering fellow-countrymen in Scotland, and, as a security and benefit to his fellow-countrymen in Canada; and, being also desirous of establishing a college for the domestic education of the priesthood in that province, and having some arrangements to make respecting the future government of his diocese, he went to England in 1839, with his nephew; having secured the assistance and co-operation of his friend and companion, Dr. Rolph of Ancaster, in the promotion of a scheme of emigration. He arrived at Liverpool on the 1st of August, and having proceeded to London, where he remained on business a few weeks, he visited the romantic glens of his nativity and childhood; was present at the great northern meeting and cattle-show at Inverness, in October, and then crossed over to Ireland. Between Clonmell and Waterford he took a severe cold, which laid him up some weeks at Carlow and Clongowes Wood, and afterwards at Dublin. Having recovered sufficiently to pay a visit to that warm-hearted, excellent, and most hospitable nobleman, the late Earl Gosford, at his mansion, county Armagh, he was so recruited that he re-crossed to Scotland from Belfast, and was on his way to London, to concert measures for the promotion of emigration from the Highlands of Scotland. Dr. Rolph having attended the great meeting of noblemen and proprietors at the Hopetown Room, Edinburgh, on January 10th, 1840, at which the measure was to be discussed. He reached the house of his former schoolfellow, the Rev. Mr.Reed, at Dumfries, on the 11th, intending to remain there a few days, to recruit before starting for London. Early on the morning of the 14th he awoke, expressed himself chilly, and immediately expired. He was in the eightieth year of his age. In every relation of life, as subject, prelate, relative, and friend, he was a model of everything valuable. To his sovereign he brought the warm and hearty homage of a sincere, enthusiastic, unconditional allegiance, and the most invincible, uncompromising loyalty; as prelate, he was kind, attentive, and devoted to the interests, welfare and happiness of his clergy; as a relative, his attachment was unbounded, and his death created an aching void to hundreds of sorrowing relatives, whom he counselled by his advice, assisted with his means, and protected by his influence; as a friend, he was sincere, enthusiastic, and unchanging in his attachments. Such, indeed, was the liberality of his views and the inexpressible benignity of disposition, that all creeds and classes united in admiration of his character, respect for him, and congregated together to bid him farewell, as he left the shores of the St. Lawrence, on that voyage which proved but the prelude to that long and last one, from which there is no return. EARL OF SELKIRK. THE RIGHT HONORABLE THOMAS, EARL OF SELKIRK, Lord Lieutenant of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, born in 1774, died at Pau, in the South of France, where he was buried on the 8th of April, 1820. He was the youngest of five sons (all of whom attained to manhood) of Dunbar, 4th Earl of Selkirk, who died in 1799. In the latter end of 1807, he married Jane, daughter of James Wedderburn Colville, Esquire, by whom he left one son, who became Earl of Selkirk, born in 1809, and two daughters. Her ladyship accompanied the earl to North America, and afterwards to France, and continued with painful and unwearied assiduity to administer, till the last hour of his life, those kind and soothing attentions which wealth can neither purchase nor reward. Few men were possessed of higher powers of mind, or capable of applying them with more indefatigable perseverance. His" Treatise on Emigration" has long been considered as a standard work, and as having exhausted one of the most difficult subjects in the science of political economy. His lordship was also advantageously known to the public as the author of some other literary productions, all of them remarkable for the enlargement and liberality of their views, the luminous perspicuity of their statements, and that severe and patient spirit of induction which delights in the pursuit, and is generally successful in the discovery of truth. His gentle and condescending manners wound themselves round the hearts of those admitted to his society, and conciliated an attachment which every fresh interview served to confirm. With those connected with him by the ties of kindred, and the sweet relations of domestic society, his lordship lived in terms of the most affectionate endearment. Indeed, seldom had there existed a family, the members of which were more tenderly attached to each other than that of which his lordship was the head; and few families experienced a more severe succession of those trials, by which the Almighty chastens the hearts and disciplines the virtues of his creatures. His lordship was eminently exemplary in the discharge of every |