1 to have 6 or 7 persons on board, and the latter 4 or 5, and both coal loaded. Cap. tain Findlay reports, that he sailed from Sunderland on Wednesday morning last, with several other vessels, for whose safety the most serious apprehensions were entertained. The soldier who perished on board the Thames was a fine young man, originally from this neighbourhood, who had served with great credit during all the campaigns in the Peninsula, where he lost a limb, and was now retiring to spend the remainder of his days at his native place, on a Pension which had been granted to him by Govern ment. Jan. 30. Here we hoped to have closed this melancholy recital; but, No:-The gale continued, though with abated force, through the whole of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, on the last of which days, two vessels were seen in the offing, in the course of the morning; a snack and a galliot. The wind at this time veered round a little more to the south; and as the tide flowed, it became apparent that both vessels intended to attempt the harbour. The minds of the spectators were instantly filled with the most painful anxiety. Thousands crowded to the pier and to the beach, many of whom had been witnesses to the heart-rending devastations of the former day, and though the surf was not so tremendous as on Friday, yet the appearance of the breakers was sufficient to appal the stoutest heart. A little before two o'clock, the smack led the way, standing for the harbour mouth; and as she came among the breakers, never did we witness seamanship more conspicuous. She was steered in the most masterly style, through the lofty surge, and in a few minutes placed, with her crew, in safety, at the quay. Not so her less fortunate companion, she followed the course of the smack as correctly as her exhausted crew could guide her; but when within 50 yards of the pier, she was struck on the beam by a tremendous sea, which caused her to yaw round to the northward; and the succeeding wave laid her among the stones of the pierhead, now partly thrown down by the late gales. The sea then broke over her with irresistable force; and her crew, with nothing apparently but death before their eyes, jumped one after another from her deck. The master and three of the crew were providentially rescued from the devouring element by the exertions of the people at the pier ; another, after swimming a considerable way through the breakers, was saved by a pilot boat when on the eve of sinking; but the mate, a fine young man, had been so exhausted before the vessel struck, that when he jumped overboard, he was unable to clamber over the rocks, and the succeeding sea rolling the vessel over, crushed him to death. The smack was the Thetis, Kerr, from London, which port she left on Wednesday last. She came outside Yarmouth Roads, and had seen no vessel on her passage. The galliot was a Dane; the Charsten and, Peter, Larsen, master, out from North. Bergen eleven days, bound for Bilboa, with fish, oil, &c. She had previously lost one of her crew, who was washed overboard in the North Sea. She parted soon after she struck, and was carried by the tide into the harbour mouth, where a considerable part of her rigging and materials, and some part of her cargo, has been saved. General Sir James Steuart Denham, Bart. is appointed Colonel of the 2d dragoons, or Scots Greys, in room of the late Marquis of Lothian. Lieutenant-General Sir William Payne is appointed to the 12th dragoons, vice Sir James Steuart Denham; and Sir John O. Vandeleur to the 19th dragoons, vice Sir William Payne. We understand, that the Rev. Principal Baird received lately, for the University Library, a copy of the New Testament, translated into the Chinese language by Mr Morrison, Chinese interpreter for the East. India Company at Canton. It had been transmitted for that purpose by the Rev. Mr Waugh, in name of the North-west Auxiliary Bible Society of London, to the charge of the Rev. Dr Campbell, Mr D. Dickson, jun. and Mr Peddie. These gentlemen, along with Mr Burder, son of the Secretary of the Society, waited on the Principal with this very interesting donation. He laid it, accordingly, before the Senatus Academicus, and he received their authority to express to the Society their grateful acknowledgements on the occasion. The Associate Burgher Congregation of Kilmarnock gave an unanimous call to Mr George Donaldson, preacher of the gospel, to be their pastor, in room of the deceased Rev. Robert Jaffrey. On Tuesday the 17th January, the Associate Congregation of Berwick-upon-Tweed gave an unanimous call to Andrew Isaac, preacher of the gospel, to be their pastor. The Gold Prize Medal, given annually by the Duddingston Curling Society, was played for on Tuesday the 24th Jan. upon Duddingston Loch, and won by the Rev. Dr Ritchie, Edinburgh. 1 AP. APPOINTMENTS. [From the London Gazette.] Jan. 2. Permission given to Thomas Noel Harris, Esq. Captain in his Majesty's 36th (or Herefordshire) regiment of foot, his Majesty's royal licence and permission, that he may accept and wear the insignia of the Imperial Russian Order of St Wolodemir, of the fourth class, and of the Royal Prussian Order of Merit. Jan. 7. The Hon. William Temple to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Stockholm. BIRTHS. Dec. 24. A poor woman, named Thompsett, residing in one of the Spital houses, Lewes, was delivered of her twenty-fifth child, all by the same father. 25. A poor, but honest and industrious man, of the name of Fisher, residing in New Radford, Nottingham, was presented by his wife with three children. 30. At Gruline, the Lady of LieutenantColonel Charles M'Quarie, of Glenforsa, a son and heir. -At Hallbeath, Fifeshire, Mrs Robert Beaumont, a son. - At Belmount, Tyrone, the Lady of the Honourable A. Stuart, a son and heir. Jan. 1. At Boath, Nairnshire, the Lady of Sir James Dunbar, Bart. a daughter. 3. At Kirkfieldbank, Mrs C. Lockhart, a son. 4. In Queen Street, Mrs F. Walker, a daughter. 6. At Fountainhall, the Lady of Thomas Lauder Dick, Esq. a daughter. 9. At Catharine Bank, Mrs Ireland, a son. 10. At North Merchiston, Mrs C. Cunningham, a daughter. At Midholm Manse, Mrs Inglis, a son. 16. At Northumberland Street, the Lady of Major-General John Hope, a daughter. Mrs Dr Miller, Brown's Square, a daughter. 18. Mrs Dennistoun, younger of Colgrain, a son. 19. At Stirling, the Lady of Captain J. G. Green, a son. 20. At London, the Duchess of Newcastle, a son. 23. At Stenhouse, Mrs Graham Campbell, of Shirvan, a son. - At Bainamoon, Mrs Carnegy, of Balnamoon, a son. MARRIAGES. Dec. 15. At Fascally, Mr James M'Lean, Pittochery, to Miss Jean Nicol, daughter of Mr Alexander Nicol, Inverness. Dec. 26. At Glasgow, Mr Andrew Pater* son, of the Academy at Ayr, to Miss Elizabeth Kirkland. 27. At Aberdeen, Alexander Forbes, Esq. merchant, to Miss Forbes, daughter of Sir William Forbes, Bart. of Craigievar. 28. At Ballymackey Church, Tipperary, Major-General the Honourable Arthur Annesley, third son of the Earl of Annesley, to Elizabeth, only daughter of John Mahon, Esq. of Besborough, in said county. Jan. 2. 1815. At Irongray, the Rev. John M'Cubbin, to Mary, second daughter of Mr James Welsh. At Seaham, the Right Hon. Lord Byron, to the accomplished Miss Milbanke, sole heiress to Sir Ralph Milbanke, Bart. 4. At Gottenburgh, Gordon Norrie, Esq. merchant, to Miss Maria Craig, of Gottenburgh. 5. At Damhead, Mr William Henry, builder in Edinburgh, to Mary Douglas Moffat, youngest daughter of Mr Moffat, farmer there. In London, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Carr, to Mrs Spencer Perceval, (widow of the late Chancellor of the Exchequer.) After the ceremony, they left town for their seat at Ealing. 13. At Edinburgh, Mr Thomas Drummond, writer there, to Eliza, only daughter of John Buchanan, Esq. of Dunliven. At Whitehouse, near Musselburgh, Captain Robert Boyle, Royal Highlanders, to Alison, eldest daughter of Charles Bell, Esq. 16. At Tain, John Sim, Esq. of Edinburgh, burgh, to Margaret, youngest daughter of John Barclay, Esq. of Moorfarm. Jan. 17. At North Berwick, Lieut. John Hay, 34th regiment of foot, to Isabella, cldest daughter of the late Hew Burn, Esq. 18. At Wigan, A. M. Richard Edenser Heathcote, Esq. eldest son of Sir John E. denser Heathcote, of Longton Hall in Staffordshire, to the Right Honourable Lady Elizabeth Keith Lindsay, eldest daughter of the Earl of Balcarras. 19. At Dunbar House, James Balfour, Esq. of Gorton, to Lady Eleanor Maitland, third daughter of the Earl of Lauderdale. 24. At Ladykirk House, Thomas Haggerston, Esq. jun. of Ellingham, to Miss Robertson, daughter of William Robertson, Esq. of Ladykirk. 25. At Edinburgh, Lieutenant-Colonel George Hutchison, of the East India Company's service, to Miss Cuninghame, eldest daughter of the late John Cuninghame, Esq. Port Glasgow. DEATHS. Dec. 26. 1814. At Jattingston Place, aged 53, Rear-Admiral Thomas Western. 28. At Forfar, Mr David Mann, merchant there. 30. At Falmouth, Henry Turnbull, youngest son of William Turnbull, Esq. younger of Fenwick. At Haddington, Andrew Begbie, Esq. after a lingering illness, much and justly regretted. Jan. 1. At Banff, James Gordon, Esq. - merchant there. the oldest freeholder in the county of Aberdeen. Jun. 2. At Aberdeen, Miss Harriot Farquharson, daughter of the late Robert Farquharson, Esq. of Kinaldie. 5. At Farnham, in the 78th year of his age, the Most Noble William John Kerr, Marquis and Earl of Lothian, Viscount Bryan, Lord Kerr of Newbottle, Morphat, &c. in the county of Mid Lothian; Earl of Ancram, Baron Jedburgh, Lord Kerr, of Oxnam, Dolphingsten Nisbets, Long Newton, &c. in the county of Roxburgh, Knight of the most ancient Order of the Thistle, a General in the army, and Colonel of the 2d regiment of dragoons. At Edinburgh, Mrs Anne Purves, wife of Mr D. Macewen, Royal Exchange Coffeehouse. At Huntingdon, Robert Deans, Esq. of Huntingdon, Admiral of the White. At Cupar, in the prime of life, Mrs Jameson, wife of Andrew Jameson, Esq. 'sheriff-substitute of Fife. She has left a husband and eight infant children to deplore the irreparable loss of a most affectionate wife and mother. 6. At Sanquhar, Robert Whigham, Esq. of Hallidayhill, aged 79.-His loss will be severely felt by his family; and not only the town of Sanquhar, and its neighbourhood, but many, in other quarters, will have cause to deplore it. 8. At Perth, Miss Jean Seton, daughter of the late George Seton, Esq. of Carriston, Fife. 10. At Queen Street, Mrs Rickart Hepburne, relict of Colonel Rickart Hepburne, 2. At Parkhill, Andrew Skene, of Dyce, of Rickarton. 1 THE SCOTS MAGAZINE, AND Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, FOR MARCH 1815, With Plans for Buildings to be erected on the MOUND. CONTENTS: Page Register of the Weather for March, 162 Account of ancient Tapestry, formerly Page New Works published in Edinburgh,... 212 Literary Intelligence,................... POETRY. Poem, by the late Rev. George Knowles, (continued,) 164 165 166 167 PROCEEDINGS OF PARLIAMENT. House of Lords,-On disembodying the Militia, ib. 214 216 217 220 House of Commons,-On the Property -Ways and Means for meeting the HISTORICAL AFFAIRS. America,-Ratification of the Treaty of Peace by the President of the United -Disaster of the British Arms at New France, Bonaparte again on the Throne of France, 175 Memoirs of the Progress of Manufactures, Chemistry, Science, and the fine Arts,...... ib. Italy, 182 Trial of William Paterson for poisoning his Wife,... 184 225 227 230 ib. Germany.-Proceedings of the Congress at Vienna,.. Naval Intelligence.-Account of the Capture of the President American Frigate, ib. Smith's Wealth of Nations; a new Edition, with Notes, and an additional Volume. By David Buchanan, 236 237 340 STATE |