25. At Wakefield, Wm. Campbell, Esq. W. S. Edinburgh, to Jane, second daughter of Hugh Cleghorn, Esq. of Stravithie. At Edinburgh, George William Tireman, Esq. of York, and of the Yorkshire regiment of hussars, to Charlotte, eldest daughter of Joseph Stainton, Esq. of Biggarshiells. 26. At Leith, the Rev. James Campbell, minister of Traquair, to Mary, daughter of Matthew Comb, Esq. brewer. Lately. At Philadelphia, Mr James Finlayson, younger of Jeanfield, to Isabella, daughter of John Mellish, Esq. DEATHS. March 14. At the Residency of Nepaul, Robert Stuart, Esq. youngest son of the late Sir John Stuart of Allanbank, Bart. April. At Gaderwarrha, India, the headquarters of Colonel Adams, John Syme, younger of Ryedale, Lieutenant in the 19th native infantry, and Deputy Commissary at Nagpore. At Trincomalee, Thomas Miller Buchan, youngest son of William Buchan of the Bank of Scotland, and surgeon of his Majesty's ship Minden, bearing the flag of Admiral Sir Richard King. 5. At Calcutta, Mrs Robert Campbell, one of the most amiable and universally respected ladies of the settlement. 19. At Ryepoor, of a fever, occasioned by fatigue on service, Lieut. Richard Fraser, 6th Bengal native infantry, eldest son of the late Mr Donald Fraser, writer in Inverness. 28. At Wurnoo Tank, in Wagur, Captain James Macmurdo, the Honourable East India Company's Resident at Cutch. May 7. At Samarang, Java, John Polwarth, Esq. 19. On his passage from Bombay to England, William George Burrell, M. D. surgeon of the 65th regiment of foot, son of the late Mr William Burrell, merchant in Edinburgh. July 3. On his passage from India to Europe, Robert Hunter, Esq. surgeon in the Hon. East India Company's service. Aug. 5. At Demerara, Mr John Wotherspoon, engineer, a native of Glasgow. 11. On board his Majesty's ship Tartar, Howard, third son of Colonel Sir Howard Douglas. 24. At Burroston, in Shetland, Mrs Henry, wife of Thomas Henry of Bayhall, Esq. Sept. 7. At Wickham, in her 19th year, Miss Georgiana Jane M'Donald, eldest daughter of Dr M'Donald, Royal Navy. 8. At Wick, Barbara Rose, daughter of the Rev. Robert Phin. 9. At Plymouth, Samuel Hood Linzee, Esq. Vice-Admiral of the Blue. He fell from his horse in a fit of apoplexy, and never spoke afterwards. At the house of the Rev. James Gordon, Tombal, Glenlivat, Elizabeth Gordon, aged 75 years, relict of the late Mr James Gordon, merchant, Drumlithie. 4. At Stockbridge, Edinburgh, Miss Margaret Irving, second daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Irving, of the 70th foot. 5. At Campbelton, Mrs Macvicar, in her 88th year, and the oldest widow on the pension list of the army. Harriet, the wife of Lieut. Colonel Hogg, of Emers Down Cottage, Lyndhurst. 6. At Dundee, at the advanced age of 95, Miss Susanna Lyon, daughter of the late William Lyon of Carse, Esq. advocate, and grand-daughter of the late Lord Carse, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. At Edinburgh, Helen, daughter of Thomas Bell, Esq. Wharton Place. 7. At the Manse of Sanquhar, the Rev. William Ranken, minister of that parish, in the 69th year of his age, and 35tli of his ministry. wife of Kenneth Mackenzie, M. D. second daughter of the late Wm. Blair, Esq. W. S. 15. At Marden Park, Surrey, in the 87th year of his age, John Hastell, Esq. Clerk of the House of Commons. He entered upon that office in the latter end of the reign of George II. His volumes of "Precedents of Proceedings in the House of Com. mons" are well known, and the work will long survive him as the text-book resorted to in all cases of difficulty. 16. At Edinburgh, Mr Alex. Phillip, baker; and on the 20th curt. Mrs Janet Inglis, his wife. Wooll. At Edinburgh, Mrs Margaret Miller, wife of Mr William Whyte, merchant, Leith. 13. At London, Miss Isabella Douglas. 14. At Parkhill, Dalry, the Rev. John Thomson. 20. At Rainham, Kent, Jane Oliver, lady of Sir James Malcolm, Royal Marines. At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Findlay, writing master and accountant, South Bridge. Printed by George Ramsay and Company, Edinburgh. THE EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, AND LITERARY MICELLANY, BEING A NEW SERIES OF The Scots Magazine. DECEMBER 1820. CONTENTS. Letters from Mrs Delany to Mrs Frances Hamilton, containing Anecdotes of their late Majesties and the Royal Family............ Journal of a Visit to Holland. Letters XII. and XIII. (Concluded)492 German Reviews. No. III.499 Some Account of Mrs Caroline Pichler 503 The Modern Decameron. No. III. Albert Limbach, or the Martyr of Italian Literature. No. 11.-The Alcestis of Alfieri............................512 Letters on Dramatic Poetry, and more particularly on the Comparison of the Ancient and Modern Drama. Let ter I. Mr Bowdich's Reply to the Quarterly the Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion...................538 On the Importance of the Internal Evi dence for Christianity542 Remarks on Knickerbocker's History of New York LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Northern Expedition-Banana TreeGerman Literature-Cardinal Fesch's Library-Hydraulic Ram-Antique Statues-Royal Library of Copenhagen-Hydrophobia, &c. &c. &c.549 Works Preparing for Publication.....551 Monthly List of New Publications......553 MONTHLY REGISTER. Review...............................521 Parliamentary Intelligence Remarks on the Fall of Jerusalem; a 556 560 Appointments, Promotions, &c.566 Foreign Intelligence British Chronicle Dramatic Poem. By the Rev. H. H. Milmann EDINBURGH: PRINTED FOR ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND COMPANY. 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. DECEMBER 1820. LETTERS FROM MRS DELANY TO MRS Dowager of Portland's family, and, on her death, she was taken under the ANECDOTES OF THEIR LATE MA- protection of the King and Queen of Great Britain. JESTIES AND THE ROYAL FAMILY. * THE value which we attached to these Letters, on account of the subject to which they chiefly relate, made us, as our readers will recollect, avail ourselves of the extracts from them in the Literary Gazette, before we had an opportunity of perusing an entire copy. Having now read the book itself, our favourable impression has been so much deepened, as to induce us to make it the ground-work of another article in our Miscellany. The numerous and peculiar accomplishments of the writer of those epistles, which bear so ample a testimony both to the benevolence of her Royal benefactors and the gratitude of her own heart, have procured for her a memoir of her life in most of the biographical collections published since her death. She was the daughter of Barnard Granville, brother of Lord Granville, the friend of Pope and Swift. To oblige her relations, when only seventeen years of age, she reluctantly consented to be married to Alexander Pendarves, Esq., and retired with him to Cornwall. She soon became a widow, and continued nineteen years in that state, when she was married to Dr Delany, for whom she had long entertained a very high esteem. Her second husband died in 1768, and, soon after that event, she became an inmate of the Duchess London, Longman and Co. 1820. We have mentioned the conspicuous nature of her acquirements, and it will be expected that we state in what they consisted, a statement, however, which we must make with the utmost brevity. Besides the usual accomplishments of ladies of rank and liberal education, she excelled in oilpainting, and produced many copies and some originals; but she was distinguished chiefly by the practice of an art of which she was the inventor. This was "the construction of a Flora of a most |