SEQUESTRATIONS.

Aitken, James, merchant and warehouseman in
Glasgow.

Baillie, Daniel & Hugh, Parkhead of Dalziel.
Colville, Alexander, printer in Dundee.

Geddes, William, vintner in Inverness.
M'Arthur, Peter, merchant in Inverary.
Mackintosh & Bell, merchants in Glasgow.

M'Intyre, Peter, shoemaker and leather-merchant in Glasgow.

M'Neil, James & Co. manufacturers, &c. in Glasgow.

Matheson, John, late tanner in Inverness, now tacksman of Drynie.

Moffat, Alexander, merchant in Airdrie.
Neilson, George, merchant and spirit-dealer in
Airdrie.

Rae, John, Candlemaker in Edinburgh.
Russell, Thomas, plasterer in Glasgow.

Singer, Adam, merchant and grocer in Aberdeen. Stevenson, John, & Co. dyers, printers, and mer. chants in Glasgow.

Young, Alexander, ship-owner and merchant in Perth.

DIVIDENDS.

Carswell, Walter & George, and Robert Carswell & Co. manufacturers in Paisley; by J. M'Gavin, accountant in Glasgow.

Clark, John, junior, merchant in Inverness; by Robert Murray, accountant there.

Currie, Hugh, salt-merchant in Saltcoats; by John Kerr, writer in Glasgow.

Cushney, William, merchant in Aberdeen; by A. Webster, advocate there.

Douglas, John, draper in Dumfries; by John Hair, draper there.

Gordon, James & M. cattle-dealers, stewartry of Kirkcudbright; by J. Niven, Kirkcudbright. M'Donald, Wm. & Alex. merchants in Edinburgh; by Thomas Robinson, merchant there. Pringle, James, tanner in Haddington; by Thomas Legat, Millhill, Musselburgh. Tenant & Co. merchants in Edinburgh; by Donaldson & Ramsay, W. S. there.

Thomson, Andrew, ship-owner, West Wemyss; by J. L. Cooper, writer, Kirkcaldy. Watt, John, junior, late merchant in Edinburgh; by J. Spence, accountant there.

THE LATE SIR HENRY RAEBURN. Died at his House, at Stockbridge, Edinburgh, on the 8th of July, Sir Henry Raeburn, portraitpainter to his Majesty. The talents of this eminent and excellent person have done much honour to Scotland, and entitle him to be ranked as a portrait-painter in the same class with Reynolds and Lawrence. His full-length pictures of the Earl of Hopetoun, Lord Frederick Campbell, Sir David Baird, Adam Rolland, Esq. Glengarry, and many more, might be mentioned as proofs that he was equally remarkable for correctness of drawing, freedom of penciling, brilliancy of colouring, and a personification of character not less vigorous than graceful. He possessed the rare faculty of producing in every instance the most striking and agreeable likeness, and of indicating intellectual expression and dignity of demeanor, wherever they appeared in the original; often approaching in his portraits to the elevation of historical painting. His modesty was equal to his merit; and in his intercourse with the young candidates for public favour, he was uniformly kind, communicative, and liberal; and on all occasions had the candour to bestow just praise on rival excellence.-The Royal Academy in London, in testimony of their high estimation of his talents, elected him, first an associate, and afterwards an academician, without solicitation. And when his Majesty, on his visit to Edinburgh, conferred the honour of Knighthood upon the distinguished artist, we do not recollect any occasion on which a more universal feeling of satisfaction was expressed.

In society, few men were more acceptable than Sir Henry; for he possessed a cheerful disposition, much good sense, and an inexhaustible store of anecdote. In his domestic relations, no man could dispense or receive a greater degree of happiness; and those who had opportunities of seeing him in the midst of his family, will ever cherish the recollection of his amiable and endearing qualities.

Sir Henry was a member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a member of the late Imperial Academy of Florence, a member of the Academy of New York, and a few days before his death received a commission appointing him portraitpainter in Scotland to the King.

THE LATE DUKE OF ROXBURGHE. Died at his seat of Fleurs, in Roxburghshire, on the 19th July, his Grace, James Innes Ker, fifth Duke and ninth Earl of Roxburghe. He was born on the 10th of January 1736. He was the second son of Sir Hary Innes of Innes, Bart.

and of Anne, second daughter of Sir James Grant of Grant, Bart. His great-grandfather, Sir James Innes of Innes, married, in 1666, Margaret Ker, third daughter of Hary Lord Ker, son of Robert, first Earl of Roxburghe, and, as the lineal male descendant of this marriage, his Grace was, after a long and expensive litigation, adjudged by the House of Peers to be the undoubted heir to the honours and estates of Roxburghe. His Grace succeeded, in these honours and estates, William, fourth Duke, who died in 1805, and who was the last of the male line of William, second Earl of Roxburghe.

The family of Innes of that ilk is of great antiquity, and it possessed large and valuable estates in the district of Moray for many generations. The first of the family we find on record is Berowaldus Flandrensis, who was a man of considerable rank and distinction, and made a great figure in the reign of Malcolm IV., about the years 1155 or 1156. The late Duke was the two-and-twentieth generation from Berowaldus, in a direct male line; and it was remarked by Duncan Forbes of Culloden, in his history of the house of Innes, that in all the long course of their succession, they were fortunate in three things: First, that their inheritance never went to a woman; next, that none of them ever married an ill wife; thirdly, that no friend ever suffered for their debt." His Grace's father was a staunch friend to Government during the rebellion in 1745, and was of great service in aiding the exertions made at that time among the disaffected clans of the north, by his illustrious and ill-requited kinsman, Duncan Forbes, in favour of the House of Brunswick. Whilst the rebel forces were in the neighbourhood of Innes House, the Duke, then scarcely ten years of age, very narrowly escaped being shot by a passing Highlander, who discharged his piece at the door where his Grace was standing, and missed him only by a few inches.

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His Grace entered the army at an early period of life, and served in Germany with reputation during the seven years' war. He had a company in the 88th regiment of foot in the year 1759, and in the 58th regiment of foot in 1779. In 1764, he was served heir to his father in the estate of InIn 1769, he married Mary, daughter of Sir John Wray of Glentworth, in the county of Lincoln, Bart. by Frances, daughter of Fairfax Norcliffe, of Langton, in the county of York, Esq. and after her decease, without issue, in 1807, he married, secondly, his present Duchess, Harriet, daughter of the late Benjamin Charlewood, Esq. of Windlesham. His only surviving child, now Duke of Roxburghe, was born at Fleurs on the 12th day of July 1816.

In his person and countenance his Grace was, in his early years, a model of masculine beauty, and Reynolds never exercised his talents on a finer subject, than when he traced the likeness at present in the collection at Fleurs. His Grace retained, in old age, a noble and commanding presence, and we have seldom seen, even at a much less advanced period of life, any one exhibit, till his last fatal illness, fewer symptoms of declining age. Since the period of making Fleurs his ordinary place of residence, he invariably patronized and gave his liberal and efficient aid to every undertaking which he conceived had for its

object the happiness, comfort, or improvement of the community. The revenues of his princely estate he expended with judicious munificence; and on every side we trace the effects of his boun ty and public spirit. His charity, co-operating with that of his amiable Duchess, was as unsparing as it was well directed. His sense of honour would have done credit to the purest age of chivalry; and no man, of any rank or station, seemed more deeply impressed with the sublime truths of the Christian religion, or made its precepts more steadily his rule of conduct.

BIRTHS.

1825. June 15. At Farnham, Dorset, the Lady of Sir S. Stuart, Bart. a son and heir.

24. At Lochnaw Castle, Lady Agnew, a son. 28. At Camsell Park, the Lady of Sir Joseph Radcliff, Bart. a daughter.

29. At Lochgilphead, the Lady of Capt. Niel M'Lachian, of Kilnochanoch, a son.

In Fort Street, North Leith, the wife of Lieut. Charles Smith, Royal Navy, a son. 30. At Merchiston House, near Edinburgh, Mrs Hepburne, of Clarkington, a daughter.

At Glenralloch House, West Tarbert, the Lady of Lieut. James Wright, 24th foot, of twin

sons.

4. At Ballygiblin, county of Cork, the Lady of William Wrixon Becher, Esq. a daughter.

5. At Hopetoun House, the Countess of Hopetoun, a daughter.

6. At Craigleith House, Mrs Fleming, a son. 8. At Geneva, the Lady of Major-General Sir Wm. Inglis, K.C.B. a son.

9. At Edinburgh, the Lady of Sir James Montgomery, Bart. M.P. a son.

-At Portobello, the Lady of Donald Charles Cameron, Esq. a daughter.

11. Mrs Clay, Dykethead, a daughter.

13 At Beaver Hall, near Edinburgh, Mrs Major Bogle, a daughter.

14. At Woodslee, the Lady of George Scott Elliot, Esq. of Larrieston, a daughter.

-Mrs Baillie of Culteraller, a still-born son. 15. At Edinbarnet, Mrs Colquhoun Stirling, a daughter.

19. At Otterston, Fifeshire, the Lady of RearAdmiral Moubray, C. B. a daughter.

-At Cockenzie, Mrs H. F. Cadell, a son. 20. At Edinburgh, the Lady of John Archibald Campbell, Esq. a son.

22. At Castle Craig, the Hon. Lady Gibson Carmichael, a son.

24. At Dumfries, Mrs Dr Symonds, a son. 25. At Kirkaldy, Mrs Stark, a son. Lately. At Great Russel Street, London, the Lady of James Loch, Esq. a daughter.

MARRIAGES.

1822. Nov. 28. At Boolunshur, East Indies, Hugh Smyth Mercer, Esq. of the Hon. East India Company's medical service, Bengal establishment, youngest son of the deceased Hugh Smyth Mercer, Esq. W.S. to Frances, fourth daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Hugh Stafford, of the Bengal army.

Dec. 22. At Padang, East Indies, William Purves, Esq. Commander of the Baron Vander Capillen, in the Dutch East India service, to Cornelia Louisa, daughter of Intrild, Esq.

1823. Jan. 15. At Quilon, in the East Indies, Captain Charles F. Grice, of the Hon. Company's marines, and Master Attendant at Quilon, to Margaret, eldest daughter of the late James Arnott, Esq. Arbikie, Forfarshire.

March 11. At Dundas, district of Gore, Upper Canada, Robert Berrie, Esq. barrister at law (formerly of Glasgow), to Helen Eliza, eldest daughter of the late Johnston Butler, of Niagara, Esq.

June 18. At Torboll, Sutherlandshire, William Murray, junior, Esq. to Jane, third daughter of Kenneth Mackay, Esq. Convener of that county.

26. At Cheltenham, the Rev. John Netherton Harward, eldest son of the Rev. J. Harward, of Hartlebury, Worcestershire, to Harriet, daughter of Richard Butler, Esq. of West-hall, near Cheltenham.

28. At Edinburgh, Edward Stock, Esq. of Poplar, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Sir John Innes, Bart.

50. At Gladswood, near Melrose, George G. Hill, Esq. Gower Street, Bedford Square, London, to Isabella, eldest daughter of John Anderson, Esq. of Gladswood.

-At Lochgair House, Lieut. Niel Campbell, of the 9th regiment of Bengal native infantry, to Isabella Ann, daughter of the deceased Charles Campbell, Esq. of Lukuary.

At Glasgow, John Wakefield, jun. Esq. of Broughton Lodge, Lancashire, to Frances, eldest daughter of Mr James M'Arthur, Glasgow.

At Ayr, Mr John Fletcher, surgeon in Irvine, to Miss Agnes, youngest daughter of Henry Cowan, Esq. banker, Ayr.

July 1. At Edinburgh, the Rev. Thomas Henry Yorke, M.A. vicar of Bishop Middleham, county of Durham, and rector of St Cuthbert's, York, to Maria, daughter of the late Major-General the Hon. Mark Napier.

-At Edinburgh, Adam Wylie, Esq. Smeaton, to Mary, daughter of the late Hew Burn, Esq. North Berwick.

-At Fortrose, the Rev. Robert Milne, Chaplain of Fort George, to Jane Gordon, third daughter of Colin Matheson, Esq. of Bennetsfield.

-Mr John Harrison, merchant, Edinburgh, to Christiana, youngest daughter of the late John Baillie, Esq.

2. At Largs, D. K. Sandford, Esq. Professor of Greek in the University of Glasgow, to Miss Charnock, only daughter of the late Robert Charnock, Esq.

3. At Kelso, the Rev. James Porteous, Jedburgh, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr Robison, merchant there.

-At Tain, James Harper, Esq. distiller, Clynelish, to Jane Baillie, eldest daughter of the late James Innes, Esq. Agent for the Bank of Scotland there.

5. At Elgin, Patrick Cameron, Esq. writer, to Ann, daughter of George Fenton, Esq. SheriffSubstitute of Elginshire.

-At London, the Hon. Mr Henry Lascelles, second son of the Earl and Countess of Harewood, to Lady Louisa Thynne, second eldest daughter of the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath 7. At Liverpool, Ralph Smith, Esq. of Edinburgh, to Sarah Phillips, eldest daughter of the late Captain Bridge, of the Hon. East India Company's service.

At Glasgow, James Ellis, Esq. merchant, to Christina, second daughter of William Watson, Esq. writer.

-At Edinburgh, Lieut. William Snell, R. N. to Jessie, youngest daughter of the late Mr Andrew Bisset, writer, Edinburgh.

-At Edinburgh, the Rev. Alex. Macpherson, minister of the parish of Golspie, Sutherlandshire, to Agnes, second daughter of the late Robert Young, Esq. writer in Edinburgh.

8. At Edinburgh, Robt. Davidson, Esq. banker,

THERE are few individuals, how ever limited the sphere of their actions, whose lives may not become an object of interest, when they are fairly and truly delineated. If a man has been gifted by Nature with talent or abilities which have been obscured by indolence, we may learn from it the duty of exertion; if he has been actively and usefully benevolent, the good may profit by his example.

The Rev. John Fleming, the subject of the present memoir, was born on the 31st of August 1750, at the farm-house of Craigs, in the parish of Bathgate, West Lothian. His father was an industrious farmer, who, to his paternal property of Craigs, added another farm in the same parish, called Torbane: he died while Mr Fleming was a boy, and left him the owner of these two farms, which, at that period, though now very much increased in value, produced a yearly rent of little more than fifty pounds sterling. The mother of Mr Fleming, who appears to have been a person of great merit, was left a widow, with another son and daughter; and on this limited income, she not only educated her family respectably, but added to the common-stock by her own industry.

Mr Fleming commenced his education at the parish school of Bathgate. In his fourteenth year, he entered the University of Edinburgh. Here he gave early promise of becoming an excellent Latin scholar;

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he also made considerable progress in the Greek language, which he continued to cultivate during the rest of his life, by the reading of Homer and the Greek Testament; but the Latin classics, and the philosophy of ancient Rome, were the favourite objects of his study.

Having been originally destined for the clerical office, on the completion of the prescribed course of study at the University, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Linlithgow.

By the early decease of his father, the management of the small property to which he succeeded devolved upon him; and not having any immediate view to preferment in the church, he turned his attention, in a great degree, to the improvement of his paternal estate. His natural sagacity, and superior education, soon led him to perceive that the state of agriculture in his native parish was capable of great improvement; and he lost no time in making himself acquainted with the best modes of draining, and enclosing, and the other farming operations, which of late years have added so much to the wealth and resources of the country. At this period, he often guided the plough, worked with his own hand in the labours of agriculture, and devoted himself with great enthusiasm to the cultivation of this primitive science: and at a later period of life, it was his constant maxim, that to make two blades of grass, or corn, Kk