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suggested in his work on the Metropolitan Police, the adoption of 

 an improved system for the protection of public property and of 

 personal safety, subsequently carried out by the late Sir Eobert Peel. 



In 1800, he became the private secretary of Mr. Dundas, then the 

 Secretary of State for the War Department ; three years later, he 

 received the appointment of Deputy Agent-General for the payment 

 of volunteers. In 1817, the Hanseatic republics constituted him their 

 representative here, and the legislatures of St. Yincent, Dominica, 

 St. Christopher, Tortola, Tobago, Nevis, and the Virgin Islands, at 

 diiferent times nominated him to watch over their interests. In 

 1827, he was appointed Consul-General of the King of Saxony ; and 

 in 1848, his Eoyal Highness the late Grand Duke of Oldenburg 

 appointed him his Charge d'AfFaires. He was Knight Commander 

 of the first class of the Royal Saxon Order of Civil Merit. On the 

 signature by Reshid Pasha, of a treaty of recognition between the 

 Hanseatic republics, as their Plenipotentiary he received the Order 

 of Iftihar of the first class fiom the Sultan ; and the Hanseatic re- 

 publics conferred on him the honorary diploma of citizenship, to 

 which the Senate of Liibeck and Hamburg added their honorary 

 medal. The University of Glasgow also conferred on him the 

 honorary degree of LL.D. ; and the Royal Antiquarian Society of 

 Athens constituted him an honorary fellow. As Hanseatic Plenipo- 

 tentiary he signed the commercial treaties with Great Britain, the 

 Ottoman Porte, Mexico, and Liberia ; and he also signed a treaty, 

 as Saxon Plenipotentiary, with Mexico. He died on the 23rd of 

 July, 1855, in the 76th year of his age. 



EsTCOURT, Major-General J. B. Bucknall, died before Sebastopol 

 last June, of that disease — cholera — which carried off so many of our 

 brave countrymen, in his 53rd year. 



General Estcoru*t, educated at Plarrow, entered the army as an 

 ensign, and served in the expedition to the River Euphrates from 

 1836 to 1837 ; he went out in 1854 on the staff of Lord Raglan ; and 

 served as Adjutant-General of the Forces, from the first landing in 

 the Crimea, sharing the glories and dangers of Alma, Balaclava, 

 and Inkermann. In 1848 he was elected a member of parliament 

 for Devizes. 



Eraser, James Baillie, Esq., of Reelick, Inverness, a Deputy- 

 Lieutenant of that county, died in January last, in his seventy- 

 second year. He was bom in June, 1783, and was the eldest of 

 four brothers, all remarkable men, sons of the late Edward S. 

 Fraser. James Baillie went early in life to the West Indies ; but 



