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July 2ld 1799. — At Athelflaneford, Eaft Lothian, Mr John 

 Thomson, farmer and flefher in that place. 



Mr Thomfon had arrived at the advanced ^gt of 90 years, and, 

 in the courfe of an extenfive and complicated bufinefs, had uniform-, 

 ly preferved a fair and unimpeached rharafter. He had rifen, from 

 fmall beginnings, to eminence in his profeffion ; and, at one period, 

 his undertakings were more extenfive than any of his brethren out 

 of the metropolis. Fifty years ago, under the patronage of the 

 Gilmerton family, he fet up a flefh market in the village where he 

 fefided ; and his dealings as a middle-man, in the purchafe of fat 

 beafts, flieep, and lambs, which were refold to the Edinburgh and 

 Weft-country fiefiiers, were widely extended over all the county of 

 Eaft Lothian. When old age arrived, he wifely contracted his bu- 

 finefs ; but he retained his knowledge and accuracy to the laft ; and, 

 from the natural ftrength of his conftitution, there was caufe to be- 

 lieve, that, old as he was, a fuccefilon of days awaited him, had not 

 an unlucky fall in his room hurt him fo much, as to haften his diffo- 

 lution. 



Mr Thomfon ivas much refpeftcd in fociety, efpecially in his own 

 neighbourhood, which was a lure proof of the goodnefs of his cha- 

 rafter. When not engaged in bufinefs, his chief amufement lay in 

 playing at whift, "at which game he believed himfelf to be eminently 

 Hiilful. In a word, he was a man, who had few or no enemies, and 

 pofleffed more friends than moft of his contemporaries. 



At Little Harwood, Lancadiirer P^lr A. Franklano, farmerj 



At Waltham on the Woiilds, Mr Burton, fenior, farmer. 



At Crowmillrf, Lelceilerfiiire, Mr Joseph Lewis, grazier. 



At Eaft Dereham, aged 73, Mr H. Wells, a celebrated kit- 

 chen gardener. 



At Ugftone, near Haddington, Mr Thomas Howden, an ex- 

 tenfive and refpeflable farmer. 



At Carniehaugh near Glfford, Eaft Lothian, Captain John 

 Carfrae, of the Breadalbane Fencible?, and farmer there. Cap- 

 tain Carfrae had, at an early period of life, entered into the military 

 line, and ferved in Germany during the feven years war. He was 

 the intimate friend of General Hanls, the conqueror of Seringapa- 

 tam, with whom he afted as an officer in the 5th regiment of toot, 

 then commanded by Lord Percy. Re afterwards devoted l}is at- 

 tention to rural affiiirs till the year I77<-^. when he accepted of a 

 commiffion in the regiment raifed bv the Duke of Hamilton, and 

 commanded by General Francis M'Loan. At the peace of 1785, 

 he returned to his farm, wlilc'i,' during hisabfjnce, had been manag- 

 ed by his fifters and friends. Experienced cfEcers being much 

 '7/?,nted when the fencible rceirnents were raifed in i;94» he was 



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