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of cl»ili!ren. For although vaccination con- 

 tinues to be praftifed iii Edinburgh with un- 

 interruijted fuccefs, yet deaths are ftill pro- 

 duced by the Natural Small Pox, in confe- 

 quenct of tlie negleft and delay of this fafe, 

 eafy, and efficacious preventive of that dread- 

 ful malady. Although the execution of the 

 plans thus adopted muft unavoidably be at- 

 tended with fome adJitional cxpence, and al- 

 though the difbu:fcmi;nts for the fupport of 

 the Difpe ifary, during the cojrfe of the laft 

 year, exceeded the fum received, yet the 

 mceCK!; were of opinion, that the iuter.ded 

 imp«ovcinents (hould be immediately carried 

 into eftsA. it was computed that, r.otwith- 

 ftanding thcfe additions, the whole annual 

 expence of the Difpenfary would not exceed 

 4col. And tne meciinj trulted that, by pro- 

 per exertions on the part ot the managers, 

 that fum might, without much difficulty, be 

 obtained from the opulent and benevolent in- 

 habitants of the city and county of Edin- 

 burgh. 



Died.'\ At Gourock, .Archibald Campbell, 

 watchmaker, a cadet in the family of 

 Auchinbrcak, in Argylelhire, who wjs born 

 in Feb. 1699. — Having received the ruci- 

 xncnts of a liberal education at home, he was 

 afterwards fent to Edinburgh for the purpofe 

 ot pri)fecuting his ftudics with a view to the 

 Church. There, however, fmitten by the 

 charms of a fair one, he married at the age 

 1-vciitten, by which imprudent rtep he fo 

 much difpleafc«l his patron, that he took no 

 turtlier noiice of him. Upon this he went to 

 London, hound himfelf An apprei-.tice to a 

 watchmaker, and there followed that trade for 

 a I years. His wife died in London, and he mar- 

 ried a fecond wife not long after. In his 

 43d year he went intc^ the army, and remain- 

 ea 'v\ it feven years. After this he went to 

 Paris; and wrought at his bufmefs one 

 year there: from thence he removed to Ire- 

 land, and followed, in that country, the fame 

 occupatioo lor a number of years. There 

 too he married his wi^ow, in his 65th year. — 

 On his palTage from Ireland to Ca:ii.6l)eltf.n he 

 was wrecked upon the Idand of Racharis, 

 and loft the whole of his property, amount 

 ing to about 50. 1. Since that period he has 

 refijed in Tarhet, in Kint>re, Areyllfliire, 

 regularly working at his trade, till within 

 thefe 14 years. He had a penfion from his 

 Grace the Duke of Argyle, whom he has 

 been in the habit of vifitin^, annually at In- 

 verary, for many years. Not farliitr back 

 than Auguft laft he went to pay his refpedls 

 to his Grace, and walked fio.m Target to 

 Inverary, a diftance of 37 milts, in three 

 days. He was upon a viiit to fome friends 

 at Gourock, and walked about five miles 

 every day. His mental faculties feemed, but 

 a ftiorc time before his death, to be In their 

 vigour, and none of his,fenfes any way im- 

 paired except thatof vifion. Only a few months 

 iJnce he began to make a clack, but vras 



obliged to give it up, owing to the failure of 

 his light. He was a very temperate man, 

 had been felJom or never intoxicated, and 

 afcribcd, under Providence, the extraordinary 

 length of his life to his temperance and re- 

 gularity. 



At Leith Links, James Mitchell, efq. 

 formerly a merchant in Leith 



At Arran, William Stevenfon, efq. msny 

 years faftor to his Grace the Duke of Hamil- 

 ton, on that ifland. 



At Snapinlhay, the Rev. Dr. George Pnr. 

 ry, 57 He was .1 native of Berwiclclhire, 

 educated in the Uaiverfity of Edinburgh, 

 and was for a (hort time employed as teacher 

 ot the foils of fome gentlemen in Orkney, 

 by whofe patronage he became fecond minif- 

 ter of the royal burgh and ancient cathedral of 

 Kirkwall; from wheni^e, about nine years 

 ago, he was tranflated to the llland and parilh 

 of Shapinfliay. He has left a widow an.i 

 nine children anJ many tefpeftable friends 

 to mourn his death Witli tidelity and zeal 

 he difcharged the duties of the paftoral office. 

 His ftjtittical account of his two parifti-s, 

 publiihed by Sir John Sinclair, firft refcued 

 his name from that obfcurity in which it 

 was placed by local lituation, and drew from 

 an impartial public, a higli degree of appro- 

 bation. — Few men paid more attention to 

 the education of youth than Dr. Barry. His 

 own cliildren he taught with all the ikill of 

 philofophy, and all tlie tendernefs of parental 

 aflciSion. The fame IkiU, united with no 

 common degree of care, he extended, not only 

 to the youth in his own, but to thofe of all 

 the diiTerent parifhes in the county. Scnlible 

 of his zeal in this refpeft, the focicty for 

 propagating Chriftian Knowledge in Scot- 

 land, upwards of five years ago, chofe him 

 one of their members, and gave him a fuper- 

 intendance over their fchools in Oikney, 

 Soon after, the Univerlity of Edinburgh con- 

 ferred on him the degree of Doftor in Divi- 

 nity. For feveral years paft Dr. liairy cm- 

 ployed his leifure hours in compofing a civil 

 and natural hii*ory of all the 67 iflands of 

 Orkney, comprehending an account of their 

 original population, their ancient hiftory, 

 while a feparate independent principality, 

 whofe warlike princes, in alliance with Nor- 

 way ai.d Denmark; ranked with the monarchs 

 of Europe ; and alfo their prefenc condition, 

 and the means by which they may be im- 

 proved. Tliis liiilory was publiihed two 

 months ago, in Edinburgh, in one large 

 C|Uajto volume, iliuftrated by a map of all the 

 illes, friths, and harbours, and alfo with 

 twelve elegant engraved plates of the moft 

 grand and interefting objcds of antiquity.— 

 From the teftimony of feveral of the moft 

 refpeftable and learned gentlemen in Scot- 

 land, it is believed that this curious hiftory of 

 one of the moft fequefiered provinces of Bri- 

 tain, .will, from the depth of its refearch, 

 tile accuracy of the narrative, and the claffical 

 elegance 



