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he had received from him in early life. 
‘Though Mr. Home wrote several ‘fragedies 
besides Douglas, some of which possess great 
merit, none of them were successful] on the 
stage. \ 
At Edinburgh, Henry-Wiliam Tytler, 
esq. M.D. 55. This gentleman pub- 
lished in 1793, a translation into English 
verse, of the works’ of Callimachus, in a 
quarto volume, which is very respectably 
executed. He also published in 1797, Pz- 
dotrophia, or the Art of Nursing and Rearing 
Children, a poem translated from the Latin 
of Scevole de St. Marth, if an octavo vo- 
lume. i 
At Dunbar, Major-general’ John Forbes, 
late in the service of the East India Com- 
pany. He went out in the year 1761, and 
for more than forty years continued inwnre- 
mitting service on the Bengal establishment. 
He on many eminent occasions distinguished 
himself in the field ; and on the various mi- 
litary stations, where he was_ the resident 
commander, acted with a condescension and 
scrupulous integrity that secured to him uni- 
versal esteem. He was the youngest son of 
George Forbes, esq. of Lechermick, near 
Aberdeen, and maternal uncle to Mrs. Rro- 
fessor Porson and Mr. Perry. 
\In his 87th year, John Bland, esq. some 
time one of the lessees, and many years 
treasurer of the Edinburgh Theatre, He 
“was uncle to the celebrated Mrs. Jordan, 
and was descended from an ancient Irish sa- 
milv.—He was once acornet of horse, and 
carried the colours of his regiment at the me- 
morable battle of Dettingen. He was oc- 
casionally an actor; and performed Young 
Bevil, Sir Calachan O?Sralachaa, and the 
Ghost in Hamlet, in the Edinburgh Thea- 
tre. Inthe country he often played the first 
line in beth the buskin and sock. He was 
also, when but a youth, admitted a Barris- 
ter in London, and was very eccentric in his 
manners, opinions, and phraseology, as well 
as in every thing he ate, drank, or wore 5 
but, with all his peculiarities, he was an ho- 
nest man, a kind husband, an indulgent pa- 
gent, anda steady friend. 
At Perth, Thomas Marshall, esq. provost 
of that city, where his name will long be re- 
membered with affection and gratitude. His 
illness was originally occasioned by one of 
those magnanimous actions that marked his 
character—secing from a window that over- 
“looks the river Vays, aman struggling in the 
stream for life, he ran across the bridge, 
and suddenly plunged iato the water to save 
him. The extraordinary exertion proved fa- 
tal to himself, dnd~ brought upon him the 
complaint which ended only with his life. 
To his priv. irtues were added great acti- 
vity and public spirit. His native town has 
been improved, ornamented, and extended in 
an astonishing manner under his auspices ; 
and the situation on which stand the public 
oo Ireland. 
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“seminaries is bis gift. His death is regarded 
by the inhabitants as a public loss—on the 
day of his funeral all the shops were shut up, 
and ten thousand people followed him to the 
grave. 
At Aberfeldie, Perthshire, John Stewart, 
commonly knowa by the name of Colonel 
John Stewart, at the advanced age or 111 
years. At the age of 18 he joined the pre- 
tenders banners, and was predent at the battle 
uf Sheriff Muir, near Stirling, as a young 
piper, in 1775. In1745 he again supported 
the pretensions of the house of Stewart, and 
was present in the same capacity in the bat- 
tles of Falkirk, Preston Pans, and Culloden, 
in which he received a severe wound in the 
thigh,* in consequence of which he was ever 
aflerwards obliged to use crutches: 
Margaret Kobinson, 96. The history of this 
woman, inregard to the recovery of her sizht, - 
is very remarkable, and is not unworthy of 
record, not merely as declaratory of the fact 
itself, but as‘also holding out strong hopes to 
those who are, or may be, uahappily pla- 
ced in a similar condition, of recovering the 
inestimable blessing, sight. About the pe- 
riod that this woman, who was a farnier’s 
wife, attained the age of 63, she became to- 
tally blind, not sudcenly, or by any particus 
lar cause, but by a gradeal decay of sight. 
In this state she remained for 15 years. In 
her 78th year, she recovered her sight so 
well, that, with the assistance of glasses, 
she was able to thread a needie and to read 
her bible. Inthe course of the next year, 
she found it so strong and clear, that, she 
laid aside her glasses altogether. . From her. 
79th to her 87th year, she enjoyed her 
sight with as much clearness as she 
did at any period of her life: it then began 
to fail again, but was not totally lost at the 
time of her death. It is observable that she 
always retained all her other faculties with 
undiminished vigour to the last. 
IRELAND. 
Married.] In Dublin, Sir Edwasd Ryan, 
Knight of the Imperial Order of Maria The- 
resa, and Lieutenant Colonel in his Majes+ 
ty’s service, to Miss Mildred Hamilton Row- 
an, daughter of Archibald Hamilton R. of 
Killileagh Castle, county Down, esq. 
Hardinge Giffard, esq. to Miss Harriet 
Pennell, second daughter of Lovell P. esqs 
—Lord Lismore,’ to Lady Eleanor Butler, 
sister to the Earl of Ormond. 
Died.} In Dublin, in his 64th year, the 
Right. Hon. John Thomas De Burgh, Ear] 
of Clanricarde and Baron Dunkellin, a Ge- 
neral in the army, Colonel of the 66th re- 
giment of foot, Governor of Hull, and 
Custos Rotulorum of the county of Galway. 
His Lordship succeeded his brother Henry 
(who was createda Marquis, but which title, 
on his dying without issue, was extinct) on 
December 8, 17973; married Miss Burke, 
daughter 
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