96 Ireland^^Deaths Abroad. 



berti, daughter of the Hon. W. Maiile, injured when ttie mastsworcoarrlcilawar, 



M.p. — Peter Scott, esq. of Crietf, to Miss but the particular circumstances of liis 



Mary Scott, of l.dinburgh. — James death are imknown. Soon after the intel- 



Cheyuc, esq. of Leith, to Mrs. Ayies Jisence of his deaili was received in Anie- 



Biackie, of Edinburgh.— Mr. David Mar- rica, an euloiiy, embracinj: the primipal 



tin, of Ghif-sow, to Miss Margaret Kay, of circumstances of his life and character^ 



Kihnaniocic. — IMr. J. Cumins, to Miss J. was delivered hy Professor Kingsley in the 



W. Dickson, both of Glasj;ow. College Chapel. 



Died.] At Edinburt;]!, 47, Mr. James At Breslan, John Gotlob Schneider, 



Bishop — In Bucclengh-place, Dr. Henry professor and librarian of the university. 



Dewar, of Lassodie. — Miss Chiistian He was born at Colm, in Saxony, and. 



Clerk. after studying at Gottingen and Leipsic, 



At Aberdeen, Alexander Robertson, went to Strasburgh, where he lived in 



esq. advocate.— The Rev. D. Sim, minister great intimacy with Brunck the Hellenist, 



of the Union chapel of ease. He was named professor of eloquence at 



At Avr, Mr. Robert Potter, rector of Frankfort on Oder in 1776, and quitted 



the Grammar School of Greenock. that place for Breslaw in 1811^ Schneider 



IRELAND. was a great latiiralist, and he published a 



Addresses have been lately forwarded Dictionary of Greek and German, — the 

 to tlic Lord Lieutenant, Marquis Welles- best Hellenists of Germany assisting him 

 ley, from Dublin and other places, offering to perfect the supplementary volume, 

 their congratulations on his escape from Madame de C-ondorcet (whose death we 

 injury from the late outrage; and their noticed in a late number,) was known 

 abhorrence of the late insult paid to his in the literary world by an elegant trans- 

 government, lation of Adam Smith's "Theory of Mo- 



il/am€((.] James Hunter, esq. of Dublin, ral Sentiments." Her talents, and the. 



to Miss Allen, of Dmiover-house, county goodness of her heart, replete with a pure 



of Down.— William Hogan, esq. to Miss and sublime philosophy, rendered her au 



Ann Lea, of the Lakes, near Kiddermin- object of esteem to all her acquaintance, 

 ster. — John Folhot, esq. of Luckhdl- Lately, at Paris, M. Galin, lormerly an 



house, to Miss Maria Stepney, of Dunow, instructor of the Deaf and Dumb at Bour- 



King's county.- At Portaferiy, Capt. Ja.s. deaux, and publisher of some valuable 



Dalzel, to Miss ?.Iary Keoun. works on music. The method of nielo- 



Diid.] At Dublin, Hans Hamilton, esq. plast which he invented has been very 



M.p. for the county. successful at Paris, and in Holland, where 



At Belfast, 43, Mr*. E. Hunter. he was member of tlie Philharmonic So- 



AtCoIeraine, 5o,AVilliamLawrance,esq. ciety of Amsterdam. He was born at 



nEATiis ABROAD. Bourdcaux in 1786. 



In the wreck of the Albicn, .April 22, At Weimar, at the age of 75, F.J. Ber- 



ie-'2, Alexander IMctcalfe Fisher, esq. late tuch, doctor in philosophy, member of se- 



jnofessor of mathematics aud natural phi- veral learned societies, and counsellor of 



losophy in Yale College. He was born legation. His first literary work was a 



in Franklin, Massaclinsctts, in 1794. After translation of Don Quixote; he afterwards 



completing the prrparatoiy course of distinguished himself by several theatrical 



stndy, he entered Yale College in the year pieces, and was editor of different perio- 



180'.', where he was dijtingnislied lor his dical works. It was he who projected, in 



high classical attainmen's. He received concert with Wieland, the Literary Jour- 



his bachelor's degree in 1013, when he left nal of Halle, and assisted therera from 



the college. The two subsequent years 1785 to 1808. It is held iu high cstimu- 



he passed partly in 'his native town, in tion among the learned, 

 attendins to moral and metaphysical sci- Lately, at Paris, 74, M. Berthollet: niedi- 



ence, and partly in theological studies at cine was the primary object of his studies, 



Andover. In 181.5 he was elected tutor but the discoveries in chemistry exciting 



in Yale College. In 1817 he was chosen his attention, gave a new direclinn to his 



adjunct professor of n)athematics and na- pursuits. lu this extensive field he la- 



tural philosophy; and, in 1819, entered boured with zeal and assiduity, and it 



upon the full duties of his office. Having would be difficult to give even a sketch of 



prepared a full comse of lectures in natii- their useful results. His '■ Elements of 



ral philosophy, he resolved on making an Dyeing," and his "Chemical Statiqne," 



excursion to Europe, and embarked at will be long consulted. He was one of the 



New York for Liverpool, on board the Scavans employed in Egypt, and was with 



Albion packet. In the wreck of that ves- I^longo, at Tyre, surveymg the ruins, and 



frel, Prof. Fisher is said to have been much analysing their materials. 



Erratum in Our last. — Page 527, for "Miss Maria Prior," read "Mrs. IVIaria 

 Prior." 



