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many of those economical questions which 
that gentleman has agitated. In a word, 
he was.a patriotic and -useful man, with- 
out being a philanthropist; and we con- 
fess, that we ‘regard benevolence in a 
statesman to be as cardinal .a virtue, as 
charity in a Christian; insomuch that, 
without a predominance of this quality, all 
others are equivocal and dangerous. He 
has left a large family, and some of his 
brothers enjoy much credit in the money- 
market. 
At his seat near Cirencester, Mutthew 
Raillie, M.p. This gentleman was a‘native 
of Scotland, and son of a professor of di- 
vinity at Glasgow. After having received 
the rndiments of education at Glasgow, he 
was sent to London, under the care of his 
two maternal uncles, the late Dr. William 
and Mr. John Hunter. Under these he 
acquired an extensive and complete know- 
ledge of the profession he mtended to 
pursue. He was sent early to Oxford, 
where he took his degrees; and was ad- 
mitted to the full degree of M.D. in 1789. 
Repairing to London, he was admitted of 
the College of Physicians:abont the same 
period as Dr. Vaughan (now Sir Henry 
Halford.) -These two gentlemen soon 
came into great practice, and perhaps 
there is no instance of two men in the me- 
dical profession rising so young to so great, 
aneminence. To Dr, Baillie the medical 
world is indebted for a work of great me- 
zit, entitled, “the Moybid Anatomy of the 
Human Body,” 1793; to which he added 
an Appendix in 1798; and which reached 
the fourth edition in 1807. In 1799 he 
prblished “a Series of Engravings to illus- 
trate the Morbid Anatomy,” which reach- 
ed a sccond edition in 1812. He has like- 
wise published * Anatomical Description 
of the Gravid Uterus.” These works, and 
the high character he bore in his profes- 
sion, brought him into great practice, and 
enabled lum to accumulate a good fortune, 
* A fortune (as his biographer in the Public 
Chw acters says,) which was gained with 
much reputation, and to the entire satis- 
faction of those who employed him.” He 
had been physician to the late king, and 
no doubt be might have been to the pre- 
sent; but Dr. Baillie did not seek honours, 
He was brother to the celebrated Miss 
foanna Baillie. He married, early in life, 
Aliss Denman, daughter of the late Dr. 
Denman, and sister to the celebrated ad- 
vocate of that name and Lady Croft. Be- 
sides. the above works, Dr. B. was the 
writer of several papers in the “ Transae- 
tions. of the Society for Medical and Chi- 
‘gurgical Knowledge.” While living, Dr. 
Baillie was admired for the independence 
of his spirit, and his loss will be univer- 
sally regretted. |. 
At his seat in Seotiand, the Right Hon. 
John Lope, carlof Hopetoun, in Scotland, 
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Deaths in and near London. 
[Oetet, . 
and. Baron Nidiy, of the United Kingdom. 
He was descended from a very ancient 
Scottish family, who made their fortune 
by trade, they were not ennobled until 
the reign of Queen Anne. The subject 
of the present memoir was born in 1766; 
and, being a younger ‘son, was put into 
the army, which he entered as an ‘ensign 
in 1785. By purchase and family im 
terest, he rose to the rank of lienfenant- 
colonel in 1793, just at the period of the 
war with France; in this, he was called 
to not a very conspicuous part. When 
Sir R. Abercrombie took the command 
of the British army in the West Indies 
in 1795, he was appointed his adjutant- 
general, and was promoted to the local 
rank of brigadier-general. Here he par= 
ticularly distinguished himself during the 
years 1795 and 6. His commander, ia 
his dispatches, spake of him as a most 
active and intrepid officer, coming forward. 
on all occasions, and even when his duty 
did not particularly call him. He returned 
to Europe, and.in 1799 accompanied the 
troops in the same capacity of adjutant: 
general to Holland; bet, being severely 
wounded in the attack on the Hilder, 
he was obliged to return. In 1800, 
still accompanying his old general, Aber- 
cromhie, he embarked for Egypt, but 
had the misfortune to be again wounded 
at the battle of Alexandria, still acting in 
the capacity of adjutant-general. He 
sailed with the English troops to Sweden, 
and was afterwards in the unfortunate 
expedition to Walcheren. In 1809, he 
embarked for Portugal, and was under 
Sir John Moore both in that country and 
Spain; in the retreat of Sir John Moore’s 
army, he was third in command, and gave 
many proofs of his intrepid duty and 
good condnet. . At the battle of Corunna} 
Sir John Moore being movtally wounded, 
and Sir David Baird, the. second in com- 
mand, having lost his arm, the command 
devolved on General Hope, whose exer- 
tions contributed much to the repulse of 
the French, He was now rewarded for 
his services, by the Order of the Bath; 
he afterwards commanded in Ireland, but 
in 1815 was sent to join the army in 
Spain, »At the battleof Nive, he com- 
manded the left-wing, aud was again. 
wounded. He continued under the com- 
mand of the Duke of Wellington, in his 
victorious march through Spain, and 
entered France with him. He was left to 
command at the siege of Bayonne, but 
had the misforiune to be made prisoner 
asortie. On his return he was rewarded, 
for his seivices by being created Baron 
Nidry. .1n 1816, he succeeded to the title 
of Earl of Hopetoun, by the death of hig 
elder brother. In 1809, he obtained the 
full rank of general in the army. Lerd 
Hopetoun, at his death, was, a Privy 
Councellor 
