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George’s Hospital. While still a young 
man, and not affluent, his uncle William 
dying, left him the small family estate of 
Longealderwood. We all know of the 
unhappy misnoderstanding that existed 
between Dr, Hunter and his brother John, 
Dr. Baillie felt that he owed this bequest 
to the partiality of his uncle, and made it 
over to John Hunter. The latter long re- 
fused: but, in the end, the family estate 
remaived the property of the brother, and 
not of the nephew, of Dr. Hunter, It 
was Dr. Hunter's wish to see his nephew 
succeed him, and take his place as a lec- 
turer. To effect this, he united with him 
his assistant, Mr. Cruickshanks; and at 
his. death, assigned to him the use of 
his collection of anatomical preparations 
dnring thirty years. Dr. 8B. had no de- 
sire to get rid of the national peculiarities 
of language ; or, if he had, he did not per- 
fectly succeed. Not only did the language 
of his native land linger on his tongue, but 
its recollections clung to his heart; and to 
the last, amidst the splendour of his pro- 
fessional ‘life, and the seductions of a 
court, he took a hearty interest in the hap- 
piness and the emiuvence of -his original 
cour ‘ry. He possessed tlie valuable talent 
of making an abstruse and difficult sub- 
ject plain; his prelections were remark- 
able for that lucid order and clearness of 
expression which proceed from a perfect 
conception of the subject; and he never 
permitted any variety of display to turn 
him from his great object of conveying in- 
formation in the simplest and most intel- 
ligible way, and so as to be most useful to 
the pupils. We cannot (says Mr. Bell) 
estimate too highly the influence of Dr. 
Baillie’s character on the profession to 
which he belonged. I ought not, perhaps, 
to mention his mild virtues and domestic 
charities; yet the recollection of these 
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must give a deeper tone to our regret, and 
will be interwoven with his public cha- 
racter, embellishing what seemed to want 
no addiuion, These private virtnes en- 
sured for him a solid and unenvied repu- 
tation. All wished to imitate his life— 
none to detract from his fame. . Every 
young physician, who hoped for success, 
sought his counsel ;: and I have heard him 
forcibly represent the necessity of a 
blameless life, and that, unless medical 
reputation be joined with purity of pri- 
vate character, it neither could be great 
nor lasting. The same warmth of feeling 
and generosity which prompted him to 
many acts of private charity and benevo- 
lence, were not without a powerful in- 
fluence npon his conduct on more arduous 
occasions, and may well be supposed to 
have guided and sustained him in circum- 
stances which might have shaken other 
men of less firm and independent minds. 
But I shall not dwell upon this view of 
his public character. The matters to 
which I allude are ill fitted for discussion 
in this place; they belong rather to the 
history of the period in which he lived, 
and will there be most suitably recorded. 
Dr. Baillie had not completed his 63d 
year, but his hfe was long in usefulness. 
In the studies of youth, in the serious.and 
manly occupations of the middle period of? 
life, in the upright, humane, and honour- 
able conduct of a physician, and, above 
all, in that dignified conduct which became 
a man mature in years and honours, he, 
left_a finished example to his profession. 
Dr. Baillie had two sisters, who survive 
him; one of whom is Miss Joanna Baillie, 
the authoress of “ Plays on ihe Passions ;’ 
and he has left two children, a son and a 
daughter. . Mrs. Baillie was the daughter 
of Dr, Denman, and sister of the Common 
Serjeant and Lady Croft. : 
PROVINCIAL OCCURRENCES, 
WITH ALL THE MARRIAGES AND DEATHS, 
Furnishing the Domestic and Family History of Englund for the last twenty- scven Years. 
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NORTHUMBERLAND AND DURHAM. 
SOCIETY has lately been formed in 
Sunderland, for the mitigation and 
gradnal abolition of the state of slavery 
throughout the British dominions. 
» Mr. J. Raestrick, engineer, of Morpeth, 
has recently invented a safety-lamp for 
coal-mines, which he considers superior 
in safety to-that of Sir Humphrey Davy, 
which now begins to be generally dis- 
trusted, 
Marvied.| Mr. Fisher, to Miss J. Smart, 
of the Westgate, both of Newcastle. —Mr. 
8. Aydon, of Newcastle, to Miss A. Smith, 
of Lumley Forge.—At Gateshead, Mr. J. 
Hunter, to Miss M. Roxborough, both of 
the Teams.—Mr. Fenwick, to Miss Mason, 
Montury Maa. No. 390. 
both of Durham.—Mr. W. Dixon, to Miss 
J. Robinson; Mr. S. Frazer, to Miss M. 
Chicken: all of North Shieldsy—Mr. J. 
Pease, of Darlington, to Sophia Jewett, of 
Leeds, both of the Society of Friends. 
Dicd.| At Newcastle, in the Hebbarn 
Office, Quay-side, 81, Robert Rankin, esq. 
—In Newgate-street, 63, Mrs. H. Watson. 
— In Northumberland-street, 86, Murs. 
Janes, greatly lamented,’ 
At Gateshead; 35, Mrs. E. Fothergill.— 
5%, Mr. 'T. Wales, deservedly respected. 
At Sunderland, 65, Mr.J. Hogg.—78, 
Mrs, A. Dyer.—34, Mr. H. Cy Liston. 
At Alnwick, 25, Miss Hindmarsh, au- 
thoress of several reapectable poems. 
At Monkwearmouth, Miss A, 8. Abbs. 
4D At 
