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sured them tiiey should inherit. 

 Mr. Hill was originally a tailor at 

 Brentford ; and the person who 

 succeeded him in that business, still 

 carries on the trade in that town. 

 It was b}' the poivder mills at Whit- 

 ton, that Mr. Hill realised his vast 

 fortune. He enjoyed the complete 

 supply ofTurkey inpowder, whence 

 he imported back the produce of 

 the Levant, and with it carried on 

 the business of a Turkey mer- 

 chant. 



The celebrated composer, J. 

 Haydn, 76. He was born at Rho- 

 ran, in Lower Austria, in 1733. 

 He is justly considered as the fa- 

 ther of music in our day ; for al- 

 though in his youth he diligently 

 studied the works of eveiy great 

 master, ancient and modern, his 

 transcendant genius soaring above 

 them all, soon called the attention 

 of the whole musical world upon 

 himself; all admiring him, first for 

 the beauty, boldness, and origi- 

 nality of his works, and afterwards 

 regarding him as the best model 

 for study and imitation. He died 

 at Gumpendorf, near Vienna. 



Major-gen. John Ronald M'Ken- 

 zie, who so gloriously fell in the 

 battle of Talavera, was the repre- 

 sentative of a very ancient familj'^, 

 whose patrimonial estate (Suddie) 

 lies in that part of the county of 

 Ross, called the Black Isle. He 

 fell in or about his 4'7th year. He 

 began his military career in the ma- 

 rines, under the immediate eye of 

 his uncle, general M'Kenzie, of that 

 corps, and for some time previous 

 to 1794', did the duty of adjutant 

 to the Chatham division. Upon 

 the death of his uncle, by which 

 he succeeded to some personal for- 

 tune, he relinquished the marines, 

 pirhaps from an ambition to get 



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forward in his profession more ra- 

 pidly than that service admits of. 

 In the spring of 1794-, he became 

 major of the 2nd battalion of the 

 78th foot, raised by the present 

 lord Seaforth. In the latter end 

 of that year, or early in 1795, 

 both battalions of the 78th were 

 consolidated ; by which measure 

 this gallant officer became attached 

 to the 1st battalion, and with the 

 officers and men from the 2nd, join- 

 ed the 1st battalion at the Cape, 

 whence they proceeded 1 ,200 strong 

 to India, where the regiment serv- 

 ed with distinction, under the pre- 

 sent lieut.-gen. (then col.) M'Ken- 

 zie Frazer. With this corps the 

 gallant major-gen. served many 

 years in India, and latterly com- 

 manded the regiment. He return- 

 ed to Europe in 1801-2, sincerely 

 regretted by bis regiment, and all 

 who knew him — and if his service 

 in the east was not marked by any 

 brilliant professional event, it was 

 because the situation of that coun- 

 try, during his stay in it, did not 

 call for any active exertion. Pro- 

 moted to the rank of colonel soon 

 after he came home, on the break- 

 ing out of the present war, 1803, 

 he was placed on the northern staft' 

 as a brigadier; he was afterwards 

 made governor and commandant of 

 Alderney, and soon replaced on the 

 northern staff as major-gen. which 

 situation he held, when, on his own 

 solicitation, he was removed to the 

 command of a brigade in Portugal 

 in 1 808. He was in parliament 

 four years, first for the Sutherland 

 district of boroughs, and latterly 

 for the shire of Sutherland, in the 

 room of Mr. William Dundas. In 

 1804-, he superintended the levy ; 

 and in 1805, the discipline of that 

 gallant, but ill-futed second bat- 

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