lypi. GLEAKINGS OF BIOGRAPHT. l^f^ 



nity in King's College, Aberdeen, where he ended his 

 days in a room now fhown in the fteeple of the church 

 of St. Mahar. He became fentimentally enamoured 

 of a married lady in Aberdeen, v/ith which fruit- 

 lefs paffion he was fo much moved and hurt, that 

 he fecluded himfelf from the world, and became fo 

 corpulent, from want of proper exercife, that his 

 corpfe could not be got down flairs from his apart- 

 ment, and was forced to be let out by the window. — 

 There is a portrait of him in King's College hall at 

 Aberdeen, which ought to be engraved for his works. 

 And there is likewife in the fame hall a portrait of the 

 Bifliop ; the countenance ftrongly exprcffive of the 

 fweetnefs and devotion of that amiable and worthy pre- 

 late, whofe tomb, well executed in very good tafte, is 

 in the cathedral church of Old Aberdeen. 



A. L. B. 



Hints rffpeBlng the Neiv Settlement at Bctarrj-Bay. 



To the Editor cf the Bee. 

 Sir, 



In a late number of the Bee you informed us, on of- 

 ficial authority, that previous to the i8th of March 

 1 79 1, twothoufand and twenty-nine convicts have been 

 fliipped from England for New South Wales. We ahb 

 learned, that prior to the pth of February in the fame 

 year, the cxpences of this eftablifhm.ent amounted to 

 three hundred and fevcnty-four thoufand pounds. Be- 

 fides this fum weare told of contingencies, "that can- 

 not as yet be Itatcd." It was for the minifber's cre- 

 dit to make his projc£l appear as wife as polfible, and 

 to fupprefs a part of tliis enormous expenditure to ferve 

 the temporary pur^ofes cf debate.— We may fafcly af- 

 firm, that the contingencies referred to make no trifling 

 fum. Six additional months fall now alfo to be added 

 to the account; and it is not unreafonable to co-r.pv.te 



