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efa.-of Keres de la Frontera, to Mifs L. Rud- 
yerd, daughter of Major R. R. B. Dun ‘as, efq. 
of Blair, to Mifs E. Spital of Blairlogie. 
At Inverary, Capt. John Campbell, of the 
3id reg. of guards, to the Rt. Hon. Lady C. 
’ Campbell , 3 
At Forfar, Mr C. Adam, of Dundee, to Mifs 
Ure, daughter of J. U. efq. : 
At Hawkhill, James Gordon, jun. ef. of 
Craig, to Mifs Johnftone, of Alva. | 
At Dumfries, L.. P. Broome, efq. of 
N-w York, to Mifs B. Nugent, of Richmond, 
Yorkthire, _ ' 
, fon Swinton, jun. efq. of Swinton, to Mifs 
Hepburn, of Clerkington. 
Hon. W. Hay Carr, brother to the Earl of 
Enrol. to Mifs Eliot, of Antigua. 
Died] At Edinburg. C. Edmonftone, efq. 
Lieutenant Governor of. Dumbarton Caftle. 
hills H. Dickfon, daughter of the late SirR. D. 
T. M. Riddell, of Mount Riddell, efq. only fon 
of Sir J. R. bart. 
-At Kirkcudbright, in confequence of a fall 
fiom his horfe, E. MéCulloch, efq. ef Ardwall. 
At Eafteraigs, fohn Stewart, efq. Lieutentant 
Governor of Blacknefs Caftle. Near Dunifties, 
John Ranaldfon, efq. of Blairhall. At Camp- 
beltgn, Mrs. M. Robertfon, wife of Dr. G. R. 
_ ‘P, Rutherfoord, efg. of Knowfouth. At Pol- 
tok Houle, Capt. R. Maxwell, of the 16th reg, 
brother to Sir J. M. bart. At Park, Lady Hay, 
relict of Sir T. H. bart. At Machany, the 
Dowager Vicountefs of Strathallan. 
Glafimount, G. Bruce, efq. 
-* At Moffat, Mrs. Duff, reli& of Admiral D. 
of Fettereffo, and daughter of the late General 
Abercromby. At Kinghorn, Major A. Ruther- 
ford, late of the 16th, reg. of infantry. At 
Stromnefs, aged 109, James White. At Elgin, 
Mis Leflie, wite of C.L.efo. At Dundee, 
Mrs. M. Ogilvy, daughter of the late Sir D. O. 
bart. 
Lately, at Dumfries, after a lingering 
ilnefs, Mr, Robert Burns, who has excited fo 
much intereft by the cicumitances, under 
which he was brought forward to public,” and 
by the genius difcovered in his poetical come 
pofitions --Burns was originally and literally, a 
plough-man, but neither in that fate of fervile 
dependance or degrading ignorance which the 
the fituation might befpeak. He had the com- 
mon education of a Scotch peafant, and” that 
fpirit of independance which is fometimes to 
be found in a high degree, in the humbleft 
clais of fociety. Though his early days were 
occupied in procuring bread by the Jabour of 
his own hands, yet his nights were devoted to 
books and the mufes, except when they were 
wafted in the indulgences of the focial board, 
to which the poet was too. immoderately at- 
' tached in every period of his life. He wrote not 
* with a view to encounter the public eye, nor 
to procure fame by his produétions, but to give 
vent to his own genius.—One bar, indeed, the 
birth and education of the Ayrefbire ploughman 
At North 
| -, had oppoted to his fame: the language in which 
~ moit of his poems were written. Even in Scote 
Scotland. . : 
land, the provincial dialect which Ramfay and™ 
he have ufed, is now read with difficulty. In 
England, it ‘cannot be read at all, without fuch a 
conitant reference toa gloffary, as nearly to de- 
{troy the pleafure. Some ofhis produétions, how- 
ever, ¢{pecially thofe of the grave ftyle, were 
almof Englith. roma fpirit of reftlefs aéti- 
vitys Burns had propofed to feek his fortune in 
Jamaica: it was upon this occafion, that the 
idea was fuggefted of publifhing his Poems, to 
ratfe a few pounds to defray the expences of 
his paffaze. A coarfe edition of them was accord- 
ingly publifbed at Dumfries: and being immedi- 
ately noticed by fome gentlemen in the neigh- 
bourhood, the acquaintance of the author was 
eagerly fought after. His poems found the way 
to Edinburgh, where they and their author 
were introduced to pubiic notice, by means of 
the Leuzver, a paper at that time in its courfe, 
of publication, A fubfcription for a better 
edition of his works was immediately fet on 
foot, the lift was filled with refpeétable names, 
but, unfortunately, the returns to the author 
was f{mail.---Burns was’ afterwards brought to 
Edinburgh, and every where invited and 
careffed. At length, one of *is patrons procured 
him the fituation of an excife-man, with a falary 
not amounting to sol. per ann! That a better 
provifion was not mace for him, probably arofe, 
in part, from the mdependance of bis political 
fentiments, and his manuers not exactly ac- 
cording with the potifh of genteel fociety. Certain 
it is, that his office was uncongenial to his feel- 
ings, and, latterly, his talents were not only 
obicured and impaired’ by excefs, but his pri- 
vate circumftances were embittered by pecuniary 
diftrefs. Such was the man---who was the pu- 
pil of nature, who in his compofitions difcovered 
the force of native humeur, the warmth and 
tendernefs of paffion, and the glewing touches 
of a defcriptive pencil---who pofleffed, in anex- 
traordinary degree the powers and the filings 
of genius. Of the former, his works will re- 
main a lafting monument ;_ of the latter, it is 
feared, that his conduét and his fate afford 
but too melancholy proofs. He has left behind 
him, a wife, with five infant children, in the 
hourly expe<tation of a fixth; without any re- 
fcource, but what fhe may hope from public 
fympathy and the regard due to the memory of 
her hufband. - — 
At Edinburgh, Mifs Jean Chryftie, daugh~ 
ter of the. late Right Rey, Bie, “Af 
Loudon Caftle, Mrs. Douglas, wife of G. D. 
efg. At Millhill, Muffelburgh, 87, the Hon. 
Lieut. Gen. John S-uart, of the Scots brigade. 
At Dundee, Mifs Smail, daughter of the Rev, 
Dr. S. At Caftlebrocket,, J.Allan, efq. of 
Eldftrickle. At Glafgow, 119, P. M Donald. 
Near Edinburgh, Mr, D. Allan, hiftory 
painter. He received the rudiments of his art 
in the Academy of Paintin-, inftituted and 
-carried on for a confiderable time, by Mefits, 
Fowlis, in Glafgow. From thence he went to 
Italy, where he {pent many years in unremitting 
application to the fludy of the great models of 
antiquity, At Reme, in 1793, he gained the 
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