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a premium of one hundred guineas, and the 
next beitto fifty; their refpective merits te 
be determined by the Lord Provoft and Ma- 
giftrates. ‘They are tobe fealed and deliver- 
ed to the Town Clerks before the 1ft of Ja- 
nuary next; and if any competitor chufes to 
put a mark on his plan with a letter of re- 
ference, his fealed document is not to be 
opened unlefs the author be found entitled to 
_the premium, WNotwithitanding the pecu- 
Miary difficulties and decay of trade occafioned 
by the War, this metropolis is yearly extend- 
ing its limits. Thefe additions, however, 
are chiefly of houfes for the accommodation of 
families in the higher {phere of life, whofe 
avidity for the winter’ amulements of the 
Scottifh capital is whetted by a fummer ruiti- 
cation. A great number of ftrangers alfo, 
particularly from London, fpend the winter 
at Edinburgh, as a place of lefs expence in 
point of living, and affording a fufficient mo- 
dicum of xational.amufements. 
The fombre profpe@ of high-priced provi- 
fions has induced the Magiftrates, Corpora- 
tions, and Societies, in different places of 
Scotland, to unite in the adoption of means 
for providing corn to the inhabitants during 
the winter, fpring, and fummer months — 
The little town ot Elgin has fubferibed 4,c00 
guineas for this laudable purpofe. A, public 
kitchen has alfo been eftablifhed for the indi- 
gent, and a liberal fum fub{cribed to fupport 
it. AtDumfries the Friendly Societies have 
fet apurt 8,000 pounds to purchafe foreign 
grain, befides what auxiliary fum can beraifed 
by fubfcription. Its inhabitants have alfo 
reed to abftain from the ufe of butter and 
ere 
ggs, while thefe articles continue at an ex- 
rbitant price; but this fy tiem of feli-denial 
has ever proved illufory and ineficient. 
On the 2oth ult. the Herring Fifhery cem- 
menced in the Frith or Forth, and its fuccefs 
has produced a very feafonable fupply to the 
poorer inhabitants of the metropolis. But 
the demand for exportation has been fo great, 
that the retail dealers have not hitherto 
lowered their price beyond four pence or three 
pence per dozen, which is double that of latt 
feafon. Very flattering indeed has been the 
fuccefs of the fifhermen; and many boats 
have come in loaded, averaging thirty or forty 
erans each (every cran eftimated at 1,000 
herrings), and difpofed of their cargoes at 
nine fhillings per cran; but the price has been 
fince raifed to fifteen fhillings. This increafe 
paid by the fifh-curers at Brent Iland, with 
the high rate of barrels, freight of Liverpool, 
falt, and the wages of workmen, muft fall 
heavy on the curers, and confequently ad- 
wance rapidly theprice. The falt and fishery 
bufinefs will probably engage the attention 
ef parliament at an early period of the pre- 
fent feflion. It is the general opinion, that 
tonnage bounty will be dimimfhed, if not to- 
tally abolifhed ;. and the efteét of either muft 
be to lower the price in the home market, 
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cotland.—TIreland. 
[Dec. 1, 
In the end-of OGtober, four privateers faile 
ed from Dunkirk, on a cruize on the coat of 
Scotland, and have fince kept the northern 
part of it in perpetual alarm. One of them, 
Le Marengo, of 14 guns and 100 men, has 
captured a great number of veflels off Bu- 
channefs, Peterhead, and Aberdeen. 
Married.) At Glafgow, Mr. William Jef- 
frey, to Miis Elizabeth Watfon.—Mr. James 
Neilfon, merchant, to Mifs Agnes Jamefon, 
eldeft daughter of Dr. Samuel Jamefon, of 
Virginia. 
At Aberdeen, Major Weft, to Mifs Mer- 
cer, daughter of Major Mercer. ' 
At Giendornell Houfe, the Rey. Charles 
Stewart, minifter of Strachur, to Mifs Ca- 
tharine Campbell. 
At Roflie Caftle, Hercules Rofs, efg. de- 
puty paymatter,-general of his majefty’s 
forces at the Cape of Good Hope, to Mifs 
Cecelia Craufurd, daughter of the late Sir 
Alexander Craufurd, bart. — ate 
Died.} At Edinburgh, Mr. Cullen, reli@& 
of Robert Cullen, efgq. of Parkhead,—Mrs. 
Loch, widow of James Loch, efq. king’s re- 
membrancer, in exchequer.—Mils -Grizell 
Baillie, eldeft daughter of the Hon. G. Baillie, 
of Jarvifwood.—Cath. Baillie, daughter of 
the late Tho. B. G. of Polkemmet, and re- 
Iict of the late Andrew Wardrop, efq. of 
Torbanehill.—Mrs. Chevalier.—Sir Archi- 
bald Kinlock, of Gilmerton, bart. 
At Blantyre Park, Mifs Jean Peter, of 
Croibafket. 
The Right Hon. Dowager Lady Reay. 
At the Manfe of Cardrofs, the Rev. Alex. 
M‘Aulay, minifter of that parith. 
At Kinloch, William Calderwood Nairne, 
eldeft fon of Lieut. Col. Alex. Nairne, of 
Drumkilbo. 7 . 
IRELAND. 
At New Geneva, in Ireland, Serjeant Ro- 
gers, and fome other ingenious miners, fol- 
diers in the Devon and Cornwall fencibles, 
have difcovered a lead mine on the lands of 
Faithlegg, an eftate belonging to Cornelius 
Bolton, efq. in confequence of which, a min- 
ing company has been formed by the faid Mr. 
Bolton, with Colonel Hall, and three other 
officers of his regiment, and five gentlemen 
of Waterford, one of whom is Mr. Waldron, 
a merchant of that city, a native of Lymp- ~ , 
ftone. The men employed have been at 
work about a month, and they have juft be- 
gan to cut in upon what miners call the Load, 
and from prefent appearances, the mune pro- 
mifes to be a very valuable one. 
Married.| At Londonderry, Montague 
Talbot, efq. of the royal navy, to Mifs Emi- 
ly Coote Bindon, of Limerick. 
Died.| At Dublin, aged 78, Darley, O~ 
Grady, efq. late of Colchefter.—'The Right 
Hon. the Earl] of Bellamont, 
At Woodfield, near Eyrcourt, James Pare- 
foy, efq. 
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