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SCOTLAND. 
David Martin, efq. portrait painter, died 
at his houfe in Edinburgh, on Saturday the 
goth of December, 1797-. Mr. Martin was 
born at Anftruther in Fife, and received the 
education of his early years from his father, 
Mr. John Martin, a man of a moft refpetta- 
ble character, and very ingenious. In very 
farly life Mr, Martin’s genius for drawing 
difcovered itfelf, procured him the notice of 
the neighbouring gentlemen, and introduced 
im to the acquaintance and friendfhip of 
Mr. Ramfay, late painter to his Majefty. 
With Mr. Ramfay he went to Rome, and 
vefided in that fchool of the arts about three 
vears. During the period of Mr. Ramfay’s 
greateft fame, and while he was painter to 
the royal family, Mr. Martin was his friend 
and uleful afliftant. He did not confine him- 
felf to the pencil, which was employed not 
on portraits only, but occafionally on other 
ftudies: he frequently amufed himfelf as an 
engraver and worker in mezzotinto, of 
which, his Summer Evening, and Ruins of 
Agricultural Report, See 
Ancient Baths, and Earl Mansfield, and hig 
Hume, and Rouffeau, are giltinguilhed fpes 
cimens. Mr. Martin’s predilection for Scot- 
land is eafily accounted for: his venerable 
parents and neareft relations refided there; 
his attachment to the metropolis was lefien- 
ed by the death of his wife. In 1783, he left 
London; and fince that time has enjoyed 
much reputation and fuccefs in his profeflion ; 
and it is univerfally allowed, that no Scot- 
tifh artift has appeared of fuperior, if of equal 
abilities. 
The Countefs of Stair, at her houfe im 
Galloway. 
At Dundee, Mrs. Camilla Elizabeth 
Wright, wife of James Wright, jun. efq. 
daughter of colonel D. Campbell, and great 
grand-daughter, on the maternal fide, to the 
late lord Rokeby, archbifhop of Armagh, &c. 
She is greatly regretted by all her friends 
and acquaintance, who could jaftly appre- 
ciate great fenfibility, a high fenfe of pro- 
priety, franknefs, integrity of principle, and 
independance of {pirit. 
Pe EE UE ae SE OSE len ene eee Aes ik ee 
AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR FEBRUARY, 1798. 
UR accounts from the more northern diftri€ts ftate, that notwithftanding the froft and 
falls of {now during this month, the cperations of the hufbandman have not bee 
“Muchretarded. In general, 
farmers have been. bufily employed in turning over their win< 
ter fallows, or in preparing ee lands. for barley and oats. 
From Wales too we find, that the late changes in the weather have, i in many refpects, 
been favourable; foeaking of thofe diftri€ts in the vicinity of theriver Wye, our reporter 
obferves, that the heavy rains, the torrents from the mountains, and the frequent and un- 
common overflowin 
gs of the Wye, during the winter, have {pread a cheap manure over 
the meadows, w hich has been mellowed by the warm weather that fucceed; and as the _ 
practice of flooding is univerially attended to inthis country, there is perhaps fearcely a bit 
of pafture, all around, efpecially in the vallies, that is not confiderably enriched. 
The 
wheat crops, of which alone any conjectures can yet be formed, looked, before the frof, 
very finé and promifing; and the confiderable fall of fnow, by which the frof was ufhered 
in, will probably contribute rather to their benefit than injury. 
kingdom, we alio find, 
In other parts of the 
that the wheat crops, efpecially ondry loams, in general, appear 
well: but that on a Se wet clayey foils they are not fo promifing. 
TURNIPS.. 
the diftrits north of the Tay, this crop 
GRAIN 
Whea 
26s. 11d. and Oats, 36s. od. per quarter. 
Thefe roots have continued to ftand the winter extremely well. 
feems to have failed. 
. The markets keep ftill.rather on the decline. 
at, onthe 17th infant, averaged throughout England and Wales, 49s. 6d. 
In mofk of 
Barleys 
Meat. This continues pretty much the fame as in our laft Report. 
InSmMiTHFIELD, on the 26th, Beef fold trom god. to 50d. and Adurton from 44d. to $2ds 
per ftone, finking the offal. 
Hops. Kentifh Hops fetch from go to 108s. bags 5 ; from 100 to 126s. pockets. 
StTock., Fat ftock ftiil continues high, but the pricesof lean cattle are much lower. 
‘Horses. Thefe are Gill getting cheaper. 


ERRATA. . 
In the valuable paper, No. 27, On Weights, p. 13, 1. 28, for witis read vini.— p. 14,1. 6, 
for bonis read boni.—p. x6, 
1. 36, for dower read tower. 
In Mr. Richter’s paper, No. 26, the firft- line, The principal means by whtchy fhould have 
been the principle ¢ by means of which. 
pelfitle.. 
Ee of neceffary conneioi. 
In p. 134, col. 1, of the prefent N 
ligence of the See in its wrong place. 
in the 25th line, dies word fojfible ‘aPitabed for im- 
In p. 534, col. 2, 1.8, fom the bottom, chat neceffary conneétion fhould have been 
Number, the head-line ** coemistTrY,” is, by the neg- 
It fhould be underftood as preceding the fable- 
quent paragraph refpecting the ‘* Annales de Chemie. 
In Mr. Loft’s Paper, No. 25, the duration of the lunar eclipfe fhould be 3h. 59m, inftead 
@f 5. and Hit fial, initead of unequal, in the account of the folar foot, 
