Setanta ihn oc tia? yell ; 
eager to pay their tribute of refpect to the 
memory of this truly brave and meritorious. 
officer. 
At Llanelly, Carmarthenfhire, Sir Edward 
Manfell, bart. of Straday. 
Liarbrynmair, in Montgomeryhhire, in his 
Soth vear, the rev. Richard Tibbott, paftor 
of adiffenting comgreyation in that place. He 
had, for the {pace of 60 years, been a faith- 
ful, zealous, and ufeful minifter of the 
gofpel. 
At Glynn abbey, Carmarthenfhire, in a 
very advanced age, L. B. Gwyn, efq. a juft- 
ice of the peace for the faid county. 
At Bangor, the rev. Mr. Lloyd. 
SCOTLAND. 
Died.] At Melville houfe, in the parith 
of Monimail, Fifefhire, May 10, Wilhel- 
mina Countefs of Leven and Melvill. She 
was the pofthumous daughter of William 
Nifbet, of Dirlton, efq. and his nineteenth 
child. From early life the was diftinguithed 
by the comelinefs of her perfon and the amia- 
bie qualities of her mind. Her underftanding 
was acute, her wit lively and pleafant, her 
heart affeCtionate and devifed liberal things: 
but above all, the was diftinguifhed by reli- 
gion, by an habitual and fervent piety, a 
regular and conftant regard to divine infti- 
tutions, and the offices of devotion. Under 
the tuition of anexcellent and pious mother, 
fhe was formed to the confiftent and exem- 
plary charaéter fhe fupported and difplayed 
through life. In her twentieth year fhe was 
married to the earl of Leven, then Lord 
Balgonie. Her offspring are, five fons: Alex- 
ander Lord Balgonie, Col. David Leflie of the 
Loyal Tay Fencibles, Col. John Leflie of the 
firft regiment of guards, Capt. George Leflie 
of the Melville Volunteers, and Capt. William » 
Leflie of the 42,whowas killed in America, in 
1773, a young officer highly refpeted and 
much lamented: and three daughters ; Lady 
Jane Stuart, Lady Ruthven, Lady Charlotte 
Leflie. The soth anniverfary of Lord and 
Lady Leven’s marriage, was celebrated laft 
year. Uninterrupted conjugal affection and 
felicity, fweetened and heightened by the ex- 
ercife of the parental and filial affections and 
duties, crowned their union. By her death, 
religion has loft a fteady, zealous, and active 
votary; the poor, acompaflionate and liberal 
benefactrefs; the neighbourhood, an orna- 
_ment, a model, and a friend. But her 
family, who beft knew her excellence, chiefly 
mourn their lofs; while yet their grief is 
mitigated by the fympathy of thoufands, and 
by many alleviating circumftance$ attending 
the ferenity of her demife. ‘* Mark the 
perfect; behold the upright; their latter end 
is peace.” od 
Onthe 27th of November, at his brother’s 
houfe, in St. Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh, 
Charles Steuart, efq. formerly receiver-gene - 
ral of his majefty’s cuftoms, in America. 
‘This virtuous man was born at Kirkwall, in 
Orkney, onthe 21ft of May, 1725, the fon 
of Charles Steuart, the theriff clerk ofthat 
tefpectable parent. 
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county; a ftation in the law which is more 
honourable than lucrative.——He loft his father 
in 1731, who left another fon, James, and 
two daughters, without any provifion which 
might confole them for the departure of a 
Charles Steuart received 
his earlieft education at the Grammar School 
of Kirkwall, which was then taught by 
Murdoch Mackenzie, who rofe to diftinguithed 
eminence as a marine furveyor, and died 
lately at a very advanced age.—From the 
feminary of Murdoch Mackenzie, Charles 
Steuart was removed, in 1737, to the univer 
fity of Edinburgh, where he ftudied mathew 
matics, under the celebrated Colin MacLaurin, 
an eminent difciple of Newton.—For the in- 
ftruétion of fuch mafters, he was indebted to 
the liberal fupport of his brother, James, ) 
who had entered into a law office, at Edin- 
burgh, in 1735, wherein he {till continues, 
at the age of 81: this is the fame gentleman 
who marrying the only daughter of Ruddi- 
man, the celebrated Grammarian, was hap- 
pily deftined to continue the race of that dif 
tinguifhed fcholar.—-Charles Steuart was at 
length to enter the world, with only his edu- 
cation to recommend, and his charaéter, for 
difcretion and honourablenefs to promote him. 
In 1741 he was fent to Virginia, asa ftore- 
keeper, by Robert Boyd, an eminent tobacco-~ 
merchant, in Glafgow.—In this ftation he 
acquited the reputation which he fupported 
through life, of knowledge in the theory of 
bufinels, and integrity in the pra€tice of 
affairs.——With fuch pretenfions, he became, 
ere long, a partner in a commercial houle, 
and afterwards the mafter of a mercantile 
eftablifhment at Norfolk, in Virginia.—It 
was here that he had a remarkable occafion to 
fhew his benevolence of heart and bravery of 
{pirit, which were noticed by two of the 
greateft fovereigns in Europe.—In Oober 
1762, a cartel fhip carrying Don Pedro Bes- 
mudez, the fecond naval commander of Spain, 
in the American feas, feveral other Spanish 
officers, and a lady of diftinction, which was 
bound from the Havannah to Cadiz, was 
driven by violence of weather into Virginia. 
—Governor Fourquiev, who received them 
with the attention which was due to their 
rank, placed the unfortunate voyagers under 
the care of Charles Steuart, to tupply them, 
as amerchant, with every neceflary for their 
temporary accommodation and fubfequent 
voyage.—-Yet, their merit and misfortune 
did not protect them from the infult of a po- 
pular tumult, which is often incited by pre- 
judice, and continued by mifapprehenfion.— 
It was during this difgraceful fcene, that 
Charles Steuart difplayed his tendernefs, his 
prudence, and his firmnefs.—The infulted 
Spaniards never forgot his fuccefsful exertions. 
—The king of Spain partook of the feelings 
of his fubje€&ts.—The king of Great Britain 
felt ftill more ftrongly for the dignity of his 
crown: and, Lord Egremont, the fecreeary 
of ftate, expretied his majefty’s difapproba- 
tion ef the popular infult, which had been 
