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Brefent, thew that his induftry in that branch 
éf ancient literature, was worthy of notice. 
Sir John Scott, now Lord Elden, was his par- 
ficular friend and regular correfpondent to 
the end of his life. He lived at Baglan; a 
mof agreeable fituation furrounded by beau- 
tiful gardens, and commanding a view of 
Swantea Bay ; his library was large and weil 
ehofen, and confifted pringipally of claffics, 
hiftory, biography, antiquities, and polite 
Hterature. Moft of his books contained yva- 
vious flips of papers’on which were obferva- 
tions ef his own, which on many fubjefs, 
evineed extenfive and confummate erudition. 
Dr. Bradley’s Le@tures on .Aftronomy, were 
nm his poffefion, fairly wrote out from notes 
he tock in attending the inftreétions of that 
eminent and famous aftronomer. The moft 
fxiking charaéters of Mr. Thomas’s difpofi- 
tion were fincerity and humility; he never 
thirfted after fame yet fame followed him ; 
was never diffipated, but always gay 5 he was 
hot .aflumingly religious, yet! always fin- 
éérely pious. 
William Thomas, of Baglan. 
SCOTLANDs 
_A wé¥y heavy fall of fnow happened ja 
fouth of Scotland, on the 2d of January 
hit, in which many perfons perifhed. A 
goat, which ufually fed with fome fheep, in 
the perith of _Kilfpindie, was buried under 
the fnow, and having remained in that fitua+ 
tion 24 davs, was taken out alive. 
Tie dreadful ftorm on the eaftern coat on 
the 2d and 3d vite, has been peculiarly fatal 
tothe fhipping. Not lefs than 160 veffels 
have been wrecked upon the fhores of Scot- 
jand, and the north of Englaad, and a thou- 
ca perfons have perifhed. The diftrefs of 
the people in the Scottith ports, at Shields, 
Sunderland, &c.. 1s. great beyond belief. 
‘There is Beas a family that has not loft a 
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father, or a br other, nor a-thip-owner who , 
‘has not fuffered. 
The friendly and other focieties, in and 
about Edinburgh, have fub{cribed upwards of 
Fool. for the soe of importing corn from 
abroad. 
The lord provoft and magiftrates of Edin- 
burgh have anzmented the rates of haclney- 
coaches fi fourpence ona fhilling. They have 
alfoencreated the wages of journeymen joiners - 
in the fame preportion, and of journeyman 
painters two-pen¢e half-penny on each ihil- 
ting. 
Herrings have for fome time paft been in 
fuch great plenty at Burnt-ifland that, though 
the demand is, great, there are more than 
enough for the fappiy, at the price of §s. 6ds 
or 6s, the barrel, or crane. 
Upwards of scool. have been taifed by vo- 
Tuntary. contribs utions in Edinburgh 3 - rcool. 
of which is far public foup kitchens. 
A Ce fiom Kinwwall, in the Orkneys, 
Scotland. 
Such was the Rev. “Mr. . 
[ March qT; 
fays ‘* beef and pork fell here at 13d. to 2d. 
the pound, oatmeal is. 6d. the ftone, pota- 
toes $d. the fetting, a hen 6d. to 7d. acock 4d. 
a live veal, fkin and all 1s, 2d. to 1s. 6d. 
Every thing elfe is dear. No eggs, fith, nor 
cheefe to be got.” 
The juftices of Underward, at a late fitting, 
fined 20 perfonsof the Newtown +i in mld ih 
for making ufe of light weights. 
In the laft five courts held by the iat 
of Edinburgh, 227 perfons have been fined for 
making ufe of falfe weights and meafures. - 
The Highland Society of Scotland, by an- 
addrefs inferted in the Glafgow Advwertifer in 
the zoth inf. ftrongly urge the fowing of 
none but the foundeft and moft healthy grain, 
of all kinds, for feed; and recommend a coms 
parative trial of {mall quantities of the in- 
tended feeds, in boxes of good earth, ‘previoys 
to: theiry being fown. They lay it down as 
an incontrovertible maxim, that from hal 
or unfound feed a grood hi Saw be ex+— 
pected. 
A piece of ground, for building, about | 
222 feet in front, oppofite the college, 
Southbridge, Edinburgh, was lately fold by 
auction, in five lots, for g1401.. which is 
nearly 40 guineas per foot ! 
Major Macpherfon of Lorick, and four 
other gentlemen, who were cut together 
fhooting wild fowl, between Strathfpey and 
Badenock, unfortunately perifhed in the vio- 
lent ftorm of fnow on the 2dult. They had 
taken fhelter in an old cot; which being 
blown down buried them in the ruins. 
The wife of a tenant on the Duke of Ha- 
milton’s eftate, in the Ifle of Arran, was 
lately delivered-of three caughters, all fine 
children. 
Married.] At Edinburgh, Major Ruthers 
ford, to Mifs Agnes Chatto. 
At Glafgow, Mr. G. H. King, incechant 
to Mifs Ann Gordon. The Rey. Ceorge 
Gordon, to Mifs Anne Lawrie. 
At Greenock, Archi. Ferrier, efq. to Mifs : 
Cath. Gordon, of Glaigow. - 
_ At Mill Hill, Ifiand of Arran, Mr. Alex. 
Fleeming, to Mifs Helen Hamilton. 
At Perth, Mr. Robert Melville, horns 
fpoon maker, to Mifs Rofs, aged 19. 
Died.| At Edinburgh, James Dr ummondy 
efq. of Comrie. Mr. Alexander Laidlaw, 
merchant. - Capt. Thomas Spens, late of La- 
thallen. George Fairholme, efg of Green= 
know. At bee houfe in George-ftreet, Mus. 
Catherine Campbell, daughter of the Hon, 
Patrick 
fenators of the College of Juftiee. 
Rev. John Dickie, | late minifter of Langholmy 
aged gI. 
At “Aberdeen, Mr. John Stewart Skelmuir 
AtL inlithgows Lady Lucy Hope Johnitong, 
youngeft daughter of the earl ef Hopetoun, 
at Hopetoun- houfe, 
‘A 
Campbell, of Menzie, one of the - 
Miis So- — 
‘ phia Ramfay, daughter of the late Provoit. © 
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