1801.] 
ble and eminent than ever was the cafe be- 
fore. By the improvement of the harbour, 
the fhips from Hull, and the other northern 
ports of England, bounded by the Baltic, will 
find Very great and excellent acconimodation 
by rendezvonfing at Leith. Indeed the whole 
of the Baltic trade, whether of England or 
Scotland, will be materially benefited. The 
fhipping engaged in the Weft India trade will 
alfo he greaily accommodated, as they will 
be enabled to come into the harbour without 
unloading part of their cargo, as is now the 
cafe, which is attended with much trouble 
and expence. The plan of that able engineer, 
Mr. Rennie, has been adopted through the 
whole of this undertaking; which will emi- 
nently benefit the country at large, as it is 
intended to render the harbour convenient for 
the admiffion of even large fhips of his Ma- 
jefty’s navy. 
The toundation of the building for the 
Bank of Scotland was lately laid in Bank- 
dtreet, Edingburgh, by a Committee of the 
Disetiow. 
At the late annual thew of rams bred by 
W. Roodertfon. efq. of Ladykirk, in Berwick~- 
Shire, which was numeroully attended by the 
gentlemen and principal breeders of the ad- 
joining counties, Mr. Robertfon produced, to 
the entire fatistaftion of the company, the 
beft rams unqueftionably that ever were wit- 
nefled on the North fide of the Tweed, and 
bebe inférior to none on the other. The 
eft part of them were quickly let for the 
feafon, to gentlémen of acknowledged {kill 
in the fcience of breeding, at from 29 to 150 
guineas each. The novel mode that Mr. Ro- 
bertfon took this year to let his fheep, viz. 
by public auétion, evinced his defire effectu- 
ally to do away all manner of concealment or 
myftery, which, however-unjuit, gave rife to 
reports. inimical to the caute that it was in- 
tended to promote. 
The workmen have lately begun to build 
again on the’ eaft front of the New College of 
Edinburgh. The foundation was laid in 1789. 
' Married.) At Strabane, Col R. Anftru- 
ther, of the Loyal Tay Fancibles, to Miis 
Nairne, daughter of Lieutenant-col, Nairne, 
of the Breadalbane Fencibles. 
Died.] At Fetternier, Mifs T. Leflie, 3d 
daughter of J. Leflie, efq, of Balquhain. 
Lately wear othbury,where he had refided 
many years,’ in his 83d year, Mr. Alexander 
Fiume.: He fuffered the fame fate as many 
other gentlemen who joined in and furvived 
the rebellion of 1745 5 he afterwards to the 
end of his life, fupported himfelf by break- 
ing dogs. He was remarkable for the ftoutnefs 
of his. perfon, the ‘intrepidity and indepen- 
dency of his fpirit, the ftrength of his under- 
‘ftanding, 
and things, and the errant excentricity of hi, 
Deaths Abroad. 
the acutenefs of his remarks on men 
208 
life and charafter. He died, as he withed, 
alone, and as if he had fallen afleep, in. his 
i chair, 
[Bequefts of the late Mr. Cufhnie, of 
Aberdeen, (mentioned in vol 11.p. 473):—To 
the Society of Ship-mafters and Seamen of 
Aberdeen, for behoof of their Poor, 5col._— 
To faid Society, for behoof of the poor White 
Fifhers of Footdee, 2001.—To the Guiidry of 
Aberdeen, for their Poor, So00l.—To the 
Managers of the Infirmary of Aberdeen, 3001. 
—To {aid Managers for behoof of the Lu- 
natic Hofpital, 500} —To faid Managers for 
behoof of the two Difpenfaries, 200]. each, 
4001 —To the Managers of the Poor’s Hof- 
pital 5001.—To faid Managers for hehoof of 
the Fund for providing Coals for the Necef- 
fitous Poor, 400l.—-To faid Managers for be- 
hoof of Sunday Schools, 40 1.—To the Trade’s 
Hofpital of Aberdeen, 2001.—To the Narrow 
Wynd Society of Aberdeen, 300]—To the 
Shiprow Society in Aberdeen, 2001 —To the 
Porters’ Society of Aberdeen, tool.—To Mr. 
Thain’s School, 2col.—To the Public Kitch- 
en, r100l.——To the Poor of Old Aberdeen, 
200l.—'To the Mafter of Kirkwork, of Aber+ 
deen, 200l.—-And to his Executors, in trutt 
for the Managers of any Fund to be eftablifhed 
in Aberdeen, for the fupport of decayed Wo- 
men Servants, in Aberdeen, of unexception- 
able charaéter for fidelity and honefty, who 
fhall have refided there fiftecn years or up- 
wards, and are not under fixty years of age, 
unlefs fooner incapacitated to earn their live- 
lihood from bodily infirmities, 501. ] 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Oftend, on the 2sth of April, of 2 
dropfy, in his 58th year, Mr. Wm. Brooke. 
He was a native of Worcefter, and in the 
early part of his life, a merchant in Crutched 
Friars, For the laft fixteen or eighteen years, 
he had refided in America, from ‘which coun- 
try he went to France, on account of an 
American veflel in which he had fome fharey . 
having been condemned in the French court of 
Admiralty. 
At Harbour Grace, in the ifland of News 
foundland, Mrs. Garland and her daughter 5 
the former at the extraordinary age of 118 
years, and the latter 86. The elder lady was 
mother to C. Garland, efg. the prefent col~ 
leétor of the cuftoms at Harbour Grace. She 
had been deprived of fight fome years, but re- 
tained all her other faculties to the laft. 
At Mentz, on May 28, W. Pottgeiffer, 
efq late of Leeds, 
On the 23d of March, on board the An- 
dromache frigate, of the wounds he received ow 
the preceding night, in attempting to board 
and cut out fome veffels from a Port in Cuba’, 
Mr. G. Winchefter, midfhipman, fecond fon 
of Major Winchefter, formerly of Exeter, but 
now hbarrack-mafter at Hounflow. 
ExrrRatTa.—Owing to an Overfight of the Printer, ** LAXX Plalm,” for 66 LXXX1X Pfalm 
4s put at line 6, col. 2, p. 220. 
Reader is Yeguolied to correct it with bis pen. 
as the’ error deflroys the meaning of this. intere/ling Paper, he 
ed the rae 90, for hyn sg with Du thaw,” read only Durham.” 
