1804.) 
Fie made continual additions of great value to 
his colleétions of dried plants, and other fpe- 
cimens of Natucal Hiftory. He held a core 
refpondence with all the moft eminent Natu- 
ralifts in Europe, and received the vifits of 
every ingenions foretgner of diftinétion who 
came to Edinburgh. He was conftant and 
vigilant in the difcharge of Shis duties as a 
Clergyman; and, in refpeé to hisemerits, 
he had the honour of being, one year, chofen 
to prefide as Moderator of the General Af- 
fembly of the Church; the highe! profefli- 
onal dittinétidn that a Clergyman can receiye 
in Seotland—He publithed fome Elementary 
Abftracts for the ufe of his ftudents, an occa- 
fional Sermon or two, feveral Papers relative 
to the improvement of the Highlands, and 
various communications to the Society of 
Antiquaries in London, the Royal Society of ~ 
Edinburgh, and other learned and fcientific 
bodies, In the firt volume of the Tranfac- 
tions of the Reyal Society of Edinburgh, is a 
Paper of his, on the Motion of the Sap in 
Plants, which I remember to have heard the 
late illuftrious -Dr. William Robertfon de- 
clare, that he had read with extraordinary 
intereft and amufement, and praife very 
highly both for the ingenuity of the experi- 
ments and the elegant propriety of the com- 
potion. Dr. Walkers converfation was 
unrivalled, in its power of lively amufement, 
Wi various inftru€tion, in the rich difplay of 
Vigorous and original energies of mind. Tem- 
perance and elegant neatnefs prefided at bis 
table, whenever he entertained a few of his 
friends. ‘Thofe whoremember his converfa- 
tions in his own howfe, after fupper, will ar- 
dently exclaim—oO notes, canzque Deiim! 
_ He had the misfortune to lofe the ufe of 
fight fome years before his death. He mar- 
ried Mifs Wauchope, an excellent and ac- 
complithed lady, of one of the bet families in 
Scotland, but died without children. He 
was a member of many learned Societies 
at home and abroad. He has undoubtedly 
left fome very valuable manafcripts, and a 
large and precious colle@ion of Specimens of 
watural Hittory, 
IRELAND. 
Lately, three boats laden with provifions, 
arrived at the Grand Canal Harbour, in 
james’s-ftreet, Dublin, fren: Carrick-on- 
Shannon, in the county of Leitrim, in this 
paflage they had to pafs through. fixty-five 
miles of that. part of the river Shannon, 
which is called the Great Shannon, above 
Banagher, and likewife through fixty-one 
miles of the Grand Canal. Thefe are the 
firit veflels that ever arrived in Dublin, after 
a mediterranean vuyage through the heart 
of the kingdom, by the above grand com. 
munications. There are now upwards of 
one hundred miles of the Shannon open 
for navigation, from Banagher, through the 
city of Limerick, to the Atlantic ecean— 
fo that Ireland may now boat of having 
Ireland~Deaths Abroad. 
509 
upwards of one hundred and fixty miles of 
internal river navigation, communicating 
with the Capital, near the centre, by means 
of the above 61 miles of the Grand Canal. 
Died ] On Summer-hill, Dublin, after a 
few hours illnefs, Mrs, Beresford, wife of | 
Counfellor Beresford. | 
DEATHS ABROAD. 
At Geneva, on the 20th of November, 
1803, aged 80 years, George Louis Le Sagey 
Feliow of the Royal: Society of London, 
Correfponding Member of the late Academy 
of Sciences, at Paris, and affociate of fome 
other learned hodics, The lovers of Science 
who were favoured with his acquaintance, 
_Wilt regret that in,the courfe of a long and 
ftudious life, fcarcely a fingle fruit of his 
labours was given to the world. During 
part of his life the bufinefs of educating 
youth, and afterwards the irkfomenefs which 
he felt in preparing his ideas for the public 
eye, joined to his natural timidity, prevented 
him from finifhing feveral works that had 
long employed his thoughts ; but the charac- 
ter of his mind was univerfally allowed to 
be at the fame time juft and ingenious, lu- 
minous and profound, learned and original. - 
His attention was occupied through life with 
an original theory on Gravitation, and an 
ideal mechanifm, by which he explained 
its laws. This fyftem he unfolded in a fhort 
paper which he prefented to the Berlin 
Acajemy ; and it was publithed in the Memoirs 
of that learned body, under the title of the 
Newtonian Lucretius. In his private life 
he.was truly a philofopher, fimple, modeft, 
and inoffenfive ; zealous in doing all the good 
within his reach, and particularly kind in 
affitting the ftudies of thofe young men who 
were. worthy of this diftinétion. His con- 
verfation was a conftant fource of inftruc- 
tion for thofe who would ufe it, and were 
able to follow the peculiar train of his ideas 
which he did not willingly break through; 
it was, befides, enlivened by an interelting 
fimplicity of exprefiion, and a pleafantry 
peculiarly his own. It is much to be withed 
that a part at leaf of his manufcripts may 
be left in a ftate At for publication, that the 
world may not entirely lofe the fruits of a 
long life fpent im philofophical enquiry. 
Killed, at the re-taking of the Lord 
Nellon Indiaman, by a fhot from the Rel- 
lone French privateer, near Ferrol, off the 
North-wet coaft of Spain, Lieutenant-colo- 
nel M’Gregor Murray. He was one of the 
heads of the antient, unfortunate houfe of 
M'‘Gregor; and, about 30 years ago, went 
ovt to India in the capacity of furgeon’s 
mate. On his paflage he was infulted by 
one of the officers of the fhip, to whom, 
after his arrival in India, he fent a challenge, 
which the other did not think proper to ac- 
cept. The Government, however, feeing 
that-he was a young man of fpirit, offered 
him a commiffion in their fervice, which he 
acceptedy 
