lightning, and it received considerable damage; it also unroofed a byre and struck a boy, who was deprived of the use of one of his sides, but he is recovering. Six persons returning from Avon bridge sacrament were knocked down by the lightning, but so far recovered as to be able to walk home: some of them have, however, been since confined to their beds with swollen legs. The storm appears to have been general over the country. In the parish of Buchanan, large lumps of ice fell, and did considerable damage, especially at the Duke of Montrose's garden, and at Gartness. In the course of the month of June, the Major-Generals John Hope, Adam Gordon, and Samuel Graham, are appointed to the North British Staff, in room of Thomas Peter, James Durham, Thomas Scott, and the Hon. David Leslie, promoted to be Lieutenant-Generals. His Grace the Duke of Richmond has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Robert Fowler, D. D. Archdeacon of Dublin, to be Lord Bishop of Ossory, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Kearney. The Senatus Academicus of the University of Edinburgh, at the particular request of the Governors of Heriot's Hospital, have conferred the degree of Master of Arts on Mr John Somerville, house governor of that institution. On the 24th of June, the University of Edinburgh, conferred the degree of Doctor of medicine on the following gentlemen, viz. OF SCOTLAND. William Macfarlane, George Traill Urquhart, OF ENGLAND. William Crane, John Arthington Payne, OF IRELAND. OF JAMAICA. William Dawson, David Mignot, John Anderson. OF ST CROIX. OF AMERICA. OF CANARY ISLES. APPOINTMENTS. Whitehall, May 4. 1813. The Prince Regent granted permission to Vice Admiral Sir James Saumarez, K. B. to accept and wear the insignia of Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Swedish Order of the Sword, conferred on him by the King of Sweden.-[He was invested with the order on the 24th of June by the Prince Regent.] May 6,-The same permission to Major General George Murray, to accept and wear the insignia of Honorary Knight Commander of the Portuguese Military Order of the Tower and Sword, conferred on him by the Prince Regent of Portugal. Carleton House, May 17.-The Prince Regent appointed Major General the Honourable Sir Charles Stewart, K. B. to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. May 17.-The Prince Regent granted permission for Major General George Anson, Lieutenant Colonel of the 16th Dragoons,-Colonel the Honourable Thomas William Fermor, of the 3d foot guards,and Colonel William Maundy, Lieutenant Colonel of the 79th foot, to accept and wear the insignia of Honorary Knight Commander of the Royal Portuguese Military order of the Tower and Sword. Whitehall-June 1. 1813. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been graciously pleased, to grant the dignity of Vis count of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable Charles Baron Whitworth, of Ireland, Knight of the most Honourable Order of the Bath, and to the heirs, male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, stile, and title of Viscouut Whitworth, of Adbaston, in the county of Staf ford. At the Court at Carlton-House, 3d of June 1813, present, his Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council. His Royal Highness the Prince Regent in Council, was this day pleased to declare, in the name and on the behalf of his Ma Charles Herbert Orpen, Robert Murray, jesty, the Right Honourable Charles Vis William Gibney. count Whitworth, Lieutenant-General and General Whitehall, June 12.-The Prince Regent appointed James Earl of Fife his Majesty's Lieutenant and Sheriff Principal of Banffshire. The Prince Regent appointed George Ross, Esq. Advocate, to be one of the four Commissioners of Edinburgh, in room of Burnet Bruce, Esq. deceased. Carlton-House, June 12.-The Prince of Wales appointed Dr Edward Jenner of Berkeley, and Dr Thomas Christie of Cheltenham, to be Physicians Extraordinary to his Royal Highness. Downing-Street, June 19.-His Royal, Highness the Prince Regent appointed Lieutenant-General the Right Honourable Thomas Maitland to be Governor and Commander in Chief of the island of Malta and its dependencies. Carlton-House, June 24-The Prince Regent granted permission to Rear-Admiral Thomas Bertie, to accept and wear the insignia of a Knight Commander of Royal Swedish Order of the Sword, conferred on him by the King of Sweden.-The Prince Regent also conferred on Rear-Admiral Bertie the honour of Knighthood. War-Office, June 7, 1813.-His Royal Highness the Prince Regent appointed the following Officers to take rank by Brevet as under-mentioned; their commissions to be dated 4th June 1813. Lieutenant-Generals,-John, Barclay, and Alexander Mercer, to be Generals in the Army. Major-Generals, John Evelegh, Robert Lawson, and Edward Stephens, to be Lieutenant-Generals in the Army. Colonels, William Kersteman, of the royal invalid enginers, George Lewis, of the royal invalid artillery, Joseph Walker, of the late #oyal Irish artillery, Charles Neville, of the late royal invalid artillery, and Hugh Swayne, of the late royal Irish artillery, to be Major-Generals in the Army. War-Office, June 15, 1813.-His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased to approve of the Ayrshire Militia being in future styled, "The Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia." BIRTHS. June 15. At Gottenburgh, the Lady of D. Scott, Esq. Portuguese Consul, a daughter. At No. 22, Heriot Row, Mrs William II. Hardyman, a son. 16. At Cork, the Right Honourable Lady Forbes, a daughter. 20. At Dumfries, Mrs Maxwell, younger of Carruchan, a daughter, - At Keir Manse, Mrs Keyden, a son. At Edinburgh, Mrs Campbell, of Dal serf, a son. 6. At Drumsheugh House, the Right Honourable the Countess of Moray, a daugh ter. 8. In Shandwick Place, Mrs Henry Dou glas, a son. 11. At Glengary House, the Lady of Colonel Macdonnell, of Glengary, a son. 12. Mrs R. Bell, Dundas Street, a daughter. 14. Mrs Neaves, Queen Street, a son. Lately, the wife of Mr Skeskarrar, of Donaghmore, of two sons and a daughter, all likely to live. About two years ago she was delivered of two fine boys. At St Petersburg, the Princess Tscherbatoff, Lady of Sir R. K. Porter, a son. MARRIAGES. May 8. At Halifax, Nova Scotia, Lord James Townshend, Captain of his Majesty's ship Eolus, to Elizabeth, Martha, eldest daughter of P. F. Wallis, Esq. of his Ma, jesty's Naval Yard there. June 5. At Newport, in the Isle of Wight, Sir Leonard Worsley Holmes, Bart. M. P. for that borough, to Anne, the daughter of John Delgarno, Esq. and niece to the late Right Honourable Lord Holmes. 7. At Terraughty, John Maxwell, younger of Barncleugh, to Miss Clementina Maxwell, daughter of the late William Maxwell, Esq. At Greenock, Boyd Dunlop, Esq. merchant, Glasgow, to Helen, youngest daughter of the late Walter Buchanan, Esq. At Leith, by the Reverend Doctor Dickson, John Spence, Esq. merchant, Leith, to Janet, second daughter of Mr James Weir, baker. 8. At Edinburgh, Thomas Strong, Esq. merchant, Leith, to Eliza, eldest daugh ter of James Jollie, Esq. writer to the signet. June 8. At Edinburgh, Sir Thomas Stepney, Bart. to Mrs Russel Manners. At Cartside, J. Hyde, Esq. to Susan, eldest daughter of Colin Campbell, Esq. At Northfield, by the Rev. Mr Primrose, William Kemyss, Esq. to Christina, eldest daughter of James Syme, Esq. of Northfield. 11. At Edinburgh, William Patison, Esq. merchant in Leith, to Miss Rhind, daughter of John Rhind, Esq. Gayfield Square. 14. At the Banks of Terregles, Mr James Cannon, of Barlay, to Miss Janet Tinnin, daughter of the late Mr John Tinnin, of Nunholm. 17. At Leith Walk, Edinburgh, Mr John Jackson, merchant, Leith, to Beatrix, daughter of the late Reverend Mr Cray, of Broughton, Tweeddale. 16. At Musselburgh, Agnes, daughter of Captain James Boyle, of Tillybody, to Mr Charles Stewart, younger of Sweethope. 17. At Edinburgh, the Reverend Mr Aitchison of Leith, Robert F. Bell, Esq. sugar refiner, Leith, to Hannah, eldest daughter of the late Robert Bruce, Esq. writer in Edinburgh. 18. By the Reverend Dr Grant, Henry Otto, Esq. surgeon, Path-head-Ford, to Jane, eldest daughter of John M'Kenzie, Esq. postmaster, Path-head. - At Edinburgh, Mr William Lindsay, jun. merchant Leith, to Miss Jean Gray, youngest daughter of the late Alexander Gray, Esq. Lyne. 20. At Knole, in Kent, the Earl of De Laware, to Lady Elizabeth Sackville, youngest daughter of the late, and sister to the present Duke of Dorset. 22. At Forganban, by the Reverend Dr Wilson, Mr Archibald Allardice, bookseller, Leith, to Mary, youngest daughter of the Jate Mr Gray, Grahamstone. At Glasgow, By the Reverend Dr Gibb, the Reverend Dr William Muir, one of the ministers of that city, to Miss Hannah Black, eldest daughter of James Black, Esq. merchant. Jan. 19. Lost, in the West Indies, Mr Walter Ruddiman, midshipman of the Venus frigate, second son of Mr Thomas Ruddiman, printer, Edinburgh. March 24. At Portobello, William Gracie, Esq. writer to the signet. 26. At Hallhill, W. Alexander Sawers, town-clerk of Dunbar. 28. At the manse of Dunlop, Mrs Catharine Cunningham, spouse of the Rev. Thomas Brisbane, minister there. 29. At Major House, Suffolk, Elizabeth Dunlop, Dowager of Chandos, widow of Henry II. Duke of Chandos. 31. At Romanno, Adam Kennedy, Esq. of Romanno. April 1. At Edinburgh, Captain John Baugh, late of the 58th foot. - At Warmunster, Betty Cook, aged 104. 14. At London, Mrs Elizabeth Campbell, widow of the late Colin Campbell, Esq. of Carwhin, and mother of the Earl of Breadalbane. 22. At London, Dr Samuel Foart Simmons, Physician Extraordinary to the King. 25. At London, the Right Hon. Richard Fitzpatrick, brother to the Earl of Upper Ossory, a General, and Colonel of 47th foot. May 17. In Portugal, in consequence of fatigue and over exertion in the discharge of his duty, Mr Æneas Gregorson, Assistant Commissary General to his Britannic Majesty's forces, and son to the late Angus Gregorson, Esq. of Ardtorinish, Argyllshire, whose family have now to lament the loss of three sons, of most amiable dispositions and superior talents, who have fallen in the cause of their King and country, in Spain and 3. At Glasgow, Andrew Liddell, Esq. Kent, and a Baronet, one of his Majesty's merchant. 4. The Honourable John de Courcy, eldest son of the Right Honourable Lord Kinsale, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st regiment of foot guards.-His death was occasioned by excessive fatigue with the army in Spain, from whence he returned only a few days previous to his decease. 6. As she was preparing to go to church, Lady Bernard, wife of Sir T. Bernard, Bart. of Wimpole street, London. At Perth, the Reverend Daniel Mackenzie, one of the ministers of that city. 7. At Edinburgh, Philip Dundas, only 'son of General Francis Dundas. Most Honourable Privy Council, Admiral of the Red squadron of his Majesty's fleet, one of the Elder Brethren of the Trinity House, First Lord of the Admiralty during the important victories of Sir Robert Calder, Lord Nelson, Sir Richard Strachan, and Sir John Duckworth, many years Comptroller of the Navy, First Commis sioner of the Board instituted in 1786 for inquiring into the state of the woods, forests, and land revenues of the Crown, and of the late Board for revising the civil affairs of the Navy, and Member for Rochester in the Parliament of 1784, and one of the Vice-Presidents of the Lock Hospital and other Charitable Societies, &c. His Lordship was born at Leith, in October 1726, and was youngest son of Robert Middleton, Esq. afterwards collector of the customs at Borrowstonness, by Helen Dundas, granddaughter of Sir James Dundas, of Arniston. His grand-father, George Middleton, and great grandfather, Alexander Middleton, were successively Principals of King's Col lege, Aberdeen, the latter was younger brother of General John Middleton, who, for his eminent military services as Lieutenant-General of horse in the Royal armies, was created Earl of Middleton, Lord Clermont and Fettercain in 1660, which title was forfeited in 1695, in the person of his only son, Charles, second Earl of Middleton, who, after being ambassador at the Court of Vienna, and one of the Principal Secretaries of State to King Charles II. fflowed the fortunes of James II. to France, where he died in the chief management of affairs at the Court of St Germains. Lord Barham, after his return from the West Indies in 1761, (where he eminently distinguished himself in the command of the Emerald frigate) married Margaret, daughter of James Gambier, Esq. Counsellor at Law, and aunt of the present Admiral Lord Gambier, by whom he had only one child, Diana, now Baroness Barham, the wife of Gerard Noel Noel, Esq. of Exton Park, in the county of Rutland, many years Member of Parliament for that county, nephew and heir of entail of Henry, last Earl of At London, Lady Elizabeth Garnier. At Arbroath, in the 98th year of his age, Mr Peter Neish, the oldest man in that burgh. On the Sunday preceding he attended divine service, and opened his shop next day. 19. At Watlands, the Reverend James Greig, minister of the Associate Congregation of Newmilns, in the 76th year of his age, the 49th of his ministry, and the 20th of his administration in that congregation. 20. At Irnham, Lancashire, the Dowager Lady Arundel. 21. At Queensferry Street, Miss Janet Hope, daughter of the late Archibald Hope, Esq. collector of excise. At Hillgarden, Cupar Angus, Mr Edward Warden, writer there, sincerely and justly regretted. 24. Mr William Chalmers, bookseller in Dumfries. 26. Donald Macqueen, Esq. of Corrybrough. 27. At Craigleith, DAVID RAMSAY, Esq. of Craigleith, Printer in Edinburgh. The character of this truly valuable member of Society, can have no more appropriate record than the following extract from the Sun Newspaper of 30th June last: "We feel more regret than we can express, in having to announce the death of Mr David Ramsay, of Edinburgh.-This gentleman had been long proprietor of the Edinburgh Evening Courant, and was held in the highest esteem by a numerous cirele of his friends, for the integrity, knowledge, judgement, and benevolence, which uniformly marked his character. In the conduct of his journal he steered by the light of the British Constitution, and though be was firmly attached to its monarchical form, and ardent in his loyalty to our belov ed Sovereign, he never displayed any servile devotion to the Ministers of the day, but only gave them his support, while he deemed their measures essential to the interests of the state. He was peculiarly mild and composed in his temper, but capable of enjoying and promoting sallies of humour; and though naturally of a pensive disposi - At Aberdeen, Isabella Jane, fourth daughter of the late George Ogilvie, Esq. of Auchiries. The Honourable Henrietta A.M.C.B. Pelham, wife of the Honourable Charles A. Pelham, eldest son of the Right Honourable Lord Yarborough. July 1. Mrs Rutherford, relict of the late Mr William Rutherford, merchant in Kelso. 2. At Edinburgh, aged 14, Alexander, second son of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Wight. 6. At his residence in the Barracks, Chatham, after a tedious illness, Major Robert Smith, of the Royal marines, after a faithful service of 25 years, universally respected and regretted. July 8. At Edinburgh, the Hon. William Craig. Lord Craig was long a distinguished Judge in the Courts of Session and Justiciary. His Lordship was the son of the late Dr Craig, one of the ministers of Glasgow, an eminent divine of his day, and the author of some volumes of excellent sermons, and of an essay on the life and character of our Saviour.-Lord Craig was born in the year 1745, and called to the bar in 1768. At the beginning of Mr Pitt's administration in 1784, he was named one of his Majesty's Advocates-depute, along with the late celebrated charac ters, President Blair and Lord Abercromby, at the time Sir Ilay Campbell was appointed Lord Advocate, and the present Chief Baron Dundas Solicitor-General, and he continued in this office till 1787, when he was nominated Sheriff of Ayr. In the 1792 he was promoted to the Bench of the Court of Ses sion, on the death of Lord Hailes, and suc ceeded, in the 1795, to Lord Henderland, |