Grand Master Mason, and Patron of the Order;

The Right Honourable and Right Worshipful James Earl of Fife, Acting Grand Master under his Royal Highness;

The Right Honourable Sir John Marjoribanks of Lees, Bart. M. P. Grand Mas ter Elect;

William Inglis, Esq. of Middleton, Substitute Grand Master;

Major-General the Honourable Alexander Duff, Senior Grand Warden;

David Anderson Blair, Esq. of Inchyra, junior Grand Warden;

Sir John Hay of Smithfield and Hayston, Bart. Grand Treasurer;

Alexander Laurie, Esq. Grand Secretary; Rev. Dr John Lee, Grand Chaplain ; James Bertram, Grand Clerk ; William Cunningham, Esq. Grand Jeweller;-And

Alexander Peacock, Esq. Grand BibleBearer.

Immediately after the election, the brethren walked in procession from the Church Aisle to Freemasons' Hall, Niddry Street, with torch-light (the streets being lined with a party of the 6th dragoon guards), where the evening was spent with that harmony and hilarity for which this ancient and honourable order has ever been eminently distinguished.

Upon this occasion, Sir J. Marjoribanks, as Grand Master Elect, presided in the absence of the Earl of Fife.

We are sorry to have to add, that, during the procession, a most afflicting accident happened at the head of Blair Street, where a great concourse of spectators were assembled. In clearing the way for the procession, a crowd of people were driven against the railing of a deep area (the uppermost on the east side); and, by their heavy and sudden pressure, loosening the flag stones into which the iron is inserted, the whole, in length from 12 to 20 feet, gave way, and a number of people were thus precipitated backward into the area beneath. About 17 of them received more or less injury. One person had his thigh bone broken, and another his head much cut; these, with two women, one of whom was severely bruised in one of her sides and legs, were conveyed immediately to the Royal Infirmary. of them have since recovered.

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This accident being soon communicated to the Grand Lodge, a subscription was instantly begun among the brethren, and a considerable sun raised for behoof of the sufferers.

At the anniversary meeting of the Royal Society of London, held on the 30th of

November, the President and Council adjudged the gold med, on Sir Godfrey Copley's donation, to David Brew-ter, L.L.D. and F.R.S. London and Edinburgh, for his discourse on fight and heat, contained in his papers in the Philosophical Transactions.

On Wednesday, 22d November, Mr Peter Campbell was ordained to the pastoral charge of the Original Burgher congregation in Kilmarnock, formerly under the ministry of the late Rev. Mr Jaffray.

On Thursday the 7th of December, the Reverend Mr Mearns, Minister of Tarvos, was elected Professor of Divinity in King's College, Aberdeen, in room of the deceased Dr Gerard.

Ireland, to Sir David Ochterlony, Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Milk tary Order of the Bath, and Major General in the army in the East Indies, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten.

Foreign Office, Dec. 2. Edward James Dawkins, Esq. appointed to be bis Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Florence: And Francis Peter Werry, Esq. to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at the Court of Dresden.

Dec. 4. This day the Right Hon. Charles Bagot was sworn a Member of his Majesty's Privy Council.

This day his Royal Highness the Prince Regent was pleased to invest ViceAdmiral Sir Herbert Sawyer with the ensigns of a Knight Commander of the Mest Honourable Military Order of the Bath :— And also to confer the honour of Knighthood upon the following officers, Knights Commanders of the said Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath:

Lieut. Col. Sir William Williams.
Lieut. Col. Sir Robert Arbuthnot.

Dec. 5. John Philip Morier, Esq. appointed to be his Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of his Majesty the King of Saxony And Edward Michael Ward, of Bangor, Esq. to be his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Lisbon.

Aug. 16. At the Cape of Good Hope, Henry Home, Esq. of Edinburgh, to Miss Margaret Andrews, of London, by J. S. Hewitt, A. M. chaplain to his Majesty's forces, and acting colonial chaplain.

Oct. 27. At Stirling, the Rev. George Brewster, of Scoonie, to Jane, eldest daughter of the late Thomas Hadaway, Esq. Stirling.

28. At Baron's Court, Tyrone, the Right Hon. Lord Manners, Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, to the Honourable Jane Butler, sister to the present Lord Caher.

At Plymouth, Captain Robert Gambier, Royal Navy, nephew of Lord Gambier, to Caroline Gore, fourth daughter of Major General Browne, Lieutenant-Governor of Plymouth.

Nov. 3. At her father's house, Miss Janet Thaw, daughter of Mr John Thaw, farmer at Broom Flat, to Alexander Calder, Esq. merchant, Linlithgow.

7. At Dunfermline, Mr Andrew Dewar, surgeon, to Isabella, youngest daughter of the Reverend James Husband.

At Edinburgh, William Stothert, of Cargen, Esq. Captain in the Coldstream guards, to Miss Rebecca, T. Monteith, eldest daughter of the deceased Robert Monteith, of Rochsoles, Esq.

9. At Langley Park, Colin Campbell Mackay, Esq. Major in his Majesty's 78th regiment of Highlanders, to Miss Marjory Ge

rard Cruikshank, of Stracathro, daughter of the late Patrick Cruikshank, Esq. of Stracathro.

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14. At Bedruth, (being the third time), Captain Matthew Bennetts, of North Downs Mine, aged 75 years, to Elizabeth, third daughter of Thomas Teague, Esq. of Calstock, aged 17, a very accomplished young lady, with a handsome fortune.

15. At Westbank, the Reverend George Dickson, minister of Pettinain, to Mary, fourth daughter of the late Alexander Lockhart, Esq.

At Hackness, George Johnstone, Esq. to Margaret Anne, eldest daughter of Lady Johnstone, of Hackness-house.

Captain S. H. Stuart, eldest son of Sir S. Stuart. Bart. of Hartly Maudit, to Miss Gunn, of Mount Kennedy.

17. At Edinburgh, Mr James Smith, builder, Hope Street, to Miss Catherine Rintoul, only daughter of Mr Rintoul, Archer's Hall.

18. At Balcarras, Charles Maitland Christie, of Durie, Esq. to Miss Mary Butler Lindsay, eldest daughter of the Honourable Robert Lindsay of Balcarras.

20. At Kippenross, William Napier MilJiken of Milliken, to Miss Elizabeth C. Stirling, fifth daughter of John Stirling, Esq. of Kippendavie.

21. At Edinburgh, Dr William Bowie, to Mrs Anna Frislin, widow of the deceased 'Captain Donald M'Nicol, Royal Scots.

At Clifton, John Thomson, Esq. of Kilbank, Lanarkshire, merchant in Bristol, to Miss Newman, third daughter of R. N. Newman, Esq. (M. D.) of Thornburgh Park, Gloucestershire.

At Edinburgh, Mr John Wilson, writer, Alloa, to Miss Agnes Wilson, of Forth Street, Edinburgh.

23. At Beechhill, Perth-shire, David Henderson, Esq. of the East India Company's medical service, to Miss Ann Hay, third daughter of Charles Hay, Esq. of Beechhill.

28. At Lewisham, Kent, the Hon. Warwick Lake, to Elizabeth, only daughter of James Beveridge Duncan, Esq. of Damside.

30. At Carfrae, Mr David Walker, Timpendean, to Miss Mary Hogarth, third daughter of Robert Hogarth, Esq. Carfrae.

Henry Stalford Northcote, Esq. eldest son of Sir H. Stalford Northcote, Bart. to Agnes Mary, only daughter of Thos. Cockburn, Esq. of Portland Place, London.

Dec. 1. At Kinmonth, the Reverend William Scott Leslie, to Isabella, only daughter of Thomas Inglis, Esq.

Dec. 4.

Dec. 4.At Glasgow, Mr James Marshall, tobacconist, Edinburgh, to Grace, only daughter of Mr John Gilmour, Glasgow.

5. At Muirburn, William Morrison, Esq. of Berwick upon Tweed, to Helen, eldest daughter of James Alston of Muirburn, Esq.

DEATHS.

Jan. 6. 1814. At Kingston, Jamaica, Mr John Erminio Stabilini, surgeon, in the 26th year of his age, of the yellow fever. His superior abilities, benevolent disposition, and amiable manners, endeared him to all who knew him, and his early death has sunk his relations into the deepest distress.

April 15. 1815. Killed, in the attack by the British army under Major - General Ochterlony, of the Goorkha positions along the Malown mountains, C. L. Showers, Esq. senior Captain of the 10th regiment native infantry on this establishment. Death never claimed a nobler spirit, nor honour wept a braver soldier! Showers died as he lived, the proud memorial of a British officer.

May 25. At Batavia, in the 26th year of his age, deeply regretted by his friends and acquaintances, Mr Robert Duff, youngest son of the late Reverend William Duff, minister of Foveran.

July 4. In Grenada, Alexander Aberdein, Esq. proprietor of Richmond estate, acting collector of the customs at the port of Grenville, one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace, member of the Assembly for the united parishes of St Andrew and St David, and Major of the Colonial troop of light dragoons.

Sept. 9. At Berbice, Alexander Fraser, of Seafield Plantation, Esq. writer to the signet and at the same place, on the 23d, his infant daughter, Jane Elizabeth.

16. At Blargymore, Badenoch, Ensign John M'Pherson, late of the 78th regiment, aged 88 years. He was esteemed and respected by all who knew him while in life, and now much lamented by his widow, his children, and friends. He fought under General Wolf at the taking of Quebec, in 1759.

Oct. 21. At Boston, the well-known Lincolnshire physician, Dr Moody, to the great regret of all his living patients. This eccentric son of Esculapius professed to cure every disorder incidental to the human frame, by three sovereign remedies; the first of which he called Gentle John (sulphurie acid); the second, Number One (nitric a cid); the third, Golden Tinct in and aloes.)

23. At Ardfert Abbey, county of Kerry, John Earl of Glandore, Viscount Crosbie, and Baron Brandon, Custos Rotulorum, and a Governor of that county; a Privy Counsellor of the kingdom of Ireland, F. R. S. and S. A. and M. R. I. A. and one of the twenty-eight Representative Peers in the Imperial Parliament. His Lordship was in the 63d year of his age, and succeed. ed his father, the late William, Earl of Glandore, in 1782. He married in 1777, Diana Sackville, daughter of Lord George Sackville Germain, and sister to the present Duke of Dorset, whom he survived only fourteen months, by whom he had no issue. The immediate cause of his Lordship's de cease was an apopletic fit. He is succeeded in the title of Baron Brandon by his first cousin, the Reverend William Crosbie, now Baron Brandon.

At Dublin, Robert Earl of Wicklow. Viscount Wicklow, and Baron Clonmore. His Lordship having died without issue, his titles and estates devolve to his next brother, the Right Hon. William Forward, of Castle Forward, in the county of Donegal, whose family re-assumes the name of Howard. By his Lordship's death a vacan cy occurs in the Representative Peerage of Ireland.

24. At Aberdeen, James Ferguson, drysalter, Glasgow, aged 30 years.

At Harlaw, William, second son of the deceased Mr Robert Kay of Harlaw. At Ardmore, Lieut.-General Thomas Geils, of the Honourable East India Com. pany's service, in the 69th year of his age.

25. At Edinburgh, Mrs Cook, wife of Walter Cook, Esq. writer to the signet; and, on the same day, Christina, her infant

Oct. 25. At Close-house, Newcastle, Calverley Bewicke, Esq. M. P. for Winchelsea, in Sussex.

At Plymouth Dock, Devon, Captain James Mackonochie, Royal Artillery.

26. At Kempsey Lodge, Worcestershire, Catharine Adam, relict of John Neale, Esq. late of Willowyards, Ayrshire.

30. At Banff, Miss Jean Corse, daughter of the deceased Reverend Dr John Corse, minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow.

31. At Coldstream, Mr Robert Dick, merchant.

Lately, in Mill Street, Liverpool, Mrs Ennis Margaret Neyton, aged 106. She possessed all her faculties to the last moment.

At Yarmouth, Norfolk, aged 50, Mrs Holland: her death was occasioned by being frightened by the gloomy predictions of Mrs Spaul, a pretended fortune-teller, who has since been committed to jail as a vagrant.

At Nelloor, in India, Major Thomas Little, Commandant of the 1st battalion 3d regiment light infantry.

On board his Majesty's ship Africaine, Philip D'Auvergne, only son of the Duke of Bouillon.

At Florence, J. M. Johnson, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul at Genoa.

Nov. 3. George Wright, Esq. of Lawton. 4. At Liddalbank, Mrs Fairbairn, sister of the late Alexander Scott, Esq. of Sinton.

5. At Killachillum, Stratherrick, Mr Hugh Fraser, tacksman of that place; many years ground officer to the Honourable Colonel Fraser of Lovat, in that district.

5. At Glasgow, Mr John Watson, many years kirk-treasurer in that city, in the 83d year of his age.

At Dublin, A. Rock, Esq, late of the

Theatre-Royal of that city, and formerly manager of the Edinburgh and Glasgow theatres. Through a long career, he preserved those principles of rectitude which give grace, and even dignity to every situa tion of life, and are even most conspicuous in a profession, which is, of all others, most subject to the strict and unabating scrutiny of the world. Of humble, but respectable origin, he raised himself to professional eminence by his talents, and he supported the station he had gained in society by his integrity. A talented actor, and an honest man, combine a character which is an unfailing passe par tout in every civilized country and few have ever maintained their claims to such a distinction more inviolably than Mr Rock.-High in the confidence of managers, his urbanity gained him the esteem of his dramatic associates, and when invested with power, a conciliating disposition removed the shackles which arrogance and presumption too often impose on the minds of those confided to their direction. In conversation, Mr Rock discovered a literary taste, and much reading, which rendered him an instructive as well as a cheerful companion-As a husband, a parent, and a friend, he was highly and justly estimated, and he departed this life regretted by all who had ever enjoyed the pleasure of his society.