ceeding, that the libel, lift of witnesses, and lift of affize, were not on the fame paper, but on detached sheets, contrary to an act of adjournal, paffed in 1675, which enacts," that when doubles of criminal letters are given to parties defenders, that upon the very double of the letters, the lifts of the witneffes and affizers' names be written either on the end or back thereof, and not on papers apart."

Lord Methven, Judge on the faid Circuit, certified the cafe to this High Court, in order that their Lordships might decide upon the objection; but the pannels did not infift upon the ob jection; and a petition having been given in for them, fubmitting to banishment and imprisonment, the Court fentenced Mitchell to one month's imprisonment; Gorman was allowed to enter into the navy or army, and Margaret Coil banished Scotland for five years.

---At Paisley, Mr James Muir, merchant, Greenock, to Mifs Jean Pollock, of Paifley.

9. At Ford church, Mr Darling, Cornhill, to Mifs Culley, daughter of George Culley, Efq. Eaffield, Northumberland.

13. At Edinburgh, Mr Walter Cowan, merchant in Glafgow, to Mifs Grindlay, daughter of the late Mr James Grindlay, of Borrowftounnefs.

15. At Edinburgh, Hay Clephane, Efq. of the Civil fervice of the Eaft India Comdaughter of the late John Campbell, Efq. pany, to Mifs Janet Campbell, youngest

of Newfield.

-At Edinburgh, Mr John Graham merchant in Glasgow, to Mifs Johanna Robertfon, daughter of Mr William Robertson, of the Customs, Borrowftounnefs.

16. At Greenock, Richard Henderson, Efq. one of the Town Clerks of Glasgow, to Mifs Jean Fisher, third daughter of the. late Alexander Fisher, Efq.

20. At Glasgow, Thomas Whytlaw, Efq. of Solfgirth, to Mifs Agnes Lang, daughter of the late William Lang, Efq. one of the Magiftrates of Glasgow.

At London, Lieut Col. Maitland, of the Ift regiment of guards, to the Hon. Louisa Crofton, fecond daughter of the Right Hon. Lady Crofton.

BIRTHS

In April, the wife of John Henderfor, in Auchline, eftate of Knockefpock, two boys and a girl, who are still alive, and likely to do well.

Lately at Ardfheal, the Lady of Charles Stewart, Efq. a fon.

June 6. Lady Charlotte Baillie, a fon. 9. Mrs M'Leod of Dalvey, a daughter. 11. At Dingwall, Mrs Hay, a fon.

-Mrs Bryce of St Andrew's Square, a daughter.

13. The Lady of Lieut. Gen. Francis Dundas, a daughter.

16. Mrs Bruce of Kennet, a daughter. 18. in Queen-ftreet, Mrs Dirom of Mount Annan, & daughter.

28. At Lude, Mrs Robertfon, a fon. 29. At Letham, Mrs Buchan Hepburn of Letham, a daughter.

Mrs Græme of Inchbrakie a daughter.

DEATHS.

In the island of Bermuda, where he had gone for the recovery of his health, Mr Thomas Thomfon, attorney in Jamaica, eldeft fon of Mr John Thomson, of Glaf. gow.

In January, at Jamaica, Mr Thomas Spence, furgeon there, only fon of Mr James Spence, perfumer, Edinburgh.

In September, in the Eaft Indies, Thomas Moffat, M. D. fon of Mr Peter Moffat, Dalkeith. His death will be long lamanted by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance-being a dutiful affectionate ion, a loving brother, a most fincere amiable friend, and a useful member of fociety.

May 24. At Miln.rigg-hall, the Rev. Mr Andrew Arnot, minister of the gospel at Middhol, in the 81ft year of his age, and 51ft of his ministry.

25. Kilchoan, Argyleshire, Major John M'Lauchlan of Kilbride, late of the 55th regiment.

-At Mortonhall, Mrs Dorothea Trotter, fpoufe of John Trotter, Efq. of Mortonhall.

26. William Hyslop of Lochend, Efq.

26. At Edinburgh, Arthur Forbes, Efq. of Culloden, a gentleman who sustained the highest refpectability of character, and whose fudden and premature death is not only deplored by his friends, but has excited fentiments of very general and deep regret. The late Culloden was the reprefentative of a family who, during the period of almost two centuries, invariably diftinguished themfelves by their private virtues, and by their public fpirit. At the memorable epocha of the Revolution, the then Laird of Culloden was among the few, who in a country abounding with the friends and partifans of the ejected prince, could appreciate the bleffiags both civil and religious which the conftitution then established was calculated to impart. He therefore, to the danger of his perfon, and to the detriment of his fortune, gave a ftrenuous and effective support to the new order of things. A ftatement of the fervices which his children, John Forbes of Culloden, and the late Lord President Forbes, par nobile fratrum, rendered to their country during the fubfequent struggles of the ill-fated James's defcendants to recover the throne of their ancestors, would occupy a much ampler space than can be allotted to a fingle communication in the obituary of a magazine. The grandfon, the father of the late Culloden, carried arms in the service of his country, and attracted the notice of the great Earl of Stair, by the intrepid courage which he difplayed at the memorable battle of Dettingen. Refpecting the late Culloden himself it may be tru ly faid, that although he neither poffeffed nor arrogated thofe pre-eminent intellectual talents which elevated his illustrious grandfather to the highest civil offices with which in this country a subject can be invested, yet in perfonal virtues he yielded to none of his ancestors. His integrity was unfullied to the last, and his honour he ever regarded as his life. His manners were gentle and un

affuming; his attachments ftrong and permanent; and to thofe of his own name whom he deemed worthy of his protection, peculiarly cordial and affectionate Benevolence was a prominent feature in his character, and his whole life may be faid to have been diftinguished by deeds of beneficence and by traits of humanity.

As a

country gentleman, his conduct was exemplary in an eminent degree; he delighted in the profperity of his dependents, and his numerous tenantry regarded him as their father. Neither were his virtues wholly of a domeftic nature; in truth they embraced a much ampler range. For twenty-five years he almoft conftantly refided on his eftates, and during this period, he flood pro minently forward in the fupport of every fcheme which was devised for the improve ment of his country. During the awful revolutions which fo lately convulfed Europe, and shook to their very bases the pillars on which fociety had for twelve centuries fecurely rested, Culloden was among the very first of his countrymen who rallied around the British conftitution, and he commanded a company in the corps of volunteers, which the town and country in his vicinity mustered for its defence. In the arduous conflict in which this nation was then engaged, he moreover liberally contributed towards relieving the exigencies of the state. During the latter years of Culloden's life, the author of this feeble effort to raise a monoment to his virtues was honoured with much of his friendship and countenance. And from every opportunity of studying his character which he enjoyed, he feels no hefitation to affert, that taking him for all in all, fuch a man he was as he ne'er will look upon the like: On himfelf his departed friend never looked but with kindness, and the impreffion which this kindness lett upon his mind he will carry to his grave. "Manibus date lilia plenis, Purpureo's fpargain flores animamque; His faltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani Munere."

D R BLACK having eftablished

the difcovery of the laws of heat, and its effects in combination with matter, in the most incontrovertible manner, by a train of fimple and decifive experiments, drew up an account of the progrefs of his investigation, and the doctrine which he founded on it, and read it to a literary fociety, confifting of the members of the Univerfity and fome other gentlemen, which held weekly meetings for the difcuffion of fubjects in literature and fcience. This paper was read, as appears by the regifters of the Univerfity, on the 23d April 1762. He foon faw the vait importance of this difcovery, and was delighted in laying before his ftudents a detailed view of the extenfive and beneficial effects of this habitude of heat in the grand economy of nature. During the fummer season, an immenfe magazine of heat is ftored up, which gradually emerging during congelation, from the water which covers the face of the earth, ferves to moderate the feverity of winter's cold.

DR BLACK'S thoughts were not VOL. LXV.

limited to the fimple cafe of water, but were extended to all the phenomena of congelation and liquefaction, without even excepting the changes that are effected by the functions of animals and vegetables. He conceived that the fecretion of folid matter in animals might be a fource of part at least of the warmth in them. From obferving the analogy between the ceffation of expanfion by the thermometer, during the liquefaction of ice, and the converfion of water into team, Dr Black having explained the one, thought that the phenomena of boiling and evaporation of fluids would admit of a fimilar explanation. As ice re. quires the combination of a great quantity of heat to bring it to the state of water; fo water to be converted into fteam requires another combination of heat. Confidering the flow production of team, notwithstanding the continual application of heat, the fcalding power of fteam, and the great heat raised in the refrigeratory of a ftill, the conviction was fo ftrongly impreffed on his mind, of the procefs of nature 3 P

being