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London, England, 1810-01-05 00:00:00

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' NIDDLISNL LONDON.
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.1 OCleay 6 Wednesday 7
A /Tito VERN.
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Taesdar Fab. is I Weetiesslay ..... ...Fek.
WeJnesdao. the ioluthitients of little Saffron
ware thruwn into the greatest alarm• for the
safety of a pauper, a , who ran round the
roof of the workhouse with a poker, breaking the
and was expected every moment to fall into
the street—h. was at length aeetired, and put into
• 'droll room.

The number of fires in this Metropolis, exclusive
of chimneys, frsin January 1 to December als
1809:

In quarter ending March li. 73
Juas ai1...." .47
Sept. SO ..Ss
Dec. .31 • • ..05...-29.11
Sir Jonte At.asavota Batt., Bart. K.S P.
Rear.A Im,ral df the %Vint, syu ..irun„ Port-Adrui.
rid at Malta. and Governor of that 1-laud, whose
death we lately mentioned. wait made • Net.
Captain on the tOth of March, 1783 ; and was pro.
motel to a Bag on the 9th of Nov. 1805. A letter
from Nl.lts, of the 24.1 of October. says, " he was
rather devoted to the Malteie interest, bur he was
certainly in the right. We, British, are too apt to
despise foreignets; he found it necessary to protect
theta as he did. Tl•ey. however, Ore an ungrateful
set; their bigotry would not permit that their bells
should b rung •t his funeral even his leniency
seemed to make them tit4reipeet biai. We bulled
him yesterday ; he wa• laid in it fort drew to that
in which Sir RA r tit A aracsorate lies. The Man
of War, and Cat alters (two dominating farts). fired
minute guns, sad 11 pieces of artillery tired three
rounds over his grave."
AtiAmendinent will he prnbahly moved to the
Address, ms the meeting of Parliament. It is
pretty c,.litidently stated, that it will be supported
by those members who are oak ally and India'.
dually attached to a very high Personage.
ra.l Gate arrived from Northumberland On
Tne-day etening. at h's mother's house, in Hert.
fott.at rert, May-fair; we are isappy to say, in per.
fact hutch.

I

Int ADAM.

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[mom nix suit' mace commie :1

The funeral of Dr. A. Adana, Rector ofAhe High
School. Eltii burgh, took place ou Friday. The niter-
spent was in the Church-yard of the Chapel of Ease
of Sr. Cuthbert's, and every mark of public estima-
tion, roll, ct and regret, was bestowed. The toss-
tits and boys of the School, &tont 600 in num-
ber, welk;ng in regular profession, preceded the
corpse from the School-house. The Magistrates
and Council, in their state dress, followed it. The
Principal and Professor. of the University, in their
gowus, came next ; and above seven hundred
gentlemen, of the principal inhabitants, the far
greater part of whom had been Dr. Adam's pupils,
closed the scene. Among these, Heads of the
Supreme Courts, Judges, and Ministers of Ediii•
burgh, were observed ; and the a -inhere of a
Society of young gentlemen, chiefly of the bar,
who had lately presented the High School with
d portrait, by Mr. Ratiburn, of their honoured ma.-
and who attended in a body, were paricidarly
re ,u irkahle. When the procession reached tile
church-yard, the boys formed into two hues, stand-
ing uncovered. and chewed, in their countenances
and deportment, that the mark of respect was
Ltrougly lett, which they were now paying, for the
last time, to the venerated remains which pasted
before them.

Dr. Adam was nosomnion character,—Strongly
impressed wiih the importance of his public duties,
the atubit,•in of fulfihng them in the most superior
wanner became his ruling passion. The whole
towers of hit mind were dedicated, wi'h unremit-
ting exertion, to this favourite pursuit, and the
labours of a most laborious life devoted to its attain-
ment.

After the most animated activity, during the
sours of reachit4, to render his pupils good sclic.
lais, and inspire them with the knowledge and
'admiration of Greek and Roman excellence, the
remainder of his time was rigidly devoted to the
'preparation of works of great labour, a inch appear-
ed to him wanting for facilitating the achievements
of the youth. and exciting a relish for the vainly of
letters. And, though very iturceptihle of pleasure,
from the society of friends. and, though the fatigue
of great exertions reqoireil from him, es from other
nieu. some. interval n:' repose, the former was ever
considered as an indulgence, which it became him
to sacrifice ; rod the tatter as a want, a hich was to
ire abridged.. mnch as nature would permit. lii
sbort, he lis,l imbibed the piiueiplw sod fervour of
the ancients, whom he studied ; end. a Stoic a. te'
all personal indulgence, he was en viithuetaot As to
'the importance of his - undertakings, and s zealot
for their aceomplishment.
• la this way, by the concentration and perseve-
`ranee of his efforts, he as. able to produce works
of first-fate utility and merit; and which. thoogh
-*either listinguishsd lie lunch origioaiity of thought,
nor refined by the nicer leucite, of discriminating
torte, afford a lesson and au example to niairktud,
whit may be achieved by resolution and well-di-
. recited industry.
U. Latin Grammar, though. for a times en-
teniterrd by prejudice, is, hejond all question, the
work of the knit hest adapted to 'hove for whom it
was drstioed. His antiquities compretieucl, within
moderate Juneusions, cud state, its good arrauge-
meet, sod with excellent judgment. nearly every •
thing worth looking for in the voluminous, tedious,
and expenrire contruetitaries no the Latta Classics,
and afford every requisite aid for studying the test
with intelligence and satisfaction.
His Biography, Summary of History, and G'is-
gptiphy, are superiorly calculated to furnish that
..sitoral knowledge of great characters, and greet
events, and of the scene of action no which man is
placed, which applies the torch of Prometheus to
well-born iumdr; and the progress he had made in
the prelim-anon of a Linn Uictionery, which he
had destined inform the coneuniniatiou of hi. la-
bours, and the depository of the knowledge of La-
tin, which the indefatigable study 450 jest., had
.conferred, suggests an additional and abundant
source of regret, that the intelligent public must ex-1
per...nee from the loss of this valuable Mtn.
To his pupils, however, and his friend., and the
lattericharacter belonged to all the worthy among
the former, that less will be felt under much more
interesting aspects. Hi. kindness, his humanity,
Ins candour, his impartial justice, his warm op-
:glimmer virtue and merit, his honest indignatou
at meanness and rice, and the deep and paramount
inteiest he displayed for their improvement, en-
deared him for life to his scholars. And those per-
sons who knew more particularly his piivate worth,
his zealous rectitude, the steadiness of tits attack-
wrists. and $ hnrtauh, even to munificence, on
proper occasion., though, by habit anal principle,
averse human wakeful expeiwe, will cherish his me-
mory, as intimately allied with their most pleasing,
virtuous, mud approved of recollections.
. Dr. Adam was born in 1741, near It ifford, in the
county of Moray, of respectable parents, formers.
If. attended the grammar-oclionl there, and. by
his own efforts, with little aid from the utilities of
his teacher, stunned a proficiency, in 175 e, to tit
him for attenditig the University cif &hid/nigh. To
tine hr was eneconr4g-d by Mr. Wat-on„ then Mi-
nister of Csuongate. and a relation of his mother.
fn 1761. be was elected, on a comparative trial,
NlA.frt of Watsinnes Hospital. Gn the illness of
Mr. M ,ithisn, Rector of the High Selinel, he was
applied to for assistance ; and, after teaching for
some apse, ace, in had?. Me, appointed Rector ;
ever shirr. has personally discharged the
ditties of the office: - He was tame married, very
vespeetebly„ but had the misfortune to survive all
ie children of Isis 6...1 marriage. the oddest of
• tifren. Mr. James Adam. hoe of the PpAhistvi.
Indiasinen, died so receutly all the such
cootie,. at He:intr.,. near Exeter. *here lie
Met _Huse tnr the recovery of his health. He is sat-
rived ha widow, a son, attd too daughters.

Sunday, • boy playing near the beiddt,e, on 'the
Weiitiniuster side, INIlb • bonnet, and .0.. n
after the body of a fetuAle was found lying oh the
mud, where it had been left by the tide. the de-
ers/Ed wad dressed iu • dark cloak, or pelisse, blue
petticoat, and yellow glove.. The liroly appeared
I ma if tt had lam a considerable time its the water.