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tittrelative td SSAlris Professorship 'lib.
i ill iiit University, that . regular owes st
lectures thosid be given on these subjects; • .1
having been referred to the Senates ..1
that highic respectable and Learned Body ,
after dee Stliheration given it as tiler opinion, /hat
" A Regius ProfassoOrship. of Celtic Literature,
and Celtic and British Antiquities, would form no
expedient institution in the University."
. The Highland Society having appointed a ce-
cial Committee to attend to this object, Mr. H.
Mack.eusie, their Chairman, reported to the Society
the proceedings of the Committee, when the Ge-
neral Meetiii highly approved of the institution
of a Professoilip in the University of Edinburgh,
of the title and Pfau sanctioned by the Semetass
Academicats, and instructed their Directors to pro-
secute this object, and make such applications in
name of the Society, for having such Professor-
ship establielied.in the University of Edinburgh,
as shall to them ap r proper. And the Society
festal% ed to afford ea ry facility, countenance, mad
support, to the rata ishnient.
Ihe Society then voted twenty guineas to the•
Rev. Patrick Graham D.U. Minister of Aber-
foyle, for a copy of his Essay on the Authenticity of
the Poems of Ossion, 'dedicated to tins Society, and
lately published.
The Secretary laid before the Meeting a letter
from Dr. Coventry, Professor of Agriculture in the
Uriiversity of Edinburgh, a member of this Society,
with two publication* by the Doctor, the one en-
titled, " Discourses e.riltuustory of the object and
phis of his Course of Lectures on Agriculture and
Rural Economy." The other, "Remarks es Lire
Stork, surd relative Subjects," and requesting per-
mission to deatiCiat to the Society a new and en -
larged edition of this last work. 'The Meeting au-
thorised the Secretary to express their acknowledg-
ments to Dr. Coventry, for his uniform attention to
the interests of Agriculture, and to inform him that
he was authorised to dedicate his proposed treatise
to the Society.
A letter from Mr. George Walker, of Hunter's-
square, Edinburgh, Landscape Painter to His Ala-
jesty, was read, stating, that haviOg by Ilia Ma-
jesty's authority drawn up a description of the Roes'
collection of pictures at 5% indoor Castle, and Win-
, hug materials foe an account of most of the other
celebrated collections in England, Mr. Walker was
also desirous of describing the most valuable pie-
tism' in Scotland, in the view of publishing an ai-
count of the whole, how soon this amid be amour
--Illisied, and requesting the inffuence oldie Seciay.
with such of its inembas as were ipundisaimt of
valuable original pictures, to induce theemttedieeet
lists of such piyturioa to be trausmitted to Mr.
Walker, specifying the subject of each, and the
master's name, when known. Besides historical
pictures sad landscapes, the author embraces por-
traits
of illustrious characters, by Ilolbein, Itubent,
Vandyoke and Jamieson. Mr. Walker's letter was
accompanied by a work-published by him, entitled,
H A Descriptive Catologue if Origirial Pictures, by
the most esteemed Masters of the Italian, French,
Flemish, Dutch, alai British Schools; to which is
added, a Prospedus of his proposed Publicatioa."
The Society, while it attends to those objects
felling more immediately within the sphere of its
institution, expressed themselves also desirous of
encouraging, so far as in their power, the fine arts,
sad preserving the antiquities of the country. The
Society, therefore, entertained no doubt, that such
Noblemen and Cs'entleniea of the Society its were
possessed of rateable original pictures, would be
ready to comply with Mr. Walker's request.
The Society then proceeded, on motion from
the Secretary, to the election of Presideut, Vice-
President, and other officers, for the current year;
when his Gracethe Duke of Athol was re-elected
President; the Marquis of liuntly, the Earl of
Caithness, the Earl of Roselyn, and Lord Viscount
Cathcart, Vice-Presidents.
Several other matters haring been referred to the
Directors, the meeting, with much approbation,
unanimously voted the thanks of the Society to
Lord Viscount Cathcart, for his conduct in the
their. and attention to the interests of the Society.
In the afternoon, • respectable pony of the
Society attended the Anniversary Dinner at Oman's
Tavern, Lord Viscount Cathcart, ViemPresident,
in the chair, when many loyal, patriotic, and ap-
propriate toasts, were_given.
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NAV. / L /NTELLIGENCE.

rORTSKOUTII, AN. 18.
This day arrived the Sprightly, Lieut. Gordon,
from off Uavre ; and a French lugger privateer, sent
in by the Laser, Lieut. Gillman.
Sailed the Ampliion, with a convoy of 43 sail,
Capt. Hoste, for the Mediterranean ; the I.irely,
38 guns, Capt. M.Kinley, to join Sir Charles Cot-
ton ; the Bkosen 18, Capt. I'igot, to join Sir t%
Cotton ; the Palliate, Capt. Lumley ; the Cumber-
land, 74, llou. Capt. Wodehouse, to join the
Channel fleet ; the Mak. Capt. Loring, with 18
aft, cbtivriy- toCork.
The Leonidas, ('apt. Dunbar, is to take out
3fajor-Geueral Sir (1. Prevost, to Scotia.
The dth Dragoon Guards landed to-day, and
part of the 17th Light Dragoons.
The Barecouta sloop, Capt. Harris, with di.-
patches for the East ladies, is expected to bail to-
morrow.

DIAL, JAN. 18.

Sailed Ifni Majesty's ship Clyde, on a cruise.
Arrived His Majesty's ship Ruya!hit, from a
cruise, and rema►ns ►n the Downs with the rest of
the snips as per lwit.—Wind N.E.
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cosi, JAN. 13.

At an early hour on Monday morning, Adm. Mur-
ray sailed from Cove fur Portsmouth, in the Poly-
phseuts, with the other shipa of war that accom-
panied him, and a fleet oft ransports, having on
hoard the (ith Itegiment of Dragoons, and the 17th
Regiment of Dragoons, which lately arrived in this
port. from South America ; and idol the Second
Battalion of the 3ith Regiment of Foot, lately
quartered at Bandon, with detachments of the 13th,
114. and 31st Regiments of Foot, which consist
.entirely,of Volunteers from the Irish Militia. The
.448 e hound up Chaiitrel also railed under the Ad-
virgo matey.
FALMOUTH, JAS. le.
led His liiiestHer ship il,rtaiese. Irons Ply-
, Plc!, with 1 totwuy for Cork ; also two trans-
) %Me Attu! o Nig), names utaltawwa, port of
Genets/Spence: s Itxpeditiou.