SEQUESTRATIONS.

Alexander, W. jun. Paisley, manufacturer
Baird, J. and D. and Co. Newlandsfield, near
Pollockshaws, printers

Broadfoot, J. Leith, merchant
Bruce, W. Glasgow, cabinet-maker

Carrick, J. lately carrying on trade in Martinique,
in the West Indies, and in Glasgow
Chalmers, J. Gorbals, Glasgow, feuar and builder
Clark, J. Glasgow, merchant and agent
Don, J. Dundee, manufacturer

Dove, J. Leith, merchant and ship-owner
Forbes, W. Aberdeen, merchant and agent
Gemmill, J. and Son, Glasgow, ship-brokers and
merchants

Jameson, C. and Sons, Inverness, merchants
Jamieson, W. Glasgow, agent

Kennedy, H. Glasgow, cabinet-maker

Laird, J. and Co. Greenock, and W. Laird and Co. Liverpool, merchants

Macindoe, Galbraith, and Co. Glasgow, calender

ers

M'Donald and Gibson, Glasgow, cotton-yarn merchants

M'Laren, D. Edinburgh, spirit-dealer

Parker, M. Dunfermline, hardware merchant
Philip and Taylor, Aberdeen, merchants
Pitkethly, J. Leith, builder

Rankin, J. Irvine, banker and messenger
Scott, J.jun. Leith, merchant

Shortridge, G. Y. Glasgow, merchant

Todd, Shortridge, and Co. Leven Printfield, print

ers

Wilson, J. Leith, merchant

DIVIDENDS.

Caw, J. Milnal, miller; by J. Gentle, writer in
Edinburgh, 17th July

Durie, W. Firhill, grain and cattle-dealer; by J.
Kerr, accountant, Glasgow, 24th July
Ford, J. Montrose, merchant; by A. Thomson,
writer there, 21st July.

Fulton, A. Kilmarnock, cotton-spinner, at the
Kilmarnock Bank, 9th August

Hamilton, W. Glasgow, grocer; by M. Neilson, merchant there, 20th July

M'Millans, W. and T. Castle-Douglas, merchants; by J. Liddesdale, writer there, 20th July Scott, J. and A. Muir, Monkland-canal basin, near Glasgow, coal-merchants; by W. Waddell of Stonefield, 30th July.

Died at No. 4, Shandwick Place, on the 19th May 1819, HENRY GLASS FORD, Esq. of Dougalston. Endowed with a powerful intellect, and distinguished even among the few by his inflexible integrity, and unsullied honour, Mr Glassford seemed born for a public station, and was qualified for a high one. His mind was capacious, firm, and energetic; his understanding clear and collected; he was prompt in decision, and indefatigable in pursuit.

In those situations of a public nature, which his necessary avocations, and particularly his unwearied exertions for the benefit of those with whom he was connected, allowed him to occupy, his services were marked and important. During the most trying periods of national difficulty and alarm, which commenced with the late war, his exertions were conspicuous. He held the situation of a Vice-Lieutenant in Stirlingshire, and commanded a corps of Yeomanry Cavalry, and afterwards of Infantry and Cavalry united, in that county. To the formation and discipline of these corps he devoted his attention and his time, with unremitting energy, training them by his labour, and animating them by his example, and his spirit. He was, besides, a member of the Volunteer Regiment of Light Horse, which was embodied for the public defence in Glasgow, and to his duties in that capacity he paid the same assiduous attention.

Mr Glassford was more than once chosen to represent the County of Dumbarton in Parliament. In the zealous and able discharge of his duties in this and all other

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situations undertaken by him, he was surpassed by none; sacrificing to them all personal considerations of convenience, emolument, and ease. At the time when the numerous body of merchants in this and other parts of the kingdom, who had sustained such losses by the American war, and whose indemnification was left in a great measure unprovided for at the peace, resolved to prefer their claim for compensation, first to Government, and afterwards to the Houses of Parliament, Mr Glassford was one of the small number, three on the former occasion, and two on the latter, who were deputed by the merchants in this city, to conduct the application: and although these claims were, through the opposition given to them, by his majesty's ministers, ultimately thrown out by a very small majority in the House of Commons, a due estimate was made by the whole body of merchants interested, both here and in London, of his important and persevering exertions in the management of their cause.

For the service of the public in Parliament, Mr Glassford was qualified in a very eminent degree by the consistency of his principles and the independence of his views; by his clearness in the arrangement of business, and his accuracy in detail. But even that object of favourite and laudable ambition, disinterested as it was in him, and unconnected with views of personal aggrandisement, the sense of what to him appeared a stronger duty, and a severe regard to the rule of conduct which he had laid down, determined him to forego, and to confine his attention to other objects, and

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other toils, far less congenial to his own disposition, as well as less prominent in the eye of the world, but the relinquishment of which he considered would be injurious to the interests and welfare of others. He accordingly resigned his seat in Parliament, and retired in a great measure from the scenes of public life. Stedfast to his principle, and unswerving in the line of right which he pursued, difficulties could not deter him, and disappointments did not change. His own exertions and his own attainments he ever valued low. He stopped not to receive outward distinctions, nor placed his account in them. His virtues were of the elevated order, and it was their excess which constituted his failings. Liberal and indulgent to others, he was severe and unrelenting to himself, flattery could not reach him, and he shunned applause.

Mr Glassford was elected Rector of the University of Glasgow in the years 1805 and 1896. The election was, on both occasions, unanimous. He was named, in 1815, to be one of the Board, constituted by Royal Commission in the month of February of that year, for inquiring into, and regulating, the fees of Officers of Justice, in the Courts in Scotland. But this appointment also, and the emolument attached to it, he resigned in a few months afterwards, from motives similar to those which had induced him to relinquish his seat in Parliament, and from other private considerations of the purest and most disinterested nature.

Mr Glassford was of an uncommonly healthful and robust constitution he died, after a few days illness, in the 55th year of his age. As a character, to which those in public stations may fitly be directed for an example of public virtue, we have thought ourselves privileged to express those sentiments respecting him, in which every one to whom he was known will unite, and to offer this imperfect tribute to his worth. Of his more private virtues, and of his importance to those connected with him in the relations of domestic life, it is not our province to speak, nor to estimate their grief, who mourn in secret the loss of such a friend, and the failure of such a prop. How repeated, and how impressive are the warnings which we receive from God. "Be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye know not, the Son of Man cometh."-"Prepare to meet thy God."

THE LATE LORD CHIEF BARON DUNDAS.

June 17, 1819.-Died at Arniston, the Right Hon. ROBERT DUNDAS of Arniston, late Lord Chief Baron of the Court of Exchequer. His Lordship had been for a long time in a very delicate state of health,

and, although he occasionally recruited strength, his friends have for a considerable period felt great alarm for the fatal event which they all now so deeply deplore.

Mr Dundas was the eldest son of the late Lord President Dundas of Arniston, by Miss Grant, youngest daughter of the Honourable William Grant, Lord Prestongrange, and was born on the 6th of June 1758. He entered advocate in the 1779, and at a very early age was appointed SolicitorGeneral for Scotland, at the time the now venerable Sir Ilay Campbell got the situation of Lord Advocate; and at the promotion of the latter as President of the Court of Session in 1789, (on the death of Sir Thomas Miller,) Mr Dundas succeeded to the office of Lord Advocate, while his friend, Mr Blair, the late President, was appointed Solicitor-General. Mr Dundas continued to hold this high office till 1801, (during which period he sat in Parliament as member for the county of Edinburgh,) when, on the resignation of Chief Baron Montgomery, he was installed into that office, which he held till within a short period of his death.

It is so common to eulogise public men, when the silence of death has hushed all hostile feelings of which they might have been the object, that it may be thought we only beat the common tract when we speak of the amiable and valuable qualities of the late Lord Chief Baron. It is, however, the universal feeling that few public men have descended to the grave with stronger claims to the respect and affection of all who knew him. His Lordship cértainly was not endowed with those brilliant talents which were conspicuous in many of his family; but, joined to very respectable abilities, he possessed in an eminent degree those graces of mildness, moderation, and affability, which blunt all personal and political animosity, and were so particularly displayed in the very trying times in which he held the situation of his Majesty's Advocate. We allude, of course, to those recently after the French Revolution, when the minds of men in this part of the country, as well as in others, were agitated with feelings of no common interest. At that eventful period it required, in the person holding the powers and responsibility of Lord Advocate, decision and firmness,-command and moderation of temper; and men of all parties now agree that Mr Dundas, in that situation, possessed and displayed those qualities in a degree salutary to the public, and most honourable to himself. Firm in his official duties, he blended the discharge of these with a spirit of tenderness to those whom he thought misled, and of conciliation to all who differed from him in the opinions at that time agitated; and