vain endeavoured to seduce into the plot. These men they kept three days in confinement, during which time they endeavoured to destroy them by suffocation; and thus succeeded in terrifying them to assist in working the vessel. They then altered their course, and steered for the North of Scotland, where they sunk the vessel off the coast of Ross-shire, and landed the specie on the isle of Lewis, in that county, and hid it in the sands. Here they were visited by some custom❤ house officers, to whom they represented themselves as shipwrecked mariners; but the boy Camelier followed the officers, and divulged the whole story, when they were apprehended, and brought to Edinburgh for trial. The jury found them guilty upon the clearest testimony; and they were sentenced by the Judge Admiral, Sir John Connell, Knight, to be execu ted within flood-mark on Leith sands, on the 9th of January next, and their bodies given for dissection. They were both young men. Heaman is a native of Sweden, but came to England when a boy, and has since belonged to Sunderland. He is married, and his wife, with several children, were in the Outer Session House during the trial. Gautier is a Frenchman, and has a wife somewhere in Spain. DECEMBER. 4. Wednesday the old practice was revived, of the Writers of his Majesty's Signet appearing in the Inner-House of the Court of Session in their gowns. A few of the elder members were present. An order was lately issued by the civil and criminal Courts, by which certain entrances and seats in the Inner-Houses of both Divisions, and also in the High Court of Justiciary, are appropriated to the exclusive use of the members of the Faculty of Advocates, and society of Writers to the Signet, when wearing their gowns. Administering the Sacrament.On the 27th ult. the Presbytery of Hamilton took into consideration, certain innovations practised lately by some ministers in some parts of this church, in dispensing the sacrament of our Lord's Supper to the communicants sitting in pews, as is done by the Independents, Methodists, and other sectaries of England, in place of coming to the Communion Table, according to the laws and constant practice of the es tablished Church of Scotland: and having deliberated on this subject at considerable length, the Presbytery, most de cidedly and unanimously, disapproved of these unlawful innovations, in opposition to the purity and uniformity of worship presently established, and practised in this our national Church; and they ap pointed a committee of their number to prepare an overture on this subject to the Synod, or General Assembly, or both, in order that a stop may be put to these ir. regular and unlawful proceedings, and to report to the Presbytery at their meeting in March next. 8.-Execution. Yesterday Margaret Tindal, or Shuttleworth, after receiving a respite of one month, was executed at Montrose, for the murder of her husband. This unfortunate woman, who, it will be recollected, was in a state of intoxication when she committed the horrid deed, had all along protested her innocence of the crime. She appeared otherwise deeply impressed with her awful situation, and expressed great penitence for much wick. edness of which she accused herself. When brought on the scaffold, she came forward with a firm pace; and, after the executioner had adjusted the rope, she ad dressed the audience in a strong and au dible voice-protested her innocence of the crime for which she was to suffer, and cautioned the spectators against the vice of drunkenness, and the sin of Sabbath breaking. Her last words were “ I die innocent-I loved my husband-I love my life Jesus Christ, have mercy on my soul!" London. Some idea may be formed of the extent of traffic in the city of London, from the following account of what passed over London Bridge in one daynamely, on the 16th of October 1820; since which, it is presumed, there has been an increase rather than a diminu tion:-Foot passengers, 56,180; coaches, 871; gigs and taxed carts, 520; waggons, 587; carts and drays, 2576; and horses, 472. Cartland Crags Bridge. This magnificent undertaking may now be said to be almost accomplished, and three noble arches open a broad and spacious way over that stupendous chasm, which nature seemed to present as an insurmountable barrier to the progress of the traveller. While this structure does honour to the talents of the engineer, (Mr Telford), the admirable manner in which it has been constructed, and the efficacy with which machinery has been made to facilitate the whole operations connected with its masonry, do great credit to the ingenuity of the contractor, Mr Minto. Its altitude is said to be superior to that of any other bridge in Great Britain, and the view from its centre, in point of beauty and sublimity of scenery, cannot be excelled. These, however, are minor considerations when contrasted with its utility, serving, as it does, as a useful medium of communication on the Clydesdale and Stir ling roads, which diverging from the west end of the bridge, will open by one route a new communication between Carlisle and Glasgow, and by another between the west of England and north of Scotland. These great roads, with the numerous bridges, canals, and other national improvements of a similar description, now in progress in the country, owe their origin, at least their more immediate commencement, to the late pressure of the times, which induced public-spirited individuals to make strenuous exertions, and considerable sacrifices, in order to find bread and employment for the industrious labourer and artizan. 13. Glasgow Musical Festival. This Festival was held on Monday the 3d, Wednesday the 5th, and Friday the 7th instant, in the theatre of that city. Its success, we hear, will leave about £.200 for the poor. The gross receipts amounted to about £.2300, and the expences to about £.2100. Madame Catalani receiv ed about £.760; Mr Braham, £.260; Mrs Salmon, £. 200; Signor Spagnoletti, £120; Signor Placci, £.80; and upwards of £.300 were, it is said, expended on alterations of the house. Our estimate of the numbers on Monday appears to have been tolerably correct. greatest number attended on Friday, when there were about 1700 present. The Jury Court, Edinburgh-On Monday, a pleading of considerable length took place in the Jury Court, upon the relevancy of an action at the instance of Professor Lesslie against Mr William Blackwood, for an article contained in a number of his Magazine, alleged to be of a libellous nature. This appearing to the Court to be a case of considerable importance, and being the last day of the present term, their Lordships delayed giving their opinion until next term. The King's intended visit to Scotland. It is expected that his Majesty King George IV. will visit Scotland in May next; and it is stated in the Dundee Advertiser, that a clothier in Dunkeld has received orders to provide three hundred suits of tartan, with bonnets and hose complete, for the purpose of clothing a body of sturdy Highlanders, as a guard for his most gracious Majesty, when he visits his grace the Duke of Athol at Athol-House. St Paul's Cathedral.-Yesterday morning St Paul's Church-yard exhibited a scene of great bustle and gaiety, in consequence of the appearance of the Union Jack Standard on one of the poles which compose the fearful scaffolding of 17. High Court of Justiciary. This day John Law hobbled into Court, leaning on a stilt and staff, attended by an officer, and, being put to the bar, was charged with three several acts of fraud and imposition, and also with stealing, in the month of January last, from Alexander Stewart, Corstorphine, into whose house he had obtained entrance in con sequence of false pretences, a watch, seals, and keys, spy-glass, &c. The indict ment having been read, the prisoner made a partial confession of his guilt, to the extent of having practised the imposi tion, and committed the theft at Corstorphine, but protested that he was not guilty as to the other charges contained in the indictment. The Court found the indictment relevant, and the Jury convicted the pannel in terms of his own confession. It was pleaded in mitigation of punishment, that the prisoner had been his watch. After the indictment was read, the Lord Advocate adjourned the diet against Grainger, Black, and Elder, till the 8th of January next. The pannel Hutchinson pleaded Guilty, and the Lord Advocate restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment; when the Jury finding him Guilty in terms of his own confession, the sentence was commuted to 14 years transportation. 22. Court of Session.-Actions against the Beacon.In the action raised at the instance of Mr James Gibson against the subscribers to a bond of credit for support of the Beacon newspaper, the defenders having presented a petition to the Court against Lord Alloway's interlocutor of the 7th inst. remitting the cause to the Jury Court, it was this day moved in the First Division of the Court, when, after having heard Counsel, Messrs Moncrieff and Jeffrey for Mr Gibson, and Messrs Thomson and Mackenzie for the defenders, the Court ordered the petition to be answered. The same day, a petition against Lord Pitmilly's interlocutor, remitting the case of Lord Archibald Hamilton against Mr Duncan Stevenson, the printer of the Beacon, to the Jury Court, was moved in the Second Division of the Court. After hearing Mr M'Neill and Mr More for the petitioner, and Mr Clerk, Mr Moncrieff, and Mr Jeffrey, for the pursuer, the Court appointed the petition to be answered. Sheriff-Court, Stirling.On the 13th instant came on at Stirling, before Ranald Macdonald, of Staffa, Esq. advocate, Sheriff-Depute of Stirlingshire, the trial of John Stainton, advocate, charged with having causelessly and groundlessly taken up deadly malice and ill-will against Joseph Stainton of Biggarshiells, manager of the Carron Company, his uncle; and with having, on several occasions, assaulted, molested, pursued, and invaded, the person and house of Joseph Stainton, following him from place to place, forcibly entering his dwelling-house, and threatening to take the lives of Joseph Stainton, and Mrs Jean Stainton, his wife. This was the substance of seven charges contained in the indictment. The third charge, of which the prisoner was convicted, accused him of coming to the house of Joseph Stainton, accompanied by another person, about eleven o'clock at night of the 9th July last, and with violent oaths demanding admittance. Failing to obtain admission by the door, he again broke in the kitchen, window, which had been repaired since the former attack, and entered the kitchen, attempting to get admission to that part of the house where Mr and Mrs Stainton were, by a door which is between the house and kitchen. The door being locked, John Stainton beat violently against it with a poker or tongs, for the purpose of breaking it open, declaring, with many oaths, that he had come to take their lives. The servant at that instant bolted the door, and confined them to the kitchen. Being unable to break the door, they forcibly entered an adjoining house by a window, and endeavoured to force an entrance to his uncle's house through a brick partition. The female servant of Mr Joseph Stainton detailed the particulars of the attack upon the house. In her cross-examination, she was asked if Mr and Mrs Stainton had lived together for a long time previous to their marriage. Mr Jeffrey objected to this question, as utterly irrelevant to any point in the libel or of the pannel's defence, and the objection was sustained by the Court. Some other witnesses were examined, relative to some other charges in the indictment, of which the prisoner was acquitted. Mr Maconochie, the Depute Advocate, mentioned, that though the present case was at the instance of the public prosecutor, Mr Jeffrey had kindly consented to address the Jury for the prosecution. Mr Jeffrey, in his address, dwelt particularly on the aggravated nature of an assault on a dwelling-house, the retreat of domestic peace, and the usual protection of midnight slumbers, while it contained only two unprotected females, one of them his uncle's wife, who was in the fifth month of her pregnancy. Mr Cockburn, in defence, denied that the pannel was actuated by malice, and attributed his disorderly conduct entirely to intoxication. The learned Sheriff summed up the evidence, and the Court adjourned till the following day, when the Jury found the charge of having entered the house forcibly, proven; and, after a suitable admonition from the Sheriff, the pannel was sentenced to pay a fine of £.50, to be imprisoned one month, and to find security to keep the peace for five years, under a penalty of £.300 sterling. JANUARY 1822. IRELAND. Notwithstanding that nu merous convictions and several executions have taken place in this country, tranquillity seems yet to be but partially restored. A recent number of the Dublin Correspondent gives the following comparative view of the present state of the several counties of Ireland :— "The counties in tranquillity are Antrim, Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Down, Dublin, Fermanagh, Kildare, King's Co.. Leitrim, Londonderry, Longford, Louth. Mayo, Monaghan, Queen's County, Sligo, Tyronne, Wexford, and Wicklow. "Those partially disturbed are sevenCarlow, Galway, Kilkenny, Meath, Ros common, Waterford, and Westmeath. "Insubordination and crime disgrace, to a wide extent, the remaining fiveClare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, and Tipperary." 1-Countess of Jersey. The trial of the proprietors of the John Bull, weekly paper, for a libel on the Countess of Jer sey, came on in the Court of King's Bench, London, this day. Mr Scarlett stated the case, and the Solicitor-General in reply, contended that the publication was privileged, and not libellous. The Jury deliberated about ten minutes, and returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Heavy Rains, and Great Floods, &c.--In the course of the past week, many parts of the south and west of England have been visited by very heavy rains, in consequence of which the roads were in several places laid under water for some time. At London the Thames rose on Friday to such a height, that all the cellars, and most of the kitchens, parlours, &c. on both sides of the river, were more or less under water. The utmost consternation prevailed. Many of the kitchens in Great Surrey-street had water in them a foot deep. The main road leading from Vauxhall was covered with boats conveying people to places of safety. Hundreds of families were hurried from their homes with all the unceremonious and destructive confusion usual at great fires. Boats were seen gliding along the streets near the river, every where except where interrupted by high walls or fences. At Kingston-on-Thames, people calling at any of the neighbouring houses, were obliged to hire a punt. A post-boy returning to Egham, was surrounded on every side by the rapidly-increasing floods; he was with a great deal of difficulty saved, and a pair of horses in a chaise he was taking home were drowned. On the road to Salisbury from London, the old Salisbury coach saved a London post-boy and two horses, near Staines, after the poor fellow had been in water above an hour, with his head just high enough to avoid suffocation. All the moors and low grounds near Taunton present huge sheets of water. The Worcester mail could not get over Tewkesbury bridge on Wednesday., The guard was obliged to take a boat, swim a horse by the side of it, and mount as soon as the horse found his feet. Godmanchester, not far from Stamford, the people were obliged to throw the water out of their chamber windows by buckFts. The fens of Lincolnshire are three VOL. X. At or four feet under water. At Plymouth there was a tremendous gale on Thurs. day night, which, amongst other damage, blew down a stack of chimnies, that so much injured the paintings and machinery of Mr Thiodon's Theatre of Arts, that what cost £.1000, is not worth £.250. The floods in the neighbourhood of Oxford have been so high, that all the entrances into that city have the appearance of springing from an immense lake. Brighton and the neighbouring parts of Sussex, there has been very stormy weather for above two months. No collier has been able to come on the beach for that time. The low lands in Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, and some of the neighbouring counties, are under water. The guard of the Exeter mail was obliged to travel fifteen miles in boats. At Curious discovery of a Robbery.-On Wednesday evening last week, a robbery was committed by some youthful depredators, well known in the annals of the Edinburgh Police Court, which was discovered in a very singular manner. The servant of a cowfeeder having collected some linen, with an intention to rise early next morning to wash, placed the whole in a loft or garret. Being roused by a noise, some hours after, she proceeded to the loft, when she discovered that the clothes, with the exception of one small parcel, had been carried off. She immediately awakened her master and mistress; when, in the course of the examination which took place, the end of a netted worsted garter was found entangled in the remaining parcel. lowing the thread along several passages and windings, they arrived at a neighbouring house, into which having obtained admittance, they were led by their clue to a closet, in which three boys were asleep, or pretending to be so; and below their heads were found the whole of the stolen clothes! Fol. 5.-Union Canal.-On Monday last the first passage-boat for the Union Canal, Flora M'Ivor, was launched from the slip at Lochrin, and, notwithstanding the confined situation, she went off in good style, much to the satisfaction of the crowd of spectators assembled on the occasion. The appearance of the vessel in the water is remarkably light and elegant, and the interior accommodation surpasses any thing of the kind we have yet seen. The cabin and eating-room are fitted up by Mr Trotter, in his best manner, and having a large covered balcony abaft, are admirably adapted to the convenience and comfort of passengers, the whole being well heated by stoves. On new-year's-day, the boat sailed, for the first time, with the mana R gers, on a survey of the canal, as far as Ratho, and was the whole distance greeted by the cordial cheers of almost the whole population of the adjoining country, whom the novelty of the scene had drawn to the banks. On their return to Edinburgh, the party sat down in the large cabin to a cold collation, which is the first expense for entertainment of any kind which has been incurred during the course of this great and extensive work. It gives us great pleasure to hear that the whole work is now in a very forward state, the water having been already let on for 28 miles out of the whole length, which is 30 miles; and we therefore congratulate our readers on the prospect of this important communication being opened for trade in a very few weeks. 12.-Constitutional Association.An opponent has at length entered the lists against the Constitutional Association, and bids defiance to their utmost efforts to the six acts, or to any acts that ever have been, or ever can be passed. The opponent is no less a personage than Waddington, of radical notoriety, who has entered" Carlile's Temple," where he offi ciates as high priest, and has commenced upon a system which augurs difficulties innumerable in the way of future attacks. The plan is this:-at the back of the shop is a partition, in the centre of which is a small box, somewhat like those of cheque-takers at the theatres. The person desirous of making a purchase of any forbidden work, taps at the door. "What do you want ?" demands a voice from within. The name of the work is then mentioned, and the purchaser puts down the money for it in the box. A door closes over it, and opens again, when the particular publication is found in the box. No one is seen, or can be identified. Old Bailey-On Friday the Grand Jury returned "True Bills" against John Vamphew, William Holmes, John Barclay, George Clarke, alias John Jones, and " a man whose name is unknown," for the publication of blasphemous libels, in Carlile's shop, called the Temple of Reason, in Fleet-street. These bills, with the exception of that against Clarke, (preferred by the Society for the Suppression of Vice,) were preferred by the Bridgestreet Society. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL. 1821. Dec. 10. The Marquis Wellesley appointed Lieutenant-General, and General Governor of Ireland; and Mr Goulbourn to be Private Secretary to the Noble Marquis. 11. The Duke of Dorset, Marquis Conyngham, and Mr Goulbourn, sworn of his Majesty's privy council. The Duke of Montrose appointed Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's household. -The Duke of Dorset to be Master of the Horse to his Majesty. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. Dec. 1. The United Associate Congregation at Drymen, last week, gave an unanimous call to Mr John Blair, preacher of the gospel, to be their pastor. 6. The Rev. Robert Carr was placed minister of Luss, in room of the late Dr Stuart. 18. The second congregation of Arbroath, in connexion with the United Associate Synod of the Secession church, gave an harmonious call to Mr Hannah, preacher of the gospel, to be their pastor. 24. General Hay has presented the Rev. John Farquharson, M. D. to the parish and church of Rathven, in the presbytery of Fordyce, and county of Banff, vacant by the death of the late Rev. George Donaldson, minister of that parish. Jan. 2.-The United Associate Congregation of Limekilns, gave a harmonious call to Mr James Whyte, preacher of the gospel, to be their pastor. 3. The Rev. William Thomson, assistant minister in the Chapel of Ease, Glasgow, was admitted to be minister of the parish of Old Monkland, in the Room of the late Rev. Mr Bower. 6 9 12 13 14 17 Aug. Disbrowe, Gren. Gds, do. do. Capt. Simson, Town Maj. of Portsmouth, Major do. 16 in the Army 8 Jan. 1815. Capt. Jarmy, from h. p. Staff Corps of Cav. Capt. Cornet Harrison, Lt. Sullivan, do. Lt. Robison, from h. p. 29 Dr. do. Loftus, from h. p. 24 Dr. do. do. do. 26 do. 27 do. Lindsay, from 17 Dr. do. do. - Gillespie, from h. p. 20 Dr. do. Clarke, from 17 Dr. do. do. do. 26 do. 27 do. and 25 do. J. S. Smith, Cornet, vice Harrison Dr. do. W. Terry, Cornet by purch. vice Pery, 7 6 do. Sub-Lt. Lord F. Conyngham, from 2 Life Gds. Lt. by pur. vice Ellis, 76 F. 24 Oct. Cornet Broadhead, from 16 Dr. Lt. by purch. vice Hay, prom. do. A. Davies, Cornet by purch. vice Kennedy, 7 F. 22 Nov. Cornet Lawrenson, Lt. do. vice Bacon, 18 Dr. 6 Dec. D. T. Cunynghame, Cornet by purch. 13 do. Cornet Burroughs, Lt. do. vice Vandeleur. 84 F. R. T. Gilpin, Cornet, do. Lt. Luard, Capt. do. vice Wrixon, |