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On Friday se❜ennight, a fine grey horse and brewer's cart were precipitated into the North Loch, from the road at the back of the Bank of Scotland, owing to the driver being drunk. The horse was a good deal stunned; but, after lying a considerablə time, was able to resume his labour. On the same day a horse and cart, bearing a large log of timber, fell over the new mound, near the centre, where the bank is highest, and it is wonderful neither the animal nor the carriage sustained any material injury.

CIRCUIT COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

Perth, Wednesday, Sept. 17. The Court was opened by the Lord Justice Clerk and Lord Res. ton.-Alexander Preston, Ninian Allan, and Janet Maxwell, charged with theft and housebreaking, and Eliza M'Ewan, accused of stealing six gallons of whisky, and ninepence in copper, were sentenced to seven years transportation, on their plea of Guilty. Eu pham Burnet, for the theft of a tin oil flask, was also sentenced to transportation; Mary Ross, for the same offence, is, on account of her age, to be imprisoned in Perth jail for twelve months. Elizabeth Farquharson, found Guilty, on her own confession, of stealing three pairs of sheets, is also to be confined twelve months in Perth jail, The diet was deserted, pro loco et tempore, against James Young and John Foggo, for beating and bruising the gamekeeper and groom of the Earl of Rosslyn; and the bailbond of Charles Walters, a sailor, accused of the same offence, was forfeited for non-appearance. Jean Robertson and John Gray, accused of theft and reset of theft, were, on their own petition, banished Scotland for seven years.

Thursday, Sept. 18.

The Court proceeded to the trial of George M‘Millan and Malcom Clark, from Stanely, accused of southrief, theft, and theft and housebreaking.

M'Millan having failed to appear, sentence of fugitation was pronounced against him, and Clark pleaded Guilty. The offences were so aggravated, that, independent of his confession, Mr Drummond thought it his duty to prove at least one of the charges. The evidence, was perfectly clear, and the Jury found him Guilty, but a majority recommended him to mercy.

Lord Reston delivered his opinion of the case, and stated, that from its aggravated nature, and the necessity of putting a check to a crime which of late had become too prevalent in this country, it was his painful duty to say, that the recommendation of the Jury, though it would certainly receive every attention, would probably only excite delusive hopes in the mind of the prisoner.

After a most impressive address from the Lord Justice Clerk, the pannel was sentenced to be executed at Perth upon Friday the 31st day of October 1817. Clark is a good-looking young man, seemingly not above 20 years of age. He behaved with becoming decorum through the whole trial; but, until the last words of the sentence, he gave no outward signs of being much affected.

Ayr, September 11. James Hamilton and Charles Neil were accused of housebreaking and theft. Neil was found Guilty on his own confession, and the libel against Hamilton Not Proven. Neil was banished for 7 years; and Hamilton was acquitted, but recommitted on another charge of theft.-William Hamilton, charged with breaking a shop. window of Andrew Wallace, jeweller, Ayr, and stealing therefrom several watches, pled Guilty. The Depute Advocate, however, examined several witnesses, who proved the robbery. He was recommended to mercy. The Judge (Hermand) sentenced him to be hanged on 17th October, at Ayr, but gave hopes that mercy might be extended to him.

Robert Wallace, shoemaker in Kilmarnock, was indicted for falcifying a letter of credit addressed to him by Mr A. Hamilton of Mauchline, in favour of James Smith, shoemaker, New Cumnock, by adding teen to the syllable six; but the diet was deserted in con. sequence of the advocate-depute's declaration, that he was satisfied Mr Wallace was of unimpeachable character, and wholly innocent of the charge. A warrant was granted against Smith, cited as a

Marian Ferguson, wife of William Hutchison, pled Guilty to the charge of uttering false coin, and was sentenced to four weeks' imprisonment. John Allan, a boy of 14 years of age, pled Guilty to breaking into a bakehouse, and stealing two pecks of flour, and was sentenced to transportation for seven years.

John M'Candlish, A. Davidson, Matthew Boyd, and Jas. Lynch, were outlawed for not appearing.

Inverary, Wednesday Sept. 17.

The Circuit Court was opened by Lord Succoth. Donald Anderson, Niel Anderson, and John Bennet, were accused of mobbing, &c. and compelling excise officers to pay £5, as a compensation for the damage done by them in destroying illicit stills. Neil Anderson was outlawed for non-appearance. The jury next day returned a verdict of Not Proven against both prisoners. Dismissed from the bar.

Donald M'Eachen and James Campbell were accused of stealing a gold watch. The diet was deserted against M'Eachen, who was dismissed from the bar; Campbell pled Guilty, and was sentenced to 12 months' confinement in the jail of Inverary.

Duncan M Millan and Archibald M-Callum, accused of deforcement, were outlawed for non appearance.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.

On Friday se'ennight arrived at Portsmouth, the Moira, Capt. Gawlis, from St Helena, (sailed 25th July), with the remains of the 2d battalion, 53d regiment, commanded by Colonel Ferhszen the effective officers and men are gone to India, in the Baring, to join the 1st battalion. The non-effective officers and men of the 2d battalion of the 66th regiment, embarked in the Dorah, and sailed for this place on the 29th of July ; as also did the Catherine, Griffiths, with troops from India on the 27th.

On Friday se'ennight, the Falmouth, 20 guns, Capt. G. F. Rich, arrived at Portsmouth from the St Helena station, to be paid off. She left the island on the 29th of July, when the Conqueror, Admiral Plampin, Racoon, Leveret, Podargus, and Griffon, were lying there. The Phaeton and Musquito were daily expected from the Mauritius, Sir Richard King having taken that island under his command. The Spey had sailed for Tristan de Cunha, to remove the stores from that island to Ascension: the Griffon was going on the same service; both these vessels were afterwards to come to England. The Julia was at Ascension. Bonaparte was never in better health; the perfect restoration of which he attributes to the constant use of the warm bath. He uses it as the greatest of luxuries, frequently staying in it several hours, reading some book. He afterwards walks much in the grounds of Longwood; and fills up his more relaxed hours by playing at billiards. Captain Popplewell, 53d regiment, who had been on constant duty in attending upon Bonaparte since his arrival at St Helena, is come home. Bonaparte, to testify his sense of the delicate manner in which Captain P. had executed his duty, on his embarking for England presented him with a very superb ornamented gold snuff-box.

Arrived on Saturday se'ennight at Portsmouth, the ship Halifax Packet, in twenty-five days from Halifax, with Captain Samuel Jackson, and the officers and crew (excepting about 50, who have volunteered into the North American squadron) of his majesty's ship Niger, which has been paid off at that port, she being found in an unfit state to proceed home. Captain Jackson left the Leander, Saracen, and Opossum at Halifax; the Harrier had sailed for Jamaica.

The Tortoise store-ship from Rio Janeiro brings accounts of numerous instances of outrage and oppression exercised by the governor of that port on British merchant vessels, in unnecessarily firing at, and compelling ships to anchor, imprisoning boats' crews, and keeping them without provisions. The Tortoise was fired on in this manner, the shot carrying away one of her sails. An officer and boat's crew, sent ashore to remonstrate, were kept prisoners till released by our ambassador, who has sent home an account of the affair, and, it is rumoured, an apology from the Portuguese.

The Tug steam boat arrived at Grangemouth, on Monday se'ennight, in 3 hours from Newhaven, with the Alert, Allan, in tow, neither vessel having carried any sail on the passage.

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Therefore, if there be deducted from the amount of debt of the 1st February, the amount remaining in the names of the commissioners, and the amount purchased and transferred to them since that date, the national debt, at the 1st of August 1817, was actually £.723,834.185 ☐ 15 | 43.

We have the strongest reason for believing that it is in the contemplation of government to reduce the interest upon the next issue of Exchequer Bills to 2d. per day; and the merchants look with confidence to the bank's beginning to discount good bills at the rate of 4 per cent.

An advertisement from the India House states a very important resolution of the Court of Directors, the effect of which is to reduce the interest upon their bonds after the last day of March next, to 4 per cent. The intelligence was communicated upon the Stock Exchange by Mr Cobb, of the India House, about 3 o'clock on Wednesday. The 3 per cent. consols immediately rose in consequence about per cent.; but the more visible effect of the mea. sure was of course to be seen in the rapid depression of the India Bonds. It was first surmised about a week ago, that the East India Company intended to reduce the interest on its bonds by at least one per cent., whereupon the premium upon the India House paper fell suddenly from 120s. to 35s. As this rumour, however, died away, the bonds gradually recovered their value; so that when Mr Cobb reached the Stock Exchange yesterday, the premium had again risen to 103s. His communication instantly sunk it to 50, and between 50 and 60 it left off. One cannot help remarking upon the peculiarity here stated, that the mere rumour of a reduction of one per cent. interest lowered the premium upon the bonds to 35 shillings, while the positive notice of the reduction did not sink it below 50. Such is the effect of a first impression. In the interval, also, the holders have had the means to contemplate the difficulty of lodging their money to greater advantage elsewhere. The Company, also, in allowing above six months before the 'reduction actually takes place, have granted sufficient time to the holders.

It is estimated, says a Brussels paper, that the house of Baring and Co. have gained at least half a million sterling by the two French loans.

MANUFACTURES AND COMMERCE.

The Active frigate, after having been some days off the coast, is 'arrived from Jamaica at Portsmouth. She brings home about £.800,000, chiefly in dollars, and which by far the greater part is for account of the merchants.

A lady landing a few days since at Dover, from the opposite coast, was observed by the custom-house officers to have increased in bulk, rather in an unusually rapid manner, since her departure

45 Majesty's ship Severn had a serious rencontre off Broadstairs, with a gang of smugglers, from whom they took upwards of 300 tubs of gin. In the affray, we are sorry to learn, a British officer was so severely wounded by the smugglers, that but small hopes are on. tertained of his recovery.

The Dock Company of Huli have resolved to erect an extensive warehouse, for the purpose of storing salt, duty free, for exporta. tion, under the regulations of an act passed in the last session of Parliament, allowing such warehouses to be established at London, Hull, Greenock, Leith, and Plymouth; which privilege was by a former act confined to the ports of Liverpool and Bristol only.

The government of Russia having some reason to suppose that an extensive smuggling trade was carried on by British ships at the port of Archangel, as well as other Russian ports, had directed that a more vigorous investigation should be instituted; when it was discovered, that false entries had been made at the customhouses, and means found to introduce on shore merchandize prohibited altogether, or such as afforded a strong temptation to evasion by the high amount of the duty.

Two British ships have been detained at Valparaiso, on account of some irregularity in trade, by the Spanish government of Chili. The British merchants residing at Buenos Ayres, alarmed at this proceeding, had sent a memorial to Commodore Bowles, on the river Plate station, apprising him of the captures which had taken place, and acquainting him at the same time, that as the trade to Chili was there considered to be open to British ships, many had sailed with cargoes from Buenos Ayres, and others were preparing to sail for various ports of that province; and that it was feared, from what had taken place, that all these vessels would be subjected to the same risk; they therefore suggested to Commodore Bowles, the consideration of the propriety of having some force in that quarter to sustain the British rights, and wished that the vessels already captured should be reclaimed.

In America there appears to be a rising demand for European manufactures; and most of the productions of nature promised there, as in this country, to be most abundant. The cotton crops only created some fear.

The Leicester Journal says, "The parishes in Nottinghamshire, aware of the great advantage Leicestershire has derived from the late regulations, have come to the resolution not to manufacture hosiery, or to send men to get work at reduced prices; in consequence of which, the liberal manufacturers have agreed to advance the wages of the framework - knitters, which, with the abundant harvest, will enable the industrious to maintain their families without parochial aid."

contingencies which the exertion of human wisdom could not counThe gloom and embarrassments of adverse times, resulting from teract, are now dispelled in the cheering contemplation of reviving trade, and undoubted prospects of abundance. Every branch of trade has received an impetus, to which it has long been a stranger. Iron Works. There is now an increasing demand for all articles manufactured from this staple commodity. The want of this article in France, from the want of iron ore in the coal districts there, will naturally beget a growing dependence on this country for it; and, aided by the adaptation of iron to purposes where timber and stone were heretofore used, will effectually relieve our industrious manufacturers in this extensive branch of British industry. The bar-iron trade in Wales, Shropshire, and Staffordshire, is in so flourishing a condition, that the iron-masters would rather decline orders even at the advanced prices, for they cannot execute the demands so fast as they receive them. The nail trade likewise is so much on the advance, that the manufacturers again employ those men who, during the winter months, were compelled to seek a scanty sup port, by labouring on the high ways.

Cotton Manufactures.-Manchester goods have lately advanced 10 per cent. and the demand is still increasing: 26,000 bags have been sold in the course of ten days to the manufacturers. The manufacturers of Blackburn, &c. have advance d6d per cwt. on all kinds of goods. In Norfolk the demand for bombazeens, &c. is so

for the continent. They therefore exercised more than usual li-great, that the old looms which have long lain inactive, are now berties with the person of the lady, and eased here of more than £.120 worth of lace, and other contraband goods. For the ladies they have female searchers.

In the night between Saturday and Sunday last, the boats of His 6

put into requisition, and new ones are making. According to a computation recently made, founded on the returns of the first six British manufactories, during the year 1817, may be estimated at months of the present year, the consumption of cotton wool in the

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92,000,000. The consumption for 1816 was not supposed to exceed 72,000,000.

A meeting was lately held in London for the purpose of establishing a society for the protection of the cotton trade, and to form an union with Manchester, Nottingham, Glasgow, &c. ; connections are also to be established with fifteen remote places, viz. at Smyrna, Constantinople, the ports of Italy, and Spain, at Stockholm, Copenhagen, St Petersburgh, &c. As Prussia, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, France, and other countries, have endeavoured to prevent the importation of British cotton manufactures, it was of importance that early information should be obtained of every measure in these places. At this meeting, some information was given relative to the state of manufacturers in Manchester. Competent and industrious hands were employed from twelve to fourteen hours in the day, but the price was scarcely adequate to the support. Calicoes of 28 yards were paid at the rate of 2s. 6d. or 3s., and expert workmen only could execute three pieces in a week, and by a female only two, from which was to be deducted 2s. for the room, &c. Some arti. cles for the weaving, of which heretofore 30s. were paid, are now manufactured at 7s. or 7s. 6d. a-piece.

Silk-manufactures.-The improvement in the silk trade of Spitalfields for some weeks past has been such, that, notwithstanding raw-silk has advanced full 20 per cent., every hand is fully employed.

Long Wools. The demand for this article is at present very great. Many farmers have sold the fleeces of last year on an advance. The importation of foreign wool last year was 8,117,864lbs. of which only 2,958,607lbs. came from Spain, from whence we for. merly had almost the whole of our importation; but now that country sends not much above a fourth part: thus, by allowing the importation, we have encouraged the growth of wool in every country to the prejudice of our own. The declared value of woollen manufactures exported in 1814 was £.7,569,507, in 1815, £.10,188,334, in 1816, £.8,404,488. The export is likely to be greater this year, of course there will be a great demand for wool,

Large orders for goods have been received from the Havannah, in consequence of the governor having permitted British vessels to make entries upon the same terms as Spanish vessels.

A journal for the printing of cottons, linen, silk, serge, &c. is publishing at Augsburg and Leipsic, with coloured plates. This `work contains several memoirs on the whitening and printing of cottons, dying, &c. It is divided into memoirs and communications at large, and into miscellaneous articles, and notices or hints relative to new proceedings, new machines, improvements of old methods or implements, &c., the whole having a view to practice, and amelioration of the state of knowledge and skill in this import. ant and daily more extensive branch of natural industry.

M. Fisher, proprietor of a manufactory of cast steel, in Switzerland, some time ago undertook a journey to England for the pur. pose of visiting the principal manufactories and workshops there. He has since published an account of his travels, which contains a great number of interesting notices; in particular, relating to the towns of Birmingham and Manchester to the iron and steel works to the steam engines of Bolton and Watt-to the prepara. tion of hemp by Mr Lee to the pottery wares of Wedgwood-to the carriages impelled by steam-to the hydraulic presses, and many other things.connected with the manufactures and machinery of Britain.

The summer orders from America, the continent, and colonies, have given a considerable impulse to several branches of our manufactures.

Quantity of Porter brewed by the six principal houses in London, from July 1816 to July 1817 :--

Barclay, Perkins, and Co........................................................ 281,484 Barrels.

Hanbury and Co.

Reid and Co.

Whitbread and Co.

Henry Meaux and Co.

Combe, Delafield, and Co.

168,757

157,131

151,888

124,823

110,776

25,051 Barrels.

16,119

16,886

12,352

Quantity of Ale brewed by the four principal ale-brewers in London, from July 1816 to July 1817 :--

Stretton and Co. .............

Wyatt and Co............................

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The Emperor of Austria has issued a decree, which prohibits the introduction of raw foreign iron and steel, as well as all articles, of whatever description, manufactured from those articles.

A letter from Dominica, dated July 19, states, "that flour was 13 dollars per barrel, and failing much. There were from 6 to 9000 barrels of it in the market. About 1000 hogsheads of tobacco had lately arrived, and the markets had been overstocked with all kinds of American produce; sugar 8 dollars to 9 per cwt. All the exportation of sugar in foreign vessels was prohibited on 1st July.

The machinery and implements of a woollen factory in Baltimore were lately sold, when some of the articles brought only one tenth of the original cost, for others a fourth and a half were paid: such is the estimation in which domestic manufactures are held, observes the Baltimore Gazette.

The fraudulent practice for some time adopted in the United States, of increasing the weight of bales of cotton, by placing stones among them, bids fair, says the American papers, to attract the notice of the Government.

The National Advocate, an American paper, says, "The Rus sians, whom we have imagined to be a heavy, dull people, without spirit or enterprise, are giving us daily proofs to the contrary.--They have taken possession of one of the islands in the Pacific ocean, not far from the Sandwich islands, which they have fortified. They will now derive the advantages of the whaling trade, one of the most profitable and necessary pursuits for the Russians, who consume great quantities of oil.

The French papers say, that there were lately in the port of Cronstadt 860 vessels, chiefly loading with corn for France, Holland, and the Netherlands.

Grain imported into Leith, for the week ending the 12th Sept.-Foreign-Wheat, 1330 quarters, 273 bags. Oats, 740 quarters. Coastwise Wheat, 448 quarters, 100 bolis. Flour, 854 barrels.

Non-importation agreements in Sweden. In the port of Calmar, the tenth town in the kingdom, containing 4,600 inhabitants, the magistrates, and a great part of the citizens, have signed an agreement to restrict the number of dishes and kinds of wine at table→→→ to banish the use of coffee, confectionary, &c.—and that the women shall lay aside all dresses of gauze tulle, crape, &c. and shall not wear any lace above two inches broad, or Turkish, or expensive shawls. The deputies from the peasants have also come to similar resolutions and that the clothes of every one shall be stamped as being of home manufacture, under a penalty. The measures which have been taken since the spring by the government, to prevent the importation of foreign merchandize, has occasioned, as might have been expected, a stagnation in the sale of home productions. It is proposed by the Swedes to destroy barter and exchange-that commerce shall take a new turn, and all its maxims be reversed→→→ all sales, and no purchases! This prohibitory system is laying the foundation of an extensive smuggling trade. In the meantime, several bankruptcies have taken place among the first houses at Drontheim and Christiana, and great distress prevails in Norway for want of employment. The continental journalists state, that Lord Strangford is commissioned to prevail upon the court of Stockholm to grant more indulgence to English commerce.

Considerable activity prevails in the United States to organize societies, the object of which is as much as possible to promote domestic manufactures, to supersede those of Great Britain.

Trade is fast rising among the South-Sea Islands; and as many of the natives have entered on board of the ships of the different nations which have touched there, we may expect to find that an additional impulse will soon be given to their prosperity. The ship Macquarrie left Otaheite on the 24th of April last, with a cargo of nearly 60 tons of pork, excellently cured. She next reached Morea, (Eimeo), one of the Society islands, where the missionaries have latterly resided. Several other islands were visited, where a few tons of pork were obtained, but the chief part of the cargo was taken in at Bolabola. In these Islands the women were now permitted toe at pork. War had almost desolated the main island, Otaheite. A force of three hundred men was still considered a numerous army. Although they had a number of muskets, and knew tolerably well how to use them, yet they do but little execution. If two or three fall, the main body immediately gives way, and flies in every direction. They have a great quantity of poultry, the common domestic fowl, and Muscovy ducks, with goats. The

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missionaries have a few head of horned cattle, with some sheep; but hogs and the bread-fruit constitute the chief dependence of the islands. The banana seems to have been indegenous there. sweet tropical potato, the pimpkin, and melon, are also cultivated. The captain of this vessel has, during his late excursions, sown among the islands the larquet, the peach, the celery, and other garden seeds. Cotton is of spontaneous growth among most of the islands. The face of the country, though very beautiful, has derived additional luxuriance from the intercourse with the British; and the inhabitants, under the guidance of their missionary friends, promise to become a good and happy people. The inhabitants of Bolabola made the commander of this vessel a present of their deity, which consisted of a log of wood from five to six feet long, and two or three inches thick, with a number of faces carved upon it. They parted with it as a proof of their reformation. In the course of fifteen years, ending with the year 1813, the sum paid by this country, for grain and flour, amounts to £46,582,776-money given away unnecessarily, according to some economists, We would, however, ask these patriotic reasoners, if the Americans, who take about ten or twelve millions annually of our manufactures, would long continue their orders, if we refused to receive their corn and flour, or the other productions of their country? To prove any thing from the fact now mentioned, it should be shewn, that all vessels bringing corn return in ballast, and that the places to which they belong neither consume nor receive any of our commodities. We are afraid, if we do not import, we shall not long continue our exports. Sweden is now trying the experiment of limiting her people to her own productions. It is not difficult to foresee that she will also be compelled to consume and use all her wood and iron.

The quantity of grain grown annually in England and Scotland is estimated at thirty millions of quarters of eight bushels, which, taken at an average of £.3 per quarter, amounts to ninety millions. This immense sum circulates, first on food, and then as capital through the different orders of society.

It is a circumstance somewhat curious, in the north of England at present, that the hay and corn harvests are going on together, as from one field men may be seen leading hay, and from another carrying corn; and so industrious are they, that " E'en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to them," but the work goes on unceasingly through the whole week.

Trade is much improved at Dundee. Cloth, which two months ago was selling at 6s. has advanced to 14s.

AGRICULTURE.

The few shearers who were hired at the West Port on Monday morning were engaged at from 1s, to ls. and 4d. with two diets a-day. This hiring-market is not, as in former years, a criterion of the state of the harvest in this quarter; the labourers from the Highlands being more than usually numerous, they perambulate the country in little bands, in quest of employment, so that the farmer is seldom at a loss to procure as many as he requires, on his own grounds; of course, few of them have had occasion to send to Edinburgh for reapers.

A society of graziers and gentlemen of landed property is about to be established in Dublin, at the head of which is the Duke of Leinster, Lord Cloncurry, and Robert Latouche, Esq. for the removal of combinations in the provision trade of that city, by opening public slaughter-houses for cattle, sheep, hogs, &c.

On the 19th inst. a stalk of barley was observed in a field at Auchterblair, in the parish of Duthel, Strathspey, of an appearance so singular that Major Grant has preserved it, and intends to sow the seeds. There are two heads of barley issuing from one stem. The largest has produced seventy-two grains, the smallest has yielded forty-eight grains; the stalk was of the length of ordinary barley. In the year 1815, on this farm a field was plough. ed up which had not been in cultivation for more than forty years, and at the bottom of deep furrows were discovered several grains of barley perfectly sound. Some old people in the neighbourhood recollected that barley was the last produce in that spot. The grains were quite detached, and could not have been the store of field-mice or other creatures, as no refuse appeared, and, had they been a store, they would have been less scattered.

47 Around Annan and Dumfries the harvest is now quite general, and in reference to the whole of this fertile county, we believe we may safely state, that if the reapers are not yet in every field, they are at least employed on every farm. The crops are every where most abundant; and as considerable quantities of grain have been housed, and even some brought to market, there is no longer any doubt as to the excellence of its quality.

Hamilton, Sept. 18.-Our harvest proceeds with great activity; much has been cut down in this district since the commencement of the month. We have had already oatmeal of this year's growth in the market, at 2s. 2d. per peck; and nothing now is wanting to insure one of the best of crops but a short continuance of the present most auspicious weather.

Dundee, Sept. 15.-The crops look well in every part of the country I have been in, and they are nowhere so late as in the vi cinity of Glasgow. In Stirlingshire, the harvest is one-fourth advanced; in Perthshire, one-half; in Angus-shire, two-thirds; in Aberdeenshire, one-third; and in Brechin, new barley meal has been sold at 11d. a-peck.

BIRTHS.

Sept. 8. At Edinburgh, the lady of John Mansfield, Esq. a son. 9. At Broomhall, the Countess of Elgin, a daughter. At Newbattle Manse, Mrs Thomson, a son.

10. At Edinburgh, the lady of Robert Abercromby, Esq. M. P. a daughter.

At ditto, Mrs Hagart of Bantaskine, a daughter. 12. At Grangehill, Mrs Patrick of Trearne, a son. 13. At New Street, Mrs Megget, a daughter. 15. At Heriot Row, Mrs Wishart, a daughter. At Rafford Manse, Mrs Mackay, a son.

Lately, At Westwood, the lady of Rear-Admiral Otway, a daughter.

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At Marseilles, the lady of Captain Robert Barrie, C. B. Royal Navy, a son.

At St Petersburgh, the lady of James Ramsay, Esq. merch. ant, a son.

-At Edinburgh Castle, the lady of Major Graham, 88th regiment, a son.

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Lady Cremorne, a son and heir.

At Crookses, Mrs Thomson, a daughter,

At Sorn Manse, Mrs Balfour, a son.

Mrs Mackintosh, Nairngrove, a son.

MARRIAGES.

Sept. 4. Mr W. Ainslie, brewer, Hawick, to Miss Jessy Pringle of Easter Stead, Roxburghshire.

9. At Glasgow, John May, Esq. merchant there, to Mary Lyon, eldest daughter of John Alston of Westertoun, Esq.

At Edinburgh, Mr James Blyth, Hat-maker, to Robina, third daughter of David Wishart, Esq. of Shellburn Bank, by Newhaven.

15. At Annfield, near Stirling, Mr William Galbraith, writer, Stirling, to Miss Christian Littlejohn, daughter of Provost Littlejohn, Stirling.

15. At Wigtown, John Black, Esq. writer, Wigton, to Susan, youngest daughter of Dr Robert Couper there.

16. At Edinburgh, Robert Dunbar, Esq. St John's Hill, to Anna Garden, eldest daughter of Mr Dunbar of the tax-office. 22. At Edinburgh, James Roscoe, Esq. of Liverpool, to Miss Jane M'Gibbon Douglas.

At London, Mr C. F. Smart, to Miss Caroline Collis, daughter of F. W. Collis, Esq.

At Campbeltown, Alexander Downie, Esq. merchant, Glasgow, to Mary, only daughter of Alexander Buchanan, Esq. formerly of New York.

At Ayr, Mr James Dunlop, of Haysmuir, to Anne, eldest daughter of Mr Dalgleish, in Dernshaw.

At Alston Moor, Cumberland, Mr Andrew King, manufacturer, Glasgow, to Sarah Ann, daughter of the late W. Hutchinson, Esq. Alston.

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At Dunblane, Mr James M'Hone, of Glasgow, 'to Margaret, daughter of the late Rev. William Fletcher, Bridge of Teith.

The Rev. William Hamilton Maxwell, of Clonallen, to Mary, second daughter of the late Thomas Dobbin, Esq..

At Kelso, Mr George Easton, farmer, Alemoor, to Miss Blackhall, of Berwick.

At Leith, Duncan Macnab, Esq. Deputy Assistant CommissaryGeneral to the forces, to Miss Elizabeth M. Campbell, eldest daughter of Duncan Campbell, Esq. Sheriff. Substitute, Campbel

town.

At Kirkcaldy, Mr Henry Charles Frederick Johnston, of Shoreditch, London, to Miss Mary Ann Hammond of Kirkcaldy. At London, John Jones, Esq. eldest son of John Jones, Esq. of Lanarth Court, to Lady Harriet Plunkett, only daughter of the Earl of Fingal.

At Croydon, J. M'Dowall, Esq. of Meadow Place, Edinburgh, to Catharine Henrietta, third daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Tudor. At Danino Manse, Fifeshire, Charles Rogers, Esq. Dundee, to Anne, daughter of the late John Cruickshank, Esq. of the Island of St Vincents.

At Glasgow, the Rev. John Nicol, Relief Minister, Ayr, to Jean, second daughter of the late Mr Robert Bowie, merchant, Glasgow.

DEATHS.

Sept. 2. At Edinburgh, Mrs Hamilton, relict of Mr Andrew Hamilton, merchant, Edinburgh.

3. At his seat of Tonley, in the county of Aberdeen, in the 84th year of his age, James Byres, Esq. This venerable gentleman resided long at Rome, which he finally left in 1790. To most of our countrymen who visited that city, and to many foreigners of distinction, he was well known; and was no less respected for his probity, than his society was courted for his learning and taste, and agreeable manner of communicating his knowledge to others. 4. Near Musselburgh, John Wilson, Esq. late solicitor in Lon

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At Rochsoles House, Alured Clerke, fourth son of Lieut.Col. Gerard, of Rochsoles.

At Bellisle, Mrs Hamilton of Pinmore.

8, At Foulden-house, James Wilkie, Esq. of Foulden.

9. At his house, Princes Street, Forest Dewer, Esq. surgeon. 11. At Queensferry, James Carfrae, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh. -At Kensington, Ann, youngest daughter of the late Archibald Gilchrist, Esq. merchant, Edinburgh.

12. At Bath, Sir John M'Mahon.

Lady Francis Pelham, daughter of the Earl of Chichester.
At Glasgow, Mr Walter Graham, late baker.

At Berbeth, parish of Stair, Mrs Murdoch, wife of Mr James Murdoch, farmer.

13. At Edinburgh, Mr John Thomson, carver and gilder.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The communications of D. M. will be always acceptable.-Prosperity and Adversity, an Allegory-the hints on cleaning chimnies and Jane Well-beloved will appear in next number.-Various Essays are under consideration.

HIGH WATER AT LEITH,

[Sept. 27, 1817. Haddington, Sept. 19. A middling supply of Wheat in market, which sold heavily; best old 45s. current prices from 22s. to 38s. A considerable quantity of new Wheat in market; best 50s. current prices from 35s. to 56s. Old Barley 4s. lower than last day; best 28s. current prices from 22s. to 27s. New ditto the same as last day; best 34s. current prices from 27s. to 32s. Old Oats 3s. lower than last day; best 30s. current prices from 27s. to 29s. 6d. New ditto 5s. 6d. lower than last day; best 28s. current prices from 24s. to 27s.Pease and Beans 24s. to 30s.

Wheat.
First......45s. Od.
Second...31s. Od.
Third....24s. Od.

Wheat.

OLD.

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Beans.

28s. Od.

30s. Od.

30s. Od.

30s. Od.

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First......50s. Od.
Second...42s. Od.
Third....36s. Od.
788 bolls of Wheat in market.

The grain at this day's market consisted of a number of new samples,

Third

Barley.

Qats,

Pease & Beans.

32s. Od.

29s. Od.

28s. Od.

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26s. Od.

24s. Od.

23s. Od.

24s. Od. Dalkeith, Sept. 22.

Wheat. First.........42s. Od. Second......34s. Od. .......24s. Od. The quantity of oatmeal was tolerably large at this day's market; a few parcels of new from the south, which sold heavily, and about 2s. lower on the average; best 26s. 6d. current 25s. 6d. ; inferior 24s. per boll; retail 1s. 74d. to 1s. 8d. per peck.

Edinburgh, Sept. 23.

This day the price of Oatmeal fell one penny the peck in Edinburgh Market; there were 409 bolls, which sold, First 27s. Od.-Second 25s. Od. per boll.-Retail price per peck of best oatmeal 1s. 9d.-Second 1s, 8d.-There were also 65 bolls of Pease and Barley Meal, which sold at 17s. Od.-Retail price per peck 1s. 3d. Sept. 24. There were 960 sheep, and 920 lambs, in the Grassmarket, Edinburgh, this morning; sheep sold at from 12s. to 27s. per head; lambs from 4s. 6d. to 12s. per head, (all sold.) There were also 130 black cattle in the market, which sold at from 6s. to 7s. per stone, sinking offals, (sale dull.)

Edinburgh Corn-Market, Sept. 17. We had a very small supply of Wheat at market, which met a very dull sale. There were several parcels of new, the generality One parcel was fine, and fit for of which was in a soft state. crushing, which brought 48s. ; best old 43s. We had a good shew A small supply of of new Barley, which sold from 26s. to 36s. heavy sale at last Oats, best new and old 31s. prices, best 31s.

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First......48s. Od. 30s. Od. Second...40s. Od. 26s. Od. Third....33s. Od. At Skirling fair, on Monday, half-fed beasts were in demand, and were bought up by scores in the morning, before they could take their stand on the green. This circumstance gave a stimulus to the sales that continued the whole day. The prices were however reckoned low; but, upon the whole, there has been no market in this part of the country so brisk for some time. The sales in the horse market were heavy, and prices also low.

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