duty, was severely struck and wounded by a number of persons presently unknown, and yesterday died of his wounds; The Right Hon. the Lord Provost and Magistrates, in order more effectually to lead to the detection of the person or persons guilty of the offence, hereby offer a reward of 100 guineas to those who shall give such information as shall lead to the detection of the persons guilty; to be paid upon conviction. Note. The reward now offered is separate and distinct from that advertised for the discovery of those who were generally engaged in the riots. Council chamber, Edinburgh, Notice to the Public. The Right Hon the Lord Provost and Magistrates request that such persons as may have lost watches, in the riot of the 31st ultimo, will transmit, to this office, notes of the makers' names, and numbers, so that they may be immediately advertised, Meantime, watch-makers and others are requested to be careful in purchasing watches from persons unknown to them, and to secure all suspicious persons offering watches for sale. Sufferers will also please transmit a particular note and description of any other article of property they may have lost It is entreated that those who have sent anonymous information to the Magistrates respecting the late riots, will call in person at this office. Council-chamber, Edinburgh, January 4, 1812. Sixty-eight persons were arrested in consequence of these proceedings. The following are the names of those most actively engaged :-John Skelton, sentenced to be hanged, but reprieved, and ordered to be transported for life. Hugh McIntosh, Niel Sutherland, and Hugh Macdonald, executed: Robert Gunn, and Alexander Macdonald alias White, transported for life. George Napier and John Grotto, transported for 14 years. Several banished themselves from the city, some enlisted, and others were sent on board the navy. 2d. The Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh met the committees of the different public bodies, on the subjec: of the late riotous proceedings in that city, and to consider of the measures to be pursued for establishing a more efficient police. The Lord Provost having addressed the meeting at some length, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: Imo. That the present meeting, consisting of committees appointed by every public body of the community of Edinburgh, almost without exception, think it a duty incumbent upon them solemnly to declare, that, in their opinion, the present system of police is totally inadequate to the beneficial purposes for which it was intended. 2do. That the late police act ought, therefore, to be repealed, and a new bill brought into parliament, with every possible dispatch, containing a power ul system of police, with such subordinate regulations as may appear necessary to remedy the evils at present so universally and justly complained of. A sub-committee was then appointed, consisting of the Lord Provost and Magistrates, the Lord President, the Lord Chief Baron, Baron Clerk, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-General, Mr Sheriff Rae, the City Assessors, the Dean of Faculty, the Deputy-Keeper of the Signet, guineas is offered for the discovery of the offenders. Dugald Campbell, a police officer, who was wounded, and carried to the Royal Infirmary, is since dead, and another lies dangerously ill. In addition to the above account, we have now to state, that on the morning of the 1st current, Mr James Campbell, clerk to Messrs John Aitken and Company, merchants in Leith, was attacked on the South Bridge, near to the Tron Church, betwixt one and two o'clock, and so severely struck on the head and other parts of the body, that he died on Tuesday of the wounds he received. It having turned out in the course of investigation that several other persons were severely wounded, the Right Hon. the Lord Provost and Magistrates, in order the more effectually to lead to the detection of the person or persons guilty of the above of fences, offered a reward of one hundred guineas, to those who shall give such information as shall lead to the detection of the persons guilty. The following proclamations were also circulated, and advertised in all the newspapers: Reward of One Hundred Guineas. Whereas outrages of a most violent nature, and hitherto unexampled in Edinburgh, have been committed last night upon several gentlemen and police-officers, when passing along the streets, by knocking them down, maltreating, and robbing them; The Lord Provost and Magistrates, in order to lead to a discovery of the persons concerned in those proceedings, hereby offer a reward of One Hundred Guineas, to be paid to informers, upon conviction of the offender or offenders. Several persons were seized in the course of the night, and brought be fore the Magistrates and Judge of Police, who were in attendance, and some articles were found in their possession which it is supposed belong to persons who had been robbed. It is requested that such will call at the Council-chamber, to give the requisite information, and to identify their property. From the whole circumstances that came out, upon investigation last night, there appears to have been a regular plan of robbery previously concerted by the perpetrators, who were almost all boys or young lads, armed with bludgeons for the purpose. As this is a thing so new in the metropolis, as well as so flagrant in itself, the Lord Provost and Magistrates are determined to follow up the enquiry in the most rigorous manner; and they earnestly call upon all ranks of citizens, especially those who have the charge of apprentices and youth, to give every aid in their power, so as this most atrocious combination may be effectually detected, and a severe public example made of all those concerned in it. WM. CREECH, Provost. Murder! Whereas in the course of the late riots on the streets of this city, on the night of the 31st December last, or morning of the 1st January current, Dugald Campbell one of the policeofficers, while in the discharge of his duty, was severely struck and wounded by a number of persons presently unknown, and yesterday died of his wounds; The Right Hon. the Lord Provost and Magistrates, in order more effectually to lead to the detection of the person or persons guilty of the offence, hereby offer a reward of 100 guineas to those who shall give such information as shall lead to the detection of the persons guilty; to be paid upon conviction. Note.-The reward now offered is separate and distinct from that advertised for the discovery of those who were generally engaged in the riots. Council chamber, Edinburgh, January 4, 1812. Notice to the Public. The Right Hon the Lord Provost and Magistrates request that such persons as may have lost watches, in the riot of the 31st ultimo, will transmit, to this office, notes of the makers' names, and numbers, so that they may be immediately advertised, Meantime, watch-makers and others are requested to be careful in purchasing watches from persons unknown to them, and to secure all suspicious persons offering watches for sale. Sufferers will also please transmit a particular note and description of any other article of property they may have lost It is entreated that those who have sent anonymous information to the Magistrates respecting the late riots, will call in person at this office. Council-chamber, Edinburgh, January 4, 1812. Sixty-eight persons were arrested in consequence of these proceedings. The following are the names of those most actively engaged :-John Skelton, sentenced to be hanged, but reprieved, and ordered to be transported for life. Hugh M'Intosh, Niel Sutherland, and Hugh Macdonald, executed: Robert Gunn, and Alexander Macdonald alias White, transported for life. George Napier and John Grotto, transparted for 14 years. Several banished themselves from the city, some enlisted, and others were sent on board the navy. 2d. The Lord Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh met the committees of the different public bodies, on the subjec of the late riotous proceedings in that city, and to consider of the measures to be pursued for establishing a more efficient police. The Lord Provost having addressed the meeting at some length, the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to: Imo. That the present meeting, consisting of committees appointed by every public body of the community of Edinburgh, almost without exception, think it a duty incumbent upon them solemnly to declare, that, in their opinion, the present system of police is totally inadequate to the beneficial purposes for which it was intended. 2do. That the late police act ought, therefore, to be repealed, and a new bill brought into parliament, with every possible dispatch, containing a power ul system of police, with such subordinate regulations as may appear necessary to remedy the evils at present so universally and justly complained of. A sub-committee was then appointed, consisting of the Lord Provost and Magistrates, the Lord President, the Lord Chief Baron, Baron Clerk, the Lord Advocate, the Solicitor-General, Mr Sheriff Rae, the City Assessors, the Dean of Faculty, the Deputy-Keeper of the Signet William Inglis, Esq. John Tait, Esq. Captain Lowes, &c. &c. LONDON.On Friday a Court of Directors was held at the East-India house, when the under-mentioned commanders took leave, viz Captain Gribble, of the Royal George; Captain Moffat, of the Winchelsea; Captain Lock, of the David Scott; and Captain Welbank, of the Cuffnels, for Madras and China; Captain Robertson, of the Surat Castle, for the Prince of Wales Island and China. Captain M. Craig was sworn into the command of the ship Elphinstone, destined to China direct. Captain Stopford, who brought the official details of the taking of Batavia, is promoted to the rank of post captain, and will also be rewarded with the sum of 5001. as is customary on similar occasions. There has been an unfortunate difference between the Board of Council and House of Assembly in St Kitts. We are not informed precisely of the origin of the schisin; but it has occasioned a reproachful controversy, which ended in the House of Assembly refusing to take notice of any communications from the goThe statements of the parties implicated have been sent to England vernment. On Thursday, a boy, about ten years of age, son of Mr Niven, manager of the Gilmerton coal-works, was amusing himself on the ice with some of his school-fellows, on a pond near that place, when the ice unfortunately gave way, and he sunk under it. It was about two hours before the body was recovered, and the exertions used to restore animation were, of course, unsuccessful. During the course of the last week, while a young man, named Stevens, about the age of twelve or thirteen, was skating on the river Esk, near Lasswade, the ice gave way with him, and he was unfortunately drowned. Every effort to restore him to animation was ineffectual. MURDERS OF THE MARRS AND WILLIAMSONS.-It will be satisfactory to our readers to be made acquainted with the following circumstances, tending to confirm the conviction of the guilt of Williams, as concerned in the late murders :-The privy belonging to the Pear-Tree public-house, where he lodged, has been searched and examined, and in it has been found buried a pair of blue striped trowsers, much stained with blood from top to bottom; they are spoken to very confidently by Williams's fellow-lodgers at the PearTree, as having been seen frequently lying about the house. A pocketbook has also been found in the same place, containing several instruments and a pair of scissars, which, no doubt, will be proved to have belonged either to Mrs Williamson or Mrs Marr. The trowsers and the pocketbook were discovered thrust down near four feet under the surface of the soil, by a birch-broom, which was also found in a perpendicular position upon the trowsers, but completely covered by the soil. The contents of the pocket-book are quite fresh, and do not appear to have been disturbed. INTERMENT OF JOHN WILLIAMS THE MURDERER.-About ten o' clock on Monday night, Mr Robinson, the high constable of the parish of St George, accompanied by Mr Machin, one of the constables, Mr Harrison, the collector, and Mr Robinson's deputy, went to the prison at Coldbath-Fields, where the body of Williams being delivered to them, was put into a hackney-coach, in in t which the deputy-constable proceeded to the watch-house of St George, known by 70o me of the RoundAbou ttom of Ship-alley. The other three gentlemen followed in another coach, and about twelve o'clock the body was deposited in the black-hole, where it remained all night. Yesterday morning, about nine o'clock, the high constable, with his attendants, arrived at the watchhouse with a cart, that had been fitted up for the purpose of giving the greatest possible degree of exposure to the face and body of Williams. A stage, or platform, was formed upon the cart by boards, which extended from one side to the other. They were fastened to the top, and lapping over each other from the hinder part to the front of the cart, in regular gradation, they formed an inclined plane, on which the body rested, with the head towards the horse, and so much elevated, as to be completely exposed to public view. The body was retained in an extended position by a cord, which, passing beneath the arms, was fastened underneath the boards. On the body was a pair of blue cloth pantaloons, and a white shirt, with the sleeves tucked up to the elbows, but neither coat or waistcoat. About the neck was the white handkerchief with which Williams put an end to his existence. There were stockings but no shoes upon his feet. The countenance was fresh, and perfectly free from discolouration of livid spots. The hair was rather of a sandy cast, and the whiskers appeared to have been remarkably close shaven. On both the hands were some livid spots. On the right-hand side of the head was fixed, perpendicularly, the maul, with which the murder of the Marrs was com mitted. On the left also, in a perpendicular position, was fixed the ripping chissel. Above his head was laid, in a transverse direction upon the boards, the iron crow; and parallel with it, the stake destined to be driven through the body. About half past ten, the procession moved from the watch-house, in the following order: Mr Machin, constable of Shadwell, Mr Harrison, collector of King's taxes. Mr Lloyd, baker. Mr Strickland, coal merchant. The Mr dress. Robinson, the high constable of St The Cart with the Body. A large body of Constables. An immense cavalcade of the inha bitants of the two parishes closed the procession. On arriving opposite to the house of Mr Marr, the procession halted for about ten minutes, and then proceeded down Old Gravel Lane, New Market Street, Wapping High Street, and up New Gravel Lane, when the procession again stopped, opposite to the King's Arms, the house of the late Mr Williamson. From hence it proceeded along Ratcliffe Highway, and up Cannon Street, to the Turnpike Gate, at which the four roads meet, viz.- the New Road into Whitechapel; that into Sun Tavern Fields; the back lane to Wellclose Square; and Ratcliffe Highway. The hole, about four feet deep, three feet long, and two feet wide, was dug precisely at the crossing of the roads, four or five feet from the turnpike |