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10. Distressing Accident. This afternoon, about 4 o'clock, a melancholy occurrence took place off Portobello. A party of fifteen persons, including two boys (the one about 15, and the other six years of age) and a girl, (about 15,) left Portobello on a pleasure sail to Inchkeith. On their return, when about a mile and a half from land, the boat suddenly upset, and the whole of the party were immersed in the dangerous element, and, melancholy to relate, five persons unfortunately perished. Those who did not immediately sink clung to the boat, which as suddenly turned over again, and thus, by a flap of the sail, the strugglers were deprived of their hold, and in a worse situation than before. person was struck so violently as to be driven to the bottom; on again reaching the surface he looked anxiously for the youngest boy, who was under his care, and seeing his leather cap at a considerable distance, he swam to it and recovered the child, with whom he returned to the boat, and, with the assistance of another person, succeeded in replacing him on it as often as he lost his hold. That other person also endeavoured to assist one of the party who could not swim, (John Haxton,) but who entreated him to save his daughter, in which the humane individual succeeded. A coal sloop was lying nearer to the shore, a boat from which promptly put off, and, with the assistance of others, fortunately picked up the survivors. The cause of the disaster is not precisely known, but the fact we understand to be, that the lee side of the boat was almost gunnel-to, and a light gust of wind causing the sail to dip in the water, it instantly upset.

The following are the names of the suffer

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John Leadbitter, in the employ of Messrs Lawrie and Co. hat manufacturers, Portobello; left a widow and five child

ren.

John Haxton, journeyman hatter with ditto; left a widow and five children.

Thomas Walker, son of Thomas Walker, potter, Portobello.

John Mercer, grocer, Edinburgh. James Erskine, journeyman hatter, Edinburgh.

27. This day, the foundation stone of the new jail, for the Royal Burgh of Jedburgh, and bridewell for the county of Roxburgh, was laid on the Castle-hill of Jedburgh, with great solemnity, by William Hope, Esq. of Hope House, Provost of the burgh, and Acting-Master of the Lodge of St John of Jedburgh, assisted by

VOL. VII.

CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE.-Jedburgk, Sept. 6.-Before Lord Pitmilly.-John Fleming, spinner in Jedburgh, John Haliburton, and John Mitchelhill, stockingmakers there, accused of stealing goods from an out-house, belonging to Jean Haliburton, in Jedburgh, and for reset of theft. Fleming pleaded Guilty to the theft, and Haliburton and Mitchelhill to the reset of theft. Sentence of 14 years' transportation was passed upon Fleming, and nine months' imprisonment upon Haliburton and Mitchelhill. Cornelius Gladston, pedlar, accused of the crime of stealing a quantity of shoes, to the value of L. 15, at the Rink fair, in July last, the property of Cairncross, shoemaker in Jedburgh, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment in Jedburgh jail.

Dumfries, Sept. 11.—Edward M⭑Lorey, or M'Grory, was put to the bar, accused of having, on the 10th of June 1819, attacked Hugh Gallocher, a labourer, while travelling upon the road from Gatehouse of Fleet, by Corse of Slaiks, towards Creetown, and having knocked him down, and repeatedly beat and bruised him with sticks and stones to the great effusion of his blood and danger of his life; and robbed him of four one pound notes, and six shillings in silver; and having then dragged 3 A

the said H. Gallocher through a gate on the road into a hollow, and there beating and bruising him till he became insensible. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty; but the charge was completely proved; and after an impressive address from the Learned Judge, he was sentenced to be hanged there on Wednesday, the 18th of October. The prisoner appeared much agitated when taken from the bar, and remarked, "That others had need to pray for him, as he was not able to pray for himself." Francis Laurie and John Dunbar were next brought to the bar. They were accused of having, on the 7th of July last, broke into the mansion-house of Barscobe, in the parish of Balmaclellan, and Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, and stole therefrom various articles of wearing apparel, books, &c. The prisoners pleaded Guilty; when Laurie was sentenced to fourteen, and Dunbar to seven years' transportation.

Ayr, Sept. 18.-William Barbour, lately of Rashlieyet, in the parish of Kilburnie, was accused of assaulting, on a Tuesday in April last, William Walker, his uncle, an old and decrepit man, and severely beating and bruising him, and of assaulting his aunt, Walker's wife, and knocking her down, she at the time being pregnant, whereby she was brought to premature labour and her life endangered; and after a full investigation of the circumstances, he was found Guilty. It seems William Walker is the proprietor of Rashlieyet, which he had let to his sister, who is married to the father of pannel, but the lease expired at Belton. By this lease the proprietor had a right to work the farm after Martinmas, though the tenant was to possess the houses and grass till Belton. In virtue of this, William Walker proceeded to till the ground, and, as he had no right to the houses, he made a kind of hut on the ruins of an old barn. The pannel showed the strongest dislike to Walker's erecting the hut, and asked him if he intended to live there? who gave him liberty? and told him, "he need not fash himsel' with the building, for he wou'd not be long in it." "Who," inquired Walker, "will put me out-will you do it ?"-Barbour rejoined, "If he did not do it himself, another would." The pannel continued to manifest all the ill will possible; and it was on a Tuesday night, when he went through one of Walker's grass parks, instead of keeping the common road, and was challenged for it, that the above barbarous assault was committed on Walker and his wife. He was likewise accused of setting fire to the above hut, in which Walker, his wife, and children lived, on the Friday night following, whereby the hovel was totally consumed, one of the children burnt to death in the flames, another so burnt that it died in a few hours, and a third so scorched, that, after lingering

eighteen days, it likewise died; but as the diabolical act could not be clearly brought home to him, a verdict of Not proven was returned. It appeared, however, that after Mrs Walker and her children escaped from the flames, and went to his house and implored assistance, the unfeeling wretch refused to open the door, though the boy that was so much burnt that he died in a few hours, cried, "Oh! aunty! open the door, for I am all burnt!" The pannel was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment, and ordained to find caution to keep the peace for five years. Duncan M'Carter pleaded Guilty to a charge of theft, and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment; and John Wright, for the same crime, was outlawed. Janet Foster pleaded Guilty to concealment of pregnancy, and was senten ced to six months' imprisonment. Edward Dogherty was convicted of stealing shawls, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. John Douglus, lately accountant to the branch of the Bank of Scotland at Wigton, was convicted of fraudulently secreting, embezzling, and appropriating to his own use, money to the amount of L. 1384, which he had received in his capacity of accountant; but judgment was deferred till the case comes before the High Court of Justiciary on the 20th Nov. William M⭑William was found guilty of theft, and sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Willium M. Keun and John Paterson were convicted of similar crimes; but the libel being restrict ed, they were sentenced to 12 months' im prisonment. A woman, accused of concealment of pregnancy, was permitted to go to voluntary banishment.

Perth, Sept 5.-Before Lord Meadowbank.-Margaret Keir and James Mill, for exposing a child at the manse of Kinnoul, în April last, were sentenced to four months' imprisonment in the jail of Perth. Margaret Marshall, accused of concealment of pregnancy, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment. Henry Moor, John Stewart, and George Keith, were next brought before the Court, accused of assault; they all pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. George Kyd, John Kyd, and Alexander Ritchie, were brought to the bar, likewise accused of assault. George Kyd and John Kyd pleaded guilty of beating and bruising, but not to endanger life; they were both sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment. The diet was de serted against Ritchie, pro loco et tempore. William Wighton, from Montrose, was next placed at the bar, charged with having forged a bill, in May 1819, on Robert Tollo, farmer at Omachy, for L. 200, and uttering the same in May 1820, knowing it to be forged. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and a number of witnesses being called, who clearly proved the libel, the

Jury retired for a short time, and returned a verdict finding him guilty of "uttering the bill libelled, knowing the same to be forged." After an impressive address from Lord Meadowbank, he was sentenced to be executed at Perth, on Friday, the 20th of October next. Matthew Donaldson, accused of theft, was sentenced to be transported beyond seas for seven years. John Stewart, weaver, Dunkeld, and Peter Wallace, shoemaker there, accused of assault, pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to be imprisoned in the tolbooth of Perth for six months. John Scobie, alias Roger M Leish, from Newton of Pitcairn, near Dunning, accused of assault, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to 18 months' imprisonment in the jail of Perth. John Laird, James M'Connel, and John Smith, for theft, aggravated by housebreaking, were sentenced-Laird and M'Connel to fourteen, and Smith to seven years' transportation.

Inverness, Sept. 12.-Before Lord Gillies James Forsyth, accused of forgery, received a verdict, from a plurality of voices, of Not proven. The verdict was no sooner returned, than a warrant was granted for his recommittal; and it is said he will be immediately removed to Edinburgh to be tried by the High Court of Justiciary. 4. Macvinish, and D. Davidson, for assaulting and deforcing, in the discharge of their duty, three officers of excise, who had seized from them two ankers of whisky, and the horses on which they were transporting them to Dingwall, were sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the jail of Dingwall. A. Tulloch, and J. Chisholm, pleaded guilty to a similar offence when attempting to smuggle salt; and were sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in the jail of Dingwall. Murdo Macdonald, alias Machomash, and Janet Macdonald, his wife, were found guilty of reset of theft, and sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in the jail of Tain, the punishment being mitigated on account of the great age of the prisoners, each of them upwards of 80.

Aberdeen, Sept. 20.—Christian Cruickshank, accused for concealment of preg. nancy, was sentenced to be imprisoned for the period of nine months. James Dick, for stealing a cart and some harness, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment. Janet Boug, wife of John Black, a Chelsea pensioner, accused of murdering her own child, of about three years of age, pleaded not guilty. From the evidence brought in support of the charge, and that of the wit nesses for the defence, it appeared, that, in a fit of insanity, she had been guilty of the crime libelled, and that she was occasionally subject to mental derangement. The Jury were addressed by Mr M'Neil on the part of the Crown, who admitted that it appeared to him that the pannel had committed the crime charged against

her while under the influence of insanity. A verdict of guilty, under this qualification, was accordingly returned by the Jury, and the unfortunate prisoner was ordered to be confined for life, or until bond should be given by some of her friends to keep her in custody. Andrew Davidson, shipmaster in Aberdeen, was next called to the bar, charged with an assault of a highly aggra vated nature, upon his own wife and his mother-in-law. He pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to be transported beyond seas for fourteen years. Frederick Hunter, mariner, sometime in Aberdeen, accused of breaking into the house of Mr Brand, writer in Stonehaven, and stealing there from a gold watch and sundry other articles. The prisoner, when brought to the bar, and during his whole trial, exhibited an appearance of insanity or idiotism. Before entering upon the case, however, several witnesses were called to shew that the pannel, notwithstanding appearances, was perfectly sane. He was found guilty, and sentenced to transportation for life. Charles Begg, farmer and merchant in Milltown of Towie, for feloniously assaulting James Dawson, farmer in Nether Mains of Towie, and of beating and wounding him on the head with a stone hammer, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. James Watt and John Ross, from the parish of Birse, for assault, and deforcement of revenue officers, were sentenced, Ross to twelve months' imprisonment, and Watt to nine months.

High Treason.-At the York Assizes on the 11th instant, 22 persons, accused of high treason, pleaded guilty, on an understanding that their lives would be spared.

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Total of one year L. 337,482 4 6 13. THE QUEEN.-Since the commencement of the proceedings against her Majesty, the addresses of condolence and encouragement to her have been more numerous than before; on Wednesday 35 addresses from various parts of the country were presented, and her Majesty has appointed Wednesday next to receive a number of others, amounting to above thirty.

Treasonable Placards.-On Saturday the 7th instant, a poor illiterate boy, who could not read, was taken to Bow-Street Police-Office, London, charged with distributing handbills of a seditious and treasonable tendency, in the neighbourhood of the House of Lords. They had been given him, he said, by a gentleman, who paid him a shilling, and promised to reward him liberally. The bills purported to come from the Queen's Plate Committee.-Mr Pearson attended, and said that he believed what the prisoner had stated was true, and that he had been in pursuit of the said gentleman these three days, and begged the matter might stand over till next day. On Sunday Mr Pearson, with a Bow-Street officer, traced the gentleman (named Franklin or Fletcher) to his residence near London, and brought him a prisoner to the office, from which he was allowed by the Magistrate, Sir R. Baker, to depart without bail, upon an assurance

of another gentleman, Mr Williams, that he was a respectable man, and would at. tend to answer the charge on Monday. Mr Franklin, however, failed to appear, and upon sending to his house, it appeared that he had fled through the night. Mr Pearson then boldly stated that this gentleman was a man of independent fortune, and had a son an officer in the guards; that he had gone on in this course of distributing, at great expence and trouble, seditious and treasonable placards gratuitously, by hundreds of thousands, for a period of three years, which placards had been imputed to the disaffection of the people; and that he had done all this under the protection, and by the authority of government. Mr Pearson said he had evidence to prove these charges, and obtained a warrant to apprehend Mr Franklin. He afterwards applied to Lord Sidmouth, to exert the authority of his department, to prevent the delinquent from escaping from the country; but his Lordship, after examining into the matter, replied that he saw no reason for his interference. It has since been learned, that Franklin has fled to France; and Mr Pearson, with Vickery, the Bow-Street officer, have gone there in pursuit.

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The Quarter's Revenue.-The mount of the revenue for the quarter ended yesterday is L. 10,874,000. The amount of the corresponding quarter of 1819 was only L. 9,781,000, leaving a surplus of nearly eleven hundred thousand pounds in favour of this quarter, to which is to be added, the amount of the quarter for Ireland, about L. 190,100. The charge for the corresponding quarter, last year, was L. 9,434,565, leaving a surplus in that quarter of L. 347,034, but in this quarter there is a surplus of above L. 1,000,000, to which is to be added the account for Ireland, which will make the whole surplus above L. 1,200,000.

CAP. XXVI. For the Encouragement and Improvement of the Coasting Trade of Ireland-June 30, 1820.

Cap. XXVII. To regulate the Appointment and Tenure of the Office of Clerk of the Peace in Ireland.-June 30.

Cap. XXVIII. To repeal an Act made in the Fiftieth Year of the Reign of his late Majesty, for regulating the Fees of Coroners in Ireland, upon holding Inquisitions, and to make other Provisions for that purpose. June 30.

Cap. XXIX. To Enlarge the Powers of the Governors of the Foundling Hospital in Dublin.-June 30.

Cap. XXX. For relieving Ewart Rutson and Company of Liverpool, and others, from the Bonds granted for the Duties on certain Spirits accidentally destroyed. June 30.

Cap. XXXI. For raising the Sum of Twenty-nine Millions by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty.-July 8.

Cap. XXXII. To permit the Importation of Coffee from any Foreign Colony or Plantation in America into the Port of Bridgetown in Barbadoes.-July 8.

Cap. XXXIII. To amend and continue, until the Thirty-first Day of December One thousand eight hundred and twentythree, several Laws relating to the Encouragement of the Greenland Whale Fisheries, to the allowing vessels employed in the said Fisheries to complete their full number of men at certain Ports.-July 8. Cap. XXXIV. For further continuing, until the First Day of January One thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, so much of an Act passed in the Fifty-sixth Year of His late Majesty as permits Subjects of His Majesty the King of the Netherlands to import and export certain Articles into and from the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo, in Ships not of

the Build of the Dominions of His said Majesty.-July 8.

Cap. XXXV. For the better securing Monies and Effects paid into the Court of Exchequer at Westminster, on account of the Suitors of the said Court, and for the Appointment of an Accountant General and Two Masters of the said Court; and for other purposes.-July 8.

Cap. XXXVI. For Allowing Appeals from Towns Corporate and Franchises, in certain Cases, to the General or Quarter Sessions of the Peace of the Counties in which they are situate.-July 8.

Cap. XXXVII. To increase the Power of Magistrates in the Appointment of Special Constables.-July 8.

Cap. XXXVIII. For fixing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on quartering Soldiers.-July 8.

Cap. XXXIX. For the Assistance of Trade and Manufactures in Ireland, by authorizing the advance of certain Sums for the Support of Commercial Credit there. July 8.

Cap. XL. To amend and explain an Act, passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-ninth Year of His late Majesty, to enable certain Persons to recover a just Compensation for the Tithes withheld from them in the Years 1797 and 1798.--July 8.

Cap. XLI. To extend the Benefit of Two Acts, made in the Fifty-sixth and Fifty-eighth Years of the Reign of His late Majesty King George the Third, for a mending the Law of Ireland respecting the Recovery of Tenements from absconding, over-holding, and defaulting Tenants. July 8.

Cap. XLII. An Act to authorize a Composition due to His Majesty from the late Abraham Goldsmid, Merchant, and his surviving Partners.-July 8.

Cap. XLIII. To amend the Laws re