from 1814 to 1820 inclusive, arranged according to their number, (from the official summary at the Home Office) :Murder and Murderous Offences, as stabbing, attempting to poison, &c. 161

Forgery

Burglary

111

111

28

25

8

5

4

2

2

659

Of which about a sixth were executed for forgery and uttering. The annual average is about 94 persons executed.

4.-High Court of Justiciary.-Duncan Hunter pleaded Guilty to a charge of housebreaking and theft, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Peter Alexander, a young boy, was found Guilty, after a trial of some length, and sentenced to be transported for life. Ann Sommer ville from Dunbar, accused of child murder and concealment of pregnancy, was next put to the bar. The prisoner plead ed Not Guilty, but the proceedings were stopped before any evidence was adduced, by Mr Maclean stating that the Public Prosecutor's name was not affixed to the list of witnesses, an objection which was sustained by the Court, and the prisoner was thereupon liberated, the Court first expressing its high displeasure that the ends of justice should be defeated by the omission, and directing that a precognition into the circumstances should take place.

9.-Union Canal.-We are glad to observe the forward state of this undertaking, and hope to be enabled to announce its completion in a much shorter time than was anticipated. On Wednesday the ground for the basin was marked off, and on Thursday several workmen were employed in clearing away the trees and bushes to form this new harbour. Its situation is at the south end and on the west side of the Lothian Road, and will occupy in width nearly the whole of the space betwixt the Fountain Bridge and Tobago Street roads at that place. The stupendous aqueduct bridge at Slateford, which, with its cast iron sheathing, attracted so many visitors last summer, was some time since flooded; this in some degree dissolved the charm its singular appearance gave it, but it has since acquired in elegance what it lost in peculiarity, by the erection of the

14.-Attempt to Assassinate General Eadon. This morning the most intense interest was excited at the west end of the town, (London,) in consequence of a horrid and blood-thirsty attempt upon the life of Major-General Eadon, at his residence in Berkeley Square, by a man named William Padmore, of respectable appearance, who, ander pretence of communicating some private business to the General, sought an interview, and with a butcher's knife stabbed him in several parts of the body, by which his life is placed in the most imminent danger. The prisoner was taken into custody immediately after the act, and conveyed to Marlborough-street Office. On being called upon for his defence, he said, "I have had cause for what I have done. I know the dreadful situation in which I stand in consequence of it; but my determination was fixed, and my mind made up to abide the result. I must decline, for the present, saying more."-Mr Conant said, the evidence was conclusive of a premeditated intention on the part of the prisoner, (who had been a servant to the General in India,) to commit the crime of murder, and he was accordingly committed to Newgate. It appeared upon a subsequent examination, that Padmore had been a servant to General Eadon; and had harboured a rooted malice towards him, on account of some imaginary injury he had received from him. The General is recovering.

Coronation. At a Privy Council held on Saturday the 9th, a proclamation was agreed to, announcing the coronation of his Majesty to take place at Westminster, on Thursday, the 19th of July.

Execution.-Yesterday James Gordon was executed at Dumfries, for the murder of John Elliott, a poor pedlar boy, in a lonely place in Eskdalemuir. He was an Irishman, of the Roman Catholic profession, and would admit of none but the priest to visit him.

22. Saint Paul's Cathedral. At length the Herculean, and almost incredible task, of taking down the cross and ball, from the top of the cathedral steeple

of St Paul's, (London,) has been accomplished, without the loss of life or limb. The cross was taken to pieces some days ago, and easily removed; but to displace the ball appeared a matter of much greater labour and difficulty.—It was built of multiplied sheets of copper, strongly fastened with immense copper bolts, rivetted on each side; and there was but one division, consequently it was taken down in halves, each half measuring six feet in diameter! The materials were much corroded, and must have soon given way under the immense weight. Wednesday afternoon, the 20th instant, the ball was taken down by the workmen of Mr Walker, founder in Harp-Alley, Fleet-Market, and rolled along the street in LudgateHill, in the presence of thousands of spectators, to his warehouse, where a new ball and cross is making upon an improved principle. In the meanwhile, the scaffolding will remain, and some other necessary repairs will take place.

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Travelling by Steam.-A gentleman left Belfast on Thurday the 14th, reached Glasgow same evening, embarked board the Tourist at Newhaven on Friday morning, and arrived at Aberdeen at nine o'clock that night. Had such an event been predicted 50 years ago, it would have been nearly as easy to make people believe that this journey would have been accomplished by means of a balloon.

27-Constitutional Association.-Several prosecutions have been recently commenced in London, at the instance of a society, going by this title, which states its object to be the suppression of seditious and treasonable publications; and which, it is said, consists of a great number of individuals of high rank among the nobility, and in the church and state. This association has been several times brought under the notice of Parliament, and an attempt has been made by Mr Parkins, late Sheriff of London, to prove its illegality. For this purpose he applied to the Lord Mayor for a warrant to apprehend the secretary and treasurer, founding his application upon an act passed in 1793, for suppressing secret societies. This morning the Lord Mayor gave his decision, after hearing counsel for and against the information; when he finally determined that there not being sufficient evidence to support it, it should therefore be dismissed.

Justiciary Court.-On the 25th, David Lunan and David Duncan, from Perth, pleaded guilty of housebreaking and theft, and were sentenced to transportation for life.

Trial for Murder.-David Haggart was tried on the 11th instant, for the murder of the Dumfries turnkey on the 10th of October last, on which occasion the prisoner escaped, and under another name had been

subsequently tried and convicted in Ireland of a transportable offence. While in jail there, he was recognized by a clergyman as answering the description of the murderer of the Dumfries jailor; and being identified by a constable from Dumfries, was brought to this country for trial. The evidence against him was entirely circumstantial; but was such as induced the jury to bring in a verdict of guilty art and part of the murder, and the prisoner was sentenced to be executed at Edinburgh on the 18th of July. Haggart is a native of Edinburgh; and only about 19 years of

age.

He seems, however, to be old in crime, and heard the sentence pronounced without apparent emotion.

Dreadful Accident.-On Sunday afternoon, the 16th instant, a most melancholy and distressing accident took place at Sunderland Bridge, between Durham and Rusheyford. As the mail coach from hence to London was turning the corner of the bridge, it was unfortunately overturned against the battlement, when Mr Donaldson, a cattle dealer near Perth, and Mr Whitaker, an architect, two outside passengers, were thrown over the bridge, and falling upon a weir or buttress, a depth of many feet, Mr Donaldson was killed upon the spot, and Mr Whitaker so much hurt that he died at ten o'clock the same evening. Mr Chater, attorney of Newcastle, who was sitting on the seat with the driver, happily escaped unhurt. guard, driver, and three inside passengers, also escaped without injury. Mr Whitaker has, we understand, left a wife and seven children to lament his loss. A coroner's jury sat on the bodies, and brought in a verdict of Manslaughter, caused by furiously driving, against James Auld, the coachman," and made a nominal deodand upon the coach and horse. Auld was immediately apprehended and taken to jail to await his trial at the assizes, but he has since been admitted to bail.

The

Action of Dumages.-In the Edinburgh Jury Court on the 25th instant, a case was tried which excited very considerable interest. It was an action of damages in which the Rev. Andrew Scott, Roman Catholic Clergyman in Glasgow, was pursuer, and Mr William M'Gavin, merchant in Glasgow, Mr William Sym, clerk of the Glasgow Town Hospital, and Messrs Andrew and James Duncan, printers in Glasgow, were defenders. The circumstances out of which the case arose, originated in an anonymous correspondence begun in the Glasgow Chronicle, and continued in a weekly pamphlet published at Glasgow, called The Protestant, which was latterly replied to by a paper on the part of the Catholics, published in London under the title of The Catholic Vindicator, both extensively circulated in the city of Glasgow

and other parts of the west of Scotland. The defender Mr M'Gavin avowed himself the author of The Protestant, but the pursuer Mr Scott denied having ever contributed to, or having any concern with, The Catholic Vindicator. The principal issue for the jury to try was, whether the defendant M'Gavin had falsely and malicious ly represented the pursuer as having im properly extorted money from the poor of the Catholic persuasion, for the purpose of erecting the Catholic Chapel in Clyde Street, Glasgow, to the damage and injury of the said pursuer? The jury, after a long trial, which lasted from ten in the morning of the 25th to 4 o'clock next morning, found for the pursuer, damages, L. 100. We understand this case has excited a very lively interest in Glasgow and other towns in the west; and that subscriptions have been entered into in these places to relieve Mr M'Gavin of the fine.

JULY.

Justiciary Court, July 2.-This day the Court proceeded to the trial of Daniel Aitchison, accused of stealing a gold watch, chain, and seals, from the person of a gen. tleman, on the streets of this city, about 8 o'clock of an evening in the month of November last, and of being habit and repute a common thief. The pannel pleaded Not Guilty; and after the examination of several witnesses, the Jury returned a verdict finding him Guilty of the crime libelled; and he was transported beyond seas for 14 years. The Court next proceeded with the trial of Michael M'Callum, indicted for stealing a passenger's luggage from the Waterloo Coach, between Edinburgh and Glasgow, and along therewith a bank receipt, for L. 1200 sterling. The pannel pleaded Not Guilty, and after a tedious trial the Jury found him Guilty. He was sentenced to transportation for 14 years.

9. Robert Charlton was put to the bar, accused of having, in company with others, discharged loaded fire arms, with the intent to commit murder, at three boys on the Gilmerton-road. The Jury, after an hour's deliberation on the evidence, returned a verdict against the pannel, of being art and part in the said crime; and the Court sentenced him to seven years' transportation.

12. Francis Wood, carrier between Edinburgh and Moffat, was placed at the bar, charged with culpable homicide, in having, on the evening of the 14th of February, repeatedly struck William Steele, gardener in Pennycuik, with a rack-stick, to the bereavement of his life, on the road from Edinburgh to that place; to which charge the pannel pleaded Not Guilty. It appeared from the evidence, that the parties had accidentally met on the road, near Pennycuick, when some words ensued between them, the deceased casting some reflections on the people of Dumfries-shire, whom

the pannel defended. Blows followed, deceased striking first; when Wood seized his rack-pin, and knocked him down. The stroke was fatal. The Jury found Wood Guilty, and he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment.

William Robertson, James M‘Lachlan, and John Lawson, all young lads, were next put to the bar, accused of housebreaking and theft, perpetrated by means of breaking a pane of glass in the shop window of James O'Donnell, jeweller in West Register Street, Edinburgh, and abstracting a silver watch therefrom; the prisoners were also charged with being habit and repute thieves. Robertson and M'Lachlan

pleaded Not Guilty; Lawson pleaded Guilty of the whole, and declared the others knew nothing of it. They were all found Guilty, and the Court, in consideration of the youth of the prisoners, sentenced Robertson and M'Lachlan to be transported for life; and Lawson, whose candid confession their Lordships gave him the benefit of, to be transported for fourteen years. The last prisoner was the actual perpetra

tor.

William Cumming, for reset of theft, was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment in Bridewell.

13.-Alexander Brown and Hall Dick, two young lads, pleaded Guilty of having, on the 5th of May last, assaulted Archibald Taylor, servant to Alex. Kedslie, tacksman of Bonnington Mills, upon Leith Walk, and after giving him several severe blows on the head with their fists, robbed him of a pair of spectacles and fourpence halfpenny of money. Dick also acknowledged being habit and repute a thief. They were sentenced to transportation beyond seas.— Dick for life, and Brown for 14 yesrs.

Samuel Warren, from Glasgow, was afterwards found Guilty of reset of theft from a young boy, whom he had tempted to steal for him. This was an aggravated case, and the Court ordained that he should be transported for 14 years, and that, previous to his being sent off, he should be sent back to Glasgow, and from thence, on a market day, be brought forth to the public, with a label on his back, declaring his crime to be reset of theft from young persons; and in this manner be led through the streets, followed by the common executioner.

John Douglas and Mathew Adie were then put to the bar, accused of attacking James Kirk, residing in Leith, in open day, on the 12th of May last, on the road leading from Jock's Lodge toll to the Abbey Hill, and robbing him of two shillings of copper money, and a basket of eggs, which he was carrying. The jury, by a plurality of voices, found them both guilty; but on the verdict being recorded, Lord Meadowbank observed that there was an anomaly

in the manner of preparing it, which he thought it his duty to advert to, as worthy of the consideration of the Court. The law, in reference to proceedings in this Court, required, that where the Jury were unanimous, they should give in their ver dict viva voce; but where any difference of opinion occurred, they were directed to give in a written verdict. Now, the verdict just delivered was partly written and partly printed. He was not at present prepared to say that this was an illegal verdict; but he thought the circumstance required the consideration of the Court, and he should therefore move that judgment in this case should be deferred until the matter should be discussed by the whole Bench. In this opinion the other Judges concurred, and, after some conversation between the Judges and Counsel on both sides, the diet was continued against the prisoners till the first Monday after the 12th November next, and they were remitted to prison. The anomaly in this case seemed to have arisen from the Jury making use of a printed form, furnished by the Clerk of the Court, for the purpose of guiding them in drawing up their verdict; and upon which they had made several erasures, and inserted words in writing, to fit it to the case of the pannels.

John Robieson was then put to the bar, accused of eight different acts of theft, by means of opening lock-fast places, commit ted in various houses in Edinburgh, Leith, and vicinity, in which he had procured ac

cess, under pretence of taking lodgings. The pannel pleaded Guilty to the 6th and 8th charges in the indictment; and a jury having been chosen, he adhered to his plea, and was found Guilty, in terms of his own confession, and sentenced to seven years' transportation.

THE QUEEN.-Her Majesty having written to Lord Liverpool, claiming her right to participate in the approaching Coronation; and afterwards requested that her Counsel might be heard before the Privy Council in support of her claim, his Majesty was graciously pleased to grant the latter request as a matter of favour. Accordingly, on Thursday the 5th instant, the Privy Council met for the purpose of hearing Mr Brougham and Mr Denman in support of her Majesty's claim. These gentlemen closed their arguments, which were chiefly confined to the usage, on Friday, and on Saturday the Attorney and Solicitor Generals were heard in bar of the claim. Mr Brougham having replied, the Council adjourned till Tuesday the 10th, when they gave their decision, finding" that Queens Consort have no legal right to demand the ceremony of being crowned; and, therefore, that her present Majesty's claim, as legal right to be crowned at the ensuing ceremony, cannot be well founded." This decision has been communicated to the Queen, who declares, notwithstanding, her determination of being present at the ceremony.

P. 7 F.

Fraser, fm. 8 F. with Capt. Moriarty, h. p. 71 F.

Gregory, fm. 16 F. with Capt. Trydell, 2 Ceylon Regt.

Boyle, fm. 12 F. with Capt. Ross, h. p. 7 F.

-W. Madden, fm. 92 F. with Capt. M. Madden, h. p. 100 F.

Carroll, fm. Ins. of Mil. in Ion. Isls. with

Capt. Macphail, h. p.,

Lieut. Quillinan, fm. 3 Dr. G. rec. diff. with Lieut. Rolland, h. p. 22 Dr.

Foster, fm. 14 Dr. with Lieut. Vandeleur,

18 Dr.

Pattison. fm. 33 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Mackay, h. p. 6 F.

Jeboult, fm. 41 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Crawford, h. p. Rifle Br..

Gardiner, fm. 41 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Simmons, h. p. Rifle Br.

Lieut. Moore, fm. 45 F. with Lieut. Irwin, h. p. 83 F.

Douglas, fm. 45 F. with Lieut. Minter, h. p. 73 F.

Winterbottom, fm. 52 F. with Lieut. Snodgrass, h. p.

M Iver, fm. 70 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Thorp, h. p. 77 F.

Green, fm. 85 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Monckton, h. p. 22 Dr.

Cornet De Lisle, fin. 4 Dr. G. with Cornet Fagg, 19 Dr.

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Bulkeley, fm. 7 Dr. G. with Cornet Greenland, 4 Dr.

Ensign Bayly fm. 19 F. with Ensign Cheney, 20 F.

Macdonnell, fm. 35 F. with Ensign Mortashed, h. p. 32 F.

Whitney, fm. 62 F. rec. diff. with Ensign Jones, h. p. 43 F.

Paym. Moulson, fm. 35 F. with Capt. Newton, h. p. 4 W. I. R.

Surg. Fisher, fm. 6 F. with Surg. Harrison, h. p. 104 F.

Resignations and Retirements.

Lt. Col. Hugonin, 4 Dr.

Gregory, 44 F.

M'Bean, 78 F.

Major Thwaites, 51 F.

Capt. Lodder, 6 F.

Gore, 33 F.

Paymaster Lacy, Shropshire Mil.

Adjutant Capt. Bennett, King's Co. Mil. Capt, Goodwin, Sligo Mil. Butler, Wicklow Mil.

Appointment cancelled.

Lieut. Robison, 18 F.

Deaths.

Col. Graham, h. p. Cape Corps,
Lt. Col. Campbell, 2 Vet. Bn. Dublin

19th June 1821. Lt. Col. Paumier, h. p. 108 F. Major Johnson, 35 F. Antigua 2d May Bennett, Roy. Eng. Portsmouth 18th June Capt. M'Pherson, late Insp. Gen. of Barracks in North Brit. Edinburgh 1st Oct. 1820. Browne, Invalids, Pinchbeck, near Spald ing 2d June 1821. Hadden, h. p. 20 Dr. previously of 6 Dr. London

Gitterick, h. p. Staff Corps of Cav. Sligo 8th May Considine, h. p. 60 F. previously of 13 Dr. Gordon, h. p. 6 W. 1. R. Aberdeen 16th do. Lieut. Douglas, Coldst. Gds. 29th do. Marriott, 67 F. of wounds received at the escalade of the fort of Dwarka, in the province of Oka Mundel 25th Nov. 1820.

Cameron, 11 F. Plymouth Dock

16th May 1821.

Magee, Invalids, Walworth Coghlan, h. p. 36 F. London

13th May 1820.

24th

May 1821

14th Feb.

14th April

Gordon, h. p. 100 F. Aberdeen Ensign Taylor, 37 F. Quebec Paymast. Patrickson, h. p. 4 Dr.

D. Campbell, Argyll Mil. Maclin, Tyrone Mil. Adj. Lieut. Ferrall, h. p. Rifle Brig. previously of 11th F.

Ensign Packer. h. p. 60 F. 23d Sept. 1820. Qua. Mast. Jones, 2 F. on passage from Demarara to Barbadoes 15th April 1821. Wood, h. p. 9 Dr. Westport, Ireland 31st Oct. 1820.

Or,

h. p. Mid. Lothian Fen. Cav. Leith 17th May

Brilland, Waterford Mil.

Surg.Edm.Taylor, Windsor Castle 18th April 1821.

Pritchard, Anglesea Mil.

Purv. Turnbull, h. p. Mid. Calder, North Brit.

Hosp. Assist. Bingham, h. p.
Cocco, h. p. Messina

6th Feb. 31st May Aug. 1820.