moreover, that the peasantry are in a state of active industry, tranquillity and contentment, and free from those poisonous principles which have filled their neighbours. 3. Disturbances at Huddersfield.-On the 31st ult. a parcel arrived at Huddersfield by the Regulator coach from Birming ham, addressed to John Payne, Castlegate, Huddersfield, which exciting suspicion, the deputy constable, Mr Whitehead, thought it proper to await the arrival of the person who should call for it. Towards the even ing a notorious Radical named Gill called for it, and was immediately apprehended, and after examination held to bail to the assizes. The same day the Magistrates received information that great numbers of the lower orders in the neighbourhood were armed with pikes and pistols, and that an attack before the town was to be made in the course of the night by several bodies of pikemen, 200 in each. Arrangements for defence were accordingly made, and detachments of the 85th infantry and 24th dragoons were on the alert, and late in the evening the yeomanry were called out. At two o'clock in the morning of Saturday a fire balloon, the appointed signal of the insurgents, was observed in the direction of the Castle Hill. At the same time several parties of men were seen advancing upon the town in regular order; none of them, however, entered it. The nearest approach was the advance of one column to the marsh turnpike. It is probable the insurgents were deterred by the preparations of the Magistrates. A number of persons have been apprehended in Huddersfield and its neighbourhood, in consequence of these proceedings. During the whole of Saturday, the vigilance and activity of the Magistrates were indefatigable; large quantities of pikes and pike-staves were detected. The pikes are extremely coarse and clumsy, fixed with a screw, by which they can be fixed into a handle. The staves are generally about seven feet long, and have been recently stolen from plantations in the neighbourhood. About four miles from Huddersfield another assembly was observed on Saturday night, but they dispersed before the military could be brought to act against them. 15. Disturbances in the West of Scotland. In our last number, we stated that a number of persons had been apprehended in Glasgow and Paisley, suspected of being concerned in schemes to disturb the peace of the country; but we were scarcely then prepared to believe that the visionary reformers in the west entertained the mad, project of open resistance to the established order of government. That such was the fact, however, has, we are sorry to say, been proved by subsequent events. These in fatuated madmen, called Radicals, have carried their outrages to a length, for which we believe no man of any party was prepared; because, in Scotland at least, the very lowest of the people have been hitherto characterized by a degree of caution and shrewdness, which has always prevented them from acting like downright fools, although it may not have always prevented them from being the dupes, to a certain degree, of selfish and wicked knaves. Had any one ventured to prognosticate a few weeks since, that any portion of the community would rise into open rebellion against the State, and wilfully and by settled premeditation peril their lives in so insane a cause, what conclusion would have been formed, but that he spoke the language of terror or ignorance? And yet this matchless folly has actually been committed. The result, however, of the short-lived rebellion, will certainly convince its abettors, that any attempts in this country to resist the authority of government, must ultimately terminate in the destruction of its contrivers. Between the night of Saturday the 1st, and morning of Sunday the 2d April, placards were posted upon the walls in Glasgow, Paisley, and in all the manufacturing villages for twenty miles round, addressed to the people of England, Ireland, and Scotland, calling upon them to come forward instantly, and to effect by force, if resisted, a revolution in the Government. These placards further enjoined that peeple should abstain from work from the 1st April. This order was but too implicitly obeyed. All the weavers and other workmen in Glasgow, Paisley, and in the country for many miles round, immediately struck work, and the streets were covered with crowds of idle and discontented workmen. The civil authorities instantly took the necessary measures for securing the public tranquillity. A proclamation was issued, warning the populace that all attempts to disturb the peace would be instantly put down by a military force. Other procla mations were issued, directing the shops to be shut at six o'clock, and recommending all the peaceable inhabitants to withdraw from the streets as soon as possible after that hour. A large military force was also immediately collected in and round Glasgow ; and the volunteers and yeomanry corps in Lanarkshire, and the surrounding counties, were instantly in arms; which had the effect of overawing the reformers in Paisley and Glasgow, and preventing any actual collision in these towns. For several days, however, the peaceably disposed inhabitants were on the rack of apprehension, and business was entirely suspended. Bands of the reformers continued to assemble in Glasgow and the suburbs; and in the evenings they appeared frequently armed with pikes, muskets, and pistols; but the instant a military force opposed itself, they skulked into corners, or took to flight. In Paisley the mob attempted to obstruct a peace officer while posting up a proclamation of the magistrates, and so annoyed and pelted the military escort, that they were forced to turn about and fire a few shots, by one of which a servant girl passing at the time was wounded in the neck. This was the only serious casualty which occur red in either of these large towns. In the country, however, the operations of the radicals were more daring. Many farmers and gentlemen residing there were distressed with nocturnal visits by bands of these madmen; who, on pretence of searching for arms, frequently plundered the houses. On one occasion, a gentleman at Foxbar, near Paisley, resisted, and warned the assailants of his determination to defend his property. They however attempted to force his house, from which a shot was fired, which killed one of the radicals on the spot, and the others instantly fled. Engagement with the Radicals at Bonnymuir. On Wednesday the 5th, a party of about 50 radicals, chiefly from Glasgow, and supposed to be on their way to Carron works, gave battle to a party of the 10th Hussars, and Stirlingshire Yeomanry, which was the first attempt at systematic resistance on the part of the reformers; and from its result there is little doubt of its being the last. The following account of the affair was published by authority: "Wednesday morning, about seven o'clock, one of the Stirlingshire Yeomanry, in proceeding to join his troop at Falkirk, was stopt on the high road, within a few miles of Kilsyth, by a party of armed radicals, who refused to allow him to pass. On his return he met an orderly of the Kilsyth troop, with dispatches, proceeding in the same direction, and both came into Kilsyth, where they acquainted the officer with what had occurred. Lieutenant Hodgson of the 10th Hussars, and Lieutenant Davidson of the Stirlingshire Yeomanry, immediately marched with a party of each of those corps in pursuit of the men, whom they overtook near Bonnybridge. On observing this force the radicals cheered and advanced to a wall, over which they commenced firing at the military. Some shots were then fired by the soldiers in return, and, after some time, the cavalry got through an opening in the wall, and attacked the party, who resisted till overpowered by the troops, who succeeded in taking nineteen of them prisoners, who are lodged in Stirling Castle. In this encounter Lieutenant Hodgson received a pike wound through the right hand, and a serjeant of the 10th Hussars was severely VOL. VI. wounded by a shot in the side, and by a pike. Three horses were also wounded. Four of the radicals were wounded, one of whom was left on the field, 5 muskets, 2 pistols, 18 pikes, and about 100 round of ball cartridges, were taken. Lieutenant Hodgson has reported to Major-General Sir T. Bradford, that no troops could behave better than the whole party under his command." " One of the prisoners taken in this affair was so seriously wounded, that he was left in the house of a neighbouring farmer, from which he was forcibly carried by his friends in the evening. Fifteen of them have been brought to Edinburgh Castle, and three remain wounded at Stirling. These will shortly be tried on charges of high treason and rebellion against the king. The result of this attempt seems to have awakened the reformers to a sense of the hopelessness of their cause. From that period the weavers and others about Glasgow and Paisley shewed a disposition to return to their employments; and at the end of a week from the commencement of the disturbances, tranquillity appeared to be restored. At present all is quiet; and the manufacturers of Glasgow, as a body, have come to the resolution of employing none of the workmen who cannot shew satisfactorily that their late strike of work was the consequence of intimidation. In the interval, the most active search has been made throughout the country, to discover the leaders and instigators of the disturbance; and a vast number of persons have, in consequence, been apprehended and lodged in various jails. Quantities of arms of various descriptions, chiefly pikes, have also been discovered and secured; thus lessening the means of future tumult or resistance. We wish we could close our account of these wicked and foolish proceedings here; but a more deplorable event remains to be recorded, which took place at Greenock on Saturday the 8th instant. Outrage at Greenock.-On Saturday forenoon it became generally known in Greenock that some prisoners would shortly arrive from Paisley. Accordingly, about three in the afternoon a party of 80 men, of the Port-Glasgow armed association, who were on their way home from Paisley, arrived at Greenock, escorting five prisoners in a cart, whom they succeeded in safely lodging in the jail. On their return, hov■ ever, they were assailed by an immense crowd of people, who, from the knowledge of the event, had collected in the streets, and who immediately began hooting, hissing, and throwing stones at the volunteers. The party, to intimidate the mob, fired some shots in the air. This, however, had only the effect of irritating them. The 3 B mob continued to increase, throwing stones, bottles, &c. from windows and closes, by which many of the volunteers were hurt and cut. When towards Rue-end-street, those in the rear turned round and spontaneously commenced a straggling fire on the crowd in self-defence. The mob continued to follow the military to Cartsdyke Bridge, where they left them and returned to Greenock. The mob then assembled before one of the gates of the jail, and were making preparations to force it open, when they were addressed by one of the magistrates from the top of the wall, and desired to desist. This they would not, they said, till the five prisoners were released; and the magistrates, having no military force to assist them, were unable to resist, and the mob effected their purpose. The five prisoners got off, and have not since been discovered. The Port-Glasgow Volunteers, and many of the respectable inhabitants, were under arms all night, and barricadoed the bridge at the west end of the town, to prevent an attack from the Greenock mob, which had been threatened. Indeed, a large party of them advanced for that purpose, preceded by a bag-piper, but finding the Port-Glasgow folks on the alert, they returned. The result of this disastrous affair is stated below. Of the Port-Glasgow detachment only three or four escaped unhurt; and many of them received such severe bruises as to confine them to bed. Of this number is the serjeant-major, a very stout man, who is unable to rise. The adjutant was also severely hurt. List of Killed and Wounded on the evening of Saturday the 8th inst. as collected from the several Medical Practitioners in Greenock, 11th April 1820. Adam Clephane, aged 48, dead.-Archibald Drummond, aged 20, shot dead.James Kerr, aged 17, dead.-John MWhinnie, aged 65, dead. Hugh Patterson, aged 14, through the leg, leg amputated. --John Patrick, aged 30, through the thigh, doing well.-David M'Bride, aged 14, through cheek and jaw, doing well.-A. M'Kinnon, aged 17, through chest and arm, doubtful.-Catherine Turner, aged 65, through the leg, leg amputated.-The above in the Infirmary.—John Boyce, aged 33, dead. George Tillery, aged 25, through the thigh, doing well.-Robert Spence, aged 11, slightly in the foot.William Lindsay, aged 15, shot dead on the spot. James M'Gilp, aged 8, ball in right thigh.-Gilbert M'Arthur, aged 18, through the left thigh, flesh wound. —John Turner, aged 22, through calf of the leg, flesh wound.-Peter Cameron, aged 14, through the right leg, flesh wound. John Gunn, aged 24, through calf of left leg. The loyalty of the inhabitants of Greenock has been so well known, that military were never stationed in that town. An event like the foregoing was therefore little expected, and is much deplored. All accounts, however, from Port-Glasgow and Greenock agree in stating, that a number of strangers had been observed lately in these towns, probably some of the leaders of the disaffected from Glasgow, Paisley, &c. flying from justice, and who, it is not to be doubted, were the instigators of the melancholy affray. Political Offences.-The following is a list of recent convictions in England for political offences : Assassination.-J. M'Innes and M. Bruce, Seditious Meeting, with pikes.-J. Knight, Seditious Libel-Sir F. Burdett, at Lei BRITISH LEGISLATION. Acts passed in the 60th Year of the Reign of George III., or in the Second Session of the Sixth Parliament of the United Kingdom. CAP. CXXI. To make farther regulations for the prevention of Smuggling. July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXII. To permit Vessels under a certain Tonnage to trade between the United Kingdom and New South Wales. -July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXIII. To empower the Officers of the Customs in Great Britain to allow Reports of Vessels Cargoes to be amended; to require Goods which have been warehoused without payment of Du ties, or being prohibited, warehoused for Exportation, to be put on board Vessels by Persons licensed for that Purpose; to direct that Cocquet and Bond shall be required for Slate and Stone carried Coastwise; and to empower Officers of the Customs to administer Oaths.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXIV. For amending an Act made in the Forty-third year of the Reign of His present Majesty, for regulating the Vessels carrying Passengers from the United Kingdom to His Majesty's Plantations and Settlements abroad, or to Foreign Parts, with respect to the Number of such Passengers, and for making farther provision for that purpose.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXV. To admit certain Goods imported from the East Indies to Entry and Payment of Duty without being warehoused; and to permit the Exportation of certain East India Goods to Guernsey and Jersey, and the Removal of certain East Judia Goods to Liverpool, Lancaster, Bris tol, and Glasgow, for Exportation.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXVI. For requiring the like Proof, to obtain Drawback of Duty on Coals used or consumed in calcining or smelting Tin, Copper, or Lead Ores in the Counties of Devon and Cornwall, as is required on Coals used in Mines of Tin, Copper, or Lead, in the said Counties.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXVII. For making Provision for the better Care of Pauper Lunatics in England.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXVIII. For the further Protection and Encouragement of Friendly Societies, and for preventing Frauds and Abuses therein.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXIX. To continue ir force, until the Expiration of Three Calendar Months after the Commencement of the next Sessions of Parliament, Three Acts of His present Majesty, for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in England.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXX. To continue the several Acts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in Ireland, until the First Day of June One thousand eight hundred and twenty.-July 12, 1819. Cap. CXXXI. For raising the Sum of Sixteen Millions Five Hundred Thousand Pounds, by Exchequer Bills, for Ser vice of the Year One Thousand eight hundred and nineteen.-July 12, 1819. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL. March 11. George Tait, Esq. advocate, is appointed Sheriff-substitute of the county of Edinburgh, in room of H. Davidson, Esq. who has resigned. 30. The King has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for granting the dignity of a Baronet of the said United Kingdom to Walter Scott of Abbotsford, in the county of Roxburgh, Esq. and to the heirs-male of his body lawfully begotten. April 1. The Right Honourable the Earl of Fife to be Lord Rector of the Marischal College of Aberdeen. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. March 9. The Rev. James Harkness, formerly assistant in the parish of St Quivox, was ordained, by the Rev. Alexander Cuthill, Moderator of the Presbytery of Ayr, to the charge of the Presbyterian Church of St Andrew, in the city of Quebec, and province of Lower Canada. 11. The Rev. John Wilson, A. M. of North Shields, has received an appointment to the church and parish of Irvine, Ayrshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Henderson. 23. Lord Montague and the Hon. Mr Douglas, tutors to his Grace the Duke of Buccleuch, have been pleased to present the Rev. James Green, preacher of the Gospel, to the parish of WesterTM kirk, as assistant and successor to the Rev. W. Little. 25. The Magistrates and Town Council of Perth unanimously appointed the Rev. Samuel Kennedy, of Leith Wynd Chapel, Edinburgh, and eldest son of the Rev. Mr Kennedy of St Madoes, to be Minister of the West Church of Perth, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Mr Kay. 28. The Rev. Alexander Campbell, of the Inverness Academy, was ordained and admitted minister of the parish of Dores, Presbytery of Inver 1 Ceyl. R. 2d Lieut. Gray, 1st Lieut, vice Tulloh, Lt. Col. Smelt, fm. h. p. York Ra. Lt. 24th Feb. 1820. York Chas. A. Boetefeur, Ensign by purch. vice Dormer, prom. 9th Mar. 9th do. do. 2 Lieut. Spratt, fm. h. p. 4 W. I. R. Lieut. vice Ross, 4 Vet. Bn. 2d do. Ensign Chambers, Lieut. vice Hearne, dead 5th July 1819. Lieut. Moody, Capt. by pur. vice Fane, 1. W. I. R. 2d March 1820. M'Kenzie, Capt. vice Chisholm, 4 Vet. Bn. do. Med. Dep. J. Campbell, Hosp. Assist. vice Cou sens, dead 24th Feb. Garrisons. Gen. Sir Samuel Hulse, Gov. of Chel sea Hospital, vice Dundas, dead 19th do. Lt. Gen. Sir Harry Calvert, Bt. G.C.B. Lt. Gov. of Chelsea Hospital do. Exchanges. Bt. Lt. Col. O'Malley, fm. 38 F. with Major Cuyler, h. p. 60 F. Bourchier, fm. 11 Dr. with Major Smith, 22 Dr. Bt. Major Milner, fm. 4 F. with Bt. Major Frye, h. p. 3 F. Capt. Ramsey, fm. 14th F. rec. diff. with Capt. Knollis, h. p. Brownson, fm. 25 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Priestley, h. p. 5 Gar, Bn. Nolan, fm. 70 F. rec. diff. with Capt. Reed, h. p. 4 W. I. R. Lieut. M'Kenzie, fm, 22 Dr. with Lieut, Robison, 24 F. Mullenger, fm. 10 F. with Lieut. Blane, h. p. 1 F. G. Leavach, fm. 21 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Johnston, h. p. 3 W. I. R. Reveley, fm. 46 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Campbell, h. p. 30 F. Ridge, fm. 56 F. rec. diff. with Lieut. Mason, h. p. Lee, fm. 81 F. with Lieut. Dixon, h. p. 85 F. Boyton, fm. 2 Ceylon Regt. with Lieut. Poynts, h. p. 30 F. Croft, fm. 1 F. G. rec. diff. with Lieut. Lyster, h. p. Stacpoole, fm. 18 F. rec. diff. with Lieut, Lynar, h. p. 49 F. |