Londonderry-Right Hon. Sir G. F. Hill, Banff, Cullen, Kintore, &c.-Archibald Lisburne Horace Seymour Waterford-Right Hon. Sir J. Newport, Kinghorn, Dysart, Kirkaldy, &c.-Sir R. Bart. Wexford-Wm. Wigram MEMBERS FOR SCOTLAND. Those printed in Italics were not in the last Parliament. Those marked thus (*) are new for the respective places; all the rest are re-elected. Counties. Aberdeen-James Ferguson Clackmannan and Kinross-Robert Bruce Forfar-Honourable William Maule C. Ferguson Perth, Dundee, Forfar, &c.-IIon. Hugh Lindsay Selkirk, Peebles, Lanark, &c.-Henry Monteith Stirling, Culross, &c.—Robert Downie Stranraer, Wigton-Hn. J. H. K. Stewart Tain, Dingwall, Kirkwall, &c.-Sir H. Innes, Bart. REPRESENTATIVE PEERS FOR SCOT LAND. The two marked thus (*) are new Peers in room of the Duke of Roxburghe and Viscount Arbuthnot. Charles Marquis of Queensberry, Thomas Earl of Kelly, John Archibald Earl of Rosebery, Alexander George Lord Saltoun, Charles Lord Sinclair, John Lord Colville of Culross, Robert M. Lord Belhaven and Stenton. Gilty against both the prisoners,-M'Innis for shooting, and Bruce for aiding and abetting. Immediately after the verdict was given, M'Innes said "My Lord, it is a hard case for an innocent man to be condemned. This man (Bruce) is as innocent as the child unborn. I was the man that fired the pistol; and no man living knew my intention before the shot was fired." On Monday M'Innis and Bruce were put to the bar, to receive their sentence. M'Innis evinced a deal of hardihood. On being asked by the Prothonotary, in the usual manner, what they had to say why sentence should not be passed, he said, "My Lord, this man beside me is an innocent man; I never spoke to him prior to my coming here. I am the man who shot Birch, and no man living knew my intention but myself."-Bruce then said, "My Lord, as you said an innocent man has no fear, I am an innocent man. 1 am ready to die. I am innocent. I shall not feel at all affected by your sentence. I fear not meeting my God, and my sentiments will be always the same as long as I live, whether I suffer now or not." The Chief Justice then passed sentence in the usual manner, ordering M'Innis to be executed on the following Saturday, which was accordingly carried into effect. Bruce has been respited. On sentence being pronounced M'Innis cried out, "Thank you, my Lord, it is a good cure for a swimming in the head." Before Saturday, however, he became very penitent, and behaved with much decorum. Diabolical Transaction.-William Walker of Rashlieyet, in the parish of Kilbirnie, in February last, erected a temporary hut for the purpose of accommodating himself and family, until he got possession of the dwelling houses at Belton next. On the night of the 13th and 14th current, the family, consisting of Mr and Mrs Walker, six children, and Mrs Walker's brother, went to bed betwixt nine and ten o'clock. -About midnight the hut was all in flames, and before the family could get out, two of the children were burnt to ashes, and another of them so severely that her life is despaired of, and the others were also much injured. The Sheriff-Substitute instantly proceeded to Kilbirnie, and sent down William Barbour, the outgoing tenant, to Ayr, as being implicated in the horrid crime. He has since, however, been liberated, there being found no evidence to warrant his detention. 20.-Juvenile Depravity.-A circumstance occurred in the Edinburgh Police Court yesterday, which completely proves the assertion which has been often made, that the depravity of the boys in that city, and the number of crimes committed by them, are more to be attributed to the negligence of their parents than to any other cause. Four boys, the oldest not exceeding eleven years of age, were charged with breaking into a cellar and stealing a quantity of bottles. Their parents were sent for, and the father of the oldest of them having been asked by the Magistrate if he had ever put his son to school? answered, That he never had. Had he ever taken him to church? answer, No. Ever read the Bible to him? No. Never instructed him in the principles of morality? No. The Magistrate declared he never had witnessed such a case of unprincipled depra vity, and admonished this unnatural father, if he had any regard for his son, and wished to save him from the gallows, to alter the way in which he was bringing him up. 24.-Commemoration of the King's Birth Day.-His Majesty having ordered that the anniversary of his birth should be celebrated on the 23d April, St George's Day, in place of the 12th of August, and that anniversary falling on Sunday, this day, the 24th, was celebrated throughout the three kingdoms with every demonstration of loyalty and respect; and in no place, it is said, was this disposition more strikingly manifested among the people than in the west of Scotland, so recently the scene of turbulence and sedition. 29.-State of the Country-We have the pleasure to find that the public tranquillity is at present completely restored in all the manufacturing districts. No disturbance has taken place in the west country, since the deplorable events noticed in our last number. A great many individuals accused as leaders or agitators in those scenes of lawless outrage have been since taken into custody, without any attempt at resistance; and some of them will no doubt be brought to the bar of public justice; but numbers have, after examination, been dismissed altogether, or else liberated on bail; while many, on the other hand, have quietly left the country, to avoid any question regarding their conduct. Some slight symptoms of disturbance had also been manifested in different parts of England. MAY. Trials for High Treason. The trials of the desperadoes concerned in the conspiracy to assassinate his Majesty's Ministers in February last (see page 277 of this volume) commenced before a special commission at the Old Bailey, on Monday the 17th April. The prisoners were tried separately; and on Thursday the 27th, verdicts of Guilty were found against five of them, namely, Thistlewood, Ings, Brunt, Tidd, and Davidson. The other prisoners, six in number, to wit, Wilson, Bradburn, Strange, Gilchrist, Cooper, and Harrison, made an application to be allowed to retract their first plea of Not Guilty, and to plead Guilty. This was consented to by the Judge; and, although they were apprised that sentence of death must follow upon their plea, yet they were permitted to understand that a more lenient ultimate doom was likely to await them. The tremendous sentence of the law was then passed upon the whole, and they were removed from the bar. The great body of evidence against the prisoners (for it was similar in each separate case) arose from the testimony of four accomplices-Robert Adams, Thomas Hydon, John Monument, and Thomas Dwyer; but they were corroborated by other witnesses in many important points. All the prisoners were identified with the conspiracy in some of its stages; and the whole of its ramifications were most distinctly elicited by the examination of Adams. He detailed with accuracy the proceedings that took place at each meeting of the conspirators, prior to their assembling in Cato Street, on the celebrated evening of the 23d of February, for the avowed purpose of going to the residence of Earl Harrowby, in Grosvenor Square, where they had determined to assassinate the whole of his Majesty's Ministers, (thirteen in number,) whom they expected to find met there at a Cabinet dinner. On the prior communication of this expected meeting, at one of their deliberations, the witness stated, that Brunt exultingly exclaimed, "I'll be hang'd if I don't believe now that there is a God; I have often prayed that these thieves might be brought together, in order that they might be destroyed together; and now God has answered my prayer!" Ings offered to enter the room first, with a brace of pistols, a cutlass, and a knife in his pocket, and with a determination to cut off every lead there, and to bring away Lord Castlereagh's and Lord Sidmouth's leads in a bag, which he was to have for the purpose. He said he would say on entering the room, "Well, my Lords, I have got as good men here as the Manchester Yeomanry! Enter citizens, and do your duty!" On this signal from Ings, two swordsmen, followed by others with pikes and pistols, were to come in, and to fall to work murdering as fast as they could. After the execution of this diabolical business, other parties were to set fire to the King Street barracks to take possession of two cannon that were in Gray's Inn Lane, and six at the Artillery Ground, which were to be planted at the Mansion House, and a fire opened upon it, if it should refuse to surrender to their summons, for the purpose of being converted into the seat of a Provisional Government an attack was then to be made on the Bank of England, the funds to be removed, but the books to be preserved, as evidence of the villany of the country for years past. -The witness finally spoke of the arrival of the police, and apprehension of some of the conspirators. Hydon (the man who divulged the plot to Lord Harrowby) deposed, that immediately upon the assassination of Ministers being effected, the houses of Lords Castlereagh, Sidmouth, and Harrowby, the Duke of Wellington, Bishop of London, &c. were to be set on fire; that these fires were to be extended, and kept up for three nights and days, with the view of distracting public attention, while the Provisional Government was arranging its measures at their Palace, the Mansion House. Hydon said also, that he understood several parties were prepared to rise as soon as the first blow was struck. Dwyer, in the course of a similar recital, stated that he was appointed to go with a party to the Foundling Hospital, where they were to knock at the lodge, put a pistol to the porter's breast, and then seize 25 stand of arms kept there. He communicated these proceedings to Major James, by whom he was sent to the Secretary of State's Office. The Police Officers proved the apprehending of the conspirators in Cato Street; and Ruthven positively swore to Thistlewood being the person who murdered Smithers, by running him through the body with a long sword. This witness (Adams) gave the following account of himself on his cross-examination. I was born at Ipswich; I am now a Christian. There was a time I was not a Christian; I was what they termed a Deist. I renounced Christianity, and believed only in God. I recommenced Christian after 23d of February, and my faith as a Christian last August. I never pronounced my disbelief in God-nor ever denied Christ, till I read that cursed work of Paine's! The prisoners were found guilty on the third and fourth counts of the indictment, charging them with levying war against the king, and with assembling with intent to assassinate the members of the Privy Council, with a view to compel his Majesty to change his measures. Before sentence was pronounced, each of the prisoners addressed the Court in long speeches, the effect of which was to impugn the evidence of Adams, the accomplice; and to assert that they had been entrapped and led on to the conspiracy by one Edwards, a spy, who was among the list of witnesses, but had not been called in Court. This man, they declared, planned all their proceedings, and furnished them with money to purchase the warlike instruments found in Cato Street, when they were apprehended. Gilchrist cried bitterly, and declared that he knew nothing of the plans of his fellow prisoners, until he was introduced to them on the afternoon of their apprehension; that at that time he had been nearly two days without food, and had borrowed a halfpenny to buy bread, from the person who led him to Cato Street; and that when he discovered their purposes to be illegal, he wished to leave the loft, but was prevented by the witness Adams, who threatened with a drawn sword to run him through if he offered to depart. Execution of the Conspirators.-At a meeting of the Privy Council on Saturday the 29th, the sentence of death passed upon the six last named conspirators was changed to that of transportation for life, with the exception of Gilchrist, who was respited during pleasure, and who, it is expected, will get off with a much more lenient punishment. At the same time a warrant was signed for the execution of the five convicted criminals on Monday morning on the roof of Newgate. With the exception of Davidson, the man of colour, who, after the warrant was intimated to him, seemed to awaken to a sense of his situation, and gladly received the consolations of religion, the others behaved with the most hardened depravity; avowing themselves confirmed Deists; and threat ening, as it were, defiance both to God and men. On the morning of Monday the 1st instant, the necessary preparations were completed, for putting into execution the dreadful sentence of the law. This sentence was, that they should be hanged until dead, and afterwards their heads to be cut off, and their bodies divided into quarters. The last and most revolting part was remitted by the king, in signing the warrant for their execution. When the irons were displaced, and their hands secured in the usual way, the prisoners were led to the entrance of the prison; and, at a quarter before eight o'clock exactly, Thistlewood came on the scaffold. He walked with a firm step, and appeared perfectly collected. He look ed round upon the crowd and bowed twice. His demeanour was serious and becoming his situation. While the final arrangements were making by the executioner, Mr Cotton stood beside the wretched man, and continued exhorting him to pray, and also put some question, if he repented of his crimes; he exclaimed several times, "No: not at all!" He was also heard to say, "I shall soon know the last grand secret:" and added, "I have but a few moments to live; I hope you will report to all the world that I died a sincere friend to liberty." He then bowed to a gentleman who stood near the railings, and repeated the above words, as he had frequently seen that individual at public meetings. Tidd was the next brought up. He ran swiftly up the steps, and bowed round, with a hardened smile. There was a partial cheering when he made his appearance. Ings then came out. The conduct of this man was truly horrible. The momeat he had taken his station, he moved his head to and fro, and cried "Huzza !" three times. He then commenced singing, "O give me death or liberty!" Here there was a partial cheering from the top of the Old Bailey. He continued now and then exclaiming, "Here we go my ladsyou see the last remains of James Ingsremember I die the enemy of tyranny, and would sooner die in chains than live in slavery." "When Mr Cotton addressed him, he said laughingly, "I am not afraid to go before God and man;" then addressing the executioner, he exclaimed, "Now old gentleman, finish me tidy! Put the halter a little tighter, it might slip!" He then, as well as he could, waved a handkerchief three times, and said he hoped Mr Cotton would give him a good character. He laughed on looking at the coffins, and said, turning his back on them, "I'll turn my back upon death! Is this the gallows they always use? Those coffins are for us, I suppose!"-Tidd, who stood next him, and had the moment before been in conversation with Thistlewood, turned about and said, "Don't Ings." There is no use in all this noise. We can do without making a noise!" When the executioner threw the rope round the beam, Ings said "Give me a better fall; the others won't have fall enough." When the executioner put on the cap, Ings said "I have got a cap of my own; put it over this night-cap, and I'll thank you." The executioner proceeded to do so; but Ings said- It will do when we are going off; let me see as long as I can." He then pushed the cap fron his eyes. The others had raised the caps from their eyes.-Ings exclaimed, turning to a person belonging to the public press, who was taking notes, "I die an enemy to all tyrants-recollect and put that down. Do it now, my young man; I know you. Don't forget me. Come, now." He then smiled and bowed. Then, after a pause, he added, "I am not afraid to go before God or man-I know there is a God and I hope he'll be merciful." Again Tidd turned round to Ings, and, as it appeared, at the suggestion of Thistlewood, requested that he would not continue the noise. Mr Cotton approached Tidd and Ings, but they turned away from him. Ings smiled at his interference, but Tidd turned round to Thistlewood and spoke a few words, in which he complained of the inclination of the Ordinary to break in on their last moments. prayed with great fervency. When he stepped upon the scaffold, he said to those within, "God bless you all! good bye." He joined in the Lord's prayer, and said, "God bless the King!" He repeatedly expressed great penitence for his crimes. Brunt came out last. He said very little, but was as hardened as any of the rest. He said just before he came out, that he had no snuff-box, but he had some snuff in his waistcoat pocket, and requested some stander-by to get some out for him, as his hands were tied. This was done, and he took it with great coolness. He said he wondered where they would put him, but he supposed that it would be somewhere that he would sleep well. He added that he would make a present of his body to King George the Fourth. Thistlewood, just before he was turned off, said, in a low tone to a person just under the scaffold, "I have now but a few moments to live, and I hope the world will think that I have at least been sincere in my endeavours." At about six minutes after eight the signal was given by Mr Cotton, and the unhappy men were launched into eternity. Thistlewood died almost without a struggle. Ings struggled extremely, and appeared to suffer much. When the bodies had been suspended exactly half an hour, the executioner and an assistant appeared on the scaffold to prepare for the revolting ceremony of decapitation. Thistlewood was first cut down, and being placed with his head on the block, a surgeon, as it is supposed, disguised in a rough jacket and trowsers, and a mask on his face, appeared with his amputating knife, and the head was almost momentarily severed from the body, and given to the executioner's assistant, who held it up by the hair, and turning north and south, and then to the front of the scaffold, exclaimed three times, "This is the head of Arthur Thistlewood, a traitor." The body with the head was then placed in a coffin. The same ceremony was performed with Tidd, Ings, Davidson, and Brunt, in succession.-The operation was performed with great skill, and in as short a time as possible. The operator was loudly hissed and groaned at by the mob, and some atrocious expressions were applied to him. The universal groans, accompanied by some female shrieks, when he first commenced upon Thistlewood, had an awful effect. The bodies were soon after removed to a room in the prison. The execution occupied an hour and eight minutes. The person who wore the mask, and who performed the decollations, is the same person who beheaded Despard and his associates. Circuit Intelligence.-South Circuit, Ayr.-The Court sat here on the 10th April. Two men were sentenced to imprisonment for 12 months, one for theft, and another for poaching; and a third was sentenced to seven years transportation for theft. Eli Gill, a private in the 1st royal veteran battalion, was accused of culpable homicide, but acquitted by the jury. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL March 22. The honour of Knighthood conferred on Garret Neville, Esq. High Sheriff of Dub lin; and Richard Ottley, Esq. one of his Majesty's Judges of the Island of Ceylon. April 8. The Right Honourable David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, sworn one of his Majesty's Privy Council. Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Urban, K. C.B. to be Governor in Chief of the Islands of Antigua and Montserrat. 15. Honourable Frederick Lamb, to be Ambassador to the Princes of the Germanic Confederation at Frankfort. Brook Taylor, Esq. to be Ambassador at the Court of Bavaria. Alexander Cockburn, Esq. to be Ambassador at the Court of Wurtemberg. Charles Richard Vaughan, Esq. to be Secretary of Embassy at Paris. Lionel Hervey, Esq. to be Secretary of Embassy at Madrid. Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. April 27. The second Associate Burgher Congregation, Albion Street, Glasgow, gave a unanimous call to Mr Michael Willis, preacher, to be their pastor. May 5. Mr William Limont, preacher, ordained minister of the Relief Congregation at Kilmarnock. 7 Dr. 20. The honour of Knighthood conferred on John Connell, Esq. Judge of the High Court of 10 Admiralty in Scotland. 21. The Earl of Morton, to be his Majesty's |