NUMBER 785.] SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, - vlcrf0 f ' 7,*.. Willi IMQ Printed for J. BOOTH, JUN. CHRONICLE STREET, ABERDEEN ; where, anil by NEWTON" & Co. No. 5, Warwick Square, Newgate Street; J. WHITE, 33, Fleet Street; E. HATH WAY, No. 1, Catherine Street, Strand, LONDOJT ; J. K. JOHNSTON & Co. No. 1, Sackville Street, DUBLIN; and J. T. SMITH & Co. Hunter'S Square, EDINBURGH, Advertisements and Orders are taken in, Price of a single Paper, •£ 1 8s Od. per Annum, delivered in Town—— and £ I. 10s. per Annum, when sent by Post. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT SINCLAIR & SIMPSON, BROAD STREET, HAVE just got to hand FIFTY BALES of NEW CLOTH IE P. Y and HABERDASHERY, all purchased in England by Mr. SIMPSOX, which are now oil Sale, far ready money ur. ly, at uiost wonderfully re- duced prices. S. & S. are determined this " Season to undersell all Clieap Selling in Aberdeen. Tbe truth of which will be more amply verified by trial.— Particulars below. 100 Pi. ces Beautiful LADIES' CLOTHS, the finest textures ever spun from Wool, and the most elegant co- lours, 7s. Gd. to 12s. per yard— fully 6s. per yard under last year's prices. 500 Pieces PELISSE CLOTHS— Colours: Navy Bluo, Indian Puce, and Russian Bronte; with a great variety of light shades all made from Spanish ^ oo. l, and, jnanufactwed by the ceiebnited H astings, In the West of England. 3s. to 7s. per yard only. 190 Pieces Scarlet, Drab, and Grey FRIEZES and T5UFFLES now so fashionable for Cloaks and Mantles, 5s. 6d. to 5s.— never sold before under 6s. to 8s. 110 Pieces Rich Figured Irish POPLINS, 2s. per yard, all colours, equal in appearance to the finest Sars- Hits. S50 Pieces Black and Coloured BOMB AZEENSand NORWICH CRAPES, 14d. to 2s. per yard— positively sold from 2s. to 3s. 6d. this time twelvemonths. 325 Pieces Imperial Tweelled and Bolivar Figured BOMBAZETTS, in all the colours of the rain- bow, from Ninepence to 15d. per yard. The qualities from is. to 14d. are beautiful beyond description. Two Thousand Pieces Elegant Dark and Light Print- ed CAMBRICS, Sixpence to 14d. per yard, warranted Colours. Scarlet and Coloured CASSIMERE SHAWLS, 4s. to 8s. verv fine, well worth double the money. 50 Packs more of the p. EAI, CAROLINA FLAN- NELS. efficacious in curing almost every disease, much cheaper, and considerably better qualities than any pre- vious importation. Fifteen Thousand Pairs Double- milled ENOLISH and SCOTCH BLANKETS, 4s. to 21s. per pair, made of Carolina Wool, softer and thicker than any before ever offered for sale, and a great deal cheaper. QUILTS. COUNTERPANES, and BED TICKS, — TABLE CLOTHS, GLOVES, RIBBONS, and LACES. SILK PLAIDS. SHAWLS, and SCARFS, with 250 Pieces beautiful full- white LINENS, all Grass- Meacbing, from 15d. to 5s. per yard, the best fabric of Cloth, and the greatest bargains of that article ever seen in Scotland, particularly well worth the attention of families. 300 Pieces Keal Water- Twist COTTON SHIRT- INGS, from Sd. to 16d. per yard, full ell wide, uncom- monly cheap. Imitation and Real FRENCH CAMBRICS, with Pliin and Fancy MUSLINS, of every description, at extraordinary low prices. CLOTHS, Remarkably Cheap. SO Pieces Broad Black and Blue SUPERFINE CLOTHS, for Gentlemeus' Coats, from 14s. to 21s. per yard— generally sold in this City from 25s. to 30s.; but " ti. & S. are both able and willing to sell upon a smaller profit. 180 Pieces Beautiful NARROW CLOTHS, in every colour, particularly adapted f.> r Great Coats, 3s. to 8s. per yard, fully 20 per cent, under last year's prices, in con sequence of the great fall on Wool. TOILONET, SWANDOWN, and other Waistcoat- Ings. And a large Lot of CORDUROYS, soft marie, war- > anted to wear double the time of the glued Cords, from " I'd. to } 8d. per yard— a great bargain. EVERY OTHER ARTICLE IS THE LINE, With Large NAPKINS, at a Bawbee. Money saved is Money gained. " N. B.— Country Merchants supplied on the very besj * ERMS FOE. MOSEY. FOR SALE, AT DAVID MARTIN'S, BROAD STREET. THE following extensive Assortment of New CLOTHIERY and HABERDASHERY, select- ed at the first Manufacturing Towns, for Ready Money only, and warranted of the present year's manufacture. D. M. having it in his power, is determined to be undersold by none in Aberdeen ; and as his present Stock is of the very first quality, he can, wiih the utmost confidence, recommend it to Dealers and Families, as worth llieir attention. LADIES' CLOTHS, of the most beautiful Colours, made from the finest Saxon Wool, 8s. to 12s. per yard— sold last year from 12s. to 18s. PELISSE CLOTHS, Navy Blue, Puce. Mazarine Brown, Olive, and Brown, w ith a variety of lighter Shades, plain and tweeiled. 5s. to 6s. per yard— really not the price ofthe. Wool. Full Two Yards wide FRIEZES » nd DUFFLES, tor Cloaks and Mantles, Grays, Drabs, and Scarlet, from 3s. to Gs. per yard—- fWy 2s. per yard lower than last year. READY MADE CLOAKS, only 8s. Rich Figured IRISH POPLINS, only 2s. per yard, warranted equal to those usually sold at 5s.— an astonishing bargain ! COTTON SARSNETS. Figured, equal in appear- ance to real Sarsnet, at S-. 6d. only 20d. per yard. Black and Coloured BO M BA ZEE NS, from 14d. to rsd. per yard — well loorth alrnost\ double the money. Tweelled and Figured BOMB AZETTS, in every imaginable Colour, ofthe very finest qualities, only One Shilling per yard— none of the coarse trash kept. C A SSI. ME RE SHAWLS, elegant Chintz Borders, the greatest variety in Aberdeen— about 20 per cent, lower than formerly. Real WITNEY BLANKETS, superior to every other kind of Blankets, for comfort and durability, from 10s. to 50s. per pair. FLANNELS, Welch and Swanskin, of every descrip- tion. from 9d. to 18d. full yard wide at 18d. These Flannels are made by one of the first Houses in the Trade, nd from the very best quali ty of Wool. A large Quantity of Unglu'ed CORDUROYS, real Double Tweelled, from lOd. to 2s. per yard— These Goods are ofa very superior Quality, and particular- ly wor: hy the attention of Dealers, being at least 5d. per yard under the regular prices. 100 Dozen of GLOVES, at 9d. per Pair. 50 Dozen KID GLOVES, only Is. ditto. Men's Dark GLOVES, only Is. Elastic, Top. Light, and Dark KID GLOVES. Lined GLOVES of every description. Dark FURS, from 8d. to 2s. per yard. A BOX of those LINENS, which have given so much satisfaction to those who have made a trial of them, from 1 8d. to 5s.— of the present year's bleach. Real WATER TWIST SHIRTINGS, from 6d. to 12d. per yard. Numerous other Articles at equally low prices. ft'-." The above being the Ready Money Price, D. M. begs no Credit will be asked. Third Shop from the End ofthe Street, 7 West Side. J WINTER CLOTIIIERY AND HABER- DASHERY GOODS, UNCOMMONLY CHEAP. The Nobility, Gentry, and Public of this City and its Vicinity, are respectfully informed, that MR DRAKE HAS ARRIVED WITH HIS Miracle o f Nature, Never before exhibited in this Kingdom, THAT STUPENDOUS ANIMAL, THE PERFORMING <£ lC4) f) A « t, From the Theatre- Royal, Covenl Garden, London, In a new and commodious Theatre ; Which, for his extraordinary Sagacity, is justly termed the Learned or Half- reasoned Beast. His astonishing Feats of Performance are as follow : He opens and shuts his own door ; he shows the com pany how he would liberate his Master from Prison ; lies down at the word of command ; takes up his Keeper upon his neck, carries him round the Theatre, and shows the audience how the Elepant is fed when travelling, and lies i3own again for him to get'off; takesa tea kettle ofboiling water off the fire, assists the Keeper with it, and returns the kettle again to the flames; will take a little pin from out of the finger and thumb of any baby, puts it into his Master's pocket, takes it from the mouth of his Master, and returns the pin to the infant ; OLDMEI. DRUM, 24th Sept. 1821. AT a Meeting of tlie Pupils of the late Bttillie GEORGE CoorEtt, Parochial Schoolmaster of Mel- tlrum, it was unanimously resolved to express their high sense of their obligations to him as their Teacher when alive by erecting.- at their own expence, a Moniiment to his Memory. As the Meeting, however, were well aware that there are many more of his former Pupils at a dis- tance, who would be equally anxious as themselves to contribute to the object in view ; and as the nature of the Monument must be entirely regulated by the amount of Subscriptions, it was resolved to give public notice of their intentions in the Aberdeen Newspapers. It was also agreed that Subscriptions should be taken from Pu- pils DST. Y— and the following Gentlemen were appointed to receive them, with either of whom Pupils at a distance May communicate, viz. : — Rev. GEO. GARIOCII, Oldmeldrum. Mr. ALEX. MANSON, Do. Mr. INGRAM. Do. Mr. JAMES BARNETT, Do. Captain WILLIAMSON, Bethelny. HOUSES FOR SALE. UPSET PRICE REDUCED. Ppon Fiiday 2d November next, at 6 o'clock in the even- ing. theie will be Sold, by Public Roup, within the New Inn of Aberdeen, Jst, < f 1| NE just ; ind equal Half of all and whole V/ that DWELLING HOUSE in Littlejohn Street flf Aberdeen, presently possessed by Francis Shaw, Blacksmith, and other* ; and bounded on the west by thc House lately occupied by Mr. James Gordon. Merchant — and on the east, by the House psesently possessed by Alex Irvine, Tailor. As also, one just and equal half of the small SHOP, opposite said House, presently occu- pied by John Booth. Blacksmith. 2d, One just and equal Half of all and whole that TE- KF. MF. NT of FOIlELANDand B ACKLAND front- ing Justice Street, and adjacent to Castle Street of Aber - deen, and above ihe entry to Justice Lane— consisting o' n DWELLING HOUSE and SHOP, presently possessed by jVIr. Alex. Brown, Hosier in Aberdeen. The situation of these Properties is such as always to trsui* their being well Let. They are burdened with no Peu- duty-, but are affected with the Life- rent right of a I. ady aged 76. The pfrient Rental of them is £ 41. The Title- deeds, and - Articles of Roup, are in Iiands of James M Hardy, Advocate. FIRES OFF A PISTOL!!! Takes a Gentleman's Hat off, and puts it on again ; will take the smallest piece of money from any Lady or Gentlemen, put it into his keeper's pocket, will take it out ofthe keeper's mouth, and return it to the same per- son who gave it him ; he tells the time of the day ; he shows what trade he would like to he ; he shows the com- pany how he would protect his Keeper from the ravages of Wild Beasts ; he suffers the Keeper to put his head out of sight down his throat ; and answers every question his Keeper puts to him ; he also kneels down and returns thanks to the company for coming to see him ; with variety of other Performances too tedious to detail The spectators will likewise have an opportunity of seeing the Elephant take his water, which is allowed by every per. son to be the greatest curiosity in nature. The Anitna weighs upwards of five Tons Weight, and stands nearly Ten Feet in Height, his amazing bulk must strike every beholder with admiration. It is allowed by every visitor to be the largest Elephant in Europe. His consumption of Food daily is nearly 700 Weight. This is not the Elephant that was here last, icing Three Times the Size. The one here presented to the Public was procured by the Proprietor at an enormous expence. It is only Nine Years and a half old, remarkably tame, and one of those distinguished by the Indians, of the cast of the Salona, which is the finest kind of Elephants in the world. ALEXANDER C R 0 M A R, FOOT OF BROAD STREET, HAVING just got to hand the whole of his ex- tensive Purchase for the Autumn, and Winter Trade, begs leave to acquaint his numerous friends and tbe public, that he is now enabled to offer them Goods, of very superior quality, at prices so very much reduced as can only require an inspection to induce them to purchase. The following being all purchased on tbe most advan- tageous terms, will be found deserving of their particular attention, being full 20 per cent, und. r any former pri- ces, viz.:— PE1ISSE CLOTHS and CASSIMEIIES, in every fashionable colour, such as Navy J} » ue, Puce, Brown French Grev, from 4s. to 6s.' fid. per yard. QUEEN'S and H A BIT CLOTIIS. from ? s. to 12s. per yard, same as sold last year from J l^.. ( id. to } 8s. SCARLET, DRAB, and GREY FRIEZES and DUFFLES from 5s. per yard, upwards. Beautiful FIGURED BOMBAZETTS, an article so much in demand at present, froui Is. per yard, up- ward^. RICH FIGURED POPLINS, and COLOURED BOMBAZEENS, from 16d. to 2s. 6d. per yard. Very Superior BLACK BOMBAZEENS, from 20d. per. yard, upwards. And Full Yard- wide CRAPES, at Is per yard. * CASSIMERE SHAWLS, two yards wide, only 8s each. Best CHINTZ EOIIDERED DITTO, from 10s. 6d. up- wards. Best Superfine BROAD and NARROW CLOTHS and CASSIMEIIES, at uncommonly low prices. CORDUROYS, MOLESKINS, and VELVE- VEENS, from 10( 1. per yard, upwards. STOUT SWANSKIN and WELSH FLANNELS, rom 9d. to 2s. 6d per yard. Double- Milled BLUE BAIZES, only Is. per yard. BLANKETS, COUNTERPANES, and RED TICKS, at less than the prices of the raw material. SILK and COTTON SHAWLS, UMBRELLAS' & c. in great variety ; and ever other Article in the line, upon the very lowest terms. %* Liberal allowance to Dealers. N- B.— Second Shop from the foot of Broad Street, West Side. EXTRACT J^ ROM the Returns of the Stamp Office, shewing thc Increase and Decrease of Duty paid by the principal Fire Offices between the Years 1819 and 1820 : If § : Ha. MS s : s : ' ? § - 5 STJ gj ° 3 ABERDEEN AUXILIARY BIBLE SOCIETY. At the Annual General Meeting of the Aberdeen Auxi- liary Bible Society, held in the Court House, 11 th 0;' t. 1821, ( being its Tenth Anniversary) : GAVIN HAD DEN, E; q. Lord Provost of Aberdeen, Vice- President in the Chair. ACommunication was announced by liis Lord- ship, from the President, the Most Noble the Mar- quis of Huntly, apologizing for his absence on this occa- sion, and presenting his best respects to the Society at large. The Report of the Committee . of Management for- the past year, and an abstract of " the Treasurer's Accounts, were then read ; after which, the following Resolutions were unanimously adopted }. That the Report now read be received and approved ; and that it be printed for circulation within tire'sphere of the Society. 2. That the thanks of this Meeting heaven to the Most NoUe the MARQUIS, of HIJNTI. Y, the President, for the distinguished patronage and support which he af- fords to the Institution. 3. That the Meeting congratulate the Parent Society on its exertions and success, not only throughout the Bri- tish dominions, but in almost every country on the globe : that, notwithstanding the increased circulation of the Scriptures of late years, it appears there is still a lamen- table deficiency in the supply, compared with the need of them, or even with the various channels which Providence has already opened for their diffusion :— That, therefore the Meeting consider themselves as called upon to give all the aid in their power to promote the objects of the Bri- tish and Foreign Bible Society. •- 4. That tlje Thanks of this Meeting be given to The Very Reverend the Synod of Aberdeen, who before the existence of this Auxiliary, recommended that Collections should he made throughout the parishes within their bounds, for the British and Foreign Bible Society; and when this local Institution was formed in connection with it, granted to it the same countenance and encourage- ment . — And that ( hanks be returned to the Clergymen and Parishes who have complied with the recommenda- tion. 5 That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Mi- nisters £ nd Congregations of Other Communions ; and to the Societies and Individuals, not connected with this In- stitution, who have contributed to the funds during the past year. 6. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Vice- Presidents, Committee, Treasurer, Secretaries. De- pository, and Auditors of Accounts, for their attention to the interests of the Society ; and that the Office- bearers be requested to continue their services, 7. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Bible Associations, in connexion with this Society— at Keith, Pootdee. Forglen, Garioch, Huntly, Aberdeen. Echt, and Botriphny, for their zealous co- operation and support; and that the Meeting recommend the extensive formation of such Institutions, as most effectual in pro- moting the object of the Society. 8. That the thanks of this Meeting be given to tlie Commissioners, for the use of the Court House on this occasion. 9. That the Committee, for the ensuing twelve months, consist of the following Gentlemen, together with the cleri- cal and other official Members : — The Keeper deeming this an insult ort his high office, imv mediately threatened he would turn them all out, and ac- tually, of his own authority, and with the assistance of the soldiers, cleared the gallery altogether. I was muc'i surprised to find the people so quiet and unresisting, meekly bearing such an outrageous proceeding. 1 They1 were ' offending no known law, and the person who was, guilty of so outrageous and indecent an attack upon them* was one who was vested with no authority that could en- title him to the command ofthe military whenever h « 5 pleased, or even to turn out a single individual from a place intended for the accommodation ofthe public. This, Sir. is a correct statement of an affair that may tie looked upon by. some people as a small patter, but- which .1 am not at all inclined to thmk so.' " It Iciigplays but toy! strongly the aristocratic feelings of the little links, as well as the great links, of that chain, which supples' not to trample. on the rights and privileges- of their feltow- clyzons, and to arm one class of the community against t; he other,, upon file- most insignificant occasions, whenever they aro dressed out with a little brief authority. W'e hatfe Tang since ?;? » .;-, what cm be achieved by Manchester Magis- trates and their yeomanry, and more recently by the gal- lant deecjsof the Guards, at the funeral of the late Queen, and now, in the, good town of Aberdeen, the outrageous conduct of its insignificant t" keeper of the Court House.—* I hope, however, that this communication will have the effect of preventing a repetition- of similar conduct, anil that Mr, ' Housekeeper will be " given to understand, that the full powers of his high and dignified situation does not permit him to turn out a single individual, either by his own violence or that of the military, far less to clear a part of the Court House upon every occasion of his bad tem- per, both of which he has been guilty of on this occasion. 1 am, & c. AN HERITOR. Aberdeen. October 3, 1821. To the EDITOR ojthe ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, . Tt would'be no small matter of gratification for a strati-* ger to beinformed, through Ihe medium of your Chronicle, whether the modest Ladies of Aberdeen were present at a certain trial yesterday. I perceive they have been at-, ( ending to- day. It seems hard to account for this strict attendance of theirs in any other manner, than that they wish to be conversant with the criminal laws of Scotland, and the duties of Jurymen. We have heard of Ladies personifying doughty warriors; perhaps, after a two years apprenticeship to a Lawyer, and a steady attendance i! ur- » ing the criminal trials, we may recognise some Aberdeen, coquette in a Judge's Wig. or a Pleader's Pantaloon. Aberdeen, Oct. 4. 1821. WAG. li " c o the NEW YORK REGULAR TRADERS, i? ROM NEWCASTLE AND ABERDEEN, THE JAMES $ MARGARET, $ AURORA. The fine first class Coppered Brig, JAMES AND MARGARET, 250 Tons Burthen, w ill sail from Newcastle early in Decern her for New York, calling at Aberdeen for what Good and Passengers may offer. And The Brig AURORA, Capt. STEWART, Will also sail from same Ports, early in next year, of which due notice will he given. For rate of Freight and Passage Fare, which will b> nioderate, apply to ROB. CATTO. Aberdeen ; or, RUSSF. I. L BLASKIiIRD, Newcastle. Aberdeen, Oct, IS, 1S21. That beautiful LIVING SERPENT, the GREAT BOA CONSTRICTOR, Which Measures Twenty- Two Feet in Lengthy and Twenty- Four Inches in circumference. He is so remarkably tame that the most timid person may handle him without danger ; he exceeds all the Serpent species in Beautv as well as strength. ALSO. THE WONDERFUL AQUATIC V/; I SERPENT, ALIVE!!! The onU'one travelling in this Kingdom, which was dis- covered when they were out in search of the Great One, and is supposed by the most moderate calculation to mea- sure more than 300 FEET IS LESGTII/// And which they frequently saw, but could not succeed in i iking. From the circumstance of finding the one now brought to England, near Cope Ann Harbour, it is assert- ed by the LinncSn Society, that it is of the same Breed as • lie large one. Mr, DuAKEpledgeshimself toadiscerningandgenerous Public, that should any one retire from the Performance . if the great Elephant, and beautiful living Serpents, issalisfied, tliev shall have their Money Relumed. Admission— Ladies and Gentlemen. 1*. caih— Ser- vants and Children, Gd, SALE ADJbURNED. UPSET PRICES REDUCED. Upon Friday the 26th day of October current, there will be exposed to sale by public roup, within the New Inn, Aberdeen, at six o'clock afternoon, m HE following SUBJECTS, part ofthe seques A trated Estate of ALEXANDER MACKIE, Merchant in Aberdeen. TWO DWELLING HOUSES in Water Lane and Pork Lane, presently occupied by Capt. Macdonald, Shipmaster, and others. TWO DWELLING HOUSES, with Salt Cellar and Shed, on the north side of Water Lane presently possess- ed bv Alex. Mitchell, Painter, and others, ONE SHARE of the ABERDEEN and LON- DON SHIPPING COMPANY. ONE SHARE of the NORTH SHIPPING COMPANY. The Sloop TIBRY, 47 tons register. A large HERRING BOAT about IS tons. For farther particulars, application may be made to Peter Ma-.' farlane, trustee on the said sequestrated estate DOOR MATS, & c. THE Public, are respectfully informed, tliat this Article is now manufactured in Bridewell, of a des- cription which, for neatness and durability, equals any thing of the kind to be met with, and at a very moderate price. MATSforCHURCH PEWS, large LOBBIES, and CARRIAGES, on the same moderate terms. Specimens to be seen at Bridewell, and orders execut- ed with dispatch, on application to the Governor. Bridewell, October 16. 1K21. Alex. Allan. Esq. J ones Dugu d. Esq. John Ross, Esq. P. M Comhie, Esq. Messrs John Skrachan Win. Stephen John Donald Gilbert Falconer Wm. Clark Thos. Craig Wm. Emslie Wm. Matthews John Dunn And Robert Stephen, SALE OF FARM STOCKING, CATTLE, IMPLE- MENTS OF HUSBANDRY, & c. There will be sold by public roup, at Begsley, in the parish of Dyce. possessed by William Moir, on Tues- day the 50th of October, at 10 o'clock forenoon, npHE whole STOCKING on said Farm, con- JL sitting of Four Work Horses, a Colt, and a Riding Poney— Twenty- three Head of Cattle, I, 2, and 3 years old— Six Milch Cows— a variety of Farming Utensils, consisting of Carts, Ploughs Harrows, Harness, Sic.— Also, an assort., entof HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, and DAIRY UTENSILS. Credit will be uiven on security. SHIPPING FOR SALE. TO EE SOLI) BY PRIVATE! BARGAIN, RI" - v A EL and Whole the Sloop RUBY, per Register 84 Tons ^ one Half of V the Sloop STIRLING HILL, per Re- gister 68 Tons; One- fourth of the Brig LILY, ner Register 105 Tons. These Vessels are all well' found* and will be sold on very moderate terms", Apply Jiunws oiden, KarbotUr 0fiice>; Robt. Abercrombie, Esq. of Biikenbog. Thos. Morrison, Esq. of Elsick. Join* Harvey, of Kin- nettles. James Hoy, Esq. Gordon Castle. Baillie Alex. Brown. A. Dingwall Fordycc, Esq. David Chalmers, Esq. Alex. Webster, Esq. Jas. Lamond, Esq. Alex. Smith, sen. Esq. AUDITORS OF ACCOUNTS. Alex. Galen, Esq. | And Chas. Ross. Esq. j Wm. Lumsden, Esq. DEPOSITARY. Mr. Wm. Troup. Bookseller. Gallowgate. ( Signed) GAViN HADDEN, PRESES. The Lord Provost, having left the Chair, and the same having been taken by the Rev. Dr. Ross, the following Resolution was passed with acclamation. 10. That the thanks of this Assembly be now presented to the Honourable the Lord Piovost, Vice- President of this Society, for his conduct in the Chair. ( Signed) JAMES ROSS, Vice- President. To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, HAVING understood that a Minister of the Dutch Church was to officiate yesterday in. one of our Churches, curiosity led me to hear him., Of. his Sermon I shall say nothing, being of opinion that polemical theology is as foreign to the province of a newspaper, as politics to that of the pulpit. But there was one political petition in his concluding prayer, of so truly singular and original a cast, that I cannot resist the temptation of laying it before your readers, with a humble request for an explanation of ; ts meaning. This Dutch Gentleman, in the fervour of his pious loyalty, prayed " that the visit of his Majesty to the Continent of Europe, might be productive of civil, moral, and religions good to his subjects there." Of the civil good conferred on our sister island by a similar visit, I cannot speak, because my intellectual vision is really so dull as to be incapable of perceiving it; and if you news- paper gentlemen reported correctly, the only things which appeared connected with morality and religion ( though in rather a negative way) were— the pious exclamation with whiefo a certain important piece of intelligence was re- ceived the travelling and landing on the first day of the week, and the darrinatory sentence pronounced on some ill fated grass at the Lodge in Phoenix Park— all which are no doubt fresh in the recollection of your Chris- tian readers.— 1 am, yours, Sic. Aberdeen, Oct. 1, 1821. ICONOCL ASTES. To the EDITOR of tke ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, It is generally understood, that whatever occurs in pub- lic places is proper topics for discussion in Our public Jour- nals. Indeed, there is no other way by which these mat- ters can be canvassed, so likely to be followed with bene- ficial results, as the one to which I have alluded, and of which I purpose availing myself, when I solicit the in- sertion of this letter in your public spirited newspaper. On Wednesday morning I went. to the NeW Court House, to be present at the opening ofthe Circuit Court; and being rather early, I was admitted before the gallery was opened for the reception of that unfortunate class of the community called the lower orders. When the door at length was opened into that p « rt ofthe house, the crowd without pressed eagerly forward ; and before it could be got shut, a few more were admitted than could obtain for themselves the accommodation of sitting. Of course, these few individuals determined to submit to the inconvenience, and seemed perfectly contented to stand. This, however, did not meet the approbation ofthe person Who fiils the office of Housekeeper. He Was determined they should be seated • betas several of them found this impossible they continued standing. This so enraged him, that h< e instantly went out to the street and introduced a file of soldiers, who, with. fixed bayone: s, d ovethem out. Those who remained in the gallery, with a becoming spirit ot indignation, hissed this violent a'nd unconstitutional action. To the EDITOR of the AB^ RDEE^ CHRONICLE, SIR, ' I shall be obliged by any of your Correspondents in- forming me, " by what authority a person can issue Tickets. . of Admission to the Court, at his pleasure, and to exclude others." And also, if the officers stationed at the differ-, ent doors of the Court have a discretionary power, ( when, tlie Courtis not much more than two- thirds filled) in ad- mitting some, and holding others out who have not the. pleasure of being known to them. A. S. Gallowgate, Oct. 5, i82l. MODERATOR FOR THE NEXT GENERAL ASSEMBLY. IT has been publicly stated, that the two Candidate$ for the Moderatorship, Drs. LAMONT and COOK, have been respectively brought forward— the one, by the moderate,; the other, by the popular interest: with a view, no doubt, to reflect indirectly upon the political principles of th& latter and his supporters, and to divide the Church upoa this great momentous question. It is a fact, however, which cannot be denied, that Church or State Politic^ have no connection with the present canvass. The parties are not observing the usual line of discrimination ; bufc mingling together, according as private considerations, oc respect for the Candidates, or other subordinate circum- stances mav direct. To unveil the mystery. It is a trial of strength between the Edinburgh Doctors and thtj Country Clergy. The former wish to retain their as~ cendency in Church matters, particulatly as to the elec- tion of a Moderator. The la. tter are putting in theii? claim for some small share of influence : and it is but fait* to assign them some weight in tbe scale— at any rate, not to treat them as inimical to peace and order, but as as- serting their constitutional rights, and endeavouring t< j pull down a domination, at once usurped and unpopular, A Friend to- the Church. CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE. STIRLING, Sept. 15.— The Circuit Court of Jus* ticiary was opened here this day before the Right. Hon Lord Gillie's. The number of persons indicted amount,-, ed to 51, and several of the offences were of an - aggra* vated description. William Naismith and Hugh Benniston, alias Jamea Neilson, charged with the crime of house- breaking and theft, was found guilty and sentenced to seven year? transportation. John Brown was called, to the bar, charged with false- hood, wilful im| X) sition, and forgery, committed by means of a certificate pretended to be written by the, Rev. Andrew Mylne, minister of Dollar, recommend- ing the prisoner to the attention of the charitable and humane as a person of education, reduced in the world • by means of which certificate the prisoner had succeeded, in imposing on the benevolent. [' he prisoner was in the dress of a common seaman, but his manner showed that:' he had not always worn those habiliments. On beir>" » asked how he pleaded to the indictment, he spoke nearly as follows : — 4* Guilty, my Lord ; but I beg to state that I hud been in Aberdeen where I was severely attacked with rheumatism. During my illness I was attended by* Dr. Mair of that place, who, upon my recovery, recom- mended me to go either to Leith or Greenock, in order to: procure employment, and gave me this book, ( pro- ducing a very'thin octavo volume) in order to be present- ed to my brother; at the same time he gave me a letter recommending my case to the consideration ofthe charU tabie. That letter I presented to the Rev. Mr. Mylne* and he gave me half- a- crown. On my way from Dollar to Stirling I lost Dr. Mair's letter, and Mr. Mvlne be- ing the last person who saw the letter of Dr. Mair, I un- fortunately to<[) k the liberty of attaching his name to the document in question." The superior manner in which' the prisoner delivered this short and simple address, ex- cited a good deal of interest The Jury found the prisoner guilty iti terms of his own confession. His Counsel, in mitigation of punish- ment, observed to the Court, that the prisoner had al- ready suffered considerable punishment, having been cou- tined in jail for about six months. Ljrd Gillies then addressed the prisoner, an'd after expatiating on th © nature of the offence, as tendino- to choke up the channels of benevolence, expressed his re-' gret, that he, who had received more than ordinary edu- cation, and Who was endowed with superior talents, should have been thus led a\ v„ y. Fie hoped the present would warn him from. pursuing the cour se upon which ho had entered, and that, he might retrieve his character, and • o credit to his education and talents. The oftVnce was great, yet taking into consideration what the prisoner had said, and what had beeTi advanced by his Counsel in his behalf, as well as the representation made in favour by many respectable inhabitants of Stirling, he would only pronounce a sentence of three months' i'm* prisonment in the jail of Stirling, During this address- the prisoner very much agitated j { Cars rushed over bis cheeks, and the sweat stood in drops on his brow.-— The sentence being pronounced, he said, in a tremulous voice, bowing to the Court and the Jury, • « My Lord, I return my hearty th< u:' ks: © aulyjnru » f Jvry, X thank • / . f GL ASGOW, Sept. 22.—- William L? e was put to the bar, accused of seducing artificers from this country, prin- cipally engaged in the carpet manufactory, and, in par- ticular, of having taken to the United States of America, James Mitchell, belonging to the establishment of Robert Thomson and Son. '. Millfield I) yework; in Hutcheson- town of Glasgow, then a carpet weaver in their employ, all which being contrary to the statute of Geo. II. Mr. Robinson objected to the relevancy of the indict- ment. The indictment went on to state that the specific Jcind of carpets were unknown in America before the per- son alleged to be seduced went" and taught them ; but they would lie able to prove that carpets of the same kind were manufactured in America long antecedent to this date. He would also bring the person who was said to be seduced, and he would prove at the bar that he was not seduced. The Public Prosecutor had laid his indict- ment in such a manner, that Mr. Lee must b. ing all his evidence from a foreign country. He hoped, as their Jjordsbips had a discretionary power, they would allow time to the prisoner to make preparations for his trial.— Jle had only been served with his indictment on the 1st September, scarcely three weeks ago. The Public Prosecutor replied, that the prisoner had received his indictment in profjer time. Mr. Cockburn said, that as the libel stated that the Trtanufacture was unknown in America till Mitchell was sent thither, the prisoner had a right to- prove that that manufacture was known just as well as the manufacture of spades or ploughs, or any thing else. Prisoner had a right to prove that John and Nicholas Haigbt did not set up that, manufactory. He found, as a matter of anti- quarian research, that this statute was passed 70 years ago, aud only one Man had been tried upon if, and that it was at the instance of a private prosecutor. It was no- torious that the manufactures of this country had gone on flourishing without the" aid of this statute, and surely no resurrection of it could lie of any benefit now. The Court certified the case to the Iligh Court of Jus- ticiary on the 19th of November. [ The Act of Parliament alluded to in this case, on con- viction, awards a fine of £ 500, and imprisonment for the space of twelve calendar months. 7 MISCELLANEOUS. Cftc ifoacom We subjoin the copy of a Letter from the Lord Advocate of Scotland to James Gibson, Esq. W. S. avowing his connection with The Beacon Newspa- per ; and a blank Copv of the Bond given to cer- tain Bankers in Edinburgh, communicated by the Learned Lord at the same time. This Letter was prior in date to Mr Stuart's correspondence; but the discovery of the existence of the Bond was prior to both. On tliis perhaps we may say something }) ereafter.— Morn. Chran. COFY OF A LETTER FROM SIR WIT, TJAM PAETO MR GIBSON. Sr. Catherine's, Sep. 8, 1821. Having been from home. it was not sooner in my power to reply to your letter of the 22d ult. relative to an action of damages intended to be raised by you, on account of an alledged libel published in the Newspaper called The . . Beneon. Conceiving any thing like an evasive answer, as unwor- thy of me, I make no scruple in avowing my connection • with this Paper, which has con. si - itoil solely in my having at its establishment become an obligant along with certain other individuals in a Bond of credit to a Banking house, in Kdinburgh. to the amount of 1001. For your information I enclose a Copy of that Bond, omitting only names and sums, the knowledge of which can, I presume, be of no con- sequence to you, in so far as I am concerned. Having thus declared my only conection with this Paper, it necessarily follows, that the other statements regarding me contained in yonr letter, are erroneous, and I feel no difficulty in giving them a denial. I have the honour to be. Sir, your obedient servant, James Gibson, Esq. WM. RAE. We, considering, that a newspaper called The Beacon, upon loyal and constitutional principles, has been just published in Edinburgh, printed by Duncan Stevenson, and to be con- ducted bv him, or David Robertson, who has for some time conducted the publication of The Edinburgh Weekly Chro- nicle, and that Bankers in Edinburgh, have agreed to allow credit upon n current account to he kept in their books, in name of the said newspaper called The Beacon, to the amount of to be operated upon bv , by whom the books of the said newspaper, called The Beacon, are to be kept ; and that, upon condition of our granting a Bond to the said Banking Company, to the effect after written, which we. from our earnest wish to countenance arid support the said newspaper and the principles upon which it is to be con- ducted, have agreed to do ; it being expresly Understood that we have no concern in the property of the said news- paper, nor any other responsibility regarding it. nor con- troul over it, except that we become hound in manner above and after mentioned. Therefore, we, the Subscribers of this Bond, do hereby bind and oblige ourselves, our heirs, executors, and successors, each of us to the extent and pro- portion after- mentioned, to content and pay to the said or to any person or persons having assignation or right from them, the foresaid sum of , or such part or parts thereof as shall appear to be due to the * a; d , upon thecurient account to be kept in their books in name of The Beacon, or to re- pay the said such sums as they may stand engaged for on the said account, by accepted or discounted bills, letters of credit, guarantees, or in any other manner of way whatsoever; declaring, however, as it 5s hereby expressly provided and declared, that we, the sub- scribers of this bond, shall in no event be liable, conjunct- ly and for one another. but each of us to the extent of 1001. of principal only, and interst due upon that sum, and no farther ; under which provision these presents are granted by us and accepted by the said and no otherways. And it is hereby specially declared, that a stated account, made out from the said books, shall be sufficient to constitute and ascertain a balance aud charge against us to the extent of the sum for which we are severally liable in manner before mention- ed, and no suspension shall pass, of a charge so constituted and ascertained, but upon consignation only; and we consent to the registration hereof in the books of Council and Session, or others competent, that letters of horning, on six days' charge, and all other execution needful, may pass hereon, in form as eHeirs,' and to that effect we con- stitute & c. In witness whereof, & c. The exposure of the connection between Govern- ment and The Beacon, has quite changed the tone of tlie crew who have so long been dinning our ears o with exclamations against the licentiousness of the Press. The right to slander and defame is now op- enly defended. The object for which John Bull was established, is now unblflshinglv stated, and loud- ly panegyrized, in the Journal which is identified with the Bridge- street Crew. There seems to have been an intention on the part of ccrtain Ladies in this country, to give countenance to persons and actions of no equivocal character— to uphold the credit of a female who had broken down all the com- mon barriers of reputation, and to lend the sanction of their names and rank to measures which could only lead to a convulsion in the State. The object, the open and avowed object of John Bull was to sift the characters of those females, in order to ascertain what degree of credit might be acquired by their support, and consequently to remove from the eyes of the people at large, that film which the rank and station of the parties was calculated to produce. If in so doing he stated falsehoods, he was open to the law, but if he only unmasked the titled profligate, if he on- ly exposed the Bight Honourable Adnllress. he conferred a hem fit on society. by showing how little assistance could be afforded by such individuals towards bolstering up a rot- ten cause. I bis rotten cause, as it . is here termed, is one which was espoused Ivv the great body of the people of England, to their eternal honour, and which was gained in spite of all the influence of the most power- ful Government ia tlie world, The nature of the conspiracy, in tlie support of which so many macli- nations had been resorted to, was seen through ; the voice of the people intimidated the host of corrup- tion, and the friendless female, the object of so much persecution, was snatched from destruction. The deliverance was loudly hailed in every part of the country ; wherever the voice of the people could be heard, it was raised against Ministers ; no one da * st attempt to stem the torrent of public indignation by taking their part; and their partisans were obliged to creep urtohoI. es anil comers, not to defen 1 their conduct, but to afford them indirect aid bv life and fortune, addresses, full of hypocritical complaints a- gainst blasphemy and the licentiousness of the Press. Foiled in their first purpose, the partizans of cor- ruption embraced another, in which they were more successful. Their victim was snatched from the im- mediate- destruction which threatened her, but other means of slower, though equally deadly operation, could still be resorted to— Detraction and calumny less of the best of parents, who, though possessed of a constitution and frame so robust as to give the promise of a very long life, sunk under an attack at the early age of 64.— Moniins Chronicle* in every possible shape was let loose against her, and against all those who had been instrumental in saving her, or sympathised with her misfortunes. Accusations of the most hideous nature were brought forward against persons of the most reproachless lives, females of the most unsullied reputation, with the diabolic view ( now openly avowed) of cutting off her late MAJESTY from all female society. It was known that few females, however conscious of the innocence of their lives, would expose themselves to the poisoned weapons which, after a visit, would SIR ROBERT WILSON. Horse Guards, Sept. 15, I82I;._ SIR— T ha, vcit in command, from his Majesty to inform you that his Majesty has no farther occasion for your ser- vices. I am. Sir. yours, FREDERICK, Commander- in- Chicf. To Sir Robert Y\ ilson, M. 1\ ANSWER. SIR— The letter of your Royal Highness, dated the 15th of . September, was delivered into my hands this morning by his Excellency Sir Charles Stuart. After the interview I had with Sir Herbert Taylor, your Royal Iljghuess's Secretary, on the morning ofthe 21st of August, in which I stated my personal desire to meet and challenge inquiry into calumnies and misrepre- sentations notoriously circulated, together with the mo- tives of my forbearance, until officially railed upon, from giving in my statement of the conduct I felt it my duty to pursue on the 14th instant, when attending the fune- ral procession of her late Majesty, I could not but be greatly astonished to find the newspaper statements of my dismissal from the service, without any inquiry, or previ- ous communication of alleged charges, thus officially con- firmed. But I still appeal with confidence to his Ma- jesty's sense of justice, that he will grant my application for the institution of some Military Court, before which I may have an opportunity to vindicate myself, and prove the falsehood of those accusations, whatever they may be, which disposed his Majesty to remove me from an army, in which 1 have served twenty- nine years, and in which I purchased every commission, with the exception of the junior one. I await at Paris your Royal Hiffhness's an- immcdiately be directed against the reputations of themselves or those whom thev held most dear, The assumed badness of the cause is the chief argument by which this monstrous system is defend- ed. But the consequences to which such a doctrine leads are dreadful, if opposite parties are to act on this principle, we shall soon have to witness tlie use of the bowl or the dagger. We conceive the Con- stitutional Association, for instance, a most abomin- able Institution ; we consider its members as un- questioned enemies, of their country ; but still we would not send forth assassins against their persons, nor let loose the poisoned tongue of calumny against their wives or daughters.— Ibid. JOHN RENNIE, ESQ. The death of JOIIN RENNIE, Esq. is a national ; fully alive to all the obligations which, in every con swer. but shall be ready to appear before an}' Court of In- quiry, or Court Martial, at the earliest notiee. 1 have the honour to be, Your Royal Ilighness's obedient servant, Paris, Sept. 20, 1821. ROBERT WILSON. Sir Robert Wilson has addressed the following letter to his constituents:— TO THE ELECTORS OF SOUTHWARK. Gentlemen.— An order, in his Majesty's name, has re- moved me from the British army. You have read my condemnation ; and I cannot suffer another post to pass, without assuring you that my de- mand for charge and trial was instantly dispatched. I will not insult you, by a request to suspend your judgment, when the opportunity for defence has not been as yet offered ; but it is my duty to declare to you, that I calamity. Mis loss cannot be adequately supplied by any living Artist, for, though we have many able engineers, we know of none who so eminently pos- sessed ability of judgment with profound knowledge, and the happy tact of applying to every situation, where he was called to exert his faculties, the precise form of remedy that was wanting to the existing evil. o < o Whether it was to stem the torrent and violence of the Inost boisterous sea— to make new harbours, or to render those safe which were before dangerous or inaccessible— to redeem districts of fruitful land from encroachment by the ocean, or to deliver them from the pestilence of stagnant marsh— to level hills, or to tie them together by acqueducts or arches, or by em- bankment to raise the valley between them— to make bridges that for beauty surpass all others, and for strength seem destined to endure to the latest poste- rs tv, Mr. Rennie had no rival. Every part of the United Kingdom possesses monuments to his glory, and they are as stupendous as they are useful. They will present to our children's children objects of ad- miration for their grandeur, and of gratitude to the author for their utility. Compare the works of Mr. Rennie with the most boasted exploits of the French engineers, and remark how they tour above them. Look at the Breakwater at Plymouth, in comparison with the Cassoons at Cherburg— any one of his Canals with that of Ourke, and his Wa- terloo Bridge with that of Neuillv- Their superi- ority is acknowledged by every liberal Frenchman. He cultivated bis art with the most enthusiastic ar- dour, and instead of being merely a theorist, he pre- pared himself for practical efficiency by visiting, and minutely inspecting every work of magnitude in every country that bear similitude with those which he might be called on to construct, and his library abounds in the richest collection of sci- entific writings of that of any individual. The loss of such a man is irreparable. Cut off in the full vigour of his mind, his death seems to suspend for a time the march of national improvement, until the just fame of his merit shall animate our rising artists to imitate his great example, and to prepare themselves by study and observation to overcome as he did, the most formidable impediments to the pro- gress of human enterprise, of industry, and of increas- ed facility m all the arts of life. The integrity of Mr. Rennie in the fulfilment of his labours, was equal to his genius in the contrivance of his plans and machinery. He would sutler none of the modern subterfuges for real strength to be resorted to by the contractors employed to execute what he had un- dertaken. Every thing he did was for futurity, as well as present advantage. An engineer is not like an architect. lie has no commission on the amount of his expenditure; if he had, Mr. Rennie would have been one of the most opulent men in England, for many millions have been expended under his eye. But his glory was in the justice of his proceeding, and his enjoyment in the success of his labours. It was only as a millwright that he engaged himself to execute the work he planned, and in this department society is indebted to him for economising the pow- er of water, so as to gwe an increase of energv, by its specific gravity to the natural fall of streams, ami to make his mills equal to four- fold the produce of those which, before his time, depended solely on the impetus ofthe current. His mills of the greatest size work as smoothly as clock- work, and by the al- ternate contact of wood and iron, are less liable to the hazard of fire by friction. IIis mills, indeed, are models of perfection. If the death of such a man is a national loss, what must it be to his private friends and to his ami- able family ? Endeared by all who knew him by the gentleness of his temper, the cheerfulness with which he communicated the riches of his mind, and forward- ed the views of those who made useful discoveries tingency, a regard for your honour, as well as my own, prescribe. I am, Gentlemen, with grateful respect, Your obedient servant, Paris. 27th Sept. 1821. II. WfLSON. The following is a copy of a letter from his Royal Highness the Commander- in- Chief, in answer to an O. t ' application from Sir R. Wilson : Horse Guards, Sept. 25, 1821. SIR— 1 have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter ofthe 20th instant, and having laid it before his Majesty, I have it in command to acquaint you, ( that his Majesty does not judge it proper to comply with the wish expressed iu it. I am, Sir, youfrs, ( Signed) FREDERICK, Commander- in- Chief. To Sir II Wilson. A copv of the correspondence has been transmitted by Sir R. Wlson, to his constituents, accompanied by the following letter: To the Ejectors of the Borough of Southwark. Paris. September, 29. GKVTLEMEN— I feel it to be my duty to put you in im- mediate possession of the following correspondence be- tween his Royal Highness the Duke of York and myself. The measure which the King's Ministers have advised his Majesty to adopt, and persist in maintaining, is one that gives me comparatively little Concern! on account of my own interests; but as it involves questions affecting all the elementary principles of justice, public safety, and liberty, I pledge myself to the discharge of every duty these considerations impose. I must, for reasons with which you may hereafter be made acquainted, ^ remain at Paris u'nt^ l the arrival of the next mail, but 1 propose in every event to be in England at the end ofthe ensuing week. 1 am. Gentlemen. With great respect, your obedient servant, ( Signed) ROB E R T WIL S ON. ( FURTHER CORRESPONDENCE.) 18, Regent Street. Pall- Mall, Oct. 9. 1821. Gentlemen— I feci it to be my duty to lay before you, the copy of a letter which I addressed to his Royal High- ness the Duke of Yoik immediately on my arrival in Eng- land, with a copy of his Royal Highness's answer. I am, Gentlemen, your very obliged Servant, To the Electors of Southvvark. R. WILSON. Regent Street, Oct. 8, 1821. Sir— I have had the honour of receiving your Royal Highness's answer to my letter of the 2Cth ult. in which, after complaining that I had been removed from the army without a hearing, and without even the stat. me of any charge against me, I respectfully demanded an investiga- tion of my conduct, either by a Court of Inquiry or Court Martial. Ilis Majesty's Ministers l^ ve advised their Sovereign to refuse this request, and I thus { ind myself, alter so many years of service, subjected to the severest punish- ment which can be inflicted upon a British Officer, with- out being told of what I am accused. To defend myself against charges, which, if they exist at all in a tangible shape, are studiously concealed from me, is evidently impossible. J can neither conjecture their motive, nor by whom they are preferred, nor on whose statements, misrepresentations, or fancies they may rest, whilst this concealment gives a sanction to' every latitude of surmise in which malice or folly may indulge. It is true I have seen in the papers, and heard by ru- mours in society, a variety of things imputed tome, and suggested as the grounds of my dismissal, but. I declare, upon my honour, that every one of these allegations is utterly false, and that in every instance where the mention of names has, enabled me to trace those statements to their supposed sources, their falsehood has either been at once exposed and acknowledged, or they have been disavowed by the parties said to have made them. Those who have proceeded to punish me without either trial or hearing, or accusation, render it impossible to give a more precise contradiction, until they shall be pleased to inform me what I have done, or what has been whispered against me. But I once more earnestly beseech your Royal High- ness to institute, in whatever way shall be deemed the most searching, a rigorous investigation of every part of my conduct. Your Royal Highness is well aware, that, before my dismissal, I was, beyond all doubt, subject to martial law : and if it be now said, that I am no longer in this predicament, I desire to wave all objections to the juris- diction of a Military Tribunal, in order that no obstacle may be interposed to the inquiry which I court. or improvements in machinery or implements, procur- ed him universal respect. He gave to inventors all the benefits of his experience, removed difficulties which had not occurred to the author, or suggested alterations which adapted the instrument to its use. No jealousy nor self- interest ever prevented the exer- cise of his free and unbounded communication, for the love of science was superior in his mind to all mercenary feeling.— Mr. Rennie was born in Scot- land, and from his earliest years devoted himself to the art of a civil engineer. He was the intimate friend and companion of his excellent countryman, the late Mr. Watt; their habits and pursuits were si- milar. They worked together, and to their joint ef- forts are we chiefly indebted for the gigantic power of the steani- engine in all our manufactories. He married early in life Miss Macintosh, a beautiful young woman, whom he had the misfortune to lose some years ago, but who left him an interesting and accomplished family. They have now to lament the It is with unfeigned reluctance that I again presume to remind your Royal Highness of those services which you were formerly pleased to acknowledge, but the strange si- tuation in which I am now now so unaccountably placed, compels me to refer your Royal Highness to your letter of the 24th of January 1815, and the documents to which it relates, in further support of my claims to justice on the present occasion. I have the honour to he, yonr Royal Highnesses Most obedient servant, R. WILSON. SIR, Horse Guards, Oct. 9, 1821. I have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yes- terday, urging again an investigation into your conduct ; to which 1 can only reply, that having laid your former application before his Majesty, and communicated to you his Majesty's sentiments upon it, I do not consider myself warranted in taking any. farther step. I am, Sir, yours, F R EDERI CK, Commander- in- Chief. Sir Robert WTilson. NEW LORD MAYOR AND SHERIFFS. DUBLIN, Oct. 2.— Yesterday, at two o'clock, the iate Lord Major ( Alderiaau Sir Abraham Bradley King, number of hands to keep pacc with them. It is only in seasons like the present that the advantage of the thrav- ing system can be duly appreciated ; and in such it must be sufficiently obvious to every unprejudiced person that they are very material indeed. In the immediate vicinity of towns and villages, the crop is mostly cut, and a deal of it stacked. In other placs there is, perhaps, from a fourth to a third part still to cut, and in many instances very little secured. On land in good condition, Oats, particularly on pretty thick land, naturally damp, are a fair crop. Barley is also an average crop on good land, but on inferior soils both it and Oats are of a small bulk. The latter, especially the potatoe variety, has been much, broken down, though they have experienced no adverse weather, in consequence of the feebleness of the straw.— Wheat bulks well, and is most partly secured. Little, as yet can be stated with certainty regarding the produce and quality of these crops. It is our opinion they will yield tolerably well according to bulk, and that the graiu will he equal in point of quality to that of ordinary years, providing the outstanding part be safVly got in. Wheat will, perhaps, exhibit the greatest variety of quality, and Oats the least. Barley seems pretty well filled, but a shade darker in colour than circumstances led us to ex- pect. The weather has been excellent for preparing and sowing the fallows, and such of the yotmg wheat ai we have seen looks well. It has also been highly favourable to the growth of Turnips. Potatoes, and, in short, all sorts of green crop. Cattle markets continue extremely depressed, and prices have experienced very little altera- tion since last month. Perhaps good beasts arc rather more in request since last Falkirk Tryst. Corn, and the opinions regarding the price of it, vary up and down so as td correspond with the prices weekly chalked out to us in Mark Lane. Perhaps the price of corn will be something higher than last year. MR. GREEN\ THE AERONAUT. The following is Mr. Greenrs own account of his perilous excursion from Brighton.:— " I took my leave amidst the plaudits and anxious goorl wishes of the surrounding company, and ascended slowly but majestically towards the celestial regions. I rose about 800 feet, when the gas, which before had been expanded by the heat of the sun, became c mdensed by the change of temperature, the balloon consequently des- cended ; this I could have easily prevented by discharging ballast, but I felt confident I was a { fording to the spectators a gratification unprecedented in the history of aerostatics ; I, therefore, chose to take advantage of the circumstance. I, eventually, threw out two bags of ballast and re- ascend- ed, the balloon taking a direction S. E. by S.; it appeared to me as floating for a considerable time over tbe land's edge. The appearance of earthly objects gradually dimi- nishing, I still ascended, so as to afford to the spectator a diminished view of my aerostatic machine. The balloon here took a more southerly direction, and finding mys going rapidly to sea, at an altitude of about two miles, T espied two vessels, the only assistance in sight at iL ; elevation. 1 immediately opened the valve, and the h- i- loon began to descend with great velocity, and, in end, was plunged by the force of the wind into a trern. ; fi • ously heavy sea ; it then drifted rapidly, assuni' . ; appearance of an immense umbrella before me ; iit : striking the water on its side, its ornaments and •• Bart.) the new Lord Mayor ( Alderman Kingston Tames) with the rest of the'Board of Aldermen, the Recorder ol Dublin ( Sir Jonas Greene), the late and new High Sheriffs, City Officers, and Common Council, met at the Assembly House, William Street, from whence they pro- ceeded in procession to the Castle, when, after an address from the Recorder to the new Lord Mayor, delivered in the presence, of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant, iu which he'passed a higheuiogium on his predecessor, Alder- pman James was sworn into office. In the evening the Lord Mayor had the honour of en- tertaining at dinner in the grand banqueting room his Ex- cellency the Lord Lieutenant and suite, a number of dis- tinguished characters, and several respectable citizens.— His Lordship, with a degree of princely hospitality, invit- ed all the members of the Common Council to the ban- quet. Our expectations that . the day would pass without any expression of party spirit have been disappointed. Several Gentlemen known to be of liberal feelings and principles had been invited to the dinner at the Man- ion House. A Catholic or two had been invited, and having heard this, we did not conceive it possible that their host could have prepared for them such a reception as the deliberate revival of an obnoxious party toast. We shall, however, lay be- fore our readers the flimsy apology of Mr. Alderman James, for reviving, m the presence of tbe representative of the King, a party toast, for the giving of which, " at a moment, when every excuse was allowable, another Alder- man had recently incurred the King's displeasure, and for which be was censured also by the King's representative. IIow the Lord Lieutenant could have considered the re- vival ofthe toast, in his presence, after the affair of Alder- man Darley in any other light than as a gross offence, is to us not very intelligible. There are several versions of this worthy Alderman's speech. The report in the Correspondent seems to In* tlie most authentic— it having most probably been ' written by the worthy Alderman the next morning— we take it, there- fore, as conveying his cool sentiments. This report is as follows : — The Lord Mayor then rose and said, The toast which t am about to propose, has been uniformly given upon the swearing in dinners of my predecessors ; the sentiments which are attached to it differ materially ; and it is only by a reference to the feelings under which it is given, that it becomes obnoxious, or otherwise. We must all admire the beauty of Christian charity, and of brotherly love ; and, in the arduous and difficult situation in which, thus early in life, I have been called upon to fill the Civic Chair, it will be my study, as it is my duty, to promote, as far as I can, the conciliatory dispositions which it is our most gracious Sovereign's wish should sub- sist among all classes of his Majesty's subjects. Be as- sured, my Lords and Gentlemen, that I would be the last man whose disposition Would lead him to wound or irritate the feelings of any of my Roman Catholic fellow- subjects, with whom I have ever lived, and 1 hope ever will live, in the strictest bond of harmony and brotherly love. And in the toast I am about to submit, I do so as the head of the corporation I have the distinguished honour now to represent, as well as in accordance with my own political consistency. I give you—' The Memory of King William the Third.' 1 The applause was very great at this period ; but the Lord Mayor in the most dignified and truly conciliatory manner, very emphatically addressed the assembly, by hoping that the announcement of the toast would not create- any exultation ; as he, the Lord M lyor, gave the memory of him, as the founder of the British Constitu- tion, and the friend of civil and religious liberty, under the hope, that in such a sense it could not be offensive to any man living. The company received and drank the toast with peculiar marks of applause and approbation." The Lord Lieutenant was at the elbow of the new Lord Mayor when the toast was given, and therefore it is to be inferred that it was given with his entire concurrence.— Indeed he took a step which distinctly marked his appro- bation, having scarcely suffered the vague sentiment uni- versal benevolence' to be half whispered from the Chair, when he gave " the Corporation of Dublin," the signi- ficancy and appositeness of which, as associated with 44 ' l'lie Glorious Memory" which had scarcely been swallowed down, were very generally felt and understood. Orre of the invited was Lord Cloncurry ; how his Lord- ship felt upon this occasion, the reader will perceive by the following letter addressed by him to a cotemporary journal : — " Silt— Being named as one present at the Lord Mayors dinner of yesterday. I beg leave to say ( in order to pre- sent. misrepresentation of my conduct), that when his Lordship toasted King William, I turned down my glass, and remained seated./ " At the table with the Lord Lieutenant, and a guest of the Lord Mayor, I felt that it would not be decorous for so inconsiderable a person to take further'notice at the moment; I. wish, however, that the Lord Mayor, when he determined to re- produce his toast, had given notice, not only to the Lord Lieutenant, but to the Roman Ca- tholics whom he had invited, and, generally, to all those not likely to forget, in one short month, the benevolent injunctions of our Sovereign. • 4 Individually, I have a great respect for the memory of King William t^ ie Third. He was a liberal Dutch- man— and intended more good to Ireland than any King . I ever heard of except his present Majesty ; but as Mayors and Corporations are not necessarily historians, they ge- nerally give this toast from party motives, and it has long become a kind of pass- word among those who desire, by the insult and exclusion of their more worthy fellow- citi- zens, to arrogate to themselves those petty honours and emoluments which want of industry or talent renders so necessary to them. u Bad taste and bad feeling received a mortal wound from the hand of his Majesty ; and if for one moment they may raise their heads, public opinion and the march of events must put them down. The King commands, and the times require benevolence and union. Your obedient servant, CLONCURRY." " Dublin, Oct. 2, 1821." were presently destroyed, and it instantly filled with water. I had previously put on my life- preserver, but It unfortunately became entangled with tbe cords. I wad here in a perilous situation, the life- preserver useless, and the car repeatedly turning over, so that it was alternately under water. In this distress I continued for many minutes, when, almost exhausted, the propriety occurred to me of separarating the cords which entangled tin pre- server, and which after much difficulty, I accomplished with a knife. After this, Iliad the consolation of being raised considerably above the water, which enabled mo to hail a boat, humanely sent to my assistance by Captain Cleur of the Unity packet, whose humane and active ex- ertions I shall ever feel proud to acknowledge. I was at this time so much exhausted, that it would have been utterly impossible for me to have continued my h id five minutes longer. I remained in the water, according to the opinion of Captain Clear, about twenty minutes; but it appeared to me much longer. The balloon' dragged me about two miles through a heavy surf. After having been with great difficulty got on board, mv distress was so great as to render it absolutely necessary to strip inc. I continued for some hours insensible, and must rei. the public to Captain Clear for particulars during; •. period. After my recovery, I anxiously inquired of f;. i> Captain if my property was safe on board ? when he in - formed me the balloon was literally torn to ribbons, nnd that my philosophical instruments and my apparatus all lost or destroyed. Upon examination I found the balloon impossible to be repaired.— I landed in safety nr. Wednesday morning, at one o'clock, at Newhaven, and reached the gas establishment at Brighton at ten o'clock. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM FRENCH PAPERS. PARIS, Oct. 6.— The news from Spain received at Bourdeaux say that the epidemic is daily decreas- ing in violence, and that it is hoped that the firs; cold weather will put a stop to it. We have now the certainty that the state of health in Cadiz and its vicinity is very good The contagion which desolates Catalonia has not extend•• • >' ed beyond Mequinenzo. Continual rains have di- minished the intensity ofthe malady in the place-: I where it exists, and have obstructed its propagation. The KING has, by Royal Ordinance, coiiyo! • d ' the Chamber of Peers and Deputies for Monday tke AGRICULTURAL REPORTS FOR SEPT. ENGLAND. The general growth of wheat would probably have prov- ed a fair annual produce but for the extensive effects of a late mildew, and the damage sustained by continued rains, the accounts of which are lamentable from all parts, but more so from the northern and western districts, where much corn still continues abroad, and great part of that got up has been in so damp a state, as to occasion many slacks to. be taken down. It is to be feared that a large portion of this year's bread corn must pass over the kiln before it can be ground, even when the dryest grain.— From the large quantity of this inferior corn, the average price is not likely to reach that which will warrant tbe opening of the ports. ' The barleys are generally disco- loured, and those which lay long on the luxuriant young clovers, are more seriously damaged by speering. Oats have been injured less than any other crop. Early sown pease, on tender soils, have been harvested well ; the lat- ter pnes'have suffered alike with the beans, which, by re- maining so long on the ground after cutting, have shelled more than probably the oldest farmer can remember. The calculations of the duty on hops, in the Borough, have proved much over- rated, the quantity and quality being found defective on picking in the chief grounds of Farn- ham, Kent, and Sussex. The potatoe crop turns out a very productive one in all quarters. Turnips and cole- seed continue promising, but the cabbages put out early continue to run, from the moisture and mildness of the season. The grazing countries abound with feed, yet the graziers continue to deal with caution for their new stock beasts, though they are offered by the Scotch and Welsh drovers full 20 percent, under the last year's prices.— Store Sheep are worth rather more money. The dealers have found but few purchasers at the late fairs, even for their best field or cart horses. The meat markets are sup- plied on the low terms of last month, for every article ex- cept small prime beef, which commands in Sniithfield rather a better price. K1NC A RDINESIIJ RE. The weather from beginning to end of this month was comparatively temperate but the frequent fogs and slight showers that prevailed in the latter part of it, prevented the cutting down and in- gathering of the crop from pro- ceeding with the rapidity it otherwise would have done, and which the advanced period of the season, and in most cases fully matured state of it required. The shearing of Wheat and Barley commenced iu several instances by the 10th, in few situations earlier, and in less than a week af- ter that harvest was general. Crops of all sorts ripened with surprising rapidity, hence many farmers, were pre- vented, by • local circumstances from getting a sufficient 5th of November. VIENNA, Sept. 24.— On the 19th of this month some ofthe Deputies of the Neapolitan Parlian. ei t,. and among them Messrs. Petrinelli, Porno,- ami- Gabriel Pepe, passed through this city on their way to league, the place of their banishment. t he Kingofthetwo Sicilies has intrusted them to the care of our Government. Others will be conduct* d to Spielberg ; and the celebrated Concilis to Mun- gatsch. LEIPSIC, £> ept. 54.— The arriv. il of several - So vereigns in this town has been the subject o.; general conversation since yesterday ; and, it is said,- that' preparations are making for their reception Inde- pendently of the King of Saxony, the Kings of England, Prussia, & c. are mentioned. MAYEXCE, Sept. 25.— Our Gazette puMtehed under the head of Munich, 20th Sept. the follow* ing :— 4< The appeal of Professor Thiersch, in fav- our of the Greeks, has had the same fate as that of Professor Krug, at Leipsig. The Bavarian Go- vernment caused a reprimand suitable to the occa- sion, to be made to him on the 2£> th of last month, and referred him to the general code of the kingdom. BERLIN, Sept. IS.— Many persons suppose that the King of England will come and spend a week in this capital. We have good reason to doubt the truth of this news. A courier, whom Count Minister, first Hanoverian Minister and Secretary of State for Hanoverian affairs to the King of Eng- land, has sent here, has given rise to various spe- culations. The only thing certain is, that there will be a meeting on the frontiers between the two Sovereigns, The Kingef Spain returned to Madrid on the 22d ult. and received from the people the most unequivocal demonstrations of attachment. His Majesty is said to have distinguished General Morillo, and the Political Chief of Madrid, by marked signs of re- gard- * FROM GERMAN PAPERS. LIEGE, Oct. 3.— The* King of England passed through our city yesterday about two o'clock in the afternoon. 1 i is Majesty stopped his carriage to re- ceive the congratulations ofthe authorities. During which time the band of our garrison, which was under arms, played, God save the King. VIENNA, Sept c2j.— The Greeks have revived the statement of die capture of Satonichi. A rumour is in circulation, that some misunderstanding pre- vails amongst the cliiefs in the Morea, which has prevented them front taking advantage of the victory gained near Povera over the I'aclia, Jussuff- Pacha, for since the departure of the Turks from that country, the Senate of Calaiuata has declared itself independent. The old Generals of the province of Corinth have protested against the authority of Prince Ypsilanti 011 account of his extreme vouth. COPENHAGEN, Sept. 22.— General Bentson, Governor of the Danish island of St. Croix, being accused of sevend misdemeanors, and particularly of having countenanced a contraband traffic botli in merchandise and slaves, lias been brought before a Commission sent expressly to inquire into the matter from Copenhagen. The accusations being sub- stantiated bv proof, the Commission lias sentenced General Bentson to be dismissed from his high office, and pronounced him incapable. of filling any employment whatever in future in the dominions of the King of Denmark ; he was also sentenced to pav a verv heavy fine. An article from Leipsic gives, on the authority of letters from Petersburgh, an account of the con- ditions proposed by Russia to the Porte since the departure of the Baron de Strogonoff from Con- stantinople. Thev are in substance the same as those which have already appeared. ' LISBON, Sept. 27.— In the sitting of the Cortes, on the 22d, M. llibeiro Tellez, as lie- porter of the Committee of Finance, asked and ob- tained leave to read a proposition which he thought of conscqucnce. The Committee, considering the basis of the alterations to be made in tiie customs, had reduced them to the three following points:— '• I. That all the productions of the country which shall l> c conveyed from one port to another, or to different i places in the kingdom, shall be favoured. • 2. That such foreign productions as are similar to those produced in the kingdom, shall be subjected to : heavy duties or wholly prohibited ; and that foreign pro- ductions. which supply the raw materials, indispensable to the national manufactures, shall be favoured " 3 With respect to colonial productions, they shall remain as they are, till alt the deputies from the colonies J lieinjj arrived, general measures may be adopted, to re- J folate the luture commerce of the provinces, proposing j to lessen the duties on the produce of the Portuguese do- [ minions, and to augment them on the similar productions j of foreign colonies. " Ordered to be printed for future discussion." j AMERICA, We have received National Intelligencers from Washington down to the 8th tilt, which state that the ; ImiUling of ships of war throughout tlie Union con- 1 tintics with much activity, although the deficiency in the revenue, and the necessity of raising loans, had induced Congress to recommend strict ecconomy 111 all departments. The keel of a new man of war had just been laid down at Philadelphia, which it • was supposed would be larger than the largest first rate ship in the world. Tins vessel is to have three entire tiers of guns, besides those on the quarter- deck and forecastle, in all 1- 10 guns. FIRE IN HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA. . HALIFAX, Sept. 17.— The conflagration this morning was of the most awful and destructive ever ' • witnessed in Halifax. It originated in Sackville S Street, in the bakery occupied by Shav and Milany, s and, before it was discovered, had gained an alarm- j ino height. It was near two o'clock when the bells ! were rung. The troops, seamen of his Majesty's | shi'is. and inhabitants soon assembled ; the engines | • were judiciously placed, lines formed to different re- servoirs of water, and every exertion made to extin- guish the fire, but we regret to state, that, before auv check could be given to it. the whole block of buildings, with the exception of a house situated at the corner of Sackville and Blowers' Streets, occu- pied by Mr. H. Croskill, the houses occupied by Mrs Keilson and Mr. T Muirhead in Barrington Street, and a stable belonging to J. W. Johnston, Esq. in Granville Street, were consumed. For some time great apprehensions were enter- tained that the fire would extend to the houses on the opposite sides ofthe streets, but fortunately it did not. Some buildings were searched, and nearly every pane of glass in the front of the residence of S. B. llobie, Esq. was destroyed by the excessive heat of the fire. Of the property burnt only about L 1500 were insured, and t- he Calamity has mostly fallen where it will long be' severely felt, upon wi- dows and orphan children — upon industrious trades- men, whose whole stock of worldly wealth was in- vested in the tenements they occupied. We cannot now particularise the individual sufferers, but shall endeavour to do it in our next. To the troops, and seamen of the ships of war, the town is, as usual, greatly indebted for the exer- tions made by them ; among the most active on this distressing occasion, we noticed his Excellency the lieutenant- Governor, encouraging and exciting, by his influence and example, the efforts of every person within his view. Sir Robert I. e Poer Trench, Colonel of the 74th regiment, who arrived Jiere on Friday from New Brunswick, Colonel Mackie, the Commandant of the garrison, Colonel Gauntlet, Lieut.- Colonels Arnold, Ximines, and Vaterhouse, Major Crawford, and indeed every officer of the garrison and military departments were distinguished for their activity and exertions. To Captains Fanshawe, Bouchier, Collier, antl Napier, and lite officers of their ships, every praise » is due. Thev directed the efforts of the seamen in the most advantageous manner. We must here parti- cularly notice the intrepid conduct ofCapt. Napier. We observed him on the roof of one of the houses, . directing and working with a party of axe- men, and rendering very important services. We cannot help, however, observing that we • witnessed an extraordinary apathy on the part of a number of the inhabitants; they stood in crowds, and appeared to view the progress of the devouring clement with perfect indifference; some of these persons possess real estate in the town, and may, before the lapse of a week, need the assistance of their more meritorious townsmen to protect them from a calamity similar to that which many expe- rienced this morning, Sueli people as are tiot in- clined to render assistance at fires had better remain at their homes ; they only clog the streets, and im- pede the exertions of the active and humane. Twentv- one houses were consumed, with other valuable property. IONIAN ISLANDS. <. » >••* The following Proclamation has been extensively circulated in Cefalonia. Similar Proclamations, calling upon the inhabitants to aid their Greek Brethren, have been circulated in the other Islands: CEFAIONIANS!— The hour so long desired has now arrived. The Sun of Grecian Liberty now shines. The inveterate tyranny of the Barbarians falls prostrate, the invincible and triumphant army of the Cross, raised by our nation, the friend of liberty, resumes its piimitive and divine splendour. All are generously contributing towards our liberation. A divine enthusiasm inflames the breasts of our national biethren. The hearts of our enemies are powerfully shaken arid agitated by fear.— Great and invincible squadrons combat indefatigably.— Above all, the omnipotence of God is visibly combating with us for the total destruction of our wicked and cri- minal enemies. Yes, Brethren, the terrible vengeance of God against the barbarous Turks is now arrived.— This pertidious nation have filled tile measure of their wickedness, and are therefore now struck, not by a hu- man sword, but by a divine arm. The immaculate faith of the Christians, who for so many centuries were tyran- nised over by them; the numberless . innocent virgins violently dishonoured by them ; the sighs and tears ol our many brethren subjected by them to all manner of pains and tortures; and, finally, not only the venerated blood of our most holy Patriarch and that of the holy Bishops, which they lately so cruelly shed, but also their bodies miserably dragged by the impious Jews ( O, unheard of calamity !) through the streets of Constantinople— all cry out for vengeance against them. Our holy religion and our zoal for our nation invite 11s to assist our national brethren. The success of the enterprise is 110 longer doubtful, but certain. Our country will nor remain de- prived of the fortune of so much glory, but as a worthy portion of renowned Greece, will see its sons enrolled under the sacred standard of victory. Come, then, brethren, let us renounce every private view, let us lay aside every passion, let us dissolve every tie of reprehen- sible avarice, and of life, and, animated by national zeal, let us die armed in the camps of the Greek armies,— There, our friendly brethren expect us with the utmost eagerness. There, our frightened enemies tremble at the very name of the valiant Cefaionians. There a never- fading crow 11 of victory is prepared for us, and as the im- mortal Homer sung the admirable deeds of the Cefa- loniaus under the walls of Troy, Poetry or History will register in the annals offuture generations our fame and names. THE QUARTER'S REVENUE. ( FROM THE COURIER,.) We said yesterday that < 4 we liad every reason to believe the statement of the Revenue for the Quarter whifch ended yesterday would prove highly satisfactory." That our assertion was well founded, will be amply proved by the following official ac- count : Produce ofthe Revenue of Great Britain in the Quarters ending on the 10th October in the foilow- y j ing years, viz.:— | Taxes belonging to the 1819. 1820. 1821. j Cons. Fund. =£ 9 532.287 10,933.169 M 559.007 1 Temporary Excise, 588.276 5S6 264 1,139 377 j Annual Taxes, ... 1.534.233 1,675.532 1 562 409 LONDON, Oct. 13. THE KING. BRUSSELS, Sept. 50.— Last night bis Majesty ho- noured the Theatre with his presence, and the most splen- | did arrangements were made for bis reception. A spaci- 1 ous box. hung with crimson velvet, trimmed all round • with deep gold fringe, was fitted up immediately in front of the stage, commanding a full view of the performers.— Into this none were admitted except the persons compos- ing the personal suite of the two Sovereigns, and the Great Officers of State. I am happy to inform you that his Ma- jesty appeared in excellent health and spirits. He was dressed in the uniform of a Field Marshal, and wore the - insignia of a Belgian Order, as did also the Duke of Wei- ' lington, who sat with the Marquis of Londonderry in a compartment under the Royal canopy, and detached from * the other distinguished personages who were in attendance. His Excellency the British Ambassador sat behind the chair of his Royal Master, attended by the Officers of his Household; and the personal suite of his Belgian Majes- ty was exceeding y brilliant. The entertaintment consist- ed of an opera, founded on an eastern story, in which der- vises, dancing girls, and fire- worshippers were introduced in bustling confusion. The detaiis of the plot were too complex for any powers of comprehension to understand, | and the music was not remarkable for its excellence. His | Majesty, during the performance, frequently conversed j with the illustrious personages on each side of him, ar » > d } was supplied with coffee shortly after he had taken bis seat. Prince Frederick of Orange, a young man of great pro- mise, stood all the time neur his Rojal Mother, and en- gaged the Marquis of Londonderry in conversation. The curtain fell at ten o'clock precisely, and God save the King'' was played as bis Majesty retired. The Mar- quis of Conyngham, while sitting in the Ambassador's box, related an anecdote that made those around him laugh 5 heartily. He said that while travelling in the Royal car- j riage from Calais to Lisle, the people in many places mis- | took him for the King, and incessantly cried out Vive le f jRoi ( VAngleterre, making, at the same time, a profound j obeisance. The Noble Marquis felt quite embarrassed at $ having thus involuntarily usurped the honours of his So- f vereign, and was anxious to hide himself from the ac- | claiming multitude. However, in order to do this, he | was subjected to no slight inconvenience ; for, being of | more than ordinary stature, he found it necessary to coil \ up his frame in a corner of the carriage, and to hold his jj head close to his knees, a posture which his Lordship re- j presented as by no, means pleasant on a long journey.— f His Majesty enjoyed the scene exceedingly, and rallied !( the Marquis'on the aukward predicament in which he found jj himself.- vjM What Conyngham," said his Majesty, " have jj you not yet learned to play the King? Bow to them, j man, as 1 would.' 4 ' According to letters received at . Qirlton Pala'ce, the King is not expected to return till the fast svgpk in Novem- ber. His Majesty is represented to be in excellent health. Dispatches have been received from Lord Londonderry, announcing the arrival of his Majesty, in high health and spirits, at Hanover. He entered the city at nine o'clock at night, on Monday the 8th. The town was all life and splendour ; the streets were illuminated, the military drawn out on duty, the guns fired, the bells rung, and the population flocking from all sides towards the barrier through which his Majesty entered— all appeared animat- ed with the most loyal and affectionate enthusiasm. Not- withstanding the distance from Brussels to Hanover, and the rapidity with which the King travelled, his health had not in the least suffered beyond the ordinary fatigue con- sequent upon the movement and confinement of a carriage ; and even of this his Majesty had less appearance than most of those who composed his suite. The receptions, how- ever, were rather private; and the addresses and formal congiatuiations of the Authorities, and otherpublic bodies, were postponed to the following and future days. October Quarter, 1820 Improv. as compared with the October Quarter, 1820 October Quarter, 1821 October Quarter, 1819 Tmprov. as compared with the October Quarter, 1819, before the additional Duties of Three Millions were iu full collection, CHARGE. Total Income of Consolidated Fund, in the Quarter ended 10th Oct. 1820, Charge, t Excess of Income, Total Income of Consolidated Fund, in the Quarter ended 10th Oct. 1821 Charge estimated at, ... ... =£ 11.454,796 15,199,965 14.040.795 15,199 96.5 =£ 840,828 1 4,040,793 11.454.796 £ 9.585,997 ^ 1,505,298 £\ 1.650,125 10,000,000 Excess of Income, ... £ 1,650,125 From the above most satisfactorv statement, it appears that the improvement in the Revenue ofthe Quarter just ended, as compared with the corres- ponding Quarter, last year, is 84- 0,8281.; as com- peared with the same Quarter in 1819, 2,585,9971. But as the additional Three Millions of Duties were not in full collection then, but have been in full col- lection since, it is proper that one quarter of the Three Millions, 750.0001. should be deducted from the improvement in the Quarter, 1819, =£ 2,585.997 Deduct 750 000 .-£ 1,855,997 Ilence, then, the improvement in the October Quarter just ended, as compared with the same Quarter in 1819, is no less than 1,835,9971. The improvement, as we have before stated, in the Quarter just ended, as compared with the Quar- ter in 1820, is above 840,0001. This improve- ment is— in the Customs, above 150,0001. ; in the Stamps, about 50,0001.; but the greatest is in the Excise, which may be stated at from 6 to 700,0001. The Funds have rather declined this day. It is the re- sult of a more correct view of our finances than the pub lie have been encouraged to entertain by, the Treasury Journals.— Globe. he colliers, cut from their anchors last night, under Eccles, close to this place, ' it blowing very hard. OCT. 12.— The North Star, Kuper, from Bilboa to London, was towed into Plymouth on Wednesday, by the Levant Star, from Marseilles, with loss of rudder having struck on some rocksoff Ushant. Gibraltar, Sept. 18,— Two armed brigs, under Por- tuguese colours, supposed tp be insurgent privateers, have lately been seen between Lisbon ahd Cape Sf. Vincent. Portsmouth, Oct. 10.— The Harmony, Norris, from London for Bermuda, has come into harbour, having sprung a leak, and. must go into dock to stop it. She was obliged to bear . up after a heavy gale. The Eliza Piummer, for Greenock, which was on shore on Burbo. has been got off without damage, and returned to Liverpool on Monday. The Zealous, Young, from Hamburgh to London, hav- ing experienced heavy gales off Heligoland, and shipped many heavy seas, and her pumps being choaked, put back to Cuxhaven about 5d inst. with her cargo damaged, and would be obliged to discharge. The Hannah, Ross, of Liverpool. was on shore about 60 miles from New Orleans, on 19th August, and it was doubtful whether she would be got off. The Courier still affects something like an expiring grin at the subscriptions which we announced. The motives of the distinguished persons who communicated to us their authorities to subscribe the sums we announced, in not at once giving their names, was the delicacy which they felt, not wishing that the contributors to what is truly an act of national justice should be known to the Gallant Knight himself. As all the subscriptions have not been anony- mous, we shall take advantage of the discretion left us to gratify the public with the names ofthe four munificent contributors ( D.) J. G. Lambton, Esq. M. P. 5001. ; ( A.) Sir F. Burdett. M. P. 5001. ; ( N.) Earl Grey, 2001. The- fourth in our list was the Hon. H. G. Bennet, M. P. We need not say another word.— Traveller. We understand the following Noblemen and Gentle- men have added their names to die list of Subscribers for Sir Robert Wilson, as follows :-— Earl Fitzivilliatn, £ 500 E. Ellice, Esq. M. P. £ 50 Lord Holland, 100 A. 11 50 Earl of Jersey, SO J. I! .100 Lord J. liussel, J\ L P. 25 II. Brougham, Esq. W. V 20 RI. P 25 Lord Ossulston, M. P. 25 A Friend, per ditto, 100 Viscount Duneannon, T. Denman, Esq. M. P. 25 M. P 25 l) r. Lnshiiigton, M. 1\ 25 The city Meeting in behalf of Sir Robert Wilson is fixed for the 18th instant, and will take place at^ the City of London Tavern. The following is a copy of a Treasury letter re- lating to importation of wood from British Ameri- can Colonies :— tt Treasury Chambers, September 15. " GENTLEMEN— It having been represented to tjie Lords Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, that the officers of the Customs in British North American Colonies have declined granting certificates? 1"^ rrequired by the sections $ and 11 ofthe Act ofthe 1st and 2d Geo. IY. c. 57, on the ground of their not having received any instruction on this subject— I have it in command from their Lordships to desire, that the necessary directions on. this subject may be forthwith transmitted to the said officers by you ; . and, as it appears, that,, in consequence of the refusal of the • officers of your department to grant certificates, several ^ vessels have lately arrived in this country from the British North American Colonies without these documents, and that they have, in- consequence thereof, not been admitted to entrv, I have further, to desire you will direct your officers to dispense with the production of such certificates in all cases of vessels arriving from such Colonies previous to the 1st dav of December next. ( Signed) " ARBUTIIN. OT. " To the Commissioners of Customs." NOTE.— The certificates required. by. the above Act were, that the wood or timber imported was really and bona fide the growth or production of some ( specified) Biitish Colony or Plantation in America. The Bank of England, it is said, have decided on calling in the 51. notes, as they have already withdrawn those of 11. and 21. thus leaving none of a lower denomi- nation than 1 Ol. in circulation. All the servants ofthe late Queen were discharged on Saturday, They received the amount of what was due to them up to Michaelmas- day. The Executors of her late Majesty, however privately disposed, could, of course, do no more for them, and no intimation was given on the part of the Administration, that any gratuity would be given to them. It has been customary on a similar break- ing up of any Royal Establishment, to allow the discharg- ed servants, if not better provided for, a year's wages in addition to what was actually due to them ; but it seems that in the present instance the custom is to be honoured in the breach and nor in the observance. Carnot is living in a very retired manner near Magde- burg. He is engaged, it is said, in composing a work, entitled, " Historical Memoirs ofthe French Revolution, and the Events of the last Thirty Years." SIGNAL HUMANITY.— At Lord Camden's seat, the Hermitage, near Seven Oaks, in Kent, the follow- ing important information was exhibited a few weeks since:—* rThis is to give notice, that Lord Camden does not mean to shoot himself or any of his tenants, till the 14th of September." Mr. Hobhouse has transmitted £\ 00 to Mr. Weather- stone, the Chairman. of the Committee in the Borough, to be added to the subscription for Sir R. Wilson. NEW MILITARY SYSTEM. A Bill is intended by Ministers to be brought into Par- liament, when it next meets, which, if it passes into law, will effect a great alteration— indeed, we may say. an en- tire revolution, in our military system ; but one of such a nature, that none will more sincerely approve of it than those who are most apprehensive of the danger ofthe mili- tary force to our constitutional liberties. The leading object of the measure is, to dispense with Regiments of the Line altogether in Great Britain, with the exception of the Household Troops. The regular Militia in Great Britain amount to about 60.000. Instead ofthe regi- ments being exercised as at present, for twenty- one days at a time, it is proposed that each year 20.000 shall be called out to serve for the whole year, and be then dis- embodied ; so that each regiment will be on actual ser- vice one year in every three. On being disembodied, a certain number of the officers and men of each regiment are to be allowed to volunteer into the Line to fill up such vacancies as may occur ; we understand three officers will be allowed to volunteer with every sixty men. Bv this arrangment, we shall have, in the course of e- very three years, a body of sixty thousand men, complete- ly trained and disciplined, instead of, as at present, having 60,000 who, from the short period for which they are cal- led out each year, are at no time better than raw recruits, we shall have a constitutional force of 20,000 men con- stantly on foot, which will enable Government to dis- pense with the use of regular troops in all the garrisons at home, and we shall besides have provided an excellent nursery of good soldiers, for such portions of the regi- ments of the line as it may be found necessary to keep up for foreign and other sjervice. Tt is scarcely necessary to state that the measure, as we have now explained it, has reference to a state of peace a- broad and at home. Should either foreign war or intes- tine commotions arise, the power will be reserved to Go- vernment of calling out the whole 60,000 men, or any jj number greater than the standing 20,000, as they may see fit. The ultimate effect of the measure will, of course, be a still farther reduction than what has recently taken place in the regular army ; and this is what Ministers distinctly contemplate. The management of the Bill will, we are in- formed, be entrusted to the able hantls of the Earl of Buckinghamshire. The Alligator, of 28 guns, which was lately built at Cochin China, of oak wood. Captain Wilkie, arrived on Friday at Portsmouth, from Madras, manned with invalids from the squadron under Sir Henry Blackwood, with a party of the 75( 1 Regiment, doing duty as marines.— His excellency Lieut.- General Sir T. Hislop, G. C. B. Governor of Madras, with Capt Wood, and LiVut. Van Buerb. came passengers. She left Madras on the 2d of June, in company with the Leander, 58, Rear- Admiral Sir H. Blackwood, Captain Charles Richardson, C. B. which ship parted company for Petiang. The Indian Pe- ninsula was free from internal commotion, and tolerably healthy. No political news whatever. The Topaze fri- gate, Captain L. umley, and Curlew sloop of war. Captain Price Blackwood, were in the China seas. The Liverpool Frigate. Captain F. A. Collier, C. B. had gone to Bom- bay to repair, and to fit out the Ganges, a new . ship, of 84 guns, lately launched there, which the crew of the Liverpool will bring to England. The Dauntless sloop of war, Captain G. C. Gambier. had been sent to Lima, for silver for the Chinese market. The Samarang, a new sloop of war, would be ready to launch at Cochin in De- cember. The Alligator touched at Mauritius, and left that Island all well. The Menai. 24, Captain F. Mores- by, C. B. was cruising off: she had lately captured a large brig with slaves, from Madagascar. The Vigo, Rear- Ad miral Lambert, Brazen, Blossom, Beaver, and Hardy schooner, were lying at St. Helena, waiting the return of the Heron sloop of war, with orders from England. The Cygnet was at the Cape of Good Hope. GREENOCK, OCT. 6.— His Majesty's Ship Niuii'od has detained, and brought in here yesterday, the American schooner Vulture, Green, from Perth Amboy; sh? had but one bale of tobacco on board when taken. The crew have been lodged in Bridewell. CURRENTS OF THE OCEAN— Extract from the Agent to Lloyd's at Boulogne, dated October 5. : — " We beg to inclose a paper which has just been de- livered to us in a bottle picked up this morning at 10 o'clock, on the shore at Dannes, between this port and Estaples : " ' The merchant ship Sir Joseph Banks, John Wil- liams, commander, t At sea, Monday July 16, 1821, in lat. 49 deg. 11 mill. 16 sec, N. ; and longitude; by chro- nometer at noon, 11 deg. 27 miti. 56 sec. west of Green- wich ; being calm weather threw this bottle overboard, for the purpose ( if ever found) of ascertaining the current about the entrance of the English Channel. Whoever finds this will'be good enough to acknowledge it in some public manner,' " Mem.— The Sir Joseph Banks arrived in the river July 25, from Jamaica." 4 WEYHIT. I, FAIR. — the annual Sheep Fair at V^ eyhilU Hants, was held on the 10th inst.- There was as usual 3 great show of fine stock. About Sixty- five thousand were penned, and sold at an advance of 5s. to 7s. per head more than was expected, or they had produced at any of neighbouring fairs. A great deal of business was done* and many buyers from Sussex were disappointed, as they were not able to buy a single sh-.- ep. This, change in thy state of the market, and advance in the price of the stock, has had a great effect, and revived the spirits and expecta- tions both of the sellers and buyers, and we have no doubt but it will be sensibly felt every where, as this fair is the grand criterion by which the markets in all the South and West of England are regulated. MORPETH. Oct. 10.— A great many Cattle, Sheep, and Lambs, which met with a dull sale, antl many left unsold ; prices lower. — Beef from 5s; to 5s. £) d.— Mutton" from 4s. 6d. to 5s. 9d.— Lamb from 4s. 3d. to 5s.. 6d. per stone, sinking offals; , BALLINASLOE, Oct. 5.-— Our fair here, yester- day, was an extremely'bad one. The return of sheep sold was only 50,729, instead of 80 or 90,000. as it used to be ; and the prices were, on an average, at least 4s. a sheep less than last year, if not more. PRICE OF HOPS, Oct. 15. NEW BAGS. Kent, 21 5s to 31 12s Sussex, 21 00s to 21 14s Essex, 21 5s to 51 5s Farnham Ol Os to Ol Os NEW POCKETS. Kent, 21 10s to 41 6s Sussex, 21 2s to 31 Os Essex. Si 10s to 41 Oa Farnham, Ol Os to Ol os PRICE OF TALLOW, Oct. 15. To \ n Tallowy 50s to Yellow Russia, 47s to White ditto, 46s to Soap ditto, 43s to Melting Stuff, 38s to Ditto rough, 25s to Graves, Good Dregs, Yellow Soap, Mottled, - Curd, Palm. — s to 20 » — s to 7s- 80s to — a 90s to — s 94 s to — s OOOsto — s Price of Candles, per doz. 10s Od— Moulds, lis 6s SMITH FIELD MARKET, Oct. 12. ~ To sink the Offal, per stone of .8lbs. Beef", 3s Od to 4s 6d I Veal, 3s 6d to 4s 6d Mutton, 2s 6d to 3s Od | Pork, 5s Od to 4s Od Beasts, 620- Sheep, & c. 6,920— Calves. 200— Pigs, 180. NEWGATE ANDLEADENHALL MARKETS^ Oct. 15. Beef, 2s 8d to 3s 8d I Veal, 3s 4d to 5s Od Mutton, 5s Od to 5s 4d Pork, 2s 4d to 5s Od PRICE OF 5 per C. Con. 77Jj | 5 per Ct. N. I^ iiM 3 § per Cent. 4 per Cents. 95f J STOCKS. India Bonds, 71 69 71 pr Ex. B. 2d. 10001. 4 5 pr Lottery Tickets, 19l. 18s. Cs. for Ac. 77|- 1 NAVAL REGISTER. FROM LLOYD'S MARINE LIST, Oct. 9. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 8.— The Wilhelmioa, Rendenberg, from Pernau to Oporto, was towed into this Port by two Pilot Boats, this morning, dismasted, a. id in a very da- maged state. Last Thursday she was thrown on her beam ends, off Portland, by a heavy gaie of wind, when carrying a press of sail to weather Portland Bill. The car ' o is damaged, and must be unloaded. The carpenter was washed overboard and drowned. | FALMOUTH, Oct. 5.— The wind increased yesterday | afternoon about two o'clock, and continued to blow from j the S. SSW. till about 5, when it suddenly shifted to the | Northward, and blew a complete hurricane tiil 10. So ! heavy a gale has not been experienced for many years ! The town and vicinity have suffered. The wind is now, | 11 r. blowing from N W. a fresh breeze, t YARMOUTH, Oct. 5.— Four or. five vessels, supposed to MARKETS, Sc. AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN, The following is the General Average which governs Importation, taken from the Weekly Returns of the Quantities and Price of British Corn, Winchester mea sure, in England and WTales, for the week ended 6th October: — v\ heat, 64s 7d | Beans, - 34s 9d Rye, 31< lid j Pease - 53s 5d Barley, 35s 2d Oatmeal, - 00s Od Oats, - 22s iOd I Bear or Big, 00s OOd The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com- puted from the returns made in the week ended Oct. 10, is 30s. 5 § d. per cwt. duty exclusive. CORN EXCHANGE, Oct. 12. The supply of Wheat this week, although more than adequate to the demaud, is considerably less than it has been for the three preceding weeks, yet the quantity re- maining on hand is so large, that the market is greatly depressed by it, and only the finest samples of old and new find buyers at Monday's prices. Oats Is. per quar- ter lower. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET, Oct. 12. A good supply of wheat in market, which met with a ready sale, prices nearly the same as last day Top price of old barley Is. higher and old oats Is. lower than last day. Wh° at. | Barley. 1 Oats. I Pease Beans. Hrst 57s Od | 26s Od | 19s Od j 18s Od 18s Od Second- 32s Od I 24s Od I 17s Od I 16s Od 16s Od Third— 30s Od j 21s Od | 15s Od | 14s Od 14s Od This day there were 455 bolls of Oatmeal in Edin- burgh Market— Retail price per peck of best oatmeal, Is 5d. second Is. 2d. FA OCTOBER- Slateford, 1st Monday Roshcartv, 1st Tuesday Macduff, 1st Wed. Si Thurs. Falkirk, 2d Tuesday Ding wall, Martha Fair, do. Drumlithie, Michael Fair, 2d Thursday Beauly 10th day, or Wed. after Perth, 20th day Tain, Michael Fair, 5d Tues. Mil town, Ross- shire, last Tuesday Culbockie, last Wednesday Findon, ditto Meigle, ditto ( Old Stile. J Aboyne, 1st Tuesday Turriff, Cowan Fair, 1st Tues. and Wedhes Elgin, Michael Fair, do. Rothiemay, 1st Thins. Birse, Michael Fair, 1st do. after Aboyne IRS. -( New Stile. J Culfork of Breda, Monday before Kinethmont Kepple Tryst, 2d Tuesday Kinethmont, St. Rule's, do Rhynie, day after Kineth- mont New Deer, 2d Tue. 8c Wed Lossiemouth, 2d Wednes. Cornhill, 2d " Thursday Greenburu, 5J Tuesday Insch, ditto Whitemyres, day before Old Aberdeen Old Aberdeen, 3d Tues. & Wednesday Byth, ditto Daviot, ditto Turriff,- Thursday after do. Fochabers, last Wed. but one Tarves. Tanglan Fair, 4th Tues. and Wednes. Inverury, Wednes. after do. Fordyce, Hallow Fair, last Tues. and Wednes. The Falkirk Tryst began on Monday last. The sup- ply of sheep was larger than that of last market, amount- ing in whole to about 25,000. There were a considerable number of buyers from the south, and the sales were brisk at an advance of about 2s. a head on wedders, and Is. on. ewes. Black faced ewes sold from 6s. to 8s. and black faced wedders sold from 15s to 18s a head. The white faced sheep brought about the same prices, and the sheep were wboily sold off. The market was but indif- ferently supplied with lean stock. There were from 8000 to 10,000 in whole, and their prices were advanced about 10s a head. The fat cattle sold at ibe rate of from 7s. to 9s. a stone. Some two year old stots soid as low, as 21. 19s. and two lots, one consisting of 40, and the other of 100, sold as high as 71. 15s. ' The average1 price of two year olds would be from 51. to 55, 10s. a head. ' The best three year olds brought from 81. to 91; a head. Inferior sorts were cheaper. Best two year old queys brought about 6l. and three year olds about 81. a head. This market has turned out considerably better than was anti- cipated. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET— There were ab ' lit 240 fat beasts in the market on Monday ; 150 of these were cows, and sold from 7s. to 9. s. a stone, and a : ew remained unsold. There were 90 stots, chiefly from An, u - shire and Aberdeenshire, Inch were bought up early in the clay at 9s. and 9s. 6d. a- stone. Two priu. e beasts, reared on the Duke of Gordon's pastures brought 50 guinea-. There was a good su, ply or sht ep and a nbs. Lambi sold from 3s, to 7s. a- head. Ewes brought frcm 12s to 15s. and wedders svld from 14s. to 18s. each. EDINBURGH, Oct. 16. A petition was presented to the Council from several Gentlemen of the first respectability, against the arrange- ment entered into at the late election of Rector of the. High School, in favour of Mr. Gray, for teaching a Greek class exclusively. Bailie Henderson proposed that the consideration of this petition should be delayed till next week, that an opportunity might be given to Mr. Gray of stating any objection which he might have to the proposed alteration ; but,, after some discussion, the prayer of the petition was acceded to, and permission granted to the Rector and other teachers to form classes for instruction in the Greek language as formerly. At a general meeting of the Lieutenancy of Dumbarton- shire, on the 2d inst.. an address was unanimously voted to the Duke of Montrose, expressing their deep regret at the resignation by his Grace ofthe office of Lord Lieute- nant. which be had so long " and ably filled in times of difficulty and danger, and that it was mainly owing to his spirited exertions in re- establishing the yeomanry in the county, that the spirit of disaffection that lately prevailed in the west of Scotland was repressed. To this his Grace returned a suitable answer thanking the Lieutenancy for the support they had always afforded him while acting in his official si'uation. On Monday, the Lord Provost and Magistrates of Glasgow gave an elegant entertainment in the Town Hail to the Right Hon. Lord Stowcll. Three pints of strawberries, grown in the open air. were this morning exhibited in the shop of Mr. BROIJIE in the new Fruit Market. An extraordinary seizure was made at Inverness, on Saturday last, by the Excise. Mr. Hoggan. supervisor for the Beauly district, informed Mr. Davidson. Acting Supervisor, that, when off Arbroath, in the smack Forth, he picked up thirty casks of gin ; and had not the vessii been labouring under a strong gale, he could nave secured many more, from a great number seen floating about. He gave information at the same time, that a vessel ( then supposed to be the Janet of Inverness) was seen to secure a number of the floating casks. Immediately upon which, Mr. Davidson, accompanied by a party, proceeded to search, and discovered seventeen casks concealed iu a garden near the New Bridge. There were no spirits found on board the Janet, but, she was seized on account of not reporting the circumstance, and lodging the illeg 1 part of her cargo in the Excise cellars. NO RTH EIIN M EETl NG.~ On Friday night libe- ral subscriptions were entered into for the amusements if next year, amongst which the establishment of the long- talked of race course, at Duneancroy, is contemplated. Lord Huntly in addition his other subscriptions, placed =£ 50 at the dispojal of Grleugarsy, to which the Chief added L. 25, and auy . iters subscribed, making alto- gether a purse of about L 150 as prizes for the exercises of the True Highlanders, who at the next Northern Meet- ing are to challange, not only the low country, but all the countries, in feats of strength and agility.— Inverness Paper. THE FOLLOWING NOBLEMEN AND GENTLE- MEN WERE ELECTED FOR 1822. The Most Noble the Marquis of Huntly, Patron. The Most Noble the Marchioness of Huntly, Patroness, The Right Hon. Lord Saltouu, Permanent Steward. STEWARD'S. Col. F. W. Grant, M. P. Lord Lieutenant of the Coun- ty of Inverness. The Hon. John Stewart, J. A. Stewart Mackenzie, Esq, of Seaforth. Col. Macdonell of Glengarry. J. H. Mackenzie, Esq. of Cromarty, Col. Baillie of Leys. M. P. Col. Macintosh of Holm. Major Fraser of Newton. James Robertson, Esq. Provost and Chief Magistrate of Inverness. — And Affleck Fraser. Esq. of Culduthel, Secretary HERRING FISHERY. — While complaints are makin* of the want of success in the herring fishing in the Moray Frith, and on ( he west coast, we hear from Orkney tira? the success t ere has been so great, that notwithstanding the extensive preparations which the progressive improvement that has taken place for the last few years encouraged, the curers had their wood filled early in the season. The early appearance ofthe fish on the shores of these islands, and the convenience of the harbours, with other peculiar | advantages, will render the resort thither greater in future, j John Calderwood. Stewart M'Laughian, and John J FarqubarsOn, accused of assaulting the post runner be- | tween Perth and Dunkeld, were brought here from Perth | and lodged in the jail on the evening of the 8th current. | Ann Wilson, alias Moure, presently under sentence of j death at Glasgow, for issuing fofged notes, has received | a respite during his. Majesty's pleasure. ; PERT H, Oct. 10.— Ma rgaret Tindal or Sh little worth, ! now under sentence of death in our gaol," has Mentioned, that a smuggler, who has since absconded, had aekuow, le. ged toiler that he was in Shutt. eworth's house late oil the night, of the murder, and that they had been engaged in a stuffie. If this be true, it would certainly tend to throw considerable doubt on the circumstantial evidence ; on which she was convicted. As circumstantial evidence ought in all cases to be acted on with caution, and as the ! unfortunate woman maintains her innocence of the crime, the circumstance to which she has alluded ou^ ht suit ly to be investigated, for the satisfaction o? the public mind. SCO L S HA XA'R UP TS. Creditors of Aiuhony WiLon, merchant and ship- owner in Aberdeen, meet in the New inn there, 29th October, twelve o'clock. Credi: orvs of James Petrie, jun. merchantin Aberdeen, meet in A. Webster's advocate there, 26th November, ; twelve o'clock. Creditors of William Duguid, junior, merchant in. ' Aberdeen, meet in George Wilson's, advueate there,, 27di j October, twelve o'clock. thsvasssssffft^"^ ismssvuf J ON SALE, At the principal fashionable Shops in this Town, UKLING'S LACE. rpiIE Muster of the Robes having, W special X Authority, appointed G. F. l-' RLtNG & Co. Ma- nufacturers in Ordinary tojiis Majesty, and similar War- rants being obtained from their Royal Highnesses the Princess Atmt'sTA. the lluchesses of KENT, CLARENCE, and Gt. oltcESTBR, it will be needless to eulogize this cele- brated article. . , The King's Letters Patent were also, in November, 1817, granted exclusively to UHIJKO & Co. for this Im- provement in British I. ace ; therefore it cannot be procur- ed genuine except at No. 147 Strand, Somerset House, or of his Agents in the Country. Every article is distin- guished by a Seal, with the Patentees initials, G. F. U. & Co. and the words" By the ( late) Queen's Autho- rity," according to a Sign Manual, originally obtained for this purpose, as various imitations by starching, under . specious names and descriptions, are still imposed on the public, which do not stand washing, however clear and perfect they may at first appear. Connoisseurs are invited to inspect a splendid variety of Court Dresses, Lappets, Ruffles, Scarves, Veils, Flounces, & c. & c. of the real Point Brussels and Mechlin fabric, from design byjthe first artists in Paris ; with Nets and I. aces of every kind, at the wholesale prices, for ready money only. Mauufac- t try, Busfurd Notts. [ AVESDEEX, MbKThCXK. DUNDEE, EDIN- BURGH, and GLASGOW, EXCHANGE AND DEPOSIT BANKS. r|', HE public are respectfully informed, that the Rate of Exchange upon London at the above Banks is TEN DAYS : and that they continue to allow FQUR PER CfJA'T. on alt Sums deposited, repaying the same as at present whenever demanded, without any previous notice whatever. J. BLYTH, Agent, Edinburgh. Edinburgh, Sept. 7, 18aI. PASSAGE BETWIXT ABERDEEN AND LEITH. THE ABERDEEN, LEITH, and CLYDE SHIPPING COMPANY beg leave respectfully tointimate, that," conceiving their SMACKS best adapt- ed for the Conveyance of Passengers betwixt Aberdeen arid Leith at this advanced season of the year, they have withdrawn their Steam Yacht the VELOCITY from that passage durinn the Winter Months, and have therefore fesolved to sail their SM ACKS oftener than usual— on board of which the Public will find every comfort, and elegant accommodation. CABIN FARE, including Provisions,... 15S. STEERAGE DO. without Provisions,... 6s. Aberdeen, Ijeith, and Clyde Shipp. Co.' s OJJice,") Aberdeen, 17th October, 1821. J MR. CORBY N RESPECTFULLY informs his Friends and the Public, that his BALL will take place in Mr. Jlorison's Hall, on Thursday evening the 25th October. The BALI, tobe opened at6o'clock. After the Pupils have finished dancing, which will be about 11 o'clock, the Hall and Music will be at the com- mand of those Ladies and Gentlemen who may feel in- clined to participate in a Dance, in the arrangement and conducting of which Mr. C. will be most happy to afford every assistance in his power. Tickets may be had of Mr. Corbyn, or of the Booksel- lers. *„* The School will be re- opened on Monday the 29th curt, for DANCING and FENCING, as usual. Adelphi, Oct. 4, 182i. PARCEL LEFT. HERE was left, iri July last, at John Sherres. Stabler, Meal Maiket Lane, a SM ALL PAPER PARCEL. Whoever can prove it to be their property, on calling at Mr. Mitchell's, Vintner, Gilcomston, may have it, on paying expellees. X1 T TO BE LET, HPIIAT commodious well frequented TAVERN JL at BRIDGE of DEE. as presently possessed by Alex. Keith, Vintner. Also, about 4 ACRES of GROUND, ofaneasly soil.— Entry at Martinmas first. Apply to John Fleming, Advocate. Broad Street, SALE OF CLOTHIERY, HABERDASHERY, & c. Upon Monday the 29th day of October current, tbere will be sold, by public roup, ( in virtue of a Warrant from the Sheriff of Banffshire,) at the House and Shop in Port Gordon, lately occupied- by John Kessack, Mer- chant there, rgMIE whole STOCK of CLOTMIERY, HA- JL BERD ASIIERY, HARDWARE, and GRO- CERY GOODS, which belonged to him— consisting of Broad and Narrow Cloths, Duffles, Fustians, Swan- downs, Toilonets, and other Fancy Waistcoatings •— Corduroy, Flannel, Muslins. Lawns, Cambrics, Shawls, Cotton Shilling;— Worsted. Worsted Stockings ;— Hats, Straw- Bonnets, Gloves, Umbrellas;— Spades, Scythes, Nails, Hinges ;— Sugar, Molasses, Snuff, Tobacco, fcioap, and a vast variety of other articles. The whole will be sold off without reserve ; and credit vill be given. The roup will begin at 10 o'clock forenoon precisely, and he continued on the fallowing days until the whole be So d off. Inventories will be shewn by John Smith, Writer in Banff. HOUSE AND GARDEN TO BE SOLD OR LET, Entry Immediately. PH AT commodious FAMILY HOUSE, with the GARDEN at the back thereof, belonging to Mr. Scorgie, mason, situated in Constitution Street, be- tween the properties of Mr. Allan and Mrs.' Strachan. The house is built of the most substantial materials, and well adapted for the accommodation of a genteel family. Great part of the price, if desired, may remain in the juiichaser's hands. For other particulars, apply to the proprietor, or William Davidson, Advocate, St. Nicholas Street. CONTRACTS FOR ROAD METAL. rj^ HE Committee of Trustees, named for repair- JL ing the Road, from the West End of Union Street to Bridge of Dee, are desirousof receiving EST IM ATES for laying'in Metal on the above mentioned road, at such recesses as will be pointed out, broke from stones of a sound, durable, and equal quality. Estimates per ton, broke to a size of five ounces weight, or of dimensions rqaial to pass through a ring or gauge of one and a half inch diameter, must be lodged with Mr. Burnett, Belmont Street, on or before Monday the 29th inst. at 12 o'clock noon, when th£ same will be determined upon. The re- cesses for the Metal will be pointed out by John M'Donald, ftj ad Overseer. Broadford. REPAIR OF THE ABOVE ROAD. Separate ESTIMATES will also be received, time and place above mentioned, for dressing, levelling, clear- ing the ditches, and laying the Metal upon the road, agreeably to a specification to be seen with Mr. Burnett, or John M'Donald. The furnishing of metal, and dress- ing the road, will be separately contracted for with different individuals. Aberdeen, Oct. 18, 1821. GROUND at GALLOWHILLS to LET. Mi AT PIECE of GROUND, lying on the North Side of the Gallowhills, at present possessed by David Thorn, will be let by private bargain, on a LEASE for 7, 11, or 19 years, in the tenant's option. Offers for the same will be received by George Ander- son, jun. Master of the Trades Hospital, on or before the 2d November next. WAN T E D, AN APPRENTICE to the BAKING BUSINESS: one from the country will be pre- ferred. Apply to J. Anderson, Chapel S reet, Aberdeen, or Mr. William S tn,' Baker, Oldujeldrum. October 19, 18S1 CASH LOTTERY. ALEXANDER WATSON, BOOKSELLER and STATIONER, . Broad Street, Aberdeen, GENT to PIDDING and CO. No. 1, Corn- hill, the luckiest Office in London, reminds the Public that the Lottery commences drawing TUESDAY the 30th of October— the Scheme is universally approved, there being not 2 Blanks to a Prize, no Classes or Stock, and the Prizes all in Sterling Money, with THREE of L. 30,000,. and one attached to the first drawu Prize; the very last Sterling Money Prizes of L. 21,000 and L. 20,000 of which the Public got every. Share, were sold by PIDDING and CO. and some of the above* also are probably now on Sate at their Agent's, as above. THE CHRONICLE. .4 7? E It D E E. N': SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1821. Nummary of l^ clttica. . FOR MONTEGO BAY, JAMAICA, ^ Fine Coppered Brig JM EXP E D IT I 0 N, Of 300 Tons Burthen, GEORGE WATSON, MASTER, " Will commence loading for the above Port 1st September, ajid will sail early in October. Goods, in quantity, will be forwarded to the adjacent Ports, betwixt Falmouth and Lucca, at the Ship's expence, but Shipper's risk. The Expedition is intended as a Regular Trader to Mpntego Bay, and will be laid oil there as a general ship for this port. For Freight or Passage, with elegant accommodation, Apply to DAVID MILNE. Aberdeen, Aug. 21, 1821. THREE of ,£ 30,000 Money ! J. & J. SI VKVV RF I ST Solicits the favours of the Public at their Old and Fortu- nate Offices, 37, Cornhill ; and 11, Holborn ; and 33, Haymarket, London ; where they had the satisfaction, in t*? e Very last Lottery, to Share and Sell 44^ 1 ..£ 25,000 ! 9,182. £ 2,400 2053.. 1446.. .... 21,000 4,000 12,730 19,023 2,400 2,100 Besides . many smaller Capitals — And they also sold in Shares ALL the ^ 20,000 Prizes in one Lottery of the preceding Contract. J. & J. SlVEWRIGIIT have no hesitation in re- commending the Scheme of the present Lottery ( which begins on Tuesday 50th This Month, J to the attention of their Friends and the Public;— it contains TH REE of .€ 30,000 ! And Thirty other Capitals, All Money— with not Two JJlanks to a Prize.—=£ 30,000 for the First- drawn Prize. Tickets and Shares are on Sale at their fortunate Offices, ( wh ere they bope to hav. the pleasure of paying to the Public one or more of the £ 30,000 Prizes), and by their AGENTS: W. ROBERTSON, Bookseller, Public Library, i Aberdeen. W. DAVIDSON, Annuity Office, Iluntly. V. WILSON, Bookseller." — Arbroath, " The exposure of the connexion between Government and The Beacon has quite changed the tone Of the crew, who have so long been dinning our ears with exclamations about the licentiousness of the press. The right to slander and defame is now openly defended. Theolject for which JOHN Bur. r. was established is now unblushingly stated, and loudly panegyrized in the Journal which is identified with the Bridge Street Crew. '• There seems to have been an intention on the part oj certain LADIES in this country, to give countenance to persons and actions of no equivocal character— to uphold the credit of a female who had broken down all the com- mon barriers of reputation, and to lend the sanction of their names and rant to measures which eonld only lead to a convulsion in the State. THE OBJECT, THE OPEN AND AVOWED OIUECT OR JOHN HUM. WAS TO SIFT THE CHARACTERS OF THOSE FEMALES, in order to ascertain what degree of credit might be acquired by their support, and consequently to remove Jrom the eyes of the people at large, that film which the rank and station oftheparties was calculated to produce. IF IN SO DOING HE STATED FALSEHOODS, HE WAS OPEN TO THE LAW, BUT IF HE ONLY UNMASKED THE TITLED rROFUGATE, IE 1IE ONLY EXPOSED THE IILCHT HONOURABLE ADULTRESS, HE CONFERRED A BENEFIT UPON SOCIETY, BY SHOWING HOW LITTLE ASSISTANCE COULD BE AFFORDED BY SUCH INDIVIDUALS TOWARDS BOLSTERING UP A ROTTEN CAUSE."— Morning Chronicle. Tins, avowal of the object of those who established the John• Bull deserves animadversion ; for within very circumscribed limits it comprehends much ab- surdity and more falsehood. The writer sets out with the observation, that there seems to have been an intention oil the part of certain Ladies, to give countenance to persons and actions of no equivocal character. A nd the allusion is pointedly made to the late Queen. The Ladies who declared their conviction of her Majesty's innocence, and the gross falsehood of the charges so pertinaciously brought forward in long continued succession against her character, acted upon the admitted principle that equivocal characters deserve no countenance, far le6s characters decidedly bad. They had intellect to judge for themselves, and independence enough to despise the crowd of titled and untitled dependents of the Court, who pretend to believe charges the most g'.- oss and inconsistent, supported by prevarication and perjury. It was not the Queen who,, upon this occasion, brokedownallthecommon barriers < freputa- tion, and the Ladies who did honour totheir sex and their country, by their support of the cause of Truth and Justice, are well entitled to the thanks of that country, which had so energetically declared in fa- vour of persecuted innocence. But says this writer, " they lent the sanction of their names and rank, to measures that could only tend to a convulsion in the state." If to promote the ends ofjustice have a di- rect tendency to create a convulsion in the state, the situation of the country must be alarming indeed.— If after the most shameful attempts to blast her Ma- jesty's ciiaracter, her persecutors were under the necessity of abandoning their charges, declaring that they despaired of producingconviction in the minds oj' others of their ' Truth, why should it tend to a convulsion in the State, to recognise her vindicated honour, and pay her the respect due to her rank ? j Ihe writer is much mistaken if he supposes, that . the sanction of names and rank can now infiu- I crice public opinion ; the people examine and judge for themselves, according to the principles of fair investigation, the only object of which is the dis- covery of truth, and are not to be so easily misled as some affect to believe. But " the open and avow- ed object of John Bull was to SIFT the characters of those females." The object may have been un- , derstood by a certain party, but it was not opt n'y j avowed, nor is it yet known by whose means the i paper was established. The creatures who act os- tensibly declared in a Court of Justice, that they were miserably poor, and had no account with any I banker— and yet their object was to sift female cha- racters, and ttiey Could afford to distribute their \ ehicle of falsehood gratis even in Aberdeenshire.— But let us see what right a Journalist can claim to sift private characters, and expose domestic con- cerns. Public measures he has a right to discuss, provided he adhere to truth, and to animadvert uj>- on thein " and their authors, observing the rules that regulace temperate discussion. But he has no right to enter into the privacy of families, and at his will and pleasure maliciously to expose failings and mis- fortunes, in which the public can have no interest, even upon the supposition that he takes pains to as- certain facts, and strictly adheres to truth. The law most properly takes cognizance of such malicious disclosures, which cannot possibly proceed from any good motive, and punishes the libeller. But the JOHN BULL has lioen distinguished by gross false- hood from its commencement, and in every instance where investigation has taken place, the ostensible Editors have, without hesitation or shame, admitt- ed the charge. During the last Session of Parlia- ment, when brought to the Bar of the House of Commons for a libellous paragraph, commencing " we are requested to state," & c. when desired to say who made the request—" 0 J nobody, it is a common way of introducing a paragraph." Can you give the name of any person who gave you the in- f'orination contained in this paragraph ? " No."— Then whom did vou hear speaking of the subject ? " We were speaking about it ourselves iu the office." When an action was brought for an infamous slan- der against a Ladv of the Tankerville family, these personages very readily said, " we will save the time of the' Court, we plead guilty." Such is the sifting ofcharacter, as practised in the pages of John Bull ; and this is to remove the film from the eyes of the public, and convince all whom it may concern, that the late Queen and her friends were equally unworthy of respect. And this Journal re- ceives the countenance of men of name and rank, who contribute to its circulation by every means in their power, while it is read by certain modest Ladies, who wonder that it does not convince all their ac- quaintances of the guilt of the late Queen ! What the writer means by talking of exposing a Right Honourable Adultress, we know not ; but he seems not at all inclined to confer a bene lit upon society, by animadverting upon the grossest conduct of Ladies distinguished by the appellation of the Most Noble, perhaps because it is as notorious as the sun at mid day, and threatens no convulsion in the State. The last refuge of exposed profligacy is false re- crimination, and while this false recrimination is privately circulated, it may for a very short time produce some effect, particularly amongst those pre- judiced in its favour. The PRESS, however, spee- dily dispels the illusion, and exhibits falsehood 1 n its native deformity. There are individuals who affect to believe the assertion, that the Scotsman has been conducted with as little regard to truth and decency as the Beacon, although the public treat it with merited contempt, and will not allow tile Scotsman to be degraded by such a comparison. Still more astonishing, however, is the attempt to bring charges of misrepresentation, personalities, and slander, against the Morning Chronicle ; yet this has been done, and that Journal has been declared by the Bridge Street Association, and their partizans, to be ten times more scurrilous than John Bull. The character of the Morning Chronicle is in no danger from such assailants, but as an indication of the spirit of the times in which we live, false assertions, otherwise contemptible, deserve some attention.— It is in vain that the authors of such slanders are challenged to the proof; for they know that truth is not their friend, and they therefore confine them- selves to pertinacious repetition of their foul asser- tions, and for the Editor of the Morning Chronicle to enter into any altercation with the leading writer in the John Bull would be utterly out of the ques- tion. He might well say, Demit honorem aemulu* r. Qui cum victus erit mecum certasse ferettir. He has, however, invited the skulking assassin to unmask— and confidently anticipates the public in- dignation that would attend the disclosure. His invitation will not be accepted ; and if the writer really be, as common report bears, from the sister kingdom, he will no doubt be inclined to answer in the words of his countryman " well indeed, and the more you say I shall— the more I wont." The • Gentlemen who liave supported the measures of a weak and wicked Administration without inquiring into facts, but taking it for granted that all must be right, begin to find themselves in a very aukward situation, for the supporters of the Beacon, who upon recent disclosures withdrew their support, are bitterly accused of cowardice by the Bridge Street Association, who accuse them also of a dereliction of principles ! Tanta est discordiafrairum. DEATHS— AtICinharaclue, near Ellon, on tlie Ttli inst. GEOKGE BRECHIN, Surgeon, in the 77th year of his age. At Fraserburgh, on the 17th ultimo, in the ~ 2d year of his age. Lieutenant WILLIAM ALEXANDER GREEN, R. N. At Brae- side of Auchleuchries, on Sunday, the 30th ult. ISOIIEL WIGHT, in the 92d year of her age, and 53d of her married life. In her younger days she was a faith- ful servant at the house of Dunwick ; and till within the 1 last two years, continued active in the discharge of her household duties, and in her charities to the poor. NEW POST OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS. In a former paper we detailed, at some length, the pro- posed alterations about to be made by his Majesty's Post- master- General, for the purpose of accelerating the pro- gress of the Mail from the Metropolis to the extremity of the Island. These alterations in the dispatch of the Mail northwards rendered it necessary to make a corresponding change in the departure of the Post from Thurso south- wards ; and the object of Government in both being the general benefit of the country at large, it might have been expected, that the new arrangement would be cheerfully acquiesced in, whatever local inconvenience might arise from its minor details. Such, however, has not been the case: The Chamber of Commerce, of Edinburgh, in a petition which they have addressed to the Lords of the T- easury, strongly object to the proposed hour of arrival of the North Mail at that city, as seriously incorvvenient to its inhabitants ; and suggest, in order to have an earlier delivery in Edinburgh, that the Mail shall start frorr Thurso, at ,3 in the morning, instead of 11 forenoon.— If this suggestion should he adopted, the consequences, to Aberdeen, would be highly injurious ; hut proceeding, as it does, upon a most contracted, if not erroneous, view of the mercantile ami commercial necessities of a large district, of the country, it cannot, we trust, be listened to by their Lordships. Nor can we allow ourselves to think, that they will sanction any scheme whereby the whole correspondence. ef- the North of Scotland with the Metro- polis of the Empire, and other maritime and manufac- turing cities of England. shall be detained for half a day in Edinburgh, merely because that city aspires to l> e placed upon the footing of London and Dublin, and to have only a morning delivery, ami an evening dispatch." Under this impression, we have the pleasure to state, that the subject has been taken up by the inhabitants of this city, who, at a numerous and highly respectable meeting, held in the Court House on Tuesday, and composed of the leading manufacturers, merchants, and ship- owners, of the place, resolved to present a Memorial and Petition to the Lords of the Treasury on the subject, stating the hardship, to which this and other places would be subject- ed by the adoption of the plan of the Chamber of Com- merce* ; and praying that their Lordships ( disregarding every consideration which does not conduce to the general good of the country) will adhere to the arrangements ori- ginally laid down. * By the scheme of the Chamber of Commerce, Aber- deen would lose about a day and a half in its correspon- dence with the Metropolis, and other English towns, viz. :— 20 § hours between the arrival and departure of the South Mail here, and 12 to 13 hours detention in Edin- burgh ; or in other words, a space of time sufficient to convey our letters to York. ( lie brig Jean, of Aberdeen, and oflcSoirftng a fire in tit* so'e of the cabin, whereby the vessel was in great risk < 5 being destroyed. They were sentenced to confinement in Bridewell for twelve calendar months ; duriug the til- t thirty days of that period, to solitary confinement, and rp, be fed on bread and water only ; and the remainder to be kept at hard labour. The Sitting Magistrate also adjudged Peter Lowdm, alias James Robertson, a Vagrant., to one mouth's con- finement and hard labour in Bridewell. . ^ NA VAL INTELLIGENCE. Donald M'Kenzie, Esq. ofNewhall. has presented the Rev. Donald Sage, Minister of the Gaelic Chapel of Ease, in this city, to the church and united parishes of Kirk- michael and Culicudden, vacant by the death of the late Rev. Robert Arthur. The Right Hon. the Earl of Fife has presented Mr. William Doff, Preacher of the Gospel, Banff, to the Church aud Living of Grange, Banffshire, vacant by the' death of the Rev. Franeis Forhes. On the 10th curt, the Senate of the University of Glas- gow conferred the degree of Doctor in Divinity on the Rev. GEORGE THOM, Minister of the Dutch Church at the Cape of Good Hope. WILT JAM CORBET, A. M. formerly Student of Medicine in this City, was admitted a Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, on Friday the 5ih inst. On Thursday se'ennight, in the New Court H » use, the Aberdeen Auxiliary Bible Society held its tenth Anniver- sary, on which occasion the Lord Provost, one of the Vice j Presidents of the Society, took the chair. The Report of the Proceedings of the Society during last year was read by the Rev. Dr. Ross ; and exhibited a very gratifying proof of the great exertions made by the Committee of Management to promote the important objects of the In- stitution ; and of the continued interest which the bene- volent work excites in the minds of almost every class of the community. In proposing and in seconding the various Resolutions passed on the occasion, the Meeting was successively addressed by several Reverend Gentle- men. and others, friends of the Association. We regret that want of room prevents us from doiii; We regret to state, that the brig Aurora, of this placcy late Capt. Wm. Stewart, was, when on her passage from Newcastle for New York, lat. 41. long. 66. W. struik by a tremendous sea, the effects of which were most disas- trous and melancholy. The vessel was fore reaching under the reefed courses, and close reefed m* iia- to, j sail, it blowing a violent gale from S. E. by E. to S. W. when at midnight of the Slst August, this fatal ami destructive sea broke on board on the star board beam, by which Capt. Stewart, Jos. Reid, mate, John Allan, car- penter, and William M'Combie. seaman, were washed overboard and drowned. The remaining part of the crew wert only saved by beingone inbed, and the othersaloft, as every thing upon deck was completely swept away ; the long boat, cook- house, and cambouse, the bulwarks, au l all the stancheons fore and aft. companion door, tiller of the rudder, fore- hatch, tafferail, & c. part of ihe deck tore up aUo. From the vast quantity of1 water wh'ch, i « consequence, immediately poured into the vessel, it vw found there were feet water at the weather pump, white cables, ropes, and cordage, in the steerage, were so warp- ed, that it was found necessary to throw them overboard, as well as part of her cargo of coals, & e. Providentially the weather soon moderated, so that the vessel was at la>$ freed by both pumps ; and next day, having fallen in with a fishing vessel, the remaining crew took on hoard two of the men as pilots, by whose assistance the vessel arrived at Edgewaretown the 8th nit. but would require a temporary repair, before being fit to proceed to her destination. Toe Ovsian, Murray, which was ashore near Dunbeath, as stated in our last, has been got off, and carried into » neighbouring creek, with considerable damage. The Resolution, M'Grego « vdriven ashore near Boulogne on the 2d inst. has been driven farther up by the late gales, so that the cargo must be landed before she can l) e got off. The Suspense, Beedie, arrived at Miramichi^ before the 8th ult. and on the 16th, the Aimwell, Morison, both vessels after a pleasant passage of about a month from Aberdeen. Sir William Wallace, Anderson, was nearly loaded to the hold beams. The Barbara. Smith, was far advanced in loading on the 17th ulr. at Quebec, and expected to sail thence about the 29th ult. reports the following Aberdeen vessels at that place : ship Anne, full in the lower hold ; Glen tanner, two rafts on board, vessel bound to Liverpool ; Hearts of Oak and Monarch begun to load ; and V- nus just ar- rived, alter an uncommonly fine passage of 27 days from. Aberdeen. The weather had been very unfavourable for loading ; a London ship had driven from her anchors on Cape Diamond, and was a wreck. The Alfred, Wallis, was clear for sea on the 9th ult^ at Archangel, and would sail next day ; as also, the Favourite, Craigie, for Perth. Isabella and Euphemia* Wood, had sailed two da'ys previous : Jane, Bathy; Jolly- Bachelor, J affray ; and Pearl, Barnet, were all nearly loaded, and it was expected would sail together. Harmony, ^ Murray, at Copenhagen, 28th ult. frora, Newcastle, On Tuesday last, the St. Andrew, Newton, arrived here from the Davis' Straits, with 17 fish, <^ 40 tuns of oil. Left the ice on the 10th ult. and experienced heavy- gales on the passage. On Wednesday, the bse itia, Clark, with 14 fish, 175 tuns ; and the Princess of Wales, Wood- ward, 7 fish, 120 tuns : and on Thursday, arrived in the B.- y, the Alexander, Webster, 13 fish, 125 to 150 tuns. The Alexander, we learn, brings no particular accounts of the fishery ; I tut was, in common with many others, ex- posed to the greatest danger from the tempestuous wea- ther they experienced. Ou Saturday, arrived at Peterhead, the Superior, Man- son, with 20 fish, 190 tuns ; on Sunday, the Hanni! al, Robinson,. 15 fish, 150 tuns; and on Monday, the' Traveller, Hutchinson, 18^ fish, 220 tuns— all from Davis' Straits. Mornirigfield, at Trieste, from Paraiba, 27th Sept. Eupbemia. Johnston, at Table Bay, Cape of Good Hope, 26th July, all well. ARRIVED AT ABERDEEN. October 15.— Ann, Stephen, Peterhead, goods; Dee, Moffat, Rotterdam, do ; Velocity, Stephen, Leith.—- H « Earl of Fife, Watson, Rotterdam, goods; Clyde Packet, Weir, Glasgow, do ; London Packet, Williams. Leitlv do; Mary, Gordon, Dysart, do; Frederick, Stephen, Riga, hemp and flax.— 15. Wellington, Middleton, Hull* goods ; Brilliant, Kannie, Leith.— J6. Janet, Stewart, Fraserburgh, grain ; Peggy, Lewis, Inverness, goods \ justice to the eloquence displayed by some of the speakers, and " the - .. ^ . ^ , , ... . ...... 0 r earnest and impressive manner in which they urged the Velocity, Stephen, Leith.— 17. Superior, Duncan, Lon- By the most recent accounts from Spain, we are sorry to find that the contagious fever is making the most alarming progress, although the Government, for what good reason does not appear, seem anxious to conceal the fact, and publish reports that conceal one- half the number of deaths. In every respect this policy is bad ; it is the interest of every country, which contagion appears, to have the fact extensiv ly known, that proper precautions may be adop both by nations and foreigners, to prevent fatal effects from negligence. And from every informa- tion that has yet reached its, we have reason to be- lieve, that vessels have been permitted to enter ports in Britain", which had been clearly ascertained to hava infection on board while on the coast of Spain. It has been said, that the approach of the cold sea- son with us will render the introduction of contagion of little consequence at present ; but the experience of former times ought to correct this ill founded opi- nion. In Scotland, contagious diseases have often proved most fatal during the colds of winter ; and, even the plague has often remained unchecked by cold, even in our northern latitudes. His Majesty", after some very dreary travelling, the axle- tree being sometimes immersed in mud, is said to have reached Hanover. The Germans have claims of the benighted Heathen upon the people of this highly favoured Christian land. Many interesting and affecting details were given, of the estimation ifi which the labours of the Bible Society are held bv- those whfc> have been the objects of its care, and of the thankfulness with which the Sacred Book is received by all who, by its means, have had it put into their hands. It was also most satisfactory to observe the increase of Associations in the country, in connection with the Aberdeen Society, as affording effectual means of enlarging its operations, and extending its usefulness. The business of the day concluded by a cordial . vote of thanks to the Lord Provost, for his very proper conduct in the chair. The Treasurer of the Aberdeen Marine Bible Association has received fiom Capt. Parker, of the Bon- Accord, Five Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Sixpence, collected On board said vessel in aid of the Funds of the Association. PITLCE OF PROVISIONS, & C. IN THE ABERDEEN MARKET, YESTERDAY. Quartern Loaf — — 11 d Oatmeal, p. peck, 11 d a 13d Bearmeal. — 9d a Od Potatoes, lOd. a Is. Od Malt, 2s Cd a Od Beef, p. ib. — 3d a 7d — 4d a 6d — 4d a 6d Mutton. Veal, - Pork, — — 3d a 6d Butter, — 13d a 16d Eggs, p. doz. — Gd a 8d Cheese, p. st. 7s Od a 8s Od Tallow, 8s Od a 9s Od Hav, —- — 7d a Od Raw Hide's, p. lb. 3d a 4ii Coals, p. boll, 4. i Od a Os don, goods.— 18. Captain. Gilbert, and Flower, Nicol, Ailoa, do; Lady Saltoun, Law, Fraserburgh, do ; Sophia Williamson, Wick, do. Five with coals, and 3 in ballas> SAILED. 4 October 12.— Velocity, Stephen, Leith,— 13. Triumph, Findlay, London, goods; Brilliant, Ran nie, Leith ; Wellington, Gilbertson, Huil, goods.— 14. Nimrod* Brown, London, goods ; Newcastle. Leslie, Newcastle, ditto ; Glasgow Packet, Campbell. Glasgow, ditto.— 15. Velocity. Stephen, Leith ; Two Sisters, Gray, Dysart, goods ; Liberty, Small, do. do; Cygnet, Cavendish, on a cruize.— 16. Juno, Blues, Dundee, ditto ; Brilliant, Rannie, Leith.— 17. Marquis of Huntly, Davidson, Leith, goods ; Lord Huntly, Pnilips, and Champion, Crane, London, do. y The exhibition of the Elephant continues to attract the greatest number of all ranks of people we have almost ever witnessed, on any similar occasion; nor can it seem strange that such should be the case, when every one who has be- held this- Wonder of Nature, return from the gratifying sight, impressed with such ideas of the almost miracu- lous powers of this ext raordinary animal, as to surpass des- cription. The unparalleled sagacity, striking docility, 8 and gentleness of ibis Phenomenon of J^ ure, displayed I in the countless variety of actions, which appear inci; edi- I b! e, as performed by any Creature not endued with reason, I cannot fail to strike with astonishment every beholder, | while his majestic appearance and mien inspire sentiments ] of awe and pleasure, such as those only who have- enjoyed them can fully eslimate.-— fee Advertisement • Upon the 10: h inst. Margaret Forbes, widow of the deceased Donald M'Kerzie. mariner, sometime residing in Inverness, was charged, at the instance of the Pro- curator Fiscal, before the Sitting Magistrate, \ vith having gone into a dwelliMg- house in town, asking for charity, and while the person in the house was serving her with meal, having stolen a shawl. Having admitted the charge, she was sentenced to three months confinement and hard TIDE TABLE CALCULATED FOR ABERDEEN B A It. ( APPARENT TIME.) Morning Tide. [ Evening Tide Oct. 20. Saturday, - - !) H- 18M. 21. Sunday, - 22. Monday, - 23. Tuesday, - 24 Wednesday, 25. Thursday, 26. Friday, MOON'S AGE. © New Moon, 26th Oct. at Oh. 42'. Morn. 10 — 14 j 10 10 —- 57 j 11 — IS 11 — 34 : 1 1 — 53 j 0 — S 0 — 24 0 — 4t 0 - 58 | 1 — 1? rosrsc n i n r. LONDON, Oct. 16. French Papers have been received to the 13th inst but they are altogether barren of intelligence of importance. We learn, indeed, that the inhabitants of the stfiall Prin- cipality of Saxe- Coburg are to be favoured with a Repre- sentative Constitution, which, if not precisely what migh- t be wished, is a step in the right direction. The news in respect to Russia and Turkey, presents nothing new, if we except a private letter of vague hearsays, in regard to further demands of the Porte upon Russia and. Austria for the delivering up of certain Greek fugitives. From the various accounts which still pervade those. Papers, it is quite clear that the Greeks make a much more effec- tive* stand than is generally admitted. Some great cruel- ties on the part of the Turks are again asserted, and we fear with some foundation. This affair is not so settled as it his fashionable to affect to believe. received him with every proper maikof respect and j labour in Bridewell, and banishment from the City and ! Extract of a letter from the Agent to Lloyd's, at Bre* honour— although in the Netherlands, tiie people I Liberties for five years. jmeM^ Hated 9th inst. According to accounts from seemed insensible of any obligations owing to him | ,.. Up? n1th^ who was lately | Hanover, his Majesty the King arrived at Herrenhmseti or his Ministers. However, his visit to Ireland j and his Hanoverian dominions taken together, he j will have the advantage of meeting Parliament as a f i liberated from Bridewell, was charged with stealing purse, containing money, from a countryman's pocket in the Poultry Market ; and having been found guilty, was I yes'erday evening, and intended to make his entrance in to Hanover on the 10th inst." A Lady called several times last week upon Alderman sentenced, by the. Sitting Magistrate, to confinement and I Wood, and not finding him at home, she requested man who has seen the world, and we trust it shall , wr<* in ^" dewell, for three months, and banish- also be apparent, that he has not seen it in vain. BIRTHS.— At Aberdeen, on Monday the 15th inst. the Lady of Major HENDERSON, Royal Engineers, of a Son. MARRIAGES.— At C>! d Aberdeen, on the 15th inst. Captain GEORGE THOMAS GORDON, of the Hon. E. I. Co.' s light cavalry, upon the Bombay establishment, to MARGARET CATHERINE, youngest daughter of the late Roderick Macleod. D D. Principal of King's College. At Windsor. Nova Scotia, JOHN M'KAV, of B^ rryhill, Sii herlancLhire, E,. q. Captain 27ih Regiment of Foot, to AMELIA ISABELLA, third daughter of the . ate 13? ojamin De Wolf, of that plate* merit for five years. Same day, David Paul, a young boy, was convicted of siealing em; ty bottles from a Cellar in Broad Street, and sentenced to confinement in Bridewell for six months. Upon the 13th inst. Peter Wattie, son of James Wattie, Backman in Park Lane of Aberdeen, was charged with stealing a telescope from the brig Angerona, of Aberdeen, and the said James Wattie, the father, for resetting said telescope, knowing the same to have been stolen ; and they having both pled guilty to these charges, were sen- tenced, by the Sitting Magistrate, to confinement and hard labour in Bridewell, for the periods following, viz.— The son to 3 months ; and the father to 6 months. And on the 16th, William Guldsworthy, and John Ferres, two boys, were convicted of stealing several articles, from Saturday last, to see one of his family. She said she wivhed to leave her " mite" towards the subscription for Sir Robert Wilson with Alderman Wood, and immedi- ately counted out .-£ 100, regretting she could not mal^ e it ^? 1000. Upon being pressed to give her name, she de- n letter B. There is a person living, we understand, in London* named ALEXANDER GORDON, whose case is rather curious. He baslateiy a tained hishundreth year, and is in a state, of second childhood, under the constant care of a medical u a i. He made his will we hear, some time back, ij\ which he has bequeathed to MATILDA ADAMS, his great; niece, his whole property, which must be enormous, bein<* the produce of 60001. pounds ay^ ar left accumulating at; cum^ uud iliteiec> L fwr eighty years,— JL. Quniiaef*