JTo. 809.] Printed for J. BOOTH, Jun. Chronicle Lane, « 5 SATURDAY., DECEMBER 27, 1823. [ PWCC W. 11 DEAFNESS, MR. ROD EN, O ( JURIST FROM GLASGOW,) EsPECTFULLY apprises the Nobility, Gentry, raid Inhabitants of Aberdeen, that in consequence of the many pressive invitations to visit the above city, and from many persons of the first respectability, he has acceded to their wishes ; and may be consulted on all the diseases of the ear, AT Mrs. JAMES ALLAH'S Lodgings— AS his visit cannot exceed a very short period, in consequence of his numerous engage- ments, consultation hours, each day, from 11 o'clock iu the morning till 3 afternoon, Sundays excepted. ( Various are the causes of Deafness— whatever tends to obstruct the free passage of sound to the Tympanum of the Ear. or to cause an unsound state of the membrane or parts con- nected with it, naturally excites Deafness)— Any comment on Mr, Rodens practices he considers most useless, having, for many years, made the diseases incident to the Ear his whole study. IIis treatment is most simple, free from pain, and Jteeds no confinement. 7n cases of a Dry Ear, he is peculiarly Successful in restoring a regular secretion of Wax, be, the case ever so obstinn'e— It i!) aj(.!) t" iaii - you © re rid, and enrmot b£ € ;; ed,'; ~ V- xatimie the following. Mr. 11. deems it necessary to Mate, ( which cannot be disproved) that it solely depends on the nature of ihe case, at any stage of life. It. is often said again, " you go, and if you are cured, I will come after," the fceccnd comment in Mr. R.' s address is sufficient to prove, the person so staying hack is oft- times sorry for such delay, indeed, v has been often told him so personally, and from various respectable quarters. Numerous original Vouchers and Testimonials, Mr. R. has received from persons afilicted. from one fo thirty years stand ing, as well as private references, which he has . pledged his honour not to publish, from various persons of both sexes, firm the age of seven years to sevent_ v- five, and which he has always ready for the inspection of individuals who may favour him with a call. References to the first of respectability in Aberdeen may ' !. » e had. Mr, R. will he happy to tee any Lady or Gentle- man, and hand them Cards of address — Mr. R.' s time is posi- tively limited, which it cannot exceed. " Dear Sir, Kdmavr$, Dec. 5, 1823. " As 1 am enjoying considerable benefit from the operation you performed on my ear, a month ago, I consider it a duty I owe you to acknowledge the same, and as it may encourage • others, in similar circumstances, to the use of means, I here- by state the following facts, which you have my permission to publish. 14 Upwards of fwo years ago, I was sore bruised by a fall from my horse, which also impaired my hearing, and though my body in part recovered, my hearing grew daily worse, and to that txtent, that for some mouths past, 1 was rendered thereby unfit lor entering into conversation ; it was also at- tended with a great buzzing in my head, which was very dis- agreeable. Such was my case the day before I applied unto you. I was then of opinion, that as tbe dullness had got such a long seat, and was daily on tbe increase, and besides being in the decline of life, aged 64 years, T bad no hope ever to hear better— when a friend handed me a Glasgow Paper, con- taining a note of your profession and certificates of its effects ; notwithstanding, I was hardly persuaded to apply, until 1 arrived in Glasgow, when I was further encouraged, and have the satisfaction to state, that since my application to you, X continue to hear tolerably well, my head is also relieved of that disagreeable noise, and is now perfectly easy. 44 I remain your's sincerely, " JAMES MILLER." " To Mr. RODEN. 52, Miller Street, Glasgow." ,, ? ' JAMES MILLER, Wright, Kilmaurs, by Kil- My address,^ mamick." " N. 13.—- A Cabinet, wherein obstructions of a most extraor- j dinary nature, extracted fiom the heads of various p. rspns, by Mr. II. appear in the front window of Mr. WYLLIE, Bookseller and Stationer, Union Street. 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Aberdeen § London Shipping Company's Office. ) Quay. Dec. 25. 1823. J TO LET, Entry at Whitsunday first, ^ T^ II AT large, elegant, and commodious FAMILY HOUSE in Long Acre, presently possessed by Mrs. Crai^ i.'. The accommodation is as follows, viz. On tho mnk Floor— a Kitchen, Wash- house, with Wine and Coal Cellar,. First Flo - r, an eWant Dining Room, Parlour, and Pantry. Second Floor, a Drawing Room, Three Bed Rooms, and Bed Closet. Attic Storv, four Coomceiled . Rooms, and a Store Room, with several Oifires attached ; and for a very small rent, tbe lise of a good Oarden behind. The Kent of the House will be moderate ; and may be seen two days in the wpi k, between twelve and two o'clock. For particulars application may be made to David Hutch, eon, Advocate, Martschal Street. TO LET, ENTRY IMMEDIATELY, IF REQUIRED, r| MH-: HOUSE, GARDEN, and OFFICES, at -*- FERRYIIILL, a* lately possessed by the deceased Mr. William Mortimer. 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Noim Publishing, A NEW AND COMPLETE HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE UNION OF THE TWO KINGDOMS, IN THE » EEIGN OF QUEEN ANNE ; BEING AN ENTIRELY NEW 1 ' R A SSL A T10 X, WITH NOTES, OF BUCHANAN'S HISTORY; Which comprises the period from the Origin of the Monarchy to the Regency of the Earl of Marr : WITH A CONTINUATION FROM THAT TIME TILL TUB LATEST PEBIOH OF SCOTTISH HISTORY ; Including a Concise Distort/ if the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN ESSAY ON- THE LIFE, AND POLITICAL AND HISTORICAL WRITINGS OF BUCHANAN. IN FOUR VOLUMES. \ BY JAMES AIKMAN, E< Q. The Woik will he comprised in about Twenty Parts. Two Shillings each— forming four handsome volumes octavo ; and will be illustrated and adorned by llie following En- gravings:— viz. a MAP of Scotland, and Portraits of George Buchanan, Mary Queen of Scots, and John Kno- x. IlalJ of the Work is already published, find may be had of THOMAS ATKINSON ; or JOIIN M'DONALO, Dee Street, Aberdeen. Printed and Published by and for Khull, Blackie. and Com- pany, Glasgow: and Archibald Fuliarton and Company, Edinburgh. ADDRESS. The fate of Scottish history has been peculiarly unfortunate; first, the destruction of our most ancient records by Edward the First; and next, the political seizure of the remainder made under the Protectorate of Cromwell, when almost all our au- thentic documents were carried to England ; and afterwards, upon the restoration of Charles the Second, shipwrecked, and lost on their return to their own country— have exposed the earlier period of our monarchy to the jest of the wit and the scepticism of the more judicious enquirer. Inconsequence, our original historians, w ho wrote befoie the last and most destruc- tive calamity that befel our literature, and who had access to documents which no longer exist, have been accused of credu- lity and a love of fable, which modern investigation of the colla- teral proof allbrded by cotemporary historians of other nations tends in a great measure to remove. It were vain to expect for Scotland what no otVer people on eauh ever possessed— a clear and succinct account of their transactions during the ages in which they progressed from bar- barism to civilization ; but it would indeed have been strange if no memorial had existed of that period, in the history of a people who have ever been famed for their military genius and spirit of enterprise. Buchanan, who had access to materials the loss of which we must now deplore, embodied in his history all the information which the state papers of his country timid afford. From his facilities as a Privy Counsellor, and as tutor to the King, and as the first literary character— the ft cite princeps of is age— he possessed advantages which no subsequent writer could hope to possess ; and his ste"' integrity and undoubted veracity as a man, demand our assent t j the truth of that which he vouches for as an historian. His history has not, however, yet appeared in a dress at all calculated to communicate to general readers, or to his countrymen, any idea of a work which excited the admiration of Europe upon its first appearance, and stiil is esteemed one of the finest monuments of modern litera- ture. 1 lie present translator dares not avow how much he has come short of his own ideas of excellence ; but he believes he may venture to affirm, that he presents to the public the best English version of this work ever yet laid before them. In tile Notes w hich he has added, the Scottish reader will probably not be less surprised than pleased to find numerous facts and circumstances collected, as cor roborative of some of the leading events in the reigns of some of the earliest of our tnonarchs, which prove, that, by foreign historians, who lived near their time, they were not deemed fabulous personages. It would ill becotncan author to speak of his own perform- ance. The public voice must stamp its character. But the writer of the Continuation of Buchanan maybe permitted to say, . that he is unacquainted with any history of Scotland, which, in his estimation, treats of the affairs of his country since the Reformation, in a style calculated to convey an accurate view of the spirit or manners of the people, or of tbe nature of the events, or tbe tremendous struggle and sufferings which Scots- men endured before they established the rights and liberties which their posterity enjoy ; but who are yet to leain the im- mense cost at which they v. ere purchased. lie thereto u has endeavoured to give an impartial and a succinct account of this most important period of Scottish history ; and while he cannot, and would not ifhe could, repress the indignation na- tural to an ingenuous mind, iu recording the wanton baibari- ty of unlicensed power, lie has, lie hopes, in attempting to rescue the petsoculed from obloquy, not forgutten that even tyrants have a right to justice. Orders taken by Mr. Titos. Atkinson, Aberdeen. SALE OF LONDON FASHIONABLE HATS, BEAVER BONNETS, FUR CAI'S, AL GLOVES. D ALEXANDER TOCHER, HAT- MAKER, RESPECTFULLY intimates, that lie has RE- MOVED to that SHOP, EAST SIDE of BROAH STREET, lately possessed by Mr. IIARDIE, where he has laid in a Stock ofthe above Articles, which, he tilists, from the superiority of their manufacture, and moderate Prices, will secure a continu- ance of that support, which he has been so liberally favoured with since his commencement in business. Aberdeen, Dec. 17, 1823. F A It M S O N TIIE /, O V A T EST A T E, TO BE LET, ' fHE Undermentioned FARMS in:', PnriiOiee of - a- of KILMOKACK « c « URflAV. aK5'" t « swty of In- verness, are to he Let from Whitsunday next, for " such a period as may be agreed on, viz. The LANDS of WESTER and MID AIGAS, with the HILL G R AZINGS thereto annexed. ARDNAGRASK ALTYRE and BALLOAN, as annexed by a late Survey AULTDEARG The INN of BEAULY, with the FARM thereto an- nexed, and the ORCHARD round the Priory BALBLAIR, & c. BALACHRASK BRIDGEND BROTH I, AVE CROFTS CARNOCH and ARTLIG AN, and the whole other Lands of the Half Davocli of Little Strny CRAIGSCORRY EASTER CROCHIEL WESTER aud MID CROCHIEL FARLEY GLENSI'RA THFARAR INCHRORY KILMORACK and BEAULY MILLS KILMORACK LINASS1E LETTOCII PLATCH. VIG RELIGS HHINURAID IUESAUR1E CROFTS TEAFRISH TOMICH TORGORMACI1 CROFTS; And URCHANY , In the PARISH ofh'IL TARLITY, the hands lo be Let are, ACHNACLOICH BRUIACH MILL aud CROFTS ARDBLAIR, FA NH LA IR, CULMASICIACH ACII AS TRUY and R1ELONE A RDINDRE AN ARDRENNICH and TOMNACROSS, & c. BALINTORE, BREARKY. and DUI. ARICII BOOL AI NY. CLUNNACKIE, 1NCHTANK, and ACHATULLOCH CONVINSH CRUIVE and KNOCKVAY LONVICKEM CROFTS CULBURNIE CROFTS KILT A RLITY, after being for several vears in Grass. L A R ACH TE VA R RA N. C RAG G AN VE A LL E MI DM A I V ... WESTER ESKADALE ** EASTERCLUNES WESTER CLUNES; And KINNCRAS. In the PARISH of KIRKIIILL, the Lands to Is Let are, CRAGGAN CROFTMORE DUMBALLOOH INCHBERRY EASTER and WESTER KIRKHILL KIRKHILLCROFTS MIL1FI ACH MARTELI. O CROFT of KIRKHILL; And MEIKLE PIIOINAS. In ihe UNITED PARISHES of BOLESKINE and ABERTARFF, the Lands to be Let are, ARDOCHY BUNCH EGO VIE DALCATTAIG, & c. DRUMMOND GLENDOBEG DALCRAGG, & e. GAIITHMORE GARTH BEG KILLYCHOILUM KNOCKCHOILUM NORTH M1GAIRE RUTHVEN M1LN, CROFT, & c. of DALCUAGG SONACHAN and CULNAI. LAN The KILLIN, or KNOCKY SHEAL The ERCHITE SHEAL; And the Half of COR RYSULAG ACH. In the PARISH of GLENEL G, are lo be Let the Lands of KIN LOCH MO HA 11 BOUliBLOCK and GLASNACARDOCH ; And P1N1SKAIG. These Lands lie in the Districts of the Aird, Strathglass, Stratheriick, and Morar ; and those in the three first Districts are so intersected by the Parliamentary Roads, as to be acces- sible io every direction for the Shipment of produce at Beauly, or the Inverfarigag Pier on Lochness, and the return of such articles as the Tenant may require lor the use of his farm. For the accommodation of offerers, the Proprietor is dispos- ed to unite or subdivide tbe Farms as may be required ; and as the Lands of Aigas, the Half Davoch of Little Struv, Ard- blair, and the other Lands therewith connected, Boblainy and the adjoining Lands, are admirably calculated for Grazing Farms, such arrangement have been made as to leave it in his power to receive oilers for them as such, without obliging him to part with any one of his people. A good Innkeeper at Beauly is much wanted ; and as the situation, in the midst of a populous country, the richness of the Farm attached to the Inn, and the numerous Fairs held annually iu tbe neighbourhood, have their attractions for an industrious and attentive landlord, so every possible encourage- ment will be given to such an otferer. ' The Grazings of Glenstrathfarar, which consist of many thousand Acres of very fine Pasture and Meadow Hay, as well as of a considerable quantity of Arable soil, are pretty general- ly known, and deserve tile notice of the Shepherd and the Grazier. ' The Lands of I. inassie are admirably adapted for a limited Stock of Sheep, being well wooded and sheltered, opposite a mid- day sun. The Lands of To: r, ich and Lettoch would make an excel- lent Arable Farm, lying along the North Bank ot the Beauly Frith, which is sufficiently deep to admit Vessels to load aud unload upon the beach. Tlie Land, ol'Ki. ineras, added to the Cruive and Knockvuy, would make a good Grazing or a Wintering. The Lands of Easter and Wester Dumballoch have been for some time in the hands of the Proprietor, and no expence has been spared in improving the same, and repairing the Dwelling House and Office Houses. A large proportion of the new improvements upon Blarnacuilich will be added to the Farm ; so that in point of extent, accommodation, and situa- tion, few similar farms are lo be ibund in the Aird, and few belter calculated for the comfort and accommodation of a re- spectable family. The Lands in the parishes of Kiltarlity and Kirkhill will be shewn by Alex. Eraser, Giound Officer at Kirkhill. Those in Kilmbrach a. id Urray, tiy James Maclean, Giound Officer in Beauly. t hose in Stratheriick by James Fiaser, Ground Officer at Killvchuilutn. And those in North Morar will be shewn by Mr. John Fraser, Postmaster at Arisaig. Oilers will be received, and further information given, by John Ewing. Advocate in Aberdeen ; Messrs. Sheppeid and Anderson, Solicitors in luv. Yues ; or Mr. John leaser, at Cruyard, near Beauly. It emus, Nuc - 0, 1823. Just Published, BY G. CLARK, ABERDEEN, ANEW and handsome EDITION of BURNS' WORKS, in two neat Pocket Volumes, price only 9s. being one fourth of the price of the former editions. G. C. lias lately get to hand many popular New Woiks, and New Editions of STANDARD BOOKS— among which are the following :—• SHAKESPEARE'S WORKS, complete in one pocket vol. PILGRIMS PROGRESS, with Plates, 12 yards Ion on a Roller. The various ALMANACKS, for 1S24. SCOTT'S BIBLE. 6th edition. HENRY ami BROWN'S BIBLES, & c.& c. HORN'S INTRODUCTION to the SCRIPTURES, 4th edition. DR. CHALMERS', St. John's Church, SERMONS, just published, and his other Works. BLAIR'S SERMONS complete in 1 vol. TARKIIUilSTS HEBREW an GREEK LEXI- CONS. STOCKII CLAVIS, do. do. JONES' GREEK aud ENGLISH LEXICON. 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This invention combines the advantages of producing, at the SAME INSTANT, With EASE, EXPEDITION, AND SECRECY, SEVERAL infallible FAC- SUVJILES of WRITINGS or DRAW- INGS, by a SINGLE PEN, requiring no repairs or feed- inn; and with INK which is PERMANENT and UN- CHANGEABLE in all climates, and in a form peculiarly PORTABLE, and not liable to blot. Circulars, containing a more full account of the utility and mannerof using this Ma- chine, may be had wiih G. C. who is appointed Ageut for the North of Scotland. FOR THE ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. ON THE DEATH OF MISS I. W****. Even thou must yield to mortal's doom, Oh ! could not youth in beauty's bloom Preserve thee from the dreary tomb ? My dear departed Isobell, Unfeeling tyrant ! canst thou spare The weeds, and pluck the blossoms fai » V IIow cruel from my breast to tear, My dear departed Isobell. J fondly hop'd life's troubl'd sea In happiness to pass with thee, But thou hast left- its storms to me, My deaf departed Isobell. How - short the time that we ha^ e pass'd, ' Twas vain to think such bliss could last, Each prospect now is overcast, My dear departed Isobell. Oh ! must that lovely form be laid Into the earth's corrupting bed, And will the careless o'er thee tread ? My dear departed Isobell. Does grief bedim the captive's eye Restor'd again to liberty ? Ah ! no, ' tis those he leaves that sigh, My dear departed Isobell. Thou secst not thy lover's pain, Ev'n pity's tear no more can stain • Thy cheek, and I must mourn in vain, My dear departed Isobell. My life will be a night of woe, No ease my wounded heart will know, Till plac'd, where tears forget to flow, With thee my dearest IsobeU. December 5, 1823. TRINITY CHAPEL. To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, SINCE I wrote you last, a most luminous epistle has appeared in your paper in favour of Parochial Churches, which seems < o t-' xh' 11181 all that can be said to recommend the conver- sion of our Chapels of Ease into distinct and separate parish Churches. But after the most mature consideration of the sub- ject, 1 see no new advantage that can arise out of the change lo the congregations, but the tlnee personal privileges to their Ministers, viz. a seat in the ecclesiastical court, an increased stipend, and a title to, the general widow's fund A great deal however has been said about the superior in- fluence such a change would produce on the interests of reli- gion, and how much it must encourage and strengthen the hands of a minister, and even incline him to assiduity in the exercise of his duty. But this idea does not appear to have its foun- dation in a right scriptural apprehension of the principles and motives that must, and ever ought, to influence a Christian Mi- nister. Were I to ask the present incumbent of the Trinity Chapel, ifhe endeavours as much as he possibly can, accord- ing to his ability, to discharge the sacred functions or duties of his office, in converting perishing sinners, and thereby in the most effectual manner to promote the glory of God and the everlasting good of souls, which is the sole and only end of the Christian ministry, I am persuaded he would answer in the affirmative; and I would have no hesitation in giving him credit for so saying. Now, what can he do more than this wer: he a parish Minister ? It is quite useless,^ and even hurtful to the cause, to mix up this parochial question with religion, far- ther than it is evidently concerned. How many instances are there of the intemperate zeal of partizans defeating their own purpose, by the very means which they e- nploy to defend it? When an object is in view that lias nothing of vital importance to support it, the deficiency must be made up by a train of in- coherent r: nd sophistical reasoning, and many things are then advanced that have not even the merit of being specious.— Truth is simple in itself, and needs no foreign or adventitious auxiliaries to support it— it is always seen to best advantage in its own unvarnished dress. The analogy between church and borough representation is rather an unhappy idea, wlien meant to express the latter's ge- nuine ifleets as presently constituted. With some few excep- tions, where is the voice of represented constituents ever list- ened to or heard ? A no although the wisdom of our forefathers ( as was shrewdly remarked by your correspondent) planned the scheme of popular repre entation, by vesting the election of Parliamentary delegates in the hands of the Burgesses, and of christian ministers in those of the people, yet time and the progress of corruption hath wrested from them, in most ins- tances, this invaluable right; and it is well known that their re- presentatives, in both departments, with some few exceptions, do now just what they please, independent of the will or wishes of their constituents, and thus render popu'ar representation, in effect, a mere non- entity. As to the cas* in hand, what loss or even inconvenieney do Chapels of Ease sustain by not having their Ministers members of Presbytery, of Synod, or occasion- ally, perhaps, once or twite in their life-'. im.', delegates to the General As> embly ? Are not all their affairs in their present situation, when they need the ir. teivem'oii of the- courts, as WELL conducted as they could otherwise be ? But this being granted, it maybe replied, that it. is no sufficient reason why j stub ministers' should not possess the same clerical dignity.— j True : and there can be none, were not-'. he meaiure attended with a sacrifice and risk ib.- ti fur overbalance such an honorary [ advantage. In the luminous epistle above alluded to, therf is a strange confusipn of ideas, a consequence of the au'hor's wandering from aud not keeping close to the subject in dispute, and se- veral insinuations of his own, not warranted by the letter to which he refers. His silly sarcasm about Dram Drinking Sally, & c. is beneath contempt, . and shews him, at least for the time, not under the genuine influence of religion. This, and several other strange anomalies or aberrations of thought, is a poor way of defending a desperate cause. I shall pass by that laboured attempt of this learned man, to prove a thing that does not exist, at least iu this quarter, namely, that Ministers of Chapels of Ease have no right to mnke humane and religious visits to tb:> wretobjed poor, be- cause it is contrary to matter of positive foci practically exhi- bited every day, as the indigent can bear witness ; and none ever yet, at lea.^ t in our day, and I may add ever will call their authoirty in qne tion. Leaving these things as unworthy of farther notice, I shall just touch prt a point that more imme- diately concerns the Congregation of the Trinity Chapel. I hav<£ heard it strongly . urged as a: i argument in favour of the proposed alteration, touching the elecu- m of a in: tin-, that thv'pcople still retain in sipb^ ance or effect the free and un- controlled . appointment to lite sacred o'lice, by * case b- ini* instanced of two candidates having the general sullrage of tin*' congregation, with a very trifling disparity of votes, so much so that it might be considered as indifferent, wiih regard to tho general voice* which of them succeeded. On the same ground of assumption, I have aright, by parity of reasoning, to Suppose another case just as likely to occur, from religious predilection to a particular individual, namely, that of two candidates Cam chosen, one may havu 150 votes, and the other .50 ; now, these two go to the superior patrons for their filial decision, and the choice falls upon him who, has the inferior number, to the dis- satisfaction of nearly four- fii'ihs of the congregation. I do not say that the present patrons, who perhaps may religiously res- pect the general Wish of the peopie, would thus decide, but they are not to live forever, and others may take their place under the present Burgh system, or even with it amended—*. very different!) mended, as experience sufficiently proves, where partial or friendly attachments prevail ; and where then is the freedom of the people's choice, with all their religious predi- lection to the mau whom thi- y prefer and love ? It is in vain to talk, on such an, emergency, about both candidates being equally qualified by the licence of the church ; their particular gifts and talents for the Ministry is the consideration thai de- cides with the truly religious— and those who are not so, care nothing at all about the matter. Now, on taking leave of the subject and your last week's correspondent, that enlightened, though somewhat conceited advocate for church forms and ecclesiastical pageantry, without one vital spark of the thing signified in his whole composition ; I say, leaving this deep learned Doctor of Church Laws, to whom has beet, intrusted this noble parochial defence, to amuse himself, and others of the same description, with all the useless lumber, the groundless bugbear- like i'ears, and extreme degrees of ancient gothic spiritual and temporal tyranny, which can now intimidate no one possessing two graitis of intellect— this splenetic Presbyterian, whether Church- Whig, or Tory, ( ac- cording to his own idiom) no one knows and can hardly guess ; I say, I will no more reply to such a farrago, although ic should issue from the press- but finally, and once for all, ad- vise the Members of Trinity Chapel to preserve th- Jr present privileges inviolate. They can never repent tbis : but they or their successors may have cause to regret the irretrievable lbs » , if they now dispense with them. lain, Sir, yours, & c. AN ORIGINAL SUBSCRIBER. Aberdeen, Dec. 24, 1823. P. S.— It is to be noticed, that this author, when adverting to the prominent ministerial advantages 1 mentioned to be de- rived from the measure, has designedly omitted the increased stipendiary consideration. If I was wrong in this, he ought to have corrected me : but X am not wrong, for I know it is in Con- templation, and forms the basis of this novel scheme. It is but notorious?, that worldfy interest is with mav> y, even in Uoty orders, the one thing needful. Hie Apostolic level, nay ninety- degrees above it in this respect, will not do for modern times. However, it is a certain scriptural fact, that all those who have no higher motive, or shew themselves principally concerned about it, ar § but hirelings— and such is their reward. To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, IN last week's paper, I glanced over a short essay by a" Pres- byterian, on the grand subject of converting Chapels of Ease into established or parish kirks. In said essay there is a goc- d deal of truth, but I am sbrry to say such truth as makes iiney little for Chapel of Ease clergy. It declares these clergy have no legal power tn perform the clerical duties. Those duties are only tolerated by the parish priest. Now, all this is true, yet all this is to the sin and shame both of the Chapel of Ease and parish clergy. For the parish clergy, when they ordain a Chapel of Ease man, declare to the people that this man is to do among them all the duties of a minister of Chris', and they declare that it is the duty of the Chapel of Ease man to do all those duties, and be, poor honest man, publicly undertakes lo do them all. I happened to witness the ordination of Mr. KIRKI. AND, of Mr. MURRAY, and of Mr. SIM; also, last of all, the ordination of Mr. LVON. At all these I heard the offi- ciating clergyman binding these men to all the duties of a clergyman— preaching, visiting, catechising, & c. And the. Chapel of Ease man made no objection— gave no intimation' that he could not legally perform these. But if he could not legally perform these, why did he and the parish clergyman make the people believe he was bound to perform them all '{ The Presbyterian tells us the Chapel of Ease man cannot le- gally visit even the sick, or admit communicants. Nothing is legal but his public labours, i. e. his preaching on the Sabbath- day. But, I can tell him, his preaching on the Sabbath- day is equally as illegal as his visiting, & c. Yet after all does the Chapel of Ease man actually and faithfully perform all tin; duties he is allowed to perform ? I think it is full time for him to complain of restraint when the parish priest actually restrains him. Another word to the Presbyterian, and I have done. By what law are the duties performed by him illegal ? Is it by the law of the land, or the law of the New Testament? I know no such laws in the New Testament, and the laws there are surely the only laws binding on a minister of Christ. Those who account themselves authorised to perform duty in the kingdom of Christ, only by the laws of man, must just stand to the consequence. I hope the Presbyterian's essay will receive a much better answer from the gentleman he opposes. A MEDDLER. P. S. — I have heard some of you Chapel of Ease hearers complaining that your Minister does not vi, it or examine you, and even that he sometimes refuses to visit the sick, though you send for him. But, () foolish men, di'dyoU not know that your Minister has no leg 1 right to do these things, aud that be can stay among you, and cause you to pay him eveiy far- thing of his stipend, if be but keep your Chapel door open every, or nearly every, Sibbalh- d'ay [ ! To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR, I am happy to learn, that there is som? probability of getting a Gass Company set on foot iu our guid town — indeed, it is now pretty generally talked of, and hy some even confidently, and by all as a . thing likely'to succeed but I am dissappointed that tiiere appears no one taking an ac. ive h ; ud in the business*: shall it be said, now that the rlriog has- been agitated, that no one has spirit enough to call a pub ic meeting, to know the sense of the inhabitants upon subject so much tending to pub- lic improvement? Surely some one will contribute thus far to public good ; and there are, I am convinced, many ready, under wise; management, to give the necessary support. In Kirkcaldy, I aee a meeting has been called, and. spirited resolu- tions immediately entered into, and there, on account no doubfc of the shipping interest, they have at once resolved to make their gas from oil, which, I am of opinion, might well h « adopted h- re, notwithstanding the additional expence. In Dundee, 1 am informed, the necessary preparations are fast making. You. Mr. Editor, are frequently called upon in cases of necessity, and as such, I now entreat of you to intercede wirh some of your friends, to call a ' public meeting upon this subject ; and the confidence I have in your wiliingnes* to do any thing for the public wee!, will, I hope, apologize tor- the liberty 1 take in - soliciting a corner uf your valuable paper for tais hint, with which, 1 am, S « r, vours, Stc. AIM WELL* Union St reft, Dec 19, 1* 23. ^ Domestic Articles, Stc. formerly omitted^ The Treasurer of ihe , Shipwrecked Seamen's Fund has re- /- t iv » : i the following donations for behoof of that Institution, viz. :— From Mrs. CrnicV- b. ink, - £ 2 2 0 I'rom a Lady at Mackie Place, - 10 0 From a Lady, by the hands of Mr. John Lnmsden, - - - - 10 0 The Treasurer of the Sick Man's Friend has received the follnwinsr stuns, since he last noticed tbe liberality of tbe friends of this Institution : — A I. ad v, a regular supporter of it, =£ 10 0 A Gentleman, a friend. - - 10 0 I) o. per A I. Smith, Esq. Advocate, 1 0 0 A I. adv. the Wages fotfeited by a female servant. - - - ' - - 1 0 0 The fo'lowing sums have been received, as the amount of Collections made in the several Churches and Chapels of Ease, after deducting the Ordinary Collections, on Sabbath 7th curt, iu aid of the Funds of The Aberdeen General Institution for the F. hicntinn of the Deaf and Dumb : Wist Church, £ 22 0 6 East do. 14 0 0 Collftre do. - - 11 0 0 Trinitv Clmwl, 10 0 0 Chape! nf Ivsse. B<- linmrt Street, 11 2 M Union Cttfipel, Shiprow, 5 2 Gaelic- Ch ipf. 1. 1 2 0 Fuotdw Church, 4 4 0— 11 AddititAfii Collections from Country 1 Parishes : 10 Councillors. Parish of Towie, - • / 3 I) 0 Unfiles, - - 5 5 0 Tarland. - - 2 10 10— £ 10 15 At Tuvormy Market on Tuesday, there was a greater shew of ratile than ever appeired at this season of the year, most of w hich were sold at an advance of above 10 per cent, since last ' market. A pcyaPlMnv sheep were also sold r but few Horses apne - red. Gr iin. " little in dem- nd, and no rise in price. Six boats belonging to his Majesty's coast guard, arrived at Inverness, under the command of Lieutenant Roberts. Bayly, II. N. on the 2d inst. for the north east co as! of Scotland. Ala meeting of Ihe Royal Caledonian Hunt, held at F. din- Inrghon Tues lav, present the Marquis of Hunlly, Marquis ,. 1' Tweeddale. jv-' rl of Lauderdale, Earl of Eltfin. Earl of I ., ven and Melville, Lord Belhaven, Lord Maitland, Lord E! cho, Hon. John Stewart, lion. Capt. A. Maitland. Hon. Admiral Fleming, &<-. &<-. they admitted Lord Ruttiven aud Lotd Kaitoun memliers, who were introduced to the Hunt. They then elected for the ensuing year— f Sir ALEX. DOS, Preses. The lion. Admiral Fleming, Treasurer, ' i'he Earl of Level l. ord Rutbven, Lord Salmon, ^ And fixed their Autumn Meeting next year to he held at Tvetso, on the second week of October ; and opon that occa- sion five hundred and fifteen pounds voted to be given iu plates by the Hunt. There was a stirerior show of cattle at Forfar market on Wednesday, and the demand was brisk. Prices fully equal to those obtained iu the late markets. On the night of Sunday the 50th ult. a landing- of contra- hand goods was < H'ected from a large lugger in Lunsn bay. although the wea'her was such that a boat could not have been expected to land. The following day, an active search was made by the officers ofthe coast guard ; who, with the assist- ance of some <-. f the officers of customs and excise, succeeded in securing a I oat, with about 50 tubs of gin and brandy, which were found in the neighbouring fields, and lodged In the cus- tomhouse warehouse. Montrose. The boat is ascertained to have swamped in making ihe land, by which it is supposed a considerable quantity c f the goods had been carried out tosea. Extracts of Letters from a Gentleman in Jamaica to his Friend in Aberdeen. JAMAI'A, Sept. 7, 1823. " Regarding the emancipation of the Negroes, there was a report going abroad everywhere, that it was an event which was immediately to lake plaoe. Such, it now appears, is not the case; not bul that ii is intended it shall take place, but it recommended to us to bring it about in the best manner we can. in the course of a few years ; but still it must be brought about, and there is no doubt but it will be brought about, as the negroes themselves will take the business into their own hands, the first convenient opportunity, yet I ardently trust it will not be in my day. And in the meantime, all kinds of property have sunk in value, so much so. that it is next to imp svio'e to reaiize any thing by selling. I would fain hope, the impending storm is yet very distant, but by what I hear from sensible people, the intentions of the party favouring the emancipation cannot be long unknown to the negroes, neither can it he vvoi dcred at if they weary waiting, and rise up in rebellion. By the hve, can you tell me, why that party in th? stale at home, known here b) the name of ' the Saints? do not turn the oveitl . wings of their humanity, and make it rim in a stream through poor unhappy Ireland, and among the desolate and oppressed of their native land? The poorest Iiiorro slave in the island, lives like a Prince in comparison to the poor abandoned lri, h, nnd it cannot be altogether from motives of humanity, that the ' Saints' raise such a clamour iigain'st us ; and if I did not think that you must he better ac- rjuainted with the subject, from abler pens than mine, I would corvinceyou that il is only ihe name of slavery, aud not the spirit of it. that is known in this land, the negroes being so well guarded hv the laws, that they can suffer very little or in- deed no hardship, that is, in comparison with labouring people in your country." October 11-—" We stilt continue to be in a state of great alarm, aud the insurrection in Demerara, of which we got He- roines by the Packet, has rather increased our disquietude. Everything hitherto has been perfectly quiet, but last week tome emissaries from St. Domingo were taken tip, who bad been doing what they could to excite the Maroons, or flee negroes, to rise, hut iliev have been put in confinement.— Surely ihe people ofthe W CE parly The spies sent out lure have, without exception, been people of ihe lowest and most profligate habits, who have been proved to have been well paid for the lies they repeated . t home— The laws are so strong in favour ofthe slaves, that they can- not be ill used. Y< u arc not to he told, that there are worth- less characters in every country ; and if such a one ill uses his slave, it is laid hol^ of by these worthies in the pay of our ad- versaries. and the odium is thrown on the w bole community. Every thing is fixed by law for their hours of labour, and the days for themselves, the'quantity of clothing and salt pro- visions. Punishment in particular, cannot be inflicted, but according to law. It appears from the peculiar constitution of the negro, that he will not woik without being obliged to do it ; nod when he becomes free, he scorns to labour for hire. There is not one instance among tbe Maroons and free neg- roes of their hiring themselves for labourers. I repeat it, that vou may take notice of it, that there is not one instance of a free negro hiring himself out to work, so that it the threaten- ed emancipation take place, we not only lose our all, but what comes of the six millions of revenue to Government. 1 think when this is taken into consideration, that they will endeavour to defer it as long as possible— but in the meantime, the dan- ger is from the negroes taking the business into their own hands ; and it is impossible lo prevent their bearing what is in notation— so that at present, we may be said to live on the surface of a volcano, and do not know how soon it may burst. Can this country then, l> « blamed, if they put themselves under the protection trV America ? This event is openly talked of. The black population is so immense in comparison to the whites, an application has been made for troops to be sei. t out to help us, but even that has been refused, and only part of one regiment, stationed at Falmouth, is in the whole island. Every person I see seems determined to defend their lives and properties to the last, and I trust Providence will « atch over us." MISCELLA MEOUS. LITERATURE. THE SPAEWIFE : A Tale of the Scottish Chronicles. By the Author of-' Annals of the Parish." " Ringan Gilhaize," & c. in three volumes. Edinburgh : Published by Oliver and Boyd. Tweeddale Court; and G and W. B. Whittaker, A ve- Maria- Lane. London. — 1023. This is beyond all comparison the best of Mr. Gait's Novels though we are not sure that it will be found the most interesting. The latter however is a question which affects— not the author, but his subject— which is neces- sarily of a nature that demands a very complex machinery. Our limits, which oblige us to confine ourselves to a span, as it were, in our remarks upon such subjects, preclude the possibility of giving even a sketch of the plot. Suffice it to sav that the kev- stone of the struc- tme is the historv of the time of James I. The release of that Prince from captivity, his rigid justice and right onward perseverance in redressing and reforming the abuses that preceded his accession, and the astounding catastrophe that closed his too austerely noble rrion— are the main facts round which the numerous incidents ofthe drama respectively revolve with an order and a ne- Spite gularity that admit not for a moment of the slightest obscurity or confusion. If we were asked to point out the features in which this production differs from the other productions of this author, we should sav that it is a painting which has more of depth and breadth in it— that it is less a thing of lines— better filled tip— gives you more of the subs- tance. Not that the other productions of Mr. Gait are altogether things so light as the contrast would seem to imply— but speaking comparatively. ' I'he character from which the author derives the title of his work is admirably well conceived, and in various parts touched with great feeling and effect. Whenever the " Spaewife" appears vou are all erect with interest, and listen to her oracles, as if they bore the stamp of fate upon them. Nor is it with the single feeling of awe that you contemplate her in her mysterious annun- ciations. You commisserate her wretchedness as the most capricious work of wayward mift# e. There is something very affecting in the following passages — " It's kindly thought and softly said," replied Anniple ; " but who should care for me ? When the fairies made me up o* a ben weed, and laid me among tlie tow for the weaver's wife's bonny lassie bairn, I was a thing made to suffer aversion— Therefore it is that all Christian creatures hate me— that folks flee ftae the sight o' me— that wives draw in their weans and shut their doors when I gang by— that 1 maun eat beans t'rae the shawp, and corn frae the stalk— that the wicked rain pur- sues ine, and the cruel hail pelts me— that the cold wind Iritis tne, and ihe fire- flaughts flash on me. There was a wee white Iambic playing beside its mother, on a bonny green knowe. It was an innocent thing and I thought it looked kindly at me. wjiich never man nor womankind had done ; but when I gaed to tvarm it in my arms, it too was frightened, and ran bleating away. All living creatures see and ken, that I'm a thing the holy Heavens bad no hand io tbe making o'. I wish that the weaver's wife's weans were dead in the fairy. land, that I imght lie on the loan what I am— a weed to be trampled on." ' fhe character of the King is very finely drawn.— of his rigid justice, which cannot listen to the voice of kindred, but pours out his own blood a sacrifice to the outraged and violated laws, as freely as it were the contents ofthe meanest veins in his realm, you look on him with veneration and love ; for he acts and moves with a sweetness of benignity, and a brightness ol heroic self devotion about him, that endear hun to tiie gentlest and the noblest feelings of the heart. The following sentiment is truly royal :— " It has ever been accounted at best a great weakness in any man to live in the dread of death. In a king it were dishonour. From the first hour of my restoration, I have ever deemed my self a glittering mark placed on high, and exposed alike to the secret shafts of malice and the arrows of open war. 1 shall not, therefore, swerve from my purpose, merely because iu the exe cution I may be demanded to render payment of that debt which sooner or later I must pay. The true man thinks not of dying, but only of living ! o good effect; as for myself, I hold death but as a task before which every other, whether of busi- ness, affection, or of honour, should be first attempted : and I do persuade myself that he will die best who lives not in the re- verence of so common a custom of our nature as death. There- fore, sweetest love, I beseech you not to speak to me of dan- gers to a doublet, for so I would call the body, the which is of so perishable a lexiure, that this breast- plate uf brass will out- last it a thousand years." The character ofthe Queen is a worthy companion to this ; but that of the Duchess of Albany most as- suredly takes precedence. It is full of dignity and bland- ness and nature. Nothing can be finer than her recep- tion of the news of her father, husband, and children's execution, and her attempt to warn the Queen of the Ki fig s danger from the ambitious, views of Athol. 1 he former we shall give to our readers :—— " All day she was. by fits, touched as it were with frenzy ; still, in the midst of those tearful pangs, the fortitude of her spirit never departed ; and when the tear was shed and the shock over, sbe'appeared as august and serene, as if neither the alarms of a daughter, a wife, nor a mother, had any dominion within her bosbm. And she sat at the window of her chamber in the western tower, and beheld the sun set and the evening close, and the stars lighted up, and the moon arise, calmly awaiting the consummation of her fate. But still no messen- ger came; and stil! the hope that wrestled with her, and would fly away, she continued to detain with a fond and en dear in struggle. At last, soon after midnight, the sound of a bugle- horn was heard at the gate. It made her start from her seat, with the intent of rushing to the warder's tower, to hear who at that time sought admission ; but, ere she had half way passed across the floor, she checked her precipitation, and, retumin sedately to her seat, desired her gentlewoman to order candles to be brought in; for, till that occurrence, she hail all the even- ing remained without any other light than the moonbeams through the casement. " Scarcely had the menial in attendance placed the lights on the table, when ihe captain ofthe castle entered, and said that a herald had arrived fiom Stirling, and demanded admission. The captain, though an austere old sworder, faultered as h delivered the message, and avoided her eyes— " ' Give him admittance ; I have longed for his coming,' exclaimed the Duchess, rising hastily. ' Let him come in let him come in— whatever his tidings or his office may be.' " The captain turned quickly round, and hastened out of the room. Her gentlewoman, who had observed his emotion, retired to a corner, and sat down ; but the Duchets continued standing. " After a brief interval, the captain returned with the herald, who trembled exceedingly as lie approached towards her with a letter in his hand. She saw the paper, and snatched i eagerly from him ; but instanter the fortitude of her spirit re covered its firmness, and without breaking the seal, she walk- ed deliberately to the candle. " The herald, who had knelt down to present the letter at ihe moment when she took it from him, continued on the ft or, and seemed wrapt with amazement when he beheld her open it, and peruse it without trepidation. " ' It is ail over now,' said the Duchess, when she had read the fatal intelligence ; ' they have all suffered the sentence of the law/ A slight flutter moved her kerchief as she said these words ; but she laid the letter on the table, and turning to tbe herald, who had risen from his kneeling, she added, with a struggling voice, • If they deserved to die, their doom was just. Sir, have you any other business here ?' " The herald was unable to make any reply, but bowed, as one before the hallowed shrine of some glorious martyr, and retired, followed by the captain, who seemed in haste to quit the room ; but, before leaving it, he turned round, and for a moment looked at Her Grace with scarcely less than religious reverence, and then hurried away. " The Duchess, till they were gone, moved not from the spot where she was standing near the table ; but when the door was shut, and none present but her gentlewoman, she raised her hands distractedly, and with the wildest note of de- solate misery cried—' God help me !' and rushed into an inner room." In our next, we shall make some farthCfr extracts from this interesting publication. SOUTH AMERICA. Our last number contained an account of Pern ; to th south of which we have the extensive country of Chili, which is 1260 miles long and 300 miles broad. It is separated from Peru by the desert and province of Atacama ; on the east it is bounded by the two provinces of Tucuman and Cuyo, belon ing to Buenos Ayres; to the south it has the deserts of Pa- tagonia; and on the west it has the Pacific. It is thus a nar- row strip of land, running along the ocean, hemmed in at the back by the mountain wall of Ihe Andes, which run near ly parallel to the shore, at the distance of from 200 to 300 miles. The Chilian Andes consist of three parallel ridges, the centre being the most elevated, and being flanked by the others at the distance of 20 or 30 miles, with which it iscon- nected by tran versal branches. The three ridges are ahou 120 mil, sin breadth, and consist of an uninterrupted chain of heights, constantly losing themselves in the snowy regions of the air. They inclose fruitful vaillies, and freightful pre- cipices. down which the rivers being frequently precipitated, present the most beautiful as well as the most terrific features in nature. The roads leading across'the Andes from Chili to Tucuman and Cuyo are eight, of which that leading from Aconcagua to Cu yo is the best. It is bordered on one side by the d^ ep beds of the Chile and the Mendoza rivers ; on the other by lofty ar. d impracticable precipices; and is so narrow that in many places the rider is obliged to descend from his mule and procecd on foot; nor does a year ever pass without some of those animals being precipitated into the thundering streams below. It requires eight days to pass this road in favourable weather; but in winter it, is totaily impracticable. Tbe chief towns of Chili are Santiago the capital, 55 miles from its port of Valparaiso, in 55. 26. S. lat. and containing 36,000 inhabitants. Cupiapo, in 26*. 50. S. lat, and containing 400 families. Coquimbo, about a mile from the sea, in lat. 29. 52. S. and containing 500 families. Quillota, lat. 32. 5Q. & In a fi- ne- valley Oil the banks of tlie Aconcagua. Valparaiso, a large and populous town*, situated oil the coast of the Pacific ocean, in hit. 33. S, San Felippe, a small town on the Aconcagua, Melipilla, lat. 35. 28- S. Iiancagua, 53 miles south of Santiago,. St. Fernando, 34 IS. S. lat, containing loOO families. Topocalma, a port on the Pacific. Talca. in 35. 13. S. lat. 105 milt's S. of Santiago. Inha- bitants- have been attracted to this spot by the rich mines of gold " n the neighbouring mountains. Chilian, 75. miles N. E. from Conception. Conception, in lat. 56.47. S. Containing 13,000 inhabi- tants. Valdivia, lat. 39. 53. S. tfie southernmost town of any note in Chili. Chili is of a mild and temperate climate, more especially in the southern provinces, where a European temperature pre- vails. There is no rain in the northern districts, the want of which is supplied by abundant dews and bv fogs. The soil is extremely fertile, producing all sotts of European grain and fruits; and the southern provinces yielding in abundance the tropical productions. There are about 120 rivevs in Chili; they run down from the Andes into the Pacific ocean, and the distance being from 120 to 300 miles, their course is con- sequently short. Chili is rich in mineral productions, all the known kinds of semi- metals abound in it ; but they are not sought after, with the exception of quicksilver, w^ hich is re- quired for the refining of the precious metah. The richest ines are in the provinces of Coquimbo and Copiapo ; but ac- cording to the narrow and odious maxims by which these colonies were governed, they were not permitted to be worked by individuals, quicksilver being a royal monopoJy. There are mines of all the different metals in Chili. Lead is found mixed with gold or silver, but in too small a quantity to excite the attention of the miners. There are also mines of tin, which are, however, equally neglected with those of lead. The provinces of Coquimbo, Copiapo, Aconcagua, and Huil- quilemu. are very rich in mines of iron, which" is of the very best quality ; but the working of it was prohibited, in order to favour the trade of Spain, from whence all the iron used in the country was brdtight. It is probable that a more just and liberal policy will now be pursued. The richest mines of cop- per are found betwixt the 2- lth and 36th degrees of latitude.— Almost all the copper in Chili contain a greater or less pro- portion of gold. Here are some copper ores which contain a tenth, and others a third, part of gold. The malleable copper is found in many of the other provinces as well as Coq. ui. hibo ; it possesses every quality requisite in that metal, and is the pedes from whence the Chilian copper has principally deriv- ed its high reputation. There is a remarkable affinity between this copper and gold ; those metals are not only always found combined, but veins of pure gold are frequently met with in the deepest copper mines. A great number of mines have been opened, but those only are worked whose ore is so rich as to yield at least one half its weight in refined copper, those of a less product having been relinquished as too expensive ; not- withstanding which, bet- ween the cities of Coquimbo and Co- piapo, there are wow in work more than a thousand mines, be- sides those io the province of Aconcagua. The silver mines of Chili are found only in the highest and coldest parts of the Andes. This situation, so unfavourable for working them, and the vast expence of refining, have caused a great number of mines, though rich in ore, to be abandoned, and there are but three or four that are at present worked.— All the provinces bordering upon the Andes produce some silver mines. But the richest are in those of St. Jago, Acon- cagua, Coquimbo and Copiapo. Gold, of all the metals, is that which is most abundant in Chili, and it may be said that there is not a mountain or hill but contains it in a greater or less degree. It is found also in the sands of the plains, but more especially in tiiose washed down by the brooks and rivers. ' I he annual produce of gold and silver, exclusive of what is smuggled, amounts to the value of L 375.000 sterling. ' I'he co'itraband silver exported from Chili is as three to two on that which pays the fifth. The inhabitants are estimated at 800.000. Chili trades with Peru in fruits, grain, vegetable productions, and copper, to the amount, it is said, of about L. 200,000— From Europe it receives linens, woollens, hats, steel, mercury, and most articles of European manufactures, iti return for which Chili sends gold, silver, copper, vicuna wool, and hides; and this trade is said to amount annually to 1,000,000 of pias- tres, or about L. 250.000. Between La Plata and Chili there is an infernal traffic in favour of the former for Paraguay tea, & c. But the internal commerce of the Chilian provinces is trifling. The inhabitants make ponchos, a sort of loose cloak universally worn, and principally manufactured by the Indians, stockings, carpets, blankets, saddles, hats, cloths, & L\ which are chiefly u^ ed by the peasantry, the richer class employing European goods.— These,, with grain, wine, brandy, and leather, form the chief articles of home consbmption and trade. On the whole the present state § f commerce in Chili is not very flourishing, owing to the few inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country. COURT OF SESSION— FIRST DIVISION. SA. LE TRANSMISSION OP GOODS. HALL AND COMPANY, LONDON— ARMSTRONG, Dumfries, Pursuers, v• THE EDINBURGH AND LEITH SHIPPING COMPANY, Defenders. On the 31st March 1817, Mr. Armstrong, a merchant in Dumfries, gave an order to the traveller of Messrs. Hall and Co. London, for a chest of tea. On the 3d April, they in- voiced, packed, and set aside a chest, weighing in total 116ibs. On the 12th, they transmitted the invoice fo Armstrong by post, stating that they had shipped the chest for Leith by one ofthe smacks; but, in point of fact, they had only sent it on that day to the wharf. It was put on board a smack, which sailed on the 20th. and arrived at Leith on the 30th, freight being charged as for a chest of tea. • At Leith, a chest, appar- ently the same, was delivered to a porter, who took it to a general agent's, where it was weighed and found to be 150lbs. which exceeded the usual weight of such chests. It was then given to the Dumfries carrier, who delivered it at Mr. Armstrong's on the 6th May, along with the Leith agent's note. Armstrong was at this time from home, and did not open it till the 23th June, when it was found to contain saw dust and rubbish. Having refused to pay the price, Ball and Co. raised an action against him before the Judge Admiral ; and Mr. Armstrong immediately brought an action of relief against the Shipping Company. ' I'he Judge Admiral ordered a proof, by which he found that Hall and Co. had established the delivery of the chest to the Shipping Company, and that it was shipped for Leith ; and in consequence decerned for payment against Mr. Armstrong; and in his action of relief, his Lordship held, that from the difference of weight between the chest as shipped at Loudon, and whwi delivered at Leith to the general agent, the fraud must have been committed while it was in custody of the Shipping Company, and decern- ed against them accordingly. The Company advocated the cause, and Lord Meadow- hank assoilzied them. Mr. Armstrong then petitioned the Court. Their Lordships altered that judgment, aud ordered Mr. Armstrong to give in a condescendence of his grounds of action against the Shipping Company. This important case is still in dependence, but we shall re- port the final decision. JURY COURT. MEDICAL CHARGES, Monday a case of some interest, and involving certain nice questions for discussion, bad proceeded to trial, but was satisfactorily adjusted by arbitration, Dr. John Mfikle, physician and surgeon in Douglas, being pursuer, and Mar- garet Anderson and others, representatives of John Black, in Douglas, being defenders. The Issues to be decided were— 1. Whether the medicines charged for by the pursuer in the account libelled on, commencing 23d December 1814, and ending 28th April 1816, were furnished to the late John Black?— And whether the pursuer attended the said John Black in his medical capacity, as specified in the said ac- count? 2. Whether the modicines or attendance charged for in said account are charged for at the usual and ordinary rate, considering the situation in life and circumstances ofthe said John Black? A Jury having been chosen, a private conference took place between the parties, after which Mr. Coc. kburn ob- served, that, with a view to bring about an amicable settle- ment of this case, each party bad conceded something, and the pursuer was now willing to take, and the defender to give, 70l. in name of compensation for medicines and medical at- tendance. He therefore submitted, that it would not be in- consistent with the forms of this Court for his Lordship to direct a verdict to that amount. The Lord Chief Commissioner— This is the only proper form of proceeding. Mr, Jeffrey desired it to be mentioned that each party bear his own costs. With the concurrence of the Lord Chief Commissioner, the Jury found accordingly— For the pursuer L. 70 compensa- tion, CHELMSFORD ASSIZES, Dec. 13. MURDER OF MR. MUMFORD. The trial of John Pallett, for the murder of Mr. James Mumford, having been appointed to take place this morning ( Saturday), the Court was crowded at an early hour iu ev'e: ry part; . the gallery especially was filled with Ladies, who seem- ed particularly interested in the proceedings. Shortly before nine o'clock, the prisoner was brought from the jaii to the Court- house In the usual caravan. He seemed very much depressed in his feeiinys ; and since his commitment had lost much of that hardihood which he at first displayed. On quitting thej. nl lie was heavily ironed on both legs and moved with difficulty. lie was dressed in a smockfrock, under which he wore a red waistcoat, with a spotted handker- chief round his neck'. At nine o'clock precisely, Mr. Justice Park entered the Court, and it was opened iti the customary manner. His Lordship immediately delivered the following observa- tions;—" Before the prisoner is put to the bar, I have one thing to say which has given me great pain. I have observed that in the London papers of this morning the whole detail of the evidence in this unfortunate case, which is to come before me to- day, has been published. It is extremely painful that those who have to administer justice should thus be placed in a situation of the greatest restraint, to keep their minds unbias- sed before they proceed to the discharge of their duty, j am the more astonished at this, after what has been said on this subject in a recent case ; and I cannot but express my surprise that persons possessing the common feelings of humanity should thus take pains to increase the hazard of individuals who are to take their trials. I am aware of the peril which I incur in what lam going to say ; but if such a course is persisted in, it must become the duty of Coroners to exclude all persons from their Courts but those necessary to give evidence and to assist their inquiries. No human being but the Coroner has a right to take down the evidence : and this rule must in future be stiictlv adhered to. It is most painful to see the repetition of these occurrences." Mr. Hall, the Attorney for the prosecution, observed, that the examinations before the Magistrates had been taken in , r priva'e, and no persons but the witnesses were allowed to be present. Mr. Justice Park.— That was perfectly proper. It is really unpleasant to me to be obliged to make these allusions, but if such practices are persisted in, tbey must be put a stop to by the higher powers. John Pallett was then put to the bar. He was assisted by the jailor to take his place on an ejevated . step. lie held his bead down, and seemed to feel the awfulness of his situation. The indictment was read by Mr. Knajpp, junior. It charged the prisoner, in the usual legal terms, with having murdered Mr. Mumford with a certain stick, of the value of three- pence, with which he inflicted on his head divers mortal fractures. Mr. Kna'pp.— John P. dlett, are you guilty or not guilty ? Prisoner— Nor. guilty, Mr. Jessop, the Counsel for the prisoner, now addressed his Lordship, and said he had humbly to- apply to have this tn'al deferred till the next Assizes, The prisoner at the bar had been only committed to the jail of this town on the night of Thursday last, between 11 and 12 o'clock. The place from whence he had been brought was 25 miles off, consequently it was impossible for him to have had access to those persons whose testimony might l> e essential to hi-; defence. He had also to state, that even yesterday morning, within a few hours after the prisoner had been committed, the London newspapers, containing the whole of the evidence against the prisoner, were circulated in this town, and were open lo the inspection of tiie Jury by whom he was to be tried ; thus exposing him to all the consequences of the prejudice which such publications were calculated to excite. Mr. Justice Park was clearly of opinion, that there was no ground for putting off the trial. Mr Broderick, for the prosecution, rose and addressed the Jury, to whom he gave a succinct history of the whole transac- tion. The witnesses for the prosecution having been examined, Mr. Justice Park abked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing for himself? Prisoner— No, my Lord ; I'll leave it to my Counsel. Mr. Jessop, the prisoner's Counsel, said he had no witnesses to call. Mr. Justice Park then proceeded to charge the Jury. lie commenced by observing, that when making an inquisition for blood, it was their duty to give all the circumstances ofthe case the most minute attention. They should not suffer pas- sion or prejudice, or any other feeling, to operate upon their minds. All they had to do was to administer justice faithfully and careful!;; ; and he was quite sure, after what he ha 1 al- ready suid that morning, that nothing which they might have heard out of doors would have the slightest influence on their decision. The remarks he had made arose from no personal feelings of his own, but from compassion to those unfortunate persons who might be placed upon their deliverance. He re- peated, that he was quite satisfied that they ( the Jury) would banish from their recollection all they had heard before they were enclosed in that box and solemnly sworn, and form their judgment solely on the evidence which had been submitted to them. His Lordship then! proceeded to recapitulate the te timony ofthe different witnesses, and to comment upon th-. se parts which bore more'immediately npon the crime imputed to the prisoner. The Jury, after a few moments' hesitation, found the pri- soner Guilty. The wretched criminal was immediately called up lo receive judgment. He stood up at the Bar, supporting the irons in his hand, and still held his head down, as if ashamed to meet the eyes ofthe auditors. He did not, however, betray much emotion, Mr. Justice Park then proceeded to pass the awful sentence of the law in the following terms :— James Pallet, after a very full, patient, and. as far as I could procure it for you, an impartial hearing, a Jury of your country have, without the least possible hesitation, found you guilty of that dreadful crime with which you stood charged ; and no man living, who has heard the account of this transaction, can possibly entertain a single doubt but that you are now a convicted murderer ; con- victed. upon clear and indisputable testimony, of a crime ol' the most horrid nature— a crime committed without any thing like a sufficient provocation that can be discovered— committed in the foulest temper that can be conceived ; for it is clear that you have been harbouring malice against this unfortunate gen- tleman for three or four weeks before this time, and watching the moment when you could pounce on your prey to bring him to destruction. It is a foul and enormous crime, for which you must shortly answer at the bar of God. I do not wish to aggravate the circumstances of it; indeed it is impossible to do so: tlie words of God cry aloud against you ; and human justice requires that the blood of this young man should have some compensation made upon earth ; for the voice of God himseif declares, that the land can only be cleansed of blood by the blood of him who sheds it. You have a short time to live; but much longer than your wickedness gave to that uh- fortuna? e gentleman now no more. If he had any sins to answer for, you gave him no time to make up his account, aud you have but a short time to make up a much more dreadful one than, I trust, he had. The gate of Heaven's mercy, if duly sought, is always open. Let me, therefore, young man, earnestly conjure you, in all the spirit of Christian charity and affection, immediately to betake yourself to find it— to ap- ply earnestly to the Reverend Gentleman who will be set over you, to direct you — to seek of him, though late, the true way to salvation ; for it n $ y be obtained for you by your Saviour's merits, and for aught I know your petition may be accepted. The sentence of the law is, that you, John Pallett, betaken hence to the place from whence you catne, and on Mo. iday next to the place of execution, and that you be there hanged by the neck until you are dead, and that your body be afterwards, taken down, to be delivered to the surgeons to be dissected and anatomised, pursuant to the statute, and may God have mercy on your most guilty soul ! The Learned judge was greatly affected during this awful ceremony. The prisoner was immediately taken from the bar, and re- conducted to prison. He appeared to feel none of the agita- tions of a man distracted between hope and fear ; he never im- agined escape possible, and stood at the liar with the feelings of a man pleading guilty to murder of the deepest dye. He heard the sentence he expected, and was unmoved, from a sullen consciousness of desert, rather than from hardihood of temper. The wretched man came before the public the veriest monu- ment of tl. e worst combined evils of poverty, ignorance, and drunkenness. The culprit went to bed at half- past one on Monday morn- ing. and slept most- profoundly till past six. When awakened befell fast asleep again. His ignorance exceeded belief. He was entirely illiterate ; and though he frequented his parish church, he could not repeat one sentence of the Lord's Prayer. Before ihe light of day appeared, many had assembled to view the preparations cf death. At half- past seven, about half a dozen young men arrived, weeping most bitterly, and leer- ing convulsive sobs. One of them was the brother of the cul- prit— all were relations. The others turned their hacks to- wards the agonizing scene, and cried aloud ; the brother grew rather composed, and fixed his steady gaze upon the fatal spot. At the end of five minutes they quietly withdrew. A person in the crowd was heard to say, '* Poor fellow J it is but a week since he stood godfather for that brother's child." They had just left the jail, where they had a long and las' interview with the unhappy culprit. The paiting was extremely agonising.— His aged father and mother have been dangerously ii! ever since the dreadful crime was committed, and are now not ex- pected to live. At half past eight the gates were thrown open, and the crowd became exceedingly dense up to the temporary defence set across the ground, a few feet from the platform. At ( he same instant the irons were knocked off the culprit, and he walked ( Irmly and slowly to chapel, lie fell down immediately upotV Iiis kneeS, and appeared v* rv earnest in devotion, and, received the Sacrament. At a qu u terpast nine the chaplain took leave of him. All the while he kept moaning, and occa- sionally muttering i' Lord help me !" In going to the chapcl he had worn a hairy cap on his head. Ilejiipved slowly from the chapel to the platform bare- headedy ;';. ud with hi$ neck ex- posed ; his half- boots were diriy at^ f uniaced, the smock- frock bearing still visibly over his l? h brjst an 1 shoSlXr the blood of the deceased Mumford. He ascended the platform ve;- y slowly but firmly. The executioner was meanly one there with him. The instant he was placet* on the station for exe- cution, he glanced at the crowd, who were by this time close- ly packed in the inner part of the ground, and all around The platform. The crowd were perfectly silent, and looked on with awe, but not with sympathy. The atrocity ofthe crime, the freshness of its recollection, and the innocent blood stain- ing tbe garments of the murderer before their eyes, made thd last example of retributive justice as salutary, as perhaps it can ever he in any circumstances. He was dropt precisely at half- oast nine. The culprit was mu'cular nnd strong to an extraordinary degree, and had prided himself greatly on his strength. At fairs and public places of vulgar resort he was foremost in every affray. No arm could resist his. Only one short week previous to his execution, this wretched being was atPinnocent man. He not only had committed no crime, but he had con- templated none; aud now he is a corpse, and his corse is car- ried to the Anatomist's Theatre, for the foulest murder that can be conceived io imagination. He has merited his fate.— Society requires that such men he removed beyond the power of resenting and giving effect to their resentments. The following Is an exact account of tlie voluntary confession made by this unhappy mnn, to his attendants, on the eye of his execution, with the exception of some alterations in the style : I had been drinking with Kidman at the Coach and Horses, Quendon, all the afternoon, and was somewhat inflamed with the liquor I had drank. From this place tve both started with the intention of going to Newport, to get sand. I was riding on Kidman's donkey, and he was beating it with his oyster measure. When we came to opposite Quendon Want Lane, we observed some one go down. Kidman went forward to see who it was, and on his return said, « • It is Jem Mumford" Kidman then lent me his knife to cut a' st\ k, and' I said, " — n him, he shall have it." I then yot off the donkey, and followed Mumford down the lane. Kidman left me, and proceeded through the turnpike. I overtook Mr. MumforJ. upon a hill, without his perceiving me, and struck iiim a blow on the head, but he did not fdl fr-> m the first blow ; I then struck him again, and he fell. When down I repeated the blows with the stick until he was incapable of re- istance.-— Having so done, I felt in his pockets, and took out the knife, which betrayed me. and put it into my own pocket. Mr. Mumford had bis great coat upon his arm, which I took, and also several small things which were in his pocket. ; what they were 1 do not recollect; these I carried into the turnip field adjoining. 1 then sat down upon a piece of wheat, and stuck the stick in the ground by my side. I began to reflect ; for it was not my intention, at fi.- st, to have committed murder, but only to beat him severely ; and I placed my two hands upon my face, saving to myself Good God! what have T been doing?" About ibis time I heard the footsteps of a horse: he stopped at the. spot where I left Mr. Mumfurd, ami shortly rafter I heard the horse return. I then returned to the bodv forgett ing that I had put the knife iu my pocket ; I kneeled down on one knee, aud raised Mr. Mumford and set him on the other, and rested his chin upon my left shoulder, when the blood poured down my neck in torrents, and made the collar of my shirt in the state it was when the persons came up. I next took the body on my back, and proceeded on my way to Wiclding'. in, under the impression that I should be able to con- vince the family that 1 found him, and was performing a friend- ly office. In my way 1 was met by four men, and soon after a cart came. When I came to the public- house I placed the body on a chair, but it fell, and I endeavoured to place it there again. Mrs. Whisken. the landlady of the public- house, found a mark upon Mr. Murnford's shirt, which satisfied those present it was Jem Mumford. I then left the room to wash the blood from my face, which I did as well as I could, and ufterwa- ds returned to the tap room, where, shortly after, I was taken into custody." DISCOVERY OF A i I O. MAN TOWN, Szc. J& c. AT THE NOKTH BAL'K OF TIIE WEST LOMO. VD IIII. LS, FIFESIIIRE. Ill the parish of Stratluniglo, Fif'eshire, there were lately tlug tip, within tour feet of tlia surface, six Irt- owe Vessels of JifR; reot capacities, from 1 J- mutchkin Scots, to It) pints Scots, or 20 gallons English, unquestionably of Roman antiquity. These, however, have proved to be only a presage to still greater and more important dis- coveries recently made. A lionian town, the Uris Orca of Tacitus and Ptolemy, so long the object of the most anxious researches of the zealous antiquary, has been also discovered at a short distance, consisting of about thirty houses, in three rows, whose foundations are vet distinctly visible, with the fragments of three or four dif- 1 ferent specimens of urns, found about these ancient ruins. About a mile west, nigh about forty bronze Roman military weapons of dfferent kinds have been found all lying together. A little to the North, a Ro- man urn, and two Roman coins, have been recently picked up, one of them the Emperor Domitian's coins, in excellent preservation, which, with one of the fore- said vessels, and four of said military weapons, are now in the possession of the writer of this article. In the centre ground, around which all these discoveries have been made, a very bloody and obstinately contested bat- tle hail been fought on the banks of the Eden, where four cairns are erected, near each of which the Romans had burned thc- ir dead. The many Roman urns found near them- the burning of the tlead in four different places, pointing out where the battle had raged, and where the Caledonians that fell in battle had been burned, all co- operate to prove, in the strongest manner, that it had been unquestionably a battle fought by the Romans.—• When tins again is compared with the account given by Tacitus, it exactly corresponds in all its leading feature-! with his description of the great battle fought between Galgneu: and Agricol. i, hitherto supposed to havetbeeti at the foot of the Grampians. It is obvious, however, that he had mistaken tiie West Lomond hill for Mount Grampius, and this may be considered the source of it! 1 the ambiguity that has hitherto prevailed abotu is. Taci- tus savs, that " when Agrieola was coins near to tho Grampian mountains, he saw the enemies drawn up, to the number of 30 000, besides volunteers," & c. Tho spot where these foresaid military weapons were found exactly suits the place where he would get the first view of the Caledonian army, drawn tip on the other side of the vale of Eden. He carei'ulV, however, conceals the cunning artifice the Romans- had betaken themselves to, in order toentieethe Caledonians from their advantageous position across the Eden down to a ford called Merals ( or Marvellous Ford, from the circumstance of the slaughter being so great on the banks of a small brook running into it, that according to the tradition of the country still kept up, the Eden ran red with blood for two davs.)— We have here also the small hill and plain mentioned bv Tacitus, on which a body ofthe Caledonians were sta- tioned, who, when attempting to surround the wing of the victorious Romans, were attacked bv four squadrons of horse. This had necessarily brought on a dreadful and sanguinary conflict, a little south from the rest of the field of battle, where all that had fallen there seem to have been burnt on one grand funeral pile, the timber yet ri- sing four feet above the brook. The horse had then pass-, cd north through a small gap or opening ofthe hill, and attacked the Caledonians in flight on the plain ( and the burning of the dead in two different places on it, seeins to, confirm this, which is said by Tacitus t;> have decided the fate of the battle.) The very camp occupied by Agri-.. cola after the battle, remains exactly according to Taci- tus description of it, half entire and the rest easily traced. What appeared to be most remarkable about the new dis~ covered town Orea, is a stupendous triangular table, cut cut of the freestone rock, upon a pedestal and pillar, and standing with little alteration, as the Romans had left it. This seems to have been a table to the sun, and an inseparable appendage to all the Roman towns. A more full and particular account of all these are now drawn up, and recently published, wherein the line of Agricola's march is endeavoured to lie traced, from where he landed in the south of Galloway, bv the. forts that lie had built. MR.! BELZONI. At length some intelligence lias arrived of the intrepid • d indefatigable traveller, Mr. J Jeizory. We have been favoured with the following extracts ot a letter which has i:.: on received from hittj. We regret to say, that neither iiiace nor date are given in tbe letter, for reasons which Mr. Belzoni subsequently states. " It would be diflk- ult ft. ryou, m. y dear friend, to ix licve to - i hat an excess tbe revenge qf petty men is carried. Von will !;. ive seen by tny letters from I-\ z and Gibraltar, how far I had advanced in the good , vi! l of the Moorish people, and what » ere my hopes of success, when I was soerueliy disappointed. I must now tell you tint my progress in that quarter was stopp- ed, not by the Moors, but by the intrigues of some persons in office, who avail themselves of the occasional authority given to them hy their superiors to vent their spleen on an unprotected individual, who refuses to stoop and pay court to them. Not Mied with the disappointment they occasioned, I find ( of the information'whicb I received by the last packets to the Bra- zils, that touched at Teneriffe, be correct) that they have ac- cused me of making an improper use of some letters of intro- duction, which had been given to nie, and r. f endeavouring to £ myself off as an agent of the British Government. You veil know that I distinctly stated to you in my letter from Tan- gier, that I had nothing to do with the English Government, it:,:] ,] 10t I relied entirely on my own resources. This letter I - am happy to see, by an English paper now before me, you made public ; and in farther confirmation I shall inclose lo you • the copy of a letter I received from the Moorish Minister at Ka. 1 request of you to do me Ihe favour, if you base seen - or heard of any erroneous statements, to give publicity to this 1. tier, and also to give a copy of the receipt, in piymellt for I SO dollars, which I gave to Mr. D. iuglas, the English Con- sul ,- u Tangier, for some fine white cloth, to make presents of tit Fez. 1 mention these things to show how little pretext there was for their accusations: but they are wofuliy mistaken if thev think to hinder me by such means— nothing butcleaih it- self shall deter me from pursuing my intentions. Mi s. Belzoni v iil furnish you with a copy of the receipt I allude lo, 1 trust vour kindness and friendship to refulc the calumnies against ire be assured that ail is going on well— bill it is hard to con- sider, that, instead of being supported, 1 am persecuted ; hut 1 must h ive patience, am! if I succeed, why the morlilk uion v iil be with my adversaries. I am now in the latitude of 2 I i .- grees north ; that i" all l ean tell you for the present, . for fear my enemies should come to the knowledge of w here 1 am. Excuse my hasty :, crawl," The following is a copy of the letter to which Mr. ile'. zoni refers, arid the original of which, iu Arabic, is i. i his possession :— " Know that his Imperial Majesty lias ordered this corn. to'unicMion from me, Sidi Heuz - lul, to the friend and gentle- man fk- ijoni. We have rce.- ived your letter, by which we 1 Wive your arrival at Tangier, and that you wish to come to : i: e roy. ii preserve. You will come, and every thing you w ant shall lie gr. e. ted agreeable lo your wish, with the help of Goth Judah Benalish, our agent at Gibraltar, has written to r, on the subject, and he- requested me to pay you every al- t. lion and to facilitate every thing you wish— there was no 1 i- essily of it, as I am well aware of your situation more than he has explained— it is quite sufficient what you - aiy that . are the man I knew at Egypt. My master, whom God rve, has already ordered that you proceed to Fez with due I. r and attention, and you shall be before his high Majes- t via get you the order to pass and repass to the cities you I. . : se, with respect and honour." .-,.. ve great pleasure in laying before our readers a . 111 of subscribers in aid of Mr. Belzoni's ttttder- l; ing ; but we regret to learn, from Mr. Belzoni's own s Lenient, that the expences of his journey to and from I- i) ud residence there, together with the necessary p. st- nts and other articles amounted to the sum of £ 1000, defrayed by himself. We understand that, through the interest of the Moorish Minister at Fez, an express dromedary has been sent from Fez to Timbuctoo, with money and letters for Belzoni, in ease the caravan s/. ouid already have departed for Timbuetoo. No Euro- pean, on whose veracity . we can depend, lias hitherto reached this extraordinary city ; it will be a line field for Eelzoni's enterprise, and he. deserves the patronage and the good wishes of the liberal and enlightened of all coun- tries.— Cambridge Chronicle. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. each other ; thev arrive bv every post, as well from the interior as from abroad. The Elector, persuaded that there is a design against his life, lias taken all possible precautions ; patrols arc constantly ou duty, and the po- lice Is extremely strict. The communications between Trieste and tbe Ionian Islands is to be re- established. Packet boats are to go as formerly from Trieste direct to Corfu, and . hence to Zara and Dalmatia, bv which we shall have the advantage of recei ving in future the accounts from Greece and Epirus with greater regularity. SMYRNA, ' Oct. 20.— We hear from Athens that that city is now defended by 2000 Greeks. A! 1 the gates have been walled up except that which is close to the cita- del : new batteries have been erected, and the Greeks are full of confidence. We learn from the Morea that Constantino Botzaris, the brother of Marcus who was killed, has attacked the 15,000 Turks who had advanc- ed to Missolonghi. Before the commencing he was join- ed by Cariaskiski, from Romelia, who commanded a corps of eight hundred Suliots. This second battle was not followed bv any definitive results, but it proves that tile Greeks do not limit themselves to acting on the de- fensive behind the walls of Missolonghi, but go forth with ardour to seek the enemy. The island of Eoinais defended bv two Greek vessels, both of which is com- manded bv women According to the latest letters from FROM FRENCH PAPERS. PATHS, Dec. 12.— The King of Spain has sent the Grand Cordon of St Ferdinand to General Count La- rocfiejaquelin, in testimony of his brilliant services at t'orurtna and Navel. It is said that tltc Austrian and Russian Ambassadors 11 the Court of London have received instructions from 1 - sbon, transmitted by Baron Binder the Austrian Mi- r - ier to the Court of Portugal. These instructions are s to have been communicated to the British Cabinet, f : the purpose of ascertaining the views of that Cotut, if '' if present Emperor of the Brazils should persist in r. . umg his title, which would force the Great Powers 1.1 adopt measures for reducing it under the dominion of Portugal, in conformity to a resolution which is said to !- -,- e been taken at Czernowitz by the Emperors of Aus- stria and Russia not to recognise the independence of the Brazilians. ASSASSINATION.— The Court d'Assize of Paris is occupied with another dreadful case of assassination, in vhich a mothe, and her son are both implicated. Their names are Lecoufl'e— tlie mother, a laundress, aged 63 ; the son, a tailor, aged 2- 1-. Tho person they murdered vvas the wido. v Jerome, an old woman of 80, who was possessed of a little property in the funds, and had some articles of plate in her humble abode, which, it appears, - he mother of Leconffe pledged, as the duplicates were found upon her person. The murder was committed last May. On Thursday the two accused were examin- ed. The son, who was in a state of violent agitation, t!;- posed that he committed the crime in the garden of life person murdered, and that his mother not only sug- gested and encouraged tiie design, but was present at the <\ ecution of it, and even assisted by keeping the widow i ; conversation, while lie went to fetch another knife, I - i.' itg broken his own in opening the lock. The mo- ther vehemently protested her innocence, and abused her eon in the most unsparing manner. On Friday an at- tempt was made to set up a [ ilea of insanity for the de- fendant ; but Dr. Dubois, who was examined, could i:: id nothing io the conformation of his head to warrant such an opinion, and " no other evidence was adduced on this point. Ou Saturday, after hearing farther evidence, tiie two prisoners were found guilty, and sentenced to suffer the punishment of death. FRANKFORT, Dec. 8.— In the 23d sitting of the Germanic Diet, held here on the 27th ultimo, iM. the Baron de Munch- Bellinghatisen, Minister of Austria, President of the Assembly, communicated to the Diet that M. the Baron de Wangcnlieim, the Minister of Wurtemburgh, has notified to him his reeal. The Duke of Wurtemburgh appears decided not to nominate any • Minister to the Germanic Diet, until the diplomatic re- lations with the other Courts of Germany be re- establish- ed on their ancient footing, and their Ministers reside at Stntgard. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. l-' t.— It - Appears that all , Lhe differences between the Ottoman Porte and the Clii- is- fian Powers are decidedly adjusted. It is affirmed that ! he Sultan, bv a firman, dated the 3d iust, has ordained the re- establishment of all the relations with Russia on (. heir ancient footing. to acknowledge the independence of the country, the Emperor, with the advice of the Congress and his Mini- sters, refused to receive letters from his family, or to have any intercourse with the Commissioners In the mean time the frigate had been seized, and of this Count de Rio Mayor sent a formal complaint. He received for answer, that she had been seized for entering the port in a hostile manner, and that she was to be tried by a Court of Admiralty, according to the law of nations ; but that another vessel would be prepared to convey the Commissioners home whenever they wished ; the Empe- ror and his Government persisting, in the mean while, that they should not be allowed to laud.— Such is the substance of the correspondence alluded to, which occu- pies several pages of the Government Gazette. Brazilian Papers to the 22d October furnish accounts of the ceremonies which took place on the birth- day of the new Emperor Dor) Pedro I. who seems determined to maintain his sovereignty, free from all control of, or connection with, the Mother Country. A Portuguese brio had sailed for Lisbon on the 2d October, havincr on D ... . 7 O board the Commissioners sent from Portugal for the purpose of negotiating with the Independent Govern- ment, who were not allowed to land, in consequence of their not being possessed of powers to recognise the inde- pendence of Brazil. Mdranh im has been captured by the Brazilian squadron under Lord Cochrane. His Lordship Ipsara the Greek combined fleet entered that harbour to I has been raised to the rank of a Brazilian Marquis under procure water, and is to go again to sea. The Greeks say thev only lost two fire ships near Mount Athos, and thev blew up before reaching the Turkish vessels. FROM GERMAN PAPERS. FRANKFORT, NOV. 30.— Letters. from Weimar say that the celebrated Goethe is again dangerously ill. A numerous caravan of German Colonists has passed through Frankfort within these few days on their way to Hamburgh, where vessels are ready to convey them to Brazil. New efforts to establish a course of exchange for the l;; an of M. Guebhard have been made here, but with- out success ; even the houso of Rothschild refrains from taking any part in this loan, DEC. 7-— Accounts from Cnssel say, that anony- mous letters, addressed to the Elector, rapidly succeed AMERICA, 4- ir. Accounts have been received from almost every part of the United States to the 25th ultimo. The cause of the Greeks had been revived at New York and Bos- ton, where subscriptions to a pretty large amount had been raised. The committee who had undertaken the management of it is represented as composed of men of the highest respectability. We have received letters and papers from Canada to the 16th ultimo, which gave a favourable account of the state of trade in the Colony. In several articles exported there seems to have been an increase this year, as com- pared with the return of last, of one third. The quanti- ty of pot and pearl ashes shipped last vear was 30,000 barrels, but this year not less than 55,000 barrels have been exported. A letter from Caraccas, dated 7th October, states that official dispatches had been received from Bolivar, dated head- quarters at Pasto, 28th July, by which it appears that, accompanied by General Saloni, he enter ed Pasto by two different roads, and for the third and last time pacified this turbulent city, after putting to death upwards of 600 rebels, without leaving one alive to undertake another insurrection. The President ( con- tinues the writer) takes his leave of his friends here ; he repairs to Peru, at the head of 10,000 bayonets ; nor will he return to his beloved country until peace is restor- ed to our Sister Republic, arid the happiness and tran- quillity of Columbia is hereby for fver insured. This master- piece he is confident to achieve before a year is elapsed, and no sooner is this done than he will retire from active life, and finish the remaining part of his days quietly, in the city which gave him birth. The second in command of the rebel Cinneros, Captain Aguirre, is taken prisoner and brought here. The letters delivered from on board the Tyne, from Vera Cruz, are dated the lltii of Oct. and from Mexico the 8th. No particular news had been received from the capital, although we have seen several printed pa- pers, chiefly relating to the disputes between the compe- titors for the Mexican Loan. The two French Agents, to whom we alluded on a former occasion, had been discovered and seized. Their names are, La Motte and C'nwale ; the latter was formerly a Governor of Senegal. The damages done to the city of Vera Cruz is not near- ly so great as was represented. The following is an ex- tract from a mercantile letter : VERA CRUZ, Oct. 11 " This is tbe 17th day that General Lemour has bombarded this city with but little intermission day and night in order to extort provi- sions : he only gave three hours notice ; so it is with the greatest difficulty and danger that property can be re- moved. Capt. Roberts, of the Tyne, has used every exertion to bring about an armistice, in order to give us time to move, but in vain. Old Lemour appears determin- ed on his own destruction, and that of this city, This Government is now determined not to give up, and pre- vent bv all means tile supplying the Castle with provi- sions : it will ultimately .. Meantime the seat of business is removed to Alvarado, a port about 14- leagues north of this." PORTUGAL AND BRAZIL. Letters to the 29th of September have arrived from Rio de Janeiro.. They contain along correspondence between the Brazilian Minister of State, M. Carneiro de Campos, and the Count de Rio Mayor, Commis- sioner from the King of Portugal, for the purpose of ne- gotiating a compromise and reconciliation, who had late- ly arrived there from Lisbon. Previous to the appear- ance of the latter at Rio, Marshal Luiz Paulino had ar- rived there on the 7th of Septemper on a similar mission, both having been dispatched subsequent to the overthrow of the Constitution. His dispatches were delivered to the Provisional Junta, when the people demanded they should be opened, in order that the views of the Portu- guese Government might be ascertained. Paulino then quitted Bahia under a flag of truce, to join the Com- missioners expected from Portugal at Rio, conformably to the Kino's instructions, and reached the Brazilian ca- o . pita! before thev arrrived. On appearing in the bay, the Brazilian Government refused him permission to land, inquired of him the object of his mission, and demanded to know whether lie came prepared to acknowledge their independence. He informed them he had no powers to treat, and that he bad only been ordered there to join other persons in the King's confidence, who were to leave Portugal a very few days after him. In a few days after he fell sick, and on a report from the Emperor's physi- cian, he was allowed to land, and soon after died. The expected Commissioners arrived from Portugal in the fri- gate Avonadour, bearing the Portuguese flag. The batteries allowed her to enter the harbour, and ordered her to alienor under the guns. The Governor of the fortress sent on board to remonstrate with the Captr. in for enteiing the port with the Portuguese flag under the peculiar circumstances in which the two countries were placed— an act which the Brazilians considered as an in- sult to them ; and in consequence the Portuguese Cap- tain hoisted a flag of truce. Count de Rio Mayor, the Ohief Commissioner, then wrote a letter to the Brazilian Minister, informing him that he was the bearer of im- portant letters from the father, mother, and sisters of his Majesty, which letters he wished to deliver iu person to him. The Minister, in the name of the Emperor, wrote back that he w .-. ild receive no letters ; but requested to be informed whether the Commissioners had any instruc- tions to acknowledge the independence ol the Brazilian Empire, To this Count de Rio Mayor made answer, that he had no authority for the purpose pointed out, the King, his master, regretting that the late Cortes had acted in such a way as to alienate the affections of the Brazilian people for which he was extremely sorry, and hoped that matters would now be made up ; and in case they were not, he added, that he had instructions to take care of the Portuguese resident there. The Brazi- lian Minister of State answered, that with regard to the PortuguesetSRTainiugbehind, they had voluntarily taken the- oath of allegiance to the Brazil Government, and consequently required no protection from Portugal. On discovering that the Commissioners ttcre not authorised the title of Marquis Maranham. as a reward for his gal lantry and services to the Brazilian Government. MARANHAM, Aug. 20.—" Since mv last Lord Cochrane has arrived here ina71- gun ship from Bahia, and the place immediately declared for independence. The communication " iththe interior is now free, after having been cut olf for more than four months. Produce be- gins to arrive, and business is resuming its old course.— Lord Cochrane has confiscated all property belonging to the Portuguese residing iu Portugal; all property be- longing to the residents has been respected. All vessels here have been embargoed for 25 days, and this is the first one that sails." ruptible patriots, are those whose exertions in the war of the independence raised them to guerilla commands— men either raised from the people or formed among them. Minn, the Empecinado, the Pastor, Palarea Campillo, have been all tried, and found worthy of the trust repos- ed in them. This fact proves that there are materials in Spain for a better Government, and qualities worthy of a better fate.— Globe and Trav. Yesterday the Griper brig, Captain Clavering, arrived at. Woolwich with Captain Sabine, from Greenland and the coast of Norway, where the latter officer has been some months continuing his astronomical observations, similar to those he made on the African coast and the West Indies. During the voyages, they had soma in- tercourse with a tribe of Esquimaux oa the coast of Greenland, who were at first extremely shyvbut after- wards became familiar. Efforts to serve the brave and injured Greeks, we observe with great satisfaction, are rapidly extending through the country. The cause has been warmly es- poused at Winchester ; and at Cambridge a public sub- scription has been headed by a liberal donation from the Chancellor, of L. 100. As the sufferings and claims of these men these fellow Christians— become better known, we feel assured they will meet with that assist- ance which Britons have ever afforded to those who seek to recover or to enjoy that liberty which has raised " the tight little island" to be the envy and admiration of the world. LONDON, December 22. We are happy to learn, that his Majesty's health con- tinues in the best possible state. We are assured that he very recently declared to one of his illustrious relatives that for the last ten years he had not found himself in such good health as at the present moment. It is with regret, however, we add, that the health of his Royal Highness the Duke of York is far from satisfactory Courier. The frequent visits of a certain Royal Duke to a Princely Relative is reported to be connected with a new matrimonial project, suggested from a high quarter — Nous verrons.— Morning Paper. We understand notice has been given to the army surgeons and assistant- surgeons on half pay, that their services are likely to be soon required. The new levy is to he raised by beat of drum, and orders have been issued, with a view to the more ex- peditious raising of the men, for the officers employed to repair to those parts of the kingdom in which they may be supposed to possess the most influence. In order that no undue importance may be attached to the circumstance of the notice lately sent to the Half- pay Surgeons and Assistant Surgeons of the Army, we deem it necessary to state, that it is merely with a view to the new regiments now raising bv beat of drum, to each of which the usual number of Surgeons and Assis- tant Surgeons will of course be appointed.— Courier. Yesterday the Gentlemen appointed to be Consuls in South America transacted business at the Foreign Office, and received their final instructions from Mr. Planta, the Under Secretary of State, in the absence of Mr. Secre- tary Canning. The Gentlemen were to leave town for Portsmouth last night, and to sail this day oil board his Majesty's ship the Cambridge with ail possible speed. MONUMENT TO LORD ERSKINE.— A meeting of the members of the profession of the law was held in Lin- coln's Inn Hall, on Monday evening, for the purpose of paving a mark of respect to the memory of Lord Erskine. The hall was filled by a number of the most eminent barristers and solicitors in the metropolis. Among the persons present were, Mr. Scarlett, M. P. Mr. Aber- cromby, M. P. Mr. Brougham, M. P. Mr. Denman, M. P.' Mr. Raine, M. P. Sir W. Owen, Mr. Bell, Mr. Jervis, Mr. Dover, Mr. H. Cooper, Mr. Wake- field, Mr. Atcheson, Mr. Freshfie'd, Mr. Kay, & c. Mr. Scarlett, after stating the object of the meet- ing in a short speech, proposed that a statue should be erected to the memory of the late Lord Erskine in some place to be determined by a Committee. The proposi- tion having been agreed to, and a Committee appointed, the Chairman recommended that, as there could be no doubt that the subscription would be extensive, no in- dividual should subscribe too large a sum, which he was of opinion might keep many from coming forward. Mr. Scarlett said the tribute was to be considered only in a professional light ; and though they did not refuse the subscription of any man who gave it upon public grounds, still thev wished it to be known that they did not con- sidev his Lordship's political conduct, but the great in- tegrity, the general urbanity, and the unrivalled elo quence which he had displayed whilst at the bar, and by which he had improved, honoured, and adorned the pro- fession to whicb he belonged. Before the meeting broke up a considerable sum was subscribed by the gentlemen present. The conduct of Mina, since his arrival in this coun- try, has been suc'o as to disarm the bitterest enemies of the cause for which he fought— personal enemies he has none. We know nothing more expressive of the best feelings of a patriot and a man, than his answer to the oiler of a public manifestation of esteem on his entry into London : " These testimonies of kindness tear my " soul. I am received as a conqueror, I am dragged to " spectacles, festivals are offered to me, while I only " desire as it is my duty, to deplore in mourning and so- " litude the misfortunes and slavery of my country."—- There is no man in modern times who'ik- serves to stand higher than Mina. For live years before 1814 he car- ried on, in behalf of the independence of his country, a war the most trying to the power of human, endurance that the mind can conceive. Constantly surrounded by hostile armies, without a single point of certain refuge, without other resources than ivere to be derived from his skill and perseverance, with a price set upon Ins head by the enemy, he never once relaxed his efforts tiil Spain was freed from the invaders. It was then in his power to turn to his individual advantage his patriotic exertions. He was a man on whom the eyes of Europe had been fixed, and he might have obtained the rewards that were lavished on the Bluchers, the Schwartzenbergs, and the Wellingtons. But he had fought for the Cortes— the prospect of Spain free and glorious had cheered him in his years of toil— he would not sell that hope, and the reward of five years exertion was live years ol banish- ment. On the restoration of the Cortes, in 1820, to which Mina contributed by his reappearance in arms in Navarre, ho was employed for a short time in the command of military districts, but tie courted no em- ployments, affected no popularity, and allowed himself to be forgotten till the time of difficulty and danger re- turned. It has been his fate to be unsuccessful now, but the failure of his cause has only served to make his own constancy and incorruptibility more undoubted. To the all pondering Mind a noble aim Faithfully kept, is as a noble deed ; Iii his pure sight. all virtue duth'- succecd. It is hononrable to the character of the mass of the people of Spain, and adds a higher lusture to military virtues, that I he firmest; the most zealous, most incor- MARRETS, Sic, AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN. The following is the General Average which governs Im- portation, taken from tbe Weekly Returns of ihe quanti- ties and [' rice of British Com, Winchester measure, in England and Wales, fo » the week ended 13i! i Dec. Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, • 50* 3l> 20s 8d Cd 7d Beans, Peas, Oatmeal, Bear or Big, 35s 6.1 55i 2d 00s Od OOs OOd The Average Price ol Blown or Muscovado Sugar, com- puted from the Returns made in the week ended the 17th Dec, is 35s, 6£ d. per cwt. duty exclusive. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET, Dec. 19. A good supply of Wheat in market, which met with a ready- sale. Prices rather high. a than last day. Best old, S- U. Oil. Best new, 31s.— Best Barley, 2- 5". 6< l. Old and new Oats the same; best 21s, current prices from I8s. to* J5H. Wheal. I Rarity. I Oals. I Pn. ise. I Re. ans. First. 34s Od I — s Odjsis Od| 2Is O. I ( 21s Od Second 33s Od I — s Od j 19s Oil j l!) i Od I 19s Od Third 32s- Od \ — s Od j 17s Od | i 7s Od | I 7s Od This day there were 475 bulls of Oatmeal in Edinburgh Market, which sold at 1-. 3d. per peck. Et. sRubRE, Dec- ( 5,— Til.' O. prey, Harding, of Boston ' A) and the Lillie, Taylor, of Gi-. ingeinauth, i. i^ t anrhors and cables in these roads a few days since, and have been supplied with others. All the outward- bound have now sailed from hence. Wind S. moderate. IIAMm/ acur, Dec. 5.— We have had for some days past, very tempestuous weather, and last night a hurricane from S. W. to S, S. W, of which we fear- We shall still have very tin- favourable accounts Tile Resolution. Jeffrey, for Newcastle has put back to the Elbe, ik- ith loss of anchors and cables. Of the vessels which have arrived since the 5 h iust. the cargoes will be considerably damhged. We apprehend that we may receive disastrous accounts from the coast of Jutland by the next Danish mail. EAST INDIA SHIPPING, De al, Dec. 11".— Sailed the Cambridge, Barber, for the Cape of Good Hope and Bombay, and York, Talbot, for Madras and Bengal Arrived, the Hero, Riches, from the Gape of Good Hope. Remain, the Mary Ann, Craigie ; arid Hannah, Shepherd, for Bombay, and Guardian, Sutherland, for Sincapore, & c. ST. HELENA, Oct. 17— Arrived the Mediterranean, Ross, from the Cape of Good Hope, and sailed on the 2 ith for London. Arrived off the island, the Heron, , from the Cape of Good [ lope, MAURITIUS, Sept. 12 Arrived the Scott, Agnew, from Bengal, and on the 19th tilt, the Mary Jane, M'- Cormnck, and Margaret, Henderson, from the Cape of Good Hope. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.— The Hope, Flint, from London to Madras, 21st tilt. lat. 6. N. lone. 23. bv the Marquis of Hastings, arrived in tiie Thames ; the Prince Regent, from Bengal and Madras, to London, 16th ult. lat. 33. long, 38. by the Columbine, Stephenson, arrived at Liverpool ; the Lord Sufiield, Brown, from London to Bengal, 28th May, lat. 5. S, long. 28, by the Bombay, arrived at Angier, 12th July ; the Ben- gal, Pearce, from Liverpool to Bengal, 28th ult. lat. 12. long. 24. ; t.' icj Lady Kennavvuv; froiii Loudon, to Bengal, 10th October, lat. 7. N. long. 27. bv the Mel- pomene, arrived in the Thames ; the Vansittart, Dai- rymple, fWmi London to China, 9th June, lat. I. Ni loner. 20. W. The General Harris, Welstead, East Indiaman, drove from her moorings at NorthHeet, on Wednesday nigh\, at eight o'clock, and ran on shore on the Essex side of the River. She floated aj^ ain without damage, and i n makes no water. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 19.— Sailed the Maty Ann, Craigie, for Bombay. EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKKT, D^ c. 17.— There was a smaller number of sheep ( 2139) to- day at the market, and prices were a little higher than last week. White- faced wedders, IBs. to 22s. black- faced ditto, 12s, to 18s. Ewes, white- faced, 10s. to 18s. black faced 9s. to 1,5s. — In the Grassmarket, there were 231 fat and lean cattle. Prices from 5s. to 7s. per stone, sinking ofFds. The demand in both markets was brisk, and all sold off. Prices of Hay and Straw. There was a middling supply. Oat straw, 10s. to lis. Wheat ditto, 9s. to 10*. Barley, 8s, per kemple. JLty from lid. to Is. 2d. per stone. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET. Dec. 15.— There were 2head of black cattle and 1520 sheep in the market. Cattle sold fully as high ai last week. Cow beef sold at 5s. Gd. to 6s. 6d. and stot beef from 7s. to about 8s. ,5d. a- stone, beef and tallow* There was no difference in the price of sheep.— Black- faced ewes sold from 6s. io 12s. 61. one small lot, in excellent condition, brought 14s. Wedders sold from lQs. to 16s. a few, turnip fed, brought 18s. 6d. The best white- faced ewes brought about 28s. a- head. MORPETH, Dec. 17.— At our market this day there was a good supply of cattle and sheep; being a great demand, they sold readily, at last week's prices— Beef from 4s. 9d. to 5s. 6d. per stone; sinking offils— Mutton, 4s. 3: 1. to 5s. 3d. DUMFRIES. Dec. 9. — Late as the harvest was, field la bour is wonderfully forward, and we never in our lives saw a finer braird of wheat. Indeed, the chief complaint is, that there is nothing done in the grain market, and that no man knows either what to ask. or what he is likely to get for the disposable part of his crop. Many of' the shippers who were i* i full employment last year at this time, have not as yet bought a single bushel of wheat or barley ; and the worst of it is, that we know not when they will begin to buy. Barley is still so soft that fears are entertained whether it will stand a voyage to Liverpool ; while the wheat varies so much in weight that there is considerable risk in bringing it into competition with the superior samples grown in England, and on the east coast of Scotland. The distillers ami brewers, indeed, have been forc- ed to buy barley of late, but. they did if. conditionally, and only promise to pay market price for certain weights. On the same farm, barley which last year weighed from 50! b. to 52lb. rarely averages above 47lb. or48ib. a bushel. On Thursday last new wheat sold in Wigfon at from 6s. 6d. to 7s. the sellers engag- ing to make up whatever it. might fall under 60lb. In the same place barley has been sold at 4s. 4d. a bushel ; oats ( the boll of twelve Winchesters) at from 25s. to 28s. : and oatmeal at Is. lid. and 2s, a stone of 17| lb,. ANDIIEWSMASS Market was held at Perth, on Thursday.— The cattle market may upon the whole be said to have been supplied, in pjint of number, much in the usual way. Horses of the superior kind were rather deficient in that respect; those of good bone and figure sold readily, at an advance in price; the inferior sort were not so much in demand, and pi ices con- sequently low ; many remained unsold. Cattle, whether fat or lean, had a ready sale, and were purchased up at prices considerably above the late rates ; f. it brought from ten to fifteen per cent, of advance ; wintering cattle may be quoted about the same. Butter and cheese sold readily at a consider- able advance above the last market, at a rise of about Is. to Is. 6d. per stone. Current prices of butter, 17i. to 18s. 6d. per stone ; cheese, from 7s. 6,1. to 8s. 6d. 3 per C. Red. 3 perCt. C. 31 Cents. 4 per Cents. India Stock, 1MUCF, OF STOCKS. 85| J£ I India Bonds, j Ex. B. 10001. 9" if I Lottery Ticket^ 100i Cons. for Ac. f 82 80 53 54 pr. 191. 19s. NAVAL REGISTER. FROM LLOYD'S MARINE LfST, DEC. 16. Fishguard, Dec. 14.— The Express War Office Packet, with soldiers, parted from her chain cables in these Roads, struck the Pier and s: mk. SCARBOROUGH, Dec. 13.— Last night several vessels bound, to the north, brought up in our Roads with the wind at west, by north. This morning about four o'clock it shifted to north, and blew very hard ; several or' them have left their anchors, and gnne for Bridlington Bay. MALDON, Dec. 15.— Captain Fram, of the William, arriv- ed hereon the 12th instant from Newcastle, reports that he was blown off the land upon the Dutch Coast, and saw a ship drift upon the Lemon Sand, and disappear in an instant, without the possibility of saving the crew. The Mally, Neill, which arrived in the Clyde on the 11th inst. sailed from Demerara 22d October and experienced a suc- cession of'gales during the passage. On the 2d inst. she was struck by a sea, which carried away part of the bulwarks, ca- bouse, round house, wheel, cabin sky- light, and binnacle, half filled the cabin with water, and was obliged to heave to for 24 hours, owing to the loss of the wheel. On the 6th, ex- perienced another gale, which drove the boats down to leeward, and did other damage. DEC. 19. — The London, Brown, from Qnebcc to Lon- don, is totally lost on the coast of Newfoundland. The mas- ter and live of the crew drowned. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 18. — Wind SW.— We experienced a most tremendous gale last night from SSE. which commenced about five o'clock, and continued with unabated fury until ten o'clock, when it suddenly veered round to the westward, and bccarne more moderate. During the gale the Helen, from London to Leghorn, drove frorh her anchors, and was obliged to cut away her mainmast before she could bring up ; she is come into the harbour to repair. His Majesty's ship Queen Charlotte drove from her moorings in the harbour, and got fYul of the Brothers, Wilson, carried away her bowsprit, top- masts, stove in her sides and decks, and ( I'd other damage. The whole of the outward bound, excepr tiie above, rode out the gale at the Motherbank ; all well. The Eliza, of Jersey, laden with iron, from Bristol to this port, drove from her anchors, and sunk ou Ha mitton iiitnk, at the eutrmice ot tiu harbour : crew saved. YARMOUTH. Dl- c. IS.— It tjlew a heavy rrnleiast i^ ht from SW. tu S. and continued tiil two o'ciuck itii-, morning, when it tame round to W. tin 1 moderated. CitoNST,\ nT, Nov. 10. ( J2J — The wind iniwing fallen con siderabiy, the water is covert- 1 ni ii iee in every tliicctioii.— The daily po. st eea. iL- d yesterday. Captain Charles Bulleil, C. B. is appointed to the command of the squadron employed on the African sta- tion, in the room of the late Commodore Sir Robert Mends, and will hoist his broad pendant on board the Maidstone frigate. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 13 Admiral Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, G. C. B. set off on Sunday, to re- sume his command at Plymouth. It is understood that the Lords of the Admiralty have refused to comply with Sir Alexander's request to have his conduct investigated as it respects the fitment ofthe Hussar for Lisbon. The Cambridge, 80, Capt. T. I. Maling, being now fii'ily manned, will arrive here ( Portsmouth) in a day or Two, to embark the newly appointed Consuls for the South American Independent States. The gentlemen, and their families, are 57 in number. His Majesty's brhjif'frhieh have been lately appoint- ed by the Lords of the Admiralty to the Falmouth Packet- service, to convey the mails from thence to the different foreign ports, are also designed to carry passen- gers, and for that purpose are fitted up with much ele- gance, and every accommodation and comfort requisite for a long voyage. The Frolic, Lieut. Baron ; and the. Eclipse, Lieut. Passinghanr, are now attached to the Falmouth station, and take their regular turns of duty with the other packets. EDINBURGH, DEC. 23. HI Gil COURT OF JUSTICIAR J". Yesterday the Court met, when John Wilson and Duncarf Fraeer were placed at the bar, accused of housebreaking and theft, aggravated by being habit and repute- common thieves. The indictment charged them with entering the shop of James Smyth, tailor, in St, Mary's Wynd, by taking a pane of glass out of the window, from which they carried off various articles of wearing apparel. The indictment having been read, the Lord Advocate nose to state, that it was not his intention to restrict the libel whether the prisoners then at the bar pleaded guilty or not, and therefore it was for them to judge for themsel ves. The Lord Justice Clerk then put tho usual interrogatory to Wilson, who answered " Guilty, my Lord." His Lordshhj warned him of the capital nature of the charge, and the situa- tion in which he stood, but the unhappy man adhered to his plea, in which his wretched companion j-> ined. The Jury having been sworn, the Lord Advocate again rose, and informed the prisoners that their case would not be affect- ed by an alteration of their plea, and pointed out the chances they might have if they pleaded Not Guilty, such as the ab- sence or misnomer of witnesses, and other advantages. His Lordship warned them against expecting a mitigation of their fate by the line they had adopted, for it was to his Majesty alone they had to look for mercy. The precedent, he said, would be most dangerous, if persons brQught to that bar mi" ht, by acknowledging their guilt, rely on escaping the punishment due to the crime. The Lord Justice Clerk also repeated his caution to the un- fortunate men, but they still adhered to their original plea.— His Lordship then shortly addressed the Jury, intimating to them that, after what had passed they could have no hesitation in finding the prisoners Guilty in terms of ; beir own confession, which they did accordingly. Lord Gillies said the prisoners, and all present, must be aware that tiie Court h id no alternative in the dutv they had to perform. Theft, aggravated by housebreaking, was in itself a capital crime, without the farther aggravation of being habit and repute thieves; it vvas, therefore, only for him to suggest, which he did with much regret, that the unhappy men he taken from the Bar to the Tolbooth, thereto be kept till Wed- nesday, the 28th of January, on which day they should be ex- ecuted at the usual time and place. After a suitable address from the Lord Justice Clerk, the* unhappy men were sentenced to be executed on Wednesday the 28th of January next. The Court of Session rose on Saturday for the Christ- masholidays, and meets again on the 13th January, 1824^ The box- day is fixed for Saturday the 3d of January. We understand the Carron Company have bean in- creasing their trade for the last two years, and are now- doing more business than at any time during the war. On Friday last, the post horse duties for Scotland were let at the yearly rent of L. 15,800. BIRTHS. At Cattle mi Ik, on the 13th inst. the Lady of William Stirling, E- q. of a daughter. At Woodburn, MorningsiJe, on the 15th in-> t. the Lady of Gfcorge Ross, E^ q. Advocate of a daughter. At No. 4, George Street, on the 1 frill inst. Mrs. Dr. Nicoll, St. Andrew's, of 4 son. At Bishop's Court, Isle of Man, on the 7th inst. Ladv Sarah Murray, of a daughter. At Dunninald, on the 10th inst. Mrs. Arkley, of a son. MARRIAGES. At Edinburgh, on t ie I8" th inst. Mr. Alexander Graham, merchant, Glasgow, to J ure, daughter of, Mr. It, D. Fleem- ing, merchant, Edinburgh. At Smithyhaugb. on the 12th inst. James Smith, Esq. manufacturer, Aueh'erarder, to Ann. daughter of Peu- r Gibson, Esq. of Smithy ban ; h. At London, on the 18th inst. William Dancombe, Esqv M. P. to Lady Louisa Stewart, youngest d mghter of the Earl of Galloway. * At Portsmouth, Thomas Monck Mason, Royal Nnvy, to Marv, eldest daughter of tiie Hon. Sir George Grey, Bart. K, C. B. DIC A THS. At Edinburgh, on the 10th inst. Alex. Dick, Esq. ac- countant. In Keir Street, Laurieslon, on the 8th inst. Mrs. Mary- Young, wife of Mr. George Loriirjer, builder, Edinburgh. In tne island of Trinidad, on the 30; b June, in conse- quence of a fall from his horse, James Boyd, Esq. Ctptain in his Majesty's 9* h re^'- nent of foot. At his house, Leitb, on the 7th inst. Mr. John MaeUipJ, brewer. Leiih. " Jl. t.'.'. T-, O-. Tn the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SLK. 7 inusr I'. lmit, that before I opened a correspondence with con, I >,.!•; heard chat you was a person of very objectionable principle: but J could not have believed that yon would have taken upon vou to garble the letter I sent you, keeping hack very important matter— misprinting my lines— and givins a f. il- e account of the par's su ppressed— all this however you did, and vet Y' tl pretend that you would be gl* d to hear from me K- rain. I would have yon to know, Sir, that I and my famib- v. ant none of your condescension— we are of rank and consequence aii " vcr ' lie island, and any Editor mny he proud c. f our commit NTC „ tions. I assured my brother BILL, that your music is very indifferent— enough said I familiarly, my brother bavrng r. o very refined ear, •' to make me or you sick." This vou |> ervert into " one 01 you; a pretty specimen of your skill in the eunhomo of fine composition. 1 did, Sir. conclude with a V eil merited enlogium upon the integrity of the Cor- t » , ration hot I contend. Sir. that I eulogized the disinterested RVTKKTJSM of the County Freeholders— and how came you, Sir, to repeat the word integrity— integrity having already I eer. monopolized by the Corporation— pure and disinterested Patriotism has been the distinguishing virtue of Aberdeen- si, ire Ci umy Gentlemen, ever since the time of the Union— and if by a slip of the pen I bad repeated the word integrity, oil the sagacious part of the community would at once com- prehend nn real meaning. The time was when our renown arOve from Salmon Fishing—" Abrednnia ( said Buchanan) est vrbs salmonrini piscatu nobilis j" but we are now ennobled I v virtues of the most tram. cendaiit order, and as Svlvest? r I>. rwood, despising the lowly profession of his father, " bud a s above Buttons." the Salmon Fishers* B. iotsare no longer the , st ndard of Alierdonian Nobility. I meant no harm, Sir, to ihc Manager by what T felt my- s- ! r caller! upon to say wjth regard to the society iu this place. F" il'es and vice we have none ; hut we may I'or all that he: amused in a Theatre, antl why suppress the lines in which I gave good advice to Mt\ KVIIKR. " Get rope dancipj Wilson, a house to secure, or 3r might be still hotter to find a conjuror ; high German D - dor migtif no doubt well please us, EoTiuw fire, and protesting to cure ail diseases. Dancing dogs, ivarned pigs, or a good puppet show, , We Ira\ e taste. for experience proves it yrru know ; But really tile Drama's a heavy concern. When mankind are perfect— with nothing to learn." But I perhaps waste my time, in writing and copying what you, Mf. Editor, may not he inclined to publish ; your con- duct, however, upon this occasion shall decide— whether you are again lo be 1 onoured I v the notice of TIMOTHY FUDGE, GENT. irmdy Wynd, Dec. 26, 1823. KMSEHT, CONFECTfONER AND GROCER, •\ I7TTH best thanks, for the liberal share of public V V favor be lias received for so many years, begs leave to intirwrte, that as the Cirri . tnias festivities are at hand, be has prepared a full assortment of CHRISTMAS BUSS. ALSO, . SEED CAKES— PI, I'M CAKES— POUND CAKES — DIET I, OAVES. SAVOY CAKES, Plain and Or mi infilled. •> Tinee Pics. Veal and other Pies, Savoury Patties— Jellies, iifoniadgr, Trill. •— I alian and Raspberry Creams— Pudd- ings, Custards ; and in short, every article for Dinner or Supper Parties, executed with neatness and punctuality. G. A*, has on hand, c. fjinc quality, MALAGA GRAPES, a- Is. 6d per I. b. ISOIIDE A L X RKNNKTS. * MUSCATKI. T. E RAISINS, on Ranches. CTRHANTS— TCUKEY FIGS. FL1KNCH PI. UMS— OJIANGES and LEMONS. ORANGE, LEV ON, and CITRON PEEL. 1' REiSERVF. S OF ATA. KINDS. As JAMS, JELLIES, MARMALADE, & c. Art assortment of the fittest BL 4CK AM) G REE Si TEAS. LO& ENGES of all kinds, manufactured and sold, cquut in quality and in cheapness to any in ihe kingdom. * Dtalevsiu town aj » d country supplied with this article, ar » d every, other in the line, on the most advantageous terms. Broad St ret!, Dec. 20, 1823. W A NTE D, A N APPRENTICE to the GROCERY BUSI- - i \ N IvsS ; one from the country will he preferred. None need apply Inn those whir can w ell recommended. Application may he made to • ANDREW SIMPSON & CO. Aberdeen. Dec. 26. IS23. W A ST ED IMMEDIA TEL Y, A HOUSEKEEPER and COOK, for a Family of J. i. respectability in the Country. Every information will be given, on application being made to Mr. Merchant, Union Street. COUNTY FIRS OFFICE; REGENT STREET, LONDON. TRUSTFKS. The Duke of NORFOLK. Tbe Duke of RUTLAND. The Marquis of NORTH AMPTON. The Marquis of SALISBURY. Ear! of CA RNARVON. Earl GREY. DIRECTORS. I. orr! North « Jfk. Kir John Dovle. Bart, Hot, err Dowlv'e. Esq. M. P. Sir J B. Morland, Bart. M. P. William Pread, Esq. Sir Henry Pvnn. Hon. Washington Shirley. Walter Strickland, Esq. j Sir W. E. Welby. Bart. ' Sir Robert Wilson, M. P. Managing Director, , T. T. BARBER BEAUMONT, Esq. F. A. S. r| pI] OSE Insured at this Office, whose Premiums fell - S due on the 25th curt, are reminded that they must be paid v ithin fifteen days, otherwise the risk on their Policies wilt cense. Returns of P'cmium, to the amount of a Year and a Half, are. paid l> y this Office to the insured, every 7- years. from the commencement of their insurances. Those who have insured 7 years ivill now receive their returns. Losses are paid- in full without any deduction. Chains have been paid lo upwards of Sixteen Hundred / sufferers, without a single litigation. ftV No charge is made for Policies. *.* Insurance effected on Lives, and Annuities granted. ROBERT RAMSAY, Advocate, Agent. Aberdeen, DCC. 27, IS' 24. ELEGANT Aim USSFETL FANCY Ali^ ICI/ ES, PARTICULARLY SUITED FOR JYew IVw'. v Presents, AT TIIE COMMISSION WAREHOUSE, UNION STREET, ABERDEEN. CHAFJLEiS FYFE So Co. respectful! v announce the arrival of rsti ex- tensive assortment of beautiful FANCY GOODS, all selected in London by their C. FYFE. many of which were just landed at the time from France, Germany, Italy, & c. he had the selection of the newest and neatest articles, which for variety, elegance, and lowness of prices, have never beeu equalled in this part of the kingdom. Catalogues are now ready for delivery, and may be had at tiie Warehouse. UMBRELLAS AND PARASOLS, SILK, COTTON, Sfr. In great variety, to be sold, wholesale, at the London Ma- nufacturers prices. run caps; noxxETs, tur& JXs, C. F. & Co* have on s^ ie, a lar< re assortment of 15. CowVAN & Co Ss SEA I, FURCA PS, 130 NTN ETS, and TURBANS, Crimea Lambskin, Fitch, Sable, Leather, Cloth, & c. The tr- ide supplied at the London prices; and notwith- standing the very, gre-. t advance oil Seal Fur, Messrs. COWVAN & Co. from the advantages they derive from foreign connec- tions, are enabled to conttnue to supply these Caps at a small advance on last year's prices. miSI- I LINEN3. A lot of superior make to be sold very reasonable. FOREIGN SEG IRS, SNUEES, AND SNUFF BOXES. C. F. has also selected, and brought from London, a variety of FOiiEIGN SNUFFS, and a large lot of the Very finest SEG A US, warranted equal to any lo be had in Britain, TEA SHOP FYFE & Co. have got a fresh asso'tmer. t of Genuine BLACK and GREEN TEAS, COFFEE. & c. with a large supply of fine SUGARS, all selected with care, and will be found to give tbe utmost satisfaction.— r'Prices very moderate. N EW YE Mi' 3 GJ- FTJ. ALMANACKS FOR 182k /!/ ROBERTSON respectfully intimates, that he o has just received an excellent Collection of the Newest and most esteemed PUBLIC A TIONS - containing the greatest variety of elegant moral and useful BOOKS, for the amusement and instruction of Youth*— together with BOOKS of GAMES— amusing and instructive CARDS— DISSECTED MAPS— PUZZLES— Painted VELVET PIN CUSHIONS. BOXES, & c— LADIES' POCKET BOOKS and THREAD CASES — PURSES— BACK GAMMON TABLES— CHESS BOARDS— CHESS MEN, ivory, Bone, and Wood— CARD COUNTERS, Pearl, Ivorv, and Bone— Newman and Reeves' COLOUR BOXES, ' all sires— LADIES' WORK BOXES, in Russia, Morocco. See. and a variety of other Articles, well suite ! fur PRESENTS at this Season. Aberdeen, Moore's, Partridge's, and Goldsmith's AL- IANACKS for 1824— White's Ephcmeris. Kearsley's, Baldwin's, and Simpson's GENTLEMEN'S' POCKET LEDGERS— LADIES'ANNUAL POCKET BOOKS, aVious kinds-- HOUSE KEEPERS'ACCOUNT BOOKS. An excellent assortment of Select Worls, in superb Bindings JES- PORTABLE WRITING DESKS, Plain and Ornamented: and MOGUL PLAYING CARDS of a most superior quality. New Public Library, Broad Street. TO 15E LET, f E ' H V. I. OFTS in the New Warehouse on the Quay • Ji nest the Sugar House. There are about 200 Square Yards in each ; they are aired in every direction, and are otherwise well adapted for Storin Grain. TO BE EEUED, BY PRIVATE BARGAIN, STANCES along ihe West Side of COMMERCE STREET, at 5s. per foot; and on both sides of SUGAR HOUSE LANE, at 2s. and 3s. Apply to THOS. B ANNERMA- N & CO. Marischal Street, Dec. 16, 1823. ROYAI- EXCHANGE ASSURANCE. ri^ HOSE insured at this Office, whose Premi- - S. urns became due on the 25th inst. are requested to order, payment of the same within fifteen days from that date, otherwise all risk on their Policies will cease, AU BUILDINGS, GOODS. FARM STOCK, & c, continue to be insured at thi* Office oil tbe usual terms. INSURANCES are also done ON LIVES at this Office, either for OH. OH SKVKK 1' F. AHS, or for the whole INSURANCE of the LIFE. Printed Proposals may be had, upon applying to ANDREW JOPP, Advocate in Aberdeen, tlie Company'] AGE* T. TO BE LET, rVHE FIRST FLOOR of the Corner House, fron- Ji~ ting Union Street and St". Catherine's AVynd, presen occupied as a WARE ROOM by JOHN MAITLAND, EMJ. Situation is equal to any in Town, for Business; and Floor, vvhich is spacious, presenting a Front of Highly icet, will be divided, to suit any Tenant wishing to occupy it. Entry at Whitsunday first. Enquire at JAMES SMITH, Merchant, Union Street. tl Ti- the WM. WHITECROES 8c CO. JEWELLERS, 3 EG respectfully to intimate to their friends and the s- » public, that they have just received an elegant assortmentof FASHIONABLE JEWELLERY ; (^ insisting of- a variety of Ladies' and Gentlemen's WATCH CHAINS— LADIES' NECK CHAINS— BROACHES— LOCK ETSt— PINS— RINGS'— EAR- RINGS— SEALS— WATCH- KEYS— and many other little Fancy Articles,' well suited for CHRISTMAS GIFTS. The articles have all been selected by a person of experience at the first markets, and are of the best material and finest workmanship ; and, on inspection, will be found to be charg- ed at very moderate prices. W. W. & Co. have always 011 hand, a good assortment of SILVER WORK; arid also PLATED GOODS, of the best Sheffield manufacture. Union Street, Dec. 27, 1821. NEW GROCERY WAREHOUSE. B WILLIAM COOPER, { Formerly with Mr. William Fraser, Union Street J EOS leave most respectfully to inform his friends and the public, that he has Commenced Business, in that SHOP in Mr. CLERIHEW'S New House, East End of Union Bridge— where he has on hand a new and very excel- lent assortmentof GROCER I ES- consisting of TEAS SUGARS, SPICERIES, FRUITS, PICKLES, SAUCES, SOAP, CHEESE, and every other article connected with the business. W. C. pledges himself to have always on hand, a stock of those Goods which he can with confidence recommend to his Customers y and by punctual attention to their orders, trusts he will merit a share of public patronage. N. B.— BARCLAY, PERKINS. & Co. and TRUMAN, HANBURY. & Co.' ssuperior LONDON PORTER, in excellent order. *** A quantity of [ slue SCOTCH CHEESES expected daily fro m the con nt > u- wSsT OF SCOTIrATiTIS mStntANCE COMPANY, 37, VIRGINIA STREET, GLASGOW. PATnny, The Right Honourable The EARL cf GLASGOW. AGENTS, ALEXANDER D. SCOTT, QUEEN STREET, ABERDEEN. BF. RVIE ANDREW I, EGG, Merchant. BKECHI. S- WILLIAM ANDERSON, Writer. LAUKKNCEKIUK, DAVID SMART, Merchant. rjTHlS COMPANY effects INSURANCES on I FLAX and COTTON MILLS SUGAR HOUSES, BLEACH FIELDS, and PRINT FIELDS, as well as everv other description of Property, from LOSS OR DA- MAGE BY FIRE. Continental, Mediterranean, West India, American. New- foundland. and other FOREIGN STORES and DWEL- LING HOUSES, as well as every other description of Pro- perty abroad, are also Insured. The Company offers to Insurers the most accommodating terms, and lire amount of Lorn will he at all times settled with promptitude and liberality. The Directors anticipate, that every feature of the Company's system is such as to entitle it to a preference over ihe English Companies. The Capital is divided into Shares of Ten Pnunds each which puts it within the power of persons, even of small capi- tal, to obtain a participation in the profits, and thus lessen very materially the cost of their Policies, INSURANCES maybe effected with any of ihe Company's Agents, 011 the same liberal terms, and application may be made to them, or at the Company's Office, for further parti- culars. No charge is mode for Policies or Transfers. JAS. J. DUNCAN MANAGER, SUBSCRIPTIONS AND DONATIONS, " OOR the Association for Relief of Destitute Impri- JL soned Debtors, will be received by the Rev, ALEXANDER TIIOM, Treasurer. WILLIAM CHALMERS, Jus. E L L O N, IT> I'. G S leave to intimate, that he has at present on f hand, a well selected assortment of CLOTH I F. KY and G ROCERY GOODS, and other articles editing for a coun- try trade. w. 0. has also on hand, a good assortment of ENGLISH CROPS, SliOE- HfDES, KIPS, CALF- SKINS, and all oilier sorts of Leather adapted I'or Shoemakers. GENERAL DISPENSAR Y. npHE Lord Provost requests a MEETING of the i INHABITANTS, withiv Ihe Court House, o » SATUR- DAY first, at Two, lo receive the lie/ tort of the Committee ap- pointed Lo draw up a ] tlan for the Aberdeen General Dispensary. December 22, 1823. TiJE CI IR ( KYJCL. E. ABERDEEN: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1823. SUMMARY OF P3XATXCS. THE discussion kept up in the Lond > n Journals, concerning the propriety of publishing the inquisitorial proceedings of Magistrates concerning crimes, has at- tracted the attention of the Editors, on the Continent, who appear to advocate the cause of complete publicity. There is an article, in many respect* a very good one, in the Journal ties Debuts, a French Ministerial Paper, on the ad- vantages of publicity, and of tbe printed reports of judicial proceedings. - Tift opinions of the people of the Continent on this point are of value, because thev have tried the expi'riin,' il- ium crucis. They have bad experience of the effect of judicial proceedings with and without publicity. There are now coun- tries separated only by ideal boundaries, and subject to lire same Governments, which show both these varieties. Into the German provinces, which during tire time of lire French Republic were annexed to France, the publicity of criminal proceedings. was introduced, and in them it continues to exist, though they have been again subjected to German Print i. In the oilier dominions of the same Princes the old system of se- crtsy prevails. Now it so happens that the people to whom the System of publicity has been extended can by no means be persuaded lo part with it. They, at least, reckon tire, imagi- nary evils of publicity very trifling compared « i h the real se- curity which is afforded by Ihe constant check held over the corruptions, the partialities, the passions, the rage, the timidity of Courts of Judicature, by the publicity given to their pro- ceedings. There may be a question as to the propriety of publishing some of those preliminary investigations in which tlie Magis- trate is occupied in attempting to find the clue of facts, and the publication of which may sometimes afford to criminals the means of defeating the purposes of the inquiry. These inves- tigations should be conducted, not by the Magistrate, but by the public or the private prosecutor; but in this country, where the business of a Justice of the Peace, is in part that of a Pro- secutor as well as of a Magistrate, we can conceive some in- stances, in which, for the reason we have mentioned, seeiosy may be desirable. But this is clear in every case ;— the secres. v should be complete, or the publicity should be complete. The monstrous doctrine which has been set forth by some of the Judges, is that proceedings before Coroners, and in certain other cases, should be public ; but that the publicity shfculd be so cramped, so limited, that it can answer no good purposes, and give room to all possible evils, that w hile, on the one hand, the lurking criminal may obtain all facilities for removing evi- dence and frustrating detection, the great mass of tlie public- can derive no information and truth no security. " The pub- licity of judicial proceedings," says the Journal des Debuts. ' through ihe medium of the daily journals, has even an ad- vantage over all the other means of publicity: it admits— it even provokes the correction of errors, which, in any other mode, would bo propagated w ith impunity." TheVe is another great advantage in this mode of publica- tion : it extends the knowledge of the fact detailed iu evidence lo a circle indefinitely extended beyond the narrow limits of the audience in a small Court, and in this way renders the detec- tion of falsehood so much the more probable and- checks false evidence. A man may utter a falsehood with impunity in a company of five persons, which lie would not venture on in a company of five hundred; and in those cases where the false hood of an assertion can be known to a very few individuals, it is only by complete publicity— by that publicity which the press aloue can give, that its detection can be insured. It is on this account that we hold the attempt of the Judges to stop publication from day to day of the proceedings in the case of TiusTLEwoon and others, to have been so indefensible. In a case oi High Treason, especially where the whole power of the State is arrayed against the prisoner, where evidence has been got up with which be may be unacquainted, to prevent the pu- blication of the proceedings is necessary to enable a judicial murder to be perpetrated with safety ; it never can be of tlie slightest use to a just prosecution or an innocent defendant. The following passage, in which the Journal des Debuts re- produces the argument which we some time ago used in THURTELL'S case flatters us with the hope that an argument, of which the validity is acknowledged so widely, will have its weight in future even with our Judges : " Any extraordinary crime will always excite great curiosity in a civiiizi d Country ; a thousand reports will be circulated ; it will give rise to as many conjectures; even private individual will make inquiries to ascertain tbe truth- The attention of the periodical press will necessarily be directed to a circum- stance which forms the subject of every conversation ; they will collect all the information they can respecting it. lfthepri sonerbe innocent, has he not relations, friends, and Counsel, who wilt undertake his defence antl disprove any false state- ments? Innocence will profit by this preliminary discussion The only offence of which the press could be guilty would be to publish examinations, which the examining Magistrates de- sired to be kept secret; but if these Magistrates themselves al- low portions of the examinations to get into circulation, upon whom must the blame rest then ?" We consider ourselves as but doing our duty to the public, in submitting to them this argument, but we still remain of opinion, that the ends of justice will be best accomplished by adherence to the practice in Scot- land— although we admit that, in some instances, it may screen the delinquencies of culprits, as well as ol public prosecutors. TO LET, rpHE COTTAGE of BONNYMUIR, situated on - S- the Lower Stocket Road, and within 20 minutes walk of Aberdeen. The House can accomnroda e a genteel family ar. d has about thiee Acres of Ground attached to it, all well in- closed and in good oundition. There is also a Pump Well of excellent water. The House and Garden will be let separately from the rest ot the oround, if wished. Entry to the Ground immediately, and to the House at WtritS'rllday first. Apply to Robert Ramsay, Advocate, Aberdeen. prize n'oney by recent captures is said to amount to three hundred thousand pounds: and although his Lord- ship is known to set no great value upon money, yet as it may enable him to do much good, it must he consi- dered as of more value than titles, whether conferred in the old world or the new. Ilis Lordship is at present employed in cruizing oil the coasts of Brazil, from Rio to Pcrnamhuco and Bahia, for the purpose of promptly reptessing auv symptoms of disaffection, that might be manifested against the new Government. The reception given to MINA does honour to the English character, while it gives great offence to the members of the Holy Alliance, who bitterly eOmtilain of the honours paid to the Hero of Catalonia since his arrival in Britain, bv officers of high rank both in the army and navy. In fact, these Holy Allies, upon the presumption that no officer or the British army or navy dare do any thing without Mr. CANNIN'G'S sanction, accuse him of insincerity in professing himself their friend — while he is in fact no better than a liberal. The meeting of Parliament, early in Febitiarv, will put the public in possession of some verv interesting information concerning the policy pursued by this country ; and if Mr. CANNING shall he able to prove the consistency of our foreign policy, we shall be most happy to give till the publicity an obscure Provincial Journal can confer upon his vindication. The Greeks, as well as the Holy Allies, complain mtich of very indirect proceedings, and the Spanish patriots complain most of all. Many facts have of Lite transpired with regard to the practices of Sir WM. A'Cou. tr, Sir JOH> J DOWNIE, and others, during the last summer and autumn in Spain— and bv means of Parliamentary discussion, they will soon be ext- nsively circulated. Concerning the state of affairs in Spain at present, we have nothing important to add to the intelligence already iu the possession of our readers. The country is in a very disturbed state, and in Galieia, it is said, the Royal authority is not in some places recognized, while in others it is reluctantly obeved. The KM PEON A no is not a prisoner, as was reported, but we have no cer- tain information whether he has any considerable force under his command. In Greece, the patriots continue to prosper, if we except the accounts received of one rencontre at sea— when the sudden change of wind drove the Greek fire ships which, under other circumstances, would have destroyed more than one half of the Turkish fleet, back upon their own, and destroyed twenty- three sail of their own ships. This misfortune is evidently merely acci- dental, and nil! not discourage the Greeks, now con- fident of ultimate success, although the followers of Ma- homet may consider it as a Divine interposition in their favour. We are happy to find that, iu many parts of the island, subscriptions have been again set on foot for the support of the Greek cause ; and with particular satis- faction we notice a spirited address from the University of Cambridge, which, we trust, will produce its due efleet on the public. BIRTHS. At Boll field, on the 23d current, Mrs. CORBETT, of a still- born child. At Kinmundy. on tbe 21st instant, Mrs. FERGUSON, of a son. At Fort rose, on the 11th curt, the Lady of JOHN MACKENZIE, Esq. of a daughter. MARRIAGE. At Westerton of Balfour, in the parish of Edzel, on the 13lh cult, Mr. JAMES CRABB painter, Brechin, to JEAN, sccond daughter of Mr. James Mackie, farmer there. DEATHS. At M'dmar CEMIC, on the I7ch curt, JAMES MANSFIELD, E q of Midmar. At Union Harp, on the 18th curt. MARY RICHARDSON, Wife of Mr. Francis Clerihew, Builder in Aberdeen. At Aberdeen, in Frederick Street, on Thursday the 18: b December, Mrs. MARGARET MATHERS, At sou, on tire 6th August last, in progress to Europe, for the recovery of his health, after a servitude ofeighteen years iu India, Lieutenant and Adjutant JAMES MACPIIFRSO- N, of his Majesty's 67th Regiment of Foot. At Foyers House, Inverness- shire, on tfie 29th ult. Mrs. FRASER of Foyers. At Aberdeen, on trie 13', h inst. Mrs JANE TURNER, relict of (' HAS GORDON, lw! of Blel'ack, aged 61, much and justly regretted by all who knew her. At Brixton, on the 16th iust. JAM. ES GREEN. Esq. of the Falcon Glass- House, Blackfriars, and of St. Paul's Church- yard, London. On tbe 12th ult. at Loniorn, Corgarff, the Rev. SAMUEL MASON. Missionary Clergyman there ; a man of humble and unassuming manners, who, for upwards of 40 years discharg- ed his ditties as a Pastor, with exemplary fidelity, and whose loss is much and sincerely regretted by the people who were uti- ler his charge, and by all his friends. At Calcutta, oh the 23d May last, JOHN FORSYTH, Esq. of llie Honourable East India Company's. Civil Service. We lately took notice of the circumstances, that seemed to indicate the probability that we shall again be engaged in warfare, Many ships have lately been put in commission, and some vessels have lately been order- ed to sea so unexpectedly, that part of the crews have been left ashore. Two battalions, the 91th and 95th, have already been gazetted— amf'it'is said that, upon the meeting of Parliament, the number of regiments in the service will be augmented to upwards of one hundred. Officers on half- pay have received notices to hold them- selves in renijiness, end many officers on leave have been ordered to join their respective corps without less of' time. Armaments are no doubt sometimes fitted out, without any serious intention of going to war ; but upon the present occasion,, as France and Spain seem deter- mined upon an attempt to reduce the insurgent colonics and as tile French force in tiie West Indies is'very con- siderable, it is thought highly probable, that ere long this country must enter upon a new war. We formerly mentioned, that the authorities of South America had refused to receive the Envoys sent out to inform them of the counter- revohitioii that had taken place in the Pen- insula, because they could not produce full powers to re cognize the Independence of tiie Colonics. f heir de- parture has since been ordered and enforced, and by this time they may have arrived in Europe. Lord COCH- RANE has rendered great services to the Brazilian Go- vernment, and should any hostile measure be resorted to asaiust the new Government, his activity and spirit of gallant enterprize, we have no doubt will, as hereto- fore, be eminently conspicuous. Whether the Imperial form of Government adopted in the Brazils be really the best suited to the prejudices of the people, we do not know ; but in the mean time, the measures of the newly created Emperor and his Ministers are quite liberal, and consequently popular. We do not conceive that the title of Marquis of Maranham confers any additional dignity upou our gallant countryman ; but his share of We have the pleasure to communicate^ to our readers, the arrival of Mr. RODEN. Aurist. from Glasgow, at Mrs. JAMES ALLAN'S Lodgings.— See Advertisement. AGRICUI. TUBAL ASSOC!. ITION. At the Anniversary Meeting of the Aberdeenshire Agricul- tural Association, held upon the 22d, the following noblemen and gentlemen were elected office- bearers for tbe ensing year : EARL OF KINTORE, Treses. Sir CHARLES FORBES. Bart. M. P. I'iee- Preses. Committee. Mr Kilgour of Bethelnie Mr Walker, Wester Fintray Mr Innes. Land Surveyor Mr Th > mas Burnett General Hay of Ramies Provost Brown Cap;, the Hon. Wm. Gordon, Mr Tower, Kinaldie Mr Thomson of Fairly General Burnett Mr Lumsden of Tiiwhilly Major Skene Mr Niven of Thornton Mr Ramsay of IJarra Mr Forbes of Balgownie Mr Alex. Bannennan Mr David Milne M. P. Mr Fatquharson of Fiuzean, M. I'. Mr. Meniiesof Pitfodels Major I eith Hay Mr Smith, Terporsie Mr Souter, Whilebouse Mr Wilson, Clinterty Mr Know'les t, f Kirkvillo Mr Allardcs, Cobairdy Messrs. Hay of Monkshill, and Harvey of Braco, Secretaries; and Charles Chalmers, Advocate, Treasurer and Cleric General HAY of RANNES has presented the Rev. JOHN WILSON to the Church and Parish of Premnay, in the Pres- bytery of Garioch, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Douglas. The Treasurer of the Clothing Society has received ( in ad- dition to the collection made in the West Church orr the 14ih curt, in aid of the funds of that Society,) the following dona- tiotis, viz.: — From a Lady, - - - - Li 0 0 FVom a Friend to the poor, by the bands of Miss P 2 0 0 From Mr. II 10 0 From Mr. 1 10 0 From a Lady, by the hands of Mrs. , I. 1 0 0 The Treasurer of the Aberdeen Education Society has re ceived, from a Friend to the Institution, Tw enty five Pounds sterling ' Tuesday an accidental fir e broke out in a house in tbe Green, near the Bow Bridge ; but being timely discovered, it was extinguished without doingany materia! damage to the premises PRICE OF PROVISIONS, & C. IN THE ABERDEEN M A li K- ET, Y F. STERU AY Quartern Loaf, — — <) J Pork, — 2d a 4d Oatmeal, p. peck, Il ia 121 Butter, — — 12d a 17d B-.- armeal, Pd a OOd Eggs, per doz. — 8d a 12d Potatoes, 14J a li> d Cheese, p. st, 4s. Od. a 5s Od Malt, — — 2s. 6d. a Od Tallow, — — 7s a 8s Beef, per lb. — 31 a ud Hay, — — — 7d a Oil Mutton, — — 4d a Sd Raw Hides, per lb. 4d a4£ d Veal, — — — 4d a 6d Coals, p. boll, 4s 4d a Os Od On Wednesday last, as an infirm old man was passing along tbe Schoolbill, he got entangled between two carts; a wheel of one of which lacerated one side of his he td in a shocking man- ner, taking away, at the same time, part of bis scalp. The poor nan was earrie. l into a neighbouring house, and after- wards to the li. flrma- y, where, we learn, he promises to recover. GLASGOW MECHANICS' 1 NSTITU IT ON.- A lib- rary has already been formed of about 1200 volumes. Mr. Steel lectures on Chemistry and Mechanics, and though he only began bis course last month he has now nearly a thou-, and students. The fee is duly h rlf- a fi.' r. r sr. d the half of tUt sum is applied to defray the genera! charges of the institution.- Arrangements, we be'iove, have been already made for a very extended course of useful education. " Dr. Brown will lecture on popular anatomy. Dr. M'Fadzetr Ins issued a very com- prehensive prospectus of a cpurse on Nrftura! ( listory. J\ t-, Warren is tn lec- iure on Drawing an! Architecture SI'. M- Kie on the application of Mathematics to the Mechanical Sciences, and a gentleman, w e hear, has promised to lecture on Mineralogy. A case was tried at S'onehaven. on the first Monday of November last, before the Justices of tile Peace, where « master complained of his ihree farm- servants, for absenting themselves from their service without leave, on a Sa'urd. ty evening, and for gross and improper behaviour towards their fellow- servants ; when lire Justices, on advising the case, w ith a pro- f for both parties, found that the servant* had each of the n forfeited their wages, subjected them in the cxpences of ihe proceedings, and imposed a fine of one guinea on the fore- man. or upper servant, which thev ordain.- d to be paid to the poor of the paii. h. NAVAL INTELLFGEXC!\ On Saturday Lst, it blew a hard gale of wind from SSE. to SE. when several vessels were driven to the northward — one of them, the schooner ( Kborn, coal lo;* ded. from Sunderland, after leaving an anchor and part of a chain cable in the bay. Thir- teen vessels, bound to the northward, took shelter in Hoiy Island; but a brig, the Francis, of and from Yarmouth to Leith, with grain, in attempting t > get out of the harbour. driven ashore on the point, near the entrance. The crew was saved — hut the vessel lost her keel, and'was so much, damaged in the bottom as to render it necessary to unload tiie cargo, which was put on hoard the schooner Swift, of Stonehaven, to- be carried to the port of destination. The schooner Hazard, Smith, arrived here from Hamburgh during the gale; had a most boisterous passage from Cuxhaveu, almost immediately after sailing from \ yjvich, on the tid inst. he encountered a succession of violent gales, ait, the commence- ment of which, he was driven near the mouth of the Texel, with the greatest difficulty eleari ng the Dutch, and afterwards the Jutland coast, until he reached a port in Norway, where he remained two days, proceeding again with the only tvv-. » British vessels there : .> ne of them the Scotia. Mearrts, from Petersisurgh for Dundee, which was put into Peterhead on Sa- turday last. The Hazard left Cuxhaveu wilh a H » el of 40 50 sail, about one h; d! British, {. tid the other foreign yessi- ls. Of the former, were the sloop Diana of Pe erbead ; Brother*, of Limekilns ; Leipsic Packet of Lerh ; London Packet ot* Newcastle ; aud Boston ot' Boston, & o. & c. ' I'he Hope, Wood, o. this place, which sailed for Londor> with the above fleet, was, as also ' 1 or 5 other vessels, put back— some with the loss of anchors and cables : but the Loudon Packet, Charter, of Newcastle, in running back, wt » s un- iliy lost on Newaik. The Williamina, Reid, { kit back to Hamburgh, with loss of cables and anchors, having experienced a very severe gale ou the 4th curren*. The Captain reports that the loss of shipping' is not vet ascertained, but that the Elbe is full of wreck. The brig Ruby, Bodie of this place, from Sfinderhnd, standing iu for this harbour, betw.' c i 8 and 9 o'clock, an Wednesday evening, with a pilot on boaf d, wmt ashore on the beach, to the Northward of the pier : but was got off next evening, without appearing to have suffered any material da- mage, after li" rowing overboard about two keels of her cargo- of coals. The schooner William, M'Gregor, sailed from Sunderland^ for this place, on the 1 Ith inst. : next day, and the following ni'tiht, it blew a heavy gale, from \ V. N. W. to N. W. and on the J' 4th, Captain Collie, of the Ariadne, reports, that about 40' miles off the Staples, he saw the William ; but as she ha* not since been heard of, and the weather for some days follow- ing was very boisterous, it is supposed the vessel may have been driven to Norway. On the 14th instar- t, a loaded Schooner is reported to hav& foundered off Flambro'- heaH. The brig Fortitude, Milson, of Peterhead, from LimerVk to Liverpool, sailed from the Shannon on or about the October, and has not since been heard of. The Macduff, Scott, from Macduff for Sunderland, put into Bridlington on the 9: h inst. with loss of sails, anchors*, antl cables. Venus, Nicol, in the Downs, from Almeria. Enterprise, Reid, at Liverpool, on the 21st instant, afUtf & boisterous passage of 17 da\ s from Lisbon. Emperor Alexander. Watt, at Gravesend, from Qiehec. Anne, Robertson, at Grangemouth, from Miranuchi. Ocean, Struthers, at Gibraltar, 30th November, from the Cape of Good Hope. The Cyrus, Roberts, sailed from the Cape of Good Hope* on the 2Ist October, bound for Loudon. Belina, Philips, at Rotterdam, from Georgetown, U. S » . I 9th inst. Rotterdam Packet, at Do. from Aberdeen. ELS I NO' 11E, Dec. 1\>.— The Brothers, Williamson, from Riga to Dundee, is on shore near Ystadt, and full of water,— Crew saved. INVERNESS. Dcc. 25.— In the gale of Saturday the 20th inst. the sloo » Kintail of Kintail, from the west coast* with staves for Wick, sprung a leak in the Murray Frith, ani was afterwards driven into Sinclair's Bay, water- logged, where* after being run as near the shore a- possible, she was deseited by the crew, who betook themselves to their boat, and saved; their lives with great difficulty. The vessel was afterwards- drifted to Kiess, where she went ashore and became a total wreck. It is to be regretted that the cew were not aware of it- new harbour having been erected lat- ly at Kiess by the pro- prietor of that e. vtate, as it is believed they might have run there, and thereby have saved both vessel and cargo. Regent, Kerr,, at London, on she 2 « 5d inst. TIDE TABLE CALCULATED FOH ABERDEEN BAIT.. ( AITARENT TIME.) Morning Tide. | filiating Ti'lb Dec- 27. Saturday, - - . 9H. 4. M. , 9H. 59Ai as. Sunday, 10 — 10 ! 10 — S9r 29. Mouuay, - - 11 — 11 ^ 30 Tuesday, 11 — 51 2 1 51. Wednesday, - - 0- — 12 1 0 — 3*> Jan. 1. Thursday, - - 0 — 51 | 1 — 10 2. Friday, M DON'S : I — AGE. | I — IT O New Moon, lst day, at 7! i. 58m. Morning-, .- orMAC— -. » , tsAni- rw^ x —- twa P 0 S T S C Pi I P T. LONDON. Sunday morning Mr. Hunter, the King's messenger, arrive! in Downing- street, with dispatches f- om Constantinople, which were forwarded without delay to Mr- Canning at his house at Brompron, where the Right Hon. Secretary continues con- fined by the gout, but sees Cabinet Ministers and Foreign Ambassadors and Ministers, and other official gentlemen,, the same as if he was in the enjoyment of perfect he dth and in at tendance at the Foreign- office.. Mr. Hnnter was retarded iu his progress to England from Constantinople, being delaine< 1 on the Austrian frontiers to perform quarantine. It is intended that all th<' In\ h Revenue Officers shall be ex- changed to England after the 5di of January, No respect to patronage or eligibility will be paid. The cliayge is be. tirmtuaL We are to have an Ex- Emperor in England, according to the following extract from an Italian Paper : — LEGHORN, Deo. 4— Last Si turd fiurbide, the Ex- Emperor of Mexico, who seemed dispos^ to settle here, set out for England, with his sons and the Ex- Consul of the Cortes, leaving their wives, who are engaged in settling their alFji » s? in expectation' of notice to depart also. GENOA, Dec. 10. — Farther accounts from Messina- of the late terrible storm say. that the- effects are likely to prove more disastrous to Messina even than the eart'hquakeof 178 >. BAYONNE, Dec. 1.5— A courier, u ho armed here yes- terday, brought very distressing news respecring* tlie spmt of discord which prevails in La Maneha and Est re twa dura.—. Very sanguinary scenes cook pl. rce at Granada on the 3d and 4t- li of this month, in which, say these accounts, 3 20 of the Constitutional party were massacred by banditti, who call themselves Royalists. An event so deplorable seems to prove that the tranquillity and pacification of Spain are not so secure as many persons flatter themselves. Don V. ctor Saez was not present at thegtand dinner on the Qoeen's birth- day, and has refused the Bishopric of Tortosa. He has gone to Toledo, much dissatisfied with the King. The Grand Inquisitor wa^ vxpected at, Madrid on the 8. h. Let'ers fromGreece state, that the G- eeks have experienced a severe loss, in an attempt on the . Turkish licet. Having succeeded in approaching the Turks, near Metelin, they senE two fire- ships against them ; but the wind unfortunately changing, these ships were driven back* on thems lve% and no fewer than twenty- three Greek vessels weie destroyed. Had the wind not changed, few oi the Turkish vessels would have escaped. The Marquis Camden has paid over to the Consolidated Fund the sum of eight thousand one hundred and thirty- seven pounds, being the amount of fees which hi-> Lord> hip has relin* quished, as Teller of the Exchequer, for the \ ear I8' 23. Orders and Advertisements for this Paper are taken iu by NEWTON and Co. No. 5. Warwick Square, Newgate Street R. BAUKKR, 53, Fleet Street, London ; and J. T. SMITH Huutei's Square. Edinburgh,