The mm o • xsa. A UMBER 1 7 , 5 8 1 . "] THURSDAY, MAY 20. 1824. THE ABERDEEN CLUB will meet at Oman's on Saturday the 22( 1 May 1821. Dinner on the table at six o'clock. It is requested that those gentlemen who propose to atteid may leave their names with Mr Oman the day before. DRUMMOND I'LACK GABDEN. TH E ANNUAL M E E T I N G of the PROPRIETORS of DRUMMOND PLACE • GARDEN, EDINBURGH, will he held at the Water, ino Hotel, oti Monday tire 31st of May curt, at one o'clock afternoonC, ilniA teMrmOsN oDf thBeilrt ciphaGrtEe r. DISTRICT. ASTATUTORY GENERAL HALF Y E A R L Y ME E T I N G of the TRUSTEES of the Cramond Bridge District is to'be held, in the County Booms, Edinburgh, on Monday the 31st day of May curt., at one o'clock afternoon. iiy order of theK'onvcner, EDINBURGH, May 19.1824. GLOVES AND HOSIERY. , This day are published, J O H N RAMSAY respectfully intimates,] I. \ BSTRACT of the LAW PROCEED- * J thet his Stock Of GLOVES and HOSIERY, adapted for summer wear, is now complete-. In the selection of his Goods he lias been particular in purchasing those of the best quality, and his prices Jwill be found us reasonable as any in the trade. He particularly recommends to notice his COTTON STOCKINGS, from Is. ( id. per pak upwards, which be warrants are made of two and three ply yarn, one pair of which will wear as long as two pairs of those generally met with. When taken in dozens or half dozens they are sold at the wholesale prices. No. EH. SOUTH BRIDGEP i p H E Daughter of an English Clergyman J l wishes to obtain a situation as GOVERNESS to a young charge. She is capable of instructing her pupils in the usual branches of education ; also the Rudiments | actable references call be- TO THE MEDICAL FACULTY AND THE PUBLIC. MR MAPLESON, Jun. from London, Son nf Mr Mapleson, Cupper to the King, takes lliis mode of announcing to the Medical Faculty, that lie has come down to Edinburgh with the intention of practising as a CUPPER, and hopes, by a diligent attention to his duties, to merit their favours. EDINBI; RGH, May 18.1824. No. 70. GEORGE STREET. Attendance daily at home and abroad. N. 1!. To the poor gratis, on thc recommendation of ] any medical gentleman. 2 1 . INGSin the Case of the Manse of Aberdour, Aberdeenshire^ involving a Decision of thc House of Lords, highly important to the Clergy ef thc Church of Scotland. Price Is. 11. ANSWER to tbe REMARKS by the Precurator and Agent for the Church, on an Abstract of the Law Proceedings in ths case of tbe Manse of Aberdour, in Aberdeenshire. By the Reverend GEO. GARDINER, Minister of AberJour. With an Appendix. By the Presbytery of Deer. Pricc - Is. ( lei. Aberdeen T Printed by J. BOOTH, and sold by ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE and Co. and the other booksellers in Edinburgh. In a few days will be published, R E M A R K S ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN SCOTLAND. By a MEMBER of the FACULTY of ADVOCATES. Printed for WII. LIAM BLACKWOOD, E d i n b u r g h ; and T. CADEI. L, Strand, London. yjiven. Apply by letter, post pail, to A.' . Courant Office. MONEY TO BE LENT. To be LENT, SEVERAL SUMS, from £ 4000 to £ 1000, on heritable security, at fmr per cent. Apply to George Hogarth, W. S. 2. Nelson'fitreet. WIDOWS' FUND MONEY TO LEND. ROM £ 1500 to £ 2000, on heritable security, to be L" nt immediately. To any one wishing a permanent loan, the present is t OTOst desirable opportunity of borrowing. Apply to Charles Spence, soliator, Elder Stscet. LONDON AND EDINBURGH SHIPPING COMPANY. f j P H E Public are respectfully informed, A. that Mr THOMAS JACKSON, Carrier, Brunswick Street, Gla- gow, is appointed sesle AGENT and C'A RBI ER for this Company, at Glasgow and Paisley, and that no other person is authorised to take in goo. is or grant receipts for them. ROBT. BRUCE, Manager. London Ik Edinburgh Shipping Co.' s Office, Leith, loth May 1824. This day is published, By JOHN ANDERSON", jun. 55. North Brielge Street, In a neat cabinet volume, with, a Portrait of Dr CHALMERS, price 4s. boards, THE COMMON- PLACE BOOK OF PROSE; consisting of An original Selection of Eloquent and Interesting Pieces, including several never before published : with Remarks and Contributions by the Editor. w Even to the euost intense and gigantic reader this book - till afiord all agreeable pastime."— Dumfiiei Loutier." In tbe press, and nearly ready, 1. The COMMON- PL ACE BOOK of Ancient and Modem BALLADS, including many never before published. With a Portrait of Thomas Moore, Esq. 2. The POETICAL COMMON. l'LACE BOOK Second cditioa, with additions. This day is published, Neatlv printed in 12mo., price Ss. fid. PLURALITY OF OFFICES IN THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND EXAMINED, With a particular refe.' ence to the Case of the very Uev Hit M'FARLANE, Principal of tbe University of Glasgow. By the Rev. ROBERT BURNS, Minister of St George's Church, Paisley. Glasgow.: Printed for CHALMEB3 and COLLINS; WU. I. IAM WHYTE and Co., and WILLIAM OI. IP H A N T, Edinburgh ~~ THE CIRCLE OF HUMOUR. M O N E Y TO L E N D. To be LENT, on Heritable Security, at Four per Cent. ffT^ OUR THOUSAND or FOUR THOUi l SAND FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS STERLING, in one or more sums. As this money is part of » trust estate, it may be expected to remain with. the borrower - for a good many years. Apply to Messrs. Donaldson and Ramsay, W. S. • George Street; or Archibald Todrick, writer, Madtti. igstou. NOTICE TO ' I'lIE CllHDITOIlS 0~ F CHARLES GARDINER. ALL those having CLAIMS en the Estate of CHARLES GARDINER, Die Farmer at Shitlhill, are hereby requested to lodge the same, with Affidavits thereon, with David Stocks, farmer at Inner - nytie, trustee on the said estate, betwixt and the 28ih day of May current; certifying to those failing to do so, • between and that period, that they will be cut off froai a share of the trust funds. Notice is hereby also given to those INDEBTED to thc estate of thc triel Charles Gardiner, that they are requested to pay the amount of such debts to the trustee between and the foresaid period. PERTH, May 7. 182- 1. TO BE SOLD, At Inglis's Stables, Rose Street, AREMARKABLY line brown HORSEj of great strength and activity, fit for n family coach, heavy gig, or four- wheeled single horse coach or chaise. He is perfectly sound, quiet and steady in both double anel single harness, and parted with only because thc owner has no farther occasion for him. NOTICE TO SIIIP OWNEBS, SI11P MASTERS, AND AGENTS. \ N excellent Assortment of S H I P CHAND- / I . . I. KRT, to be SOLD, at No. 1. Wet Dock Gates. Great Bargains will he given. NORTH L E I T H , May 13. 1824. MIRAM1CHI TIMBER. To be SOLD by auction, in a Y'ard opposite the Glasshouses, Leith, on Tuesday, 25th iustsut, at twelve o'clo k, 18,124 STREET TIMBER, being the entire Jt. cargo of the ship Emerald, from Miramichi, a considerable part of which is of large scantling and superior quality, and well adapted for finishing purposes. JAMES DUNCAN & CO. Brokers. I, KITH. May 18. 1824. This day is published, by BELL and BRADFUTE, t>. f ariiament Square, Price 2s. tkl. ON CLERICAL PLURALITIES, AND NON- RESIDENCE, As applicable to Ministers of tbe Church of Scotland, with a Hcvkiw of DU GEORGE COOK'S SPEECH, 22d May 181(>; Containing an INQUIRY into the LAW and CONSTITUTION of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND, re specting RESIDENCE and PLURALITIES. By A MINIS TER of the CHURCH of SCOTLAND. This day is published, In a neat pocket volume, with a beautiful frontispiece and vignette, price 4s. boards, THE CIRCLE OF HUMOUR, OR, COMIC GLEANINGS, Descriptive of Life, Character, anel Manners, for 1824, in prose and verse. " I do hold that the friends of wit and merriment are not yet exhausted, that the wings of lancy are not yet dipped, and that our ancestors have not said and sung all our good things."— RABELAIS. Glasgow: Printed for RICHAHD G R I F F I N and CO.; EDWARD WEST and Co. TEGO, London. S H E E T I N G , T A B L E L I N E N , & C. J SINCLAIR respectfully presents to the a inspection of families supplying the ordinary wast* of LINEN GOODS, Mafty superior Fabrics of SERVANTS' SHE ETINGfi, anel the finer qualities for family use. All the - fabrics of HALL TABLING. The BREAKFAST and DINNER, CLOTH, of every size for ordinary use. The most splendid DAMASK'dor superior purposss. The assortment of SERVANTS' TOW ELS and of HOUSEMAIDS' APRONS embraces ail the common varieties. BLANKETS and MARSEILLES QUILTS. SERVANTS COVERLETS of every description. To the furnisher be recommends the above at pattici- j paring largely of the properties peculiar to each. 43. SOUTH BRIDGE STREET, opposite Adam's Square. Edinburgh- manufactured Sharvh and Phils. NEW ESTABLISHMENT, 82. SOUTH BRIDGE, r n i s T DOOR OR sTAins. GE O R G E P I C K A R D begg most r e s p e c t - fully to inform the Ladies and Public in general, that he is enabled to rcll SHAWLS and PLAIDS, being bis own manufacture, at least £ 0 per cent. cheaper than any ever olferod to the Public. His Stock of HAB E R D A S H E B - Y and S I L K M E R C E R Y is selling at the re'. luccd priccs. For ready money only. Plaids ana Shawls, of all kinds, bordered, dcaneJ, and repaired. TO THE NOBILITY AND GENTRYWILLIAM NIGHTINGALE. TAILOR, HABIT AND PELISSE MAKER, AS just returned from London with th « SUMMER FASHIONS, aud all elegant assortment of FASHIONABLE GOOOS., Ladies anel Gentlemen who honour him with their orders, can have them executed either in London or" Edinburgh. From his knowledge of London and connexions at the west end of • the iown, he is enabled to complete his orders in the tot style, equal to any house in London-. 72. PRINCE'S STREET, EDINBURGH, May 1 / . 1824. E d i n b u r g h ; and THOMAS UP 1 NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF The deceased BATHGATE COMB, Currier in Dunbar. FINAL Dividend will be ready to be paid to the la'. e Mr COMB's- Creditorson thc first • day of July next, and if there are any creditors who have not yet given in their claims, they are hereby requested 4oIodge the same with Alexander Kinnaird, writer in Dunbar, on or before the 21st day of June next, otherwise they will be cut off from nil share of the funds which belonged to the said deceased Bathgate Comb. ( Not to he repeated.) DUNBAR, May 17- 1824. FOREIGN LOTTERIES, PRIVATE LOTTERIES, LITTLE GOES, AND RAFFLES. LOTTERY OFFICE, SOMERSET PLACE, May 15. 11121. WHEREAS, by several acts of Parliament parsed respectively in tlieriigns of George the Eirst and George the Second, thc* offeree of selling Foreign Lottery Tickets, or publishing proposals for selling the same, is punishable as a misdemeanour, and persons guilty thereof are subject to the penalty of Five Hundred Pounds for each offence. And, by the annual lottery act, the offence of selling Tickets in any lottery not authorised by Parliament ( which has been held to include all Foreign and private lotteries and raffles), or publishing proposals for selling the same, has subjected the persons guilty thereof to be pnnished as rogu. s asd vagabonds, and made them liable to the penalty of Fifty Founds for each offence. And whereas the oftences above described, having become so frequent as lo require immediate attention to put a stop to them, Notice is hereby given, that all persons offending in the above particulars, whether before or after She English State Lottery shall be discontinued, will . subject themselves to the above- mentioned pains and jiecaltics. L. HESSE. P U B L I C S A L E OF S T D O M I N G O MAHOGANY, AT GREENOCK. There will be SOLD, by auction, on Friday the 21st * ur. rent, at eleven o'clock, in the Bonded Yards here, 56* T OGS STDOMINGO MAHOGANY, fr-. J just imported in the AngU3ta, of excellent q u a l i t y , and in which there is a greater proportion of ( lining- table sizes than in any former importation by JAMES and ANDUEW MUIR, owners. F I N D LAY, C O N N A L , & CO., Brokers. THOMAS A IT KEN, Measurer. GREENOCK, 4t. li May, 1824. Published- this day, By ADAM BLACK, North Bridge, Illustrated with nine Plates an. ei other Figures, in octavo, Price 15s. in boards, PRINCIPLES of WARMING and VENTILATING PUBLIC BUILDINGS, Dwelling- houses, Manufactories, Hospitals, Hot- houses, Conservatories, & c. ; and of constructing Fire- places, Boilers. Steam Apparatus, Grates, and Drying- Rooms; with Illustrations, Experimental, Scientific, and Practical. To which are added Observations on tiie Nature •!' Heat, and various Tables useful in the application of Heat. By THOMAS TREDGOI. D, Civil Engineer; Member of the Institution of Civil . Engineers. Printed tor JOSIAH TAYLOR, Architectural Library, London. Where may be had, by the same Author, 1. Elementary Principles of Carpentry, 4to. £ 1, 4s. boards. 2. Ail Essay on the Strength of Cast Iron and odier Metals, 8vo. 15s. beards. Just published, By FRANCi 5 WESTLEY, 10. Stationers' Court, I . ondon ; and Messrs. WAUGI1 and 1NNKS, Huntct Square, Edinburgh:— l . H P H E CHRISTIAN FATHER'S PREJL SENT to his CHILDREN, by the Reverend J. A. JAMES, 2 vols. 12mo. Bds. « s. 2. CHRISTIAN, FELLOWSHIP, orTheCIlURCH MEMBERS' GUIDE. By the same Author. Anew edition. Boards, price os. Mr James maintains a most impressive ctyle of evangelical address, blending the soundest practical admonition with a rich strain of gospel instruction ; we; could not of course but be highly gratified at finding a subject of so much importance as tbat- of Church Fellowship taken up by one so competent to the task, nor have our anticipations been disappointed by the perusal of the very interesting work before us. A vein of sound reasoning pervades tbe whole, and in general « re have had to admire the discretion with which lie touches on certain points in his subject that require considerable delicacy as well as decision in their treatment."— Congregational Magunine. WHITE LEGHORN HATS. ISS KNOX begs leave most respectfully to inform the Nobility and Gentry who have honoured with their distinguished patronage the above beautiful article ef dress, that in consequence of the arrival of a few made up HATS, in town, advertised ees WHITE LEGHORN' HATS, she bos written this day to the Patentee in order to concert farther measures for the prevention, if possible, of this kind of head dress becoming an article of common retail. In thc meantime Miss KNOX begs to assure the Nobility that no large assortment of the White Leghorns can possibly arrive in any warehouse in town but her own, though she believes it impracticable to prevent a few White Leghorns being exposed for sale elsewhere, since they may be purchasetl j wide up in most of the fashionable Milliners either in London or Paris. So very expensive a mode, however, of obtaining these Hats, must, she presumes, at all times prevent their being offered for sale, at any other warehouse, excepting merely as an article of show. EDINBURGH, 18th May 1824. 4". SOUTH BRIDGE STREET. AMACBRYD, late Assistant to Mr Gia- « r. etti, respectfully acquaints thc Nobility, Geu. try, and bis Friends in general, that he is now in London making a selection of PERFUMERY and ORNAMENTAL HAIR, and in a few days means to return to open that uev) ami elegant Simp, No. 53. North Hanover Street. Commodious apartments are fitted up foe Ladies' and Gentlemen's IIair Cutting.' BRITISH ' 1 » AINT" MA" N0KACTOSY, 64. ACTUS STREET, CUE AMIDE, LONDON. T P T O N AND C O . ' S R E F I N E D M I N E - RAL TAR PAINT, at Lis. pur cask, containing 1401b. This Paint is of a handsome dark chocoia « colour, and, being entirely mineral, is Insoluble ia water, and therefore peculiarly adapted for all work constantly exposed to the weather, such as barns, palings, Uot- beJ frames, sluice gates, vlater wheels, and weather boarding. It is also a cure for the dry rot, prevents damp, and destroys vermin. Being fit tor use, rot even requiring to. b* heated, the whole cxpence is but little more than. Id. pst pound. Best White Lead, 40s. per cwt. Patent and Grass Giectis, irom Is. Sd. to c's. pcc pound. Linseed Gil, it. ( Id.; boiled Oil, 3s.; and Tur pen tins, 5s. per gallon. The A N" i I- COR BOSIVE PAINTS, vat. invisibta Gran, 4fc.; Oli « e Green, 70s.; Lead, S'atn, and Stone Colours, 40s.; dark Bed, 20s.; bright Red, KOs. psrcwu fine Olive Green, is. per pound. These Paints art; very ornamental arid preserving; their smoothness and hardness of surface give them a decided s- jpcriuiity over ail coarse paints; they require only to be thinned with oil, The RECTIFIED SPERM OIL, at 4s. per gallon, for Sinumbra, French, and all lamps of a superior kirn!, where a brilliant and unfading light is required, wiibouc smell or smoke. N. B— SPERM OIL, 3s. Od. and PALE WHALE . OIL, 2s. per gallon. BY OBDER OP TIIE HONOURABLE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS, EDINBURGH. To be . SOLD by auction, at the Customhouse, Leith, on Thursday the 3d day of June, 1824, at twelve o'clock, for Home Ccvswir. plion, 4SS § f: 1 ALLONS GENEVA, in small S. " T Casks, containing .". J Gallons each, to lie put up in such lots as intending purchasers may incline ; the same having been iondeir. ned in bis Majesty's Court of Exchequer. ALSO, For ITome Consumption or Exportation, The following GOODS, which have remained In the King's Waichouse beyond the time allowed by law, viz — 0 PICTURES, 4 PICTURE FRAMES, 1 Cwt. 1 Qr. 12 Lbs. FOREST SEED ; 35 Lbs. GARDEN SEED; and 4 Lbs. SHALOTS. The Goods may lie seen three days previous to the sale, on application to the Warehouiekespcr. T R O T T E R ' S A S I A T I C T O O T H P O W D E R, PATRONISED by his Majesty and the Royal Family, universally used by every person of rank and fashion, recommended by tbe Faculty for its simplicity, having nothing injurious in its composition, rendering those teeth mostdiscoloured bjneglect beautifully white, established upwards of 50 years, and sold, wholesale and retail, at the original W arehouse, 3. Beaufort Buildings, Strand, London, and by every respectable perfumer and medicine vender in the kingdom, at 2s. lid. a box. Likewise, TROTTER'S TINCTURE for the TOOTHACHE, Gum Biles, andswclled Fates, at2s. 9( 1. a bottle. None are genuine that has not M. TROTTER written on the stamp of each. ' I H I I E two beautiful and high- bred RACERS, J - CHAMPIGNON and CALEB QUOTUM will COVER at Gullaiie, upon last year's terms. The stock of the former are large and beautiful, and will vie with any in thc kingdom, and those of the latter recommend themselves. Grass for Mares, 7s. per week Those with foals, 83. per week. GUJ. I. ANE, 1824. CONTRACTORS WANTED. IT being intended t o erect THIRTY- ONE TOMBS or BURYING PLACES in the property ^ purchased by thc Heritors of South Leith from the Administrators of King James's Hospital, tor thc purpose of icing added to the Church- yard, tho e wishing to offer for the work, are requested to lolgc- their Estimates with Hugh Veilch, town- clerk of Leith, marked 0: 1 the out- - side, " Offer for Tombs," on or before the 3d of June next. And as it is also mtendad immediately to clear the crcmnd of tbe Buildings, the contractor will have to take down and remove the materials of these buildings at his own expcncc, and within a time to be limited, andj will take this expellee and thc value of the materials into account in making bis calculations a- d ofler, The specification of tbe work will be seen in the hands of Mr Veiteh, who will point out the buildings which are to be icmove. l, and give any oilier information wl icii may be required. In e- oiiee ( uenre o' this arrangement, the SAl. E of tbe M AT le 111 \ I. S of King James s Hospital, advertised for ,4he 3d of June next, WILL NOT TAKE PLACE. L E I T H , May 15. U> 24. ~ TO_ STONE MASONS. WANTED immediately, FIFTY STONE MASONS TO WORK AT the STAYTOR QUARRIES, DEVONSHIRE. A wio FIFTY MASONS required for working ofFthe rough Grtnite. Men who know the use of the Pick and have been used to Scapple Granite will answer foi this purpose. A good man can get, at the regular prices . given, 4s. per day, and a Mason, who understands Scappling, 3s. ( id. per - day after paying for the repair of liis tools. ALSO, TWENTY Carriage- Way or Pitching- Paving Makers required. 3s. per ton given for making common 9 and fi inch Pitchers, the maker keeping - his tools ill repair. Constant employment will be given and Wages paid every Fortnight. It is requested that Masons, Kcapplers, and Pitching Masons, will bring their tools with them, but those Men who cannot provide themselves with tools, arc ! ROUP OF FARM STOCKING, EAST LOTHIAN. To be SOLD by public roup, at Spott farm, on Saturday the 2! lth May curt. n p H E whole STOCKING of SHEEP, JL COWS, QIIEYS, HORSES, and whole IMPLEMENTS of HUSBANDRY' 011 that farm, consisting of 11 Score ar. dlfi Stock Ewes of the Leicester breod. 14 Score ditto and 18 Lambs of ditto. 4 Score Ewe Hogs of ditto. 3 Rams nfditto. 5 Score of fat Ewes. 2 Scorc and 5 fat Lambs. 4 Score and 19 Black- faced Ewes nnd Lambs. 9 Sere and 4 Hogs, in good condition. 3 M deli Cows, calved and to calve. 3 Queys. 2i Work Horses, mostly ynung. The roup wiil proceed precisely at 10 o'clock forenoon, beginning with the sheep, when the usual credit will be given, or a liberal discount for ready money. May 11124. SHOPS. To be LET bv auction, within the several premises, cn Friday 21st May curt., at 2 afternoon, I T ' X C E I . L E N T Shops in 3 1 . and 35. Dun COUNTY AND CITY OF PERTH F I R E I N S U R A N C E COMPANY. LIVERPOOL SHIPPING COMPANY. THE Subscribers having been appointed Agents by Messrs. HUGH MATTHIE and THEAKSTONE of Liverpool, for their Traders plying betwixt that Port and Glasgow, beg leave respectfully to solicit from the Shippers of Goods to Liverpool, a continuation of the favour shown to the former Agents, the T O BAKERS. To L E T , in EAST REGISTER STREET, r i p H E PREMISES lately possessed by JL John Rnd Alexander Aitchison, bakers, consisting of Shop, House. Bakehouse, Oven, and otiier conveniences. Apply lo Mr Riddle, tobacconist, 37. Lcitii Street. EDINBURGH, May 20.1824. AHOUSE to LET, with Dining Room, Parlour, two Bed Rooms, and light lie- 1 Closet, Kitchen, Water Closet, Back Green, & c. 11. Keir Street, 1st floor, at a reduced rent. Apply to Mrs Gilmour, 37. Candlemalter HOST. GOOD I N V E S T M E N T. T o be SOLD by auction, in GIBSON'S Sale- rooms 71. Prince's Street, 011 Tuesday the 1st June 1824, at three afternoon, OUSE, 1. Maitland Street, of diningroom floor and ground storey; rented at £ 105; feu- duty £ 4, 10s. Contains 23 apartments, and extensive front to north and east, ten windows on principal Forfarshire. I. ANDS OF CAIRN BANK FO'. i SALE. Upset pi icc reduced to X'HOUO. To bo SOLD by public roup, within the Swan I- ir, Brechin, 0: 1 Tuesday the 2e> eii May curt, between th » hours of dr. e and two auernoon, H p H E TOW Nf and L A N D S of C A I R N - JL BANK, in the parish of Brechin, atid county ef Forfar, lying within littia more than a mile of the city of Brechin, and in the immediate vicinity ofTn- e. iiy Musr market place. The turnpike road from Brechin to Aberdeen, by North Water Bridge, extends along the we; t boundary of the prcpettvr which is in ail respecis we- i situate for markets. • The lands consist of about 200 acre3 of goad soil, a- iel have . a south exposure, are subdivided by substantial ditches, paling and . thorn hedges, with hedge rows ft' hardwoou ; and the whole, excepting a few acres, occupied by thriving plantations, ate arable and at present Isiel down m grass. There is abundance of limestone on tha property of excellent quality, and which may be - onunuedto be wrought and sold toa dvantage. Thepurchasers may have entry to tbe whole property iaimoUiat » - ly after tbe sale. For firther particulars application may be made to late Messrs. J. and A. Kidd; and it shall be" tin con- floor, and is capable of being converted, at little'experee, Charles Greenbill, Esq. of Y earn, trustee on the sequ » ~ stant endeavour- o- f" < th- e- Subscribers to i= n sure a prompt -'-- " - - - h a v i n g been originally constructed with ^ estate o tM' A l ^ R i t c ^ e , delate p r o p ^ mr ^ i l r and regular dispatch of GOODS forwarded to their care. J A M E S & G E O R G E BURNS. GLASGOW, May 7. 1824. OFFICE, 45. MILLER STREET. PATRONS. The Right Honourable the Earl of Kiunoull The Right Honourable Lord Gray The Right Honourable Lord Rollo The Right Honourable Lord Ruthven Sir David Moncreiffe of Moncreiffe, Bart. Sir Alex. iMuir Mackenzie of Delvin. Bart. Sir George Stewart of lirar. dtully, Bart. James Drummond, Esq. of Strattiallan • la-. nes Stirling, Esquire, of Keir Robert Smythe Esquire, of Methven EXTRAORDINARY DIRECTORS. Thomas Elder Baircl, Esq. younger of Fometh .- Colonel John Cunninghame, Hon. East India Company's Service Robert Greeme, Esq. of Garvock James Hay, Esq. of Seggieden" Patrick Small Kcir, Esq. of Kinmonth Captain Charles Kinlocn of Gourdie Alexander Murray. Esq. of Ayton Thomas Patton, Esq. W. S. Francis Robertson, fist]. Perth Colonel David Stewart of Garth Captain James Stewart of Crossmount John Stewart, Esq. of Dalguise ORDINARY DIRECTORS. TWO TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS C E R T A I N I ! : ISH, of the old State Lottery Offices, 4. Cornhill and 9. Charing Cross, London, respectfully reminds his best friends, the Public, that the STATE LOTTERY finishes NEXT SATURDAY, the 22d instant, when every Ticket, every Share, every capital, and every oilier Prize, must be drawn. into six Shop: that view, v/ itli back apartmen- s to each shop. The situations at the central point of union of live streets, is prominent for shops, which are in request in that populous and fashionable quarter, anil they wiil yield, nt moderate rents, a return of 9 or 10 per cent. There never can be rival shops in Sliandwick Place opposite. Pardculars at thc Sale- rooms. The wheel still contains two Prizes of TWENTY THOUSAND POUNDS, and ten other Capitals, all of which must be drawn that ( lay. A few warranted undrawn TICKETS and SHARES are yet on side at BISH's Offices in London, and by bis Agents in the country, A. S1EVWRIGHT, 102. South Bridge, Edinburgh. BAXTER and CO. North . Bridge, Edinburgh. D. WYI. LIE, Bookseller, Aberdeen. J. CHALMERS, Bookseller. Castle Street, Dundee. T. OGILVIE, Bookseller, Glasgow. C. SIDEY, Post Office, Perth. 03- BISII at. d his Agents have already shared and sold, in the present Lottery, No. 5299, a £ 20,000 Prize; No. 19,412, another £ 20,000 Prize; and Eight otiier Ciipitals. William Hutchison, writer in Forfajr ; or to Tbomss Denchar, 41. Heriot Bow, Edinburgh. 10th May 11124. BUILDING GROUNDS TO BE FEUED, In the New Extended Royalty. The Lord Provost, Magistrates, and Council, will expose to Public Roup and SALE, within the Council Chambers, oa Wednesday the 18th June next, at two o'clock, T p H E following BUILDING and PRIJL VATE BURYING GROUNDS, belonging ta. thc City of Edinburgh :— 1. From 125 to 130 feet of SCOTLAND STREET. 2. 124 feet, cr thereby, of the East division of tbe ROYAL CRESCENT. 3. The angular piece of Ground in YORK LANE, for Stables and Coach- houses. Several Lots of Burying Ground at tbe West end of PRINCE'S STREET. At same time will be LET by public toup, for the term of five years .' rom this date, The VAULT below St Andrew's Church, reserving 25 feet to the west end thereof; and a large VAULT under Lady Yester's Church. Flans ot the ground wiil be shown, and every information given by the Supsrintcndant of Public Works, and the articles of roup will be seen at thc City Clerk's Chambers. Adsm Anderson, Esq. James Bell, Esq. Andrew Cornfute, Esq, William Dawson, Esq. Thomas Duncan, hsq. Thomas Dumbreck, Esq. William Dickson, Esq. William Malcom, Esq. Robert Sangstcr, Esq. George Seton, Esq. John Stewart, Esq. James Wood, Esq. LJ das Street; also, large Shop . 3. Dundas Street. T. ie roup to begin at No. 35. Particulars learned from Mr Alison, 2. London Street; Mr Gibson, 71. Prince's Street. TO UiiSOL. O liV PRIVATE BARGAIN, At a Reduce;! Price, HHHAT HOUSE, No. 78. GltEAT KING A STREET, lying on the n « rtb side of the street, consisting of dining- room, drawing- room, and bed- room floors, with two sunk stories and back ground. The entry at Whitsunday next. For particulars apply to Robert M'- Kenaie, W. S. 13. South Charlotte Street. A1 COUNTRY RESIDENCE TO LEI'. F U R N I S H E D H O U S E , d e l i g h t f u l l y situated at the village of Roslin, consisting of Dining Room, Drawing Room, four Bed Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery, Cellars, Stable for three horses, Hay Loft, Garden, & c. To he entered immediately. For farther particulars apply at No. 21. Royal Circus. Thc house will be seen by applying to Elizabeth Rusaupplied with them, by purchasing them at tbe rate of eJ] 5 Koslin. 2s. per week. N. B— Thc cheapest route for those men to take who • wish to get employment at the above mentioned Quarries, is by the Leith Smacks to London,' and from thence by = the Exeter, Tcignniouth, or Dartmouth Smacks. Apply to Mi Thomas White, pipe- maker, Canongate, Edinburgh, or to Mr John Jlatherly of Fisliwick, near Newton- Abbot, Devon. *„* All Letters to be post paid. TISIIWICK, May 13. 11124. TO BE SOLD ' By Private Bargain, FTP H E LANDS and ESTATE of STEWJ L ARTFIEI. D, lying ill thc parish of Kilcalmoncll, and county of Atgyil. This e6tate contains 1785 acrcs, 3 roofs. 15 falls, of which 473 acres, 3 roods, 10 falls, are arable, | partly well enclosed and subdivided. . There are - some | thriving plantations upon the estate, besides natural j E L I E LODGE, O N T H E S O U T H COAST OF F I F E. H p H f S elegant and convenient MARINE JL VI'L. LA, as occupied last summer by Lord Craigie, is to be SOLD OV LET, with immediate entry, and'with or wilhout the FURNITURE. The house is commodious, the garden and grounds extend to about live English acres, and thc - premises are in line order. The place will be shown on orders of admission from Messrs Nairne, writers to thc signet, 18. Picardy Place, Edinburgh. April, 1821. " BEAU 1 It- UL. RESlni'.- sCli UN ROXBUUGli- S H I R E . To be I. V. T, furnished, and entered to immediately, for any neriod not exceeding six years, r s p H E HOUSE, OFFICES, and GARDEN of OLD MELROSE, with or wilhout eer- Wiliiam Gloag, Esq. Depute Collector of Cess, Manager. Messis. John and James Miller, writers, Secretaries. AGENT IN EDINBURGH, Mr JAMES BURN, W. S. 85. Great King Street. i' H I S Company has now to announce that it has commenced effecting insurances on all kinds of properly against loss by fire, and on reference to the proposals and conditions of insurance issued by the Company ( of which copies may be had at this Office, or from the Company's Agents), it will be seen that tht rates of premium, although the same as those generally charged by other offices, hold out an advantage which ( it is believed) is now for the first time offered to the public in general, that of effecting insurances in cumulo— such as houses and the furniture therein, in one sum ; farm stock and produce along with tbeoteading; and offices and cuthouses along with a mansion- house. Being the ordy establishment of the kind belonging exclusively to this county, and holding out advantages to the public as well as to the insured, offered by no other fire office— this company looks with the utmost confidence for a share of thc public favour, and particularly to the support of the county and city of Perth. ( Signed) WM. GLOAG, Manager. County and City of Perth Fire- Office, County Buildings, Perth, May 14. 1821. AGENTS IN PERTHSHIRE ALREADY APPOINTED. Messrs. Charles Al'Ara Dunblane. John Adam Errol. John Gowans Crieff. TO LET, THE WHITE HART INN AND HOTEL, GREENOCK. To LET, entry at Whitsunday first, rEHHE above long established, commodious, JL and well frequented INN, situated at the Square of GREENOCK, with the Cellars, Stables, and other conveniences, as presently occupied by Mr Walker, Inn keeper. The house, which is in the best state of repair, consists of four stories and ground flat, and contains a travellers room, eight parlours, fifteen bed- rooms, with kitchen, sculleries, servants rooms, & c. See. Tiie house is well known- to all commercial travellers, and being centrically situated, such a situation seldom presents itself to an enterprising and assiduous landlord. Apply to George Allan, liar, manufacturer, Greenock. GREENOCK, May 14.1824. wood. It abounds with game of all kinds, and there is j tain Grass or Pasture Fields, and with the exclusive right ipital fishing 1: 1 thc fresh water lochs belonging- to it, ! of Salmon Fishing in the river Tweed; also of Shooting on tVie property of Old Melrose, all as possessed for some years by Captain Legg. The house is commodious and well suited for a family. The stabling, coach- houses, & c. are large and well finished. Thc garden is excellent. besides a salmon fishing oa the coas It is situated on the sea coast, at the mouth of West Loch Tarbert, and affords excellent sheltered situa- Sions . for fishing villages, while there arc extensive banks well stored with fish of all sorts along the coast, and the | being stocked with the most approven of fruit trees, and people upon it have lately commenced long- line fishing | tiie situation, surrounded by the Tweed, is the mostbeauto great advantage. tiful and picturesque that can well be imagined. The The sea shore furnishes abundance of sea wreck or ware j Meilerstain Fox Hounds are within three miles; and some for kelp and manure, and the arable land might be greatly : of the favourite covers are in the immediate neighbourimproved at a very moderate expence. j hood of Olil Melrose. The situation is also convenient There is a good house upon it, with a complete set of : for markets, being about two miles from Melrose, where offices, and a walled garden well stocked. j there is a constant supply ot butcher meat, bread, beer, Apply to the proprietor, Angus Macalister, Esq. of i& c. and nt which place there is- a daily post, a stage coach, Balinakill, by Tarbert, Argyllshire; Col. Macaltster and regular carriers, P U B L I C S A L E OF P R O P E R T Y I N F I F E, l'o be SOLD by public auction, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse in Edinburgh, on Wednesday the Kith day of June 1824, at half past two o'clock afternoon, STRIVE ROODS of LAND of the Lands of I WESTER CLEN'TRY; also the BRAES of WESTER CLEN'TRY, together with a piece of Grmnd adjacent, ai. d part of the Brae to the westward, txtsnding in whole to about three acres, with the Houses and Steading thereon, all lying contiguous, in the Milntown of Auehtertool, about four miles from Burntisland, and the same distance from Fettycur. For particulars apply to Matthew Smellie, writer in Leith, in whose hands are the title- deeds and articles of ESTATE IN FIFE. To be SOLD, in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Monday tile 31st of May, at two o'clock afternoon, if not previously disposed of, n p H E ESTATE of GILSTON, lying in A the parishes of Newburn, Largo, anil Kilconquhar. It. contains 1047^ acres Scots measure, or 1257 acres 3 roods English, more or less. It lics2i) miles to the eastward of Kmghorn, within two miles of the coast. The steam boats and packets from Leith to London, Aberdeen, & c. pass almost daily ; and there is a steam boat daily from Leith to Largo, within two miles of Gilston. The grounds are properly subdivided, well enclosed, and drained. They are suited to thc most improved system of agriculture. The fann- houses and offices are all in good condition. The teinus are valued and nearly exhausted. There is an excellent modern mansion- house, anil offices of every description ; a good garden and hot houses. This estate will be found au excellent investment for capital, and will be exposed to sale at 25 years purch-. se of the clear rent, which is about £ 1890 per annum. If more land is reciuired, there are properties in thc neigh- RESIDENCE IN THE COUNTY OF FIFE. To be LET, furnished, THE HOUSE, GA It DEN, and OFFICES of CAIRNEY l. ODGE, cither for the summer months, or a longer period, as may be agreed on. The house consists of two public rooms and five bedrooms, with suitable accommodation for servants ; and the furniture is handsome and complete. The offices are conveniently situated, and the gsrden, which is walled, and in full bearing, can be let with the bouse, or retained by the proprietor. Distance from Cupar one mil? and a half, from Dundee nine, and St Andrew's ten miles. For farther particulars ^ pply to Messrs. Low r. nd Rutherford, W. S. 14. East Thistle Street, Edinburgh. EDINBURGH, 1st May 1824. CRAIGHOUSE GRASS PARKS, In the parish of St Cuthbcit's and shirs of Edinburgh, To be Bouped on the Ground, on Friday the 21st dsy of May, for Pasturage during the season. N, E of the PARKS, containing about four acres and a half, i3 well adapted for sheep pasture; the whole are well watered and sheltered, and may be entered to immediately. Also, Two SMALL PARKS at Briggs of Braid, VALUABLE ESTATE IN EAST LOTHIAN TO BE SOLD. To fee SOLD by public roup, within the Waterloo Tavern, Edinburgn, oil Wednesday the 7th day ot July next, at two o'clock afternoon, if not previously sold by priiate bargain, fgjMIE LANDS and ESTATE of EASTJL BARNS, lying within thc parish of Dunbar, and shira of Haddington, as presently possessed by Mr Archibald Wilson. This estate, consisting of K21 English acr", is situateTI within three miles of tha sea. poi t town of Dunbar, erv> thirty miles from Edinburgh, witli the high : oad between Edinburgh and London running through tiiec( i. trc of it. The north boundary is vrithir; a liu- onred yards of the sea, from which a most abundant quantity of e » weed is obtained for manure. The climate is warn), and th< j lands, it is well known, are cf very superior quality, and proeiuca tho most abundant crops ol gram ot every description, turnips, & c. There is upon lha estate a most valuable Lime- rock, wrought by Mr John Wood'; there is also abundance pi' Free Stone^ and drere is cveiy reason to believe that there is Coal. Thc rental of the lands by the leases is upward* of £ 3100. The valuation of the Estate amounts io £ 1893, pes. Id. Scots, of which, betwixt £ 1300 and £ l43 » holds cf the Lrowtf, tlieieby affording three Freehold QetalificKtions. Forfartlierparticularsapplication tobemadetrtjobn Richardson, Esq. solicitor, biudyer Street., Loudon ; or Gcor£ » and William Napier, writers to tt; e signet, Albany Street, Edinburgh, who are in possession o: trie title- deeds and a plan of the estate. AT LIVERPOOL— FOR CAT7; UTTA, J~ X" ir The fine Ship C L Y D E S D A L E , M F F L F F I B ALEX. M ' G I I . L , Commander, Ww- fay^ jy Burden per register 488 tons, nen'. y c* p- 1 * i 4 S B " pcred, she sails fast, and is a most desirable conveyance for Goods and Passengers. Her cabins ars very spacious and elegant, and will carry an c- periencod surgeon. Being nnw ready to receive cargo, a considerable part of which being eognged, she will meet with quick dispatch. Apply to Messrs Dull anil Browne, Liverpool; or Iirre, to BUCHANAN, BltOWN, & CO. GLASGOW, LFTH April 1824. VESSELS FOR SALE. To be exresed by public SALE, 011 Friday the lltli June, at 12 o'clock noon, within Howie's Inn. Kirkcaldy, The following VESSELS, if not previously disposed of" by private baT- - gain : 1st, A new VESSEL upon the stocks, ready to launch, of 80 tons register, or ilicre- , , , , „ . ,. ., by; timbered with the best English oak, ot a large close to the Lunatic Asylum ; and a I A UK at Braisis- ; l i r g p J a n k e d w;, h the best Dnntzic and Eoglisii o.-. s punk. burn The roup to begin at 12 o'clock be shown by Peter Macpberson, at Craighouse. .„ , partially copper- fastened . to the bends; decks best Baltic tir and the Parks will p l g n k > c0,, per ndiled ; is in every respc- - A SM Ct a SlSjitalltiuI built vessel, and will bear the stiiciest inspection. 2- i, The Lighter or Vessel called the VIRTUES, of LL ESTATE IN STIRLINGSHIRE 35 tons, or thereby. This vessel was built about 2i> FOR PRIVATE SALE. , - . . , - , 1 .„„,„„, f n r j r u c i - e - p r - / • r ' - 1 ; v l ' v n i l ' C ;„ months ego, 1or the purpose of carrying large stones upo r | T H E ES 1 A l E ot G R L b N i v N O W S , her ( ie(, k,' being strongly built, and beams supported by - 8- the parish of Muiravonside, » > id county ol Stir- j p i ! ! a r s . carries h » r wiiole cargo upon d-.- ck, fo.- the cooling, advantageously situated in the vicinity of the Rplen- ; ¥ e n i c n c e ot- loading and discharging ; when loaded draws did aqueduct over the Avon, three miles from Linlith- i sj, out four f'cet water. gow, five frdin Falkirk, nineteen from Edinburgh, thirty-' 3,1 - pj,,. HULL c! the Dutch Vessel, VROW ANNA, three from Glasgow, and in the midst of good markets. I o f about 1/ t) tons burden, strong built, ana m good co » - The property consists of 110 acres, I rood, 32 tails, f f ! tliiionwhich 11. 2. 39. are planting, all of very superior land, j j.- 0I" bourhood for sale, A Freehold Qualification goes along with the property. Apply to William Dallas, writer to thc signet. VALUABLE ESTATE IN AYRSHIRE. To be S01. D by private bargain, having a south exposure, well watered, judiciously subdivided with good fences, and intersected bv thriving belts of hard and other wood, enclosed by stone and lime walls, and surrounded by four public roads. The mansion house is built of the best materials, was recently put in the most complete order, ami consists of three public rooms and abed room 011 the first flat, foul* bedrooms and closet: above, with attics and sunk storey, having an For particulars anply to ALEX. HUTCHISON. Kirkcaldy, or V. TI. L. ALLAN and Si.' N, Brokers. Leith. KIRKCALDY, May 17- 1821. A VESSEL ON THE STOCKS FOR SALE, ' Of the following dimensions— J S * H P H E LANDS and ESTATE of BROWN- « id^ d^ rk'" and | ^ S M ^ f 1 JL HILL and FAILFOORD, lying in the parish of • offices, all unconnected with and detached from the farm, brca° iti1 fc e t y i, icbes ; depth 0! hold from Tarbolton, and county of Ayr, comprehending the farms which is in the highest state of cultivation, and let for 21! ceiliug to deck 10 fcet 0 inches; built of sufficient raateof RROWNHILL and FAILFOORD PRECINCT, years from Martinmas L123 to a substantial, active, good rials, and every possible attention paid to tbe worktnar.- ' ' ' ' ""''' " ' of with ceveiaf feus. j siiip ; rwiU admeasure about 92 register tons; is a very died trom the man-: handsome vessel, will carry a large cargo, and may l a and can be launched by tbe 2* « Li* roup. L E I T H , 14th May 1824. FAIL- MILL. FAIL and Pendicle of ditto, the whole j tenant, at 231 boils, 3' lirlots of oats, w of FAIL- MEADOW, REDWRAY, and CLOCK- Thc farm steading ( which is detacli ._ sion) comprises a most comfortable upper qodiWed house, j warranted a fast sailer with spacious and very complete offices of every dtscrip- ! proximo, tion, the whole in the most perfect order.. i A e„ wtntam s There i *} f Barr, by Tarbert; Mr Joan . MM, ea; l, writer, Camp beltown; or to John W. Mackenzie, W. S. It. Frederick Street. Tiie estate will be shown by applying at Balinrkill • house. Mr Morgan, the gardener at Old Melrose, will show tbe premises ; and Messrs. Erskine and Curls, writers in Metros.-, vrill inform as to farther pariic. ikts, and trent for a lease. MELHOS ® , April 20. KM. LANDS UPON TWEED- SIDE, NEAR MELROSE. To be SOXD by private bargain, rgMiESE LANDS about amile to the east- JL wardot' MELROSE, measuring nearly 31 acres, the property of Mr BitYDONE. They have the river Tweed for their northern boundary,— are of excellent, quality,— Rnd possess a remaikable fine situation for building upon, commanding views of tli'e river, Melrose Abbey, & c. & c. & c. The property is out of lease at Martinmas next, when the purchasers er. try would take place. The burdens are very moderate, the lands being exempted Irom thc payment of stij end. Apply to Messrs. Erskineaad Curie, writers in Melrose, nho are authorised to conclude a bargain. MELROSE, May 14. LF. 24. Note,— An adjoining1 Property, measuring nearly fifty acres, ir also tiov for site, tmdfor which ' pj'ly ss abvec. STONE, consisting of about 482 Scotch acres, of rich arable and meadow ground. These lands form a beautiful and compact property, in a pleasant district of Ayrshire, six miles from Ayr and Kilmarnock, and lying immediately north of the thriving village o f ' i arbi lton, and the public roads from Ayr and Kilmarnock pa s through tho centre of the estate. The lands are susceptible of the highest improvement, and are- all enclosed and subdivided by thriving fences. Excellent situations may be had for buildin, is coal and freestone of the, fin- 1 quality on the j Gonrlay Balfour, Leith. property, which may be worked to great advantage. J,. ime j EI. IE, April » ). 185 is within a mile of tiie property, at 2s. per boll, reals at 5s. per ton, and a good meat market in the nei^ tibvirhooil, several coaches pas-; daily to and from Edinburgh, and the Union Canal, at the distance of a quarter of a mile, affords a. speedy, comfortable, and cheap conveyance Apply to William Steel, shipbuilder, Elie ; or to Mr mansion- house, and there is some valuable old wood ad- 1 to all parts of the country. joining the luins of Failfoord Abbey. The public bur- j The climate is healthy, the society goael; and a more Apply to the proprietor, at Milton, by Maybole; to rarely to be met with. Quintin Kennedy, Esq. of Drummellan, Ayr; or John j ( Tie Valuing the House, Garden, and Bell, Esq. W. S., 81. Great King Street, Edinburgh. \ r, iudcrate rent, thc property will be soh • ~ ' ctor, will give ' four per ccut. ; and farther rr m as to farther . application ta die tenant, or tbe proprietor atT'irkhiil, 011 the boards tbe day previni ' near Falkirk, win re tiie plan may be seen. | Dumbarton, ar. d return with joining to tbel N. B. The mansion house, garden, and small paik, tbe evening. Park, at a very sold to yield, utmost ind'farther particulars may be known on 1824. THE S T E A M BOAT M A R I O N , P & J I ON LOCHI. OMOND, a^ ® - Handsomely fitted out, will begin tn p'y through the Loch 0: 1 Tuesday let June. will continue to do so every lawful day dining the Summer, calling, at UALMAHA, LUaS, H O T . N - NAN, FOOT of BENLO.. IOND, TAB BET, and ROB ROY'S CAVE. » The Marion will sail from BALLOCILc. ery morulog at ten o'clock. The DUMBARTON STEAM BOAT, whose hcur cf sailing from Dumbarton in the morning will he see:" 011 the boards the day previous,, will take tiie passengers o itb them to Glasgow the « Mr Robert Petticrew, at Burton, tile factor, cent. directions for showing the lands, and inform " c » r , „ ) i / « , t ; A n , particulars. NIB There is another property, adjoining thc 1 1 ns mansion nouse, garden, ana SHK-. H, paia, ure, above, at present- advertised for sale; the two properties' whole well enclosed, and adjoining an exeeilcr. t road, will* _ Passengers on reaching Dumbarton in the morning will would form together a very compart and valuable estat;. be sold with thc farm cr separately. find carriages ready to coevty them to tial'uch. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, SATURDAY, MAY 15. B A N K R U P T S . , Richard Ramsden, Wandsworth, coach proprietor TO BE SOLD OR LET, Entry immediately, THAT excellent FAMILY HOUSE, No. 1. RAEBURN PLACE, with front and back Ground and Stable. The honse consists of dining and drawing rooms, pirfour, five bed- rooms, and light Thomas Dale, Old Bell inn, Holborn, coach master closets, with kitchen, scullery, and the usual accommoda- j William Welsby, Manchester, innholder tions. The house is pleasantly situated, snd in the vici- ' "", J " — - - : - . — » - nity ofthe New High School. Also to be SOLD, entry at Whitsunday 1825, That HOUSE, No. 7- DlUJMMONll STREET, acoond door of the stair, presently occupied by Mrs Ha- Jniltonj consisting of five excellent rooms and kitchen, fee. From its vicinity to tha ' College and High School, it is peculiarly well suited for. a boarding ox lodging house— Price moderate. For particulars apply to Kobt. Rattray, W. S., 4. JWlevue Crescent. LORD BYRON. T DESIRABLE VILLA FOR SALE, A'o be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 2d day of June next, at two o'clock in the afternoon ( unless previously disposed of by private bargain), p H E VILLA of VIEWFIELD COTTAGS, containing six rooms, kitchen, and other conveniences, with suitable offices, and the Ground attache 1, consisting of about three acres, above two of which are fully stocked with fruit trees and bushes, of- the ' best sorts, in a bearing and very thriving state. The property ia pleasantly situated, about a mile from Lasswade and Dalkeith, and co, icb. es pass within half a mile to and frost Edinburgh twice a day. Upset price £ 700. Apply to Mr James Brown, accountant, or Messrs. M'Kenzie and Innes, W> S. Mr Cribbes, at the cottage, will show the premises. James Wild. Burslem, Stafford, victualler Hugh Roscow, Pendleton, Lancashire, brewer Samuel Davis, Devenport, Devon, grocer William F. Sintenis, Langbourn Chambers, merchant John Nelson, Cheltenham, tea- dealer William Ilcyden, Liverpool, coachmaker Joseph Wreaks, Sheffield, saw- manufacturer Samuel Ella, Noble Street, shoe- draper John Bowes, Battersea, carpenter Thomas Alexander Roberts, Moatford Place, Kennir. gton Green, coal- merchant George Eaton, Upper Thames Street, stationer Joseph Dawe, Hellingtown Mills, Buckland Mon& chortitn, Devon, miller James Haselden, Grub Street, Coleman Street, horsedealer William Christopher Twaddle, Hertford, draper Benjamin Osborne Corbett, Friday Street, linendraper. Wheat. 03 3 AVERAGF. P R I C E S OF CORN, FOR ENGLAND AND WAI. E8, MAY FL. Barley. | 31 8 Oats. 24 Rye. 30 7 Beans. \ 33 1 feat, 37 < AVERAGE P R I C E OF SUGAR, Computed from the rejurns made in the week ended the 14th May, is Thirty- one Shillings and Two Pence Three Farthings, per cwt. duty exclusive. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. VILLA IN POltTOBELLO, WITH ABOUT TWO ACRES OF GROUND, r | M i I S PropeTrot yh e iSsO pLDle Oa. s" aLnEtTly. situate near fi. the west end of Portobello, on the south side of the highroad, at r convenient distance back from it. having a shrubbery in front, surroundert with fine old trees. The house was originally built and occupied by the late William Jameson, Esq. architect in Edinburgh, and is most substantial and commodious, and lias lately had very considerable additions made to it It consists of three public rooms, six bed- rooms, water closet, kitchen, servants apartments, hall, butler's accommodation, wash- . i. ig- house, & c. The property consists in all of about two English acres, and in the ground behind the house there are some tins old forest trees, and an excellent garden, with the water of Figgate flowing through it. In short, so complete a ' residence for a genteel family is seldom tc be met with, the " bouse being handsome and commodious, delightfully si- ' mate in the village of Portobello, iiow the most fashionable watering place in Scotland, and within a convenient ' distance from Edinburgh. From the situation ot the grounds, water, and old trees, the property possesses many natural beauties, and beflides, it commands file most picturesque and extensive - views that are any where to be had. Price moderate, and part of it may remain on the pro- • jicrty. Apply at No. 13. Low Terrace, Edinburgh. AN ESTATE IV A^ NANDALE. For SALE, • n p i I E L A N D S o f G I H T H H E A D , l y i ng JL on the left ban!; of the water of Annan, in the parish of Waniphray, and county of Dumfries, about seven miles south from Moffat, on the road by Dinwoouie - Green to Lockerbie, consisting of 240 acres or thereby, of itood arable land, well enclosed and subdivided with thorn fences. There is a substantial Dwelling- house, surrounded with some fine old trees, an exceeding good Thrashing- mill striven by fcater, and a suitable set of offices, upon the premises. The present rent is £' 140, on a five years lease, which - expires at Whitsunday 1835. The lands hold of n subject superior, and the public burdenB ( the land tax being redeemed) are very trifling. For farther information apply to Charles Cuningham • and Carlyle Bell, W. S. Edinburgh, who are in possession ot' the title- deeds and plan ; or to Alexander Melville of . Barqtihar, at Kirkcudbright. James French, the tenant at Girthhead, will show the lands. HOUSE OF COMMONS. F R I D A Y , MAY 1 4. M r COURTENAY m o v e d t h e o r d e r of t h e dav f or faking into farther consideration the report of the county jails bill. The SPEAKER having left the chair,. The honourable member stated shortly the inconveniences that arose from the jails in towns and small jurisdictions. The principal object ofthe measure was to enable local jurisdictions to contract with the magistrates of the county for the safe custody of their prisoners in the county jails. After a few words from Mr 1''. PALMER ami! Mr Secretary PEEL, the report was received nnd ordered to be taken into farther consideration on Monday next. GAME LAWS. O n t h e m o t i o n of M r S. W O R T L E T , for t h e r e - committal ofthe game laws bill. S i r J . E . BRYDGES m o v e d as an a m e n d m e n t, that it should be recommitted that day three months. After a few observations from Mr LOCKHART, the amendment was withdrawn, and the bill ordered to be recommitted on Monday next. The other orders of the tlay were then disponed nf, and the House adjourned at half past twelve o'clock. George Gordon Byron, Lord Byron, horn in 1788, waa the representative of a family which ascends to the Norman Conquest, and many of his ancestors fill a distinguished place in the history of this country. The Peerage was contorted on Sir John Byron for his services to the royal cause in the battle of Edge- hill and Newbury, in which he was engaged with six of his brothers. William, Lord Byron, who succeeded to the family honours, in 1730, was committed to the Tower, in 1788, for killing his relation and neighbour, Mr Chaworth, in a duel, fought at the Star and Gaiter Tavern, Pall Mall, by the light of a candle. A verdict of wilful murder had been returned by the Coroner's Jurv, and his Lordship was tried by his Peers in Westminster Hall, and found guilty of manslaughter; hut discharged on the place of privilege,. when brought up for judgment. This Lord died at Newstead Abbey, May 17. 1798. The honourable John Byron, his brother, born at Newsr. ead Abbey on the 8lh November 1723, is distinguished in our naval history for the hardships he encountered in the expedition tinder Commodore Anson, and for the expedition he himself commanded shortly after the commencement of the last reign. The son of this veteran, John Byron, the father of the poet, was born in 1751. He distinguished himself in the annals of gallantry, by the seduction of the Marchinness of Carmarthen, whom, after her divorce, he married. On her death he married Miss Gordon, a Scotch lady of nohle descent, being the last of a branch of that family which descended fiom the Princess Jane Stuart, daughter of James I I . who married an Earl of Hunllv, aud heiress to an estate at Rayne, in the county of Aberdeen ; he died at Valenciennes, on the 2d of August 1791. His Lordship's mother died in Scotland, while he was on his travels in 1811. Lord Byron succeeded to the title and estates on the death of William the fifth Lord Byron, which, as we have already stated, took plae j in 1798, wheij he was only ten years of age. Up to that period he bad lived in Aberdeenshire, and it appears that the wild scenery of the spot in which he passed his early years remained always deeply engraven on his memory. Towards the close of the year 1798, he was removed to Harrow. Speaking of his studies there his Lordship says in a note to the fourth Canto of Childe Harold, " In some parts of the Continent, young persons are taught trom mere common authors, and do not read the best classics till their maturity. I certainly do not spe. ik on this point from any pique At Venice, I. ord Byron avoided as much as pos-' uius, we thought it impossible that a tuind like his sible all intercourse with his countrymen. He quit- J should not ultimately burst through the debasing ted that city am! took up his residence in other parts'! enthralment of eartlily passions, and, perceiving of the Austrian dominions in Italy, which lie'quilted 1 from Ihe commanding attitude of emancipated rea- -—- — —- „. v..,^., for Tuscany. He was joined bv the late Mr Shelley,' son the errors of his course, should not endeavour to peas, from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, and. a few more and afterwards by Mr Leigh Hunt. ( repair them. We waited the return ofthe purified ™ ™ ' ^ ^ t h e north. Fine dry samplesot His patrimonial estate received lately a large in-! spirit upon itself to cast a mantle of glory upon the ""* CORN EXCIIAXGE— MA V 17- „ The arrivals of all sorts of corn last week were tolewblj fair for this season of the year. This morning there are only small fresh supplies of wheat, barley, beans, and FRENCH PAPERS. LANDS IN BERWICKSHIRE FOE SALE. There will be exposed to public Sale, upon a day to be afterwards advertised, 1. n p i - IE LANDS and ESTATE of ANJL TONSHILL, consisting of 480 acres of arable , land, or thereby, lying within the parish of Eecles, and county of Berwick. 11. The LANDS of NEWTOWN of WH1TSOM, and others, possessed- by James Mason, James Trotter, and John Cunningham, consisting of 270 acres of arable land, or thereby, lying in the - parish of Whitsom and . county of Berwick. 111". That PIECE of LAND, lying near the village of " Birgham, consisting of five acres, or thereby, possessed by James Lighterncss. For particulars apply to Mr Patrick Cockburp, ac- • countant, No. 8. York Place, Edinburgh, or to Messrs. Tod and Romanes, Charlotte Square, Edinburgh. The lands of Airtonshill trill be shown by Archibald Lighterncss, the steward, and the other lands by their respective • tenants. ' LANDS IN DUMFR1F. S- SIIIRE FOR SALE. There will be exposed to SALE, in Gibson's sale rooms, 71. Prince's Street, Edinburgh, on Thursday the 24th day of June iicxt, at two o'clock afternoon, if not previously sold by private bargain, r p H E ESTATE of UPPER COURANCE, JL in the parish of Kirkmicliael, nearly at an equal distance betwixt Moffat and Dumfries. The estate contains about 300 acres, and rented at £ 252, with breaches in tiie leases in favour of a purchaser, and the rents will considerably increase. There is a good modern dwelling, - house with substantial officos, on the principal farm, and the other farm steadings have been recently built and are good. The lands have been partly improved, and there are valuable and thriving plantations on the estate. It will be exposed at such a price as' will, including the present value of the growing plantations, yield 4 per cent.; and, if desired, the exposcr will guarantee for any . reasonable number of years that the rents shall yieid to the purchaser at least the above return. The teinds arc valued and exhausted ; the feu- duty trifling, and public burdens moderate. By a charter from the superior, the fee is full in the person of tile pro- , prietor. For farther particulars application may be made to Messrs. Youngs, Ayton, and Rutherford, W. S.; or Johnstone ami Little, solicitors, who are in possession of the leases and plan of the estate; or to Francis Sliortt, • Castle Stieet, ilumf) ies, the proprietor. [ From the Etoile of Thursday.] Madrid, May ft. A general amnesty is published. The principal exceptions are— The Chiefs of the military insurrection of the Isle of Leon. The members of the Cortes who proclaimed the dethronement of the King at Seville. The Chiefs of military insurrections in different parts of Spain, at Madrid, & c. The assassins of Vinueza, the Judges of Elio, and the authors of the massacres in the prisons of Grenada. [ From the Journal des Debats.] When it is known what difficulties of all kinds surround Ferdinand's Ministers, it will not appear surprising that this act of policy as well as of mercy, should not have been published earlier. It appears that the Spanish Government wished that our troops should prolong their residence in the Peninsula beyond the lst July ( the period fixed for their return), and that the French Ambassador, profiting bv this circumstance, stated that his most Christian Majesty would be much more inclined to, agree with the wish o f t h e Spanish Government, if the act which was to reconcile the children of the same family, should put an end to the anxieties, and should fix the destiny of a noble and devoted people. [ From Galignani's Messenger.] The division of the Army of Observation commences its entrance into Spain on the 6th of May. Tlie 1st battalion ot the lst regiment of the line arrived on the 4th at Bayonne, the 2d battalion on the 5th, the 11 th regiment " on the 6th, and left on the 8ih, or aversion towards the plan of my education. I was not a slow though an idle boy; and I believe no one could be more attached to Harrow than I have always been, and with reason :— a part of the time passed there was the happiest of my life; and my preceptor ( the reverend Dr Joseph Drury) was the best and worthiest friend lever possessed, whose warnings I have remembered but too well, but too late when I have erred," & c. At the age of little more than sixteen, he removed to the University of Cambridge, where he became a student of Trinity College. At the age of nineteen he left the University for Newstead Abbey, and the same year gave to tbe world his " Hours of Idleness." Among the early amusements of his Lordship were swimming and managing a boat, in both of which he is said to have acquired great dexterity, even in ' his childhood. In his aquatic exercises near Newstead Abbey, he had seldom any other companion than a large Newfoundland dog, to try whose sagacity and fidelity he would sometimes fall out of the boat, as if by accident, when the dog would seine him and tlrag him ashore. On losing this dog, in the autumn of 1808, his Lordship caused a monument to be erected, commemorative of its attachment, with an'inscription, from which we extract the following lines " Ye who perchance behold this simple urn. Pass on ; it honours none, you wish to mourn ! To mark a friend's remains these stones arise— I never knew but one, and here he lies." On arriving at tbe age of manhood. Lord Byron Tfmbarked at Falmouth for Lisbon, and from thence proceeded actons the Peninsula to the Mediterranean, in company with Mr Hohhouse. The travels of his Lordship lire described in Childe Harold and the notes. It is somewhat sin? gular, that his Lordship should have then had a narrow escape from a fever, in the vicinity of the place where he has just ended his life:— " When, in 1810," he says, " after the departure of my friend, Mr Hohhouse, for England, I was seized with a severe lever in the Morea, these men ( Albanians) saved my life, by frightening away my physician, whose throat they threatened to cut, if I were not cured within a given time. To this consolitnrv assurance of posthumous retribution and a resolute refusal of Dr Komahelli's prescriptions, I attribute my recovery. I had lelt my last remaining English servant at Athens; my dragoman, or interpreter, was as ill as myself; and my poor Arnauts nursed me, wilh an attention which would have done honour to civilisation." Whilst the Salsette friu'. te, in which Lord By- 1 crease by the deatli of Lady Byron's mother, and a valuable coal mine, said to be worth £ 30,000 had been discovered on his Rochdale estate before he left England,' so that at his death he must have been iu the possession ot a large income. One produclion of his Lordship will he looked for with more anxiety than any of his former ptiblica. lions. We allude to his life, written by himself, which he gav? to his friend Mr Thomas Moore, and which has been some time in this country. If report is to be credited, Lord Byron has in this work examined himself with an unsparing severity of which few men are capable. The following particulars will fill up all that is kifbwn of the death of this nobleman :— On the » th of April I. ord Bvron, who had been living very low, exposed himself in a violent rain ; the consequence of which was a severe cold, and he was immediately confined to his bed. The low state to which he had been reduced by his abstinence, and probably by some of the remaining effects of his previous illness, made him unwilling, at any rate he refused to submit, to be bled. It is to be lamented that no one was near his Lordship who had sufficient influence over his mind, or who was himself sufficiently aware of the necessity of the case, to induce him to submit to that remedy, which, in al! human probability would have saved a litis so valuable to Greece. The inflammatory action, unchecked, terminated fatally on the 19th April. There are no letters of his Lordship's of a date subsequent to the commencement of his illness. The friends who were near him at the time of his decease, in addition to Prince Mavrocordato, were Mr Parry, who had organized the artillery and engineer corps for the G+ eksat Missolonghi, Mr Bourke, and Count Gamba. The letters froju the last named gentleman first communicated the intelligence to I. ord Sidney Osborne, who forwarded it with the kindest attention to the friends of Lord Byron in England, and proceeded from Corfu to Zante, to make whatever arrangements might be necessary respecting his remains. I. ord Byron had succeeded, his friends are informed, in stirring up among the people of the part of Greece in which he had resided, an almost inconceivable enthusiasm. His exertions were incessant in theircaus£>, tuvl thegratitude ofthe people was proportioned to them. Flis influence was not lessened by being employed often to procure humane even kind treatment towards tbe Turkish captives. On the day of I, ord Byron's death, and when be appeared in imminent danger, the Prince Mavrocordsto wrote to his Lordship's friend and companion, Count Gamba, requesting a committee might be immediately appointed to take the necessary measure « for the security of his property; in consequence of which, four gentlemen have been nominated to act until other arrangements can be made. darkness of the past, as we lmve waited tbe reflux of tlie mighty ocean, to see it cover with majestic waves the weeds and impurities which it had left behind in its ebb. In a word, we had seen Lord Byron immoral and unprincipled, a debauchee and an infidel, hut still a superior being;— we expected — no, we only hoped— to see him a Christian, and we secretly considered what a mighty champion wheat are scarce, and our millers purchase such descrip. tions with eagerness, at rather more money than last Monday, but all other qualities still sell so very heavily, that they cannot be disposed of without submitting to les « prices. That the bonded barley will be liberated next week is considered nearly certain, the trade for barley is therefore excessively heavy, except for malting samples, all other sorts are imported Is. per quarter lower than last Monday, yet very few sales could be effected. There lifts been a free defiiand for beans, on fnll as good terms as he might prove to the faith which ha once sought ; t h i s day . se'ennight. Boiling peas are getting scarce to destroy. We^ thought luni marked for more and having a fair demand to- day, they areIs. per quarter than the immortality of fame, and we fondly ima gined that the spirit which had received so many gifti from Heaven, would also receive that light which alone could mature and perfect them. His last actions seemed calculated to confirm these anticipations. He had already awakened to justice and lo glory. He was become a leader ill that contest which has for its objects the recovery of a people's freedom, the rebuilding of God's altars. He was at last moving in a sacred cause; but whether the first offering was accepted, or he touched the holv ark too soon, his steps have failed at the entrance of his new career, and he lias left but n partially redeemed name. Is not this cause for real grief to those who venerate genius, though they condemn its aberrations— to those who love Christianity, and in its spirit, wish not its enemies to die, hut to return and be once more its children ? dearer. Grey peas find buyers'readily at the smiepricm as last quoted. There lias been a tolerable free tradfor oats to- day, and the best parcels are quoted Is. per quarter higher. The flour trade continues excessively dull. Price on board ship, as under: [ From the British Press.] The death of Lord Byron falls on the public ear like the shock of a deep private misfortune. He has sunk lo rest in the prime of his ( lavs, and in the zenith ot his fame; he has left the world when his services could be ill spared, aiid, we may add with truth, when they cannot be supplied. A more calamitous event could not have happened to Greece; all his aid, personal and pecuniary— all the energies of his body and of his mind, were put forth for the restoration of her free lom ; to her cause hia loss is irreparable. I. ord Byron's genius was of the very first order: he was one of those characters from whose existence new eras date their commencement: that fresh career of society which is beginning in Europe, wanted the stimulus of a mind like his to carry it onward to happiness and to glory: he was no lover of revolutions; he looked only to the improvement of which the political condition of mankind was capable, by the diffusion of knowledge and the just estimate of independence. It was with these views that he aided Greece, to the utmost of his means, to rescue herself from the chains of her oppressor, and rise again to life and liberty. We are not yet sufficiently recovered from the painfbl feelings with which the sudden intelligence of his death has impressed us, to enter at present into any detail of observation on his genius as a poet, or his character as a, man. Now that his days are numbered, the world will do justice to both. Red Wheat, ( old) 82s. to 72s. White, old 48s. to 78s. 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Consols 98 § 4 per Cent, new 108J [ From the Times.] With unfeigned regret we announce that Lord Byron is no more. We know rot how many of our countrymen may share the feelings with which this news has affected us. There were individuals more to be approved for moral qualities than I. ord Byron — to be more safely followed, or more tenderly beloved ; but there lives no man on earth whose sudden departure, from it, under the circumstances in which tbat nobleman was cut off, appears to us more calculated to impress the mind with profound and unmingled mourning. Lord Byron was ( loomed to pay that price which Nature sometimes charges for stupendous intellect, in the gloom of his imagination, and the intractable energy of his passions. Amazing power, variously directed, was the mark by which he was distinguished far above all his cotemporaties. His dominion was the sublime— it was his native home; at intervals he plunged into the lower atmosphere for amusement, but his stay was brief. It was his proper nature to ascend: but. on the summit of his elevation, his leading pa-' sion was to evince his superiority, by launching his melancholy scorn al mankind. That noblest of enterprises, the deliverance of Greece, employed the whole of Lord Byron's latter days— of his pecuniary resources, and of his masculine spirit. It was a cause worthy of a poet and a hefo; and it is consolatory to find, that the people for whom he would have devoted his life seem to have felt the full value of his exertions and his sacrifices. India Stock India Bonds 71; F. x. Bills ( £ 1 0 0 0 ) , 38 Consols for Acct < Jf> 4 FRENCH FUNDS. May 14. Five per Cents. 104f. 50c. to 104f. B> c. Bank Stock 1997. 50. Exchange on London, 1 month 25. 50 3 do. 25. 5. E D I N B U R G H E V E N I N G C O U F T A N T. [ The Morning Chronicle.] Thus has perished, in the flower of his age, in the noblest of causes, one of the greatest poets England ever produced- His death, at this moment, is, no doubt, a severe misfortune to the struggling people for whom he has so generally devoted himself. His character we shall not attempt to draw, lie had virtues, and he had failings; the latter were in a great measiire the result of the means of indulgence which were pt? ced within his reach at so early a period of his life—" Give me neither poverty nor t h e 12t'h r e g ime. n t a r r ived 011 the 8th . a nd . left I! 1 la rTn* a* n pilIe » s, 5 s enl ;( Kliesrr ntiior spC onnrsctsapn tinnirotnpnletr, « loaym pi no f thI en Aj r i . c hes,"- , s a., i d . a n. < i nsp- i rne d writer, and certainly it may on the 10th, the 29th regiment arrived on 10th and left on the 12th. These three regiments are'destined for Saragosa. Two detachments of foot artillery, of 54 sub- officers and privalea, left on the^ t1' instant for Spain, 24 for St Sebastian, and 30 for Victoria. Viscount Digeon has arrived at Bayonnc from Paris, but departs immediately for Madrid as Cojn'Tiatider- in- Cllief of the army of occupation in Spain. LONDON, MAY M 17- Dardanelles, a discourse arose among some of Use ; b e 8a|( | that the gift of ricl officers respecting the practicability of swimming I f o r t h e ,) o s s (^ s o r . The ait: across the Hellespont. Lord Byron and Lieutenant1 Ekenhead agreed to make the trial; they accordingly attempted this enterprise 011 the 3d of May 1810. The following is the account given of it by his Lordship:— Captain P A R R Y left town ori Saturday for Sheerness. The officers and crew of tbe Hecla and Fury will be paid their wages tomorrow at the Nore, from which place, the ships are expected to sail on the following day for the Orkneys. The Griper, Captain LYON, is to sail from Deptford on the l s t of next month. The Lords of the Admiralty have very handsomelj agreed to give Captain P A R R V, his brother officers, and the sailors who accompany him in the voyage of discovery, double pay. The Ex- Empress of France, M A R I A I . O U I S A, is making a tour in Italy under the travelling title of Duchess of COLORNO. By the last advices from Genoa she was daily expected in that city, whence, after visiting some of the delightful villas in that neighbourhood, she was to proceed to Leghorn, and afterwards to Naples. On Sunday morning as Mr J O H N S O N , the brash- maker, and political colleague of H E N R Y H U N T , was returning home to his residence near Blackiey, he was attacked on St. George's- Road, Manchester, by four ruffians, who not content " with robbing him of every thing valuable about him, maltreated him with such brutality, especially about the head, as to deprive him entirety of his senses. He was conveyetl to the Church Tavern, not far distant, where he now remains, with butj small hopes of recovery. The Chester Chronicle, received on Satur- j day, contains the following : — We have just been favoured with a sight ol riches is an unfortunate one possessor. The aim which men who are not born to wealth, have constantly before them, gives a relish to existence to which the hereditarily opulent must ever be strangers. Gratifications of every kind soon lose their attraction, the game of life is played without interest, for that which can be ob- T ESTATE IN FIFE FOR SALE, WITH A FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION. To be S01. D, bv private bargain, S ^ H E LANDS a n d E S T A T E ot L E T H AM and BIJRN'SIDE, lying in the parish of Nroonie, and shite of Fife, consisting of 407 Scots acres, which are wholly arable, except 18 acres underwood. The greatest part of the property is of a deep rich soil, and the whole lands are well calculated for producing good crops of every description. They are let to respectable and industrious tenants at moderate rents. The Estate has a south exposure, and there, are several desirable situations for building; affording beautiful and extensive views of the Frith of Forth and the opposite coast from Dunbar to Edinburgh. The Plantations, which were made about JB years ago, are in a thriving condition, aiid are well calculated, not only to form a shelter from the north and north east, but to add greatly 10 the beauty of the property. ' [ The farm steadings are all in complete repair; and ilicre is just now erecting upon the farm of l. etham a » commodious and suitable dwelling- hoUse. The estate holds bf a subject for the payment of 40s. Scots of a feu duty. The other burdens are also trifling, and the teinds are valued, and nearly exhausted. ' The parish 1 hutch and manse have been lately re- built, so il; as 110 expense for these can be incurred fbr many years. The proprietor lias a right to all the minerals 011 the « » tate, iipon which it has been ascertained there is an cxf - rsive coal, which might be wrought to much advantage. There are also excellent freestone quarries at present open upon the grounds. Tho estate is well situated for communication ; the great turnpike road from Cupar, by Kennoway, to Kingliorn, forms the northern boundary ofthe property; and the road from Cupar to I. even runs through the east part of the farm of Letham, affording an easy access to the H,- rent south road from Crail fo Kinghorn, fiom which road the lands are only distant about a mile. The estate is situated within two miles of the shipping port of l. eveii, where a weekly corn market is now held. There was formerly a mill upon the north- east of the farm of Letham, in a den, situate near the turnpike road, . where there Is a rivulet having a considerable fall of water, which might be turned to good account, as such fells are ill much request in that part ofthe country. For farther particulars apply to Messrs. Stevenson and Yule, W. S. Edinburgh, who are in possession of the title deeds anjl rental of the property ; or to Mr Ilorsbrttgli, Cupar, in whose hands there is an inventory of the titles, the lease, and rental of the estate, and who will furnish every other information relative to thej premises « lin> mav he required. Mr Mitchell, the tenant of Lctham, will show the boundaries of the estate. ' should purchasers incline, a freehold qualification will be sold along with the property. . May 1824. ( One rnnccrn.) Or, , , • 1 . , . • accomplished by one of the parties in an hour and five, n Saturday evening, about half- past six , „„, ^ l| jf, ot,£ r< i n ftn l m ! , raml t e n m i n u t e s . T h' oclock, the K I N G arrived at Ins Palace, in ' Pall Mall, from Windsor. Yesterday the L O R D C H A N C E L L O R and the " Ihe whole distance from Abvdos, the place j t a i n c ( ' i without effort is never highly prized. It is from whence we started, to our landing as Sestos on ' f o r t m ' l a t e f o r t h e „ r e a t w h e n t h e v ^ n escape from the other side, including the length we were carried themselves into some pursuit, which, bv firing their by the current, was computed by those on board the ambition, gives a stimtilous to their active powers, frigate at upwards of < our English miles; though We rejoiced to see Lord Bvron engaged in a cause the actual breadth is barely one. ' 1 he rapidity of w h i c h aff0rded such motives for exertions, an. l we the current is such, that no boat can row directly anticipated from him many days of glory. But it. across; anil it may in some measure be estimated, has been otherwise decreed, from the circumstance of the whole distance being [ The New Times.] i It is most painful lo record the extinction of gewater was extremely cold, from the melling of the nitis, when we cannot soften our regret by the re- | mountain snows. About three weeks before, we ! had made an attempt; but having ridden all the I way membrance of its usefulness. Lord Bvron is no more; and the hopes which might have been formed THURSDAY— MAY 20. The fate of South American independence, or at least the great and important question as to the final decision to be taken by Great Britain on the subject of recognizing the new Trans- Atlantic states, is at length brought to a crisis. Advices have been received from Paris by express, with the intelligence that Lord E L L I O T T passed through that capital on Friday from Madrid, with dispatches for the Foreign Office, Downing Street. His Lordship left Madrid on the 6th inst. nnd his dispatches contain the ultimate decision of the Spanish Government respecting the revolted provinces. That decision is, the positive and irrevocable resolution of King F E R D I N A N D not to recognize t h e indeDendence of anv one of the new states, and on the contrary his determination to adopt measures for their recovery. In connection with their views for the recovery of their South American colonies, the Spanish Government, it is understood, hut won over to its side IxuBmsE, the Ex- Emperor of Mexico. He had been resident in this country for some time, but has departed suddenly from Cowes in a fast- sailing vessel, taking with him a large quantity c. i stores and arms, besides a considerable sum in dollars and bills. Advices from Lisbon, of the lst of May, contain an account of an insurrectionary movement, made in the latter end of April, letter from Malta, of the recent date of April 9 - j b y t h e partisans of t h e Queen ansl t h e Infant. Don MIGUEL, to dethrone the King and overt u r n the present Government. The Ministers, being apprised of it, took the necessnry means t o counteract the designs of t h i s p a r t y, and, when the last accounts left Lisbon, t h e King's authority, tyhich had been endangered, was re- established and t r a n q u i l l i t y restored. The Queen and Prince MIGUEL had COMMON COUNCIL. ^ e e n m o v e d to a distance of ten miles f r om A Court was on Friday convened, pursuant to a Lisbon, requisition, for the purpose ot considering the proprietv of petitioning Parliament for reform, anil of passing various resolutions declaratory of the opinion o f t h e Court. Mr TAVKLL, in moving the resolutions, urging the necessity of a reform in Parliament, prefaced the I I t communicates some interesting information, on which we place full reliance, in very few words :— | " The Algerine war is over: A brig of war from j the squadron brought us the news la-< t Tuesday ( the Gth), and also stated, that the Admiral had sailed with dispatches to Marseilles. The terms extorted from tlie barbarians we are of course unacquainted with, but we have no doubt they are such as wilt afford " indemnity for the past and security for the future." A few days will furnish lull particulars." The Paris papers of Friday and Saturday communicate an article from Madrid of thu 5th inst., stating that the long expected amnesty has at length been published. The , . „,. - cY from Ihe Trnad the same morning, ar. d the: of benefit to mankind from his future labours have i motion by a variety of observations on the deep irn- 1 . , , „ . ... Duke of WELLINGTON had audiences of his: wa" te r being of an icy dullness, we found it neces- vanished. portance- of the question, affecting 11s it did all the exceptions are— I lie heads ot the military M A J E S T Y . Earl B A T H U R S T transacted bsuiness to day at the Colonial Department in Downing Street, fbr the first time since his Lordship's indisposition. sary to postpone the completion till the frigale anchored below theCastles, when we swam the Straits, as just stated, entering a considerable way above the When we reflect on the talents which this young classes o f t h e community. nobleman possessed, we cannot but lament that they have not been applied to some work which might Mr Deputy It OUT 11 seconded the motion. MR JAMES stiongly ounosed the resolutions. insurrection in the Isle of Leon : the Members of the Cortes who voted the deposition European, and landing below the Asiatic fort. Che- j hallow his memory. Passages occur in his produc- j JUPP and Mr PEWTERIS supported the re- of the KING at Seville ; t h e Chiefs of m i l i t a ry alier savs, that a young Jew swam the same J distance for his mistress; and Olivier mentions . Mts having been done by a Neapolitan ; but our con. Dispatches were received yesterday at the j8„ l „ t Tarragona reme'mbered neither of those cir- Foreign Office, in Downing Street, from Ma drid We can state upon authority, that the Ex- Emperor of Mexico, I T U R R I D E , who'hasbeen cumstances, and tried to dissuade us from the attempt. A number of the Salsette's crew were known to have accomplished a greater distance; and the only tiling that surprised, me was, that as doubts had been entertained of the truth of Leander's storv, no traveller had endeavoured to ascertain its Southampton, for Mexico, on" last, Pr, a£'. cabill- V:" , . . in an a rme d1 vessel,, a c c omp a n i• e d 1 b1 y a stafif , aI hfiit s o fn ol htae ble a_ d venture was, however, followed of 14 persons, We understand he is a s s u r - | He returned to England, after an absence of ed of being joined by a numerous party in ! nearly three years, and the two first cantos of Mexico, when he arrives, who will assist' Childe Harold made their appearance a few months some months in this country, sailed from on Tuesday last. afterwards. To this poem in rapid succession followed the Giaour and the Bride of Abydos, two Turkish stories; and, while the world was as yet divided ill opinion as to which of these three pieces panied him are all of them foreigners, and ; the palm was due, he produced hia beautiful poem him in recovering his abdicated throne. His departure was managed with the greatest secrecy? The persons who have aecomthe greater part of them, we believe, Mexl cans. Among them is an Aide- de- Camp who had served with him in ail his Mex i of I he Corsair., ' O11 the second of January 1815, his Lordship married, at Seham, in the county of Durham, the ' Can c a m - j 0 , , ] v d a u g h t e r o f g; r R., lph Mi'lbank Noel, Bart. paigns . H e ha s t » , kk en his ^ yif'e wi t h h im, j anil towards the close of the same year his Lady and two infant children. Six other of his brought him a daughter. Within a few weeks, children have been placed at school, in Eng- however, after that event, a separation took place, land, where t h e y are to remain. The vessel,! 5 * w l , i c h v a r i ™ s , c a u a e j s , h i , v e b e e n 8 t a t e d - This • P I , , , , , ditterence excited a prodigious sensation at the time, we are informed, had arms on board, a n d i H i , l j 0 r ( , , h i p , wUile the public anxiety as to the other military stores, also a p r i n t i n g press, course he would adopt was'at its height, suddenly with its apparatus complete, for t h e purpose j left the kingdom, with ths resolution never to reof printing and circulating proclamations 1 t u r n - upon his landing. We have no means of: He, cros. Ve, d o v e I t o I ' r a n c f : t W g h wMch lie t - 1 1 • 1 . i i - i passed rapidly to Brussels, taking in his way a » urprecisely knowing what may be his chances : ' v e v o f ; t h>, fi'I( 1 o f Waterloo, He proceeded fo Coot success ; but one t h i n g seems certain, t h a t : blentz, and thence up the Rhine as far as Basle, such an enterprise would not be undertaken After visiting some of. the most remarkable scenes without some supposed adequate grounds, i n Switzerland, he proceeded to the north of Italy and the result, therefore, is likely to be, H u e t, m u k wp his abode for some time at Venice, , . ,, . , , , • ., where he was loined bv Mr Hobhouse, who aewhat all must deplore, a renewed Civil war companied him in an excursion to Rome, V h e r e he in that country.— Conner. eomplet*} his Childe Ilu'old. tions which evince brilliant imagination, intense feeling-, and conceptions of genuine beauty and sublimity ; but they are almost always followed bv a cold, resolutions. solutions. Mr PATON spoke at some length in favour ofthe cheerless, hopeless philosophy, or by a perverse rioting in the most base and odious passions. Alas! alas! how sad must it have been to hear the noble puet, if in his last hours he murmured over his own gloomy lines:— " The past is nothing— and at last. The future can but be the past." He was followed by a variety of other members, who spoke also- in support o f t h e motion. In the result the resolutions were agreed to, end the fififitian ordered to be presented to Parliament. NAVAL I N T E L L I G E N C E. [ The Morning Herald.] A deeply mournful sensation was excited bv tho intelligence received of the death of Lord Byron. He died at Missolonghi ou the 10th of April, after an illness of ten days. Thus has the poetical literature of England lost one of its brightest ornaments, and the age decidedly its finest genius. Mucb ofthe notice which he. attracted, and the ascendancy which he obtained, is no doubt attributable to certain singularities in his temper anil character, and even in the events of his life. But the vulgar only were swayed by his eccentricity. The prodigious splendour of his genius won admiration from the liberal, the learjied, and the wise. It would be easy to dwell upon some vices of taste— for it is with those only that we have lo do; but they are not to he thought of at a moment when England ha « lost her first poet, not yet arrived at the meridian of life—• perhaps not even of his genius— one who might yet have atoned to his country and to literature for the errors of his youth, by producing works which would place his name incontestably still nearer those of Milton and Shakespeare, by, 110 longer affording a pretext to cant and cavil, and interested sycophancy. ( The Morning Post.) Opposed, as we have always been, to the political principles, immoral writings, and irreligious doctrines of Lord Byron, it may be asked, why we should feel so deeply at his removal from a world which he has done much tocoirupt and to injure ? Our answer shall be simple and true:— Because, knowing his great ^ powers, and the strength of his ge On Thursday a steam boat, purchased for the King of Denmark, and most splendidly decorated and furnished, sailed from the river for Copenhagen, in which his Majesty and family are to embark to visit Jutland and other places in the course of the summer. It is manned bv British seamen, with a Captain of the Danish navy, nnd accompanied bv Mr Gillespie, a Scotch engineer, to superintend the machinery. The Rattlesnake, 28, Capliiin H. Paton, arrived at Portsmouth From Chatham on Monday, ntul will sail in the course of a few days for Barbadoes and Jamaica. The Thefis, Captain Sir John Philiimore, is ordered from Plymouth to Portsmouth, fur the purpose of receiving on board the Royal African Corps, now in England, who have received directions to embark for thocoast of Africa. The following appointments have taken place in the lloval Marines, in consequence ofthe death of Lieutenant- Colonel R. Lee, of that corps:— Lieutenant- Colonel B. Dickenson, of the Portsmouth Division, removes ( 0 Plymouth; and Major Sterling, of the Portsmouth Division, is appointed Pay- Captain at Plymouth. Major- General Sir Howard Douglas, Governor of New Brunswick, and suite, are arrived at Portsmouth to take Iheir passage to Halifax, in the Samarnng, 28,, Sir William Wiseman, which ship will shortly sail for the North American station. The Nieinen, 28, Captain Siblv, is daily expected from the station, with Lieufenant- General Sir James Kempt, Governor of Nova Scotia, who is on his return home on leave. insurrections in various parts of Spain, at Madrid, & c.; the assassins of V I N U E S S A , tlie J u d g e s of ELIO, a n d the authors of the massacres iiv- ihe- prisons of Granada. This amnesty, said to have been wrung with difficulty by the whole influence of France, from F E R D I N A N D , thus includes in its sweeping exceptions, all that was prominent or influential in Spain for more than three years, and denounces the Constitutional Ministers, the. Cortes, almost to a man, the Military Chiefs of every province, and only throws open the prisons to some hundreds of individuals^ comparatively obscure, who have been immured for months through the persecutions of the Royalist party. According to accounts from Bayonnc ef the 9th instant, the slate of Spain is not such as to give hopes of its tranquillity, should the army of occupation be withdrawn. Repeated sanguinary quarrels were taking placo between the French and Spanish soldiers.— In Madrid several French soldiers are said to have been assassinated by the people on tha 2d of May. Dispatches have been received by Government from our squadron off Algiers, which are said to state that all matters have been settled between the Algerinei and our G o* vcrnment. • e id ' 8 3i !>- St r » : sg i i i resit AST IftS as CO, ter CM pei* eljr 33s 39s 43s 45a 48s 3( 1- 42 » 43s 4fts • WW 24s 27s 2fiu 29s 28* 31s 336 PIUVATE COSFTESPGN'DENCF.. iW in the next session he should introduce the suh. ie t iIjnUnim.' inMni * vt » « 11 » 7 " i » the Hous• ei - ( H'e a r , heat.)— lie thought this petition . , ,. , , ,. , . : . . merited consideration. The antral of I. otd ELLIOTT Irom Madrid, with sir H. WILSON supported the. pefltion, and urged the tiie ultimatum of FERDINAND, has created a strong sen- 1 necessity of reform 30s Os 14a 7' i 4< i 9f> 4 sation in the city to- day. The following is an extract trom one of the letters received by express this morni i g . Paris, Saturday evening. A Congress at Prague is again talked of, and . July is laid ti be the time fixed for the assembling of the allied fio. vereigng, and that a formal demand will be made by 3' crdinand for. the continuance of the French troops in Spain. This news has occasioned some bustle among tbe politicians here"; but, as you will perceive by the quotations of the French funds, no unfavourable inapt ession has been made upon them. It is extremely protu. ible, that the report of a new Congress, which was circulated so actively six weeks ago, has been set afloat by the speculators here, in order to throw obstacles in the way of the Government, which is about to reduce the interest of the Rentes. Lord Elliot has arrived here from Madrid with important dispatches. He left that capital on the lith in- Btant. According to report the Spanish expedition will leave Cadiz next month. The following is an extract of a letter, from the Agent ' to Lloyd's, dated Constantinople, 10th April. Very fresh accounts have been received from our A^ ent in the Mediterranean, and nothing is said as to any meeting between our ships and the Algerines, as fort e , tly alluded to. The Turkish squadron, with the Captsin Pasha on board, is only waiting for a fair wind io a ait for the Dardanelles. It will be accompanied by a g ' oil many transports with troops, viihieh are waiting for embarkation. The destination is not known, and conjecture is afloat in consequence. Accounts were received to- day from Lisbon to the 4ih ins'ant, by way of Paris. They state, that by an act of thinness and vigour, little looked for on the part of the King, the Queen and Prince MIGUEL had been checked i i the career of arbitraiy conduct, in which they were proceeding, and that the English party, in spite of the intrigues of the French Minister, has once more gained the u cendancy at the Court of Lisbon. It appears tjiat Prince Petition ordered to be printed. BEER DUTIES BILL. Mr M. A. TAVI. OR presented a petition against the beer duties bill from licensed victuallers of Durham. Mr MABEIILEY understood that the bill was to liefar. tber postponed till Friday, lie thought it advisable to postpone the whole bill until next sessior.—( Hear, hear.) — He was desirous to do what woul. l be satisfactory to many of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's friends and the country in general, and in expressing this wish he knew he should be supported.—( Hear; hear.) Mr MANSFIELD anil Mr DAVENPORT opposed the measure. T h e CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wished to state what course he intended to pursue. The bill was approved of by many parties. He should think it his duty to propose many alterations in the measure, espe- 1 chilly as far as the scale of duties was concerned, lie wished to recommit the bill to- night, and then he should propose liis alterations. Iiy Fritlay he should be prepared to state what course he intended to pursue, whether lie should persevere in the bill or not ( Hear, hear.) Mr HUME said that the Chancellor of the Exchequer was surrounded with difficulties, as he would be everywhere when he abandoned the principle. Mr C A I. VERT observed thatthe bill would be of ruinous tendency to the publicans, and that if the Chancellor of the Exchequer really understood its effect, he would not pres£ the measure. Mr EGERTON and Mr DRUMMOND said that their constituents were against the bill. Mr MABEBLEY said, that, on Friday next, if the bill were not so altered as to impose an equalisation of the duties, he should move, that the report be revived that day six months. Petition ordered to be printed. IRISH MALT TRADE. CALEDONIAN THEATIW-— Last n i g h t M o n s i e ur ALEXANDRE PTbibite&. his astonishing powers, lor the last time this season, for the benefit of the Deaf and Uiimb Institution. The house was crowded with it brilliant and fn « hionabIe audience. At the conclusion of tile entertainment M. ALEXANDRE came forivarl, and delivered tbe following farewell' address:— l- adies and Gentlemen, I am now come to the close of rav performances, and am, with a most affectionate sense of all your kindness to me, to bid you farewell. When I first came to your distinguished city, I knew that I was to meet great eminences in talents and literature, and I hoped that I should also meet liberality and kindness. Yet I will acknowledge that my fears were greater I ban my hope*, and that although I was assured from all quarters of the warm- heartednets of Seotsmen, 1 was yet alarmed in no small degree by, that high reputation for critical severity which equally characterises this distinguished metropolis. But, ladies and gentlemen, I am proud and happy to say that, however others may have had reason to fear you, I have had reason only to respect and to love you. You have received my efforts for your amusement not with the sternness of judges, but with the candour and kindness of friends. You have regarded me not as a straiujer and a foreigner, but as one of yourselves A very rojarkab'. e perio UcaJ wotk, of which tiie fit8' number is promised in June, appears to excite unusual interest on the continent. De Jouy, the author of the Hermitede la Cttuussee dAutin, Benjamin Constant, the historian Guizot, the poet Beranger, the Baron de Barante, General Jomini, Dupin, the writer on England, Champollion, the iliscovererof tbe hieroglyphics, the Baron De. ton, Milliner the great dramatic poet of Germany. Sehlosser, the historian, the Chevalier de Angelis, ar. d most of the men of great name and great talent in France. Germany, and Italy, are engaged in it On account of this union it has been named the European Review. The following extract respecting it is f rom [. a Fandore of the 7th of M a r c h : — " EUROPEAN REVIEW ( published at London, Paris, Stutgardt, Ac.)— This is one of the most surprising, one of the oddest, one of the most extraordinary enterprises— a monthly work to which men of all countries contribute, arid which, following the progress of European knowledge, presents to all civilised nations a sort of moveable encyclopaedia. A society of English literary men first conceived the idea; and, immediately from London to Madrid, and from Paris, to Vienna, the springs of this great machine were put in action. The most distinguished men of each country have engaged to furnish their contributions; and, in the month of June next, will appear this literary phenomenon of a journal, published on the satne day of the month at Paris in French, in London in English, at Stutgardt in German, and at Florence in Italian'. Sketches of mariners, political papers, scientific discoveries, analysis of new works, improvements in the arts— are all embraced by the Euro, i Review, which will pa6S unpotiecd no product of cimy boyhood, and as if my success contributed toyour own happiness. I arrived here a stranger and friendless; but I trust I may hope that I leave among you mauv, very many, who wish me well. Up m my own feelings, upon my respect— my reverence— my gratitude towards Scotland anil Scotchmen, I dare not enlarge; but this I will presume to POOR L I V I N G S - E X T R A M E L T I N G. OWING to some information which is to be communicated to them, those Ministers interested in the application to Government upon the subject of the " POOR LIVINGS," are requested to meet upon Friday first, 21. rf cuircnt,' in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, at nine O'clOrk in the evening. E A S T L O T H I A N BANK. THE ANNUAL G E N E R A L MEETING of the EAST LOTHIAN RANKING COMPANY ( will be held within their office in Dunbar, on Thursday the lst day of July next, at 12 o'clock neon, in terms of the contract, of which notice is hereby given. VVM. PAUL, Trustee and Manager. EDINBURGH, May 19. 18.' 4. R This day is published, S U T T O N ' S PAMPHLET, announeing an important Discovery of a Method to DESTROY Till''. TURNIP FLY Price to Subscribers 10s.— Non- Subscribers 12s. fid. Salisbury: Printed for the A- ithor, by BRODIE and DOWDING; sold also by BALDWIN, CHADOCK, and JOY, Paternoster Row, London, and all booksellers. N E W C A T A L O G U E. Sir J. NEWPORT presented a petition from maltsters!" V, that wherever I may go, and into whatever of Wexford, in Ireland, complaining of the itiequidity of lands my fate may lead me, Scotland shali ever find me the laws and the duties regarding inalt. The subject, lie thought, called for the attention of Government. The CHANCELLOR, of the EXCHEQUER admitted, that it would be very desirable to assimilate the liws an<! duties bn malt in Ireland to those of England. Many of J Ii'.; UEL had had the temerity to place under arrest Count the present regulations were indeed absurd. He had 1PAI. MEI. LA, the late Minister, without any other autlio- turned his attention to the subject, and, he thought, rity than his own- sign manual. For this proceeding he w a s ! a l t e r a t i o n should be shortly made with respect to w ' ed into the King's presence, who, before all the foreign I Mr°[- j . . mbassadora, whom he had collected in the audience chamber to witness the pro- ceding, reproached him in tile T. most forcible manner for his intemperate conduct, in dis jrrwing a nobleman who could have no other crime in his eyes t'la- i h; s attachment to his father, and for bis daring eintf JIJP'T. of tile royal authority. The PRINCE, itissaid, was wholly overcome by the reproaches of his father, and fell at his feet, acknowledging his fault, and soliciting his p irdon. The KING, however, gave orders that both the 1' AINCE and the Q UEEN should retire to one of t h e royal j.. dices, ten miles from Lisbon, as a species of honourable At Dumbarton Castle, on the 17th instant, the Lady of i nprisonment, and that Count PALMELLA should be im- T. Y. LEST ER, Esq. of a son. UTCHIXSON expressed his satisfaction at hearing this declaration. Mr WALLACE said, that, in tbe course nf a few days, he should have to present a report from the committee of the Irish revenue, an I that it included this subject. The petition was orderofl to be printed. Petitions, against the beer bill, were presented from Newburgh, Salisbury, Stirling, and Shaftesbury. The four per. cents, repayment bill was reported. The consolidated fund bill was also reported. To be read a third time to- morrow. Left sitting. rjran , . — r , , rilization and intelligence." Some of the ablest men in as it I had been among you fiom Br.; t a in i jt seems, are now joining this alliance of genius " ' and talent; and, as the work is chiefly supported bv British capitalists, it forms an enterprise not less astonuhing, and certainly not less praiseworthy, than those speculations, which, originating in London, have lately excited such general Interest. It is well that London should lead in literatuie as in commerce— pursuits nwlncli are, in their means ns well as their end, more closely allied than is commonly imagined. Connected with this monthly work, and supported, if we mistake not, by the same association, will, at the same time, appear a weekly paper, entitled the NEWS OF LITERSTURE AND FASHION. . Their . object in this is to give all those matters of temporary or of immediate interest which the delay of a month would render useless; all the news of Literature and of polite society. A paper which should give the anecdotes, the jeux de sprit, the bon mots, the chit chat of Literature, and should leave reviewing to monthly and quarterly works, is certainly a desideratum, but it can only be done where the wits of all countries agree, as in this case; to make it the depot of their best things The work will be published in Edinburgh by Mr ANDERSON, jun. North Bridge Street. its friend, italover, its fervent though humble admirer. My emotions al this present moment, Ladies acid Gentlemen, are very painful to me; but they wfntld be more so still, did I not look forward to our meeting again. Lavish as you hare been to tne of . your kindness, I will venture to hope that its stream is not vet exhausted, but that at some future period, and I will hope at no very distant one. I may again be permitted to pay my respectful and affectionate duty to my kind patrons and most liberal friends. In the meanwhile, Ladies and Gentlemen, I pray God to bless you all, and bid you a most grateful farewell. This day is published, and to be had gratis, PART FIRST of a CATALOGUE of BOOKS for 11124, in DIVINITY and MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, on sale ( at the affixed prices) at the shop of DAVID BROWN, Ifi. South St Andrew's Street, Edinburgh, including Barrow's Works; Bate's Works; Bayle's Dictionary; Charnock's Works; Henry's Commentary ; Owen's Sermons; Poli Synopsis; I. ardner's Works; Patrick's Commentary; Park's Travels ; Scapula; Lexicon ; Arabic New Testament; Atterbury's Works ; Burnett's Hist, of the Reformation ; Butler's Works; Simon's Hebrew Bible; Leusden's Hebrew Bible; Baxter's Works, new edition ; Beveridge's Works, new edit.; Cecil's Works; Krskine's Works; Flavel's Works; Hill's Lectures; Harris's Works; Home's Introduction; Horsley's Works; Jay's Sermons; Kinnuoel's Commentary; Leighton's Works; Locke's Works; Milner's SermonS; Micbaelis' Commentary; M'Knighton tbe Epistles, Nardin's Sermons ; Owen's Works, new edit.; Prideaux's Connections; lticcalton's Works; llidgley's Body of Divinity; Schleusner's Lexicon; Saurin's Sermons; Shuckford's Connections ; Tillotson's Works; Jeremy Taylor-' s Works; British Essayists, 45 vols. & c. Ac. fee., Ac. C A M E R O N ' S S A L E - R O O M S, HANOVER STREET. P I / l R W R I G H T ( Successor to Mr C A M F. I - TA RON), begs ' to' announce that the SALE ot. BOOKS, PRINTS, and PAINTINGS, formerly advertised ( including the Collection of the late Colonel Wright), is now going on. Catalogues, will be had at the Rooms; the Paintings, which are a genuine Collection, and in general very fine, commence on Saturday fiist at one o'clock. EDINBURGH, May 20. 1824. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. To be SOLD by auction, by GEO. ANDERSON, on F r i d ay the 21st May current, in a house, No. 21. Broughton Street, n p H E F U R N I T U R E o f s a i d h o u s e , amongst • EL which are a Mahogany Sideboard ; Dining, Tea, and Breakfast Tables; Mahogany Couch and Sofa, covered with Haircloth; Chairs, D/ awers, Carpets, Register and- other Grates; Bed's,' with'Curtains and Beduinj; Cupboard and Kitchen Article!;, &<•• Sale to begin At 11 o'clock forenoon. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. To be SOLD by auction, by GEO. 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ICP, ion • eat t he gth r e - i n - » gh rith ing t he . h i - • ent dec l - ine lew ion re~ the lint m- : in t « l Bel, ires ioi- « y, II ry irii, ant e r - p i - i ry | y. cm, i n - relad om lav thu m- • he i ry mioin i ry at the 88- t n - fiipm ing b l - i nd t h e . e f s t h e k i i - i ns of ich a id l e - i co to : he rn- Ich • sen i o ; mediately set at liberty. i'iie KINO took the precaution, it is said, before resort, i lg to a measure which required in him a most extiaordin iry exertion of firmness, to appeal for support to some of tl e principal oflicers of the army, who did not fail him in tiie difficult emergency in which he was placed. The consequence of these events had been the placing of Lord tlrREsroRD, by whose advice the KING is supposed to . haveac e l throughout the whole proceeding, in a situatio j < of high favour and ascendancy in Ills councils; an 1 this I wai accompanied byacorrespondentdeclinein theinluence o C e Ftencr Hinister, by, whom the vio'ent conduct o the Queen anil the I'rinee was believed to'. be secretly sup. pitted. No interrup iin to lhe public tranquillity took p ice in consequence of tbe order for the removal of the At Melrose, on tbe 15th instant, a son. At Forss, Caithness, on the 15th instant, the Lady of ALEXANDER CUUIKSIIANK, Esq. of Keithock, of a daughter. We hear that Government have granted £ 4000 a year, for six years, to be expended on the repair of the Royal I'ahce of Holy roodhouse. The operations are to commence soon. Monday last the remains of the late Mar- ! quis of L O T H I A N were interred in the family Mrs SPENCE, of v a u l t a t Newbattle. The Profesional Society's last concert took place on Friday night, and went off with great eclat. The instrumental part of the concert continues to improve, and nothing Died at London, on the 10th instant at the advanced j . w a n t ; b u t t h e b l i c p a t r o n a g e t o b r i ng age of ninety- three, Baron MASSE RES, Cursitor Baron of' ^ - . l ^ • • i - i th, e E,, xch, equer. t o ma t u r i t 1y t h e f a i r 1p r omi s e wh i c h w e n o w see before us of musical excellence. On Sunday afternoon, the body of an in- 6> For Sweetening Coffee, Chocolate, Cn- m, — T R I N G H A M ' S LONDON P O W D E R E D SUGAR C A N D Y is allowed by the Eaculty to posses? in a highly concentrated degree, all the strength and virtue of" the sugar, without any of its impurities. I t is the most agreeable article yet discovered for sweetening Coffee, Chocolate, Cocoa, Ac. aud has been long held in the highest estimation in Families of the first distinction. From the superior manner in which it is now put up, and its very moderate price, it wiil doubtless become an article ot general consumption; i lb. being in itssaccharine properties equal to lb. of refined, or nearly 2 lb. of raw sugar ; from its purity, it must therefore prove to invalids an invaluable acquisition, as it does not offend TO BE LENT, ON HERITABLE SECURITY, n p E N THOUSAND POUNDS, in such i L sums as may be agreed on, and at a reduced rate of interest. Apply to Alexr. Dallas, W. S. DOG FOUND. AS E T T E R D O G , who will be r e t u r n ed to the owner, by applying at No. 90. KIRKGATE, LEITH, on giving nis proper marks. If not claimed within eight days, he will be sold to pay expences. L E I T H , May 18. 1324. NOTICE TO THE CREDITORS OF P E T E R DUFF, Grocer, Edinburgh. IT is requested that those CREDITORS who have not yet lodged their Claims, with oaths of Died, at his lodgings, in Adam Street, on the 15th of May current, in the sixty- first year of his age, ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Esq. This gentleman was l o n g ! font, apparently some days old, was found known in the literary world, and has distinguished him- j w r a p p e d in a h a n d k e r c h i e f , in t h e s t a g n a nt self as the author of " TheGrampions Desolate," a poem,; pool at t h e n o r t h e r n b a s e of S a l i s b u r y C r a g s ; " Travels through North Britain," and many other works; and a n o t h e r n e w - b o r n i n f a n t was f o u n d on v- ieen and her son fromTisbo" nVtodirf," the whole af- but chiefly by his erudite " Introduction to the History of, T u e s d a y m o r n i n g in L e i t h Wynil. &> is understood to have passed so quietly as to escape! P o e t r ? l n S f . t l a n i l ' , n, c w a s " « r ® at a d m l r e r o f t ! , e , f i n e , We t o o k . n o t i c e la' e l y of a n a c c i d e n t which • die notice of the great bulk of the population of the capi- ar's> and cultivated the three branches, poetry, painting,; H A P P E N E D TO R 0 B E N T BROWN, proprietor and ' and music, wtth much success. i • i• c - i i> i- i i i r M , . driver ot one ot t h e h d i n b u r a h anil Leitn Died, at Cranstoun Manse, on, the 7> l, instant Mrs coacl l c s . We r e g r e t t o learn t h a f the HELENA BRODIE, wife of the reverend Walter I'isher, I • minister of Cranstoun. tab The next packet expected,' which is the Summer, a id which has probably kept out by contrary winds, will no doubt bring more detailed accounts of these proceedings. Gibraltar papers to the 20ih ult. have come to hand. Trora these we learn that advices bad been acquired from Malta of the 13th March, stating that his Majesty's ship J'xpres* from Algiers and Marseilles-, had suffered much in a^ gale, being obliged to throw her guns overboard, and lost two of the crew. On the 2d March a Sardinian brig arrived at Malla, having been sent in by the Cam. lirian and Naiad, by whom she was taken possession of at P. irto Bona, in consequence of her having a cargo of grain en board belonging to the Algerines. There has been a panic in all the funds to- day, in con. Sequence of the arrival of Lord Elliot from Madrid ; the depression in Consols for Account has amounted to ^ per cent. The South American securities have been un_ usually heavy, but more especially the Mexican Scrip, in w iich the decline has exceeded 2 per Cent. Prices of the English and Foreign funds this afternoon :— Red. Ann. 95J. Consols, BfiJ. Do. for Account Ditto for July, 9HJ. 4 per Cents. 10U. Do. New, 107j. Exchequer Bills, 40s. prai. India Bonis, 7 is prm. Prussian Russian Austrian m Spanish Alliai. c: Shares . Mexican Scrip Vpencil Scrip Colombian D.\ Scrip Chilian poor man h a d , in a d d i t i o n to hie shoulder b o n e dislocated, his b e n c h bone disjointed, w h i c h was not d i s c o v e r e d f o r n e a r l y t e n d a ys , l r est, erd, a v ab, out, seven o , cl, oc* k , t,, h e Ly ord, DPr ovost, a . f, t e r . . We a r, e. i. n f o rme d t, h a, t h e. is . n o. w c o„ n. and Magistrates waited upon his Grace the Earl of s t d e r e d out ot d a n g e r , a n d t h a t h e is m a f a ir GENERAL ASSEMBLY. the most delicate stomach, for sweetening gruel, ar- j Terity, wiil do so immediately, with Richard Alexander, row root, Ac. It is frequently used in medicines Trustee ( on the Trust Estate), 177. Canongate, otherwise and wines, as it corrects the acidity without causing • they will be cutoff'from any share of the Fnnds now reafermentation. " it is neatly put u" p in lead packets, lisel, to be divided on lst July next, containing 1 lb. at Is. 4d. each; and sold wholesale! EDINBURGH, May. 1824. and retail, by J . B A X T E R , ITALIAN WAREHOUSE, EDINBURGH, and by ROBT. ABBAY, DRUGOIST, GI. ASOOW. SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE. To be SOLD by auction, on Monday ' he- 21th current, in No. 25. South Castle Stieet, THE F U R N I T U R E of said House, thegreater part of which is I. ondoT made, and very superior, and consists of Dining- room, Drawing- room, Bed chamber, and Kitchen Furniture; amongst which are elegant Window- Curtains, real Rosewood Tables, Drawing- room Chairs, and Couches, Ac.; good Beds and Bedding, with an assortment of Kitchen Furniture, Sale to begin at 11 o'clock forenoon. Morton, his Majesty's High Commissioner to the General Assembly, at the Royal Hotel, when the ancient keys of the city were presented to his Grace in the customary furni. The Ger. eral Assembly of the Church of Scotland i - , £, , . meets bere this day. His Grace George Earl of P « r t t o the Synod on Tuesday week, re- Morton, K. T. will hold a levee in the Merchants j c o m m e n d i n g the adoption of t h e measure. Hall, at half- past eleven o'clock. He will after- j T h e S y n o d a g r e e d to t h e r e p o r t , a n d a p p o i n t - wards proceed in the usual manner to the High | e d t h e reverend Mr THOMSON, of Paisley, to way of recovery. The committee appointed to consider the propriety of appointing a Professor of Divinity for the Relief Church, gave in their re- Church, to attend divine service. After sermon the that ofiice. The students of the Relief hail 98 974 21 17J' pm. f j prem. . 1IH pm. Oi. f H i prem. m House of Lords, May 17- The following bills reaeive I the royal assent. The it. ilitiu allowance bill, the alien bill, the sugar bounties HI , the rum dui. es b. 11, the innkeepers allowance bill, Assembly will be opened, in the aisle, by a speech , from lhe throne. The sermon will be preached by ! p r e v i o u s l y a t t e n d e d t'- e professor for the the reverend Dr Alexander Brnnton, one of the j n a t i o n a l c h u r c h . Before a d j o u r n i n g , a comministers of the Tron Church, and Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh, Moderator of last Assembly; and it is expected that the reverend Dr Andrew Duncan, minister of ltatho, and Principal Clerk to the Church of Scotland, will be elected Moderator ot this Assembly. This morning, about seven o'clock, the mittee was appointed to draw up resolutions expressive of the opinion of the Synod against Mr K E N N E D Y ' S bill for regulating the relief given to the poor in Scotland. The next meeting of the Synod was appointed to take place in Glasgow. As an instance of the astonishing quickness headquarters ot the 9 4 t h regiment, U N D E R OF c o m m u n i c a t i o n with the most distant parts the command of Lieutenant- Colonel A L L A N , > ? F T H E WH' , C H 1S. P ° ? 8 , B L E ' LN ^ E present p r e c e d e d by the band of the lst royal D R A . I I M P ^ V E D state of n a v i g a t i o n , we mention, that APPROVED REMEDY FOR WEAKNESS IN THE STOMACH. It is a fact worthy of the most serious attention, that the Disorders, termed bilious and nervous, with their train of distressing symptoms ( such as 1 ndigestiOn, Loss of Appetite, Nausea, Pains, and Irregularity of the Bowels), owe their origin generally to a weak and deranged state of the digestive Organs. Giddiness also, and Faintness or Dizziness, and other sensations, which seem to threaten an attack of Palsy or of Apoplexy, are not uncommon results from the same cause. • The remedy required is one, that shall gently relax the Bowels, and gradually ri store the Tone of the Stomach, and TOWERS TONIC PILLS are confidently recommended. They ate the result of serious investigation and long experience in medicine; and the unequivocal approbation of medical men aid others of undoubted emincnee, with the great request they are in with the Public, are proofs decisive of their real utility and of the high estimation in which they are held. The genuine are slg'ied " J o h n Towers," on each label, and may be procured of Messrs, Butler, A. Smith, Scott, Manderston, Ac. and of the venders of medicine, wholesale and retail, in London, Dublin, Edinburgh, and most provincial towns Price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d., lis., and 2J » ., per box. 9COTTISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The A N N U A L S E R M O N S of t h e S C O T T I SH M I S S I O N A R Y SOCIETY will be preached on 1<' RIDAY t h e 2 1 s t of M a y . I n t h e FORENOON, The reverend Dr C H A L M E R S , of St Andrew's, will preach in SI' C U I ' H B E R T ' S CHURCH. Service to begin at one o'clock. I n t h e EVENING, The reverend J . A. J A M E S , of Birmingham, will nreach in D r P E D D I E ' s C H U R C H , B R I S TO S T R E E T . Service to begin at half past six o'clock. N O T I C E . AM E E T I N G of the Creditors of the deceased Mr WM. TURNBULL, merchant, and one of the sub- collectors of taxes in this city, is to be held in the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, on Monday next, the 24th instant, at two o'clock P. M. when all are requested to attend. Those creditors who have not lodged their1 claims, are desired to send them immediately, E, S formerly pointed out. EDrNSuiiaH, 19tbpApril' 182l. NOTICE. AP E T I T I O N having been presented to the Lords Commissaries of Edinbu- gh, in name of Jean Mair, residing in Bristo Street, Edinburgh; Elizabeth Mair, also residing there; Jessy Mair, lately an inmate in Gillespie's Hospital, now residing in Edinburgh; Elisabeth Drysdale, inmate in the Asylum of the Friendly Female SOciety, Albany Ro id, London; Archibald Drysdale, pensioner Greenwich Hospital; and Mrs Jean Bowie, or Manson, spouse of Alexander Manson, residing at Woodcockhill, Hertfordshire, who have lately been decerned executors, dative qua, nearest of kin to the deceased Mrs Barbara Bowie, alias Graham, spouse of the now deceased Andrew Graham, Esq. soeie I time in the service of the Hudson's flay Company, thereafter residing at Trestonpans, and also lo the deceased Mrs Jean Bowie, or Gardner, widow of tbe deceased F. benezer Gardner, manufacturer in Edinburgh, praying their Lordships to limit the amount, for which caution shall be found by the Petitioners, to such a sum as will be within the Petitioners' power, an. l as in the circumstances their Lordships might consider proper ; and also to authorise the Clerk ol Court to receive a bond, subscribed by different cautioners, taken bount1, riot conjunctly and severally, but each for a specific amount ( the total sum, which their Lordships might fix, being always exhausted to the satisfaction of the Clerk of Court), or to grant the Petitioners such other relief as in the circumstances their Lordships might consider proper; ajid that the said Lords Commissioners, upon the 14th day of May curt., pronounced the following interlocutor: F O R BEVLOOF OP C R E D I T O R S. AUCTION OF CABINET A UPHOLSTERY FURNITURE. To be SOLD, on Friday the 21st May 1824, in the Calton Convening Hall, Waterloo Place, TH E whole STOCK of J O H N EWART, Cabinet Maker, consisting of three Pedestal Sideboards, three sets Of Spanish Mahogany Pillar and Claw: Dining Tables, Turnover Tables in Mahogany arid Rosewood, two full mounted . Four- posted Bedsteads, with Bedding, lied Steps, fourteen Mahogany and Imitation. Rosewood Couches, stuffed in canvass and haircloth, Chests of Drawers, Wardrobes, Cabinet Hassocks, Basin Stands. Fire Screens, Chairs; a Double Counting- houee Desk, Ac. Ac. Sale to commence at eleven o'clock. The furniture may be viewed on Thursday the 20th, from 16 to 4 o'clock. H O U S E H O L D F U R N I T U R E. To be SOLD by auction, on Saturday the £ 2d current, at No. 15. Catherine Street, ( CONSISTING of Dining- room, Bed- J chamber, and Kitchen, comprising Mahogany Chairs, Dining Tablts, Sideboard, Four- post and Tent Beds, with Curtains and Eedding, China, Glass, and Stoneware, Kitchen Articles, Ac. Sale to commence at II o'- clock. E. and D. ROBFRTSGX. 57. High Street. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BY AUCTION, Upon Friday 21st May, in No. 10. St Patrick Square, AMONGST which are a very handsome set of Mahogany Dining Tables and Grecian- Chairs, almost as good as new, Carpets, Grates, Chestsof Drawers, Bedsteads, Redding, Cupboard and Kitchen' Aarticles, eight- day Clock, Kitchen Range, Ac. Sale to begin at 11 o'clock. SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, BY AUCTION, Upon Saturday 22d May, in that lipuse. No. 50. Frederick Street, j .., , j AMONGST which are a very large set of; Mahogany Dining Tables, adapted for a Taverns or Hotel, several sets of Mahogany Chairs, Register and. other Grates, Carpets, Window Curtains, Cupboard and Kitchfcn Articles. Sale to commence at II o'clock. . DALGI. EISH A FORREST, G5. Potterrow. A1 I " The Commissaries, having considered this petition, ap- j i point the Petitioners to intimate, by advei tisements in I the'marriage act amendment bill, the" l'ris! i county trea- j r e « r e t ' a m ' 1 sincerely hope that your conduct will, in Mirers bill the Irish proctors bill, the Irish conslaDulary "" r p m i " ' ' s - h p « * " '' « « been sine,. „„„ n m . W bid, aud the Irish records bill. WELSH JUDICATURE. Lord CAWDOR postponed his motion relative to the Judicature in Wales, until Monday next. STATE OF IRELAND. The Earl of LIVERPOOL moved, in pursuance of notice, for the appointment of a committee to inquire into the state of those districts in Ireland subject to the operation goon guards, marched from the Castle for Greenock. General Sir THOMAS BRADFORD ; n 1 staff accovnpai i - d them out of town ; and, at p; rting, the General addressed them in nearly the following words :— I assure you I take my leave of you with the deepest gret; and I sincerely hope that your conduct will, in all respects, be such as it lias been since you carae here. a gentleman in Leith received a letter on the 15th current, from the Captain of the brig Hawies of Sydney, New South Wales, dated at Lord Auckland's or Bristow's Islands, in the South Seas, in latitude 50. 33. longitude 166. 40. ( nearly the antipodes of London) on 12th January, 182- 1. It was there put on board of the schooner Ilenrv, of and bound 0.' the insurrection act. Tiie Marquis of EANSDOWNE said, that it was at lepst « source of satisfaction to him that some kind of inquiry VRS about to be set on foot, into the present unfortunate utate of I reland. II is object in now rising, however, was Biore particularly to urge their Lordships to consider whether a more enlarged principle of inquiry ought not to be instiiuted, whether a general investigation Ought not to be commenced with respect to the whole of Ireland. Was it advisable to confine this investigation only to those « i* trict> which had been subject to the insurrection act ? Was it possible to take a solid, comprehensive, or satisfactory view of tile stite of Ireland, as the motion cf the noble Earl was at present worded. Let the light come . twin, what quarter it may, it must be diffused over all the country ; with that hope, lie should enter into the inqu'ry, though he ardently wished it bad been general, mill leit no part ot the subject untouched. With a view, therefore, to acquit himself, he should move as an amendment, that the committee be instructed to inquire into ihe wtiole state bf Ireland, and particularly into the state of the disturbed districts. The Earl of LIVERPOOL contended that there had been no indisposition on the part, of Government to inquire into the state of Ireland ; all Ministers hall wanted w. i » , that the investigation should be definite. Though - t i e inquiry he proposed was limited in locality, it was general in its object. It was absolutely necessary to cont fine it in some way, and it was needless, to extend the la- 1 hours of the committee to parts of Ireland that were as turiving and as wholesome ir, their state as many portions of England. The limitation of the inquiry, instead of being objectionable^ would much facilitate tile great purpose in view— relief. Lord KING was persuaded that if the House was desirous of probing the evils to the bottom, limited as was the inquiry it would do son. e good. The question was then put on the amendment of the I Marquis of Lansdowne, and the numbers were, Non- contents, - 50 Contents, - - - - - - 20 And as I will receive constant reports, I hope you will r xr - v I , . ., ,, . acquit yourselves well in that country to wliieli you are ™ r N e w Y ° r k ' a n d> therefore, travelled the going. And now, my lads, 1 wish vou a safe voyage, j immense distance caused by the circuitous trusting that your success will be brilliant, and that you voyaffc to New York, and thence found its will live together m peace and happiness. ! J - . , . , ,., , Ir, h,, t• s morni• n g . t1h e Sot. a ftfr andi fco ur com- 1; „ w a'y to Leitli m the incredibl- y sh• o rt srn ace of panies of the 6,' jth regiment, under the com mand of Colonel DUMAS, marched into the! Castle from Paisley. ,. the Edinburgh Gazette and Edinburgh Evening Courant, the import of the prayer of the petition, that any other [ c r ' i j M n v | person or persons, equally near in kin with them to I SERMON. t t] l e defunct, or otners intere ted, maybe certiorated of A SERMON will be preached in SOUTH LEITH tbe application, and, if they shall have any objection t >! C H U R C H , next Sabbath Evening, the 23d May, by j the prayer of the petition beng granted, to lodge tbe same' the reverend H E N R Y GREY, when a Collection [ In the hands of the Clerk of Court, within fourteen days will be made in aid of tho F U N D S of the I . A D I E S ' from the date of the advertisements," of ail which notice' JL house, consisting of Dining- room, Drawing- room,^ EXTRAORDINARY SALE OF G R A T E S , F E N D E R S , A N D F I R E - I R O N S, K I T C H E N F U R N I T U R E , . A c . Ac. There will be exposed for Sale by public auction, in, No. 80. SOUTH BRIDGE, west side, on this and two following days, N extensive Assortment of Drawing,' Dining, and Bed Room STOVES and GRATES. F E N D E R S , F I R E - I R O N S , K I T C H E N R A N G E S? " JACKS, O V E N S , C U T L E R Y , Ac. & c. 80. SOUTH BRIDGE, 20th May 1824. Sale to commence each day at 11. - SALE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE BY AUCTION, In that house, No. 28. Northumberland Street, oil Monday first the 24th May. r j n H E whole F U R N I T U R E of t h a t large. is hereby given to all concerned. EDINBURGH, May 17. 1824. REWARD OF TEN GUINEAS. Y | 7 " H E R E A S A N D R E W H A Y, grocer in Dunfermline, some time prisoner in, Irons, Crystal, Stoneware, China, Ac. Bed- room, and Kitchen Furniture; amongst wbich are Sideboard, Dining, Tea and Card, Round, and other —~~ Tables'; Chairs, Couches, full mounted Four- post Beds, with Bedding, Tent aud other Beds, Wardrobes, Chests l a t e of Drawers, Carpels, Mirrors, Grates, I-' enderi, Fire S A B B A T H and W E E K DAY SCHOOL SOC I E T Y , to enable them to meet the expsnces incurred in building their New School- house. *,* The Society have been collecting funds for a number of years with the view of engaging in this undertaking: The foundation of the School was laid last month," and t h e building is now ill progress. A „, . this object not only exhausts the whole of tlieirfunds, j PRISON early this morning; the Magistrates of Dun- i will begin at eleven o clock forenoon, and recommence at but obliges the Trus t e e* s l• o contt r. a Ic t a very• » c o: n » s i. d. er-| fe' rmlin' e hereby— 1o ffer a r— ew ard of T: -- E ' N GUINE*- A~ S ~ to live o clock afternoon. Ml i » l U li II A 3 • 11 jail there," for trial under several charges of " wilful per- ! , 1' he whole of the above Furniture . is in excellent eon. s jury and fraud, Effected his escape bv [ BREAKING dif. on, and as It must all be sold on Monday, the sale, Majority, - - . w 3r The original motion r a s then put and carried. The names of the members of the CoVnmittce we Stated, during tbe absence of strangers. Adjourned. House of Commons, May 17- The SPEAKER attended in tile Lords to hear the royal tascnt given by commission to various bills. , Mr Sheriff WHITTAXER. presented a petition of the Common Council of the city of London, m favour of reform, especially as far as the metropolis was concern- •> « d. After a few words from Alderman BRINR. F. s, Lord J . RI. SSF. I. naid, lie was AS decidedly friendly to t j ' c cause of reform NS ever. He did not deem it ad- Visible TA bring forward the quettjOK ia the present year The weat. ier during the last few d. iys has been cold and intemperate. On Tuesday night a heavy shower of hail fell, and yesterday morning the tops of the Pentland Hills were covered with snow. Vegetation is not far advanced for the season of tne year, the long continued drought, and the chilling east winds having checked the growth of the crop*. The London mail did not arrive on Monday night till nearly an hour beyond the usual time. There had been a considerable fall of rain in the north of England, and the roads about Huntingdon were partially inundated, to which cause the delay was imputed. D A R I N G ROBBERY.— On Saturday evening, between eight end nine o'clock, as a young gentleman was taking a walk in the vicinity of Arthur's Seat, he was accosted by two fellows, having their hats slouched, and the collars of their coats pulled up, who told him they wanted to borrow money. The gentleman hesitating, one of them presented a pistol, and demanded his money, on which he gave them two sovereigns and three onepound notes of the Royal Bank, with which they got clear off. The splendid Panoramas in the rotunda on the Mound still preserve their popularity.— Few who have seen this beautiful exhibition can be satisfied without again witnessing its numerous antl varied excellencies ; it in fact far surpasses any idea that can be conceived of it. On Thursday last a detachment of the Scots Greys, which had been stationed for some time in Carlisle, proceeded on their route to Newcastle, their head- quarters, from whence the regiment will shortly march to j G U s g o w antl the neighbouring cantonments. j four months. On Tuesday morning, a fishing boat belonging to Fisherrow, returning from tha Fife coasts picked np the dead body of a man, and brought it in to Fisherrow. It appeared to have been a considerable time in the water, as the body was much mutilated. The dress of the deceased person was a sailor's blue jacket, blue vest, blue trowsers, and blue striped under vest, and a red comforter about the neck. In the pockets were two shillings and a halfpenny. From the dress, it seems evident that the deceased had been a seaman. In the afternoon of the same day the body was decently interred in Inveresk church yard. By the activity of the Glasgow criminal officers, a cunning and dangerous confederacy of thieves and resetters has been detected. Their principal resor', their warehouse, was situated near St Rollocks, and the officers were led ta it on Tuesday last while looking for some stolen property. F I R E AT RICHMOND BARRACKS, DUBLIN. An extensive fife occurred on Friday at these barracks. The flames first broke out in the storeroom of the 84th regiment, where a considerable quantity oCclotliing, stores, Ac. was utterly destroyed. The offi cers ot the 84th lost much property, and many of the non- coTimissioned officers and privates of the^ same corps lost their chests, baggage, I t was not necessary to make use of the canable Debt, it is earnestly hoped the contributions on this occasion will be liberal. Service to begin ai half- past Six o'e'ock. The Collection will he made after the Sermon. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET, MAY 19. 1824. We had a small supply of oats, barley, and beans today, which sold readily. Supply of wheat middling, and sales heavy, except barley, which was 2s. lower. All the others support last week's prices. Wheat. | Barley. I Oats. lst,.... 37s fid I lst 30s Od | 1st,.... 24s fid 2d,.... 34s0d 2d 28sOd I 2d,.... 23s0d 3d*.... 28sfid j 3d,.... 2fis0; l | 3d,.... 18s0d any person who may give such information to Robert Hutton or John M'Donald, procurators fiscal, as may enable them to get him apprehended. The reward will be payable on the said Andrew Hay's being lodged in any jail within two months from this date. He is about five feet four inches in height, of reddish complexion, pitted with small pox, has hazel eyes, aquiline nose, and brown hair. DUNFERMLINE, May 17. 1824. ORGAN FOR SALE. PeasQRfons | \ N elegant new and handsome finished lst,... 23sOd i 1 1 FINGER ORGAN, fit for the largest drawing- 2d, 20s 0d J room, or a small chapel, allowed by professional people ^ _ ,3d. 19s Od to be of a superior quality of tone, is recommended to the There were' 979 bolls of wheat in market, 681 of which ; notice of the public. said as follows :— If! £ 1 17 fi 111 £ 1 14 « 18 £\ 37 1 17 0 05 1 14 0 7 ' 31 1 IB 6 8fi 1 13 6 24 V 42 1 1 « 0 111 1 13 0 17 I 30 1 15 r, lli 1 12 6 50 1 15 ft 14 I 12 0 32 Unsold 2lifi Not returned. Average £ 1, 14s fid. To be seen at Hamilton and Murray's Musical Instru- 10 0'! ment Makers, No. 03. North Bridge, New Buildings. 9 fi | • » • INSTRUMENTS lent oul, tuned, and repaired. 8 « TO BE SOLD, OR LET UPON LEASE, entry at Whitsunday 1824, THAT commodious FLAT, No. 11. PICAIIOY PLACE, of four rooms, kitchen, and cellar, water pipe, anil water eloset. The property will be sold at such price as to make it an object for the investment of money. Apply at 21. North Bridge Street. HOUSEHOLD FURTSTTURE. To be SOLD by auction, on Friday 21st May, at 18. Nelson S. rcet, THE whole F U R N I T U R E of said house. consisting of Dining- room, Drawing- room, Bedchamber, and Kitchen Furniture, China, Crystal, and. Stoneware, Fdur. post and Tent Beds, Curtains, Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Ac. Sale to commence at 11 o'cloek. Also, on same day, alter the sale of furniture, the whole Shelving, Mahogany Counters, Tables, Chairs, handsome Mahogany Desk, with Brass Rails, Gas Apparatus, Ac. in that shop. 4. South Hanover Street. JOHN FERNEY, Auctioneer. o} FOR TIIE BENEFIT OF MR GARBUTT, Bo* Book- keeper. N WEDNESDAY EVENING next, May 2fi. 1824, will be performed the Comedy of WILD OATS. Rover, Mr Jones. Lady Amaranth, for this night only, Mrs H. Siddons. After which, the celebrated melo- dramatie romance of THE BANDITTI OF ROSENWALD, OR THE SPECTRE OF THE BLEEDING NUN. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Ac. T o be SOLD by auction, on Saturday, 22d May, at 7- Roxburgh Place, corner of Drummond Street, THE WHOLE FURNITURE OF SAID House, consisting of Dining- room; Bed- room, and* Kitchen FURNITURE, China, Crystal, and S'one Ware, Feather Beds, Mattresses, Ac. , y Also, an elegant Chest of Drawers, quite new, and n handsome Double- barrelled Gun, by Nock, London. Sale to commence ait eleven o'clock. JOHN FERNEY, Auctioneer. - f ligible Jji veijtmem. Ac. linn, which Has ordered to be planted opposite the centre arc4i of the pile, where happilv the farther spreading of the devouring element was stop, ped, without the application of artillery. The entire of the right wing of t h e centre pile of the barrack ^ hat been de- lroyed, and nothing left but the hare walls;— llie roof and ROTUNDA, SOUTH END OF THE MOUND. , . . . , , AF T E R a season of t h e most u n j f r e c e d e r . t - . cd success, the highly interesting PERISTREPHIC PANORAMAS of St HELENA, the BATTLES of GENAPPE, TRAFALGAR, Ac. will be shortly Removed. These Panoramas are painted on 20,000 squire feet of canvas, under the direction of Mr O'Meara, Las Case*, Captain Marrya t, and Lieutenant Pocoek, R. N ; the roof and the floors, including an a n d display 11 interesting views, all the events that od extent from end to end ol 1, or 2 8 windows, having curred to . N A P O L E O N B O N A P A R T E , f r o m . h i s debeen swept awav bv the Amies, which reached to . . . . ^ the entrance gate on the public road feading f. om Kilmainhatn; but few of the rafters or wlntfowfranies has been saved. Bv seven o'clock on Friday evening the flames were'extinguished, although dark smoke continued to ascend from the ruins on Saturday morning. The regiments quartered in the barracks at the time ol' the fire were t h e 2 J, or Queen's, the 3! st, and the 81th. fhe latter are now quarter- 1 e. l in George's Street Barracks. teat at Waterloo until the termination 61 his earthly career on the island of St Helena. Also, the principal fe itures of the^ ever memorable victory of Trafalgar, ant! death of the great Nelson. Tiie figures being the size of life, the shins of w tr on the largest scale, and accom- , pmied by a full MILITARY BAND, product acomplete - sensation cf reality. Boxes, 2? » — Gallery, Is.— Children half price— Books fid. . • Day exhibition at 12, half past one, and three o'clock. Evening ditto at half past seven, ?. ad nitis o'clock LANDS IN T H E WEST OF FIFE. For SALE by private bargain, .. » p H E LANDS of HALLCROFT and X HALLBURN, consisting of about 190 Scot* acres, forming nearly a square, almost all arable and meadow, of good soil, and all enclosed and subdivided— They are let ir. two fatms to substantial tenants, on ini. proving leases, and havo therefore been considerably improved within the. last few years, and the iinpiovements are still carrying on, by which the value of the lands lias been, and will be, greatly increased. Lime and coal are to be had within a short distance. There is a certainty of coal being in the lands, though . it lias not hitherto been wrought, and good freestone quarries may be opened in them. There is on Ilallcroft a good Dwe'ling- bo. use, of two stories, and which commands a very extensive and agreeable view, and the situation is very healthy. This property is situated in the parish nf Saline, about a mile north- east, of the village of Saline, and about seven miles north- west of Dunfermline. The turnpike road from Dunfermline to the Rumbling Bridge forms part of tbe east boundary of the lands, anil there are good roads le iding in all directions. The land's will be shown by applying at Hallcroft House or at Hallbuin. ' For farther particulars application ni'& y be made to Mr John Coventry of Nether Gartwhinzean, by Alloa.; Mr James Wood, at Balbnnghty, near Perth ; or to Robert Wilson, wii. er,( l2. Hanover S reet, Edinburgh, in whose bands the title- deeds may be seen, and any of them call eonelude a FOR SALE, A NEW VESSEL, OF The following dimensions, built at Blyth,' viz. Length over all,..,,.* ... 58ft. Sin. Do. keel, 0 llake of stem, A S. 8 Extreme breadth, . IS Dejith in hold, .... 8,. fi , ' Tonn, ige, till 2U94 per register. Chiefly built of oaki' and being constructed on the lengthened plan, will cany,' large cargo for her dimensions, at an easy draught of water. For particulars apply tp • t *. J O H N D R Y D E N , JUN. LEITH. L E I T H , May 19. 1824. FOR SALJi;,(. ,. A fine VESSEL, and easy draught. 5 of water, of the following diir. eiisio. n.% on the , ^ stocks at Burntisland, and . will be ready forv launching iu the course of three weeks hence," viz.— , .!, Fed. Inch. Lengdi of tbe k e e l . ^ , . . , . . , .58 0 Extreme breadth of beam 21 tt E x t r e m e length above 78 0 Depth of hold ,.....,. .,,.. 12' - J Planked with oak, and copper fastened, to the bends;! , he timber oi' very fine. Scotch Oak V decks of Memel imber, and copper fastened ; keel aqd keelsOfi copper '' astened, and will admeasure, 120 tons., . -. Ap? 1-", to Livingston and Meldrum, shipbuilders^ BurnjMla. nd. ; l t . • » ..,. { • , BoRH TISLAND, May 17. 182* 4. n T U B I. A T I ? D U E L . ' Sir Henry Uanlinge fcas published the following < k> rresponc! eiit> B s— » May 3, twelve o'clock. Lieutenant- Colonel Western delivered a note to $ ir H . I- IrrdiBge from Lurd Londonderry, referring Colonel w . as the hearer of it challenge to Lord L from Mr Battier, to Sir Henry. The message was slated bv Colonel W. to be founded on the circumstance of Lord L. having desired Mr 11. not to • line at the regimental mess, on the 24th of November last. Sir ITenry, without entering into the merits of the circumstance above- mentioned, expressed Jits opinion that Mr B. was not entitled to require private explanation, or personal satisfaction, from Lord L. after he had chosen to adopt the unusual course of satisfying his feelings by appealing to the jmblie, and if that mode of redress were now fel t by Mr B. to h e insufficient, it was no a ( Fair of Lord L.' s, and that, after a lapse of five months, any • claim which In? might have had, in the first instance, Appealed to be lost by the delay, as well as by the lifqieal to public opinion. ' Lieutenant- Colonel W. admitted that, in his opinion, there was no absolute necessity, on the part - r i f M r B . to send Lord L. a challenge after what " bad passed, but that Mr B.' s sense o f i h e injury he liad received, by being desired to quit the messj oom in the presence of ladies, induced him to seek t l i e present mode of satisfying his feelings, which had been severely wounded by t i n silent contempt with which Lord L. had treated him, by not noticing his letters, Tiris may be considered as the substance of the conversation which passed, Sir Henry proposing to • confer wil. h Colonel W. at three o'clock, when the following letter was presented by Sir H e n r y :— " 32. Grosvenor Place, May 5. 1824 " Sin I think ; t necessary to repeat most distinctlv to you that I cannot admit Mr Battler's light* to call upon Lord Londonderry for private mtisfactioii after Mr B. ittier's appeals to the public for the last four months. As you have also stated to me your opinion most unequivocally, that there is no necessity on the part of Mr Battier to have recourse t o the p- oeeeding he meditates, I cannot reconcile i t to my sense of honour and propriety to sanction riny such measure, where both the seconds are of • opinion that the principals need not meet. Disapproving, therefore, in common with you, o f t h e proposed meeting, I shall avoid seeing Lord L. till 1 Jiave conferred with you at three o'clock. I am,& c. ( Signed) " IL H A R D I N G E . " Ll.- Col. Western." Three o'clock t. m. At this interview Colonel W. stated, that an explanation from Lord L. or from Sir Henry, inform mg him that there had been no intention on the p u t of Lord L. to question Mr B.' scbaracterasagentlenian would satisfy him. Sir Henry, not admitting, on the part ot Lord L Mr B.' s claim to a private explanation after the preference shown by that gentleman for a public vindication of his character, declared any such explanation to he inadmissible. And although he bad avoided seeing Lord L. he stated his Lordship's readiness t o meet Mr Battier, as expressed in tbe note brought from Lord L. by Colonel W., the objection to the meeting being on the part of Sir Henry, and for the reasons already given. At this interview every means of arrangement liaving been discussed, Colonel W- delivered t h ; following note;— " May r>. « Sir— Having seen your note, and admitting t h a t there is no absolute necessity for Mr Battier to call on t h e Marquis of Londonderry; sentiments in which I the more readily participate from former years of service with you, and as Mr Battier has placed bis honour in my bands, I shall have no hesitation, after the conversation that lias taken place lietween us, to assure mv friend that our mutuelimpression as the friends of parties, is, that after the publicity which has already taken place, no farther slaps are necessary. " Allow me to express my satisfaction that this unpleasant business should have fallen into the bands of ail officer with whom I have formerly served, and for whom I always entertained the highest opinion. " I am. See. ( Signed) » C. M. T. W E S T E R N ." " Sir H. Hardinge, & c. & c. & c." Five o'clock. Sir Henry Hardinge's note, in answer to this, is t h e following, v i z . :— " 112. Grosvenor Place, May 5. " Sin— I have received your reply, n » ul request you will inform me of your ultimate intentions beiore the evening closes. « I am, " ( Signed) II. I I A l t D I N G E ." " S. ieut.- Colonel Western.'* Half- past six p. sr. Colonel W. having conferred with Mr B. returned t o Sir Henry at half- after six o'clock, requesting an explanation or a meeting. The latter was immedia t e ly acceded to. The parties, it mas considered, could not meet before half- after eight or nine o'clock, which was " deemed " very objectionable by both the seconds. A misapprehension, however, arose on this point. Colonel W. conceiving tbe appointment for the meeting to have been at nine o'clock the tame evening, and Sir Ilenry at nine o'clock the next morning. Sir I I . II. having communicated to Lerd L. the arrange merit lie had made, wrote the Allowing letter:,— " 32. Grosvenor Place, May 5. ten o'clock r. M. " Sin— I have seen Lord Londonderry and Informed liiin of the message Mr B i t t i e r has sent through you, in reply to my second note, requiring an explanation of Lord Londonderry's meaning in desiring Mr Battier lo quit the mess- room of the 10th hussars, the 24th of November. " 1 request you to assure Mr Battier, that it is a matter of perfect indifference to Lord London. « lerry, have no have expressed, that Mr Battier lias no right to expect the satisfaction be solicits, after five months suspension of his feelings, I now repeat. tfor Mr B. and rfe n i r f i e s ' s w e f i ; . u% - assemfiW at half after one o'clo. k. Having proceeded about four miles out of town, the pistols were loaded bv the seconds, and as the loaded pair had been brought oat bv Sir Henrv, the choice of one of tbein wss given U) Colonel W e s t ™ . The ground" was measured bv both the seconds— ten paces; the principals took their posts, levelling their pistols at the same time on the word being given to fire. Lord L.' s shot appeared to pass to the right of Mr B — M r B.' s pistol missed fire. Lord Londonderry requested that Mr Battier might, have another shot. This was declined by Coionel Western on tbe part ot Mr Battier. Colonel Western proposed that the principals should meet and shake hands. Sir Henry declared it to be impossible. Colonel Western having conferred with Mr Battier, informed Sir Henry that Mr Battier was satisfied, Sir Henry then be'— ed the principals to advance, and informed Colonel Western in their presence, that, as Mr Battier bad received the satisfaction he « ished to have, and bad expressed himself satisfied, he ( Sir H.) bad to mate two observations upon the last published letter of Mr B. :— In that letter there is an assertion personally reflectina upon Lord Londonderry, that he had sheltered himself under his rank from the consequences of an arbitrary act towards Mr Battier. That assertion the present meeting sufficiently disprove I. Col. W. anil Mr 15. assented. The next observation which Sir Henry was obliged to make to Col. " Western was, that in the same letter, Mr Battier asserted that although Lord Londonderry denied having seen or perused a certain letter or letters conveying a censure upon the Officers, of the. Tenth Hussars for their conduct towards Mr Battier, he ( Mr Battier) knew that Lord Londonderry had seen tbe papers. On the part of Lord Londonderry, Sir Henry declared, that the assertion contained in Mr Battier's letter was false. Mr Battier asked if it was meant to make him out a liar ? Sir Henry observed lo Col. Western, that Mr Battier must have been misinformed, but that he could not qualify tbe expres ion, and tha'._ Lord Londonderry was ready to maintain his assertion by resuming bis ground. Mr Battier inquired if it was intended to add fresh insult ? I f such were the case we had better go Sir Henrv could only repeat his former expression that the assertion wus false, and that it was f i r Mr Battier tn take his course,— Mr Battier said lie referred il to Colonel Western. Sir Henrv said they had better withdraw, anil not be long, for fear of be'n .* disturbed. They withdrew ( Colonel Western and Mr Battier) a few paces, for two or three minute?, and Colonel Western declared Mr Battier sa'tisfiwl, and that he did not intend to carry proceedings any farther. The parties proceeded to their carriages and returned to town. Quarter after one o'clock. May 7. Colonel Western has read this document, anil admits ( hat lie cilimot stale that there is any part which is not accurate Written in his presence and read to him. ( Signed) II. I T A l l D I N E G. " Mnv 10. 1824. " I admit the general substanoe and tenor of this statement to be correct. ( Signer!) C. M. T. W E S T E R N ." ( A true Copy) H. H A R D I N G E . May 14. 1324. TO T H E EDITON OF T H E OESEP. VEIT. Saturdav night, eleven o'clock, ' M a y 15. 1824. Sin I have only this evening seen in the Morning Chronicle of this day, a letter, wiih annexed documents, purporting to be a statement o f t h e particulars cf a recent correspondence between Sir H. Hardinge and Lieutenant- Colonel Western, relative to a subject on which I felt it necessary to require tin explanation from the Marquis nf Londonderry. The sudden death of my gallant friend yesterday has placed me in circumstances of the most unparalleled embarrassment, for which I trust to the sympathy of every brave and liberal mind. The specious representation of Sir H. Hardinge contains matter, which, though totally at variance with tbe true character of the transaction and deficient in most important circumstances, I cannot, on ihe spur of the moment; ns hearing the authentication of Lieutenant- Colonel Western's signature, ilenv or r e f u t e ; but I have no doubt of being enabled to prove, that my friend's signature was obtained to a document, which he had not thoroughly examined, reiving on Sir II. Hardinge be- nig incapable of recording the particulars partially or untruly. While I endeavour to rectify tbe impression intended to be conveyed bv the late statement, I entreat liiv friends, particularly my military friends, to suspend their judgment. WM. B A T T I E R . Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish Square. EDINBURGH NEWS CONTINUED. dborr, and afi o'fier Joints. not befog assessments on fmt'f. The m; xt clause g> » es tne landholders anil clergymen the exclusive right to impose, or not to impose, an assessment. Tlie third clause declares, that sifter a time left blank in the bill— " All persons for the first time receiving aid in any parish in Scotland, shall receive it there, and so long as their necessities may require it from such funds as are under the controul and subject to Use exclusive administration of the Ministers and Elders, and from none other whatever; any law or practice to the contrary notwithstanding." This clause excludes, after a certain time, all the poor from the benefit of assessments, and confines them to parish casualties and collections. If this hill were to pass into a law, it would be productive ofgreat mischief in the rich and civilised parts of Scotland. The mischief would not, however, be confined to Scotland; because if an attempt to change that which was good in Scotland led to evil, ah argument would be drawn from it against changing in England that which is positively had. In Scotland no abuse has ever taken place under the poor laws; the funds raised under them have never been distributed among any but objects of charity- In England it is otherwise. Here poor's rates have been applied to regulate the rate of wages, and the connexion between labour and its reward has beer, in consequence destroyed throughout the greatest part of the kingdom. The whole of the money expended on the poor in Scotland, even in the counties in which the landholders have long been assessed for their maintenance, is very small. In the counties of Haddington, Berwick, arid Roxburgh, the assessments are most general, but tbe whole forms a very moderate sum. In Berwickshire, for instance, of which the rental is stated by Mr Ker, in the agricultural report, published in 1809, at about £ 230,000. the assessments are only about £ 4400, and the whole sum paid to the poor about £ 5290. The law compelling the parishes to maintain their poor, has only been enforced in the cities and rich agricultural counties. In the Highlands and poorer parts of Scotland, where the laws could not. be put in force, the country has always been infested with beggars and vagabonds. In a iat- fje Highland parish, where the cultivation is confined to a few patches round tbe dwellings, this vagabondage can do no great harm, foi where there is nothing to steal, nothing can be stolen. But where the ground is covered with valuable crops, the case is different, and accordingly it will be found that assessments have uniformly followed in the train of improvement. It is quite preposterous to think that in a district cultivated like a garden, ami where great capitals have been expended on tbe soil, beggars and vagabonds can be allowed to roam at large. This, however, must be the case, wherever the poor sire not supplied at home. The contributions may or may not answer the wants of the poor, and when they fall short, begging is the necessary consequence, for no law can prevent people, who otherwise would die of want, from having recourse to begging. Hence, in all the districts in Scotland m which there are not regular assessments, thsre is begging, and in the districts in which there are assessments, begging has been suppressed. In all the countries of Europe in which civilization has made any considerable progress, there is a regular provision for the poor. In Germany, tbe different towns antl communes provide for the indigent. In Holland this subject has always much occupied those at the head of affairs. If Mr Kennedy would only read the essays and reports of Mr Buscb; the founder of the poor system at Hamburgh, he would soon see the folly of his attempt to throw tbe poor of Scotland or. casual contributions for support. In France, before the Revolution, no regular provision was made f o r the poor. But what was tbe consequence ? In an essay on the means of preventing crimes, which received, 1780, a prize from the Academy of Chalons- sur- Marne," the author says, " Are we to be astonished that there- are at present so many robbers and nsssssins in France ( for France in those days was with respect to crime what England is now with respect to France) when to the other catmes of crime we must aiid the horrible disease of mendicity ?'* . . . Tbe author very properly observes tbat all the attempts cf the Government to suppress mendicity necessarily failed because subsistence was not afforded to tbe poor. We repeat it, tbat so long as support is only given to the sick or infirm poor, no evil consequences need be feared. The labourer never looks forward in Scotland to the miserable pittance which be may derive from the parish. The increase of the assessments is not the result of increased pauperism., hecause in the Highlands of Scotland the poor are as numerous as on Tweedside, but of a more humane treatment of those who have none to help tliein. Friday, John Campbell-, condemned at last' Circuit Court at Stirling to be executed fur housebreaking ami theft, suffered the sentence of the law on a scaffolding in front of tbe Court- house there, surrounded by a crowd of spectators. He appeared on jthe scaffold about half- past two, attended by the Magistrates and Ministers. He seemed composed and resigned. A short prayer being offered up by one o f t h e Ministers, he was launched into eternity in a few minutes after appearing on the scaffold. Oatmeal, 302 bolls First, per boll 23s. Od. Second 22s. 0,1. First, p. peck ls. ( Id. MARKETS, Mealmarket. Tuesday. Peasmeal, p. boll J7s. 0 i Per peck ls. Oi Barleymeal, p. boll,. 17s. Btl Per peck Is. 31 I* i i ce of llntter and Eggs. Fresh Butter, per lb. Is. fi. l lSaltButterperlb. ls. tols. 2d Saltdo. perst. 16s. to Os. Oi. | Eggs per doz. Os. 6d. to0s. 0d Price of Meat, ^ r.— Tuesday. Beef, peilb. Os. 4d.' Os. fid. | Veal, p. lb.'. Os. 5d. Os. 8d Mutton, Os. 5d. Os. fid. Pork Os. 4d. Os. 6d Lamb, p. q. 4s. fid. 5s. 01. | Tallow, p. st.. fis. Oil. 6s. fid Quartern loaf, 9il. to 101 Perth Baking Co., quartern loaf, first sort, 10d.; second ditto, 8d— Potatoes, per peck, 10.1. to Ou. Yesterday there were 1257 sheep and lambs in the market, Main Point, head of West Port, Edinburgh— Prices s shade higher than last week. Wcdders, wnitefaced28s. to 3fis. Clipt, 26s. to 37s. Black- faced 27s. to 33s. Lambs plentier, and from ls. fill, to 2s. lower; average, 12s. to 15s. of 51b. to lllb. par quarter— In the Grass- market there were 307 fat cattle ( a middling show); prices a shade lower. Best stots and queySj 6s. 6d. to 7s. per stone sinking offals. Cows and inferior beasts, 5s. to ' fis. The supply of grazing cattle neither so great as last week, nor equal to the demand. PltlCIiS OF IIAY AND STIiAW AT EDINBURGH. May 19— There was a good supply of all kinds of straw and hay this week. Straw, wheat, 7s. fid. to lis.; oat, 8s.; barley, 7s. per kemple. Ilay from 10J. to ls. per stone. D A L K E I T H , M a y 17. A large quantity of oatmeal at this day's market, which sold readily, antl higher. Best, 21s. 3d.; current, 21s. inferior. 20s. fid. per boll Retail, ls. 4Jd. and ls. 5d, per peck. KEI. SO, M a y 14 V I L L A O N T W E E D - S I D E, NEAR MELROSE. To be LET, Unfurnished, and entered to an the 26th May. 1824, THE VILLA of WEIRBANK, with the PASTURE FIELD in which the house is placed, Garden and Offices, pleasantly situated upon tile side of the river Tweed, immediately to the westward oi Melrose. The house contains dining and drawing rooms, five bed- rooms, kitchen, cellars, & c., and the offices consist of gig- house, stable, and barn. The Pasture, which is of excellent quality, will measure about five acres. The situation is altogether delightful, and extremely convenient, being within three minutes walk of Melrose, where there are coaches, carriers, a daily post, an excellent school, See. Apply to Messrs. Erskine and Curie, writers ir, Melrose. MELHOSE, M a y 13. 1824. SMALL PROPERTY IN FIFE FOR SALE. T o be SOLD h y p r i v a t e b a r g s i n, THE LANDS of SKILMERVIE, lying in the parish of Creich, and shire of Fife. This property consists of upwards of 26 acres of excellent land, all enclosed and subdivided, and ornamented by belts of planting. The public burdens are trifling, and the teinds are valued and exhausted. There is a good mansion- house belonging to the propeity, with garden and offices, fit to accommodate a genteel family, at piesent in the natural possession of tbe proprietor. The long established brewery of Luthrie is also part of tile property, and lias, with the lands, been lately let to a very intelligent and substantial brewer, to be entered to at Martinmas next. The property is situated in a delightful part of the country, » ithin five miles of Cupar anil three of the Tay, has easy access by good roads in all directions, and will be sold so as to afford a purchaser upwards of four per cent. for his money. For farther particulars apply to Mr Greenlaw, at Luthrie ; or Mr Borsbrugh, Cupar. March 15. 1824. F A R M I N F I F E , I N P A R I S H OF AUCHTERTOOL. To bs I . ET for 19 years, and entered to at Martinmai next, 11124, with liberty to work Limestone for manuring the lands, in the lime quarries belonging to the Earl of Moray, in the said parish, HP H E LANDS of NEWTON and a. LITTLEHAVEN, as possessed by the deceased Robert'Orrock, containing Upwards of 251 acres, a good part, of which is a tine turnip soil, and a part of the lands, esilled Littlehaven, is a fine alluvial soil, with a subsoil ' of moss. Upon the whole, this is a most desirable farm, but which hitherto has been under very inferior management. Offers ( in writing) will be received by Mr Ilenrv Barilner, writer in Dunfermline, or by Mr Wauchope^ W. S. 28. Abercromby Place, FJdinburgh, between and tile 1st of July next. May II). 1S24. Wheat 30s Od to 4fis 0d Ditto, fine, 48s Od to 0s 0d Ditto, old, 0s Oil to lis Oil Peas, 32s Od to 36s 0; 1 Beans, 0s Oil to 0s Od Barley,.... 28s Od to 30s fid COLDSTREAM. M a y 13. Ditto, fine, 31s Oil to Os Od Potatoe Oats, 20s Od to 21s Oil. Ditto fine Os. 0.1. to 22s. 0( 1 Common oats,... Us. to 20s. per boll. Wheat, old40s Od to 47s 0.1 Ditto, new, Os Od to 0s Od Barley, 25s Od to 2. is 8,1 Ditto, new, Os Oil to Os 0: 1 Oats, 18s Od to 20s Od Ditto, new. Os Oil to 0s 0< 1 Pens, old Os Od to 0s Oil Ditto, new Os Oct to 0s Od Beans Os Od to 0s Od per boll BERWICK, Mny 15. Wheat, 33s Od to 45s Oil I Ditto, new, 0s 0,1 to fls Od no. new,... 0s Odto Os Od | Peas, 0s Od to Os ( Hi Barley, 25s Od to 28s Oil j Beans, Os Od to 0s Od Ditto, nctv 0s Od to fls Or! per boll, Oats 18s Odto 21s Od | Oatmeal, per load, 38s to 40s Yesterday eggs sold at 3s. 6ii. tier hundred. Butter at - 10s. to 42s. per firkin. Pork 3s. 6d. to Os. Od. Salmon 22s. Oil to 00i. Od. per stone. D U M F R I E S , May 12 VALUABLE PROPERTY IN THE COUNTY OF PERTH. To be SOLD by public roup, within the George Inn, Perth, on Tuesday the 27th day of . Inly next, at one o'clock afternoon, if not previously disposed of by private bargain, PART of the ESTATE of KEILLOUR, lying in the parish of Fowlis Wester, and containing 1230 Scotch acres or thereby, distant about eight miles from Perth, and nine miles from Crieff.— The turnpike road between these towns intersects the pro, perty. A large proportion of this valuable property consists of soil capable of raising any kinds of crops, and the whole has lately been let to substantial tenants. The different steadings are in good condition. A considerable part of the muir ground has lately been planted, ancl there is on the property a beautiful situation for a house. The title- deeds of the property, leases, anil corditiors of s.* ile, may be seen on application to George Conilie, writer in Perth, to whom offers for a private sale may be forwarded. Thomas Bishop, overseer at Methven Cast'. e, will show the grounds. P E R T H , M a y 7. 1824. V A L U A B L E S M A L L E S T A T E I N T HE C O U N T Y O F F O I t F AR F O R S A L E. There will be exposed to SALE by public roup, within the Court- ro Jill of Arbroath, on Saturday the 6tli day of June next, at one o'clock afternoon, r | * I I I', b e a u t i f u l a n d c o m p a c t small E s t a te i of MARCH of I. AWTON, with the whola Houses thereon, which belonged to the late Mr Scott, lying on both stilus of the Water of Lunan, in the parish of I nverkiellor, within live miles of Arbroath, and about six from Montrose. The dwelling- house, which was built a few years ago, is neat, substantial and commodious; consisting of six rooms, a kitchen, store- room, cellars and other conveniences, suitable for the accommodation of a genteel family. The lands consist of about 80 acres arable, in the best order, of an early soil, adapted for all kinds of crops, subdivided into convenient enclosures, and ornamented with several stripes of thriving planting. The property holds blench of a subject superior, the teinds are valued, anil the public burdens are moderate. There is excellent trout fishing in the Lunan ; the In. vetkiellor Coursing Club meets in tile immediate neighbourbood, and there is a pack of harriers kept at no great distance. In short, so compact a property and desirable a residence, with so many advantages, seldom appears ia the market. For farther particulars application may be made to Thomas Scott, writer in Arbroath, who'is ill possession of the title deeds and si plan of the estate Tile servants at March of Laivton will show the property. Wheat per Winchester bushel, 8s ( id to 10s 6( 1 Barley, 3s Oil to 4s 6d Oats, 2sl01 to 3s 3d Potatoe do... 3s 4d to 3s KM Flour, p. St. 4s fid to 0s Oil Second do... 4s Od to Os Oil Barley do.... 0s 0,1 to 3s 0,1 Oatmealp. st. 2s lOiltoCsOd Beef, per lb. Os Sd to 0s fid Mutton, Os 5d to 0s fid Veal, 0s 3,1 to 0s 5.1 Lamb, .. 0s 8d to 0s Oil Butter, ls 5( 1 to Is lis! Eggs, p . doz. Os 4d to Os 5; 1 Potatoes per peck, 2s Od to 0s 03 Quarn. Loaf8Jd to O s l l jd The new church of Port Glasgow was opened on Sunday, by the reverend Dr B A R R , the Minister of the parish, who preached an excellent and appropriate sermon on the occasion. On Sunday the Lord Provost of Glasgow received a respite for John M'Creevie, under sentence of death, for fourteen days, which was communicated by Baillies A N D E R S O N and B R O W N , with a special intimation that it is solely for the purpose of a f f o r d i n g time for inquiring as to certain representations made in his b e h a l f , a n d t h a t in t h e e v e n t of t h e rewhat Mr Bittier feels or publishes; lie can j s u i t p r o v i n g u n f a v o u r a b l e , t h e law w i l l t a ke o communication with him. The op-. nion I | - 3 c o u r se F r i d a y se'er~ Mght, an e x t e n s i v e t r a c t of fir p l a n t a t i o n on t h e e s t a t e of L o r d CAWDOR, in " Your expressed opinion, tbat there ia no n'eces- jthe n e i g h b o u r h o o d of N a i r n , was discovered ity for the meeting, which Mr B i t t i e r requires, I t 0 ,) e ; „ fl j n o t w i t h s t a n d i n g the leeil not enlarge upon. Lord Londonderry has . . ' , , , , " TO THE EDITOR OF THE COITRAMT. sity need upn: chosen to waive all the just objections, which, I think, exist to the meeting you have requested,- ind 3 have now only to inform von, that bit Lordship < viil be, at nine o'clock, at H i d e Park Corner, tomorrow morning, where I shail expect to see you and Mr Battier. " I have the honour to be, & c. ( Signed) " H. H A R D I N G E. Lien tenant- Colonel Western." This letter was sent to Colonel W. at eleven o'clopk, to the address he had appointed ; hut it did not find him there, nf-. d was, on the following morning, sent uniler cover to Mr Battier, who received it about eight o'clock. May 0. nine o'clock TP. k. Lord Londonderry and Sir Henry remained at the place appointed, until twenty minutes after nine o'clock, when Sir Henry wrote a pencil note lo this effect :— " Hyde Park Corner, top of Grosvenor Place1, 6th May, twenty minutes after iiin " Sir Henrv Hardinge presumes, there is some Jnistake. Lieutenant- Colonel Western will find him f h e i e till ten o'clock. It will be inconvenient to Lord Lorv'onderry to wait any longer. " Lieutenant- Colonel Western." The Pillowing answer was received from Lieute tiant- Colunel Western: — No. C— Dated 7th ( should be Gib) May. " Lieutenant- Colonel Western lueas l e i v e t o state, that Mr Battier and himself were waiting at the top of frrdsvenoi- Place, from two minutes before nine till forty- five minutes p. ist. " That seeing no signs of Sir Henry and h friend, they then got into the pout- chaise again and returne'l lb town. Lieutenant- Colonel W. will wait oil Sir Henry by twelve o'clock " Sir Henry Harrlinge." In consequence of this, Sir Henry rode to Colonel W.' s hotel in the city, who had, on the receipt of Sir Henfy's note of twenty minutes after nine, hastened to Mr Battier, and shortly after twelve o'clock Colonel W. appeared at Hyde Park Corner. united exertions of several hundred persons who collected on the spot, and cut an avenue from side to side of the wood, the whole, consisting of nearly 80 acres, was consumed. The fire was discovered at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, on the windward side of the wood, and the plantation being quite close, with much rank dry heather on the surface ot the ground, the progress of the flames was irresistible and frightful. It is not known whether this event arose from accident or design. THE SCOTTISH POOR. ( From tbe Morning Chronicle.) Mr Kennedy's hill for altering the poor laws ot Scotland lias deservedly excited great alarm throughout Scotland, and sit a lale meeting of the Presbytery of Edinburgh it was very generally condemned. We must say that a more ill- judged measure never was proposed in the House, though Mr Kennedy said, the principle of the measure hail the approbation of persons the best qualified to form an opinion." Far he ii from us to wish to detract from the merits of Mr Kennedy's services to Scotland, because on one point we happen to differ irith him. We a'- e ready to bear our humble testimony to the laudable zeal lie Ins uniformly displayed to improve the institutions of his country, and lo ackowledge, that in most instances, his judgment has nolfieen inferior to his zeal. His poor laws alteration bill, however, we think, will he . mv thing rather than beneficial- The sick and infirm poor in Scotland are itt present entitled to support from their respective parishes. Should the collections'at the church doors rnd various parochial dues, & c. be found insufficient, the landholders are bound to assess themselves to make up the deficiency. The object of Mr Kennedy's bill is to put an end to all assessments in time, and to confine the poor to what can be obtained by charitable contributions The Beatilv market held on " Wednesday and Thursday was well attended. The show « f cattle was excellent, and the sale briik at an advance on last year's prices. Three years old stots sold from £ 5 to £ 7. Two years old ditto from £ 2, 10s. to £ 4, 10s. Quevs from £ 2, 10. s. to £*. Inferior cattle £ 1, 10s. to £ 3. A superior lot brought £ 9, 10s. each. About 3000 head of cattle passed southwards from Inverness on Wednesday nnd Thursday. At the great Mar fair of Dunlo ( Ballinasloe), on Friday week, tho show of heifers was short of the usual supply, and tbe demand being fully equal to that of past years, they went off at an advance of from 10s. to l i s . 4id. a heast over the last year's prices. The goodness of this fair seems to have had an effect on the fair of Clonroad, near Enis, now holding. Cuttle, especially new milch cows, are in great demand, and, as there are several buyers from Limerick and ' l'ipperary, the prices are unusually high. The fair of Mount Pelier ( County of Limerick), on Saturday week, was numerously attended, and all LANDED ESTATE NEAR GLASGOW FOR SALE. To be SOLD by private bargain, and entered to *. t Whitsunday or Martinmas 1824, n p H E LANDS and ESTATE of KENi . MURI5, lying in the Barony Parish of Glasgow, with a small part in the parish of Cadder, anil shire of Lanark. The property contains a modern mansion nnd commodious offices, all in the best condition, farm- houses and offices, gardens, pleasure grounds, and other lands, subdivide:!, enclosed, and much improved, containing in all, according to a recent plan by Mr Kyle. 413 actes 2 roods II falls, of which about 65^ acres are under thriving plantations, from upwards of 25 to five years old. It is about three miles distant from Glasgow, on the Edinburgh and Falkirk road, by Kirkintilloch, the road lying on its south- east march, and the Forth and Clyde Canal bounding it on the north, west for one third of its extent, and the estate of Cadder on the east, and that of Over Possil on the south. Farther information mny be had by applying to David Kay, Esq. accountant, Melville Place, Glasgow ; or to Dr Coventry, Edinburgh. S A L E O F L A N D S I N T H F . C O U N T I E S OF W 1 G T O N A N D D U M F R I E S, AND OF S H A R E S I N T H E H E R C U L E S I N S U R A N CE C O M P A N Y . To be SOLD by public roup, within the Royal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 9th of June next, betwixt tbe hours of two and three afternoon if not previously sold by pi irate bargain. l . r g l H E LANDS of BALSARROCH, lyit ing in tile parish of Kirkctim, and county of Wigton, consisting of 546 Scotch acres, or thereby, of which about 500 acres are good arable and pasture lands, well divided and enclosed. This property is in the vicinity of Stranraer, only about two miles from l. och Ryan Bay and the Irish Channel, where lime anil coal are imported at a moderate expense. The lands hold of a subject superior for a trifling feu duty. ESTATE IN PERTHSHIRE. To be SOLD by public roup, on Monday the 28th Juns 1821, within the lioyal Exchange Coffeehouse, Edinburgh, at one o'clock afternoon, if not previously disposed of by private bargain, " i H h E LANDS and BARONY of BLAIRGOWK1E, including the Feu Rents arising from the village of Blairgowrie, the Corn Mill and Salmon Fishings on the west bank ofthe river Ericht, and the Vice- Patronage of the Churclf. These lands consist of about 429 acres of arable land, 77 acres of pasture, mostly improveable, and 164 acres of thriving wood, from 30 to 50 years old. There is on the propeity an excellent modern mansionhouse, with every convenience for a genteel family, tbe situation of which is particularly beautiful, commanding nn extensive view of Strathmore and of the river Ericht, on the woody banks of which are situated the well known romantic anil picturesque scenery of Craighall. The lands abound with game; the roil fishing for salmon. on the liver Erieht, is among tbe best in Scotland; and tbe mode of taking that fish, at a considerable fall of the river named the Kcath, very remarkable. In the thriving village of Blairgowrie are excellent markets and a daily post. A more comfortable and convenient residence, or a more eligible investment of money, is seldom to be met with. These lands will bs exposed in whole, or in Tt- 0 or moie lots, to suit purchasers. They hold of the Crown and aflord nearly three Freehold Qualifications. The teinds are exhausted, and the public burdens very moderate. If that part of the estate, on which the mansion- house is situated, is not sold, the MANSION- HOUSE will be let furnished, or unfurnished, for such a number of years as may be agreed on, with the Manor Farm, the extent of which not exceeding 150 acres arable, exclusive of pasture, may be made suitable to the wishes of n tenant. For particulars apply to Messrs. Lockhart and Kennedy, W. S. No. 30." Frederick Street, Edinburgh, or to the proprietor, William Macpherson, at Blairgowrie, wiih both of whom a plan r. nd rent- roll may he seen. E S T A T E I N A N N A N D A L E. F o r SALE by p r i v a t e b a r g a i n, H p H E following PARTS o f t h e BARONY I - of APPLKG ARTH, in the united parishes of Applegarth and Sibbaldbie, stewartry of Annandale, and county of Dumfries, viz.— The FARMS of I. AMONRTE, CLEUGH HEADS and Pendicles, SIBBALDBIESTDE, BELCOTHILLHRUK MILL and MILL LANDS, GAYFIIiLD, UPPER and NETHER HALLS, UPPER and NETHER MILLBANK, LAMONBIE MILL, and LANDS of MILLHILL, possessed along therewith. These lands, situated in the fertile district of Annandsile, form a very compact estate of about 1350 acres, Scotch measure, of which upwards of 1100 are arable, generally of excellent quality, and fit for every species cf crop. . The distance from Locker by is about three mites, I from Moffat about twelve, and from Annan about four- The teinds are valued and exhausted, and all tbe i teen miles. The misunderstanding as to the time of meeting was His first clause gives " the Minister and Elders an explained, and Colonel W. immediately returned exclusive power ever the funds collected at church Sin, Mr Biodie's " H i s t o r y ot the British Empire from tbe Accession of Charles I . to the Restoration," may j u s t ly be considered as a valuable and interesting performance. It is uniformly executed uponconsti tutional principles, and, from first to last, the author seems to have been guided by views similar to those which influenced the distinguished characters by whom the Revolution of 1088 was accomplished. A considerable degree of research is obviously displayed, particularly in the first volume; nn: l through the. whole work, such light is thrown upon theevenls which occurred in tiiese agitated times, sis might have rendered the publication r. uire popular and successful than has actually happened. But, though a high opinion is entertained of Mr Brodie's history as a whole, yet it. is not difficult to select various passages, wherein facts, no doubt unintentionally, are somewhat misrepresented. Without insisting on these thing; at this time, what is said concerning the celebrated Assembly of the Church which met at Glasgow in 1638, shail only be noticed. The passage alluded to will be found in page 491 o f t h e second volume, wherein it is indirectly maintained, that tha lay elders of that assembly exceeded the clerical members in number, which certainly was not the case. The words used are as follows :—" But the lay elders which were revived, outnumbered the clerical, while their rank and influence in society were calculated to add a weight to their measures, which the other never could have obtained." Now, Sir, there is j u s t now before me a copy of the roll of the members who attended the Glasgow Assembly, which proves in the most satisfactory manner that the number of lav members was considerably less than that of the clergy. In fact most o f t h e Presbyteries eleeted three clerical memb? rs, and only one layman as a ruling flder, whilst the remainder of the elders were commissioned by the royal burghs antl universities. Without argument, it may be state.- l tbat the roll contains 237 names altogether, whereof 140 were clergymen, and 05 laymen, hssides 2 representatives from the colleges of Edinburgh. and A berdeen. I am aware that Dr BrJcanqual, in what was called the " Larger Declaration," makes Charles I. speak in similar terms with regard to tbe Glasgow Assembly, and very probably Mr Brodie may have gleaned his information from ihe writings of that learned gentleman who attended in the suite of the Marquis of Hamilton, his Majesty's Commissioner. But bs that as it'may, the fact is as I have stated; and here let me suggest tbat the proceedings of the Glasgow Assembly, and the character of its leading members, would afford n fine field of discussion for the very respectable clergyman who has already furnished histories of the two great men who may justly be considered as the founders of our Scottish Church. Allow me to add, that the fatal battle of Dawnbill, and the march of the Scotch and English armies from Edinburgh eastward, are more fully and distinctly described by Mr Brodie than by any other author. Indeed doubts were always entertained as to the accuracy of tile accounts given by Bishop Burnett and David Hume of thai unfortunate business, chiefly because none of them agreed with the dispatches sent by Oliver Cromwell the day after the action, to the Council of State al London. In short all the nonsensical jargon about the clergy calling upon David Leslie lo leave his entrenchments, and destroy the Philistines in Giigal, must now be considered as nothing Biore than an historical romance, which may amuse, but cannot instruct, any person whatever concerning the history of that troublesome period.— I am. vours.'& c. 1 ' VERUS. road descriptions of cattle sold well Milch cows from j public burdens are very small. ! Tne river Dryfe runs along the eastern boundary; 5 to 10 guinea!; strippers from 3 to 6 guineas; store! The present rental amounts to £ 381, 18s. 9d. and al- 1 the vale o f t h e Dryfe in this quarter is beautiful, anil sheep '' rom 20s. to 22s. 9,1 • ho* aets from 14s. to though a considerable rise mnv be expected on the ex- : the grounds aftbril several eligible situations for a man- 2os a I piry of some old lenses in Whitsunday lt: 25, the upset I sion- liouse. The great post road from Carlisle to Gla?-' " Clonmcl May fair was held on Wednesday week T ^ M ^ E R B E C K , in the parish of | and abundantly supplied with black catlle; can -•-'- « « —-•-- — J • — " — • — - - • - heifers in good demand, nnd rated from 5 guineas to 6J guineas, and in a few instances higher; new milch cows rated from ! H guineas to G guineas; two year Carlisle and Annan markets afford a constant and ready ' boundary. heifers brought from 40s. to 50s.; strippers, and the ' s a , e f01".^ 1 kinds of produce, and there is abundance of Tile lands arc almost all enclosed and subdivided with ordinary descriptions dull sale and rated from J' 3 l l m e w i t i l i n a mile- The lands are interseuted by the thriving hedge fences, and the steadings, which are of reto 5 cTiiinea*. sheen' in nnnd ' demand nnd p ffreat roail from Annan to Langholm, and the mail conch cent erection, are generally in very good order, and aCeto .) guineas, sheep in goon demand anil carried r o j d f r o m Glasgow to Carlisle passes within a quarter of quale to the farm?. So goo- l a . air has not occurred tor a m i l e . The situation is very beautiful, the river Kirtle i The rental of'the property, under hate? to substantial forming the western boundary fornearly a mile, the banks tenants, for different periods of endurance, exceeds £ 1500, gOod prices, some time. SEQITES THA TIONS. MEETINGS, & C. WM. ALEXANDER H U N T , m e r c h a n t , D u n f e r m l i n e, to be examined in the town- house there, 28th May, at 1, and 15th June, at 12. ANDREW and MICHAEL NEII. SON, wholesale t e a - dealers, Glasgow, to be examined in'tlie Sheriff- clerk's office there, 1st and 15th June, at 12. C r e d i t o r s of A L E X A N D E I MUNHO, grocer and fishcurer. St Andrew's, meet in tile Black Bull Inn there, 1 Ith June, at 12. C r e d i t o r s of ALEXANDER MACNAIR. late m e r c h a n t, Dingwall, meet in the Athenteum, Inverness, 16th June, at 12. of which are covered with valuable wood. The hinds hold of tile Crown, anil with other superiorities to be sold with the lands, afford a freehold qualification in tbe county of Dumfries. The teinds are valued by an old decree and exhausted. The public burdens are small. 3. That Lot of CRECA, part of the Estate of f! onand there sire besides 21 nc- es of thriving plantations in the occupation of tbe proprietor. The lands abound with game, antl the river Dryfe affords excellent fishing. The teinds are valued and tbe public burdens, which are very moderate, are chiefly paid by the tenants. The lands hold of the'Crown, and afford TWO shaw, possessed by George Lister, lying in the parish of i FREEHOLD QUALIFICATIONS On the whole, Annan, and county of Dumfries, consisting of about 32 ; n more eligible investment for money is rarely to be met Scotch acres. — L 4. TWENTY- NINE SHARES o f t h e CAPITAL STOCK of the HERCULES INSURANCE COMPANY. F'or farther particulars t. pply to Mr James Csiird, writer, Stranraer; Mr John Ueattie, at Janeviile, near Ann. m Creditors of WILLIAM SMITH, innkeeper, Hamilton,) or to Thos. Corrie and David Welsh, W. S. Edinburgh, will receive a dividend at the trustee's office, 40, Dunlop Street, Glasgow, 18th June. DANIEL M'FARLANE, grocer, Glasgow, h a s a p p l i ed for a discharge. in whose hands are the tide deeds and plans ot the liinds. S H I P P I N G I N ' I ' E U . L G H N L . K. The Prescott, Scott, sailed from Lcith forGottenhurgli, on the- 15tli instant. Jane, Oakley, at Leith from Cadiz • Tanet, Wallace, ditto from Piga Leipsic Packet, Morrison, ditto from Hamburgh Rhine, Hosie, at Hamburgh from Leith Romulus, Henderson, at Gottenhurgh from ditto Unicorn, Wilson, at Demerara from tlie Clyde L E I T H . ARRIVED.— May 14. Tyne. Adamson, from Newcastle. goods 15. Fly, RoOgers, Glasgow, goods— Bell wood, Inirie, Perth, do. CLEARED OIJT— May 15. Quentin Durward, fnr'Dundee, good?— Success. Smith. Inverness, do Active, Foster, Glasgow, do— Jessie, Wittet, Perth, do Brothers, Reid, Peterhead, do. SOUND I N T E L L I G E N C E. May 1. Salimanet, Boyd, from Hammermills, for Baltic, ballast 2. John, Norrie, London, Pernau. ditto Craigie, Banks, Messina, Petersburg, fruit Violet, Black, Dundee, Riga, ballast Caledonia. Murray, Windau, Leith, deals St Nicholas, Hodge, Memel, Montrose, timber Leeds, Dobson, ditto, Aberdeen, ditto Ebenezcr, F.- itkin. ditto, Newburgh, ditto 3. William. Wulff, Pillau, Leith, ditto Eliza, Mercer, Liverpool, Petersburg, salt Friends, Hannah, ditto, ditto, ditto Crimonmoa; ate, Davidson, Riga, Aberdeen, flax Aurora, Mills, Memel, Arbroath, timber 4. Caledonia, Mearns, Riga, Dundee, flax Janet, Wallace, ditto. Leith, ditto Alexander, Brown, ditto, Dundee, ditto Vedra, Harrison, Memel, ditto, timber Eliza, Dutllie, Peterhead, Dnntzic, ballast Lillias, Hutcheson, London, Pernau, ditto Jasper, M'- Earen, Newcastle, Petersburg, coals Delight, Black, Copenhagen, Leith, tar. Winds. May 2. E. S. E., fresh breeze— 3. E. S. E., do— 4. S. E and W. S. W., do. MULLENS & KNOX. Eisinorc, May 4. 1824. HIGH WATER AT LEITH, FRIDA Y 48M. past 7 Morn. 18m. p a s t 8 Even. SATERBAY . . . , . OFI.- K. 8 21 m . pssf 9 BEAUTIFULLY MTU AT ED PROPERTIES FOR SALE. WITH A FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION IN RENFREWSHIRE. Lot I s t / j p H E ESTATE of GLEDDOCH, iL being part of the Barony of Finlayston Mnxwell, consisting of ( 153 acres of arable land, and 257 of ebb shore, of a rich mould, quite capable of being reclaimed from the river. These lands stretch along the south bank of the Clyde, nearly opposite to Dumbarton Castle; they are interspersed with coppice wood and thriving plantations, and command an extensive and picturesque view in every direction, affording a variety in the choice of situations f'or building very rarely to be met with. The soil is all, of a fine dry quality, incumbent on rotten rock, and consequently well adapted for drill and dairy husbandry, for which produce Grecnock, Paisley, and Port- Glasgow are ready markets- The farms have good slated steadings, sire of moderate size, and in good order, yet capable ot great improvement, especially by liming, which has hitherto been applied with a sparing band. A FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION is attached to the property. Lot 2d, The ESTATE of DRUMS, consisting of 81 acres of good land, having lately fallen out of a liferent lease. There is a good mansion- house and offices on this lot, commanding an extensive view, including Dumbarton Castle, with the whole range of grand scenery which the Clyde with its opposite banks afford. Lot 3d, The LANDS of PARK ERSKINE, consisting of 2' ili acres of rich dry land, incumbent on rotten rock, capable of producing any kind of green crop, and well adapted for dairy husbandry. There is a beautiful glen of coppice wood on this lot; also some thriving plantations, affording eligible situations for building. Lots "-' d and 3il join, and being only separated from lot first by a short, distance of good road form a very desirable purchase as a whole, or in lots. The above properties are well fenced, sheltered, and watered, and abound in game, particularly pheasant, partridge, woodcock, and hare, with some black game and grouse. If lot second is not sold, the House of Drums will be LET for a year, from Whitsunday, with the exclusive right to the game of the whole estate. All farther particulars will be learned by spplying to Boyd Alexander, Esq. of Southbar; William Wilson. Esq. Cowglen, by Glasgow; anil Messrs. Hill, Graham; ifh. The tenants will show the lands, p. ntl inquirers are referred for particulars to Messrs. Gibson and Oliphant, W. S., No. 2. Brown's Square, Edinburgh. EDINBUROH, March 8. 1824. ESTATE IN PERTHSHIRE, W I TH A FREEHOLD QUALIFICATION. T o be SOLD, N P I I E L A N D S a n d E S T A T E o f O R C H I L L , - B- in th « jurishes of Blackford and Muthill, and on the confines of Strathallan antl Stratliearn. This estate, consisting in whole of 756 acres Scotch, of which 486 are arable land, and the remainder under wood, is beautifully situated upon a- gentle declivity facing the south, within 14 miles of Perth, and the like distance from Stirling, the steam nsvig. ition from - which last plaC3 affords easy and daily communcation with Edinburgh. The market town of ' Crieff is within six miles of the property, and the mailcoach passes through tbe estate twice a day on the great turnpike road to Perth, Stirling, and Glasgow. The arable land is subdivided by substantial stone fences, into regular enclosures of moderate sizes, having water in each, and is well sheltered with plantsifions which have been laid out both for ornament and use. The estate has lain long in pasture ( with the exception of two small farms), and is let annually to graziers, for whose accommodation it is remarkably well situated, being on the great road from the North Highlands to Falkirk, and convenient for the Edinburgh and Glasgow markets. The plantations consist of 270 Scots ncres, of wood from thirty to forty years old. The thinnings alone, with tlie oak coppice, & c. generally produce an annual revenue of £ 200, and the woods continue to be greatlv benefited bv jni icious thinnings. The Mansion- house is beautifully situated ill the midst of thriving wood, and is fit to accommodate a genteel family. The offices are extensive antl in good condition. There is nil excellent Garden well stocked with fruit trees, ami a hot house and orchard, nnd also two ponds stocked with fish. The estate abounds with game, including grouse, partridge, blackcock, pheasant, wild duck, roe deep and hares? unit fresh water angling may be enjoyed in great perfection in the immediate neighbour!-, " id, and partially on thffestate. The estate is held blench of a subject superior for an annual payment of two pennies Scots; hut if agreeable to a purchaser, a Freehol 1 Qualification over lands in the immediate neighbourhood, will be solcl along with tbe property. 1 f required, a great part of the price may remain in th purchaser's hands. Applications may be made to Mr John Gibson, junior, W. S. 10. Charlotte Street, who will show the plans, valuation anil title deeds, and who is authorised to sell the property; or to Mr John Douglas, land- surveyor in Perth. John Hnli'ane.. at Orchill, will show the lands. nnd Davidson, writers. South Frederick Street, Glas- 1 Printed and Published by DAVID RAMSAY At SON " gow. who are in possession of the title- deeds, p'ens, an-! 1 for the Trustees of George Ramsav every Mocdt y ' l'e" a" se* s Thursday, and Saturday.