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Date of Article: 13/08/1825
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This work must prove of incalculable service to the grand effort of general improve- ment."— Sunday Monitor. This plan of getting out works cannot fail to be highly beneficial to the public. The present is handsomely printed, and witihin the reach of all ; as a book of reference it will be found very valuable. We heartily recommend it to our readers."— New Monthly Magazine. Part I. is now ready, price Is. in a neat wrapper, con- taining the first four Numbers.— No. V. was published on SA- turday, June £ 8. Published by JOHN and H. L. HUNT, Tavistock Street, Covent < Jardeo, London; and A. STEVENSON, 60, CASTLE STREET, ABERDEEN. ABERDEEN, FORFAR, KINCARDINE, AND BANFF RACES. 1825. Tlie LORD FORBES, PRKSES. The Lord ROSEHILL ") The Hon. General DUFF Sir JOHN FORIES, Bart Sir A i. m. RAMSAY. Bart THOMAS A. FRASER, Esq of Lovat Stewards. WXLUAM BRODIE. Esq of Brodie Colonel DOFF, of Fetteresso JAMES CRCICKSHANK, Esq jun The Loan PROTOST, of Aberdeen j Hon. Colonel RAMSAY, Secretary and Treasurer. To be run for, over the Course at Aberdeen, Wednesday 31 st August, The MEETING STAKES of TWENTY- FIVE SO- VEREIGNS each, Fifteen Sovereigns ft. and Five only if declared to Colonel Ramsay, Kelly, Dundee, on or before 14th June. Three to remain in, or no race. Two miles. To close on Ist May, and the Horses to be named to Colonel llamsay, c « i or before that day. The weights to be fixed on or before 1 st June. To be handicapped by the Prej. es and Ste- wards, or whom they may please to appoint. 20 Subscribers. > Acceptances. Mr Farquharson's cb. h. North Star, 5 y. o. 9 st. Lord Kennedy's b. c. Skiff, 4 y. o. - - 8 st. 3 lb. Mr Eraser's gr. c, Richmond, 4 y. o. - 8 st. 1 lb. Sir D. Moncrieffe's b. c. Benvorlich, 5 y. o. 7 st. 1 lb. The other Subscribers pay forfeit. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Citizens of Aberdeen, for all ages. Heals, two miles. Carry- ing. three y. o. 6st 7lb; four, 7st 121b. ; five, 8st 5lb; six, and aged, 8st 11 lb. Thursday, 1 st September. A GOLD CUP OF ONE HUNDRED SOVE- REIGNS. given from the Ladies' Subscription, for all ages. Two miles, and a distance. Carrying, three y. o. 7st 71b ; four, Sst 71b; five, 9st ; six. 9st 41b ; aged, 9st 6lb. SWEEPSTAKES ofTEN SOVEREIGNS each, with TWENTY- FIVE added by the Hon. Captain Gordon, M. P. for the County of Aberdeen, for all ages. Two miles. Carry- ing, three y. o. 6st 121b; four, 8st; five, Sst 10lb ; six and aged, !). t. Three Subscribers, or no race. To name at time of entry. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Earl of Kintore, for Horses bred in the Couuties of Aberdeen, Forfar, Kincardine, and Banff. Two miles. Carrying, two y. o. a feather; three, 7st 71b ; four, Sst 7lb; five, 8st 131b bix and aged, 9st 21b. Friday, Id September. The CALEDONIAN WELTER STAKES of THIR- TY GUINEAS each, Ten Guineas ft. for all ages. Three y. o. fist 12lb; four, 9st 121b; five, 10st5lb; six. lOst I2lb; aged, list. Two miles. To close and name to Colonel Ramsay, on or before lst August. Nominations. Mr G. F. Carnegie's b. c. The Nick, by Filz Orville, 4 y. o. I. ord Kennedy's b. c. Skiff, |, v Partisan, 4 y, o. Mr Farquharson's ch. c. North Star, by Cervantes, 5 y. o. Mr Bnchan's gr. c. Richmond, by Grey Middleham, 4 y. o. Lord Saltoun'sb. c. Warkworth, by Filho Da Puta, 4 y. o. Mr F. Maule's b. g. Cotewell, aged. Sir D. Moncriefl't's ch. c. The Tod. by Cervantes, 4 y. 0. Did not name. ' M. of HunWy I Lord Strathavon Lord Abovne I Collingwood Tarleton, Esq. A PLATE of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS, given by the Marquis of Iluntly, added lo a SUBSCRIPTION of TEN SOVEREIGNS each. The winner of the Meeting or Cale- donian Welter Stakes, to carry 51b. extra. Heats two miles. Carrying, three y. o. 7st 4lb; four, 8st 4 b; five, Sst 101b; tix, 9st; aged, 9st 2lh. To close and name at time of entry; No day mentioned. A SWEEPSTAKES of FIFTY SOVEREIGNS each, li. ft. Two miles. Carrying, three y. o. 7st 71b; four, 8st 711); five, 9st 2lb ; six and aged. 9st. 101b. To close, and name to Colonel Ramsay, Kelly, Dundee, on or before lst August. - Nominations. Mr G. F. Carnegie's b. c. The Nick, by Fiiz- Orviile, 4 y. o. J. ord Kennedy's b. c. Skiff, by Partisan. 4 y. o. Sir D. Moncrieffe's gr. c, Benvorlich, by Viscount, 3 y. o. Mr Farquharsou's ch. c. North Star, by Cervantes, 5 y. o. The Horses to be entered at the Secretary's office, on Tues- day 30th August, between the hours of ten and one o'clock, when the proper certificates of the age and qualifications of the Horses must be produced, and the payment of the King's Duty. & c. Each Horse to pay Two Guineas Entrance Money, Five Shillings to the Clerk, and Two Shillings and Sixpence for Weights. M. & G. allowed 31b in all the Pla- es and Stakes, except the Meeting and Welter Stakes. No Post Entry. To Mart at one o'clock exactly. All disputes to he settled by the Presesand Stewards, or by whom they shall appoint, and their decision to be final. No Dogs will be permitted to be on the Course. The Course will be open on the Monday aud ' Tues- day before the Races. « ,• OR DIN AMIES and UAL I. S in the rublic Rooms on each of the three hays during the Week. There will be a Ballot for new Members on the Tuesday of the Race Week. JOHN RAMSAY, Secretary & Treas. WINE COMPANY OF SCOTXIAND. DIRECTORS. Robert Anderson, Esq. Broughton Place, Edinburgh. Henry Maxwell, Esq. merchant in Leith. James Nairne, Esq. of Claremount, W. S. James Scarth. Esq. Auditor of the Court of Session. John Craig. Esq. Great King Street, Edinburgh. John Balfour, Esq. Haiies. Robert Ramsay, Esq. W. S. Win. Keith, Esq. accountant. HP IIE great success of this Establishment, while it has proved that the advantages it affords to the public " have been duly appreciated, has led the Directors, in furtherance of their original intention, to establish Agencies in some of the principal towns of Scotland ; aud, accordingly, they now announce to the public the appointment of Mr JAMES GIBBON, as the Agent of the Company in the City and County of Aberdeen. Mr GIUCON will always have on hand a good Stock of the Company's WINES; and will supply the demand, either from his Cellars, or transmit orders to the Head Office here, as purchasers may prefer. In soliciting general support, the Manager begs to assure the public, that il has been, and will steadily continue to be, a fundamental principle of the Company, to sell only GENUINE WINES, of the best qualities, at reasonable rates, and in Uotlles of a uniform standard size. JAMES BALFOUR, Manager. WINE COMPANY OF SCOTLAND'S OFFICE, 7 Edinburgh, August 1, 1825. $ INFERRING to the above, I take the opportunity ^ of intimating, that I have now ready for delivery, in Bottles, the great variety of this Company's WINES, the qua- lities of which will be found very superior, and at very mode- rate prices. I hope to be favoured with the orders of my friends and the public. Those who may wish their Wines in, Cask, can be supplied, through me, from the Company's Stock. JAMES GIBBON. OFFICE, No. 9. A DELPHI, 7 Aberdeen, August J, 1825. J PRESERVATION OF GAME. THE Hon. WILLIAM GORDON of Ellon, having determined to preserve the GAME on his Estates in the County of Aberdeen, requests that no person may Hunt or Shoot thereon, without his permission in writing. — All former permissions are hereby recalled ; and all unqualified persons and poachers will be prosecuted. STOSJEN. rl^ HERE were carried offfAm the property of Mr. is- SAMUEL NICOLL, Herdhill, near Kirrymuir, in the County of Forfar, on the morning of itlie 22d of July last, TWO MILCH COWS, the one about 28 and the other about 24 stones weight— they are both dodded, the largest is black on both sides, white along the back and belly, with a white udder— the other is black, with a little brown along the back, brownish ears, with a white spot on the udder. They were both in very good condition when carried away. They were traced across the Capel Month, by the Spittal of Mick, and all the way to Huntly, and it is presumed they had been carried farther North. Any person who will give information, so as to lead to the recovery of the Cows, to Mr Nicoll, or to Mr John or Alex- ander Stapels at Keith, or to the Editor of this Paper, will be handsomely rewarded. Herdhill, by Kirrymuir, Aug. 10, 1825. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS TO TIIE BANFF & LONDON SHIPPING COMPANY. AS the Shares in this Concern are fast filling up, an Adjourned Meeting of Subscribeis will be held in the Banff Hotel, on Tuesday the 16th inst. at one o'clock after- noon, when the Draft of the Deed of Contract, and other matters of importance, will be submitted to their consideration — and as the Subscription List will be closed on or about that day, those desirous of becoming Paxiuexs should come early forward. The Interim Committee deem it proper to mention, that the Manager of their concerns here will be chosen after the Com- pany is fully constituted, by a decision of the Majority of the Partners, on those, who. being properly qualified to fill the office, may come forward as Candidates, at a General Meeting of the Partners to be called for the purpose— due notice of which will be given. Shareholders are particularly requested to attend personally, or to appoint proxies by writing, to act on their behalf, on the 16tli curt. Banff, August 6, 1825. & ALE ON / FTONTHXTJ, SALE OF CL0THIERY GOODS BY AUCTION. On Monday the 15th day of August current, there will begin to be sold by public roup, in ROBERT GLBB & Co.' s Ware- house, No. 36, Union Street, HPHE whole STOCK IN TRADE belonging to it- them, consisting of Broad and Narrow Clot, lis— Cassi- meres— Swandowns- Toilonetts— Quillings- Flannels— Fustians Cords— Hosiery— Gloves— Silks— Twists— Buttons, & c. & c. The Sale will commence each day at 11 o'clock forenoon; and Credit will be given on security. N. B. — CATALOGUES to be had at the Warehouse. BIIOWN& SON, AUCTIONEERS. Aberdeen, August 5, 1825. HOUSES FOR SALE. There will be sold, by public roup, on Friday the 26th of August current, within the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen, at two o'clock p M. nPHESE Two HALF HOUSES, with the Stables J!- and Pertinents thereto belonging, lying on the Denburn side, Gilcomston, lately built by Alex. Beverly and Thos. Cunningham, and presently occupied by them and others. For further particulars, apply to Wm. Adam, Advocate. August 9. 1825. , TIIE BRILLLWT STEAM PACKET CONTINUES TO SAIL FROM ABERDEEN FOR KEWHAVEN, Every W EDNESDAY and SATURDAY AND FROM NEWIIAVEN FOR ABERDEEN, Every M O N D A Y and F It I D A y, AT 6 O'CLOCK A. M. PRECISELY, Calling off'the Intermediate Ports, as usual. RUTHRIESTON VILLAGE, COMPRISING about 16 Acres fine early soil, sloping towards the South- west until it reach its boun- dary, . the river Dee. Upwards of 10,000 feet to the South entry, and other Streets, have been taken off' since the com- mencement of the Feuing ; and the price per foot of front, ( which was at first only 6d. and Is.) is now Is. 6d. and half- a- crown,— having 150 and 200 feet in depth. Spring Water, of excellent quality, is plentiful; besides various streams of Soft Water. There are no manufactories of a naseous or offensive nature allowed ; nor is the running water to be diverted or polluted. Such is the demand for accommodation in the Village, that several Houses, which were built this and last Season on spe- culation, are now yielding their Proprietors from to 10 per cent, over their Feu- duties. Apply to Al. Duthie, Rosehill; or John Angus, No. 1, Littiejohn Street. N. B.— The Tryst holds on Tuesday the 16th curt. SIOST, This Forenoon, between ihe Head of Gallowgate and Poultry Market, * SIXTY- SEVEN ONE POUND NOTES. Who- ever has found the same, on delivering them to the Publisher of this Paper, will be handsomely rewarded. Aberdeen, Friday, Aug. 12, 1825. WANTED AT MARTINMAS, 1825, £ 5000 STEIMJPG' MOSTTXNET tionable Personal Security. It will be taken in different sums, but none under £ 500. o\ per cent. Interest will be alio wed; but no commission will be paid to law agents, ^ Apply to Messrs. Ewing and Rohison, Aberdeen. ABERDEEN GAS 3LI& MT COMPANY. ryHE PARTNERS are requested to take Notice, A that the General Meeting held here, on the 28th ult. de- termined upon increasing the CAPITAL STOCK of the Company, by the creation of 250 additional Shares; and as the present Partners have a preference in holding the New Stock, they are requested to send written intimation of the number of Shares they intend to hold, oa or before Wednes- day 31st curt. ABERDEEN GAS LIGHT Co.' s OFFICE, 7 August 1, 1825. V NOTICE. ALL those having CLAIMS on Mrs JEAN KNOWLESor NICOL, residing in College Street, are requested to lodge the same, propeily vouched, with William Smith, Advocate, No. 11, Correction Wynd, within 14 days from this date. Aberdeen, August 9, 1825. BEAR AND TURNIPS FOR SALE. To be sold by public roup, at Banchory House, on Saturday 20th curt. QEVEN or EIGHT ACRES of BEAR ami kj TWO or THREE ACRES of TURNIPS, in lots to suit intending ourchasers. Also to be sold SIX SWINE. The roup to begin at 10 o'clock forenoon. Banchory House, Aug. 12, 1825. Goods and Parcels carefully and expeditiously forwarded. D. MACKA1N, MANAGER, Newhavcn. W. B1GGAR, AGENT, Aberdeen. N. B. A FEMALE STLWARD Constantly ou board. SALE OF CROP AT IIAZLEHEAD. ABOUT 10 Acres of BEAR and 10 of OATS, will be exposed to sale, by public roup, on the gronnd at Hazlehead, upon Saturday the 20th of August current, at four o'clock afternoon. The Crop will be exposed in Lots, so as to suit intending offerers, and credit will be given on security. Ilazlehead, Aug. 12, 1825. J ON SALE, AMAICA SUGARS. Do. COFFEE. Do. GINGER. Do. RUM. Do. LOGWOOD. Do. FUSTIC. Do. LANCEWOOD. Do. CEDAR WOOD. MADEIRA WINE, in Pipes, Hbds. and Quarter Casks, all London particular of the choicest quality, which has had the advantage of the West India voyage, now landing, ex the EXPEDITION, Capt. WATSON, from Mcntego Bay. ALSO. PORT, SHERRY, and MADEIRA WINES, in Wood and Bottle. SPONGE, from the Bahamas. DANTZIC and AMERICAN TIMBER. STAVES, of all descriptions. Apply to DAVID MILNE. Aberdeen, 5th August, 1826. HA& BO'UR OF STONEHAVEN. CONTRACTORS WANTED. THE Parliamentary Trustees for the HARBOUR of STONEHAVEN having resolved to improve the same, according to a Plan by ROBERT STEVENSON, Esq. Civil Engineer— Notice is hereby given, that they are now ready to contract for the Erection of a PIER, on the southern side of the Harbour, extending from the shore seaward 575 feet, or there- about* and for the execution of other works connected with the same: all to be completed by the 11th of November 1826. Copies of the plan, and specifications of the work, may be seen in the hands of the Clerk to the Trustees, and also at the office of Mr STEVENSON, in Edinburgh ; and persons willing to contract for the same are desired to give iw sealed Estimates, addressed to the Clerk, betwixt and the first day of September next; immediately after which, the Trustees'will enter into a contract with the person whose offer shall be approved of. JAS. TINDAL, Clerk to the Trustees. Stonehaven, July 28, 1825. SALE FOR BEHOOF OF CREDITORS. ELIGIBLE SMALL PROPERTY, IN THE VICINITY OF THE TOWN. There will be exposed to sale by public roup, within the Lemon Tree Tavern of Aberdeen, upon Friday, the 26th day of August next, at 2 o'clock afternoon, ALL and Whole the Fourth Lot of the ESTATE of PITMUXTON— consisting of the MAINS or MANOR PLACE of PITMUXTON, and sundry FIELDS and INCLOSURES on the East side of said Estate, on both sides of the Great South Road leading from Aberdeen to the Bridge of Dee— which property sometime belonged to Alex. Irvine Ross, and now to 1 rustees for his Cred tors. The Property is situated within twenty minutes walk of the Cross of Aberdeen, and in the midst of a populous and thriv- ing neighbourhood. A considerable part of it is already feued, and the remainder may he disposed of readily by way of Feu to great advantage. There is a great supply of water on the premises, and an inexhaustible store of the finest sand; for which there is a constant demand. The great south road in- tersects part of the ground, and there are excellent roads through the other parts. The Property commands a fine view of the Dee and the neighbouring country to a considerable distance. As the Estate must be sold for behoof of Creditors, the up- set price will be made moderate. A plan of the property as laid out for feuing, with a measure- ment and valuation of the different feus, and the articles of roup, may be seen iu the hands of Messrs. Ewing and Robison, Ad- voi. ttes, Aberdeen-; to whom, or to Mr George Robinson Forbes, Writer, Banff', Intending offerers may apply for farther pai ticulars. Aberdeen, Ju'y253 1S25. PURSUANT to an Order of the High Court of Chancery, made in a cause wherein the Hon. Edward Monckton and others are Plaintiffs, and his Majesty's Attor- ney General and others are Defendants, the Heirs or Heir at Law and Next of Kin of Samuel Troulback, late of Madras Patnam, Fort St. George, in the East Indies, deceased, ( who died in the year 1785) living at the time of his death : and in case any such next of kin have since died, then the Personal Representatives or Representative of him, her, or them, so dying, are, by their Solicitor, on or before the 12th day of August 1825, to come in before James Trower, Esq. one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southamp- ton Buildings, Chancery Lane, London, and make out their descent, and prove their kindred, and make out their claims, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Order. N. B.— The said Samuel Troulback was educated at the Charity School near St. John's Chapel, Wapping, in the County of Middlesex, in the vears 1706, 1707. and 1708. HENRY PULLEY, Solicitor, Doctors' Commons. ABERDEEN AHTI- SJLA^ BBT SOCIETY. PRESIDENT. VICE- PR ESIDEN TS. Robert Hamilton, LL. D. Rev. David Cruden, D. D. W. L. Brown, D. D. George Morrison, D. D. — • - John Murray • James Foote Alexr Black, D D. Tarve3 John Burnett, Esq. of Kemnay John Gordon, Esq. of Craigmile Alexr Russel, Esq of Aden James Ferguson, Esq. of Kinmundy Alexr Thomson, Esq. of Banchory Peter Duguid, Esq. Professor Bentley John Pringle. Esq. Sheriff Substitute, Banff Hugh Cross, Esq. Bar. ff* COMMITTEE. Rev. Henry Angus * H. M Kenzie Richard Penman James Kidd, D. D. — John Gilmore John Thomson, M. D. Samuel M'Millan ——— William Lyon James Spence . John Bower David Simpson . ——. Benjamin Andrews —— James Templeton James Stirling Alexr Thomson Messrs. M. Rettie H. Morren WTm Matthews GEORGE BRANTINGHAM, Treasurer. Messrs. WILLIAM ROBISON, Advocate, WILLIAM THOMSON, Jun. Messrs. Peter M'Farlane Alexr D. Fordyce William Thomson David Dunn William Clark Thomas Clark George Pirie Jas Johnston, sen. John Fleming James Middleton Joseph Norrie Thomas Melville David Macallan John Gibbon Alexr Thomson Alexr Innes Thomas Craig. Secretaries. ANY persons in ABERDEEN feeling deeply im- - LVJL pressed with the injustice and inhumanity of retaining so many of our fellpw- subjects in the degraded state of SLA- VERY, in the West India Islands, and other Colonies, and anxi- ous to give their countenance and support to the various efforts in operation for the amelioration and abolition of Negro- bon- dage, unanimously agreed, at a Meeting held in the Exchange News- Rooms, Union Stieet, on Friday evening, 18th March, 1825, to form themselves into a Society for promoting the Abolition of Slavery, when the following Regulations and Resolutions were most cordially adopted :—• I. That the individuals composing the present Meeting are deeply impressed with the conviction that the state of Sla- very is repugnant to justice, humanity, and to the spirit of the Christian religion. II. That they call to mind, with sorrow and shame, that there are now at least eight hundred thousand persons in a state of Slavery in the Colonies of Great Britain, who are, to a de- plorable degree, deprived of those civil rights and privileges, as well as many moral and religious advantages, to which, as our fellow. subjects, they are fully entitled. HI. That, although a hope was long indulged that the abo- lition of the Slave Trade would have produced most beneficial consequences to the Slave population in the Colonies, it is mat- ter of deep and painful regret to find that, notwithstanding every effort, nearly eighteen years have elapsed, without alle- viating, in any material degree, the evils of Negro- bondage. IV. That the British Legislature having unanimously re- solved, two years ago, 44 That it is expedient to adopt effectual and decisive measures for meliorating the condition of the Slave population in his Majesty's Colonies," the individuals present feel themselves sanctioned and encouraged by this declaration to use all prudent and lawful means for attaining this object. V. That, for the purpose of promoting the mitigation and abolition of Slavery in tlie West India Islands, and through- out the British Dominions, a Society be now formed in this City, to be denominated the ABERDEEN ANTI- SLAVERY SO- CIETY. VI. That the objects of this Society shall be as follows, viz.: To procure, and circulate, as extensively as possible, authen- tic information regarding the state of Slavery in the British Colonies; to contribute some pecuniary aid to kindred Insti- tutions, as the Funds may permit, particularly the African Institution, and the London Anti- Slavery Society, specifying the precise object to which the respective Donations are intend- ed to be applied ; to petition Parliament; and to promote the object in any other way, as circumstances and prudence may suggest. VII. That all person who are friendly to Negro- emanci- pation, and subscribing annually to the Society such amount as their sense of the magnitude and importance of the object may advise, or their own circumstances may warrant, be Mem- bers, and entitled to attend and vote at- all General Meetings. VIIF. That the business of the Society be conducted by a President, Vice- Presidents, a Treasurer, two Secretaries, and a Committee of twenty Members; that five constitute a quo- rum ; and, that all Ministers, who are Members of the Society, be Members of the Committee also. IX. That the Committee meet once every two months, and at such other times as the business of the Society may require ; and call General Meetings of the Subscribers, wheu they shall judge it requisite. X. That a General Public Meeting shall be held annually, when the proceedings of the Committee, and all matters con- nected with the Society's grand object and design, shall be re- ported to the Subscribers and Friends of the Institution. THE COMMITTEE of the Society now must respectfully request all ranks in this City, and throughout the Northern Districts of Scotland, to consider calmly and deliberately the natuie of personal Slavery, in all its various parts and most injurious effects, as it still exists in the West India Islands. Negro Slaves, be it remembered, areiiuman beings of the same nature with ourselves, endowed by the omnipotent Crea- tor with the same rational powers, and with bodies composed of the same substance as our own, the skin differing only in colour. Of these persons, our fellow- men and fellow- subjects too, there are about 800,000 in the Colonies of Great B itain, the absolute property of their Master or Owner, who may sell or transfer them at his pleasure, and who may also regulate ( with some limitations, too frequently overlooked), the measure of their labour, their food, and their punishment. Many of the Slaves are, and all may be branded by a hot iron on the prominent parts of the body, with the initials of their Owner's name; an operation which, in many cases, is repeat- ed. They labour, whether male or female, by the impulse of the cart- whip, receiving no wages, solely for the Master's profit, from morning to night, throughout the year, with short intermission for breakfast and dinner; and iu crop season, which continues about five months of the year, their labour is protracted during half the night, or the whole of every alternate night. The, cart- whip, with which they are driven in the field, is an instrument of dreadful severity, which cruelly taeeraies the flesh of the sufferer; and, the driver is empowered to inflict at his own discretion, a certain number of lashes, with LO ex- ception in favour of male or female, weak or strong. On the Sabbath- day, they are obliged to work tor their own maintenance, instead of devoting it to test und religious in- struction; and as this is also their only market- day, the bustle and fatigue to which they are subjected will readily account for their ignorance of the very first principles of Christianity.- Slaves being regarded by the law as mere chattels, may ha seized for their Master's debts— the ties of kindred violently torn asunder— and father, mother, and children; sold by auction to the highest bidders, and thus separated for ever far asunder to distant islands. Marriage, therefore, though it were sanc- tioned and encouraged, which is but very partially the case, is altogether unavailing. The testimony of a Negro against a White inhabitant, in any civil or criminal case, is totally excluded, except by an ex post facto law, ( as in the case of the persecuted Missionary, Smith1 at Demerara); aud thus impunity is attached to the most atro- cious acts of barbarity, which the unlimited subjection of the weak to the strong is ever . mrc to produce. The manumission of Slaves has been much obstructed ii? many of our Inlands, by the legal exaction of large tines, a- mounting almost to a prohibition ; while, in the possessions of Spain and Portugal, legal facilities have been afforded to manumission, both by voluntary liberation and the purchase of freedom— a practice which has prevailed to a Considerable ex- tent, and has uniformly produced the most beneficial effects lo all concerned. All black or coloured persons are presumed, by the Colonial Jaw. to be Slaves, unless they can legally jirove the contrary ; so that Jree persons, if their certificate of freedom is lost or stolen, may be, and often are, committed to jail as runaways, and again sold into endless bondage. And all these degrading circumstances are entaile'J upotl every succeeding generation. Thousands of infants are an- nually borne within the British Dominions, to no inheritance but the hopeless servitude and oppression now briefly described. It is a striking fact reg. irding the treatment of Slaves, that, while in all well regulated countries, population rapidly in- creases, there is now no increase, but a diminution of their numbers in the British Colonies. Such are a few of the more prominent features of Negro Slavery. In this brief detail, the Committee have been anxious not to exaggerate any of the circumstances. They disclaim alt ca- lumny and invective against the Planters and White inhabi- tants ; believing them to be men of like passions with ourselves, many of them labouring under the infiuenceofstrong prejudices^ consequently objects of our pity; and probably not acting worse than w" e shonld do, were we placed in similar circumstances, entrusted with absolute power over our fellow- creatures. It may be asked, however, What has been done for ameliorating the condition of our Colonian Bondsmen? Have the humane regulations recommended by the Government at home beeu acted upon? Have they not, almost in every case, been avad- ed, or offensively rejected ? While this is the case, we cannot sit still, year after year, silent spectators of such a system of oppression, exercised within the British Dominioas, without partaking of the guilt. The Committee would particularly recommend that Asso- ciations should be formed in every part of the kingdom, for the purpose of co- operating to diffuse information, and to call fortl* the distinct expression of public opinion on the subject ; there- by strengthening the hands and seconding the movements of Government, for accomplishing the final and complete aboli- tion of Slavery. Such a change would be equally advantage- ous to the Planters as to the Slaves, to the Whites as to the Blacks. Free or voluntary labour has invariably proved far more profitable than compulsory or slave labour. Strong pre- judices, and tjie innate love of power, have made the Colonial Proprietors, or their Agents, tleuy this important fact, and thereby sacrifice their own interest. The change would also powerfully contribute to the security and increasing value of all kinds of lawful property; and it would be essentially felt in suppressing the unrestrained licentiousness which so much prevails among both the Slave and the While population. Many other advantages would naturally follow, which must be" apparent to every intelligent aud unprejudiced observer. To the Ministets of religion, of every denomination, the Committee confidently look for co- operation and assistance. By directing their respective Congregations to this important sub- ject, as their own wisdom and prudence may suggest, they will essentially promote the cause of justice and humanity ; and by exciting the inquiry and attention of all ranks to the dreadful wretchedness and degradation of Negro Slavery, they will hasten its final abolition. To the Ladies in this City, and throughout the country, the Committee appeal with confident hopes of success. The sub- ject is worthy of their attention. By their well directed and persevering exertions in acquiring an accurate knowledge of the numereus hardships endured by the Slaves, and communi- cating the same in their domestic and social circles, it is almost impossible to calcul. tte the happy effects that may result. In various parts of England, many amiable and highly accom- plished Females are now devoting some of their leisure hours to this object, in the most exemplary manner, and are effect- ing a great change on public opiuion. May their example b& speedily followed here ! Finally, the Committee most fervently wish that Petitions to Parliament may be prepared, and numerously signed, pre- vious to the opening of next Session, from every County and every Town, from every Village and every Parish, in the United Kingdom, making one energe ic and concurrent ap- | peal to both Houses of the Legislature in behalf of our enslav- J ed fellow- subjects ; praying that they may be admitted to a full participation of those civil rights and privileges, and to all those moral and religious advantages, enjoyed by the rest of his Majesty's subjects. The Committee feel much gratified by the countenance and support of so many highly respectable members of thecommuni- ty, who have zealously come forward to further the objects of the society. In the subjoined List of Works will be found much important and well authenticated information, which the Com- mittee recommend, as deserving the most careful perusal.— More convincing facts respecting Slavery are perhaps not to be found, than in the Colonial Newspapers. In the weekly columns of the Jamaica Royal Gazette, it is not unusual to find advertisements of 120 to 150 unclaimed or runaway Xe- groes, described by all their respective marks of scourging and branding; which iiiconirovertibly refutes the constant assertion of the advocates of Slavery, that the personal and social enjoy- ments of Slaves in the Colonies are pre& i able to those of the poorer classes in Britain. 44 Behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter ; and on the side of their oppressors was power." 44 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." 4i All things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them ; for this is the law and the pro- phets." May these considerations operate on every mind with an energy which no delay or disappointment shall enfeeble, arfd which no difficulties shall be able to resist; and with the blessings of the Most High upon our zealous, united, and uuintermitted efforts, we may look forward to ihe not very dis- tant time when we shall be called to rejoice in'the final accom- plishment of the work of justice and humanity, when the cap- tive shall be delivered, and the long injured Slave restored to birth- right— FREEDOM. The following Publications contain important information on the subject of Slavery, and may be had, by applying to the Treasurer or Secretaries: — Wilberforce's Appeal in behalf of the Negro Slaves. Clarkson's Thoughts on Improving the Condition of the . Slaves. Negro Slavery, as it exists in America and the West Indies. Cooper's Facts respecting the Slaves in Jamaica. The West Indies as they are. by the Rev. II. Bickell. Considerations on Negro Slavery. Slavery of the West Indies Delineated, by James Stephen, Esq. . No British S'avery. Hodgson's L/ tter to Say, on the Comparative Expense of Free aud Slave Labour, Reports of the African Institution. Report:. Of the London Anti- Slavery Society. Debates in tue House of Commons, on jdoti<? ns regarding West India Slavery. The Negro's Memorial, or Abolitionist's Cat icbism. The Reports of the London A ntii. Slavery Society, read at the Annual Meeting held on the" 50th April ias*. just pub- lished, containing the most extensive and recent information on the subject, m- gycontise and inteiestintf w-. iy- fdeserves to be immediately paused by every individual'in » 1 e Un'm- d King- dom. • Aberdeen, August 1, 1825. %* Subscriptions and Donations will !\ e gratefully received hy all the Members ( ftke Committee by the TREASURER. NO. 3, Gi+ tLw& atc; and by W. ' 1 ik- mson & Co. 27, Union Si met. LAW REFORMS. Of die various law reforms which have recently taken place, or heen projected, there is none ( excepting the jury- amendment bill, of Mr. Pee!) of a more credital V nature than the bill, digested and introduced by Mr. Grant of Rothiemurchus—" To alter and amend the Act of William III. respecting wrongous imprisonment" It is also much to the honour of the Lord Advocate, and the other officers of the Crown in Scotland, that this bill has been allowed to go through a Committee of the House of Commons, substantially as it was introduced bv Mr. Grant. This will be seen, from the abstract which is subjoined— ami which is highly deserving of the attention of our readers.— Scotsman. ABSTRACT OF THE BILL. Lords of Justiciary, Sheriffs; Justices of Peace and other Magistrates, to grant warrant ou information on oath, to ap- prehend persons accused of crimes in Scotland, for examina- tion . nor! the declarations of persons accused, aud deposi- tions of witnesses, to he taken down in writing. Magistrate forthwith to determine whether persons accused ought to he imprisoned for trial, or held to bail, or discharged simpliciter, and to proceed accordingly^ wd to transmit pro- ceedings to Clerk of Justiciary, or Sheriff Clerk, as case may be. Justice of Peace or Magistrate of Burgh, may transmit pri- soners to Sheriff. Deposition oF witness before Magistrate, not to be given in evidence of perjury committed by such witness at the trial of person accused, nor csmlrn. No person to be imprisoned for trial, or held to bait, unless warrant proceeds on information iu writing on oath, and war- rani lie in writing expressing the cause. No person to tie detained in custody for examination be- vot. d necessary time ; nor be committed to close imprisonment, nor refuses! liberty to see counsel or agent or others at due time; under penalty of L500. Messenger o<- gaoler to give prisoner a double of warrant; and messengers, constables, and gaolers, liable in damages, and punished by fine and imprisonment, and deprivation and suspension. " Crimes not inferring capital punishment bailable ; and it shall be lawful to any prisoner or person ordered to be im- prisoned, to apply by petition to the Judge or Magistrate by whose authority he or she hath been apprehended or detained, or to the Lord Justice Clerk, or any of the Lords Commis- sioners of Justiciary, whether such crime or offence be cogniz- able in the said Court of Justiciary or not. or to any judge or magistrate whatsoever comptent for cognition of the crime, and offer to tinifsufficient caution that he or she, the said pri- soner or person ordered to be imprisoned, shall appear and answer to auv libel that shall be offered against, him or her, for the crime or offence wherewith he or she is charged, at any time within the space of six months, and that under such penalty as the said judge or magistrate shall modify and op- point. not exceeding tbe several sums respectively which are aptjointed to be taken as bail in Scotland, by en act passed in thijjfii year of his late Majesty King George rbe Third, in- tituled " an act to extend the bail to be given in cases of cri- minal information in that part of Great Britain etilied Scot- land ;" the Magistrate applied to shall modify tail within twenty- four hours, if crime be bailable, on face of warrant, under per. aby of L500. When any person imprisoned or restrained of his liberty, complaint may be made to Loid of Justiciar. I. o.- d of Justiciary to grant warrant within lwentv- Soor hours, under penalty of L500 to bring prisoner before him. or some other Lord of Justiciary on payment ometx!* r of charges, not exceeding one shilling per mile; with return, made on oath, of causes, nature and place of imprisonment, and eitract of precognition. Gaoler or other person having prisoner in custody, to obey warrant, Under pain of contempt, over said above damages, within three days after service, if distant not fcsyond - 40 miles; if beyond 40 and not beyond 100 miles, within iris days ; if bevoud 100 miles, within ten days; judge within two days • after return made, to discharge, bail, or re- commit prisoner, under a penalty of L500. unless further time desired by pri- soner to give in further affidavit; Judge may permit further affidavits, if it appear material; but matter of fact, sworn ill return, not to be contradicted by such affidavit. Court of Justiciary to sit at Edinburgh first lawful day after sitting down of Court of Session, and once a month during sitting of Court of Session, and first lawful day after rising of Court of Session. Lord Provost of Edinburgh, and Sheriffs of Edinburgh, Linlithgow, and Haddington, to make returns of prisoners to Court of Justiciary. Court of Justiciary to make proclamation of names of pri- soners in custody for sixty days, and if prosecutor does cot insist, prisoner to be set at liberty ; unless it appeal on oath made, that material witness for prosecution, absent by act of God. or contrivance of prisoner. Similar returns to Circuit Courts, and same proceedings. Prisoners iu custody for trial, or on bail, may apply to Lord of Justiciary or judge competent, for letters of intimation. Judges under penalty of L500 within 24 hours to give out letters to messengers for intimating to Lord Advocate or Pro- curator Fiscal and private party, and trial to be lirought on within 60 days, or at next circuit, not sooner than 60 days, as prisoner shall desire : otherwise prisoner lo be set at liberty, under penalty of L500. Court mav artjVjurn trial on cause shewn by affidavit, not exceeding 50 dny£. Person discharged as aforesaid, not to be imprisoned a second time for the same crime, unless oil new criminal letters, executed within two years. New criminal letters must be prosecuted to final sentence within 40 days, otherwise prisoner to be set at liberty, aud for ever free from question for such crime. When application made to Lord Advocate for his concourse, precognition to be taken and laid before him. T ... l , t .1 fi nob f- rt tnhtnaV knot of factious Radicals, Whigs, disappointed of office, and | place, which was also ft: Lawyers who have missed silk gowns. But can this very na- j1) tjmateJ l0 tj, e r; ders, tural hostility outweigh, to Lord Eldon's feelings, the ap- plause of all the great, wise, and loyal community? Does lie forget what sort of a compliment he pays to his friends, if lie admits the supposition ? Because suck enemies have at- tacked him, does he complain of not being treated with com- mon justice" by the country ? Fie, my Lord ! your case is a had one ; you are evidently conscious of the load of mischief and misery that may jtis'dy be laid at your door; and rather than flonder about in shallow pretences, absurd complaints of ill- treatment, and despicable recriminations, you had better quietly surrender the Great Se d, and " let another lake your office."— Examiner. idled ; and at the last, it was proceed, Lord Advocate within one week to intimate whether he con- sents or refuses to give his concourse ; and if he tefuses, party ' may apply to Court of Justiciary by petition. Petition to be personally intimated to person accused, and parties heard by counsel, a'ra voce. Court may order petition to proceed without concourse of the Lord Advocate. Judge or Magistrate wilfully and corruptly disobeying pro- '• . Visions'" hereof, to pay LI000 over and above damages, and be . incapable of any place of trust or emolument. Cleik of Justiciary • nd Sheriff Clerks, to transmit extracts of precognitions to Lord Advocate. Nothing, in this act to affect imprisonment for debt or civi damages, or tolal statutes for preserving peace and puuishing petty offences. • Any person, swearing falsely, under this act, to be guilty of perjury* No peKnfc to be criminally proceeded against in Court of Session, excFpHpr fraudulent bankruptcy. Court of Justiciary* competent to try for fraudulent bank- ruptcy. Penalties to be recovered in the Jury Court. Limitation of actions to three years. Nothing in 8 and 9 sess. 1st Pari. Will. 3. c. to have any force or effect, except so far as consistent with this act. FRENCH MISSIONS IN CHINA. The following intelligence is contained " in a letter from M. Fontana, Bishop of Sinile, and Apostolic Vicar of Suetechura in China :— Persecution, which raged with great violence five years ago, and w hich has never entirely subsided, had nevertheless gra- dually diminished ; but in 1824 it was renewed in several places, on account of a conspiracy formed against the Em- peror by a sect of Pagans, but happily discovered. The ex- amination relative to this affair served as a pretext to call the Christians to an account. Most of them escaped by giving money ; a few yielded to fear, and placed superstitious tablets in their houses; others, however, resisted with great courage, and madea noble profession of the faith for which they suffered. s Among the latter, the Christians of two towns called Lo- Echa hien and Tchouug- Kiang- hien distinguished themselves by their constancy. Efforts were made to constrain them to apostatize, but nearly all, bolh men and women, showed them- selves disposed to suffer death rather than renounce their faith. This conduct drew upon them all sorts of insults, ill t « eal- ment, and vexations; at length they were left quiet, but nine Christians of Lo- tcba- hien. who by their exertions encouraged others, were conducted before the Governor, who omitted neither caresses nor punishments to Induce them to renounce their faith. Finding them immovable, this Mandarin caused them to be conducted to the principal town, that they might there be condemned to exile ; he went there himself to sup- port the accusation, but was very ill received, neither the Viceroy nor the superior Mandarins having given orders to persecute the Christians : however, at his solicitation, the nine confessors were brought before the judges, who laboured in vain to make them apostatise. They were next conducted before the Viceroy, who first treated them with mildness, aud then threatened them with capital punishment. The Viceroy, affected by tlieir firmness, did not condemn them to death, but to iierpettial banishment in Tartsry. The Emperor con- firmed the sentence, and the nine Christians departed for the place of their exile, in May 1824, with their wives, who re- solved to follow them. The Christians of the other town, TclioMng- Kianghien, were likewise ill- treated; and here, also, theie were nine who distinguished themselves by more courage than the rest. The Gove'nor, seeing that the conduct of the Governor of Lo- tcba- bien had not been spproved, would not conduct these Christians to the metropolis, but condemned them himself to carry the « « . « < » until they should renounce their religion, but jltbcugh they ever refused to yield, they were successively set at liberty, notice being given them to appear whenever re- quired. Notwithstanding these occurrences, and although the Christians were extremely ill- treated in many places, tbe ex- ercises of religion were no wiiere interrupted, and the mis- sionaries were able to visit almost all the Christian institutions, and administer the sacrifice to the faithful. The Christians who. at the Iregrnning of the persecution, bad been condemn- ed to carry the cangue until death, constantly displayed tbe same firmness. Tlte Emperor, upon his accession to tbe throne, remitted the punishment of those under condemnation. Tire Emperor, upon his accession to the throne, remitted tbe punishment of those under condemnation. The Christians condemned to tbe'ean^ ue were also to return home, but upon condition of renouncing their religion. In 1S24, all those who carried tbe ea/ igue were brought before the governors, and urged to muke abjuration, in order to enjoy the grace p. o- cnised. All ef them, except one, confessed tbe faith anew, and consequently continued to carry thu cangtie voluntarily. These magnanimous Christians are not more than twelve in number, all tire others baring died before the expiration of ten years. As to those who have been exiled into Tartary for their attachment lo the fairb, and who were very numerous, two only returned ; of tbe others r. o intelligence has been re. eeived, but there is reason to believe they persevered. Monsieur Thadee Lit- on, a Chinese priest, was condemned to be Strangled or exiled for life, as the Ki. iperor should or- dain. His crime was having constantly refused to renounce the Christian religion, and having confessed that he was a priest and preacher of the said religion, The Emperor's order was delayed for two years, and this priest remained in prison ; but in 1822, as be ever persisted in his first declarations, and protested his attachment to the faith, his sentence of death was carried into execution. This pious minister was strangled, and thus consummated his martyrdom, on the 50th of Novem- ber of tbe same year. In 1824 tbe establishment of a seminary was commenced, in which are collected twelve pupils, who study Lau'n and are formed in the practice of piety, under a Chinese priest. Many others solicit admission, but the difficulty of the times and the poverty of tbe mission prevent tbe reception of a greater num- ber. The Bishop of Kaxula, assistant to the apostolic vicar, is superior of this seminary, but be lias been unable hitherto to reside there, and has committed the care of tbe establish- ment to a Chinese priest educated at Poulo- pinang. This priest is very learned, and by his presence the Christians ate less exposed tUan by that of an European priest. Moreover, tbe Bishop of Ma'xula is required to superintend tbe labours of some new priests in the east. There are in the mission no Other Europeans than the two bishops and M. Escodeca : the latter is in bad health, and cannot visit the Christians. The Bishop of Maxula has his healsh better than for several years, and labours with much zeal, Mous. Imbert, who is at Toughing, has been expected foi several years, and couriers were sent out to meet him, but apprehensions are entertained that they died in a rebellion which broke out in the contiguous provinces of China. We are about to send other couriers to conduct M. Iuibert, of whom the mission has great need, Tbe number of tbe Chinese priests is 26, of which five are infirm, and can no neer visit the Christians. In the course of 1824 there were in Sutehaen 29,342 an nual confessions, and 355 adults baptised. There are, more- over. 1146 old Catechumens, and 401 received this year, without reekoniug many oilier adults who have determined to embrace religion, but who have not yet been classed among the Catechumens, Baptism has been administered to # r children of Christians, and to 6280 children of infidels in danger of dealli. The number of Christians is 411.287, in eluding the Catechumens and children, but not the apostates ; there are 27 schools for boys and 25 for girls. " COMMON JUSTICE. Loan Etnov says he would have resigned his office long ago, had he been treated with " common justice " This si ly is an odd avowal from the Keeper of the King's Consciei Had he retired, it would have been either for his own personal ease, or for the country's benefit. If the former, bis adher- ence to office, because he is ill treated, is a most unusual kind of martyrdom a singular volunteering- to serve an ungrateful employer. If. on the other hand, he would have gone because he felt the infirmities of age creeping upon him. an i thought his successot would be a more efficient judge, what can we say of the spirit which can keep a man in a post he feels himself not competent to fill, merely in order lo baffle those who have pronounced him incompetent ? One of the principal charges against him for years past has been, a selfish tenacity of ai office for which age and a certain indecision of character dis. qualified him. How does be confute this charge? By show- ing still greater tenacity ! Did hecalculate on being able, by continuing in offi.- e. to convince the world that he had been w rongly accused of those very unjudicial habits of doubt an delay? He must have found out his wi. take long ago; for every y" » r has the outcry against the practices of Chancery grown stronger— everv year has the opinion gained ground with the public, that Loid Eldon ought to rel'ne. Observe, too. that the best ereuse weean make for his clinging to office, implies a presumption on bis pari, that it '\ as impossible t. get another Chancellor so good as himself! And after all what is ibis want of common justice." that he complain of? Was ever Judge or Minis'er more plastered over with than Lord F. idon has been ? Has he not acquired great alth? Does he not possess patronage almost incalculable ? Does he not wield an infl- ienre in the state greater than has been vxerci ed by any offici i! personage since Mr Pitt was in power? On tlie o'her band, in what consists the injustice done him ? Of course he means the charges continually made t him of avarice, of practices hurtful to the interests of I maligeity. And who made these charges? | he will tell you— a malicious : * The cangue is a punishment in use in many countries of Asia. In some, as in China, it is a large table, pierced with holes for tlie head and feet'to pass through. In others, it i triangular piece of wood which is fixed round the neck, and to which one of- lhe hands is attached. MISCELLA S'EO US. that the race must though any irregularity in starting occurred. The lust vva3 a very fair one, and the race was keenly contested the whole wav. Four of the horses came in quite, close, North Star gaining by about hall a length, John Gray, pulled up shortly after passing the distance post. SA? IE DAY. — Match for 50 sovereigns each, h. ft. Once round and a distance. General Hunter's ch. c, the Lady's Delight, 3 y. q. 1 Mr Maule'scb. c. Primefit, by King David, out of Frisky, 3. y. o. ... ... ... ... ... 2 A capital race, and cleverly gained by the Lady's Delight. SAME DAY— Tile Ladies' Subscription Purse of 50 Sove- reigns; for three year olds, 7 » t; four. 8st4! b; five, 8st I lib; six, 9st. 21b; aged 9st 41b. Two mile heats. Mr Maule'sbr. h. Prosody, 5 years old walked over .- eh. c. Ledstone, aged ... ... fir Mr Carnegie's b. c. The Nick. 4 years old ... dr The result of this intended r. tce caused much disap- poiniuent to many who texpected that the purse would have been contested by The Nick. SECOND DAT— WEDNESDAY, August 3. In the absence of Sir James Carnegie, Horatio Ross, Esq. acted as Preses. Fortunately, as yesterday, though there were showers in the morning, vet by one o'clock the sky was bright and serene, and no rain fell till the evening. . Sweepstakes of Twenty Sovereigns each, p. p. For three years old, 7st4lb; four 8st 4lb, Two miles. Mr G, F. Carnegie's b. c. The Nick, 4 y. o. ... 1 Sir D. Moncrieffe's gr. c. Bimvoirlich, 3 y. o. ... 9. Mr Maule's ch, c. Tommy, 3 y. o. ... ... 3 Mr Grant's gr. c. John Gray, 3 v. o. ... ... 4 This was an excellent race, and keenly contested. The Nick was second during the greater past of the race, and only gained on thfe others from about the distant post. He gained by about a length. Benvoirlicli and Tommy were very close. John Gray pulled up shortly after passing the distance, and cantered leisurely up. Post Produce Stake of Fifty Guineas each, h. ft. For hree year old colts, Sst 71b; and fillies, 8st 41b. Ouce round. Sir A. Ramsay's b. c. Major Weir, by Busllar. Walked over. Mr Maide's ch. c. Tommj-, by King David, out of Fair Helen, dr. Sir D. Moncrieffe's b. c. Liverpool— paid forfeit. The Plate of Fifty Sovereigns. For three years old, 6st 10lb ; four, Sst; five, Sst 81b ; six, 8st 1311); and aged, 9 » t lib. Heats twice round. Lord Kennedy's b. c. Skiff, 4 y. o. ... ... 1 1 Mr Carnegie's b. c. The Nick. 4 y. o. ... 2 dr. Mr Anderson's br. f. Rosebud, 4 y. o. ... 3 3 Sir D. Moncrieffe's gr. c. Benvoirlich, 3 y. o. 4 4 Mr Grant's gT. c. John Gray, 3 v. o. ... ... dr The first heat was well contested, and Rosebud kept tbe lead ; Skiff, however, within half a mile of the win- ning post gained qn tlie others, and Tlie Nick aud him contested it cleverly from the distant post, seldom being their own lengths separate ; it was won by about half a length by Skiff. A capital heat. In the second, though there was a keen contest at the starting, Skiff was soon the favourite, and won cleverly. After the first heat, a foot race was run, for we under- stand £ 50, betwixt a servant of Lord Kennedv, and, as we understand, a servant of Major Hay; distance half a inile. Lord Kennedy's servant run the distance in two minutes and 15 seconds ; and the other came in about a minute after, much distressed. A Highlander, fully attired in the highland dress, and as we understood piper to Mr Farquharson of Firrzean, ran along with them, and, " accoutred as he was," almost came in as easily as the winner. Thereafter a pigeon shooting match took place on the sands, Lord Kennedy against . Fifty pigeons to be fired at with ball, and to fall within 40 yards. 100 Sovereigns for each bird shot, and his Lordship ta pay otMj sovereign for each bird missed. As three were kill- ed, and 47, though some of them wounded, did not fall within the prescribed limits his Lordship gains 300 sovereigns, less 47 pounds. The attendance at the races to- day was much greater than yesterday, and might be calculated at not less than 8000 people. No accidents happened. The Hon. Mr Maule had aa elegant stand, which was for the first time witnessed on this course. The ordinaries and as- semblies were well attended ; and Mr Hunter's judi cious arrangements, and excellent viands, were univer- sally approved of. There were no public amusements except an entertainment given by the widow ot the late Mr Collins, comedian, which was poorly attended. Among the company on the ground during the races were— The Right Honourable Viscount and Viscountess Arlnith- nott and family, and Lady Hope— Honourable Lord and Lady Kennedy— Honourable W. Mauieand Mrs Matile— Honour- able John Erskine Kennedy— Sir Alexander Ramsay of Bal- main, Bart.— Sir David Moncrieffe, Bart.— Colonel the Hon- ourable Hugh Arbuthaott of Hatton— Mr Carnegy of Craigo and family—. Mr Ross of Rossie, and Miss Ross— Mr Carnegie of Pittarrow and lady— Mr Carnegie of Balnamoon— Mr Carnegie of Kinblethmont, aod Lady Jane, and Miss Scrim- geour— Major Cruickshank and Lady Ann— Capt- Archibald Douglas— Mr Wil iam Carnegie— Major Leith Hay and lady — General Kerr— General Hunter— General Mackenzie aud family— Mr Cruicksbank of Langley Park, and family— Misses Carnegie of Charlton— Captain Hunter and lady— Mr Orr of St Mary's— Mr Ainslie, W. S.— Mr Martin, W. S.— Mr Thomas Martin— Captain Mill of Noranside and lady— Mr Duncau of Rosemount and lady— Mr Scott of Brotherton — Mr Arlley of Duoninald, with lady and party— Mr Chal- mers of A uldbar, and Mrs Chalmers— Mr Oshaldestoiie— Mr Farquharson of Finzean and lady— Mr Farquharson of Bal- dovie Captain Grant of Mount Ceres— Mr Grant ofKilgras- ton-= Mr Smart of Cairnbank— Captain Robert Ramsay arid lady— Captain Thomas Ramsay— Mr Marmaduke Ramsay — Mr George Webster— Mr Powell— Captainand MrsGibbaud family Mr Clayhills of Invergowrie— Mr Kinloch ofKair— Mr l) e Gillan— Captain Dowbigging— Mr Foiheringham of Powrie— Mr Brand of Laurieston and lady— Captain Watson — Mr Greenhill of Fairn, Misses Greenbill, and Miss Wallace — Mr Hay of Letham— Mr Knox and lady— Captain Loch and lady— Mr Cmikshank of Keithock— Mr Taylor of Kirk- tonkil!— Mr J. W. Melville— Mr A. Knox— Mrs Captain Lindsay— Mr Cruickshank, junior, of Annislaw — Mr Ilentiy Taylor, & the Misses Renny— Mr Smart of Conoilsyth— Pro- vost Jameson and lady— Mr Keith of Usan— Mr and Mrs W'estmacott and family — Mr Henderson of Lattoti, & c. & c. We understand that a gold cup and several stakes have been subscribed for the Montrose races, 1826. streets, all that collection of rows anil srpnvps been planned and executed without a common sewer ; and had they gone on planning and ' executing, and were they still planning ,- vi. I exe- cuting, and still had determined not to have a common sewer ? I. at least, determined that they must possess an inherent lave of dirt; and I determined, too, that I would purchase a seat in Parliament, and procure an act, 1 v English influence, to compel Scotland to clean itself. It was an opprobrium to the very empire; but I concluded that they perhaps persisted in their old habits in contempt of England and the Union. " No, that was a right theory; it was at least sheer insen- sibility to dirt, if it was nut the absolute love of it. Else how could tny landlady have endured the great splay- footed raw- boned animal that came in with ihe breakfast w ithout shoe or stocking, and with a foot like an elephant, legs as scaly and red as those of a Secretary bird, a skin like a palm tree, a dirty jacket of dirty cotton, not big enough to conceal her Hottentot breast, and a rag for a cap that seemed to have been dragged through ihe chimney, nut covering her gteasy red hair " & c. Well, granted that the Scotch are a dirty people, does that invalidate their title of modern Athenians? Pray were the Athenians a cleanly people? Had they even made such ad- vances as ihe Scotch ? The Scotch, it would appear, use their kitchen for, perhaps, too many purposes; but the Athe- nians had not even a kitchen, but worshipped in Ihe open air. The fact is, that the Athenians, like the modern Italians and French, deemed cleanliness beneath their notice. The Eng- lish ltav£ formed themselves on the Dutch, and are now nearly equal to their model; the Scotch have formed themselve? on the Athenians, the Italians, See. The Scotch are quite at home in France, Italy. Spain, or Greece; while the English- men can ouly exist ill his own country and Holland. Tlie Scotch have many things to urge in favour of their habits. They say that an indifference to dirt adds very much to ihe sum of human happiness. Cleanliness requires perpe- tual sacrifices— a constant attention to trifles, and the mind once infected with the mania of it, is seldom able to extricate itself from surrounding circumstances, to pursue extensive trains of speculation, to take comprehensive views. A 11 na- ture, they say, becomes a source of annoyance to an English- man, ail nature is ennstantly at war with him— whether be sits, lays himself down, stands, or moves, he is perpetually in dread of some hostile combination of matter. Whether in the house or in tlie open air, he is haunted by the fear of dirt. They have a saying, too, that the man that is too nice in choosing his steps in the path of life, will often allow himself to be distanced. We have not time or space at present to enter into the other objections against the modern Athens. Its Otaheite scenes at night, its blackguards, its fearful old women, Sic. have not certainly been viewed through a Grecian medium. Had the Athenians, pray, no rabble— no blackguards ? PADDY ON THE PEACE ESTABLISHMENT. A jaunting car driver, named Paddy Geraghtv, was. a few davs ago, brought before the Magistrates of the Head Police Office, Dublin, for having used threat- ening language to a Mr Ellis, of Hammond Lane.— The Magistrates, on hearing the statement of the complainant, directed Geraghtv to give security, himself in 201. and two other persons, in 101. each, that he would keep the peace. Paddy and his friends having been ushered, by the attending peace officer, into the room of the person whose department it is to see the bail bond executed, the following dialogue took place when the bond was prepared : Clerk— The condition of this bond, Geraghty, is that you vrill keep the peace for 7 years. Geraghtv—( Scratching his bead,) for 7 years? Clerk— Yes, for seven years, and to all his Majesty's sub- jects. Geraghty— To all his Majesty's subjects ! good God, what is that for? Clerk— Why it seems to be a great hardship oil you to keep the peace. Geraghty— Is it to every one in Dublin ? Clerk— Aye. and to every one in Ireland. Geraghty— In al! Ireland ? Clerk— Yes, and in England and Scotland also. Geraghty — In England and Scotland. Oh, that is on ac- count of the Union, I suppose; bad luck to it. Clerk— And likewise in al! his Majesty's dominions. Geraghty— Is it abroad and at home ? Clerk— Yes, certainly. Geraghty— Why then by Jesus I'll never sign it. Paddy was here reminded that if be did not conform to the crder of the Magistrates he would l> e committed, upon which he reluctantly took up the pen to make his mark to the bond, exclaiming, at the same time, to those with him, 11 Oil, boys, is'nt this dreadful for nothing at all." When tbe bond was signed, Geraghty shrugged tip his shoulders, saying to the Clerk, with an air of sarcastic tri- umph, " Well, Sir, you have done your best, thank God you can do no more." Clerk— Oh we don't wish to rlo more, you are now bound to keep the peace to all his Majesty's subjects. Geraghty — ( Looking at the Clerk whilst at the same time he was untieing the whip that was across his shoulder), to " keep the peace to all bis Majesty's subjects." Oh then, be the pow- ers of man the first fellow 1 meet that's not his Ma- jesty's subject, I'll make his head smoke. Paddy upon this left the OiSce. pran' uga jn- ticc. of p< Ask the Chancellor himself; MONTROSE RACES. These races commenced on Tuesday se'ennight, and were well attended. Not less than 50 or 60 pas- sengers arrived by the steam vacht on Monday. From the misty state of the atmosphere, considerable appre- hension was excited on board the vessel that they might be dissappointed on Tuesday, and carried forward to Aberdeen, but, in consequence of firing guns, & c. the small boats were directed to the vessel, and the whole safely landed. From the country there were— — Coaches, chariots, gigs, landaus. Phaetons, carts, curricles, and chaises gay ; Cars, tilburies, noddies, al! you can suppose, That ever ran or burled since Jehu's day. The morning was wet and lowering, but brightened up previous to noon ; and during the races the weather was excellent, the downs on which they are run having been much refreshed by the showers. The horses booked for this day's sport were :— Forfarshire Gold Cup, one hundred Sovereigns value, the gift of tbe Hon. William Maule of Panmure, M. P. for the county ; added to a Sweepstakes of ten sovereigns each. For three year ol Is, 7st ; four. 8st 2lb ; five, Sst 10lb ; six and aged, 9- 1. Once round and a distance. Mr Farquharsnn's cli. c. North Star, 5- y. o. ... 1 Sir Alex. Ramsay's b. c. Major Weir, 3 y. o. ... 2 Mr G. F, Carnegie's b. e. The N ek, 4 y. o. ... 3 Ixird Kennedy's!!, h. Skiff. 4 y. o. ... ... 4 Moo. Wm. Maule's cf . c. Ledstone, aged. ... 5 Mr Grant's gr. c. John Gray, 5 y. o. ... ... 6 At starting, " Major SVtir" was somewhat unwilling to cotne to the starting post, and the other horses started without iiiilJ, but were recalled. A second start took MODERN ATHENS. A writer in The London Magazine for July has dedicated the best part of two sheets to the description and character of the 14 Modern Athens."— Judging from the style and manner, we should ascribe the article to Dr. M'Culloch, who lately published four very amusing volumes on the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland. So much with regard to the supposed author of the article. Now to the subject— The Modern Athens! why not the Modern Alliens? We shall see. o I arrived at the house intended for me in Hunter- square. I was not well asleep, when, good Heavens! I was awaken- ed : the High- street of the night before was a jest to it— J threw open all the windows— I still lay gasping for breath^— T attempted to discover the cause, and in the kitchen, rather in a pantry, among knives ano° pliites, and fragments of meat, and loaves of bread, I found— I shall not say what— and stt down my dear countrymen as the most foul, most dirty, most disgusting, most incurable people in the universe.— I now re- called to mind what forty years of absence and the waters of the Ganges had almost washed away from my memory, and then I recalled to mind the College— the College at ten o'clock, and more, and more; and when ten o'clock indeed came, there was still no other resource. Why the very tigers and cats on a mountain that I had left behind were a cleanlier people. Could not Auld Reekie dig holes too ; had it no pickaxes, no spades; was there no declivity, no water? Wa- ter— yes— but Auld Reekie was like Lady Mnohelh's hand, nothing would sweeten its ideas, and without that, aii water was vain— " If I now began to think my countryman an animal in- curably dirty, 1 was soon convinced of it— Talking of the elegance of its city, its beauty, and its buildings— laying out streets, and subscribing for Parthenons, eveiy one seen, v surprised when I wondered at their having forgotten the com- men sewers. What! had the New Town ail those straight THE LATE LION FJGHTS. TO THE EDITOR. SIR.— Having read in some of the London papers various false reports concerning the figiit between Nero and the six dogs on Tuesday last, stating that be was torn, mangled, left in a pitiable state. Sic. & c. I must beg leave to contradict any such invidious representations. Nero was next morning exhi- bited to an immense concourse of visitors, anxious to see whether he was or was not much damaged, when, to their great astonishment, the noble animal showed no more signs of punish- ment than a few slight scratches on Ihe lip ! I was then in- duced by some friends to try the courage of my second lion, Wallace, whose natural disposition was not so much controuled by making such freedom with him, or rendering him so tame, gentle, and submissive, as was done with Nero ; aud so the effect was, that Wallace quickly conquered the six dogs set at him, without receiving as^ mueh as a scar of the slightest des- cription. There is also a talk of cruelty having been practised in the engagement. Cjnl any man in bis senses suppose that I would risk the loss of my two lions, the finest ever seen in this country, for the purpose of gratifying a cruel propensity? It never was my idea ; no, Sir, it was not; and 1 now further declare that another exhibition of such a scene will never be encouraged or engaged in by, Sir, your most humble Servant, Alcester, lst August, 1825. GEO. WOMBWELL. THE NEW SOVEREIGN. The Mint seems to work as great a miracle on our venerable and beloved Monarch as Medea did on old Jason. His Ma- jesty loses some of his years in every coinage, and we do not despair, in process of time, of seeing him a mere boy. This curious phenomenon certainly serves to illustrate the truth of the law of that maxim that, '' nullum tempos accurrit regi." The head on the new sovereign is about twenty years younger than that oil the former issue ; aod a great comfort it is to his Majesty's subjects to see htm growing so young, fur we be- lieve that the sentiment of long life to him. was never so cor- dially and so commonly felt as at this moment. The Duke of York has indeed made us all loyal, and we chauiit 1 God save the King' with right good will. t'ons, however, nn good lands, and in particular sit in1 tions. Beiins, though short in the haulm, are wed podded, and promise to he a general crop. Much of the seed discoloured bv blight. Crop of trtres large, lint, ns with the barley, in too many ptrts, almost smothered bv weeds, showing a most unskilful husbandry. The crop of potatoes most extensive, and the quality expected fine, but the digging them late. Fruit, par- ticularly the apple, has suffered greatly from blight. Hops, a ruined crop, with very few local exceptions. The clay fallows have worked hard, but with a very beneficed roasting. In the west and south wheat harvest has already commenced, and barley is expected to follow without delay. In the first week of next month harvest will be general, the extreme parts of the north excepted. Oak timber is in considerable demand ; bark of dull sale at L 6 to L. 8 per ton. Fat stock, as lean, has de- clined somewhat in price ; pork iu a small degree— th- a markets may he expected lower. Lambs rt> great plenty . Cows and calves somewhat reduced in price. , A great import oflive stock, from Ireland to our nearest ports, has liqd considerable effect in reducing prices. The Irish sheep complained of, as ordinary and ll- hrcJ. The price of horses somewhat reduced, although ex- cessive for those of figure and size. Corn holds its price, notwithstanding tile bonded corn on sale, and it is avowed that there is no present prospect of its becom- ing cheaper, but that a very slight cause might yet en- hance the price. KINCARDINESHIRE. Since about the middle of the month, the wea'her lias been unusually hot and dry, so that complaints are heard from all quarters of the crops, especially the grass and green crops, suffering much for tvant of rain. The pastures, in most in- stances, are presently iu a very parched state, and on light sandy soils, the grass is literally burnt up. Grain crops, of all kinds, are fast hastening to maturity ; and in the course of from two to three weeks, if the weather continue favourable, a pretty large proportion of the barley will be ready for the sickle. We have heard several complaints of ihe bear and barley having changed colour too rapidly, and the colour being too white, which is partially the case, we believe, oil thin dry land. In the norihern di. trict of the county, one or two patches of eaily sown barley are already cut. Wheat, all over the county, appears a pretty fair crop, and the quality is expected to be fine. Oats are generally short and small iu the straw ; but, being early, they have a fair chance to yield well to the bulk. Barley and bear, with the exception of premature ripening on light soils, pre. ent a tolerably good appearance; and pease and beans, though not bulky, are expected to be productive in corn. Some moderate showers are much want- ed for bringing the grain crops to full maturity ; and as the mercury in the barometer is now falling, perhaps they arc- not far distant; but after such a long tract of dry weather, it is ten to one when the rain sets in if we have not too much of it. Ttmips have an unpromising appearance, in a great many instances, particularly on stiff laud, where, in not a few cases, they can scarcely he distinguished at a little distance from fal- low. Where early sown, and on good turnip soils, however, they seem to be making tolerably good progtess, and a good- many of these are cleaned and ready to furrow up. Potatoes are short in the stem ; and, like other crops, stand much in need of some refreshing showers. I lows are in a forward state of preparation. The hay harvest has been one of the best ever remembered; and the crop, which is but a light one generally speaking, is now partly stacked, and partlv in Ihe tramp rick. Heavy cattle, at and since Paldy fair, have been in less demand than during the eaily. pari of the summer, and prices somewhat on the decline; but young s'ock for winter- ing are still sought after, at much about former prices. AGRICULTURAL REPORTS FOR JULY. ENGLAND The weather has been most propitious for the hay harvest, which however excels more in quality than bulk, from tlie continued drought. The same cause now affects the pastures, even the marsh lands, which have become very short of ki • p, reducing the price of store stock. The turnip husbandry has suffered con- siderably ; great part of the latter sown plants being de- stroyed by the blight inscct or beetle ; the strong apt! early plants also being in great want of rain. This will bf a trving season to those who prefer transplanting Swedish turnips in drought, boasting of that practice as % new di covcrv, which has so often been tried and aban- doned. The late great heats were constantly tempered with breezes, and, within a few davs, bv chilling easterly winds. Previously to the warm weather setting in, and during the blooming season of the - vheat, north- east winds prevailed, and the nights were gt " rally col l and nngenial, giving rise to considerable apprehensions, which since seem to have subsided ; a dry - trainer in this country being generally favourable to the wheat crop. The other spring crojis, barlev, or.' ts, and jHv. se, ore far behind the wheat in luxuriance, aid fuller great- ly from the want of l'ain ; with many favourable exc-' p* FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FROM FRENCH PAPERS. PA RIS, July 29-— The naval division of tbe artillery, commanded bv Rear- Admiral Jurieu, captured on the 26th March last, the French brig L'Adeline, at the moment when it just hnded a cargo of slaves, at La Pointe du Precheur, in the Isle of Martinique. The proceedings against this vessel are carrying on before the tribunals of Martinique. Baron de Datnas, Minister of Foreign Affairs, has purchased of Mr Calvert, a flock of English long- woolled sheep. OD ES3A, July 10.— The result ofthe conferences held at St. Petersburgh, in the winter, between the Minis- ters ofthe Allied Courts of Russia, Austria. France, and Prussia, has been communicated to the Porte, by means of a note presented by the Ambassadors of those powers, at Constantinople. According to the accounts from that capital of June 30, the Porte has not given any written answer to this communication, but the lleis Effendi has declared, verbally, to each Ambassador, that the Porte must decline all intervention in this affair as derogatory to its honour. CADIZ, July 12— The Amazon and Am- phitrite French frigates, remain at anchor half a league out of the Port. The other vessels of the French division which sailed with those two frigates have not returned. A numerous fleet of coasting vessels will sail to- day for Galicia and Biscay ; it will be escorted bv three brios, but though' the last convoy that sailed had a very good escort, the Colombian privateers took seven vessels. General Aymerich arrived on the 9th at Port St. Mary, where he remains. It is said he will not enter Cadiz, because he would not, in fact, exercise any au- thority there. FROM GERMAN PAPERS. ODYSSEUS, THE GREEK CAPTAIN. VIENNA, July 22— In our paper of the 9th ofJune^ , we gave from the Athenian an account ofthe taking of Odysseus. We have now received the following par- ticulars from a traveller who left Athens at the end of May. In the neighbourhood of Salona, Odysseus was abandoned by almost all his followers. They went ovcr to the Greeks who were opposed to him, under the com- mand of Goura. Just about this time he was informed by a Turk, with whom he was on a confidential footing, that it was intended to arrest him by virtue of an order that had come from Constantinople, and to brim* him, dead or alive, to Negropoat. This plan was to be executed that night. Odysseus quickly took his reso- lution ; concerted with his few followers a pretended flight ; pursued them with loud cries, and in this man- ner happily escaped before the Turks wrll knew what was the matter. He hoped to be well treated bv his country men, as they happened to he some of those'who had formerly been under h; s command. Goura had him put in chains, and led him past the cavern where the family of Odysseus and bis brother in- law still reside. An attempt was made to induce them to give up this retreat, but it failed. Hereupon Odysseus was sent to Megara, where' the people were going to stone him to death, and he was saved only by bis guards covering him with their cloaks. From Megara lie was brought to Salamis, and on the 11th of Mav to Athens. In the streets of that city a woman struck him in the face with stones, and the populace were incensed against him, reproaching him with his arbitrary executions, and especially with that of a Papa, whom he had ordered to, be walled up. The Government had given orders to., send the prisoner to Napoli ; but the Captains of Gotirit refused, answering that Odysseus was safer at Athena than at Napoli. Me was shown to me. He is confin- ed in the Acropolis, in a square tower opposite tlio IVopyloea and the rampart which he had built during tho time he was governor, and there is an inscription on it stone, commending " this work, completed in common by Odysseus and Goura, the Generals of Greece." DEATH OP ODYSSEUS.— A letter from Napoli di Romania, dated the 11th of June, states, that Odys- seus tired of awaiting the decision ofthe Greek Govern- ment as to his fate, attempted to cseape from the cita- del of Athens, in which he was confined. With this view he endeavoured to pass over the wall bv means of a rope. IN descending it broke, and he fell so great ; » distance that he never moved again. Had he lived a few days, he would have been included in the general amnesty issued by the Greek Government. GREECE. We have received, from an intelligent correspond- ent, the following summary of events which have re- ! cently taken place in vireece. We know the writer's ; means of obtaining exact information, and we have con- j fidence in liis employment of them. His narrative, j therefore, founded as it is upon authentic documents, ! mav help to relieve this question from some portion of' that comphcated confusion which has been produced bv the contradictor?, and, in part, fabricated statc-. nents ot the Continental Journals.—^ Courier. Sin— The various and contradictory statements which have been published, relative to tbe affairs <> r Greece, have induced me to offer t > your notice a short account of the events of the present campaign. The facts which I am about to detail are drawn from the most authentic sources, being contained i:> letters from respectable persons in Ancona, Zante, Cephalotiia, and the Mdrea— men who are as incapable of palming any de- ception on the public, ns those to whom the letters are ad- dressed are incapable of authorising it. It appears that tbe preparations for tbe campaign on the part bf the Greeks were considerably impeded by their internal dis- semions ; and that a portion of those funds which ought to have been employed against tbe common enemy were expend- ed in putting down tbe factions which bad been farmed in op- position to the Government. Instead of vigorous measure? being taken to reduce tbe fortresses of I'atras, Modon, and Coroh, which were occupied by the Tutks in the Morea, they were only imperfectly blockaded, and the winter passed away without tbe Greeks having obtained any advantage over the enemy. In tbe early part of the year an expedition was un- dertaken against Patras. Cunduriottis. and Mavrocordato, at the bead of 8000 or 10,000 men, marched against that for- tress, but they were diverted from their object by the landing of the Egyptians at Modon, which took place in the begin- ning of die month of March. The number of the Egyptian troops which was landed at various times, is estimated, in tbe different accounts, at from 15 000 to 18,000 men ; the pri- mary object of this expedition was tbe taking of Navarino ; liut, notwithstanding the magnitude ofthe force, tbe com- pleteness of its equipment, and the circumstance of a great part of it being officered by Europeans, this fortress did not capitulate till the 23d of May. During the intermediate time several skirmishes took place, with various success ; but the attack which decided the fate of the place, and from which the Greeks may date tbe disasters that followed, occurred on the 8tb of May, when the island of Sphacteria was taken, and the Egyptian fleet, consisting of 52 vessels, entered the harbour of Navarino. In ibis combat the Greeks displayed great courage with very inadequate means. Mavrocordato, with a few hundred men, disputed possession of tbe island, till most of them were killed around him, not, however, without great loss on the part of the . Egyptians. With the few which remained he was driven to lake refuge on board one of the Ilydriot brigs, eight of which were anchored in the harbour ; these small vessels fought their way most gallantly through the enemy's fleet. Zamado, the Admiral, was killed, and his vessel, afterwards commanded Ity PacUri. engaged with a frigate and two coivettes, and es- caped, after si- king one ofthe corvettes. These accounts are not the idle boast of a Greek, but rest on the aushority of an American officer, who was on board the brig. It was m this unfortunate contest, also, that the brave Count Santa Rosa fell, while gallantly fighting in support of that cause which he had so nobly espoused. . 1 have detailed this affair somewhat minutely, as it was the first great advantage obtained by the Egyptians, and as the fall of Navarino shortly succeeded it. These disasters are, in some measure, to be ascribed to tbe bad management of the Government. It is not now necessary for me to give an ac- count of the different factions in Greece; but it appears, that the defection of Colocotroni had destroyed the confidence of the Government in the Moreates, of whom he had been the leader— that, in. consequence of this, the executive took into pay a body of Rnmelliote troops ; these were to he led to re- lieve the siege of Navarino, but, being improperly officered, and finding that the Albanese had marched on Missolonghi during their absence, they were anxious to return to defend their homes. Tbe Moreates objected to take up arms unless the Romelliots proceeded, and called loudly for the release of their captains, who were in confinement at Hydra, refusing to fight under any other command. In this state of things it was not to be wondered at that the Egyptians should prove successful. After the taking of Na- varino they pushed on to Calamata. and burnt that place hut here, I trust, there will be a pause, and that the effective measures which the Greeks have since taken will turn the scale in their favour. When Cunduriottis and Mavrocordato arrived at Napo. i, after the affair of the 8th of May, tbe Government found it necessary to adopt a more vigorous mode of proceeding. The Legislative Body acted with great energy and decision ; a general amnesty was proclaimed ; the Moreate Chieftains in confinement at Hydra were liberated, thev took an oath before the united people, ( the form of which you have published in your paper,) to obey the laws, and march against the enemy. The population of the country were enjoined to take up arms, and in a very short space of time Colocotroni was at the head of a large body of men, and numbers were hourly flocking to join his standard. These facts rest upon the authority of a gentle- man who was present at Napoli when the above- mentioned events took place ; he has since seen and conversed with Co- locotroni at Tripolizz i. His force was then estimated at twenty thousand, but it was increasing daily, and Colocotroni said, he expected shortly to have thirty thousand men under Ins command. He expressed the best intentions, and seemed very confident of success. Zaitnis and Londo, two other Chief- tains, who bad also been opposed to the Government, were to lead a body of men to Patras. This fortress is stated to be in a bad condition, having been divested of a great part of its garrison to join the force before Missolonghi. Such, by the latest advises received, is tbe present stale of affairs m the Morea. ' Hie reports from other quarters are far more en- couraging Iu Eastern Greece a large body of Turks, who had advanced to Salona, bad been defeated with great less, by the Greeks under Goura. The number of killed was estimat- ed at 4000, and as many prisoners. This victory had obliged the Turks to detach a great part of their force from before Mis- solonghi ; and this, addetl, to the desertions which had taken place, had compelled them to raise the siege of that fortress, which is represented to be in a good state of defence. I his intelligence is contained in letters from Zanteof tbe 21st June, where it had beeu confirmed by boats arriving from various quarters. If I have had occasion to animadvert on the conduct of the Government, as regards the prepaiations by land, I must do it the justice to admit, that it has used every exertion to render its naval force as effective as its limited means would permit. The efforts which have been been made by the Greek fleet are truly extraordinary, when we consider that it consists only of small brigs, and has been opposed to vessels of so much greater magnitude. The disasters of the Greeks by land have been fully compensated by their successes by sea. On the 13th Slay, two frigates, a corvette, and several transports, were burnt by Miaulis in tbe harbour of Modon. The victory gained subsequently by Sactouris over the Captain Pacha, between Cape Doro and Andros, was of infinitely more im- portance, as the whole fleet was dispersed by it, and was ob- liged to take refuge in the port of Suda. The latest accounts slate, that Miaulis and Sactouris bad united ; that they bad, together, between 70 and 80 sail, and above 10 fire ships; that wiih these they were meditating an attack oil the combined Egyptian and Turkish fleets in Suda ; and that they expected to do them much mischief with their fire- ships. The vigilance of the Greek cruisers in the Archipelago is very great! Numbers of vessels, under all colours, loaded with supplies for the Egyptians and Turks, have been captur- ed and sent into Napoli. A commission has there been es- tablished, to decide on the different cases, and is, it is said, proceeding with great order and regularity. The enemy, from the nature of their position, must look externally for their supplies, and if these be intercepted, the greater their numerical force the worse their situation. Under all circum- stances, therefore, the friends of Greece cannot help auguring a favourable result lo the campaign. The latest of the letters from which the above sketch is com- piled are from Ztnle rff the 21st June. These contain in ad- dition. ri ports i. f advantages already gained by Colocotroni over ihe Egyptians, who had advanced farther into the in- terior ; but as these runiouis rest upon slender authority, I have not dwelt on them. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A FRIEND TO TIIE GREEKS. AMERICA, < Jc. SUrtr. ENDER OF TWO SPANISH SHIPS OF WAR TO TIIE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT. A most important event Iris occurred. From the Mexican Extraordinary Gazette, dated June 15th, we learn that a Spanish ship of'the line, the Asia, carrying 6S gttns, and the brig Constanti'a, have gone over to the Mexicans. Tliev have surrendered by treaty ; and it is stipulated, that the crews are to receive from the Independent Government the pay due to them from Spain, with permission to reside in any of the South American States, or to go elsewhere. The advantage thus secured is not limited lo tiie possession of two Spa- nish ships of war, though that would be great, but it will be still more sensibly felt, when it is remembered, that it vviil onlv be necessary to order those ships round to the Golf of Mexico, to blockade the fortress o;' St. Juan d'Ujloa, which till now the Mexican Government has been unable to do, and to elfeet which it was in treaty with the United States for the purchase of a t naval force. INDIA. Bv the Morley* arrived from Bengal, Calcutta papers have been received to the 13th Marcli. The Rangoon army has at length marched. On the 16th of February Sir A. Campbell broke up the en- campment, under a salute of seventeen guns, having received the reinforcements from Madras and Ceylon. On the same day General Cotton embarked the greater proportion of the army. On the 19th lie was expected at Donabee, where he would be joined by General Campbell. They were then to direct their march upon Prome. Captain Godwin had made an- unsuccessful attack on a stockade, about thirty miles from Rangoon. An unsuccessful attempt had also been made on the island of llamree by- Captain Hardy of the Hastings frigate, and Major Murray. Bundoola and his brother General were reported to be at I'arlong with 80,000 men. The rumour was not, however, believed. General Morrison's camp was on the banks of the Majee river on the 1st of March, waiting for the boats under Captain Haves, to cross the river, which was two miles broad at the place where the army had assembled. There had been no farther actions with the Burmese. From the LONDON GAZETTE, Aug. 6. Whitehall, July 26. The King has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. James Hook, Doctor of Laws, the Deanery ofthe Cathedral Church of Worcester, the same being void by tbe promotion- of Doctor John Banks Jeukiuson, Jate Dean thereof, to the See of St. David's. Foreign- OJjice, August 1. The King has been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. Algernon Percy, now Secietary lo his Majesty's Embassy at Paris, to be his Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary to the Confederated Swiss Cantons. The King has also been graciously pleased to appoint Hamilton C. J. Hamilton, Esq. now Secretary to his Majes- ty's Legation at Stutgard, to be Secretary to his Majesty's Embassy at Paris. And the King has also been graciously pleased to appoint the Hon. John Bloomfield, now attached to his Majesty's Embassy at Lisbon, to be Secretary to bis Majesty's Legation at Stutgard. LONDON, August 8. His Majesty arrived in town from Windsor on Tues- day at one o'clock, and held a Council of his Ministers at Carlton Palace, when Parliament was farther pro- rogued from the 25th instant, to the first day of No- vember. There is great business in the tobacco trade ; the deal- ers are purchasing extensively for th, e home trade, on account of the Treasury order for the reduced rate of duty, 3s. in place of 4s. having made its appearance at the Custom House. The first effect is a claim of above £ 80,000 for tiie high duty paid since the 5th July. Morning Paper. The Duke of Northumberland, prior to his quitting France, was presented by the King with a valuable snuff box, richly set in diamonds, and ornamented with a fine likeness of his Majesy. The Enterprise India steam packet has quitted the Thames, and proceeded direct on her voyage. Her cor- rect route has already been described, and that her pas- sage will, it is supposed, occupy eleven weeks. The Sherborn Mercury says :—" Wednesday last, a labouring man, residing in a college of houses behind the High Street, Taunton, dined off a beef stake, which he had broiled on his handsaw by the heat of the. sun."— Hull Packet. At a meeting of ironmasters in Gloucester, on Mon- day last, the price of iron was reduced 21. per ton.— Gloucester Journal. A private letter from Paris states, that the heat con tinues to be excessive in. that capital, and that disease is making frightful ravages. There are numerous cases of diarrhoea, and some of cholera morbus. JUDGE V. BERKELY AND OTHERS At the Here- ford Assizes, on Thursday, Mr Judge, editor of the Cheltenham Journal, in an action against Colonel Berke- ly, Lord Sussex Lennox, and R. C. Hammond, Esq. for a violent horse- whipping, obtained £ 500 damages. It will be recollected that the chastisement was inflicted in conscquence of a scurrilous article that appeared in the plaintiff's newspaper respecting the Berkely Hunt Ball. By direction of the Learned Judge ( Burrough) the Jury returned an entire verdict against all the defendants. At Worcester assizes, a breach of promise of mar- riage was compromised bv the defendant promising to marry the lady within one month, or forfeit one thou- sand pounds. At the York assizes, on the 21st ult. a Jury gave a verdict, with 3001. damages, against Thomas Hill, a Methodist preacher in North Shields, for slandering Miss Jane Bell, one of the " connexion," and prevent- ing her marriage, by means ofa series of verv malignant letters, most of them anonymous, written in a canting style, under the hypocritical guise of zeal for the welfare of the lover. A Return has just been printed " of the number of persons committed to any prison in Scotland for debt, from 1st January, 182- 1, to 1st January, 1825; dis- tinguishing such as were imprisoned for debts not ex- ceeding 51. from those where the amount of debt was larger." The distinction between debts above 51. and under is taken, because causes not exceeding 51. may be summarily tried in the Justice of Peace Courts of the various districts into which each county is divided, and judgment mav be followed up by imprisonment or dis- tress. It appears, that the whole number of persons imprisoned for debt, during the year in question, in Scotland, was 3380, of which number 2067 for debts under 51. and 1313 for debts above five pounds. But the most remarkable contrast prevails between the cities and manufacturing districts, and the rest ofthe country. The counties of Berwick, Roxburgh, Wigton, Selkirk, Ross and Cromarty, Sutherland, Peebles, Orkney, Nairn, Linlithgow, Perth, Kirkcudbright, Kinross, Inverness, Haddington, Forfar, Fife, Elgin, Dumfries, Caithness, Bute, Banff, and Argyll, with a population of 1,121,000 souls, have 275 debtors under 5/. and 436 above, that is, about two fifths more above than under 51. while on the other hand, the counties of Aberdeen, Avr, Edinburgh, Lanark, and Renfrew, with a population of 830,000, have 1,792 debtors under 51. and 877 above, that is, more than twice as manv under 5l. as above. This is a very singular con- trast. We question if there is a country in Europe in which out of a population of 1,124,000, and with the utmost facility in obtaining judgment and imprisoning, the number of debtors imprisoned would not have ex- ceeded 275 in one twelvemonth. The county of Ber- wick, the pattern county for agriculture, not merely in Scotland, but in the island, with a population of 33,385, had not one person imprisoned for less than of. COMBINATION RIOT AT SUNDERLAND. It is with the most unfeigned regret that we have to record a melancholy affair which happened at Sunder- land on Wednesday afternoon. An unusually large number of light colliers had arrived there in the early part of this week, and the Union men on shore, up- wards of 400, made no secret of their determination to prevent them from again proceeding to sea till their de- mands were Complied with. O. i Wednesday . morning several ships were stopped, and their crews violently dragged on shore. It was understood, however, that the great struggle was to be made in the evening, and a number of special constables were sworn in, consisting chief! v of respectable ship- owners. It was soon found that these precautions were not unnecessary." About six o'clock, the Busy got under way, and her crew was reinforced bv as many of the police as her deck could conveniently pold. She had not proceeded manv yards when she was assailed and boarded on al! sides, the constables disarmed of their staffs, many of the ship- owners on board struck and bruised, and the ship in a few moments was completely in the power of the as- sailants. Messrs. Robinson and Davi. m, two of the Magistrates of the place, were at hand, and the Riot Act having been read by the latter gentleman, they, at- tended by the few military, not exceeding 20, that were in the town, embarked in boats for the protection of the other ships that were underway. The rioters in the river were now obliged to keep their distance, and an immense multitude assembled on the North Shore, armed with large stones and other missiles, which they discharged with astonishing fury on board a ship in which were the Magistrates and military. They were warned repeatedly to desist, and the carbines discharged over their heads, to no purpose. The military were ulti mately compelled to fire among the crowd, when two were shot through t'nebodv, and one through the head, i , • , • i r and Killed on the spot. Another died in the course of the evening, and three the next day. The number of wounded will probably never be ascertained: report states them to be about twelve, some of them very dan- gerously, A large body of seamen came round from Shields and Blyth next morning, it is supposed to assist their fellow tars, but finding how affairs stood, and a reinforcement of light dragoons . having arrived from Newcastle during tiie night, no further opposition has been attempted, and the ships proceed, to sea unmolest- ed. One of the most active of the rioters has been secured, and was lodged in the gaol of this city on Thursday afternoon. An inquest was sitting on the bodies when our information left Sunderland.— Durham Chronicle, Aug• 6. By another account from Sunderland, it is stated, that four sailors were killed, whose names are Aird, Wallace, Dover, and Creighton. The Coroner having summoned a Jury on the body of Aird on Fridav, after a long examination of evidence, they brought in a verdict of justifiable homicide on the part of the soldiers. NAVAL REGISTER. FROM LLOYD'S MARINE LIST, AUG. 2. ST. VINCENT, June 3.— The Whim, Drogbing sloop, with thirty- two hogsheads of sugar on board, was thrown upon her beam ends during a heavy squall on the 11th ult. and almost immediately sunk. The master, five of the crew, and some passengers, were drowned. BOSTON, June 27. — Arrived the Leonidas, Ward, from Liverpool. On the 1 lib June, in lat. 4.3. Ion. 50. in the night, discovered a large island of ice on the lee buw, and in the act of tacking struck another on the starboard bow, which had not been seen; immediately after it was discovered she had two feet of water in the hold. The pumps were kept going throughout the night. In the morning cut away tbe ceiling and a timber, and succeeded in stopping the leak. Discover- ed that two of the planks and two timbers were broken. MAILS— ARRIVED — 1 Hamburgh, 1 Dutch, 1 Flanders, 2 French, and 1 Lisbon DUE— 1 Gotteuburgh, 1 Ameri- can, and 1 Leeward Islands. AUG. 5.— The John, Petfrie, from London to Poyais, was totally wrecked on the 20tb May, on Viocessa Reef, Black River. Crew saved in their boats, atid arrived at Truxillo. Two other vessels were wrecked near the same place. MAILS. — ARRIVED— 1 Gottenburgli, I Dutch, 2 French, I Mediterranean, and 2 Leeward Islands. — DUE— 1 Ham- burgh, 1 Flanders, and 1 American. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. The Pvramus, Brodie, from Madras and the Cape of Good Hope to London, was, spoken With on the 14th June, in lat. 22. by the Boyne, arrived iu the Downs. PORTSMOUTH, Aug. 4.— Passed by the Georgiaua, Ford, from Bombay, from whence she sailed on the 14th Feb.; from Ceylon, on the 14th March; from St. Helena on the 29th May, and from Ascension on the 5th June. CAI> E OF GOOD HOPE, Mav 28. Arrived the Margaret, Henderson, from London. The Gen. Pal- mer, Truscott, sailed for Bengal and the Mauritius on the 18th. BENGAL, March 10.— Arrived the Hero of Ma- lown, Garrick.— The Belle Alliance, Rolfe, sailed this day, and the Felicitas, Campbell, on the 8th, for Mad- ras and Beneoolen. The Albion, Sivainson, from Bengal to Liverpool, was at Kedgeree 12th March, where she experienced a heavy squall, and sheered, when in bringing up, she injured her cut water by the chain cable ; she would be repaired in a few da\ s. THE LARGE SHIP BARON RENFREW.—. Extract ofa letter from Quebec, dated 26th June:— Yesterday was a proud day for science and for Canada ; your towns- man, Charles Wood, set afloat, in fine style, the " Ba- ron of Renfrew," bv far the largest ship which ever was built, with more than 3000 tons of her cargo on board, loaded on the stocks ; she was immediately towed to the anchorage near the Falls of Montmorency, where she now rides triumphant, as one of the greatest won- ders of the de'-' p. She is a much more sightly ship than the Columbus ; and, from her greater breadth and depth of hold, better adapted for crossing the ocean.— Her rigging will be that ofa four- masted ship, and the pumps will be worked by a ten- horse power steam- en- gine. Two thousand tons of her cargo will consist of masts for the royal navy, such as were never seen at Woolwich dock- yard, where her proprietors have con- tracted that they shall be landed. The residue will be fir timber and deals, with about 1000 tons of oak and other specimens ofthe hardwood of this country. To- wards the end of July she will be readv for sea, when the Hercules steam boat, of 140 horse power, will tow the Baron for two hundred miles down the river, where she will proceed, tinder the care of Capt. Walker, ac- companied by Mr. Wood, for the Downs. From thence steam vessels will again convev this stupendous representative of naval majesty to her moorings at Dept- ford. MARKETS, 4- c. • AVERAGE PRICES OF CORN The following is the general average which governs impor- tation, taken from the weekly returns of the quantities and prices of British Corn, Winchester measure, in England and Wales, for the week ending 30ih July Wheat, Rye, Bariey, Oats, - 6 7s I Oil 41 * 5d 55s 8d 25s 8d Beans, Peas, Oatmeal, Ilear or Big 41s 3d 41s 5d OOs Od OOs OOd CORN EXCHANGE. Aug. 8. An improved demand for Wheat on Friday atralher higher prices being followed by stormy weather, and a very short sup- ply for this day's market, occasioned a further advance to be • pretty generally demanded ; this in some few instances was complied with to the extent of 2s to 3s per quarter upon the currency of last Monday; bill without producing any new life iu the trade, which, on the whole, closed rather heavily. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET, Aug. 5. A small supply of Wheat in market, which met with a dull sale. Prices nearly the same as last day— Barley 2s and Oats 6d lower than last day. Wheal. I Barley. I Oats. I Pease. J Beans. First 57s Od j 50s Od | 22s 6d | 21s Od J 21s Od Second 55s ,0d I 27s Od | 19s Od j 17s Od I 19s Od Third SOs Od | 24s Od ] 17s Od | 17s Od | 17s Od This day there were 309 bolls of Oattncal in Edinburgh market— Retail price Is 5d per peck, Fdinhi: rgyi C'n'lle Market, Ai/ r. 3.— There was n large supply of sheep anil lambs ( 5917) at tbe market to- day — Lambs, best, 14s. 6d ; second 10s. 6d ; third 9s. A few of an inferior description were sold as low as 6s. The market was very heavy at the beginning, but in the lap e of an hour it became brisk, and the whole were sold off. Little variation in sheep. In the Grassmarket there were 1 ii4 fat cattle.— Best, 9s; second, 8s. 6d.; lowest, 8s. per stone, sinking the offal. Prices of Hay and Straw. Aug. 3.— Oat Straw, 9s. Wheat do. 8s. to 8s. fid. per kemple; new hay, lOd. to Is. per stone. Glasgow Cattle Market.— There were 131 fat cattle in this market on Monday, a greater number than has been brought forwaid for several weeks. Best beef brought lfs. a stone, and one- third of the supply was taken away unsold. There were 4150 sheep and lambs. Sheep were little minded, but lambs sold well. A few that were small sold at 7s. and 9s. Very good lambs were bought for 1 Is. and one lot that was excellent sold at I3s. 6d. Black- faced sheep brought from 20s. to 31s. 6d ;. and while- faced do. from 30s. to 4* fs. Dumfries Cattle Market. July 27.— To- day prices hail attain suffered a considerable decline on those of the previous week ; and so excessively dull was the sale, that upwards of one half of every description of cattle went off the sands without chang- ing owners. Pigs, 18 carts, prices from 9s. 6d. to 22s.; average, 15s. Langholm great annual lamb and wool fair took place on Tuesday week ( July 26.) The show of lambs was very small ( which was a little surprising, as there has not been so many lambs in this quarter for several years,) but they were in ge- neral very good, and sales were quick, at ail advance ill prices. No full bred lambs appeared ; half bred sold from 12s. GJ. to 15s. 6d. Cheviot, first class, 10s. 6d. to 12s. 6d ; second, 8s. to lis. There was only one lot of black- faced wedders, which brought 20s. Little was done iu the wool till the evening, buyers keeping back, as sellers asketl high prices : it was mostly of the Cheviot kind. Laid, 19i. 6.1. to 21s; rosin, 22s. to 25s; white, 27s. to 30s. — This has been the best market in this place for a long time, and was very well attended. Morpeth, Aug. 3.— At our market to- day there were a good many cattle, sheep, and lambs ; the former met with dull sale ; good lambs sold readily.— Beef, 6i, yd. to 7s. Gd. per stone, sinking the offal.— Mutton, 6s. 6d. to 7s. 5( 1.— Lamb, 7s. to 7s. 6d. FOREtON MARKETS. Anlwerj), July 32.— The demand for Oats lias oflate been very extensive here, and considerable purchases have been made at increasing rates, mostly for account: of home specu- lators, who anticipate a farther rise, owing principally lo the had state of our new crop, which lias suffered considerably from the great drought. Although the value of barley has not increased here in proportion with that of the article just mentioned, there are many buyers at any reduction on the prices quoted below. The want of rain, for nearly two months, has greatly injured all our crops, but none so much as that of buckwheat, which it is reported, will be at least two- thirds less than last year. Rape and lintsecd cakes are also higher, in consequence of the many buyers. Our currency is as fol- lows : — Wheat, red ( per qr. free oil board,) 29s to 29s 8d ; white, 20s 8d to 50t 9d ; Rye, 16s 2d to 17s lOd ; Barley, winter, 16s 9d to 17s lOd ; Oats, feed, Ms 7d to 15s 8d; Buckwheat, 22s 2d to 24s 5d; Beaus, horse, 17s lOd, small, 20s. Hamburgh, July 22.— Barley has recently advanced very considerably here, as the steam- boat from London, the last voyage, brought several orders for this grain, so that tbe finest descriptions rose immediately to about 16s 6d per quarter on boardhere; for fine Bohemian barley to arrive shortly, I7s Id per quarter on board, have been paid, and there are now no sellers at that rate. Oats are also in better request, but our stock of fine is very small, and of this sort no sales have been made; for good heavy sound fresh corn, 9s 8d per quarter on board. Beans are scarce, and held at 13d 2d per quarter.— Tares and buckwheat are without alteration. The crop of rye will be plentiful, and wheat promises fair; but the farmers complain that the long drought begins to injure the spring corn. , The accounts from Greenland are very Unfavourable, and the price of whale oil has advanced here, which will also operate, in some degree, on the price of rapeseed. Linseed cakes ate in brisk demand, and 105 marks currency ( L6 I2s) per ton on board have been readily paid. SMITH FIELD MARKET. To sink the Offal, per stone of 8lbs. Beef, 4s 4d to 5s 2d j Veal, 4s 8d to 6s Od Mutton, 4s fid to 5s 4d | Pork, 5s Od to 6s Od Beasts, 586— Sheep, & c. 9000— Calves. 320— Pigs, 90 NEWGATE AND LEA DENIIALE MARKETS. Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 4d Veal, 3s 4d to 4s Rd Mutton, 2s 8d to 5 s 10( 1 Pork, 5s 8d to 5s 4d PRICE OF LEATHER, Butts, 50 to 56lbs. each, ... 20d to 21d per lb. Ditto, 56 to 66lbs. each, ... 23d to 25( 1 Dressing Hides, ... ... 19d to 21d Fine Coach Hides, 20d to 21 id Crop Hides 35 to 40lbs. for cutting, 15d to 17| d Ditto 45 to 50lbs 18d to 20d Calf Skins 30 to 401bs 18d to 24d Ditto 50 to 70lbs 23d to 26d Ditto 70 to 80lb.. 22d to 24d Small Seals ( Greenland) ••• 17d to 18d PRICE Bank Stock, 5 perCt. C. 90l[ f£ 3 p. Cent. Red. 9! f| i New 4 Cents. 105 LongAn. 22f 7- 16 OF STOCKS. India Stock, India Bonds. Ex. B. 10001. Cs for Ac. Lottery Tickets, 50 pr. 27 25 pr. 191 19s EDINBURGH, Aug. 9. CIVIC CHAIR. — Our fellow citizens are aware that a contest has taken place for the honour of filling the civic chair at the ensuing election. We believe such a circumstance is wholly without precedent ; and, however much we may la- ment, that the feelings of the respected individual, who, on this occasion, runs so great a risk of a disappointment, may be hurt, yet we hail with no small degree of satisfaction the probability of the city's being relieved, for once at least, of the degrading, though customary practice, of having its civic chair handed over by one set of rulers to another, without an attempt to consult the feelings of any one individual concerned, beyond their own sphere. That Mr Trotter is able and willing ; that he possesses ex- perience and integrity , that he has a mind above the dictates of political subservience ; and that he would 611 the chair with as much benefit to tbe city, and as much respectability to him- self, in the double capacity of a Magistrate and a gentleman as any other individual could do, is our full aud unqualified opinion; but the pleasure of seeing the servile series of our city elections for once broken by an independent choice, would be a public benefit outweighing all private considerations. In all points Mr Allan is a worthy competitor of Mr Trotter. For three years he has filled the situation of a Magistrate, and his attention to his public duties has rendered him a favourite amon£ those with whom he acted, and who had the best op- portunity of witnessing his exertions. Farther we sh. vll abstain from making any personal allusions to the candidates, and we hope we shall also stand excused for not listening to any of the rumours which will no doubt be blazed about on hoth sides. A short time will bring tbe contest to a close, which we hope will be done with that temper and gentlemanlike feeling which both candidates must consider as due, not only to themselves, but to that public, whom it is their ambition to represent Aug. 6. The discussion about the succession to the civic chair was re- vived in the Council on Wednesday. It was commenced b. y Con- vener M'Gibbon, who observed, that he thought Mr Allan had used Mr Trotter ill, in not giving earlier notice of his inten- tion to stand for the office; and Mr Allan had been apprised when in London of Mr Trotter's nomination; and that, in consequence of his silence, that gentleman had ordered a car- riage, and taken other steps preparatory to his election. Mr Allan . ose, and asked the Convener whether he had not been present at a dinner after the High School examination, last year, at which his ( Mr Allan's) health was drank as the suc- cessor to the present Chief Magistrate. Tbe Convener said he had no recollection of such a circumstance. Several ofthe members near him, however, not only recollected that such a toas> t, was given, but that it was received with cheers, in which the Convener himself had joined with apparent cordiality. With regard to the expence incurred in prospective arrange- ments, Mr Allan said, that if Mr Learmonth were consulted, it would be found, that his coach had been ordered several weeks, or months before Mr Trotter's. lie concluded by ex- pressing his firm resolution to maintain bis claim. The Provost was now called on to state, whether Mr Allan's proposal had been made with his approbation. His Lordship said that he had been taken aside just before the meet- ing, by Mr Allan, who intimated his intention to him; and that he ( the Provost) said ue could have no objection to Mr Allan doing what he or any other member of Council of the same standing was entitled to do without his permission. This was all that passed. His Lordship observed that it had been insinuated that he had withdrawn from the former meeting at an early hour, that he might not be present when Mr Allan announced himself a candidate. This was 11104 groundless. He had withdrawn because he had to preside at another meet- ing, as his brother Magistrate well knew. Mr Allan now rose again, and asked Treasurer IJali, whether,. if hon he tins with him in Lm^ f'- n ,'• « ? n f.; U'ow nlfnnTvor of t? V Committee, he had not distinctly Void him that he w: is a can- didate for the civic chair. The Treasurer, however, was not conscious of having received such a communication. Mr Allan again referred to the particulars, and" a- iked with some warmth whether he had not made tr* i? statement a- loded to. Several members here jntrealed the Lord Provost to inter- fere. in order to check th? increasing asperity of the discussion., Mr Hall, however, rose, and slated that fie could not doubt Mr Allan's honour, " and of course must hare received such a communication, though it had entirely escaped his memorv, Which was by no means very retentive. Mr Allan then mentioned that a'report had been circulated, and had been, put into print, th if he, was seeking the chair as a stepping stone to the representation ofthe city. That think- ing this groundless rumour might prejudice his claims, he had, accompanied by his brother- in- law. Colonel Aitchison, wait- ed upon the Lord Register, and, in presence of Mr Dund. isof Arniston, had stated to that gentleman, that, at present he had no intention whatever of di. stuibing the representation of the city ; and having made this declaration, he hoped his Lordship would not use his influence in opposing his claims to- the Civic chair. The Lord Register accepted his assurance an perfectly satisfactory, and in return gave him aline under hi?* hand, addressed tothe Provost and Council, declaring that he ( the Lord Register)' was entirely neutral, and did not wiyh to influence the mihdsof the Council iu favour of either party. August, 8. ' The herrings are now set in on the east co'ist of Fife. The fishermen say there is a greater prospect of herring this season than there lias been for several years. BIRTHS. At Rossi e, on the SCfthr nit. Mrs Oliphant, ofa son. At Duudas Street, on the 26th ultimo, Mrs Ivory, of a daughter. At Beddington, Surrey, on the ist hist. Lady Helen Wedderburn," of a son. MARRIAGES. At Dundas Street, on the 2d jnst. the Rev. George South, minister of rhe second charge. Kilmarnock, to J me. only daughter of the Jate David Hogarth, E « q. of Hilton, Ber- wickshire. At Strathairly House, Fifesbire, on tbe 2d instant, D » vi< I Blacki'e, Esq. writer to the signet, to Margaret, only daugh- ter of David Brings. Esq. of Strathairly. On the 2d inst.. George Kin near, Esq. of Gower St. rec% London, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr Barclay of Leicester Square. At Glasgow, on the4' b inst. Humphrey Ewing Crum, Esq. to Helen, second daughter ofthe Rev. £) r Dick. BEM- MBYIS an n HIGHLAND CHIEFTAIN STEAM- BOATS. ' IPHE GLASGOW and CALEDONIAN CA- X NAL STEAM- BOAT COMPANY, in reference, to their former Advertisements, have the honourof notifying that their Steam Boat the BEN- NEVIS having now commenced to ply for the Season between GLASGOW and INVER- NESS, will continue to Sail from GLASGOW every THURSDAY FOR INVERNESS, calling at Greenock, Rothesay, Lochgilphead, passing tbrougli the Crinan Canal, and calling at Ltiing, Etisdale, Oban, Port Appin, Corran, Fort- William. Corp3( ! r, Fort- Augustus, and the Fall of Foyres ; and- will leave Inverness on her return on tbe Monday following for Glasgow, calling at each of said Ports. The Hours of sailing each day to be seen on the Boards. And that their Steam Vessel, the HIGHLAND CHIEF- TAIN, is at present under certain alterations and improve- ment, and will be ready for Sea in the course of three weeks. Particulars of her sailing will appear in future Advertisements. Both Vessels have been newly painted, and otherwise fitted up for the Season. Ladies, Gentlemen, and Families from the South, desirous of visiting the sublime scenery of the^ Highlansd, will find these Vessels admirably adapted for the purpose. They are amply provided with every accommodation, and the utmost attention has been paid to the convenience and comfort of Passengers. Farther particulars may be known bv applying to ROBERT STEWART, No. 128, Broomielaw. Glasgoiv, 18//* March 1825. ( One Interest.) BUTL ERyS APEHIF. NT ~~ EFFERVESCING POWDERS. ripHESE Powders produce an Effervescing Draught much more grateful to the palate than Stidlitz or Sod3 Water, at the same time a mild and agreeable Aperient, pe- culiarly adapted to prevent accumulation of Bile, to remove Heartburn and Nausea, and counteract Acidity in the Stomach. They are highly beneficial at those seasons of the year when the bowels are liable to become disordered, and thereby to oc- casion Affections of the Head, Dimness of the Sight, Erup- tions on the Skin, and Fever; for although so mild that a child may take them, yet by repeated use they supersede the necessity of having recourse to Calomel, Epsom Salts, and other strong and nauseous medicines, which frequently de- bilitate the system without producig the desired effects. When the Powders are taken after too free an indulgence in the luxuries of the table, particularly after too much wine, the usual disagreeable effects are prevented. Tbe Aperient Effervescing Powders are prepared only by T. Butler, Chemist to his Majesty in Scotland, 20, Water- loo Place, Edinburgh, where they may b6 had in Boxes 5s. 6d. each ; and they are sold for him by Mr J. Dyce, Broad Street; and Mr P. Williamson, drug- gist, 1, Exchequer- Row, Aberdeen; Mr O. Will, Peter- head; Mr P. Riach, Stonehaven; Mr J. Carr, and Mr D. Niddrie, druggists, Montrose; and by all the principal Chemists and Druggists throughout Scotland, The Preparer's name and address, as above, are printed in the Label and Bill accompanying each Box of the genuine Powders. ItHIO IIHIO, KING OF THE SANDWICH ISLANDS. AND THE FANTOCCINI. WHEN King Rrno Ruto, at Osborne's Hotel First took up his lodging, and ranging about The house on? day solus, he raised a high rout, Astounding the servants ; but no one could tell, Nor King nor domestic, the cause of the pother, For neither the language could talk of the other. Yet King RHIO RHIO knew French—' twere absurd Perhaps to assert that his Majesty spoke it, His parle.% confin'd was to only one word, Which now recollecting late silence he broke it, By shouting " Diable /" and led in terrorem, The room to where Satan had stept in before him. What mighty events from small causes artse, ' The room so possess'd was exaniin'd with care, But nothing remaikable vet was found there, Excite which might either alarm or surprise, Unless t'were a pair of bright Boots, when the straia " Diable /" his Majesty sent forth again, On viewing, not one sable Imp as before, But. flitting the Jet in. some half dozen more! The cause was explain'd— and one subsequent day To give of amusement the King a display, The figures so tiny Of GRAY'S Fantoccini Had audience, but not by approval were met. 41 All this" said the Sandwichean Monarch, « the Jet Exhibits, and more ; for its lustre embraces With truest reflection, ineffable graces : So high decoration and pleasure not lacking, My subjects shall henceforth u* E WAUREN'S/^ Hlacking This Easy Shining and Brilliant BLACKING, Prepared by / aAAVn^ SO, STRAND, London ; AND SOLD IN ABERDEEN BY Allan, Green 1'. Craik, Catto's Square L. Cruiekshnnk, Gnllowgato A. Cruickshank, ditto Wihlaw, ditto Lines, do. do. IJyce, Broad Street Anderson, Castle Street ESMIII, Gallowgaie Affleck, Union Street , Win. Duncan, Castle Street Fife & Co. Union Street Smith, Union Street Dtvidson, Bread Street Reid, Castle Street Sytnon, Green Mollison, StCatherine'sWynd Bretnner & Co. Union Street Smith, sen. Castle Street Lumsden, Broad Street Brautingbam, Gallowgate Ft- aser, Union Street Duguid, North Street Leslie, ditto Sutherland, ditto Warrack. Union Street Simpson, druggist, Green John Pratt, Broad Street And Sold in every Town in tbe Kingdom. LIQUID, in Bottles 6' d. lOd. I2d. and I8d. each. Also PASTE BLACKING, in Pots fid. I2d. and. 18d. each. A Sbiliiug Pot of Paste is equal to Four One Shilling Bottles of Liquid. Williamson, druggist, ditto M'K. iy, Gallowgate James Temple, Casile Street Geo. Watson, Netherkirkgate. Mr Brodie, Merclit. Newdeer SALE OF UNREDEEMED FROPEIITLT. To L> e sold hy Auction, in the EXCHANGE Count SAI. E ROOM, UNION STREET, on Wednesday the l? tb curt, aud following Evenings, precisely at six>)< elock, MHE UNREDEEMED PROPERTY pledget] - BL with WILI. IAM M'COHACHIK, Pawnsioker Queen Street, in the months of April. May, June, July, and part of August, 1824, and several anterior dates— consisting of Men's and Women's Wearing Apparel - Bed and Tahie Linen— Blan- kets— Books— Watches— Jewellery. & c. Catalogues ( One Penny each) may he had at the Sale Room 011 Tuesday. P. M'LEOD, Auctioneer. Exchange Court, Aug. 12, 1825. P. M'liEQB T" 5EGS leave most respectfully to intimnte, tliat as I) the ABOVE ROOM is now considerably extended and improv. d, he intends to take in FURNITURE of all de- scriptions for Sale hy Auction or Private Bargain, which will either he bought 011 the most liberal terms, or sold on a mo- derate commission. The Room is excellently adapted for Goods requiring 10 be displayed, being well lighted from the roof and extremely commodious. Sales of every description are also undertaken by P. M'L. who begs to assure those who may favour this Establishment with their commands, that nothing shall be wanting on his part lo merit a continuation of that support which has hitherto teen liberally bestowed upon it. A SAI. E of BOOKS early in September, when those having anv to dispose of will please send them in, or lists of them, by the l » t September, that they may be inserted in the Cata- logue. • 5.- 5- Highest price ( as usual) given for LIBRARIES or PARCELS of BOOKS. THE STEAM YACHT VELOCITY, CAWAIN CRANE, • SAIXIS FROM ABERDEEN, EVERY MONDAY AND FRIDAY, AT six O'CLOCK, MORNING; AND PHOM IIEITH, EVERY WEDNESDAY <$>• SATURDAY, At rtie same Hour. Calling off STONEHAVEN, JOHN- SHAVEN. MONTROSE, AUBROATH, CRAIL, ANSTRUTHER, and ELIE. Light Goods and Parcels carried as usual. A FEMALE STEWARD will attend the Ladies' Cabin. Aberdeen, l. eith £ Clyde Shipp. Co.' s Office,! 53. Quay, Aberdeen, July 23, 1325. $ , HOUSES FOR SALE. There will be sold, by public roup, within the Lemon Tree Tavern Aberdeen, on Friday the 19th day of August curt, at six o'clock afternoon, ( if not previously sold by private bargain.) RPHESE THREE HOUSES in WATER LANE Jf of ABERDEEN, Nos. 11, 13, and 16, presently occupied by Alexander Mitchell, Robert Tyrie, and others. The Houses are nearly new, are in good order, and from their vicinity to the Quay always let to good tenants. The present rental is about £ 11. A considerable part of the price may re- main in the purchasers hands, if desired. If the Property is not sold in one lot, it will be divided into three. • * Apply to Alex. Mitchell, No. 13, Water Lane ; or to Wm Smith, Advocate, II, Correction Wytid, in whose hands are the articles of roup and title deeds. OSBQN SNUFFS. " TOSEPH BOUGIJEY^ No. 25, Bishopsgate * J Street Within, near the City of London Tavein, is the only MANUFACTURER in the United Kingdom of those celebrated and superior LISBON RAPPEE SHJFFS, VINO PRINCFZA AND MEIO GROSSO, Which are Patronized by the Portuguese Nobility and Gentry, His Hoyal Highness of Sussex, Lord Petersham, and the greatest Connoisseurs. Sold in Canisters al 5s.— 2s. 6d.— ls. Ad.— and Sd. each. J. B. supplies only one Shop in any town out of London, and respectfully submits his present list of Agents for Scotland, where his Patrons may be snpplied as at tiie Manufactory. Edinburgh G. COTTON. PRINCE'S STREET. ABERDEEN... C. J YFE # Co. UNION STREET. HAVANNAHSBGARS. THE SUBSCRIBERS have just got to hand, a large quantity of Superior HAVANNAH SF. GARS. which Ihey are setting at the London Prices. Wholesale and Retail. Foreign and British SNUFF, in great variety. SNUFF ROXES and HORNS. Plain or Mounted. GERMAN PIPES. <$- c. with every article in the Tobacco and Snuff line. FIHAS. FYFE Co. LONDON SNUFF SHOP, ? - 46, Union Street, Aberdeen. J THE CIIROJTKJaE. ABERDEEN SATURDAY, AUGUST 13, 1825. SU11MASY OF POLITICS. THE English papers have lieen for some time taken up with circuit intelligence, and the details of a long in- vestigation concerning the sanity or insanity of a Re- verend1 Mr. PJTANK, whose case bears a strikiug re- semblance to that of Loid PORTSMOUTH ; and al- though he has for manv years hud die care of souls, the Jurv, of which Sir RICHARD BIRNIE was Foreman, lutve found that, since the autumn of 1816, he has been a Lunatic, incapable of managing his own affiiirs. How it happened that the Bishop of the Diocese knew nothing of the unsound state of mind of this clergyman, which the Jurv say was manifest Irom his actions, we are not informed— but the parishioners no doubt paid their tithes. Of foreign news there has been a great scarcity for some time, and the reports concerning Greece continue as contrary as ever, some giving out that the Turks are everywhere successful, and rapidly over- running the Grecian territory ; and others, that the Greeks knowing the supplies of their invaders to be cut off, have retreated, laving waste the country, in order to ensure the destruction of the Turkish army The news from South America are most gratifying; the ships last sent out from Spain, the Asia of 68 guns and some smaller vessels, have bv their commander been delivered up to the Mex'can States, to which they are acquisitions of great vuliie. Oil Wednesday seVnnight, a Riot occurred among the Serfmen at Sunderland, which, we regret to say, was attended with fatal consequences, it appears, that the. seamen have for sottie time objected to cast the ballast from hght vessels coming into the harbour, with- out an additional allowance, which the shipowners hav resisted, as it has hitherto been held to be a part of the setimens' duty. In consequence of tins difference, about 400 seamen, it is said, have been left unemployed in the port of Sitinlciiand, seamen and apprentices from other places being procured to do the work. These vpre frequently threatened by the Union, but it doe not appear that any acts of violence were committed till the day mentioned, when several vessels were forcibly boarded, the seamen working struck and forced out, ar. d the owners and special constables maltreated, and their lives threatened. The interposition of the military ap- pears to have become absolutely necessary, and four men were killed by their fire, and at least twelve are supposed to be wounded, although the number ntay never be exactly ascertained. This is an event tpucli to be deplored ; but from the proceedings on the Coroner's inquest, it certainly does not appear that the troops acted rashly. The case was such, that no reading of the riot act was necessary to render firing justifiable, Although that formality was gone through. When, in 1780, the Protestant mob threatened the very existence of the metropolis, when the rioters were illegally destroy- ing and taking away property, and burning houses, his late Majesty called for the opinion of the Attorney Ge- neral, WEDDBRBURN, whether, according to the law of England, the military were bound to w « it for the formalities of the sanction of the civil magistrate— and answer was, certainly not; British subjects so act- ng are to be treated as common enemies." After in- quiring of the Judges—" My Lords, is this the law of England? And receiving an answer in the affirmative, the King said, " Let orders be given that the troops act immediately"— and a few battalions soon restored tran- quillity, killing some of the unfortunate rioters, and taking prisoners many who died on the scaffold. Sea- men ought to have as high wages as the trade they are engaged in can afford ; but their employers must be al- lowed to have a voice in ascertaining what can be afford- ed, and to procuie labour at the most advantageous market they can. In this place, the seamen have seve- ral times struck for wages within the last thirty years— but in as far as we can collect, the strike has never pro- duced to tin ai any real advantage. In winter last, our seamen lost much time, involved themselves in debt, and produced much inconvenience to the public, and at last were obliged to accept of the terms offered them by the owners, on the first remonstrance that their wages Ought to lie raised. With many estimable qualities, there is much of simple gullibility in the character of British seamen, and a few designing leaders frequently nfluence well disposed men to adopt courses, that re- duce them and their families to much distress. By the latest accounts from Sunderland, all was quiet; but troops will be stationed in the neighbourhood in case of new disturbances. LIBERTY OF THE PRESS A case was tried at the late Hereford assizes, in which a Mr JUDGE, Editor of a Newspaper in Cheltenham, sought to recover da- mages from Colonel BERKELY, the late protector of Miss FOOTE, for having, with the assistance of two friends, inflicted a severe horse- whipping upon his per- son. It appeared in evidence, that Mr, JUDGE had made repeated and most unwarrantable personal attacks upon the character of Colonel BERKELY, and that he had done so with the view of extorting money. One of the witnesses swore, that when he remonstrated with him on the unjustifiable course he was pursuing, Mr. JUDGE merely said—" Why docs he, ( Col. Berkely J not send me two hundred pounds V' In the libellous articles, Miss FOOTE was represented as a most amiable young lady, who had been seduced by Cel. BERKELY, and in the most ^ ruel manner deserted ; that he had treated her « o very ill, that ladies would not attend the Berkely Hunt Ball, and that eyen gentlemen were shy of the Colonel's company. That Col. BERK ELY should think this libeller deserved chastisement was very natu- ral, but the manner in which the punishment was in- flicted was certainly unjustifiable. He and two friends, Lord SUSSEX LENNOX and Mr. CAHR HAMMOND, went to Mr. JUDGE'S house, and while In6 two friends held Mr. JUDGE, the Colonel applied the horse- whip with great severity. That Mr. JUDGE did not deserve to be treated as a gentleman was sufficiently proved ; and he had boasted, that if Colonel BERKELY brought an action agaiii6t Uim, it would be the making of his paper. And if Colonel BERKELY without the inter- ference of any third person, had horse- whipped the slan- derer in the street, the lowest denomination of British coin would have been thought sufficient damages. But the presiding Judge, Mr. Justice BUKROUGH, in summing up, said, that this had not been a gentleman- like horse- whipping, and the provocation Col. BERKELY had re- ceived, could not excuse the conduct of Lord SUSSEX LENNOX or Mr. HAMMOND, and under his direction, the Jury found for the plaintiff-— Damages, £ 500. Mr. JUDGE, a young mail about thirty, and six feet high, has contrived, it seems, to get himself horse- whipped three se- veral times, since he underwent the discipline inflicted by Colonel BERKELY ; but as il does not appear that more actors than one were engaged iu any of these casti- gations, they cannot be expected to turn out so profit- able. In the mean time he has established his charac- ter most effectually ; and it is not probable, that he can long continue to make money by prosecutions for per- sonal chastisement, or disgrace the periodical press by his conduct. The Case of JOHN HAMMOND, who lately died in St. George's Hospital, with the verdict of the Coro- ner's Jury, and the proceedings of the Committee of Governors, have occupied a good deal of the public at- tention. The Jurv have been accused of temerity, in venturing to decide upon medical treatment; but the Jury have uo reason to be ashamed of their verdict, which will eventually produce excellent good effects in the reform of abuses in the metropolitan Hospitals. A medical periodical publication, the Lancet, has taken notice of this case in a very spirited manner, and observ- ing that Mr. JEFFERYS has furnished a commentary upon bis practice in the case of HAMMOND, altogether unanswerable, proceeds to give the following details. CASE of JCMN REYNOLDS, a cut on die outside of the knee joint, passing through the capsular ligament, •' First day. — A roller applied round the joint, and ordered to be kept constantly wet with evaporating lotions. Second day. — Pain in the situation of the wound. " Ordered— The bandnge to be removed ; to lose 14 oz. of Wood from tbe arm, and to have 16 leeches applied to the knee. Lotion continued. " Third day,— Slept well last night ; has received great re- li effrom bleeding and the application of the leeches; swelling of the knee aud thigh greatly subsided ; still there is pain oil pressure ; pulse full and strong. Ordered— Lotion lo be con- tinued : to lose 14 oz. of blood, and 16 leeches to be applied to tbe thigh. R. Huust. Salin• ounce iss. Mugu. Sulph. drum ss. Liq. Ant. Turt. drain ss. — M./ i haust. sextis horis sumend. " Fourth day.— Not so well as yesterday ; the swelling of the Uiigh increased; pulse full and strong; tongue furred ; bowels costive ; ordered to lose 14 ounces of blood; to have 16 leeches applied to the thigh ; to take a senna draught inl mediately, and repeat it every six hours, till the bowels are weli opened ; lotion continued. " Filth day.— Slept well last night; the wound has united by the first intention.; still considerable iiiHatmnation of the thigh ; pain on pressure very acute. Ordered to loss 14 oz. of blood ; tc have 24 leeches applied to the thigh, and the evaporating lotion to be continued. " Would it have caused any alteration in your mode of treat- ment ? Not in the least!" CASE of JOHN HAMMOTCD a cut on the outside of the knee, not passing thiough the capsular ligament. First day. — Adhesive'. plaster over the wound, and an eigli- teeil- tail bandage. Second day. — Pain in the knee. Nothing ordered. Thitd day. — Severe pain extending along the outside of the thigh, with great tenderness in the joint; pulse 96, full and stiontr ; fever; bowels costive ; nothing ordered. Fourth- day. — Great pain in the knee and up the thigh iiidatnuid'ioti in the coutse of Ihe vastus exlernus; considerable swelling above and below the bandage. Nothing ordered. Fifth day. — Morning, nothing ordered ; afternoon, bandage removed, and the patient is much relieved in consequerce. Is tlits any difference of treatment?— Certainly not! ! The cases were both uutler the treatment of Mr JEFFEUYS-. MARRIAGES. At Newton, on the 4th in- taut, TH- MAS AM? I! CRC. MBV, DUFF, Esq. advocate, youngest son of R. W, Dull', lvq of Fetteresso, to MARY, only daughter of the late ALEX. GOR- DON, Esq. of Newton. At Dingwall, oil the 8th inst. Captain THOMAS MCNRO. H. P. 42d Regiment, to Miss AI. EXANDERINA M- KENZIE, daughter of the late Kenneth Mackenzie, Esq. Dingwall. At Brechin, on the 31st July, D. D. BLACK, Esq. writer there, to ELIZA JEAN, only daughter of the late .\ lr RICHARD MiLLBtTRN, merchant, London. At Edinburgh, oil the 2d inst. DAVID WATSON. E- q. sur- geon, Brechin, to MARY, only daughter of Mr THOMAS HILL, bookseller, Edinburgh, At the parish church of Mary- la- bonne, Louden, on the 1stcurt. HUSH M'LEAN, Esq. younger of Coll, to JANE, eldest daughter of WM. ROBERTSON, Esq. DEATHS. On Wednesday the 3d inst, after a procrastinated illness, at his residence, north side Clapham Common, THOMAS NEWTON, E- q. of Warwick- square. He was many years Agent to the Provincial Press, and a man highly respected' by a numerous circle of friends, by whom his loss wiil long be severely felt and deeply lamented. At Forres, on the 3d current aged 48 years, GEORGE M- INTOSH, E^ Q. Merchant, one of the Magistrates of that Burgh, At Alehousehill, on the 3-. 1 inst. JAMES HE in, Esq. aged 82. At Hampstead, on the 28th ult. MARY, second daughter of William Hay, Esq. Russel. Square, London. On Tuesday the 29th July last, Mr WILLIAM GARROW was admitted a Member of the Society of Advocates here, and Practitioner before the Courts. A Gentleman in this city has presented L3 sterling to the respective charitiesaftermentioned, being a sum gained by him at a Card ' Table— The Sick Man's Friend ... £\ 0 0 Deaf and Dumb Institution, ... 10 0 Poor's Hospital ... ... 10 0 Our Races commence on the 31st inst. and it is expected will be numerously and fashionably attended. From the Plates advertised, and the nominations already made, it is understood, they are likely to produce good sport. The Shew of Cattle at Greenburn, on Thursday last, was very considerable but former high prices being still nearly main- tained, there was littte demand, and the sale heavy, with a small reduction in tbe prices. Friday evening, two men, while drinking in a public house, at the Maut Hillock, King Street, fell into a dispute, when one of them inflicted a severe cut on his companion's nasal organ, nearly separating it from his face. The unfortunate man was taken to the Infirmary in a coach by an officer, and had his wound dressed. It would appear he has served on board a man of war; and truly he bore his misfortune with till the hardihood of a sailor, refusing lo be taken away until the aggressor was ' safety moored' in jail; and observing to the bystanders, that he had fought the enemies of his country at Copenhagen, and had not got so much; and cried out on arriving at the Infirmary, that he must have a ' neat splice /' On Monday last, Adam Fordyce, in Corehill, near Old- meldrum, a person who frequents the country markets as a cattle and horss couper, was brought to Aberdeen in the custody of Mr Fjfe, messenger, accused of uttering forged notes. The matter, we learn, is at present undergoing investigation before the Sheriff; and, ill the meantime, Fordyce stands com- mitted to jail. The circulation of forged notes in country markets has lie en so extensive oflate, that it becomes the duty of those who have suffered by the nefarious practice, to make the Public Prosecutor acquainted with all particulars, to en- able him more effectually to trace offenders of this descrip- tion. On Monday evening, two suspicious- looking characters, having been observed going into different shops, were brought before the Sitting Magistrate, as vagrants, and not being able to give any satisfactory account of themselves, were ordered to quit the town. They pretended to deal in medicines, for which purpose one of them carried a stamped license in the name of William Freeland, of Perth ; and his companion called himself James Wallace. The herring fishing in Loch- fine is more prosperous than it has been for tbe last three years. Some of the boats catch this year as many as two mazes, or 800 herrings, at a time. Many of the fishers cure their fish. Those sold fresh, for the Glas- gow or Greenock market, bring about £ 1 a maze or 5s. a hun- dred. The herring fishery has commenced at Johnshaven with ap- parent success. On Wednesday six boats, engaged by p. Mon- trose curer, brought on shore upwards of one hundred cranes, and the other boats etnployi- d at the same place were equally successful, as well as those at Gourdon; the shoal on the coast at those stations appears numerous, and bids fair for a good fishing. FERINTCSH V Hi SKY. — The Barony of Ferintosh belonged to the Forbes's of Culloden, and it contained about 1800 arable acres. All parley produced on this estate was privileged to be converted into whisky, duty free; the natural consequence of which was, that more whisky was distilied in Ferintosh than all the rest of Scotland. In 1784, government made a sort of compulsory purchase of this privilege trom the Cttlloden family, after they had enjoyed it a complete century. The sum paid was ,£ 21,500. DEESIDE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. The Annual Competition for Premiums given by this As- sociation for Live Stock, took place on the Matket Muir of Banchory, on Monday the 1st day of August; and, notwith- standing the undoubted skill of the able Judges selected on this occasion, they bad great difficulty in deciding the prizes. It may be proper, however, to observe, that the proprietors in this district, although they subscribe liberally to the Insti- tution, accept of no money fur their prizes when they exhibit their stock ; neither do any of the members receive money for more than two prizes, although they are classed according to merit. The Premiums were awarded and paid as follows : FIRST CLASS. For the best Bull, Sir Robert Burnett, Bart, of Leys, — — — d the second best, Samuel Gordon, Cluny, the third best, William Valentine, Craigour, the fourth best, Alex. Burnett, Arbeadie, For the best two year old Bull, David Walker, Upper Park, — — — the second best, John Hogg, Knockhill, the third best, John Berry, Fordie, — For the best Cow, William Valentine, Craigour, the second best, Alex. Abernethie, Tillielair, the third best, Alex. Duncan, Tilwhilly, the fourth best, John Craig, Ley, — The Proprietors did not exhibit any Cows this y For the best two year old Quey, Lieut.- General Burnett of Banchory Lodge, — the second best, ditto, — the third best, David Walker, Upper Park, the fourth best, Alex. Lawson, Milltown of Drum, — -— — the fifth best, William Innes, Esq. of liaemoir, the sixth best, Robert Carnegie, Nether Park, the seventh best, Alex. Irvine, E- q. of Drum, the eighth best, William Leighton, Baldarach, For the two best one year old Queys, Sir Robert Burnett, Bart. — — — the third'iiest, A^ tliilald Farquharnon, E- q. of Finzean, — — — the fourth, Sir Robert Burnett, Bart. — the fifth, Henry Lumsden, Esq, of Tilwhilly, the sixth, Mr Irvine of Drum, — the seventh and eighth best, Lieut. General Burnett, — — — the ninth, Mr Irvine of Drum, — the tenth, Mr Farquharson of Finzean,— the eleventh, Alex. Duncan, Tilwhilly, — the twelfth, Ala, Gibb, Kildutbie, — the thirteenth, Alex. Duncan, Tilwhilly, the fourteenth, Alex. Mitchell, Mill of Craigmyle, — — — the sixteenth and seventeenth, William Rennie, Letterbeg, — — the eighteenth, George Milne, Durris, — For the best two year old Stot, Lieut.- General Burnett, — — — the second best, Sir Robert Burnett, Bart, the third best, John Craig, Ley, — the fourth best, Sir Rooert Burnett, Bart, the fifth best, William Taylor, Minklets, the sixth and seventh, William Valentine, the eight best, Benjamin Luinsden, Ilation Burn, — — — the ninth best, Alex. Paul, Inveicanny, For the best one year old Stot, David Walker, Upper Park, — — — the second best, Mr Farqnharsoti, — the third best. Sir Robert Burnett, Bart, the fourth best, Walter S. Davidson, Esq. Inchmarlo, — — —. the fifth best, Samuel Gordon. Cluny, the sixth best, Sir Robert Burnett, Bart, the seventh best, John Craig, — tbe eighth best, David Walker, — the ninth best, George Milne, Durris, — the tenth best, John Leith, Tel- sits, — the eleventh best, Alex. Duncan, — CO 0 0 3 3 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 2 12 6 ] 11 6 1 1 0 3 3 0 2 12 6 1 11 6 X I 0 ear. 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 i 11 G 0 0 0 1 I 0 0 0 0 0 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 1 11 6 0 • 0 0 1 1 0 0 IS 0 0 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 1 11 6 0 0 0 1 I 0 0 10 6 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 e 15 0 0 0 0 the twelfth best. B. Lrriinlert, — ,0 O N the thirteenth best, Alex. Dtilhie, Baladrimi, O ltl 6 SECOND CLASS. For the best Cow, James Mathers, Raemoir, 2 2 0 the second best, Robert Taylor, Nook, — 1116 the third best, William Thom, Crathes, 1 1 0 the fourth best, Thomas Leighton, Baldarach, 0 10 6 For the best two year old Quey, Alex. Adam, Deebank, — — — 1116 the second best, Thomas Leighton, Baldarach, 110 the third best, John Adam. Achartie, 0 10 6 For the best one year old Quey, Alex. Thomson, Drum, — — — 1116 the second best, Robert Taylor, Nook, 1 5 0 the third best, James Thomson, Elairstone, O 15 0 the fourth best, Alex. Allardice, Raemoir, O 10 6 For the best one year old Stut, Alex. Black, Raeinoir. — — — 111 0 the second best, John Duncan, Cullerley, 110 the third best. Robert Masson, Bralllens, 0 10 6 For the best brood Mare, Robert Wood, Blackness, 3 3 0 the second best, William Rennie. Letterbeg, 2 2 0 the third best, John Ettershank, Keiuierty, 1 11 6 For the best three year old Filley, Win. Taylor, Minklets, — — — 2 12 6 the second best, Benjamin Lumsden, Hatton, 1 11 6 the third best, Arthur Stephen, Candygliracb, 110 For the best two year old Filley, John Stevenson, Balfour, — — — 2 2 0 the second best. William Greig, Ashentilly, 111 6 the third best, John E'tershank, Kennerty, 110 the fourth best, Alex. Paul, Invercanny, 0 15 0 For the best two year old Colt, David Sivewright, Finzean, — — — 2 2 0 tile second best. John Hogg, Knockhill, 111 6 The show of animals was numerous; and the Judges ex- ptessed their approbation of the good condition, superior breed, and excellence of the Stock, which far exceeded their expecta- tions, The division of die premiums into two classes gives general satisfaction, as ensuring an equal distribution of the money— the principal tenants have as much desire for merit as money— and being so liberally supported by their landlords, the spirit of improvement which pervades this Institution is not surpassed in Scotland — besides the premiums for live stock, a sum has been set apart for the encouragement of trenching new ground— preserving perennial rye gr^ ss seeds— and for tile encouragement of cottagers having clean cottages and well- dressed gardens : Also, the Secretary having received a com- munication from the Secretary of the Highland Society at Edinburgh, respecting the establishment of a Veterinary Sur- geon in this district, a Meeting of the Gentlemen and Com- mittee of this Association was appointed to be held at Douglass' Arms ? nn, Banchory, on MONDAY 15th inst. at 12 o'clock noon, to concert measures for that purpose. After the show, the Preses, Members of the Society, and Judges, dined together, on the Muir, in a Tent erected for that purpose ; when the hilarity that took place, showed that the landlords and tenants in this district have each others in- terest at heart as their own— one universal feeling of respect pervaded the meeting ; and they separated highly gratified, and with renewed alacrity, to recommence their former per- suits, as the only source of merit and reward. ABERDEEN CORN MARKET, August 5. There was a brisk demand for Oats and Bear, a; an advance of Is. on the former, and 6d. oil the latter, at which most of the samples were sold. There was a large supply of Meal, and it cannot be quoted above ihe price of last week. Potatoe Oals, 19s. Od. to 22s. Od. Common Oats, 16s. Od. to 20s. 6d. Bear, ... 26s. Od. to 30s. Od. Wheat, 26s. Od. to 36s. Od. Meal, ... 15s. Od. to 16s. 6d. MEAL MARKET. Oatmeal in the Market on Thursday and Friday, 360 bolls, wh iclt sold from 15s. Od. to 16s. fid. per boll- Retail prke, lid to I4d New Bearmeal 9d. to 10d.— Sids, 8d. to lOd.- Malt, 2s. 8d. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. About midnight on the 5th inst. near Flamborough Head, the sloop Nancy, Summers, of and from this place, stone loaded, while laying to, and in the act of shifting her jib, was run foul of by a light collier, which struck the sloop on the larboard bow, proceeding without offering the crew any assist- ance. Thus left to their fate, they got into the buat, and about three hours afterwards were taken on board the Eliza- beth of London, the sea running so high that the boat could not be saved. The Nancy being in sight at dawn, was board- d by her crew, which were obliged, in about 15 minutes to leave her, the vessel sinking as they gained the boat. The brig by which the Naney WM run clown, proves to be rile Trial, Wilson, of South Shields. On Tuesday last, tbe George Canning, Stephen, passed through this Bay, after a passage of 55 davs from Quebee, and proceeded for Arbioatb. The Atlantic, Lawson, was left about half loaded, and the Shakespear, Goldie, about ready to commence loading. The Pearl, Watson, arrived here on Wednesday, from Archangel, sailed the 10th July. Spoke the ship Orinthia of London, all well, lat. 72. 40. N. long. 26. 54. E. Left the Alert, Mackenzie, half loaded, and Bolivar, Small, also of Aberdeen, ready to begin to load. The Prussian ship Flora, Schcffler, arrived in this Bay last night, 14 days fiom Memel. and about a month from Aber- deen, The John, Allan, would sail from Memel the day afterwards. The James and Margaret, Milne, passed Gravesend the 8th inst- after a long passage of seven weeks from New York. Melancholy Accident— The Glenburnie, Wood, which sail- ed from hence on the 29th ult. for London, met with a strong gale of wind, on Wednesday se'ennight, a little to the south- ward of Sunderland, which carried away her fore- top- mast; and we are sorry to add, that two of her crew, Thomas Black and William Macready, i u tlie ringing, at the time, were swept into the ocean along with it, and met a watery grave. Canada, Lamb, at Belfaftf, from Quebec, 4th inst. Venus, Nicol, at Cove of Cork, 25 days from Quebec. The Highlander, Scotia, and Heart of Oak, passed through the Pentland Frith on the 1st inst. all well. The Shakespeare, Goldie, arrived at Quebec on the 2d July, from Aberdeen. Orient, Morrison, at Gravesend, Slst ult. from Dantzic. Union, Baxter, at do 31st from do. Jean Stewait, M'Kenzie, at do. 5: h inst. from St Domingo. Unicorn, Talbot, at Falmouth, 2d inst. from Savanilla. Isabella and Euphemia, Wood, 2d inst. from Hamburgh. John Catto, Moore, at Dundee, 30th ult. from Riga. Sir Robert Barclaj, Nicol ; and Zephyr, Scott, sailed from Deal, 29th ult. for Teneriffe. Union, of Aberdeen, Mitcbell, at Dantzic, 18th ult. from London. Amphitrite, Murdoch, at St Johu's, New Brunswick, from Peterhead. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Favourite, Allan, arrived at Clyde, 3d inst. from Quebec. Spoke on the 25th July, lat. 57. 17. long. 19.0. the Glentanner, of and Irom Aberdeen, for Cape Breton, out 9 days, all well. The ship Glasgow, Hunter, from Kingston, Jamaica, spoke on the 50th ult. the brig Norval. Leslie, of this place, from Plymouth to Newfoundland, lat. 47. N. lohg. 35. 30. W. The Stephen, Henz'.- ll. arrived at Plymouth, 4th inst. from Pictou. Left there II. M. S. Niemen ; also the Ben well, for Plymouth; Columbus, for Newcastle; Eiiza, for Liverpool ; and Enterprize, for Aberdeen. Agnes, ' Thomson, from Aberdeen, to Petersburgh; and Dorothj, Irvine, from Dundee, u> Riga, passed the Sound on the £ 0th ult. The Southeak, Greig, arrived at Arbroath on Monday morning, from Archangel, after an unparalleled quick passage of 61 days out and home. To the EDITOII oj the ABERDEEN CHUONICLE. SIR, I HAVE long considered your paper as very objectionable in politics; because all the world knows, that the late Laird of Pitfour's politics were the only politics calculated for the me- ridian of Aberdeenshire, as experience has proved the fact, and yet you have once a- week dared to insinuate or assert tlie contrary, I have also a private quarrel with you, for refusing last year to print rny account of what took place at certain meetings, when a gentleman who had come all the way from Glasgow, informed our Artisans that philosophy appeared only the other day in our lower world— and that to talk of philosophy, as abstracted from steam navigation, balloons, power looms, ^ nd spinning jennies is all nonsense. I am, therefore, highly pleased that a correspondent of the Aberdeen Censor, a work read by our cleverest gentlemen and properest ladies, has given the public a true aud particular account of the Stale of the Aberdeen Chronicle, which evidently appears to be that of complete reprobation. This correspondent, from his modest demeanour, must be a gentleman, and his erudi- tion appears in almost every sentence. You should attend to what he says. There is nothing more lamentable than to oullive one's fame, and to hear the children of those we were wont to lead talking of our productions, as twinklings of the light that once burned— tbe sickly bantlings of tottering and toothless intellect— the freaks and fancies of second childhood." This, Mr Editor, applies to you, and you should realiv at- tend to the friendly admonition in time ; the wliter, ymi vre, is not at all fetteied hy common rules in the use of singulats and plurals, and his personifications ar * peculiarly happy.— You, perhaps, never until now knew that intellects have teeth, but you are now informed that tbey have— and that lights that once burned, or, in common parlance, have ceased to burn, may yet twinkle. I confess, however, that 1 wish your able monitor had not mentioned the term intellect at all ; as one of the irreat discoverers of the seventeenth century declared, that whatever people might say, he had never found intellect or soul in man upon dissection — but from this I pass, as 1 would not ofl'c. old prejudices. Philosophers having become me- chanics, the converse must be true that mechanics are neces- sarily philosophers, and certainly sensible people; and they cannot suffer you to talk of intellectual science. Have pa- tience for a moment, till the new paper make its appearance, under the ( Jircction of a real mechanical twenty horse powir intellect, and under the tiile of the * Self Sufficient,' ii> lefer- ence to a Greek inscription on Marischal College; and let us 11 left see whether you dare again attack tbe only true philoso- phy. and talk of intellectual absurdities. If Lord Bacon grossly ignorant of the philosophy he condemned, ami did n- » t exactly comprehend the nature of, his own four idols, which kin;* James said, like the peace of GoU. passes all human understand- ing, that is jus tortii to you, what the devil have you to do will* it? If does not at a| l follow, that because a man is short- sighted and mistaken ip his views of what i* really good aud dishonest in his actions, he should not he the noit juircii of phi— ' osophers, whose business ft in to make experiments upon matter, world without end, and try what may most effectually fill the pocket. Your rrvonitor, however, tells you, Mr Edi- tor, that Bacon did understand intellectual science, and Mr Mallett tells you, that at tbe early age of fourteen or sixteen* it is all the same— he had discovered the vanity of a philosophy he did not understand, and why waste words upon a subject which every mechanic understands, aud is so satisfactorily proved ? Belike, you. Sir, have never heard of the admirable essay, on the ruecfintiicaf operations of the spirit, but we know ail about it— and you may hear more of this hereafter. Bacon is no doubt the sun of attraction to tbe intelligent— I mean the sensible world, and he and Locke will stand triumphant " iu omne volubile a? vum." I know, Sir, had the learned eulo- gist of these great men quoted the wor^ s as Horace wrote them, m omne volubilis ceoum, you would have sneered at the idea of the fame of these philosophers standing and running to eternity; but he corrected the text of Horace, and made the labitzrf et hibetur quite stable, by merely changing a gen- der— a matter of no difficulty to a mechanical philosopher.-— Newton was another great philosopher, who explained the whole System of Nature, unknown tili his time, about a hun- dred years ago. It is nothing to say that eclipses were cal- culated as accurately thousands of years before his time as they are now. Pray, who calculated the periods of Comets, and the shape of the earth? If comets will not keep their times as he appointed tbem, tbe more shame for tfoero, their character never stood high, they have many a time perplexed monarchs with fear of change; and if we can but devise the mechanical means of detaining owe, for examination, it may de- serve the attention of the Attorney- General, whether the whole fraternity should not be comprehended under the piovisioini of the vagrant act. If, as the Sunanfs repo t, the earth obsti- nately refuses to be the shape which, according to Sir Isaac's laws of gravity it should be, let mechanical mei/ us be di vised to flatten it at the poles, and hammer it into tbe shape it ought to be— an oblate spheroid. Now. Mr Kditor, you really must give this gentleman an account of tbe reform that you would devise in our Colleges. He very civillity Jells you iftat he would like to know what yo ® devise. Tell us what you want. Don't mutter man, between your teeth, hut out with it at once, give us something tangible. Surely you cannot remain silent after an adjuration so forcible as this * Depend upon it the Gentleman is quit* a competent jmdge of what is real philo- sophy, and what ought to be the course of education at our Universities, But, Sir, I pity you, you cannot argue conclusively, and never thought in your late remarks, on the choice of a Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, of novel writing for a bookseller, as an indispensibly necessary qualification. Be in future more upon your guard, and recollect, that great men are great each in his own way, and that should another great man contend with Mr Brougham ibr the honor of the Rector- ship of tbe University of Glasgow— Mr KB AN— say thus: 41 W hen Mr Brougham has played hanleqwin upon the stage at Manchester, aud stood upon his bead to conciliate ladies not otherwise to be propitiated, then and not till then will Mr Brougham be superior to Mr Kean." Close reasoning is a great matter ; but you have always been too much addicted to generals, whereas all true knowledge exists in particulars, as a painter must see ail the faces in the world before he can safely enter upon tbe practice of his art. Genera and specias are mere humbugs. The truth is, Sir, that fine feathers make fine birds; and • X'cre our Universities improved in exterior decoration, they will then and not till then have reached the summit of perfec- tion; and be well entitled to look down ou tbe v'nioerse in pity. They have providentially got clear of the irksome study of the philosophy of mind, and the trammels of logic, which, as Dr Watts says, is merely the right use of reason, to the en- tire exclusion of ingenious fiction. If any tiling could justly be obiected to, in their course of study, it would perhaps bo too much attention to dead languages— for it may well be said, that Your Omurs and Noveds, and Blue Turks, and stuff, X)— n me, if they signify this pinch ofsnuff. It will, however, as your learned Correspondent informs you, be better to see that the Students have wherewithal to Jail the belly— and no fear but the beads shall do well. I have no time to give you more good advice at present, but simply tiiis— be off— for you are a stuped ignorant fellow, JH1 hold you a bet, that you cannot condescend upon tbe time— when your intellect cut its teeth, or whether it lost them by the hand of the dentist or decay of age ; neither can you point out the year of our Lord when HE- NRY ERSKINE was Lord Chancellor, although your Correspondent has assured you that such was really the fact Yours, as you demean yourself, A MECHANIC. Windy Wynd, August 11, 1825. Do not pretend to say, that because your Correspondent dates from his School Hones, he does not know how to spell— the spelling is good enough for you; but when he addresses per- sonages of Distinction, he spells admirably. To the EDITOR of the ABERDEEN CHRONICLE. SIR. AS this is the season at which our Clergy periodically launch forth their denunciations against walking - in the fields on Sun- days, I beg you will give them a hint to join a little modera- tion with their zeal. Tell them, ( what some of them do not seem to know) that there is a very great difference between Clergymen and poor Shopkeepers and Mechanics— that white the Clergyman is enjoying his daily walk in the fields," the poor Mechanic is toiling in a confined and dusty shop. It is really an easy matter for a Minister, who can take his daily " walk in the fields," without interfering with bis duties, to keep himself in close confinement on Sunday but it would be too much to expect the same strictness from the 44 many apron- ed" Sons of Trade. The odds are six to one in favour of the Minister. What would our Clergy say, if an Act of Council were pas- sed, obliging them to confine themselves lo the house during the week, and not to appear on the streets on Sunday, except on their way to and from Church ? Their situation would not be worse than that of a great proportion of their Fellow- ehris- tians, but what a sensation would such an Act produce! The great Plurality Question would be nothing to it. I would, with ail humility, recommend to each of those zealots the words of the Poet: Let not my weak and erring hand, Presume thy bolts to throw, And deal damnation through JLhe land, On each I deem thy foe, l am, Sir, & c. A Candidate for an Eldership. TO CORRESPONDENTS. A press of temporary matter obliges us to postpone a number of Articles*. — A Saxon, & c. in our next. Erriitum tA lust Chronicle— For < l on Tuesday se'ennight was tritd"— read " a Carried was tried." P OS TS CRIP T, LONDON The Paris papers are chiefly lilted with violent discussions on the probable success or failuie of the great finance scheme, respcctiug which the opinions of politicians are very opposite. There are 600 millions of rentes to be inscribed ; and by the last accounts the subscriptions did not exceed 30 millions. Mr Secretary Canning aud suite arrived ou Tuesday at the Plough Hotel, Cheltenham. lie seeui!> quite recovered from his late severe illness. The Duke of Wellington landed at Calais on the 30th of July, at one o'clock in the afternoon, and a few hours after set out for the Netherlands with his suite, consisting of nine persons. His Grace arrived at Ghent on Tuesday, fiom Oudenarde. and after having inspected the fortifications, took the road, to Tremonde to continue his operations. General La Fayette took his final departure from New York on the Hth tilt, and is expected to embark at Wa hnigtofi lor France about the middle of September. jm
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