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only the marks put upon them by Somerville and Co. but likewise a private mark of his own put on when he first recognised them. Twenty-five pieces were found in all, of which 24 were white calico, and one printed furniture. .Arch. Gilchrist, Wm. Gilchrist, and Samuel Somerville, identified their respective goods.

Margaret M'Donald proved the fact of a house having been hired by the prisoners from her in Skinner's close, to which the whole three occasionally resorted, and in particular, she remembers of seeing the whole of the prisoners together in the house, and a quantity of goods lying on the floor of a closet adjoining to the room. The acesss to the house was by a passage which led to those of other families.

Ann Thom, broker, College Wynd, stated, that on a Friday evening in November last, in the Sacrament week, Andrew Stewart, one of the prisoners, came and offered her cloth for sale, which he said was lying in a house at some distance. She accordingly accompanied him to a house in Blackfriars wynd, where she found all the prisoners together, with M'Intyre's wife and a young child. She was then told by Robert Stewart, that the cloth, which he said they had taken from the callenderhouse belonging to Mr More, was in an adjoining apartment. The next day, betwixt three and four in the afternoon, having previously told Mr Ramsay the slater of her intention, she went to M'Intyre's house, where she found Robert Stewart, who again asked if she would buy a web of cloth. M'Intyre and Andrew Stewart then proceeded with her to the house in Blackfriar's wynd, where she saw white calicos and printed furniture lying in a heap on the ground. M'Intyre informed her that they were divided into three shares, and having selected one piece from his own share, he sold it to her for 13s. which she paid to him. This piece she now identified. While in this room, one of the prisoners complained of a piece of the goods having been taken away, for which reason he said Robert Stewart ought not to be again entrusted with the key. She also heard M'Intyre say, that the goods were first in his house, and express great terror until they were removed.

Archibald Campbell, town-officer, sta ted, that in consequence of information of the house breaking, and the discovery of the goods in the house in Blackfriars Wynd, he went thither, accompanied by two constables, and seized a large quan tity of goods, which he immediately sent to the Council-Chamber. He then proceeded to M'Intyre's house, where he apprehended the two Stewarts, and not suspecting M'Intyre, he dispatched him for the Guard, but, on his return, he judged it proper to apprehend him also.

The goods were made up into sealed parcels at the Council-Chamber. The prisoner's declarations were then read. In their first declarations the two Stewarts denied the least knowledge of the circumstances proved by the evidence; but in their second declarations they confessed, that, after concerting the housebreaking, they had forced o pen the shutter of one of the windows of Mr More's warehouse, and afterwards opered a back-door, through which they had carried off the goods.

M'Intyre, in both of his declarations, denied the least share in the crime; asserting that he was quite intoxicated during the night on which it was said to have been committed, and did not recollect whether he left his house with the Stewarts or not; he confessed ba ving seen several bundles of white goods laid down upon the floor of his house that night, as to which he asked the Stewarts where they had got them; and on their stating that they had taken them from More's, he answered, that he feared it would be a bad job for them.

The Lord Advocate then addressed the Jury for the Crown, and Mr James Moncrieff on the part of the prisoners; after which the Lord Justice-Clerk delivered a charge to the fury, with his usual distinctness and candour.

The Jury returned their verdict next day, finding all the pannels Guilty, who, after an impressive speech from the Lord Justice Clerk, were sentenced tobe executed on Wednesday the 22d of February next.

They are all young men; the two Stewarts are brothers.

John Bird, guard of the Edinburgh and London mail coach, taken up some time singe at Berwick, for abstracting

a shawl from a parcel, the property of Mr Spittal, haberdasher in Edinburgh, was tried at the sessions at Berwick, on Saturday the 14th of January, found guilty, and transported beyond seas for seven years.

EARTHQUAKES.-A shock of an earthquake was felt at Dunning, in Perthshire, on the 18th of January, about two o'clock in the morning. Mr Peter Martin, surgeon in Dunning, gives the following description of it:

"He was coming home at the time on horseback, when his attention was suddenly attracted by a seemingly subterranecus noise, and his horse immediately stopping, he perceived the sound to proceed from the north-west. After continuing for the space of half a minute, it became louder and louder, and apparently nearer, when, all of a sudden, the earth gave a perpendicular heave, and with a tremendous waving motion, seemed to roll in a south-east direction. The noise was greater during the shock than before it, and for some seconds after, it was so loud that it made the circumjacent mountains re-echo with the sound, after which, in the course of a bout half a minute, it gradually died away. At this time the atmosphere was calm, dense, and cloudy, and for some hours before and after there was not the least motion in the air. Fahrenheit's thermometer, when examined, about half an hour after the shock, indicated a temperature of 15 degrees below the freezing point of water. The preced. ing day was calm and cloudy; thermometer, eight A. M. 14. eight P. M. 13. The morning of the 18th was calm and cloudy, but the day broke up, to sun. shine; thermometer, eight A. M. 19, eight P. M. 16. This was a greater shock than that felt here on the 7th of September 1801, about six A. M. and had it been succeeded with another equally violent, it must have damaged the houses, but fortunately we have heard of no harm being done."

A letter from a gentleman residing at the Bridge of Allan, in the neigh bourhood of Stirling, mentions that a smart shock of an earthquake was felt there on the same morning, between two and three o'clock. He says that it was so violent along the foot of the Kills, as to make the tables and chairs fattle.

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It is remarkable that a tremendous shock of an earthqnake was felt on Monday the 9th January, about half past five in the morning, at Comrie near Crieff, more violent than any we have had since September 7. 1801. The noise attending it was loud, and greatly prolonged. During the time of the shock, the air was calm and serene. The moon, in her first quarter, shone bright, and the sky was afterwards covered with whitish clouds, roving rapidly from N.W. to S.E. The scene was magnificent, calcu lated alike to awaken the feelings of the man, and the devotion of the Christian.

The mortality bill of the city of Glasgow and suburbs for the year 1808 amounts to 3265; that for 1807 amounted to 2463, being an increase in the burials of last year of 802.-This arises chiefly from the great mortality which took place last year by the measles. In the city and suburbs 805 died of this disease last year; whereas, in 1807, the number in the city was only 33, and in the suburbs about as many. It is worthy of remark, that, in the Town's Hospital, where 48 were affected with mea. sles, only 3 died; and that the smallpox, formerly the most destructive disease incident to infants, has now in that place almost subsided. In the year 1795, there died in Glasgow, of the small pox, 265, and last year only 14.

Cow-Pox.-Nine hundred and fiftyone children were vaccinated gratis, a that useful and excellent institution the Edinburgh Public Dispensary, during the course of last year, and since that great discovery, the whole number vaccinated at this Dispensary amounts to nine thousand, eight hundred, and fiftyfour, all of whom have gone through the disease with perfect ease and safety; and although many of them have been since exposed to the small pox, not one of them has been subjected to that loathsome disease.

MILITARY APPOINTMENTS.

The following are appointments for the three regiments of local militia of the county of Edinburgh:

Lieut.-Colonels Commandant.--Viscount Primrose, James Dewar, Esq. of Vogrie, and Lieut. Col. George Scott:

Second Lieut-Colonels.-Robert Hepburn, Esq. of Clerkington; A. H. Mitchelson, Esq. of Middleton: Lieat. Col. Patrick Walker.

MAR

MARRIAGES.

At Barilly, Bengal, William Steer, Esq. to Jane, daughter of Col. Watson, of the native infantry.

Dec. 7. At Glasgow, Mr Wm. Stenhouse, merchant, to Elisabeth, second daughter of George Currie, Esq. Nisbet.

8. At ditto, Mr Robert M'Brayne, merchant, to Margaret, daughter of the late John Andrew, Esq. Linlithgow.

8. At

the Rev. Dr Wm. Brown, to Isabella, daughter of John Taylor, Esq. Prestonpans.

9. At London, Robert Townsend Farquhar, Esq. second son of Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart. to Maria, youngest daughter of the late Francis Latour, Esq. of Devonshire Place.

12. At Swanbourne, in Bucks, James Hamilton, Esq. writer to the signet, to Miss Harriet Wynne.

12. At Glasgow, Mr Peter Brown, merchant, to Miss Margaret Watson.

14. At Belfast, Mr Campbell, of Thurso, to Miss Nichol of that place.

15. Mr Thomas Anderson, surgeon, Selkirk, to Miss Scott, De Loraine.

19. At Ayr, Mr James Herron, to Margaret, daughter of the late Mr William Orr, merchant.

20. At Glasgow, Mr William Charteris, manufacturer there, to Miss Elizabeth Struthers.

22 At Aberdeen, the Rev. Robert Doig, minister of the Trinity Chapel there, to Isabella, daughter of the late Alex. Hadden, Isq.

23. At Leith, Mr James Duncan, to Miss Catharine Foggo.

27. At Portarlington, Ireland, Major Grey, of the 80th regiment, to Miss Vig. noles.

31. Mr John Lumsden, Scotstown, to Miss Mosman, daughter of the late Thomas Mosman, Esq.

31. At Wells, Francis Brodie, Esq. writer to the signet,to Margaret, second daughter of Gilbert Ker, Esq.

At Wanstead House, Essex, his Serene Highness the Prince de Conde, to her Serene Highness the Princess Dowager de Monaco.

At Dublin, Capt. Duff, 3d Foot Guards, to Mary, youngest daughter and co-heiress of the late Wm. Finlay, Esq. of Gunetts.

Samuel Welchman, Esq. to Charlotte, daughter of the late Edward Gordon, Esq. of Brompton.

At Lambeth Church, C. H. Wohrmann Esq. of Riga, to Miss E. Scougall, eldest daughter of George Scougall Esq. of Lambeth.

The Rev. Abraham Colin Bullen, to Luey, youngest daughter of the late William

Crichton, Esq. merchant, and Alderman of Cheap Ward.

The Rev. Henry Hunter, Hammersmith, to Miss Graham, of Turnham Green. At Dublin, Hugh Cathcart, Esq. to Miss Heatly.

In the county Fermanagh, Ireland, Capt. William Stirling St Clair, to Eliza, youngest daughter of the late Colonel Gordon of Feltrum.

At Dundee, Mr James Nicol, jun. merchant, to Helen, daughter of Mr John Butterworth, merchant there.

Jan. 2. At Edinburgh, John Robt. Anderson, Esq. of London, to Miss Elizabeth Boswell, third daughter of the late Mr Robert Boswell, writer to the signet.

3. Capt. M'Leod, of the Royal Navy, to Miss Bennet, Piccadilly.

3. At Battersea, Capt. Henry Morse Samson, to Jane, daughter of the late William Hamilton, Esq. of Blackheath.

10. At Aberdeen, the Rev. George Rosé Monro, minister of Huntly, to Agnes, el dest daughter of Mr James Milne, merchant in Aberdeen.

13. At Tullibody, Mr John Moubray, distiller, Cambus, to Janet, daughter of Mr John Mitchell, merchant in Tullibody.

16. At Moffat, Mr John Beattie, rector of the grammar school there, to Margaret, daughter of Patrick Tod, Esq. Holnihead.

16. At Greenock, Mr John Douglas, merchant, Glasgow, to Miss Hamilton, daughter of Mr John Hamilton, merchant in Greenock.

18. At Dunkeld house, by the Rev. Mr Hall, James Drummond, Esq. younger of Strathallan, to Lady Amelia Sophia Murray, second daughter of his Grace the Duke of Athole.

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Dec, 20. At Blandfield, the Lady of Wm. M'Dowall, Esq. a daughter.

25. At London, the most Hon. the Marchioness of Bath, a son.

31. At Melville Place, Stirling, Mrs Murray, a daughter.

At Wolverton, the Lady of the Hon. and Rev. A. H. Cathcart, a daughter.

At Beaumont Cottage, Chertsey, the Lady of Lieut.-Colonel Sir Robert Wilson, a daughter.

At Ipswich, the Lady of Capt. James Seton, 92d regiment, a son.

At Bath, the Lady of Daniel Mackinnon, Esq. a son.

The Lady of Caleb Whiteford, Esq. a son. The Lady of Major Giels of Gielston, a

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The Lady of Major Nesbitt, Assistant Quarter Master General, a daughter.

At Corke, the Lady of Capt. Buchanan, Royal Engineers, a daughter,

Mrs Gillanders of Highfield, a son. The Lady of Capt. H. M. Scott, royal navy, a daughter.

At London, Mrs Currie, King Street, Holborn, three fine children, all doing well. At Tonglane, near Middleton, the wife of a poor man, named William Turner, three girls, who with their mother are doing well; they have been baptized by the games of Faith, Hope, and Charity.

DEATHS.

March. 1808. In India, Mr Alexander. Gardner, eldest son of Mr Alex. Gardner, Exchequer, Edinburgh.

April 29. At Muttra, in the East Indies, after a short illness, Major-General Dickens, commanding at that station.

At Madras, the Rev. Richard Hall Kerr, D. D. senior Chaplain to that Presidency.

May 19. At Bombay, Captain Robert Frame, son of the late Rev. Mr Jas. Frame, minister of Alloa.

June 3. At Trincomalee, Ceylon, Alex. ockburn, Esq. of Madras, youngest son of

the late Thomas Cockburn, Esq. of Rowchester, writer to the signet.

Aug. 5. At Demerara, Mr John Muir, jun. son of John Muir, Esq. of Greenhall.

Aug. At Malta, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, aged 28, the Count de Beaujolais, only brother of the Duke of Orleans.

Sept. 5. At Christianstadt, St Croix, Lieut. Gordon Urquhart, of the 69th foot, son of the Rev. Mr Urquhart, of Roskeen.

14. In the West Indies, Mr John Christian, formerly of Stonehaven, purser of his Majesty's ship Pelican.

25. At Port Royal, Jamaica, Mr Robert Erskine, surgeon of his Majesty's ship Redwing, eldest son of Mr James Erskine, officer of Excise, Greenock.

On his way from Canada to New York, Archibald M'Neil, Esq. his Britannic Majesty's Consul for Louisiana,

Nov. 27. At Gijon, while serving with the British troops in Spain, Geo. Assiotti, Esq. Deputy Commissary Gen. for North Britain.

28. The Rev. Mr William Jack, minister of Northmaving, Shetland.

Dec. 1. At Gaskbeg, the Rev. Mr John Matheson, minister of Laggan, in the 49th year of his age, and 7th of his ministry.

1. At Broxmouth, Mr Robert Tate, factor to her Grace the Duchess of Roxburgh.

4. At manse of New Monkland, Mrs Margaret Matthie, relict of Mr John Matthie, merchant in Greenock.

4. At St Andrews, David Walker, Esq, of Falifield.

6. At Kirkwall, Orkney, Mrs Erskine, wife of Mr James Erskine, merchant there.

8. At Stirling, Mr James Edmond, merchant, and late Provost of that burgh.

9. At his house, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, Mr James Nisbet, surgeon.

10. At Farnham Cottage, near Salisbury, George Kerr of Moriston Esq.

10. At Kingsdown College, near Bath, in the 84th year of her age, Mrs Maclagan, relict of W. Maelagan, of Denvard, in the county of Perth.

10. At Glasgow, Mrs Isabella Campbell, spouse to Mr George Household, sugarbaker.

10. Mrs Dick, late of Gartsherie.

11. At Glasgow, Mrs Lilias Finlay, relict of Robert Blackwell, Esq. of Ramoth.

11. At the Nore, on board his Majesty's ship Terror, Mr George Stark, surgeon, Royal Navy.

15. At Edinburgh, Mr David Forbes, a ged 21, eldest son of Mr William Forbes, writer.

17. At London, in the 80th year of his age, the Right Hon. Charles Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, Baron Hawkesbury of

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Hawkesbury in Gloucestershire, Baronet, one of his Majesty's most Hon. Privy Council, and LL.D. He was many years President of the Board of Trade, and was eminently distinguished for a thorough knowledge of the commercial interests of his country. By his death, the offices of Clerk to the Pells in Ireland, (which he purchased from the late Mr Fox,) and Collector of the Customs inward in the port of London, become vacant. The former goes by reversion to the Earl of Shannon, but at his death is to be abolished. The other office dies with his Lordship. His Lord ship married the widow of Sir Charles Cope, and is succeeded by his eldest son, the Right Hon. Robert Banks, now Earl of Liverpool, Secretary of State for the Home Department. His other issue are, the Hon. Cecil Jenkinson, and Lady Charlotte Grimston, now Lady Grimston and Forrester.

Dec. 17. At Bathfield, Miss Helen Campbell, daughter of the late Neil Campbell, Esq. of Duntroon,

17. At London, after a long and painful illness, Mark Sprott, Esq an eminent stock

broker.

18. At Kilmarnock, Mr John Shaw, son of the Rev. Dr Andrew Shaw, minister of Craigie.

18. At Bower-tower, Caithness, Captain William Gunn.

18. At Edinburgh, Mrs Jane Jackson, widow of the Rev. Dr Thomas Robertson, minister of Dalmeny.

19. At London, Patrick Home, Esq. of Wedderburne, in the county of Berwick, many years Representative in Parliament for that county.

19. At Glasgow, Mrs Jean Strathern, spouse of Mr John Conell, merchant. 19. At Edinburgh, Dr Charles Congalton, aged 84 years.

20. At Edinburgh, Miss Agnes Buchan, daughter of Hugh Buchan, Esq, late Chamberlain of the city of Edinburgh.

20. At Clermiston, Agnes, daughter of Geo, Robinson, Esq. Writer to the Signet.

20. At manse of Carstairs, the Reverend James Finlayson, minister of that parish, in the 66th year of his age, and 39th of his ministry.

20. At Dalkeith, Mr William Otto, wine merchant.

20. At Pitfour, Mrs Richardson of Pitfour.

21. At Moss, William Douglas, Esq. of Moss, long a respectable corn merchant in Glasgow.

21. At Chryston, Mrs Janet Macdonald, spouse of the Rev. Mr John Summers, minister there.

22. At Edinburgh, John, the infant son f Robt. Cathcart, Esq. writer to the signet.

23. At Edinburgh, Mrs Isobel Dickson, relict of Mr Richard Richardson, late nierchant in Edinburgh.

23. At ditto, Thomas Cairns Kerr, Esq. late purser of the Lady Castlereagh Indiaman, and youngest son of the late William Kerr, Esq. of the General Post Office.

23. At Lewes, Sussex, Mrs Cranston, relict of the late Capt. Cranston, Royal Navy. 23. At Leith, Mr James Pillans, sen. merchant there.

25. At Edinburgh, Mr John Brough, architect, Edinburgh.

25. At Wilsontown, John Wilson Esq. of Wilsontown.

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At Ipswich, Rear-Admiral Uvedale. 25. At Corehouse, Miss Edmondstoun, eldest daughter of the late James Edmond. stoun, Esq. of Ednam.

25. At Kinnaird, Perthshire, Mrs Stewart of Percy.

26. At Glasgow, Mr Francis Pringle, preacher of the gospel.

26. At her house in Knock, Mrs Mary Mackinnon, daughter to the late Lachlan Mackinnon of Corrychattachan, and spouse to the Rev. Dr Martin MacPherson, minister of Sleat.

27. At Queensferry, James Taylor, Esq. aged 88.

27. At London, John Ogilvie, Esq. late of Argyll Street, where he carried on the business of army agent for many years.

27. The Rev. Henry Stevenson, minister at Blantyre, in the 70th year of his age, and 37th of his ministry.

29. At Southampton, Lady Shelly, sud denly.

29. At Edinburgh, Mrs Kemp, wife of the late Mr Alex. Kemp, writer in Dingwall.

30. At Glasgow, Mr George Murdoch, aged 64.

30. At Glasgow, Mrs Jane Munro, wife of Mr Robert Walkinshaw, of Parkhouse, Sheriff-clerk of Renfrewshire.

30. At Portobello Tower, Mr John Turnbull, late merchant in Edinburgh. 31. At his house in Clifton, Thomas Beddgos, M. D.

31. At Corehouse, Miss Patricia Edmondstoun, youngest daughter of the late James Edmondstoun, Esq. of Ednam.

31. At Borrowstounness, Mrs Mary Walkinshaw, spouse of Mr John Short, surgeon there.

At ---, the Right Anna Maria Forrester, Baroness Forrester of Corstorphin, daughter of Cecilia Lady Forrester, by George Cockburn of Ormiston Esq. She succeeded her mother in 1784. Dying un married, her Ladyship is succeeded by her nephew, James Walter, now Viset. Grimston, in Ireland, and Baron Verulam in

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