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middle of June, the malady bore such an alarming appearance, that the physicians declared it necessary that Mr Fox should refrain from business. The disease still went on rapidly, and the last remedy of tapping was finally resolved on. On Wednesday, Aug. 7. this operation was performed by Mr Cline, with singular ability, when about 16 quarts of water were drawn off. Mr Fox experienced from the operation an immediate relief from that feverish languor which has accompanied the progress of the disorder, and the strongest hopes are entertained of a speedy and complete recovery. The Prince of Wales came up from Brighton, and visited Mr Fox the day after the operation took place. His Royal Highness expressed the highest satisfaction at the favour able change that had followed. In the mean time the Earl of Moira continues to transact, with great assiduity, the routine business at the Foreign Office.

A serious misunderstanding has arisen between the Ministry and the Directors of the East India Company, relative to the appointment of a Governor General of India. The former proposed the Earl of Lauderdale, and pressed the object of their choice much upon the Company. The Directors, however, have at several meetings strongly opposed his Lordship's nomination, and insist upon the continuation of Sir George Hi laro Barlow, who as first member of the Council of Bengal, succeeded ex officio to the Marquis Cornwallis, and who has been 34 years in India. Out of the 24 Directors, Lord Lauderdale has only the support of Mr Elphinston the chair. man, Sir Francis Baring, Sir Theoph. Metcalf, and another. The ministers have therefore at length yielded to the inclinations of so great a majority of the directors, and have proposed Lord Minto, who has accepted the office, with the consent of all parties. By a statute in 1783, his Majesty has the power of va cating the Government General of India at pleasure, but the Directors have a joint right in the appointment.

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An enquiry of a most important nature has been discussed in the public prints, under the above title. It regards the conduct of that illustrious person

age the Ps of W——s, whose situation has excited the interest, and engaged sympathy of every generous bosom in the British Empire. Rumours of an afflicting nature had reached the Royal ear, and his Majesty considered them of such a complexion as to require a strict investigation. This deli

cate business was confided to the Lord Chancellor, Lord Grenville, and Lord Spencer. And a report deli.

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formed bears date the 14th of July, tho' copies were not delivered to the illustribus Lady and her husband till the 11th of Augusti to M 18M

The examinationsTwere confined to two points; the first respecting the birth and parentage e of a childcofsfour years old, educated under the immediate protection of the Royal person in question. The infant is ascertained, by reference to the registry, and to its parents, as well as by the concurrent testimony of every person examined on the occasion, to be the child of persons in a very humble rank of life at Deptford, and to have been maintained and educated by the Princess on the purest and most amiable: principles of charity and benevolence vc sdT

The second point alledged a general impropriety of conduct, which after the

minutest scrutiny, dwindles into some trifling and innocent levities, from which almost no woman in the land is free. The whole proceedings are stated to be grounded on the depositions of a Scots Gentleman (Sir John Douglas) and his Lady (formerly a Miss Hopkinson,) and some menial servants belonging to Carleton House. material part of the evidence is subjoined to the report, and the whole is expected to be laid before the public.

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Without a husband to support, with out a child to comfort, without a mother to advise, surrounded with the worst of sycophants, those who are prepared to seduce for the purpose of betraying, what but the most unexampled purity could have preserved a conduct, the whole series of which, for above ten years, on the strictest investigation, affords our most rigid moralists no ground whatsoever of censure, and nothing to notice in the way of admonition but a few trifling levities.

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Scottish Chronicle.

LORD NELSON'S MONUMENT.

Friday, August 1.

THE foundation stone of the monument to be erected in the Green of Glasgow to the memory of Lord Nelson, was this day laid by the Most Worshipful Sir John Stuart of Allanbank, Bart. Provincial Grand Master Mason of the Under Ward of Lanarkshire. The Members of the procession, together with a numerous assemblage of Ladies and Gentlemen, met in the High Church at twelve o'clock, where a very excellent and appropriate sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr WILLIAM RITCHIE of St Andrew's Church, from Rom. xiii, ver. 7. Render therefore honour to whom honour is due. After the sermon

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The Dean of Guild, and Members of the
Merchants House,

The Convener of the Trades, and the
Members of the Trades' House,
The Commissioners of Police, with their
Staves of Office,

The Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons,
The Faculty of Procurators.
Two Naval Officers, heading a Detach-
ment of Sailors who had served under
Lord Nelson-they carried a model
of a Ship of War, from which they
fired, at intervals, during the proces-
sion; also the Union Flag, and an En-
sign with the following inscription,
"We Fought and Conquered under
Howe, Jervis, Duncan, and Nelson."
The different Mason Lodges, upwards of
30 in number, in the order of their
seniority,

The Most Worshipful Sir John Stuart,
Grand Master; Boyd Alexander, Esq.
Member of Parliament, and a number
of other Gentlemen, wearing the in-
signia of the Grand Lodge of Scot-
land.

August 1806.

The procession was closed by the Glasgow Highland regiment of volunteers, and the streets were lined by the Trades corps, the 5th Lanarkshire volunteers, and the Anderston and Canal volunteers.

The length of the procession was considerably more than a mile. On reaching the Green, the troops were formed into a hollow square, within which another square was composed of the masonic and other part of the possession; the Grand Master and his suite having taken their station on the site of the obelisk, a most impressive prayer was delivered by Dr Ritchie.

The Grand Master then addressed the Magistrates and Lodges as follows: MY LORD PROVOST and GENTLEMEN, "Before proceeding to the interesting ceremony for which we are now assembled, permit me, in name of the Grand Master, to express his regret on account of his inability to be present on this occasion. As his representative, I beg leave to acknowledge the high honour conferred on me in being called upon to lay the foundation of a monument to the memory of so illustrious a hero. And I regret the less my inability to do justice to the merits of the departed warrior, and the patriotism of the inhabitants of this city, when I recollect the very excellent eulogium on both which you have already heard.

"That pre-eminent height to which his genius raised the already elevated naval fame of Britain; that terror of his name by which he so opportunely protected the great commercial interests of his country, justly intitled Lord Nelson to monuments of public gratitude, local as well as national.

"When I contemplate this truly respectable assemblage-Magistrates, public bodies, individuals, masonic associations, contribut ing by official rank and influence, by wealth, by demonstrations of brotherly love, to confer honour on the memory of the hero who died in conquering for his countrymethinks his spirit hovering near, rejoices in your appropriate obedience to his last signal-" Every man of you has done his duty."

The Grand Master, assisted by the freemen of St John's Lodge, Glasgow, then laid the foundation stone with the usual solemnities. On the stone was the following inscription:

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Of the Right Honourable
HORATIO LORD VISCOUNT
NELSON,

Duke of Bronte in Sicily,

Vice Admiral of the White Squadron

Of his Majesty's Fleet, &c. &c.. Who, after a series of transcendant and heroic Atchievements, fell gloriously in the battle off Cape Trafalgar, On the 21st October 1805. This Stone was laid on the 1st August, In the year of our Lord 1806, Era of Masonry 5806, and 46th year of the Reign of our most gracious Sovereign George the Third,

In presence of JOHN HAMILTON, Esq. Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow, And of the following Gentlemen, Members of the Committee of Subscribers to the Monument, viz.

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John Craig,

Thomas D. Douglas, William Dunlop, and James Corbett, Colin Dunlop Donald, Robert Bogle, Esquires. Which undertaking may the Supreme God prosper.

The ceremony was closed by three times three cheers from the immense crowd, who were very strongly interested by a characteristic trait of the sailors, who rushed in, and kneeling, kissed the foundation stone with every mark of affectionate regard for their lamented Illustrious Commander.

During the procession the vessels in the river, at the Broomielaw, displayed their flags; and the Harmony of Liverpool, Capt. WILKIE, fired 47 guns, being one for every year of Lord NELSON's age at the time of his death. When the foundation stone was laid, Captain Wilkie also fired a royal salute of guns. Notwithstanding the immense concourse of spectators, supposed altogether at upwards of 80,000, the greatest good order was preserved, and no accident happened. In the afternoon, the Lord Provost and Magistrates, and the Committee of Management, gave an elegant entertainment to Sir JOHN STUART and his suite in the Tontine. The collection at the Church as mounted to abone tol..

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

On Thursday, July 17. came on the trial of Robert Johnston, for breaking into the shop of Messrs Dicksons and Co. on the 16th of May and stealing therefrom about 351. in bank notes, and a quantity of halfpence, &c. The manner of his detection was curious-he had carried home the notes, but had hid the half pence in a ditch near the Calton-hill, and left a pocket book he had also taken a little way off. A person finding the pocket book, traced the person's footsteps on the ground, which was covered with dew, to the place where the half-pence were concealed. Some men were sent next night to watch the place, suspecting he would return for the halfpence. Their patience was nearly exhausted, and they were going away, when they saw him come early in the morning to the place and seized him. Upon being carried to the Guard-house, the prisoner confessed the robbery; and told where ha had 'left the notes at his lodgings, which were found accordingly. The Jury unanimously found him Guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on account of his former good character, and his candid confession of the crime. The Lord Justice. Clerk, after a very impressive address to the prisoner, pronounced sentence, that he be executed at Edinburgh on the 27th of August. He has since received his Majesty's free pardon, on condition of serving in the army abroad.

On Thursday July 24. came on the trial of Catherine Robertson, otherwise Catherine Stewart, from Dundee, and George Bachelor, surgeon in Cupar Angus, accuse ed of occasioning abortion in a young wo man. From the nature of the investigation strangers were excluded. The Jury delivered their verdict next day, unanimously finding Robertson Guilty, and Bachelor Guilty actor art or part in the crime libelled. Lord Dunsinnan and Lord Meadowbank delivered their opinions in very excellent and pathetic speeches. The Lord Justice Clerk addressed the prisoners in a very energetic and pathetic speech, and pronounced the sentence of the Court, which was, that both the prisoners be transported beyond seas for seven years.

Monday, July 28. came on before the Court, the trial of John Hannah, from the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, accused of the murder of Marion Robson, on the 16th of March last. The libel states, that this unfortunate girl was with child to the pri soner, who wished her to give it to some other person, which she repeatedly refused to do, and urged him to marry her. That being unable to prevail on her to deny the

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child she was with being his, he invited her to meet him near his master's house, on the 26th of March last, which she complied with; and, after being hid in some out-house till bed-time, she went with the prisoner to the place where he slept, where they remained together a considerable part of the night: That early next morning they left the master's house together, and in a field belonging to John Clark, Esq. of Nunland, near the place where the deceas-> ed's mother resided, the prisoner murder ed her, by strangling her with her handkerchief, or something pulled strait about her neck, or by squeezing her throat with his hands, &c. The prisoner pled Not Guilty. The trial proceeded. Some wit fesses were examined, when it appeared from the evidence of the mother of the girl,that there was a misnomer in the indictment, the father of the young woman, who was stated to be murdered, being denominated a wright, when in fact he was a tailori The counsel for the prisoner contended, that this was fatal to the trial. The Court immediately stopt the trial, and directed the Jury to acquit the prisoner upon this indictment. The Jury retired to the robing room, and soon after return ed with a verdict, unanimously finding the prisoner Not Guilty of the murder of Maion Robson, daughter of John Robson, wright, as libelled in the indictment, on which the prisoner was assoilzied simplici

ter.

The Counsel for the Crown applied for a new warrant to commit him again to prison, for the murder of Marion Robson or Robertson, daughter of John Robson or Robertson, tailor, which was granted, and the prisoner was served with a new indictment, to stand trial on the 13th.

The second trial accordingly came on that day, when the pannel's counsel contended with much ingenuity of argument, that he could not be tried again for the same offence, which had already been remitted to the knowledge of an assize, who had acquitted him. The Court, on account of the importance of the question, ordered memorials, which are to be advised.... on the 3d of November.

Thursday July 31. came on the trial of Janet Hamilton, wife of Robert Paterson, farmer in North Commonside, and James Campbell, tailor in Wheelburn, accused of having preconceived malice against Wm. Craig, sen. farmer in South Commonside, and of having, on the

confession and acknowledgment of their guilt in presence of the Court and Jury, who, all in one voice, found the prisoners guilty of the crime libelled. The Court passed sentence of death on both the pri soners, ordaining them to be executed at Edinburgh the 10th of September next; but they have both been pardoned, on condition of being banished to Botany Bay for seven years:

On Monday Aug. It. came on the trial of John Thomson, mason, lately residing at the foot of Leith Walk, and John Nil son, otherwise John Nelson, labourer, lately residing in South Leith, accused of for gery, and of fraudulently uttering and vending forged guinea notes of the Bank of Scotland, knowing them to be forged. The prisoners pled Not Guilty. The Jury unanimously found both prisoners guilty. The Counsel for the pannels pleaded in arrest of judgment, that no sentence could pass on the verdict, in respect that one of the Jury-" men had gone out of Court after they were ordered by the Court to inclose, but before they actually were inclosed.

The clerks of Court, and the juryman himself, were examined on oath, relative. to the circumstance. It appeared that the trial lasting till eight o'clock at night, the juryman found himself faint, and took the opportunity of the interval to go out to a public house to get some refreshment.He staid about 18 minutes. The Court adjourned the consideration of the objection till Friday the 15th, when Mr Henry Cockburn and Mr David Cathcart were again heard in support of it, and the Lord Advocate and Solicitor general in reply. The Court considered the objection of such material import, that memorials on the point were ordered to be given in, to, be taken into consideration on the 3d of November next..

On Friday, Aug. 15. Henry Macgregor, in Spittal, and Janet Macgregor his daughter, accused of theft, were brought to the bar, and, on their own petition, sentenced to be banished forth of Scotland for life.

Lord Melville arrived at Edinburgh from London on the 28th of July. On Wednesday the 30th, his Lordship waited on the Lord Provost and Magistrates mer in Council. His Lordship, in an impressive speech, addressed them on the subject of his late prosecution; and warmly thanked them for the kindness and attachment they had

maliciously set fire to of April last, shown on the occasions He had suffered

his farm steading, whereby the cart-house, stable, byre, and dwelling-house of the said Wm. Craig, were completely destroyed The pannels both pled guilty, and subscribed a judicial

mach; but the strong expressions of regard evinced by his countrymen in general was a sufficient compensation for all he had endured.

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A severe thunder storm was experienced in East Lothian in the forenoon of Saturday August 2. The morning was remarkably fine, but betwixt ten and eleven the sky became very dark and stormy, and soon burst into loud peals of thunder, preceded by flashes of lightning uncommonly vivid. The lightning broke upon the manse at Gladsmuir, and in an instant struck dead a female servant who was crossing the lobby of the house. No other person was in the least degree hurt, although the greater part of the family were within a few yards of the place where the fatai event happened, and witnesses of the melancholy scene. The lightning struck upon the ridge of the roof at the west end of the manse-from thence it descended down the lead, and entering the corner of a bed-room, ran along the bell wire, melting it all the way, and dissipating it into vapour. It descended with the wire to the lower story, and continued following the wire till the unfortunate young woman who suffered came within its reach; it then deserted the wire, tearing out the holdfast and scattering the plaister, and struck the poor girl on the head, where the hair was burned on a space about the size of a crown piece. The manse was for some time filled with smoke and sulphur, but no other damage happened to it than the falling of some slates from the roof.

A storm, exceeding in violence, perhaps any thing in remembrance, was experienced at Edinburgh and the neighbourhood, on Saturday Aug. 9. The thunder and light ning continued, without internrission from two o'clock in the afternoon, till past eight o'clock in the evening. The lightning was forked and extremely vivid, and the peals of thunder tremendously loud. The rain fell in torrents, and continued to fall till 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. The storm was preceded by a heavy gust of wind, which seemed to darken the atmos

phere by the quantity of dust it hurled into the air. The morning was very sultry, and the Thermometer stood at 73 in the shade.

During the storm a most violent squall of wind arose from the south-west, which overset and sunk a pleasure boat belonging to a gentleman in South Queensferry, then near the island of Inchcolm. The owner of the boat, his servant, a skipper, and two tradesmen, all residing in Queensferry, were on board, and all unfortunately perished. On Sunday different boats and expresses were dispatched from Queens. ferry in quest of them. The Ferry Customhouse boat, found one of the oars, the water ballast-box, and two deals, used as tables. A vessel off St Abb's Head had her mast shivered...

The storm, throughout Etrick Forest was awfully grand and terrific. In the town of Selkirk the rain descended in torrents, and rushed down the streets with irresistible violence, carrying every thing before it. On the road along Gala river, a man riding in a cart had his horse killed in an instant, but he himself escaped unhurt. In the Inn at Bankhouse, a servant maid was rendered for some time insensible by the events of the lightning.

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At Kelso the storm was tremendous, and the fall of rain was so violent as to cause the rivers Tweed and Teviot to overflow their banks, with almost unexampled rapidity. Much damage has been sustained in the corn fields, on the banks of these rivers; a respectable farmer on Teviot-side lost eight score sheep, which were carried away by the rapidity of the current. bridge near Birkhillside was destroyed. A new kiln at Newtown, near Melrose, was swept away, and the mill materially damaged. Lord Minto's house at Minto, has likewise experienced considerable injury from the overflowing of a rivulet near the house. We have also heard of the destruction of several cottages, and a great many trees have been torn from the banks, and carried away. The same evening, A. Kennedy, the Berwick carrier, in returning to Kelso with his cart, was pearly lost at the mouth of the Eden.

The storm was very severe in the West. It was particularly felt in the vicinity of Kilsyth. At 2 o'clock of August 6. the house of Mr Corbet, at Bar, was struck with lightning. It penetrated almost every corner and crevice of the building. The north gavel was shaken to its foundation; the south was overset in part; and both the front and back walls, as well as every partition, and the roof, were dreadfully torn. Large stones in the corners of the building are burst asunder, and every pane

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