Jan. 20. That the Lord Advocate gave the moft fatisfactory aufwer to every que ftion which they had put; and told, that he knew that a bill was framed, though not drawn by him, in terms fimilar to that paffed for England, and transmitted to London; and the committee gave it as their opinion, that the bill thould be eppofed. The town-council agreed with the report; and ordered one copy of the refolution to be sent that night by expreis to Sir Laurence Dundas, the citymember, and another copy to be fent to the Lord Advocate, the county member; requesting their ftrenuous endeavours to prevent the bill's being brought in; or, if it should be brought in, to prevent its paffing.

Many hundreds of the friends of the Protest Interest, at a meeting held at Glafgow Jan.1.declared it as their unanimous opinion, that fuch a measure would be highly prejudicial to the intereft of the Profetant religion in Scotland, dangerous To our conftitution civil and religious, a direct violation of the treaty of union, inconfiftent with the King's honour, and deftructive to the peace and fecurity of As beft fubjects, who have always reverenced his illuftrious family, and defended their rights in the moft perilous tmes. They appointed a committee to collect authentic accounts of the opinions a dinclinations of the people in the weft of Scotland, concerning this matter, to ay abftracts of thefe before the public, and to tranfmit the originals to the minters of ftate.This committee gave tice, Jan. 21. that they had then too good reafon to believe that the bill would be brought in; that though it is not to be brought in by the miniftry, yet the Noble Lord who is fuppofed to be the prime minifter declined giving any infor. mation concerning the conduct to be Followed by the miniftry, or by himself, with respect to the bill; and that this information had produced an unanimous refolution of the town-council of the city of Glafgow to oppofe the bill.

On the 14th of January the ProteftantIntereft fociety of Edinburgh lodged, in the Society-hall, petitions to both bouits of parliament, to be figned by fuch of the citizens as were not connected with any corporate body; to fign which many perfons of all ages flocked. The fciety gave notice, that counfel were engaged to plead againit paffing of the

in both Houfes, and that if it thould

be paffed by them, petitions would be prefented to the throne for with-holding the royal affent.

On the 25th of January, petitions from the town council of Edinburgh, praying to be heard by counfel against the paffing of the bill, thould it be brought in, were figned by the Lord Provoft, in name of the community, to be forwarded to the city member, in order to be presented if neceffary.

The populace, however, did not chufe to wait the iffue of fuch measures.-Copies of the following letter were induftriously dropt in feveral places of the city.

"Men and Brethren,

Whoever fall find this letter will take as a warning to meet at Leith wynd on Wednesday next in the evening, to pull down that pillar of Popery lately erected there.

Edin. Jan. 29. 1779.

A PROTESTANT.

P. S. Please to read this carefully, keep it clean, and drop it fomewhere elfe. For King and Country. UNITY."

On Sunday morning, Jan. 31. a member of the committee of the friends to the Proteftant intereft, having found a copy of this letter, carried it to their clerk; he gave the letter to the dean of guild; on the Monday following the town-council recommended to the deacons to convene their incorporations, in order to warn their fervants against any riotous meafures; and in the evening the committee caufed infert the following paragraph in the news-papers.

There has been a report spread through this place, that an infurrection was intended against the Roman-Catholics; and, particularly, that their chapel here was to be deftroyed by a mob. As no friend to the Proteftant intereft could ever have any fuch intention, it is no difficult matter to guefs who are the authors of these incendiary letters which have been circulated to that purpole. The Papifts have often been detected in going even farther than reports, in or der to irritate the civil government against the Proteftants; and there is no doubt that they are at the bottom of the prefent proj. &t."

On Tucfday evening, Feb. 2. a nume. rous mob affembled at the foot of the Trunk clote, where ftood a building lately erected, in which a Popith bithop

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refided,

refided, and in which it was thought there was a Popish chapel; and though the magistrates with the city-guard, and the Duke of Buccleugh with a party of his regiment of fencibles, repaired to the place, and endeavoured without bloodhed to prevent mifchief, the house was fet on fire, and reduced to afhes. Next day the rioters attacked a house in Blackfriars wynd, which was poffeffed by another Popish clergyman, and deftroyed or carried off the furniture, books, &c. At night they seemed to intend an attack upon the house of Principal Robertfon; but by that time fome troops of dragoons had arrived in town, and a party of the fencibles were pofted in the college-court; fo that the mob could not come near the houfe. The fhops of one or two Roman Catholics were likewife forced open, and their goods deftroyed; and the windows of the houses of feveral were broken. The dragoons and the fencibles patrolled the ftreets, which prevented more mifchief. A few of the rioters were feized, and fent to the caftle; but were afterwards difcharged. In the forenoon of Wednesday the magiftrates iffued a proclamation, defiring all mafters to keep in their fervants and apprentices; and in the evening another, viz.

"PROCLAMATION.

THE Lord Provoft and Magiftrates, taking into their ferious confideration the late tumults which have difturbed the peace of the city; and being willing at the fame time to remove the fears and apprehenfions which have diftreffed the minds of many well meaning people in this metropolis, with regard to the repeal of the penal ftatutes against Papifts, take this public opportunity of informing them, and the public in general, that the Lord Provoft is authorised to affure them, that the bill for that purpofe is totally laid afide; and, therefore, it is expected, that fuch perfons will carefully avoid connecting themselves with any tumultuous affembly for the future.

After this public affurance, the Lord Provost and Magiftrates will take the moft vigorous meafures for repreffing any - tumultuous or riotous meetings of the populace, which may hereafter arife; being fatisfied that any future diforders can proceed only from the vicked views of bad and defining men.

Edinburgh, Wednesday evening, Fe bruary 3. 1779.

GOD fave the King!"

On Monday, Feb. 8. a proclamation was iffued by the magiftrates, requiring all perfons who had furniture or effects in their cuftody belonging to the perfons whofe houfes were forcibly and malicioufly broke into on Tuesday and Wednefday evening, to bring the fame to the council-chamber on Wednesday afternoon, betwixt three and five, where a proper officer was to attend to receive them. "The Magiftrates (fay they) having reafon to believe, that a good part of the effects are in the custody of person: who secured them, to prevent their be ing deftroyed by the mob, thought thi the best method of putting it in the powe of fuch to reftore them but they, a the fame time, have made their refolu tion known of punishing, as the law di rects, every one who shall be afterwards difcovered concealing the property o these unfortunate people."

A like outrage was foon after commit ted at Glasgow. On Tuesday, Feb. 9 the fast day, in the evening, a mob at fembled at the east end of the Gallow gate ftreet, at a house poffeffed by Ro bert Bagnall, where it is faid the Roman Catholics met fometimes for worship The mob fet fire to Mr Bagnall's dwell ing houfe, by which his houfe, and fe veral buildings which he occupied in ma nufacturing one ware, were confumed They afterwards went to his fhop in King ftreet, forced open the door, and deftroyed all within. The magiftrates affifted by the western fencibles, did what they could without bloodshed, to preven the mischief; and a proclamation was af terwards publifhed giving pofitive affu rances that the Popith bill was drop, and offering a hundred guineas reward for difcovering the perfons who were ac tive in fetting fire to Mr Bagnall's houfe and breaking open his fhop.-- A few of the rioters were feized, and laid in jail: but to prevent worfe confequences they were released. A letter from Glaf gow, of Feb. 12. fays, "The fcene of Tuesday was intended to be renewed on us all next day, and on me in particular; but the God of goodness prevented it by the active measures taken by the mag ftrates. They convened all the deacons of the trades, and each deacon made choice of twenty men of his own trade, and patrolled the streets every night fince, the military doing the fame by themselves, fo that order and quietnefs is again reftored. Yesterday, I went to the court,

and

and overheard the dean of guild and brethren in council fay, that the town of Glasgow will cheerfully pay every far. thing of Mr Bagnall's lofs, though it were twenty times more than it is. The lead rg men and the clergy are afhamed of what has happened, and would do any thing to regain their reputation from the charge of fo foul a crime as perfecution for confcience fake. Three of the minifters here are doing all the kindness they can, underhand, to Mr and Mrs Bagrad, and rooms have been provided for the reception of their poor family till matters be fettled."

this purpofe, they will chearfully join with their fellow Proteftants, in contributing a proportion of whatever expence may be found neceffary; though they are humbly of opinion, that to oppose, by counfel, a ministerial bill, or a bill fupported by minifterial influence in either houfes of parliament, is throwing fo much money away, especially while they are filled with fo many placemen and penfioners, the reprefentativesnot of the people but the miniftry.

"By the Rt Hon. Lord Juftice-Clerk. YESTERDAY a letter was received from Lord Viscount Weymouth, his Majefty's principal fecretary of ftate for the outhern department, dated, St James's, Feb. 8. 1779, addreffed to Lord JufticeCerk; in which, after informing him of the indifpofition of the Earl of Suffolk, to whom, as fecretary of ftate for the northern department, Ld Juftice Clerk's letters had been addreffed; and after expreffing great concern for the alarms which had been raised in the minds of the people of Scotland, upon the subject of an intended repeal of the laws againft Papifts; his Lordship gives the most positive affurantes, that no fuch bill is intended to be brought into parliament, by any member of government, or by any other perfon krown to his Lordfhip; and defires Ld Juftice Clerk immediately to take fuch courfe as he thall judge most expedient to quiet the minds of all ranks of people o this fubject. THO. MILLER.”

Of the almoft numberless refolutions entered into for oppofing the paffing of a bul for relief of the Roman-Catholics in Scotland, we here infert one, which is the boldeft that we have seen,

"THE heritors and heads of families in the parish of Carluke, and county of LaBerk, hereunto fubfcribing, taking into their confideration the confequences likely to enfue from the repeal of the penal ftatutes against Papifts, Popish priefs, and Jefuits, &c. think it their indifpenfable duty, as Proteftants, and as wellwithers to their king and country, to oppofe, by every legal measure, the extending of faid repeal to Scotland. For

blishment; and where-ever this religion is eftablished liberty is banished. We are far from faying that the establishment walk flowly is to walk furely. But we thereof is immediately intended.--To from the paffing the Quebec bill to the are certainly authorifed to fay, that, prefent hour, the encouraging and tolerating this bloody religion feems to be the only confiftent, and we obferve it which the prefent miniftry have adopted. with pain, the only fuccefsful measure And, perhaps, this fingle principle may account for all that feeming weakness, and Aluctuation of counfels, which have fo remarkably charactifed their adminiftra

tion.

ed as the bulwark of the Prote@ant cause. Great Britain hath long been confiderThe power of her arm, and the terror of her right arm, kept the Popish nations in awe. To annihilate, therefore, tal blow to Proteftantifm. or diminish her power, is giving a morIt fills our breafts with indignation, to behold a fet of men, intrusted by their king and country, effectuate, in a few years, by *** **** ! ! !-- [we are at a lofs to give it a name]-- what the united force of the Popish powers have attempted to often in vain.-They have loft America.--The Weft Indies in danger.-Trade and manufactures in a ruinous fate.- Proteftant alliances feemingly negleAcd or defpifed, while the Popish powers are clotely united, and our internal fafety thereby rendered precarious.-- Great Britain become contemptible to foreign ftates.The authority and faith of her parlia ments weakened, by enacting and repealing alternately. But, not fatisfied with repealing their own foolish acts, they have dared to repeal the wife-enact

ed penal ftatutes against Papifts, the palladium of our established religion and civil liberties, and opened in Britain an afylum for Jefuits, these pefls of all fociety, expelled even by the moft zealous Popish fovereigns. If Great Britain is devoted to perdition for her manifold fins, whether her minifters have acted from weakness or defign, her avenging angel could not have hit on more proper inftruments to haften her ruin. To feek redrefs, therefore, from a parliament, if influenced by fuch men, will probably be in vain.

In former times, to free us from thefe calamities, our ancestors spent much blood and treafure; and, to prevent their pofterity from fuffering the like, the penal laws against Papifts, and the famous act of fucceffion in the illuftrious houfe of Hanover, being a Proteftant, was paffed. It is our opinion, therefore, that every fincere Proteftant and loyal fubject ought, with heart and hand, to join in a dutiful addrefs and petition to our gracious Sovereign, as head of the Proteftant intereft; praying, That his Majesty, for the honour and fecurity of his crown, and the peace and fafety of his loyal and numerous Proteftant fubjects, would with-hold his affent to any bill for repealing of the penal ftatutes against Papifts, though it fhould be paffed by both Houfes of Parliament, especially as thefe penal acts have never been wantonly ex. ecuted: And that, in order to frike at the root of the evil dreaded, to allay the fears of the petitioners, and, if poffible, to retrieve the ancient power of the nation, and the glory and splendor of his crown, he would for ever remove from his royal prefence thefe evil counfellors, who have involved the nation in fuch dreadful calamities. Aud, moreover, that he would provide, out of all the people, able men, "fuch as fear God, men of truth, hating covetoufnefs;" and place fuch at the helm of affairs, that fo a confidence in his fervants may be cftablished.

We defire that extracts of thefe our

fentiments, attefted by William Harvie, one of the heritors, may be sent to the printers of the Edinburgh and Glasgow news-papers, and the original tranimitted to the Committee of Correfpondence at Glasgow.

The above is a true copy, attefted by Carluke, Fan. 26. WILL. HARVIE.

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4. At New Poffo, Sir James Nafmith, 1 John Jamicfon junior, merchant in Leith. 5. At Leith, Mrs Jamiefon, wife of

7. At Kensington, Dr William Boyce, o ganist, compofer, and master of his Majefty band of mufic.

9. At Edinburgh, Walter Coffer, Ef comptroller of excife.

11. At London, Duncan Forbes, Efq; 11. At Knockdolian, in Airfhire, age 89, John Cathcart, Efq; of Genoch.

13. At Bath, James Riddell, Efq; Secre tary to Viscount Stormont, late ambaffade.

at the court of France.

PREFERMENTS. From the London Gazette. The King has been pleased, Feb. 11. to appoint Robert Tarrant, Efq; to be one of the Clerks of the Privy Counin Extraordinary. He took the oaths of ce this day.

-12. Robert Duke of Ancafter and Kekeven, Lord Great Chamberlain, was this day worn of the Privy Council, and took his eat at the board.

-24. to confer the honour of the Moft Honourable Order of the Bath on James Har Efq; his Majefty's Envoy-Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary at the court of Peteri berg.

- Morton Eden, Esq; late his Majesty's Mafter-Plenipotentiary to the Elector of Lavaria, and Minister to the Diet of Ratifoon, kiffed the King's hand this day, on beTag appointed his Majesty's Envoy-Extraor diary to the court of Copenhagen.

War-office, Feb. 2. 1779.

if foot, ft bat.: Capt. Lieut. William Kamill to be Captain; Lieut. Francis Campion to be Captain; and Lieut. Benjamia Bloomfield to be Captain-Lieutenant, Vice William Kingfmill.

- ad bat. : Lieut. John Campbell to Captain; and Lieut. William Warren to be Captain.

ad foot: Capt.-Lieut. Robert Raitt to be Captain; Capt. William Hamilton, of late h foot, to be Captain; and Lieut. Daniel Run to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Ro

bert Raitt.

ath foot: Capt.-Lieut. Charles Cottrell to be Captain; Lieut. John Pigott, of 59th fat, to be Captain; and Lieut. Christopher Ledwig Forch to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Charles Cottrell.

13th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Daniel Black to be Captain; Lieut. Garnet Loving to be Captain; and Lieut. William Blair to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Daniel Black.

13th foot: Capt.-Lieut. John Mawby to be Captain; Lieut. William Conolly to be Captain; and Lieut. John Mawby to be Captain Lieutenant, vice John Mawby.

15th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Patrick Browne to be Captain; Lieut. Henry John Kearnay, of 11 foot, to be Captain; and Lieut. George Douglas to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Pa

trick Browne.

39th foot: Capt.-Lieut. William Wilfon to be Captain; Capt. John Freke, of late 8th foot, to be Captain: and Lieut. Tho as Clarke to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice William Wilfon.

48th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Samuel Maconnell to be Captain; Lieut. Robert Montre. for to be Captain; and Lieut. Thomas Jones

to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Samuel Maconnell.

50th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Edward Tisdall to be Captain; Lieut. Edward Whitley to be Captain; and Lieut. Fitzmaurice Conyers to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Edward Tifdall.

51ft foot: Capt.-Lieut. John Elford to be Captain; Lieut. Edward Brick to be Captain; and Lieut. Ifaac Phipps to be Captain.Lieutenant, vice John Elford.

56th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Charles Vallotton to be Captain; Capt. James Barker, of late 113th foot, to be Captain; and Lieut. John Wood to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Charles Vallotton.

58th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Edward Burke to be Captain; Capt. Sir James Norcliffe, of late 88th foot, to be Captain; and Lieut. William de Courcy to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Edward Burke.

59th foot: Capt.-Lieut. George Ball to be Captain; Lieut. Thomas Wilfon to be Captain; and Lieut. Den. Mill. Woodward to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice George Ball.

both foot, ft bat. Capt.-Lieut. James Bain to be Captain; Lieut. Samuel Rutherford to be Captain; and Lieut. George Hallam to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice James Bain.

ad bat.: Capt -Lieut. Benjamin Wickham to be Captain; Lieut. Marcus Pictet to be Captain; and Lieut. Poyntz Rickets to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Benjamin Wickham.

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3d bat.: Capt. Lieut. James Rivers to be Captain; and Lieut. George Sneyder to be Captain.

4th bat.: Capt.-Lieut. Harry Burrard to be Captain; and Capt. James Stevenson, from half-pay, to be Captain.

51ft foot: Capt.-Lieut. Charles Henry Cadogan to be Captain; Lieut. Robert Pollock to be Captain; and Lieut. Rawden Hautenville to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice Charles Henry Cadogan.

65th foot: Capt.-Lieut. George Gordon to be Captain; Lieut. John Pexton to be Captain; and Lieut. Francis Seymour Heart to be Captain-Lieutenant, vice George Gordon.

69th foot: Capt.-Lieut. Alexander Mackay to be Captain; Lieut. William Paterfon to be Captain; and Lieut. Patrick Moore to be Captain. Lieutenant, vice Alexander Mackay.

70th foot: Capt. Lieut. John Evatt to be Captain; and Lieut. George Lee to be Captain,