80 Register.-British Chronicle. merset, deemed the most fertile, (Middlesex excepted,) average at 28s. per acre; the whole surface of England and Wales at 17s. 2d. per acre. 6. Execution.-Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock, Bryne Judd and Thomas Clapperton, for a robbery at Roadmains, agreeably to their sentence, were executed in the Lawnmarket. Their behaviour was becoming their awful situation. Shortly before they were thrown off, Clapperton called out in a firm voice to his fellow sufferer" Are you ready?" And on his indicating, by a sign, that he was so, Clapperton dropt a handkerchief, and they were launched into eternity. Williamson, who was recently appointed common executioner, officiated on this occasion, under the superintendence of the Glasgow executioner. Thomas Melancholy Accident.-On the night of Tuesday last, James Sharp and John Hed, derwick, when riding home from Crieff market, proposed a race, and having accordingly set off at full speed, left the rest of When they their companions behind. came to Bishop Bridge, where there is a quick turn in the road, Hedderwick and his horse went over the precipice, nearly 30 feet in height. The horse was killed by the fall, and Hedderwick was so much bruised, that he is not expected to live.— The horse of Sharp kept the road, but the rider was thrown over the precipice, and killed on the spot. are now 8. State of the Country.-The measures recently adopted by Parliament, supported as they have been by the manifestations of a great body of the community, have had the effect of quieting the country, and putting down that disposition to outrage, which excited such alarm in the minds of most people at the time of our last publication. The bodies of armed citizens, which that alarm had taken from their homes to watch the proceedings of the radical reformers in the west of Scotland and other disturbed districts, have now resumed their several peaceful avocations; and it deserves to be recorded to their honour, that they equally forward along with the wealthier classes in contributing to the relief of the operative manufacturers in distress, as they were to step forward in support of the constitution and the laws of their country, when these men, under the influence of flagitious demagogues, were deluded into measures menacing the tranquillity of the country. The necessary powers with which magistrates have been clothed by the new laws, will effectually prevent the distressed labourers being worked upon, as of late, by the orators of tumultuary meetings; and certain indications which now appear of returning activity in the principal manufacturing districts, give confi [Jan. dent hopes that distress and starvation, the The Weather-The present winter has 13. HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.— Sedition. Case of Mr Kinloch of Kin- that summons. this who Died Removed to the Hulks at Sheerness, Do. to the House of Correction for Do. to do. for Middlesex failed to appear, it remains only for us to Of which there have been executed pronounce sentence of fugitation against him. In the absence of the Lord Advocate and Solicitor-General, I think it right to state to the Crown Counsel now present, in reference to the person who has this day been fugitated, that the Court trusts especial care will be taken that he do not remain within any part of this realm, but that the Public Prosecutor will use the power of the law to bring him to justice, and to answer to the very serious charge that has this day been exhibited against him. The Solicitor-General here came into Court" I have just stated, Mr Soli"citor-General, that the Court relies upon the Public Prosecutor taking steps to have the person who has just been fugitated apprehended, if found remaining in any part of his Majesty's dominions."-The Solicitor-General replied " I presume it is not necessary for me to assure your Lordship and the country, that, in as far as his Majesty's Advocate and those bound to concur with him in the performance of the public duty are concerned, no exertions shall be wanting to bring to justice the individual who has now fled from the laws of his country, and to prove that the law will be inflexibly administered to all conditions of the people, and against the highest as against the meanest of his Majesty's subjects." Mr Kinloch, we are informed, is possessed of a landed estate in the county of Perth, amounting to upwards of L. 3000 per annum. He left Edinburgh for the Continent on the morning of the 21st. Theft and Housebreaking.—On the 3d instant, John Reynolds and Robert M'Gie, for going into a byre, in the parish of Stow, breaking open a chest therein, and stealing a variety of articles of wearing apparel, were sentenced to 14 years transportation. On the 4th Henry Kerr and Alexander Fraser, for six different acts of theft and housebreaking, were sentenced to transportation for life and on the 8th George Begrie and William Paterson, for shopbreaking and theft, in Edinburgh, received sentence of 14 years transportation. Do., being acquitted at the Old Bai- Do. by Proclamation, no bills being Do. not prosecuted Do., having undergone their sentence 25 13 376 125 177 161 55 20 2 ས 73 310 44 15 426 254 34 101 51 73 25 2367 Remained in custody 1st Jan. Females 248 the Statement of the number of Criminal Uttering forged notes Stealing privately in shops Cutting and Stabbing Maliciously shooting The following is a comparative statement of the net produce of the Revenue for the Quarters ending the 5th inst. and the 5th of January 1819. The above statement, it will be seen, gives an increase in the quarter ending the 5th inst. of L. 70,447; but on deducting what has been received of the new duties, calculated at about L. 200,000, there will be found a deficiency of I.. 139,553, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1818. Scarcely any part of the new malt duty has yet been received, and of the duty on wool only about L. 1000 has come into the Exchequer. It is said, that the sum of L. 592,000 has been already advanced by the Bank, upon the credit of the malt duties for 1820. Abstract of the net produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the years ended 5th January 1819, and 5th January 1820. Dec. 21. Samuel Gregory Marshall, Esq. to be British Consul at Ostend. -Richard Rochfort, Esq. to be British Consul at Embden. 23. John Buchanan, Esq. of Ardoch, to be ViceLieutenant of the county of Dumbarton. 7. Dr William Pulteney Alison, to be Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Medical Police in the University of Edinburgh. Jan 1, 1820. Major-General Lewis Grant, to be Governor of the Bahama Islands. 5. Robert Graham, Esq. M. D. to be Professor of Botany in the University of Edinburgh. Members returned to serve in Parliament. Borough of Cambridge-Lieut.-Colonel Frederick William French. County of Hertford-The Hon. William Lamb, Speculative Society-David Constable, Alexander Macleod, G. W. Stedman, G. Spiers, and David Ross, Esqs. Presidents; Hugh Bruce, Secretary: J. Waugh, Treasurer; F. Pillans, Clerk and Librarian. Theological Society-Walter Todd, Arthur Buist, John Whyte, Alexander Christison, and Thomas Smith Goldie, Presidents; James Grant, Secretary and Treasurer II. ECCLESIASTICAL. Dec. 16. Rev. Alexander Macleod, ordained minister of the Gaelic Chapel, Dundee. 19. Rev. Mr Fairlie, ordained minister of the Presbyterian Chapel of Whitehaven. 30. The Associate Congregation, Regent Place, Glasgow, gave a call to Rev. Hugh Heugh, Stirling, to be their minister. Jan. 7, 1820. Rev. James Campbell, presented to the church and parish of Traquair, presbytery of Peebles. 15 Douglas, 20 Dr. Cornet Mangles, Lieut. by purch. vice 16th do. by purch. 17 Royal Society-Sir James Hall, Bart., President; Lords Gray and Glenlee, Vice-Presidents; Dr Brewster, Secretary; James Bonar, Treasure-Physical Class. Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Bart., President; Professor Irving, Secretary.-Literary Class. Henry Mackenzie, President; Thomas 22 Thomson, Secretary. Astronomical Institution-Sir G. S. Mackenzie, Bart, President; James Bonar, Treasurer; Thoma Allan, Secretary; James Jardine, Astronomical Observer. Society of Scottish Antiquaries-Right Hon. Lord Gray, President; Henry Jardine, Sir G. S. Mackenzie, and Gilbert Innes, Vice-Presidents; Robert Scott Moncrieff, Treasurer; Rev. Dr Jamieson and Alexander Smellie, Secretaries; Rev. Dr Brunton, Secretary for Foreign Correspondence. Wernerian Natural History Society-Professor Jameson, President; Lord John Campbell, Sir P. Walker, Thomas Mackenzie, and Robert SteVerson, Vice-Presidents; Patrick Neill, Secretary; William Ellis, Treasurer; James Wilson, Libra rian; P. Syme, Painter. 12 25 Lieut. Hume, fm. h. p. R. Art, Cornet do. Cornet Clarke, Lieut. by purch. vice W. D. Kierulf, Cornet Romilly, ret. 1st Jan. do. vice do. Lieut. Douglas, fm. 15 Dr. Capt. by purch. vice Douglas, cancelled 16th Dec. Bt. Lt. Col. Thorn, Major, vice Odell, dead Lieut. Nicholls, Capt. Cornet Elliot, Lieut. Newman, ret. 9th Apr. do. do. Lieut. Jeffries, Capt. by purch. vice do. Coldst. Gds. Ens. and Lt. Rous, Lieut. and Capt. 1 F. Hon. H. Dundas, Ensign and Lieut. do. Lieut. and Adj. Galbraith, Capt. do. 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