to the bar, accused of abstracting from the person of William Rankine, on the 11th of June last, in her own room, in the Grassmarket, a silver huntingwatch, with brass chain and three gold keys. The pannel pleaded Not Guilty to the indictment. Mr M'Neill stated to the Court, that three witnesses had failed to attend, and moved for a warrant for their apprehension. The case was clearly proved against the prisoner, who, it appeared, during the night libelled, had abstracted the watch from Rankine while asleep, and had pawned it in the shop of one Conolly for six shillings. It was proved by police officers that the prisoner had been five times convicted of theft, and that she was considered habit and repute a thief. The Lord Justice Clerk summed up the evidence; after which, the Jury unanimously found the prisoner Guilty, in terms of the libel. The Court then sentenced the prisoner to transportation for life. 15. Thomas Leinster, late a gentle man's servant, or waiter, accused of three different acts of theft, viz.-stealing from the lobby of Oman's Waterloo Hotel, in June last, a silver fork; and from a Hotel in Prince's Street, a silver saltspoon; and from Thomas Drysdale, watchmaker, a silver watch; pleaded Guilty, and sentence of transportation for seven years was pronounced against him. John M'Gregor, a boy apparently about twelve or thirteen years of age, accused of housebreaking and theft, aggravated by having been previously convicted of theft, having, by forcing in a window, on Sunday the 13th June last, entered the premises situated in Nicolson Street, belonging to Messrs Guthrie and Tait, and stealing therefrom £.17, plead ed Guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for fourteen years. sion." The prisoner's Counsel, in bar of sentence, pleaded that the verdict was not explicit, as his client meant to have pleaded guilty to the minor charge, and from the pressure of business at the time the case was certified to this Court. Mr W. Steel very ably stated the objec tion, and was replied to by Mr Dundas; Mr Donald followed for the prisoner. The Court expressed an opinion that no punishment could follow an uncertain verdict, and Watt was dismissed from the bar. The case of David Watt, tried for robbery and theft at the Glasgow Circuit, was then called. The charges set forth in the libel were robbery and theft, and the prisoner pleaded Guilty. The Jury returned a verdict, finding the prisoner "Guilty, in terins of his own confes 22.-David Craig, accused of housebreaking and theft, was placed at the bar, and pleaded Guilty. The Lord Advocate having restricted the libel, the Jury found him Guilty, in terms of his own confession, and sentence of transportation for life was pronounced upon him. Joseph Bogle, James Sutherland, and John Muir, night watchmen on the po lice establishment, were then put to the bar, accused of murder, by violently assalting Terence Delancey, in the Cow. gate, on the night of the 7th, or morning of the 8th July, and striking him several blows on the right leg, which was fractured. Being carried to the Royal Infirmary, he languished till the 2d day of August, when he died. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty. Dr Ballingall, one of the surgeons of the Royal Infirmary, deponed that Delancey's death could not be attributed wholly to the local injury, as there were morbid symptoms which had no connexion with it; and Dr Wishart, likewise a surgeon of the Royal Infirma. ry, that his death could neither be ascribed to the constitutional symptoms, nor to the wound he had received, but to a combination of both. Both of these gentlemen, as well as Dr Black, concurred in thinking that the fracture could not be occasioned by a blow, but by a fall. After a long examination of evidence, both criminatory and exculpatory, had been gone through, and the speeches of counsel heard, the Jury, without retiring, returned a viva voce verdict of Not Guilty, and the prisoners were dismissed from the bar. I. CIVIL. Oct. 26. The Earl of Aberdeen elected Lord Rector of the University there. Nov. 2. George Bosanquet, Esq. to be Secretary of Legation at Madrid. - Henry Stephen Fox, Esq. to be Secretary of Legation at Turin. 5. Viscount Granville to be Ambassador at the Court of France. - Right Hon. Sir Charles Bagot, K. B. to be Ambassador at the Court of the Netherlands. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. Oct. 4. The King presented the Rev. Dr James Hunter to the Church and Parish of St. Leonards, Presbytery of St. Andrew's. 18. The Relief Congregation at Hawick gave a unanimous call to the Rev. J. Brown to be their pastor. Nov. 1. The Rev. James Foote, of Logie Pert, elected one of the Ministers of Aberdeen. 13. The Relief Congregation of Crieff gave a unanimous call to the Rev. John Martin to be their Minister. 18. Mr Andrew Thomson ordained Minister of the Associate Congregation, George-Street, Paisley. -Rev. Mr Thomson ordained Minister of the Original Burgher Congregation at Paisley. 20. Mr Hope Johnstone of Annandale presented the Rev. James Monilands to the Church and Parish of Annan. 1 Dr. 8 14 APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. ( J F. 7 C. Delme, Cornet J. M. Dawson, Cornet 15 do. Lieut. Wathen, from 1 Dr. Lieut. vice Bayard, ret. Gren. Gds. 2d Lieut. M'Kinnon, from Rifle Brig. Ens. and Lieut. by purch. vice Wigram, ret. do. 10 III. MILITARY. 1 Life Gds. Cornet and Sub-Lieut. Chetwynd, Lt. by purch. vice de Roos, prom. 1 Nov. 1824. H. Peyton, Cornet and Sub-Lieut. do. Cornet Sir L. P. Glyn, Bart. Lieut. by purch. vice Wathen, 15 Dr. 4 do. John Barney Petre, Cornet by purch. vice Glyn do. Cornet Bulkley, Lieut. by purch. vice Methold, 75 F. 14 Oct. J. R. Somerville, Cornet do. R. Whyte, Cornet by purch. vice Lord Pelham, Royal Horse Gds. do. Bt. Lieut. Col. Lord G. W. Russel, Lt. Col. by purch. vice Westenra, ret. 28 do. Capt. Baumgardt, Maj. by purch. vice Deare, prom. 21 do. Bt. Maj. Badcock, from 14 Dr. Maj. by purch. 28 do. 76 21 do. do. 81 do. Lieu. Morgel, Capt. Lieut. H. Gage, Capt. by purch. vice Smith, do. Bn. Surg. Watson, Surg. Maj. vice Nix on, ret. 11 do. Assist. Surg. Armstrong, Surg. vice Watson, ret. do. .G. Ens. Cotton, from 62 F. Ens. and Lieut. by purch. vice Greaves, prom. 6 do. Capt. Glover, Maj. by purch. vice Bt. Lieut. Col. Nixon, ret. 21 Oct. do. do. do. 16 F. Lieut. Suckling, Capt. Ens. Lord S. A. Chichester, from 43 F. Licut. by purch. vice Greaves, prom. 34 F. 4 do. Bt. Lieut. Col. A. S. King, from h. p. 98 F. Maj. vice Gordon, exch. il do. VOL. XV. 30 31 34 36 41 43 45 46 50 Licut. Hutchison, from h. p. Staff Corps Cav. Lieut. vice Rigney, dead 5 May 1821. Ens. Henley, Lieut. vice O'Hara, dead 25 do. - Luxmore, Lieut. vice Wall, dead 11 June 27 Oct. 28 do. G. Mylius, Ens. пара Staff Quart.. Mast. Serj. Ward, Quart. Mast. vice Kingsley, dead 21 do. Surg. White, from h. p. 84 F. Surg. vice Callow, exch. do. Maj. Faunt, Lieut. Col. by purch. vice Dickens, ret. 28 do. Capt. Davies, Maj. do. Lieut. Greaves, from 7 F. Capt. do. Lieut. Cairns, Capt. by purch. vice Fraser, 50 F. 4 Nov. do. do. Ens. Skerry, Lieut. 2d Lieut. Price, from 60 F. Ens. vice 11 Nov. Ens. Hickson, from h. p. 12 F. Quart. Mast. Campbell, exch. do. Ens. Townsend, from 75 F. Lieut. by purch. vice Lyttleton, ret. 28 Oct. Gent. Cadet, J. Graham, from R. Mil. Coll. Ens. by purch. vice Townsend, 73 F. do. Lieut. Hutchinson, from 46 F. Lieut. Wood, h. p. 25 F. do. Lieut. Duval, Capt. by purch. vice Jenkins, ret. do. do. Ens. Marsh, Lieut. A. Splaine, Ens. do. Lieut. Campbell, from Col. Comp. Mauritius, Lieut. vice Holdsworth, h. p. Col. Comp. Mauritius do. Ens. Harrison, from 45 F. Lieut. vice Summerfield, dead do. Surg. Callow, from 31 F. Surg. vice White, exch. do. Bt. Major Dixon, vice Wright, dead 20 Sept. Lieut. Cox, Capt. vice Dixon Ens. Popham, Lieut, vice Cox do. Eyles, Lieut. by purch. vice Maclean, 95 F. Lieut. Maclain, from 90 F. vice Fox, prom. 6 Nov. Capt. by 28 Oct. Capt. Logie, from h. p. 92 F. Capt. vice Schaw, 50 F. 4 Nov. Ens. Last, Lieut. by purch. vice Beauclerk, prom. 20 do. Jaffray Nicholson, Ens. by purch. vice Last do. Ens. Caldwell, Lieut. by purch. vice Hamilton, 2 W. J. R. 28 Oct. do. do, S. W. H. Ramsbottom, Ens. 5 C Martial. Rif. Brig. Gent. Cadet J. S. Cameron, from Royal Discharged by Sentence of the same Court Mil. Coll. 2d Lieut. by purch. vice M'Kinnon, Gren. Gds. 4 Nov. 1824. 2 W. I. R. Lieut. Hamilton, from 99 F. Capt. by purch. vice Ross, African Col. Corps 21 Oct. Ceylon R. Lieut. Malcolm, Capt. vice Dunne, 24 Oct. Unattached. Capt. Fox, from 95 F. Maj. of Infantry, by purch. vice Bt. Lieut. Col. Long, ret. 6 Nov. 1824. Chichester, from 2 Life Gds. Major of Inf. by purch. vice Bt. Lieut. Col. Dunsmure, ret. do. Lieut. Hon. W. T. Graves, from Coldst. Gds. Capt. by purch. vice Bt. Major Dalzel, ret. do. Beauclerk, from 99 F. Capt. by purch. vice 29 do. Payne, ret. Garrisons. Lieut. White, 94 F. Killed and Wounded in the Expedition under the Command of Brigadier General Sir Archibel Campbell, K.C.B. Lieutenant-Colonel of the 38th Regiment, against the Dominions of the King of Ava, between the 16th May and 16th June 1824. Between the 16th and 31st May. Killed. Lieut. Howard, 13 F. Maj. Chambers, 41 F. severely but not dangerously." Lieut. Michell, 58 F. right leg amputated, and left leg severely wounded. Lieut. O'Hallaran, 58 F. left leg amputated. Between the 1st and 16th June. Lieut. Petry, 13 F. slightly. In the Reduction of the Island of Cheduba, 18th Brevet Major Thornhill, 15 F. slightly. METEOROLOGICAL TABLE, Kept at Edinburgh, in the Observatory, Caltonhill. N.B. The Observations are made twice every day, at nine o'clock forenoon and four o'clock afternoon. The second Observation, in the afternoon, in the first column, is taken by the Register Thermometer. AGRICULTURAL REPORT. FROM the middle till the end of November, rains and loud winds were frequent. The depth of rain, in little more than two weeks, amounted to something more than three inches. The mean temperature for that period was 39° Fahrenheit. December commenced with frost, which continued, with occasional sprinklings of snow, till the 11th, the mean temperature for these ten days being 32°; lowest range, on the 4th, was 20. Since the 11th, the temperature has become more elevated; the mer. cury, at ten this forenoon, stands at 50° in the shade. Vegetation has made little progress since our last. Turnips have gained nothing, and a considerable breadth has already been cleared for the feeding-byre. There has been no wheat sown since our last. Fallow wheat looks fresh,-late sown, after pease, comes forward slowly. Plowing was completely at a stand since the beginning of the present month. Plows are now at work, and winter plowing is, for the most part, about over; it is yet too early to commence plowing seed furrow. About the middle of November, it was evident that the ports would remain shut for barley, and the price of that species of grain immediately rose from 3s. to 4s. per boll. Wheat has fluctuated but little since our last; good samples (and there is little bad this season) bring from 30s. to 33s. per boll; barley nearly the same. Oats, notwithstanding the importation, continue to look up in price; good samples bring from 19s. to 20s. 6d. per boll. Potatoes sell briskly at 11s. per weighed boll, of 32 stones Dutch weight. Fat cattle are in request, and bring from 7s. 6d. to 8s per stone, sinking offal;' lean stock are less in demand at this season, and bring about 6s. per stone. Sheep have sold well for some months past, and are now likely to bring remunerating prices: they have been for some years past a losing concern. The late frost, which was ac companied with deep snow on high hills, has brought down the sheep to their winter pasture. Perthshire, December 13, 1824. |
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