in nine cases. Of the prisoners tried on Friday, John Stewart, accused of the murder of his wife, who had died three days after being most cruelly beat by him, was found Guilty of culpable homicide, and sentenced to be publicly whipped through the streets of Perth on the 15th October next, and thereafter to be transported for life; and William Mailer, also accused of murder, was found Guilty by the Jury of culpable homicide; but being, in consideration of the peculiar circumstances of the case, recommended to the leniency of the Court, he was sentenced to only four months' imprisonment. One of the prisoners tried on Saturday, James Milne, accused of southrief, housebreaking, and theft, aggravated by his being habit and repute a thief, was sentenced to be executed at Forfar on Saturday the 30th October, but the sentence has been since respited. Aberdeen. The Court met on Tuesday the 21st. Alexander Cowie, mariner in Aberdeen, charged in the indictment with theft, aggravated by housebreaking, was found Guilty of the theft, but not of the aggravation of housebreaking, and sentence of transportation for seven years was then pronounced. John Downie and Alexander Milne, for housebreaking and theft, Downie being habit and repute a thief, were placed at the bar. The panel Milne admitted the charges, but Downie having pleaded Not Guilty, eight witnesses were examined, who established the extent of the theft. The Jury unanimously found both panels Guilty. Downie was then sentenced to transportation for life, and Milne for fourteen years. George Scott Middleton, weaver, Stonehaven, housebreaking and theft, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for seven years. On Wednesday, Peter Davidson, jun. and John Cumming, alias John Wood, were brought to the bar, accused of theft, aggravated by their being habit and repute common thieves. The Jury returned a viva voce verdict, unanimously finding the panels Guilty of the crimes libelled, but finding the aggravation of habit and repute, as to Davidson, Not Proven. Davidson was sentenced to seven years' and Cumming to fourteen years' transportation beyond seas. On Thursday, Charles Pitcairn or Pitkern, indicted for stealing a watch at St. James's Fair, near Laurencekirk, pleaded Guilty. Sentenced to seven years' transportation. The - next trial was a case of assault on Malcolm Gillespie, excise officer, which oc cupied the Court nearly all Thursday. The parties were Thomas Leslie, Alexander Lindsay, and Robert Hadden, ac cused of assaulting and beating Mr Gil. lespie, in the execution of his duty at the Greenburn-market. A number of witnesses having been examined, the Coun cil for the Crown and for the panels having declined addressing the Jury, the Lord Justice Clerk, in a very energetic speech of nearly an hour and a half, summed up the evidence, and the Jury returned soon after, with a written verdict, finding, by a plurality of voices, the libel Not Proven. Upon which his Lordship, before dismissing the panels, could not help expressing in warm terms his surprise and disappointment at the ver. dict. Inverness. On the 28th, Lord Pitmilly opened the Circuit Court at Inverness. Alexander M‘Millan, charged with theft, was outlawed for not appearing. Katharine Mackenzie was found Guilty, by her own confession, of concealment of pregnancy. The Hon. A. L. Melville spoke in mitigation of punishment. She was an orphan, and had already suf. fered an imprisonment of six months in the jail of Tain. He himself had seen that jail, and had examined the apart. ment in which the panel was confined, and he begged to inform the Court that it was totally unfit for the accommodation of any human being. The floor is of clay-there is no bed to lie upon-no fire-place-nothing but the bare stone wall. There is a sort of window, or rather aperture, in the wall, framed with iron staunchions, without a pane of glass to protect the unfortunate prisoners from the inclemency of the weather. This could not but have been injurious to the health of the panel. Lord Pitmilly having inquired of the Sheriff of Ross, in Court, as to this statement, was sorry to find that it was not at all exaggerated. After what they had heard, he could not order the panel to be sent back to the jail of Tain. She was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the jail of Inverness, the county of Ross to indemnify that county for the expense. Some cases of assault and petty theft were visited with imprisonment, and the Court broke up, having been only occupied six hours in whole. Inverary.-The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here on the 18th inst. by the Hon. Lord Succoth. Donald M'Gilvray, accused of forging tickets for five shillings each, in imitation of those issued by John Sinclair in Tobermory; Angus Cameron, accused of sheep-stealing; Alex. M'Intyre, in the parish of Kilmartin, accused of horse-stealing; and Neil Campbell, accused of uttering forged notes, having all failed to appear, had sentences of outlawry pronounced against them. Archibald MacLean, accused of housebreaking and theft, was found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years. John M'Alpin, accused of having assaulted Ann Clark, a widow woman, within her own house, at the Bridgendstreet of Rothesay, pled Guilty to the crime of assault, but denied the charge of hamesucken, and having adhered to that plea before the Jury, he was found guilty in terms of his own confession, and sentenced to imprisonment for nine months in the tolbooth of Rothesay. Daniel Spreul and Agnes Spreul, accused of an aggravated assault on the person of John M'Gowan. Daniel Spreul having failed to appear, sentence of fugitation was passed upon him, and Agnes Spreul having pled Guilty before the Jury, had sentence of nine months' imprisonment in the tolbooth of Campbeltown passed upon her. Stirling. On the 23d, Lord Hermand opened the Court here. Fortunately this proved what is termed a maiden Circuit, there being no criminal case on the roll. His Lordship stated, that it was now many years since he had entered on the duty of presiding at Circuit Courts, but that this was the first time he opened a Court without a criminal. For this, under the Providence of God, the country was in a great measure indebted to the activity and care of the Sheriff's and Magistrates of the county, whilst it reflected highly on the peaceable and contented dispositions of the people. After the business of the Court was closed, the Provost and Magistrates presented the Judge, Sheriffs, and other members of Court, with white gloves-a compliment usually paid when there is no criminal case before the Bench. Glasgow. The business of the Circuit commenced here on Monday the 27th September, and finished on Saturday the 2d October. Lords Hermand and Succoth Judges. Of five men charged in one indictment on Monday with theft, one was outlawed for non-appearance, a verdict of Not Guilty given with respect to two, and of Not Proven with respect to the other two, one of whom was recommitted on a new warrant. Of two young women tried for uttering a forged note, one was sentenced to seven years' transportation; a verdict of Not Proven returned as to the other. Another person was found Guilty of the same crime, in terms of his own confession;-sentence not given. Two men, for housebreaking and theft, were sentenced to fourteen, and one for reset to seven years' transportation; two, for theft, to twelve months' imprison ment and hard labonr; and a boy, ap. parently about twelve years of age, to seven years' transportation for the same offence. A trial for robbery was gone through before the Court adjourned on Monday, and the verdict of the Jury, Not Proven, was given in on Tuesday. Tuesday.-Wm. Burns, Jas. Hartley, and James MacKirdy, were charged with murder. James MacKirdy was outlawed for non-appearance, and Burns and Hart. ley pleaded Not Guilty. The Jury found the libel against Wm. Burns Not Proven, James Hartley guilty of culpable homi. cide, but recommended to mercy, on account of his former good conduct. He received sentence of nine months' imprisonment in Bridewell. Martha Steven. son, and James Harkin or Harkins, were charged with robbery. Harkins was outlawed for non-appearance, and Stevenson pleaded Guilty, when Lord Succoth, on account of this being her first offence, sentenced her to six months' confinement in Glasgow Bridewell. Elizabeth Guthrie, alias Betty Burnet, was accused of theft. On account of a legal objection to the citation of the prisoner, urged by her counsel, the diet was deserted pro loco et tempore, and she was recommitted on a new warrant. Wednesday. John M‘Ausland, accused of assault, was found guilty, and sentenced to be publicly whipped through the streets of Glasgow, on Wednesday the 13th October, and to be confined for two years in Bridewell. Wm. Taylor, David M'Coll, Thomas Cumming, Thomas Davies, alias Roberts, alias Eccles, and Wm. Caldwell, charged with attacking Robert Murphy, on the 22d May, near the Tron Church, Glasgow, and robbing him of two onepound notes, five numbers of the Old Testament, and a cotton-handkerchief, pleaded Not Guilty. The diet was continued against Caldwell, and he was recommitted. Evidence was then led as to the other prisoners, after which the Jury retired, and, in the meantime, the Court proceeded with the following cases : James Dougherty, and Edward Prunty, alias Prentice, charged with cutting the cover of a cart belonging to a carrier; betwixt Kirkintulloch and Glasgow, and taking therefrom a quantity of goods, pleaded Guilty, and were sentenced to six month's imprisonment in Bridewell. John M'Millan, alias Melholland, and Mary Paterson, alias Milnhollum, alias Melholland, accused of breaking into a house in Main-street, Anderston, and stealing several articles. Paterson was outlawed for non-appearance, and the diet against M'Millan deserted simpliciter, and he was dismissed from the bar. Thursday. The jury gave in their written verdict in the case of Taylor, M'Coll, Davies alias Roberts alias Eccles, and Cumming, finding Taylor and Davies Guilty, M'Coll Not Guilty, and the libel, as it regarded Cumming, Not Proven. The libel against Taylor was restricted, he being only sixteen years of age. Taylor was sentenced to transportation, after a suitable admonition, and Davies was sentenced to be executed on Wednesday the 17th November. On being taken from the bar, the unfortunate man protested his innocence in the most solemn manner. [He has been since respited.] David Watt, accused of robbing Jas. M‘Gibbon of a silver watch, pleaded Guilty. Owing to some misunderstanding, the case was certified to the High Court of Justiciary. James Hill and Philip Donnelly, accused of theft and breaking open lock fast places. Donnelly pleaded Not Guilty, and Hill Guilty. After the examination of several witnesses, who clearly brought home the charge to Donnelly, the Jury found Hill Guilty, in terms of his own confession, aud Donnelly also Guilty. The libel having been restricted, Hill was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation, and Donnelly to seven years. James Kerr, accused of shopbreaking, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to transportation for life. Walter M'Adam alias John Davidson, accused of stealing, pleaded Guilty, and was sentenced to seven years' transportation. Alexander Napier, accused of stealing a silver watch, and of being habit and repute a thief, pleaded Not Guilty. From the testimony of the gentleman who had been robbed, corroborated by all the other witnesses so far as their evidence went, it was clearly proven that the panel committed the crime of which he was accused; and the Jury having returned a verdict of Guilty, the prisoner was sentenced to 7 years' transportation. Friday. John Robertson, accused of robbing Isobel Cassils of a bundle containing cloth, and a variety of other articles, pleaded Guilty. Sentence delayed. Robert Alexander, James Dick, and John M'Farlane, accused of theft and housebreaking. The diet against M'Farlane was deserted, and he was dismissed from the bar. The others pleaded Not Guilty, and after several witnesses were examined, the Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. David Parkinson, Rosanna Birrel or M'Farlane, Mary Parkinson, and Jean M'Limont or Perrat, charged each with having resetted a portion or part of the goods stolen in the previous case, pleaded Not Guilty. It was satisfactorily proven that the goods found in the panels' house formed part of those stolen from the warehouse at the Broomielaw, and the Jury re. turned a verdict, finding Birrel or M'Farlane, Paterson or Parkinson, and Jean M'Limont or Perrat, Guilty; and the libel as it regarded David Parkinson, Not Proven. The women were sentenced to seven years' transportation. David Parkinson, charged with having resetted or received a number of silver watches, earrings, finger-rings, seals, keys, goldchains, &c. which had previously been stolen from John Douglas, watchmaker in Dumbarton, pleaded Not Guilty, but after two witnesses were examined, he retracted his plea, and pleaded GuiltySentence, seven years' transportation. Margaret Campbell, Rosannah or Rosie M'Credie or M'Gregor, and Marion or May Rankine, were charged with house. breaking, and Campbell and Rankine with being habit and repute thieves. Campbell pleaded Not Guilty; M'Credie pleaded Guilty to one charge of theft, and Rankine Guilty of another, and of being habit and repute a thief. The Jury found Campbell Guilty of the second charge of theft, and of being habit and repute a thief; and M'Credie and Rankine Guilty in terms of their own confession. Lord Succoth then sentenced Campbell and Rankine to seven years' transportation, and M'Credie to twelve months in Bridewell. On Saturday, a case in which six boys, apparently between nine and thirteen years of age, were accused of carrying off clothes from a washing-green, was remitted to the Sheriff. Three women, Ann Rae, Janet Campbell, and Ann Carruthers, were charged with theft, their guilt proved, and sentence of fourteen years' transportation pronounced against them. John M'Lean, accused of stealing £.2815s. from a drawer which he opened by a false key, was also found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for the same period. OCTOBER. British Revenue.-Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue of Great Britain in the Years and Quarters ended 10th Oct. 1823, and 10th Oct. 1824, showing the Increase and Decrease on each head thereof :— Death of Mr Sadler the Aeronaut.-On Wednesday the 29th ult., Mr W. W. Sadler made his thirty-first ascent, from - Bolton, in Lancashire, in company with a man servant. Whilst over Church Parish, about four miles east of Blackburn, the aerial voyagers prepared to descend, and threw out a grappling-iron, which caught a tree, and the sudden jerk threw Mr Sadler out of the car and broke the cord. The balloon then dragged the car, and knocked down a chimney, shortly af ter which Mr S. (who was suspended to the car by one leg) fell to the ground from the height of about thirty yards! A crowd immediately assembled, and he was conveyed to a public-house adjacent, where it was discovered that his skull was much fractured, several ribs were broken, and he was otherwise so materially injured, that he expired next morning. After Mr Sadler had fallen from the car, the balloon, lightened of the weight of one of Deduct Increase...... Decrease on the Quar. 438,634 12,500 its occupants, rose rapidly to a considerable height, and again descended near Whalley, about three miles from the place of the accident, and the car coming in contact with some rails, the man was thrown out, and had his left arm fractured, and received other injury. The balloon again rose rapidly into the air, and disappeared. It is something remarkable, that Mr Blenkinsop, the landlord of the public-house to which Mr Sadler was carried, on his return from Acerington, where he had hastened for a surgeon, fell down dead in an apoplectic fit, a few yards from his house, about the time Mr Sadler was brought there. On the same day a balloon, no doubt that of the unfortunate Mr Sadler, was observed by Captain Fegen, of his Majesty's revenue cruizer Lapwing, to fall into the sea about eight leagues north-east by east of Flamborough-head, and totally disappeared in about five minutes afterwards. APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL. Chief Magistrates of Scottish Burghs. Aberdeen-Gavin Hadden -Old, Principal Jack Andrew's, St-William Haig of Leggie Arbroath-James Goodall Auchtermuchty-John Gilmour Ayr-David Límond of Dalblair Bathgate-Alex. Marjoribanks of Marjoribanks Brechin-James Speid Burntisland-Robert Ferguson of Raith Campbeltown-Charles Campbell of Bellegrove Culross-James Gibson Craig of Riccartoun Cupar-Fife-John Stark Dumbarton-Jacob Dixon Dumfries-William Thomson Dunbar-Christopher Middlemass of Underedge Dundee-David Brown Dunfermline-James Blackwood II. ECCLESIASTICAL. Oct. 13. Mr James Garret ordained Minister of the United Associate Congregation of Muirkirk. 21. The Right Hon. the Earl of Wemyss and March has presented the Rev. John Elliot, A.M. to the Church and Parish of Peebles. The Rev. Henry Grey, Minister of the New North Church, Edinburgh, appointed Minister of the New Church in Bellevue Crescent. The Rev. Mr Simpson, from Dairsie, was admitted Minister of Leith Wynd Chapel, in room of the Rev. Mr Thomson, translated to the second charge of Dysart Church. 28. The United Associate Congregation of Melville-Street, Glasgow, gave a unanimous call to Mr John Smart, preacher, to be their pastor. The Rev. Archibald Bennie, from Canon-Street Chapel of Ease, Glasgow, was inducted to the third charge in the Parish of Stirling, as pastor of the West Church there. III. MILITARY. Cornet Portman, Lieut. 3 F. Gds. G. A. F. Houstoun, Ensign and Lieut. by purch. vice Westenra, 75 F. 23 do. Hon. M. H. Ongley, Ensign and Lieut. by purch. vice Houstoun, cancelled 14 Oct. Lieut. Harris, Capt. by purch. vice Pollock, ret. 5 F. Ensign Hatton, Lieut. P. M. N. Guy, Ensign 25 Sept. do. do. Assist. Surg. O'Reilly, from h. p. 1 F. Assist. Surg. vice James Staff 12 do. Lieut. Hannay, Capt. by purch. vice Bt. Maj. Robinson, ret. Ensign Cotter, Lieut. E. Newton, Ensign Ensign Jones, Lieut. vice Rothe, dead Lieut. Sutherland, from 93 F. Capt. 14 Oct. Ensign Dutton, Lieut. 2 W. I. R. Lieut. Campbell, from Ceylon R. Lieut. vice Boyes, 58 F. Lieut. Spence, Adj. vice Currey, dead 25 Aug. 23 Sept. vice Winter, dead 30 do. 2 do. do. do. 21 F.. Capt. Doherty, Maj. by purch. vice Maclaine, prom. 16 Sept. 1824. Lieut. Beresford, Capt. do. do. do. 23 28 2d Lieut. Beete, 1st Lieut. W. H. Armstrong, 2d Lieut. Gent. Cadet, B. Losh, from R. Mil. Coll. 2d Lieut. vice Elwes, 1 Dr. Gds. 14 Oct. Capt. Nicholls, from h. p. 25 Dr. Capt. vice Magenis, 82 F. 30 Sept. W. Sullivan, Ensign by purch, vice Lord S. Lennox, 32 F. 14 Oct. Assist. Surg. Strachan, from h. W. I. R. Assist. Surg. Unattached. Maj. Deare, from 8 Dr. Lieut. Col. of Inf. by purch. vice M. Gen. Barry, ret. 14 Oct. 1824. Lieut. Hon. W. L. L. Fitz G. de Roos, from 1 Life Gds. Capt. of Comp. by purch. vice Wilson, ret. 23 do. Staff Lieut. Anderson, from 69 F. Adj. of Recruit. Dist. vice Munbee, h. p. 69 F. 23 Sept. 1824. |