Officers, have reported their sense of the conduct of the Generals and troops under their command, respectively; and I particularly request your Lordship's attention to the conduct of Major.-Gen. Byng, and of Major-Gen. Lambert, who conducted the attack of the 6th division. I likewise particularly observe the gallant conduct of the 51st and 6$th regiments, under the command of Major Rice and Lieut.-Colonel Hawkins, in Major-General Inglis's brigade, in the attack of the heights above St Pe, in the afternoon of the 10th. The 8th Portuguese brigade, in the 3d division, under Major-General Power, likewise distinguished themselves in the attack of the left of the enemy's centre, and Major-General Anson's brigade of the 4th division, in the village of Sarre, and centre of the heights.

Although the most brilliant part of this service did not fall to the lot of Lieut.-Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Hope, and Lieut.-General Don M. Freyre, I have every reason to be satisfied with the mode in which these General Officers conducted the service of which they had the direction.

Our loss, although severe, has not been so great as might have been expected, considering the strength of the positions attacked, and the length of time (from daylight till dark) during which the troops were engaged; but I am concerned to add, that Col. Barnard, of the 95th, has been severely, though I hope not dangerously wounded; and that we have lost, in Lieut.Col. Lloyd, of the 94th, an officer who had frequently distinguished himself, and was of great promise.

I received the greatest assistance in forming the plan for this attack, and throughout the operations, from the Quarter Master General Sir George Murray, and the Adjutant General the Hon. Sir Edward Pakenham, and from Lieutenant Colonel Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Lieut.-Col. Campbell, and all the Officers of my personal Staff, and his Serene Highness the prince of Orange.

The artillery which was in the field was of great use to us; and I cannot sufficiently acknowledge the intelligence and activity with which it was brought to the point of attack, under the direction of Colonel Dickson, over the bad roads through the mountains, at this season of the year.

I send this dispatch by my Aide-deCamp, Lieutenant Marquis of Worcester, whom beg leave to recommend to your Lordship. I have, &c.

British killed-3 Majors, 4 Captains, 11 Lieutenants, 9 Ensigns, 23 serjeants, 4 drummers, 229 rank and file, 13 horse. Portuguese killed-1 Lieutenant, 3 Ensigns, 1 Staff, 5 serjeants, 56 rank and file, 3 horses.

British wounded-2 General Staff, 4 Lieut.Colonels, 1 Major, 80 Captains, 58 Lieu. tenants, 21 Ensigns, 4 Staff, 104 serjeants, 19 drummers, 1534 rank and file, 28 hortes. Portuguese wounded-2 Lieut.-Colonels, S Captains, 9 Lieutenants, 15 Ensigns, 1 Staff, 28 serjeants, 6 drummers, 439 rank and file, 3 horses.

British missing-2 Captains, I Lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 84 rank and file. Portuguese missing-15 rank and file. Total killed-3 Majors, 4 Captains, 12 Lieutenants, 6 Ensigns, 61 Staff, 28 serjeants, 4 drummers, 283 rank and file, 16 horses.

Total wounded-2 General Staff, 6 LieutColonels, 1 Major, 38 Captains, 67 Lieutenants, 36 Ensigns, 5 Staff, 132 serjeants, 25 drummers, 1966 rank and file, 25 horses.

Total missing-2 Captains, 1 Lieutenant, 1 serjeant, 69 rank and file.

General Total-2 General Staff, 6 Lieutenant-Colonels, 4 Majors, 44 Captains, 80 Lieutenants, 42 Ensigns, 6 Staff, 161 serjeants, 29 drummers, 2320 rank and file, 41 horses.

E. M. PAKENHAM, Adjutant-General.

BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED. November 10, 1813. Royal Engineer-Lieut. R. G. Power. 27th Regiment-Major Thomas Johnstone. 32d-Ensign John O'Brien Buller. 40th-Ensign Alexander Dobbin. 43d-Capt. Thomas Capel, and Lieutenant Edward Freer.

51st Lieuts. Maurice Stephens and John E. Taylor.

57th-Major Dudley Ackland and Lieut. George Knox.

60th-Lieut. Thomas Eccles. 61st-Capt. W. H. Furnace and Lieut. Christopher Kellett.

68th-Capt. H. B. Irwin and Lieut. Rhger Stopford.

85th-Lieut. Arthur Johnston. 87th-Ensign Morgan Helliard. 91st-Captain David M'Intyre.

94th-Major Thomas Lloyd, Lient.-Col. 1st Light Batt. King's German Legion.Lieut. George Boyd.

Brunswick Light Infantry-Lieut. George Scarhorns.

SCOT

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.

MONDAY the 23d November came on,

before Lord Justice Clerk, the trial of Christian Sinclair, some time residing in St Ola, county of Orkney, accused of murder. ing, on the 28th April, 1813, a female child, about nine months old, the daughter of Jane Petrie, and the reputed daughter of Thomas Sinclair, the brother of the prisoner, by forcing arsenic, or some other substance of a poisonous nature, down the throat of the child in its mother's absence.

Jean Petrie, the mother of the child, gave evidence in substance as follows: Sald the child was born in August 1812; she told T. Sinclair he was the father of the child; he wished her to "settle it on other men," which she refused; gave her 2s. at one time, 4s. at another, and 2s. a month after the birth: she threatened, if he did not give her more, she would tell who was the father; he then gave her 4s. Witness wrote to Mr Yule, minister, to baptize the child: he inquired the name of the father; told it was Thomas Sinclair ; this was on the week before the child died; Sinclair was displeased at his name being given. Sinclair is a married man, his wife's name Nancy Hay. He offered witness 10s. a year for aliment to the child; she said that would do little; he left the house very much displeased. Knows Christian Sinclair, his sister; she came to her house in August 1812; the child then about a month old; was afraid to tell her who was the father; did not see her again till the day of the child's death, about seven o'clock at night; it was the Wednesday after the Monday on which T. Sinclair had been there. C. Sinclair sat down; no other person in the house; the child was sitting in the cradle; desired witness to go and get a bottle of ale; did not wish to go, but was afraid to refuse, she being a violent tempered woman; gave C. Sinclair some meal to bake for witness, while out for the ale; child was sitting in the cradle, playing with a spoon, and crying " Dad! Dad!" always a healthy child. Witness was not long out, Dec. 1813.

about 3 or 4 minutes; the door was shut when she returned, the meal was not touched, and the child crying as if in pain; ran to the child and took it up in her arms, when it began to retch and vomit; the child had not the spoon when she came back; found it, after pannel went away, between the cradle and the bed; for some time neither spoke; witness then said, Surely you have hurt the child! but drew in her words again, being afraid of pannel; child seemed afraid of pannel; she then said, Surely you have hurt the child! Pannel put ashes on what the child vomited; pannel's face seemed changed, and eyes looked wild. Pannel remained in the house till the ale was drunk, Said, when witness came back with the ale, "You've been short time awa'." Before pannel went away, went to the door once or twice and returned, to desire witness not to tell she had been there. After pannel went away, the child continuing ta, retch, Dr Edgar was sent for; he gave the child a vomit; child died about four or five in the morning. Believes the child's death was occasioned by something given during her absence; Sinclair had promised her marriage before he married his present wife. George Sinclair wrote to the minister, naming the father of the child; it was a fine healthy child.-Margaret Ballantyne and Mary Wyllie deposed, that the child was in good health in the afternoon, and that they afterwards saw it dead. -Jane Petrie was slow in telling who had hurt the child, saying she was forbidden, but afterwards said it was Christian Sinclair--Mr John Edgar, and Drs Andrew Monro and Loutit, gave in evidence, that the appearance of the child's body on dissection exhibited signs of having died by arsenic.-Margery Scatter and Wm. Petrie deposed, that the prisoner had desired them to purchase some arsenic to poison rats, which the latter had procured for him.Nancy Hay also gave evidence to the same purport.

The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. She was sentenced to be executed at Edinburgh on the 29th of December, and her body to be dissected.

HOR.

HORRID MURDER.

On Friday the 17th of November, John Gibson, a nailor in Hawick, was brought to Jedburgh, in custody of a Sheriff-officer, accused of murdering his wife. The circumstances, we understand, are as follows: -Early in the morning of the above day, a person who lodges in the same house where Gibson and his family lived, was awakened by an unusual noise; upon which he jumped out of bed, and went into Gibson's room, the door of which was open, to learn the cause of the noise he had heard, when he found Gibson standing on the floor, in his shirt, and observed, by the light of a lamp which was burning on the table, the shocking spectacle of his wife lying, apparently lifeless, in front of the bed, with her throat cut, and the floor covered with her blood. It was found, on examination, that the arteries and veins on one side of her neck were completely cut through, by which she had quickly bled to death. The unhappy woman has had several children by her husband, and it is not known that they ever lived together on ill terms. He did not deny his guilt to those who secured him on the spot, nor did he attempt to resist; and it seems he was led to commit the atrocious act by the effect of jealousy, which he had of late harboured against the deceased. On his arrival at Jedburgh he was lodged in jail; and a precognition was immediately set on foot before the Sheriffs of the county.

Tuesday, the 16th November, the corpse of a man was found in a plantation on Corstorphine Hill, where it must have lain for some time; and from the general appearance of the corpse, as well as the situation where it was found, there was every reason to believe a murder had been committed, which created considerable alarm in that neighbourhood. But on the corpse being brought to Edinburgh, and lodged in the Guard-house, for the inspection of all concerned, it fortunately appears that no murder has been committed, and that the corpse thus found is that of the unfortunate Alex. Clerk, in Paterson's Court of Broughton, of whom notice was given in the newspapers that he had, under a delirium, gone off from his friends some time before, and had not since been heard of; and who, it would seem, had wandered to Corstorphine Hill, and got into the obscure situation where he was found, and must have there perished from the inclemency of the weather, and want of food.

On the 17th of November, William Muir and William Mudie were executed at Glasgow, pursuant to a sentence of the last Cir

cuit Court of Justiciary for several highway robberies. Their behaviour was penitent and resigned. They had both been deserters, and both were bred colliers.

At an extraordinary meeting of the Town Council of Edinburgh, for the special pur pose of considering the propriety of voting an address to his Royal Highness the Prince Regent, upon the late succession of splendid victories achieved by the British and their allies, Bailie Trotter, as acting Chief Magistrate in the absence of the Lord Provost (who is attending his duty ia Parliament,) took the chair, and addressed the meeting at considerable length, enlarging on the present state of the country contrasted with our prospects some months past. The motion for an address being put, was carried by acclamation, and it was ordered to be prepared accordingly, and transmitted to the Lord Provost, to be by him presented to the Prince Regent.

ST ANDREW'S DAY.

The Grand Lodge of Scotland, according to ancient usage, assembled in the Parlia ment House, on Tuesday the 30th ult. for the purpose of electing their office-bearers for the ensuing year, and for celebrating the anniversary of St Andrew, the tutelar saint of Scotland, when the following were unanimously chosen, viz :

His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, Grand Master Mason and Patron of the Order.

The Right Honourable and Right Worshipful Lord Viscount Duncan, Acting Grand Master under his Royal Highness.

The Right Honourable and Right Wershipful Lord Kinnaird, Grand Master Elect. William Inglis, Esq. of Middleton, Substitute Grand Master.

Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, of Cousland, Bart. Senior Grand Warden.

John Maitland, Esq. of Eccles, Junior Grand Warden.

Sir John Hay, of Hayston and Smithficid, Baronet, Grand Treasurer.

Alex. Lawrie, Esq. Grand Secretary. The Rev. Dr John Lee, Grand Chaplain. James Bartram, Esq. Grand Clerk. William Cunningham, Esq. Grand Jeweller.

Immediately after the election, the Most Worshipful the Lord Viscount Duncan, Grand Master, the Right Worshipful Lord Kinnaird, Grand Master Elect, with the other office-bearers of the Grand Lodge, accompanied by the Magistrates, and a considerable number of gentlemen of distinction, along with the Proxies of the Grand

Lodge

Lodge from different Lodges in Scotland,
and attended by the following Lodges, viz:
Mary's Chapel,
Canongate Kilwinning,
Canongate and Leith,

Journeymen, Edinburgh,
St David's,

St Luke's,

St Andrew's, Thistle, Royal Arch, St James's,

St John's, Fisher-row,

New Edinburgh Kilwinning, St Stephen's,

Edinburgh Defensive Band,

Roman Eagle,

Caledonian,

Trafalgar, Leith, Portobello,

Antrim Militia Lodge, &c. &c. walked in procession from the Parliament House, to Freemasons Hall, with torch light. The number of Brethren in the procession was upwards of one thousand, and the novelty of the scene, (no similar proces. sion having taken place for many years,) attracted an immense concourse of spectators. The streets were lined by detachments from the different regiments now on duty here. This procession, though numerously attended beyond all former example, was conducted with the most perfect order and regularity.

The Grand Master presided in the Great Hall, and the Substitute Grand Master in the New Room, and the evening was passed with that harmony and hilarity for which this ancient and honourable order has ever been so eminently distinguished.

On the 12th of November, the Court of Session met, when David Douglas, Esq. advocate, presented the Prince Regent's letter appointing him one of the Judges of the First Division of that Court. After going through the usual trials, he took his seat on the bench by the title of Lord RES

TON.

The Prince Regent has been pleased to appoint William Boswell, Esq. Advocate, to be Sheriff-Depute of Berwickshire, in room of David Douglas, Esq. now one of the Judges of the Court of Session.

His Majesty's Advocate has appointed Samuel McCormick, Esq. Advocate, to be one of his Deputies, in the room of William Boswell, Esq. Advocate, appointed SheriffDepute of Berwickshire.

On the 6th of November, the Senatus Academicus of St Andrews conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity on the Rev. Patrick Murray, minister of Kilmadock, presbytery of Dunblane.

Dr Ure, Professor of the Andersonian Institution at Glasgow, is elected Professor of Natural Philosophy and Chemistry in the Belfast Academical Institution.

On the 15th of November Lieut. Gen. Sir Thomas Graham, K. B. was elected Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow.

On the 18th of November the Rev. Mr Henry Gray, late minister of Stenton, was admitted minister of the Chapel of Ease, St Cuthbert's parish-and on the 25th November, the Rev. Mr Walter Tait, late minister of Tealing, was admitted minister of the Trinity College Church, Edinburgh.

At a General Meeting of the Edinburgh Lancasterian School Society, held this day in the Assembly Rooms, George Street, Mr Solicitor General in the Chair, a Report of the proceedings of the Directors was read by three of the Secretaries, and on a motion from the Chair, approved, and ordered to be printed.

A state of the funds of the Society was read by the Treasurer; from which it ap peared that a considerable debt has been incurred in prosecuting the objects of the Institution.

The following resolutions were then moved, and unanimously adopted, viz.—

I. That the Meeting resolve to make increased exertions for relieving the Institu tion from the debt which at present presses on it.

2. That the meeting express their appro bation of the manner in which the School. of the Society are conducted.

3. That the Meeting recommend the Society's Schools to the attention of the different Religious Congregations in the city and suburbs; and direct that application be made to them severally for collections in aid of the funds of the Society.

faction on account of the great exertions 4. That the Meeting express their satis which are making in England and Ireland to extend the blessings of education by the establishment of new schools. And, on a motion from the Chair, the following addition was unanimously made to this resolu tion; and, that the Meeting recommend to those who have the charge of parochial schools, to avail themselves, as circumstances admit, of the advantages of the Lancas terian system.

The thanks of the Meeting were then unanimously voted to Joseph Lancaster, under whose particular direction the Schools of this Society have been established, to whom the Society is indebted for its present excellent teachers, and generally for his continued zeal and exertions in behalf of the Institution. This vote of thanks to be