evidence against his companion, who was hanged; he had been committed to jail for aiding the escape of a French prisoner of rank, whom he meant only to betray; he had deserted his wife, and lived in a brothel as a bully. After the first Spafield's meeting, at a dinner with the promoters of the meeting, he gave as a toast," May the last of kings be strangled in the guts of the last of priests." He had also endeavoured to entrap Mr Hunt, by meeting him before he went to Spafields on the 2d December, and telling him that the meeting was over, and the Tower already taken, urging him to drive thither in his tandem. The counsel for Watson argued that the indictment should at most have been laid for a rebellious riot; the participation of the prisoners in the outrages of the 2d December they did not attempt to disprove, and scarcely denied it; but the Jury, discrediting altogether the evidence of Castles, gave the verdict already stated. On its being pronouneed, Watson bowed and said, "Gentlemen, I thank you much." No breach of the peace occurred; but the populace evinced the greatest solicitude throughout the proceedings for the fate of the prisoners, whom they cheered as they were conveyed to and from the Court; and on Watson's acquittal, the mob took the horses from a hackney coach in which they recognised him, and dragged him in triumph to Wynch Street, Drury-Lane. The others received the same marks of congratulation on their liberation on Tuesday. Several other individuals, who had been apprehended on account of their connexion with the prisoners, were set at liberty this afternoon, after an examination before the Secretary of State.

19.-Distresses and Disturbances in Irekand. A topic of very general commiseration, are the sufferings of the poor in Ireland, and the disturbances which are inseparable from want, although they tend to increase the affliction. In Limerick, in the counties of Kerry, Clare, and Kildare, in Londonderry, Mayo, and Westmeath, there have been affrays, seizures, depredations, and various acts of violence. A proclamation has been issued by the Lord-Lieutenant, exhorting those in the higher classes to abstain from the use of potatoes in their families, and to diminish, as much as possible, the consumption of oats. 20.-Finances of the Country.-This evening, in the House of Commons, Mr Vansittart made the following statement of the finances of the country.

The deficiency will therefore be £12,600,000

28.-Explosion of a Steam-Boat.-This evening, about six o'clock, the boiler of the Richmond Steam-Packet burst at the top, and injured three persons in a dangerous manner. The yacht was injured on Saturday week in a slight degree, and had been repaired to render it fit to perform its passage this day. It fortunately had no persons on board at the time the event occurred, except the persons who navigate and conduct it. The shock was very great; but the injury done to the vessel is very slight. The yacht had been prepared to sail this day. The conductors had been rowing it up the river, and when it had got about 100 yards above Westminster Bridge, the dreadful accident unfortunately took place. Mr Arnold, the conductor of the yacht, was near the boiler when it burst, and was injured in a shocking manner, and very little hope can be entertained of his recovery. Two labourers belonging to the yacht were injured in a less degree. They were all conveyed on shore by Heath, a waterman, who was near when the accident happened, and taken to St Thomas's Hospital, in the Borough.

Disturbances in England. About the beginning of this month, the disaffection in

some of the midland counties assumed a very threatening appearance; but, happily, the the means of the civil and military authorities was found sufficient to suppress the evil, before it had time to break forth into open insurrection. At Derby and Nottingham, affairs were for a time most alarming: a rising, it is said, had been planned there, which was connected with extensive move ments in the manufacturing districts in that part of the kingdom. A large body of men, armed with pikes and other weapons, had advanced from Offerton and Ripley, in Derbyshire, towards Nottingham, and had committed various acts of plunder and violence, having shot an individual who refused to deliver up the arms in his master's house. They were, however, soon met by the yeomanry and two troops of hussars, disarmed, and about fifty made prisoners. A number of persons were also apprehended in Yorkshire, while in secret meetings at Sheffield and Dewsberry. The disorders in this quarter, it was asserted in a Leeds newspaper, had been fomented by a person named Oliver, in the pay of Government. This statement was made the subject of inquiry by some members of both Houses of Parliament; when Ministers avowed that Oliver had been employed by them to procure information, but had exceeded his instructions in giving countenance to, or encouraging, the proceedings of the disaffected.

JULY.

Roman Catholics.-A bill has passed both Houses of Parliament almost without notice, which removes the principal obstacle to the entry of Roman Catholics into the navy and army. By this bill they are relieved from the necessity of taking the oaths, or subscribing to the declarations which were before an impediment to their advance, and thus situations of the highest rank are now open to them in the naval and military professions. They are not to be called on to take the oaths before entering the army or navy; and we need not tell our readers, that after they have entered the service, all further obligation of taking the oaths, or the sacrament, is done away by the annual act of indemnity, which is passed at the beginning of each session.

4. Destruction of a Steam-Boat by Fire. -On Wednesday morning last, the Margate Steam-Packet, commanded by Captain Harvey, left London for Margate, with be tween forty and fifty passengers on board; and it appears, from accounts received in town yesterday, that when off Whitstable, which is eighteen miles from the port of destination, she was discovered to be on fire: at this time she was also three miles from the main land. As a vessel of this descrip. tion never carries a boat larger than suffi. cient to hold her own crew, which seldom exceeds a dozen persons, the consternation of between forty and fifty passengers may be better conceived than described. The cause of the fire is stated to be as follows:

The gale of wind being strong, blew the chimney flue away, and the wood-work, which is nearly breast high from the deck, at the bottom of the flue, for the purpose of keeping the people near the chimney from burning themselves, caught fire; the men, in throwing the buckets over for water, to put it out, lost them; consequently, the fire was not checked, and the captain imme diately made for land, and got all the peo ple, and crew, and luggage, safe ashore; but the vessel was almost entirely consumed.

Explosion of Fire-damp-On Monday forenoon last, a dreadful blast occurred & Harraton Row Pit, Newcastle, belonging to Mr Lambton, by which thirty-eight men and boys were killed. There were forty-one in the mine at the time, six of whom were brought to bank alive, but three of them died soon afterwards. The other three were much injured, but it is expected will recover. Two of the sufferers were blown out of the shaft of the pit (eighty-two fathoms in depth) and their remains were found at some dis tance from the mouth. The head of one of them was separated from the body, and found fifty yards off in a corn field; the back of the head of the other was also tom off, probably by striking against something in the shaft. The shaft continued for some minutes to emit a dense cloud of black smokę and coal dust, the smell of which remained on the herbage a mile and a half distant from the pit for several hours after. Most of the sufferers lived at Painshaw. Ther are ten of the name of Hill,grandfather, one of his sons, seven grandsons, and an adopted son. Seven widows are left; but the sufferers being mostly young, there are very few children.-This dreadful accident was caused by the perverse obstinacy of a young man named John Moody, one of the hewers, who, in defiance of the orders of the overman, refused to use Sir H. Davy's lamp, and lighted a candle, which was twice put out by the workman whom he was to re lieve; but he relighted it, by unscrewing the lamp, and thus sacrificed his own, and the lives of his companions. On Wednes day afternoon, six more men, who were reinstating the air stoppings that had been swept away by the blast, were suffocated in the same mine, by the after-damp (carbonie acid gas) which commonly succeeds the ex plosion of hydrogenous gas. There were eight men altogether whom the fixed air seized; but on the bodies being got out on Thursday evening, two were alive, though but faint hopes were entertained of their recovery.

12.-Prorogation of Parliament.This day his Royal Highness went in state to Parliament, which he prorogued to the 25th August. At twenty minutes past two his Royal Highness reached the House, when a discharge of artillery took place. After delivering his most gracious speech, the same ceremony took place, and his Royal Highness having returned to the royal carriage, the procession moved back to the P3

loosed it, gave Alison one end, and directed him to go up the chimney, saying, "do not go farther than his feet, and when you get there fasten it to his foot." Alison having fastened the rope, Reid desired him to come down; Reid took the rope and pulled, but did not bring down the boy; the rope broke; Alison was sent up again with the other end of the rope, which was fastened to the boy's foot; when Reid was pulling the rope, Rae said, “you have not the strength of a cat ;" he took the rope into his own hands, pulling as strong as he could. Having pulled about a quarter of an hour, Rae and Reid fastened the rope round a crow bar, which they applied to the wall as a lever, and both pulled with all their strength for about a quarter of an hour longer, when it broke. During this time witness heard the boy cry and say, My God Almighty!" Rae said, "if I had you here, I would God Almighty you." Witness thought the cries were in agony. The master of the house brought a new piece of rope, and Rae's brother spliced an eye in it. Reid expressed a wish to have it fastened on both thighs, to have greater purchase. Alison was sent up for this purpose, but came down and said he could not get it fastened. Rae then began to slap at the wall; after striking a long while at the wall, he got out a large stone; he then put in his head, and called to Fraser," Do you hear, you, sir;" but got no answer: he then put in his hands, and threw down deceased's breeches. He then came down from the ladder. At this time the prisoner Rae was in a state of perspiration; he sat down on the stool, and the master of the house gave him a dram. Witness did not hear Rae make any remarks as to the situation of the boy Fraser. Witness thinks, from Rae's appearance, that he knew the boy was dead. Reid's wife came to get her husband away to a job, and Rae went with him. This was between six and seven o'clock. Rae's brother enlarged the hole, but still could not get in. Witness then went in with difficulty. He found Fraser lying on his belly, with his hands stretched above his head. He was lying at a turn in the vent, and his head jammed at the head of the turn; had a towel about his head, and a shirt all about his neck. Witness tore off the shirt bit by bit, and threw it on the flour; then brought down the boy; there was a little heat in the body-got spirits and washed the boy's temples, and went for Dr Poole, who came and applied a bellows, but in vain. Witness knew the deceased twelve months past in May-used to come to witness's house. Witness always gave him a piece of bread or a halfpenny; boy complained that his master used to starve him, strike him, and use him badly. Witness stopped in prisoner's house some time in May 1816. One Saturday night heard Rae's wife say, "You are done now; where's your ladder and materials ?-away." Whereupon Rae made

the deceased strip himself; boy applied to witness to save him. Witness asked Rae to forgive him. Rae said, "If it were God Almighty himself speaking from the Hea vens I would not forgive him." The boy was told to strip himself perfectly naked, and Rae beat him on the back with the single end of the sweep's ropes apparently with all his strength. The boy cried much; about ten o'clock at night Rae took the boy to a back room, and made him go naked up and down the chimney till one o'clock on Sunday morning. Rae afterwards acknowledged that the ladder and materials were in the house all the time."-Thomas Marwood (another witness) lived in Rae's house along with deceased; saw Rae tie deceased to a chest, gag his mouth with a stick, and beat him with ropes till the blood came, and the put saltpetre on him; has seen Rae make deceased eat the vilest offal.-The Jury, having retired for about an hour, returned a verdict of culpable homicide !-The Lord Chief Justice then addressed Rae, and told him that his case approached the nearest to murder of any case in which a verdict of culpable homicide had been returned; and sentenced him to be transported beyond seas for 14 years.-The tra of Reid was put off till September.

Crossing the Irish Channel in a Balloon.

On Tuesday, at a quarter past one, M Saddler, junior, ascended in his large balloon from Portobello barracks, Dublin, and after experiencing various currents of air, with the extremes of heat and cold, descended in safety, at half-past seven in the evening, in a corn field about a mile and a half to the southward of Holyhead. Thus, for the first time, has the perilous attempt of crossing the channel been accomplished by a youth not yet in his 22d year. During Mr Saddler's stay at Holyhead, he went to visit the new pier which is building there; and seeing the div ing-bell, expressed his anxious desire to g down in it, exclaiming, "I am just come from the clouds, I should now wish to visit the deep ;" and so persevering was he in his request, that the bell was prepared, and he went down in a depth of several fathoms, where he remained under water a considerable length of time.

30.-Lord Castlereagh.-Sunday evening, as Lord Castlereagh was playing with a favourite dog of his lady's, at their seat at Footscray in Kent, the animal bit his hand, which on Monday become so much inflam ed that Dr Bankhead was sent for. Dr Bankhead went to Footscray again yesterday, to visit Lord Castlereagh, whose hand has been severely lacerated, the sinews of the first and second fingers being separated, and the nail and top of the first finger being nearly torn off Dr Bankhead, on Monday, ordered him to bed, and to be kept very quiet. The dog, a short time since, pinned the gardener and another man up in a corner, when they were ing about after dark, and it was with diffculty he could be called off from them. The

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dog was a présent from Stutgard to Lady Castlereagh. It is satisfactory to learn that the dog is naturally fierce.

Trials of the Luddites, &c.-The trials of the Luddites, and Huddersfield rioters, took place at the York assizes last week. All those against whom true bills were found have been acquitted. From the evidence,

it appeared that the riots were of a most alarming character, though the guilt of having been engaged in them is not fixed upon the persons who have stood their trials. The Judge exhorted the prisoners to beware of continuing in such dangerous courses; to which they answered, simultaneously, "We will, indeed, my Lord."

I. CIVIL.

May 20.-Knighthood conferred on Maj.-General Wilder.

20.-James Cox, Esq. to be Consul in Albania. 24.-Edward Spencer Curling, to be Hanoverian Consul at Ramsgate, Deal, and Dover.

28.-Patrick-Jas.-Herbert-Crichton Stuart, Esq. younger and only brother of John, now Marquis of Bute and Earl of Dumfries, to have and enjoy the same title, place, pre-eminence, and precedence, in all assemblies or meetings whatsoever, as if his late father had lived to have inherited and enjoyed the title and dignity of Marquis of Bute.

29.-Knighthood conferred on Tho. Stainford Raffles, late Governor of Java-on Ralph Rice, recorder of Prince of Wales' Island-and on Richard Basset, Mayor of Newport, Isle of Wight.

Dr Macpherson, professor of Greek, admitted Sub-Principal in King's College, Aberdeen.

Professor Copland, professor of mathematics in Mareschal College, Aberdeen, to be professor of Natu al Philosophy in said College-Dr it obert Hamilton to be professor of Mathematics in his room.-The Rev. John Cruickshank to be Assistant and Successor to Dr Hamilton in said office.

31.-The Rev. Daniel Dewar, LL.D. admitted Professor of Moral Philosophy, in King's College, Aberdeen.

June 4.-George Gwyther of Leslie House, in the County of Fife, and of the parish of St Maryle-Bone, in the county of Middlesex, Esq. and the Right Honourable Henrietta-Ann, his wife, now in her right Countess of Rothes and Baroness Leslie and Ballanbreich, in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland called ScotLind, have received his Majesty's license to take and use the surname of Leslie only; the said George Gwyther may bear the arms of Leslie of Rothes; and the said surname and arms may also be taken and borne by the issue of their marriage.

14.-Robert Dundas, Esq. W. S. presented to the Court of Session the Prince Regent's commission, nominating him one of the principal clerks, In room of the late James Walker, Esq. Dundas is succeeded as one of the principal Clerks of the Bills by James Skene, Esq. of Rubislaw, ad

vocate.

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28.-George Manners, Esq. to be Consul in Massachussets.

July 1-Knighthood conferred on Spiridion Foresti, Esq. late resident Minister in the Ionian Islands.

2.-Knighthood conferred on W. H. Robinson, Commissary-General in Canada.

22.-The Rev. James Richardson, inducted to the charge of the Presbyterian Church in Hexham.

25.-The Rev. Mr Walter Hume, to the charge of the Associate Congregation of Yetholm.

July 31.-Mr Gavin Struthers, preacher, ordained assistant and successo to the Rev. James Stewart, Minister of the Relief Congregation, Anderston.

The Town Council of Stirling have presented the Rev. George Wright of Markinch to the first charge of the Church and Parish of Stirling, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr Some ville.

The Associate Burgher Congregation of Dunbar have given a harmonious call to Mr Alexander Jack, preacher of the gospel.

III. MILITARY.

2 L. G. Cornet and Sub.-Lt. T. Marten to be Lieut. by purch. vice Meares, 18 F. 23d June 1817

G. Greenwood, to be Cornet and Sub-Lt.
vice Marten

2 D.G. Lieut. C. Kearney, to be Capt.
vice Hunter, retires
Cornet J. G. Green, to be Lieut.

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by purch.

19th do.

by purch.

3d July

19th June

Cornet Charles Drury, to be Lieut. by purch.

vice Kearney, prom.

vice Stuart, prom.

Jocelyn Willey, to be Cornet by purch. vice Drury

19th June

Lieut. B. Christie, to be Capt. by purch. vice Brunskill, retires

3 July 2 Dr. Lieut. James Gape, to be Capt. by purch vice Bt. Major Vernon, retires 19th June Cornet A. Trotter, to be Lieut. by purch. vice Gape do.

W. H. Oram, to be Cornet by purch. vice
Trotter
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Cornet H. Cazalet, from 4 Dr. to be Lt.by
purch, vice Biddulf, prom. 26th do.
H. E. Porter, to be Cornet by purch. vice
Smith, prom.
3d July

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5.-Mr Balfour Spence, to be Hanoverian ViceCónsul în the Shetland Islands.

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· Members returned to Parliament. July 28.-The Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, for Harwich.

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Aug. 1.-The Hon. J. P. Vereker, for Limerick city.

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P. N. De Carteret, to be Cornet by purch. vice Mayne, 1 Life Guards 19th June Serj.-Major John Collins, to be Quart.-Master, vice Tarleton, ret. h. p. 12th do. John Hall, to be Cornet by purch. vice Dungan, prom.. do.

II. ECCLESIASTICAL.

April 7The Rev. Hugh M'Farlane, M.D. ordained at Edinburgh, with a view to taking charge VOL. I.

3 F. G. Lieut. W. L. Forster, to be Lieut. and Capt.

26th do.

vice Lake, resigns Ensign G. R. Abercromby, from 51 F, to be Ensign and Lieut. vice Forster do

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