gave to Dunkison, which line was afterwards given by Dunkison to Ann Gemmell; that some time after the girl returned, and gave Dunkison a pocket-book, which contained three notes, a breast-pin, and some silver; Dunkison gave the girl a note to change, and bring in some potatoes, desiring her to bring in the watches under the potatoes, which was accordingly done. By this time MIntosh was gone to Edinburgh in custody. That Dugald Thomson got two watches, and afterwards another silver one, to raise some money; one White got another watch to keep for Dunkison, which watch, he thinks, is the one now shewn him (Mr Allan's); that Dunkison gave the witness a silver watch, which he gave to his mother. [John Dunkison, or Dunkinson, or Lyall, was cited as a witness, and was brought from Glasgow jail, where he was a prisoner, but he was not examined. When Archibald Campbell was sent to Glasgow to apprehend McIntosh and Sutherland, he identified Dunkison, then in Glasgow jail, to be John Lyall, the brother of Adam Lyall, who was executed here in the course of last year, for robbing Mr Boyd on the Sheriffmuir. He was indicted along with his brother; but he was not tried, as it was certified that he was insane. He has now, however, recovered his senses, and at present stands charged with committing another highway robbery.] Several witnesses from Glasgow identified several of the watches and other articles specified in the indictments, that had been carried to Glasgow by M'Intosh and Sutherland. Some exculpatory witnesses were called for the prisoners, who bore testimony, in general terms, to the former good character of the prisoners. The judicial declarations of the prisoners were then read to the jury. They all denied their accession to the crimes libelled. M'Donald accounted for his absconding, by the circumstance of his having been formerly a seaman, and his fear of being pressed. Sutherland said he had gone to Glasgow in search of work. M'Intosh had written a letter to the magistrates, offering to disclose the whole circumstances, but endeavoured to account for his possession of the watches, by alleging he got them from other boys, &c.-This closed the case for the crown. The jury returned their verdict, all in one voice, finding the pannel, Hugh M'Intosh, guilty of the murder of Dugald Campbell, Hugh M'Donald, Hugh M'Intosh, and Niel Sutherland, guilty of robbing Ensign Humphry Cochrane of his silver watch; and, further, finding the said pannels, Hugh M'Donald, Hugh MIntosh, and Niel Sutherland, guilty of robbing Nicol Allan of his yellow metal hunting watch, as libelled. Their lordships, in delivering their opinions, expressed in strong terms the horror they felt at the extent of the guilt and depravity which the evidence on this trial unfolded. Sentence was then pronounced upon the prisoners, which ordained them to be taken back to the tolbooth of Edinburgh, where they were to be kept till Wednesday the 22d day of April, when the said Hugh M‘Donald, Hugh M'Intosh, and Niel Sutherland, were to be taken forth of the said tolbooth, to some place of the High-street of the city of Edinburgh, opposite to the Stamp-office Close, or nearly so, and then and there, betwixt the hours of two and four o'clock afternoon, to be hanged by their necks, by the hands of the cominon executioner, upon a gibbet, to be erected there for that purpose, until they be dead; and the body of the said ugh M'Intosh to be publicly dissected and anatomised. The pannels, who are young lads of from sixteen to nineteen years of age, seemed but little affected. The court, and all the avenues to it, were greatly crowded at a very early hour, and a picket of 100 men of the 1st regiment of Royal Edinburgh volunteers attended, during the whole time, to preserve order. 24th.-WHITEHALL.-His Royal Highness the Prince Regent has been pleased in the name, and on the behalf of his majesty, to constitute and appoint the Right Hon. Robert Viscount Melville, William Domett, Esq. Vice-Admiral of the White Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet; Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, Knt. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet; the Hon. Frederick John Robinson, Horatio Walpole, Esq. (commonly called Lord Walpole,) the Right Hon. William Dundas, and George Johnstone Hope, Esq. RearAdmiral of the Blue Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, to be his majesty's commissioners for executing the office of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the dominions, islands, and territories thereunto belonging. 25th.-A general quarterly court (made special) of the Court of Directors was held on Wednesday, at the India-house, for the purpose of laying before the proprietors the communications which have taken place between his majesty's ministers and the Court of Directors, respecting the renewal of the company's charter. The court proceeded to read the correspondence, from which it appears VOL. V. PART II. that there is no difference of opinion between the government and the directors as to the expediency of renewing the charter, subject to such modifications as time and circumstance rendered imperiously necessary. The principal changes will be in the shipping department, and in commercial regulations at home and abroad. 28th.-An unfortunate accident took place at Sheerness on Thursday afternoon. About half past four, as the launch belonging to his majesty's ship Raisonable was proceeding from that vessel, with a draft of men, to the Namur (flag ship) at the Great Nore, she ran foul of the Martial gun-brig, and almost immediately sunk. It is supposed that there were near eighty persons in the launch, of whom it is reported only thirty-five were saved. The confusion that ensued on the vessels coming in contact, is represented as having been principally the cause of many lives being lost. One of the shipwrights' boats belonging to the Dock-yard rendered all possible assistance, and exertion was also afforded by the boats of the different ships.-Two women were in the launch, and were both saved. 30th.-LAUNCESTON ASSIZES.John Wyatt, of Fowey, was tried for the murder and robbery of Isaiah Faik Valentine. The prisoner kept a public house in Dock, called the Jolly Bacchus, from whence he removed in November last, to the Rose and Crown, at Fowey. The deceased, a person of the Jewish persuasion, was in habits of intimacy with the prisoner. About the 16th of November, two letters were addressed to Valentine (then in Dock) by the prisoner, desiring him to come down to Fowey, where he (the prisoner) had some buttons, or guineas, to dispose of. Relying on the statement, D Valentine accordingly went down on the 19th of the same month; but on his arrival, instead of introducing Valentine, as he had proposed, to the persons whom he had stated as dealing in coin, the prisoner contrived to amuse and deceive him, in various ways, until Monday evening, the 25th of November, when, under pretence of taking him (Valentine) to Captain Best, he led him to a place or quay called the Broad Slip, in Fowey, and pushed him into the water, where he first suffocated, and then robbed him of 2601. which he afterwards deposited in a heap of dung on his own premises. No doubt whatever could be entertained of the prisoner's guilt, from a long but strong train of circumstantial evidence; and after a trial of eleven hours' continuance, on Thursday last, he was found guilty of felony and murder, and sentenced to be hung at Launceston. The intended breakwater in Ply mouth Sound, which is to render that anchorage safe from the dangerous swell which now rolls in from the Atlantic, it is estimated, will cost one million three hundred thousand pounds, and will employ 1600 men nearly seven years in completing It will be formed of 850 fathoms of sunken masses of marble rock (only 180 feet short of a mile), at a distance of about half a mile from the shore, a proper height above the water, and on which are to be a pier and a light-house. Åt Stafford assizes, Benjamin Maycock was found guilty of having shot his brother, a farmer at Ham, with whom the prisoner had lived as a servant, but had left him in consequence of a disagreement. On the night of the murder, the deceased was sitting with his family, his wife at her spinning-wheel, when a gun was fired through the window, which kiled the husband. The murderer w not scen; but in some sand a fost-mark was discovered, five or six yards from the window which was shot through. Next day, the prisoner was sent for to fetch a brother of Mrs Maycock's, and while he was up stairs he left his shoes in the kitchen. During his absence, the widow of the deceased went with her daughter-in-law, and compared one of the shoes with the mark of the footstep, and they exactly corresponded; the shoe-heel exactly fitted the impression of two large nails in the fore part of the heel, with a small nail between them. The judge (Marshall) in addressing the prisoner, said, he had not only shed the blood of a fellow-creature, but even that of his own brother, probably led thereto by sordid and avaricious motives; clothed in darkness, and in the privacy of night, he saw him in the bosom of his family in quiet and repose, and had left him a lifeless corpse. The circumstances which led to his detection seemed to have been guided by Providence— the print of the heel of the shoe; and Providence seemed to have directed that he should leave his shoe at the very house where he had committed the crime, that it might be compared with that print before it was effaced. He then pronounced the sentence of Death. FASHIONS. Pelisses, though they ever will serve for the promenade, are now, from the mildness of the weather, in which spring evinces its approach, generally thrown away; and a new article, the short Indian coat, seems to be very prevalent among our elegantes; it is generally of a fawn colour, and made of fine Merino cloth, richly embroidered with silk of the same colour, dows the front and seams, and the bosom ornamented a-la-militaire. Some of these coats are made in the form of the Sicilian tunic, open before, and are worn with a large Chinese hat, of pale brown beaver, entirely plain. The peasant's mantle of fine cloth of a drab colour, with the slope of the neck formed only of a few plaits, fastened down with a cordon and button, and the corners of the mantle simply rounded, are much worn by those ladies who affect a simplicity in their morning attire; we have also observed a few spensers; and over these is thrown in elegant drapery, a long India shawl of the scarf kind, the colour of the palest Ceylon ruby, the ends enriched by a variegated border; this is a beautiful article for a demi-saison costume, and is suited to every age. The Ciudad Rodrigo cap of crimson velvet trimmed with go'd lace, and pelisse or spenser of the same, have appeared on a few ladies who are seldom seen in the streets of the metropolis without a carriage. The gowns are made in the same style as last month, only that high dresses seem more than ever discarded; even for domestic parties, or home attire, many ladies have entirely thrown them aside.-Embroidery on all gowns seems very prevalent. Coloured crapes over white satin are much worn on an evening. Merino crape and plain sarsnet yet hold their pre-eminence at the dinner party, trimmed with lace, beads, or ribbon, according to the taste and fancy of the wearer; but the trimming most in requisition is a kind of chain gimp composed of dark chemise, intermixed with small white beads. Bandeaux, either of jewels, bugles, fr polished steel, are worn extremely low on the forehead, almost a-la-Bellisaire: the ladies wish to remind us that "The god of love a bandeau wears." Pearls and amethysts intermingled with topazes of the deepest Brazilian dye, and elegantly wrought necklaces of the purest sterling gold, seem the most favourite ornaments in the jewellery line at present.-The hair is drest in the same style as last month. APRIL. 2d.-BANK OF SCOTLAND.-On Tuesday, the following noblemen and gentlemen were unanimously chosen Governor, Deputy-Governor, and Directors of the Bank of Scotland: GOVERNOR. The right honourable Lord Viscount Melville. DEPUTY-GOVERNOR.· Patrick Miller, Esq. of Dalswinton. ORDINARY DIRECTORS.James Walker, Esq. one of the principal clerks of session-John Marjoribanks, Esq. banker-David Reid, Esq. one of the commissioners for fisheries, manufactures, &c. in Scotland-Adam Rolland, Esq. advocate-George Kinnear, Esq. banker-Robert Wilson, Esq. accountant-Donald Smith, Esq. banker-Robert Dundas, Esq. writer to the signetJohn Irving, Esq. writer to the signet-Andrew Bonar, Esq. banker John Dundas, Esq. writer to the signet-Henry Davidson, Esq. writer to the signet. EXTRAORDINARY DIRECTORS.His Grace the Duke of MontroseThe most noble the Marquis of Douglas-The right honourable the Earl of Kellie-The right honour able the Earl of Glasgow-Robert Clerk, Esq. of Mavisbank-Archibald Douglas, Esq. of AdderstonSir Patrick Inglis of Cramond, Bart. -General Sir David Dundas, K. B. -Alexander Keith of Ravelston, Esq.-Right honourable Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster, Bart.-Alexander C. Maitland Gibson of Cliftonhall, Esq.-Honourable David Williamson, Lord Balgray. 3d.-HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. -Tuesday came on the trial of Robert Gunn and Alexander Macdonald alias White. To the relevancy of the indictment, which charged them with six different acts of robbery, committed on the streets of this city on the night of the 31st December, or morning of the 1st January, no objections were made, and the prisoners having pleaded guilty, and subscribed a judicial declaration of their guilt, in presence of the court and jury, the Solicitor-General, in a short address, in which he stated, that it appearing the prisoners were not the leaders, but the led, in the late disgraceful outrages, and as he trusted enough had been done in the way of example, restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment. The Lord Justice Clerk addressed the prisoners at considerable length on the enormity of those crimes which had brought them to the unhappy situation in which they then stood, and sentenced them to be transported beyond seas for life, under the usual certification. George Napier and John Grotto, whose trial on a former occasion was adjourned, were then put to the bar, and on being asked what they had to say to the indictment, to which at that time they pleaded not guilty? Napier pleaded not guilty of the murder, but guilty of the tenth charge of robbery, viz. that of robbing Peter Bruce, student of medicine, on the South Bridge, of a green silk purse, 5s. 6d. in silver, a gold ring, having a glass in it, and a man's round hat. Grotto likewise pleaded not guilty of the murder, but guilty of the eighth charge of robbery, viz. that of robbing John Buchan Brodie, writer, residing in York Place, of a watch, with a shagreen case, a watch-ribbon, four seals, set in gold, a gold watch key, a blue Morocco leather purse, containing a one-pound note, a sevenshillings piece, 8s. in silver, and a man's round hat. The Solicitor-General in this case also restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment, and the jury returned a verdict of Guilty. 4th. Such intense frost in this country, and in this season of the year, is not in the recollection of the oldest inhabitant, nor has there in all probability been its equal during the last century. On the 25th ult. a grand curling match was decided, on a beautiful sheet of ice, in the parish of Kelton, stewarty of Kirkcud bright. At Carnyhill, in the neighbourhood of Dunfermline, a fine young child was lately attacked by a furious game cock, who brought him to the ground, leaped on him, and picked out one of his eyes. The child was speedily rescued, but lingered a few days in great agony, and then died. We are very much concerned to state, that the last accounts received from the Mediterranean mention, that Lord Henry Lenox, third son of the Duke of Richmond, had fallen from the top-mast of the Blake (of which ship he was lieutenant) into the sea. Lord Henry being ex |