The concourse of spectators, on this awful occasion, was immense. Every window of the streets through which the procession passed was crowded beyond example, but there was not the slighest interruption or tendency to disorder. For the most part a general silence prevailed as the procession moved, being only interrupted by occasional ejaculatory cur ses. When the cart stopped at Mr Marr's, at Mr Williamson's, and at the hole, there were universal shouts and expressions of execration. A hackney-coachman, who had drawn up near the top of Old Gravel Lane, bestowed two or three cuts on the body as it passed, accompanied with an ejaculation which it is unnecessary to repeat. From the appearance of the body, Williams is conjectured to have been about 30 years of age. He was near six feet in height, with a strong fierce countenance. When the procession began to move, there were two men in the cart, to prevent the body rolling off; but their assistance appearing to be superfluous, they descended, and the body was then left perfectly exposed to the view of every spectator. During the last half hour the crowd had increased immensely; they pour ed in from all parts, but their demeanour was perfectly quiet. All the shops in the nehbourhood were shut, and the wioctus and tops of the houses were crowded with spectators. On every side, mingled with execrations of the murderer, were heard fervent prayers for the speedy detection of his accomplices. 3d. Our readers will recollect the melancholy consequence of the overturn of one of the Glasgow coaches, on the road between West Craigs and Airdrie, in the month of October last year, when Mr Brown, formerly hair-dresser in Edinburgh, unfortunately lost his life, and his wife was so much bruised as to place her life in imminent danger for a considerable length of time.-In consequence of this calamity, an action of damages was brought against the proprietors of the coach, and the proprietor of the post-chaise, with which the coach was racing at the time the accident happened, which appeared to be occasioned by that most unwarrantable offence. After perusal of proofs, and a full hearing of counsel, Lord Meadowbank, ordinary, found the defendents in the following sums, with full expence of process : To Mrs Brown, in compensation of damages suffered in her per L.300 To her, for the loss of her hus and on the borders of Derbyshire, the terror and alarm of the inhabitants is such, occasioned by the late nocturnal attacks on the property of peaceable individuals, that they are afraid to go to bed at nights; and it has been deemed necessary to keep watch alternately, for the protection of their property. STATE OF THE KING'S HEALTH.The following bulletin was exhibited on Saturday : Windsor Castle, January 4. The king continues nearly in the same state. (Signed.) H. HALFORD. M. BAILLIE. W. HEBERDEN. J. WILLIS. R. WILLIS. 5th.-FINANCES.-We are happy to lay before our readers the following comparative statement of the following heads of revenue in the two quarters ending 5th January, 1811, and 5th January, 1812. The excess in favour of the latter quarter is above 345,0001. 1811. 1812. Captain Fanshawe, which was in company (drawing less water) beat over the Sands, and, from the damage she received, was afterwards obliged to run into the Texel, where the officers and crew were made prisoners.-Intelligence of this afflicting event has been transmitted to the admiralty by Admiral Foley, who says, that such was the violence of the gale, that the Grasshopper, in going ashore, beat clean over the wreck of the Hero. These afflicting events are confirmed by the French papers. The Desiree frigate has sailed with a flag of truce to the Texel, to obtain correct particulars of the fate of the crew. The officers of the Hero, who perished in her, were Capt. James N. Newnhan; Lieutenants James Wilcox, John Allen Meadway, John Mitchell, John Norton, Charles B. Hitchens; Mr John M. Leake, purser; John Meritt, gunner; William B. Watson, boatswain; Mr Thomas Murray, carpenter. 7th.-PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES' BIRTH-DAY.-The observance of the Princess Charlotte of Consol. Customs, L.912,433.. L.1,306,293 Wales' birth-day was noticed this day Consol Excise, 3.964,910...3,948.439 in a more particular manner by the Consol. Stamps, 1,273,473...1,241,665 royal family and others than it has Accounts are received of the loss hitherto been done. Her royal highof his Majesty's ship Hero, of 74 guns, ness completed her sixteenth year, Captain Newnham, on her return to upon which occasion her royal faEngland from the Baltic. She sailed ther, the prince regent, gave a grand from Gottenburgh on the 18th ult. dinner at Carlton House, to the in company with the Egeria sloop, queen, &c. who came from WindCaptain Lewis Hole, and 150 sail of sor for that purpose. Her majesty vessels for England; on the 20th, the arrived at the queen's palace in her Hero and 50 sail only were in com- travelling carriage, escorted by a pany; and on the 23d, the Egeria party of light horse, at 12 o'clock, (arrived at Leith) lost sight of them accompanied by Princesses Augusta in thick blowing weather. The Hero and Mary, attended by Lady Ayleswas lost on Christmas day, off the bury. Soon after, her majesty and Texel, on the Haak Sands, and, we the princesses were visited by the lament to state, with all the crew ex- Duke of Cambridge. About half cept eight. The Grasshopper sloop, . past one o'clock the prince regent's carriage, with the coachman and three footmen in their state liveries, arrived at the queen's palace, and took the queen and princesses to Carlton House, where the Dukes of Kent and Cumberland were in attendance to receive them, who conducted them to the prince regent, who received his royal mother with the most filial affection and attention, and introduced his beloved daughter, the Princess Charlotte, who they congratulated on the return of the day. Her royal highness ap peared extremely well. The prince conducted the queen and princesses to view his elegant house, and the repairs lately done to it, till near four o'clock, when the royal party sat down to a sumptuous dinner in the crimson velvet room. The queen was attended by Lady Aylesbury. The prince by Generals Turner and Keppel, and Colonel Congreve. The Princess Charlotte by Lady de Clifford. At a quarter past six the queen and princesses left Carlton House by torch-light for Windsor. The queen was conducted to her carriage by the prince, as were his sisters. The day was observed as a day of rejoicing generally at Carlton House. 12th.-Sunday night, between the hours of nine and ten, the house of Mr Pryor, boot and shoemaker, 72, St Margaret's-hill, Borough, was entered by two men, who picked the lock. The servant-maid was in the cellar, and on coming into the shop saw a man, with a crape on his face, taking down the boots. The girl took him for her master, and asked him if he was going out? The man directly said, if you speak or move I'll cut your throat. The girl called murder, and flew to the door, and shoved one man out, and shut it. The man then seized the girl and cut her throat about an inch, gave a cut on her arm,, and then knocked her down, after which he made his escape. Mr Pryor came down, but being in the dark, was alarmed, and went back for a light, and when he returned found a great many boots packed up to take away. Sarah Wilkins (the servant-maid above-mentioned) is declared out of danger. 13th.-George Hatton and Moses Clark were, on Friday, apprehended by Collingbourn and Glennen, on suspicion of being concerned in the outrage at Mr Pryor's, on Sunday evening last. They underwent a long private examination before Mr Evance and Mr Hicks, at Union Hall, but, Sarah Wilkins still continuing in too weak a state to be confronted with them, they were commited for re-examination. The parish of St Saviour has offered 501. reward for the apprehension of any of the persons concerned in this atrocious outrage. DEATH OF THE DUKE OF BucCLEUCH.-His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch died at Dalkeith House on Saturday after a short illness.His Grace was Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Marquis of Dumfries-shire, Earl of Dalkeith, Sanquhar, and Drumlanrig, Viscount Nith, Torthowald, and Ross, Lord Scot of Eskdale, Douglass of Kinmount, Middlebie, and Dornock :Also Earl of Doncaster and Lord Tynedale in England, Knight of the Garter, Lord Lieutenant of the counties of Edinburgh and Roxburghshire, Governor of the Royal Bank of Scotland, &c. His grace was born in 1746, and succeeded his grandfather in 1752. He was the only son of Francis, Earl of Dalkeith, by Lady Caroline Campbell, eldest daughter of John, the Great Duke of Argyle. In 1767, his grace married Elizabeth ing of the 11th of October (the day on which Anderson and Menzies, two thieves, were executed at Stirling, by sentence of the Circuit Court of Justiciary), with one or more persons, attacked, in the town of Stirling, Archibald Stewart, cattle-dealer in Dalspidle, who had just arrived from Falkirk Tryst, where he had received a sum of money, and of having struck and wounded him severely on the head, and other parts of the body, to the effusion of his blood, and loss of his senses for the time, and of robbing him of one thousand and ten pounds sterling, chiefly in notes of the Falkirk Bank Company. Montagu, only daughter of the last Duke of Montagu, by whom he has issue, Charles William, now Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, and Henry James, Lord Montagu, and four daughters, viz. the Countess of Courtown, Countess of Home, Marchioness of Queensberry, and Countess of Ancram; all of whom have families. His grace is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest son, Charles William, Earl of Dalkeith, who married Harriet, daughter of the late Viscount Sydney, and has several children. His grace succeeded at an early age to a princely fortune, which gave him the means of indul. ging his natural disposition to public. spirit and private liberality; to which purposes, accordingly, a considerable part of his immense funds were known to be applied. He was exceedingly affable in his manners; and, what deserves to be recorded of a person so greatly exalted both in rank and fortue, was a real friend to the poor. As a landlord, his liberality was well known; he was easy of access, and always ready to take an active part in any scheme of benevolence and humanity. LIEUTENANT HAMILTON CROFTON.-At the Portsmouth Sessions, which commenced on Wednesday last, a true bill was found against Mr Hamilton Crofton, for purloining sundry articles of value from Mr Bradbury, and some gentlemen, at the inns in Portsmouth. Mr C. was accordingly put upon his trial; but, on the prosecutor being called, nobody appeared in support of the indictment, and he was consequently acquitted. 14.-EDINBURGH.--HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.-Yesterday came on the trial of Alexander Cain, alias O'Kane, accused of having, on the even After the jury were sworn in, the counsel for the prisoner stated an objection, that the notes of the Falkirk Banking Company, charged in the indictment as taken from the prisoner, were not lodged in due time in the hands of the clerk of Justiciary, to be shewn to the prisoner's counsel. The court repelled the objection.-The witnesses were then examined for the crown. Sir Thomas Kirkpatrick, Bart. Sheriff-depute of the shire of Dumfries, swore, that the notes of the Falkirk Banking Company exhibited, were taken from the person of the prisoner, in a small public house in the town of Dumfries; some of them were concealed near the waistband of his breeches; and also two twentypound notes, which he endeavoured to conceal in his hand, while they were searching him, and several others were found concealed in the chimney of the room where he was.-Sir Thomas, and William Rae, Esq. Sheriff-depute of the shire of Edinburgh, identified the declarations emitted by the prisoner, some of which he refused to sign unless they wers written over again and altered. Archibald Stewart, cattle-dealer, swore, that being upon the streets of Stirling, upon the evening of the 11th of October, he saw three or four men coming up, one of whom was a big man; that he was immediately knocked down and robbed of the money libelled upon, and that he was much cut and bruised by a blow on the head, which bled very much, and rendered him senseless; when the money was taken from him, he heard them say, "lay to him.”; He acknowledged that he had been drinking drams on his way to Stirling, and after he arrived there, but was not intoxicated, and knew very well what he was about. This witness not understanding the English language well, was examined in Gaelic by a gentleman who was sworn to interpret faithfully the answers he made. Some witnesses proved Stewart's getting the Falkirk notes libelled, at the Falkirk market, on the 11th. Other witnesses swore, that the prisoner was at Falkirk Tryst on the 9th and 10th of October, when he was considered as a very suspicious character, and that he was at Stirling on the 11th, when the robbery was committed, and was seen passing the house, near to which Stewart was knocked down and robbed, about the time of the robbery. He was traced to Edinburgh, and from thence to Dumfries, and he had changed 201. notes of the Falkirk Bank, at several public-houses on the road. He was apprehended at Dumfries, and the Falkirk notes found in his possession, as above-mentioned, by Sir T. Kirkpatrick. The several declarations of the prisoner were then read, which were very contradictory. The Lord Advocate addressed the jury for the crown, at considerable length, in a very able speech, as did J. H. McKenzie, Esq. for the pri soner. The Lord Justice Clerk summed up the evidence with his usual candour and ability, and the jury were ordered to return their verdict the next day at one o'clock. The court accordingly met this day, when the jury returned their verdict, all in one voice finding the pannel guilty; and, after a suitable address from the Lord Justice Clerk, he was sentenced to be executed at Stirling, on Friday, the 21st of February next. 17th.-NOTTINGHAM.-On Saturday last a number of men, supposed not less than forty, disguised in various ways, and armed with pistols, &c. proceeded to the house of Mr Benson; and, after sentinels had been placed at all the neighbours' doors, and the avenues leading to it, about eight entered; and some of them drove the family into the pantry, with threats of immediate death, if they created the least alarm, with the exception of one woman, who was expected every hour to fall in travail, and she was permitted to remain in the parlour; the rest proceeded into the work-shop, and demolished the eight frames in about as many minutes. They escaped without detection. evening, about six o'clock, eight men entered the house of Mr Noble, at New Radford, in various disguises, and armed with different instruments; while one remained below to take care of Mrs Noble, the others proceeded up stairs to demolish four warp lace frames, because they were making what is called two course hole. In vain Mr Noble informed them that he was receiving eightpence a yard more than the standing price." It On Monday |