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One Hundred Tons of Mosimaii SUGAR, Fifty Tool of COCOA, • Rye Tons of BUTTER, and Eight Teas of CHERRY. : FROM 'IIIE LONDON .GiiETtIL, -JULY 17. At the Court at Windsor, the llith day of July, 1327, presents the King's Moat Excellent Slainsty in Council. His Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Meet Noble the Marquis of Lansdown to be one of his Majesty's Principal Secre ludas, his Lordship was this day, by his Majesty's command, sworn 41111 of his Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State accordingly. His Mak:sty having hems pleased to deliver the custody of the Privy Seal to the Right Hon. the Earl of Carlisle, the oath of the Keeper of the Privy Seal was this day administered to him, and his Lordship took his place at the Board accordingly. FRENCH PAPE43. FROM ?At GAttiTt Dt 11PRANCt OP MONDAY, JULY 16. PARIS, JULY Is. A letter from Toulon, of the Bth of July says, the Volcan, gabarie, commanded by M. de Laplace, has just arrived from Bona, which it left on the '2oth of June ; it has on board 28 French passengers, men and women, among whom is the family of the French Consul at . Bona. It joined on the way, off Leghorn, the Etincelle, which sailed from Bona two days before it, having on• der its convoy 142 boats that were employed in the coral fishery. Sixty communes of the arrondissement of Jonzae, department of the Lower Charente, were devastated in the night of the 2d, by a storm of hail of size such as never before was seen. The hailstones were most of them as large as a hen's egg. The vineyards and the torn, which promised the finest crops, are wholly de- attoied. Of these 60 communes there are 40 which have absolutely nothing left to maintain their wretched inhabitants. Their despair is extreme. The Sub-Pre fect of Jouzac had immediately solicited the promptest relief for these unfortunate people, both of the Royal Family and the Government. WHITEHALL, Jots , 14. The King has been pleased to direct letters potent to be passed cadet the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Isike4, essitilm*. and appointing the Right Honourable George Couliag N athaniel Conyogham, Esq. (commonly called Bided Mount Charles); Francis Leven= Gower, Esq. (commonly What Vard Francis Leveson Gower); Edward Granville Eliot, (commonly called Lord Eliot ; a nd t h e Right Hon. Maurice ; nod also Edmund Alexander No Naghten. F.sq. to be' for executing the takes of Treasurer of the Riche •°4l4l:lll4l=eiritain and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland. 'WHITEHALL, Jima' 14. The Wog bustle,* pleased to direct letter's patent to be posted under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom, constituting and appointing the Right Honourable William Sturges Bourne to be Warden and Keeper of the Sew Forest, in the county of South• hampton, in the room of hisßoyal Highness the Duke of York,do ceased. To be delivered Into his Majesty% Vietnams Stores, at Debtford, ot half of the Flour by the 10th of sew nod the remainder jiy the 20th of that Month; and osts halientsinsh of the other ar. *why the iSch of August, and the ruinabelsr by the 13th of Serrate twit. &sea of the Sugar and Cocoa, of not lees than three pounds wish each, Mil be required to be produced with the Tendert for int irides. me Candidata of the Contracts may be seen at this Mee. Ed Tender must specify the price to words at length, and be ikinered before One &Clock on the day appointed ; and the Prise who makes the Tender, or some Person on his behalf, ea attend to answer when called for. . 'COW QIIOTID1211112.; PARIS, Jon a , 14. A letter from Lisbon, which arrived yesterday at Paris, announces a new change that has just taken place lin the Portuguese Cabinet. M. de Palnsella will not receive the Portefeeille for Foreign Affairs—it is con fided to M. de Villa Real. This last choice proves, that the new arrangement of the Ministry has been made in a very different spirit from that which presided over the last. M r4LLBR CLIZTOM KENT. DESIRABLE COTTAGWRESI FURNISHED, WITH lIIIIISOLITE WHITEHALL, Jinx 34. The King has bees pleased to present the Honourable and Rey. Henry Watson, M.A. to the Rectory of Kettering, in the county of Northam and diocese of Peterborough. The glug has also been pleased to present the Rev. Joseph Broeklebaak to the Rectory of Delaniere, to the county and diocese By Mr. ROBINS, (arwick Home, Itegent-street) of Chester. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. George Berwick and Joseph Beckley, Dover.street, Piccadilly, hotel-keepers, from July ko, to July 31, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basinghall-street. COTTAGE ORNE E, hand , and completely Furnished ; a productive and Pleasure Ground, Coach Heine, and Horses, sltnate in a fine part of the County of - miles from the Metropolis, with a constant Coaches. Letters from the frontiers of Portugal say, that the Guerillas are multiplying in the Northern Provinces of the kingdom. Between Mirandella and Marc', there I exists a band of 400 men, and one still more numerous at Marco; another Guerilla band near the bridge of Chaves, lately set at liberty 200 recruits, who were 'marching on the depot established at Peniche; fifty re-1 emits were in a similar manner set at liberty lately, near' the fortress of Montfort, by the common peasantry.— In general, adds our Correspondent, the Constitutional Governmrnt can raise no recruits in the Northern Pro. winces ; the young people seek refuge in the mountains in the neighbourhood of their habitations, or in distant •illager, where they conceal themselves; many of them emigrate. Tickets, Particulars may be bad of Mr. Ito t.street. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSRDED. thane reseal, of Birmingham, tun-barrel-rubber. BANKRUtTS. Margaret Gadden, Cleveland -street, }lt:toy-square, widow, vic tualler, to surrender, August 2, at six, 3, at eleven, and Ys, at nine, at the Court f CommissiOpen of Bankrupts, Basioghall sweet. Attornies, Messrs. Hurd and Co. King s Bencls.walk, Temple. Joseph Boughton, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire 'scrivener, August at. Svc, 2, and 23, at ten, at the Anchor ion, Tewkesbury. Attornirs, Messrs. Jenkins and Cu. New Inn; ur Mr. Sproule, Tewkelbury. (CERN HAM, MIDDLESEX. . BE LET FURNISHED, • ' By Mr. ROBINS, larwick House, Regent-street) Pleas nt VILLA RESIDENCE, planned, and adapted for the Accommodation the first Respectability, with extensive Plea. I Gravel Walks, capful Gardens, well stocked .diand clothed with the choicest Fruit Trees • Houses stored with Vines; Finery, M.lo n • Home; Stables for Nine Horses, and the *George Hodgkinsoa, Derby, hatter, August 3,6, and 2s, at twelve, at the Mink Tavern, Ponies. Attornies, Messrs. Brown and Co. Furnival's Inn; or Mr. Caught, Penns. John Albra, Chelmsford, innkeeper, July 25, 51, and August tit, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basing. ball-street. Attornies, Mews. Perkins and Co. Guy's Inn square. William John Hooper and Charles Barrows, Adam.street, Adolpid, wine merchants, July 90, 27, and August 21, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners of Bankrupts, BasingbaU-street. AWN'. as., Messrs. Mooing and Co. Ease: -court, Temple. Matthew Maseyment, Swallhain, Norfolk, cabinet-maker, July' 60,51, at figg, and August as, at one, at the Rampan t H o n e lan, Norwift. Anoraks, Mr. Thomas Brightwell, Norwich; or Wart. Taylor and Co. King's fiends-walk, Temple. William Woodcock, Prestos, Lancashire ' timber-merchant, August a, 5, and ,s, at 'titan, at the OMes of Messrs. Pilkington, Preston. Attornica, Hr. Blalteloth,Serjearrts' Inn, Fleet -street; or Messrs. Pilklogton Preston. Thomas Carpenter, Idat-klam•House East. Ham, Baez, school master and publisher, July 20, 27. a nd August 22, at ten, at the Court of -Commissioners of Bankrupts, Basingball.street. At torney, Mr. Kinder, Mark-lane. Thomas Lowe, Ifiddiewich, Cheshire, wharfinger and factor, July 50, at four, 31, at eleven and August 29, at two, at the Albion Inn, Hanley. Anomie:, Mr. Wolston, Funalvars Ina; or Mr. Ward, Burslem, Staffordshire. James Ireland, Cattistria, Dorsershin ' farmer, July 30, 51, and August as, at eleven, at the George Inn, Crewkerne, Somerset.. shire. Attornin, Mews. Shoe and Co. New Inn ; or Mr. Maly, Crewkerne. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTE. tete, which, with Particulars, may be had Resent4trevt. BT SIR WALTER SCOTT. JOSRPHINR AND MARIA LOUISA. HERTFORDSHIRE, MILES FROM OXFORD-STREET. BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, LET FURNISHED, By Mr. ROBINS, tarwick House, Regent-street) Pleasant RESIDENCE, adapted for iodation of a Gentleman's Family, conveniently excellent range of Domestic Offices, Coach Hauer, s Ground, tastefully laid out with thriving and Flowers; extensive Gravelled Walks, .a stocked, cro pped, and planted with choice Land. in all ELEVEN ACRES; situate in a Sporting part of the County of Herta, about 19 Oxford -street, in the vicinity of several Packs of Hounds, Neighbourhood, and excellent Roads in all directions. • Tickets, which, with Particulars, may be bad Regent-street. ' 4s a domestic occurrence, nothing could 1310r0 contribute to &dainties happiness than ;bunion 'with Maria Louisa. He was wont to compare her with Josepisbe, by giving the latter aII the advantages of an and grace; the former the charms of simple modesty sad inomeme. HU former Empress used mere art to support at enhance her personal charms; but with se much pru deter and mystery, that the secret cares of her toilette could sever be traced--her necessor trusted for the power of pleasing to youth and nature. Josephine mismanaged her revenue, and Incurred debt ' without scruple. Marla Louisa lived within her income, or If s h e desired soy indulgence beyond it, which was rarely the case, she asked It as a favour of Napoleon. Josephine, accustomed to poll deal intrigue, loved to manage, to influence, and to guide her hus band ; Marla Louisa desired only to please rad to obey him. Both were excellent women, of great sweetness of temper, and fondly attached to Napoleon: In the difference between these diode guiehed persons we can easily discriminate the leading features of the Parisian, and of the simple German beauty; but it is certainly singular that the a:Meal character should have belonged to the daughter of the Nest Indian Planter; that marked by mature and desplicity, to a Princess of the proudest Court in Europe. Botta parte, whose domestic conduct was generally praiseaorthy, behaved with the utmost kindness to his princely bride. He observed, how ever, the strictest etiquette, and tequired ft from the Empress. If it happened, for example, as was often the case, that be was pre. vented from attending at the hour when dinner was placed on the table, he was displeased, if in the interim of his absence, which was often prolonged, sbe either took a book, or bad recourse to any female occupation—if, in short, be did not find her in the attitude of waiting for the signal to take ber place at the table. - NAPOLEON'S TALENTS AS A CALCULATOR. . li ENSINGTON-SQUARIL RESIDENCE, with GARDEN, he. BY PRIVATE CONTRACT, By Mr. ROBINS, Warwick Haan, Ragent.erea) ' and IMPROVABLE FREEHOLD LAND TAX REDEEMED, Charles Warwick, Kennington-lane, Lambeth, braid•manufacturer, is in insolvent circumstances, and is unable to meet his engagr ments with his creditors—Filed July 11. DIVIDENDS to be made in BASINGHALL.STREET. July 24, Lawrence Thompson, Great St. Helens, printer, at ten. Aug. 7, John Woodcock, Westham, Essex, mapenter, at twelve. Aug. 7, Edward Tooth, Hastings, Sussex, haberdasher, at two. 4 July 27, Thomas Berwash, Bishopsgate-street Without, pawn. broker, at two. Aug. 7, John Wood, Lombard.street, scrivener, at eleven. Aug. 7, William Wells, Norwich, tailor, at ten. Nov. 11, John Poymon and Thomas Poynton, Brook street, Holborn, and of Sheffield, Yorkshire, hardwaremen, at ten. DIVIDENDS to be made in the COUNTRY. :RABLE FAMILY RESIDENCE, South ad* of . s'alisadoes and Gate, with Paved Fore Court, Breakfast and Dining Parlour, Library, Drawing out, &c. Principal and Servants' Bed Rooms; ; Garden, or Pleasure Ground, Kitchen Garden. tbuildings, Tickets, which, with Particulars, may be bad ' 70, Regent-street. Aug. 9, Thomas Matthews and William Bingham, Kingston upon-Hull, drapers, at eleven, at Heyward's Hotel, Bridge-street, Manchester. Aug. 8, George Frederick Baker and George Kent Pearson, Macclesfield, silk manufacturers, at nine, at the ',Maccles field Arms Inn, Macclesfield. Aug. 8, John Ridgway, Macclesfield, silk manufacturer, at nine, at the Macclesfield Arms Inn, Mac clesfield. Aug. 8, J. Jackson, late of Macclesfield, silk throwster, at nine, at the Macclesfield Arms Inn. Macclesfield. Aug. 11, William Brett and James Helah, Burdens, Staffordshire, grocers, at eleven, at the Liiiktores Arms Inn, Penkridge, Staffordshire. Aug. 10, Win. Thomas, Ledbury, Herefordshire, maltster, and porter dealer, at eleven, at the Plume of Feathers Inn and Hotel, Ledbury. Aug. ld, James Roberts, Holbeck, Leeds, Yorkshire, woolstaplet, at clever), at the Court House, Leeds. CIRTIFICATILS.—Aux. 7. Thomas Coe, &sham, Oxford, innkeeper. J. Rogers, City road, printer. J. Procter and S. Procter, Leeds, machine makers. Thos. Peones, Mitre -court, Fenchurch-street, wine merchant. W. !feller, late d Roehampton, Surrey, butcher. George A. Gasley, late of Great Newport-street, Long Acre, upholsterer. James Hutcheson and Charles Cleverly, Chiswell.street, lineudrapers. CUMBERLAND. ILE FREEHOLD ESTATES, 4PORTING BOX, ',TING OVER TWENTY THOUSAND ACRES, , with Grouse, Black Cocks, fcc. ALSO, I.ICILLYINT Form. tLXI EY PRIVATE CONTRACT, By Mr. ROBINS, Warwick Home, Regent.street,) A BOX, with KENNELS, and all necessary Accommodation ; Right ot Sporting over Twenty Thousand Acres of Land, lowing with Grouse, Black Cocks, and every species of Oasse, Ml now preserved; esceßent Raking, &c. The MAN OlLwi t l i ts Ta sk s . Rights, and capital Estates, let to Aionsble Tenants. The whole of the Annual Value of nearly THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED POUNDS, advantageous Investment for the Centralist, ening the attention of the Sportsman. Particulars apply to Messrs. Vi and Co. Lincoln's Inn- London t Meseta. Mouneey, Carlisle ; Mr. Yale, Long a; John Archibald Campbell, Esq. W.S. Edinburgh nod of Mho, No. 170, Regent.street, London. EnVOUS COMPLAINTS AND DEBILITY. FOTHERGILL'S NERVOUS DROPS.—To dace who are afflicted with Nervous disorders and their 1,72 4 , truing alections, as Oppression of Spirits, Head Aches, r 4 )petite, Indigestion, Spasms, Tremors, Fainting Fits, 1. or Relaxation of the System, it is confidently re to have recourse to the above celebrated Medicine they are assured of obtaining immediate relief, and by 1 0:_igneveran ce in it agreeably to the directions given, the corn- L t.rstal. lishment of their health. iii•A m ‘ bottles at is. 6d. lls. and 225. by Messrs. Bader. Che "l'idePaul's, Landon; 54, Sackville sr. , Corner of St • ta; "" ' rn Princes-street, Edinburgh vory by and 36, New Bond -street, and 220, Regenxstree t ; an d the Medicine Venders in the Kingdom. Of whom nisy be • ru ilit1001.1:11 TOIIIC F[llo LI Flour, recommended in Debility of the Constitution ; also as a safe and excellent lh o Periodical Irregularities which Females, of delicate circulation, more eapecially the yutlyirr Fig; ale l'bk kses at Is. 1 pd. and •.:s. 34. Mitered before One o'clot Fr as wbo makes the Ten cot attend to answer when f DESIRABLE CC ' TO BE LET FDENIP POf B 1 Be (Of Warwick ' IL A DESIRABLE CO l owly fitted up, and Gerdes, Green House, and P Stable for Tbree Horses, site Lit, about eighteen miles fr eammmtication by the Coombe T. be viewed by Tickets, km, N.. 170, Regent-street. • TWICKENFI TO BE LE By NI (Of Warwick ADesirable Pleas a CeenideCtly planned, of a Family of the first I tem Groonds, with Gravel 1 ad cropped. walled- and clot he sod Green Houses a farads, and Coach House as of the Cows. Tab, viewed by Ticket, w dit. Robbie, 170, Regent. HERT OBIT NINETEEN MI TO BE SOLD BY OR LET p i pd (Of Warwick 1 Desirable Pleasant &LIM accommodation of ibusd, with an excellent ran Wit,, and Pleasure Groui burns, Shrubs, and Fl , cogent Garden, well stocker kik Trees, and Land. in 1 heedful and fine Sporting pa iiin tram Oxford -street, in tl loiiul Neighbourhood, and tie viewed by Tickets, dlr. Robins, 170, Regent.i ERNST/It SPACIOUS FAMILY It] TO BE SOLD BY B/ I (Of Warwick AVALU ABLE and I ESTATE, LAN 0 AVERY DESIRABI Situate on the Sou:l Itlidand by Iron Palisadoes !Waste Bali, Breakfast ant aaan. Water Gout, &c. 1 isonte °Ems ; Garden, o Nage, awl Outbuildings, Übe viewed by Tickets • i t Mr. 110 1 Ins, N 0.170, Bei I. Cull a VALUABLE P i SPOB LIGHT OP SPORTING Abounding with Ace°, 1.1 TO BE SOLD BI By 11 (Of Warwick A spoRTING Bo] • Rectum: A Right of Sporting ove *audios with Grouse, a Ail now ?realm o' Tke 11 AN OR,vritl its TI anceptionable Tenants. TI ONE THOUSAND S 1 t ' of altogether an advar and highly deserving ' ...Per Particulars apply to p ' r i ll London ; Mi l a ni. I • ? aril John Archibald Can mss, No. 170 lieges 2 ' NERVOUS come bit FOTHERGI Ll ,thsse who are a ffl ict j"'"' , Cktressing affections, 4411Lhypetite, Indigestii ~..=l,t o r Relaxation -‘77l!lnith: have recotn • ;7 11 1 7irb a y are assured la.,Mltyer nce in it agr e 7 _nta , lishm ent of th. .7.7 1 H bottl es at is. 6,11. = Oslipidt, corner e t --'l)4lk n and 73 P a 1 ,, „ ,w . , r • I , ; _,^ 1 : 4 1 . liond-ureet, wri . s..,dicide Venders I JR• Fortino:cis Tim I . , I rhbilny of the C om "f in tilos/ periodical h 6 1W4 circu ict • ion mot to klet at is. l e'rl. an • 1 -1 PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. H. Banks and F. Jones, Hyde, Isle of Wight, surgeons. Is Slight and Geo. Robertson, Brightbelmaton, Sussex, auctioneer.. Samuel Lathan', Edw. Rice, and H. Latham, Dover, bankers. W. Pinch, M.D. Henry Coates, and Jas. Lacy. keeper► of the Laver stock-house Lunatic Asylum, Laverstock, Wiltshire. J. CressweU and Henry Kitchio, Portland -street, Soho, goldsmiths. William Bartholomew and George Bartholomew, Brick-lane, Spiral&lds, hearth-rag manufacturers. Henry Goldthorp and Solomon Gold thorp, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, clothier+. Arch. Grahame and Thomas Struthers, Glasgow, writers. Wm. Soutberst and Juhn Hall, liotch Bank, Lancashire, cotton spinners. John Jackson and Richard Jones, Ilaggerstone-lane, Shoreditch, chemists. Jas. Brice, John Brice, and William Brice, Taunton, carriers. James Beveridge and James Hay, Newiate-street, surgeons. WAR-OFFICE. • Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Southampton—Sir Jaffee@ Fellowes, Ent. to be Deputy Lieu tenant; Edward Walter !hunt, Esq. to be ditto; Archibald Francis William Swinton, Esq. to be ditto; Joseph May, EN. to be ditto; Henry Cleaves Loss, Esq. to be ditto; Ralph Allen Daniel, Esq. to be ditto • William Hicks Bea c h, li sq . to b e di tto; Samuel Raymond Jarvis, Esq. to be ditto; Samuel Wail, Esq. to be ditto; William Abbott, Esq. to be ditto; Peter Rainier, Esq. to be ditto. South Hants Regiment of Militia—Sir John Walter Pollen, Bart. to be Colonel, vice Peter Serie. deceased. Commission* in the lst liegt. of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lard Lieutenant of the county of Oxford—Joseph Henry St. John, Gent, to be Lieutenant, vice Lovell, resigned ; hloutague Bettie., Esq. (commouly called Lord Norreys) to be Lieutenant, vice &idiom, reigned; Henry Flower, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Vlotosb, resigned. . It must be admitted, looking around the city of Paris , and era-~ veiling through the provinces of France, that Bonaparte hat, in the works of peaceful grandeur, left a stamp of magnificence not un worthy of the soaring, and, at the same time, profound spirit, which accomplished so many wonders in warfare. His conduct towards the Empress Josephine was regular and exemplary. From their accession to grandeur till the fatal divorce, as Napoleon once termed it, they shared the privacy of the ante apartment, and for 'many years partook of the same bed. Josephine is said, indeed, to have given her husband, upon whom she had many claims, some annoyance by her jealousy, to which he patiently submitted, and escaped the reproach thrown on so many heroes, and men of genius, that, proof to every thing else, they are not so to the allurements of female seduction. What amours he had were of a passing character. The dignity of his throne was splen didly and magnificently maintained, but the expense was SSW limited by that love of order which arose out of Bonaparte's powers of arithmetical cakulation, habitually and constantly employed, and the trusting to which contributed, it may be, to that external regularity and decorum which he always sup ported. In speaking of his own peculiar taste, Bonaparte said that his favourite work was a book of logarithms, and his choicest amusement was working out the problems. The individual to whom the Emperor made this singular avowal, mentioned it with surprise to an Officer bear his person, who asssled him that not only did Napoleon amuse himself with arithmetical ciphers, and the theory of computation, but that be frequently brought it to bear on his domestic expenses, and diverted himself with comparing the! price at which particular articles were charged to him, with the rata which they ought to have cost at the fair market price, but which,' for reasons unnecessary to state, was in general greatly exceeded.' Las Cases mentions his detecting such an overcharge in the gold fringe which adorned one of his state apartments. A still more curious anecdote respects a watch, which the most eminent artist of Perished orders to finish with his utmost skill, in a style which might become a gift from the Emperor of France to his brother the King of Spain. Before the watch was out of the artist's hands, Napoleon received news of the battle of Vittoria. " All is now over with Joseph," were almost his first words after receiving the intelligence. " Send to countermand the order for the watch." Properly considered, this anecdote indicates no indifference as to his brother's fate, nor anxiety about SaV ng a petty sum ; it was the rigid calculation of a professed accountant, whose habits of accuracy induce bin to bring every los, to a distinct balance, however trivial the set-off may be. But although the Emperor's economy descended to minute Lida, we are not to sup pose that among such was its natural sphere. On the contrary, in the first year of the Consulate, he discovered and rectified- an error in the statement of the Revenue to the amount of two millions of franca, to the prejudice of the State. In another instance, with the skill which only a natural taste for cakioation, brought to ex cellence by constant practice, could have attained, he discovered an enormous overcharge of more than sizty thousand francs in Biopsy accounts of the garrison of Paris. Two such discoveries by the head Magistrate must have gone far to secure regularity in the de. partniepts in which they were made in future. Attending to this remarkable peculiarity throws much light on the character of Bo- n parte. It was by dint of his rapid and powerful combinations that he succeeded."' a General, and the same laws of calculation tau be trag:d :brutish much of his public end Rt Ivey life. IMPORTANT TRIAL BEFORE THE . HIG H . COURT OF JUSTICIARY. EDINBURGH, int ter. John Stewart, merchant in L-ith, was put to the bar, charged, on the statute 6 Geo..IV. c. 126, with the crime of wilfully, maliciously, and ureawfully present ing, pointing, or levelling loadrd fire-arms at John Kei, Esq. W. S. 2, Royal Circus, Edinburgh, and attempt ing, by drawing the trigger, or otherwise, to discharge the same at or against the person of Mr. Ker, with in tent, in so doing, to murder, maim, disable, or inflict on him some grievous bodily injury, &c. &c. Mr. Ker states that he was agent for Lord Donde,. He has seen the prisoner at the bar, and has had trans actions with him on business relating to the collieries at Clackasannan. There was ao arrear of rent to Lord Dundee and to Mr. Bruce of Kennet. Prisoner settled that due to Mr. Bruce, and there were certain armee ments made nigarding hiS detnt to Lord Donal. nas saw prisoner on the Slat of May last in witness's own house, No. 2, Royal Cheus. He dined at home, alone, on that day; prisoner came betwixt six and seven in the evening, and was sbewn into a parlour on the left hand side of the entrance. Witness went to him on being called to do so by the servant, and when he went in he shut the door. There was a table near the middle of the room, and prisoner was standing between it and the wall, and was on witness's left hand as he entered the door. The fire-place was on the opposite side of the table, and witness walked forward and stood in front of it. Prisoner addressed to him some general expres sion as to what he (witness) was going to do with him s upon which the latter informed him, that as connected with the CI ackmannan colliery he could do nothing, and had so stated to his agent in the forenoon I and after a few more words told him he had -nothing farther to say. Witness was about to proceed to the door to shew him out, when the prisoner stept back one or two paces, and pulled a pistol from his pocket. No high words had previously passed between them. Not more than two minutes had elapsed since witness entered the room. Observing that it was a pistol, and that be was cocking it, witness rushed round the table, and closed with him. At that time the pistol was presented towards witness. He endeavoured to seize prisoner's right hand, which held the pistol, and there was an effort on his part to prevent this. He sue ceeded in getting hold of the prisoner's hands, witness e s breast being to the back of the prisoner. He constantly endeavoured by turning his wrist to point the pistol towards witness; witness was desirous to get hold of the pistol, and whilst be had hold of both arms, the pistol was pointed across prisoner's body towards witness's shoulder; and at that period it flashed its the pan. Witness recovered himself so far as to recollect that there was now less danger, so he let go his hold of -prisoner. Had the pistol - goat of when it Hashed, thinks it swoulti -bay, shot hi.., ( witness l in tras left arm. After letting go the prisoner lie went towards the door, with intent to have him secured ; but whilst doing so, observed him pull another ph tot from his pocket; on which he suddenly opened the door, and got into the passage. Saw him lay one pistol down on a sofa or chair, and take another frota his pocket. He was in the act of 'cocking the second pistol when witness reached the door. Witness shut the door after him, and endeavoured to lock it upon the prisoner; but the'bolt hole not being opposite the bolt would not lock, and prisoner suddenly pulled the door to him, and was in the act of raising his arm when witness again closed with him, endeavouring to wrest the pistol from his grasp. He put his arms round prisoner, and pressed his breast close to his own, and holding him so with his right hand, en deavoured with the left to seize the pistol. He got hold of the arm, but so far up that prisoner had lull management of his wrist, and endeavoured to point the pistol towards witness's body. Whilst struggling there, they both came to the ground. Witness was then above the prisoner, and still tried to get hold of the pistol. Having raised himself a little with this view, witness suddenly fell upon his back, and the prisoner, by a vio lent effort, got above him, on the top of his chest—. While in that position witness shouted repeatedly for help, and still struggled to get hold of the pistol, which was different times presented at his head. He at last succeeded in getting hold of it, the prisoner still re taining his bold. While they struggled and witness shouted, prisoner made a blow or thrust at his mouth, and knocked out four of his teeth, at the same time fas tening his bands so into his jaw, that he could not move his head. After he got hold of the pistol, and still in the position described, prisoner spoke, and asked if he would now do him right? Witness said he would do him justice, and ample justice; and this conversation was repeated several times. Prisoner said; si You may think it justice to have me hanged.* During this con versation witness opened the pan of the pit.t.l us lot tha powder spill, which fell out, and he gently shut the pan again. Witness was very much exhausted with thg strug gle, and the weight of prisoner's body on his chest, and the hold he had of his mouth. Prisoner said he would let go his hold if he would repeat certain words after him. Being much exhausted, he told prisoner to proceed. He cannot, upon his oath, tell the import of the words so repeated; but he understood them to refer to the Clack mannan accounts. At this time pri •oner lay upon witness's body, but the latter had hold of the barrel of the pistol, and had power to turn the muzzle from his own body, Prisoner did not take his hand from witness's jaw till after he had repeated the words. When he withdrew his hold he let go the pistol at the same time, and rose from . witriess's body. Witness rose with the pistol in his hand, which he put in his pocket: He was much exhausted, and leant against a table that stood at the wall. While in that position prisoner spoke several times. One of his remarks were, " 1< don't blame you, but the information you have received." H e mentioned the name of Mr. Borthwick, Lord Dunda r s factor, and a Mr. &cameo's, one of his tenants, whom witness under , stood him to mean he had the information from. He said, -4 , Shall I ring the bell for water?" Witness said he would ring the bell himself. He was then bleeding • much, but so far recovered as to walk to the parlour from whence he bad at first come, and rang the bell. When leaving the room, he saw prisoner lift the fist pistol from the sofa, and put it into his pocket. When w i t- I J