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JHIS PRESENT EVENING, Thursday,•May 3, To.morrow, and Saturday, at Half-past Six o'Llock pre cisely, an entirely new Comic Ballet of Action, called 111 E SAILOR'S FROLIC. Immediately after which, tenth time these two years, a Grand Equestrian Melo-Dramatic Spectacle, called THE SECRET MINE. With entirely new splendid Scenery, Dresses, Decorations, and extensive Platforms, for the fit display of the beautiful Said of Horses. In the Course of the evening HORSE A Comic . Song, by Mr. HEURINO. The whole to conclude with (tenth time) an entirely new Harlequinade, replete with extensive new Scenery, Machinery, lifechanical Changes, Transformations, Dresses, and Decorations, founded on, and called, IIO6.IitTIPS APPRENTICES; oa, laocs: ♦Mn IDLESESS. Rues 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery Is.—Doors open at Half-past Five, .and begin at Half past Six.---Second Price at Ilalf-past Eight. Places to be taken of Mr. Kinloch, at the llnt-Office, from Tea 01 Four.—Private Boxes nightly. 0- In preparation, and speedily will be produced, an en- Crely New Grand Military Spectacle Drama, with new Scenery, ;lichinery, Dresses, 8:c. called Galaixxxcti rtes HIGHLAT:II) Waxcu-:run. In which Sir. Cowen will make his first appear aecc at this Theaue. SUSSEX, NEAR TONBRIDGE WELLS. ML ROBINS informs the Public, that he shall offer, by AUCTION, a very desirable FREE: BOLD OIL A, late the Residence and Property of Sir JOHN NaCrEiRSON, Bart. most delightfully situate at FR.INT, in the county of SUSSEX, with Coach-house, Stable, and Out-offices, Garden, Pleasure-grounds, and Land, in all about SEVENTY THREE ACRES, beautifully tliversifi.:d by hill and dale, highly ornamented with thriving Timber Plantation, and Ever greens, with delightful Walks of great ext,:nt, laid out with ex quisite taste, with Arbouts, Seats, Banqueting-hous.! in the India style of architecture, Fish-ponds, &c. &e. and a Stone Quarry,. adapted for the purpose bf building. Frant is about two flutes and shalt from Tunbridge Wells, in a very delightful part of the Patty of Sussex, excellent neighbourhood, and about thirty eight miles from London. To be viewed by Tickets, which, with Particulars, may be lad of slr. Robins, Warwick-street, Goldeu-aquare. EIYTON,S,TOCK-BROKER, 2, ConNutti,.and Lom- SARD.STILIVIN has to announce to the Public, that Tickets 4nd Shares of Chances for a New Lottery, whic hl will be de cided 17th May, are now on &de at his futtunate Office, at un- Frocedented low prices, viz. Ticket only 14 Guineas, Half 47.133. Quarter £3. i Ts. rtiskth £l. 19s. 6d. Sixteenth 40 'Shit- Lings. Eery Ticket deeitles , us own fate, and no other. Forty lour Capital', including Two of £21,000, Two of 4,000 are sure At be drawn on the 17th of MAT. F.YTON solicits the kind patronage of the Public_ at his 'ovulate Office, 2, Cornhill ; where an Business in the Funds is transacted with fidelity and dispatch. Cheap Lottery!—Great Capitals!—No Classes!— No reserve of Tickets I—No suspense ! ALL IN ONE DAY, 17TH OF THIS MONTH (MAY). ler Every Mika or Share drawn singly, each deciding its own fate and no other. irr Every Ticket or Share putchased before 17th of This Month (May), is sure to be decided that Day, when ALL the £21,000 -Prizes ' and all the other 4,005 Capital and other Prizes, must be drawn. Er The Tickets ate issued in Chances of Ticket, Half, Quarter, Eighth, and Sixteenths and the following are the Prices for the 17th MAY onlY Ticket ..... ....£l4 14 0 I Quarter £3 17 0 I lalf 7 13 0 I Eighth 1 19 6 • Sixteenth only One Pound The Ticket and Share Chances are selling by I'. BISII, Stock. Broker, No. 4, CORNIIILT., and 9, CHARING-CROSS, LONDON; Who shared and sold, in the last Lottery, -2,053, Class A .2,888, Class A THREE of ............ £91,000. t,488, Class B And several !Minor Capitals. And by all his Agents in the Country. Er. Schemes, with full Particulars, gratis. LOOKING GLA SS ES.—Saveral large SECOND PLATES, suitable for Chimneys, Piers, and Chevals, are now on Sale, on Reasonable Terms, at Cooper, Elliot, and Cooper's, gs, J3ishopsgate.street, Within. Some of the Larger Sizes are admirably adapted for large Dining-rooms and elegant Drawing-roams. Large Glasses lent on hire, exchanged, or Warehoused for sale. Merchants, Captains, and Millers, supplied with Plate Glass, silvered and framed, on the shortest notice. STAYS AND BELTS. ROBINSON and VISTIRIN submit to Ladies' free Inspection, numerous Fashionable Patterns in English and Foreign Corsets, and Children's Stays—warranted for reten tive shape, durable wear, and perfect fit, however difficult the bgure. By his Majesty's Letters Patent, approved by eminent Medical Men, newly-Invented Stays, to rectify errors in shape, prevent and cure deformities, counteract spinal curvatures, and -support and cure persons awry,invisibly rendering them str.ight and pe lt', without any p ern i c i ous stee l, pa ddi ng , or p ressu re. Elastic Belts, wkichreduce corpulency, local dropsy, visceral en brgament, umbilical hernia, strengthen abdominal debility, and give effseacious support after accouebementovithout uneasy cons nuke. Country Ladies instructed by letters to send measures. .--Observe the names and address : this Advertistment,being 4 1 10 teds imitated, and even copied, by many unskilful, and inca pable paseas.-4, York -street, Covent-garden, London. CATON ON DEBILITY, ILLUSTRATED WITH CASES. • Tlis day was published, price 3s. 6d. a New Edition, of I)RACTICAL OBSERVATIONS on the DEBI LITI ES, natural and contracted, of the GEN E ATI E ORGANS of both Sexes • including Remarks on Onanism, Sc- Wasl Weakness, Nocturnal Emission, Gleet Tabes Dorsali‘ Mau r Albus, &c. &c. with the Theory of Generation. By T. M. CATON, Surgeon, No.lo, Stanhope -street, Newcastle -street, Strand; late of the United Hospitals of Sc. Thomas's and Guy's. Sold by W. Nceley, 21.1, 'Change-alley ; and C. Chap,* Rio Pail-Mall; or by the Author, as above. Where may be had, Casa on the Venereal Disease and its Consequences, a New m u*: price .ss. illustrated with Cases: A Practical Treatiss to the Prevention and Cure of the Venereal Disease exhibiting 84 distorter, symptoms, and treatment of the Diseases imtne wifely or remotely connected with it; containing Observations on "et. Stricture, Jllocal Discharges, the use of the Caustic ..,,• ax ii:Oninon.Bougie, Cu:are:ins Eruptions, Imaginary Venereal "Imes. &c. &c. etrmpristrg an elementary Work for Students, and a Guide to the general Reader ; b.terspersed with sakct nes cliptionsapplicabk to each division of the Disease. LOCK and SURGICAL DISPENSARY.—His Royal Highness the Duke of You, President—Governors Earl of EGRxxowT, Earl of LZITILLM, Hon. Colonel J. ataxy, M.P. J. Lavoecue, M.P.—Surgeons, K. and Heitman, Mem bers of the Royal College, London.—The treatment of those disorders, the consequence of early passions and juvenile in discretions, has generally been considered so simple as to be come the business of the most illiterate pretenders, and has too often been attempted by patients themselves. What is the unfor tunate result ? Ruin of constitution, irretrievable loss of health, and consequences entailed on the habits, which produce a life of lingering pain and continual misery. Were the young and unwary, of both sexes sufficiently aware,when they fall into such misfortune, of the real knowledge and experience required for their treatment, they would be strictly cautious towhom they confided themselves. It was these considerations which first established, under Royal Patronage, the above Listitmien. The Surgeons (after an ex tensive experience in various climates) have been nearly 90 years at the head of this Establishment, where there are annually cured no less than 2,000 patients, amongst whose complaints may be stated some of the worst cases of Lues, Strictures, Debility,. and other supposed incurable affections of the generative orgins, which have been here removed, ar.d completely cured, to the perfect satisfaction of the patients, with that delicacy, secresy, end honour, which is so necessary in all institutions.—K. and Herman may be consulted as usual by both sexes, at No. 21, Lower Charlotte-street, Bedford-square; where letters from town and country are to be addressed, and the necessary advice and medicines will be given, or sent to any part of the United jr.ingdont.—Just published , by K. and Herman, price 4s. Second jltlttlew,.l'ractlral Observations on the above Ihsarsses. THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1821. Just published, price 4s. the Second Edition of CONSCIENCE ; or, THE BRIDAL NIGHT. A Tragedy, in Five Acts.—By JAMES HAYNES, Esq. Nn performing at the Theatre Royal, Drury-Lane. Printed for Hurst, Robinson, and' Cu. London; and Archi bald Constable and Co. Edinburgh. RIVINGTONS' ANNUAL REGISTER. In the course of th: present year will be published, THE ANNUAL REGISTER, for the Year 1820; being the COMMENCEMENT of HIS PRESENT MAJESTY'S REIGN.—A Prospectus of the Work will be shortly issued by the Publishers, at No. 62, St. Paul's Church yard, and No. 3, Waterloo-place, Pall-mall. This day was published, price 15s. boards, DE RENZEY ; or, The Man of Sorrow. A Novel. In Three Vols. 12mo. By It. N. KELLY, Esq. Printed for W. Simpkin and It. Marshall, Stationers' -court, Ludgate street; and Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh. In the Press, Minstrel Love. A Provencal Legend, in Three Books. From the German of Baron de la 4otte Fouque, Author of Undine, Sintram, &c. THE LAST VOYAGE TO THE ARCTIC REGIONS. This day was published, The Second Edition, in One Volume, Svo. with Maps, ace. price I 2s. of AJOURNAL of a VOYAGE of DISCOVERY to the ARCTIC REGIONS, in his Majesty's Ships Ilecla and Griper, tinder the Command of Captain .P.s By ALEXANDER FISHER, Esq. Surgeon, to the Hecla. Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orine, and Brown, Loudon. PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS. HOUSE OF LORDS, MAY 2. This morning their Lordships met at ten o'clock, when the hearing of Appeals was proceeded with. In the Appeal of " Sir James Montgomery, Bart. v. the Duke of Queensherr; and Buccleugh," Mr. CRANSTOUN was heard out.—Judgment postponed. Mr. Moveitigv was afterwards heard in part, for " Ilyslop and others v. the same Noble Duke."—Further hearings were postponed to Friday morning. Mr. HARRISON was also heard at considerable length on behalf of Viscount 6lerawley's Divorce Bill against his Lady, when the record of damages (to the amount of £1500) was given in, and witnesses were examined in support of the Bill. Among the latter was Lady Anna jilaria Johnson, sister to Lord Ole rawley, and-who, being a Peer's daughter, was allowed to sit within the Bar, and was conducted to her - chair by the Earl of Limerick. The effect of her evidence we it to testify the affec tionate manner in which her Noble Reba /es had lived till 1818, when unfortunately she had come in coat tct with Henry John Byrne, Req. at Versailles, in France, wh , seduced her I.ady ship from her matrimonial faith. Difficulties had occurred in procuring one of the principal witnesses to the adulterous act, a Frenchwoman, who it was stated could no: he induced to come over here, owing to the maltreatment whi:h the witnesses from abroad had encountered in this country. The chief evident: was, therefore, Lord Olerawley's valet at the time, but his tes timony was corroborated as to es s enti a l points.—Th e above Bill was postponed to Friday next. The Irish Starch Duties Bill was committed, and ordtred to be reported. Lord KING presented a Petition from . the Borough of Godalming, in the County of Surrey, praying for a revision of the Criminal Code. The Earl of LIVERPOOL said, that as a Noble Marquis, who intensied to deliver his opinion on the resumption of Cash Payments, was absent, he should move to put off the third reading of the Bill until Frid ay. An order was made accordingly. The African Company Bill was read a third time and passed.—Adjonmed to Friday. This day was published, in 4to. price El lls. 6d. boards, THE HAPPINESS of STATES ; or, An Inquiry concerning Population, the Modes of Subsisting and Em ploying it, and the Effects dallon Human Happiness : in which is develcped the New or Productive System of Statistics. By S. GRAY, Esq. - Republished with an additional Book, and a copious Index. " !one of the replicants, however, were successful in shaking the impression produced by the arguments of Mr. Malthus, until, after a long interval, appeared the elaborate Work of Mr. Gray, on the Happiness of States."—Monthly Review. Printed for Longman, Ilurst, Rees Orme, and Brown, London. Of whom may be had, by Rees, Pozen, LL.D. The Principles of Population and Production Investigated ; in Bvo. price 10s. 6d. boards. All Classes Productive of National Wealth ;- in Bvo. price 9s. boards. EXCURSIONS THROUGH IRELAND. This day was published, price 2s. 6d. each, or on large paper with Proof Plates, price 4s. No. 1. to No. XIV. EXCURSIONS through IRELAND; comprising Topographical and Historical Delineations of each Province, together with Descriptions of the Residences of the Nobility and Gentry, Remains of Antiquity, and every interesting Object of Curiosity. By THOMAS CROMWELL. This Work will be comprised in Eight Volumes, containing 400 Plates, and published in regular Monthly Numbers, each containing at least Eight Engravings, and 36 Pages of Letter- Press, elegantly printed in royal 18mu. and in demy Bvo. with Proof Plates. Every Six Numbers will form a Volume; and each Province will be kept distinct from the others, and accom panied with appropriate Titles, Indexes, &c. London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ; J. Greig, Islington ; and P. Youngman, Witham, and Malden, Essex ; and sold ,by all Booksellers. The Excursions in the Counties of Essex, Suffolk, and Norfolk, are already completed, each in Two Volumes, contain ing 100 Engravings, price £t tos. royal 18mo. £2 Bs. demy Bvo. Val. A few Copies of each County are printed on super-royal 800. with India Proof Plates, price £3 13s. 6d. boards. No. IV. of Surrey. Kent, and Sussex, is also published. These three Counties will be completed in Six Numbers each. County Biography ; or, The Lives of Eminent Characters born or long resident in Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex, containing 68 Portraits; royal lento. price XI 25 6d. or demy Bvo. a d 16s. A few Copies may be had, with India Proof Impressions, of the Plates, price £2 12s. 6d. On the Ist of May was published, No. V. of THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE (NEW SERIES), printed on a new and very improved: plan, and containing : The Continuation of Mr. Campbell's Lectures, on the Poetry of the Bible.—May Morning.—On Epicurism, by an Amateur.— Walks in the Garden, No. I.—On the Character of Socrates.— Memoir of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan.—Grimm's Ghost, No. 2.—Visit to Mont Blanc, concluded.—Jonathan Kentucky's Journal.—A Call to the Bar.—Letters from Spain, by Don Leucadio Doblado, No. 2.—Scientific Amusements, No. 2, the Autoguton Chess Player.—Memoirs by James Earl of Walde grave.—Stanzas on the present state of Greece.—Verses oa the Death of a Child of eight years old.—The River Lau, Don nington Castle, Sonnets, Melody, &c.—Original Correspondence. —New Publications, with Critical Remarks.— Lyon and Ritchie,' Tray.ds in Northern Africa, &c. &c.—Fine Arts.— Sir J. Leicester's Gallery.—The Drama.—Varieties, Literary and Scientific.—The New Antarctic Land.—London Astro nomical Society, &c.—Foreign Varieties.—Rural Economy.— On the Decay of Fruit Trees, by the Rev. W. Williamson, &c. —Useful Arts—New Inventions and Discoveries.—New tents.—Reports, Literary, Meteorological. Agricultural, and CommerciaL—Political Events. Interesting Occurrences.— Promotions, Births, Marriages, and Deaths, with Biographical Particulars of the Archbishop of CasheL—Michael B. Ryan, Esq.--. Mr. John Keats.—M. De Fontanes, Alexander Ste phens, &c. &e. To prevent disappointment, those who desire to commence with the New Series of this Journal, are requested to send their orders without delay to their respective Booksellers or News men. It may also be regularly transmitted abroad, by applying to the General Post Office or to any local Postmaster. Printed for Henry Col burn and Co. Conduit-street ; Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. BY NG presented Petitions from the Vestries of St. James's and St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, praying that a law might be passed to prohibit the boys of Newsmen and others from blowing horns in the streets.—Laid on the table. Mr. S. BOURNE presented a Petition from• General Thorn ton, complaining of the unreasonable severity of the 25th of George 11. which enacted that all houses where dancing and other public entertainments were carried on without licence from four Magistrates, should be considered and treated as dis orderly. The Petition recapitulated the circumstances attend ing a recent enforcement of this Act with respect to a number of persons who were assembled for the purpose of dancing, in a house in St. Martin's-lane, and prayed the repeal of .the afore said Act.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Colonel CA WTHORNE moved for an Account of all -Ships built and registered in Great Britain for the last seven years.— Ordered. Colonel DAVIES presented a Petition from certain Seed Merchants of Worcester, complaining of the privalent adultera don of Clover and Trefoil Seeds, and praying that Legislative measures might be taken to prevent it. The Honourable Colo nel stated that it was his, Intention, next week, to make a motion on the subject.—The Petition was ordered to be printed. Sir R. WILSON presented a simile Petition from certain Seed Merchants of London, Southwark, and Westminster.— Ordered to be printed. Mr. H UTC HINSON gave notice that, on Friday next, before the House resolved itself into a Committee of Supply, he would make some observations on certain events now passing in Europe, which he thought were calculated to interfere with the liberties of this country. Mr. Serjeant ONSLOW gave notice that he should, on the altd Instant, move for a Select Committee to inquire into the Age of the Orphans' Fund. Mr. BANKES moved that the Estimate for the British Mu seum be referred to the Committee of Supply. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved that the House on its rising do adjourn to Friday.—Agreed to. THE BANK. Mr.GRENFELL moved for a Statement, spewing on one side an account of the amount of interest, at the rate of three per Cent. paid 'or payable to the Bank of England by the Public upon money ad vanced by the Bank to make good demands on, and deficiencies of, the Consolidated Fund. And on the other side, the amount of interest, at three per Cent. on the public balances held by the Bank during the last year. The Hon. Member observed, that the amount of public balances, in the hands of the Bank last year, was not less than £3,713,443. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER de fended the Bank ; and contended, that the Public were gainers by the terms on which the Bank held the public balances. Mr. MABERLEY said, the question raised by his Hon. Friend was not as to the advantages derived by the Public from the mode of managing the public balances. What his Hon. Friend suggested was, that as the Bank had considerable balances of public money in their hands, it would be but justice that part of those balances +should be applied to the public ser vice, instead of monies being advanced by the Bank, for which the Public had to pay interest. Mr. BARING contended, that the question of public balances was one which -the House could not fairly meddle with at present. It was an arrange ment, arising out of the terms of the renewal of their Charter, and might be made a subject of considera tion at a future time, but could not be fairly inter fered with now. Mr. GRENFELL denied that the Bank was en titled to any indulgence for advantages granted to the Public by them in consideration of the renewal of their Charter. All which the Bank had done in return for privileges, under which they had made a profit of upwards of 00,000,000, was to lend the Pub lic £3,000,000 of their own Money without interest. . . After a few words from Mr. litcAario, the motion was agreed to. IMPRISONMENT. Lord ARCHIBALD HAMILTON presented a Petition from James Turner, a tobacconist, in Glas gow, who complained of oppressive and injurious treatment from the Magistrates of Glasgow, during the agitation which prevailed in that part of Scotland last year. The Petitioner stated, that on the 9th of April, 1820, his house was searched in virtue of a' search warrant, and he himself was taken, at eleven o'clock the same night, and locked up 'in a cell.— After this- his family were not permitted to•see amd he was not informed until the 14th of the same month that he was apprehended on a charge of high treason. On the 18th he was examined ) and admitted to bail ; and from that time to this he was not brought to trial. When the warrant was served; it Only an thot ised the seizure of papers, but the officers finding no papers, seined some old arms. Now he (Lord A. ; RI l'iro 1)!•:NCIR. I Hamilton) wished to know from the Lord Advocate, whether he considered himself authorised to pursue this line of conduct ? In the first place, treason was not a bailable offence; and in the next place, though the Petitioner was bailed, neither he nor his bail were !ever called upon to redeem their recognizances. The Noble Lord expressed his opinion that the insurrec tion at Glasgow was urged on by Spies, and that it seas not suppressed so speedily as it might have been. His object now was, not to obtain pecuniary com pensation for the Petitioner, for the Petitioner dis dained it, but to obtain from the Learned Lord op posite, *an avowal of the Petitioner's innocence. If that was not done, he should bring the subject under the notice of the House in anothcr shape. The LORD ADVOCATE said, that during the whole time which had elapsed since the date of the transactions in Glasgow, the doors of the Courts of Justice in Scotland and of this House were open to the individual, and yet it was not until this hour that he came forward to make his complaint. This cir cumstance must convince the House that the griev— ances of this individual could not have been very great, otherwise he would not have so long neglected them. He was not bound to state the grounds of suspicion upon which this individual was charged with high treason. He was . in possession of those grounds, but supposing the Petitioner imagined there had been no grounds, he was competent CO bring the matter bekre a Court of Law ; and if he had done so, then it would be incumbent upon him (the Lord Advocate) to chew the grounds upon which he had proceeded- He then reminded the House of the si tuation in which that part of Scotland was placed at the time the apprehension of this Petitioner took place, and contended that it was such as to r e qu i re th e m ost . active vigilance on the part of the MagistraLes of Glasgow. With regard to the Noble Lord ' s assertion that the insurrection in Glasgo w was urged on .by Spies, he denied it to be true. At the time alluded CO, there was no person of that character employed by the Government in Scotland. He went into a detail of the transactions connected with the rising in Glasgow, and ,the measures which the Authorities had taken to restore the place to tranquillity. The necessary consequence of those measures was the col lection of a large number of prisoners. The Jails were not sufficient to hold them as well as the pri soners who were waiting for the Assizes. In conse. quence it was determined to appropriate the Bride well of Glasgow to Slate prisoners ; ever y attention was paid to them, and six Magistrates were employed from morning to night in examining the pri,oners, for the purpose of liberating, as speedily as possible, all those whom there was not strong grounds for detaining. Under these circumstances, the present Petitioner was liberated as soon as iu could be done. If he felt that he was aggrieved, he had it in his power to bring au action in a Court of Law ; there all parties would be heard, and he had no doubt that he (the Lord Advocate) would satisfy those before whom the action should be tried, that he was per fectly justifiable in the course he had adopted. Mr. MAXWELL said, that the statement .of the Learned Lord had the effect of convincing him that the treatment of this individual had not been as severe as he imagined at first. The only charge which, it appeared, could be substantiated against this indivi dual was one for riot. He had heard that Spies were employed in Scotland. He could have wished to have heard from the Lord Advocate something like an exoneration of the character of the Petitioner, after the ignominious treatment he had received. Mr. MONTEITH moved that the Petition be now read, .as he conceived that it would be much better for the House to be in possession of the allegations Of the Petitioner himself, than to be engaged in list ening to comments upon them. The Petition was then read, and its details were exactly of the nature stated by the Noble Lord who presented it. The Petitioner, whose names is James Turner, prayed generally for redress ; and particu larly that the Lord Advocate might be required to give up the name of the person who gave him information. Mr. MONTEITH, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, entered into a statement of the particulars of the riot, and the apprehension of the Petitioner. He denied that the Petitioner was subjected to any hardship by being sent to the Bridewell in Glasgow, as, under all the circumstances, that prison was a much more ell• gible, one than the jail itself. He said, that the Ma gistrates had acted in consequence of informatioi which they received, some of it authenticated, - and some not; some anonymous, and some not; and, con sidering the number that was engaged in it,. he was rather surprised that so few were apprehended. Mr. HUME wished to know if the Authorities in Scotland had acted upon information given by oath. lie had waited anxiously for information on that head from the Lord Advocate, and he was much asto nished to hear from the Lord Provost that the only information they had was anonymous. Mr. MONTEITH denied haVing said so. He stated that they.had information, some authentic and some not, some anonymous, some true, and some whet:• wise; and they had to be thankful that when conspi. racies were projected, individuals were concerned in them whose remorse of conscience led to the defeat of the wicked object. Mr. HUME wished to know if Turner was appre hended upon information on oath? The LORD ADVOCATE said, the practice of the law of Scotland did not require that depositions should be given upon oath.. A public prosecutor giving information was responsible for the truth of what Ale suited. • . 11r. HUME would then put it to the house if this was a state of law under which the people of Scot. land should be stiffered:to remain ? It was monstrous to think that•a man might, upon the mete report of another ; be dragged from Ms home and inf;areerated. He himself, if he went on much longer in this way, might expect, as soon as he got down to Scotland, to