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taw IMILLIGENCIte COURT OF CHANCERV, AUGUST . OPERA HOUSE. I►ATIMS TAYLOR. CliANcria.on—'s I see Sir Samuel Ro thilly is not in Court. Had I not better delay judg meat in the case el Waters and Taylor till he come?" Mr. HART—" Sir Samuel's client is in Court, my Lord." The LORD CHANCELLOR— if Of the several claims that may be advanced against this prop.rty, I have been able to form no opininn : but I must take the Master's report as to the claims of the parties in this case to be correct:' Mr. HoltT" Your Lordship will not be misled to suppose, that the Master has made any report won the claims of the parties. He has mer , ly reported upon the amount of Mr. Waters's cltims." The Lotto COANCELLOD-•-" That is all I under stand it to be ; and as a report of the amount of those claims I must consider it at present, as correct. Now. as to the first motion that was made, viz. that Mr. Waters should pay £71,000 into Court, I think it quite unreasonable. Had the purchase been made by any other man who should have had incumbran ces upon the property, he could not be called upon to pay into Court more than the balance, after deduct ing the amount of his incumbrances. This amount was accordingly the whole subject of dispute when the question was last discussed. Upon this then I take the report of the Master as correct. The ba lance that remains to be paid into Court, after deduct ing all his encumbrances, is something between 1t28.000 and ril9 000. In all the circumstances of the case as now before me, and I particularly allude to the letters that pissed between the parties, I think it right and reasonable that Mr. Waters pay this sum into Cour•. It is impossible to prnrceive the truth when I view only the conflicting affiJavits which I hold in my hand. But the letters are sufficiently ex plicit. From them it appears, that Mr. Waters en. g:iged to pay the whole of the money into Ci:urt so early as April last. It is surely, therefore, very rea. tonahle that he should now pay into Court what re mains, after deducting the full amount of his incum. !drams. As to the title, I repeat what 1 stated for merly, that Mr. Waters can inquire only as to Mr. Taylor's 9-flicks, but as to that he has a right to an investigation. I order, then, Mr. Waters to pay £28,000 into Court, and before the office is shut." Sir Samuel. ROMILLY, Counsel for Mr. Taylor, said his client was willing to leave aU matters in dis pute to arbitration. Mr. MlLcs said, his client could not agree to i:. It had gone to arbitration before, which caused in creased litigation. The LORD CHANCELLOR—" If you do by your liti gation shut up the Opera-house, don't say I was to blame, or that I shut it up." VIE MANIAC. Yesterday this unhappy young man, whose name is Groaca 'rumen, again took hi: seat among the Cqunsel, outside of the bar. Mr. PeAcroc, the Se. licitor, his late master, observing him, went and spoke to him relative to the impropriety of • his intro. sion, which made him boisterous, and he was carried out of Court, and from thence to Hatton-garden Police Office, by the officers of the Court, appointed for the purpose of preventing the business of the Court being disturbed. The Magistrate refused to take cognizance of the charge without a special order from the Loan Cu ANCELLOII4 remarking at the same tiwe (most properly) that if any person committed a contempt of Court, it was in his Lordship's power to commit him. After he was seleased by the order of the Magistrate he returned to the Court, and was about to be again turned out, when he applied to his Lordship to know whether it was by his direction that he had been so rudely treated. The Loan CitatiNCELLOK" Nut by my orders, but the officers thought they were doing their duty in preventing a noise in Court, which certainly cannot ri fleet on its dignity. Sit down young man, and be quiet, and you may be assured you will not be mo lested." He then sat at one of the tables in the Hall, and =mined - quiet during the rest of the day. SURREY ASSIZES, CROYDON, AUGUST is. Lold ELLeftsottouott left town on Saturday even ing, but the calendar not being finished, Mr. Justice DALf.ss remained to try the rest of the prisoners. Janes Thossms, an Officer of the Customs; was indicted for obtaming 4'3 under false pretences; the false pretence alleged in the indictment being, that he would procure the prosecutor the place of a weigher in the Customs, and that his recommendation wds before the Board. The prosecutor stated, that he kept n chandler's shop at Camberwell, and he knew the defendant, who was an officer of the Customs. who dealt at his shop, and resided in the neighbourhood. They had frequent talk about procuring the prosecutor a place In the Customs, and the defendant told him he would do it for him. At last, in the month of September, be told the prosecutor that his recommendation was that day gone before the Board, and that he must let him have £5, which was usual in that stage of the business. The prosecutor believing in thestatement, went to his wife. who was the cash•keeper, and pro. cared £5, which he handed over to the prisoner. . The wife, however, observed at the time, that she thought the advance cash rather premature, and that it would be time enough to pay when they had got the place. The proper Officers of the Customs proved the falsity of this statement, and that there was no rec•m niendation before the Board, nor any application on behalf of the prosecutor. For the defendant, several letters of the prosecutor's to the defendant were put in, in which he treated this F 5 as money lent, and threatened to sue him if be did not repay it. The Jury found the prisoner—Nat Guilty. THE KING O. JEEE AND BECKETT. •••• ..,•••••-•- - This was an indictment against the two defendants kr a conspiracy to obtain a bill of exchange from a men of the name of Arden, under pretence that they would obtain a licence for a house which be had built at Vauxhall. As we collected the facts of the cue, the prose cutor gave a bill of exchange of AIM to Jees's wife, for which Jees was to get Mr. Beckett to use his in fluence with the Magistrates for a licence for the house. The latter was a most respectable tradesman in Lie Borough, and Jees ktt the note in his Wads, *hid' Beckett tetntned again to ;feel, on his request, it not appearing that Beckett had any share in the transaction, except as the note was deposited in his hands by Sees, the litter being a customer to Beckett. Mr. NOLAN, in opening the case, said he could not support it either in fact nt law. The indictment was bad, and if good could not be sustained by the facts. The defendants were therefore of course acquitted. The As,izes concluded yesterday morning, and the Circuit finished. All the rrisoners condemned at Wary Vick (213 were reprieved before the Judge left the town. THE LATE STATt. T !MILS IN SCOTLAND. (From the Glaigow Chronicle.) The following is put of the correspondence be tween Mr. Richmond (one of the Crown informers) and Mt. John Wilson : Leith, July 23, 1817. My dcar Sir—You will very likely before this time have passed, along with others, a final sentence of condemnation against toe, and set me in the Calendar as a d—d unprincipled villain. conclusion you may consider you were justified in coming to, hi common with other-, seeing that I long ago knew the na ture of the charges made against me, and have taken no means to refute them, comeqmmtly 'hat they were true. That I knew someth rig of the affair I am perfectly ready to admit; but that I could sooner give an explanation how I came to be connected with it, and bow far, was impossible, without be traying a confidecce that, villain as I ant considered to be, was lather farther than. I am yet ea t able of going. That you may know what I mean more explicitly, I deny that Government hatched a plot in Glasgow, or that I did it to make a job of it; 1 deny that it was ever countenanced in any manner whatever beyond what was absolutely necessary for its discovery, and that was done with less countenance than I could Manist cunceive possible; and lastly, I deny that I did any thiug in it, to serve my own Interest. Nuw, you well know what has been preferred as affirmatives against these negations. How I came to have any thing to do with it at all you will likewise learn. It is impossible for me to do any justice to myself, or site any satisfaction to you in a letter; I will therefore out attempt it at all: I may just remark, generally, that I bad it in my power to save a number from a gaol, and that no individual went to one through my means; many ut those I saved, have been loudest against me since 1 am! lastly, I was no traitor between the part tub; and all the errors committed were from nolfollowing my advice, which will be admitted now when the thing is over. But as these are mere assertions, it is useless to say snore; commit the whole of the charges to writing, and I will send you notice by -- whets to transmit them. I am aware of the danger you run to be known to have any communication with me, as ft may hurt your interest were It known. It will, therefore, be as well for you to say nothing about k. ---- has not the opportunity you have of hearing, or he would have done it. Notice, at t h e same tittle, what de gree of publicity each of the circumstances has got. I expect an attack hi the London papers, and hew to act in that case Ido not kurr, for k will require a pamphlet to embrace the whole case. Yours, dtc. A. iticumous. ANSWER. Corbels, Aug. S. 1117. 9se-1 received yours of the 2.5'h, and have to state, that you were perfectly sight in thinking that I would have set you down in the calendar as a d—d unprincipled villain. This view of your character I have had for some drat back, consequently It did not require the issue o' the trials, nor yet your own ackaow. ledgment of the part you acted, to bring me to that opinion. What you say, in regard to your friends waitiag tiU they hear both aides of the quesion before they come to a anal judgment on the case, Is true in almost every instance; but I must say, that I cotrider yours a fair exception—u your downright false hoods, and bate evasions to four friends were sufficient to con demn you, altiategh ninety-nine of the c harges in a hundred had a .1 been true. You allege, that, villain as you are considered, you were not sufficiently far gone to avail yourself of the means you possessed to clear your character, without betraying a confidence, and car rying matters fetcher than you ue yet capable or, going. I am really at-a loss to know wart you mean by this, umbra that you were tied down by your employers from snaking any attempt at an explanation till once the whole plot was matured. But if you mean that by the statement you intend to publish, that yuu will both please and convince your employers, I have not the least doubt of your success. If you intend to clear ---- from having any share in getting op the Glasgow plot, and are willing to take a snuff share to yourself, and throw the greater part of the blame on sombof your coadjutors, you will succeed to a tittle. You will in all probabibty get a bens, Nitration (if it be true that you have got one), or at all events, the wages of your iniquity will be increased. You loudly expected to have bad an opportunity of stating the whole to the Coon upon oath, but that you were disappointed. I fondly expected it too, and, although from my previous know ledge of a number of circumstances, I knew that you were not capable of clearing yourself, yet if it had so turned out, that ' you were not so criminally implicated as thousands believe, I i tread have heen the first to have hailed your partial deliverance. However. I must state my doubts in regard to your fondness in laying the whole open to the Court, and it luckily happens that know to a certainty yes were informed that those who eon. ducted 11.4•Kinlay's defence wished to bring you tot ward in exalt. patio°, and, that you stated you no sooner received such infor mation than you took means to Warns litKinlay's agent where you would be found for citation. I am by no means surprised that you are afraid of the many attacks that will be made upon you; you are perfectly aware of your guilt, and know well that numbers are in possessloo of facts, that all the sophistry you are master of can never shake. On the contrary, a statement at these faces may have an effect that you little aspect; it may have a tendency to shake the ho. nour and fidelity of those by whom you have been so honour. ably employed, and apparently so well paid. You may at last be left by them a prey to guilty remorse, without a single friend in whom you can confide, or means sufficient to keep you from a workhouse. You deny that batched a plot in Glasgow, er that you did it to make a job of it. You deny that k was even counte nanced any farther than was absolutely necessary for its jiseuvery, and that, you seem to think, was no dUficult matter. brow whe they batched chaplet or not is no business of mine ; it is with you I have to deal, and you are explicit enough to ac knowledge that you did hatch it, without having any idea of self interest. Yuu ought to have gone a little farther, and stated whether you discovered it to Government on the same disinterested and patriotic principks on which it was hatched; ere whether you discovered it after having secured to yourself some paltry satiation in the Excise. . ..... Yoir inipurtance to Government would appear to be very considerable, as you say you had it in your power to prevent people from being sent to gaol, and that those whom you did' prevent from being there have been such ungrateful wretches as to have been the loudest in execrating your conduct; and also that no person was sent to gaol through your means.— If I ant to believe these assertions, which in part I must do, I can have no hesitation in saying, that I am al.° convinced that you and' your friend Biggar were the original and sole cause of all the locurceratioits that have taken place. And further, had things gone on as you would have wished, and your deputations had proved as effectual as you intended, ins prbonnseut on account of political plots had not been confined to Glasgow ' • as Airahire , itenfrewshire, and the north of England would have been brought in for their proportion. What astonishes me most in the whole of this diabolical eon. triune,. Is the particular time you chose for setting your machi nations on foot. You either were, or pretended to be, in come. spoodence with some of the most respectable people in the coun try, and that they had enabled you to begin and carry through while you we* an agent; you bad also entered an honourable, though perbaP not very lucrative engagement with Mr. Owen, yet the connexion, and the functions you were to perform, were of the first data, and would have entitled you to hold a rank in society which was certainly equal to your worth. Now,`what Igoe Ito think of a person who pretended he was to teach .mora- Illy to mankusd, and begin a new era in the history of the world, - the very time when he was setting at defiance every political, loud, and soda! eye f Were the subject not too serious, and Involving so many interests, I might say with the Poet— • To laugh were want of godliness and grace. lint to be grave, teem& all power of face." Before I take leave of you, as I intend this to close oar eorre trainee for ever, I must my a Sew words on your now avowed geeepatieb. A spy and informer I ever abhorred frees the bot toes of tilt snot ite is a slain*? thailal been ibtmlA bj all mankind in all ages of the world; to speak, to write. or to keep company with him has always been considered as carrying con .tamitiation along whh ir, and he - has been avoided by viery per son who has any pretension to character. lam aware that you base experienced the truth of these remarks already, and that many a sleepless night you must haste passed witlwat the prospect of future peat**, or tranquillity of Mind. Yuu can, never sit easy in company, and wirtbe and integrity will huh, you blush Where- I ever yon meet them. Besides yntl and all who follow such dia. bolical practices, are totally kin to every degree of credit tout word will not be worth a rush where you arc known, and every body will avoid you as they would the isasitsi, and exclaim with Congreve, that " Ferdinandex Mendes Pinto was but a type of I thee." 4IN WILSON. EXTRACTS FROM RICKS D's REPLY. I must give you hick the lie you gave me about my not having cent word to Glasgow where I *a% 13 be found. for the purpose of being cited as an exculpatory evidence, as b (lid not miss a pun alter !got notice that inquiries were made &Rat me ; but, as that intimation was rather out of time , and was no; to be given unless those inquiries were repeated, 1 did a little more; I wrote to M'Xinlay's Agent in Elmburrh, where I was to be found, and was called upon by Mr. Gibson, the most active agent for the detente, the evening before the trial. I informed him then I was perfectly w iUiog to appear as a witness, but would sire no pars titulars until I did it in Court ; bu: I was told they had a certain line ut defence agreed upon, and unless I would tell them what I could say, they would not cite me, for fear I would spoil Ir. It is really wonderful rhu you, who can so boldly assert that you knew at least in that case I had wrote you a ialsehood, was not at a little more pains to inform yourself. Mr. Gibson, I have since learned, was ial-coed fur this purpose, in consequence of h's being considered more active than Ramsay, for the purls°. s of sifting we i tier ; and although he spent an hour and a halt crab ass, eethiez •f this is leftism. Chet fact is, that from the in anent reports went abroad that I was implicated at all hi the affair, I was only afraid so .w oo •h t much anxiety about it, for fear they wont! nut ette me, •bough I did not at first contemplate any'such thing; and, asd told hint, if they wished the real circumstances to be known, to enable the country to form a correct opinion, they would cite me, as I was perfectly acquainted with every particular, and knew the conduct of all parties. You can judge whose Sault it was that It was not done; and, at the same time, form some link op °ion as to the /MOM Nadi been called, a very different op:idiot would have been formed of the con. duct of those who were examined, who were, bad the truth ben known, vary near obtaining those hottot:rs usually con. (erred on people who have abort tuecnories Ott some points, and perfectly recollect abets, that never existed ; and a very different ' nupressiou would have been made upon the mind tithe country I • • • • • • • • • • - - - Another notable discs:very you have made, is my contrition of guilt, in having acknowledged in my letter of the 59th, that • I did really batch a plot, though without any idea of turning it to my own Interest. lam certainly obliged to you for this disco very, for I thought I had explicitly stated that it was within my kcowledge that Government did tat; and that I did not hatch any plot, not only in Glasgow, but in Scotland; at least I have now no hesitation in extending the boundaries that length, and I will sow go all the length you require, by letting you know that Government kn e w o f the existence of the Glasgow plot before I did ; and, to the best of my knowledge, there was not a single individual added to it, even indirectly, by my means ; so that I neither batched it nor matured it, and consequently bad it not in my power, on that account, to secant a paltry situation in the Excise. bad I been so inclined. And, for your farther Informs tioa, my friend Mr. Biggar and me never exchanged one word I on the subject for more than two months after it was exploded; 1 and I must further inform you, that I neither stipulated tor, nor have I *revived a reward of any kind; and, considering my pros pects in lire, it has rather hurt than promoted my Interest, though net in tie way yin suppose ; for 1 hare lust none of the patron age I had before, and my conduct in the affair has added some I more, though it has been attended with consequences little ton ducive to my happiness. AFFIDAVIT OF JOHN M`LACHLIN, our or nit WITNESSES CALLED IT TUE CROWN AGAINST I • SeEINLAT. _ - As deponent was not allowed to proceed in his decl a r a ti on I anent the transactions of Richmond, and the part be took in the late tiisagresable business that led to the coonneineot and ruin of a number of imlividuab, he considers himself tailed on to state it in this way t farther depooes, that sometime in the month of December last, Richmond called on him, and, after some con• versation, inquired if they were still so ignorant as to expect any relief from pat ochial aid f Here deponent answered, that as it was the only thing that now remained for them to look to, as their situations were becoming desperate on account of the insuf ficiency of their wages to meet the unavoidable expense of up holiling,thelr families, and, at the same time, the law sat Ma opi nion, bring explicit on this subject, that they had no fear as us the result in any Court, if they got the least shadow of jarice. Here Richmond observed, that juatice was completely out of the question in any case where the interest of the rich was in competition with that of the poor, at d, that it was the height of folly for them to lose one moment's time oo the business, but rather to turn their attention to a Reform in Parliament, which, In his opinion, was the only thing that could save the country from ruin, and that all good subjects should do every thing in their power t• forward that grand ob ject. Deponent here observed, that he believed that that subject was already taken up by the country in general, sad especially about this place there was no want of exertions' on that sub. ject, u almost every part of the town was prepared with Com mitteutur the purpose of petitioning. Here itichmood observed that he knew all this, and that the public would be grossly mis taken if they trusted to such men as hail taken up tie question; for, as he had been a member of one of those Committers, no ono knew better than him what stuff those Committees were made up of, and that be had done every thing in Ms power, as a member of the Glasgow Committee, to stimulate those acting with him to take up the question with hie ; but had uniformly failed, and that now they were at a complete stand, as they were 'Gist or Xi 9 in debt, and that although they had men in their Committee, who at the coasmeucemesit of the business offered to be fin or Xs 5 themselves, yet now those men appeared to be the last to come forward, even with one still log, though that were to pay the whole sum • and that except the poor would take up the subject themselves, ;hey could have uo hopes of success, and that thus, In his opinion, must be done by erecting themselves into societies with small weekly or monthly contribution, so as to have always a little money on hand to meet whatever expense might occur, and that be believed there were some soci e ti es i n the neighbo urhood already, and hoped that he; deponent, would do every thing in his power to forward them in this loaner of the town, Calton, as there was nothing abort ail complete organ. /Atilt.) enuld do any good; that he knew that England was pretty forward on this subject, but as Scotland was very far behind in ibis revue, it would need every exertion to Mixt/them up, by that who wisbid welito the cause of Reform. Here deponent observed, that We (Richmond) would be the best hand himself foe forwarding any thing of this Mud, as lee was well acquainted with most parts of the country, and that as Ise (deponent) had not taken any active pin to speak of in any et those petitioning committees, he consid. red himself a very uulk person to du any good in this respect; but that he would intro. duce him to one Campbell, an acquaintance of kis, that hid beep' pretty active in the Calton Committee, and that pe rhaps be would take up the sul,ject—he might speak with hint at any rate, and see what he would say on the subject. Here Richmond wished that be (deponent) would speak with Campbell on the subject, and that he (Rlcheitstid) would call the first opportunity, and mama :he case with Campbell himself. A few nighorafter this Richmond called on deponent, and was Introduced to Campbell,. and, after some conversation, both depon e nt and Campbell lee. him know that k was est of thee power to do say thing to for ward his wishes, as they had mos ass. moment of time to lose, nor mu shilling-to spend, on any thing of the Mod; as tb:s was the case, it was out of the question foe them to embark In any thing of the kind. Here Richmond pulled out a buipcb, about as dud as his arm, of bank notes, and tablet one guinea note, handed it to deponent. observing, that he bed still the patronage of some seedcases, who were always ready to do sonefklait fur him, mentioning Francis Jeffrey and Hairy Cockburn, - lisq rot. as approving af minks, as deponent understood ; and at if this business was set about and conducted to his mind, be would take care that those concerned would not be ill oil for a few pound. at ally time, saying, " Take you that, M'l.achlln, as I sin sure you are not out of the need of some money, considering yoor fa mily, and the state of trade at present." Here deponent said, dais was what be could not expect atom any one be bad so hula acquaintance of, aastwished to know what be meant by k f a. be did not knew when lt might be in bis power to pay bins, II , he took it. Richmond here obstreett, that that was out of the question, that be bed gimm it 'as a presesit, end that bt might givetamphil, two or three shillings of it, aed due he Weal look une it '‘'.t they wou:d do everythi n g Ir. their poem: to fo word a .cs seth as he hid been encitking or, ai.d cot to be in ar. y strait for to Ley, as tin would make it a point to be ready togive arch :-unts a. • would he necersiiy nit once they were properly organ zed, teed I hoped that care would be taken to keep hi. name ou: of the qt.e.- tion for die Moment, and flee w mild observe the VI -4 MY', as from what appealed in. Vie CAeri.7 they might expet • t' at as soon at Parliament met they sr meld suspend the lials• as Corp-.. Act, led that he would enrol or become a member of ore. of (liar: i societies as soon as they wire p. (telly formed (this he did) and that be would wish that come of out acquaintance., and one of e•., would go out to Paisley, at he wa, sure that the people there would at once be ready to embrace the question on his plar.. At the bate tine he would recommend them to call on two or thrte of friends or acquaintances there, who, he was sure, would , In every thing in their power to get au organization set on toot (this Was likewise done, though nose of clime he named were called oo). Depotient here refers the Read.'" to his Declaraion before the. High bun Just ciary, for the nature and designs. of those Societies, as he understood them. About the beginning of Ja nuary, Richmond called frequently on deponent atid ar.phel!, urgheg them to make every possible esettion to add nnnitwrs those Societies which w•re then formed ; and one day, as depo • nent had been in with time work at the warehouse, ie• me wi itichnuin who invi , e,l him into a home in Wynd or Street, and asked him if there was nothing doing in the east rod of the town, such as Camlachie or Parkhead: drponent odd him that he knew of eabieg tat was doing in this quarter at all. Richmond here exclaimed, " d—n it, you are doing nothing at all, you must go out to Caneachie this day, if possible, and call Oil one M'i.achlett and one Goldie, and you ran tell Gold•e that you saw me before you went out ; and there is no fear but they will do the business in that quarter;' :Alen, that Goblie, h.: believed, belonged to their Committee, or the Glasgow lie firm Committee, fiere deponent, to the best a his recoiled con, received right shillings from Richmond to bear hie expense, adeleing him to be quite liberal In paying any expense that might he incurred, as it was the only way that • was mo t likely to forward the business lie was on; (this deponent did). Shortly afire this Richmond caned on deponent and Campbell, awl, taking them into a public-house it. Crwaloati street, C.thou, inquired of them how things were coming tin and what spirit was generally manifested at Ouse meets inns by these attending them? he was here answered that they believed they were ready to go any length that the laws of the cumetry warranted, and that as some of them were pressed se verely by the hardships of the times, it was whiles ewers diffi cult to keep them within bounds, but that there was no fear but the wiser part would take care that nothing be done c weary to law with their knowledge Richmond exclaimed—i What du you mean by legal or lawful measures ? Do you peer expect any thing to be done by petitioning? It you do, it h:11 0--11 nonsense. Look to the way the House of Commons did with poi Petitions lu the case of the Corn dill, 11 ever any mh be done' it mule. be by fear and no: by pr a y er or pet i tion , evelY unprejudiced man in the nation would readily admit." Here deponent stopped him, and said be believed teat there could not be much expected in the first Session; but that if their Petitions were rejected, he hoped they would be ready to etime forward nett Session, and so on till they had ob tained their object. Richmond here observed, that the a nly we, Wu to make the organisation as extensive as pase.ble, anal then there would be no fear; but that they world soon see t hens *elves the absurdity of expecting any thing in this way ; for :he fact was, * there was nothi4 be feared could do any good till r" it was taken by the bayonet, and the sooner It could be te 'rued would be the better in his opinion. This same week it 7 1 5 told deponent that it war understood that Richmond was either employed or employing himself as a spy, as be was called, and that it was feared that he had succeeded a certain lolls which might be dangerous to borne individuals who It was feared lee had duped, or that be was endeavouring to make his dupes. 'Chia same evening be (Richmond) was called or • rather met by deponent and Campbell, in Frongate, Glasgow, and all three went into a hotise in said street, Where he treated deponeut and Campbell with some punch or toddy. Here deponent charged Richmond esti spy, or a person who if h was true what was said about him be certaiuly was the. worst of minas of course he wale ' determined to ruin a number of wretched iadividuale, if it WAS in his power: but hoped at the same time be would I L-ulpa.e himself, if it was in his power. which be immediately endea voured to do,denying that he held any correspondence with K rk man Finlay; mud, pulling out • letter that hr said be got froth Frands Jeffrey, Esq. which he read. There was something he it about Senor £Eiteo bank credit. After having read it he said that these were the men, meaning Jeffrey and Cockburn, that be depen , ded on, and Lobed every reason to believer hat there was none that would charge them as persons that would he guilty ot ally unman y action, or even countenance any one that could be such a villain. Some days after this deponent hying called in one of the new es paper UniCe4 on some bonne s., and having pulled out a paper where there ware steno. gen Semen's names, as sub.° Ewes to help to defray the expense of a process that was then pending, bettinst the Hecker, of the Ramey Parish or Kirk Sennett and an individual in Calton, who was purtu:ng them for parish cup • port, and in this pip e r R ic hm on d' s 'raine was among. , 0 hers; and, one of the clerks running nv. r the name., when I e can e to that of Richmond, lie tibeeryed, tills is the spy. lisenineitt asked - hint what he meant by this ? he said that it was under- Istood that he was acting as a epy,and that it was supposed It. was employed by As soon as deponent came home, he went to Campbell and told him what be had heard, Ind re quested that he would hold nu more currespondence with him, as it was possible he might draw him into sonic trouble. Deponent farther declares, that in all the hetet views, Wiliest without exception, be, Richmond, generally pre•sed the necessity of a delegation to England. and the necessity of a regular stir respondence, by delegates. between England and Scotland, and often declared his readiness to help to defray the expense id the first delegation, and as regularly pressed the aecesaity of della.. lions throughout all the populous towns and villages in Scotland, as he always considered that the or. anization could not be effected any other way, and this he said he had from his experience in the last ermine km of the operative weavers. At Glasgow. the ISth day of August, 1517, In. yresenee of Richard Dick, Esq one of his Majesty's Justices of the Pea-e fir the County of Lanark, appeared John A/Laehlin, weaver in Calton of Glasgow. who being sokuanly swum, depotwe, that the statement written on the seven preceding p.ges, and subscribed by him, is just and true as he shall answer to (; 00 . Ru. !hoc, 1. P. Jour4 TO TIM ZDITOR OP TUC GLASGOW CHRONIC! L. Stt►=l'he wlfeof the spy Richmond's friend, Pcst, who ra• Wit:area the famous clause abta►t " physical svrcngth," a lIVI bore with her children in deplorable scant• Ought roe the ten-osi of the spy to'give her nvx►ry to juin her Lissloah.l t 1. LADY MORGAN'S FRANCE.—An Octavo Edition c , f this curious and entertaining Werk has just appeared ; the public curiosity, which is very great respecting it, may therefore now be gratified at a moderate expense. _ _ • A young roman, lately convicted at Paris of hay. ing occasioned the death of her new-born infant by imprudence, negligence, and inattention, but in the words of the verdict lavdontardy, has nevertheless been condemned to two years of imprisonment and a fine of fifty francs ! Exartmou.--This morning Jaws Firtwillifors, ii ne ry irilkiss, and William null, found guilty, and sentenced to death, fora burglary in the house of Mr. Cartwright, in Compton-street, Brunswick-square, on the 4th of July last, were executed in front of the Debtor's Door, Newgate. They were all young men, were very penitent, and met their fate with becoming resignation.— Joh* Califs, a black man, convicted of a rape on a child, the tranghter of a publican at Shad. well, who was ordered for execution along with them, received, last night, a respite till Monday next. CORN EXCHANGE. Auuurr :10.—Ntuwithstanding the unfavourableaess of the weather for the progress of the harvest, our Market was heavy for all Grain ; hut what few sales were made were at Monday's prices, and only the fittest qualities of Wheat could be disposed of ; all other dcsetiptions Wag totally unsaleable.