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EDIA'BUkCII, NOVEMBER 14. On Tuefday lart a County Meeting was held at Perth, his Gr ice the Duke of Avitoi., Lord Liente. rant, in the Chair, which was moll refpeelably at• tended. The Earl of RatEADALBANE, who has not been prefent at any of the County Meetings finee his arrival in Scotland before, addieffed the Chair at confiderable length. He (Wed, that the volunteer force of that county was by much too titian ; that bhnfelf s as well as others, had made offers of volun• Leer corps, to which, for months, no anfwer bad been given; that at lag they were rerofetl, while others had bten accepted, which certainly could have no preferable title; and he attributed it entirely to the Loyd Lieutenant. .The Duke of Avr4 ot. juitified himfelf Kith warmth, from the charges that were brought againit him.— If the volunteer force of the county was too fmall, Isle raid that Miniltry had alone to anfwer fur that.— Lord Balauar.serres name bad been at the top of his lilt of thole who were to command volunteer bat talions, and it was the fyftern which Government had adopted that bad prevented them from being embo died. He fpurned the reflations which had been thrown on hi:pi - elf, as be was confcious of their in :Wife. - - - - - - - - - Aril - count MELVILLE Paid, he flood in the fame pre- dicament with the noble Earl. Not that he had had the prefumption to propnfe railing a corps, but he had been fo preffingly invited by a body of goo men in Stratherne to take their command, that he had tranfinitted their offers to the Lord Lieutenant, al though he was thus placing himfelf in a lituation for which he was uufi.ted, both by his habits and hix time of life. This corps was among the number of thofe that had been refufed ; btu he bad good reafon to know that the Duke could not be blamed for the re fufal either of this or the noble Earl's offer. He could afrure him, that in many private converfations with the Duke he had heard his Grace exprefs his wills that Lord BeleoeLeases offer &odd be me- Cep ter!. The Earl of Mott*, accompanied by Sir W. Xs's, Lords RAIIO.IIIIII and FORIII4 General Macias', Co and DIILOM, and Colonel STIWART. walked in trzelSon with the Loao PRIIIIDIN ' T and feveral of Sefton, fr om the Parliament Hoare 'to the High Chard, Edinbergh. on Sunday ha l, where a forum was preached by the Rev. Przfalfor FINLAY SOO. The Commender in Chief fat in %bat is called u the King's feat," which is occupied by the Lord High CommiSoner when the General Aliesubly of the Church meets. A Difpenfation yeilerday peed the Great Seal, to enable the Rev. Samna', JoLLirre Tuniatt., Mader of Arts, Chaplain to the Right Hon. Lord Vikount Mionterom, to hold the Vicarage of North Mendbam, with the Vicarage of Hun(lon, both in the County of Suffer, on the prefentation thereto by W. Basatror,Efq. ofChichefler. The Officers retaken in the fuite orGeneral Be RD, kind who are anived in England. are Capt. MIDDLE. noon, Aid-de-Camp to the General, and Capt. Haw n urns, of the sad Dragoons. The Author of the Tbrre per Casts. would make an nufeutnnaor Broker, for the moment be brought his Stock Into the market, all the Bulls became Bears. An ollesiGble and convincing reafon why the nu ameons and refpedtable frequAnters of the Royalty •Tbeattr lheald embrace this and tomorrow evening ta mitasitilse =rivaled divertifement of thrlorwafien, the Comic Pantomime Of the Birth of Herlersus, and the grand *Mack of the &Mgr of Gana, becaufe, after this ausb thy may never be reprefented again. Yeller two young gentlemen, bringing up to tin of the law e appeared by fumrnons, at greet, charged by the Commander of the St. Nuns Totanteer Corps. that they being perfons enrolled iv the Paid corps, have negleaed and refufed, on Ammatheing made for that pnrpofe, to pay cer• pia Soak innsanting to t7s. 6d. incurred under the rules and rerdations of the Paid corps. Colonel Le Jenne, the commander of the corps, with the Secretary, attended to Intiflantiate the charges, which were both under funilar circum. Rance,. _ _ _ _ They both pleaded Not Guilty to the charges. The cireumfiances attending the cafes were, that the defendants had Signed the moier•rell of the corps dated the 4th of Auguß, before their Cervices were nceepted by Government, which offered their Cervices to Government, to find themfelves in cloathing, and pay their dare of every expence kttending the corps, II Ckurcrunmat *add find them with arms; and to ajel ee be C • to foci rules and regulations as Should be on by a majority oethe corps. A Short time er Government baring fignißed their opinicki dud the volunteers exceeded the numbers they 'Mated for, the defendants never attended any sneetiisa of the corps. The Secretary preduced the mufler-roll. and hav ing read the introdnikory Rending roles, proceeded to point out the defendants' names, as having fired it, and agreed to the rules hid down i but on his be ing called upon to prove that thofe names were the defendants' hand writing, he acknowledged that he could not Twear that, nor could Colonel Le Jenne i upon which Mr. Consr, who attended for the defen dants, contended, they were entitled to an acquittal, to which the Magid:rates agreed, and they were sc. cordiogly found—Not Guilty. Mr.Z.oorr then Rated, that a Sort time after the defendants had given in their names to the St. Pan acea corps, they learned that the Law Affaciation was forming, and they "riffled to join that, it being More congenial to their habits to *lf wiate with the profeffion to which they belonged, whole times of meeting were the haft calculated to interfere with t'aeir bufiaefs ; and the learned Gentleman added, he tbosgbt if conciliatory socallares were tiled inflead of coercive, it would better iudbrer the porpofe of enforcing the regulating' of the - To which the Colonel replant, that it be impable for him to comply with the inaruelions he had received from the Gemaral of the Home Diftriet, to keep the , corps in a Brie Rage of dikipline, and provided with 1 forty-eight retinal-sot' ball-cartridge fit for a. 9.1.11 for vice, if did not endeavour to keep every member in as (fiefs,. a Rate as . roffible, and refilled to crate the defendants' names IrOM the nuiller.ioll to enAble thelo to join the Law Affociation, except they found J'is two others in their room. 47URE. ML. GOOWIt r S AND •GL OF CHAUCEt. The full and complete life of a Poet, Mr. GODWIN ohferves, includes an extenfive furvey of the manners, the opinions, the arts, and the literature of the age, in which the Poet lived. This is the only way in which we can become truly acquainted with the hif tory of his mind, and the caufes which made him what he was. We mull obferve what Co•vcee felt and law, how he was edu..tted, what fpecies of learn ing he purfued, and what were the objeas, the event!, and the perfons, fucceffively prefented to his view, before we can ftrialy and philofnphically underftand his biography. To delineate the date of England, fuch as CHAUCER faw it, in every point of view in which it can be delineated, is the interefling objet of Mr. Goowts's work: and it mull be owned by every reader, that he has given abundant proofs of his dif centrism ; his obfervations are flriking, his language is elegant, and he has delineated the peculiar features of the age of CH•UCER, with great eloquence, jult nefs, anti accuracy. Among the documents which he has found it ne cefrary to oafish, he difeovered one in the College of Arms,. which was calculated in its confequences to bring the received date of CHAUCER'S birth in queftion. This, as it could not be fo formally difc tared in the body of the book, he has confidered w:th great care in a preliminary differtation, but without ob taining that fatisfaaory inference the record Teemed to promife. Having gone over the doubted point of Coaucea's birth, our author proceeds to mark the features of his education, and that the reader may follow the Poet through the various fcenes from which his mind received the firft impreMons, has defcribed London as it appeared at the beginning of the fourteenth cen tury. This, it mull be owned, is the true way of writing binary c it is in the m inner of TACITUS. who never mentions the befieging of a town without firitplacing it before the reader in perfpealve. The hiftory of the Poet's Education is fo combined with the civil, military, religious, and domeftic inftitutions of his time, that the reader's attention is rivetted ; and he fancies the days ofCmaucts palling in review, like the Kings before MACBETH. The remarks on Tournaments are equally found and philofophical ; and the hiftory of the tourna ment. the traits which diftinguifhed it from the just, the Earartilar fplandour of chivalry, under Eowaso the Third, and the imprellion it left upon our na tional charaaer, are all treated with an elegance sad a concifenefs which has rarely been vltneffed. Nor are the arts of eloquence forgotten. The rude ftresigth of the Baronial manfion, and the fairy grandeur of the Gothic church, are defcribed in rich and glowing diaion, of which our languagefurnifhes few parallels of equal merit; fcnlpture, painting, embroidery, and mufic, the WI of which gave occa fionat animation to the (trains of Outlaw. art all furveyed in turn, and furnifh a pidlure of the man ners; calms., deficiencies, and improvements of the Englifh nation in the fourteenth century, highly gra tifyingto the curious Reader. Having accompanied the Poet to his entrance at Cambridge, Mr. GODWIN flops to view the hate of our waivedties, and examines the condition of their knowledge: his refearches lead to a conclufion in which we beartily'agree. It was no mean fchool in which the father of - Englifh Poetry was prepared for the career he had to run. At the age of eighteen, while yet at College, CommCaa produced his Poem on " the Court of Lam" The (late of Poetry, both here and in the countries whence CHAU CBI borrowed many of his improve ments, is next confidered, and the Poet followed to his retirement in the filter univerfity. Here his obli gations to BOCCACIO are brought into one view : an Anslyfis of his Trodas and Crinde exhibited ; with Memoirs of Sracant and Cowie, the patrons to whom it was infcribed. The completion of the Poet's Rudies at Paris teams highly probable, though bit (unwired entrance at the Inner Temple refit on more quelbonable authority, The latter circumaance, however, is feized by his bio grapher as affording an opportunity to examine the ideas and conceptions which the Rudy of the law, at that period, might have produced tivn his mind; — and has given rife to a diftoilition exceedingly inge nioos. Among the .books produced at this period of his life is placed his verfios of the Rory of Pat AMON and Altars; which, like the Taoszus and Cae sium!, is a copy from BoccAcso. Hie next work was the tranflation of Boerneus. Thus far Csavcsa appear s only as a private in dividuals but tOW towards sM Cktre of the firft volume Mr. GODWIN exhibits him in a different view— " From the thirtieth year of his age, if not fooner, " to his daub, he was a courtier, the Counfellor of " Princes, employed in various negoti.itions and cm " baits...sad iavolvedia thafsaiens, contentions, and " intrigues tibia tires „ Like Arabians and Pa ioa. it appears, he was in &bumf Oar his potties' fortune to his literary worth. But here, for the prefent, we fhall dole our obferva. lions refer sin/ a farther notice of this literary phe• nomenou for a - future opportunity. TRiarita. Crbiter-Gatoan.—Laft night the Tea. gedy of rewire frofereed was performed at this The. sire in a very fuperior ftildt.—Of the excellence of Mrs. Simons in Beloidera, Poblic ha: long had brilliant and ;fleeing proofs ; and the j/Aer of Mr. Kassa:A may alto be pronounced a very interelling, though a rather laboured, portrait of the charaCter ; but the novelty of the evening was the Pierre of Mr. Coos s, and-a more maftetlT performance of the part throughout we have not witnelred lance the days of HIIIOEIIOII. Mr. COORS was in full pollefLon of his powers, and gave the text with all mat admirable dif criminaticio and judicious attention to paufe and em phafts for which his beg Rage delineations are fo dif. tinguifbed; nakbir do weever remember to have ken him look a chandler better. The part of Reii6esilt, the hoary trlitor, was very well performed by CP•PI4•3I, late of the Haymarket Company, and the reit of the, Confoirators were fufficiendy rep teik.—Some of the earlier pafEiges of the Play were politically applied by the galleries as heretofore ; bur the ',ohmic was not t offered to be of long duration : bites 101-1 1 lowed, and the good fenfe orthe audience loon got the better .of the foolilb enthufsafm of a few.—rbe hoofs was caucmcly aowdcd. L /ITV 11177 - Stilt, NCE. COURT OF COMMON rLEAs, Serjeant BAILEY Gated, that the (Nett off is `application to the Court was, to accelerate Out :pro grefs of this caufe, contrary to an ordei that had been made in it by Mr. Justice Roogs. Mr. Serjeant Ru NNINGTON Rated, 'that this aaion was brought to recover penalties, to the amount of one million four hundred and feveziteen tboufand pounds Reding. Mr: Serjea.tt WILLIAMS Rated the ci.:cla.ration was 37 long folios. Mr. Juftice Roosts faid, it had been reprefented to him, this was a crtellion of very great importance on the 6 per cent. which was allowed by the Ratute so be taken by WeR India Merchants on Weft India fe curities. There was a witnefs abfolutely neceilary, who was to come from the Weft Indies in order to attend the trial, and that they could not proceed to trial without him. His Lorsltitip told them, if that was fo, at all events to take a week, and at the end of that week to come with what intorniraion they bad. His Lordthip thought it unreafonah!e to c.til in a party in fuch a cafe as this, to plead to foci « declar ation in four days. The Loll!) CHIEF JUSTICE fail, juflice could not he done. The penalties were very high—three times the amount of the money borrowed. Mr. Plaice ROOKS fail, if he was wrntm the Court would cm-tea him ; but he thought, if that wit:..efs was material, and had not come, they ought to have further time to plead. Lord At.vaanev faid, he had had prodigious diE culties in this AR of Parliament at the Rolls. Mr. Serjeant BAILEY faich he was not very willing to mention it. Mr. JoßiCe Rooks Aid, be would tell them very fairly, Me &mild think himfelf very well warranted in giving them farther time. He did not mean to prefs on fuch an Etion. Lord ALv %Ik Y (did, in every care where the pe nalties were v.l y high, the Court ought to fee the Defendant bau all opportunity of making a full de• fence, and that all fuch cafes were favoured by the Court. The Learned Serjeant took nothing by his Motion. COURT OF RING'S BENCH, NOV. 57. ?HE KING V. VOTTINGH&M. Mr. ER SK IN s prayed the judgment of the Court nn the Defendant, f .r an alf.tult. Mr. Juflice Coosa proceeded to read his notes of the ttial. The Profecutor was John Patfons, Efq. a Magiftrate, and mailer of the ceremonies at Lincoln, who, for fume reafon which did not appear, had re turned to the Defendant his fubfcription money, as a fubleriber to the aftemblies at that city. The De fendant, in confequence of this proceeding, repaired to the Affembly Rooms on the evening of the 6th of January talc, the moil crowded and brilliant altembly of the lealon, when he afked the Profecutor what he meant by returning his fulsfcrilstion money? Not re ceiving an anfwer, he pulled off Mr. Patfons' wig : this took place in the Affembly Room. He then followed him into the tea room, where he beat him over the arms and !boulders with a knotted (lick.— He raid he would repeat the beating, and according. ly did fo. Some months having expired, the Defen dant wrote a letter to Mr. Parfons, to the following effed " You,* Janice of the County and City of Lin coln, having neglected to comsnit me, for having called you a dammed 'coward, take notice, that in the enfuing term, I intend to foe out, in his Majelly's Court of King's Bench, a Writ of Latitai, in nrdcr to recover from you the penalty of 51. for fuch ne sted, in terms of the Itatute is that cafe math am I pro. vadat N. B. Take notice that you owe me 205. for this information, in terms of the above Ad of Par liament." _ _ _ Several affidavits from the Rev. John Doubican and Mr. John Lowe, in favour of the defendant, were then about to be read, when Lord Ellenborough ant ed, " Is the defendanran attorney of this Court ?" Mr. Erfkine replied, " He is, my Lord." The af fidavits then dated the whole affair at very confider. able length. They deftribed the defendant as an in dividual every way qualified and entitled to be a fuh fcriber to the Lincoln Affembliew on the ground of his education and condue. which had uniformly been that of a gentleman. The affidavits Rated the con dud of the Mailer of the Ceremonies, when Mr. Nottingham :liked him why he had returned his money, as very infolent and rade. Mr. Parfons, moreover. had received no perfonal injury from the blows given him by the defendant, as he remained at the Afrembly the whole evening, and teemed to be in higlwrijiriee thaw ufwal. The defendant had alfcr been haraffed by the profecntion t which had been moved into this Court tor no other end than that of putting him to expenee. Lord Es.s.ansosouon—" Mr. ErOtine, there are Some points in there affidavits which ought. I think, to be anfwered. When do you think yon will be ready to anfwer them r. Mr. ERIPRINR- 4, I think by Wednefday, at Earthen, my Lord." Lord ELLINSOROUGH Very well. In the mean time the defendant mull be committed to the prifon of this Court. ins MHO IP. 1441.1L0D AND ANOTHER. Mr. ATTORNIY G moved fnr the iodic. ment of the Court againfl the Defendant and has Brother. who are fcrvants to a ',newer, who lives at Gatefhead, near Newcallle-upon-Tyne. Their of fence was for *franking fosse revenue officers in the execution of their office. Mr. &leant Coce act. and Mr. HOLIOYD appear. ed for the e Defendants and ohferved, among other things that the Officers themfclocb were not arialy jufliGed in coming to this Brewer's houfe in the mid. dle of the night. without the fmalleft notice. The whole offence of the Defendants confided in hawing detained thek o ffi cers for fome time in their matter's kitchen. • _ _ _ _ _ _ ATTORISSIF Canapst. obferved, that the fe rims pan of this cafe was this, that fine the late A& taxing beer by clefts, , t had been a very gene ral pratlice for Brewers, who brewed Aron g beer and (mall beer, u the tirength of the (mall beer could not be afeertained, to brew frn3ll beer two thirds of the iliength of Arcing beer, and after both kinds of beer bad paid the duty, to tt.e (Irony beer 11. .• I ,4rrel, ,snd the (mall beer as. per barrel ; after tlaw. LA.! beat duae s it was sow a very coastal pradice, by means of A pipe going from we barrel to another, to draw off this Imall beer, and mix it with the thong, which was a very conliderable ira. potitir.n on Government, and afterwards it was cx. tremely di!ficult to deter it. This was always dale in the night time, and if there Officers had gives no. tice to the Brewer of their' coming, it would ban completely defeated the Ojai of their *. The Defendants were ordered to Ise brought up on Saturday fennight, to receive die'iwllMknt of the Court." _ _ _ Another Defendant from Exeter, who had been conviCted of a fimilar offence, was ordered to be brought up at the fame time. THE KING V. MILN. The ATTORMILY GENFIAL alto moved for the Judgment of the Cunt againa him. The Defendant was tried at the lag affizes for Dorchefier, before Lord ALVANLFY, charged with having, with force of arms, made an affank on tome Revenue Officers, and wit h having oppofed them in the execution of their office. Mr. Jußice Goose obferved, this was an offence upon which condign punilbment ought to be inflieled. The Court, taking into their coaf►dcration all the circurnflance% of this cafe, ordered and adjudged that the Defendant fhould be imprifoned in his Mano rs's gaol, in the county of Dorcheßer, for Liz ca lendar months, and be then difchargtd. THE /ONO O. JOSEPH, WILLIAM, AND GlOllO, DENIM'. On the motion of Mr. ATTORNEY GENEZAL. JO. feph Dennet, and his two fins, William and George Dennet, who were tried and convieted before Mr. BAron THostrsou, at the Taft affizes for Durham, were brought into Court to receive Juck ; :nent, for a jimilar offence with the !A Defendant. _ _ _ Mr. Hott.oca, on the part of the Defendants, made a fbort fpeech in mitigation of punllhmcnt, on the ground chiefly that this matter did not con tain any grofs violence towards the officers. They refilled the officers making a fearch, without being accompanied with a conflable : they thought they had no right. In that they were rnifiaken, As they had a fpecial warrant from a Magittrare. It wis impoffible they could have carried on fmuggling to any extent, or that they had been in the habits of doing it, as they lived thirty miles from the coall. They wilbed to be committed to their own county ga.ll. Lord ELLIMBOROI/011 °braved, that it was a very inconvenient gaoL Mr. Juftke Glum Paid, it was a bad precedent for them to chute their own gaol. Lord Ett.ausoanuca.-44 Let them be commit ted in the mean time to the King's Bench Prifon, and be brought up with the others to receive the judgment of the Court." THI KING V. JANIS. Mr. Easy move) for the judgment of the Court on the Defendant. This was an indidmeut for an affault on Philip. Sampfon and was tried before Lord Eztrososouan at the laft Sittings for Weftmintler. Mr. Juttice Gansa pronounced the judgment of the Court, which was, that James thould be impri- Coned in the gaol of Newgate for one year, and at the expiration of - that period to enter into a recognizance of tool. for his good behaviour for two years. Thomas Pixley was charged with an incliftment for wilful and corrupt perjury in the Conn of Cons. mon Pleas, in giving evidence on a queQion of af fault.-.—Not Grill,. CRIMIS*L INFORMATION. Mr. Glass moved the court for a Rule to thew cattle why a criminal information should not be sled againft Lieut. John Mitchell, who is the Commander of a prefs-gang. The perfon who made this applica tion to the Court was Mr. Robert Thompson, die Killer of the ship Nancy, of Newcaale-opon.Tyne. He fwore, that on the la of Auguß lea his veal was ready for fest, and that he'was going to South Shields for a pilot ; that on his return to his vefel, at ten o'clock at night. be being about to fail that night, he was aruch by a curies, and when he looked round he faw this Lieutenant, who appeared to be very much intoxicated ; that he told him be was the Mallet of a veffel jut about torsi!, and de fired him to examine his papers, He was ready to go with him any where that he might inlpea his pa. pers. Notwithaanding that, be forcibly draggsd him along the (beets, and carried hint to the place of rendezvous of impreffed men. He waited that a light might be brought, and that they might examine the papers ; be was, however, put among the other men the whole night; daring that time he was prevented hem failing with his flip, and loft two tides: The next day be was immediately difeharged. He not only had that affidavit, but an.. other affidavit of a man of the name of Rots, who happening to come by, and knowing Mr. Thompfon, he ezpwftulated with them ; on which they immediately feired him, and carried him to the place of rendezvous, and kept him there the whole night. There was alto the affidavit of a third perfon, to the fame tied. This gentleman was there the whole night, when they refuted to examine hit papers. This was outrageous eondoEt on the part of this gentleman, and wholly unutli fi able. He trotted the Court would grant the in formation. LORD ELLUIROROUGII.—" Take a Rule to thew tank " Friday fe'nnight !Maws Crickets was executed in front of the Tolbooth. Dundee, purfuant to his (=- tenet for fiseep-Ilealirag. An accident lately happened to the Radflock col lieries. in the neighbourhood of Bath, by the work men cutting a fatat, or feasts of clay I which has let in fuch a large and heretofore undifcovered (ring of water, that nearly all the works of three coal pits, which adjoin and communicate, are full of water; and the working entirely fufpended, to the great lots of the proprietors, and to the difirefi of the inhabi tints for a great way round. who have for near twenty years, fence theft works were opened, bees wholly fupplied with coals from thence. A navigs. gable canal, of tome miles in length. has been ma jetted, and is nearly finithed. for conveying the coals from theft pits to Brig 1, Bath, and other parts. "Me diitrefs of the colliers and their families, who are hereby thrown out of employ, is very great. Tbe proprietors are faiJ to have determined on taking the opinion of the nu.ll experienced registers on the praßicabaity of drawing off the water which fup plies this fpring. by fume other outlet, or fah a put it, that their cosines may be able to char the works. . 1 I Wil rl2. I) ris. to Its O. id,