Star. — London, England, 1823-08-15 00:00:00

TILE POPE. The Mouiteur quotes a kiaragraph from .the Quo tidian, as if giving it official sanction, which states emt, according to letters from route of the 29th or j i ly, received by express the illness of the Sovereign pontiff had beconte . worse and worse, and that the cr i s is seemeJ so. near at hknd, that the Duke de L a val had thought it necessary to send off a courier to his Government. .His licilkess, it is adlled, had made his last dispositions witb the resignation of an Evangeli-t, and all Rome was plunged in affliction. The following article in the Brussels Papers on the same subject, puts one in mind of the affected decre pitude of Sextus V. previolis to his elevation to the purple. The Reader can be at no loss to guess who aspires to the succession : , r Travellers frosts Rome affirm that, ry)twithstand ing the public declaration of some physicians, the' greatest twrchensions were excited by the state of the Pope's health, ar.d there very little hope remains of his recovery. Cardinal Gonsalvi gives fresh prowfs of his attachment to his Sovereign, and of the energy ',lbis character, on this trying occasion. Unhappily, his own health has lately suffered violent shecks, and the Catholic world is thus threatened with two severe lasses at the same time." fIE 411.11 Y. Wednesday sennight, the Dumbartonshire Yeomanry Ca valry, under the command of Major DENSSTOVIS, of Colgrain, were inspected by the Duke of Alouraosz, Lord Lieutenant of the County, accompanied by Lieutenant-Colonel SMYTH. in the lawn of lxvenside, near Dumbarton. The day was favour - able, and the manner in which the Corps went through the different evolutions, elicited the warmest approbation from the Duke of M 0141110511 and Colonel SMYTH, and afforded the highest gratifi cation to a numerous assemblage of spectators. A number of carriages were on the ground, filed with the rank and fashion of the County, among whom were particularly distinguished the Duchess of 3lowenosz and the Ladies GRAHAM, Lady CAstrxxxx, &c. The same day, the Duke of Morrison inspected the Dum barton Volunteers, under the command of Captain DizoN, and expressed himself highly gratified with the steadiness and preci sion with which they performed their manoeuvres, and with the completeness of the equipments and the soldier-like appearance of this fine Corps. The inspection being • ended, two prizes, given by the Lord Lieutenant of the County, to the best swords men, were competed for by the Yeomanry, and gained, the first by Corporal lluxtocu, and the second by Scrjeant ki'Lxv, jun. A race was also run by the horses of each Troop, for purses given by the Officers, which afforded much sport. The successful can didates were slr. Prima, of Captain Cauraitzt's Troop ; of Certain BUCHANAN'S; and Quartermaster ticorr, of Captain &tourer's. The business of the day being over, the Duke of Moriransz, Colonel Slim', and several Gen tlemen of the County; honoured the Officers of the two Corps with their company at dinner, at the Elephant Inn, Dumbarton, when many loyal and appropriate toasts were drank, and the conviviality of the egening kept up to a late hour. This morning, their Royal Highnesses Prince Lao wan, and the Duchess of KIMT, attended by their respective suites, with the Princess ALZICANDIUNA, embarked at the Tower an board the Hero steam vessel, for Ramsgate, under the dis charge of a royal salute from the ramparts. On their arrival at me Tower, they were received by a Guard of Honour, and at tended by the Wardens of the Tower in full costume. The loyal Standard was hoisted on the occasion. Yesterday the Duke of SAXE-WEINIAR arrived in town, front Bushey Park. Lord DUDLEY and WARD entertained Viscount end Viscountess GRANVILLZ, and a distinguished party, to din ner yesterday, at his house in Park-lane. Lord HOLLAND had a dinner party yesterday. Yesterday, Prince Pounnac, the French Ambas tador, transacted business at the Foreign Office. The mercury in . our thermometer, in a southern ex posore, which, on Tuesday, between one and two o'clock, reached 103 degrees, was, at the same hour yesterday, scarcely 63! SHERIDAN'S School for Scandal is performing with eclat at Versailles. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—The entertaining Co- !Tidy of The Young Quaker was revived at this Theatre yester day e►ening. It is very effectively cast. Thom, Liston, and Ilanixr, were severally excellent in the leading characters; and Miss Cutouts and Miss Lova, in Dinoh Primrose and Armfuls, tettieed deserved applause. The latter Lady introduced a new Song, and sang it with much of her peculiar sweetness. rang 'so Murder followed, in which Lurrow kept the House in a rOar, and Mater performed with his usual ability. This morning, about one o'clock, an alarming fire broke out at the shop of Mr. BENNETT, block-maker, in St. Catherine's-street, near the Tower, which de stroyed the house and the whole of the stock. It also damaged several other houses adjoining, and great apprehensions were entertained for Irongate wharf warehouses, which are full of flax and other valuable goods. A friend of ours, says the Plymouth Journal, on whom we can rely, breakfasted last Thursday morning with an intelligent Officer who came passen ger in the Royal George, and who had visited, within the preceding fortnight, Ferrol, St. Lucas., Corunna, and Vigo; and . it is chiefly through that channel that the following particulars have been obtained : Among a great many French and Spanish Officers attached to the Constitutionalist cause, Quiroga, find ing there was not the slightest chance of preventing either Vigo or Corunna from falling into the hands of the Fiench armies, consulted his safety by filet, and came passenger in, and landed here from, the Royal George. Our friend's informant above alluded to, dined, about eight days before his arrival, with the French General in command at Ferrol, and his Staff: they sat dawn twenty-five strong. He said be never saw a more brilliant appearance than they made; and he repotted the French troops in that quarter, whom he had opportunities of seeing under arms, to be in the best state of discipline, and well equipped in every respect. He added, that they are much in favour with the Spaniards, as are the whole of the French armies throughout Spain, and for this reason: their behaviour, wherever they hare been, is diame trically opposite to the conduct of the soldiers Bo naparte sent into that kingdom during the late war. The former commit no excesses—they never pillage nr plunder, and evei ything they require is regularly sought and paid for in hard cash. Every one knows this is not as it was wont to be. Therms at Vigo had all been spiked before our fiiend's informant left, so that even if the inhabitants Lid had a wish (which was not the case) to oppose the entrance of Morillo and the French troops, they not the means ; and he had no doubt that 1110- rillo took possession either on Sunday or Monday sennight : and that Corunna would be in his bands soon after. Our friend's informant had a good deal of conver sation with Sir Robert Wilson, while he was on board the packet, on the voyage from Corunna toVigo, and lk found that the Vigo militiaman was greatly pozed in which way to dispose of himself, atter his flight f rom Corunna. Ile at last, however, came in the re sol,,tion of going directly to Cadiz as a der nier ra m:we, and engaged a fishing schooner, which happened 1 4 be lyingat Vigo, to colivey him thither. SCOTTISH ANTIQUITIES- Saturday the 28th June, as a party of Gentlemen from Ayr and its vicinity were pleasuring upon Lochdoon, after enjoying themselves for some time in fishing, and contemplating the delightful romantic scenery that surrounded them, they agreed to row a , little far ther up the lake, a n d e xam i ne t h e o ld C ast l e , which stands upon an island near its southernmost ex tremity. 1n approaching the old building, the con versation natbrally turned upon thehistory and events which had caused the demolishing of. so stately an edifice, when the boatman informed the Gentlemen it was currently reported that the outer gate of the Castle vs all had been thrown into the lake, near the place where their boat then floated. At this time the weather was calm, the sky serene, and the water so clear and smooth, that they saw the bottom of the lake distinctly, and immediately determined to com mence a search for the old gate. They were, how ever, disappointed in finding it, but they succeeded in discovering several boats or canoes, of a very rude and uncommon constructure, lying sludged up with mud at the bottom of the lake. Information of this was communicated to the Earl of Cassillis, the pro prietor, when his Lordship desired that they should be immediately taken up, if possible, and deposited in the Castle. Three of them have since, by great exertion, been raised, and placed in the Castle, to which they form a most appropriate accompaniment; and when viewed in connexion with it, furnish one of the grandest specimens of rude antiquity. The canoes are all formed by being cut out of solid oak trees, and when found contained charcoal, mud, and hazle nuts, with the husks entire on them. The sides of one of them were quite greasy and white with that animal substance which the French chemists denominate adeposize. The first taken out measured 22 feet in length, three feet 10 inches in breadth, two feet one inch inside depth ; the second 16i feet in length, three feet three inches in breadth, and two feet three inches in depth ; the third was 21 feet in length, three feet three inches in breadth, and two feet two inches in depth. Of the ancient his tory of this Castle, nothing is known with certainty ; but from what has at present been found, and is still to be seen in the neighbourhood, we can form some estimation of its extraordinary antiquity, since we may be fairly allowed to conjecture, these canoes existed at that early period when the neighbouring mountains were clad with shrubbery, and the vallies with huge oak trees. These have long since ceased to exist in a growing state, and the hills have now become sterile, and quite divested of shrubbery, as if some great convulsion in nature had taken place, and the trees which seem to have been companions in growth with those from which the canoes are formed, have now lain buried in moss for ages past. From the situation of the Castle, and traditional accounts, it must have been a place of great strength, and se veral specimens of ancient armoury have been found on the island. Little more, however, of its real his tory is known with certainty, than that it was demo lished by command of one of the Kings of Scotland, along with the other feudal Castles of the west ; and without making any calculation of the probable age of these canoes, but considering them to have lain since then, they are still in a remarkable state of preservation, so much so, that one of them, after her long repose, and being emptied of the mud, was again launched into the deep, when a young man in the same spirit, and in the same barge of the heroes of antiquity, made an excursion on the lake, and again reached the shore in perfect safety, amid the loud and incessant cheering of his companions. Wednesday se'nnight, a melancholy accident hap pened on the Lasswade-road, between Edinburgh and Dalkeith. Mr. Douglas, brewer in Dalkeith, accompanied by Dr. Smith, of Lasswade, were riding from town, when the former dismounted for a few minutes, on the road near Edgehead, while the latter proceeded slowly. Shortly after, Mr. Douglas's horse, a spirited and restive animal, passed Dr. Smith without its rider, and on the Doctor returning td inquire into the cause, he found Mr. Douglas ly ing on the ground, with a wound on his temple, it is supposed from a kick of the animal, which was of so serious a nature that he survived but a few minutes. An able practical chemist of Glasgow has disco vered a simple and most efficacious method of ren dering woollen, silk, or cotton cloth completely water proof. _The mode adopted is to dissolve caoutche in mineral oil, which is procured in abundance at the gas works, by a brush to put five or six coatings of this mixture on one side of the cloth or silk, on which another piece of cloth is laid, and the whole passed through between two rollers. The adhesion is most complete; so much so, that it is easier to tear the cloth than to separate either piece from the caoutche. We have seen some specimens of silk and kerseymere, rendered completely impervious to water I by this method, and we could not discover that it con sisted of more than one ply. This kind of cloth must be a valuable commodity for persons living in a rainy climate. We understand that a patent has been ob tained by the inventor. Amongst the prisoners who were tried for felony and acquitted at the late Salford Quarter Sessions, was .a Jane Hewitt: she is already again an inmate of the new prison, under the following circumstances: A man of the name of Cumberland had absconded a fortnight ago, taking with him the property of his employer (Mr. Reyner, of Manchester, merchant) to the amount of 6001 which he had been directed to remit to Liverpool by post; it consisted of a . bill of exchange for 5001. and some bank notes. A large reward was immediately offered for his apprehen sion, but as yet without effect. On'Friday se'nnight, however, the above female offered a bank note in payment, at the Green Man, in Ashbourn, under sonic circumstances which created suspicion; and on a constable being sent for, he recognized the bank note as a part of the property described in a placard bill sent from Manchester, ,grring notice of the rob bery. On examination, all the other bills were found in her possession, with the exception of a 101. note. She said she had met with Cunsberland' in Manches ter, who told her he was a half-pay officer, and she agreed to go to Lonion with him. At Macclesfield she said be had intrusted her with the money, and for some reason which she did not explain, she pro ceeded to 4shbourne, where she was to have met him. The probability is, that this bad been a " dia mond cut diamond* case, and that . she has robbed the robber. NAVAL L\TELLIGENCE. The Cyrus, Witanax, and Neptune, llexao, both of Hull, are lost at Greenland. FA mourn, A caucv 13.—Wind W.—Arrived the Prince Re gent Packet, from Brazil. 7 -salled from Rio 25d of Mat. Bahia 20th of June, and Pernambuco 29tb of Jane; Marshal Blucher, DAVIS, from Plymouth for Malaga. Sailed his Majesty's packet Nom for America, and his Majesty's brig PARTUIAN to the Eastward. Potts...mourn, Atraurr 14.—Wind S.W.—Arrived from the Downs, the Ann and Elizabeth, 'for the South Seas; Rose, for Malaga ; Esther, for, Demerara ; Lady Combermere, for Tri nidad; Asia, for New South Wales; Probity, for Malaga; and James Sibbald, for Bombay: also arrived the Ann and• Maria, from Antwerp for St. Übe's. DIAL, Amuse 14. -Wind W.—.. Came down from the River and remain, the Castle Forbes, Oan, for Van Dieman's Land ; Ocean, Cams, for Quebec; and Wilding, Bovms,for Halifax. Cusrost-Houss, A noose 14.—Ships Entered Inwards:—The Phcenis, from Madras; Albion, from St. John's • Chapman and Choke, from Quebec; N e ptun e , fr o m Oste nd; Malta and William Congreve, from Villa Neuva; Cicero, from the South Seas; Anne, from Marseilles; and Ocean, from liamburgh. Entered Outwards : The Mary, for Elsineur; Shannon, for Haeannah ; Three Betsey', for Ferrol ; Bellona, for Stettin : and Aurora, for Gibraltar.—Clearing Outwards : The Asaph, for Pernambuco; Wilton, for Venice; Spring, for Elsineur ; Bethel, for Rip; William, for Hamburgh ; and Royalist. for the South Seas. DEATH OF TAM USHANTER. At Lochwinnoch, on the 9th inst. died Thomas Reid, labourer. lie was born on 21st of October, 1745, in the clachan of Kyle, Ayrshire. The import ance attached to this circumstance, arises from his being the celebrated equestrian hero of Burns' poem —Tarn O'Shanter. He has at length surmounted the 66 mosses, tivers, slaps, and stiles" of life. Tor a considerable time by-past, he has been in the service lof Major Hervey, of Castle Semple, wine months of 'which he has been incapable of labour, and to the honour of Mr. Hervey be it named, he has, with a fostering and laudable generosity, soothed, as far as l it was in his power, the many ills of age and disease. ' He, however, still retained the desire of being fu' for weeks together." We regret to find that the King of SARDINIA, by a formal Decree, has re-established the Society of Je suits as the privileged teachers of youth within his dominions. The J-suits must have been much al tered, to render thein the proper guardians of youth in the nineteenth century. Lotto BYRON.—Accounts from Leghorn of the 23L11 ult. state, that Lord BYRON arrived there on the 22d, and sailed the next day for Zante, on board the English brig Hercules, Captain SCOTT. He will immediately go to the Peloponnesus; he had several Greeks with him, and some English Officers as well as ammunition and 70,000 piastres for the Greeks.— Lord BYRON, says the Brussels Paper; with his lyre in his hand, singing Erebus and Destiny/, has sailed for Greece,whicb wanted nothing but a Tyrtzus. Some time ago, a young man in Glasgow, who had carefully attended all the KING'S outgoings and in comings at Holyrood House, and been much cap tivated with Royal appearance and manners, pro posed to form a Society to commemorate his MA-, JESTY ' S gracious visit last year to his ancient king dom of Scotland, and with this view made applica tion to his Grace the Duke of MONTROSE to use his in fluence with his MAJESTY to write down the memo rable toast which he gave at the Magistrates banquet, in the Parliament House, Edinburgh. His Grace most obligingly undertook to request this favour from his Se lfsame, which his MAJESTY, with that condescension and good humour frf which he is so distinguished, instantly granted, and wrote down with his own hand on a card, " The Chcftains and Clans, and Gop bless the Land of Cakes. G.R." This has been accord ingly forwarded to the person who applied for it, ac. companied with a very polite letter from his Grace should meet this day,theAnniversary of his MAJr.sres the Duke of MONTROSE. It was decided that the Club landing in Scotland, on which occasion the Royal present will be exhibited to the Meeting, set in an ele gant frame, with suitable emblematical devices, by Mr. FINLAY, his Majesty's carver and gilder. Duet. ExErtwoRDINART. Wednesday afternoon a knight of the yard-wand and a son of Neptune met in a field at Preston, near North Shields, to termi nate an affair of honour. The heroes were furnished with large horse-pistols, but in their hurry they for got bullets. This difficulty was obviated by their purchasing a pennyworth of marbles, which their se conds (a pugilistic typograph and a Greenland tar) wisely omitted putting into the pistols. The fire was consequently harmless, and the combatants, both full of Dutch courage, were in high dudgeon at their se conds, who advised them to end the quarrel with their fists, when black eyes and bloody noses were served out with right good will, till the man of buck ram fractured his arm. . The statement which we eopied a few days ago from a Morning Paper, respecting Lady CARO&INE LAMB'S treatment towards a discarded servant, has been declared by Mr. LAUB, before the sitting Ma gistrate at Queen's-square, to be utterly false. The woman, it seems, was hired by Lady CAROLINE as a single woman. She said that she was unmarried, without followers. Her name was then Drummond ; she soon afterwards acknowledged that her name was Lang—that she was married, but that the family should suffer no inconvenience from her husband's visits. After some days it was discovered that this man, was actually secreted by her in the house. She was then desired to leave, and not at ten o'clock in the night, but early in the day. Shortly after Mr. LAraa's withdrawing, Mr.WiirrE addressed the Reporters present nearly in the follow ing terms : 41 I am very sorry that I should be com *pellet' to have recourse to very unpleasant means, in order to counteract the evil which every day arises from the publication of cs-parte statements. I must, however, as far as in me Lies, abate the evil, and 1 AM acquainted with but one way in which I can ef fectually accomplish that object-.by requesting-all le porters to leave this room." The order of the Magistrate was, of course, in.- *stantly obeyed. CORN EXCHANGE; MARK-LANE, AUGUST 15. • The continuance of fine weather and the little disposition that I the Consumers feel to augment their stocks, hays pbced ' our Mar -1 het. in a complete stagnation, and so much so, tbat not a sleds pie bas b:en made of any kind of Grain, eacept Oat., whisk article supports Mondays quotation. As it is now fully known Oat the ports will not open, and the opinion of the Law Offices. being in favour of the Boston rend% all other Grain must be looted the same as Last Monday. SMITHWIELD MARKET. AUGUST IS. The supply at Market this morning was fully suSkient for the trade, and the prices of all dessriptions of cads remain much the sante as on last market day—Bee, per stone of - *lbs. 3s. to lia. Dd. Mutton, 32. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Vsid,tv.tk - to Ys. Od. Lamb. as. Od. MU. Od. • COURT OF CHANCfRY—TOI4I4.- dis • . LORD PORISNIOUTIV' t • -.. This morning the ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the Master's Report upon the subject of.the main tenance of the Earl of Portsmouth, be congrnied. The Loan CHANCRLLOR.--" Hand it °plc) noe,.for there most be a very special order made in.thit mat ter."—The Master's Report was then handed'up to his Lordship, who will take time to consider of it. Although his Lordship will to-morrOw.cortclude his Sittings publicly in the Hall, yet he will six in his private room next week, he having already given leave for a motion to be made to him on Wednesday next. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT TATUM/MI.I:S, .AUGUST 14. • Tattersall's to-day was but wry thinly attended, as many of the sporting characters of respectability are gone to witness the York Meeting, which commences on Monday next. The result of the Produce Stakes, and 3011. Stakes there, will be the fu ture guidance of their speculations on the St. Leger Stakes, Don caster, next month. It will be noticed that Gascoigne's filly and Sherwood look much better than on Monday lasi ; the others have moved but tsiffing. There was no business done tither in the Detby or Oaks, and the present state of odds we aubjoin : DM:CASTES ST. 11.7X/tIL. 3 to 1 agst Tinter (taken) IS to I agst Cascoigne's filly 6 to I agst Tancred (offer ..1) (taken) Sto I agst Sherwood (taken) 30 to-I agst Hydra (offered) Bto I agct Claude Lorraine 30 to I apt Miss Fanny (of (offered) fered) Ift to 1 agst Palais Royal (of- Very high odds apt any other feted) OXFORD RACES, AUGUST 13. Nothing could be worse than the race of this day. The Ci•y Members' Plate of £5O was won in two heats by Mr. D. Faulk per's Unfortunate, beating Me.Weller'S Waverky,Mr. Beethey's Man Friday, and Mr. Sheard's Emily. The Sweepstakes and e eso added, were not run for, in consequence of lack of horses, so that the whole amusement of the day was—two easy heats. The Rill List night was thinly attended. The High-street to day bad no appearance of race time. WORCESTER RACES, AUGUST 12 : • - A Sweepstakes of 15 sovs, cub, with .5 sows. addcd, for two year.olld colts. T.Y.C. Major Ormsby Gore's Pheasant walked over for it. 'fhe City Members' Plate of ,C5O, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. 'lwo-mile beats. Mr. \Vest's b. h. Sharper Mytton's b. g. Anti-Radical Mr. Painter's br. h. The Main Mr. Patrick's b. f. by Blucher A capital race, well contested ; The Main the favourite. The Worcestershire Stakes of 10 sovs. each, for all ages. Two miles. 1 1 2 3 3 2 4 dr Mr. West's ch. f. Angelica Lord Warwick's b. c. Cardinal Puff Mr. Griffith's b. h. lkozash • A good race. BROMYARD RACES. The Maiden Plate was won easily at two heats, by Mr. De vercux b. 1. Sr Oliver,beating Mr. Jones's br. e. by Lismahago, Mr. Painter's ch. c. by Selitn, Mr. Patrick's b. f. by Blucher, and Mr. F. Charlton's b. c.GAUhranter. Thursday morning, the Hunters' Sweepstakes were walked over for, by Mr. Seaborne's b. m. by Weaver. In the evening the Handicap Stakes were woo easily at two heats, by Mr. Bur nell's b. h. Transilience, beating Mr. Devereux b. f. by Sir Oliver and Mr. Patrick's b. t. These Races were thinly attended, and afforded very indift ferent sport. In the unavoidable absence of the Steward (Ro bert Price, Esq.) Sir Thomas Winningtnn officiated for him. PEDESTRIANISM. Lan week, George Wilson performed a self-imposed task , 'in Carlisle, of walking 150 miles in 48 successive hours. lle was considerably distressed, and his only reward w.ss a very trilling subscription. GREAT PIGEON MATCH. The Lids at Chalk Farm were numerously attended yester day by real and Cxkney sportsmen. • The attraction was the long pending match between Messrs. Dagleish and Beaumont against Messrs. Arrowsmith and Gill, at 21 birds each. The match was fur 20 sovereigns aside, but the bets pending were heavy. It was decided, after some fine sport, in favour of the first two Gentlemen, who won by four birds. The losers were the fa youths.. at 6to 4. The birds which escaped from the trap af forded much amusement to the out scouts, who fired afris le j. ae at them, but to little purpose. ROWING MATCH. Yesterday a Prize Wherry, given by subscription of the inba• bitants of St. Olave, Southwark, was rowed for by the follow ing viatermen, belonging to Battle-bridge-stairs, in three heats. First 1-leat--Richard Robinson, purple; Thomas Verlin, blue; William- Connaway, yellow.—Second Heat; William Sheppard, pink; Edward Cross, starlet ; and Rickard Benn, green. Par -1 ple and blue won the first beat; scarlet and pink the second.— About six o'clock these four *timed for the grand beat ; purple took the lead, closely followed by-pink and scarlet, and eventu ally won the prize. There was a great number of pleasure-boats on the River, anti in the barges the company was accommodated with heavy yet, ate. The winner was borne round the parish in his prize. Between the noble family of Annandale and the burgh of Dumf . ' ies, there always existed a particular intimacy ; and when Lord John, brother to the then Marquis, raised the standard of rebellion in 1715. and was about to join the Papists, the Magistrates, fearful at once of his personal .safety, and of the danger that might accrue to the titles and estates of their principal patron, secretly apprehended his Lordship, and ensconced him safely in the town jail. Here he remained until the rebellion was quelled, and was regularly waited on with all due respect, by John M'Noah, the Town Drummer, who became in time a. most expert lacquey. At first his. Lordship winced not a little at this unlooked-for and Unautho rized interference; but the storm within gradu ally subsided with the tempest without, and he after wards lived to be very grateful to the Magistrates for their kind and considerate intentions With the view of evincing this feeling, and while on a visit to his 'noble relations, the family of Stor mont, at Comlongsn Castle, in Annandale, he ad dressed a letter to the Provist, dated August 2,1750. which was discovered' by the merest accident by Francis Shortt, Esq. and is now carefully preserved in the Town Clerk's Office of Dumfries. The fol low ing is a literal copy : _ _ _ " Sir—The great chellitiee . good Town of Dumfries has been pleaiul to shew to my brother and his WWII lushes we earnestly wish for sine opportunity to sbew to thane my sense of the obligation this lap upon buck qf The value this town has for the meow, of Ring William and Queen Mary is to well known', that I have dimta to send their Pieta** as a present to the Corporation; and I hope as I value these great deliverers, on public as well as private coati- • dentists*, they will receive them as a P et my Alliposilies to do all the good in my palm to this Omer sod ilarsoilti. I beg you would tale the usable to make Awe, and my row , pliments acceptable. to the Corporation, which tye me to be still more, Sir, your abed bailable servant, Joinalvoint." • 0 I propose retuning the civilities 00 IhNlCurris se red as to skew are in waiting on me Ca ay Waled* it I hatnetas dii_ttgas will be arrives/int." TeAis letter was attached an Viirelo pe, whit* has • - • been less; but we leaf n Irons the tecordsef the 'Few++ Couneil„.that the theo:Peoefpitvisijakips: c on i c , E A . The iiitilires of Williams sad Mary are &jell pr.- served in the Council Cliiteriber of Dosables,'and asst egs.ensed adthirable likenesses: I .~