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London, England, 1819-10-05 00:00:00

PRINCE LEOPOLD.

Toe member. of the Rove! Botsoic ton' sus nn
or Gi.,‘Kow having elected his R. al 'Aglow.,
Prince Leopold an honorary
member of their
the diploma was presented in hint, previ„.i. in his
leaving Edinburgh for the south, by Mr. T. Hop-
kirk, the Vice-President of the ; Dr.
It. Graham, the Professor of Botany; and .Nir,
Hardie, our of the Directors. The diploma wes
'beaterifolly written on vellum, and wart eilelos-il in
On elegant box, formed f dor 1 of Qiieeri
Mary's yew tree at Croickstun Castle. which hue
heal procured through the kindoesa of Lally
Maxwell. Hts Moral Highness received the gen-
tlemen in the most polite and affable manner, and
entered into conversation with them for a consider-
rthle time, during which he displayed much acute-
nes+ of obaervation and knowledge of botany soil
oilier sciences. Ile expressed himself in terms of
the !ugliest graiilitiatiim for the comirlimesit paid
him, Nod admired the beauty of the box which held
the diploma. roil to wlttelt. he 'O,l, lie attached nn
common vilest'. MY Royal Highness expressed
mown reoret that it had toot been in his plower to
visit Glasgow at preterit, but Platen his intention of
being there its the course of the ensuing summer.
Friday forenoon, his Royal Highness Prince Leo-
pold and suite passed through Selkirk on his
way to the south. It having been known the pre-
ceding evening that lie was to travel this road, the
Mazistrates, accompailied by ‘falser Sent,. Esq.
of Abbotsford. the Sheriff' of the County, the Town
Council, end loco, pima ail trades, with their Hag+ and
music, a number of respectable inhabitants soot con.
fleeted with these bodies, the Smileuts of Divinity
attending the Burgher-hall, and it great colicourse
of people, met the Prince near the bridge, where
the boyars were taken from his carriage, and
he was escorted in regular procession lotto the
town amidst the loud cheeriugs of all present. On
reaching the market-ciosa, the procession formed a
a circle. WO 111/ Royal flightless having alighted
from his carriage, was prcuroited with sloe freedom
of the town by Mr. Laiig, the Chief Magistrate,
after an appropriate speech, to which his Royal
Highness made a suitable reply. The freedom of
the burgh was at the same tussle presented to Sir
Robert Gardiner. Hie Royal Highness, accomps.
spied by the Sheriff anti Nlagistrates, then proceeded
Mitchell's lois, where hr remained a short time,
and while there, the respectable and Rev. Dr. Law-
son, the Burgher Professor, having waited upon, was
introduced, and expressed to his Royal nighties,
how much he was tejoiced to have an opportunity
of seeing a desceodant of the Elector of Saxony,
the first and great protector of the Protestants iii
Germany. His Royal Highness appeared much
pleased with this testimoily of respect for the prin-
ciples of his ancestors, saying they had always been
zealous Protestaids,

Ilia Royal flightless, while he remained at Sel-
kirk, expressed Ins regret that his time world not
permit hie 'jailing the far-famed abbey of Melrose,
but added, that " there was a place In the neigh.
bourhood he could not pass unvisited—the resi-
dence of Mr. Walter Scott." His Royal flightless
accordingly diverged from his d'rrct route, and,
attended by his destmturhed hint (*lio weir mecum-
ponied on the occasion by the greater part of his
amiable and accomplished faintly, paid • visit of
some hours at Abbotsford, where he partook of
some refreshments, and appeared much interested
in the curious collection of ancient armour in the
armoury ttliere, particularly with the ►word of the
gallant Montrose, and an exquisitely worked steel
pistol, which was constantly worn by the no less
memorable Dundee. Fie returned again through
Selkirk almost three o'clock in the afternoon, on his
way to Carlisle.
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On this occasion the old standard belonging to
the weaver trade, taken from the El%list) at Flodden
Field, was brought out for the tirst time for a Dum-
ber of years in honour of the Through the
whole ►ceue his Royal flightiest; i.eetard and ex-
!nesse(' himself much gratitied with the attentions
Phewii to hint, and on the other hand all milks were
highly delighted with his stfatile and rouging
111 Royal Highness reached Ilawick about
live o'clock in the aileron:oil.

CARLISLE, OCTOBER Q.

On S.iturday morning Prince Leopold and suite
arrived at the Bush lon, in this city, whither he
war escotted by a guard of honour of the 13th
Carliii•eerr. His Royal Highs...so appeared ioe
and dejected. but, altogether, exhibited the fabric
of 8 may. Ile was receive,' by the
inhabitants with every Ins, k of attention; and MI
the amine day left fur Lowther Castle, where he was
to remain for *short period. In the course of his
utiouru heft, he visited the Cathedral. the Castle,
and other public places—and was universally met
with demonstrations of errpret due not inure to his
exalted rank than the excelleoce of his mural
character.

LIMBS, OCTOBER 2.

Rukeby Park. the classical residence of J. IL S.
Montt,. EAge M.P. was on IVecloesday to hr so.
*loured with the presuisce of Isis Royal Highness
Prince Leopold and suite, on Ilia return from Isis
northern es.cursion, where the party were expected
to halt for some time.—(Leeds Mercury.)

The Leeds Independent repeats the fabrication
about a (somber of perimis having attended the lite
Ilunslet Moor meeting *ilk pike-heads in their pos-
session. We last wesk stated, that we believed this
inseams to be false, and we have now ti, add, that,
notwithstanding the most dtlikeut ioquiiy, we can.
Out hear of a single individual who VIII%
with any such instrument. The Editor of the In.
depeadeat says, he speaks front the beet xuthuii y.
The public have a right to demand what that au.
thin ity iv, and to ask who weir the persons that car.
vied there pike-heads ? If a distinct and satisfac-
tory answer be nut given to these ioquiries, this tale
of horror will be ranked with the Dewsbury as.
sassination story, or with the Lord Marni. of Lou.
dotes fire and murder plot. The same Paper ghats
as a characteristic of the temper and disposition of
the Reformera. that they forced their way over the
Witterloo-briilge without pacing the toll ; but we
have the authority of the toll-keeper for saying,
that this is a calumny, and that though' they did
not pay individually, one of their number advanced
to the gate before the 'main body, awl paid '• com-
position for the pasrage of and Ins comps.
.ions.—(Leeds Mercury

ELECTION OF LOR YON.

FOURTH 1:1419.

For Al.l.rmele Bridges ••• tiO7
Aldermen V1V. 04
Alarrnms Thirrp

A• %anti es thr somsilwro *err etitiuugeed—

Alderman littlnne, Cr lie forward, and triirils•
at temurted to obtain a bearing. The uproar in the
11411 W;111 so great, that the worthy Alfieri/les was
tlilitVeti to convect iiierisulf with simply moor. o• r;
thanks to the. Livery for the honour tlwy had 3
him, by their suffrages ou this occasion.
Mr. FEAROPI then presented liiiiiaelf, and W:.%
received with great applause. Ile said, that it was
to Irina a matter ul re rat they did not give to.,
worthy Alderman a hearing, for they ought to hear
their opponents, and then they would hind th.y
had the power of nitrrly eallfilting their ticiltinsei.:..
It was due to their own char:ciers, and to what
even still more impartairt. to the eh irsicter of t.•e r
rause, to give all a fair bear', g—above all, to fa-r
31r. Alderman Bridges who was the repro-twain -•
of their opponents' cause, fool who, instead r I
being their friend. and the latent! of their constr.
tution, could easily be sheaf' to he the corm) of
both, and of their rights rod liberties. A great
deal lard been said rtspecting the private charac•er
of the worthy Alderman—bat the quest io•t
one of prisate hut of public character—/,gyp.
plat:se. j—The cause in *loch the. Livery wee
now engaged was the same fur which their
ancestors had fought slid bled. It was against
that cause the At k his's owl the Rothe/tiro
were pressing forward.—(Nlr. Sheriff Bothwtll
here bowed to the speaker.)—Mr. Bridges was, I's
a certain degree, of a different slump; there wire
some men, by constitution, not fit to play the plot
of others, whatever their inclination might be, soil
Mr. Bridges seemed to be of the number. Its was
too much of a milk and water disposition—(4
latsgh )—but still he was not a man in whose bands
their lives and liberties could be safely intrusted.
Ile was corivioceil there was Hot a man among
them whose blood did not run cold at the atroci.
ties which had been committed at Nlaricliestrr.—.
(Applause.)—The events of the Rid) August
furnished the foulest stain that had ever fallen oil
the English character. What was the conduct of
Aldtionsis Briflj,e, in the Common Council re.
pureeing the Alancliester business ? Ihd lie pot
implicate himself, by his vote on that occasion, in
an approbation (so far as his vote went) of that Hr.
fair? Was he not, during the late election for
Members to represent them, the Charmer' of S.r
IVro. Curtis's Committee? It was so old and a
true maxim, " Tell me with about you go, arid
I'll tell you your business!" With whom then 41:,1
Alderman Bridges go? ‘Vitlt the enemies of the
people—with the Atkins's, the Bothwell'r—(lete
Mr. Sheriff Bothwell again bowed) —and with all
who were the advocates of the scenes at Nlanches.
ter.— (Appluirse.)—See who were the voters of M-
derman Bridges on the first day—who were the 21
that came forward to support his claim ? Anon
them you saw Aldermen Shaw, Birch, Hey gat,.
and their famous Recorder, who presumed to say,
when he found a Liveryman refuse to give hint pre..
cedence at the poll-book, "Yes, every bl
Liveryman has a right to vote."--(Hisses.)—Sweit
was the polite expression of a man who lived, per.
haps, by the sweat of the brow of the Liveryman
whom he had thus insulted. 'Flint was not a question
of party, but of principle, and it was for the Livery
to say whether they would elect for their Chief
Magistrate a man who had openly told them he
would riot, at their requisition, convene a Colo-
mon Hall.—[Several persons on the hustings here
denied that Mr. Alderman Bridges had said so--
and after some altercation. Mr. Fearon read the
slower given by the Alderman to some of the
Livery on that point.]—Mr. Hunt, the other 41.17.
charged Alderman Badger with having been lire.
vented by his brother Sheriff; Mr. Kirby, Irani
calling nut the military to arrest him (slr. Ilurii)
at the Spolields Meeting. Was this, lie wouhl
ask, the fact ? Did Mr. Alderman Bridges oil tr.e
day of that Meeting say to the military consinaialer,
who asked I • if he In-I any orders to give, that
he had orders--and was be, not alone prevetthil
from issuing them by the firm interposition of NI,.
Kirby ? Did lie not, iu plain terms, mean to in test
Mr. Ilusit, and risk the occurrence of the saw e
spectacle in Spafields, that had lamely taken place
in Manchester ? Mr. Fearon concluded by sayirw,
be would give way to Alderman Bridges, to the
expectation of receiving an answer to this serious
question:

Mr. MINGAT (who was, we understood, s Ceti-
tlentan from Norfolk) came forward, but some ob-
jections were made to his being heard, and cries of
" Bridges! Bridges !" took place, but the wortl•y
Alderman not making his appearance. Mr. Mi! -
gay proceeded. Ilesaid that he had seldom an oppor.
twiny of attending their Common Halls, but wit. a
lie did attend, lie always wished to see the Live, y
good humoured ; above all, lie was Inattetalit is,
anxious that they should give a patient tirtent,g
all parties. Mr. Alderman Bridges had as good IL
right to be heard as Aldermen Wood or Th...i.,
or any other Gentleman in the Hall. and th. y
acted wrong in nut hearing Itim.—(llisses
had voted for Wood and Thorp, far he 'gully tic I
not know the Candidates mud lie came up to t e
poll-hook. Though lie hail done so, !lewd! thought
that unless they lied very good grounds, they ought
tint to depart from the principle of the roteti.o.—
(I)isapprobotisis.)
Mr. PEAHOW was received with gratin tupplattse.
Ile said lie had a few words in particular to address
to them, respecting some expressions which weer,
lie understood, uttered on Saturday upon the hust-
ings, by u Gentlentim of the name cf Williams,
whom lie sew near him but * few 'nitwits ago,
and to whom he war sorry to say the Livery hail
refused a fair hearing. Being himself a frii oil of
liberty from principle, and a Itieud to full and free
discu.sion, lie could not thiiik of tottieltiog
other whose hands were tied up. and whom they
would not hear in his delenee. If they Would oat
hear this Mr. Williams, he certainly should not ah.
tack him—an •tlaclitutreit to true liberty meant
molting'. unless it was felt in all the relations of
life—unless it held the scales of justice even, awl
dealt out to oue•men what it was prepared to mete
out to another. Gii the same principle, he telt the
tattoo* rearct tbat they would oat bear Aldestwo
gridges." But reverting to the expel:64w of lIA°.

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Willislins. on Saturtisy. Whieh he (Mr. T';:aratno)
understood was, that he was alder end
abettor of sedition." Now the term 1• arch-
tine had different sigoodieations in men's
minds—in some it memo, to overthrew the
established Goveromesit of a Suite, while in
others it only meant to !dace is the ado i • •stra-
tint, of Government hands better adapted to the
Performative of their o.sotieto this,, these which Were
to be ..11;q1latotrel. A It-mooed Judge. alien once
asked whit sedition meant, ahsoverval. " Why every
Lolly knows what sedition tn••aoss." Boy on bsieg
i 4.tto asked fur a more inseiligoble definition, has
reply was, that "sedition meatit seglotiose —(l.rargh-
ter.) —This Mr.Williains, iu attecknightm. had said
that hie owe' brother was the person who bail
charged him with being •6 the alder sod abettor of
Sedition." fie (MraPtaresewo) stinted that none of
leis family could have ro aspersed hint—he did not
believe that in it would Ise feared ewe who wetold
have been so furgetfal of the bloswl that Rowed it;
his vents as to ale such a stein to his esca.cheoli ;
he did not believe at Nature would he so found
to rebel apaintt herself. But he thought he might
;ay, that the dam who would dive into family COO.
CefloS to the out private slander amid calumny, 90 be
Used on public occasion,. most he a wretch to
tvlootn. in the language of the P•wt.
."
It wend I be Julag itatiery total! him coward."
tit would give each a wretch his hatred, if lee hail
any pretensions to the character 'of nom, but as he
noir. ha w..taltl wily give I • his contempt.—
Thi, Mr. Williams fancied himself ta.:ked to the
party of Alderman Bridges, but lie ivoul•I do his
opionisruts the justice to Ih-liese that they scorned
iamb ans associate—be had always toodaully opposed
thrall too r to race, and he had reason to thick they
Would alum a p,ivale slandererz—be hail naturally
inquired who this mats was, and he found not that he
was • petlagegue who whipped his own ill 'eloper
Iloit of the backs of his children. litisie,lits of old
had their 'squires—giants their dwarfs—suit even
Kings their fools. This person. perhaps, thought
he shooold in the and he the 'Squire to Sir George
311.1111•:°6-011 /aegA)—or at least that fur his pains
to deck the Civic Chair. his empty skull should be
decorated with a cap and hells.—f Lunghicr./
Bat the greater probability was. that hr would he
nllnesed the run of the Mayor's kitchen—let that
lie his fate, and let Folly descend from her pedestal
and claim her favourite child. The worthy Gen-
tleman concluded by Making an midmost...A appeal
to the Livery to give all parties a inotient hearing—
their loostiosia Ought to be the arena for fire this.
co:stow—if it were not he should certaiooly erase to
address thew. •

Thehu;iu;es in the (tin *et then ndjuurtita•

EXECUTION
in: SAMUEL HOOLRY AND JOHN JOHNSON, FOR

B[JRG LARY.

on Wordily last these two nnfitirtunale Eisen underwent
Cie awfwl sentencenf the law, on the New sup, at the a+►t
cud of oisr House of Correction.

As the part.culars of ifie herglary of whirls they were
nonvieteal apperied in our Paper of the VII instant, they
Inuit be mill fresh in the.mind• of our readers. We there-
fore to.seeive it unnects•acy here to repeat them. 11er-un-
do/I of the wretched men, we rejoice to state, during the
Poor of Omit. Cowl. mnation, was strictly inifahlt to theft
awful .iiroution +Nulty was regularly atfeisder+, triton she
time of conviction to execution, by the Worthy Ordiunry of
le., gaol, and • pions and respectable grusteonan of thr
worn. od Keeling, who administered to his whorl the blessed
.o.osolsti.dia of our Ink 1. !igloos. Johnston (who was a es-
It.nreol mon) being a Catholic, was Thrusted dnring the above
peon,' by the Rev. Mr. Brigks, the ret cefed Catholic 3liais-
VA of t los town.

lirsoiey 'had only jest pursed his nineteenth year; but
*bough young in yr aro, 1w was old in vice. He was the
ii',. of honest and Indust shins parents,residing iu the village
of 11,.wilun, in this coons),; but was addicted if / evil prac-
tices, such as petty thieving, at a very early period of his
Lt... In it. course of time, being acquainted with Horse-
1. la possessed of the same inclinations as I • self, be, in
anweiation w.t's them, asceuded in the scale of slime, by
commit:mg burglaries soil other offences of a Imptial na-
ture; and continued 311 doing, almost daily, au:it stopped
in lass cal err of deprir!ati and prolligaCy by the bands of
Atagt.er. The sphere of his ci intinality /orbs chiefly this
ituanty and Lancashire.
Johnson was as great an adept in clime as his wretched
companion. He was only twenty-two years of age. but had
been guilty, according to his own declaration, of aliaust
every sr cis ref offence. •. Ile was an expert pick-pocket,
and was apprehended shout two years ago, at Liverpool, fur
pirking • gentleman's packet in that town. Hr was con-
vected at the Sessions of the offence—sentenced to WISHa
portstion fur seven years, and removed to the hulks; but
*rode his escape from thence in • short time, and Winne-
di•tely entered swim a system of pillage and spidialion,
u hints he pursued until his apprehension fur the offence fur
v :rich be has died.
Both of the Prisoners msde some disclosures as to the re-
ti is era of stolen goods, whirls, we bust, will be Ole meats S of
dimiuishing the number of raihheries iss this (-meaty.
Hsarley's father, and a young 'tomtit, to whom he had
p. 1.1 bin addresses, were in the Emil on Thursday, fur the pur-
pose int seeing him, hut he declined having an interview with
the female. The meeting with his father was painful in the
tilzheet degree to his fi elings. His grief •as truly lament.
We—indeed so intense, that lw con nut even speak ill kill
a2i-cti-t1 parent. The pane o!d 111411 sat fur Nearly half so
by his son, speechless ; at 144, after abruptly rising
I...sur his chair, with his fare lw.lewrol rills tears, exclaimed
to brnken accents, "farewell, my lad !^ and Instantly hur-
ried from the mum.

Oa Friday af•ertioon an impressive aerraon was twitched
it. 11-e chapel of the county gaol, on which occasion Hooky
and Johnson attended. 03 &lords), morning they were both
n to the different yards in the gaol, and took hare of
tlit fellosmprisonerstafter whir. tlicy uric coegvir i 1.1.1 Mr.
Ut'l,oll.ll apartments. A glass of wine was given to rinds of
Brent. Hooky accepted his with %lime redo( emcee, hot John-
...a iinliesitafingly took his, and drank it with apparent
plemuie. Sono after twelve o'clock they were taken out of
the gaol, hnudcnffui, and eat-oiled by the civil officers of the
city. and a 1101,Pe of military, to Glover's.stone, and from
Y•elice drawn in a cart to the city gaol. 0a arriving flute
they were eoinitlCled to the chapel, and engaged in relig'
t•:ercises for a considerable time. Soon after one o'clock
ey appeared on the platform, accompanied by the 01,111110 y.
1... Kee Mr Briggs, and Mr. Keeling. The last offices of
1... R. y Geullensen being performed, Johnwin p: ucee.lyd to
.oldreas the spectators, exhorting Hulls to flee from evil, and
to pray to God to he kept from Ibe condition iu which he
th.n a,,... The eiges were then drawn over their fines, st,,d
a f r minis:ea they were launched into eternity.—; Clea-
ts Cuairunt.)

el, cloudily evening, betweigg abe Wars of seven and eight
..,th, some thief piped odlaithsoce into the dwelling.
house of Mr. Robert Areltims44, jeweller and pnwnbroler,
rr.iling at No. 14, Hlsclifriummed, by forcing open the
hi.ck window of (meta' as nom N the irst.floor, but was
Inckily perceived hefsnsietleilllese to complete his design.
An minute bring gives, be elided his escape by jotapiug
.tut of the window, keying a bog sod his shoes after bin its
the roost. It is supposed the bog was bmoglit for cunveyisg
the spoil, sod that he bad Mateo off his oboes to prevent his
making a noise,

TURF.

BETTING ROOM, TATTERSA Ociosta 4.

I. I. were wti re., es follow open the N..wwwirliet Leger,
heell sone were Ist.l:-6 In 4 nn To,s.ts, owl of Pledge-
-3 is 1 .1,4 Treasnrrr, nr (14roosa, whichever starte4, as only
SW would start-6 to I apt Miracle.

cAnusLe RACES.

T1•91.04V, IFTTriI lEll_2B,

Hie ply's Piet; of 100 g.. Four mile 11.. eta.
Mr. F. g It (;rey M idolebes.
Mr. 1.•m1.b..e. It. h. liorengbmas 2 2
Mr. gecko's'. br. h. by Hamblelosien
G. 11.1 Cep a 100‘.. "able, by subscribers of loge each, p p.
lbe *mph+. to be paid to the closer is specie. There
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