The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1815-09-29 00:00:00

ILI ;I*CGATE, SEM 27.

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A issue of _rear bustle presented itself here yea-
.terthi. About nine in the moraine. a Brent steal of
'sin .k.- was observed to issue from a large brig lying
in llw inner h.,.1...ur, MUMMA Cli e ior the wall,
%whose rairgo rotssistett of upwards of 1,400 barrels of
tsar unit several Inal.ll from A winnow-I to London;
alit• wits called the Victories, Capt. EIWERVIELD,
lately lawn nit slow,- on the ( if nalWlis SaatlN
from tYlir!al" .1w Wan 14,4 oft, I li:olight into
Itemr.gum Imilsour is, it leaky slate. As it sus suns,
s. ..•,• •I find n fi.-e hail broken nut between her
decks. siltimog sal 11 Ines tan yet tweet visible, its-
pidtmier se:sis ie ought immediately, and two lies: eis-
sone, (tow it. inging to the tows,. mid the other to
the harbour) were *heeled to the spot in a very
shoo Altlarajil Ilse liar was hidden, it was
des its. 41 sieees-siry mid proper to rut away the brig's
maintnao, a hints was immediately done, and shortly
aft r •e. was eat 111%44 It belllg low Water
at this tune, great myrrh. talon, %%ere entertanied,
that two vessels, lying close to her, both loaded
woss'.l Ire involved ist the co.ifls%nition,
5415.1 tile..its-,.* en/ hulls s•r,• 1121 ed to prevent the
twin s Isre..k!isg forth by a isrking the engines, anti
wster us pletitiftill) us tile low MI, a 0014
: tt:e tide noising sans, they happily "met-vetted
ift grtiang three two sesseia away into the oilier letr-
hour, ii•nl aeiOut the eveumg the lire
rousd ini hinge, Is.: kept miller lwr docks. hut
burst nut into tremendous volumes of flans A, and
contained sills ineresnosig v;olelice until mile
o'elock this ; the vessel being then near
the water's edge, sever.il boats around her sere
enabled to throw in n rrry great Aultsttity of
water. %%loch had rite desired effect of extm-
gssis!.eig the flames. It is generally usillerstooil
1,40 star had 140a:is& of 1,400 barrels of tar;
'Own, 140 ~1% y of whteli were saved, and a (rn•
mats. tile rest having been invnlvgsl is, this cotitist-
glutton :us the bolt of the vessel was very fiat,
It a Imps.d that sonic barrels may yet be recovered
sii;cotemined, from the circumstance of the tire
befog rxtingni.hed.
Too much praise cannot be given to the work-
men belonging to Ow her. as well as to the I)eisitty
cod many other inhabitants of ltainsgate, t sir
xery iimisipt exertions in kriping It under rn hnig,
but for Wltinli it is probable that the a,ij•amag two
Veirwls would lia%e sutfered enasatcrable damage.

We are 'sorry to xiv, that the cargo of the brig.
aces not iumireol, hrr pokey loving expited %vista
rise esitvreil the harbour.

,t wnrkinstit was thrown overhoosra by a spar
fills ix upon his head, by which Ins grin was
blokes. ; two ntlwrs also hail lonises' anus from the
our going down very
r The scene during the ererrnrx and nizlst was
awfully vrainl. The immense %Airlines O. fiI4MVPI
wlsw4l owe instjestirally from the vessel,-brilliantly
il!nrainitefl the slostsrptirre inr is very cd
rlc.tissocr round ; Cie *snail caned. rating about 'titre's
o'clock.

Nel.won's Crescent, prtripert-mw, tie.
wire top late Lour ”ri,wctool with ploretators ; anti
;;r-at vo oval+ .ourroottioleol the spot A hoe the tire wow,
uoroog the greater 011 of the itogiot.
• Ire •-'—lso how the fire origi.
ow •of tole twits o.r
heated, twit fiuiolly

ether IT I.NTE L LIG ENCE.

VERNOT9,

INlonalay 1.14 t tie-. Circuit Court of Justiciary
was opened here, ht- the Iti4ht Honourable Lards
Jv.rtce CLERK uial SC:CCOT 11. At the opening of
the Court there ay.'s, as usual. great ',Lisle and con-
lao.a ~,, at the dom. of the tt)lhooth ; and the assizeri,
witnesses, and professional' persons, who had proiwr
occasion to attend. hail great difficulty in obtaining
;Automaton to the-Ciotti-110nm. Sotnetime offer the
aiming of the Court, I. 'P. GRANT, Esq. of Ito-
tharmurclaus, Advocate. I. I'. appeared attlie hair,
and stated, than lw lotai-jast witnessed .a scene of the
most disgraceful tumult aud confusion ; that he not
only had Inuele diffia.'alty iu pfocuriaig access, but
was exposed to witch jwisonal from the
pressure of the crowd. These eircumstanees be
considered it Ins dote tostate, both as an Advocate
and in. connected with this rounty, mitl trusted that
measures o oda(' be taken to prevent ouch disgrace-
ful proeeedious in fnture.

1 he LORD JurrocE CLEII Orb arldressed I
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self to the Provost, and stated, that care uiu►t be
taken to preserve order, and to snake due provision
for procuring easy and safe access to profe►sional
persons, and' others having occasion to attend the
Court.

Plan.° GRANT—"
Then, my Lard, I must
order at moldier of people to prisoii."
LORD .11;:iTICE CLERIL—" Provo!4t, you have Nor-
ficiesit authority, you k your thilik and we ex-
pect you will perform

. Colin Bain, Andreas and Donald
;IN:roger, front the parish of Kincardine, and
county of floss, and Walter East, commonly
ealledAirufitr Ross Na Craig, from the parish of
(Teich, and county of Sutherland, were then
brought to the bar. The minor proposition of the
criminal letters ao,vtioost them stated, that the late
Captain Robert Gordo.), tacksmats of.liovereharron,
letii,og disapproved in November or December,
)813. was amissing for two months, or thereby, and
Ins dead hotly having been found on the sea-
shore, near Sioinoitig,thile, in the wood] of Fr-
bruatv, 180, the relations of the deceased had
tlw body saiiried, to Invercharnm, and tootle
the otortal prepandions for interring it to the fa-
mily portal place of Nlntiro of Achany ;
that a mob load assembled fur the felonious pur-
pose of pro:rotting the interment from taking place,
of which molt the runnels were stated to Ire the
principal ringleaders and instigators, at least to hove
heels very active in raising and elocouraging the
same, and to have expressed a determined re.44)-
Intiou to prevent, by force, the said body front being
interred, whereby time relation's oldie deceased were
compelled to' oloostuloio their design of interring the
raid hotly in 11Ir. Moot burial-place, and to de-
posit it in a grave dog in the corner of a field near
Inverchavron, and the said mob watched for two
days and two nights, to prevent ally attempt being
made to remove the body to the said burial-place ;
and further, that the I'. -Is compelled Mrs. Gor-
don, motl tso of her forin-servauts, to appear before
I fugh Ross, Esq. of Gladlield, and the Rev. Angus
Kennedy of I .airgs, two Justices of Peace, to take all
illegal oath that they wound not be *Ryerson", to
removal of the body from the said field, to the saal
liurialsioloce, or to other consecrated ground ; also
that the relations of the deceased. having afterwards
re. 111111111 l the body, and interred the same in Acloa-
ny's l'hapel, and it having become known that such
interment had taken place, a great mob assembled
at Kincardine, on the .21st of June last, for the fe-
lonious purpose of violating the sepulchre of the
said H. Cordon, and 'raising 3titi renotovitor the said
body from the said chapel, which nail. count:us ol w
00-or:Wed for twodays soul twalo4,7ltis,aooti the Panto is
Iwing active thereon, of Oil wwkedly and b looniously
dig up tar grave, in %shit It the body of the said
Robert Cot dun 101,11 n, p deposited, .ts aforesaid, in
tiw said chapel, and slid lilt the eta!' coost.w.iv,;
the Saul body on, of thew ye, and did drag it in
411 igtiotalootton- te.,es and oleo loud cries and snouts
&Hsu to the sea solos., a .olovi the flood noark, dad
Loving there dug a do el, hole, they forced open the
Ind of the said hat loot; taken out the tal. fy
therefrom. they tt odd. ol the l•taiy into the soou !
In, and therearo threw door. the (Yalu upon tlw
body, and till up the said hole with *dud and
stooges.

A glee mass of evidence Was adder:ed, whiell we
do out think necessary to give in detail; it appear-
ed that much iliagracifful and disorderly proceed-
ing took place, nearly as mentioned in the libel, for
the purpose of preventing the interment of Mr.
Gollloll.* body In Achisi.y's Chapel, or in Vie
clourclo.yaril of the parish; that by those proceed-
ings the relations of the dr-erased found it lit-
cestury to relinquish their intention of interring
the holy in the church-card or rhallt it alai tli
oaths Were administered as libelled, to which
the primmer, Bain, was a witness, having Loren call-
ed into the house of Invercharroti for that purpose;
it also appeared that the body of the deceased wits
removed from the field where it had been de-
posited; and hail been buried privately iii Ark-
any's t•impel; that in the mouth of Jnne last 4
a midi Isatl assembled in the church-paid of NM-
eardine, for the porpuse of removing the body, and
that a lowly had been raised, removed,. mid buried,
within flood inork, as stated in th-e libel, and that
all the had been seen with this mob.—
There was, however, ground to presume, that
was there, as u constable to &sliest the unnb, and
that 11.nue, {wing kirk-officer of the parish, had
lawfull occasion to be in the church-yuni, and wits'
compelled to accompany. the mob to the sea-shorr,
mid that the other two Funnels (lid also accoinpany
the
♦mob thither; but there was no clear and cei min
that the body which had been raised aus
the holly of Mr..arrilon. (hi the contrary, there
were ions circiiiiistalices from which it
.might
presumed. that the bode: rises! and buried within
11 as helPre-in.einimied, was ton his batty.

Th. ADVOCATE-I.)Ervit: then ittliltessed the
Jury for the t'rowii, and Mr. GRANT, tin' the Piro.
to t:. The et idriace nits summed up by the LOAD
Josrttz iii an uide. luminous, awl int-
fru tvil speech; and the Jury, havini.: !writ closed
at nine o'clock p. ru. Fr:tuned a verdict ('i tirsday
iroiruisig). finding the pounds, Baia and ill•litte,
N4l and the litu•l Nut prurcm against
31•Greeor and Ross; wherrtitqui, alter a suitahle
mod iutlacsaive adosouttives how the LORD JUSTUS

Cf.tnit, the pti,nners r:cri avoil/it.l ,i;d»pficiter,
and th,ittisseil GOMII the tom

On 'Tuesday John Immont, a rtotitsnholly or
Popish priest, residing at •fislieielialder, tin...brought
to the Bar, accused .of celel;rating clam lest me mid-
riages. lie sileadeil !Veit Guilty.
The proceedings in this case were extremely vo-
Inunsioes, and the fact 0t the in:image having beets
celebrated by tire Prisoner clearly established. The
Jury, however, having retired for some time, re-
turned a verdict, finding, by a plurality of voices,
the lihel Nos ,Proren —whereupon hr was assoilzied
simplieiter, and dismissed from the Bar.
The result or the trial appeared to afford much
satisfaction to the crowded audience that attriated.
Efivthetli er, sensed of child-itirder,
tivul eiiiicealinent of pregnancy, was neat brought
forivLi d.

Tli•• Advocate-Depute having restricted the libel
to the -tumor), olkiiee of concealment, awl she
having pled Guilty to the libel as so restricted, she
was found Guilty 00 her own confession, and
tencril to twelve calendar months imprisonment rn
the Tolbooth of Inverness.
Egrr, or Aurora 11hLend, from Harris, was next
brought to the Bsr, accused of the same crimes as
the preceding Punnet ; the libel was in the same
aikasiner -restricted. She stated that she was prema-
turely delivered iu the• lields of a still-horn child,
six weeks before the natural time, and that she did
not disclose her pregnenoe•y.
The Jury returned a verdict in the terms of this
-confession, sod the Lords certified the es to the
High Court of Justiciary., to meet on the 13th of
November next.

Thereafter the Sheriffs of the several counties
were called upon iii the mom! form.
The Loan Jus'ilet: CLEIM addressed them. tie
'stated, that although he regretted so many trials
had occurred at the present Circuit, yet, consider-
itig the extent and onpulation of the northern
counties, he could not but congratul ate the country
on the circumstance, Mat so few offences of
mantic had occurred. lie must, howl vet., regret,
that it appeared, from a case which had hero tried
on this tiecaston, that very riotous and highly ille-
gal proceedings .of the most timustilig mid revolt-
ing nature had occurred in a parti'etil ir district of
the country, anti lie tinsted, that due !Anti
be taken to t•stsgate the cireouistaite 6 alluded to,
mai bring th • guilty persons to cnnati a puhish-
went. Flit likt ese reimai keit.' that it too
frequently happened, that sinfortu, ate women were
brought forward under chat get
suf.child-iuurder,
and concealni ut of pregnancy. Tle understood
that these offences prevailed most in those districts
of the country where ecclesiastical disCipline was
more than usually rigorous; and .be begged leave
to suggest, that it *Wild lw e eligible for the
clergy to correct vices and iinniontlitArs rather by
private admonition than by puldie- censure. Ile
truso d that a respectahle Magistrate then in his eye
(theSiterilr Dcpute of Ross eed Cromarty), would
exert tl e itiflitelll'e of which he knew him to he
posst.s.ed, to induce the clergy in the district over
winch he presided to consul r this suggestion, and
lie tt Wiled that the gelitleinan's exertions would be
tomtit product vi• ul the itinst salutary -effect. Iles
having finish, if a iiisst eloquent speech,
the audieiii e Were about to cheer him, but their
zeal was repressed by a peremptory order front the
Clerk of Court.

" ^q c%llll Ego 1w iotei
101'11. but it s% moialaosell tlwt
ft ax, froin hem; wet, were
b. toks WU lute lame.
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