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PROPOSED ADDRESS AND MEMORIAL.

The Horrible Address ••d Mesmerist of the Peen of
ScuQ•nrl.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty—We, your Majes•
ty's loyal sad ditliful Counsellors and subjects, the Peers of
Remised, beg leave to approach the Throne, and humbly to
represent to your Majesty, that the Chapel Royal of your
Palace of Holyrood House, appointed to be the chapel of
the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, is
in a very mistime condition, aid we earnestly pray that your
Majesty may be graciously pleased to take its situation lido
your Royal consideration.

In consequence of the g►eat incon►enience which we ex-
perience, when assembled at Holyroud House, fur the pur-
pone of electing our representatives to the United Parliament,
we called upon your Majesty's Usher of the White Rod,
w►ose duty we conceive it iv, as the Usher of the Parlistmeur,
sod of the Peers of Semlaud, to attend to arch matters, to
report to us how it might be remedied. And as his report,
with our approbation thereof, accompany this memorial, it is
not .ary to repeat what is therein stated, nor to add
other reasons in support of the present application. Refer-
ring to that report, we conclude oar bumble suit, by pray-
in on behalf of ourselves, and on that of a nier.i loyal, a
most gallant, and a must important part of the United Em.
Fire,

That it may please your Most Excellent Majesty, to lake
into your Majesty's coosideration the propriety of restoring
the ancient Chapel Royal of Holyrood House to its homer
stale and apleudour, au u to enable the Peet. of Scotland to
conduct their meeting with becoming dignity and decorum,
by holding their elections under the banners of their most an.
dent and most noble national Order of the Thistle, which will
add much to the comfort of the Peers, and be an everlasting
proof to the people of Scotland of the high nesse your Ma-
ine, entertains of their meritorious service, in the late war,
sod their devotion in defence of the rights of the British
Eaten.

The Address ass not presented, hut ress signed
by 27 Peers, end is still iu the hands of some of
their Lordships.

The pupils belonging to the Desf and Dewitt
Institution, who were on r scaffold in front of the
Canorgste Church on Thursday, formed not the
least interesting group of the day. Nis Majesty
was distinctly seen to look at the words " Deaf and
Dumb" painted on the front of this scaffold, and to
bew to the children, which must hove been a high
gratification
to them.

The hereditary right of bearing the crown of
Scotland, at all Scottish proceuion■, is claimed by
Lord Douglas of Douglas, as well as by the Duke
of Hamilton. His Majesty was graciously pleased
to appoint the Duke to perform the service on the
°cession of the royal prog►ess from the Palace to
the Castle, it being distinctly undeiatood that this
appointment is not, in any way, to prejudice the
claim that has been preferred by Lord Douglas to
his Majesty, winch, us well as that of the Duke of
Hamilton, have been referred to a Committee of the
Privy Council.

The regiments doing duty in future at St.
Jamrs's, except on particithsr occasions, ■re to
mount guard in grey ovtralls, Instead of breeches
and ;enters ; the officers to wear the seine, with a
scarlyt stripe down the sides. Hessian hoots and
pantaloons to be considered the full dress.

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YIVSOLifENT DEBTORS' CCIIIM
TVISSDAT, AUGUST 27.
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W. WeHack, the celebrated theatrical per..
former, came sip to he heard on his petition to be
discharged. He appeared its Court supported by a
crutch, and seemed elttremely lame from the effects
of the severe accident which he ~,et with who". in
America. He was •Ilooed in be seated. None of
his creditors offering any opposition he war ordeted
to he immediately discharged.
James Piper came up to claim the benefit of the
Act, and was opposed by Mr. Marx, nu the lout
of Ale. Lambert, it butcher, of Kemush 'row'', with
whom the Insolvent contracted a debt of for
meat, but on demanding payment he was heated
by him with the utmost insolence, and war told
that if he attempted any legal proceedings he (the
Insolvent) would pot him to all the expense in his
power, and after all would never pay him. In this
respect, observed the Learned Counsel, he bad
spoken the truth, for by 'ham pleas, deinu rrrrr , and
• writ of error, he had run Its creditor to an ex-
pense of upwards of 501, and had at this very
moment • suit pending against him for an alleged
trespass, arising out of these proceedings, lie has.
ing, from un- informality, illegally levied upon the
Inaolvent's goods. _

The COURT ordered the cure to be adjourned, us
it appeared that certain of the creditors had not
been served with notices.

Wm. Turner was opposed by Mr. NORTON, on
the part of J. Thomas., an upholsterer. 11 appeared
that the Insolvent, who was II stationer, lately carry-
ing on business in Cheapside, had had the misfor-
tune to become bankrupt in 1819, and having ob.
t tined his certificate, lie again commenced business
in the London-road, from whence he removed
shortly afie► to Cheapside. Mr. Bush, of Combat,
having advanced him 1501., he gave that gentleman,
as security, a warrant of attorney for the amount.
On his removal to Cheapside, lie spoke to his op-
posing creditor, Mr. Thomas, respecting furnishing
a room of his house as • ►eading•room, which Mr.
Thomas concurred with him in thinking would he •
good speculation, and agreed to supply the necessary
articles of furniture, amounting to 751. The In-
solvent did not conceal from him the nature of his
situation, though he did not tell him in terms that
he had been a bankrupt, or that Mr. Bish held a
warrant of attorney. His debts now •mounted to
upwards of 2,0001. Mr. Bush had entered up
judgment and taken all the goods, including those
furnished by Mr. Thomas. Under these circum-
stances, Mr. Norton contended, the Insolvent came
clearly under that clause of the Act of Parliament
which subjected him to punishment for having con-
tracted debts without probable expectation of beiug
able to pay for them.
Mr. HEATH (for the Insolvent) submitted to the
Court that nothing had been shewsi to impeach in
the slightest degree the character of the Insolvent ;
no concealment had been practised on the creditor,
as he had been told substantially, if not in terms,
the circumstances in which the Insolvent stood :
and when the debt with Mr. Thomas was con-
tracted, there were certainty probable prospects of
payment from the proCeeds of the reading-room, as
the creditor himself acknowledged, for he thought
it a good speculation. That the Insolvent should
have failed could not be thought so very extraor-
dinary, starting afresh in the world, as he had after
his bankruptcy, without capital, and with a family
of eight children.

The COURT observing an irregol•rity in respect
to the notices having been served on two of the
Creditors by letter, instead of • personal service,
directed the case to stand over till the sth Septem-
ber, to give time to the Insolvent to get the consent
of those Creditors, or to fresh notices.

A private letter received yesterday morning from
Pane, dated Saturday, mentions a report in circu-
lation there, that the King of SPAIN was a prisoner,
and that he had attempted to escape during the
night, Out Without success. No date is mentioned,
Which renders the tumour very suspicious.—(Even-
ing Paper.)

Accounts have been received at Liverpool of the
loss of the American packet ship Liverpool, on the
banks of Newfoundland. The passenger. had
arrived at New York in fishing boats.—( Evening
Pope.'.)
On Thursday last, • KING'S messenger arrived
here with one of the witnesses against the Bishop of.
CIA:WPM He was examined before his Grace the
Lord Primate on Friday, and citations were tensed
mud served at the Palace of Clrigher on Saturday.
His Grace will preside in the Metropolitan Court
to-morrow,when the citation is returnable.—(4rmagh
Paper.).
The boxing match between Isaac Mason and
Flowers, the blacksmith, will take place this day
in Buckinghamshire. The stake is for 50 sovereigns.
A grand sporting dinner at Baxcuta's yesterday
drew ■n assemblage of real talent to see the Not-
tinghamshire man, Barlow, who is matched to
fight Joshua Hadsoa. one of the beet-tried men in
the kingdom, on the 10th of September, for •
stake of 100 sovereigns. Barlow is u hue young
fellow, of three-and-twenty, and cast altogether in
n fighting mould. The whole of the stake money
less made good, and some bets were made at even,
and 5 to 4 on Hudson.

The lodge leading to Henley Grove House, in
tlw parish of Westbury, near Bristol, was on Wed-
nesday evening last. Getween seven and eight
o'clock, set on fire by some incendiary, and iu •
short time completely consumed.
During the haze on Wednesday evening. the
Deaba►tun Castle steam-boat, in her psasige from
Grangemouth. with above 300 passes% s, run
aground near Grunion. By the great exertions
and humanity of the Right Hon. the LO•D Pea.
BIDENT, who went out in the hr.t boat, all the pas-
sengers got safe on shore, notwithstanding the great
alarm that prevailed among those on board.
Some poor wretch. in attempting to rob a garden
in Lyncornbe Vale. late on Saturday night, or early
on Sunday morning, was caught in a steel trap. and
one of his legs must have been much lacerated, as
there was a considerable effusion of blood, and •
shoe end part of • stocking left behind. There
must have been several thieves in the party, as part
of a wall was pulled down. and the wounded man
must have been conveyed away, as the traces of
blood were shortly lost.—((sloacester Journal.)