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charters, was the -P►eriod fixed for a simui'annius
•Mark upon this City by 'the 'Radicals. Cathkin
Braga, afbout' tire miles south, was the bite chmen
f••r ihrir eurampment. The Strathaven division,
twtwrru twenty and thirt7, with such arms as they
r old setz• or colket, arrived there at the appointed
rte ; but ;ostead of the many thousands expected
• he encamped, they did not meet with r sin.
▪ iod►rndual to welcome them, and, on that wet,
r, ,i►teroas, and dreary night, were necessitated to
ark refuge in the woods. The Radicals, at last
tf 'ding they had been imported upon by a Utle-
p. tr !so had summoned them to the meeting next
between one and two o'clock, -left their lom-ly
-fs.l comfortless abode, threw ster..y thrir arms, and
a) versed. Some of Oulu went ►nto a house occur.
pied by a labourer, in which there were none butt
'omen at the time, and requested a f.w of the
potairws then boiling, which they fell upon like as
imany hungry dogs. Nothing could exceed their
wretched and alarmed appearance.
About a dozen of the Strathaven Radicals, who
d been at Catlikin Braes, were, on their return
tonne, apprehended by the armed tenantry of Strad.-
is wen parish, mid carried prisoners to Hamilton,
where they were, this, day, undergoing an exarnii.-
soion-before the Sheriff.
Our streets have again assumed their wonted
411.Jietness. How long this may continue we cannot
.ay, as we have been deceived already by similar
a!spearances. We trust, therefore, that the hilidabte
41,111 active measures which have been so successful-
ly employed, will be continued till the Radical
spot be completely subdued.

Yegterd,y General Bradford issued the following
Ceneral Oldrr:--

G. 0. Glasgow, April 7, 1820.
Major General Sir Thomas Bradford having this me 11l il ig
ii.spected she Glasgow corps of volusiteeis, as well cavalry
aw infantry, coogratulates the commaudiug officers, Lieut -
Colonel Hunter and Captain Stirling, apse the suldier.hke
appearance of their men, and begs to snore them, be has
ou uo oceasisa seen corps more judiciously or serviceably
appointed, or that appear in any respect better qualified for
the duties for which they have beru formed.
By order of the Major.G
JAS. DOUGLAS, D. A. Q. M.G.

ISTRACT OF A LITTER FROM A OF.MTLEMAN IN
FALKIRK. DATED ♦PRIL 6, To MS FRIEND IN
GLASGOW.

" To-day I had a call from Mr. Robertson, the
°rodents's on whose property, ■t Bonnymoir, the
Radical battle of yesterday took place, and who saw
the whole. He states, that about seven or eight
a.' .lock in the morning of yesterday, lie saw a party
of from 30 to 40 men, all armed either with pikes
or guns, and some with pistols mid pike*, passilig
oknig the north bank of the Canal, opposite to his
~nose at Bonnybridge. They were going eastward.
Ile went to oversee sonic of his workmen, and, in
the course of leas than an hour, saw the same party
passing up towards the south by Bonnyinuir. They
bad been met by some person a little to the east of
Sonnytwidge, and conducted to the south of the
Canal by the Aqueduct at Bonnybridge. They
passed oil to the muir, and, when nearly at the sum-
mit of it, sat down. Bonnymuir is pretty high,
lions it a person has a complete view of the public
road for several miles west by Denny Loanheall ;
there is an extensive plantation belong.ng to Mr.
Henderson on the north of it along the hanks of
toe Canal, and soother very extensive plantation be-
longing In Lord Dundes on the west. Shortly after
the Radicals sat down on the top of the muir, Mr.
Robertson saw the military gallopping along the
road, they crossed the Canal by the Aqueduct which
is at Bormybridge, and made for the ilium This
must have been seen by the Radicals, but instead
of running to the woods, they kept their ground.
The military amounted to about fifteen or twenty.
partly hussars and partly Kilsyth yeomanry, and
whets within 200 or 300 yards of the Radicals, they
the Radical-) ran quickly behind a dyke, and from
1, once discharged from twelve to twenty shots be-
lure the military got up to them. The hussar
c:Ticzr ho commanded the party made his horse leap
t. e dyke into the very centre of the Radicals; the
r►st of the military got over the dyke at a little di►.
ta:.ce from them. They did not the until they were
quite close on the Radicals. Several shots, however,
were fired about the time they got up to them (as
Nr. Robertson thought) by both parties. homed,.
icely the Radicals were running in every direction.
PIN Robertson, who was within a quarter of a mile
tioin the place, mentions that lie heard the officer
out to his men not in kill the people, but
make them prisoners. He al-u says. that they struck
oown those who ran with the flat aide of their
sword►. About 18 or 90 of them were secured, the
others escaped into the woods. Nobody was killed
on either side. None of the military were danger-
Grisly wounded, but some of their horses have since
shed. Several of the Radicals were a good deal
cat; one of them so much so, that the commander
of the party did not think it proper to take him
along with the'rest to Stirling, but asked Mr. Ro-
bertson to take him to his house; he did so, but,
through the night he was carried away by some
of the party ; Mr. Robertson does not think he
will live; he had a severe wound on his head. The
military marched off immediately with the other
prisoners to Stirling."

GLASGOW, APRIL 8.

The proprietors of the large works connected I
with the cotton establishment, and other trades,
Lave, much to their honour, entered into resolu-
Loris to employ no tradesman, whatever be his ex.
ccllilice, who is not • peaceable man. This will
do more to ?Imre quiet in this !part of the country
than any measure which could possibly be adopted,
as it was by• the highly paid operatives that the
niro!e system of terror was inlorctd.
LuINIURGH. APRIL 8.
Lord litcite's troop of Mad Lothian yen•
snowy, quartered at Batligate, received orders at
one o'clock on Wednesday morning to proceed
from thence to Falkirk. We understand they
hive since moved forward to Glasgow. Captain
WAi.xaa's and Captain IttoLets troops marched
from Mid Calder to &dhow on the same morning.
The Music!burgh and Dalkeith troop still remain
bete, but expect orders to march to-day, in Vilified
quence of the •pprsscbing election of Peers.
About sixty commodes. and a considerable
quantity of ammunition, were brought down from
Carron. and landed at Leith so Thunday
sand safely lodged in Leith Fort.
Yesterday morning, at three o'clock, Captain
Bnows, stab a Aron party of police, set off in

fi Nero coaches for Glailgow, to the civil and
military power in that city.
One of the macera of the High Coo.t of Justi-
ciary left town yesterday for Stirling, for the pur-
pose of conveying the.prisoners taken at Falkirk to
this city.
Extract from a private letter from Glasgow, dated
the 7th instant, from sit authentic source:—•• The
Radicals stem a good deal subdued. At Poisley,
Captain of the mew army, and the Secretary to the
forces, are both taken ; and here they have got
hold of General Washington, and all his papers and
correspondence, including a plan for 'Marking
Glasgow in various points, and general instructions.
This forenoon. A solerston, Colton, and Bridgeton,
were surrounded by the military. and every house
swelled for arms and anuttuuitton. They seem to
have been aware of it, and accordingly very
little, c punitively, hiss been found. The Ra-
dical 4 have been throwing away their pikes into
the River and the Canal, end the operatives are
now returning to their work. Their plans have
been more extensive and better arranged than most
people believe; but enough has been brought to
light to convince us that we were in very rent dan-
ger, and enough also to make on example •f those
desperate persons who have come into the fussida of
the Magistracy.
" I should fain hope that a complete d.scovery
will now be made of the whole system, and that
proper measures will be adopted to extirpate their
almoninAle principles, mill to bring matters into
better order.
P.S. Thirty prisoners have just come in from
Frislgeton, and many of them with pikes in their

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