The National Register.
London, England, 1821-04-29 00:00:00

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GLASGOW 4. EDINBURGH.

His Majesty's birth day was celebrated at Edinburgh
by a grand military field slay —" The troops afterwards
marched to their several private parades to lie dismissed ;
acid the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers proceeded down
the High Street. and along the North Bridge to the Lord
Provost's house in Abercromby Place, and there depo-
sited their colours, and were afterwards dismissed. We
regret to add, that on their way to Princes Street, the
fine martial appearance of the volunteer corps did not
rosette it from the derision of the mob, which consisted
principally of idle boys, who pelted them with dirt. A
porter's basket, commonly called a kreel, was frequently
flume in the midst of the hand, whose tune was obstruct-
ed by it several times. As a party of volunteers, who
belong to Leith, were returning to their homes, in com-
pany with the Leith riflemen, after being dismissed,
they were again outrageously assailed, when a regular
encounter took place, and several of the snob were
seized. On the way to the George Street Police Office,
to deposit their prisoners, the soldiers were pursued and
pelted, which exasperated thesis to such a degree that a
tile of the military :aced about and charged upon the
mob, which stood their ground, and in coming in con-
tact with them, the volunteers unfixed bayonets and
cudgelled them with the INC t ends of their muskets.—
Many were much hurt in the scuffle; several of the vo-
lunteers were most seriously lacerated on the face and
hands by blows trout stones and staves, and a rifleman
in particular, was exceedingly bruised and di:figured.—
Only about 2tl of the military maintained the conflict to
the last; and these, on having succeeded in conducting
their prisoners within the gates of the Police Office,
proclaimed their victory in several cheers of defiince.—
in the whole, eight or nine of the snob who made the
attack are now in custody at the Police Office."
GLASGow, APRIL t4.—Yesterday the King's birth-
day was celebrated with the customary demonstrations
of loyalty. The military and volunteers, tan the presence
of an immense crowd mangevred and fired in the Green ;
and in the evening Isis Majesty's health was drank at
the Cross, amid great applause, by the magistrates. The
juvenile loyalists amused themselves during the day by
letting off pistols, squibs, and crackers. The populace
came into play as the evening advanced. A flaming tar-
barrel was paraded through the principal streets, and
then used to light sip a bonfire in front of the prison.—
BaillieCielland's Railings are the materials usually seized
for expressing loyalty.—Five months ago the nob con-
signed theist so conflagration for the escape of the Queen
—and last night a similar use was made of them m ho-
nour of his Majesty. The bonfire had not lasted long,
before the police-officers came forward and endeavoured
to prevent furrher depredations: but they were fiercely
assailed by the mob and obliged to retire.
A small party of dragoons then carnet() the spot. The
officer commanding them, in the most humane manner,
tried in persuade the populace to desist, but they answered
his mild deportment by hisses and a volley of sticks, the
officer still coetented himself with keeping off the crowd
from the fire. By and by the inagissrates appeared with
a company of infantry. The crowd, persisting in their
attack, were ultimately driven hack; but they renewed
the conflict with sticks and stones, and severely wounded
souse of the soldiers. The patient forbearance of the
dragoons deserves the greatest praise; every man of this
small party was cut and bruised : a serjeatit and private
were unhorsed. The Lord Provost and the head jailer
were cut on the head. Several gentlemen near them
were also wounded, more or less. One of the 41st was
knocked out of the ranks. After some delay, the dra-
goons having been reinforced, advanced ; and the crowd
made off in all directions. During one of the evolutions
of the dragoons several hundred is en, women, and
children, were tumbled over each teller. The confusion
and cries of terror, as well as the loud lamentations
for the loss of lists and shoes, were striking.—They who
endeavoured to get away by the wooden bridge soon
blocked up the passage, and the first arch, 25 ft et in
width broke down with the pressure. it was a terrific
crash; the cries which arose front the sufferers were most
piercing, and were re-echoed by others little less fearful
from the spectators. A mingled mass of men, women,
and bops, were precipitated into the bed of the river—
the water was not at the deepest more than ten inches,
but much injury was sustained from the fall and pressure.
The police officers assisted the bystanders in carrying out
the wounded, but the soldiers were by this time too
much irritated to offer any aid. 'The msforninate persons
were conducted to the town hospital, the gaol, and the
i nfirmary.
Five of the sufferers were carried into the jail, four
of them had broken legs, and one hail a broken ann.
In the Royal Infirmary there are seven men and boys
with fractured arms and legs. In the town hospital
there are eleven men, girls, out! boys ; among the issjii-
ries are a fractured thigh boor, a compound fiacitire of
the leg, a dislocated shoulder joint, a girl whit a fractured
jaw-bone, and the remainder ate Moises. Ati ttttt ber
were taken to the South Batik. A stir:term sit Hutch-
eson-town has three cases of fracture, and of severe
cuts or bruises. A number more were hurt who went
home. We lament to say ihat these accidents tire not
the worst. One unfortunate man of the name of Geo.
Andrew, a shoemaker in the Gorbals, was helped (Mon
the bed of the river) into an adjacent house, and set
down in a bed ; when he had got a think of water, he
fell back and instantly expired. He has left a wife and
four children to lament his death. There are rumours
of more deaths; but they have nut been authenticated
by our inquiries.