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London, England, 1820-02-29 00:00:00

NATIONAL asorevingT OF NCOTLIND.

PROCEEDINGS of Ow COMMIT rEE on
the NATIONA I. MONUMENT of SCOTLAND,
held at Edinburgh on Wednesday, theldth January, 114.20;
Present—The Elrl of Welwyn' and March; the Earl of
Rusetwry ; Lord Delbaveu ; Lord Rollo ; the Lord Justice
Clerk ; Load Bauniclyne ; Sir Robert Dick, of Piestonfield,
Bart.; Sr Michael Shaw Stewart, Dart. ; Sir James Ferguson,
of kilkerran, Dirt.; General Francis !Madam; M ijJr-Gease-
ral Hope; Vice-Admiral Fraser; Reverend Principal Baird;
Gilbert Hutchison, Esq. Depot). Judge Advocate; Doctor
Gregmay, M.D. ; Dr. Hope, M D.; Robert Ihurnie, Esq. of
Appiu ; Mr. Rorthwick, yonuger, 01 Crooke!~ ;
Arbuthnot, Esq. Treatees Office ; Kincaid M•lieuzie. E•q ;
Claud Rumen, Est. accountant ; Juba Venter, L.q. IV S. ;
William Diehl, Esq. W.S.; John Russell, Esq. ;
Robert Johnston, Esq.
The Right Hum the Earl of WE,MYS'iS anal MARCH in
the Chsir.
The Secretary stated that, !agreeably to the inatructious of
the.Comnailter, contained in their Minute of the 22,1 July
last, he had transmitted is the Minister,' of lime Church of
Scotland—

ht. The Resolution, of the General Meeting of Noble-
men and Gentlemen, held at Minh,ugh on the 21tls Fe.
bruary hat, his Grave the Duke of Othull in the Chair.
2dly, The Resolutions of the umulittee appointed by the
General Meeting, bearing date the Llth 111 welt laat, Lord
Ruth, in the Chair.

Jdly, The Proceedings and Resulotions of the Committee
of the 22d July, 1810, the Earl of Morton in the Chair;
tingetber 0111 s the recomme*daiotaJt Utuerat Aneembly
of theClusrch of Scotland, •reempanie4 with an earnest and
respectful request, that the Reverend Gentlemen would take
such might appear to theta best calculated fur
promoting. in their resptetive Parishes, object r I AMY, the o_ LitSe
and of the recommesdatiess of the General
Avivmhly.
Copie,tif the Resolutious of the General Meeting, and of
the el.lllllolllte, were also, agreeably to appointment, trans-
mitted to the Commanding Officers of Local Militia, Yeo-
manry, and Volunteer Carpi, with a request that they would
give their countenance to the General Subscription in aid
of the National 31in.ument.

, Although every possible, and indeed the most obliging fa-
cilities were given in the department of the Post-office,
whose very patriotic and reepectetile Secretary, Mr. Kerr.
franked, iit the comma the anturnet, no fewer than 1,400
dispatches ; although every possible (leility was, in the hand-
somest matinee, rendered its the Adjutant-General's depart-
ment, by furuisbiug lists of the Yeomanry, Local Militia, and
Volunteer Corps; soil elthoogh the Agent for the Church of
• Scotland (unlimited most promptly the recommendation of
the General Assembly ; yet wring Ita She unavoidable delay
attendant on so much detail, it was, as Hie Committee might
easily conceive, fir advanced in the autumn before the vari•
oils documents, and the engraved plan of the intended !Ho-
I numeral, could be put in circulation : and if any of them
should not have reached the places of their destination, he
hoped such an cccorreure would he ascribed to accident,
and nut to any intentional oversight.
• There has therefore been scarcity time for any general
movement, or to receive returns from the clergy, or from
the Commanders of the Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps; he
had, however to mention contributions from the parishes of
Polwarth and Currie, averaging at the rate of 10/. per
parish, which be hoped would he the average amount of
shares and donations over Scullind. He had also to ac-
knowledge returns from the Elgin and Morayshire bat-
teflon, coniprebeuiliug the Elgin, Forms, Spernouth, and
Yorkshire coinpanirs; whose officers have paid their sub-
scriptions into the branch of the bank of the British Linen
Company at Elgin.
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The gallant 71st regiment have also, lie was lammed,
suhscrilud a day's pay.
Ile hail the satisfaction of reporting a list of additional
snliscriptions, respectable both in number and value, ob-
tained since last meeting of the Committee in the end of
July ; and there would be tumid amongst the subseribernee-
vets! Ladies of distinction. [Here the Secretary read "owe
of the leading names in the subscriptions.]
All the hanks in Edinburgh, with their country branches,
be stated, had obligingly agreed to act as cashiers, and to
open as account fur the National Mounment ; and Sir %Vil-
liam Forbes and Company have akin agreed, in the hand.
soonest manner, to act as gettersl t aaaaa rent. The Com.
inkier, the auliscribers, and the country, be said, were most
welcome to hie humble and gratuitous IlerVieff as Secretary,
to which be hail, from the CUIIIMeIIetIIIWIII, resolved strictly
to confine his duties.
He was glad to report, that while the subscription at
home is daily increasing, aid must increase, the subscrip.
lion abroad, ni the East and West Indies, and in the Bri-
tish settlements in every quarter of the globe, is at this mu.
meat, he had every reason to believe, proceethog nadar
the most favourable auspices. In prone of this fact he
begged leave to read an article iu The iidinhurgh Star,
with which the Editor obligingly furnished him last night,
containing extracts from rie Royal Jamaica Gantt*,
which "hew that our countrymen iu the Western Hemi-
sphere have taken tip the subject, agreeably to the
recommendstimis of the general meetings held at Edin-
burgh and Loudon in spring last, sad every account fa.
'mired the presumption that the subscription from Jamaica,
and our other West India Coloeies, whose Governors were also
written to, would be most ; and it is welt known
that the Marquis of Hastings is India, and the Earl of
Dalhousie in America, wilt give every possible impulse to
the measure.
There was not yet, however, seinicient time to receive
reports frum those remote parts, the dispatches having unly
been scut out after the Loudon meeting in the end of May
last.
He concluded by expeasing a hope, that the foundation

THE BLANKET WL►AVERs.

[From " The Leeds Mercury."]
On Thursday morning, ten men, escorted by •
detachment of the 4th tirli;,tooiir, were brought
into this town, on their route to York, charged
with riot and assault. Our readers are aware, that
tbcre has existed, in certain parts of the clothing
district, in this Riding, • rombniation among the
blanket weavers, called the Uaion, which has fixed
• minimum of wages, below which 110 tatipher of
she Union is to be allowed to work, and who fur-
ther insist on imposing Certain Inuits uu the titian-

lily of work to he done. lii couseque..cte of tile
I 'ulster-manufacturers declining to ....rile Scythes:.
demands. there lass been a general tu•oisiot, whirs
has now continued for some mouth-. Under
circumstances!, several of the noter.olosioufweite s
burr rogagrA workmen who had anther ntosoilooei:‘,
or hail never entered into this C. 11111111141011. Itoe
conduct highly irritated the workmen who .1111 nit.
tiered to the Union, who determined to I.: ev!. tat it
by main force, anti for this porproe orsesolded"
in crest numbers, at the wookb nt'oir of the Relic •
pal manufacturers in the mighbouilnamil •41
bury, where they orossly asooslied seb.ral of ',be
workmeu, whom they devigioine Lie....ous name
of Blacks. Warr wits weir .übs•opient y
against William Nowell, Joseph Aqrkirr, I.•srpa
WI:loon, Woo. /Irrlu, Francis birth. Sqskatd Pfur-
som,Jonalkan Hemingway, George Weitati‘PisaLiss •
401allall, led*rirti Part charfiistic these with
being cum-tilted iu ihie outrage,,Zw7iVeuttors lay
these persona were lore !lit hrfare !:44srlt•
mod Jeremiah Borstovt, E•goires, Meg strafos of It,.
Ruling, at flewsboiry : doping the examination
these persons a greet •c we'ittr!Be of people was eol
lected round the inn, who behaved twee' tomulto:4o• , -
a inciter, (hooting and making * toted oilisr) thei
the Magistrates thought it nece.eary to hare the Rot
Act read, which pits dune by Mr. Sivas.
people were also info:med. that the fate of the !Ai. •
loiters depended olo•in their condoi.t. nudists t!lat
tins Measure did not produce the dewed etfert,ood
that the mob expresiosl a dieltrinniatran in rt-PCUO
tile persons under examination. Mr. St,cks theoght
it orcessary to direct the cnostable 141 raise the
coositoins to d:,per.e the mob. Till, lilt°,l4lllr tv,o,
attelided with consi,lerahle success, and in
two hours the mob were disorrsed. without II /111,
citinioit.ed any mischief. In coniegisrore of ties
outrageous conduct. ,t was coosideted expedient to
have the airiatauce of a military farce, tocooduet
the persons committed part of their way to Yuri..
We are if,runaied, on good authority. that it is mit
intend-1 to proceed against the utifortoonte antis
who are e ttttt untied, with any rigour. provided ,the
ware or that town an l neighivourbood shook! tib.t
be diiititrlwil by similar tumultuous assemblages ;
but if. unfortunately, this should be the case, they
will be left to suffer the u ttttt itigati d sot-rity of the
law. %re Villlllol close this acconiit resi.
entreating these deluded people to show:,
from such disgrocefol outrages. the ti; ct of which
Clll only be to aggravate their sufferings, and pie.
vela the approach of bitter dais.

PEACE NOCIETY.

A considerable time has elapsed since we ad.
veiled in our columns to Cite proceedings of tlna
most interesting and important Storty ; yet tt
girl" tta real pleasure to observe, that it out yule
Atisttinees to etrior, but that Ifhoursli•••• been
jimmied with eminent paces-.s, Its prlsiriples are
progressively though silently gaining eround to v.-
rims directions, and we siocerely hail it a. the l a,.
longer of the accomplishment of that blessed per icl
tt when nation skill no longer lift up sword sionista
ninon, neiiher shall they learn war any more."
The Society has lately published a sink tract,
comprising a *coition preached by the U. v. David
Bogue, D.D. in 1813, three year: before the I.r-
-illation of a Peace Society.
lVe regret that our limits do not allow u• to
give it entire, and it is ffi
tlicult an select ail part
from a work, the whole of which is so race kit ;
hut the following striking iiustratiosi of the 'III ct•
likely to be produced by the practice of patine.
priwiplrs,, is so complete a reply to a very, popular
objection, that we hasten to lay it before our trawler..
The objection to which we allude is "rhat ifa
nation—for example. this to which we helong, rare
to act upon these priaciplec, and refase iv
,q.J to
sear, it would soon be swallowed up by other na-
tions."

Great Brit.rin has often sent fleet., and 0:•e-.1.ips,
and bombs, and armed men with all their artillery
of destruction, to burn and destroy cities, and put
the defenders to death, if they resist. The newel
consequence has been, that multitudes of (Item have
barn slain; numerous families of peacirobJe inhabi-
tants, consioiting of fathers anti mother., solos and
daughters, and infants at the b east, have he.,,
buried under the ruin. of their dwellings, or dashed
to piece' in the street., while the surrnsiii&i.g
country has ireen mournfully desolated. What 1•4
the effect of this warfare ? Every berrt ty
filled with hatred of the invader., and barna
revenge. The Lune spigot he conveys down 5% an
inheritance to his c6ildtrn ; and let it he Velitelll-
- •' that those are (so little enemies."

let us suppose, that 'aired of such an enrol-
ment, our ruler*, were to commissiou ships laden
with corn, and clothes, slid money, et only half
the amount of expense—and to accornpoily the
gill with a letter to the government of* neiglitioor-
. lug country to this effect "`Through the gut:dams
of God, we have had en alrund int harvest, and
hearing that you here not, we send a present o'l'lllll
to the widows awl fatherless, the orphan, the blvid
and the lame. As massy of them may lie utiptoviit-
ed with raiment fur the. inclemency of winter, ac.
cept of the clothing which will he &heeled to yon
by our fleet, and divide among those who •re to
the greatest distress the money which our tsar..
s.ligers carry in their lirtids."
would such conduct have upon flat-people of that
country ? %'ould it leave ally atior behind to
their soul.? Nu. It would cuuc ham. the rster 111 •
and affection of all. I'd! tbem after this, "-Boit ant •
wishes to illitirelou."--" No," they would gay, .• it
cannot ;it is impossible that the people of tfiiit
!sod abould desire to do to harm." Command them
to buckle on their 1111110 U! and wage wir with the•
English. They would answer, "We cannot tight
with then*: the weapons would drop front our
!sands : we love them too well to hart them : con-
tinue in peace." It any *tate would act in this way
to its stetglilsuurs, It would have no etietnieb: the
sound of war would not be heard iu its dausiotious.
—f Plymouth I'upv.l