The Sun.
London, England, 1813-07-23 00:00:00

SCOTL:`,ND.

EDINAU111;1-1, JULY 1 B'.-"-ACCOl`dillp* to the pre-
sent peices, inclutlim;-the dottei tti 6overntrtent,
the.fuflovviog the vatue of 'produee.'.iniporzed-
iitto the Clyde, by the late
Sngar
num
Cott nu 17(1,174
•
152,1410
All other produce 207,015

.isilol,ll C.

The Marquis of Douglas has at present i num-
ber of men, employed in taking down honse. in ti,!
high town of Hamilton, in order to enlerge I)is
pleasure grounds. A. man employed in this work
was, on Wedaesday, killed by it large stone fall-
ing upon him, front the fourth .:toty Of one of
the bonses.—lle has left a wifc. and Emily.
Op Wednesday se'nnigrit,. Joseph -Dawson, a
native of Buckie, was committed IleiSQtlet*, to the
Toll-booth of Banff, accused of assaulting a young
girl near Finuachty.
Lately, in blowing up a rock of white free-
stone at Ardrossan, a part of a tree was found
completeliietrifted into the nature rock.=
From the Vqkience ofthe blast, a large portion of
this natural ,enriosity,was reduced into atoms.—
One piece, was entire', 15 inches in length and 9
in girth ; the colour of the harks with Orc appear-
/nee of branches from the parent stem, were very
visible. :Pew places present themselves more.:
worthy the attention of adepts in natnral history
than the rocks around Ardrossan, composed of
an endless variety of strata of metals, severat of
which
,bear evident marks Of 'volcanic production.
About ten days ago, a man, in digging a drain
on ,the farm of licidleston, in the parish of Gar-
vock, turned up a gold coin,of the reign of .Tames
VI. It is extremely thin, but in circumference it,
iseqtr-t1 to an: English halfpenny of coinage 1799.
It is in a state of complete preservation, the Je-
vices and inscriptions being nearly as visible and
entire as if it had come immediately from the .
mint. On the e:,:ergue there is a coat of. arms.
surmounted by a coronet ; the inscription is Ja-
.
• cobus VI. D. G. R, Seotornin. On the reverse, ti
sceptre and sword crossed, with a lesser coronet
at top, a thiStle ou each side, anti underneath, the
date IGO!. The inscription popull• supreiria
lex .

A whale, nearly 30 feet hi, length, was lately
brought ashore in the neighbonrhobd of Irvine.
The hay crop in Scotland this sensor is in ge-
neral somewhat lighter than what is reclioned a
good crop.

• HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.
Thursday came on the trial of James
accused of rape and assault. The indictment.
states,,that " you the said James Wilson having,,
on the 20th day of April, 1813, or on one or
other of the days of that month, or of March inl
rnediately preceding„ or
,of May immediately fol-
lowing, on the High-street, or elsewbere, in VAUD.-
burgh; met with Janet Scott, presenily or lately
residing with William Dickinson, schoolmaster
of the parish of Prestonhaugh, ,or Prestonkirk,
and residing at Linton, in the county of "'Adding-
ton, and havinr! atreed
.said ..tanet-
Scott to proceed along with :you to Paddington,
in an empty cart, of which you. had the charge,
and the said Janet Scott having proceeded'ac-
eordingly„ in the said. cart conducted by you,
.from Edinburgh towards lladdingron card
"
peth Pringle-, servant at Clarhiugton, in. the
ntyoi ot Paddington; who nisd came from Min-
burgh, in company with you and the 'said Ja. net
Scott,uliiai lgiatvoiliii,gy:s,tioi dice,ptats rlo'oritri afterncrit in the county of
atteinpt to rise aunt iadecent libPearstsiiengs with,., leer
lu ;" —" and Thomas AtkinsOn Mills, sta7
dent, or Irately student of medicine, at Edinburgh;
presently residing, with has father, William Mills,
at Ilowtle; by WOoha., in the county of Northum-
berland, who was passing on the high road at the
time, and who heard the inid Janet Sciut ciy out
several times, '' intirder," having come to her
assistance, she, the said Janet Seott at -tbaf'tinie
made her escape from you, the said :Tames Wilson;
and, further, you the said James
followed the said Thomas Atkinson Mills to
the public road, did then and there, NvickedlY
and feloniously,. attsauk and assault him, and did
strike him with your clenched fists sebreral violent
blows; in consequence of which be was kubeked
down, and, when he was so knocked down, you
did continue to strike and kick him .repeatedly,
Swearing, and threatening to take until
he was resciml by Charles-Watt, carter, hi Had •
dington; whereby lie, the said Thomas Atkinson
_Mills, was much brnised, and swelled on flathead
.and various parts of:his body ;.and thesaid Janet
Scott having, in the meanwhile, made her escape,
and taken refuge in the house of Joint Duncan,
at Sommerfield or Soinnerfield, about half
or thereby, from Haddington, you, the said James
Wiliam. did, a very short apaoc thareafter, enter
the said house,. and drag 'her _forth of the same by
violence; and did force her to proceed along the
publip road towards Haddington with you, till
yoir came to a line in the iniaiediate vieinitY,of
the new bnililings at the (,allow green. of Pad-
dington, into which lane you, the Said James Wil-
sOu, did drag her, the said Janet Scotr,%l tic.
"'list trial was not concluded till late in the
evening and'yesterday the Court met-: at eleven
o'clock, when the, Jury retorned,their verdict, all
in, one voice, finding the Said. James Wilson .guitty
Of the assault :on Thoinaii ~Atkinson Mills ;
by a great plurality of vbiees,-guilty of the assault
on Janet Scott; and, by aPlitrality of voices, the
rape lent proven.
Their-LiordshiPs,, in .delivering. their "pinions
on the degree of pituisbnient proper to he inflicted
in a dale so highly aggravated, :expressed their
deep abhorrence of the criminal -condnet.of:tk
prisoner, and their indignation at the total disre-
gard of all moral feeling strewn by thoSe people to
whom janat Scott applied ,for protee.tion from his
brutat lust and violence.
After a suitable ath»onition from the Loan Jo 37
TICR.CLE:II.K., sentence Was •-prouounced,.ordain
ing the prisoner- to be confined in.the Tolbooth
of Edinburgh, till Friday, .the Ester or August, nod
then to be taken to Paddington, and PublielY
whipped throngltithestreets of that btagh, ~and
thereafter transported beyondseas, for seven years,
Under the usual certification.