The Sun.
London, England, 1823-08-26 00:00:00

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LoiNnuttan, Aua. 23:—The following is the
copy Of the Address voted by the Convention of
Royal 13urghs, wean, ntid his MAr
41:STY'S Most Gracious Ariswer to the same :
To the Kin`.; Most I;tee,llent Alajesty,
The humble Address of the Genera Convention of the Royal
Burghs of Scotland.
MOST °SAMOS SOVEREIGN,

We, the conatAtuted representatives of the Royal Burghs- bf
Scotland, .take the first opportunity of our assembling in Con..
Tendon, since your Majesty's most auspicious visit to Scotland,
to express our warmest gratitude for the honour you Majesty
has done to our country, by most graciously condescending to
visit it. Of this event yOUr Majesty'iXubjects in Scotrand will
always retain the moat grateful. remembrance. And we also
beg leave humbly to express' the exaltation we have felt at the
very gracieue manner in which, your Najestv,_in your speech to
Parliament., watipleased to take notw.e of the reception you
hail experienced in Scotland.
beg leave humbly to assure your Majesty of bur in.
violable attachment and allegixnce to your Royal Person anti
Government, and of our unsltakep confidence in your Majesty's
sti!adit maintenance of our civil and religious liberties', and of
that unrivalled constitution, 'which, happily for the nation,
placed unou the yhrone of this 'Empire your Majesty's illus.
trious predecesscrs.
That your Majesty may long swat the sceptre over a great',a free, a loyal,. a peppy,
.aiitt an united ppople ; and theft
your Majesty may long enjoy health and every other blessing
which this world alfmcis, is the'ett'inest and:host inicious wish
Of this General Convention. .
Signedin name, and by appointment of the Royal Burghs of
Scotland, in Geneial Convention assembled,
WM. AR'BCTIINOT, Prises.

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Whitehall, August 111, 1823.
My Loki-4 htive the honliur to acknowledge the reeeipt of
your Lordship's letter of the 9th instant, with the'vefy lola]
and dutiful address inclosed in it, front the constituted repro.
sentativea of the Boys! Burghs of Scotland, 4ssemhled
vention on ,the first occasion since his Majesty's visit to that
country., ex-pressing tintir warmest gratitudeto his MAjesty for
that act of ids 14/ajesty's ,gracions, condescension, and for the
manner in which his Majesty was pleased, in his Speech to Par.'
liniment; to take notice of the receptioft he hid experienced in
Scethind.

And I have had the honour to lay the same, before his Ma-
jetty ; and I haVe the'. satisfaction to inform your Lordship,
that his Majesty was plead to receive the address of the Con-
vention of the Royal. Busghs of Scotland in the most gracious
manner.—l have Ole honour to be, my Lord, your Lordship's
thost obedient humble servant,
(Signed)
The Loid Probfostof Edinburgh.

ROBERT prirli.

ATTEMPTED SuittnE.—A lady of titglitMlftble
appearance was seen walking in the Regent's Park on Satur-
day, in a state of great agitation, which induced a gentleman„ to
watch her; and when she thoUght she was not observed, s'ie
plunged into the canal: Fortunately he arrived in time to save
her life, but she refused to give any other account of herself
than that she was an unhappy, widow. There was a pap rin
her bonnet, on which' the following lines were written • with a
pencil ft is the cruel absence of my dear G. B. that is the
cause of my distress : his presence would have saved me!"
RIDING ON TILE SHAFTS.--Oti Saturday as
George Trivitt, of South Stoke, Ski driving a waggon belonging
to gdmund Tumor, Esq. laden with coals from Grantham,
the horses suddenly started at some noise which Vicy
heard, when Trivitt, who was riding on the shafts, jumped
off in eider to stop diem ; in his attempt, hitiever, he fell
dmitn, and rolled some yards, with the hOpe of getting clear of
the Vraggon r but unhappily, before the liorses'coold be stopped,
both the near wheels ran over his body, by which one of his ribs
was broken, and he received so great an injury that he died on the
following morning. The deceased, who was about 40 years of
age hat left a wife and five children to lament his losk
On TdesdaY last (10th instant) during- the
dinner hour, Hannah Wild, a young girl; about 13'years of
age, employed as tenter of a bobbin-frame in the cotton-factory'
of Meant.. Ashton, of Portirood„ carelesily amusing herself
with one of the gearing straps in thepom, mid& hung down-,
was unhappily caught by it, anti drawn up to the ceiling, be-
tween which and the shaft she was so completely jarnmedN
that befoie It was possible to ethicitte her, though instant
assistance was given, her leg was absolutely toru from the
body tit the hip joint. Dlalicat assistance wag immediately,
procurer;bitY. in vain, as AO died at about four hoins after,
perfectly ifensible to the last, moment ; indeed, such was the
strength of mind which she exercised, that when removed toiler
house, she inquired for the absent Ifinb,' and desired it might be
placed in bed with lter. Front time to time she endeavoured
to prepare her parents' ler her death, by acquainting them of
her gradual yet certain dilsolution: She was an amiable little
g• irl and a teacher in one of the Sunday schools. No other
part yf her hotly received any injury.-,-(StOckporf )
. Tuesclay. last. (12th instant,) PETER
BraNgitP, Esq., Inspector-General of the Linen Board,
accomptitileil by One of the l'lutch (armee% visited Dun-
dalk, for the purpose of instructing the flax growers, in,
the peliflibourhood of that town, ip the methoti of steep-
ing flax, and saving the seed, as Practised •in Dollard.
The apparatus and . a .:quantity of /lax Were brought
to the Earl , of Roden's demesne ; , and A be regretted,
that but few or, the landholders of the county were present to
a process process which we are luttPtiett ti a great IMO-rove-
ment in the ,thode, of saving flaxpseed.and handling the flax
in every,stage it goes through. Tile method is fleet and,simple„
but such al to give the Dutcha tleetded superiority over us In
thiagreat. branch of our industry. .111 r. Bernard halt bean in.
defeugable in his research, and we earnestly hope that.our
countrymen will profit by his talenti and the great exertitini he
has made .to promote our individual and national interests.
We trust that the prejudice, of custom ,will. not. prevent, the
humblest individual wh6 grows a rood of flax from adopting a
method so simple ip the proem and certain, in its profit.
The Rev. Sir 'l. Faster Bart. with the Ladies' of hitt
Alfa. Thackety, Thomas Parker, Esq • Agent to Lad linden.
Win. Lowery, gsq,. agent to .lard Clermont; and several of
the merchants of Dundalk, were present, and appeared most
attentive to the process. The 'Custom of steeping flax in run..
ning streams, or wateri connected with them,. besitlea being
destructive to the fish, is highly prejudicial to the flax.--
( Drog4edei Josernal.
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A Coroner's was Veld on; Wednesday
at the Thibin flood, Portsmouth; on the body of .1. Cle-
mentii, a labouring boy,under 1,3 yeariof age, who was on di at day
found hanging on, an oak tree, in a very unfrequented part of
'Havant Thicket. It appeared in eVidence, that on Saturday; the
thl instant, the deceased. Was at *Oft with outer boi' in a field;
and he said to one of them, ," I.wontier if it would hurt much
to kill myself. Ido not think It would hurt to hang oneself."
He continued his Work, AA' in thlt evening turned leis horses
out into the field, as he,was accustomed tp do, and having taktui
the halter from the horse he rode, he m'its seen to go towards
:the thicket, for the purpose,. as was sopposed, of getting a
pitch of (ern; . and not returning to, his home iu the evening,
every search was oracle itif him, without eill2ct, till Wednesday
'last, when he mut flnind• us above deseribet4 suspended by the
halter he had taken from.the horse, The Jury returned a ver-
dict--" Thai the deceased, not being of the ago of discretion,
'but being an infant under the age of fourteen years, did kill
himself."
Yesterday afternoon, ,otr the barges behind
Stiand-lane, a number or young boys were jum. p..
.ing trOm barge to barge, looking at
,the rowing
match and untorturiately, froth' the many perSone
assembled id one of the barges,and the continued
ebbing of fhe tide, the barge snapped its rope
and shifted, fiefoie a -fine boy. named Ley). who
had just slitting from another barge) could' gain
a footine; he, of 'Cobra°, fell back into the Wu.-
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ter, and irlstantly disappeared. Sonic other boys
were also immersed, hnt lity did not rise again..
Instant and prompt exertion was made to find the

body, and drags were procured ; but the body
was not taken up until an hour had elapsed,
when it was carried ashore,- and means were used
to r,eanimate it—but without effect:

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Yesterday morning a young woman', servant to
Mrs. Cooeeri, Pleasant-row; Pentoniille, fell
from one of the first floor windows," which' she
was in the. act of cleaning; into the tront yard,
and dialOCated her shoulder, and received other
serious injury ; fortunatelyshe fell on a plot of
raised earth, planted with flowers. Ilad the
place been paved, she must have been killed.—
Theie is every expectatimi of her recovery.