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London, England, 1812-10-13 00:00:00

OINBURGI4, OCT. 10.

CITY ELECTION.
Vesterday the Election of a. Representative in
Parliament for this City took place in the new
Council Chamber, . when the Right Honourable
William Militias was 'unanimously re-chosen.--
After the necessary forms had been gone through,
Mr. Dundas was addressed by the Lord PrOvost
in nearly the following words :
" -41 r. DUNDAS,
" It is not many months ,since r lzad the ho-
nour of addressing you upon an occasion similar

•
td the present. ,
‘f It is now with peculiar pleasure and , satis-
faction that 1 have to announce to you, tha7t the
City of Edinburgh has unanimously re-efected
you to be their Representative in the ensuing Par-
liament.

" As a Senator .of the .ation; they have no
doubt of your' zealous attention to•tlie national

welfare ; and as'a Citizen of Edinburgh, they
have as little doubt of your attention to the in-

terests of the metropolis of `our native country.
The Electors have now. only to wish you
health and prosperity in the exercise of your va-

rious arduous fuuctiOns."

Mr. DUNDAS, after expressing his grateful,sense
of the distinguished honour of another unanimous
election, said, it was customary for the Repre-
sentative to be explicit with his Constituents in
stating his political attachments, and the bias of
opinion on any public question of vital im-
portance to the State. As to the first point, he
need not say much—he held office. Under his Royal
Highness the Prince Regent, and was closely con-
nected with sonic who thrilled his Governriient.—
As to the second point, in the front rank of'de-
hate, ready for engagement, stood the Catholic
Question—on tent! side, it is said, cohcession will
shake and sap the foundation of the Protestant
Church ; on the other, without ebncession, ire-4
land cannot be conciliated,. and four millions of
ihen •will be lost to the country in her most trying
hour. He was free to say; he believed in neither
extreme—it had beet the happiness, and must ever
be the pride of his life, to have lived in habits of
the closest intimacy with the late Mr. Pitt., Kind-
nesseand friendship "as unbounded on the part of
'Mr. Pitt as miderserved on his otvn, and revering
the memory of that eminent Statesman, he could
not for a:: moment so wrong that memory as to
think that hiS enlightened and comprehensive
mind would have entertained. with favour conees-
ur
sion, involving necessarily the safety of o re- .
ligion; and who, oil the other 11nd:would ve,:ture
so to stigulatise a gallant People, a, to say;toat ihi
our fleets and armies the 11 ...i.were even backward
w and Inkearmin their countr-j-',4
,causc ; but, pre-
ferring the Protestant faith; we had a rigiit to see
it guarded and s-ecut.ext. No set of men could
claim office as a rigid, as 'office 'was not-created for
the individual, but was a trust for the people's be-
nefit. By the law, the Sovereign was the source
of office and of honour ; but the la,v has restrain-
ed the exercise of this power,.by refusing admis;-
sion to .office, unless such tests are taken as we
deem indispensable to oar established ;
and the law had • said to the Sovereign hiMself,
that, in ascending the throne, of his ancetors,-
such assurance should be given in the presence of
people:- Was'it then too amen to ask for as-
aranee3 from. the 'Judge on the 'Bench, the-.
Statesman in the Cabinet, 'or the General in the
Field ? Another fruitful source of debate was the
Charter of the 'lndia Company; he said he never
understood the poliey.of fettering our private mer-
chants in carrying on that tradeovhieh the capi-
tal of the Company could not embrace. ' The re-
sult had been to cherish the trade of the Ameri-
cans, who had grown into prosperity by the con-
veyance of even the private fortunes which our
own conntryinen had acquired abroad. And with
the ,sound of rejoicing still Yibratin;,, in' our ears,
:it would have been, welhfor Anieriea to have pur-
sued the profits of Indian trade' rather than the
precarious prospects of 'European- war ; but he
thought our merchants too sanguine in their ex-
pectation from the extension of the trade. Setting
aside any question. as to the teXthre and mate-
rials, how could the mudins of Paisley vie with
looms of India, wish' the freight of halt the, cire
cumfe:enee of the.globe in 'the, scale against theth ;
nor had he ever heard an answer to what. Were the

articles which the siinple and unchanging habits
.of the•nations of indol:itau would lead theta to
care about; or induCe theta to receive. In his
last address he had said, that the precedin,, cane-

pain had covered with glory the British :arras ;
and had the fortune of war been adverse, he should'
shave gloried in the generous Motive which dic-
tated our interference for Portugal and Spain ;
gloried that the Heir of the House of BrunsMelt•
had, in the last act of power, with true British
eharficter; embraced: the opportunity of trying to
save from the grasp of tyranny, two gallant
na-
tions 'fighting to be free. Had the last campaign
obscured, that glory, and had it not raised stt high
our military character, as to give little encourage-
. went to-the invasion of our tranquility Our su-
periority at sea all,Earone confessed ; and :could
he tell them now that the contending fleets' were
in sight, and an engagement unavoidable, he
shsuld .see on every face the , cheering hope of
-triumph, and hear from every tongue the antici
patois of successt Doubts might be entertained,
of our military ascendancy ; in Britain no hostile ,
?.rinie.s had traversed our 'fields, and we hid long
reaped insecurity the harvest of peace. In France
a, new race of men had.sprung up, born almost,
certainly bred, in file clash of arms, and trained
ar,d nurtured in the smoke of kvar. He congra-
tulated his audience, that such doubts were clear,
cd away .for ever, and
,a grateful nation hailed
the name, and.posterity would echo the praise of
that cpnsurnmate General, under Whose able
guidnice the energy of a British army had burst
forth. With such transcendant Instre. Let the Em-
peror of Franee adorn his baTtall;ns' with the
symbols of victory ; for flight, not for conquest,
did his vaunted eagles, spread their wing: on Sa-
lamanca's glorious day. • His heart heat
the' hope that the rumours of yesterday a few
,days would confirm:, and the dawn of light hi the
eastern:horition might dispel the gloom which had
• .s 9 Jong loured over Edrope."
This speech, which. Was hear 4 with the grehtest
attention, was interrup,ted by repeated buts of
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hi the :eveni-umieff.Dundas gate a kran&enter-
hirnrient in the Assembly -Boor irA to the Lord
Provost, Magistrates, and,conncil, and to a num-
Ler. oi..Noblenren and Gentlemen. . •

INTELLiiiENCE

lacg ow, • October 6.

The Cil•cuit Court ofJus't:ciary was opened here
this,day, by Lords Armadale.and Gillies,
John Pettigrew and John Gilchrist were in-
ditted for; an issanitllleS Wilson, surgeon,
in Carluke. The former . not uppearing-waS out
and the 'Court proceeded with the trial of
John Gilchrist,

Air. James Wilson, while returning from a'
professional visit on the night of'the-21st July,
between eleven and twelve o'clock, saw a man
lying on the street, and-John Pettigrew standing
near him. Witness asked Pettigrew what was the -
matter
,with the man on the ground, and' was told.
he had taken too much drink. Witness remarked,
it.was a pity,to see him in such a state, whereupon
Pettigrew', atter,4bserVing that, although witness
was an elder, he had no right to insult
.his coni—
seiled witness by..the collar; and struck
hini on th'e head. In the struggle both came to
the ground. Witnesis in his turn seized his anta-
gonist by the throat. Gilchrist now got upon his
legs and struck witness 'on the head,. while he was
holding Pettigrew, and he was again knocked
down. Both Gilchrist and Pettigrew; continued
kicking and striking witness till they were tired.
While witness was rising, Peuigrew forced one
of eyitness's fingers into his mouth, and bit him
until witness-, by pinching his cheek-, forced him.
to open his mouth. Witness, in attempting to
get back to the house he had left, was knocked
down- by Pettigrew; who struck him till he was
insensiblr. While in this state he was carried
into the house of -Mrs. Elder, and front thence in
a cart-to his mother's. He was three dayt, before
he could stir a. limb, was confined eight or ten
days, and unable to do any thing for a fortnight.
He gave Pettigrew or the pannel no provocatica
except expressing his regret at seeing Gilchrist
drinik. It was clear moon-light. Witness cried
out murder as loud and as long as possible, after
he was attacked by the pannel.
Several other witnesses were examined,
which Mr. Boswell addressed the Jury for the
Crown,' and Mr. Walker for the prisoner. In his
able charge Lord. Anu adale recommended the Jury
to return a verdict finding the pannel Guilty.
The Jury, by a plurality of voices, returned a
verdict against the cannel, and he was sentenced
to be imprisoned three months in Lanark
Alexander Falconer," .mastermason in-Paisley,
was accused -of- vitiating and altering, a-property
tax, receipt, for the year ending sth April, 1807,
so as to make-it serve for I'BoB, and for producing
the said vitiated receipt, to elude, payment of 61. 4s.
being the duty on his, lands,, tenements, &c. in
Story-street,of Paisley. ,
After the evidence had been' gone through, Mr.
,Bnswell addressed the Jury on the part 'of the
Crown, and Mr. Jardihe made an ingenious, de-
feme for the pannel. Lord Armadale having
summed up the evidence, the' Jury 'Were directed
to return their verdict next. morning. . Their ver-
dict found the prisoner, Guilty, by a plurality of
voices, but unanimously , recommended hiss to
mercy The,Court, in consideration of the Jury's
recommendation, sentenced the prisoner to the
mitigated punishment of One Tear's inip4soluncnt
in Paisley jail.

WEDI"t'ESDA-17., oqt• 7. •
Elizabeth Collins was indicted for the murder
of her own child, in the room No. 19, in the Ton-
tine Inn, Greenock. Thellepute MVO,Cate passed
from the charge of child inurder, and proceeded
with that of caneealifig pregnancy; to which the
pannel pleaded *guilty, - The Jury 'accordingly
found a verdict to that,..effect, and she was sen-
tenced to three months confinement in Greenock
prison.
James Stewart and William Al`Arthur were ac-
cused of breaking into the Vestry of the English
Chapel, on the night of Monday, the 'filth, and
of Wednesday, the tith of INlay, and of feloniously
carrying oil one minister's gown, silk, one minis-
ter'.s cassock, ditto, two minister's gowns,- born-
bazeeri, three linen surplices, one black silk scarf,
one tableclOth, five towels, one great-coat.
- _Elizabeth Menzies, otherwise Stewart,. was ac-
cused of re-setting these articles, known them to
be stolen. .

The pannels pleaded Not Guilty.
After a number of witnes,ses had been'examined
for the prosecution
.(the great length of whose
evidence prevents us from detailing it), and after
Mr. Boswell had spoken for the Crown, the diet
was deserted simpliciter against Elie: Menzies. •
Mr. WALKER spoke for the other pannels.
Lord GILLIEs delivered an admirable charge to
the Jury, who returned a verdict, unanimously,
finding James Stewart and Win. M'Arthur gvUty
of the crimes libellecL and they were *both sen-
teuced to be hanged in C4asgow, on Wednesday,
the 11th of November.
M‘. Arthur asserted hiS innocence, :ifter the-sen-
tence, and called God to witness that he spoke
the truth. . -

Pcter Drummon.d, some time tailor in Carriage-
hill, Renfrewshire, was charged with house-break-
ingr, and theft. Ile pleaded not guilty.
An objection to the releVancy was svted by the
'Counsel, and repelled by the Court ; after which
a very long proof was led on the part of the Crown,
The jury were then very ably'addressed 'by Mr.
Boswell 'on 'the part of the Crown, and by.
Mr. Campbell for the paniiel, in d most do-7
quent and ingenious speech ; after which the'
evidence was summed up by Lord AUMADAi,E.
The jury were 'enclosed, and, in about an hour
and a half, returned their verdict, finding, by a
plurality Of voices, the panne' Guilty,.but unani,
thously recommending him to mercy.
FRIDAY, OCT. 9.---Pcier Drwtozond was brought
`to the bur to receive judgment. Both Judges de=
livered their, opinions upon the case ; and before
pronouncing sentence, Lord AIIMAD/ LE. addressed
the pannel in a very impressive manner. ,His Lord-
' ship then read the sentence of the
,‘Court, ordain-
lug the pound to be executed here on Wednesday,
the 18th of isTovember.
This finished the business of the Western Cir.--
611 k, there bring appeals to bring before their
Enmsiling