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HIGHLAND "OCIEIY OF SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, JAN. 16.
. THE Anniversary Getieral Meeting of this So-
ciety, agreeable to the Charter, was held in their
11, South Bridge-street, on Tuesday last, a:
which were present, the • Right Hon. the Earl of
EGLINTOUN, Lord Dotitqc, thf: Loo PRovost of
Edinburgh, LORD CHIEF BARON, the Hon. HENRY
ERSKINE, Sir WILLIAM FoRBES, Sir PATRICK
MURRAY, and Sir GEORGE MACKENZIE, Batts.
with a very respeetable attendance of other Mem-
bers, to the number of about one hundred, 4mong
whom were several military men of rank, Gentle-
men of the Law, and many others of the most con-
siderable proprietors in the country. The Earl of
EGLINTOUN, first Vice-President in office, having
taken the Chair, the Society proceeded to ballot for
new Members, when the following were duly ad-
mitted (44. in number) their names ordered to be re-
corded, and public notification of their eleaion
given, viz.
Right Hon. Lord Montgomery.
William Fullerton, Esq. of Rosemount.
Henry Stewart, Esq. of Allantoun.
Jame:: Graham, Esq of Kinross.
Col. Alexander Mackenzie, Commandant of 78th Regiment.
Hugh Innes, Esq. of Lochalsh.
Duncan Monro, Esq. of Culcairn.
Lieut. Col. John Russ, at Castlecraig.
William Rae, Esq. Advocate, Sheriff of Orkney.
George Joseph Bell, Esq. Advocate.
William Fraser Tytler, Esq, younger of Woodhouselae,Ad-

testimony of the Society's high esteem and grati.
tude to the Memory of that gallant hero Sir Ralph
Abercrornhy, the Commander in Chief of that Ar-
my,. who fell so gloriously in the cause of his coun-
try, a Member, and one of the Vice Presidents of
the Society, at the period of his death ; which was
unanimously agreed to, and recommended to the
Secretary to have this done in a proper manner, and
to intimate to the Commanding Officer of the 42d
Regiment, the Vote of the Society.
The Secretary reported to the Meeting, that he
had written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
and Mr. Vansittart, Secretary to the Treasury,
agreeable to the Resolutions -of the last General
Meeting, and had been horibared in return, with
.very polite letters from both these Gentlemen, now
on the table, and that he had also several commu-
nications from the Great Dublin Society, and Ge-
neral Vallency, its Vice President, and moved, that
the thanks of this Meeting should be voted to that
respectable Gentleman, who slimed every mark of
attention to the views of this Institution ; which
was unanimously agreed to, and the Secretary
retied to communicate the same accordingly.

Among other articles of business referred to the
Dire& )rs for consideration, was a very sensible
letter from Mr. Baron Hepburn, to the Secretary,
on the subjed of Winter Feeding and Green Crops,
and other communications.

The Society afterwards proceeded to the EleEtion
of President, Vice-Presidents, and other Officers,
for the current year, when
His Grace,the Duke Of Argyle was re-ele&ed President.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon.
Right Hon. the Earl of Dumtries.
Right Hon. Lord Dundas.
•
Right Hon. Lord Macdonald.

Thereafter a large party of the Members attended
the Anniversary Dinner. The Earl of Eglintoun,
Vice President, in the Chair, when many loyal and
patriotic toasts were given, and the evening spent
with great good humour and festivity.

COUNTRY NEWS.

LEICASTER, JAN. 16.

At our Borough Sessions last Monday, John
URderwood, taylor, of Southgate-street, pleaded
guilty to a bill of indiftment, charging him with
having violently assaulted James Roe, his appren-
tice ; it appeared that this poor. boy, who is only
between nine and ten years old, was apprenticed by
the Parish Officers of Tur Langton, in this county,
to 'Underwood, about, Midsummer last, and that a
premium of zol. was giveß, with him; that a few
weeks before Michaelmas, 'the marks of violence
which the boy had received from his master, excit-
ed the compassion of his neighbours, and induced
them to complain to the Magistrates at the Ex-
change, who immediately issued a warrant for his
apprehension ; and on his appearance, ordered him
to refund the whole of the premium he had receiv-
ed, compelled him to find sureties for answering the
complaint at the next Sessions, and bound the Over-
seers of the Poor 4f St. Mary's Parish (in which the
boy had gained a settlement) in a recognizance to
prosecute. The indiftment was found at the fol-
lowing Michaelmas Session ; and, fortunately for
the prosecution, the wounds and bruises of the boy's
head and face were then so visible, that no ocher
evidence was necessary to excite the indignation of
the Court against his master, or to convince them
of his brutality.
After receiving a suitable admonition from the
Recorder, the Court taking into consideration that
Underwood had already returned the whole pre-
mium, and the expenses of the prosecutica, sen_
tensed him toe imprisoned six months, and to pay
a nominal fine.

FROM THE PORTFOLIO OF THE LATE PROFESSOR

STEWART, MAR. COLL. ABERDEEN•

Co L ts—Sone signs of Its excessiveness, Winter 1739-40 •

UPON Friday Dec.. ;1. 1739, at night, there
came on a pretty keen frost, with the wind at N.W.
Two or three days thereafter the wind came about
to S.E. when I was at Feteresso, and the frost
continued pretty severe all Christmas weelc,; and
on Friday night, being the 28th, there' ire on
snow with severe frost, the wind being-P.-an at
S. E. which still continued in the same quarter.
The frost still grew more severe—and snow fell
from time to time., until the weather turned so- ex-
cessively cold, that it exceeded any thing known
in the memory of man. I came to Aberdeen on
Saturday Dec. 29. from which time the spirit of
wine in the thermometer continued to descend till
Friday Jan. 18. when it was lowest of all, and, in
my thermometer it was got to the lowest division
on the scale, , marked 4.5, being lower than ever I
perceived it, the freezing point being about 28 on
the scale. The-mercury in the barometer, all the
times I observed it, run 'twixt' the divisions 3o
and ioi on Hawk,by's barometer. Upon the night
of the 18th the cold abated, and the weather soft- -I
cned a little ; from that time it was always more
moderate, with a considerable quantity of snow,
'till Feb. r. when the wind got about to N. and
brought on a moderate thaw, which continued se-
veral days without rain, until the snow was almost
all gone against tile 6th. The letters from all parts
of Europe brought the most dismal accounts of the
effeds of the 614, particularly of many people be-
itig frozen to death, especially in England, of which
there were no instances here; but there was no-
thing in our houses could be kept, but .as it were
lumps cf ice, in a day or night's time ; and a re-
markable particular about the fleshes in the
market, Friday t Bth, - was, that they could not
cut so much as a 'piece 'of udder, or flesh Without
bone, but with 3(6i it being all congealed inro
lumps of ice. Brandy exposed to the weather was.
frozen in a few hours ; and a Gentleman informed
me, that, in his Parish, there were several large
standing trees rent from. the root to the cleaving,
as far as he could find to the very middle.—lt was
pretty remarkable, that during this extreme severity
of cold, we had the weather most moderate with

North winds and most •rigtirous with. Southerly
winds. The poor were reluced to great s:rAits
for want of meal, the mills being mostly so frortm
up that they could not be set a-going, and the meal
rose to gid. per peck.

At• the Quarter SessiOns for Northampton on
Tuesday, last, George Muuns and William Munn,
were convicted of having,' with a number of other
persons, riotously assembled in the Butter-market,
on the 3d of (Mabel- last, assaulted William Groom
and Francis. Evans there,, and attempted to take by
force a quantity of butter which they were exposing
to sale. The .Court observed, that the resolute
condu& of the prosecutors, Groom and Evans, were
fortunate circumstances for the Prisoners, who, if
they had succeeded in taking the butter, must have
been capitally convicted of a highway robbery ; and
in consideration of the Prisoners having been in gaol
ever since the offence was committed, sentenced
them to a month's farther imprisonment.

P- Monday, the First of 'March, the English
State-Lottery begins Drawing. Four Prizes of
zo,ooo—Four of to,oool.—Four of s,oool.—Five
of z,cool.—Ten of 1,0001.---Twelve of 5001.
Besides Prizes of tool. Sol. and the lowest Prize
Sl. ; amounting in the whole, to Half a Million
of Money, which must be gained by the Purchasers
of Tickets and Shares in the present Lottery.
Similar Capital Benefits having been repeatedly ob-
tained by the Customers of the old established
fortunate Office, No. 16, Cornhill, opposite the
Bank of England, it is necessary to inform the
Public that a very great variety of Numbers, in
'rickets, Halves, Quarters, Eighths, and Sixteenths,
are on Sale, at the lowest Prices.—These Shares
are all stamped, pursuant to Al of Parliament, and
are signed WILLIAM c HoLsoN.—N. B. Money
for the Prizes as soon as drawn, and Orders nom
the Country, (post-paid), with proper Remittances,
punctually executed.