The Sun.
London, England, 1820-08-03 00:00:00

HIGH TREASON-SPECIAL COMMISSION.

AIICR,JU.LY 29,--The Court Was opened here
to-day, for the_ purpose of arraigning the pri-
soners against whom true bills, charging high
treason, were -formerly found by the Grand Jury.
The Judges present were the Loan JUSTICE
CLERK and LORD CHIEF BARON. The list of.
the Grand Jury was called over, and the • follow-
ing prisoners were 'placed at the.bar :
Froth the parish of -Mauchline, John Blade
and ; Hugh -Wallace; and from -.the parish of
Stewarton, Andrew Wyllie and .Thomas.Mackay.
These prisoners respectively pleaded Not Guiltg,
and' demanded' tO•-be' tried-"by God and their
country.
Mr. J. P: GE-ANT And Mr. SANDFORD were,. at
the. request of the prisoners, assigned as their
Counsel, in place of the -G'entlernen formerly sug-
gested. It was intimated from the bench, that the
trials in this place will commence on Wednesday
the 9th of August. -

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There appeared for the prosecution the Crown
Counsel; and Mr. ARXOTT as agent.
Mr. Serjeant HULLOCK set out from Dumbar-
ton on his return to England.
The Court sitsfor trials on Tuesday at Pais-
ley, and on Friday at Stirling.

The LORD ADVOCATE, with that distinguished
forbearance and humanity which he has exhibited
in the conduct of the late prosecutions, has libe-
rated, without bringing to trial, the seven persons
from Greenock, who were confined in Dumbar-
ton Castle on a charge of aiding in the breaking
open of the jail of Greenock, on the Bth April
last.

When. Messrs. GRANT and SANDFORD were
returning to the Elephant Inn, Dumbarton, after
the trials there on Thursday, they were cheered
the whole way by the crowd in the street, and
-an Irish woman stepped forward in high spirits,
curtsied to them, and exclaimed, " God bless
and prosper your Honours for what you have done
for these poor boys to-day."

. SCOTCH
.SEQUESTRATIONS.
• EXAMINATIONS, DIVIDENDS, &C.
James Rodger, merchant, Greenock, to be examined in the
tilieriff.Clerk's othceAllere, 12th and.2tith August, at 12.
James Ferguson and Co. drysalters, Glasgow, to be exa-
mined in the Sheriff Clerk's Chambers there, 15th and 29th
August, at 1.
Robert I-Taswell, merchant,. Glasgow, to be examined.in the
Slieriff•cleth's Office there, 10th and 24th August-, at 12.
Geddes and David Page and CO. merchants, Edinburgh, to
he examined in,the Sheriff's Office there, 15th and 2,9 th Au-
gust, at V.
Creditors of Stephen Cotton, china and earthenware mer-
chant, Glasgow, meet in the office of It. Muir and J. Steven,
writers there, 1 ogu,t, at 2. •
Creditors of Claywhat, meet in Roses
Scutt,
at 2. : • - .
Inn,
ctli,ar of .
Angiis William S h
Creditors of the Merchant Banking Company of Stirling
will receive a dividend from the trustee, Ist September.

DARING ROBBERIES.-011 Tuesday, while the
Procession for opening the Regent's Canal was
proCeeding towards •Limehouse, where the great
basin'is situated, The pickpockets, as. usual on
-such occasions, abounded in-such great numbers
that the constables were afraid :to take them.
An old infirm Gentleman was knocked down,
and robbed of every thing he had about him ;
one of the lock-keepers,' oh jumping from a
barge, was robbed of his watch and money. -One
of the: robbers was taken. A young man re-
turning from. the city,-.stopping to look-at the
'barges entering the locks, had his pocket picked
of a pocket-bOok containing notes to a consider-
able amount
The ruffians went about in..gangs
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of 20 or 302. and sornetime§,morg.4