The Sun.
London, England, 1820-04-14 00:00:00

THE STATE PRISONERS..

The Commissioners appointer} under the Spe-
cial Commission to try the State Prisoners will
proceed ,on Saturday to the Sessions-house, in
Clekkenweli, for the purpose of ..adjourning the
Court, (which, it will be recollected, when it
last met, was appointed to re•assemble on the
15th inst.) to a future day. Their Lordships will
then go on to the Sessions-house in the Old Bai-
ley, where the eleven prisoners against whom
bills of indictment have been found for high
treason-will be arraigned. After their pleas have
been received, the next step will be to ask them,
whet4ter they will cqnjoin in their challenges.
of the Jury, or challenge separately ? If they
agree to challenge collectively, which is ex-
tremely improbable, they will be tried to-
gether but, if they persist in their right to
challenge separately, then they will take their
trials in succession, and Arthur Thistlewood will.
he first put to the bar. The Commission will be
adjourned from Saturday till Monday morning,
when the trials will commence.

Atkins (a witness for the Crown), Symowds,
George, Han, and Firth, against whom no bills
of indictment have been found, will remain in
custody till the Grand Jury shall be discharged.
Firth, who was stated to be seriously indisposed,
in consequence of the alarm which be felt from
the situation in which he was placed, has, since
the bill against hint was ignored by the Grand
Jury, recovered his health, and is now in a state
of convalescence. The whole of the prisoners
live very conitertably, and, with the exception of
the restraint upon their liberty, admit that they
have nut the slightest reason to complain. •

SOCIETY FOR PROPWATING CHRISTIAN KNOW.
LEDGE IN THE HIGHLANDS or SCOTLAND.

Yesterday clic Anniversary of this Institution
was celebrated at the Albion Tavern, Aidersgatc-

street.
At about a quarter past six, his Royal Highness
the Duke of Sustiak, the Lord Mayor, Sir Wm.
Grant and others entered the room, when about
1.50 Gentlemen sat down to an excelleot dinner—
his Royal Highness in the Chair. After the cloth
was removed, Non Nobis Domine was sling by
Messrs: Broadhurst; Taylor and others. The fol-
lowing toasts succeeded, and were severally drank
with three times re e :—."The King, God bless
him"--'1 The Royal Family"-44 The Duke of
York and the Army".---" The Duke of Clarence
and the Navy."
The Duke of Sussex then rose to propose to
the Assembly the memory of an illustrious depart-
ed relative of his, who, he had no doubt, had
himself to them by his exertions in sup-
port of that institution. However much he
might doubt his ability to equal that illustrious
personage, he assured them that his best exer-
tions mould be used to give effect to its 4ject.
To prove his sincerity, lie had, in imitation of
Iris illustrious predecessor, endeavoured to atake
himself master of the subject. His Royal High-
ness then entered into a review of the plan and
nature of the Society, and concluded,. after recom-
mending it to the support of the Assembly, by
giving--" The Memory of the Duke of Kent"—
which was drank in silence.
The thanks of`the Meeting were given to she
Clergy of the Sark of Scotland.—Dr. WFARLANE
returned thanks.
The bealtbs of the Lord Mayor and, Sir Wm.
Grant were next proposed, and drank with three
tinres three, when the latter Gentlemen returned
thanks.
The Corporation of the City of London fol-
lowed; the Loeb MAYOR returned thanks..
00 the health of •the Treasurer and Secretaries
being given, the limner, in returning thanks,
observed, that he had the pleasure to inform the
Meeting, that the coutribotiont of the London
subscription last year amounted to tv,:o hundred
and fifty pounds, and he had great hopes that
the present would produce a greater sum.--
Ele read over the names of the subscribers,
amongst which were, the Duke of Bedford, 20
guineas ; George Watson Taylor, Esq. 10 guineas;
Mrs. Watson Taylor, 10 guineas ; the Earl of
Bredalbane, 10 guineas ; Sir Wm. Grant, three
guineas annually, and a donation of five guineas;
the Lard Mayor, 10 guineas.
The announcement of the subscription was re-
ceived with loud and continued applause.
J.• Thomson, Esq. the Secretary, delivered an
eloquent enlogium on the late Duke of Kent, and
expressed the high sense entertained by the Society
of the advantages that would be derived from the
auspicious patronage of their present illustrious
Chapman: lie returned.thanks an behalf of the
.Society to the Lord Mayor, sir %V. Grant, and the
Vice•Piesident, whose exertions were highly*ap-
precutted. •
The health of the Doke of Sussex was drank
amidst the loudest applause. The everting was
praised in the utmost hatmony.