Star.
London, England, 1804-09-28 00:00:00

CIRCUIT INTELLIGEATCE.

INVEILABAY, SPPT. 2 t.—The Circuit Court of Jot.
ticiary was opened At EVA, place, upon Monday the
17th intl. by the Right H:m. Lord Cut LEN.
The firli cafe that came befdre the Court was an
indiehrient agalriff
.70/11 Mc Fn.., Ardilahl RaiY;y,
iircALLld M‘Dougall, Roleri.7,l S a. , Katberi,o. Camp-
bell, Ar,n Camitell, and .41e:carder M'Kriaeb nr Darro:h,
all residing mum the eilate of Archibald Campbell,
Ertl. proprietor of the itland of Jura, accufed of com-
mitting depredatic-ns upon the cargo of a_vetfel from
the Well Indies that was wrecked lately among({ the
fnrall lilts of Jura, and of afraid:Mg the matter of the
veal. Archibald M.Dougall, ttr.derick Shaw, Ka-
tharine Campbell, and Ann Campbell, were outlaw.
edifor not appearing, and the trial proceeded as to
the other three. The evidetice was flIMMed up on
the part of the Crowt) by Mr. Davin Bort', Advo-
cate Depute, and on the part of the prifoners by Mr.
ROBERT CAMPBELL, Advocate; and Lord CULLFN
having chatged the Jury, they were enclofed at eight
o'clock in the evening. Nezt morning a verdi& was
returned. finding the libel not proven againff Archi-
bald Rarnlay and Alexander M'Krioch or Darroch,
nor againff John M'Fee the other prifoner, fo far as
regarded Iris abaraeling any part of the cargo, but
finding it proven that he behaved in a very improper
manner to the mallet of the veffel when endeavour-
ing to 'proteEl the property of his owners. The court
found that the verditit was conceived in fuch terms
refpeeting *Fee as not to find the pilloner guilty of
any of the crimes charged in the libel, and that there-
tore no punifhment could follow upon it. The whole
three were therefore arfoilzied jimp/Lirer and difmiffed
from-the bar.

The Court next proceeded to the trial of Duncan
Mix fon of Neil MacArthur, retiding at Dail,
in the parifh of South Knapdale, and County of At.
gyle, who was ecctifed of the murder of Elizabeth
MacKinnon., his wife, in the month of October lilt.
The dead body had been found in the morning after
the murder; lying upon the banks of the Crinan Ca-
nal, with the feet in the Canal, and it was fuppofed
.he murder had been perpetrated by flrangulation on
the evening preceding, as the deer:tied was on her
way to the village of Lechelphead, accompanied by
her hutband. Alter a ver;. lo trial, the evidence
on the part of the Crown was fummed up by the Ad.
vocate Deptite, and by Mr. L'Auv, Advocate, on
rhe part of the prifoner. The Jury were charged by
Led Cutts a, a.ret encloled at one o'clock in the
morning ; and at ten o'clock olyetterday retutned a
verdict, all in one voice finding the prifoner guilty of
the murder ; whereupon he,was fenteneed to be fed
on bread and water only, and to be carried to the
place where die murder WAS committed, there to he
hanged upon the 3 r Il of Oanber next, and his body
thereafter to he publicly ditiefted and anatomifed.—
The verdia in this cafe proceeded upon circumftan.
tiate evidence. It was, therefore, a fatisfaaory
that while feveral of the Jurymen and
Islembers of Court remained in town, the Culp: it con•
felled his guilt of tie crime.
- Duncan La npkil, and Neil Cample.'l, and
.7,bn
lagane, were accufed of an affault upon Alexan-
der !doled, and taking from him a pocket book, con-
taining two bills, owing by fume of there perfons„bnt
on acenunt of forre particular circumllance, the diet
was defected fro teen et tempore, and warrant gr anted
for their con:mitt:l%cm, bat on finding bail, they were
lib. rated, cri co fent of the public profecutor.
There was n other bufinels at this place, except
deciding in an appeal from the Civil Court.
Gt ASCOW, Sr Pr. 2.1 —The Circuit Com t of Jrati•
ciary was opened here on Saturday by the Right Hon.
the Lord Cu L lAN, when the Court proceeded to the
trial of Alexander Colquhoun, carter in Cemlachic,
indicted at the inlience of his Islejcfly's Adr,.cate,fr
having occationed the death of Hugh Tagar t, an iii
firm old pauper, by driving his cart over him on the
public road, a little to the call of the Gellowgate toll-
bar. The libel being repelled to culpable homicide,
and the cafe having been opened for the prifoner hl his
Connie), the Advi-cate D:pute proceeded to adduce
evidence in (import of the charge. The milonei's
conflict having then ex mined leveret witneifes in ex-
culpation, the Jury was charged by Mr. Buyer, Ad•
vocate Depute, on the part of the Crown, and on
that of the prifoner by Mr. THOMAS H. %IILLER,
Advocate. His Lordihip having Curtailed up the
evidence, the Jury were enclored. and directed to re.
turn their verdict this day at ten o'cock.
The Court met this morning, purfurint to adjourn-
ment, when the Jury empannelled on Saturday re-
turned their vitt, a, finding, by 4 plurality of voices,
Colquhoun guilt) of culpable homicide.

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A Company of Comediasis which lately arriv:d
at Jetfey, in their i afrage were clofely chafed by
French
piitratecr. In this (late of peril the whole
Drafrectir Prrijimx !hewed the moll determined refalit-
lion to &fall thenifelves, one mock heroine only cx
copied, who was for an immediate furrender, alfedg
ing fhe had noti:ttg worth defending.

TOOKILROW ui l be the Second Day of Drawing.
And it i% tan atiothle that, .n tl.e tame Day t.t. lAA
Vear, HOANSSV and Co. had the plealutc 011i:116y,
in Shares., No. 535• which was drawn a 'fault)
"fhouland Pound Prize.

A RICH WHEEL.
'flow Psis• aof 'Ewenty houfand Pounds.
Two Prize• of I'm '1 h..uftnd Pounds.
Three hit s of Five •fhouffrt Pounds.
live Trios of One Thnufinsl founds.
Elabt his • of Vise Itundrsd Pounds. &e. &c Ike.
N. B. Tickets and Shares arc felling, w attanted
undrawn, at tiortm sax and Co.'s, 16. Cornliiii.
STILT' I..ITSRY, FIRST DAV.—The Velet, No.
5x At hill drawn. entitled to Oss Ti, OUSAS
Potimot. and No. ptic, drawn the fame morning a
PVie THIII.“A%D 13ov wm, nerd both (old in
Shares, at Mi. Ili.. I 1.1 / ARC), BUNN r, and Co.'s Oilier,
Royal Exchange i—the former in two (tarter,. two
Eighths, and four Sisteen)is, and the Ten Ilvidar.sl
Pounds, in one Foutili, three Eighths, and fitt.c-
t.:ettlisi.—TO-1110t To* will be the Second Da! of
Drawing

STATE OP THE WI !rm.
of Fwenty ThottrA.,l
.1.••• tf '1 ho Pcsuit,
Inc I It. .al.itu.l
F. r 4)..c lir •.11url 1.1.4..11,14. etc &e.
►tS'.t.4i ►RICE of 714:KITS ANU SHARES

1 kit.? r.
- 91. Sa. I 1 itivta - 11 $..
.ortt, 4 ts. er..l. tl .11.

to Draw.