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EDINBURGH.

HIGH C IJRT OP,;USTIGIARY, AUGUST 27.
This day came ortthe trial of John Cameron, ship-
carnenter in Leith, accused of the murder of his wife.
—The Prisoitesepleadect Not guilty, and .the fellow-
ing witnesses were examined
Mary Robertson lived in the same house with the
prisoner. On the night when the prisoner's wife
died,- witness was awaked, between one and two
o'clock in the morning, by the cries of a person in
gre.‘t distress, and a noise resembling struggling and
fighting ; after this subsided, witness heard smothered
groans. After hearing the cries, but before the
Fe- ins. witness was sensible of a smell of burning,
which led her to open the window and look out, when
she ascertained that others of the neighbours had
also been alarmed. Witness heard the other persons
who were alarmed knock very loud at the door, suffi.
ciently so, in her opinion, to awaken any person who
was asleep, but without any effect, as the door had
to be forced open.
•Yeats Cunningham was in the house of John Mac-
Nincli on the evening of the deceased's death, along
with several other people, when they were alarmed,
about two o'clock in the morning, with a cry of fire
in the prisoner's house. On arriving there, several
loud knocks were made at the door, after which wit-
ness broke a pane of glass in the window, through
which he saw fire on the floor. Witness had lived in
the same house for eleven years, and knew there was
a division wall between the kitchen and room. On
the knocking not being heard, the door was broken
open, which caused a great noise, and this was in-
creased by the witness running against a partition al-
t.r he had got into the house. Witness then pro-
ceeded towards the fire-place, in which there was no
fire, nor had there been any for some time, neither
was there any light in the place, which was full of
smoke. Candles were then procured, when the body
of the deceased was found near the kitchen grate,
with the left elbow leaning on a chair, and the right
resting on the floor, her head inclining downwards
towards the outer partition, but not touching it. A
candlestick was found near the body, but no candle
in it. There was a p.ece of tobacco, with a bit
broken off ielying on the floor, with an empty bottle,
which might hold about three gills, standing on a
table. The body was Ivry much burned, and the
clothes were all consumed except a small bit of the
cap, gown, and boddice, but the stockings were en-
tire. Witness being much agitated, sat down on a
eh lir on which a man's clothes lay, from which be
inferred that some person was in the house ; and on
the room-doer, which was shut, being opened, the
prisoner was discovered in bed, along with his child.
On taking the clothes off him, he turned round, and
asked what was wanted ? No direct answer was re-
turned, the prisoner being merely desired to lie still.
He accordingly laid his head down on the pillow,
hut shortly afterwards- arose, and asked how they
came to break open his door without a warrant, and
that he would make them answer for it. Witness told
him that fire had been seen in his house, and that a
constable had been applied to in consequence, who
had authorized the whole procedure. Prisoner was
then taken into custody by soldiers ; he never made
any inquiry as to his wife, nor asked to see her body.
Witness examined the body particularly, but saw no
marks of violence upon it, although it was so much
bums that he hardly knew it again.
John M4lsfinch corroborated the preceding witness's
testimony. He also added, that on raising the pri-
soner out of his bed, Allan M'Donald, another wit-
ness, who was present, asked him what was become
of his wife ? On which he answered, 44 She is with
one of her neighbours taking a smoke." M'Donald
replied, 44 I doubt you have given her an infernal
smoke ;" he then laid himself quietly down upon his
pillow. None of the persons present told the prisoner
what had happened as to his wife. Witness commu-
nicated to the deceased's father what had happened,
who, on his coming to the house, said to the prisoner,
44 John, John, what is this you have been doing
long-looked for come at last. You have often at-
tempted it, and now you have done it." On which
the prisoner asked, 4, What is it ? what is it ? I know
nothing about it." And on being told the child's
clothes were not to be found, he said, 4‘ 0, I suppose
they'll have been burnt too."
- Esther M'Pherson lived immediately under the
house occupied by the deceased. On the night of her
death witness had a sick child, which she was attend.
ing, until two o'clock. During that time she heard
Cameron's child awake, and Cameron himself trying
to pacify it. In about ten minutes afterwards, she
heard a noise in prisoner's house, as of a person walk-
ing backwardsand forwards. She then heard his wife
groaning, but heard na struggling nor fighting, nor
screams. Sometime after this witness's husband was
awakened by the smoke and smell of burning, in con-
sequence of which he went and knocked at Cameron's
door, but no notice having been paid to this, he re.
turned and knocked with a pair of tongs upon the
ceiling, which was single, without any effect.
Archibald Macinnes, overseer of the Wet Docks,
Leith, father of the deceased,deposed that his daughter
and the prisoner had lived on bad terms since Christ-
mas last. The deceased said her husband used her ill ;
and one night in January last, on calling at their house,
• lie found his daughter had a black eye, and marks of
nails on the side of her neck, which she said had been
inflicted by the prisoner. About three weeks after
,is, the deceased came to the witness's house, and
complained very much to his wife of bad usage. On
the night of her death, witness was sent for about three
o'clock in the morning, when he said to Cameron,
yon have done it now, John ;" to which no answer
was given. Both Cameron and the deceased left wit-
ness's house about eight o'clock that evening, after
taking a little brandy, which was drank out of a small
square bottle belonging to Cameron, and which he
carried away with him. He and his wife were per-
fectly sober, and apparently on good terms together.
Elizabeth Baillie, servant to the preceding witness,
recollected of the deceased's coming to her master's
' house on a Monday morning, about one o'clock, and ,
complained that she had been turned out of the house
by her husband. At this time she was crying,. and
s lid she would rather go to service, than stay with a
man whq was like to take her life away. Witness went
home next day with the deceased, when she under-
stood that her husband and she had quarrelled about
ironing a shirt. Another time, when the deceased
• clone to her father's house, her cheeks were all marked

by blows, which she said had been inflicted by .
(husband.
Charles Anderson, surgeon in Leith, was then cal-
led. He deposed that be first saw the deceased about
five o'clock on the morning of her death, when he
found her lying on her left side, with great marks of
burning upon her body, and her cloaths almost all
consumed. Witness could discover no other marks
upon her body but those of binning. He opened the
head and body, but found no symptoms to lead him
to suppose that any external injury had been sustained,
except burning. The stomach bore an evident smell
of spirits; and on examining the throat, there appeared
no marks of strangulation. A certificate, subscribed
by the witness and Dr. Andrew Duncan, jun. was
then read, from which it appeared that they were of
opinion the deceased had died in consequence of burn-
ing, and had not been killed first, and then set fire to.
Dr. Andrew Duncan was examined, and gave evi-
dence to the same effect.
A great number of witnesses were then examined
on the part of the prisoner, who had been acquainted
with him for a series of years, and gave him a very
high character for sobriety, decency, and honesty, and
that he was rather religiously inclined.
Maurice Crawford, clerk to Mr. Freebairn, insur-
ance broker, Leith, was also examined ; he deposed
that the prisoner's first wife was his sister, with whom
he lived very happy that he knew little or nothing
of the deceased, hut having been invited one evening
to Cameron's house, he found the deceased lying in
bed drunk and her husband absent. Had heard the
prisoner say that the deceased used his first wife's
child very ill ; and one night, about 12 o'clock, he
came to witness's house with the child, and told him
that he was obliged to fly his own house, as his wife
wanted to beat it ; he staid all night.
Helen Lyon, a witness cited on the part 'of the
Crown, deposed, that she was servatt with a preced-
ing witness, John Sutherland, at the time the priso-
ner's wife died. Recollected of the deceased coming
into her master's shop that evening, and purchasing
a candle and a halfpenny worth of tobacco. Mrs.
Sutherland was then present, and the deceased having
called for a gill of spirits, she gave a part to the wit-
ness, a part to her mistress, and drank part herself.—
She then got another gill, which was put into a small
green botle, and carried by her up stairs. The de-
ceased had gone away without taking her candle
with her ; witness went up with it, when she said she
had been trying to light her fire, but was afraid she
could not do it. At this time the bed-room door was
shut, and the prisoner, as witness supposed, in bed
with his child ; the deceased came down afterwards
to her master's shop, and lighted the candle. This
was a little past eleven o'clock, when the witness went
to bed, after which she heard some groans, but no
screams. The deceased was dressed in a blue cotton
gown when the came for the spirits, &c.
Tuesday, the Jury returned a verdict in the above
case, all in one voice finding
.the libel Not proven ;
and after a suitable exhortation from the LORD Jus-
TICE CLERK, the prisoner was dismissed from the bar.
AUGUST 28.—This day came on before the Court
the trial of James Inglis, private soldier in the Edin-
burgh Militia, charged with the wilful murder of Si-
mon Simonson, a 'Danish prisoner at Greenlaw, by
firing his musket, upon the 27th of July last. The
prisoner pleaded Not Guilty of murder, and that he
shot Simonson in execution of his duty.
It appeared by the evidence, that the prisoners at
Greenlaw had been for some days, and particularly
upon the day stated in the libel, very riotous and dis-
orderly, and had frequently pelted the sentinels with
stones, pieces of wood, bones, &c. from the window
of the house—that several of the soldiers had been
struck with these, and had not only complained to
the officer and serjeant of the guard, but had threat-
ened to fire into the house upon the prisoners, if the
throwing was continued—that Inglis, upon the even-
ing of the 27th, was posted upon the south-side of the
house, without the pallisade, and the sentinels to the
right and left of him heard him repeatedly call to the
prisoners to keep back from the windows—that he
complained to the keeper of the prison that he could
not stand upon his post, for stones, bones, and sticks,
thrown at him by the prisoners ; that the jailor went
into the prison to challenge the prisoners, and put them
upon their guard ; that when in the act of doing so
Inglis fired in through the windows of the stair-case
of the third flat, by which the deceased was mortally
wounded. It was declared by the officers comman-
ding the detachment, and the serjeants, that frequent
complaints had been made to them by the men, of
being annoyed by the prisoners, and that they took
every step in their power to prevent it, and find out
the persons offending, but that strict orders were
given not to fire upon such occasions, but to call the
serjeant of the guard—(it did not appear that the
prisoner had been informed of this order) and that by
the general orders read to the detachment, a sentinel
was entitled to fire when the prisoners were escaping,
or attempting to escape. It was sworn by one of the
prisoners, that he and the deceased were standing
quietly together, conversing at the window, and that
they neither spoke nor threw at the sentinels. Inglis,
in his declaration, admitted he had not called the ser-
jeant of the guard, nor received orders to fire, but
that he was severely pelted by the prisoners from the
stair-case window of the third flat ; that he repeatedly
called to them to keep back from the window ; that
they laughed at him, and said he had no ball in his
piece ; that he cocked and presented, but not wishing
to fire, recovered his arms; and that it was not till
after repeated insults that he at last fired, and that ha
considered himself entitled to do so, being insulted
on his post.
Inglis is a young man,- about 20 years of age, and
had not been full twelve months a soldier ; and his
Captain gave him the character of a steady quiet man.
The Jury found a verdict of culpable homicide, and
he was sentenced to be transported beyond seas for
14 years.
AUGUST 29.—This day came on the trial of David
Fraser, porter in Leith, and Robert lifossman, carter,
Grassmarket, Edinburgh, charged with breaking
into the warehouse of John Anderini, merchant in
Leith, on the 10th of July, and stealinKthertfrom 20
buffalo hides, and 12 tanned smaller hides, and five
boxes of raisins, the property of the said John Ander-
son. The prisoners pleaded Not Guilty.
John Anderson, merchant in Leith, said, hl ware
house is in Mitchell-street. On the 10th inly,le em-
ployed David Fraser as a porter, and sent him with
some goods to the shore ; but did not see 114-n till next
day, when he paid and dismissed him. Son after

missed twenty-buffalo hides; and foiti-one
'nod skins, 'and five boxes of raisins; And'indit
bar removed from a window, be suspected his ware-
house was robbed. On the 13th, he received a letter
from Mr. Elder, tanner in Dalkeith, stating that he
had seized some hides, which he suspected were
stolen. He went to Dalkeith, and found the hides
were his property ; but, there was not se many as had
been stolen from him. He said. that Fraser was em-
ployed, on the day before the robbery, in carting buf-
falo bides ; that he (Fraser) engaged not a Leith hut
an Edinburgh carter, whom he believes to be the pri-
soner, Mossman. Fraser was is the warehouse for
some time by himself, and had a full opportunity of
seeing where the hides were, 'which were weighed
and laid aside for a purchaser, and laid on the floor.
Witness carries on business under the firm of James
Anderson and Co.
William Waddell, carter in Edinburgh, went to
Dalkeith, in company with Fraser, where the hides
were offered for sale to Mr. Elder, who refused to
buy them as he suspected they were stolen. They
soon left Dalkeith, with the hides, for Edinburgh, and
stopped at a public-house to get some refreshment,
when they were overtaken by a man from Mr. Elder,
who wished him to return to Dalkeith, which he did,
and the hides were counted and delivered to Mr. El-
der. Fraser did not return to Dalkeith.
James Elder, tanner in Dalkeith, corroborated the
above.
Abraham Forrest, grocer, Grassmarket, remem-
bered buying a box of raisins frOm Fraser, at 6id. per
pound, which he thinks was a fair price. The raisins,
were afterwards taken away by a Sheriff officer.
David Allan, grocer, in Pleasance, remembers
Waddell, the preceding witness, bringing the prisoners
to his house, from whom he bought four boxes of rai-
sins, for which he paid 40s. which Fraser put into
his pocket. The raisins were afterwards taken from
his shop by a Sheriff officer.
The Jury returned a verdict, unanimously finding
the prisoner Fraser Guilty ; and also finding, by a
plurality of voices, the prisoner Mossman Guilty.
. Mr. WOOD, Counsel for the prisoner, moved ain ar-
rest of judgment, on the ground that the libel speci-
fied the articles stolen belonging to John Anderson,
whereas the firm of the Company was James Ander-
son and Co. The Court delayed the consideration of
this point till the Ist of November next.

Bow•STßEET.—Yesterday the driver of one of the
Greenwich stage-coaches was charged under the late
Stage Coach Act, for abuse to his fare. Stafford
Squire Baxter, Esq. said, that on the 23d instant, he
and four other Gentlemen came to London from
Greenwich, in one of the stages driven by the de-
fendant ; they agreed to give him 12s. for the whole
of them, if he would put them down at the Obelisk in
Fleet-street ; that when they came to the Obelisk in
St. George's Fields, three of the Gentlemen got out,
as the defendant refused to go to Fleet-street ; and
when he and the other Gentleman got out at Charing
Cross, the prosecutor paid him half-a-guinea, upon
which the defendant demanded 12s. and abused them
with very violent language, calling them •' bilks,"
and when they left him, he hooted after them,
whereby a mob was collected about them ; the de-
fenalant refused to give his name. The defendant
admitted that he said they were no gentlemen for bilk-
ing a coachman.—He was convicted in the penalty
of Forty shillings.
A constable belonging to the parish of St. Mar-
tin's in the Fields, was brought to the office, charged
with letting escape from his custody, Jane Perryman,
whom he had in custody, on a charge of felony.—
Mary Bloomfield said, that on Sunday se'nnight she
arrived in town by the Bath and Exeter Mail, and
left her bundle of clothes at the Wheat-Sheaf public-
house, in Holyveell-street ; that when she went for
her bundle the same evening, she was informed it
had been taken away by the young woman (Jane
Perryman), who came with her to the house by the
coach.-1 homes Rawlinson, the coachman, who
drove the prosecutrix and Jane Perryman to town,
said, on learning at the ;Wheat-Sheaf public-house, of
the robbery, and meeting
.with Jane Perryman, he se-
cured her, and gave her into the custody of the pri.
soner. The prisoner, in his defence, said, that as he
was conveying the prisoner to the watch-house, she
made her escape in St. Martin's-lane.—He was or-
dered to find bail for the offence.
Ann Farrell was charged with stealing a large sil-
ver watch, the property of a man whom she met in
the street, and who went with her to a house in La-
zenby-court. The watch, seal, two keys, and ribbon,
were found on her person.—The prisoner was com-
mitted for further examination.

ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
,_

The Rev. George Cox, A. M. is presented to the Rectory of
St. Michael's Church, in Kingsgate-street, Winchester, on the
resignation of the Rev. '1 bomas Watkins, A. M
The Presbytery of Edinburgh have appointed the Rev. Dr.
Andrew Grant, one of the ministers of Canongate, to be minister
of the College Church, in room of Dr. Macknight, removed to
the Old Church.

BIRTHS. •
August 31, Mrs. Simpkinson, wife of the Rev. James Simpkin-
son, of a daughter.
August t 4, the Lady of
son.

M'Murdo, of a

MARRIED.

August 22, Mr. Samuel Isaac Tobias, of London, to Miss So-
phia, eldest daughter of Dr. Solomon, of Gilead 'louse, near Li-
verpool.

DIED. '
Monday morning, at five o'clock, at his house in Old Burling-
ton-street, the Hon. E. Bouverte, M. P. for Northampton, uncle
to the Earl of Radnor.
On Friday, at 'Twickenham, Mr. George Newport, of Gray's
lnn-lane.

At Dumfries, on the 24th ult. Mr. Wm. Brand, Teller in the
Baok of Scotland's Office there.
At Inverness, on the 21st ult. Simon Fraser, Esq. of Farraline,
Sheriff Depute of Inverness-shire.
Sunday se'nnight, at Portsmouth, Lieutenant Lovell, of his
Majesty's ship Puissant.
Suddenly, on Friday last, at his house at Chingford Hatch,
William Bell, Esq.
At Comber, in Ireland, Rollo Gillespie, Esq. formerly a Cap-
tain in his Majesty's 17th regiment of foot.
On the 30th ult. at his farm, near Bishopsbourn, Thomas
Parker, Esq. Mayor of Canterbury.
Friday Mrs. Grooby, wife of Charles Crooby, of Chapel-street,
Grosvenor-square.
Wednesday the 22d of August, Mr. Chalmers, a comedian of
long-established provincial celebrity, was found speechless at the
door of a house in the City of Worcester, and died shortly after-
wards in the infirmary. It was supposed that he fell down In a
fit of apoplexy, and broke a blood-vessel in his head.
August ItS, at Maidstone, aged three years, Charles, son of '
Mr. Dering Addison. His death was occasioned by hii going
after a play-gun into some hot ashes, produced from the burning
of,tanners' turf, which scorched him in so shocking a manner as
' to occasion his death on the ensuing day.