Star.
London, England, 1826-12-19 00:00:00

EDINBURGH, DEC. 13.

Yesterday the fullest Meeting of the Faculty that is re-
Membered was held, for the purpose of choosing a Gen-
tleman to be proposed to the Town Council to succeed
Mar ving,now Lord Newton,in the Professorship of Civil
Law, in the University. Mr. Dooglas Cheape was pro-
posed by Mr. pandas, of Arniston, and seconded by
Mr. IL Forsyth. Mr. Jeffrey proposed Mr. Robert
f 341, which motion was seconded by S:r John Sinclair.
Thete voted for Mr. Cheape 139, and for Mr. Bell 133.
Saturday senn;ght a party of the Members of the
Fafulty of Advocates, to the number of about fifty,
chiefly consisting of the Gentlemen of the Circuit Bar.
gave a dinner, at the Hopetotin Rooms, Edinburgh, to
HEN RI( JORI/BTONII E.g. one of the principal
clerks of the Circuit Court of .lu,s iciary, as a testimony
of their respect for the characser of that Gentleman,'
who hat now been at'ached to that Court for upwards
of fifty years, and wherhas travelled no less than a hun-
dred circuits--Roseat DooDos, Esq. of Arniston, in
the chair; PATRICK RoBIRTSON, Esq, croupier. The
evening was spent in that genuine spirit of mirth and
cordiality, which is well known invariably to charac• •
tes ize the meetings. and to enliven the social intercourse
of the members of that contentious profession.
Tuesday night a widow woman, about 45 years of
age, was found dead in a house in the Grammar School
Wynd, Glasgow. Upon ()peeing her head, the surgeon of
the police establishment found that she had died of apo-
plexy. Dropping down upon a candle which she had
been carrying io her hand, had ignited her clothes,
and burned the body in a shocking manner.
Another instance of wilful fire-raising has occurred
in Ayrshire. This is the third case of the kind in little
More than a month. inc' dwelling-house and byre on
the farm of Whiteridden, about a mile from the village
of Kilbirnie, were consumed to ashes on the morning of
Sunday serinight ; and those who discovered the fire
first attribute it to nothing but the hand of an incendiary.

assisted between said Helena Bligh and her husband,
and the reports which had gained credit respecting the
attentions which were paid to said Helena Bligh by this
deponent and his said late wife; and on this occasion
deponent skewed an affidavit which he had caused to be
prepared, which he had sworn to before the British
demur', and which set forth in the most positive terms,
tfiat previously to the differences which existed between
Said Helena Wig)* and her said husband, and previously
to the period when the said Helena /high was taken
under the protection of said Catherine i'Lle Tyiney
Long Wellesley, deponent had never seen sad Helena
Illigh, except in her own house in the society of her
family, and in
:general public society, and that the
whole contents of such affidavit, deponent now again
swears, were strictly true, and that he was induced to
make such affidavit from a feeling of duty, and thereby
to convince said Thomas Bligh, that no improper or
criminal intercourse had been carried on between said
Helena 13ligh and deponent, and to erase the unfounded
imptessions which had been made oh the mind both of
the public and said Thomas Bligh, respecting his
said wife.
That said affidavit was so far from having been in-
tended to quiet the mind of said late Catherine Pole
ITylney Long Wellesley towards said Helena Wig!), or
Ito convince her of the innocence of said Helena Bligh,
sad induce said Catherine Pole Tylney Long Wellesley
to extend her countenance to her, deponent verily be-
lieves said Catherine Pole Wellesley, till some time
after the residence of said Helena Bligh with said Cathe-
rine Pole Tylney Long Wellesley, was ignorant that
such affidavit had been made by him, deponent, and
which residence under his roof, as deponent bas before
stated, was.expressly discountenanced at first by him. .
That he most positiiely denies that conversation
which said Thomas Bulkeley states took place between
him and deponent, relative to deponent having shewn GUILDHALL.
said affidavit to his said late wife, and also as to the George Garrett and dais Osbartoe were charged with a highway
admission of the connexion then subsisting between de- robber', upon the person of Mr. Gutteridge, the Politic Onager. on
may evening, in at. Paul's Churchyard. Tice complainantponent and said Helena Bligh, and that she was a lewd
stated that be was passing round the much side of the Chareh about
and abandoned woman, ever did take place, but that eight e'dneh, when (morns pushed agatnet.hun, and, at the ea
me
the whole of such statement is totally untrue. itistsint, Garrett marched his Aver watok,wlth two gold seals, from
That it is by no means improbable that said Tho-
his fqb.es Thre prisonersbet me
Ste rited throughfollowed
drL leils ng Head
be e court Into
closel Nat ever
alas Bulkeley might have seen deponent, as " ell as lost sight of them till they were secured in the Old !Chanse.
other Gentlemen, in the bed-room of said Helena Bligh,l lan, a ram, bearing the alarm, stopped the pelsonenti who were
as it is usual, and generally occurs in Italy, and fre-I bawling stop thief mere loudly than any body. Garrett broke away,
quently 'in France, . that Ladies receive morning tisk: bin was *eared a raw Yards fvrtber on, end the watch, Peedeate
ribbon reale were ilsarfnend lyinn the pavement.
in their bedrooms, which, iiffact, answers to the Eng. Therms' Tool,' lad, stated, that he sew the rimier' and two
fish drawing-room ; but deponent denies that said others in Aldersgatameest, snameavring to steal psome bons of bp
Thomas Bulkeley ever addressed him on the impro- from a grocer's door, but be foiled them by giving the shopkeeper
a hint.
and saw
afterwards followed the gang into St. Paul's Mari&
piety of such a visit, or that he remonstrated with him:
on dee gross indecency of his conduct, (and, in fact, thatl pursuit, and kept prisonersrisonee
iemeiit. the
ew ourorseerty. He joined the
were secured,
there was not such indecency of conduct) or that he In his defence, Garrett said Tool wets false-swearing vagabond,
ever attempted, during his residence at Nnplet,to thew, and if his character wnsinquired into, it would be found that he was
either by his conduct or in conversation, that he sus- not soccer
hbwtttif. Osborne seas eiirrrt..-Remanded.
pected that there was any improper intercourse sub.' Was charged bin with robbing hrsanlod7lng7"sithfied
sassing between deponent and said Helena Bligh (and,
his Landiady,.tu
in factahere was not any improper intercourse so subsist BOW-STRERT.
ing) ; but, on the contrary, said Thomas Bulkeley more A young man, named Wm. Darks, was brought before Mr.
than once spoke of 'the treachery and roguery of the Harts yesterday, charged with having robbed his master, Captain
°Krug, oLliceld
upwards.
cautious of plate tad abet property to th amount
Italian character, and advised deponent to be very
cautious in his conduct to said Helena Bligh, lest the one day, about a fortnight since, C'aptah Knox had invited a
friends of her husband might, by bribery, induce the, party to dine with him, and when the guests were assembled, the
servant of said Helena Bligh to forswear himself against prison/sr was sent to ten the cook to put the dinner on the table.—
deponent. . Instead of so doing, however, he Instantly left the house, taking
with him his master's great coat, cloak and watch, and a hat
be-
That this servant had given him, said Thomas Bul- tonging to one of the guests. leaving his Own hat behind him; the
Iceley, a significant nod, at the same time looking to- rest of the property he bad previously removed from the house, to-
wards said Helena Bligh and deponent.; and that said gether with his own boxes. His absence was not perceived for
inquiry
time after tieba:ll left the house, and when it was discovered,
Thomas Bulkeley stated, that from his knowledge of
the Italian character, it was not improbable that this begfualrayalvas•Arplicaft was nude
ma:efterat him, but be
eon wtheas snoulvile.hetereantdo
man might then be hired by those who were hostile to Bend, sea. an active cater, after ascertaining that the prisoner,
the said Helena Bligb, to watch her and swear falsely when he left his master's house, proceeded to a coach office, from
whence he started the same evening on a Bristol coach, punned him
against her ;and that, ere he left her service, it would' to Bristol, and apprehended him uhf day after his arrival there,
be prudent for her to take him before the police and drinking in a public-house with his wife and two infant children
have his deposition upon oath, as to the conduct of the and his sister; all of whom bad accompanied him in his night from
said Helena Bligh, and thereby prevent her husband,or London. Tart of the property and a great number of pawnbrokers'
other persons, at a future period, from alleging falsely duplicates were found with
r saiddnothing in his defence, than that" he had take',
against her by means of this man's purchased testis, mane prisoner
mony. That in consequence of this Statement the be was remanded for furthertoexanp* tlownaonraYsineshidsaournte.y,' anti