Star.
London, England, 1820-01-20 00:00:00

TENANT OF PERTHSHIRE.

" May it please your Grace—We, the undertlgned
ti%e Weavers, belonging to the City of Perth, now employo
trenching and improving waste lands, beg leave to
your Grace with sentimental of the profoundest
respect, for the purpose of expressing our sincere
merits to your Grace, and to the other Noblemer. and
men of this County, who, at a time when we are exposed
most severe and unexampled privations, have so
come forward to alleviate our sufferings and contri,
relief. While we cannot but deeply lament the present
state of trade, and the long train of domestic hat
occasioned in our condition, it is to us a source of-muc,
lation that our distresses have excited the compassion
more opulent classes in the community; and that thong:
have by no means been entirely removed by their humane
Lions, they have, at least, been so far mitigated, as
dereti less pressing and insupportable.
" Persuaded that murmuring and discontent, accom,
by riotous and disorderly proceedings, could only aggral
evils we deplore, we have all along endealioured to O
misfortunes with the submissive patience that becomes
men and as Christians : abstaining from all political discus
and resting In the hope that the Government of our
would devise such measures, as in its wisdom might
calculated to revive the national industry, open up new
of commerce, and restore to a suffering people those
which are tho fruits of honest labour and regular empl,
Above all, we consider it to be our duty, on the present
lion, to express our utter abhorrence at the dissemination
prophane and blasphemous publications, the obvious •
and design of which is to subvert the influence of our
ligion, and by weakening the obligations of morality,
those sacred bonds, without which human society
exist nor be an object of desire.
" We conclude, may it please your Grace, by expressing
unfeigned gratitude for your goodness, requesting, at
time, that your Grace would be pleased to convey to
Noblemen and Gentlemen of this County, who have contribi
to our relief, our sincere and heartfelt thanks for ,
and attention. Indeed, we find it impossible to express,,
quate language, our feelings; but we trust your Gran
I be the less disposed to believe, that while we have t!
appreciate the value of all that your Grace and the other
men and Gentlemen of the County have done for us,
hearts that will remember, and principles that will not
to abuse your Grace's confidence : And we further beg
assure your Grace, that whatever may be the Issue
circt.mstances, nothing shall ever efface from our
the grateful remembrance of your kindness, and of the
concern which your Grace has, at all times, manifested
,suffering condition. "We have the honour to be,
" May it please your
" Your Grace's very obedient and greatly obliged .
" GEORGE PENNY, Preses.
" ALEX. ROBEWPSON,
(Signed) " DAVID TAYLOR,
" JOHN RAMSAY, .•
" JOHN MITCHELL, Committee.
" J. WHYTOCIL"
Thee follow the other signatwest amounting
abous her luaidted Led fifer.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARE

EDINBURGH, JANUARY 17.

This morning the Court met, in ordei to proceed
to the trial of Andrew Marshall and Margaret Wright,
his wife, of Glasgow, accused of vending blasphe-
mous and seditious pamphlets. el their names being
c.111,:d, they tailed to appear, and sentence of out-
lawry was passed against them in the usual form.
'll.e Loeb AnvocATE then prayed for a warrant
v) app bend the abave persons, and bring them
be re th Court for trial. His Lordship stated,
t:lt 11/1 this case gone to a proof, he would have
Produced a document, consisting of an account cur-1
ielt between Andrew Marshall and the publisher of
vali•.rais seditious and blasphemous publications, cc--
cupyin?., no less than 1t folin pages, and shewin4- that
Y. wards of 16.000 copies of the pamphlets had been
7:.ceived by Marshall, circulation in Glasgow.—
ach was the low price of these publications, that the
amount did not much exceed the sum of El 00,
chewed that they were merely intended for the
~.‘ry lowest orders of the people.—llis Lordship fur-
ther observed, that die knowledge of such transac-
ti:ras as these must convince the most prejudiced that
CI:: public prosecutor il'ad not interfered with the
Press till it had become his imperious duty.

FXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DORNOCII, JAN. 10.

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MEETING OF THE LOVA I, SUTIIERL,4ND
lIL ANDERS.

The Meeting of the Sutherland and Trans-At-
li:r;i: Association (in other words, the removed
Tenants of the Sutherland Estate), which, by the
Requisition which three weeks since appeared in the
London journals, was to be held at Golspie, in
Sotherlandshire, on Tuesday the I•th instant, for the
loyal purpose of offering their services in a military
capacity during these disturbed times, through the
M il qui; of STAFeunn, Lord-Lieutenant, was re-
vented fr.‘rn proceeding to the object of it, by the
local aathetkies of Suthe►land, on the ground that,
under the New Bill, the Meeting • was not legally
c,i;stituted:

Oa Sunday, the 2..1 instant, prrTlamation was
made at the several Varish Churches, by order of
tl:e Sothrlanti Factor, prohibiting the people from
a7tending the Meeting ; and on Monday, the 3d, it
is stated, that a consultation of all the Magistrates
was held at Mr. SUTIMICS residence, Ithives, with
a, much solemnity as if, on the day following, they
expected to meet, instead of a loyal body of High-
larders, eager to evince their attachment to the
Throne. a body- of the Lanew-hire Radicals.
" On Tuesday, the Ith, the Facto, s, Magistrates,
and the puss:. comitatai, wet e in array at the village
of Golsile, and twenty-four Special Constables were
sworn in. About noon, seven hundred fine stout
klighiandcrs as,embled, some of whom had travelled
forty and fifty miles, through the deepest sncsw re-
membered here, with the intention of making a duti-
ful tender of their services, who appeared in utter
asto:.ishment when they saw the preparation made to
up,i;ose them, and were told that the Meeting should
not take place. About a quarter past one, the New
Act was read, and the Meeting formally prohibited;
in a few minutes after which, the gallant fellows dis-
persed in the greatest quietness and good order, to
the sound of two pipes playing martial pibrochs, and
among them, their favourite air of the " Gathering
of the Suiherlands," but greatly mortified that their
services v:ere not accepted, and their names enrolled,
and declaring, that though then disappointed, nothing
should prevent them from offering their services, in
such disturbed times.

Mr. DUDGEON, the Secretary of the Association,
had proceeded as far as Dornoch, the county town,
ignorant of the array, to attend the Meeting, .when
he had several private notices that if he appeared at
Golspie, he would be taken into custody ; in conse-
quence of which, with great prudence and propriety,
he returned home, lest any disturbance should result
from his appearing there, at the same time, sending
notice to other Gentlemen who meant to attend to
encourage the Highlanders in coming forward, in
consequence of which precaution, they also did not
attend.—lt was not known in the North, that the
Bill in question was meant to apply in Scotland, to
uny District except those disturbeehones of the West :
at all events, it was not known that the Bill was in
force until they came to the place of Meeting; con.
sequently, they attended not to infringe the Law, but
to stand by the Law and the Throne.
" One would suppose, that a loyal body of men,
who had come from the extremities of the County in
such weather, for a purpose in itself so honourable to
them, notwithstanding that they were informed in
the :node of their offers and meeting, would have
been received by the Sutherland Factor and the Ma•
i,i•trates, in such a manner as would stimulate them to
repeat their loyal offer, on another occasion, in a
Mere formal shape; it is, on the contrary, positively
stated by a Gentleman who was present, that orders
had been given to all the innkee,,ers and Whiskey-
Louses in the village, by Mr. author, not to suffer
an of the men to enter them, or to s.rve them
v.ith any refreshment whatever, though they would,
ef course, have paid for the .ame, an order which
the publicans, &c. dare not refuse; by which unne-
,:essary, and, we will add, arbitrary severity, many
ei the poor people, who had come from distant loca-
lites, were much distressed before they could get to
Ilaces of refre,hment.
.; The primary object, however, of the proposed
lkleeting, has been accomplished, which was to prove
to the Public, and especially to the Lord Advocate
f Scotland, who charged them in his place on the
tizi of December, with the poison of Radicalism,
that the loyalty of the Sutherland Highlanders,
t!.o.igh dislocated, is unimpaired ; and we would
:.:ke leave respectfully to ask that Noble Lord, whe-
z:.el, in Scotland, as in England, public-houses al c
!•".i. established for the accommodation of the Public
ti 1 Jige aßci whether every peaceable traveller, wi;o
1...7s Jur what he requires, has not as good a light to
served as the Factor of Sutherland

:•rvcr.il hundreds of stout paupers were ertiployc..l
'r•i day, ur.Lier the direction of the Officers of the
Society, in clearing the ice and snow from
pavements at the west end of the town. These
\\ ere t;istingni,hed by a tin plate badge, heal
slip cf the Society. tied tyon flu it left arm.—
ry. are he allowed food and lid, a day each man,
funds of the Society.