The Statesman.
London, England, 1821-10-27 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

Entencnou, Orr. 23.--Santriay. Charles %mar-
l', In, present prisoner in the tollbooth of this city, was
I :eyed with an indictment to stand trial before the
fligh Court of Justiciary, os the sth of November,
;or the crime of passing a forged bank bill.
The following prisoners in the gaol of this city
have received indictments to stand trial before the
High Court of Justiciary on the sth and 6th of No-
vember, messed of the following crimes. vis.—Janses
. M.Kay, theft. aad habit and repute a thief; Richard
hlliot and John MlPltees ditto; Adam Orr, house-
breaking and theft; John Smith, housebreaking and
theft, also habit and repute a thief; David Beaton,
honsebreakiag null theft; Donald Mitiensie, theft;
Win. Alexander, hamesucken. •
Yesterday morning a well, dressed man, rather
advanced in life, dropped down at the head of the
West Bow, in a fit of apoplexy, and instantly ex-
pired.
On Saturday evening a young man. having shut
theAhop in which he was employed, soon after retired
to his lodgings. On going into his room next morning
he was found in the attitude of prayer, but a lifeless
corpse
Lately the body of a middle-aged woman was found
on the sea-beach at Caroline Park, whera it had been
left by the receding tide, and was interred (unclaimed)
Cramond church-yard.
On Friday last William Hart, in pursuance of his
sentence. was placed in the pillory in front of th.
Old Jail, Ayr. by the hangman, where be stood
from 11 to 12 o'clock, with the word " Theft" on
a large label upon his breast—he gazed on the as-
sembled multitude with the most careless indiffer-
ence, and seemed qui:e unconcerned at his ignomini-
ous. exaltation.
On Thursday night, in Olasgow, a stranger gentle-
man was accosted by a girl, who asked him to give
her a glass, to which be agreed. She took him into
. a hoes. in the Saltmarket, where they were scarcely
entered till she robbed him of 57/. in Ship Bank
Notes, tied up is a piece of brown paper, and, darting
out of the door, left him in a state easier to he con-
ceived than described. Early next morning he ap-
yrised the Police of the circumstance, and gave a de-
scription of the girl, on which M'Lean and Fraser,
Police-officers, went to the house of a Mrs. Living-
• stone, and after a desperate scuffle, apprehended her
and her daughter Jean, a wall-known character. On
the mother's person they found twenty-five of the
notes, and three on the daughter.
COURSING AND INCRDASE or HARES.—A gentle-
man, residing within a few miles of Aberdeen (Gene-
ralti.) went to the place belonging to him in Buchan,
on Monday the tSth instant, and returned on Sunday
the 14th, having killed 41 bares, all within a mile and
a-half of his house there, without leaving any appa-
rent scarcity of them, from the great numbers that
were daily seen. In the same month and space of
time last year, he only made out 29 with difficulty at
the same place.
Last week, while a gentleman was out hunting in a
field near Cramond bridge, he saw a woodcock. Its ap-
. pearance in this part of the country so early in the sea-

son is very uncommon.
On Saturday morning between 6 and 7 o'clock, a
• brace of partridges. which bad probably been pursued
by a hawk, alighted in the Lawn-market, and were
caught by two young persons near the spot.

MARITIME INTELLIGENCE.
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His Majesty's revenue cutter Mermaid, Lieutenant
Fraser, commander, mired at Berwick on Tuesday,
with the sloop Union, of Ely, which she had picked
up that morning, about 40 miles E. S. E. of the
Staples Island, having been abandoned by the master
and crew.
DAVIS' STRAITS WIIALE FISIIERT.•••••111e success Of
tl:e Dundee ships this year will be of much advantage
to Dundee. Those which arrived on 31onday week
lave the following quantities of oil: Horrs, Jiffers. 14
Sigh, 145 tuns; Advice, Webster, 13 fish, 16U Inns;
Calypso, Thomas, 12 fish, 135 tuns; Three Brothers,
Freeman, 150 tuns; Friendship, Ireland, IS fish, 165
tors ; making, With that formerly arrived, a total of
1450 tuns of oil, which, even at the low price of 201.
per tun, comes to 29,0001. brought by these hardy
adventurers from the "thrilling regions of the thick-,
rii hed ice."
tln Tuesday thellionarch; A. Young, arrived at Mon-
trose from Davis' Straits, with 19 fish ; and Thursday,
the Hero, J. Young, with 14 fish— each supposed to
buil about 160 tuns.
The Cove, Palmer, 16 fish, about 180 tuns, and the
British Queen, Wad's'', eleven fish, about 130 tans, ar-
rived at Shieldscn Wednesday, from Davis's Straits.—
T 1 aCove has been in very high latitudes, as far north
as where. Captain Boss saw so many fish. Immense
quantirs of ice have been met with, mid the Cove was at
times in considerable danger. The fish were not so
se.trce as they were wild.
On Tuesday, the Norfolk, Stephens, of Berwick, ar-
rived, frOin Davis' Straits, with eleven fish, 150 tuns
of oil.
Tile Albion, Crow, of Berwick, from Picton, spoke on
the 13th ult.'off Cape Briton, the ship Mearon of Orange- I
mouth, from Port Glasgow, bound to
.Miramithi, 22
days out, all well; and on the 2'2d tilt, in lat. 46.0. long.
48. 7. W. spoke-the brig John and Mary. of Maryport,
hound to Sediac, out twenty-three days from Liverpool,
all well. •

Lieut. General Count Bertrand, with his wife and
children, landed at Calais on the 19th inst. and imme-
diately continued their route to Paris. We have every
ream to believe, Bailee are well informed in announc-
ing. that this return, another act of clemency, emanat-
ieg from Royal generosity, has been granted to the so-
licitations of a Noble Peer, a relative of the General.
--.l.ermul de Paris.----[Nute—lt is very much to
the credit of Louis XVIII., thus to permit the return
of one who so faithfully adhered to his master Bona-
parte, when so many of his friends had deserted him
in his aeveisity.]
A letttii.froui Finland says 03 the 12th August,
a.dreatiful fire broke out at Fredericksham, which in
the span of sic hours reduced nearly the whole town
to 'sails. Two churabrs, 110 houses, the town-house,.
and seieral public buildings were destroyed : only 10
liotool were saved. .Tliennfortunate iriliabitants have
saved} nothing but their liv#l from,the conflagration.
In the mouth of, Auguei last, nearly 40.000 Ship
pnnnds of bar.ang other iron %ma exported from Stock-
holm, and 1,30 U ship pouuJs of copper.