ne's had given to Nath; there were three fhort. He asked the prifoner f he had any fiver? He po his hand in his pocket, and brought it out full of dollars and other filThe witnefs took from amongst them the dollar he had marked. He asked the defendant if he had much more gold? He fhewed him a bag containing 90 guineas; a fecond, containing a great quantity of halfguineas; and a third with feven fhillings piece. There were feveral empty moneybags in the room. The three other Bank of England notes were produced by Leadbeater; he took them from Caul, with the other Bank dollar. J. Caul fully corroborated the evidence of th laft winefs as to his and Nath's inftructions. When they went first to the houfe of the defendant, they faw his wife.Nafh faid the witnefs was an acquaintance of his, jull come from Holland. She inquired from the witness what he wanted; he replied, in Dutch, a lit gold; the afked who recommended him, in the fame language; he answered Capt. Kayfoll who was gone to Gottenburgh: the fhewed them into a parlour, and fent a boy for the defendant, who shortly made his appearance, and afked nearly the fame queftions his wife had done. He faid he knew Capt Kayfoll The witness told him he hoped he would let him have the gold on the fame terms as Captain Kayfoll The defendant anfwered, he could not: he let him have 900 guineas, at an advance of 18. 3d.; but the price had rofe, and he could not take less than 1s. 6d. advance. The witness told him he must even agree to that for paper would be of no ufe to him in Holland; and he only wanted 50 guineas. The defendant gave him the guineas, and he paid him 561. in notes, and 5s. by a Bank dollar. The defendant told him he must take care how he took them out of the country, for by the law of the land he was not entitled to take more than five. He told him he need not be afraid, for he would wind them round his waift.Nafh faidhe knew a better way than that, for he could few them in a garter and fasten his stockings with them. The defendant's wife faid the knew a better way than either, and asked the witnefs if he did not wear a cufhion in his neck-handkerchief; he anfwered in the affirmative, She brought a piece of flannel, and rolled fome fhillings in it, and faid, "thus you may put your guineas, and when folded in your handkerchief, it will be beyond fufpicion witnefs propofed they fhould have fomething to drink which was tent for. They took a glafs of rum a-piece. The defendant requested that the witness would recommend The fome of his countrymen to him, and, by mentioning his name, it would be a pas port. Nafh and the witnefs were going out of the ftreet door, attended by the defendant and his wife, when they were all fhoved back by Leadbeater and Browne: the de fendant feemed much frightened, and wif pered the witnefs in Durch, to fay, that he did not give more than 11. is. for each guinea. On his cross-examination, he said he gave bank-notes for guineas, and not coin for coin. Leadbeater and Nafh corroborated the evidence of the other two witreffes. Mr Marryatt faid, the exchange was ad mitted; but he had hembly to fubmit to his Lordship, that the indictment could not be maintained. It was founded on an act of Parliament which was nearly obfolete: the act ftated that it was unlawful to exchange gold coin for filver, or filver com for gold, for profit; but not a word was mentioned of bank notes; they could not be contemplated, for they were unknown for many years after; and by the ftatute, the penalty was as great on the purchasee as on the purchafer. Lord Ellenborough-" If you wish, Mr Marryatt, you can fave this point: not that I hold a doubt of its invalidity, but becaule we have a vafl deal to do, and there will be more time to argue it in terms. I have not a doubt but the ftatute was intended for the exchange of the truck of the then present day; but I think it wide enough to admit bank notes, or even grofs goods, if it is a greed to take a certain value over the ftan dard currency." Mr Marryatt-" The only reafon, my Lord, that I should wish to argue the que ftion now is, that the defendant is liable to a fpecific punishment, if found guilty, and the Crown may arreft him." Mr Attorney General-" I will, my Lord, do away with Mr Marryatt's uneafnefs, for I will give my promife the defend. ant shall not be diflurbed, until after his Counfel has an opportunity of moving for a new trial. He is already under bail." Lord Ellenborough-" Gentlemen of the Jury, I am of opinion that the defendant did receive more than he was allowed by the proclamation; and I would recommend that you should find your verdi& as fuch; at the fame time I will wave the point for the defendant; but, don't let it be underflood that I am of opinion that it is not a breach of the ftatute. I would not with it to go abroad, that there was any doubt upon the fubject; for it is a moft injurious traffic." The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. SCOTTISH four or fix feconds, all the flame was fuddenly drawn into the ward with a ruling ON Sunday the 5th Auguft, in the af- noife, together with a denfe column of foot ternoon, there was a ftorm of thunder and lightning at Edinburgh, and a great deal of rain fell, accompanied with hailftones. The flashes of the lightning were very vivid. It lasted upwards of an hour. There had been thunder ftornis in different quarters of the country for fome days previous. At Cakemuir, on Saturday the 4th, a child was killed by the lightning.. Sunday the 5th, between two and three o'clock, the lightning broke upon the thrashing-mill at Springfield, near Mid Calder, which communicating to the offices, the whole were entirely burnt to the ground. A boy, bringing fome horses from watering, had his hat blown off, and was for a few minutes flupified, but sustained no other injury. GLASGOW, Aug. 6.-On Sunday afternoon, we had a great deal of thunder and lightning, accompanied by exceffively heavy rain. About a quarter paft four, the light ning ftruck the top of Lord Nelfon's monument, and, we regret to fay, that it has moft materially injured that elegant ftructure. On the north fide,the column is torn open for more than 20 feet from the top, and feveral of the flones have been thrown down. On the weft fide, the effects of the deftructive fluid are visible in more than one place; and on the fouth fide there is a rent in the column as far down as the head of the pedestal. A number of the ftones are hanging in fuch a threatening pofture, that a military guard has very properly been placed around the monument, to keep at a distance the thoughtless or too daring fpectators. ROYAL INFIRMARY, GLASGOW.-Sunday, near two o'clock, while the phyficians were going their rounds, there was a violent thunder clap, without any perceptible interval between the flash and the ftroke, which feemed to shake the Infirmary. All the chinnies were affected, but particularly the western. The lowest of the womens wards, where the writer of this was, exhibited a very awful appearance. During August 1810. and fmoke, which inftantly filled the 'ward. Fortunately no perfon was hurt; but the patients foreamed aloud, and fuch as could rife ran from their beds. Similar appearplace through the whole houfe, which seems ances, though in different degrees, took to have been enveloped in a thunder cloud, and which probably may have owed its from its roof. This occurrence, and the inprefervation to the quantity of rain flowing jury of Nelfon's monument, fuggeft the propriety of guarding every building, much expofed, by thunder rods, which, when properly conftructed, have never failed to prove a fafeguard. alfo ftruck a houfe of three ftoreys high in The lightning, a little paft four o'clock, Rottenrow Street. In the upper floor, a window was fhivered to pieces in the fecond floor, a kettle, which was on the fire," had its fpout melted off in the ground floor, feveral children and their mother" were fitting at the fire; the children's hair was much finged, and the mother was thrown a confiderable diftance; a hole about an inch diameter was made through the bottom of an oil-lamp, which was ftanding on the chimney piece; the electric matter then went through a stone wall about nine inches thick, and ftruck a tin flagon on the oppofite fide of the room. AYR, August 9-On Saturday laft, we were vifited by one of the most tremendous ftorms of thunder that has occurred here in the inemory of man. About noon, a collection of dark clouds hovered over the town, and fucceffive flashes of lightning, accompanied with awful peals of thunder, continued, with little or no intermiffion, for the fpace of two hours, while the rain fell in fuch torrents as to convert the streets into rivers, and the hollow places of the fields into lakes. A ball of the electric fluid ftruck the houfe of Mr Shaw, and almoft demolifhed a ftack of chimnies, filling fome of the apartments with fmoke and fulphur. From the chimney it defcended along a leaden pipe, till, attracted by a variety of metal metal utenfils, it forced its way into the kitchen, tore a fragment of a ftone from the wall, ftruck a kettle out of the cook's hand, fcorched the foot of a boy in the fcullery, and at last directed its course along a leaden pipe that communicated with the well, where it feems to have been diffipated. A child in the nurse's arms, who feemed within the range of the bolt, and appeared involved amid the fire, fuffered no harm; and many other providential escapes occurred. Another bolt ftruck one of the balufters of the rail in front of Mr Baird's house, broke and scattered a part of the pavement, knocked down a man who was standing under the adjoining archway, rendered another man in a neighbouring house infenfible for a time, and fcorched a woman's arm. Several other perfons received flight injuries, having their faces finged, their eyes affected, or their hands paralyfed. The effects of the ftorm were extensively felt, as we learn, from different quarters. A gentleman in the neighbourhood of Girvan gives the following account "This forenoon (Saturday) was remarkably ferene; but, in a manner inftantaneoufly, the whole firmament became overclouded (at one o'clock P. M.) and threatened fomething alarming. Very foon thereafter, we had a heavy fall of hail, of a large fize, and foon afterwards dreadful peals of thunder, fuch as I never heard in this country, attended with vivid flashes of lightning, which continued about half an hour, and which was fucceeded by a tremendous torrent of rain, which brought down the burns fo rapidly, that they broke out of their channels, and carried away every thing before them. Such a deluge never happened in this quarter; and a great deal of damage must be done in the neighbourhood. I have fuffered a little; but, what alarmed us most, the house being close by a burn, which overflowed its banks, it rushed into it, and in a little the lower apartments were flooded two feet. Luckily we got the torrent from the burn into another direction, and have now got all moftly put to rights. The rain continued violent for two hours, and was a perfect water-fpout. I am in hopes this form has not extended to a great distance, as the clouds appeared to hover over us." KILWINNING, Auguft 4.-This forenoon was uncommonly fultry, the body felt liftlefs, and loaded as it were with its own weight. The wind blew from the east till about three o'clock P. m, when the light ning and thunder began here, the wind then veered into the fouth and weft, in the fhort space of five minutes, rather followed than accompanied by the dark clouds; in the weft it was some time stationary, where the clouds feemed palpable and black; the lightning fhewed itself near the earth, when it darted zig-zag upward into the bosom of the clouds. After ten or a dozen flashes, followed almoft immediately by loud rolling thunder, it changed its place into the north-east, making itself feen and heard at longer and longer intervals; and, in about half an hour after three, the horizon cleared up. During the ftorm, the higher clouds carried from eaft to weft, and very little rain fell at this place, The lightning ftruck two contiguous houfes at the weft end of this town, the roofs of both houses were ftruck near the common gable, and a number of flates on the northweft fide of both were torn off, and the chimney top injured; the lightning entered a chimney of the northmoft house, paffing through an upper room to the door, which was open; at that moment, two ladies were ftanding in the lobby, on the stair head, who obferved diftin&ly the lightning turn the angle of the fide of the door-way, and force its way out an outer back-door at the head of the first flight of the stair, the door being thereby completely torn, and the adjoining wall perforated. A hen, in the rooft, in the court behind the house, near the back-door, was killed. The ladies on the stair-head felt confiderably affected, but foon recovered. In the other or fouthmost house, befides the flates being torn off, as before mentioned, the lightning forced in a piece of the wood or farking, struck and shattered the oppofite fide of the roof, thence paffed into a room inmediately below, entered a fhelved prefs in the wall, making apertures in each shelf till it reached the bottom, crushing to very small pieces a great number of china bowls, cups, crystal, and other empty bottles, fufing different pieces of filver plate. It then threw the prefs door to the floor, fhattering it to pieces; after which it forced its way to a room immediately below, broke fome panes of glafs in the window, and efcaped. It is worthy of remark, that the bottles in the prefs mentioned, which were filled with wine and fpirits, were not broken. A portion of the electric fluid also entered a chimney on the oppofite gable of this houfe, and, paffing into a bed room, fhattered the bed-pofts to pieces. Another portion entered the kitchen chimney in the ga ble ble last mentioned, laid the maid fervant infenfible on the hearth, without injuring any other of the family, feveral of whom were at that moment in the kitchen. The fervant is now quite recovered. Thus providentially none of either of the two families have been materially injured, though all in imminent danger, by being more or lefs in the way of the all-destructive jele ment. The steeple in this place has alfo fuffered by the electric matter on this occafion. A fmall door, about the centre of the building on the fouth fide, was fhattered to pieces; and an oak boom, towards the top of the building, had a large piece splintered off it; and the wall on the eaft fide towards the bottom, bears visible marks of its effects, fome of the ftones being broken, and a rent made in the wall of a confiderable length. dinner; it paffed within a foot of the woman, but fortunately without doing her any injury. It paffed from thence into the fecond floor, rending every thing in its way, and to the first floor, where the chimneypiece was torn away, and a picture rent. It then defcended to the lower part of the houfe, where an old lady received a confiderable fhock, but was not hurt, and paffed to the entrance, fplintering the door in its progrefs. Several of the windows were broken, and the house was much fhaken, and materially damaged. The house has a north-weft afpect.-A houfe in Bowling Street, Westminster, was also ftruck in a fimilar manner, the electric matter entering by the chimnies, and paffing through the floors. A bell-wire was melted, and the door at the entrance was broken. A newspaper, which a perfon was reading at the time, was fet on fire; but the person reading received no injury. A female fervant and a child were hurt, but not dangerowfly. remarkable phenomenon occurred during the ftorm, at Mr Fraser's, botanist, King's Road, Chelsea, behind whofe house, in a fouthern exposure, the hail ftones, in confequence of a ftrong eddy wind, had fallen, in fuch quantities, into a back cellar, the door of which happened to be open, as to become a complete piece of folid ice, about eight feet in circumference, and two feet in depth. NEWCASTLE, Aug. 7.—On Friday, this town and neighbourhood were visited by a moft tremendous storm of thunder and light--A ning. The peals were awfully loud, and fucceeded the flash with a celerity that proved the contending clouds to be immediately over the town. The house of Mr Froft, at Walker, was nearly unroofed, and feve ral of the windows were broke to pieces.. The windows of Mr Woodhouse's house were alfo completely driven in, and feveral trees were rent in pieces. WHITEHAVEN, Aug. 7.-There was a violent storm of thunder, lightning, and hail, at Penrith, on Saturday laft. Confiderable damage was done by the lightning; a barn, containing ten cart loads of hay, belonging to Mr Martindale, of Catterlane, and a stack, the property of Sir F. F. Vane, at Huttonhall, were both fet on fire, and entirely confumed. A horfe and five lambs were killed in a field near Penrith. Several of the hail ftones measured two inches in circumfe rence. DUMFRIES, Aug. 7.-For eight days we have experienced a good deal of thunder and lightning, accompanied with heavy rains and hail, particularly on Saturday and Sunday, when the dashes were very vivid, and the thunder extremely loud. Sunday, Aug. 5th, a thunder storm paffed over London,between one and two o'clock in the afternoon, accompanied by a heavy rain, and a quantity of hail. The houfe of Mr Hornyblow, in Upper Marsh, Lambeth, was ftruck, about half paft one. The electric matter entered at the upper part of the chimnies, and defcended to the attic ftory, where a man and his wife were fitting at The ftorm was also feverely felt at Carlifle, and many other parts in England. journeyman carpenter, Citadel, Leith, fulOn Saturday July 21, John Cameron, pected of the murder of his wife, was committed to Edinburgh jail. It appears that the deceased (who was the prifoner's fecond wife) and he did not live on good terms together, on account of a child he had by a former marriage, who, he alledged, the deceafed did not ufe very kindly. This occafioned inceffant quarrels between them; and on the evening before his apprehenfion, the neighbours, as ufual, were not a little annoyed by their domeftic quarrels. The noife, however, fubfided for fome time, when a perfon, happening to pass the house, was attracted by a fmell of burning; on which he forced open the door, and, melancholy to relate, the deceased was difcovered on a chair, near the kitchen fire, burnt almoft to a cinder. Her husband was afleep in bed in an adjoining room, along with his child. He has received an indictment to ftand trial for this crime. Monday Monday the 13th of Auguft, betwixt nine and ten o'clock in the morning, as a foreign veffel was steering for Leith harbour, and near to the beacon (with two pilots on board) a fhot was fired from a boat, which the pilots imagined was fired from a Greenland whaler, and did not bring to. A few minutes afterwards, a fecond fhot was fired from the fame boat, which entered the right breaft of the mate, whereof he died in about 15 minutes. The boat belonged to the Gallant gun-brig, and was at that time rowing guard. The fatal fhot was fired by Henry Lloyd, midfhipman, belonging to the above veffel, who is fince lodged in Edinburgh jail. The fufferer has left a widow and three young children, for whose relief a fubfcription has been opened at the Police Office. On the afternoon of the 8th Auguft, a fine boy, about twelve years of age, accidentally fell into the Clyde, while fifhing, near Anderfton, and was drowned. He was only about feven minutes under water; notwithstanding of which, every method of reftoring animation proved in vain. About the middle of July, Capt. Blyth, of the Thames Packet, from Leith to London, loft his life in the following melancholy manner-When oppofite to Woolwich,the veffel was nearly run foul of by a collier, and, to avert the danger, the anchor of the fmack was let go, during which, we lament to say, Capt. Blyth unfortunately got entangled in the coils of the cable, and was fo dreadfully mangled, that he died foon after. He has left a widow and four children to deplore his lofs. On the last Saturday of July, a man of the name of Laing, while bathing at the Magdalen Fields Shore, near Berwick, was carried into the fea, by a heavy fwell; and, akhough a number of Aberdeenshire militiamen rushed in to his affiftance, their humanity was unavailing-he perifhed, and has left a wife with five helpless children to lament his untimely fate. On the 21ft July, the Catharine, Butler, which failed from Leith that day for Malta, fuddenly filled with water, and went down, off the Cocquet Ifland. The captain and crew had only time to fave their lives in their boat. The fhip and cargo are valued at fix or feven thousand pounds. In the end of the last week of July, a coafting veffel, on her voyage from Sunderland to Aberdeen, found a large whale floating on the furface of the water, near St Abb's Head. The fifh feemed to be from 40 to 50 feet in length, and to have been a confiderable time dead; but, after launch ing their boat, and having a rope for fome time attached to the whale, the crew found it impracticable to tow it in in, fafety, ow ing to the fwell of the fea, It was therefore abandoned, It gives us much pleasure to inform our readers, that the bill for the relief of the Clergy of Scotland with fmall ftipends, prepared by the Lord Advocate of Scotland, in correfpondence with a Committee of the General Affembly, and brought into Par liament under the patronage of his Majefty's Minifters, paffed through both Hou fes without oppofition, and received the royal affent, in June laft. By this act, a fum not exceeding 1. 10,000 yearly is to be fet apart in the hands of the Receiver General for Scotland, as a fund for augmenting fmall livings. Clerks of Prefbyteries are to make up accounts of the different parishes within their bounds, the ftipends of which are under 1.. 150, afcertained by the average of the laft nine years. Upon receiving fuch lifts, the Commiffioners of Teinds, after afcertaining the facts, are to grant augmentations out of this new fund, fo as to raife each ftipend to L. 150; it being provided, however, that the teinds of each rarifh fhall be fully exhausted in the first place. Thefe augmentations, in confequence of an order from the Barons of Exchequer, are to be paid half yearly by the Receiver General; and the vacant ftipends, in as far as refpects this Parliamentary grant, are to be paid to the Trustees of the Widows Fund, for fecuring a permanent addition to the annuities provided to widows of the Paro chial Minifters and Profeffors in Colleges in Scotland. St Bernard's Well, hitherto rented at L. 25 a year, was let, fome weeks fince, on a five years leafe, at the increafed rate of L. 110. On the afternoon of Saturday the 4th Auguft, two men belonging to the Advice whale fhip having gone in quest of a boat which had drifted, they procured an old falmon coble on the beach near Invergowrie, and put to fea. They had not failed far when the bottom of the coble gave way, and the filled in deep water. Neither of the men could swim; but, catching hold of the oppofite fides of the boat, they floated until they were observed from the fhore. A crowd of people foon affenbled on the beach, who could render them no afhiftance. A ploughman attempted to carry a rope to the men, by fwimming his horse; but, becoming terror-ftruck, he returned without effecting his humane purpose, and 1 .could |