A queftion upon an imprefs was determined by the court of feffion on the 7th of Auguft. — A man who had once, indeed, been at sea, but had lived for more than twenty years at land, and was in a very comfortable fituation by the profits of a garden, for which he paid a very confiderable rent, applied to be fet at liberty from confinement, under the authority of the imprefs. The Lords, without any hesitation, passed a bill of fufpenfion and liberation, upon moderate bail. On the 4th and 5th of August were exhibited, at Carron, under the direction of Charles Gafcoigne, Eiq; a variety of trials of his new invented guns, called Carronades, of the calibers of three, twelve, and twenty-three pounders, which worked with great eafe and difpatch, and difcharged their fhot with much force and accuracy; after which a confiderable number of experiments were made with hollow or shell shot, intended to perform the double effect of hot and shells against ships; and, laftly, fundry trials were made with fhot perforated through the centre, and spirally fluted on the furface, fuggefted by Profeffor Anderson of Glafgow, in order to prevent the common aberration in the flight of fhot. All these experiments were made in the prefence of Sir Adol. phus Oughton, commander in chief, LtGen. Melvill, Capt Frafer, chief engineer, and many other gentlemen, who expreffed the greateft fatisfaction on the occafion. Of many recruiting - advertisements which appeared in the papers, we infert two, viz. "ARMY. Such young gentlemen as wish to ferve their king and country, in one of the new regiments now to be raifed, are desired, without delay, to apply to the publisher of this paper, from whom they will receive further information." "FORTY-SECOND, or, ROYAL HIGHLAND Regiment.-To all NorthBritons in general, but chiefly to you, O ye Highlanders! is this advertisement addreffed. You who, uncorrupted by the universal depravity of your fouthern countrymen, have withstood, immove able as a rock, all the affaults of for rounding Luxury and Diffipation: You who, while others, effeminated by voluptuous refinements, and irrecoverably loft to honour, lolling in the arms of Pleasure, can see the danger of their country with a criminal indifference; or, flaves of a traiterous and rebellious fac tion, can behold BRITANNIA infalted by her inveterate foes, the French and Spaniards, and yet dare even to dispute whether the ought to be afflifted! You, O ye hardy race! ye HIGHLANDERS! who have yet arms unenervated by luxury, capable to defend your King and Country! to you BRITANNIA addresfes herself! She invokes your aid! fhe calls upon you to exert that well-known military ardour which has long distinguished you from all the nations of the earth, and has ever rendered you the admiration and terror of your enemies! She points to the field of Honour ! She directs you to your Own Regiment, the XLIId, or, ROYAL HIGHLANDERS, commanded by the Rt Hon. General Lord JOHN MURRAY, of which a Second Battalion is now raifing. And though the scorns to allure the brave by any other motives, than the love of glory and of their country, every gentleman-volunteer, who is willing and able to ferve his Majefty in this honourable and uncontaminated corps, shall receive FIVE GUINEAS reward, and ONE GUI NEA extraordinary if he inlifts before the 24th of September, by repairing to the drum-head, or applying, &c.-N. B. The officer will not part with a good recruit, notwithstanding the terms above offered, for the difference of a few guineas, as it is only young fellows of spirit he wishes to inlift." The fmugglers have of late been very daring on the Fife coaft. The commiffioners of the customs, in an advertisement, dated, July 14. give the intell gence received by them, viz. "That on or about the 18th ult. a boat belonging to the Prince William yacht, in the fervice of the customs, being on a paffage between Dundee and Anftruther, with the commander and part of the crew of the faid yacht on board. was fired at, in St Andrew's bay, by a smuggling Flushing cutter, and chafed to land near Pitmilly, where the perfons pursued went afhore for fafety: That, after they went afhore, they were further purfued, two miles into the country, by a number of armed men, landed from the said fmuggier, who frequently fired at them during the purfuit; and that the officer, having taken fhelter in the houfe of Col. Monypenny, the gang from the fmug. gler went up to the house, demanded he men who had taken refuge in it, and refused to depart, until Col. Monypenty threatened to fire upon them: Also, That, on or about the faid day, a party of the revenue-officers belonging to the ort of Anftruther, who were out upon uty, were, by a gang belonging to the ime fmuggler, chafed, and fired at: Alfo, That upon Tuesday the 6th day f July inft. two Flufhing cutters, the one Jounting fourteen guns fix-pounders and wo nine-pounders, commanded by one lemmings, and the other mounting fixzen three-pounders, commanded by one herrington, each carrying forty-five ten, appeared in the frith of Forth, off Lingfbarns, in the county of Fife: hat about noon of the faid day, two gats, with a number of men, from be faid cutters, landed at Kingsbarns, forefaid; when a party of the milita, being informed of their arrival, rent in queft of them, feized two of hem, purfued the reft till they got off fome fishing-boats to their veffels, lea ing their own boats behind them, which he foldiers fcuttled: That, during the ime the military were fo employed, a varm fire was kept up on them from the wo cutters: And, That the coaft, at nd in the neighbourhood of St Anrew's, is much infefted with armed vefds, employed in the fmuggling-trade, he crews of which carry on their illicit ractices by force and violence; in which hey are greatly encouraged by the counenance and fupport which they receive rom fome farmers, and others, in that art of the country." Lord George Gordon, who laft feffion xerted himself warmly in the House of Commons against the Roman-Catholics, and against the ministry [19, 134.], arrired in Edinburgh on the 20th of Auguft. The committee of correfpondence for the Proteftant intereft had the honour to fup with his Lordship that night, by invita tion, at Fortune's tavern ; and extraordinary attention has been shown him in different places, by the perfons who ftyled themfelves Friends to the Proteftant intereft. [106. & feqq.] A letter, dated, Edinburgh, Aug. 28. and inferted in the London Chronicle, after giving an account of the committee of correfpondence for the Proteftant intereft having met the day preceding in the Society-hall, and chofen Lord George Prefident, proceeds to relate, that his Lordship laid before the committee a letter from Mr John Paterfon, prefes of eighty-five focieties in Glasgow, his Lordship's answer, and a second letter from Mr Paterfon. Our readers will remember, that the petition of the Roman-Catholics to parlia ment for redrefs, was ordered to lie on the table, till it fhould be known what the magiftrates of Edinburgh and Glas gow intended to do [135]. Measures were foon after taken for indemnifying the fufferers, and various opinions on the fubject appeared in the papers.Marcus recommended a general voluntary fubfcription, and that the magiftrates and town-council fhould fet a good example. "Let the committee of correfpondence, [adds he], who fomented the disturbance, and fpread the firebrand, be next called to account. Let not their little emiffaries pretend, that their folicitor's bill at London exceeds the funds in their hands. They formerly boafted of immenfe fums to oppofe the bill, which have now dwindled into fewer hundreds than the thousands they held forth two months ago. Let the prefbyteries, the parishes, affociate feffions, the towns, corporations, focieties, from the Pantheon down to the Agreeable Society of Weavers, who peftered the public with their refolutions, and proteftations of lofing life and property in the caufe, now ftand forth, and thew their love of Chriftianity, and the meek fpirit of the Proteftant faith, by contributing only a part of their proffered treasures for the reimbursement of their fellow-creatures, who have fuffered from the mifguided notions of a few of an inflamed populace.” "The petition to parliament in behalf of the Roman Catholic fufferers, [fays A Moderate Proteftant, April 9.], has given offence to feveral perfons: but thefe have been ignorant, that no fuch application was meant or intended, could they they have had the moft diftant hopes of redress elsewhere. So far back as the 21ft February laft, a decent and proper letter was wrote by B. H. to the L. P. on the fubject, for an answer to which the former propofed waiting eight days in Newcastle. He never received any anfwer whatever, and the petition to parliament was not prefented till the 18th of March. The extent of the damages claimed has likewife been matter of great complaint; but with as little fhadow of reafon as the former. No claim of any kind has as yet been prefented to the Houfe of Commons or the Magiftrates, by any of the private fuffers. Mr H. indeed, in the letter already mentioned, ftates the loffes he sustained by the demolition of his two houses, but claims nothing for his library or furniture, having been informed that the town was not, by law, bound to make them good." 7. H. fays, "Some think, the magiftrates ought to be made accountable, as they, it seems, did not exert themselves as they ought to have done, for prevent ing the mitchief: others, that the committee of correfpondence fhould make good the lofs out of the money which they had collected for oppofing the bill, as it is fuppofed their proceedings contributed to excite the mob. As to the magiftrates, it does not appear that they had authority to proceed to any extremities in defence of Popifh chapels. There is no law in being which makes it punishable to deftroy a Popish chapel. Thefe are illegal erections, not under the pro tection of the laws, any more than a perfon in a state of outlawry. Nay, the laws are against them. If then the magiftrates had proceeded to extremities in defence of the Popish chapels, if they had ordered the military to fire upon the mob, they might, perhaps, have preferved the chapels; but then they would have done what they had no authority from the laws to do, and might have been called in queftion for it.-As to the committee of correfpondence, a demand upon them for the reparation of the lofs which the Papists have sustained, muft appear peculiarly hard. They met, not to promote mobs, but to prevent them, or any occafion for them, by a regular application to parliament againft the intended bill in favour of the Papifts. Is this to be treated as a crime, which is the birthright of every Briton? Shall it be lawful for Papifts to apply to parlias ment for refcinding the laws; and shall it be punishable in Protestants to apply for the maintenance of them? Let us fuppofe, what charity will warrant us to conclude, that the members of this committee acted, fo far as they went, upon principles of religion; that is, they formed their views of Popery, and took the rules of their conduct, from the word of God. Popery, faid they, is idolatry, which the Great God has declared his atter abhorrence of, and which he has been accustomed to punish in the mok exemplary manner. By the law of God, the idolater ought to die, and all the images, and other inftruments of idola try, ought to be deftroyed. The Pope is Antichrift, the greatest enemy that Chrift ever had in the world; he, and his adherents, have done infinite mif chief to religion, and the profeflors of it in all ages. We, therefore, as Chriftian ought to oppose, to the utmoft of our power, all attempts for promoting thei intereft. Suppofing these to be their views, how is it to be expected, the they fhall contribute to affift the Papift, and with the money which was collected to oppofe them? To repair the lofs the Papifts, is virtually to give them curity, that they will never do what they have done against them. It is to take with a fault, and this fault lies in meet ing to oppose the refcinding the laws gainft Popery. It implies their confer that the Papifts erect mafs-houses where they pleafe; and, at the fame time, furnishes them with money for this par pofe. - Let the Pope himself be called upon to make up the lofs which his fe vants have fuftained, until it fhall be fet tled what indemnification is due to th Proteftants in thofe countries which obey him, for the great loffes which they have fuffered by his inftigation." In the month of April the question was fubmitted to the arbitration of the Lord Advocate, and Thomas Dundas, Efq; of Caftlecary; and on the 26th that month the claim of the Roman-Ca tholics was given in, amounting to arcali The arbiters restricted the claim to 16501, on payment of which fum the city to be i fully difcharged, and the property of the chapel, as it now ftands, and of the ar belonging to it, fuppofed to be wort 500 or 600l. to be affigned to the city The decree of the arbiters was laid be fore the council on the 23d of June whofe thanks the arbiters received. BIRTH BIRTHS. Aug. 8. The Countess-dowager of Suffolk 167], of a fon. 22. At Orchil, Mrs Graham of Orchil, of fon and heir. [40. 511.] 13. At Edinburgh, Mrs Wallace, spouse of Mr Alexander Wallace banker in Edinurgh, of a fon. 25. At Ury, Mrs Barclay of Ury, of a son. On the 14th August, an infant was baptied in Goodman's-fields, to which the greatrandfather of its mother, and the grand-faser and grandmother of its father, stood as onfors. The ages of the three goffips ere above 280. 18. At Invergary houfe, Mrs Macdonnell Glengary, of a fon. 28. At the Duke's feat in Ireland, the achefs of Leinster, of a daughter. DEATH S. Aug. 1778. At Calcutta, Capt.-Lieut. Hugh annie, of the artillery, on the Bengal eblishment. May 14. 1779. At St Chriftopher's, Mr mes Rannie of Demarary. Jane 2. At St John's in Antigua, in the d year of his age, the Hon. Thomas War a, Efq; attorney-general of the Leeward ands. July 5. At Maderty, Perthshire, Mr John enry writer in Edinburgh. Aug. 1. At London, Charles Mordaunt, arl of Peterborough. He fucceeded Charles, s grandfather (the celebrated hero in Q ane's reign) in 1735. His Lordship was vice married. The prefent Earl, born ay 16. 1758, is likewife heir to the eftate Sir John Mordaunt, K. B. 1. Mrs Johannah Pringle, daughter of cho Pringle fometime of Whitebank, Efq; 3. At Gayfield, near Edinburgh, the on. Mifs Jane Wilhelmina Napier, youngest aughter of the late William Lord Napier. 4 The Rt Hon. George Rice, member Carmarthen, colonel of the militia of at county, treasurer of his Majesty's chamer, and fon-in-law to Earl Talbot. 5. At Creiff, Mr William Barles, minifter i the Antiburgher Affociate congregation at Dundee. 6. Ac Muffelburgh, Mrs Lilias Buchannan, lict of Mr John Bauld. 7. At London, John Cooper, Efq; member or Downton. 8. At Edinburgh, John Dalrymple, Efq; ite Lord Provost of Edinburgh. 9. At Menmuir, Mr George Ogilvie of Jakie, minifter of Megmuir. 10. At London, the new-born fon and eir of the late Earl of Suffolk. The title ad eftate devolve on the Hon. Thomas Howard, uncle to his Lordship, and men ser for St Michael in Cornwall. 11. At London, aged 101, Mr Carbonnel, formerly a druggift. 16. At Gofport, the lady of Sir Charles Douglas, commander of the Duke man of war. At Simondfone, Lancashire, Sufan Evefon, aged 108. 19. At Edinburgh, Alexander Hamilton, grocer in that city. By his will he bequeathed, to the Royal infirmary, and charityworkhouse, Edinburgh, 100l. to each; to' the charity-workhoufe of Canongate sol. orphan-hofpital 201. parish of Crail rol.. fociety for propagating Christian knowledge 10l. parish of St Cuthberts 5 1. fociety for relief of the industrious poor, Edinburgh 5 1. and private legacies, one of 30l. two of 10. each, and five of 5 1. each, in all 375 l.. This man was a foundling, and died a bachelor, aged 63. 21. At Edinburgh, Lt-Col. David Home, lieutenant-governor of Chester castle. At London, Mrs Anne Steyning, aged 102. 22. At Swadlinbar, Ireland, Henry Lord Viscount Carlow, in the 67th year of his age. His Lordship has left three fons and two daughters. 27. At Ifla, Mr Charles Freebairn, aged about 56, architect and tackfman of the mines of Illa. 29. Mr Theodore Gordon, minifter of Kenneth mount, in the 78th year of his age, and 48th of his ministry. 29. At Newhalls, Mr Charles Houifon, the King's wright for Scotland. 31. At Drylaw, near Edinburgh, the Countefs-dowager of Moray. 31. At Edinburgh, Mifs Anna Lockhart, daughter of the deceased John Lockhart of Cleghorn, Efq; PREFERMENTS. From the London Gazette. Aug. 4. to appoint John Lord Viscount Mountfluart, his Majefty's Envoy-Extraordinary and Minister-Plenipotentiary to the King of Sardinia. His Lordship was, the fame day, sworn of the privy council. 17. to grant to Sir Charles Gould, Kt, the office of Chamberlain of the town and borough of Brecon, and counties of Brecon, Radnor, and Glamorgan, in the room of the Rt Hon. George Rice, deceased. 28. to appoint James Douglas, Efq; to be Conful-General at Naples. War-office, Aug. 10. 1779. ad troop of horse-guards: Corn. and Maj. Richard Timms to be Second Lieutenant and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice W. John Spearman Wacey; Guidon and Maj. George Vaughan to be Cornet and Major, vice Richard Timms; Exempt and Capt. John Farnaby to be Guidon and Major, vice George Vaughan; Brig. and |