The company fat down to fupper between two and three o'clock, which, as well as the defert, confifted of every variety the seafon afforded, and was ferved up in a ftyle that gave general fatisfaction. The Ladies retired about four o'clock, but the morning was pretty far advanced before the Gentlemen left the rooms. It is but juftice to remark, that the above entertainment exhibited a degree of tafte and magnificence that reflected honour on the very respectable body by whom it was given. The Affembly Room is the largest in Britain, except the Great Room at Bath, and is faid to exceed it in elegance and juft proportion; it is ninety-two feet long, forty-two broad, and thirty feet high. The building of the rooms, &c. has coft about eight thousand pounds. Wednesday, Jan. 17 Daniel Davoren, condemned by the High Court of Jufticiary, for ftreet-robbery, was executed at the west end of the Luckenbooths, Edinburgh, pursuant to his fentence; and on Wednesday the 24th, Charles and James Jamiefons were executed at the fame place, for robbing the poft. vol. 48, p. 617.] On Saturday, Jan. 20. was held at Edinburgh, a general meeting of the delegates appointed by the different counties of Scotland for attending to the propofed alterations in the corn-laws. The meeting was numerous and refpectable. The principal fpeakers were, Mr Stewart of Grandtully, Mr Gordon of Culvenan, Mr Erskine of Marr, Mr Buchan Hepburn, the Lord Advocate, Sir John Dalrymple, Mr Solicitor General Dundas, Mr James Ferrier, Mr Archibald Campbell, Mr Macdowall of Logan, Mr Johnston of Alva, Sir J. Hunter-Blair, &c. When Mr Solicitor-General Dundas, prefes of the meeting, propofed to put the vote, Whether the meeting fhould now agree to apply to the Scots members of both Houfes of Parliament, requesting them, in cafe the new law talked of for England should be brought into parliament this feffion, that they would pay particular attention to it, as had been propofed by Mr Erfkine of Marr; or delay the farther confideration of the bufi nefs to a future day? Sir J. Hunter-Blair declared that he had no power to vote, but only to report to the county of Ayr the different opinions delivered. The Lord Advocate, as delegate from Dum bartonfhire, faid the fame ; and the meeting then broke up, none of the gentlemen confidering themselves fully impowered to decide finally upon the business. On Tuesday, Jan. 23. came on, at Edinburgh, a trial at the fuit of his Majefty's Advocate against Thomas Williamfon, one of the partners of Ramsay, Williamfon, and Co. merchants in Leith, for attempting to bribe an officer of ex, cife. The information contained three counts-The fift, for offering or attempting to bribe James Corbet, fupervifor of excife, and port-furveyor of Borrowftounnefs, contrary to the ftatute 24th Geo. III. cap. 47. §. 22. whereby the defendant has forfeited 500l. The fecond count was, for offering the faid James Corbet a bribe or reward of 5 1. to induce him to connive at or permit a parcel of black beer to be entered short of the real quantity, contrary to the ftatute 9 Geo. II. cap. 35. § 24. whereby the defendant has forfeited another fum of sol. And the third count was, that the defendant being a perfon liable to the duties of excife, did offer to the faid James Corbet a bribe, viz. 51. to corrupt, perfuade, and prevail upon him to do, or perform, fome act or thing contrary to his duty, viz. to suffer a parcel of black beer to be entered fhort of the real quantity, contrary to the ftatute, 11 Geo. I. cap 30. §. 40. whereby the defendant has forfeited another fum of 5ool. The defendant did not deny having, in November 1785, fent Mr Corbet 5 1. but he defended himfelf by faying, that it was not given with a view to corrupt Mr Corbet, or prevail upon him to connive at a fhort entry of the black beer, which was the fingle offence with which he was charged; but that he fent it as a fee to Mr Corbet, on account of fome extra. ordinary trouble he had in Auguft that year, at the entry of a parcel of geneva, belonging to the Company of which he the defendant is a partner; and that it was utterly impoffible that the money could be given with a view to the black beer, as the whole duty was but about 191. and all the indulgence which the defendant had fuggefted to Mr Corbet as reasonable in gauging the black beer, could not, though given, have faved the defendant any thing more than 41. 12 S. 4 d. which excluded the poffibility that that fum could be given with any reference to the black beer. It came out in proof, that Mr Corbet came from his re fidence fidence at Linlithgow to Borrowftounnefs, and attended at delivering the geneva alluded to, after the ufual hours for fuch bufinefs; and Mr Corbet deponed, that no improper allowance was given upon the geneva, and that he had no extra ordinary trouble on the occafion, except attending after the ordinary hours. Mr Corbet alfo produced a letter from the defendant inclofing a 5 1. note. The let ter was in the following words, "Leith, 3d Nov. 1785. Sir, Please inform if the inclofed comes fafe to hand. We expect fome black beer to Borrowftounnefs foon, by Captain Hart, of the Duke of Athol. -You will pafs them as favourably as poffible.-We fuppofe you will not gauge them above 3 gallons at moft, and will allow one to fill up every 5 or 6.—We remain, Sir, your most obedient fervants, figned, Ramfay, Williamfon, and Co.' Addreffed, "Mr James Corbet, fupervifor, Linlithgow." Mr Corbet deponed, that he confidered the 5 1. as intended folely with a view to the black beer, and as having no reference to the geneva. The defendant proved, that the black beer had been ordered to be shipped for Leith,-failing that, to Borrowftounnefs, and failing that, to Dundee: That, of even date with the above letter, the 51. was entered in the company's books as a fee on the geneva; and by the evidence of Mr M'Kay of the excife, who was fent from Leith to Borrowftounnefs for the purpose of gauging the black beer in the ftricteft manner, and who deponed to his having gauged it with the utmoft poffible rigour, that al though the allowance fuggefted in the defendant's letter had been given, viz. one to fill up fix, the whole faving of duty would have been only 41. 12s. 44d; fo that the defendant, instead of gaining any thing, would have been a lofer of 78. 74d. which the defendant contended, excluded even the poffibility of his having in tended to give this 5 1. for the purpose of inducing Mr Corbet to adopt the mode of gauging the black beer fuggefted in the letter; and that the jury, therefore, ought to confider that gift as intended merely as a fee to Mr Corbet for his trouble at difcharging the geneva; in which cafe, although excife officers were not, like cuftomhouse officers, permitted to take fees at the pleasure of the merchant, and confequently, the defendant might be guilty of an offence in offering one, yet the species faili neither supported the information, nor amounted to bribery, or an intention to bribe. Nevertheless the jury found for the plantiff on the fecond count, which charged the 51. to have been given for the fole purpose of prevailing with Mr Corbet to fuffer the black beer to be entered short of the real quantity. Mr Williamfon was accordingly found liable in the penalty of 501. It appears, from the account of goods exported by the British fhips from St Pe terfburg anno 1786, that 379 veffels were employed in that trade, 81 belonging to Scotland, viz. 29 from the port of Leith, 17 Dundee, 10 Grangemouth, 3 Dunbar, 3 Greenock, 3 Aberdeen, 2 Borrowftounness, 2 Perth, 1 Port-Glafgow, I Dumfries, 1 Carron, 1 Arbroath, I Saltcoats, 1 Cromartie, 1 Inverness, 1 Montrofe, 1 Irvine, I Anftruther, I Kirkaldy, I Newburgh. From this account it appears, that the Port of Leith has had more fhips employed in the Ruffian trade laft year, than any other port in Britain, London and Hull only excepted; the former having had in that trade 121 veffels, and the other 53. able difappointment of all her acquaintances, DEATH S. Aug. 16. 1786. At the island of St Helena, on his return to England. Si John Cumming, Kt, Colonel in the fervice of the Eaft-India Company in Bengal, and late Commander of an army on the frontiers of Oude. Off. 26. At Fellowship-hall, in Jamaica, Mr Barre Kelfo, fon of the deceafed John Kelfo, Efq; of Dunkeith. Dec. 3. At Paris, in the 80th year of his age, M. Roffet du Pont, an eminent ftatuary, of St Claude in Franche Compte. He was fo eminent as an artist, that Pigalle ufed to fay, "I know no modern that has imitated the ancients fo well as Roffet." The King of Pruffia, who was a great connoiffeur in every article of the beaux arts, declared that none could give life to a buft in fo fuperior a manner as the sculptor of Franche Compte. Dec. 5. At Strasbourg, Enfign Alexander Stewart, only fon of Col. Stewart of the 3d regiment of foot, and member of parliament for the stewartry of Kirkcudbright. 5. At Madeira, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health, John Hunter, Efq; eldest fon of Robert Hunter, Efq; merchant in Paifley. Lately, at Sheepfear, near Leeds, Mr Jofeph Holroyd calenderer, and three of his grandchildren, who were all interred in one grave. Lately, in his paffage from Amfterdam to London, Mackenzie, Efq; a commiffary for the British army in Germany in 1769, and previous to that a contractor for victualling the British Herring Fishery. Lately, in France, Frederick Anne Marquis of Beauvroir, Knight of the royal and military order of St Louis, in the 87th year of his age. This nobleman in 1743, when Colonel of the French guards, was left for dead upon the field, in the memorable battle of Dettingen. Naples, Dec. 12. On Sunday night died the Prince de St Angelo Imperiali, He has left behind him a very confiderable fortune. 16. At Rafay, John Macleod, Efq; of Rafay, aged 69. Stockholm, Dec. 19. Monf. de Juel, the Danish minifter, died here on the 14th inftant. 21. At Avoch, the Rev. Mr Thomas Simp. fon, minister of that parish, 25. At Kensington, the Hon. Capt. WilJiam Murray, brother to the Earl of Dun more. 27. At Edinburgh, Mr Jofeph Pym, merchant. 29. At Arden, Dumbartonshire, George Buchanan, Efq; of Arden. 30. At Edinburgh, John Haliburton, Efq; Vol. 49. 30. At Edinburgh, Dr William Grant, late phyfician in London. 31. At London, in a very advanced age, Lady Mary Howard, aunt to the Earl of Carlife. burgh, a man and his wife, whofe contract Swinton, eldest daughter of the deceased 1. At Greenbank, Mr Francis Reid of Greenbank, formerly a manufacturer in Glasgow. I At Bath, Lt-Gen Sir William Draper, K.B, Mary Brook, who in Auguft laft arrived at 2. At Horton, near Leek, Staffordshire, the age of 119 years. She lived fingle so years, was then married, lived a married life so years, and had been 19 years and fome months a widow. 65th year of his age, Adam Scott of Galalaw, 3. At his feat of Borthwickshiells, in the Efq; Black, wife of the Rev. Mr Archibald Bonar, 4. At the Manfe of Cramond, Mrs Bridget minister of that parish. 4. At Newton-hall, in East Lothian, Mifs Aan Hay, daughter of the late Richard Newton of Newton, Efq; 5. At Kennyhill, near Glasgow, Andrew Gray, Efq; 5. At Tottenham-green, in the county of Wexford, Sir John Tottenham, Bt, in the 73d year of his age: he fat in Parliament for the town of New Rofs till the death of George II and reprefented the town of Feathard, in faid county, for two parliaments in the prefent reign. By his death his title and familyeftate of 2000l. a-year devolve to his only fon, Lord Loftus. 7. At Edinburgh, Mr Robert Pillans, one of the Captains of the City Guard. 7. At London, The Hon. Thomas Compton Ferrars Townshend, fecond fon of George Ferrars Townshend, Earl of Leicester. 7. At London, in the 97th year of his age, Mr Jabel Chapner, cheese-factor. Paris, Jan. 8. On Friday laft died, at the Palace of the Thuilleries, the Princess Dowager of Bethify de Mezieres de Ligne. fport of hunting, which was just finished, and Hugh Gourlay, minifter of that parish. ner. 12. At Rankeillor, Fifefhire, in her 88th year, Mrs Mackgill of Rankeillor. 12. At Edinburgh, Mr Sámuel Duncan, of the Truftees Office. 12. At Dublin, the Rt. Hon. Juftice Robinfon, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench of Ireland. Vienna, Jan. 13. The melancholy news of the decease of the old and refpectable Field Marshal Prince of Saxe Hieldbourghaufen, was received here a few days ago, and the Emperor has given the regiment vacant by his death to Maj. Gen. Palavicini. Lond. Gaz. --The Prince of Saxe Hieldbourghaufen was great uncle to the Queen. 14. At Edinburgh, in the 80th year of her age, Mrs Ann Forbes, relict of George Leflie, Efq; of Eden. 14. At his house in Park-Street, Dublin, aged 74. the Rt Hon. Simon Luttrell, Earl of Carhampton, of Castlebaven, Viscount and Baron Irnham of Luttrellftown, and father of the Duchefs of Cumberland. His Lordfhip was created a Baron in 1768, a Viscount in 1981, and an Earl in 1785. He is fucceeded in his honours and estate by his eldeft fon (the prefent Earl) Henry Lawes Luttrell, Major-General of his Majesty's forces, Licutenant-Colonel in the if regiment of horse, and one of his Majesty's molt honourable Privy Council. 14. At London, the Hon. Mr Juftice Willes, one of the Judges of the Court of King's Bench, He was appointed Solicitor-General in 1766, Fuifne Judge in the Court of King's Bench in 1768, and ferved many years in parliament for the borough of Old Sarum, Aylesbury, and Leominster. 15. At Thorndon-house, Effex, the familyfeat, the Rt Hon. Lady Anne Petre. Her Ladyship was married to Lord Petre in 1762, by whom he has left issue two fons and one daughter. In 1777, her Ladyship, with her nephew, the prefent Lord Stourton, became co-heirs to their uncle, Edward Howard, ninth Duke of Norfolk, and as fuch, to the baronies of Mowbray (the premier barony of England) Segrave, Breufe of Gower, and the other baronies in fee, not fettled by act of parliament upon the Houfe of Norfolk. 16. At London, the Rev. P. H. Matty, M. A. who had the care of Natural Hiftory in the British Museum, and was editor of the Review that went under his name. Profeffor of Moral Philofophy in the University of Edinburgh. 20. At Edinburgh, Mrs Jean Birnie, relict of Alexander Chancellor, Efq; of Shieldhill. On his way to Bengal, Tilly Kettle, Efq; His abilities as an artift were confpicuous. A large piece by him of Sir Robert Barker and other officers having audience of the Nabob, is at Bufbridge-houfe, whither he lately sent a large picture of the Mother and her feven children martyred by Antiochus. Lately, Dr Smith, Dean of Chester, the tranflator of Longinus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. At Leicester, aged 109, Mr John Dodd, formerly a farmer in Warwickshire; but had retired from bufinefs for some years. 21. At London, near 70, Guftavus Brander, Efq; F. R. and A. S. S. a Curator of the British Mufeum, and a very confiderable Bank-tock holder. He was feveral years a Director of the Bank; but, having inherited the accumulated fortune of his uncle Mr Speaker, he indulged his favourite pursuits in literature and the fine arts. Among his priacipal curiofities at that time was the magnificent chair in which the first Emperors of Germany used to be crowned, which being taken by Gustavus Adolphus in his wars, and carried into Sweden, was brought over from thence, and purchased by Mr Brander, who was of that kingdom. It contained all the Roman Hiftory, from its beginning to the Emperors, wrought in polifhed iron. To Mr Brander the British Museum is indebted for a capital collection of fossils found in the cliffs about Chrift Church and the coaft of Hampshire, which were published at his expence, in a quarto volume, intitled, " Foffilia Hantonienfia collecta, et in Musæo Britannica depofita, à Guftavo Brander, R. S. et F. A. S. Muf. Brit. Cur. Lond. 1766," 4to. By Mr Brander's death there is a fourth vacancy among the fifteen elected trustees of the British Mufeum. 21. At Edinburgh, Mrs Farquharfon, wife of Mr Farquharfon accountant. 22. At Aberdeen, Mrs Garden of Delgaty. 23. At London, Mr Redmond Simpfon. This gentleman was for many years the first performer on the hautboy in this kingdom; his merit procured him an appointment in the Queen's Chamber band, and he was one of the musicians who attended her Majesty from the continent. 24. At his houfe of Woodcote Park, Colin Falconar, Efq; late of the Eaft Indies. 26. At Edinburgh, Dame Sarah Nifbet, relict of Sir John Rutherford of Hunthill. 26. At Montrofe, James Robertson, Efq; 27. At Kirkurd, the Rev. Mr Thomas Gibfon, minifter of that parish. PRE 52 Preferments, Prices of Grain and Stocks, Mortality-bill, &c. Vol. 49. PREFERMENT S. From the London Gazette. The King has been pleased, Fan. 5. 1787. to confer the honour of Knighthood on Robert Strange, [engraver], of Great Queen Street, in the city of Westminster, Efq; 19. to confer the honour of Knighthood on George Chetwynd, of Brockton Hall, in the county of Stafford, Efq; one of the Clerks of the Privy Council in ordinary. 20. to appoint Robert Graham, Efq; to be one of the Commiffioners of Excife, in Scot land, in the room of Alexander Udny, Efq; 27. to recommend to the dean and chapter of Durham to elect Dr Thomas Thurlow, Bishop of Lincoln, to that fee, the fame being void by the death of Dr John Egerton, late Bishop thereof. St James's, Jan. 5. This day the Rt Hon. John Helen Hutchinfon, Principal Secretary of State in Ireland, was fworn of his Majefty's most Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board accordingly. Carleton-Houfe, Jan. 10. His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales has been pleased to appoint Henry Lyte, Efq; to be his Secretary and Keeper of his Privy Seal, and Seal for his Council, in the room of Col. George Hotham. Alfo Henry Lyte, Efq; Col. Gerard Lake, and Col. Samuel Hulfe, Commiffioners for executing the office of Treasurer and Recei ver-General of his revenues, in the room of Col. George Hotham. Alfo Col. Samuel Hulfe to be one of his Privy Council. War-office, Jan. 20. Royal regiment of horse-guards: Lieut. Andrew Corbet to be Captain of a troop, vice Archibald Stewart. Commiffions figned by his Majefty for the army in Ireland. 49th foot: Capt. George Vefey, from 32d foot, to be Major, vice Browne, refigned. Dated Oct. 26. 51ft foot: Maj. John Jaques to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Pringle, refigned; and Capt. William Boothby to be Major, vice Jaques. Dated Oct. 26. Lt-Col. George Bernard to be LieutenantGovernor of Kinfale and Charles-Fort, in the room of John Hancock, Efq; deceased. Dated Dec. 30 From other papers. Jan. 3. The Magiftrates and Council of Edinburgh have appointed Mr George Gordon, late Lieutenant in the Dutch fervice, to be one of the Captains of the City Guard, in the room of Capt. Pillans, who has retired on account of his bad state of health [fince dead.] Col. John Campbell of Blythfwood has prefeated the Rev. Mr Thomas Burns at PRICES OF STOCKS, Jan. 8. Bank Stock, 150a. New 4 per cent. 1777, 93a. 5 per cent. Ann, 1785, fhut. s ro a for open. 3 per cent red. 741 a §. 3 per rent. con. fhut, 74% with div. for open. Navy Bills, 2 difc. 30 Years Ann. 1778, 13 a 11-16ths 934a1. 3 per cent. con. fut. 73 a India Bonds, 60 s. prem. Lottery Tickets 15 l. 3 1. a 4 5. |