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irritation and alarm exists in the island against the proposed measure for gradually emancipating the slaves. In the House of Assembly, on the 5th, a Mr Barrett made a long and violent speech, on proposing a committee to prepare an address and petition to the King upon the subject, which he trusted would include a prayer for the dismissal of Lord Bathurst from his Majesty's councils, as the tool or ally of the African Institution. The committee was appointed; but the Assembly declined acceding to a proposition received from the House of Assembly of Dominica, for a combination of all the colonies, not thinking it expedient to enter into any communication, on political measures, with one branch of the legislatures of other British colonies, except through the channel of his Majesty's representative the Governor. Mr Barrett, in the course of his speech, talked of a resistance in the islands, similar to that which ended in the independence of North America, if Great Britain should persist in fastening upon them the yoke of a parliamentary legislation in what regards their internal concerns. Mr B. evident ly forgot the difference of circumstances. If the colonies should declare war against England for endeavouring to ameliorate the condition of the slaves, would not the slaves themselves become parties in that war, and against whom? It is an awful consideration for the whites. But though there was violence in the speeches, the proceedings of the Assembly itself were calm and moderate: and their answer to the speech of the Governor, the Duke of Manchester, on the opening of the session, which recommended a continued attention to the comfort and moral improvement of the slaves, was almost an echo of the speech.

Barbadoes seems to be more ripe for mischief than any other colony. It appears that a missionary of the name of Shrewsbury had been discovered, or was suspected, to have sent home to the Society by which he was employed, statements highly injurious to the moral character of the lower classes of the white population of Barbadoes, whom he represented as bred up without any knowledge of Christianity, and incapable, from their depraved habits, of acquiring any. This produced the highest degree of irritation among the people affected by these real or supposed statements, and they repaired in a body to the chapel in which Mr S. officiated, provided with catcalls, and other noisy instruments, which they employed in the most violent manner, for the purpose of compelling him to quit the pulpit, and desist from the performance of his duty. All

their efforts, however, were unavailing; the preacher kept his post unmoved, wait ed with calmness till the annoyances ceas➡ ed, and then proceeded with his functions. Finding it impossible, by this mode, to drive him from his post, they had the audacity to invite, by written placards, an assemblage of the persons aggrieved for the following evening, when they pro ceeded to demolish the meeting-house in which Mr Shrewsbury officiated, which they did so effectually, that not a brick or piece of timber was left standing, after which they dispersed quietly to their several homes. So bent were those peo ple on this outrage, and so indifferent to its probable consequences, that they were overheard to declare, while the work of destruction was in progress, that if interrupted by the appearance of the military, they would resist them to the utmost. A proclamation was issued the following day by Sir H. Warde, offering a reward of £100 for the discovery of any of the actors in the attack on the congregationhouse of Mr Shrewsbury. The day fol lowing, the rioters had the audacity to issue a counter proclamation, as follows:

"Bridge-Town, Oct. 23.-Whereas a proclamation having appeared in the Barbadian newspaper of yesterday, issued by order of his excellency the Governor, offering a reward of £.100 for the conviction of any person or persons said to be concerned in the said-to-be riotous proceedings of the 19th and 20th instant; public notice is hereby given, to such person or persons who may feel inclined, either from pecuniary temptation or vindictive feeling, that should they attempt to come forward, to injure, in any shape, any indi. vidual, they shall receive that punishment which their crimes will justly deserve. They are to understand, that to impeach is not to convict, and that the reward offered will only be given upon conviction, which cannot be effected whilst the people are firm to themselves. And whereas it may appear to those persons who are unacquainted with the circumstances which occasioned the said procla tion, that the demolition of the chapel was effected by the rabble of this community, in order to create anarchy, riot, and insu bordination, to trample upon the laws of the country, and to subvert good order; it is considered an imperative duty to repel the charge, and to state-firstly, that the majority of the persons assembled were of the first respectability, and were supported by the concurrence of 9-10ths of the community; secondly, that their motives were patriotic and loyal-namely, to eradicate from this soil the germ of Methodism, which was spreading its baneful.

influence over a certain class, and which ultimately would have injured both church and state. With this view the chapel was demolished, and the villanous preacher who headed it, and belied us, was compelled, by a speedy flight, to remove himself from the island. With a fixed determination, therefore, to put an end to Methodism in this island, all Methodist preachers are warned not to approach these shores, as, if they do, it will be at their own peril. God save the king and the people !"

As soon as the rioters had effected their work of destruction, and before the Governor's proclamation appeared, they issued the following hand-bill :

GREAT AND SIGNAL TRIUMPH OVER
METHODISM, AND TOTAL DESTRUC-
TION OF THE CHAPEL !

66.

"Bridge-Town, Oct. 21, 1822.-The inhabitants of this island are respectfully informed, that, in consequence of the unmerited and unprovoked attacks which have repeatedly been made upon the community by the Methodist Missionaries, (otherwise known as agents to the villanous African Society,) a party of respect able gentlemen formed the resolution of closing the Methodist concern altogether; with this view, they commenced labours on Sunday evening, and they have the greatest satisfaction in announcing, that, by twelve o'clock last night, they effected

NOVEMBER.

To

the total destruction of the Chapel. this information they have to add, that the Missionary made his escape yesterday afternoon, in a small vessel for St. Vincent, thereby avoiding that expression of the public feeling towards him, personally, which he had so richly deserved. It is hoped, that as this information will be circulated throughout the different islands and colonies, all persons, who consider themselves true lovers of religion, will follow the laudable example of the Barbadians, in putting an end to Methodism and Methodist Chapels throughout the West Indies."

If these papers be genuine, Barbadoes may already be said to be in a state bordering on rebellion.

DEMERARA. By the ship Clyde, arrived at Greenock from Demerara, letters and papers have been received to the 26th November. The sentence of the Court-Martial upon Mr Smith was given in to the Governor on the 24th, but had not been made public on the 26th. The letters seem to agree that the decision of the Court was Guilty. Tranquillity still prevailed, but Martial Law was continued, and in consequence of the fatigues of military duty, sickness was beginning to prevail amongst the white population. The reinforcement of troops from Britain would reach the Colony early in December.

BRITISH CHRONICLE.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.On the 17th, their Lordships took up the case of James Anderson, who had been found guilty on his own confession, before the last Circuit Court of Perth, of wilful and corrupt perjury, for the purpose of concealing from his creditors the real state of his affairs. A petition was presented in the name of the pannel, expressive of contrition, and imploring the lenient consideration of the Court. Lord Hermand said he could not propose any smaller punishment than transportation for fourteen years.

This proposal was agreed to by the Court, and the Lord Justice Clerk passed judgment on the prisoner accordingly, admonishing him with respect to his future conduct. After sentence had been pronounced, Mr Cowan, for the prisoner, stated an objection affecting the regularity of the Court's proceeding, and moved for leave to be heard, and for time to prepare his argument on the objection, waving, for the intermediate period, the pannel's claim to letters of liberation.

The Court granted the motion, and appointed Monday next, at 10 A. M., for receiving the viva voce arguments of counsel.

The next case was that of William Campbell, certified from the Circuit on an objection in arrest of judgment upon a conviction of assault and robbery. The case being restricted to an arbitrary pu nishment, the Court sentenced the prisoner to be transported for 14 years. The prisoner seemed very much afflicted at the idea of parting with his wife and family, and applied for permission that they should accompany him. He was informed by the Lord Justice Clerk, that Go. vernment had recently permitted the wives of 20 convicts to be sent out to them; and if he conducted himself well in the colony to which he was going, there Gas a hope of the same privilege being extended to him, on his applying to the proper quarter.

William Laing pleaded Guilty of being armed for the purpose of unlawfully killing game by night, and was sentenced

four months' imprisonment, with hard labour at the tread-mill. The Lord Justice Clerk, in passing sentence, said the object of the statute was not to preserve game, but to put an end to a notorious and dangerous practice.

Three young men, Alexander Macgillivray, Henry MacGirr, and James Hill, were convicted of being actors, or art and part, in stealing silver spoons from the house of Robert Baird, Esq. of Newbyth, and the two latter prisoners with also resetting the same.

The Court sentenced

Macgillivray and MacGirr to be transported for 14 years. Hill, owing to his confession of guilt, and the expectation inferred from it that he would be reformed by a milder punishment, was sentenced to be imprisoned 12 months, and employed during that period at the tread-mill. Macgillivray, whose conduct had previously bordered on contumacy, now put on his hat, and openly reviled the Court in the most indecent language. When the clerk read that part of the legal denounciation of being hanged as felons, if they, Macgillivray or MacGirr, should return before the expiry of their sentence, without lawful cause, Macgillivray put his hand to his neck, and mimicked the last convulsions of nature. On going out, he said to the Judges, "We shall be better off than you sitting there-you would have sent us to h- if you could, you

-s." Macgillivray is from Glasgow, which the Lord Justice Clerk described as "the great source of vice in this country."

24. George Mackenzie was put to the bar, charged with falsehood, fraud, wilful imposition, and forgery. From the evidence brought, it appeared that the pannel, by forging an order purporting to be signed by Hugh Graham, a labourer, had succeeded in procuring from Mr James Steuart, two sums of Money, (£.10 and £22.) belonging to Graham. The circumstances detailed of this transaction are no way interesting. The fraud was discovered by the wife of the real Hugh Graham presenting herself to draw money at a time when her husband was out of employment. The proof was clear against the prisoner, and the Jury returned an unanimous verdict of Guilty. Sentence imprisonment for 12 months.

The next trial was in a case of housebreaking and theft, charged against John Quin and William Macdonald. One of the prisoners, (Macdonald,) was only eleven years of age, and six convictions against Quin, and five against Macdonald, were proved from the police books. An alibi was attempted to be adduced in the case of Macdonald, which amounted to nothing more than that, for unything his

mother knew, he had been in bed all the night of the robbery. The libel had been restricted to an arbitrary punishment, and a verdict of Guilty was returned by the Jury. Their sentence was transportation beyond seas for life.

James Anderson, who pleaded guilty at the last Perth Circuit, to a charge of fraudulent bankruptcy, and upon whom a sentence of fourteen years transportation was passed in this Court last Monday, was again brought to the bar, and the objection which was taken after the sentence was read, that the prisoner had never seen his letters before sentence was pronounced on him, having been sustained by the Court, he was dismissed from the bar.

DECEMBER.

HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY.On the 1st instant, Robert Watson, Henry Murray, and David Ronaldson, were brought to trial on a charge of housebreaking and theft, aggravated by their being habit and repute thieves. The pannels pleaded Guilty, which plea, as it appeared, did not proceed from the advice of their counsel, but was entirely of their own accord. The Lord Advocate restricted the libel to an arbitrary punishment, and the Jury found the prisoners Guilty, in terms of their own confession. Sentence delayed.Andrew Rhind and John Murray were next brought to the bar upon a like accusation, saving that the latter prisoner was not charged with habit and repute. Murray pleaded Guilty, as Rhind also ultimately did. As in the preceding trial, the libel was restricted to an arbitrary punishment, and the pannels convicted. The three persons first tried were now brought in for judgment along with the present convicts. From a consideration of the different degrees of turpitude of the crimes libelled, and their accession to them, the Court sentenced Watson, Rhind, and Murray, to transportation for life, and the other two for fourteen years. The Lord Justice Clerk stated, as a warning to the prisoners to preserve a good behaviour in the place of exile to which they might be sent, that no less than twelve persons had been executed there within a very few months. William Williamson was then charged with the very same crime as the five former pannels. He pleaded Not Guilty; but after some of the evidence was gone over, by the permission of the Court, he retracted this plea, and pleaded Guilty. Certificates of his previous good character were produced, in consequence of which, the Court pronounced upon him the lenient sentence of transportation for seven years.

8.This day John Dunlop, James

Hunter, James Armour, and Jean Beith or Armoor, were placed at the bar, on Criminal Letters, charging them with theft and reset: the men pleaded Not Guilty, and the woman was outlawed for not appearing. David Wilson was called, who stated himself to be foreman to Mr Peter Hutchison, manufacturer, Brunswick-Street, Glasgow, who carries on business on a very extensive scale. From the evidence of this witness, which evinced considerable intelligence, it appeared that a great number of pieces of muslin had been extracted from time to time by persons in the employ of the prisoner Dunlop, who was one of Mr Hutchison's muslin-singers. In consequence of information received from Belfast, witness went there, and in the Police-Office of that place saw 137 pieces of muslin, which he knew to be the property of Mr Hutchison, and at a neighbouring bleachfield he discovered about sixty pieces in a bleached state, and 20 pieces which were not of Mr Hutchison's manufacture. The prisoner Armour had been apprehended at Belfast before witness went over, who had never, during the 23 months he had been in Mr Hutchison's employ, known of more than one instance of muslin being sold in a gray state, and on that occasion the pieces were of a different description and length from those now in Court. The witness detailed with great minuteness the process of the muslin manufacture, and the method of marking the pieces, and, in conclusion, declared, that although many of the marks had been picked out, he was perfectly satisfied that nearly the whole numerous pieces shown him, both in a gray and bleached state, were of the manufacture of Mr Hutchison, which he was more particulary enabled to do from a peculiar gold ornament at the end of many of the pieces. Mr Hutchison stated himself to be one of the most extensive manufacturers in Glasgow. Dunlop and Hunter were employed as singers, to whom the pieces with a twisted gold ornament were given, the pieces with the plain gold or nament being at the same time lying in. discriminately in the room. He did not think it was practicable, from the extent of his business, to ascertain if goods had been stolen by attempting to balance the goods, even if hundreds of pieces had been taken, but on seeing the goods, he knew that a theft must have been committed. He once sold a particular order in an unfinished state, but the goods were of a different description to those in question; the white goods recovered at Belfast were not finished by him, which he can clearly ascertain from its inferiority. The bleaching in this country being so

much better done than in Ireland, there could be no necessity for sending goods there to go through that operation, and he was quite certain the various kinds in Court had been stolen from his premi.

ses.

The average value of an unbleached piece is about 10s. to which the bleaching adds a shilling more. On going to Dunlop's house with the officers, a piece of muslin was found, which he immediately knew to be his property. Dunlop said he knew nothing about it, and alluded to his wife having a knowledge of it: he then leapt from the window, one storey high, but was pursued by the officers, and retaken. Witness accompanied Mr Hardie, superintendant of Glasgow Police, to Mr Muirhead's bleachfield, where they discovered 125 pieces in a bleaching state, which he knew to be his property; these he was doubtful might be injured if not finished off, and therefore were not lodged in process. The number of pieces manufactured weekly averaged about 4000, the immensity of which prevented the keeping of books to ascertain loss, and there. fore they rather chose to submit to it. The goods go out every day to the bleaching.

The remaining evidence in this most irksome case occupied the Court till half-past eight o'clock, after which the Jury were addressed, at considerable length, by the Lord Advocate, for the prosecution, and by Mr Jeffrey, in an ingenious defence, for the prisoners, which occupied about two hours. The Lord Justice Clerk, at great length, recapitulated the evidence to the Jury, who found John Dunlop Guilty of Theft; James Armour, Guilty of Reset of Theft; and against James Hunter the charges® Not Proven the two former were sentenced to be transported for fourteen years, and the latter was dismissed with a suitable admonition.

15. Charles Beaton, a boy of no more than fifteen years of age, was put to the bar, accused of having broken into the shops of J. and T. Picken, watch-makers, Grassmarket, and stolen several articles therefrom. He pleaded Guilty, and a certificate being produced from his master of his uniform good conduct for five years, he was convicted by the Jury in terms of own confession, and sentenced to fourteen years transportation.

Jean Campbell and William Mackay were next charged with the crime of robbing Alex. More of his watch in September last, with the aggravation of being habit and repute common thieves. They both pleaded Not Guilty. The evidence produced was found by the Jury sufficient to establish the guilt of the prisoners in the present instance, and it farther ap

peared, that they were known to be characters of the most depraved and reckless description. The woman had been ten times convicted and confined in Bridewell for theft, and upon application being made to her before she was apprehended, to restore the watch upon condition of not being farther molested about the matter, she declared that she cared nothing for being tried, and would not restore it. The boy had been twice convicted before. The robbery was committed in this case by Campbell, who conveyed the watch to Mackay, he being in readiness to receive and make off with it. The prisoners were sentenced to be transported for the term of their natural lives.

Execution of Thomas Black.-The behaviour of this young man after his condemnation was such as became his melancholy situation. The final sentence of the law was carried into effect upon the unhappy criminal on the morning of the 10th instant, at the ordinary place of execution, and was witnessed by an immense number of spectators. He was attended to the scaffold by the Rev. Dr Grant and the Rev. Mr Porteous, who had previously assisted him in his devotional exercises in the lock-up-house. Black appear ed perfectly calm and resigned. On reaching the platform a psalm was sung, and an impressive prayer offered up by Dr Grant, in both of which the prisoner appeared with great fervour to join. He then advanced to the side of the platform, and in a firm and audible voice addressed the multitude, exhorting those who had children to correct them betimes, and not suffer them to keep bad company. The young he advised solemnly to take warn. ing by his own untimely fate, to avoid Sabbath-breaking, drinking, and evil company; the indulgence in which vices had brought him to the shameful situation in which he now stood. He then said, that he died in peace with all mankind, and bidding them farewell, he ascended the drop. After the executioner had made the necessary preparations, Black prayed for a few seconds, and then giv. ing the signal, the drop fell, and he died after a short struggle. Black was about seventeen years of age, rather tall, and of a fair complexion. The crime for which he suffered was breaking into and robbing a house at Summerfield, South Leith, in company with an associate John Reid, who was tried and condemned along with him, but has since been respited. Reid was about six months younger than Black, but it is generally understood, that he was the oldest in crime by some years. He displayed the most hardened indifference on his trial, which afterwards

gave way to a temper of mind more suit. able to his situation.

Glasgow. There have been a great many additions built to the old cottonmills at Glasgow, this summer, besides the new ones erected in various parts of the city. One of the mills is calculated to cost £.40,000 sterling. This has been altogether an unprecedented year of building. Masons, bricklayers, &c. are still kept as busy as they were in the midst of summer, and new hands can scarcely be got for money; and it is expected that the same spirit and activity will continue in the ensuing spring. The consumption of stones, bricks, and other materials for building, has been so great, that a number of the quarries and brick-fields are exhausted, and there is, in consequence, a considerable rise in the price of these articles. Bricks, which sold in the early part of the season at 25s. a thousand, are now 40s. a thousand. There are numbers of new brick-fields to commence in the ensuing spring, in addition to the former old ones; and the workmen are engaged at higher wages on that account. Builders, in general, are in high expectation that the new grand opening at the Cross, or Trades' Land, will commence in the spring of the year, to give full scope to their energies, and the ultimate ornament and improvement of the city.-Glasgow Chronicle.

20.-Lord Erskine.-In consequence of an invitation circulated among the members of the legal profession in London, a meeting was held in the Hall of Lincoln's Inn, on Monday last, Mr Scarlet in the chair, when a resolution was moved by that gentleman, seconded by Mr Brougham, and unanimously adopted —“ that a subscription be opened for the purpose of erecting a statue to the late Lord Erskine, and that a Committee be named, for the purpose of carrying the resolution into effect." Before the meeting separated, a number of persons put down their names as subscribers.

Union Canal.-Owing to the rapid increase of trade on the Union Canal, the present basin at Port Hopetoun has been found inadequate to accommodate the numerous barges which are now plying on that navigation. The Canal Company have therefore resolved to construct another basin, in addition to the present one, considerably larger than it, and in the same neighbourhood. For this purpose, they have purchased ground immediately behind Semple-Street, upon which it is understood they are soon to commence operations. Within the last few months the coal-trade has been carried on to an immense extent, and is still to be greatly

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