the meeting that he had felt considerably shocked at the circumstance, Mr S, said, that he knew the prince regent well; he knew his principles; and, so well satisfied was he, that they were all that Ireland could wish, that he (Mr S.) hoped, that as he had lived up to them, so he might die in the principles of the prince regent.-(Hisses and applauses).He could only assure them, that the prince regent remained unchangeably true to those principles. (Here the clamour became so loud and general, that nothing more could be collect ed.)

In the course of the evening a collection was made amounting to upwards of 17001. including donations previously sent.

There was an immense display of shamrocks yesterday. The Irish la bourers, at work on Drury Lane Theatre, erected flags on two of the loftiest poles of the scaffolding in honour of the anniversary of the birth of St Patrick. Lord Castle reagh wore a large shamrock in the House of Commons.

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in the highest rank; as a companion, well bred, affable, cheerful, entertaining, instructive, and in raillery to have been, perhaps, without an equal.Mr Tooke was in the 77th year of his age. He had been for several weeks in a declining state, and had lost the use of his lower extremities. A few days ago mortification appeared, and rapidly advanced. Dr Pearson, Mr Cline, Mr Tooke's two daughters, and Sir Francis Burdett, attended on him, and he was informed that his dissolution was approaching. He sig nified, with a placid look, that he was fully prepared, and had reason to be grateful for having passed so long and so happy a life, which he would willingly have had extended if it had been possible. He expressed much satisfaction that he should be surrounded in his last moments by those who were most dear to him. He professed his perfect confidence in the existence of a Supreme Being, whose final purpose was the happiness of his creatures. The eccentric facetiousness for which he was so remarkable did not forsake him till he became speechless, and even then his looks wore an aspect of cheerful resignation. A short time before his death, when he was supposed to be in a state of entire insensibility, Sir Francis Burdett mixed up a cordial for him, which his medical friends told the baronet it would be to no purpose to administer, but Sir Fran cis persevered in offering it, and raised Mr Tooke with that view. The latter opened his eyes, and seeing who offered the draught, took the glass and drank the contents with eager ness. He had previously observed, that he should not be like the man at Strasburgh, who, when doomed to death, requested time to pray, till the patience of the magistrates was

exhausted, and then, as a last expedient, begged to be permitted to close his life with his favourite amusement of nine pins, but who kept bowling on, with an evident determination. never to finish the game.-He desired that no funeral ceremony should be said over his remains, and that six of the poorest men in the parish should have a guinea each for bearing him to the vault which had been prepared in his garden.

On Friday last a jury was summoned by the sheriff of the county, to assemble at Leith, for the purpose of valuing certain pieces of ground near the wet docks, which are necessary for carrying on the improvements in that quarter. After visiting the grounds in question, and hearing counsel for the city of Edinburgh and the proprietors, the jury, after an excellent charge from the sheriff, awarded to the proprietors 41. 10s. as the value per square yard, or about 22,000l. per acre.

20th. Antigua and St Christopher's gazettes to the end of December have arrived. The former states, that General Miranda, commander-in chief of the forces at Caraccas, had entered into a compact with the French, by which he agrees to admit into his ports all prizes made from the British. Several captured vessels are said to have arrived there, most of which, with their cargoes, were purchased on account of Miranda. It was reported at Antigua, that, in consequence of the facilities afforded by Miranda, sixteen more French corvettes were expected in those seas.

An alteration, it appears, is about to take place in the uniforms of the officers of the navy. The admirals are to have white lappels to their coats, bound round with broad gold

lace, and the buttons to be nearly similar to those worn by field-marshals. The dress in which the Duke of Clarence appeared at the recent levee of the prince regent was of this description, and was decorated with a profusion of gold lace. It is supposed that the alteration will take place on the 4th of June. The present dress was ordered seventeen years ago.

The demand for seamen is so great, that the impress officers take nearly from all protections. The indulgence which has hitherto been granted by the Admiralty of discharging men on certain conditions, is suspended, according to report, during the present exigency.

FRENCH LICENSES.-It has already been stated, that the Board of Trade had refused to comply with so much of the terms of the French licenses as specified that exportations were first to be made from France, before any importation from England should be admitted. On this subject several applications have been made to the Board of Trade by the merchants interested in the commerce with France. Tuesday the applica tions were renewed, when the Board of Trade agreed to an arrangement, with which the merchants appeared satisfied, of which these are the con ditions:

To admit the following articles to be imported from any port between the river Ems and Caen, provided that the vessel in which they are imported is of 100 tons burden or upwards.

Articles allowed to be imported: -Cheese, seeds, fruits, bristles, clinkers, threads and tapes, perfumery, silk, thrown and organsined, linens, lawns, cambrics, lace, quicksilver, rushes, linen-flax and yarn, jewellery, bronze, and books,

The articles, when imported, are to be warehoused under the joint lock of the crown and the merchant, until the counter-exportation shall have been made, conformably to the conditions prescribed and made known by government.

With respect to the staple commodities of France, such as wine and brandies, no alteration has taken place. TRIAL OF THE NOTTINGHAM RIOTERS.-The grand jury were sworn in on Monday, and Mr Justice Bailey addressed them to the following effect:

"GENTLEMEN,-Nothing could give me greater satisfaction, amidst the troubled state to which this important county has been reduced by a number of misguided individuals, than to see so respectable a jury assembled, as a barrier between guilt and innocence; and as a safeguard to property, to our liberties, and to our lives. The calendar laid before me does credit to the moral state of the county, with the exception of one crime, which swells the awful list."

William Carnel, aged 22, and Joseph Maples, aged 16 years, were put to the bar, and pleaded not guilty. The witnesses were then called. Elizabeth Braithwaite stated, that in January last, her husband was a stocking-maker, residing at Old Bashford, who kept seven plain cotton frames occupied by five apprentices, one journeyman of the name of Towl son, and himself. On the 3d of Jan. in the evening, a person knocked at the door, and asked for Towlson. The door was bolted, but before she could open it, it was forced, and a man entered, whom she believed to be Carnel; that he walked into the shop with a hammer, and broke the end of a slur-bar; eleven more followed, and the first man who entered

stood as guard to the rest. On being desired to point Carnel out, and to look at one of the sheriff's officers, who stood near to Carnel, she pointed out the man, and said, that is Carnel. She was then asked, whether she knew any other person near him, when she pointed to another in the prisoner's box, and said, that is Maples. She said, that Carnel had given her husband a nudge over the shoulder with a hammer, in consequence of which he had been lame ever since. Maples clapped a pistol to her breast, with this exclamation, "Hang you, I'll shoot you, if you don't hold your noise." She seized the pistol, turned the muzzle towards his throat, and drew the trigger; had it gone off must have shot him, but believes it was not charged. In the mean time she heard some one call out, “ My lads, work on," when the hammers went like those in a smith's shop. The mischief was all done in about 20 minutes.

The evidence on the part of the crown being closed, the prisoners were called upon for their defence, when Carnel declared, that Mrs Braithwaite had made a different statement before the magistrates when he was committed, to what she had done then, respecting his treatment of her husband, as she had then admitted, that instead of his nudging her hus. band with a hammer, he had, she believed, been the means of saving his life. On the part of Maples it was stated on oath, by Sarah Raw. son, Ann Rawson, and Joseph Raw. son, that he, on the evening the frames were broken, was at the house of the latter, from a quarter before seven till past twelve o'clock, and had never been away more than two or three minutes that whole time. Francis Syson made oath, that Carnel was at

his house, on business, from half past six till ten minutes before eight, on the night the frames were broken; three other witnesses spoke to the same effect.

After a trial of six hours, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, for Maples, and Guilty of Frame-breaking against Carnel; when his lordship desired them to reconsider their verdict, pointing out the impropriety of disuniting the burglarious entry from the simple felony of breaking the frames; but all the alteration which the jury chose to make was, to find them both guilty of framebreaking only, thus doing away the capital part of the charge. His lordship then addreseed the prisoners in a solemn and impressive manner, and told them, that if the burglarious part of the charge had been found against them, he should have found himself obliged, for the sake of an example, and to put an end to such disgraceful outrages, to have exerted the full authority of the law; as it was, he had only power to sentence them to transportation for fourteen years.

Robert Poley, aged 16, was charged with frame-breaking, at Sutton, in Ashfield. He pleaded guilty. The judge sentenced him to seven years transportation.

J. Peck, aged 17, for frame-break ing at Sutton, in Ashfield, was found Guilty, and sentenced to transportation for fourteen years.

On Wednesday, Benjamin Hancock, aged 21, was tried for the same offence, found Guilty, and sentenced to fourteen years transportation; as were Marshal and Green to seven years transportation.

21st.-BURY.-Edmund, alias Edward Thrower, was indicted for the murder of Elizabeth Carter, at Crat,

field, Suffolk, on the 16th of October 1793. This prisoner was brought to justice by a chapter of accidents. He confessed the murder to one Heads soon after it was committed; but Heads, according to his statement, knew he was so much given to speaking falsehoods, that he disbelieved him. The murder is just similar to that of the Marr and Williamson families. The prisoner went alone and knocked out the brains of Elizabeth Carter, as she was fastening her window shutter, and then he went into the house and killed her father in a similar manner, whilst the old man was sitting in his arm chair. Some years after this, Heads, who had never before heard from any one but the prisoner that a murder of this sort had been committed, heard a brother felon in Norwich gaol lamenting that he had always been suspected of that murder inno cently, and Heads recollected the confession the prisoner had made to him several years ago, of which he had made depositions before two magistrates, eleven years since, but Thrower, the prisoner, was never heard of, and supposed to be dead. At the time of the general alarm at the horrid murder of the Marr and Williamson families, Mr Archdeacon Oldershaw, a magistrate, was obser ving to a Mr Fox, in common conversation, that a murder resembling those occurred at Cratfield 19 years ago; and in mentioning his taking the deposition of Heads, he observed Throw. er was suspected, but he never was found. Now Mr Fox had a legacy to pay Thrower's wife, which could not be done without her husband's signature, and through this incident the prisoner was taken into custody, as well as Heads, both of whom had been transported.

Heads, in his evidence, told the

same story he had done eleven years ago, of the prisoner's confession; and a person proved having heard a female shriek on the night of the murder, and that he saw a man run from the house. The body of the young woman was proved to have been found in the garden, which corroborated Head's story. There being other strong circumstantial evidence, the prisoner was found Guilty, and ordered for execution on Monday at Ipswich, and afterwards his body to be dissected.

23d.--EDINBURGH.-HIGH COURT OF JUSTICIARY. -On Friday came on the trial of Hugh M'Intosh, Niel Sutherland, and Hugh McDonald, (who went by the nickname of Boatswain) three of the persons accused of being guilty of the riots on the streets of Edinburgh, on the last night of the year 1811, and first morning of the new year.

James Johnstone, a journeyman mason, was also indicted to stand trial, but he had made his escape.

The following charges were then made against the prisoners, to which they pleaded Not Guilty.

Of having, between the hours of ten of the night of the 31st of December, 1811, and four of the morn ing of the 1st of January, 1812:

1. On the High-street, and near the head of the Stamp-office Close, Edinburgh, wickedly and feloniously assaulting, and mortally wounding, Dugald Campbell, then one of the police watchmen of Edinburgh, by striking him on the head, and other parts of his body, with sticks and bludgeons, in consequence of which the said Dugald Campbell died a few .days thereafter.

2. At the same place, assaulting and knocking down Ensign Hum. phry Cochrane, of the Renfrewshire

militia, and robbing him of a silver watch, watch-chain, seals, two guinea notes, some silver, and two handkerchiefs.

3. On North Bridge-street, and near to the General Post-office, assaulting and knocking down R. H. Laurie, clerk to J. Jollie, W. S. and robbing him of a gold seal and watchchain, and five shillings in silver.

4. On North Bridge-street, and near the shop of R. Johnstone, grocer, assaulting and knocking down G. R. A. Browne, Esq. residing in Duke-street, and robbing him of 41. in bank notes, 10s, in silver, a penknife, and a man's round hat.

5. Near to the Tron Church, and either upon the High-street, Hunter's-square, the South or North Bridge, assaulting and knocking down Francis James Hughes, residing in Nicholson's-street, and robbing him of a gold repeating watch, watchchain, four seals, &c. and a man's round hat.

6. At the same place, assaulting Nicol Allan, manager of the Hercules Assurance Company, and robbing him of a watch, watch-chain, two seals, and fourteen shillings in silver.

7. On the South Bridge, or in Adam's-square, and near to the stair which leads into Barclay's tavern, assaulting and knocking down Duncan Ferguson, clerk to W. Campbell, W. S. and robbing him of a seal, watch-key, man's round hat, and 9s. in silver.

8. Near the Tron Church, and on the South Bridge, assaulting D. S. K. M.Laurin, residing in Drummond-street, and robbing him of two watch-cases, a pocket-handkerchief, a man's round hat, and 6s. in silver.

9. Near the south end of the North Bridge, assaulting and knocking down J. B. Brodie, writer, residing in York