ROME, Aug. 7. Nothing can exceed the vigour with which the ordinances of the Holy See are executed, refpecting foreigners, and particularly Frenchmen. This rigour has been augmented fince a certain Cardinal wrote to the Pope that there were many French emiffaries in his jurifdiction, who, under different pretexts, endeavoured to propagate the great Revolution of their country. Numbers are daily arrested and banished. Even the French foldiers in the garrifon of the Caffle of St Angelo have been dismissed. SCOTLAND. The Whig Club of Dundee tranfmitted to the French Ambaffador, at London, an Addrefs to the National Affembly of France, which he forwarded: and, by the fame channel, they were honoured with an Anfwer, fubfcribed by the Prefident of that Affembly under the National Seal, and directed for Mr Dempfter. The following are copies: TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE NA- SIR, WE, the Members of the Whig Club of, the Royal Borough of Dundee, in North Britain, moft earnestly beg you will lay this our unanimous and humble Addrefs at the the feet of the National Affembly. The triumph of liberty and reason, over defpotifm, ignorance, and fuperftition, is an interefting event to the most diftant spectators. But the regeneration of your kingdom is rendered doubly interesting to us inhabitants of Great Britain: For the example of your former abufive government, proved in the last century extremely prejudicial to It excited in our Princes and their Minifters, an inordinate defire for power, which was often hurtful, and fometimes fatal, to themselves, but always injurious to the State. ours. Accept, Sir, our fincere congratulations on the recovery of your ancient and free conftitution, and our warmeft wishes, that liberty may be permanently eftablifhed in France. We obferve, for the honour of the age and nation, that your renovation has been effected without a civil war, and that neither the fuperfluous domains of the Prince, nor the poffeffions of the Church, have been divided among rapacious fubjects, but both converted to the ufe of the State to which they belong: That fome disturbances, and even acts Revolution, thould have attended this great Revolution, is no way surprising: That these have not been more numeroas, is the wonder of every politician. Our hopes are, that your example will be univerfally followed; and that the flame you have kindled, will confume the remains of defpotism and bigot ry in Europe. We not only hope, but are confident, that the National Affembly of France, and the Parliament of Great Britain, will from henceforth be infeparably united in promoting the peace and profperity of the two kingdoms, and in diffufing those bleffings through the whole extent of the globe. We congratulate you on having an army, of citizens, and a wife Monarch, who, by, lending himself graciously to the views of his people, has ad led luftre to the House of Bourbon, and rivetted the crown of France on the heads of his pofterity. Deign, Sir, to make this addrefs acceptable from the obfcure Members of a Club, inftituted for the purpoles of commemorating the recovery of our own liberty, and of preferving and improving our political conítiWe are inhabitants of a country to tution. which nature has not been bountiful: Oue climate is cold, and our country mountainous: Yet, fince public liberty has been reftored to us by the revolution, our cities become daily more popalous, our inhabitants more induftrious, our mountains lefs barren, and our whole country more wealthy and happy. Nor have we any reafon to believe virtue aud good order to be on the decline. Our Sovereign, the guardian of our conftitution and the father of his people, is almoit an object of our adoration, and our nobility and clergy form ufelni and illuftrious members of a state, where all are fubject to the laws. We meant to have been more concife, but we could not fupprefs our feelings of admiration and delight in contemplating fo joyful an event, as the reitoration of public liberty in France. We conclude with our prayers, that the Almighty Ruler of kingdoms inay direct the efforts of your patriotifm, and guard it from corruption. With the most profound refpect, we have the honour to be, Anfaver of the National Affembly. Paris le 31 Juillet, 1790. PARMI le grand nombre d'adreffes, Meffieurs, que recoit de toute part l'Af femblée Nationale, elle a du remarquer celle d'une Societé, formée au fein d'un Royaume que l'amour de la liberté, et l'efpirit philofophique ont toujours diftingué. Elle me charge de vous temoigner combien elle s'applaudit de votre cftime: qui plus que vous peut en effet avoir le droit de juger la Revolution de France, et quels fuffrages peuvent etre plus flateurs que les votres? Mais combien s'honore un peuple quand il fe rejouit du retabliffement de la liberte chez une nation voiline, comme il fe rejouiroit d'une conquete perfonnelle! Il eft donc vrai qu'il n'exiftera blentot plus de barrieres entre l'Angleterre et la France; et ce grand exemple doit preparer le jour ou tous les hommes vont le regarder comme freres. C'eft avec raifon que vous nous felicitez fur l'avantage de poffeder un Prince, qui ne connoit pas de plus beau titre que celui de Roi d'un peuple libre; il merite bien de notre part les fentiments que vous exprimez d'une maniere fi touchante pour le Roi de la Grand Bretagne; nous pourtions dire auffi, pour nous fervir devos propres expreffions, que le Roi des Francais eft prefque l'objet de notre adoration. Puiffent nos deux nations jouir toujours du bonheur de trouver dans leurs Rois les amis les plus vrais et les plus fermes appuis de leur constitution. J'ai l'honneur d'etre, Meffieurs, votre tres humble et tres obeiffant ferviteur. TREILHARD, President de PAffemblee Nationale. M. M. Les Membres du [TRANSLATION.] PARIS, July 31st, 1790. Among the numerous addreffes, gentlemen, prefented from all quarters to the National Affembly, none is more entitled to their attention than the addrefs tranfmitted from your Society; a Society reared in the bofom of a country always diftinguished for its love of liberty, and the genuine fpirit of philofophy. 2 I have the command of the Affembly to lignify to you, the great fatisfaction they feel in this teftimony of your esteem: Who indeed can have a better right than you to give judgment on the Revolution of France, and what approbation can be more flattering to us than yours? How fignal is the honour that a na tion reflects upon itself, when it feels, as great joy from the re-ftablishment of liberty in a neighbouring country, as it could feel from having made fome valua ble acquifition to itself! This confequence feems now certain, that in a short time, the diffentions which, as barriers, fepara ted England and France will ceafe to have exiftence; and this noble example will uther in the day when all mankind fhall confider one another as brethren. It is with reafon you congratulate us on the advantage of having a Prince who knows no fairer title than that of King over a free people; he well deferves from us the fentiments which you express in fuch an affecting manner for the King of Great Britain: We might alfo fay adopting your own words, that the King of the French is almoft the object of our adoration. TREILHARD, President of To the Gentlemen, the Members of The above answer was communicated to a numerous and refpectable meeting of the Club on the 27th Auguft, who paffed the evening together in feftivity. and among a number of toafts expreffivé of their principles, the following were given: 1. Great Britain, and its happy con ftitution. 2. The King, Queen, Prince of Wales, and all the Royal Family, 3. The glorious and immortal memo- 4. May all mankind foon enjoy their panied with religious toleration. 8. Monf. Treilhard, and the members berties of France prove abortive. fo. The memory of the demolition of the Baftile. i. May the members of this Club live to addrefs all the enslaved nations of Europe on fimilar occafions. 12. The revival of ancient liberty in Rome. 13. The abolition of all religious tefts. 14. May the nations of Europe abandon the idea of conqueft, and cultivate the bieflings of peace. 15. May our dispute with Spain terminate in an honourable accommodation for Britain. 16. May the arms of Britain always prevail, when the is forced into a war. 17. May agriculture flourish in Scotland. 18. May the manufactures of Scotland flourish. 19. Success to the British fisheries, &c. Jury were inclofed, and they returned their verdict this day, unanimoufly finding James Henderfon guilty of the murder, and the libel not proven against nis wife, whereupon fhe was affilzied and difiniffed from the bar; and James Henderson was fentenced to be hanged here on the 29th of October next, to be fed on bread and water till that time, and his body to be delivered to Dr Livingfton, to be by him publickly diffeted and anatomized, in terms of the act of Parliament. No other criminal business depending before the Court, they proceeded to Perth. PERTH, September 18. This day the Circuit Court of Jufticiary was opened here by the Right Honourable the Lords Eikgrove and Swinton, and proceeded to the trial of James Bruce in Kinghorn, accused of murder. The members appeared with the Na- Bruce was found to be infane, and fo Upon a proof being taken, tional cockade. &c. CIRCUIT INTELLIGENCE. INVERNESS, September 2. The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here this day by the Right Honourable Lord Efkgrove, when Charles Hope, Efq. Advocate, produced a commiflion from the Lord Advocate for Scot fand, appointing him Advocate depute for the northern circuit; and having taken the oaths to Government, and the affizes called, he informed the Court, that at this time there was no perfon to be brought to trial in this diftrict; whereupon Lord Efkgrove, after expreffing particular fatisfaction at fo fingular an event in the largest district in Scotland, which he attributed to the vigilance of the Sheriffs and Magiftrates of burghs, and the peaceable difpofition of the inhabitants, difmiffed the affizers, after thanking them in a very polite mauner for their attendance. ABERDEEN, September 13. The Circuit Court of Justiciary was opened here on Saturday laft, by the Right Honourable Lords Efkgrove and Swinton, with the trial of James Henderfon, late in Bainfhole, in the parish of Forgue, and county of Aberdeen, and Elizabeth Stewart, alias Henderson, his wife, accused of the murder of Alexander Gillespie, flater; at or near their houfe, in the month of July laft. The trial lafted from eleven o'clock forenoon till about eight in the evening, when the VOL. XII. No. 69, F not capitally convicted. William Elliot, accused of stealing a watch, clothes, &c. petitioned for banishment, which was agreed to. September, 20. The Court met at nine in the morning, and proceeded to the trial of John Menzies, Officer of Excife, formerly iu Comrie, for the nurder of Peter Drummond, baker in Comrie in June 1788 for which the pannel had been fummoned to appear at the Circuit Court here in Sept. that year, and was fugitated for nonappearance. He was apprehended in Edinburgh in January laft, and brought hither for trial in April. But the Advocate-depute deferted the diet, and he was recommitted on a new warrant. Mr Wight and Mr Hagart appeared as his Counfel; and after the indictment was read, and the pannel pleaded Not guilty, they ftated in fubftance, that the deceafed and he had lived as near neighbours in perfect friendship, by many good offices, up to the day of Drummond's misfortune, and that the ftroke which he had given himon the head, with an oaken kebbir, was done in a fudden guft of paffion, without any previous intention to kill; and after the deed was done, the pannel had repented of it,expreffed his forrow, and done what he could for his relief. Therefore the fact was not murder, as charged, but culpable homicide only. It was answered, That the malicious intention would appear from the circumftances of the cafe. There was no fufficient provocation on the part of the deceased, decrafed, as he had not put the pannel fwered, That the verdict applied precisely not clear, and cannot be given up: For there was a majority of the Jury returning the pannel guilty, clear of the minor and the diffenters, and this is fufficient in law. The Judges were of opinion, that there was nothing in the firft objection, nor on the age of twenty-five; but as there was a difficulty in the age of twenty-one, they referred the whole to the Court of Jufticiary to meet in November next at Edinburgh, and ordered the pannel to be fent thither-whereby an im portant point will be settled. September 21. William Elliot and Daniel McDonald were banished, each fourteen years.Alexander Philips was fentenced to be whipped through Perth by the hangman, and banished for life. There being no other bufinefs, this finifhes the Northern Circuit. AYR, Sep. 10. The Circuit Court of Jufticiary was opened here this day by the Right Hon. Lord Stonefield, when the following perfons were brought to trial, indicted at the inftance of his Majefty's Advocate, for violently affaulting, invading, and attacking the members of the prefbytery of Irvine, met at Saltcoats, for the purpofe of infpecting the ftate of the fchoolhoufe of the parish of Ardroffan, upon an application to the prefbytery from a number of refiding heritors and heads of families in that parifh, on the 13th of May laft, viz. Alexander Hill weaver in Saltcoats, Daniel Crawford fhip-carpenter there, John Robinfon nailer there, William Robfon or Robertfon failor there, Janet Montgomery fifhwoman there, Marion Bailie, wife of James Greer weaver there, Helen Taylor, widow of Peter Bishop failor there, Janet Millar, wife of David Taylor failor there, Janet Wilfon, wife of William Bolton failor there, Jean Workman, wife of Archibald Bolton weaver there, Janet Raefide, daugh ter of John Raefide labourer there, Mary Smith, wife of Robert Stewart falter in Saltcoats, Margaret Barber, refiding in Dockhead of Saltcoats, Margaret Thomson, wife of Adam Biggar weaver in Saltcoats, Jean Jack, refiding in Crofthead of Ardroffan, and Margaret Reid, daughter of David Reid failor in Saltcoats. Before the trial took place, James Montgomery, Efq. Advocate-derure deferted the diet pro loco et tempore against Daniel Crawford, Janet Montgomery, Marion Baillie, Jean Workman, Margaret Barber, Jean Jack, and Margaret Reid-but John Robinfos, William Robfon, and Janet Raefide, were outlawed for non-appearance-The other Fannels, Alexander Hill, Helen Taylor, Janet Millar, Janet Wilson, Mary Smith, and Margaret Thomson, were put to the bar for trial. The libel being read, they all pled Not Guilty-No objection being made to the relevancy, the examination of the witneffes commenced, which took up near five hours. The evidence was then fummed up on the part of the Crown by Mr Montgomery, and by Mr David Cathcart on the part of the pannels-After which, the jury was charged by the Hon. Judge, and in closed. Next day, the prisoners being brought to the bar, the jury returned the following verdict:-" Having confidered the libel, raised and pursued at the inftance of his Majefty's Advocate, for his Majefty's intereft, against Alexander Hill, Helen Taylor, Janet Millar, Janet Wilfon, Mary Smith, and Margaret Thomfon, pannels, they all in one voice find Helen Taylor, Janet Wilfon, Mary Smith, and Janet Millar Guilty; and by a plurality of voices find Alexander Hill and Margaret Thomson Not Guilty." Whereupon Mr David Cathcart, Advocate for the pannels, objected to the verdict, as being null and void, in respect the jury had (with out mentioning the interlocutor on the relevancy and proof adduced) found the pannels guilty upon confidering the libel only, and that no judgment could pafs against them, upon the jury's confidering the libel, without the evidence led in fupport of the facts therein charged, which, from the tenor of their verdict, did not appear to have been the cafe: and therefore that his Lordship was confined to the words of the verdict as it then flood; confequently that the pannels must be affoilzied fimpliciter from the bar. This was anfwered by the Advocate: But his Lordship feemed clearly of opinion that the verdict was void and null; and therefore fustained the objection, and difmiffed the pannels fimpliciter from the bar; -remarking at fame time, that the omillion in the verdict was fimilar to the cafe of Thomas Hall, who was tried lately before the Court of Jufticiary at Edinburgh, where the jury omitted to mention in the verdict the pannel's name againft whom the libel was laid-which was accordingly found iatal to the verdict. This inaccuracy in the verdict is confidered as rather unfortunate; for these rioters from Saltcoats, from their late violent conduct towards Mr Duncan, their minifter, and oppofition to his living in the parish, merited exemplary punishment-The confequences, however, will undoubtedly be the caufe of bringing a new indictment to try thofe other perfons against whom the trial was only deferted pro loco et tempore, unless the people of the parifh of Ardroffan fhow a more quiet and peaceable difpofition in future. The Court having pronounced fentence of fugitation against James Welfh for the alledged murder of William Borland at Old Cumnock and no other business being before them here, they adjourned to Dumfries. DUMFRIES, Sept. 17. The Circuit Court of Jufticiary was open ed here, upon Wednesday the 15th curt. by the Right Hon. Lord Hailes, and proceeded to the trial of William Alexander in Brownhill, who was accufed of the murder of Jofeph Coltart, farmer in Stepend, in the parish of Urr, by giving him a ftroke on the head with his whip, in a fcuffle which enfued in the courfe of their return from a Dumfries market, in the night of the 30th of June laft. After calling over the names of the Jury, his Lordship obferved, "That he would take an opportunity, before so numerous an audience, of mentioning a circumstance which made a deep impreffion on his mind. From certain Jufticiary warrants which had lately been iffued, there was ground, he faid, to apprehend that fome very unjustifiable practices had lately taken place in this neighbourhood. How far guilt had actually been incurred, his Lordfhip would not pretend to fay; but from the nature of thefe warrants, and the applications upon which they had been granted, there was but too much ground for fufpicion. His Lordship then obferved, that whofoever, upon any pretence, to ferve any party, or to promote the intereft of any individual, did endeavour in any degree to interfere with the freedom of election, was guilty of a grofs offence against the conftitution and good laws of the land. The effects which fuch conduct might have at prefent or in one inflance only, was nothing to the example which it furnished, and to the fatal confequences of which it might hereafter be productive. He would not speak, he faid, of the danger to the individuals themselves, by whom the enormities which he had in his eye had been perpetrated. Dangers of that kind there certainly were of a very dreadful nature, and fuch as he trembled to think of. But the infringement of the conflitution, and the violence thereby offered to one of its moft facred and effential principles, was fuch as every one who feared God, or regarded the good of his country, muft ftrongly condemn. He therefore befought the Jurymen, and the whole audience prefent, to remember, and to repeat to their neighbours and acquaintances, the ftrong disapprobation which he expreffed of fuch proceedings. His Lordfhip concluded a very warm and affecting addrefs, by obferving, F 2 that |