A subscription was lately opened at Hamilton, for the relief of the industrious inhabitants, who, in common with those of all the other manufacturing towns in the west of Scotland, have been thrown out of employment, in consequence of the stagnation of trade. A very large sum was forthwith subscribed; but when an attempt was made to distribute it, the people for whose use it had been so generously provided refused to accept of it as alms, but said they would be happy to earn it by their labour. The subscribers have accordingly agreed to expend the money in making a foot-path beAween Hamilton and Bothwell bridge, at which all the labouring inhabitants of the parish will be invited to work, at the usual wages. On Saturday last, Wm. Townley was executed, at the drop in front of the county goal, Gloucester, agreeably to his sentence at the late assizes, for burglary. He was a native of Winchcomb; and, at the age of 29, exhibited a remarkable instance to what extent human depravity may be carried. In 1799, when only 17 years of age, he was, with an elder brother, convicted of a similar crime, aud sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the penitentiary house. He had not long regained his liberty, when he was brought a second time to the gaol for a capital offence, found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years, which period he served on board the bulks at Woolwich: from whence he was only discharged on the 26th of July last; and on the 26th of October he was a third time committed, charged with the crime for which he has so justly suffered. In the last inter val he had entered as a substitute in the Worcestershire militia, for forty guineas, ten of which he had received; he soon squandered the money, and immediately after. wards perpetrated his last offence. He persisted in declaring, that all the witnesses had sworn falsely against him, till within a short tine of his execution, when, just before he received the sacrament, be admitted his full share in the crime for which his life became forfeited to the injured laws of his country. APRIL. 1. The latest accounts from India mention, that the commanding officer of a detachment on the Mahratta frontiers, consisting principally of Sepoy corps, had issued recent orders to the native troops under his command, requiring their presence in their respective huts every evening by eight o'clock; forbidding the use of music at night, and consequently the performance, at that time, of the numerous ceremonies of the east. Such an order necessarily includes the separation of married men, at that hour, from their children and their wives. The Lowther Castle Indiaman carries out a letter, written in Latin, to the Viceroy of China, relative to the investigation which has taken place in this country regarding the murder of a Chinese by a British sailor, of which the latter is proved to have been innocent. The same ship also carries out presents to the Viceroy to a very considerable amount. 2. Two 2. Two marines were executed on board his Majesty's ship Zealous, at Lisbon, on the 8th ult. for the murder of a serjeant of Marines. Their trial disclosed the following wicked, and in other respects, singular circumstances :— The deceased serjeant had been sent with the two prisoners to do duty on board one of the prisonships in the Tagus. In the course of the night they planned to call the serjeant from his cot under On pretence of his being wanted. his proceeding to the part of the ship requested, they way-laid him, and shoved him overboard. It must be supposed that he had made himself obnoxious to them; but this did not appear. On the deceased's being missed, it obtained general belief on board the prisonship, that he had jumped overboard; but it was not warranted by the man's general character, for he was a sober discreet man, and a good soldier. The first intimation of his death to his shipmates on board the Zealous, was by the sentinel upon deck seeing his hat pass by the ship, in the Tagus. The sentinel instantly knew it belonged to him, and inquiry ensued. No suspicion, however, fell upon the prisoners; nor was it necessary for the ends of justice, for their consciences so lacerated them, after the first hour they had committed the crime, that, as they confessed to their comrades, they had no rest day or night. Their voluntary confession led to their trial, and they told the court they had not slept since, but were constantly visited by a distempered imagination of being in the pre sence of the deceased's ghost! Abstract of a Royal Proclamation in Sweden.-" We, Charles, by the grace of God, King of Sweden, &c. "Make known, whereas, owing to an illness that has befallen us, and from which, by the assistance of the Almighty, we hope SOOD to be restored, we have deemed it necessary, in order to promote this object, for the present to withdraw ourselves from the care and trouble which are so closely united with the management of public affairs, and in order during our illness not to retard the progress of affairs, we have thought fit to order what is to be observed respecting the government. And we do, therefore, hereby appoint and nominate our beloved son, his Royal Highness Carl Johan, Crown Prince of Sweden, and Generalissimo of our military forces by land and sea, during our illness, and until we shall be restored to health, to manage the government in our name, and with all the rights we possess, and alone to sign and issue "Duall orders, &c. with the following motto above the signature: ring the illness of my most gracious King and Lord and agreeable to his appointment." However, bis Royal Highness the Crown Prince must not, during the administration of our royal power and dignity, create any noblemen or knights; and the vacant offices of the state can only, until further notice, be managed by those whom bis Royal Highness shall appoint to that effect. "The Palace of Stockholm, March 17, 1811. "CHARLES (L. S.) "JAF. WETTERSTEDE." 5. Old Bailey. James Fallan was indicted for the wilful mur. der of his wife, at Chelsea, on Saturday, the 9th of February last. It appeared from the testimony of Sarah Llewellyn, that the prisoner had been a corporal in the guards, from which service he had been recently discharged, on account of a liver complaint, and was admitted a pensioner at Chelsea Hospital on the 8th of February, the day preceding the crime charged against him. The prisoner and his wife lived in a cellar in the market-place, Chelsea. On the 9th of February, two of his comrades, who had also been admitted pensioners, came with two servant-women from the hospital, and the witness, Llewellyn, to see them. They drank together some porter and spirits. The prisoner desired the deceased to go for some more liquor, without naming any particular kind. She did not go, and all the parties, except Llewellyn, who lodged in the cellar, went away; the prisoner then asked his wife, why she had not fetched the liquor as he desired her? This led to an altercation, in which the deceased used some abusive terms to the prisoner; upon which he struck her with his fist on the face. The deceased never returned the blow: he continued to repeat his blows, and knocked her down several times, and the deceased frequently cried gut, dear Jemmy, don't murder me." He, however, continued to beat her with violence, and on the witness seizing his arm, and telling him to desist, or he would certainly kill the deceased, he pushed her down on a chair, and told her not to interfere, or he would serve her in the same manner: and he then continued to repeat his blows violently on the deceased, who sat down on the bed. The witness attempted to go out and call for assistance, but the prisoner stood before the door and prevented her; he then returned to the bed, and began to repeat his attack upon the deceased, and the witness took this opportunity of escaping into the street in order to procure some help. She found three women listening at the cellar door, and they went with her up stairs to request a man to come down with them to interfere; but he refused, and on their return to the cellar door, she heard the prisoner continuing his blows, and the deceased piteously crying out," Oh! dear Jemmy, don't kill me!" groans of the deceased became fainter and fainter, and at last ceased altogether. The witness sat on the stairs all night, afraid to go in until the morning, when she did go in, found the prisoner and his wife in bed, and expressed her gladness that they were reconciled, The deceased appeared much bruised about her eyes and face, and complained of being also much bruised about her body, and particularly in her side, which she said was severely hurt and painful. The husband sent for a surgeon, who took some blood from the deceased. The prisoner staid there until Tuesday, and then went away away for the avowed purpose of procuring another lodging for himself and the deceased; but did not return until the Saturday follow. ing, when he saw her, and went away again. The deceased continued to languish, however, and died on the Sunday; in consequence of which, the prisoner was taken into custody. The surgeon who opened the body of the deceased stated, that he found the four false ribs on the left side broken, and that two of them were forced into the pleura, and had wounded several of the vessels, and produced a great effusion of blood, which occasioned the death of the deceased. The prisoner, in his defence, produced a long written statement, in which he imputed the origin of this quarrel to the ill-temper and abusive language of the deceased; and said, that he had only struck her with his open hand, and the whalebone busk of a woman's stays, and that if the ribs were broken, it must have happened from her falling over a box in the room: and so far from having any prepense malice towards her, he loved her tenderly. Lord Ellenborough summoned up the evidence for the Jury, who, after a short deliberation, found the prisoner Guilty: and the Recorder immediately passed upon him the awful sentence of execu tion and dissection on Monday next. 6. Report of the Queen's Council, on the state of his Majesty's health-Queen's Lodge, Windsor, April 6,1811.-Present, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, Earl Winchelsea, Earl of Aylesford, Lord Eldon, Lord Ellenbo rough, Sir W. Grant, (the Duke of Montrose being absent, on account of indisposition.) "We, the Members of the Council, here present, appointed to assist her Majesty in the execution of the trust committed to her Majesty, by virtue of the Statute passed in the 51st year of his Majesty's reign, entitled, "An Act to provide for the Adminis tration of the Royal Authority, and for the care of his Majesty's Royal Person during the continuance of his Majesty's illness, and for the resumption of the exercise of the Royal Authority by his Majesty; having called before us and examined on oath the Physicians and other persons attendant on his Majesty, and having ascertained the state of his Majesty's health by such other ways and means as appear to us to be necessary for that purpose, do hereby declare the state of his Majesty's health, at the time of this our meeting, as follows: "That the indisposition with which his Majesty was afflicted at the time of the passing of the said Act does still so far exist, that his Majesty is not yet restored to such a state of health as to be capable of resuming the personal exercise of his Royal Authority. "That his Majesty appears to have made material progress towards recovery since the passing of the Act; and that all his Majesty's Physicians continue to express their expectations of such recovery." (Signed) 8. A very singular discovery has been made at Colchester, respecting the sex of a servant who had lived thirty years in a family in that town, as housemaid and nurse. Having lately paid the debt of nature, it was discovered, on examining the body, that the deceased had been a male. No reason is assigned for his having assumed the female garb; and he had never, like the Chevalier D'Eon, excited suspicion, or been the subject of bets and law-suits. Last week, as Mr. Bell, of Louth, a woman, and a boy, were crossing the Trent, the ferryman hoisted the sail, which frightening Mr. B's horse, he leaped over board, and dragged his owner and the ferryman into the river, where they were drowned. The woman and boy sustained no injury. Two houses in Ironmonger-row, Old-street, which, notwithstanding they were under repair, were crowded with inhabitants, fell down with a most tremendous crash, while the workmen were gone to dinner. By this disaster a great number of the inmates were buried in the ruins. The London militia, who were at the time exercising in the Artillery Ground, were immediately sent to aid the sufferers, and by dint of the most unwearied exertions, eleven persons were taken out, four of whom were dead, viz. a mother and three children named Crewe; the wounded persons were taken to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, most of them in a deplorable state. 10. Execution of John Gould, aged 23. for the murder of his wife, Elizabeth Gould.-This unfortunate young man suffered the sentence of the law on Wednes day last, on the new drop, in front of the county gaol of Stafford. There were some circumstances attending this trial which are worthy of notice. This youth married at an early age, without any ostensible means of supporting a wife and family beyond his own daily labour. He worked, it appeared, for his father, in the character of a servant, on a small farm. Finding a family coming on, his wife being pregnant of the second child, it appeared that he had used violent and cruel means of producing abortion, namely, crushing or elbowing his wife in bed, rolling over her, &c. By these means abortion was produced, and the unfortunate mother died in a short time after, the wife and offspring sharing the same fate. Before she expired she declared, according to the evidence, that il-usage of the above kind had been the cause of her death; and on this circumstantial evidence Gould was found guilty. On sentence being passed upon him, he exclaimed that he was murdered. Gould, after being conveyed back to his cell, wept aloud, and his cries were heard by the whole of the prisoners in the gaol. He appeared incapable of receiving consolation. His sentence came like a thunder-bolt upon him, and deprived him of every manly exertion. He was attended with unexampled assiduity and kindness, by a reverend and respectable clergyman, who volunteered his truly christian services to prepare him for the last awful moment. All, however, appeared to be without any particular effect. He was susceptible of nothing but grief; and when his time approached, it was |