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berore the mistake could be recti- 

 fied, sixteen persons were trod to 

 death. 



19. From the Perth Courier.— 

 A very disgraceful occurrence took 

 place in the streets of this town. 

 Many men from the Renfrew, and 

 some from the Fife regiments of 

 militia, after being dismissed from 

 the garrison parade that morning, 

 about 11 o'clock, proceeded in the 

 most riotous and disorderly manner 

 to the prison, with the determina- 

 tion of liberating a private of the 

 Perth militia, who was really not 

 in prison, but only ordered to ap- 

 pear before the sheriff for exami- 

 nation, and was actually in the 

 street at the time. The officers 

 did every thing in their power to 

 check the men, and with the as- 

 sistance of the Durham regiment, 

 succeeded in getting them to the 

 barracks. 



Every measure of precaution 

 which prudence could suggest was 

 adopted on the occasion, and exe- 

 cuted with a degree of prompti- 

 tude and decision which reflects 

 the greatest honour on colonel 

 Dunlop, the commanding officer 

 in absence of general Durham. 

 The ringleaders, who had been se- 

 cured, were instantly sent oflf" in 

 post chaises, under a proper escort, 

 to Edinburgh ; and to prevent the 

 immediate recurrence of the out- 

 rage, two of the regiments were 

 inarched off the same evening, one 

 of them to Dundee, and the other 

 to Crieff and Dunkeid. It was 

 truly gratifying to witness the good 

 order and regularity in which 

 they left the town, after the 

 moment of delusion was past, and 

 their minds were actuated by more 

 soldierly dispositions. 



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It is but justice to mention, that 

 during the whole of the riot the 

 Durham regiment of militia, to a 

 man, behaved with the greatest 

 coolness and steadiness; and seem- 

 ed resolved to suffer every thing, 

 rather than disgrace their military 

 character. 



The whole of the officers of the 

 different regiments behaved with 

 the greatest intrepidity ; and, in 

 many cases, incurred considerable 

 personal risk in securing the of- 

 fenders, and restoring subordina- 

 tion. 



The Fifeshire regiment was re- 

 called on Saturday ; the Renfrew- 

 shire is still quartered at Dundee. 



20. The lord mayor of Dublin 

 arrived in London. His lordship 

 is intrusted with the presentation 

 of a petition from the city of Dub- 

 lin against the Catholic claims. 

 This is said to be the only in- 

 stance (except one in the reign of 

 Geo. II.) of the lord mayor leaving 

 Dublin officially. 



26. Palace of King John, Old 

 Ford. — The workmen at present 

 employed in removing the foun- 

 dation of the north-east wall of the 

 palace, discovered a vault, 11 feet 

 by 6|, in which was a stone cof- 

 fin, covered with a thick plank of 

 oak, and containing the remains of 

 a body : by the length of the thigh 

 bone it must have been nearly 

 seven feet high : there was also in 

 the coffin a short dagger, the scab- 

 bard entire, and a large spur, with 

 several copper coins ; near the 

 coffin was an urn, of most curious 

 workmanship, and filled with black 

 ashes. 



28. A serpent of the Boa Con- 

 strictor species was, in this month, 

 killed in the neighbourhood of 



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