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manship, properly mounted and 

 adoined with a silver plate, on 

 which there has since been en- 

 graved the proper inscription, 

 with 48 merks in money, to Don- 

 ald Mackay, piper to the High- 

 land Society of Glasgow, and to 

 the Highland regimeftt of local 

 militia of that city. 



2d Prize — 60 merks, to Wil- 

 liam Mackay, late pipe-major to 

 the Invernesshire militia. 



3d Prize — 50 merks, to John 

 Campbell, from Nether Lome, 

 Argyllshire. 



4th Prize — 45 merks, to John 

 Gordon, from Glen of Fincastle, 

 Perthshire. 



5th Prize — 40 merks, to James 

 Kennedy, from Strathsay. 



Sir John jNIacgregor Mur- 

 ray, in delivering the prizes, as 

 preses of the committee, to the 

 preferred competitors, address- 

 ed them severally, in their na- 

 tive language, the pure Gaelic, 

 which appeared to gratify them 

 highly. Sir John remarked to 

 the audience, that the profes- 

 sion of these men had been al- 

 ways justly held in estimation by 

 our ancestors j for what could be 

 more gallant and heroic than a 

 man unarmed advancing intre- 

 pidly in the face of an enemy, en- 

 couraging his comrades to deeds 

 of hardihood and glory, by those 

 martial strains so congenial and 

 animating to the feelings of every 

 Highlander ? 



A few nights ago, the house of 

 a farmer, situated between An- 

 trim and Luughanmore, was be- 

 set by a banditti having their 

 faces blackened. They soon forced 

 an entrance, and demanded his 

 money, which they said they 

 knew he possessed. He assured 



them he had none, for that he 

 had, on the previous day, paid his 

 rent with it. They reiterated 

 their demand with dreadful threat- 

 enings, to whicli the poor man 

 could only reply by again assuring 

 them he had paid his rent with 

 it. The barbarians would not 

 believe him, and, imputing his 

 denial to obstinacy, then pro- 

 ceeded to bieak the tables and 

 chairs in his house, and with 

 these they kindled a large fire on 

 the hearth. They then seized 

 him, and stretched the wretched 

 victim on the blazing wood, 

 where they held him, regardless 

 of his screams and writhings, 

 until he was severely scorched in 

 different parts of the body ; and 

 one of his sides is so dreadfully 

 burnt, that it is not thought he 

 can recover. Wlien the unhappy 

 sufferer was seemingly expiring 

 in the midst of the iiames, the 

 wretches drew him out on the 

 hoor, where they left him and 

 retreated from the house, not 

 supposing that any eye had wit- 

 nessed this tragic scene. But 

 Providence had ordered it other- 

 wise : for a young woman who 

 was in the house, and who had 

 hid herself when they first enter- 

 ed, saw the whole transaction, 

 and distinctly knew two of the 

 party, who resided in the neigh- 

 bourhood. Next day she lodged 

 examinations against them before 

 a magistrate, and they have both 

 been apprehended and committed 

 to the gaol of Carrickfergus to 

 abide their trial at the ensuing 

 assizes. — Belfast News-Letter. 



3. Glasgow. — On Thursday 



afternoon, and yesterday, there 



was a considerable disposition to 



rioting among the lower ranks in 



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