historical chronicle. 



is to be that of inducing the em- 

 peror to direct the payment of 

 debts, owing by the merchants 

 of China to those of our settle- 

 ments in India, to the amount 

 of more than one million ster- 

 ling- 



A monument, it is said, will 

 be erected to the late Mr A- 

 dam the architect, in St Paul's 

 Cathedral. 



St Andrew's, March 12. 

 There was discovered, the be- 

 ginning of February last, in a 

 garden on the east side of the 

 Castle Wynd, St Andrew's, a- 

 bout three feet below the sur- 

 face, an earthen pot, contain- 

 ing a number of Englifti, Scotch, 

 and French coins. By tra- 

 cing the names of the princes, 

 and examining the form of the 

 different imprefsions, they ap- 

 pear to be about the size of 

 half a crown, but thin and 

 light. There are above 200 

 of silver, mostly about the size 

 of a (hilling, many of them co- 

 vered with rust, and very much 

 defaced. The silver ones have 

 on one side a St George's 

 Crofs, in the angles of which is 

 •written, on an inner circle, up- 

 on som.e Vi//a Ca/i.sie, upon o- 

 thers Ci'jiCas London, on others 

 Civitas Eboraci, and on others 

 Villa Edinhurgi. In the outer 

 circle of the three first kinds 

 are the words, Posut Deum Ad- 

 jutorem Meum. On the outer 

 circle ot the Scots kind, Dj- 

 jninus Protector meus et Libe- 

 rator meus. On the reverse of 



the first kinds is a human head 

 with a crown, round which is 

 generally the inscription, Hen- 

 nc. Dei Grat. Rex Anglorum et 

 Francorum. The reverse of 

 the Scotch coins exhibits also 

 a crowned head circumscribed 

 with the words, in some Rober- 

 tas, in others Jacobus Dei Grat. 

 Rex Scotoruin. 



The spirit of emigration 

 which lately threatened to de- 

 populate the Highlands of Scot- 

 land, has now, in some degree, 

 subsided. Nothing has contri- 

 buted more to this desirable 

 purpose than the society insti- 

 tuted by the patiiotic Mr Dale, 

 in Glasgow and the neighbour- 

 hood, for the encouragement of 

 the opprefsed Highlanders. 



The Hon. Lord Rockville 

 died here on Tuesday the 13th 

 March. He was the son of the 

 late Earl of Aberdeen by his 

 third lady, Ann Gordon, daugh- 

 ter of the duke of Gordon. The 

 cause of his Lordfhip's death 

 was a fall, from the streets be- 

 ing slippery, by which his arm 

 was broke, and a fever was the 

 fatal consequence. 



On Saturday night, March 

 loth at eleven o'clock, died at 

 his house in South Audley- 

 street, London, in his 80th 

 year, the right hon. the earl of 

 Bute,vIscount and baron Mount- 

 stuart, isi'c. His lordlhip bore 

 his illnefs with great composure 

 and resignation, though his dis- 

 order produced at times very 

 cxcefsive paia. 



