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212 desultory speech, concluding with a string of resolutions, having for their object to obtain annual parliaments and universal suffrage. The resolutions were then embodied into the form of a petition, and carried by acclamation. It was taken, by the chairman of the meeting, down to the House of Commons, with the view of putting it into the hands of Lord Folkstone to be presented. The crowd gradually dispersed. Mr Hunt paraded through several of the principal streets, with an immense mob following his tandem, but, though rather turbulent, no mischief ensued.

Mural Monument.—Soon after the completion of the iron bridge at Bonar, in the county of Sutherland, George Dempster, Esq. of Dunnichen, expressed a wish to be allowed to have placed, at his expense, in a conspicuous place at Bonar Bridge, a mural monument, or tablet of marble, with an inscription, expressive, and as a lasting memorial, of the patriotic exertions of the Commissioners for Highland roads and bridges. The tablet, which is of white marble, about four feet in height, and three feet in breadth, with two pedestals of Portland stone, having been safely landed at Bonar, the heritors, &c. of the county of Sutherland, at their last Michaelmas Head Court, directed that it should be forthwith erected, agreeable to the wish of the patriotic donor, and voted thanks to Mr Dempster for the handsome gift, which were communicated to him by the convener. The inscription is as follows:—

The names of the Parliamentary Commissioners appointed, in the year 1803, to direct the making of about five hundred miles of roads through the Highlands of Scotland, and of numerous bridges, particularly those at Beauly, Scuddel, Bonar, Fleet, and Helmsdale, connecting those roads;—viz.
 * Right Honourable Charles Abbott.
 * Right Honourable Nicholas Vansittart.
 * Right Honourable William Dundas.
 * Sir William Pulteney, Bart.
 * Isaac Hawkins Brown, Esq.
 * Charles Grant, Esq.
 * William Smith, Esq.

To whom were afterwards added,
 * Archibald Colquhoun, Esq. Lord Advocate.
 * Charles Dundas, Esq.
 * Right Honourable Nathaniel Bond.

This building was begun in September 1811, and finished in November 1812.
 * Thomas Telford, architect.
 * Simpson and Cargill, builders.

Organ.—A superb organ has just been built, at an expense of 4000 guineas, as a present from the Countess of Loudon and Moira to the church at Calcutta. This instrument is to be shipped for India by the next outward-bound fleet.

13.—Union Canal.—On Saturday the 8th, the petition for leave to bring into Parliament the Bill for the Union Canal was despatched to London, signed and sealed by the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, and having the subscriptions of a number of respectable individuals of both cities, well-wishers to that much wanted and most useful undertaking.

13.—New Coin.—The exchange of the new for the old silver coin commenced this day at the several banks and banking houses in this city and Leith; and the issue is to be simultaneous throughout the kingdom.—The new coins are very handsome, consisting of crowns, half-crowns, shillings, and sixpences. On the crowns and half-crowns is the head of his Majesty, with the words Georgius III. Dei Gratia, 1816; on the reverse, Rex. Fid. Def. Britanniarum, with the royal arms and motto encircled by the collar of the order of the Garter, surmounted with a crown. On the shillings and sixpences is his Majesty's head, with the words Geor. III. D. G. Britt Rex. F. D. 1816. The arms on the reverse are encircled with the Garter, surmounted with the crown. The raised rim protects the impressions, and each coin has a milled edge.

14.—Commitment to the Tower.—Watson, Preston, Hooper, and Kean, alias Kearns, having been ordered to be committed to the Tower, four hackney coaches were procured, and one prisoner put into each, under the care of a king's messenger and a Bow Street officer. Sir Anthony Conant rode in the first coach. They left the Secretary of State's office about five o'clock, and proceeded to the Tower. As soon as the coaches had entered, the gates were closed, and the Deputy-Governor and Col. Sutton, the colonel of the guard on duty, took charge of the prisoners, and conducted them to second rate apartments, which had been prepared for their reception; each is confined in a separate room. Two wardens (yeomen of the guard) are to be in each room constantly with them; and at the outside of each room door there are two centinels.

15.—Naval Monument.—A numerous meeting of the subscribers to the naval monument to be erected to the memory of the late Lord Melville, was held at Oman's Hotel, in Edinburgh, on Tuesday, when the state of the funds was laid before them; and it was unanimousely resolved, that a committee be formed for carrying the said work into execution, and that they be instructed to fix upon a place for erecting the said monument, to procure plans, to decide upon the same, and proceed forthwith in the execution thereof.

15.—County Meeting.—Yesterday, a very numerous meeting of the county of Edinburgh was held in the Parliament House, when an address to the Prince