The Caledonian Mercury from Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland • 2

Persia and to Erarice, ani was rccclrcd ths oslarst Irrn the LONDON GAZETTE, I-K -H War Office, July Regiment of c1raoons, George is sppmnted so be vice Charles R-n's. 6th Regiment Of fc-t, Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Craijj, of the -J regimtnt, tobe Lieutenmt-Coi-nel, vice Alexander Diefcsen. Iniig' liugh Walluce to be Lieutenant, vice Fred. C. Wlnte.

Sprou'c. to I Ensign, vice Hugh WaHace- Regiment Af foot, Nathaniel Gent, to be Ensign, vice John Marland. Ensign Peter Cuniiighame to he Lieutenant, vice Hoheit Wallis. Lucius Coiicanun, Gent, to he Ensign, vice Peter Cuniiighame. 4Zd Regiment of foot, Ensign John of aeth regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice I.loyd Hiil.

Sth Regiment of foot, Comet Samuel Chamhcrs. of the A vegi-meiit dragoon to be LUnt-uant, vice John Cordon Cu-uiiiig. Sad Regiment of foot, Major the Hon. Colin J.inJfäy, of the ad hatt of the 7Sd regiment, to be Licutenant-Colonel, vice James Henry Ciaig. 841h Regiment of foot, sd hattalion, Alexander Stephens, Gent, to be Ensign, vice the Hon.

Leveson Murray. S)a Regiment of foot. Ensign Bates Vat'son, of ihe jjth regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Queely Davis Tailour. 97th Regiment of foot, William Gicaves, Gent, to be Ensign, vice illiam Thompson. INTELLIGENCE FROM LLOYD's July 3.

The Jenny, CoIIiion, arrived at Liverpool ftom Lt I.ueii, ipoke the Jfajleqoi, from Jamaica sor Liverpool, oir the Saltees the sirll Elsinore, June. Passed hy the Constantia, Berners, from Tran-quebar for CopenhaZen. The Prudence and Union transports, -were lost near Teljychcrry in May 1781 Hasiinjs, -5th July, 17 8z. This moroing arrived the Grerbound ent-ter, Capt, John Sargent, from Philadelphia for Ortend, ho, 011 the 311 of fpoke itn the Mary, Capt. John Tours, frum London to Philadelphia, in lat.

37 37. long. 7c o. The Othello, Johnson, from Africa to Tortola, is cast away on the cast that illand; the cargo, consirtiiij ol" Saves, saverl. The Nanry, Caliow, was well 011 the windward eoalt of Africa the 8th of April.

The Alert, Lewellin, arrived at Bristol IVofc Jamaica. parted withtlie fleet about a month since (through the Gulph) all well. quencesjos whieh, as appeared By the -ss-rdeftee oi Sir johf. bot and Sir William Fordvee he has still much to arprehend, Cnlefshc hves with the greatest temperance for many mont! U) come And with refpest to die other appeared that he bad been knocked down, and then liveeiy beat and kicked, but without fach injurious essects as'his friend had experienced, his head having been saved by a woman who stood orer him, wliiist he was begging that they would not kill htm. Tue injury was admiued by Mr Bcarcroft but, in extenu-atton of damages, he urged, that one or both of the plaintisss had struck one of the young gentlemen with a whip, or barr-boo cane.

Mr Solicitor-General argned sirongly and ably for the necef. sity of making public examples in soch instances of vioience aud barbarity. But Lord Manssield observed to the Jttrv, that the causo uid not appear to him to be a proper one sor so es in encrease of damages, as the scholars had no doabt dy sussered tl diseipline ot the school sor their ossence, and dwt they who were guilty having no pr.rrty os their own to make sotisfaction the damages bc paid by dieir pa-reiits, who were cerrainly innocent. The Jury weut out for about half an hour, and bioaeht in Vstrdlcttor 2L Crowder and 20 0 Braithaite, with EXCHANGES, LONDON WITH HOLLAND Amsterdam, 34 7. 1 of the Bank Dato 34 X.

f.o.n Rotterdam, 34 8 i J. I H. H-xtraSl of a iettcr fror London, July 8. HOUSE of LORDS. The Commiffioners of Public Accounts bill, the bill Iay.

sog a duty on Births and Burials, the Adjutant-General' Postage bill, the Waggon Duty bill, and the Excife Reguia-tion bill, were -read a lccond time, and committed for to-mor- Pctjtion sigoed by fe crai of the London distillers, and a petition signed by fereral persons at Bristol, were presented and read, praying to be heard by counfel against tiie said bill whieh, upon the question put, was ordered by the Hoafe, as also liberty for counscl to be heard in favour of the bill. The Exchequer Loan bill, and the Exchcquer Regula-tion bill, were presented, and read a first time. Lord Thurlow rose up and said a few words refpecting the Dominica bill now besore that House. His Lordihip thougbt it was a bill that required some consideration, and there-sore hoped it not (though the prefent scflion of Parlia-nient was so near a concluiion) be sent immediately to a Cornmittee, but that a day or two at Jetist slionid be giveri in erdrr to consider the sormer acts refpecting that Island'; he soould, therefore, move, that they be now read a second time, and com-mitted for Friday next. His Lordfoip's lequest was immedi-ately complied witb, aad the bill accordingly stands committed sor that day.

HOUSE or COMMONS. LoVALl STS. The House in a Cornmittee, Mr Orde in the Chair, on ifsc for appoititiug Commissioners to enquire into, and make report of, the I esse 5 soslasoed by the who were claim-ing the public bounty for their attachment to the interests of this country in the late war in America, uiontlt at irarts. Official accofitts from the Governor of Bombay are hourly expected to amve. It is tlte intentinn of Ministers 40 appoint a Board of Com-mtssioners to inquire into the Claims of the Loyalists, and ascer-tain the real amOunt of their lost'es, that the relief may be pro-portioned to their and thac the neceslary distinctions may be made betwecn real and affectedgrievanecs.

This Board is to confist of five Menibersi and. Gentlemen of the House of Commons are not to be exeluded from it. They are also to have the whole bustness of the commercial system between this country and America submitted care, that they may and give essest to the new establifhment, and prevent, as nmch as polltble, all appeals for the of asts to Wcil-minster Hall. Lord Keppel, and his Mr Sccretary Fox, have now a plan before them for the future manning of our navy without preslmg. The principal hint in this plan is said to have origi-nated with Lord Loughborough.

An tinaceottntable alarh, prevails among the stock -hol ders, whsch either lhows their poverty, or their apprthenfions that the peace will not be lasting, orperhaps, both may be the casc but be it as it will, govetnment sceurit is already reduced by tt to a Jowcr ebb than was ever known before; For who could have believed, when omnittm two months ago was at eight per Cent, prosit, that it wonld this day have been at par and wagers are laid, that by to-morrow or next day, it will even bc at a difcount. In the tenth report of the Commiffioners of Accounts, va-nous instances of official abuses are-stated bitt there is one ntost extraordinary fast whieh requires immediate investiga-tion it is this That there are ooe hundred and feventy miflions of the public money outstanJing and anaecounted for, in the hauds of six persons whole nauies ate mentioned.in the Dr Johnson, we are bappy to find, is peifectly recovered from bis late indispolition. It was a paralytic attack, and so strong in its essest on the tongtte, that lose of speech prevailcd for fcveral days. The use of tliat organ is however entirely re-ftored, and, God be praised, not any of his ficulties seern at all iuipaired by the stroke. This is the more welcjn-je to his friends, as it was more than was expected by the medical peo-ple, who are used to experience more permanent bad essects front a palsy visiting a man os seventy-sour, sor so advanced is Dr Johnson's age.

Yesterday, the Malt Komposition bill, the African Trade bill, the Feverfliam Ordnance bill, the bill for the bettcr sceu-rity of the Docks and Yards at Ponsmouth, the Whitcchapel Paving bill, and the Lambeth- Poor bill, were read a tbird thue in the hionse of Peers, and paffed. The Birth and Burial Duty bill, the Waggon Dttty bill, the Commissioners of Public Accounts bill, the Dominica bill, and the Adjutant-Generat's Postage bill, were presented, tead a sirit trme, and the Dominica bill, upon motion, ordered to be pi inted. The order of the day was yesterday read for the second rcading of the Insolvent Debtors bill upon the question being put, that the Rev. Mr Grcen be now called to the bar, it paff-cd in the negative without a division. Lord Thurlow then moved, That this bill be read a second tinie on this day two, months whieh, upon the question being put, passed in the asssrnvitive without a division.

Yesterday, the Burial, Duty bill, and the Adjutant-General's Postage bill, were read a tbird tirne in the House os Connnons, and Yesterday tbe Civil Iist bill, the Cossee and Cocoa bill, and the bill relative to Mudins, were read a second tirac, and coni-ntittcd sor to-niorrow. In a Cornmittee 00 the Corn Exportation bill, Lord Rod-ney's Annuity bill, Sir George Augustus Eliott's bill, the Lord Jrjh" Cavtudifb propofed feveral clauses, whieh were pel attendauce, and in ihort, to give them sofScient authority to render them competent to discover and ascertain, with some de-gree of precisiori, who were, and who were not, distressed, in ciaseqeence of the civil war, and persons entitied 10 the telief Front the London Pap.rj, July 8. LONDON. Tcc Alert, Captain LeweMin, from Jamaica, is arrived at Bristol, arid brings an aecount oi the fleet for Europe, confist-ing of 70 fall, having got through die CJ-uIf" of Mexico all weil; About 30 of tbe above sket were bonnd to London, the retnainder sor Bristol, Liverpool, Glasgow, The whole nuy be expected every day, as tlicy intended to separate in a fcw days, from the convoy sent to prouct them from the piiatiea! still near the aud the South pari of America. Whcn the above fteet fail cd, there were thrce fliips nf tiic lir.e at Jamaica, the remaindc-r having been citiier sent honte or gone to New-York Provisions were very plemisol and Cneaper on the i Sands than had been known for some vears, and a tiumber of ihips had arrived for whieh wonld be Sligcd to return to England half laden, the crops of sogar belog so very indifferent, that, taking the hole Island through, tbe prodt.ee might be reckoned at only two thirds of whar they generalTy made.

The Small-pox had been rife among the Ne-groes, hau happi'y abated without very fatal coniequences, its rage having been checked by a general inocnlation. Eetters were deiivered out this day from the Windward and Leeward Islands, whieh had been mostly brought over by neu-rrsl iiiips arrived at Dover, and originaliy intended for Ostend, bat will now bc ordered for Iondon. Among diese fliipj were the Europa, Ciptain Lallen, from Grenada, and the Ofd Nor-way, Captain Weale, front St Citristopher's. The French, at the above Islands, refuse to let any Englifli vestels come inta their ports till the peace fliall be tatilicd, and it is imv by bri-bcrV that anV sugars can be fhipped escept on Prencli bottoms. The eonsequence is, that levcral vtilcis, whieh were wailinc; at Barbadstes and Antigua to get into their old ch.innel of tr uic, muil now return, not a hoglhead of sugar In ing to be had by any but the iraders at Barbadocs and Antigua, and bv there-not lieing several will come back in ball.iJl as being bitter than ta reiaain in the WelUltidies liil next year.

The general price of freight there is 8. 6 d. per cwt. for lugar, but sevcral have ossered their vessek at s. rather than return empty.

It may be depended on, the Dutch East-Incfia Company Iiave had so piany during the war, that it is believtd they will finally stop, whieh will be the ruin of hundreds in that country A demur in their payments had already tahen place and it is thougbt their affairs desperate. A report was current yclJerday about town, that Sir Edward Ilnghes, with his Majetty's fleet, conlisting of the sollowing stiips of the line and frigates, sailed from Bombay the latter end es Fcbruary cn their way to the coast of Coromandcl all the inen of war having been reparred, and put into the best condi-tion be intended to call off Goa sor the two lliips that went to repair at that settleraent some of the East Companys )hips whieh were waiting at Bombay for the sailing of the fleet in their way to the ifland of Johanna, proceeded with them. tSir Edward, besore he siiiled, removed bis front the Sultan, 01 74 guns, to his old ihip the Superb, of 74, whieh had been opper fheathed, new malted, and put into as good repair as a r.v of the King's yards could have attbrdcd in England. Bickerton was second ir. command, and had hia pendant in the Gibraltar, whieh he in from Europe.

At the voyage to Madras is estimated at about fix weeks or there-abouts, the iq'uacVcn would be near de Suffiein in the middie of April at fatthest. Admiral Hughes's fleet, as they sailed from Bombay the lat ot parhament. l-i-2 tnerefore meant to it part of the bitt, that the commillionets Ihould report the resolt of their enqui-ries early in the next sofstons 10 that house. The noble Lord hereconcluded with recommeading to the attention of the the lituation of tbe refuge-cs. Sir Ali? rose up, not to make anv objections to the bill noy before he Cornmittee, bat merely'to clear up a doubt whieh appeared to him relative to the powor invested in the There was a Mr Maer.ight, au inhabitantof the province of Nojth CaraBrta, who, by bis zcalous attachment to his kiug and country, was deprived of all the real and personal property he polsessed in America.

There was another hardlhip this gentleman expersonced during the war he having sitted up a ihip at bis own expence, in order to trade with the other provinces, this vessel was captured by his MaZesty's sob-jects, under an act passed in September 1775, called "the Pro-hibiting Acti" All thole circumstances concurred to raake hin an object of the prefent bill, as well as othei came under that defeription. He also wilhed that this bitt might run in soch a manner as to discriminate tbe ebsses of Loyalists who were to come under it, in Order that the soms to be gramed may be propoitior.ed to their merk. This ht thougbt was es-fentially neecssu-y, and hoped he noble Lord (Lord J. Cavcn-dilhj would consider of the propriety of so doing. Eord John replied to the Hon.

B.ironet, and said, that Mr Macnight would come under the defeription of the bill. The noble Lord was perfectly siitisfied, that Mr Macnight was a very meritorio js Loyaiiif, and theresore would raake such provision in tlie bill, as would entitlc him to the rewards due to so distinguifhed a character. Mr tFtlmet and Mr Cook' fpoke in larour of tbe Loyalists, as did Mr 'Baker and Mr Bahi, The blanks in the bill were then silled up, and the Comnasstoners names soferted, whieh wer, Mr Wilrocr Mr Cooke, Sir Thomas Dundas, Mr Roberts, and Mr Marsh The bill was then passed, and ordered to be reportcd to-mor- hlax and bw, and the bill for granttng reliet to the India Company, went through ehe some, and ordered the report to be reeeived to-morrow: ExtraiJ of a Ictler from a siitte'Kar: in Nensi York, JjIjJ May Zt. I783. The peace is endered still more humiliating to the Loyal-tfls, from the fixt rancour and enmity difeovered by the refolves of the feveral states and every dne here that can poslrbly re-treat to tfceir only asylum, Nova Scotia and Canada, are prepar-ing to remove, when tlie army soall finally quit this caty.

When that will be the next packet will probably determine. At prefent, every thing is in an unfettled state aud thotigh e-very person from without their lines has free egresi and hcre, yet no man, known as a Tory, dares ventttre into the country it appears to be their fixed determination to difregard totally that part of the treaty relative to the friends of govern-mont, and to extirpate, if possibk, the whole race of them. How far tinie may rnolify and foften them, and produce a rality of frniiment, much more consonant to sound policy than this prefent cannct say, but I describe to you tbetrue lern per of the country. Innnmerable are the instances in this city of persons who, without reaping one single emolument whatever, have hazarded life and property, and have now no alternative, but the wretched one of beginning the worldagain, in a wretched poor cold country. I had sorgot to mention to you that seven tboufand fouls sailed from hence to Nova Scotia about tbree weeks since, and ate also fafe arrived at Port Rofway, and up the Bay of Fun-day as rnany more will go in about tbree weeks." WESTMINSTE R-HALL INTELLIGENCE.

Wednefday, came on to be tried at theadjourncd sittings before Lord Mansfield and a fpecial Jury two actions, the one brought by a Mr Crowder, and the other by a Mr Biaithwaite, against feveral young gentlernen at Harrow fcliool, sor a violect affault. It appeared in evidence, tliat the two plaintisss had been at Harro upon businefs, and thitt a umher of the scholars, fee-iog that they were strangei had gatlered about them, calling them ltidtcrous names, such as-bucks, bloods, and quizzex, whieh latter was explainsd by Mr Bcarcroft as the cant word oft he fcltool sor the year, an abbreviation of the words qtietr piizzes, and that the defendants bad pulled tlie hair of the plaintisss, fpit upon them, aud otherwife them tliat the plaintisss then tvent to Dr. Heath, the master of the schoot, to "complaih.ps them, and thac in coasequence thereof the scholars, many of whont-were soll grown lads, assembled in greater numbers, and affaulted the plaintisss in so violent a nt inner, that the pkintiss (Crowder) was sor some months in a deplorable condition from a conculsion of tbe brain, whieh Iztsugh: a nuraber es aiarming fymproms. from the CDafb- ter end ot ebruary Superh (llagfltip) Monarca, Burford, Worcetlcr, 74 1 Inflexible, Gibraltar (Com.) Defence, Cumberknd, Hero, Africa, Eagle, 74 64 64 50 32 2S The House proceeded to take into consideratson, the made by the House of Peers to the 3t James's Paving bist the Hcso fhewed their indionnrinn Magnamme, Iliz, San Cirrlos, Minerva, a 1 to th' iy moving that it Medea, To ioin off Gc taow ov me Speaker, was ac- cordtngly done, and afterward kicked out of the House by every vosonteer send of that divertlan even Lord tbe deo- sorgot the of bis underhanders, and gare his kick tf apprtAation. The Lambeth Poor .5 tlr-d the fatne tKamZ, 1 aTC -n th" Civi! coE" nJ cocoa bitt, and the bill rausc tn went through the Qme.

tr.e tttort to be reeeired io raorrn-v." Hero, 74 Sceptre, 64 Monmouth, 64 Afluopnameunkn'twn) 18 The fhips marked thus were all coppered at Bombay. This accouilt does not come ostteially, nor have any advices of this kind been reeeived by Government or the East I'ndia" Company it is, notwithstanding, gentrally tredited. The chanael this inteliigence corncs tu, is from thro.