MR EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD

... tl (grma the Liverpool Mercury.) The following interesting account of the Elopement with Mr Waketield of his first wife, is drawn up expressly for the Mercury.g Edward Wakefield, Esq. the father of the subject of this ti sketch, whose celebrated work on Ireland is so often referred IC to for the accuracy and interest of its details, is one of the la first land-agents in the kingdom, and enjoys ...

Published: Monday 19 June 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2873 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... PRIVTA TE COiZRCSpO.VDPVrf rA- J I 1 n-1 I A raplid advance took place ton5y Tritiisaflantic stor, in (Oi l ?? 1 ks, in voll~,(jue pr'n. , , gota. The advires froin til.ta n.itv ar, ?? May, and as the contents both Ofth iI U'5 t, a reference almost wholly to ,hpe `ter 1151 ~-lombia, we arrange tie w-hol or [ilnc' Sitesi Xhead, Tenews .OF the fiai I .ry nidt and Co. reached Il'gON prevost rd ...

Published: Saturday 22 July 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1259 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PIRATES OF THE ARCHIPELAGO

... PIRATES OF THIE ARCHIPELAGO. I; -. , ., . - , I . j.. .The follofwing aceour it of teie piracies stibojitied It yte Greek islanders is from the Chevalier Bror-. ssed's.,Wnrk, and .refers to a time (1812) whev Ahe Turkish sway was yet uinquestioned -t ought not to be iniagined that the -Kaiki of the -pirates which so much infest these latitudes, whieh in- terrukp. communication, awld in sotpe ...

Published: Monday 12 June 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 958 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

RURAL RIDE

... I set off from Kensington on Friday morning, on my way to the West, and got to Sunning, near Reading, on Friday afternoon. On Saturday we (two sons and myself) stopped at Reading, it being market day, to take a look about us. Whteat about 6s. Ad. the ?? bushel, on an avrcago. Barley andi oats deater in proportion. Pease there al1tcare to be none; and vCrYV few beans. I went to the pig marelict ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 851 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

THE AGRICULTURAL POPULATION

... THE AG*RICULTURAL poPULATION. Ta the examinatiolns wilich toak place before the 11 Erniecration (Cmmittee, it appeared that many parts of England, Scotlantdl. andl Ireland, have no dciiiail c *or laboulr proportioned to the sutpply. r. A moiy the listricts in Eigland in which htle Sup t- P l11V ot IA hoer greatly excecds the d mandl the AVeals hi s l (lit sodl Slissex all distinogished. The ...

Published: Monday 04 September 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 810 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

LONDON

... I FRIDAY-D1CcEItsE~R 15. s Among the rumours which have succeMed' the one r about a loaol,'which weyestercday set at restis, that of its t being the intention of Ministers'to increase the number c of, troops which wilt embark for Portugal to 15,000. This is wiholly without foundation. Nothing has I occurred, nor is there.any thing likely to occur, cal- culated to alter the original tiews of ...

Published: Monday 18 December 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 475 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

FRENCH PAPERS

... FREIMCH PAPERS. Paris, Jan.T. T4. A letter from St Petershurgh, of the 129th, adds toI p ushie details which we gave yesterday, of' the events of 0 St Petersburgh. t th IVe will not dissemble how much these occurrences are to be deplored, and, we need not add, how Much 0 iP': thev have affected thle Emperor. ii0 ?? who witnessed the noble conduct of thisj o- Monarch-his magnmanimlity-his calm ...

Published: Thursday 19 January 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1853 | Page: Page 2 | Tags: News 

PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE

... ?? ?? t A d Ussso ?? London, Clark W ' It has been found necessary to simplify the b1a1-0O % ssistance by the Bank to the commercial interest, fby , loans on personal security as well as on goods, and Thefo smer practice is found in all respects so much less inof j etient, that it Eils be resorted to in a greit majorltY -Djovi stances, especially as means may be devised, in the d of ...

Published: Monday 06 March 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1327 | Page: Page 2, 3 | Tags: News 

OPINIONS AND DECISIONS OF BARONS OF EXCHEQUER, ON CASES CONNECTED WITH THE ASSESSED TAXES OF SCOTLAND

... OPINIONS AND DECISIONS OF BARONS OF' ON S CON~EXCHlEQUER, S r I ON CASES CONNECTID WIT THE A.SSESSED TAXES OF . F - SCOTLAI:D.II I MO. 9.-Ceunty of Fife. -vey DUTY 01N A SROVM1ANAt a meeting of the corn- dies 0missioners under the 7asseesed tax acts acting for the -said be county, held at Kirkaldy,, the 13th day of April 11125, for of]I Jhn Wearin an leemiig appeals under the said acts, ...

Published: Monday 10 April 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3416 | Page: Page 3 | Tags: News 

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE

... NAVVAL INTELLIGENCE. Portsmouth, August12 21 Yesterdav, arrived his Majesty's brig ofwar the Ringdove, Captain Edwin L. Rich, from the Leeward Islands, Jamai- I ca, and New York. She sailed from Port Royal on the 11th of June, with Alexander Cockburn, Esq. his Majesty's 1 Minister to the Republic of Colombia, who landed at New York on the 2d July, for the benefit of his health. The Mi- nister ...

Published: Thursday 17 August 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 733 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News 

BURMESE WAR

... B3URMESE WAR. A supplement to Saturdayfs Gazette was published o0n M1onday, containing various dispatc'jcs frcnt India, butnone of recent date. The first is a leter dated Mav' 9, 1h23. fron Lieutenant N-ufvile, conmmanding at Now Dhoeing 3lnkh, in Assain, titliflulcingsouse successes over the iBurm2e.;C ietl in tl'at iircttion. Thre2 of those Chiefs had! writion so Tidutenant N. ia their usual ...

Published: Saturday 11 March 1826
Newspaper: Caledonian Mercury
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 196 | Page: Page 4 | Tags: News