William Motherwel, Editor of the Glasgow Courier. Walter Tassie, Manchester Fire and Life Assurance Office, 62, Brunswick-st. James Tassie, do. do. John Tassie, Manager, New Clyde Shipping Co. Jamaica-street. John B. Niven, Soap-boiler, Port-Dundas road. Robert Scott, jun. Baker, 275, Argyll-street. Andrew White, of White & Scott, Writers, 182, Trongate; house, 30, Monteith-row. Thomas Whyte, of Blackburn & Whyte, Manufacturers, 48, Nelson-street. James Cook, Engineer, Tradeston, ex Gorbals Baillie. James M Grigor, Machine-maker with him. James Martin, Elder, Maynooth Petitioner, and ex Head Baillie, Gorbals. John Pollock and Allan Gilmour, Timber Merchants, 19, Union-street; house, 24, Carlton-place. (Vide next Gazette.) George Young, Clerk to the Incorporation of Masons, and Commissioner of Police, Gorbals. James Kerr, Accountant, 11, Miller-street; house, 14, William-street, Greenhead. John Jamieson Craig, Mountflorida. Angus Sutherland. Unknown. Andrew W. Johnstone, do. James Crawford, do. John Rae, do. David Corse, of David Corse & Co. Yarn Merchants; house, 25, Montrose-st. Thomas Bain, Lancefield Spinning Co.; house, Upper Renfield street. Lawrence Craigie, Collector of Taxes, vide last Gazette—(Sure of Dismissal.) (To be continned.) We have to apologize and we do it most readily, to the following gentlemen, for publishing their names in the last Number of the Gazette, as having subscribed the deceitful, canting, West India, Tory, Peel and Wellington petition-we are really at a loss what name to give it. Mr. Thomas Marshall, Writer, 36, Gallowgate, Mr. Robert M'Dougal, Tailor, 34, Kirk-Street, Mr. Matthew Brown, Nursery and Seedsman, 171, Trongate, Mr. John Ronald, Manufacturer, Candleriggs, Mr. Matthew Taylor, of Matthew and Henry Taylor, Grocers, &c. 91, Gallowgate. These gentlemen, though their names, or at least similar names, were used to the petition, utterly deny the subscription as applicable to them, or any of them. We are now quite satisfied that none of them did subscribe it, and therefore we earnestly request the whole of our readers to acquit them nstantly of the charge. We again repeat the statement made last Saturday, viz. that if we have published any name by mistake, we shall be orry for it. We only desire to have correct information sent us in regard o the real Boroughmongers. Our present intention is to publish a correct and connected list of the whole names in alphabetical order. For we conder it of essential service to put the public in possession of the names of he men, no matter who they be, who oppose the wishes of nine-tenths of Se people of these kingdoms. P.S.—It is but fair to state that D. M'Lean, Chimney Sweeper, 27, tockwell, called at the Office, and solemnly disclaimed his signature. The poor man declared that he would rather starve than be considered a oroughmonger; wherefore, we pronounce him to be a Radical sweep, ad hope his customers will increase daily! MEMOIR OF JOSEPH HUME, ESQ. M.P. THIS kingdom of Scotland has the honour of claiming Mr. Hume as one of her best sons. He was born at Montrose, in the year 1777, not of parents high in point of rank or worldly grandeur, but of parents moving in the middle, or, perhaps, humbler ranks of life, yet yielding to none in all the land for virtuous reputation. His father, who was captain and chief owner of a trading vessel belonging to Montrose, died when the subject of this Memoir was in his infancy, leaving a widow and several other young chil dren. It appears from all accounts that Mrs. Hume was a woman of sterling worth. The education of her children, to one and all of whom she was most tenderly attached, excited her whole care, and so anxious was she to provide for them, that on her husband's death she formed the praiseworthy resolution to augment, if possible, the slender means which he had left; and accordingly, dismissing every thing like false pride (rare for many women to do), she embarked in a small business at Montrose, which she conducted for several years with singular prudence, respectability, and success. Mr. Hume himself, of whom we now come more immediately to speak, received the best education his native town could afford—that is, he was instructed in reading, writing, arithmetic, and Latin, in all of which he had made such proficiency, that at the early age of 13, he was bound as apprentice to one of the most respectable surgeons in Montrose, that profession being, as we understand, the object of his own choice. After serving his apprenticeship of three years, to the entire satisfaction of every one connected with him, he proceeded to Edinburgh to complete his studies in the famous medical classes of Gregory, Munroe, &c. in that university. It was in the year 1793 that he first went to Edinburgh,—a year ever memorable in the annals of Scotland, for then the first brave onset was made in the cause of Reform, by that small, yet faithful and intrepid Band of Patriots, Muir, Palmer, Skirving, and Margarot, whose sufferings shall yet be avenged, as surely as their memories are now revered by every man who cherishes the sacred love of liberty! Mr. Hume was an eye-witness of the Trials of these Patriotic Men. He saw the fraud-the perjury-the shameless artifices, which were employed against them. He saw that the Judgment Seat was covered o'er not with the ermine of Justice, but with the trappings of the Star Chamber. And there seems no reason to doubt that the indignation which, we are assured, fired his youthful bosom at that early period, in common with thousands of his countrymen, at the tyrannical sentences then pronounced against Muir, &c. had no small influ ence in forming his political creed, which rests on the broad-the eternal principle of Civil and Religious Liberty all over the world. He remained at the University of Edinburgh for three consecutive sessions, and in 1795, after undergoing a satisfactory examination in regard to his classical attainments, he was admitted a member of the College of Surgeons in that city, soon after which, he formed the resolution of going abroad to push his own fortune. He proceeded on a voyage to India in 1796, but returned to England in the following year, and after attending for some time several of the most celebrated hospitals in London, to acquire furthe knowledge of his profession, he was admitted a member of the Royal Col lege of Surgeons in London. And thus he attained some of the highest honours which that profession had at its disposal. Through the influence of his own talents, he soon obtained a situation from the East India Company, on their medical establishment at Bengal, whither he went in 1799. And now, as has been elsewhere properly observed, those energies which have been so well displayed in his subsequent career, found scope for their operation. At that time, the labour of acquiring the native languages of India, was rarely submitted to by any of the Company's servants. But the good sense of Mr. Hume enabled him to perceive that a knowledge of these languages would necessarily make his services more useful in the sphere he was then placed in. And his early habit, which has never forsaken him, of looking to labour, not with terror, but with complacency, as the grand instrument of all the good he was to produce for himself, made him without hesitation apply himself with assiduity to effect the important acquisition; in doing which, he braved many dangers which ordinary men never would have encountered, for like Park, the celebrated African traveller, he often threw himself among natives who never saw a European before, and towards whom those natives could not be supposed to have any kindly feeling. The knowledge which Mr. Hume thus acquired of the language and manners of the Indians, was soon productive not only of signal advantage to himself, but to the British army. For when the war with the Mahrattas broke out in 1803, he was attached to the division of that army which marched from Allahabad into Bundelcund, under the command of Major-General Powel; and as no one could be found so well qualified to undertake the duties of interpreter to the commander-in-chief than Mr. Hume, he came to be entrusted with the entire confidence of the commander-in-chief, who appointed him to several high important offices, all of which he discharged with zeal, intrepidity, and honour. In short, for six or seven years Mr. Hume was incessantly occupied with the most important affairs connected with the British army and settlements in India, and his services were frequently applauded by those in authority, best able to know and appreciate them. On the conclusion of the peace in 1807-8, he returned to England, having in that short space acquired a very considerable fortune, yet not more considerable than his important and valuable services justly entitled him to. The first thing he did when he returned home, which shows the goodness of his heart, was to place all his relations, so far as he thought them deserving of it, in a state of comfortable independence. He then turned his attention to what he should best do to promote the welfare and prosperity of his country; with which view he made a tour of minute observation though the United Empire-and visited every town or place of manufacturing celebrity in England, Ireland, and Scotland. He spent the years 1810 and 1811, in travelling through Spain, Portugal, Turkey, Greece, Egypt, the lonian Islands, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia, &c. &c. And on his return to England in 1812, he was elected to serve in Parliament, for the Borough of Weymouth, on the death of Sir John Johnston. The Session was very short; and a General Election having afterwards taken place, Mr. Hume did not return to Parliament till the year 1818, when he was elected by the Montrose District of Boroughs-a circumstance highly creditable to the Electors, and gratifying to his own feelings. But we should not omit to state, that though not in Parliament from 1812 to 1818, his time during the whole of that period was faithfully employed in co-operation with a few other meritorious individuals in London, in making arrangements for extending the benefit of Education to the great |