SCOTLAND.
A public meeting in the Waterloo Rooms at Edinburgh, on the 28th December, expressed approval of Mr. Sharman Crawford's plan for ex- torting redress of grievances by means of stopping the supplies. The Dean of Guild was Chairman on the occasion, and concurred in the proceedings ; and one of the resolutions was supported by Mr. Stott, a Town-Councillor.
The Scotsman of Saturday records the death, recently, of a person who obtained a miserable notoriety some twenty years ago—the Bishop of Clogher, who was indicted in 1822 for an infamous crime, forfeited his bail, fled, was degraded from his ecclesiastical dignity, and has not since been heard of until now- " He kept house, under the assumed name of Thomas Wilson, at No. 4, Salisbury Place, Edinburgh; to which he removed four years ago, having previously resided in Glasgow. His mode of living was extremely private, scarcely any visiters being known to enter his dwelling; but it was remarked that the post occasionally brought him letters sealed with coronets. His incognito was wonderfully preserved. It was only known to one or two indi- viduals in the neighbourhood, who kept the secret till after his death. The application for interment was made in the name of Thomas Wilson. There was a plate upon the coffin which he had got prepared some years before, but without any name upon it. It bore a Latin inscription, the sense of which was as follows—' Here lie the remains of a great sinner, saved by grace, whose hope rests in the atoning sacrifice of the Lord Jesus Christ.' The preparation of this inscription, years before, shows that he was deeply penitent. He was very anxious to conceal his true name, having got it carefully obliterated from his books and articles of furniture. He gave instructions that his burial should be in the nearest churchyard ; that it should be conducted in the most private and plain manner, and at six in the morning. His directions were complied with, except in the selection of the ground. His body was drawn to the new cemetery in a hearse with one horse. followed by five mourners in a one-horse coach, at seven in the morning. Such was the obscure and humble death and funeral of the Honourable and Reverend Percy Jocelyn, the son of a Peer, who spent the early years of his life in the society of the great, and held one of the highest ecclesiastical dignities in the empire. He was uncle to the present Lord Roden."
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