Monthly Chronicle.

INSURRECTIONS IN SCOTLAND . EDINBURGH , AUGUST , 27 . At Jedburgh fair , on the tzd , about two thousand stout young fellows assembled " , armed with bludgeons , and passed certain resolutions against the raising of the •Scotch Militia . Thev got possession of the lists for balloting , and carried them off in triumph .- They paraded the streets , but offered no violence . They surrounded the Duke of Roxburgh , the night before , in his carriage , and frightened his Grace so much , that he was taken ill .

SEPTEMBER 10 . On Monday evening a dragoon riding through the town of Tranent , suddenly attacked two or three persons standing at their doors , and attempted to ride over them ; but the 3 > kept him off , and afterwards prevented an attempt he made , to draw his sword , by seizing upon the hilt . His extraordinary behaviour provoked some women and boys to pelt him with stones ; but he was generously rescued iy the persons he had assaulted . This business had the effect of inflaming the minds of the women and children of Tranent .

The following day the Justices being assembled at the house of John Glenn , inn-keeper , to carry the Militia Act into execution , two parties of cavalry rode into the town , and created great confusion . The women , in particular , were exasperated , and began throwing stones at the inn . The Cinque Port Cavalry , Some of whom were perhaps struck by the stones , being ordered to charge , cut down every person that came in their way . The people resisted with voliiess of stones , and a serious engagement took place , the women seeming regardless of all danger , and holding back the dragoon horses by the bridles . Orders were now

given to fire , and a dreadful carnage ensued . Isabel Rogers , a very decent young woman , was the first that fell . A dragoon followed her into the passage of a house , and shot her dead . The military pursuing the people , and firing in all directions , some of the farmers fled to their houses , and others into the fields of standing corn , where they were killed by the cavalry , who pursued them two miles from Ihe toivn . From the accounts received , ten or twelve were killed , and fifteen of sixteen , wounded , many of them dangerously , with two or three balls in their bodies . Among those killed was Ness , a sawyer of Ormiston , who was returning quietly home fror , i Prestonpans ; he was found dead , with his pockets rifled , and has left a

widow and seven children . Another man of the name of Adams , who was going to get medicines for his wife in childbed , was also killed . on the high road . William Lawson , who was peaceably driving two carts of wood , in spite of his kneeling and begging for mercy , was shot through the thigh , and lies dangerously ill . In the evening 300 or 400 of the Sutherland Fencibles , coming to Musselburgh camp , the Deputy Lieutenant , with the Cinque Port Cavalry , set off for Haddington gaol with about 40 prisoners taken in the town of Tranent . At Selkirk , on the 21 st ult . seven or eight hundred young men went to the militia

Sheriff' -Clerk ' solRce , broke his windows , and forced him to give up all the , lists in his possession . Several other acts of violence were committed . ' At Leuchars , in Fife , the magistrates were very roughly handled , and forced to leave the place reinfecla . At Kettle , in Fife , the schoolniasteris reported to have been killed . At Neutyld and Monesyth Ihe populace rose and destroyed the lists . At Tealing the deputy Lieutenants were compelled to give them up . Similar risings took place at Gifford , and between Gilford and Haddington . A letter from Wigton , ofthe 3 d instant , says , that the Deputy and Lord

Lieutenants there , on the . 25 th ult . were prevented by the riotous interference of about 700 people , from proceeding to enrol the militiamen in terms of the late act , and caused to enter into a recognizance , declaring that they would not be instrumental in putting the said act into further execution . On the 30 th ult . about 200 persons , of Pam-Head , in the parish of Dysart , joined by 200 more from Linktown , having obtained possession ofthe militia list and parish-register of Abbotshall , they set off in a body for Mr . Ferguson ' s , of Raith ; but owing to the timely appearance of . the Kirkcaldy Volunteers , and the spirited conduct of Mr . Ferguson , they dispersed without commit ting any violence . At Dunkeld an attempt was made , without effect , to set fire to the Duke ol Athol ' shouse ; and in Kinross a riot more serious took place .