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% P.M, ',OMNI:Mr PROCEEDIINGS. DOUSE OF LORDS,' THURSDAY, JULY s. __• . . Lord HOLLAND prefented a Petition from the 13,heors eon. fined in the Collie," Chelter, praying for Relief.—Ordered to lie on the Table lord RI 4 ,ntsDALE prefented a Bill for empowering the fum mooing Of Conholdera by Attorney, in Cuftomary . Coons, which I was read a firft time. 31R rHN STUART. Lord HAWKESBURY prcfented a Meffage from his Mayfly, intimating his h•lajelty's with that an annuity of good per annum fholiti be granted to Major General Sir John Stuart, K. B. for the term of his natural lie, as a tett iniony of approbation. of his eon alma in the brilliant and glorious odium fought on the Plains of filaida, and defiring the eoncurre-ce of the Houfe on fuch gr.mt. On the motion of Lotd HAWKESBURY, his Majdty't molt gracious Meffage was ordered to be taken into eonfidoration to morrow. PRIVATE RILLS. 'The LORD CHANCELLOR propofed the motions which be laid before the Houfe on Tuefday, relt•ive to Private Bills, inter rupted in their progrefs by the prorogation, which were alt agreed to. Upon one of the motions being put, Lord HO i.l .AND laid, he did not mean to ohjeit to the mcv• tine.; great inconveidencies had undoubtedly refulted from the late abrupt prorogation, but he thought the Noble and Learned Lord had fuggatted the heft mode of remedying them with refpedt to private hills. He thought, however, that in point of regularity, a lift of private which had been interrupted in their progrefs by the prorogation, fbnuld be laid before the Houle. His Lordthip moved for a lift of this drfeription, which motion was agreed to, and the lift having been, previoully prepared by the Clerk, was prefented, and ordered to lie on the Table. Lord WA ISINGHAM prefented a great number of renewed petitions fur Private Bills, which were referred to Cuturnittees. Adjourned till to-morrow (this day.) • HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. DUGOAI.E brought in a Bill for enabling bis Majefty to Licence a Play•houfe in the Town of Birmingham, in Warwick &ire, which was read a firß time. Mr. ROSE gut leave to prepare and bring in an American In tereourfe Indemnity Bill. The Ifilh Cultonis Bill went through a Committee, and Report ordered for to morrow. The Reverfion 13111 was read a fecond time, and committed for to morrow. The Dublin Paving Bill was referred to a Committee, and Re- port ordered to he received to-morrow. The American l'rcaty Adt was read a fccond time, and com mitted for to morrow. The Cafee Wuehcrufe A& was committed for Monday. Et-Ecru - 1r Irs•riTtOsts. A Petition was prefentcd for Mr. Henry Freemantle. complain ing of a double return for SaltaQi, in Cornwall, which was or. dered to be taken into confideration along with another Petition, alto complaining of a double return for the (aid Borough, on the 14th Ju ly. APetition was prefented for Colonel Sergifon, complaining of an undue return for the county of Suffer, which was ordered to be taken into confidcration on the ald July. EAST INDIES. - - Mr. CREEVEY gave notice that he thould on Monday fermight move fur a Copy of all Difpatchcs and Correfponctcocc received in this country, from the Governments of Bengal and Madras, rela tive to the Mutiny in Vellore. SNUGGLING. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER role, agreeably to notice, to move for leave to bring in a Bill for the better preventing of Smuggling.— A draught of a Bill on this fuhjea had already been prepared by the late Government, and agreeing as he did irr mon of the means propofed in that Bill, he had adopted moll of the regulations conta . md in it. It was. extremely difficult to devife means for counterading all themanceuvres pradifed by fmug glers, in the exercife of their illicit trade ; but he hoped thit the regulation* now propofed, thniigh they might . not be fufficient to put an entire flop to the traffic, would have the effea of diminifbing it greatly. It had formerly been the practice of per• cons cart Ting on this trade to c• nvey their fpirits from pricy an:l Guernfey to this ci untry, in !mall calks, or ankets, which, born their Tillable nature, were immediately g.. 1 rid of without difficulty. To remedy this evil, an ad v ac pallid, prohibiting the clearing out from Jerfey or Glierniey of any *hip with fpirits in Imill caflo The way that had been taken to de• feat that tegulation was, that while the fpirits were in large calks, each velrel fo loaded carried alto a prc.potti , nate number r f fmall calk:; fo that, by emptying the ri.m and brandy with which the large calks were ot iginally tilled, into the fmail ones, they had Hill the fame facility of cilli,ofing of their car goes. By the pi etent Bill it was provided, that na fhip of .he dere, ipti.m employed in this trade fhould be allowed to have on board any fmall calks. To fuch a height had this traffic been carried, that it appeared that it was no uncommon thing for the fame veircl to be cleared out from Jerfey or Guern fey to Tottingen twice within fix or feven ys, which was a thing fo utterly impollible as eafily to explain the nature of the voyage. The revenue of which Government was in this way defrauded did not amount to lefs than from feventy to eighty thou fand pounds per annum. He timid probably at fome future pzrind propofe the laying fome heavy reatietionc, or even the prohibiting altogether, the exportation of fpirits front Jerfey and Guetnfey, for that all the fpirits fo exported were bungled into .this country, limed hardly to 'Winked' a doubt.— Another regulation of the prefent Bill was to iocreafc "the rewards of Fierfons making feizures. . Leave granted. Mr. HUSXISSON then moved for an account of all vat's cleared not from Jerfry and Guernfey, from January 1866 to January 1907, with the ton _ nage of each, fpecifying alto the place for which they refpeeivaly cleared out.—Ordered. CLOATIIIIIO, /OR Tlll 1111TALIDS. _ _ _ • Mr. ROSE, agreeably to notice, made his pro-' railed motion fur the prodation of certain Letters which had paired on the fubjeft of the Cloathing for the Veteran Battalions, and which had not been pro. duced in compliance with a former order of the Houle. He thought it 'neceffary to explain what the nature of the letters and minutes, which in his opi nion were material to the fubjea in quellion, and which he rafted to skink had been improperly withheld, actually was. When he was appointed one of the Joint Paymaffers of the Forces, it occur red to him, that if any favings were likely to be made in the Military Department, The eloathing was b• inch in which it migh' ac probably be effedled as in any other. He inquired accordingly, how other Paris of the let vice were provided in this refpedt, and f and that a pet ion who contrafted for cloathing the • Mar'nes, did fo at a rate greatly lower than that charged . lor cloarhing the Invalids: 'He lent ler this per fon and f and that his charge was only 11. Is. per whereas the charge then made•for cloathing the Invalidi., Was 11: 7S. 91 It turned out, however, , that there was nr re lace cn the clothes of the Vete. twn BattAion than the contratti•r had been aware, he theteforeincreafcd his citimate to tl. 3s. Havin4 afcertained this,ahe Right Honourable Gentleman next fent for the perfon accuftomed to cinath the Ile teran Battalions, telling him that his with was not to change any aradefman, if they could continpc to ferve the public on newly the fame terms with others, He (hewed to this Gentleman (Mr. Dickie) the fuit of clothes, finnifhed by the perfon to whom he (Mr. Rote) had applied, Whofe name was Courtney, and afked if he (Mr. Dickie) was willing to ferve Govern -ment agreeably to that pattern, for il. 35 ? Mr. Dickie replied he could not, and that if he (Mr. Rule) could get any perlen to contra& with him on fuch terms, it would be wrong in him not to dole with the offer. After the pattern fujts had been ap proved of, Mr. Rote did give Mr. Courtnay the or ders, and tome of the battalions were ferved by him. When he wished, however, to deliver to the •Noble Lord oppofite (Lord Temple) 2000 Cults which had been prepared, they were refuted to be accepted of, on the ground that they were. of bad quality. of bad workman(hip, and too fcanty. In the mean time the Noble Lord again applied to a Mr. Box, who was one of the numerous fleeping partners of this Mr. Dickie, (a laugh) and received an eßimate from him, not indeed as he had formerly charged, amounting to 11. 7s. 91. but to 11. 4s. 9d. being, however, is. 6.1. per fuit more than thufe fur nithed by Mr. Conrtnay. The difference' to the country between the 11. 7s. 9.1. and the 11. 3s. would amount to nearly too,cool. per annum', and even be tween the 11. 4s. 9d. and the IL 3s. it was obvious mull be coutiderable. It appeared from the minutes in the office, that this change had been made in confequence of complaints that the clothing was of bad quality, bad workmanthip, &c. and that letters had accordingly been written to the commanding officers of the different battalions who had been ferv ed by Mr. Courtnay, inquiring if the fad was Co anfwers to this inquiry had not been produced ; and it was of the fuppreffion of them that Mr. Rote complained. He proceeded to read tilde letters, as they were to be found in the office, and need, that fo far from fupporting the truth of the complaints made againtt the quality of the cloth and workman (hip furnished by Mr. Courtney, they uniformly prov ed his articles to be better, in-there retpee., than they had teen for feveral years. The only fault they had, was that they were fmall, and under the gene neral fize—a fault which was immediately remedied. So, therefore, the minute in confequence of which the contract with Mr. Courtnay was fet afide,.and that with Mr. Box entered into, was fupported by evidence, and proceeded on a falfe allegrion. This might, in his opinion, become no improper fubje& of inquiry for the Committee of Finance, or the Corn. miffioners of Military Inquiry. All, however, that he now withed to move for was that the letters from the commanders of the battalions as to the quality of the deaths furniffied fhould be laid before the Houfe.— He had delayed his motion for tome days at the de fire of the Noble Lord, who wished to look into the evidence. Mr. Box, he underftood, was no army clothier. Lord TEMPLE Paid, Yes. Mr. ROSE Paid, he believed lie was for the Buckinghamfhite Militie, and that he was a fleeping partner of Mr. Dickie's. He concluded by moving for copies of all minutes, letters, &c. relative -to the cloathing of the veteran battalions between. the years 1804 and 1837. Earl TEMPLE rote to vindicate himfelf and his colleagues from all improper motives in the tranfac ring of this contract. The fa& was, that repeated complaints had been made from vatious regiments of the badnefs of theclothing fupplied by the former contractor, and the new bargain was made at what might be called a fair price, takiwinto confiders lion always, that contracts had tw(faults, either that of being ton low, or too high priced. It 'Very often happened, that thofe who contraCled to fupply articles at a low price, proved unable to fupply the contra& properly. The fa& was, that he was in potted - ion of a great many letters from different commanding offi , ccrs, complaitrit,g of the unfitnefs of the clAthing ; and when the contractor was informed of there com plaints, his anfwer was, that he had loft a great deal of money by the contra& and could not afford to give a better article, and would not change fuch coats as were too (Mort or too fmall. Betides, the contract now complained of had not been concluded without the advice and opinion of perfons (killed in the b tfo.efc. Mr. LONG admitted that applications had been made to him, but the mode was now changed, being by advertifement for eftimates. If the Noble Lord had been at all hurt by the agitating of the prefent queftion, he could nrt help thinking he had !timid( alone to blame, in carrying away in his pocket fuch evidence as teemed to fupport the Rep which he had taken, and leaving behind him in the office only fuch evidence as went o condemn him. Lord HOWICK could inform the Houle, that it came within his k.nwledge while at the head of the Admiralty, that complaints were made refpeeting the badneti of the clothing of the marines ;-and' he funneled this fame Mr. Courtnay was impli'citied.— He had taken thefe complaints out of the office along with him, for the purpofe of making the neceffary The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought it extremely natural in the Noble Lord (Howick) to take the grounds of complaint out of the office with him ; but he thought it very extraor dinary, that the Noble Lord fhould have left letters behind him, which completely negatived there com plaints ; for it would be found that the higheft fejt faCtion was expreffed by almoft every officer in the fer vice with the contract, as Applied at the cheaper rate. Mr. WINDHAM thought, that though the Right Hon. Gentleman might be jultified in bringing •for ward the meafure, he could not be juftified in not now proceeding with it. Mr. JOHNSTONE approved of the mode in which the bulinefs had been brought forward. Mr. WILBERFORCE wilted to know if the Noble Lord meant to fay that the fubftance of the letters were contained in the minutes, or only that they were referred to in them ? Lord H. PETTY deprecated the principle of agreeing to a contra& at a cheap rate, without inquiry into the means the contractor had of fulfilling it. General TA RLETON begged the Houfe to con• fider its own dignity. If this practice of recrimina tion—(Hear! hear!)—was to be perpetually !clotted to— it when a charge was made against one party, it'was anfwercd by a counter complain., these would = -- ----- . be no end to deFates in that Houfe.--tHear f bear:9l —He thought the fubjeCt ought to go before a Com mittee of Inquiry, without farther ceremony. ' Mr. HUSKISSON 'read extraCts of letters from various commanding officers, expreffing their fatil (albino with_ the 'wanner in which Mr. Courtnay had executed his contra& The late Minitters had writ ten a circular letter, inviting complaints againit the! clothing, and the uniform anfwer was in its favour, inflead of complaining of it. But they did not wait 1 u ntil there anfwers were received ; the fait being, I that the new contra& was haftily clofed before they had received a fingle anfwer to the pompous inquiry they had affeited to let on foot, previtius to the dif miffal of the former contra&nr. The Hon. COCHRANE JOHNSTONE — " Mr. Speaker, this is one of the mate, jobs I ever beard of in my life lam glad the Houle has taken up the filbje& of the military clothing, as it will lead to the difcovery of a great many abufes in the army depart ment, and tend, as I hope, to better the condition of our brave defenders." The Accounts moved fur were brought up and or. dered to lie on the Table. •RMY PATIMATFC. The SECRETARY at WAR brought up the Eftitnates order• ed on a former night. Lord HOWICK ailed if they contained catenates of the addi tional expenee of Volunteer Corps? The SECRETARY at WAR. faid. it was Calculated, that tbi rum already Pr o Pored w o uld cover all the additional expence on' this head, for the part of the year now to come; no eftimate, therefore, became nectar'''. • Lord HOWICK and Mr. WINDHAM thought that it was proper that the additional expenees of Infpeding Field Officers. Ste. Ibould be known, nor was it fufficient becaufe a turn had been , voted for a fervice in one view of a cafe , that it amid without ' any new eftimate be converted to another view of the fame ler vie& 1 ' Mr. PERCEVAL bad no objection to every feparate menet being known. He bad winked that fatisfadtion often from the late Government, but they had not been anxious to gratify him. He had no objedion that the other liftimates mould b voted to morrow, and the Volunteer Service be poftponed. The SPEAKER raid, it was ( - nineteen by the tarps of the Houfe, that a runt total Ihould have been granted. After tome further eonverfation, Mr. Percent's idea of pat. p ping the Eftimates of the Volunteer Service was acceded to. Mr. Athley prefented the Ordnance Ellimates, and Mr. R. Ward the Navy Eftimates. Lord HENRY PETTY poftponed his Nintioe for a bill, rela tive to the metres of the Sinking Fund, from to-morrow, till Wednefday next. 2C'rrs SHERIFFS AND LORD CULI,2I4 ° S PENSION. Mr. ADAM - ezpreffed hi. regret that he %v.'s not in the Houfe when the diituffion on this fubjeet had taken place the other day, and he lamented it the more, becaufe from the other bufinefs that had pre ceded this, his explanation mull be made to a thin Houfe. He had given notice of a motion for the pro. dultion of the documents appointing the new She riffs, and the warrant for a petition to Lord Cullen. He would now proceed to [late the grounds of that tranfaaion, that all mifreprefentation and mifunder (landing on that fuhje.t might be done away, and if Gentlemen were not fatisfied, that the point might undergo a full confideration, after• the.documents fhould be on the table. He would begin with the affair of the Sheriffs. Every one who was acquain ted with Scotland mull know, that the Sheriffs De pule had an important duty to perform. They tried a variety of eaufes, and fometimes pi ifoners, with tbe affiftanee of a jury. This local jurifdidion was of the higheft advantage to the country, and there way no way in which the public money cot*, be better employed, though the falaries were very fmall, than in facilitating the means of jullice. There duties were performed in the molt honourable and 7ccurare i • manner. The Sheriffs were Barrifiers of Tome (len ding, and received that edueaticn which fitted them for becoming Judges in the Supreme Courts. Now the counties of-Sutherland and .Caithnefs were joined under one . Sheriff Depute. The Sheriff 'elided in Caithnefs, which was further to the North than the other county. The roads from the one to the other were, during a part of the year; almoft impaffable, and the confequence was, that Sutherland was, in a great meafure, deprived of the benefit of a Sheriff. The grievance was felt and complained of. R.,pre fentatione on the fubjed bad been made to the Islini 1 flers---they had applied to his Welly, and it was de termined that afeparate Sheriff thould be appointed for Sutherland. The falary was only 3501. a year, and part of- that, he believed, went to fill up the fa lary of the Sheriff of Caithnef... The county of Su therland contained twenty-fix thonfand inhabitant's, and the population was increafing, If was tar re moved from the general feat of jullice, and therefore it was of the higheft importance that jultice lb auld be done them at their own doors. This was the real motive for the appointment of a feparate Sheriff.and he would ark, when thefe things were confidered, whether the thing was not called for by tae ftrongeft views of expediency ? As to Clackmannan, that cer .tainly was nearer the feat of jutlice, and therefore the fame rcafons did not precifely &ft in that in fiance. The Hon. Gentleman proceeded to Rate, that the Sheriff Depute oT Stirling had Clackmannan in his jurifdidion, and the Sheriff Depute of Frte had Kinrofs. He cJuld Rate fade that would dearly i thew the neceffity orappointingjanother Sheriff in this 4 inftance. In the county of Clackmannan, which .l was larger than that of Kinrofs, there was no jail , fo i that it was neceffary to remove • prifoners from the ! place where they were tried to Stirlinglhire, through another county, Co as to confiitute, according to the intlitutions, what is called airefcape. As to Kinrofs 1 it was well known that the Sheriff Depute of Fife I never performed any duty there, but left it to a fub. I flitute. But the fubflitute was not under the fame regulations as the depute, (they were called Sheriffs Depute in contraditiindion to the hereditary She. riffs). The fubflitute did not neceffirily receive a legal education, and in fad might belong to another profeflion.. The futatute for Kinrofs was a highly refpedlable Gentleman, but he knew that he laboured under the difadvantages which he had Rated. In or der, therefore, to give the counties of Clackmannan .and Kinrofs a fair ((hare of public juftice, they were united under one Sheriff. The county of Fife was one of the largett andmoft populous counties of Scot land. The county of Stirling was alto extenfire, with a growing population and extenfive manufactories, and each afforded complete occupation for their re lisedive Sheriffs. As to any advantage so himfelf in this bufincfs, he had prop.ofed none. He was not in 'Parliament at the time, but was purpofely out of it, in order to do his duty in hi; profeffion to thole who had claims upon hint. The whole was done on pub lic principle, and enuldnot be done without the con tent of the Sheriffs. The Sheriffs of Fife and Stirling, ~y ~ he mentioned it to their honour, had, before th ey agreed to refign, applied to one of the Judges, an d were told that the thing was highly expedient - and proper. It was Paid that the regulation only did n et go far enough, as there were points of the counties bf Perth, Fife, and Clackmannan, that ran into each other, and that a farther feparation ought to have taken place. This fiat he had only from informs,• tion, but he had the heft reafons to believe that it was correctly (toted. At all events, the cafe Road on its own grounds of erpedien'ey and jußice. A l to the falaries they had been refigned and regranted, (than! hear from the Minilletial Benches). yes, regranted. He knew - that with Meffrs. Montgomery, Fergnfon and Bofwell, the three former Sheriffs of Fife, Kinrofs was a mere finecure. They never did any duty there. They had the falary for the dirty i n .Fife, and to that duty it was proper the fame falary Mould be Rill attached. The falary for Stilling wa s alto regranted : it was only goof. a year. Ho wood, therefore, confidently aft whether it was not wife and expedient to grant there fmall additional falaries foe the furtherance of the intereas of joßice and found policy ? I lie now came to the warrant for the penfion to Lord Cullen, and to this lie requeßed the particular atten. tion of the Houle. He was lorry that he was not in the . Honfe when this fuhjctt came on before, as he might' have then Rated what might have render. ed the prefeot difeuffion unneeeffary. Every one who oios acquainted with Lord Cullen mull know, that he was a man of the molt profound learning, poi 'cularly in his own profegion, an agreeable compa. 1 nion, and a molt puree Gentleman. It was of him ' that Lord Thurlow (poke, when he read the corn. pofi:ion on the rights of the Semi& Peers, and Paid, that it was the molt excellent and fintfhed piece oft antiquarian law that he had ever fcen. The inten. , tion of granting a penfion to Lord Cullen did not originate with the late Minifters, but with the Mici (try before. The Hon Gentleman proceeded to (late, tha; in Mao Lord Cullen had fent him notice that he had been with the Duke of Portland, and that he I had matter of importance to communicate to him. This was the granting of a penfion of vol. to Lord Cullen, with the reverfion ro 4. a year to Mrs. Cullen. In 1806, Lord Cullen thought he (Kr. Adam) might be of great ufe to him to further his objeCt, from his connexion with the late Mitoftert.' The Hon. and Learned Gentleman here entered on a Ratement of Lord Cullen's circumflinces. He contended, that it would be cruel to deprive the Crown of the power of, giving a petition, for life, to a judge, who, by fome accidents, atifing from no fault of his ( hould be reduced into a fituation, in which his falary could not enable him to fupprot his dignity, and do jultice to his creditors. In this 11. tuation' was Lord Cullen. He was the fun of Dr. Cullen, who founded the celebrated Medical School of Edinburgh. His father had been too much en. gaged in fcientific purfuits, to be very careful abort his circumflances. Lord Cullen, as the eldelt fon, was in fume degree !addled with, and anxious to pay' his 'father's debts ; and two-thirds of his falary as; fudge were devoted to that put pole. (Our limits! will not . permit us to go through the Ratement psi s tictilarly),'bno the . chief points were, that it never was intended to grant a iudoe a swrifirm AnOsi pleafure, Dor could it be done by law. It was ep peeled to be for life, and intended to la: fo giten. 7 4, the reverfion fufficiently proved this, for a revel • fitna of •a• penfion daring pleafure was an ablardity. If the warrantslated that it was during pleafure, vras . a.traliiike, which would of courfe have been rte.- Ag e d- whin It goal& be returned to the Treafury, from the Barons of thA!Eichequer in Scotland. Ths Gentlemen on the other fade might be fufficiently mite,- that mittaket . Might be committed in tae burry of official bufinefs. This ,Was fufficient to proye theoettioi de both of the' Judge and the late hi* Rers. He concluded by moving an addrefs to his I.Majefy for copies of the warrants appointing the 'new Sheriffs, and ofthe. Warrant for the penfioa tv Lord Callen,' • The -LORD ADVOCATE for SCOTLAND ' fironorly contended, that the appointment Of thefe Sheriff, was not called for by any reafons of need. - ty or expediency. He did out with co call any ito• potation on the refpettable:Gentlemeo who had been appointed. They deferved to rife in their orotef; Cron, but he thought that new flees ought not to be created I r men of abilities, but that men of abi. I liries timid be placed in office- al eadyexiiting. He would have appealed to the H .n. and Learned Gen- tleman himf:ll, whether •hei. offices were in any point of view necefarv. if he had appeared is any ' other 'capacity than, {. .nr,.;ion of the late W. nifters.' He fat.= hat the duties were in general I done by fubtlitu , es. and that in all cafes mentionedb! the Hon. and Learned Gentlemar, there exiite no neceffity whatever for This divifion of labour. An. ; - arrangement on this point had been lately made, ow " der the Adminiftrations of Mr. Addington and Mr. Pitt. The Sheriffdoms had been divided - into five I claffes. and Wailes granted according to the duals; Mad it was rimarkable, that the cafes where the di stil-lon had now taken place were among thP lowa Gaffes. If the inflir ution was wlf:, why did they not come to Parliament for an Ad ? But they teemed to have had fome invifible hand to execute their deeds of darknefs. It had been Paid, that this regulation liad been called for by the voice of the country. He refided thetwat the time, and certainly had not heard of it. lie difspproved of it at the time, ashe did nit He acknowledged the merits of Lord Cullen. Bat be thought-lance Lord Cullen was the friend of the Noble Doke (Portland); the late Minifters, figs they had delayed the bulinefs fo long, might haveleft it with the Noble Duke. The words in the warrant Were certainly during pleafure," whether this was a initake or not. He ridiculed the ftrong defirefor die divifion of labour manifested by the late Mini. Reno in their appointment of new profelforfhips iathe Univerfities of Edinburgh and Dublin. He would 'not, however, oppofe the motion. Mr. CHARLES WYNNE contended for the al lity of the profefforßiips in queltion, from the unto tainty of the Hate of medicine in many of its mo'l important branches. Prefefforfliips of medical Oa prudence exifted in molt of the German Univerlitiei , and he quoted the authority of ftme eminent phYft cians in fupport of its utility.' Military forgery wa; a molt important branch of medical education, and Might prove of the higheft adianiage to our armies. The profefforthip of natural history in the Glaigow oniverfity was highly uleful. In fad' there was Pi