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REPORTS PROW THE SELEtT • CONIIITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COl's:ll\lo77S 4PPOINTED TO INQUIRE INTO THE STATE- .OF E PUBLIC ItECORr)S OF THE KINGDOM. (Co:rtinued from our Paper of Saturday.) ',? SCOTLAND. The policy of the Laws of Scotland,. at. a very early period of its history, caused the establishtnent o a . general Registry . for preserving the Memorials and Evidences of all the Public and Private Rights of the Constitution and Government of - that. Conn:. try, and of those:who dwelt under, its proteCtion.' The Institution planned for. this . purpoSe, has been gradually bro - tight to a:state of perfection, which is singularly beneficial . to the . Inhabitants of that part of the.unitedKingdclin;'and leaves-very- little room for improvement. Some •few points,' nevertheless, have beensuggested-.by persons whost official - con: neCtion, with that EiLibli*lnent, .and whose, proles sional rank and .knoWledge, leirrning :and, experi ence, in The Municipal Jurispitidence of Scotland, entitle them to the highest confidence: Your Com rnittee will proceed, herefore, to stare them, briefly tinder the heads of:Registration, Buildings, Cata log- nes, Transfers; Fees_of.Office, and the SeleClion of Original Records, which-'may deserve publication hiparliAmentary.auttority.. • isr. - Registra --- tion.Duplicates of all Deeds which pass the Great Seal of Scotland, 'should be made and authenticated by the ,Lord Keeper's Deputy, with an • Index thereto, and defioSited annually in the Gene . ral RepoSitory, -at the General Register House, at Edinburgh.. •- , • . A Record of the Proceedings in the Circuit Court of Justiciarv, should be mnde in the Same manner as the Wooks of Adjournal of the High Cont..; ofJusti riary at Edinburgh; and deposited in the General Repository annually, if possible, or 'within such .other period as the Eligh-Courtiof Justiciary may di`reet. . . A Record of all .Decreets in the ,Sheriff's Court, ought; according to the re , gulations enjoined by the Court of Session, '.to be. made• regularly and corp pleatly. Of the utility of. executing this strictly, some doubts have been ' etuertained. But there is no doubt of its being expedient,to require that an Annual Report, signed by the Sheriff. Clerk, and attested by ',the Sheriff, of the State of the Re_ cords. in the Sheriff's Court, should be made to the Court of Session, and there recorded in the Books of Sederunt. • The Record of Deeds, in' the Sheriff's Court, 'should be entered in books, j given Oct and marked by the Lord Clerk Register, or his Deputies,. as the Record of Hornings and Inhibitions now is ; and no tlew Books should be given our until the old are returned with the Deeds recorded in them. All Deeds regarding the heritable property - within a Royal Burgh, should be recorded. the Town Court Books of the particular Burgh, and Deed, regarding nutters of personal concern' within the Burgh should be recorded in the Town Court , looks, or in the Sheriff Courts Books. No Deeds whatever should' be recorded in the Commissary Courts ; and zithough this praEtice has very generally ,obtained, it is irregular, -and ought to be prevented in all cases for the-time to-come. •zdly, Buildings.—An'Apartment in the General Register "House should be allotted to' the Great Seal Office. The Building now occupied by the Court of Exchequer is represented to be neither very cennmo. dious nor very secure, as a Repoiitery for many ofthe Records-wliich . are kept.there ; and attention should be given to the removal of these inconveniencies.— Upon inqUiry into the Record'Orfices of the Sheriff's, it appears; that about one-fourth of the nunthcr are placed in buildings which are public.property; but the rest are .in private houses; where , tl,e r ße.,cords are exposed, in many instances, to certain though gradual desttue.lion, and are in 'all cases, liable to loss, and dispersion. , All of them should certainly be lrxiged in Public,Bnildirtgs, sccurdd from clamp and fire ; and it may be produaiVe of: great cc, commoLtion to individuals, if the' Records •of each County 'were lodged colledively ,at one pla'ce. ,Catalogues. At the General Registei House in t.:tlinburgh, it will be proper to make a Gene ral R .Repertory of its whole contents ; it will also be.expedient . ,tin' make 'an Index to the RecOrds f t4-Grat Seal, and another Inventory or Repertory to the detadhed Charters - and Proclamations. In the Exchequer an Index should be made to the Books of I)eereets and Orders "in the Office of the King's Rernetnbrancer, 'for-the purpose i d supply ing theloss Of one renioved from thence,in 1767. A,,a an Index is also wanting to the Records of the i Fgh Court of Justiciary ; and, another in the A inuralty; of such Proceedings in that court . as gre carried on to . final .entente. • Transfers. 7 -By an Aa of the Parliament of Scotland, in. the year 1635, it is ordained ".‘ That all Clerks within the Kingdom, who :kee;:• such Registers as are or have been in use to be dt:iivered into the Lord Clerk Register, to be preserved in His Majesty's General Register House, shad keep only ten year Records in their own hands, for the use.of the Lieges." The great increase of busines§, and the consequent increase of Records which has , arisen since the time of passing this Akti, .renders it proper now to pro vide that they should be brought in annually for every fit th..year prece iing;.unless otherwise direct ed in special Cases. All the Warrants of the Great Seal, together with_the Duplicates and Index Above recommended, should also be carried annually to the general Repository. The Records 'of- the PriVy Council, and 411 the ReCords ; of the Court of justiciary, should i:ho be transferred, thither. ;The Records of Teind.s znd of TaiWes, and Inventories, in like manner, should be carried in annually if pos,:ible, or within Nell period as the Court ofsession may direifl.---And it is obviously proper that the Proceedings upon Spe cial Commissions for the, trial of High Treason in Seotla4; Sand all either itecordsk now lodged in His Majes,ty's Offices of Record in England, which" *hbive4 , regard the internal Poiicy and . Laws Dk that part of the 'United Kingdom, should be trans ferred. to.the General Register Hone, at Edinburgh: gthly.—Many representations have been made to yOur. .COmmit tee, respeaingthe nature, amount, and inailectiracy of the Fs and Emoluments assigned .to the'OfficerS employed in the Record Offices of 'Scot land, and particularly in the Courts of Justiciary and Admiralty, and in, the Sheriff's .Court: But these, and other considerations, respeaing tote mode of making Extra is of Decreets in the Court of Session; appearing to involve.many questions of material impOrtanCe to His Majesty's subjeas in. Scotl a nd. - your:Commit tee.forbear to offer any deeid edopinion upon this'subjea, especially_as they have. the satisfaction to be inforrfied, that it ?has engaged the attention of thos-epersons whose stations at the head . of the Courts :of there, Will enable them to'form the most correct judgment Upon all its parts, and that they have it in contemplation to submit some measures to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for amending Mut they may find to re. quire redress. 6thly.-H-The Records of the Parliament of Scot land, which commence in the Thirteenth Century, and. are complete: to the time of the Union, appear to deserve publication: The present Lord Clerk Re. gjster, has had . this great work in view for many years, and some of the 'earliest Volumes have been by. his order prepared for the Press. Together with these, it might also be expedient to print the ear liest of the Royal Charters. THE SUN. SOLIM QUIS . DICZ&L 11 , LSUM. AUDZAT LONDON, SEPTEMBER z, 18o!, OUR Readers were already in possession of an Abstraft. of the Treaty concluded between Russia and this Country, which was given in our Paper of the 2rst of July: In our subsequent Columns we have given a-Translation of the, whole 'Treaty, as inserted in the-Foreign Papers. ' ')i THE Danitive Treaty of Peace concluded be tween Bavaria and , 'France; 'of which the F,rinch Papers that arrived yesterday brought ,us intelli_ gence, is bat a natural conkquence of the Pro-. visional Treaty which was lase' year, granted 'by Gen. MOREAU at the interpoSition of the Court of Berlin ; it may, however, be important in one re spea,. as it perhaps . deter:nines Whether the pos sessions of the ELECTOR of BAVARIA will or will not be diminished by the execution of the Secret Articles of the Treaty of Luneville.. It has gene 'rally been supposed that that part of Bavaria which is situated to the Eastward of the Inn, would, be given up to the House of Austria. As this arrange ment has not, however, taken place any more than several others, it may not be improbable th a t' in this ,new Treaty, 'France, at the solicitation of Russia, guarantees to the ELECTOR of BAVARIA the integrity of his Possessions, with the excep tion-of tlle , Patatinate of the Rhine l and that she relies upon this - Convention, afterwards `to refuse to the EMPEROR, the inn i friertei, the other Di strids which- had been r:ornised him. It is a very,Common.pra6tice Republican Diplomacy, to take advantage of one engagement in order'to glis pense'with the fulfilment of another. We find 'nothing in the ; late Paris journals, on the head of that great and. difficult question which now occupies exchisively the whole of Ger t inany,.from the Cabinet ofFivina; to ..the -Smallest Imperial City,, and whiCh will be, still more diffi cult, to be" settled than was the question, nearly similar, which gave rise to the War of Thirty Years. Our .Readers will 'do us the justice 'to acknowledge, 'that we do pot, ; like our cotempo: 'Aries, sport with their judgment day after day, by presenting them, as probabilities, with all th , ! different 'plans of Partition and Arrangement of which every Mail, or every arrival of Paris Papers,' puts us in possession. What Means have the journa'...' iititS,OF the kile Politicians of Fr.,nkfort, or /3e!/;n, of judging of the result of, the most uncertain and most ditlicuit Negotiations which have ever agitat ed Germany ? . Every new-Dispatch sent by One of the Cabinets interested, ' *difies this question, which is; thus ever, day varied., 'What is to be done in this continual uncertainty ?, We must await till the Diet of Ratisbon' shl.haveppenedits Sit tings, and - shall, by its serious deliberations, have I " sheWn us how few points have been agreed upon be t Ween the Powers of the first order. When any basis shall have been laid down, we may- then be permitted to reason. with some propriety, but till then, the Journalists who aka otherwise, are merely_ Wasting the time of themselves and the Public. - , We would willingly jive the same advice to both Writers arid Readers; respeAin&another Negotia , tion which more iiiiinediat.Ay interests us. Every day does interest or curiosity .generate some new circumstance of which the followingday chews the vanity and absurdity. Instead of. being thus'c'on tinually the dupes of the rumours 'of the Stock Ex chaoge, it would he more wise to await patiently till some faa, sufficiently impoftant• arici-'sufficiently stable to be communicated to the Public, shall have been decided; The Negotiations are cpnduaed by men equally distinguished for talons and 'patriotism, and they are naturally more interested and - more de sirous than any other persoti of `bringing them to a satisfadOry termination. If we have yet to wait this termination, ought we not to conclude that ob stacles occur which there is some difficulty in sur . mounting, and in that case, is. it not fair -to allow . IVlinisfers tinie and. Confidence pr o p o rti one d to th e Lts, • . exqaordmayy , Afforts which they have to mafce . ?— No,one,, surelrUho considerS all that has passed I , • .during.the last ten years, and - the present situation Of our Country and, of Europe, will, venture to as sert that a Peace, complete irt all respeas, is not one of the mist to be made that History ever records; THE. Hamburgh Mail had not arrived when this Paper was put to Press. Yesterday the Hon. Mt', FACET. left Town far Vienna. 1k has the permission of the French Go vernment to traverse through France i in order to' avoid the inconvenience or the passage to Ham burgh. The favour vas granted at the request of M. OTTO J who was 'applied to by Mr, PAGET to procure it. SPENCER SMITH, Esq. brother to Sir SIDNEY StArru,is now at Vienna, on his return to England. . This morning arrived a , Mail from Halifax, brought to - Fahnouthby the Prizcess Amelia Packet, in i 6 days. About six hundred - of the disembodied Supplemen_ tary Militia of Norfolk repaired to Lynn and 'filet_ ford on Monday last, When those most fit for service joined the Detachments from the East and, West Regiments, which attended at the' above placeS to receive them. A considerable number were charged, and have returned home. ' - ' The sittings .of a .Court, • Martial held during the last week at Chelsea ,Hospital s at which Lord HEATHFIELD presided, -.closed on Saturday last. 'The circumstances requiring its attention' were appeared, ;that on the itst of JulY lasi, JOHN' WILLIAM . EGERTON, Esq. Colonel of the r+th' Light ptagoolis, Teceived intimation, ;Whilst in the country, that Major BRowN• and Qornet 124citARDsoN, , of the. same. Regiment,..were to meet on the succeeding morning; at five "o'clock, ro adjust an affair of honour. The Colonel in stantly came - post..to Town, put ,the partie,•toge ther with 'Lieutenant MAHoNEy; also —of the 4th, the .bearer 'of the Challenei under arrest; and reported the particulars (which „were, that Major .BROWN had challenged cornet RICHARD_ SON, whilst on Reginsentnl Dray) to iiis'.Royal Highness the Commander in Chief, who direoed that MitiOi BROWN and Lieutenint MmioNEY should either sell their Commissions, or abide' the event of a Court_Martial, to the latter of whicj' they most cheerfully assented. The Charge on' (he part of the Commander in Chief was opened-..by • Lieutenant-Col. MITCHELL, who paid Jhe h:ghest compliments to the characters of the' Major and Lieutenant, as Officers ; ChristianS, and . Men.: A ininute.investigation followed, and the sentence-Was transmitted for His MAJESTY'S* . On Saturday la s t the. 18th Regithent of Light Dragoons, commanded by the •Honourable Lituf. Colonel STEWART, wen; :rev ieWed ,by . the PRINCE Of `'VIES and ran tE• of YORK, on the RaCeGrotind at Guildford, being 'the first time the Regiment had ever the honour •of being reviewed 1)3/ : .any of the Royal Family, owing to .their long services abroad. Their appearance, and. the admirable ,manner in. which they performed the , sword exercke, firing, and various rivintrin res of the day, obtaintel the .tmlit flattering ;yprOat'on froth Their Royal High_ nesses, and affor'de.i vast gratification to the num, rou , i anti respeetabie concourse of speEtatars: present. The gronnd was kept by the Guildford:Volunteers, o w e l c io ns e n r i y hands l omely offered their services on , the , . .A.fir the Rbview, the PRINCE of WALES, the .PUKE of YORK, DUtte Of CUMBERLAND, the Ge nera Officers in their suite,' and a large parry of the Laciieg and' Gentkunen of the . neighbourhood (about two hundred), dined with the Officers of the Regi ment, in two large tents, which had been previ. ously erected on the ground.• The 'elegance of the- , entertainment afforded the most agreeable surprize and pleasure to every one present ; and the,choieest Champagne, Burgundy, Claret, and other wines,: were distributed in . the greatest profusion. In the' evening, when the PRINCE and DUKE., of YORK, had taken leave .of. , oionel S __TEwART, Country,Dances commented on ,the ground 'before the tents,and continued till after dusk. • The pany then separated, very highly gtatified•With the polite coridua and hospitable entertainment Hthey had met with from the 'Officers of. the Regiment. , The Marquis of SALISBURY gave on Wednesday last a Turtle Dinner -to the DUKE of CUMBER LAND, and the Officers of .the Fifteenth Light Dra- • goons, at his seat at Hatfield. Sir-EDWARD CROFTON is about to lead to the Altar of Hymen Lady - STEWART, the third daughter of the Earl of GALLOWAY. Miss.F. CRoFTON, sister to the Baronet, has. pledged her matrimonial vows to Mr. FAWKENFR. Lately was married.Captain.WlLsoN, of the 22d Regiment of Foot, to Miss WYBoRN, ;youngest daughter.of JAMES. WYBORN, Eck Hull Nee, Kent: A grand rnatelt., was made on the last day of the York traces, to he run for on the Saturday before the en . suing. Doncairgf a Meeting, between Sir,l4. T . . V,A.NE's leock fi ghl(r.,-,apa Mr. JoHNsotes Sir Sok_ • '1776 each, four miles, soogs, h. ft.—Ten to sever. ort The Deitch, we believe, have - been 'permitted to return to the Christian adman-. ThiA jiberty . was very necessary. It was horrible to an inhabitant of North Holland;. to date a Letter in. Venderciaire, wheNhe .had. hardlY' sun enough to ripen an acre of Oats. WEYMOUTH, Aueusr 30. THEIR MAJESTIES were highly entertained las i ( night at the The a t r e. Th e new C ome d y "called Life, went off exceeding well. Mr. pENLEY's Comic Song in praise of Weymouth, was encored. Mr. SH ERI DAN, in the charader of Major Benhol in the Entertainment of The 'Flitch of Bacon, gained great applause. This morning His MAJESTY, PR !NCR Ann l ' . l'HUt, PR INC ESSES ' AUGUSTA and MARY bad-IC(1 ; afterwards the KING took his -usual walk on the Esplanade. The ROYAL FAMILY attended divine service at Weymouth Church, %Oleic they heard the Rey'• Mr. Luscomne, of Exeter, ilate Chaplain of,th e Sr. Korenzo Frigate,) preach , a sermon, - from Book of Exodus, Chap. xx. ver. After Church THEIR MAJESTIES returned home in their carriages. Pailictss.AmELlA took an airing on the Sands' EDINBURGH, Auc. 2 7. ON Monday last the rcitiains of that venerable Officer Lord ADAM Goat:wt.; were interred in the Church.yard of Inveresk, without any fdneral pomp, at his own special request. , Yesterday set off from WAt.xER 4 s Hotel, their Graces the Duke and,Duchess of GORDON, the Du. chess of MANCHESTER, and Lady GEonciANA Goßnort, for the North. yesterday at noon the Flag was displayed from the Castle, ..and a' round of great guns fired, in cele bration of the success of His 11110EsTY's Arms it l Egypt. . • • A letter from Stranraer mentions, •that an 1 111 ' 1 mense quantity of line mackerel were left on th e beach by the 'tide on the zoth and z tst inst. Mani thousands had been taken by the . hand. Yesterday,- George Walker was'executed at th e West end of - the:prison, for the Crime of hors t stealing; putsuafit to a sentence of the. High Cot of Justiciary. The Clergyman Who attended ht nl having parted with him. in the prison, 'he spent 11 ° ,time in devotional exercise, on the platform, but wa s immediately :launched . ..into eternity.—He was wards of sixty year ofage. • Sir G'. WAit RE N mak4tiddenly 2 taken ill on Sol i ' day nicht, at Tunbridife Wells, and expired in les s than an hour: Lord NELSON has increased Lady NeLSoN's set' Clement xo zotiol. a-year. Hcr Ladyship divide s her residence between London and Norfoik. . . .Covent -Garden Theatre is likely to make I distinguished figurein the musical world next seasofi' for besides BILLINGToN, . whose fam e h as b een l e' ceritly estimated at 'a very hig/ standard i n both S'TsoRAC..E and BR:Al-tANI are engaged to joill the harmon;i carps at the former, StrPHEN KtmaLies - Cempany are ,now at Scay, boif.;uii. Town is rather thin.an acco unt the numbers that have been drawn away by th e York*.ace. he Comedy of The .Poor C e ntleora % Aas rqircsented there for the . first tine I('W We.Cl l I , llL i was very, well received and vbty well at teii(lV P Cc•WZEis engaged to perfor: six nights at castle,upon-Tyre, on his *return iron) the Nora'' His., first performance is to be on the ph, of:thi C month. The Newcastle , Theatre is not o suallf opened for the Season at so early a period, and sTg l';'-iEIIv,KEMIILe will be ooligie4 pro tempore to mob , his . 1 heatricai fromScarboroOgh,b uto. Coo!ci engagement at Cokent•Garden ,lheaire will not ad' MIL 01 his performing later at . Newcastle,, and as h e was ,a great :!-tvoiirite there before he became so pular 1,1 London, the ,profitn is 'likely to compella sate tor the trouble. FOREVALLIM—SUCII of our Read e r s , as Mr the :Lein mthich many_attempted last year to ' e xcite , will be 'amused by the following' corichision of a bitter inve4ive against khose who 'are supposed t a , ha've been guilty 44 . the offote: ' But now, as a Quaker turitkisick at a; F 4, • And a Quaker, in turn, makes a Fop sick, • His soul stomach turns . at this plentiful crop, And, thank Cod—he'S ineurably , crop:siek ! At the last General,QLLirter SessionS of the PO - A for the Liberty o f Rip o n, -h e ld b e f ore t he M ayor an" the'ReY. the Dedn of Ripon, JoHN-lATILLIAmso I .and RICHARD WOOD, Esqrs. tali/flanPadget, that place, Miller, was convicted of. fraudulentlY changing corn, delivered to him to grind ; fbr which d o . i r l e 'e s n s c f e ro h m e w M as,afte ~ wiL r a LiA s m ui s t o a e admonition N.b:ont the epecu and liaren a o d r ; tnity of this, offence in such a time of general dis' tress to 'the poor, sentenced to pay a fine of O l and be imprisoned one calenda r mont h i n t h e C a stle of York ; and he has, since that time, paid the fin e ' and been lately released from his imprieonmenr. At Ipswich • Fair, last Week, there' appea l ' about the same quantity . o 4 l i ambs.as the two lit e ; ceding years, being estimated at not less tha 80,000. Mr. SHILLITIApOIIed wethers, of i worth, gained the pre.elninence, b e i ng ne a r ly ti and reached as high as 275. Mr. P AWsE y' s POl' tg c lambs, of Lidgate, were also_in hi g h con di t i on , 30 v fetched 335. and. his NOrfblks 225. the latter knOwledged to be the best of their breed in the Fai. t e i. the polled lambs grasluatect, fro m 19i . to 235• ; heath ditto, Iroill - 1-4.5. to 175. -,--The polled larn l/5 1 of various crosses, were ,eagerly sought for, in.. mostly sold the "first day, b u t ' not a tent h part' the horned stock were then 'disposed of. , r There was the most plentiful and best show r; horses at .Horncastle• Fair last week ever renlcinh e j ea, - . which went off readily at _ : o.rraordinary hig , prices.. The show of both lean, :ind fat bea.ts very small, .atid, owing to the high prides'i '?' were sold.. At. Melton Fair, on Friday last,' there Was t r a /1 ,:. largest , show of beasts ever rempnbered, of +coo; fat.ones fetched high . prices,. btit stor e :.: owing to the present drbo g h t , were without P t ' chasers almost at any prices. There was small show of sheep, 'which maintained the hi t _g. o prices latterly giv en . Th e s h ow o f horses.wab MM. _tAg vi e 0„ V• 1: , Or bet" or