The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1810-06-21 00:00:00

ROXBURGH PEERAGZ. AND ESTATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Wcusaow, JUN[ 30.

The LUal, CHascso.i.ya, i i conform tb to the
princ•ple of thou• resolutions.' which htd berm
■greed to by the l'ssiass.ittee of PrirstrAis. w,de
wailer motion to usat pas-rts by she Mousse sn the•
last Seilsion. wilerehy Sir James lanes Ker us de-
clared the nearest of k•in, tinder the deed of It 411.
and is put in posses,ion of the estate.

The Earl of LAI3Ut.ROSt.e remit a written states
neat of his own opinion out this subject. which
MY. at very great Ira4lll. occupying the time of
their Lordship, from about twenty minutes peat ten
in the morning ill a quarter before four in the
afternoon. lir disagreed entirely with the Noble
and Learned Lord on the U'oolsock, with rapect
to the coustructiou he had put ou the deed of Iti4B.
The word. in that deed used, granting the riglit of
the estate to the eldest daughter of Harry Loid
Ker, without division, and their heirs-wale,
provided site married a gentleman of holinu,.
ab:e descent, did not mean that the estate
should pass to the severardoeghters. and their heirs-
male of the body, lawfully begotten. He eon-
teoded. that heirs-male should be construed gene.
rally, and insisted. that the cases of Hay a Hay.
Bayley e. Trunant, Campbell a. Campbell, and
Pael a Coatis, hotrod of contradicting. universally
supported, this doctrine. However great and
princely the pozsarit sly of the Roxburgh Family
might be, the eoce of so deciding upon the
testa "heirs-male." was of much more importance.
as it regarded the tenure by which most of the
estates 111/41 MIN ill Scetlaod were held.
The Lout Cusscettos supported the senti-
ments which he :tad delivered upon a former °ma-
shie. He neat commented upon the state in
which the Roxburgh esiate would be placed. There
was nu doubt Sir • hillrb limes Rey hail proved his
iirapiustuity sulbcient in eistaile him lathe eujoy-
went of the estate, but he ought to hose gone fur-
ther in respect to liar Peerage; he ought salt ouly
to have 'heap, that he was the heir.ude at Lucy
Margaret Ker. but he ought to have -eil more,
that there was no inch inir of Lady Jour or Lady
Alillf• The questiuu. therefore, of the Peerage, r.--
iiisined opeu fur that strict pewit* which was Arco.)s
required before a Coraini.ter of Privileges.

Viscouct MtLVILLE addrepst-.1 the 11..u•e. and
ennutemlett for the eoootroctiou, that heus.ittale iu
the deed of Ma. aloud heirs-male of the body.

Lord REDIPIDALI opposed the ergo/nests of the
Noble Eat' (Lauder%hole), and urged the arms-
vity of that colistruetiou adopted b) his Noble wool
Learned Irorood on the ‘Voolrack. " To the eldest
daughter of Ilirry Lord lifer. wiemmerlibioiou."
convinced loom that tote &tighter% su eel se r
were meant, and that " heirs-mall' by the
coat. at ti.e ant la arsonale of the body.

The Earl or I...roaßDate replied. snd coot-
mewed u;.niri the Noble and Learned Lot 4. (ltede--
dale,) aho had ventured to deliver his opinion upon
the law of thus envy. erl,hotot knowing the law of
Scullanti. or 11111•111 g Iltitlided she pleadings ofecitus-
eel at the liar.

The sieution of the Lotto CHANCELLOZ was
•e•e'd to.
Th• 1.-tra CR RCP T 011 arm sebmitted • NW
ti :=•no:: 4! :be to, erlocutery pulcutsts.