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HOUSE OF L')RDS—Tanaaarr, Aeacr 23.
The Hout- qte attalf.past three o'clock, wh,n
the Oak Rark rrgrating Rill, ft.! Inrikyepeis' Sub-
sistence Bill, wen. tbrou;') a Committee, aid were
repniled Without amendwits,
Mr. Wbhouse, and a deputaticin both the Com-
mons, brought up the Sierra Leone BM' and Pro-
vident Institntion Bill. Toey ire:e severally read
a first time.
Lord ERSKINE moved the Order of the My,
commanding the attendance of the Sv.tch Judges.
The Lard Chancellor ord red the Deputi Usher
to call in the Judges.
When the Lord President. the Lord Chief Justice
Clerk, Lords Glenlee. Colin, and Newton, took
their seats below the Bar.

Lord ERSKINE rose to suhroit his promised
motion to the House He had last night declared
his intention of ezimining the Learned Judges of
the Court of Session, with 'he view of obtaining the
(piles! and mutt pr4aical information upon the sub-
Fa' of improving the adm;nistration of the Courts of
Justice in ScotlarwL In looklng for that in'orma-
tion, he should not remain satisfied with the opi-
nions of those Learned Charaaer s„ het should taped
to hear from them the reasons upon which their
opinions were founded. The Holies, in requiring
the reasons, would best support the independence of
its judicial cherefter, an independence cf as high
import, as in its legislative capari!y, The House
had to reeollea, that it was called upon not to meet
and remedy a partial or circumscribed evil, not one
affetting some particular interests, but which corn.
prehended the whole of Scotian?. By its resolu-
tions, the House had pledged itself to the ac-
knowledgment of the evil, and to the nature
of the remedy. It . had pledged itself to a
remedy commensurate with the grievance corn-
plained of, and cot to one infinitely falling short of
that grievance. Their Losdships should not con-
found an improvement is the ad‘dnistration of
justice, with an innovation on those laws, which
were of the highest authority, aid had received the
sanaion of some of the most civilised States of Eu-
rope. When laws were radically bad, the manner
of their administration . was not of Vital come.
quince; bbt to allow good and wholesome laws to
lose their ate by mal-administration, was a
great and prominent evil. In the pre.ent Bill
before •the House, he did contend; that there
was not one atom of the Scottish Law invadid.
Taking the division of Blacks:tre, iuto ihe rights of
persons and things, be would defy any lawyer in
the kingdom to say, that in the Bill proposed by
his Noble Friend (Grenvilfe), there was a solitary
provision which went to centraven the acknow-
ledged principles of the Law of Scotland. Bet,
highly as he valued those laws, he felt it his deny
to ask the Learned Judges at the Bar, whether the
expense attending the process of the. Court of
Session, was not frequently much greater than the
thing in controversy ? In tea, that the remdy
was more expensive than the disease, and that it
was better to snffer under the exiting grievance.
than to endeavour to redress it. The Noble Lord
then referred to a precedent, where a man was
sued in the Court of Session for the support cf
bastard child, when, what with the printing of
the speeches of the Advocates, the Reports of
the Commissioners, the Reply, etc. there was.
between the ccmamenoement -of the proms and its-
result, time sufficient for the birth of ter.. bastards
(a limb), and the pleadings tormed a b-ok larger
than Johnson's Dittionary. Indeed, was such a
pram ice to east in Lapland, and were his clients t 2
print at their own expense all the speeches he mad:
in their behalf in the Court of Ling's Bench, thi•
would have been absolutelyruised. The nett point
to which he would direa his questions. w,s, to steer-
tain, whether, •n actions of prsv,.t... wrong, where pa-
role evidence was necessary, the introduction of the
Trial by Jury would not be attended with sreneficial
effec:c ? Toe Noule Lord argued strongly on 51..5
put of his sullia, and contended, that it was fully
within the power of the Court of Session to promote
this advantageous improvement, by the earrelon of
their talents and industry. ' tle next adverted to the
*vision of the Court of Session n.to three or two
Chambers. He was friendly to any division, inasmuch
as it went proportio ,ably to decrease tne evils arising
from such a number as Skeen juslAes ; where great
confusion and delay must proceed from the ditTer-
ence of opinion, aid the crossing and tumbling
which, antaaitst so mane, must