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that the eharaller of that lionse mizht he continued
to he held high, tind that they might guard their
futute pro:ecdings on this Bill against any imputa-
tion of precipitancy.
The Earl of WESTMORELAND observed, that
this, stas._at .itsostion _which involved many distinft
interests. He therefore wished to leave the Cour sel
egaina the Bill mifetteretti with regard to whatever
ar?,uenerits zr-oeideuce they might adduce; whilst
he, at the same time, wished for no unnecessary de-
lay on the one ham:, nor precipitancy on the other,
might be inconsistent with the eh:trader of
the House.

Lord HAWKESBURY remarked, that Chet•
wi;e three separate interests and classes of persons
affeaed by the object of the Bill now before the
/buss. the old Planters incur West Lelia Islands,
the Proprietors in the more recently acquired island
of Trinidad. and the Ship-owners, lkierchar.ts, and
others in the Port of London. lie thought, there-
f re, it might he agreeable to the House to admit
tile different parties to be heard on then distinta in-
_ .

The question for heating Counsel against the
kill was then put and agreed to.
Lord ELDON then adverted to the increasing
hu,iness in the Court of Chancery, and s,id, th.it,
from his own experience, when tie presided in that
Court, and he believed the Noble and Learned Lord,
who now presided in it, would concur with him in
acknowledging, it was fuund imprAtaicablete bring
the deci•tous to so early a conclusion as might lee
desirable. He had turned his Attention midst subs

jet. and he now merely rose to give notice, that it
sires his intention to take an early opportunity ut
Trci•esing certain resolution,. with a view of tt •
eilitatiog the claims of suitors its the Court 8f
Cf.tneery.
The LORI) CHANCELI.Oft corroborated the
eb:e• rations of the Noble and Learned Lord, respeet-
inir the Ares-nt diffi,ultws that occurred in the way
e briegsng Ch sixtry suits is an early decisions
set) rem LAW.

GRENVILEEtiIenroe, and adverted to

the irsolutious which h.d been brought torward in
tilt tut Parliament, ;elemt to the waministration of
the LAW in England. He m•ntiontd his intention

to move to tnisqg in a Hill with a view to assimilate
the ;..:minim etion of justice in the Courts of the
ited Kingdom. at the same time he wished to
affoid ample time hr profesdenal Gentlemen, par-
ticularly in .he Nsrthern part of the Kingdom, to
offer any remarks or suggest hints of further im-
prominent He declared his ohjea was to pro-
mote the welfare and happiness of the itihah;taiits
of, Scotland, by ,he till which he proposed to intro-
duty.
Lord ELLIt)N said, this was a subjed of great
importance and difficulty. The number of appeals
Irons theCoim: of Sc %non in Scotland, had greatly
increased of lat- years, and it was certainly desirable
that the amenity rf :'em shrill,' be diminished.
He by no means meant to throw out the least insi.
nnamsa against the drci ion of the learned and able
Judees of Scotland ; bet he believed the increase of
tie se appeals was in a great measure to be attributtd
to the increasing affluence and 1,. osperity of that
r.,1 of the is'and. But the alterations in the Scotch
Law, as proposed by the Noble Lord, he was afraid
would be attended with ra.h difficulties as would,
in a great niestorc, render it impraeficsble to put
thein into exe.mion ; at the same time that he
ebould he ever disposed to lend any assistance in
his power, with a view of remedying the evil com-
plained M.
lord GRENVILLE said. he had been much
fr.ditl.traf to professicnal grinlrmen for the aos i 1 t-
ante they hae already aff,rded him, and he united
be shpuld continue to be favoured with them, in
pile/our& the measure now in contemplation.--
lie sa.. no neccisiii, :.rmrver, of delaying to come
. to wane praiiical conclusion in the course of the
present Session; for the plan he had brought to:-
ward last year had been aided by the best advice,
and, in falit. was so matured, as to render it un-
necessary that the Sant degree of inquiry s:iould be
at.ain afiorded for the minute discussion and details
of the 'aka, as when it was originally brought
!inward. Lend Grenville then declared his ni-
tration of moving for leave to bring in a Kill on
the schje," of the Scotch Law, on this day sen-
aight.—Adjont ned.