The Sun.
London, England, 1807-02-18 00:00:00

THE Gentlemen who proposed to contra& for the
Lottery, waited upon Lord GRENVILLE this morn-
ing, and the same Parties who on Thursday last bid
161.25. 6d. having united, they otTered the sum re-
quired by Government, viz. 161. tos. and of course
became the Purchasers of the Lottery.
Lord GRENVILLE, in compliance with the request
of the Contradors., agreed that the Drawing should
terminate on the 23d instead of the I t th of May.

LOrdGaustvltts's Plan of Reform in the Admi-
nistration of Civil Justice in Scotland, which his now
been siibmitted to the consideration Of - Parliament,
will doubtless receive that solemn investigation and
dispassionate discussion to which so momentous a
queStion is eminently' entitled, and be finally ma•
tured by the colleetive wisdom of the Legislature.
The expediency and necesity of some amendments
in the Civil Judicature of Scotland are admitted by
all who are competent to decide, and will be ren-
dered obvious to those who have been hitherto un-
acquainted with the s'ibje&, by a brief sketch' of
the present judicial system in that part of the Island:
Crimes are tried in the Court of Justiciary, and Re-.
venue Questions in the Ceurt of .Exchequer.., In
these Courts trial by Jury obtains, but neither of them
takes cognizance of any civil action. The Supreme
Civil Court is the Court of Session, and its jurisdic-
tion is nearly as extensive as that of the Court of
Chancery, of Common Pleas; and the Plea Side of
the King's Butch jointly. It sits in Editibuegh, in
two Sessions or Terms, fur six months in the year.
The Judges of Justiciary, who are also. Judges of the
Court of Session, go on she Circuits twice in the
year, for the trial of crim;:s. only; but, by 'a
recent.
Statute, they have an appellate jurisdi&ion in civil
cases under 121. Civil Justice is adnaicistered in the
Country chiefly by the Sacral's of Connties and their
DepUties, and by .;sie Magistrates of Burghs, as-
sisted by tide down Clerk, Almost all'the decisions
of interior Judges may be brought under the review
of the Courtsol- Session. This court consists of
fourteen Judges and a President, who sit together
in one Bouy, anu deliver their opinions. seriatim.--R.
Each of the fourteen sits for a week, by rotation, in
toe Outer Hotise, as an innividual Judge, to take
cognizance of all the causes that .corne into :the.
Court durinjthat period, and with resped to which
he is caned the " Lord Ordinary." If the party,
against whom Judgment is gisen, be dissatisfied
with the decision, he brings it by .Petition under the
review of the whole Court, that' is, of the Judges in
a iiody sitting in the Inner House. The Court of
Session thus performs the office of a Court,of Ap-
peal„ and sometimes ads as an original Court,
in receiving and determining upon the report of
Orditiaries.; Some few causes come directly into
the Inner House, without being at .all subjeA to
the cognizance of Ordinaries. Upon an average;
150. or s;00 new causes are brought every week
befere the Judge sitting in. the Outer liOuse.
Tt is•scarcely possible for him to • hear Pleadings, or
give Judgment in o
.part of theta ; and the
rest are either postponed, Or an order is given to
state them in'writing. The ;other Party answers in
writing also, and it the Judge is not satisfied with
the Pleadings; be orders more Papers. When, at
length,. judgment is 'Pronounced, a iwritten Pleading
maybe.-given in against that Judgment, .amid this may
be repeated till the Judge orders that no more Pa-
pers shall be received. The Cause may .then be
submitted, in!the shape of a Petition, to the fifteen
*ledges. Timis Petition is printed, and sometimes
Pleadings in answer to it, are also printed.—Addt-
tional Papers, too, are frequently printed. After
the perusal of these, the Judges deliberate, and pro-
nounce Judgment openly. The. Judges give their
opinions seriatim, and the discussions, which are
often zealously maintained, are closed by-st
The Question may aOin be argued in a second Pe,
tition, but-when two successive Judgments have been
given on the: same side, the written contest is ter-
minated: -The unsuccessful Party has then a re!.
• source, in •an -Appeal to the. House of . Lords.—
,
the lOosettess and prolixity of the written Papers;
artd - the latitude in which the Parties may in
dulge themselves in • the statement and illuss
trawls .of their Cause, -are strikingly contrasted
with the preciSe forms of Pleading adopted in
this Country. The Jedges, who hate -not
time to hear Counsel, cannot have leisure for
exawitiiirg Witnesses ; and accordingly, whenever a
necessity.arisci, a Qeniraission is granted to some

In return for the Loan or Subsidy which we un-
.derstand is to be granted to Russia on the part of the
- British Government, the Court of St. Petersburgli
have testified their gratitude in a manner which
cannot but be welcome to the Mercantile Interest
of England : it is said that the Russian Ministry
have presented to the English Government the
draft of a Commercial Treaty, which puts the
British Trade to the Baltic on a level with that of
native Russian merchants from port to port.
.An overland dispatch arrived yesterday, which
left Bombay on the 18th of September. Letters by
this conveyance State, that TiProots sons having
been strongly suspealed of having instigated the mu-
tiny in the troops at Vellore, had been sent Qt-T to
Calcutta, and they were removed without any dis-
turbance taking place. Tile alarm which that un-
fortunate event of the mainly had at first excited has
subsided, though for a' whip the most iatal conse-
quences were apprehended.
The following is a list of killed and wounded
Officers, in the Insurreffion which unfortunately
took place at Vellore, under. the Government cli
Madras, on the loth ofiiiiy :
Killed -Col. fancotirt, King's Regiment ;. Col. M'Kerrag,
Capt. Willison, and Lieutenants Winship and 19.11 y, a3d
Native Infantry; Capt. Miller, Lielitenants O'keilly, Smart.
and Tichbourne, ISt Native inLintty ; Lieutenants Ely and
Pophant, 69th Regiment; John S. Smith, Military
Pay-
master; —...... Man, Deputy
.Conduttor of Stores .
.Major
Armstrong, 16th Native Infantry; ---Gill, Conduetor of
()rdnalue.
• Wounded—Captains Batiow and M•Lachlan, and, Lieut.
Mitchell,ol Hip Majesty's'69th Regiment. -
Of the Insurgent Sepoy.s ~there were from 500.- to
GOO killed. .
List of the Minority in the Division on the Hamp-.
shire:Petition :
Henry to aren Win. Broderick
John Osborne %V. A. To, iisend
;W. S. Stanhope , R. Holt Leigh •
T George Ruse I. Paterson
SttirOs Bourne Sir ii, Knatchbult •T. Lki,t I. Williams
• Ch. Jelikin..on Sir Charles Burrell
Snowurii Bailie Lord LI rook.e
Marquis of Huntley lic,ii. I. Strwart
Lord Stopford • Joshua Smith •
Spencer Cf!wpet _ General V) se .
Charles Long R. Biuduaiph . .
George Johnstone Atkins li/rnait . .
Wiiiiain Baker j*. D. Ponthieu . .', •
. Joseph Sirutt I. Fanc
Lord A.. Somerset Lord lirirce•
• (;purge Coining ' Dixon Alge.llS
J. Pereiira; T. Fyti:ie
E. ',ascetics k ‘ Long, Member fur Wilts
R. W. Cartwright J. Treniaine,
Lord Castlereagn Ki.itast-it 1)(,•,; ell
• I:. letlZ:ry T. Ltniibride
Sir„T,-.:Turton N. I el 1,,u es
(.;,.li, 1(06:. A. Champernownt:
'"k. •&L. Sutton lion. J. Rol.:inson
Wiliialn flat . D. Giddy. • ; I<. Ryder
TELLER,.
IV. Fitzhugh A shetnn Smith
Sir it. ruck; Sir 11. Alikiillay. •

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..RI ti HOME POPHAM anti Cant. KING arrived iftst ollieroerson to take the depositions of eie. Witriels6
night in town. -They landed at Wtitnotit,t),, rti4 set ‘t' h jell 2re written down, and transmitted by 64
eCurnmssioner to the Court. This written evidenc;
6.11:. immediately' for London. They carlie in the
becomes the subjed of new written pleadings, en
. .
lolly Prize
Tun following Merchantmen had arrived in the an obstinate argument is usually maintained upon RI
River La Plata :—The Duke of Kent, Anna, Spring import and credibility. The vague, inaccurate, and
Grove, Aaive, Minerva, L'lnventiOn, from Lon- unatisla&ory nature of the Pleadings, the; expelcA,
don; Nelson and Venus, from Guernsey; Juno and delay of preparing them, the oppressive and
and the Horatio, from Liverpool ; filedway and painful situation of the J!,,l.ges, who are tasked.
King George, from -----. They were left with ; far beyond what they have power to perform, and
Admiral STIRLING, at Maldonado, when the Rolla the ftnpression produced upon. the Litigants by'
• ‘,l public deliberation, which, In Consequence of
the variance of opinion in the Judges, who, from
their number and, their quantity of business can'
not consult each other .in private, or concert
any common opinion, assumes the character of 3
Debate? and is7terrninated by a Vote, are great a.la
obvious evils, which most seriously demand the
terposition of the Legislature for the reformation ei.
such 2t-system of proceeding. It is said, that there
are at this; tithe on the Roll of the Inner HoUse as
Many Causes ,for decision as .would occupy the
Court nearly two years to decide, and it-is knowli
that the Appeals now before the House of Lords,
from Scotland, are 'three times'the number of those
from. .England and Ireland conjointly. To remedy
these evils it is proposed to divide- the Court of
Session into three Courts, or Chambers, to
establish a Court of Review,
.and to introduce,
to a certain extent, the mode. of Trial by Jury
These Chambers will have equal powers, and:.
exercise a co-ordinate jurisdiaion. Each Court No" -
depute one of its Members to 'sit as Lord Ordinary'
in an Outer-House, agreeably to the present prat'
ticer of the Court of Session: It is manifest that
far greater portioh of Business can be dispatched by,
those distinal and separate Chambers than under the. ,
preSent unwieldy form of the Court of Session. The
Court of Review-, or Intermediate Appeal, is intend-
ed to consist of the Presidents of each of the three
Chambers, of the. Chief* Baron of the .
aturpla fifii Ju.ige, who will be, the President of
the Court of Review,. It is designed to introduce.
the Trial by Jury in all cases where personal rights
are concerned; in cases of landed property, the ad-
ministration of the Laws will remain as before.
By these Provisions, which at a future oriPor"
tunify may be explained and considered more 13
detail, it is hoped to obviate inconveniencies
which
so imperiously demand a Remedy. The enlighten-
ed Nobleman who has proposed this Scbeine
of Reform, will be justly- entitled. to the Public ap-
plause, and to the gratitude of Scotland,
if the plan
which he has suggested shall remedy the uncer-
tainty t Is. Law "rising from the inaccurate forms
of pleading, and the intolerable pressure upon the
Judges, if it'shall diminish the enormous expellee and
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delay of a Suit, if it shall introduce 'nudes of deei°
sion which tend to prevent the causes of future liti-
gation, and shall remove the general dissatisfaction
and discontent. of the People whiz their Supreme
Tribunal.