The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-13 00:00:00

COLONIZATION.

As the subject of systematic colonization is now be-
ginning to engage a large portion of the public attention,
the following memoranda relative to the Nova Scotia
claims cannot fail to be read with interest. _ .

The Baronetage of Scotland was erected in 1825
under express stipulations, that no Baronet should be
created in Scotland except for the sole cause of promot-
ing the colonization of Nova Scotia; that the country of
Nova Scotia should be divided into counties containing
ten baronies, each three miles along the coast, and ten
miles into the interior; and every Baronet should
be a Baron of some one or other of the said Baronies, and
was therein to have ten thousand acres of property, be-
sides his six thousand acres belonging to his burgh of
Barony, to be holden free blanche, and in a free barony
of the Crown, as did the barons of the realm of Scotland.
The charter of the Premier Baronet, Gordon of
Gordonstoun, dated the 28th of May, 1625, and the
charters of the Baronets Campbell of Glenorchy,
Innes of Innes, Wemyss of Wemyss, Macdonald of
Macdonald, and Murray of Cockpool (now respec-
tively represented by the Marquis of Breadalbane,
the Duke of Roxburgh, the Earl of Wemyss, Lord
Macdonald, and the Earl of Mansfield), conferred
from the 29th of May to the 19th of July, 1625, are
made by the Royal Commission of King Charles I.
to the Lords of the Privy Council for creating Baronets
of Scotland and Nova Scotia (bearing date the 26th of
July, 1625), the regulating fundamental constitution of
the whole Scottish Baronetage, i.e. of all the families
made Baronets from 1625 to the Union in 1707. These
Charters, to which every patent of Charles IL, James
11., and William and Mary refer, contain clauses and
provisions to the following effect, viz. :—" The said
charters are, and shall be, valid sufficient and effectual in
all time coming in all parts thereof as set forth for ever,
to the said Baronets and each of them, in law against the
king, his heirs and successors, and against all other
persons whatsoever, in all his Courts, and those of his
heirs and successors and in all other places whatsoever
at all times and occasions, notwithstanding whatsoever
law, custom, prescription, practice, ordinance, or consti-
tution hitherto made, ordained, or published; or here-
after, at whatsoever time to be made, ordained, and pub-
lished or provided, and notwithstanding any other cause
or occasion whatsoever."
The Charter of the Premier Baronet was renewed
and confirmed by William 111. in 1698—seventy three
years after the period of the first grant. The proceed-
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tween that date and the treaty of Paris in 1763 (when
the rights of the Baronets revived under the jure post-
liminii) only 72 years intervene. This is an important
historical fact in a case of this nature, inasmuch as the
precedent of the recognition of the validity of the
rights and privileges conveyed in the Gordon Charter
by the King and Government in 1698, ought to rule the
Crown and Government in the present day.
But the rights and privileges subsisting in the families
forming the Scottish Baronetage are protected by the
Act of Union in 1707, nine years later that: the renewal
by William 111. of the Gordon Charter, i. e. eighty-two
years subsequent to the foundation of the Order—a
period almost exactly the same as that which has elapsed
since the treaty of Paris, in 1763, and this date.
Within, however, twelve years from the date of the
Treaty of Paris (viz., in 1775), various meetings of the
Baronets of Scotland, took place, when steps were
adopted for the revival of their common rights and pri-
vileges. Whilst somewhat later, in the months of July
and October, 1783, meetings of the said Baronets, and of
representatives in right of their lands in Nova Scotia,
were expressly held in Edinburgh-Ist, because " mea-
sures were being taken in London, which might mate-
rially affect their interests in the estates granted to them
in Nova Scotia;" and, 2d, "to consider a memorial to
the Lords of the Treasury on the subject of their grants."
At the last general meeting of the Order, on the 7th
of November, 1844, it was supposed that no proceedings
had followed the meetings in 1783, but within the last
eighteen months two original letters of the late James
Ctimmyng, Esq., of the Lyon-office (who acted as secre-
tary to the then Committee of Scottish Baronets), have
been recovered. From these documents (which bear
date 30th April and 4th August, 1777) the following are
extracts :—" Our Baronets, not content with the re-
covery of their badge, are determined to apply to Go-
vernment for the lands granted to their ancestors with
their titles, and I have long been employed in selecting
the description of the boundaries of their lots (16,000
acres each) from their charters, and adjusting it to a
plan of the country on as enlarged scale which will soon
be laid before the Board of Trade;" and again, " I have
lately got extracts from the Lord Register's-office of the
patents of all the Baronets, with descriptions of the
lands in America bestowed on them, from which I am
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to foam a plan of the grounds, marking each member's
name on his grant." These notices are decisive as to the
character
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out of the eleven in
New Brunswick as yet unlocated, would suffice to quiet
theme claims
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our Government has yielded up, to the unjust demands
of the United States, a larger portion of the soil of that
province by the settlement of the boundary question.
Further—within the same period, the " Irish Society of
London" incorporated by James I. in 1613 for the Plan-
tation of Ulster, have revived their objects after remain..
ing (as shown by Mr. Hall in his late work) for " above
two centuries as utterly unacquainted with their estates,
as if they had been situate in Kamschatka."
But allowing no such precedents could be cited—
nevertheless the condition of Scotland on the one hand,
overburdened with population, and of New Brunswick,
on the other, now being settled in a way that is certain
to terminate in a vulgar republic, combine to form most
powerful moral and political reasons why the Scottish
Baronets should again exercise the rights and objects of
their institution. The Order was founded hereditarily
to promote " the opulence, prosperity and peace" of the
mother country and the colony—and with famine in the
Highlands, and one• tenth of the inhabitants at large-
-250,000 souls—in a state of pauperism, it is full time
that those concerned should, by a vigorous, united, and
patriotic effort, make the Baronetage the mighty stare
engine of practical usefulness whereby (as contemplated
by its royal toundet ) each baronet in particular, and the
whole Scottish nation generally, shall have honour and
profit."—Ross-shire Advertiser.

MIRACULOUS PRESERVATION
OF A FRENCH BARQUE BY H.M.S. TYNE.
11.M.5. Tyne, 28, Captain Glascock, arrived at this
port on Saturday last, having put in by stress of wea-
ther on her way to Portsmouth. The Admiralty,. an-
ticipating the probability of her arrival here, had or-
dered her to remain to be paid off. On Christmas day,
during a most dreadful gale, the Tyne fell in with a
French barque in great distress, evidenced by her hav-
ing the national flag half down on her three mast heads
The Tyne at once closed with a view to hail her, and
endeavour to ascertain the extent of her distress, but
such was the violence of the gale, that all attempts at
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barque ; at this juncture, Mr. James Penn, master of
the'Tyne, (grand-nephew of the late well•known in-
trepid king's, pilot, of Cawsand,) seconded by Lieu-
tenant Selwyn, of the same ship, at the imminent risk
of their lives, nobly volunteered to board the vessel,
supposing her crew wished to abandon her, and take
refuge on board the Tyne. On reaching the barque it
of her
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him, and render him every possible assistance, as soora as
the weather moderated to allow communication, aad in
the meantime a jury spar had been fitted on board the
Tyne, by which the barque could be steered, until a piroper
rudder, made on Pakenham's principle, could be com-
pleted and properly shipped. On the 26th December, at
noon, the weather becoming more moderate, the spar was
sent on board, and with great difficulty secured and
found sufficiently effective to wear the barque round with
her head to the northward, and before dark, with the
consent of her captain the Tyne took the barque in. tow.
Between the 26th and 28th, the Tyne's crew were con-
stantly engaged by day and night occasionally misting
off the tow, and employedin the boats towing the two
vessels apart, as the wind fell light and the swell' in-
creased, in consequence of the two vessels having a,great
rteund(dleetrxywatos cfluolslye. Oncom p
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amply supplied with provisions end water, and iiDund
to be so serviceable altogether, that the French cap-
tain expressed a strong desire to prosecute his voyage
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alone. Three hearty cheers were nterchanged. be-
tween the two vessels, and each parted for their re-
spective destinations, the captain of the barque
nation to report the great kindness he hadex
texpe-
pressing excessive gratitude, and stating his deterna-
rienced to the French Government on his arrival.
The barque was richly laden, having a general ctulgo
estimated at 20,0001., from Marseilles to Havre. She
was quite a new vessel, copper bottomed and fastomed.
There can be little, if any doubt, that if the rudder had.
not been supplied, she must have been lost either ,off
Ushant or Scilly. Nothing could exceed the &hitt
rested and generous conduct of Captain Glascock, his
into
a and crew—for, had they brought the vessel
a British port, a large amount of salvage must have
been their reward. But, like true British sailors, they
sacrificed all pecuniary considerations, and devoted
themselves entirely to preserve a valuable ship and vino