Star.
London, England, 1807-03-30 00:00:00

Taat on Tuefday the 3tit lnftant, they will be ready to ret
ceive Tenders in writing, (Writ up, and treat for Three Hundred
Cbaldron of PITT's 'FANFIELD MOOR COALS, luU Pays
to be delivered immediately, in two enure Cargoes, free of all
charge and ride, into His Majefty'o Vid walling Prenifes at Dept.
ford.. add to be paid for by Bills payable with intereft ninety days
after date.
The Conditions of the Contraa may be fern at the Secretary's
Office.
No regard win be bad to wry Tender is whieb foter.pdt
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inferiei is wards at le ngtb, or 'bat jhall sear fie dehoered to S. Bard Sr.
fire Owe o'Cloci on the fall Toefday the 31., infant, ow ea* tie
Perpa who nate the Tender, w form Poises on bit behaT, attiode Bee
anfiver when called for.

PENPONT, MARCH i 7, 1835.
THE Prefbyte• y of Penpont, being met her- alit
day and cotiftituted,direded their attention to the Bill brought
Into Parliament for transferring the p wen of the Court of Teinds
from the Court of Scifian to the Court of Etchequer. The Prat-
bytery have not been able to procure a copy of that Bill ; but they
have received information of fame pr titulars in it, from authority
on which they can rely. Upon there particulars, they make the
following obfervations --1 he principal objet of the Bill from
which it takes its name excites the fincere regret of the Prefbytery.
The Judges of the Court of Seflion are all Native, of the Country,
and their places of refidence during the vacation, are feartered over
it. They therefore have the belt opportunities of being well ae-
quainted with ail its circumftances. They are all Mcm'scrs of
the National Church, and they are, at the fame time: confiderable
1 Landholders. They therefore may he premised to have a due
1 tfieleration of what is nece fare to fupport the dignity of the Fe.
4fiall.ica Eftabliihment, and at the fame time to have a jug re-
I Ord to ;he rights of the Landed Intereft. They arc men of large
and liberal minds, and in their fituations they art perfeCtly hide-
pendent. They arc therefore railed far ahoy.: ail fufpicion of Bal-
i fter views or unfair partiahties. Macs, their number affixtilates
them to a Jury feledted out of the belt-informed, the molt refpec-
rabic, and molt independent members of the commurity, and con-
fequently, ought to render their decifions molt fatisfaCtory to all
parties. For all there reafons,the Prethytery cannot, without deep
regret, °Verve that the powers of the Court of feinds are likely
to be taken out of the hoods of Judges fo well qualified to exercife
them, and who have actually exercifed them, tor fuch a length of
time, with the lindelt. honour and fidelity. The Pr. fbytery la-
ment this the more. that the very propofal* transfer thefe powers
from the Court of Seffion to aunther Court, creates a fufpicion that
the authors of the Bill for that purpofe are not fatisfied with the
manner in which the bufinefs of the reinds has hitherto been con-
ducted, and that they expo.% that a change of Courts will produce
Ia change of meafures leis favourable to theintereits of the Churls.
It does not tend to remove this fufpicion, that the Bill has been
preceded by an attempt to fulpend rim powers of the Court of
'1 eludes, and thus for a time deprive the Church of the only Judi-
catory before which it can bring forward its claims.
The proposed divifion of the Court of Sellion into three Cham-
bers, fo far tram rendering the change with refit( dt to the Court of
Teinds neceffary, takes away the only good realon which can be
affigned for it, viz. the want of time to attend to that Winds. if
the new arrangement in the Court of Seffi m produce the effea,
which it is intended to produce. they wiltbe able to go through
three times moee bufincts titan at prefent. Of courfe they will
have fufficient time to at-end to any cite:lions with refped toTdnds.
And there would be no harelihip, perhaps it would even he plea-
rant, that the three Chambers fh•.uld occalionally meet together,
and ad in one body as a Court of Teinds, efpecially as it Is not
very probable that at there meetings they would be troubled with
any verylong and laborious ellfeuffions. I here feems, therefore,
to be no oecetlity for the propored tra,.srerenee. But if it (hall be
determined that the powers of the Come ui Tcinda (hall be taken
out of the hands of the Court of Scffion, the Prcfbytery could
not with them to he b. tt_r lodged, than in the Court of Exche-
quer. for that auguft Court the Prefbytery have the higheft re-
fped, and with them they confider the interefts of the: Church as
perfeffily fecure.
The Prcibytery have reafon to believe, that there is 2 ebee in
the Bill, which appears to them to he peculiarly hard. They on-
derftand that a prohibition is to be laid upon the new Court of
• leinds, from littening to any applicatinn for an augmentation of
(Upends, within the period of twenty years from the tare of the
former augmentation, lithe circumftance% of thc Cotiotry fhould
change as much in the courfe of the next ten years, as they have
done in the courfe of the lett, what is now a decent and proper
(Upend, would then afford but a poor and fcanry fubli flume ; and
the Minilters of the hilahlithed Church would be unable to Cup-
port that rai; in fociety which they have hitherto been accultoma
ed to fuftain, anti which indeed is neceffary to preferve their autho-
rity and ufefulnefs in their refpeclive raehhes. Betides, it does not
appear like treating them or their office with much refpecl, that
by lush a orohibition they ffieuld he masked out from all others
ffilirg pub c &Meet, and precluded from every hope of obtaining
an addle. of to that- rotaries within the period of twenty ytars,
however neceffary this might be rendered, by any changes that
may take place in the circumftances of the Country. Neither
doe: it imply much confidence in the Court with whom the Au&
n to is ti be entrufted, that they Ihould be laid under any Each re-
itridion To them furely it ought to be left to dote mine when
an augmtntat;on may be necellary, as well as whit the amount
ought to be. The Prefbytt ry underttand there is another chute
in the Bill, by which it is propofed out of the vacant Ripen& to
mile a fund for augmenting the ftipends of thole panthea to which
theTeinds are already exhautted, without an adequate proviion
being made for the Clergymen. This elude the Prelbytery eona
Eider as perfedlly nugatory. In place of holding out any confobtioo
to their brethren who are fo unfortunately fi•uated, it teems rather
like (porting with their neceffides. For the prefeut generation mull
be wholly extind, before any confiderable fi.nd can be railed in
that way; tinkers Prefloyterians were, with that vi w, nunereffarily
to prolong the vacancies which may happen within their refpeCtive
bounds, and thus to facrifice theinterelts of religion to that of their
brethren. This, it is to be hoped, they will nat do. But to this
the Haute alluded to certainly holds out a temptation. and ought
therefore to be oppofed by every nun who confiders the interelts
of rtligion as worthy of his attention.
The Prefhytery, at this meeting, had a Memorie laid before
them for theit confideration, prefrnted by the Prelbytery of Pail.
ley to the Commiffionera of the County of Renfrew appointed to
carry into execution the Tax upon Property; in which Memorial
a claim of exemption from that and other taxes is ftated. and fup-
ported by plaufible arguments. The Prefbytery at prefent decline
entering upon that queftion, and content thenafelves with Were-
ing, that it mutt be extremely hard, if their Ripen& mutt be con-
tinually fabled to dintinuriort by the rapid depreciation of money,
and by the burden of every new tax that may be iv.pofed, and yet
at the fame time, that they fhould he precluded front every hope of
that diminution's being in any way made up or compenfated to
them for twenty years. If the Country continue to profper as it
has done,tbe circumftances of every other ears of me:, in the com-
munity may be expedted to be always improving, an Increale of
public burdens producing an incrtafe in the value of land, and
other fources of income : but if what is now propolhd with re-
fpedt to the Chit-eh takes place, the circumftances of fuck Clergy.
into as depend wholly upon their ftipends, mug be continually
growing worfe; their expenditure always increafing, whilft their
incomes remain ttationary.
the Prefbytery take thihopportunity to exprefs their gratitude
tmtinerinn.ronfdl
iTettpubhaleytnlikEtreo.:
to the Committee appointed by the Commitlion of the General
a Earthly, for the attention which, upon this lactation, they have
;hewn to the interefts of the Church ; and to declare their hearty
eer a
Committee.
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alto: cei
approbation of the choice made
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