Star.
London, England, 1807-01-28 00:00:00

OAK BARK.

Mr. HERBERT moved, that a Committee be appointed to con.
fieler .he Ad of James the Ertl, relatiee t 6 Oak Bark.
Mr. PI.OMER feconded the motion, becaufe he thought it Fe•
culiarly hard upon the Te,iners that this one claufc fhould be re•
peeled while the others were filtered to remain. He though;,
therefore, that the appointment of a Committee to examine thi.
whole Ad was highly proper.

The Committee was thtn appointed and ordered to report their
otfervations and opinions to the Houfe All tht. Peritiorss on this
fubjedt were, on the motion of Lord TEMS'LE; ordered to be re-
ferred to the Committee.

Mr. WYNNE brought up an Account of the effedive ftrenri
of the Volunteers, which had been before ordered by the Houle.—
Orderal to lie nn the table.

Mr. WYNNE moved for leave to bring in a Bill to elntinuc the
Adts of the 37th of the King of the Britifh and Irith Parliament'
to prevent tire Secludion of solditr. and Sramen.—Leave given.

SCOTS CLE::GY.

The LORD ADVOCATE for SCOTLAND moved the Order
of the Day for the fecond reading of the Scots Clergy Bill.
Sir WILLIAM DUNDAS highly approved of the Bill Since
the publication of the intention to aka- the form of proceeding is
the Court of Sefliun, the Clergy had been running a race in sr&
to obtain augmentations before the new regulations thould tale
place. This occafioned difputes between the Clergy and the Land.
holders. The Court of Se on had power to give augmentations
till the tythes were exhauftell. As there were fn many applica-
tions, he thought that the evil ought to be remedied, and force re-
pt& given to the Clergy to attend to their duty for eighteen or
twenty years.
Mr. PEACEVAL obferved, that if this was the true Rate of
the cafe, it formed an argument not only for this Bill to fufpend
the powers of the Court of Seffion, but alfo for the propofed regu-
lations, tor if that Court exercifed its power for granting augmen-
tations blindly and without conlideration, it was a good reafon
why it Ihould he deprived of it. And if the Clergy (hewed fuel
improper greesillefs, certainly they ought to be reltrained. He
was furry, however, to hear this character of them, for he had be-
fore underftood that the Clergy of Scotland were a moll rafpedable
body of men, Againit whom there was lefs grJuad of reproach
than almott any other clafs whatever. The Houle was not in a
ittuation, however, to decide upon there points, and theiefore this
could not he any argument in favour of the Bill at prefent. But, in
addition to this it would be hard to ftnp Cults already commer.ced,
and therefore, if there were a great many fuits of this fort pending'
this was rather an argument for not (*ending the powers of the
Court of Senion.
Mr. WM DUNDAS, in explanation, denied his having el'
prtlfed any :nitroft of the Court of Sell-ton, or having (aid any
thing difrefpedful to the Clergy of Scotism'. What be laid was'
that Come repute was detirable for the Clergy, and be was not fin-
gular in this opinion, for the prefent Prefident of the Court 4
Salon had when Lord Advocate introduced a Edifyr dikontinu-
ieg thefe fuirs for augmentation for forty years.
11.1 r. HORNER raid that he underftond this 13'11 to he brought
in, not in :be fpirit of hoftility to the Court of SeCluti. but the coo-
trety, for it was intended as a relief to thou. The power to grant
augsdentations, belonged to the Members 6f the Court of Seim
only as Commitrioners. It was riot a banters that came under
1, tkir jurifcliCt!on as a Court but portly of a hill'

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:Aft natote. This burin& had lately Mai leertifed, and it was
,r..oper •hat the Court thould be relieved. He highly comet.'
irt rat . the Clergy of Scotland, who were diftingulOsett for their
cloy And good morals. Their emoluments, he laid, were very
.na:iequate to their Ration, and the duties they had to perform.
The LORD ADVOCATE diklaimed any diftruft of the Court
of Sefton, or any difrefpedt to the Clergy of Scotland. It was his
pride to be defeended from a family, which the Clergy of Scotland,
wlick were eminent for their learning, piety and morals, had al
ways looked up to as their firmeß friends. The objedt of the Bill
was to relieve the Court of Salon from a prefs of bufinefs of this
mature No lets than 149 felts for augmentations had commenced
fume July laft.
• After Come further converfation between Mr. Ruthwen, Mr
Vim Dusidas, Mr. Perceval. Mr. Sturges Bourne and the Lord
Advocate.the Bill was read a fecond time, and ordered to be conm•
mitud on this day fe'nnight.