Star.
London, England, 1802-04-22 00:00:00

NisuricAL

MAILS THIS DAY.--WIND S. S. Ws
MIL
o DIAN,
s Waterford,
o French,
0 Dutch, • 0

• Haatt.urgh,
• Ulan.

TORBAY, APRIL 20.

Sailed the CENTAUR and BELLEISLE men of war
for Plymouth; Dora. ECALL, HE acuLa, and Nse-
TUN 6 men of war, for Portfmouth.

PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 21.

Arrived the SAVAGE floop, Captain WootAT,
from the Downs.—Sailed the Isis, of so guns,
Captain. HARDY, for Weymouth, to take out to
Gibraltar his Royal Higiinefs the Duke of K r sr.
—Came into harbour the PREVOYANTE ftorethip ;
and EARL Sr. VINCENT cutter, to be paid off; and
the JULIUS CNSAR tranfport.—This day arrived
the FLORA, Captain SUMMERS, from Gibraltar,
with troops, &c. alio the BoNITO, Captain MAIN-
LAND, from Malta with troops, &c.—Sailed the
CASTOR tranfport,Lieut.MAGNlT, with troops for
beland.-11e following tranfports were releafed
from luarantine :—Ossouans, SMITH ; UNION,
—; JULIUS CABAL, WALTER; and Scipio,
PINDY.—The crews of the WINDSOR CASTLE,
ROYAL SOVEREIGN, PRINCE GEORGE, and PRINCE
OF WALES began this morning to Rrip their re-
fpeetive (hips of their rigging, yards, &c. They
are expeEted to be paid to-morrow.

FROM LLOYD'. LIST. •
DIAL, APRIL 21.111 C MOD Gothland, RARMSWIR, from
Gottenburgh for China, paired the lack of the Goodwin Sandi
Lift night.—Wind N. E.
GRATZ/IND, APRIL u.—Paffed by the Olive Branch,
WRIGHT, from Gibraltar; Margrctta, Getrrrru, from St.
Michaels; Sufanna and Poly, ELDRED, from Lifbon ; Thames,
MORTON, front Trinidad; Elliott, BOARDMAN, from Jamaica; r
Hawketbury, —, from Flufhing ; Sophia Catharina, SPAR-
ING, from Norway; Navigation, RORINSOW ; and Pelican,
PAINTZR, from Smyrna; Ellanor, HARRIS; and Thomas,
LINDON, from Hamhurgh ; Jonge Alexander,—; and Two
Brothers, —, from Rotterdam.—Sailed the Jacob, Be NNITT,
for Havre; Jenny, MCarthy, far Cork; Robert and Sarah,
CARMAN, for Lubeck; St. Andero, AIILtN, for Dieppe; So
phtt,CLlf LON j and Roebuck, VALIOIIAN, for Africa.

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TIM CLERGY,

• AWlrad aide hr nod rendering atm ellefinal
am Adt wade in die amity year of the af Kitt
VIIL sodded. "t itra Petfoneahrid from har-
ing Harahan af Livings, and fresh is big of Foam. &c."
The fire claufe enaas, that from tisepg of
the Bill, every fpiritual perfon who (hall, before
that period have incurred any pecuniary penalty
under the Aft of Henry.Vlll. 'and again& whom
no ration has been brought in, refpeli thereof, mall
be indemnified and dirckarged from the tame ; and
that all contra&s made by fpiritual perfoos bfore
the pang of the precut AEI, agreeably to its
fpirit, flail be good and valid in law.
The famed clank provides, that any perfon
again& whom any original writ or aaion Oa have
been fued not or proted for any pecuniary pr
salty incurred under the Aid Mt of Henry VIIL
may apply to the Courts of Judges to thfcattinue
fuch Avon or information, upon the payment of
the cods incurred up to the time of application, to
be taxed in the !dual way.
The third clank cruets, that part of the Aa of
Henry VIIL which impofee a penalty upon any
fpiritual perform taking lands, &c. to farm, or un-
derktting the fame, or who buy or fell grain or
cattle for profit, hall be repealed, fo far its relates
to every fpiritual peon sot holding any fpiritual
dignity or benefice, or any Ingmar" vicarkgr,
donative, or perpetual curacy, or (crying a ihper
diary curacy. It is, however, provided, that no-
thing contained in this Aft than authorize any
flub fpiritual perfon to buy or fell any cattle or
corn in perfon, in any market, fair, or other peak
place of tale.
The fourth clank inns, that it ball be lawful
for any fpiritual per( holding any parfonage, vi-
carage, &c. and not having thereon any houfe of
refidence, or whore refidence (ball be legally dif-
penfed with, to take to firm for any term of years,
or at will, any nieffnage manfion, or dwellin
Enure, with or without orchards, gardens, &c. furhis refidence. although not in any city or town.
It (hall elf° be lawful for, any Clergyman holding
any parfonage, &c. and not having thereon any
fufficient and fit houfe of refidence, by the content
of the Bilhop of the diocefe, to take tb term in like
manner any rneffuage, manfion, or dwelling-houfe,
for his refidence, although not in any city or town;
and, in cafe he has not any fufficient glebe or dr
mefne lands annexed to his benefice or cure, he
may take to term any lands, &c. that may appear
to the Billtop proper to be taken for his better fup-
port, without being fubjcii or liable to any penal-
ties. Provided always that nothing in this AEI mail
be confirued to extend to authorize any fuch Cler-
gyman to take any manage or prensifes for refi-
dence out of the parith of loch patronage, &c. un-
kfs by content of the Bilhop, as aforefaid.
The fifth claufe provides, that it Sall be lawful
for any fuch Clergyman to occupy or laws any
lands, etc. leafed or granted for life by any body
politic.corporate orcollegiate, provided the content
of the Billoop of the Diocefe is obtained thereto.
The firth claufe allows all filch Clergymen to
buy to fell again for profit all kinds of cattle, pro
aided they aka not buy or fell them in pram in
plates of public fele.
The retreads claufe provides, that any fads cler-
gyman may occupy.. in term tithe leafs. a grant
Of any pafm, the aupropriate, patronage, or any
part unreal, of the ra of which be !hail be
perpetual vicar, &c. without being rubjea to any
penalty.
The eighth clank mails, that no leak of any
glebe or demefne lands, or any tythes belonging
to any clergyman whatever, as annexed to any
dignity or benefice, &c. and leafed to fuch clergy-
man, Shall be made void; nor mall the incumbent
for be fame forfeit any profit of laid benefice,
by reafon of norrefidcnot, in any cafe where he
!hall be exempt from asp pecuniary penalties on
account of fuch non-refdente.
The ninth claufe eu as, shit fo much of the
Ail of Henry VII. obis:res the penalty of tol.
on any Clergyman not ring on one of his dig-
nities, prebends, or es. but abfenting him-
klf wilfully for the (pate of one month together,
or for two months, to hi accounted at Cetera'
times in one year' Sall be repealed ; and that
hereafter every beneficed Clergyman who fball,
without fufficient caofe, or without legal licence,
prercribcd by former Ails, wilfully abfent bimfelf
for the (pace of three months together, or to be
accounted at feveral times in any one year, and
mike his refidence at any sther place for Such time,
when fuch abfence exceeds fuch period, and
does not exceed fix months, forfeit one-fourth of
the annual value of the parfonage, &c. from which
be (hall fo ablent himfelf; and when fuch abfence
exceeds fix months and does not exceed eight
months, one third of the annual value; and when
it exceeds eight months, one moiety of the annual
value; and when for a whole year, three-fourths
of the annual value, to be recovered by aaion of
debt, information, &c. one.third part of every
fuch penalty to go to the informer, together with
eons of fuit, and the remainder to go in bid oldie
bounty of Qt2cen Anne, for the augaseneption of
the maimenance of the Poor Clergy.
The tenth claufe exempts from the penalties of
non-refidence Clergymen officiating as Chaplains
of different dcfcriptemst, &c,
The eleventh claufe' provides, that no penalty
incurred by radon of any non.refidasce, flail be
levied by execution spina the body of any Clergy-
man who (ball continue so bold any living out of
the profits of which the fame can be levied by
requedration.
The twelfth clank makes it lawful for the *vi-
ral Bifhop., in certain cafes, to grant licences in
writing with tepee to the realm* or non-ref}
dente of Clergymen on their benefices, for the
Immo* of exempting them ham the pecuniary
penalties of this A&
The thirteenth claufe defaillas the cafes im
which it &all be lawful for the Bilhope to grant
the above &daces, among which are the &lath of
the Clergyman, or of hie wife or children, and the
want of :t fit place of refidence in the para. A.
g-rfod thinking hinsfelf aged by the NUM
of the BChop to grant fuch licence, may appriiii,

the Archbifitop of tit "Province, who Is to cattle
the neeefary enquiry to be made into the nature
of the cafe. •
The fourteenth ciente provides, that all fetch
licences S Sall be entered in a book kept for the
purpofe, and approved by the Archbilhop ; and
'the fifteenth enatis, that all grants or revocations
of licences &all be filled in the regillry of the dio
cefc.

The fixteenth clan& emits, that all fueh licences
ire to be pleaded in bar of any anions that may be
brought by informers, or others, for non-refidence.
The feventeenth claufe vides, that nothing in
this Aft &all be confirmed to extend to repeal any
canonical cenfnres, to be pleadable in bar, of any
proceedings that (hall hereafter be inflituted in any
Ecelefiafttcal Court.
The eighteenth claufe enables Bilbops to ifue
monitions to Clergymen holding livings, to refide
upon them, and perform the duties thereof, to
which returns are to be made within thirty days.
In cafe of noncompliance upon oath, if required,
the profits of the livings to be fequeftered until the
monitions are complied with, or backlit reafons
for non-refidence ft :del and proved. Appeals to
the Archbithop of the province are allowed.
The nineteenth claufe provides, that if any Clerk
(hall continue under fuchfequeftration for the (pace
of three years, the parfonage, &c. in relation
whereto the Paid non-refidence Mall have been corn.
witted, Ora become Wife& void, and the Patron
(hall prefent another Clerk thereto.
The twentieth claufe relates to the regulation of
the penalties and forfeitures above defcribed.
The twenty.firft claufe enaas, that every Clergy-
man on being inglituted to a living, (hall take the
following oath before the Billiop of the diocefe.viz.
A. B.wiU duly mildc in my Parfomge, Vicarage, Dons.
tine or Perpetual Curacy of , as the nfi way
math fuel% reficience is i r thank legally difpcolcd wins."
The twenty-fecond and laft claufe provides, that
nothing contained in this Aft (hall be conitrued to
extend to alter or aired his Majelly's Royal Prero.
gative in the granting of dirpeniations for non-refi-
&nee upon benefices, as the lame exifts by law at
prefent.