The Statesman.
London, England, 1819-03-22 00:00:00

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DEAL, MARCH 21.—Sailed last night, after post,
the Rose. Minerva, Warren Basting!, and General
Ilarris (Iridiamen), and the whole of the °Memel.
bound on their respective voyages.—Arrived last night
and this morning, and rennin, the Nlalahar, Avocets,
from Calcutta ; the Warsaw,. Richard.. from ditto;
the Siestas'', Wright. from ditto ; the Norfolk, Ed-
wards, from ditto ; the Atalanta. Carney, from Js.
maica ; the Richard and Sihelta, Read, from Barba.
does: the Isabelle', IVeathethesd, from Lisbon for
Rip ; the Rork, Philips, from !dog:n{6re; the Kate,
Russ, from ditto ; the Betsey. smith, from ditto ;
the Brilliant, Clark, from Bratsk. ; and
others, names unknown.—Game down from the river
' and sailed. the Barton, Simpson, for Sierra Leone.
PORTSMOUTH. MAUCH ti.—Artisrd the David
(trarispnri), from St. Helena ; sailed the 15th, and
from Ascension Jan. 27; brings no news; Minerva,
Nestor', William Pitt, and Mires (transports),
from the Cape of Good Hope; his Majesty's ship
Spew, from Algiers; Fortitude, W.itta, from Rio
Janeiro, for orders; sailed the Itith of January ;
spoke the Gilbert., from 'tersest for London, on 10th
February, in W. 46. 30.1mig. '23. W.
FALIioIITII, M ASCII rived yesterdsy the
Doke of Kent packet, with a Mail, from Lisbon ;
lox parker. with a Mail, from the Leeward blends,
last from fit. Thon.se!i. in 34 days; spoke ma the
16th instant in lat. 49.. q. long. S. 3J. tie American
ship Union, from Batavia, last from Si. Helene, in
58 days ; she reported the Island to be very sickly..
and the Admiral's ship to here lost a great malty of
her crew—Bonaparte was well.
lltuos:vnwn, 51A acts 19.—The. Betsey. of Blois.'
Grey, from l'ort.inouth to Liver; 1, was stranded ;
on Braunton Sarnia this morning—crew saved.
BEAUS( ali, Si A Kell 20 —The schooner North ;
killer, Muir. from Dumfries for Gibraltar. gm on the
Dlitchonais'a Back yesterday 'trotting, in rooming into ,
!hit port (luting • gale of it iota from N. W.; Veal
praise is due to a host's crew of the Success Jimmie I
cutter, and also the crew of a pilot boat, in going to
her assistance, and succeeding in bringing the crew
and four passengers mfe on shore : the lessel, it is
(eared, will he totally lost.

Although the Bill for abolishing the employment
of boys to sweep chimneys has been lost in the
hoes, of Lords, yet the Puhlic 114,0, by the invea.
ligation. which took place while the Rill was peeving
t►rough its several stages its the !loose of Cam.
mons, become fully pomes►ed of all the Nets which
govern the case, and which ere too torout in be ne-
cessarily recapitulated at present. 'They are now
left to their entire and free diicret:on, whether they
will employ them with a!I the conc,rioently entailed
misery of their efforts. or the use of so.chinery, which
effectuality clean+ 980 in 1(X)) flues ! If the l'ablic
will adopt thin evidence, thv few who for the sake of
Lie 20 remaining ee'k for these p•ror children,
will gradually Stiblitir, and
.Siehil In oke general opi-
nion ; so that in a year or hen, the aims elfoct will
be produced as if the Bill had actually passed into a
law, end those w►o have lent their iliffseirire in the
m will reflect with saii.faction that they have,
notwithstanding, bacons. the guardiaos and protec-
tore of the poor. _ _

A Correspondent complains, lbst the same over-
bore is played before almost every piece, at oar great
thesis's. This certainly is no high compliment to the
■esical taste end knowledge of the Public.

In the spice of fourteen months, the Doke of
ATHOL!. has planted the enormous quantity of five
million ail hundred thouvand trees.

The Bill for p ling bribery and corruptions in
the 'vivre Elections for she borough of Peary,. ad.
mils the freah..ldera of the adjoining hundreds of
Penwith and 'Lirti•r to a tight of voting.
Ancric Discovuttes —The Grmefte of Saterday
night annoutsees the Puma Recess's approbation of
the following scale of rewa►ds proposed in a Mentn.
nisi from the Board of Longitude, taken into eonsi.
duration by his Royal flightless its Council on the
19th inst. sig.:—

I. To the lr.s .hip helms:hie to aor rf his Iliairtia'd sohjerts,
^r In it" it's Am studl reach she lisaltisaAe of lIA drg west
frogs Greroowit, or the oloath of Worse's or Copper-nose
Notre. Ps s.silir.g within the Amok. Circle, 3.0091.; in the lies
ship, as afore-aid, tlast shall reach she lotsgstarle of Illadett.
from 1a11..11111C1. IN It Who!, lislaod of Morkersie. by -.il-
iac within ihr Arctic Circle' 10.0101. t so tie lirrl rows as
aficessiA, that shall reach sheinhei.n le of 15Q dee. wr-t frog,
Orrefi"schs he *soling orem ward withal she Awe Cirri...
15,11001• the Art having already allotted In the tins .hey slims
4411 reach she facile Orem. by a oorsh-wcsit paints the fell
reward of 20.8001.
2. To she hew Jsip, as stforeeeld. Shot shall teeth to 83 4E. of
tomb loolosole, 1,11001. g In 85 deg. 2.t401: in 87 dee. 3.teksl. t in
88 steh 4,00191.1 She Art kavirre alr•ails a!l.Ated to the li.s .hip
sYM shall Frock 1... or bey:tal 80 dig. she full revinird nts.ol'ol.
. . .

The name of Mr. MAXWELL should base been in-
cluded i■ the Minority or the two Junior Lords of
the Admiralty.
Ths approaching sittings of the Insolvent Debtors'
Court are espected to last above a fortnight. There
hating been uo sittings for the last sic weeks, on sc.
count of Serjeant Rummintovon being irldisposetl,
thereat. now 7'22 applications pending by Insolvents
for their discharge.
On Tharsdsy a numerous and respectable Meeting
was held in the Vestry• room, of St. Mathew, Bethoal.
green, for the perpase of taking into consideration
the propriety of granting s portion of the Church-
yard, to build the National School upon for the edu-
cation of 4.000 children, the Bishop of Lotions
having previously given his permission; the grant
was carried wannissoosty, and also the sem of Y5Ol.
towards defraying tho upeoim of forming vaults
under the school.

CHARLES ItINNRT.—A rout crowd assembled
this morning at the Public Office la Bow-street, in
consegoonce of it baring been resumed that this
person was arrived in town, and would be broosght
up for nomination. We could not, however, trace
the account to any authentic source. We believe it
to have originated in the circumstance of a Gentle-
men having applied for a warrant to bring forward a
child that had been clandestinely taken from Wilt.
shire, and who is now supposed to be at Twichun.
Mm.

To rue EDITOR OF rat STATESMAN.

Sta.--I see from fl.e English prints at the closed
lest Session of Parliament, and ham them *ince it
was railer!, that a motion is to be made by Sir Jorge
Stwensti for an enquiry into what Statutes are in
force in Scotland, and what are gone into distsse.-e-
Withoot um!erstanding what are in Scotland under.,
toned by Acts of Sederunt, or as they are edited
nylons of Ce.ort, it is impossible to understand wbo
an Art of Parliament eats go into desuetude. I shall
therefore make an twerp, from a little pamphlet, ea-
oilier! A Lew?. in LordMelzille,howParliament stands
is respcct to thent.—"tiopposing." continues that
writer, •• it reconciles with reason, that the Court of
Session can in any cam whatever esercise, in coos.
mon with Parliament, and in common with its janli•
mist functions, a delcrited legislatite power of sego-
Intinz its own procedure. toor.fifths of its Acts of
Sedetunt world be utterly soil and .611 ; inasmuch
as they 1.3t1 beet, enacted by it when Parliament was
not sitting, when, under the conatisotional law
of the country it could et•rClle no powers, either
by itself or by those it hail delegated. Bet
the Cowl, in shalt, seem, to claim not so much
the right of mterrisitig by delegation the wisdom and
the llnwera of Parliamrot, 111 that it 'ball be held
vested in a national rigid, ..f which it would seem to
that the Parliament of Scotland hod denuded
itself is. its favour. It claims a sight begotten prior to
if.., death of that Parliament, Loth some illegitimate
intercourse with the P.i”, Coutml, from which inter-
courses spurious ens permanent Parliament, repro..
sentiog all the features of that parentage which gate
it birth, has been palmed upon the Nation."
l'he whole writers upon the Scots I.aw, seem will-
ing to admit the tight of tho Nstiun to reject ,o
spurious a vrogeny, a pr-gent' alt begotten; but they
my., that f the goo.l nature of the country, Arts
of Spartans,. so hstcheil, base been acquiesced in
unirer sally by the Nation.
But this lioailiton is perfectly unconstitutional, ad.
setae 1., reason, and subletsise of every principle of
law. NAltiog is wore easy, att.l unthing more called
fur. Ilan that • tooth in important to the interests
of both wines. so intimately connected with the
preeminent duty of every individual Member of
bosh !louses of Parliament, shall be instantly tried.
Suppose ilia question al.all he put, upon a motion
highly creditable indeed to any Member who could
bring it forward, whether these Arts of Sederunt
shall be naturalivel and legitimated, by receiving
`the ratification of Parliament ? _

be presumed that Acta of S...lerent, by
which Scotland bed been plundered, the Constitu-
tion of England nearly subverted, rind the lawful
Sovereign.; of both People either sacrificed or driven
from the kingdom, woeld latent with the sanction of
a single person in the notion ?They would all of them
be found to wont the wisdom of Parliament; to
want the aslant of the People of Scotland, At !t-
-ressed by them through both !louses of Porliansetst,
to gine them legitimate force, and they would there.
foie be all of them deemed Acts contrary to law. The
very same objections which the Court loss lately
made ag.inst hearing the comploinis of the People of
Scotland. an account of their ignorance, nodes
they are a'rt•lioncd toy an ittloocate„ would itt their
Unmet of Parliament, and in (lids turn, assuredly
operate with the same Petiole in questioning
the wiuloto of Acts of Sederunt, e•nd of form.; of
procedure untanctioned by Parlisment. if full and
free Representation in Parliament, in dircus•iug the
Merin of a nsnii%n fnt the ratification of the.c. Acts,
will, upon that furtunote ;lay for Scotland, discover,
by the lest of rational opinion, the cause; of the
late rapid rtrrred•et of sittinsoil untletstontli..g. It
may, in its wisdom, find net come veer cl.icacioe•,
and sotre arty ►imple remedy indeed, to relieve the
Coen from that blips end trouble so much com-
plained of by it; and by arresting the late rapid and
alarming decline of sense in the Nrtien, will as.
ser►dly Minor, the ott•tructien• of a tree intercour.e,
between a loyal Peu;de, through their legitimate matl
mm.1086;1114;1 channel, antl Kett Snrereigo•

Let it be neat supposed, that the Parliament bad
the power in delegate to another any pollion of ill
legislative wisdom ■rid authority, to the %violins ant
authority of another. 'Pie oft:ilation to a Curt of
Law of the power to enact its own rules ■nd order
of procedure. would at once ilernowrate Cost that
Parliament was not a true R•prrentrimn of the
People. It could not do so hut by • brt•sch of
trust tr. the nation, and by an act of treachery to its
Sovereign. It was neither more nor leas tl.•:n the Air.
ing to that Court the power of sending a lie;•resenta-
lion to Parliament of Members the nomination
of the Crown. The ezperistent has been tried, and
the consequences which followed upon an Act, univer-
sally allowed to be so enconssitutionsl, were quite
physical. The Parliament was superseded in its folic.
tint's. Having abdicated the power and sethotity of
the nation. the, complaints of the People were anon-
dieted by Ace of Sederent till their eruption in 1688.
The Senate of Know, *port the decline and fall of
the Roman Empire, did the very same thing. It
transferred, by a solemn instrument, the delegated
rights of the nation to Avousv.us, ■nd it declared
that he had from that delegation the whole right
of the People to snake what laws he pleased. TI-
BIERIUS succeeded hie, and after him CALtOULA and
Now. If the Senate of Rome had not the right to
transfer to AUGUSTUS the whole authority and power
of the nation, neither, upon the same principle, had
the Parliament of Scotland the power to y to
the Court that dangerous and noconstitational por-
tion of it ceder which the Court asserts the right of
ordering its procedure. It is not ■n attribute of
its institution, it claims it not in that right bet
by Porlionseolory delegation;—by the very
stone tenor that Thymus and Nano held theirs.
If Parliament cannot transfer the whole national
powers, so neither can it do a part. " 1 he King,"
says BLACILIIOmr, •t may i.,sli'ele es many Courts
of Justice as he. pl.a..ea, hut the Jui;ges moat proceed
according to that form of process derived by Parlia-
ment;' a remark which was made from the abuses
which originated end took root between the union
of the Crowns and the Revelation. Indeed, the
Court of Sesairin hat, since I 7b9, been legislating much
faster than the British Parliament; and though the
Court here never fails to procure copies of the various
Acts of Parliament. and to correct end amend them
where thee - to it to be

Inman to examine those Acts of its colleepe. Tbf
English Members say, that they use totally unac-
quainted with 1114 Scolds law, With the Scottish tor,P
of Sederunt. Bat this Is by no 111.4•1 strange ; for
the Court itself which enacts them. avows that they
are not even known to the Propleof stem:awl; nor dnri
it apparently meow that thaw Shall be brought to the
level of their capacities. Their ignorance of ilsoit.
bas already excluded al: Inter verse with the Court,
unless with the permission of Counsel; and Act of ,:..-
derunt of 1789, has reuciitili the Act of she Scottish
Parliament , I 510, Nhlchratifi.stherightof the subject
to plead his own cause in the way deemed proper by
him. It is not surprising, therefore, that the
Fetr-
lisa Members avow their anacquitstacce with Arid
which have been accumulating fur a full center! ; but
the nation has surely a right to obtain from r•fiia.
05111 lie ratification of them. Though there is 119 t
it single Scottish Member it, either of the Houses ai
Parliament who tannid venture to second a motion to
have these Acts wified, is it not strange, that ad
people of Scotland shril be sutject to laws and aril,.
minces, **Mal 11111 a poison iu the nation, when Intl,-
tidy called upon. cast either 'merit in, or appose ut !
am, Alf. Editor, Your's, atc.
A SCOTSMAN.