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London, England, 1818-11-24 00:00:00

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'upended from once for swearing falsely that
, who had been drawn, had a father.
, blindness, whom he was obliged ti
The deception beieg discovered, the
was declared sebject to the operations of

teener bas at length adverted to the arrival
osquito,cod to the supposed contents of Sir
Lows'e dispatches. It sorely observes,
really *slated& conspiracy for the release
,ays, its object must have been defeated
of the preliminary correspondence, end
'AIME is still a prisoner in St. Helena)
coalinise so. The Emperor of Russia. and the
"eztairtotou arrived at Brussels on the
forayer was present at the Sitting of the
Cheieber of the States-General on the follow.
The Dukes of CLARE:SCR and CAMBRIDGE
41110•11 f.
ERWIN, ALEXAMOBIL has published an Ukase,
squints the Governments of Livonia,
and Coerland, to confer public employ.-
only on sea individuals as an produce certi-
f their having studied at leist three years in
Polity of •Dorpat. lie has also directed
ts te be erected in honour of f ield.Marshals
SaWARItOrII9 Kotcovensti, and BAR-
:OLLT, in the most coisPiceons parts of
Rusks eapitali The first 'free election of Ma.
&veils, under the new Constitution,
itad by the King, hes jest taken place, and his
has been pleased to approve of all the new
Their imperial Majesties of AUSTRIA
set off on soother journey to Rome and
'which it is said will occupy them at least a

nressores pursued by the French Government
Loan Contractors for restoring the tone of
confidence seem not to 'have been attended
success, or the prices of the Funds still
depressed. The 5 per Cents. which on
closed at 69 f. 60 c. were on Thursday
closed at 691. 10 c.; Bank Stock is at

'sterility, the Duke of Yons arrived at his house
Stithle-yard, St. James's, from Oatlands end
had afterwards a long interview with the
,ECIENT, at Carlton-house.
Sunday last, the transport Thomas and Mary,
PRITEHARD, Commander, arrived from
having on board a variety of presents from
, Duke of TUscANI for the PRINCE Rs-
They consist principally of a large beautiful
hie vase, weighing 30 tons; a complete
Mt from the celebrated sculptures of Niobe
Children; a variety of other casts from
awlquities; and alabaster and marble ()r-
-ot esqui.ite workmaiship. These, it is
..0 ii. eschanee for a set of CAM from
t.ies, which the PRINCE REGENT maul
- a pteleot la, to the (;rand DAP of Tuscany.
A of,VP teen received from Lints of the 27th
Alva!, v ttich iq a remarkably recent date. His
ltilsje‘ty% ship Andromache sailed from thence on
the a.; of the 11,11,10 month, with 500.000 dollars on
'board. She reached Valparaiso few days after.
wards, and having put the specie on board the Active
sloop of war (which proceeded to England), the
AndrOmache returned to Lima, to protect our trade
in that quarter.
After all that has been said or ;mitigated about the
enysterioos and clandestine correspondence inter-
cepted at St. Helene, we understand, says a Morn-
ing Paper, that the writer of the letters and the
transmitter of the books to Mr. O'MEARA, was no
other person than his own agent, Mr. IfoLites, of
Lyon's Inn, whose respectabilty is well known to
the profession.
A Paris Paper, alluding to the discovery of an
•oknown nation by our Expedition to the North
Pole, has the following observations :•-••." This tint
Observation is probably inexact. The Greenlander*,
being of the Esquimauz race, inhabiting north of
Hudson's Bay, It will, probably, turn out, that this
Arctic tribe Is of the lame race. The Greenlanders
subject to. Denmark, have always spoken of • heed*
inhabiting more to the north than themselves."
To MARINERs.—A new Light-loose, erected on
the Tower of Calais, will be illuminated on the even-
log of Dec. Ist next, from son-set to sun-rise. The
flame, white, revolving, and consequently sub.; to
eclipses ; producing two returns of increasing an de-
creasing light, in the course of three minutes, with an
*Clips* of about a minute between each.
Aa Order of Council has been issued for the reqoi-
-sle alteration in the Liturgy, in praying for the
Royal Family, in cousequence of the QuEEN's
meats.
Sir THOMAS BELL and R. RovnavELL, Esq. are
the only two Candidates for the mast Gown of the
4Ward of Cheap, in the room of the late SAisuu.
GOODBERERE, Esq. and a warm contest is expected.
Yesterday morsing, between ten and eleven o'clock,
SW remainder of that fine regiment, the 18th Light
lifinoont, passed through Town, and were followed
*their baggage, on their route to the North.
• THOOkards and 52d Regiment were to embark at
Calais this day.
• The French General, Gotraeavo, was landed, on
Thursday last, from on board the Castlereagh packet,.
at Cazhaven, and immediately let at liberty.
• COAL MINE On has already been stated,
that a fire had been discovered in a coal mine at Coal-
pit.heath ; and we lament to odd, that the circum-
stance has already been attended with most distress-
sing iesults ; 1,1 men were more or less scorched and
wounded, on the first breaking out of the flames,
three of whom are since dead. On Thursday two
others were unfortunately suffocated in an attempt
to ascertain the state of the mischief, by going under
gr, Ind. The fire still continues with unabated
stt-n h. The occident is supposed to have been ec-
en,ipto d by the inflammation of a stratum of fire-

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NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
DIAL, Nov. 23.—Arrived and sailer! for the
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To nu EDITOR or nu STATESMAN.

Slll.—An tnglishman, through the otediout of
your Paper of the 6th of November current, 'Wessel
a wish that sonseporson versant in the Law of Scotland,

would etplain the meaning of the Acts of Sederont of
the Lords of Seuion, as well as the character and
office of the Procurator Fiscal. He seems to think
that no laws ought to pau without the sanction and

ratification of the British Parliament, and he seems
to think it also strange, that the British Parliament
has ne interference with their enactinehts.

In, tit, ,words of the first legal authority which
Scotland can produce—" I take this opportunity to
Gill yow, Sir, that Acts of Sederont are the law of the
land'," and that our Judges here " do not care what
the Acts of the British Parliament say, because they
k hold that there is a power paramount to all Acts of
Parliament, and that is the power of right reason. to
which Kings and Parliaments thecomites must be
subject f."
Th. Lords of Council owl -Session hive for lobg
esercised, ender a delegated power from Parliament,
the right of legislating by Agla of Sederunt, or Roles
of Court, within the precincts of Scotland ; and of
rescinding by these Acts the Statutes of Parliament,
when they find that these Statutes have not been
enacted by the power of right reason, and thattsir-
tlriog wrong can arise to os from a defect in jsag:
went in these Lords of Session in passing these Acts
of Sederont ; nothing but the very pick of wisdom,
of judgment, and of law, can be legally nominated
to discharge the double functions of lawgivers and
of judge•, or, as we say in our homely language, of
miters and of servants.

Tiles, by the Scottish Statute of Wit.t.a.tat, chap.
25, it is enacted, that " na foul. net *kited man
soeld be one Judge : becaese ane triple be Ignorant',

and ane wicked man be avarice, will corrupt justice."
Ana by another Statute, regulating thp form ■nd
manner of Courts, it is enacted, 44 that at Prince

nor gude Govertsour aught to make fool,. or unmoor.
thio-persons to be Judges : for quhy ? Ane foole
throw his ignorance misgovernes righteousnesse,
and sue unwerihie bodies throw covetice, over-
throwes the veritie."
So you see Sir, that under these legislative provi.
sions, which in this country are in viridissima 0-
*er:walla, no mischiefs can arise either front the want
of tight reason in our Judges, or in its application.
With Justice therefore, does the British Parliament
,support the right of Judges of legislating by dele-
otion, and of rescinding when Parliament 'lncises
net that right reason in its Statutes.
Your Correspondent, with a sneer at our Stniges,
says, 66 that there most be some great and learned
men in Scotland who have monopolised all the
wisdom, not only of that Kingdom, bat 'of t ()gland
rigd Ireland; and that, therefore, there is no.need
pf the lnterfdrenee or advice of the British Perlis-
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Willie* A true, many great and
Scotteed; and we "end 45 of them, piety year, ye'
itiliebt• the English atidirish to legislate roe these two
.
We*** otiittle interest otleseives
In -
'what our itepreriiittittion does ie Scottish affairs, be-
cause the Minister for Scotland directs fits Judges
here to rescind all the Statutes which he Ws have
been passed incorrectly, and which do not meet with
the sense of the Scottish Judges. .
It seems highly proper that the British Parlament
should he consulted in every legislative measure ap-
plicable to either England or Ireland, because in these
countries the People recognize no other sothosity
than that of Parliament. In these kingdoms there
is no supreme authority which can ;resent the effect
of the Statutes of Parliament, and which is autho-
rized to rescind them. Scotland has been hitherto held
as a very learned nation, and so long as the interests
of England and Irelsod are so deeply affected by the
Acwef the British Parliament, Scotland, I presume,
will not feel disposed to withhold her best advice,
and will continue to send forty-five learned Knights
and Bergesses, to preveut, as far as in them lies, from
the want of the right use of reason in the legislative
Acts of Parliament, to pass which may IA hurtful to
the interests of these nations.
Yon will then have the goodness to jive this a
place in your Paper, which will, I hope, prove satis-
factory to your Correspondent, and be at once con-
vincing that the Acts of Sederunt of the Court "of
Simian, which rescind, alter, or annihilate the Sta-
tutes of Parliament, are, as Chief Justice [lone says,
really and truly Ow law of the land.
I am, Sir, your most obedient servant,
Eeinbergh, Nov. it,11.1818. JURIDICUE.
• Chief Justice Hope.
* Lord liensuad, Senior Judge of the First Divisine.

A Morning Piper says, " The Kinn's diamonds
are as secure as Grown sad the other Regalia.—
TM cabinet, in which it is possible that they were
placed, Was made up by the late QuEget,'and was de.
livered by the Princess AUGUSTA, in the mete in
which it wee left by her MAJESTY, to the opulent and.
highly respectable jewellers, who are the depositories
of nearly half the diamonds, which appear at Court.
Bot the greater probability is, that the KING'.
diamonds were not in the cabinet, end' that the
QUEEN has left a memorandum, as to the place of
their deposit, which, of course, with her !al AJEsTY's
other papers, will not be entwined till after the fu-
neral. It was to deliver this cabinet that one of the
partners of Messrs. RUNbELL, [lemur:, and Ruff -
DELL, attended the PRINCE REGENT, On Saturday."
The Princess of WALES'S late apartments in Ken.
sington Palace, it is said, will be fitted up for the
Princess AUGUSTA.
The 11:11xce RrECIENT, an Chief Mourner, at the
funeral of his august Mother, will be immediately
followed, on big right, by the Duke of You, and
Should none of the eider Princes arrive in time from
the Continent, on his left, by the Doke of %Ism
It is ssid, that the death of the QUEEN will bring
borne several -01 the mete brauchn of the Kiiyal
'Family.

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