noble the Marquis of Hastings, the governor-general for the countenance and protec tion offered by his Excellency to this branch of the Church of Scotland. And the General Assembly farther resolve to appoint a committee to draw up a respectful memorial to the honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company, and to correspond with that honourable Court on this important subject."-The Assembly was dissolved the 2d of June. There was less business before them this year than we ever remember. Every question has been carried with the greatest cordiality and unanimity. BRITISH LEGISLATION. Acts passed in the 57th Year of the Reign of George III. or in the Fifth Session of the Fifth Parliament of the United Kingdom. CAP. X. To regulate the Vessels, carrying Passengers from the United Kingdom to certain of his Majesty's Colonies in North America. March 17. From and after the passing of this act, no ship or vessel shall sail with passengers from any port or place in the United Kingdom to any port or place in Upper or Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Cape Breton, or Prince Edward's Island, unless the master, or other person having or taking the charge or command of every such ship or vessel, and the owner or owners thereof, shall, before the sailing of such ship or vessel from any port or place as aforesaid, enter into security by bond to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, in the penalty of five hundred pounds, with condition that there shall not be taken on board any such ship or vessel any more such passengers than are hereinafter permitted and allowed, and that every passen ger, if alive, shall be landed at the port or place to which such passenger shall have contracted to be conveyed; and the master or other person having or taking the charge or command of such ship or vessel, previous to his leaving the said port, shall and is hereby required to deliver to the said collector and comptroller, or other principal officer of his Majesty's customs at the said port, a list containing the number of the said passengers, with their names, ages, and descriptions, and the places to which they are to be respectively conveyed: and, upon the arrival of such ship or vessel at either of the aforesaid colonies, the said master or other person having or taking the charge or command of such ship or vessel shall deliver the aforesaid copy of the list to the governor of such place, or other person acting for him, or to the naval officer or chief officer of the customs at the port of arrival, or to the nearest justice of the peace, who shall be required to examine the passengers within twenty-four hours after their arrival. Penalty on taking more passengers than the number allowed, £50. Passengers to be apportioned according to the tonnage of the vessel in the proportion of one adult person, or of three children under fourteen years of age, for every one ton and a-half of the burden of such ship or vessel. Every such ship or vessel shall be furnished, at the time of her departure to commence the voyage, with at least twelve weeks' supply of good and wholesome water, so as to furnish a supply of five pints of wa ter per day for every such passenger, exclusive of the crew; and the said supply of water shall be stowed below the deck; and every such ship or vessel shall also be furnished with such a supply of provisions as will afford an allowance for every such passenger, exclusive of the crew, during the said period of twelve weeks, of one pound of bread or biscuit, and one pound of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork per day, and also two pounds of flour, three pounds of oatmeal, or three pounds of peas or pearl barley, and half a pound of butter weekly; the weekly allowance to commence on the day the vessel puts to sea. The master or other person having or taking the charge or command of any ship or vessel failing to give out the allowance of provisions and water, herein-before specified, shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds of lawful money for each and every such neglect and omission. Abstract of Act to be exposed in the vessel, on penalty of £10. All penalties and forfeitures to be incurred under this act, shall and may be recovered in a summary way, on the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, before any one or more of his Majesty's justice or justices of the peace, CAP. XI. To facilitate the Progress of Business in the Court of King's Bench in Westminster Hall.-March 17. It shall and may be lawful for any one of the judges of the Court of King's Bench at Westminster, when occasion shall so require, to sit apart from the other judges of the same Court, in some place in or near to Westminster Hall, for the business of adding and justifying special bail in causes depending in the same Court, whilst others of the judges of the same court are at the same time proceeding in the despatch of the other business of the same Court in bank, in its usual place of sitting. CAP. XII.-For punishing Mutiny and Desertion; and for the better Payment of the Army and their Quarters.-March 21. The number of forces are to be 121,035. -Deserters may be transported; and returning before expiration of the term limited shall suffer death.-A deserter enlisted for a limited term may be sentenced to serve for life, &c. and be adjudged to other forfeitures.-Persons receiving enlisting money deemed to be enlisted. But, when and as often as any person or persons shall be enlisted as a soldier or soldiers in his Majesty's land service, he or they shall, within four days, but not sooner than twenty-four hours, after such enlisting respectively, be carried or go with some officer, non-commissioned officer, or private soldier, belonging to the recruiting party by which he shall be enlisted, or with the person employed on the recruiting service with whom he shall have enlisted, before some justice of the peace of any county, riding, city, or place, or chief magistrate of any city, or town corporate, residing or being next to or in the vicinity of the place, and acting for the division or district where such person or persons shall have been enlisted, and not being an officer in the army, and before such justice or chief magistrate he or they shall be at liberty to declare his or their dissent to such enlisting; and, upon such declaration, and returning the enlisting money, and also each person so dissenting paying the sum of twenty shillings for the charges expended or laid out upon him, together with such full rate allowed by law for the subsistence or diet and small beer furnished to such recruit subsequent to the period of his having been enlisted, such person or persons so enlisting shall be forthwith discharged and set at liberty in the presence of such justice or chief magistrate. CAP. XIII. For the regulating of his Majesty's Royal Marine Forces while on Shore. March 21. CAP. XIV. To indemnify such Persons in the United Kingdom as have omitted to qualify themselves for Offices and Employments, and for extending the Time limited for those purposes respectively, until the 25th day of March 1818; and to permit such Persons in Great Britain as have omitted to make and file affidavits of the Execution of Indentures of Clerks to Attornies and Solicitors, to make and file the same on or before the first day of Hilary Term 1818.-March 21. CAP. XV. To continue until the 5th day of July 1818, an Act of the 46th year of his present Majesty for granting an additional Bounty on the Exportation of the Silk Manufactures of Great Britain. March 21. CAP. XVI. For raising the sum of Eighteen Millions, by Exchequer Bills, for the Service of the year 1817.—March 29. The Bank of England may advance £12,000,000 on the credit of this Act, notwithstanding the Act 5 and 6 Gul. and Mariæ. CAP. XVII. To repeal, during the Continuance of Peace, so much of an Act of the 9th year of his present Majesty as prohibits the Exportation of Pig and Bar Iron and certain Naval Stores, unless the Pre-emption thereof be offered to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Navy.-March 29. PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED. JOHN RAFFIELD, of Edward Street, Portman Square, architect, for certain improvements on, and additions to, his former patent, for an apparatus to be attached to fire-stoves of all descriptions for rooms, for the removal of cinders and ashes, and for the better prevention of dust arising there. from, which said additions may be used jointly or separately. January 10, 1817. To JOSEPH de CAVAILLON, Sambrook Court, London, gentleman, for improvements in the preparing, clarifying, and refining of sugar, and other vegetable, animal, and mineral substances, and in the machinery and utensils used therein. Jan. 23. ROBERT DICKINSON, Great Queen Street, Esq. for a method or methods of preparing or paving streets and roads for horses and carriages, so as to render the parts or pavements when so done more durable, and ultimately less expensive, than those in common use, and presenting other important advantages. January 25. DANIEL WILSON, Dublin, gentleman, for improvements in the process of boiling and refining sugar. January 23. GEORGE MONTAGUE HIGGINSON, of Bovey Thracy, Devon, lieutenant in the navy, for improvements in locks. February 1. WILLIAM WALL, Wandsworth, watchmaker, for a horizontal escapement for watches. February 1. ISAAC ROBERT MOTT, Brighton, composer and teacher of music, for a method of producing, from vibrating substances, a tone or musical sound, the peculiar powers in the management whereof are entirely new, and which,musical instrument he de nominates The Sostinente Piano Forte. Feb ruary 1. WILLIAM BUNDY, Pratt Place, Camden Town, mathematical instrument-maker, for machinery for breaking and preparing flax and hemp. February 1. JAMES ATKINSON WEST, Crane Court, Fleet Street, brass-worker and lamp-manufacturer, for improvements in, or on, lustres, chandeliers, and lamps, of various descriptions, and in the manner of conveying gas to the same. February 6. WILLIAM CLARK, Bath, Esq. for a contriv. ance called a safeguard to locks, applicable to locks in general, by which they may be so secured as to defy the attempts of plunderers using pick-locks or false keys. February 8. ROBERT HARDY, Worcester, iron-founder, for improvements in the manufacturing of cast-iron bushes or pipe-boxes, for chaise, coach, waggon, and all other sorts of carriage-wheels. February 20. RICHARD LITHERLAND, Liverpool, watchmaker, for improvements in, or on, the escapement of watches. February 20. RICHARD HOLDEN, Stafford Street, St Maryle-bone, gentleman, for machines for producing rotatory and pendulous motion in a new manner. February 20. DANIEL WHEELER, of Hyde Street,StGeorge, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, colour-maker, for a me thod of drying and preparing malt. March 28. EDWARD NICHOLAS, of Llangattock, Vibon Avell, Monmouthshire, farmer, for a plough, for the purpose of covering with mould wheat and other grain when sown. April 19. Abstract of the Net Produce of the Revenue in the Years ending 5th January 1816, and 5th January 1817; and also the Total Produce of the Customs and Excise. Customs, The Irish and Portuguese payments for the interest on their respective debts payable in England, are excluded from this statement, and the War Taxes appropriated to the interest of Loans charged on them are included under the head of War Taxes, to the quarter ending the 5th July 1816, inclusive, from which period the War Duties of Customs (being made perpetual by Act 56, Geo. III. cap. 29) are included under the head of Consolidated Customs. 26,111,777 57,360,696 An Account of the Income of, and Charge upon, the Consolidated Fund in the Quarters ended the 5th January 1816 and 1817; together with the Amount of War Taxes and the Annual Duties, &c. to the same periods. INCOME. 1816. 1817. WAR TAXES. Amount of War Taxes, Deduct War Taxes carried to Consolidated Fund, 1816. £4,609,452 19 94 1817. £2,447,396 7 11 War Taxes for the Public Service, 4,095,417 2 5 2,447,396 7 11 Amount of Duties annually voted to pay off 3 mil. Exch. Bills, 927,635 0 44 1,211,941 8 82 Exchequer, January 4, 1817. 4 per cent. 743 17 5 6,840-16 2 WM ROSE HAWORTH. Abstract of the Net Produce of the Consolidated Fund, in the Quarters ended 5th April 1,642 15 8 7,601 0 9 Quarters ended 5th April 1815. £1,288,038 14,674,768 £1,719,314 Stamps, 1,278,576 1,520,536 1,492,611 Post Office, 411,000 Assessed Taxes, 614,861 Land Taxes, 154,550 Property Tax, 993,493 Miscellaneous, Charge upon Consolidated Estimated Surplus, £9,487,877 687,877 The Customs have ed in the quarter of this year The whole quarter has in- APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c. I. CIVIL. The dignity of a Baron of the United Kingdom granted to the Right Hon. Charles Abbot of Kidbrooke, co. Sussex, late Speaker of the House of Commons, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the name, style, and title of Baron Colchester of Colchester, co. Essex. Sir G. F. Hill, a Member of the Privy Council. J. Becket, Esq. Judge Advocate General. Lord Strangford, Envoy Extraordinary and Min. ister Plenipotentiary at the Swedish Court. The Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, Speaker of the House of Commons, vice Right Hon. Charles Abbot, now Lord Colchester. 5 D. G. Captain W. Walker to be Major by purch. vice Ormsby, retires 29th May 1817 Lieut. C. Walker to be Captain by purch. vice Walker do. Cornet J. Watson to be Lieut. by purch. vice Walker do. -W. Armstrong to be Lieut. by purch. vice Linton, prom. 6 Dr. do. Hon. E. S. Pery, from 16 Dr. to be Cornet, vice Armstrong do. H. Visc. Barnard to be Lieut. by purch. vice Lord Urbridge 22d do. H. Lyster to be Cornet by purch. vice Lord Barnard 29th do. 13 W. T. Cockburn to be Cornet by purch. vice Ryan, prom. 22d do. 16 W. Graham to be Cornet by purch. vice Pery, 16 Dr. 29th do. 19 J. H. Whitmore to be Cornet by purch. vice Arnold, prom. 22d do. II. ECCLESIASTICAL. The Right Hon. Lord Grey has presented the Rev. George Addison, minister of Auchterhouse, to the church and parish of Liff and Bervie, vacant by the death of the Rev. Dr Thomas Constable. Vans Hawthorn, Esq. of Garthland, has been pleased to appoint Mr James Anderson, preacher of the gospel, to the church and parish of Stonnykirk, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Blair. The Magistrates and Town Council of Forfar have elected Mr Wm Clugston of Glasgow, preacher, to be minister of that town and parish. The Town Council of Stirling have presented the Rev. Mr Small of Stair to the second charge of that town and parish, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr Russel. The Town Council have presented Mr Clugston, preacher of the gospel, to that church and parish, vacant by the death of the Rev. Mr Bruce. 3 S.C.of C. R. Buckham to be Cornet by purch. vice Tipping, prom. 5th June 2Foot. Ensign F. P. Webber to be Lieut. vice Perrin, dead 22d May J. Delaney to be Ensign, vice Webber do. Assist. Surg. J. Martin, from 1 W. I. Regt. to be Assist. Surg. vice Heathcote, dead 29th do. Gent. Cadet L. B. Wilford to be Ensign by purch. vice Ancram, retired 5th June Major Hon. Cecil Lowther, from 10 Dr. to be Lieut.-Col. vice Strike, ret. 20th April Lieut. R. Meares, from 2 L. G. to be Capt. by purch. vice Maj. Conolly, ret. 24 Mar. Rob. Dodd to be Ensign by purch. 5th June Lieut. B. Le Sage to be Captain by purch. vice Boyd, ret. do. A. Campbell to be Ensign by purch. do. Ensign S. Roe, from h. p. 14 F. to be Surg. vice Sharp, dead 22d do. Ensign W. W. Baines, from 53 F. to be Ens. vice Sage, ret. upon h. p. 53 F. do. Lieut. J. Lintott, from 51 F. to be Captain by purch. vice Baring, ret. 29th do. Ensign W. Stewart, from 27 F. to be Ens. vice Henderson, ret. upon h. p. 27 F. Assist. Surg. W. F. Bow, from 27 F. to be J. Badcock to be Ensign by purch. vice 22d do. W. Moray, 13 Dr. do. do. do. W. Rainey Lieut. A. R. Charlton to be Capt. by purch. W. C. Holloway, R. Eng. N. Gledstanes, 68 F. do. do. vice Knox Ensign G. A. Thompson to be Lieut. by do. J. Babington, 14 Dr. do. N. Eckersley, 1 Dr. H. S. Blanckley, 23 F. Hon. H. R. Molyneux to be Ensign by purch. vice Thompson T. H. Browne, h. p. 23 F. do. 35 Dan. Bouchier, R. Art. do. do. H. G. Macleod, h. p. 35 F. do. Sir J. S. Lillie, Kt. 60 F. do. W. Light, h. P. 28 F. D. G. Lieut. T. Ker, from h. p. 8 Dr. to be Paymaster, vice Arscott, retires 14th May do. do. Assist. Surg. W. G. Thompson, from 62 F. to be Assist. Surg. vice M'Andrew, ret. upon h. p. 62 F. do. do. 99 do. do. 104 G. Hogarth to be Ensign by purch. vice Manness, ret. do. Ensign T. Pigott to be Lieut. by purch. vice Le Couteur, prom. do. |