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conference with the magistrates, determined to avail themselves of certain supposed informalities in the late election of magistrates. Accordingly, a petition and protest against the election was presented to the Court of Session, in name of Deacon Lawrie, and Alexander Henderson, late deacon of the goldsmiths, founded on the following grounds: 1st, That several members of the council hold places of profit in the gift of the magistrates, which is contrary to the set of the burgh; 2d, That others have no place of residence within the royalty; and, 3d, That one individual was not a freeman of the burgh at the time of his election. The case camo before the Second Division of the Court; and their Lordships issued an order to give Deacon Lawrie access to the city records, and to furnish him with extracts. Deacon Lawrie twice protested and complained to the Court, that their Lordships' order had been evaded; and, in consequence, John Connell, Esq. Judge-Admiral, was, on Friday the 28th, nominated Commissioner by the Court, to examine the records, and to order extracts from them, agreeably to the interlocutor of the Court. There appeared in support of the petition and protests which have been taken, John Clerk, George Cranstoun, Francis Jeffrey, James Moncreiff, Henry Cockburn, John Archibald Murray, and

Robert Bell, Esqrs. advocates. Bell, Esq. W. S. agent.

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Several of the corporate bodies have voted sums from their funds in support of the process. While the request on the

part of the committees for a conference waited an answer from the magistrates, the action was instituted in the Supreme Court; in consequence of which, the council resolved against holding any conference with the citizens on the subject.

The magistrates of Dumfries and Annan have agreed to go along with their fellowcitizens in applying to Parliament for a change in the set of these burghs. Those of Ayr have refused, on the ground that no imputation has been cast on their management. The burgesses of Inverness are also endeavouring to disfranchise the burgh, some of the magistrates being considered illegally appointed; and have employed the Lord Advocate, Mr Cranstoun, and Mr Jeffrey, as their counsel.

The question of reform has also been agitated in Haddington, Irvine, Wick, Dingwall, and Elgin, where frequent meetings of the burgesses have been held on the subject.

Information has been received, that the proceedings under the report of Montrose poll warrant have been approved of in a council held lately by the Prince Regent at Brighton.

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. LIII. For the more effectual Punishment of Murders and Manslaughters committed in Places not within bis Majesty's Dominions.-June 27. Cap. LIV. To enable the Commissioners of his Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues, to make and maintain a Road from Milbank Row, Westminster, to the Penitentiary.-June 27.

Cap. LV. To continue an Act to empower his Majesty to secure and detain such Persons as his Majesty shall suspect are conspiring against his Person and Government.-June 30.

After March 1, 1818, persons committed to have the benefit of the laws.-The secretary of state may order persons committed for high treason, &c. to be removed to any other jail. Cap. LVI. To amend the Lazes in respect to forfeited Recognizances in Ireland.-June 30.

Cap. LVII. To empower his Majesty to suspend training, and to regulate the Quotes of the Militia.-June 30.

Cap. LVIII. To allow British Goods to be exported direct from this Country to the United States of America upon the same terms as when exported to any foreign Country.-June 30.

Cap. LIX. For letting to Farm the Post-Horse Dutics, and for better securing and facilitating the Recovery of the said Duties. June 30.

Cap. LX. To regulate certain Offices in the Court of Exchequer in England.July 7.

Cap. LXI. To abolish the Offices of the Wardens, Chief Justices, and Justices in Eyre, North and South of Trent.July 7.

Cap. LXII. To abolish certain Offices, and to regulate certain other Offices, in Ireland.-July 7.

Cap. LXIII. To regulate the Offices of

Clerks of the Signet and Privy Scal.July 7.

Cap. LXIV. To abolish certain Of fices, and regulate others, in Scotland.July 7.

Cap. LXV. To enable his Majesty to recompense the Services of Persons holding, or who have held, certain high and efficient Civil Offices.-July 7.

Whereas the abolition and regulation of various offices will deprive the crown of part of the means by which his Majesty has been heretofore enabled to recompense the services of persons holding, or who have held, high and efficient civil offices; and whereas it is expedient and necessary, and consistent with sound policy and proper economy, that, upon the abolition and regulation of various offices of emolument, other means should be afforded to his Majesty, his heirs, and successors, of recompensing the meritorious services of persons filling or who have filled high effective civil offices, and making competent provision for persons holding such offices upon their quitting or being removed from the same may it therefore please your Majesty, &c. &c.

That, after the expiration of two years from the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs, and successors, by any warrant under his royal sign manual, countersigned by any three or more of the commissioners of his Majesty's treasury of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the time being, to grant unto any person who shall have served his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, for any period not less than two years in the whole, either uninterruptedly or at different times, in any one or more of the offices of first lord of the treasury or of one of his Majesty's principal secretaries of state, or chancellor of the exchequer, or first lord of the Admiralty, a pension during life not exceeding three thousand pounds per annum; and at the expiration of every further progressive period of two years more from the passing of this act, to grant in like manner other like pensions to any other such persons as aforesaid, until, at the expiration of twelve years from the passing of this act, six of such pensions shall have been granted in the whole; and from and after such six pensions of three thousand pounds each shall have been granted to six such persons as aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for his Majesty, his heirs, or successors, to grant any further or other pension in respect of any such offices as aforesaid.

His Majesty empowered to grant one other like pension, although six filled up, to be deemed a supernumerary pension; and become one of the regular number on the first falling in.-After the expiration of certain periods, his Majesty allowed to grant pensions of L. 2900 to certain other persons holding civil offices, under certain limitations. After the expiration of certain periods, his Majesty empowered to grant pensions of L. 1500 to certain other persons holding civil offices, under limita

tions. His Majesty may grant a pension to any person having been chancellor of the exchequer of Ireland, and afterwards holding any efficient office.-After the expiration of certain periods, his Majesty empowered to grant pensions of L. 1000 to certain other persons holding civil offices, under limitations.When persons have served eight years in several classes of offices, the pension attached to the highest class of office may be granted on three years' service in the highest office.-Interest of persons in office to cease with respect to such office on obtaining pensions. -Persons holding pensions, on obtaining. pensions under this act, to relinquish such previous pensions.-Pensions payable quarterly out of the Consolidated Fund, free from taxes.

Cap. LXVI. To amend an Act of the Twenty-second Year of his present Majesty, for suppressing or regulating certain Offices therein mentioned, so far as relates to the Board of Trade; and for enabling the Vice-President of the Board of Trade to send and receive Letters and Packets free from the Duty of Postage.— July 7.

Cap. LXVII. To regulate certain Offices and abolish others in his Majesty's Mints in England and Scotland respectively.-July 7.

The office of Warden of the Mint shall be abolished after the termination of the existing interest, and the duties performed by the master without any additional salary. The office of Comptroller shall be hereafter executed in person. The stamper's salary to be abolished. The office of Governor of the Mint in Scotland, after the termination of the existing interest, to be held by the Master of the Mint in England, and other offices of the Mint in Scotland, after the existing interest, abolished. The Treasury, on the termination of the whole of the existing interests, may direct the buildings of the Mint of Scotland to be sold.

Cap. LXVIII. To amend the Laws relating to Sheriff's in Ireland.-July 7.

Cap. LXIX. To continue until the 29th day of September 1818, and to amend an Act passed in Ireland in the 36th Year of his present Majesty for the Improvement and Extension of the Fisheries on the Coast of Ireland.-July 7.

Cap. LXX. To relieve persons im pugning the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain Penalties in Ireland.July 7.

Cap. LXXI. To amend an Act of the 50th Year of his present Majesty's Reign, for repealing the several Laws relating to Prisons in Ireland, and for re-enacting such of the provisions thereof as have been found useful with Amendments.-July 7. Cap. LXXII. To continue until the

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end of the next Session of Parliament two Acts made in the 54th and 56th year of his present Majesty for regulating the Trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland reciprocally.-July 7.

Cap. LXXIII. To allow the exportation of Woollen or Bay Yarn from Ireland by Licence obtained there-July 7.

Cap. LXXIV. To extend several Acts for allowing the Importation and Exportation of certain Goods and Merchandize to Porta Maria in the Island of Jamaica, und to the Port of Bridge Town in the Island of Barbadoes.-July 7.

Cap. LXXV. To abolish the Punishment of Public Whipping on Female Of. fenders.-July 7.

Cap. LXXVI. To amend an Act of the 54th Year of his present Majesty to regulate the Payment and Drawback on Paper allowed to the Universities of Scotland. July 7.

Cap. LXXVII. For extending the Provisions of an Act of the 54th Year of his present Majesty for regulating the Payment of Army Prize Money, and for authorizing the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital to suspend the Pensions of such Persons as shall be guilty of Frauds in respect of Prize Money or Pensions.-July 7. Cap. LXXVIII. For fixing the Rates of Subsistence to be paid to Innkeepers and others on Quartering Soldiers.—July 7.

Cap. LXXIX. To permit the Transfer of Capital from certain Public Stocks or Funds in Great Britain, to certain Public Stocks or Funds in Ireland.-July 7. Cap. LXXX. For raising the Sum of Nine Millions by Exchequer Bills for the Service of the Year 1817.-July 10.

The Exchequer Bills made by virtue of this act to be current at the Exchequer after April 5, 1818. The Bank of England may advance six millions on the credit of

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Cap. LXXXII. To continue an Act passed in Ireland in the 13th and 14th Years of his present Majesty, respecting certain Annuities, so long as the said Annuities shall be payable.-July 10.

Cap. LXXXIII. To amend an Act made in the last Session of Parliament for providing for the Charge of certain Additions to the Public Debt of Ireland. July 10.

Cap. LXXXIV. To regulate the Offices of his Majesty's Exchequer in England and Ireland respectively.-July 10.

The duties of the office of Auditor and
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the four Tellers of the Exchequer, and Clerk of the Pells in England, and of Auditor and Teller of the Exchequer, and Clerk of the Pells in Ireland, after the expiration of existing interests, to be regulated and performed in person. The savings arising from such regulations to go to the consolidated fund. Persons belonging to the said offices when regulated to be incapable of sitting as members of the House of Commons.

Cap. LXXXV. To permit, until the 14th day of November 1817, the Importation of Corn and other Articles in any Ship from any Country; to permit such Articles which may have been warehoused for Exportation only to be entered for Home Consumption; and for indemnifying all Persons who have given directions for the Importation of Corn and other Articles, or the taking the same out of Warehouse free of Duty, and who have acted in obedience thereto.-July 10.

Cap. LXXXVI. To permit the Importation of Foreign Cambrics and Larens into Ireland, on payment of the like Duties as are chargeable in Great Britain.July 10.

Cap. LXXXVII. To amend two Acts passed in the 45th Year of his present Majesty, and in the last Session of Parlia ment, for the making more effectual Provision for the Prevention of Smuggling.July 10.

Cap. LXXXVIII. To permit Fullers' Earth, Fulling Clay, and Tobacco Pipe Clay, to be carried Coastwise under certain Restrictions.-July 10.

Cap. LXXXIX. To allow the Importation of Oranges and Lemons from the Azores and Madeira into the British Colonies of North America.-July 10.

Cap. XC. For the Prevention of Persons going armed by Night for the Destruction of Game; and for repcaling an Act made in the last Session of Parliament relating to Rogues and Vagabonds.-July 10.

By this act the act passed last session, (56th Geo. III. cap. 130,) also the acts of the 39th and 40th Geo. III. cap. 50, relating to rogues and vagabonds, are repealed. Persons having entered into any forest, chase, or other open and inclosed ground, with the intent illegally to destroy, take, or kill game or rabbits, or to aid, abet, &c., found between the hours of six in the evening and seven in the morning, from the 1st of October to the 1st of February, between seven in the evening and five in the morning from the 1st of February to the 1st of April, and between nine in the evening and four in the morning for the remainder of the year, armed with any gun, cross-bow, fire arms, bludgeon, or any other offensive weapon, shall be sentenced to transportation for seven years, or punished as guilty of a misdemeanour.

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PATENTS LATELY ENROLLED.

LOUIS FELIX VALLET, late of Paris, but now of Walbrook, London, gentleman, for a new ornamental surface to metals, or metallic compositions. August 5, 1817.

GEORGE STRATTON, of Piccadilly, Middlesex, ironmonger, for a method of saving fuel, by improvements in fire-places, and more effectually heating and ventilating buildings. August 5.

CHARLESATTWOOD, of Bridge-street, Blackfriars, London, window-glass manufacturer, for a certain improvement, or improvements, in the manufacture of window-glass, of the kind or description commonly wrought or fabricated into crown glass, or German sheet glass; and also in certain process, or processes, in the manufacture of crown glass. August 5.

JOHN HAWKS, of Gateshead, Durham, ironfounder, for a method of making iron rails, to be used in the construction of railways. August 5. LUDVIG GRANHOLM, of Foster-lane, London, Captain in the Royal Navy of Sweden, for a method or methods, process or processes, mean or means, of preserving such animal and vegetable products or substances, separately, or mixed together, as are fit for the food of man, and for such a length of time as to render them fit for ships and garrison stores. August 5

ANTHONY HILL, of Plymouth Iron-works, Glamorganshire, ironmaster, for improvements in the working of iron. August 5.

JOHN DICKINSON, of Nash Mill, Abbotts Langley, Hertfordshire, Esq. for a method of manufacturing, by means of machinery, paper for copperplate printing, also paper for writing, drawing, letter-press printing, and of a thicker sort for boards, and similar in texture and substance to card-boards, or paste-boards, and certain improvements in his patent machinery for manufacturing and cutting paper. August 5.

DENNIS MACCARTHY, of Little Comptonstreet, St Ann's, Soho, Middlesex, gentleman, for certain improvements on ploughs of various descriptions. August 5.

JOHN PERKS, of Carey-street, St John's, Westminster, engineer, for improvements in the apparatus for manufacturing, purifying, and storing gas. August 5.

THOMAS TAFT, of Birmingham, Warwickshire,saddler, whipmaker, and bridle-cutter, for an improvement in bridle-bits and leather slidingloop, to act with reins and bits. August 5.

SAMUEL MERSEY, the younger, of Long Acre, St Martin in the Fields, Middlesex, laceman, for a mode or method of weaving, making, and manufacturing of livery lace, and coach lace. August 7.

EDMUND RICHARD BALL, of Albany Mills, Albany, Surrey, paper manufacturer, for a method of manufacturing paper, of superior strength and durability, for bills or notes, or other uses requir ing strength. August 9.

EDWARD BIGGS, of Birmingham, Warwickshire, brassfounder, for improvements in the me thod of making or manufacturing pans and slails of various kinds. August 12.

JAMES BOUNSALL, of Crown-street, Oldstreet Road, Shoreditch, Middlesex, tailor, for improvements in the machinery used for tarring, reeling, and twisting of yarn, and forming the lissims or shands of cables, or other cordage, and manufacturing rope of every size. August 12. WILLIAM GILDART and JOHN SERVANT, both of Leeds, Yorkshire, house-carpenters, and copartners, for improvements in mangles. gust 12.

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JEPTHA AVERY WILKINSON, late of New York, in the United States of America, but now residing in Covent Garden, Middlesex, Esq. for improvements in the application of machinery for the purpose of manufacturing of weavers' reeds by water, or other power. August 23.

GEORGE MEDHURST, of Denmark-street, St Giles in the Fields, Middlesex, engineer, for an arrangement of implements to form certain apparatus, which he denominates the Hydraulic Balance, applicable to mechanical and hydraulic purposes. August 26.

JOHN JAMES ALEXANDER MACCARTHY, of Millbank-street, Westminster, for a road or way for passage across rivers, creeks, and wa ters, and from shore to shore thereof, without stoppage or impediment to the constant navigation thereof, and across ravines, fissures, clefts, and chasms; and for a method or methods of constructing arches or apertures for the running and flowing of water through the same, or under bridges, to be used and applied in the construction of the before-mentioned roads or way, or otherwise. August 26.

APPOINTMENTS, PROMOTIONS, &c.

I. CIVIL.

Nov. 10.-Mr Alexander Louis Prevost, to be agent and consul in London, for the Swiss Confederation.

15.-The Right Hon. the Earl of Glasgow, to be Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow. 28.-Jonathan Garner, Esq. of Barbadoes, to be first President of the Edinburgh Royal Medical Society.

-The Right Hon. Lord Dundas, to be President of the Society of Scottish Antiquaries.

29.-James Colquhoun, Esq. to be Consul-General in Great Britain, for the Republics of Hamburgh, Bremen, and Lubeck.

Dec. 1.-Sir James Hall, Bart. to be President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 4.-Dr Hope re-elected President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

5. Mr Walter Tod, first President of the Edinburgh Theological Society.

Member returned to serve in Parliament. Cholmoley Dering, Esq. for the Borough of Romney, in room of Admiral Sir J. T. Ďuckworth, deceased.

II. ECCLESIASTICAL

Oct. 15.-The Rev. Mathew Hodge, to the Rectory of Fillingham, Lincolnshire.

Nov. 22.-Rev. Charles Wood, to the Rectory of Tendering, Essex.

-Rev. Dr P. Hunt, to the Vicarage of Goldington, Bedfordshire, and adjoining Rectory of St Peter Martin.

-Rev. John Taylor, to the Rectory of Dept. ford, Devon.

27.-Rev. John Giles Dimock, to the Rectory of Uppingham.

-The Earl of Airly has been pleased to present the Rev. William Ramsay, minister of the united parishes of Cotarchy and Clova, to the church and parish of Auchterhouse, vacant by the transla tion of the Rev. George Addison to the united parishes of Liff and Benvie.

29.-Mr Oswald of Auchincruive has presented the Rev. Anthony Dow, minister of Kilspindie, in the Presbytery of Perth, to the church and parish of Kirkpatrick Irongray, in the Presbytery of Dumfries.

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METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.

THE month of November has been as remarkable for an unusually high temperature, as October was for the contrary. Instead of that gradual diminution of heat which might be expected, and which is generally found to take place as the season advances, it has actually been on the increase, the average of November being more than 3 degrees above that of October. Up to the 24th, the thermometer never sunk below 35, and only eight times below 40. On that day it stood at 31, and, during the night, sunk to 30. A fall of snow, to the depth of two inches, succeeded; but though, on the morning of the 26th, there was every appearance of a settled frost, in less than 12 hours the snow disappeared, and, at 10 the same evening, the thermometer stood at 50. Similar fluctuations took place in the state of the Barometer, and the Hygrometer was generally low. The wind, during the month, though never violent, was frequently high; and the weather altogether, notwithstanding the quantity of rain that fell, was not what is generally experienced in the month of November. The mean state of the atmosphere, with regard to dryness, was 0.00186 grains of moisture to the cubic inch.

METEOROLOGICAL TABLE,

Extructed from the Register kept on the Banks of the Tay, four miles east from Perth, Latitude 56° 25', Elevation 185 feet.

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