and direct such reasonable fecs and charges to be paid by any such spiritual person appealing as aforesaid in respect of any such proceedings as aforesaid, as he shall in his discretion think fit: Provided always, that in every case when any costs and charges directed by such archbishop or bishop as aforesaid, shall remain unpaid for the period of twenty-one days after demand thereof left at the usual or last place of abode of the perfon liable to the payment, it shall be lawful for such bishop or archbishop respectively to cause the same to be recovered by sequestration of the profits of the parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy of such spiritual person as aforesaid, and which sequestration such archbishop or bishop are respectively hereby empowered to issue. -XVII. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any bishop or archbishop who shall have granted any such license as aforesaid, or any successor of any such bishop or archbishop, to revoke any such license in any case in which it may appear to him proper and expedient to revoke the same. Provided also, that no license granted under this Act shall continue in force for more than two years from the granting thereof.-XVIII. AND be it further enacted, That every such bishop to whom any such petition shall be presented, and who shall grant or revoke any license founded thereon, shall and he is hereby required to cause a copy of such license or revocation to be filed in the registry of the diocese within, which such parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, in respect whereof any such li cense shall be granted or revocation made, shall be locally situate, with the register of such diocese; and an alphabetical list of such licenses and revocations shall be made out by such register, and entered in a book, and kept for the inspection of all persons upon payment of the sum of two shillings, and no more; and a copy of every such license and revocation shall be deli vered to the churchwardens of the parish within one month after the grant of such license or revocation thereof; and a copy of the same shall likewise be publickly read at the visitation of the archdeacon of the archdeaconry within which the parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, in respect whereof the license shall have been granted or revocation made, shall be locally situate, immediately next succeeding the granting or revocation thereof.-XIX. PROVIDED alsa, and be it further enacted, That every archbishop, who shall confirm in manner directed by this act any license or licenses in any case or cases not enumerated in this Act, or who shall grant any such license in. his own diocese, shall annually on or before the thirtieth day of January in each year, transmit to his Majesty's privy council a list of all such licenses so confirmed or granted respectively as aforesaid, in the year ending on the last day of December preceding such thirtieth day of Jamuary, and shall in every such list specify the reasons transmitted to him by the bishops of the several dioceses for granting the said licenses, and which have induced him to confirm the same, and also the reasons which have induced him to grant any such license as aforesaid within his own diocese; and it shall he lawful for his Majesty's privy council, by any order made for that purpose, to revoke and annul any such license, and his Majesty's privy council shall in such case transmit or cause to be transmitted to the archbishop, who shall have confirmed or granted such license, the order for the revocation or annulling thereof, who shall thereupon cause a copy of every such order made in relation to any license confirmed by him as aforementioned, to be transmitted to the bishop of the diocese in which such license shall have been granted, who shall thereupon cause the copy of the said order to be filed in the registry of such diocese, and a copy likewise to he delivered to the churchwardens in manner herein before directed as to licenses granted and revocations made by any such archbishop or bishop under this act; and every such archbishop shall cause a copy of every such order made in relation to any such license as aforesaid granted by him in his own diocese, to be in like manner filed in the registry of his diocese, and a copy also to be delivered to the churchwarden of the parish to which such license shall relate, in manner before mentioned.-XX. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any spiritual person to whom any such license shall be granted, and. against whom any action shall hereafter during the continuance of this act be brought for any penalty or forfeiture under the said recited act, by eason of any non-residence, or any matter or thing relating thereto, to plead such license in bar of any such action; and if the plaintiff in such suit or action shall be nonsuit, or shall discontinue any such suit or action after any plea of license shall have been pleaded thereto under this act, then and in such case the defendant in such suit or action shall have full costs of suit; and if in any such suit or action a verdict shall be given for the defendant, the defendant shall have treble costs, and have the like remedy for the same as any defendant hath in other cases to recover costs by law. XXI. AND be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to exempt any person or persons from any canonical or ecclesiastical censures, or affect any proceedings that shall hereafter be instituted in any ecclesiastical court, in order 10 cause the same to be inflicted in relation to the non-residence of any spiritual person having or holding any parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, not being duly licensed according to the provisions of this act to be absent therefrom, nor having any other lawful cause of absence: Provided always, that from and after the passing of this act, no such censures by reason of non-residence not exceeding three months shall be in force, nor shall any proceeding be admitted in any ecclesiastical court against any such spiritual person for such non-residence not exceeding three months, at the suit of any person or persons other than the bishop or archdeacon only of the diocese and archdeaconry within which such parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, in respect whereof such non-residence shall have taken place, shall be locally situated; any thing in any law or laws, or ecclesiastical canon or canons, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.XXII.AND be it further enacted, That in every case in which it shall appear to any such bishop as aforesaid, that any spiritual person having or holding any parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, and not being licensed according to this act to be absent therefrom, nor having any other lawful cause of absence from the same, does not sufficiently reside on such parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, it shall be lawful for such bishop to issue or cause to be issued a monition to such spiritual person, forthwith to proceed to and reside thereon, and perform the duties thereof, and to make a return to such monition within a certain number of days after the issuing thereof; so as that in every such case there shall be thirty days between the time of delivering such monition to such spiritual person, or leaving the same at his then usual place of abode, or last place of abode, if not there to be found, and with the officiating minister or one of the churchwardens, and the time specified in such monition for the return thereof; and every such monition shall immediately on the issuing thereof be filed in the registry, and open for inspection on the payment of wo shillings and no more; and the spiritual person to whom any such monition shall be sent under this act, shall within the time specified for that pu pose make a retuin thereto; and it shall be lawful for the bishop to whom any such return shall be made to require such return, or any facts contained therein, to be verified by the oath of such spiritual person, or others, to be taken before some Surrogate or Master Extraordinary in Chancery, which oath any such Surrogate or Master Extraordinary in Chancery is hereby authorized and required to administer, on application being made for that purpose; and in every case where no such return shall be made, or where such return shall not state such reasons as shall be deemed satisfactory by such bishop for the nonresidence of the spiritual person to whom such monition shall have been sent as aforesaid, or where the same or any of the facts contained therein shall not be so verified upon oath as afore. said, when the same shall have been required; then and in such case it shall be lawful for such bishop to issue an order in writing under his hand and seal, to require such person to proceed to and reside as aforesaid, within thirty days after such order in writing, or a copy thereof shall have been delivered or left in like manner as is hereinbefore required as to monitions; and in case of noncompliance it shall be lawful for such bishop to sequester the profits of such parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy of such spiritual person as aforesaid, until such monition shall be complied with, or such sufficient reasons for nonresidence stated and proved as aforesaid, and to direct any order to be made for that purpose under his hand, the application of such profits, after deducting the necessary expenses of serving the cure, either in the whole or in such proportion as he shall think fit, in the first place, to the payment of such reasonable expenses as shall have been incurred in relation to such monition and sequestration, and in the next place towards the augmentation or improvement of any such parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, or the house of residence thereof, or any of the buildings and appurtenances thereof, or towards the improvement of any of the glebe or demesne lands thereof, or may order and direct the same, or any portion thereof, to be paid to the governors of the bounty of Queen Anne for the augmenta, tion of the maintenance of the poor clergy, to be applied for the purpose of such augmentation as such bishop shall in his discretion under all the circumstances think fit and expedient; and it shall also be lawful for any such bishop to remit any such spiritual person any part or proportion of such sequestered profits, or cause the same or any part thereof that shall have been paid or directed to be paid to such governors of Queen Anne's bounty to be repaid to such spiritual person, which repayment the said governors are hereby authorized and required upon an order under the hand of any such bishop to make out of any money then in their hands, or if no money shall then be in their hands, out of the next mobey that shall come to their hands, in any case in which by reason of the subsequent obedience of any such spiritual person to any such monition, or the stating and proving such sufficient reasons as aforesaid, such bishop shall think the same, proper: Provided always, that when any such spiritual person shall think himself aggrieved by reason of any such sequestration, it shall be lawful for any such spiritual person, within fi'teen days after the making any order for any such sequestration as aforesaid, and upon notice thereof, the bishop to appeal to the archbishop of the province to which such bishop shall belong, who shall forthwith either by himself, or some commissioner or commissioners appointed from among the bishops of his province for that purpose under his hand and scal, make or cause to be made due enquiry into the same, and make such order therein or relating thereto, or to the profits that shall be so sequestered as atoresaid, for the return to such spiritual person of the same or any part thereof, or otherwise, as shall under all the circumstances of the case appear to such archbishop or his commissioner or commissioners to be just and proper: Provided always, that the party so appealing shall give security to the bishop for the payment of such reasonable expenses occasioned by the appeal as the archbishop or his commissioner or commissioners shall award: Provided also, that no such order for any sequestration shall be put in force during such appeal as aforesaid, and until the same is determined.-XXIII. PROVIDED also, and be it further enacted, That every spiritual person to whom any such monition or order in writing shall be sent as aforesaid under this act, who shall be at the time of the issuing thereof absent from residence in his parsonage, vicarage. donative, or perpetual curacy, contrary to the provisions of the said first recited act and this act, but who shall in obedience to such monition or order forthwith return to due residence, and the profits of whose parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, shall by reason of such return not be sequestered, shall nevertheless pay all costs, charges, and expenses incurred by rea❤ son of the issuing and serving such mouition or or→ der; to be levied as any cost may be levied on any spiritual person by any archbishop or bishop under any of the provisions of this act.—XXIV.AND bɛ it further enacted, That all contracts or agreements made after the passing of this act, for the letting of houses of residence belonging to any parson age, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, to which any spiritual person shall be required by order of the bishop as aforesaid, to proceed and reside therein, shail be null and void; and any person continuing to hold the same alter the day on which the said spiritual person shall be directed by the said order to reside therein, shall for feit the sum of ten pounds for every day he shall continue to hold the same, to be recovered and applied in like manner as the penalties for non-rem sidence, are directed to be recovered and applied by the provisions of this act.-XXV. AND be it further enacted, That where any such house of residence is occupied under a contract or agreement made before the passing of this act, the same may be held and occupied without subjecting the party holding and occupying the same to any penalty; and sequestration shall not issue for disobedience to the order of the bishop, for thee calend months after the day on which possession ought to be taken by the spiritual person, in obedience to the order of the bishop, at the expiration of which time the sequestration shall issue; and the party continuing to hold the house of resie dence shall forfeit the sum of ten pounds for every day he shall hold the same, after the expiration of the said three months; the said penalties to be recovered and applicd in like manner as the penalties for non-residence are directed to be recovered and applied by the provisions of this act.-XXVI. AND be it further enacted, That if any clerk sha!l continue under such sequestration for non-residence for the space of three years, the parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual cure, in relation whereto the said non-residence shall have been committed, shall become ipso facto void; and the patron shall present or nominate another clerk thereto, as if the same had been avoided by the natural death or resignation of the party.-XXVII. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That where any action, suit, bill, plaint, or information shall have been commenced or brought against any spiritual person to whom any monition shall be sent as aforesaid before the issuing thereof, for any penalty or forfeiture incurred by reason of the non-residence of any such spiritual person before the issuing of such monition, then and in such case the bishop sending such monition as aforesaid, shall upon notice of such action or suit, cause to be retained the profits or so much of the profits of the parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy, in respect whereof such action or suit shall be brought and monition issued as aforesaid, and which may under this act be sequestered as aforesaid, as will be sufficient to satisfy any penalty or penalties for which any such action or suit shall be brought, together with such costs as the plaintiff or plaintiffs therein may be entitled to, if any; and shall if a verdict shall be given for the plaintiff or plaintiffs in such action, and final judgment obtained therein, after deducting all the charges which shall have been occasioned by the said sequestration to the bishop or any person or persons who shall have acted therein under his authority, pay or cause to be paid to such plaintiff or plaintiffs the sum or sums of money that shall be recovered in any such action or suit to the plaintiff or plaintiff's therein Provided always, that if at the time of filing any such monition as aforesaid, no action for any such penalty or forfeiture shall have been already commenced against any such spiritual person, then and in such case no such action, suit, bill, plaiut, or information shall be afterwards brought for any penalty or forfeiture incurred by reason of any non-residence of such spiritual person before the issuing of such monition, or during any proceedings that may be had under such monition; and if any such action or suit shall be so commenced, the defendant therein may plead in bar thereof, that such a monition as aforesaid has issued in respect of the same parsonage, vicarage, donative, or perpetual curacy.-XXVIII,AND be it further euacted, That from and after the passing of this act, no oath shall be required of or taken by any vicar, in relation to residence on his vicarage; any law, custom, constitution, or usage, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.-XXIX. AND be it further enacted, That from and after the passing of this act all and every the clauses, provisions, penalties, and forfeitures, in the said first recited act and this act contained, in relation to residence on benefices, or to any other matters and things relating thereto, shall extend and be deemed and construed to extend to all parsonages with cure, vicarages, donatives, perpetual curacies, and all parochial chapelries, exempt as well as not exempt, and all peculiars, as fully and amply to all intents and purposes as if the same had been and were in the said first recited act or were in this act particularly mentioned and specified; any thing in any act or acts, law or laws, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.-XXX. AND be it further enacted, That every archbishop, bishop, and archdeacon, within the limits of whose province, diocese, or jurisdiction respectively any such parsonage with cure, vicarage, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochial chapelry, exempt as well as a not exempt, or peculiar, shall be locally situate, or where any such parsonage, vicarage, donative,^ perpetual curacy, or parochial chapalry, exempt as well as not exempt, or peculiar, shall be within. the limits of more than one province, diocese, or jurisdiction aforesaid, or shall be situate between any two or more provinces, dioceses, or jurisdic-. tions, then the archbishop or bishop to whose province or diocese the parish church, such parsonage, vicarage, donative, perpetual curacy, or parochia! chapelry, exempt as well as not exempt, ' or peculiar, shall be nearest in local situation, shall have, use, and exercise all the powers, autho→ rities, and jurisdictions, necessary for the full execution of all the provisions of this act, and for enforcing the same, as fully and amply in every respect as if such parsonages, vicarages, donatives, perpetual curacies, or parochial chapelries, exempt as well as not exempt, or peculiar, were bona fide subject in every respect to such jurisdic tion, and as if the same had been and were specified in all the clauses of this act; any thing in any act or acts, law or laws, usage or usages, to the contrary thereof notwithstanding: Provided that the peculiars belonging to any archbishopric or bishopric, though locally situated in another diocese, shall continue subject to the archbishop or bishop to whom they belong, as well for the purposes of this act, as for all other purposes of ecclesiastical jurisdiction in the law whatsoever. XXXI. PROVIDED always, and be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall extend or be construed to extend to alter or effect his Majes ty's royal prerogative in the granting of dispensa tions for non-residence upon benefices, as the same now exists by law. GOOD INTENTIONS!. Happy that nation's lot, I ween, (As Britain's Sons can tell) Whose Rulers very little mean, But mean that little well. CONTENTS. Folly of the system of poli tics pursued in this country since the revo lution, up to the end of the last administration-Character of King William; Dutch Prejudices; Hook Nose; fond of standing armies and continental politics; liberties of Europe a mere pretext to shed the blood and spend the money of his subjects -Censure on Lord Somers and Duke of Martborough.-Campaigns of the latter "tended, bloody, and expensive."-Peace. of Utrecht.commended, except for the idle provisions to prevent the cession of Louisi ana to France. That provision happily abolished by the treaty of Amiens.-Apostropho to that treaty.-Episode on the separate con ex vention signed the same day between France and Holland.-Indecency of the Dutch Minister in laughing out so loud in the corner of the room while this transaction was going on.-Consolations attendant on being laughed at exemplified in the situation of the present Ministry-Insular system of politics recommended.-Great Britain an island, and why?-Ireland ditto. Two islands do not make one continent; wherefore continental connexions to be avoided.-Protection of France to be ensured, particularly to THE FAMILY.-Character of the present Minister contrasted with the noisy and turbulent merits of his predecessor.-Mr. A. guileless and candid, with excellent intentions. Mr. A. no conjuror; not capable of setting the Thames on fire; not likely to have invented gunpowder, if that destructive invention had remained undiscovered to his time.-Mr. A. guardian of British capital, &c. compared with the Goose of the capitol at Rome.-Preference decidedly given to Mr. A. We shall for the present confine our extracts to the latter part of the Canto, beginning with the beautiful tirade against Continental Connexions, from verse 319. O! hapless age! when fierce discussions, So deem'd by some wise heads in Yorkshire, (1) Safe in this truth (which doubt we dare not), We taste (blest nation!) sweet repose.- (1) See Wilberforce's Address to Yorkshire Freeholders, July, 1802. REG. Vol. II. p. 1617. (2) " The lowest classes of the people are generally averse to engagements with Continental Powers; nor is that wonderful, being uninforme. (as they necessarily are) of their bearing upon the safety and greatness of their own country. Else such is the patriotism pervading all ranks of the people of England, that they would gladly unite with whatever nation, to repel the aggressions of an enemy, and specially of France. Smellon's Analyses of Public Sentiment. (3) Terram, quz mari undequaque circundatur, insulam vocamus.—CELLARIUS. Rouse us, as with a watchman's rattle, But chief to thy narcotic aid, O sage! from Woodley's classic shade!-(5) But, more than all, we love to dwell May bend mens' passions to their will, (4) See Mr. Addington's Speech on the Prince of Wales's Additional Annuity Bill, in which he assured the House that we were in a state of profound peac," not ten days before the King's, Message!-Words ever to be remembered. (5) Woodley, lately the residence of Mr. Ad-. dington, situated in the neighbourhood of Reading where the great ball, in honour of the peace, was given on the 1st of Oct. 1802, at which Mr. A. assisted, and made a speech on the durability of the peace, just one week before he sent a remonstrance to Paris, which might have produced war, and not one month before he sent the order to retain the Cape, which (in its consequences) must produce it-circumstances never to he forgotten! (6) " By a happy mixture of firmness and conciliation we have made the peace, and hope to preserve it."-Ministerial Speeches, passim. (7) It is good to begin this course of discipline at the spring and fall of the year; those being the seasons when the humours are most in circulation.-Sydenham, Vol. I. c. 3. p. 215. (8) See Mr. Addington's various and varying statements of the savings to be made by the peace. At one time, in the Session of 1802, he boldly stated the amount at 40 millions. Before Christmas, on being asked the difference between a contracted war and an extended peace establishment (such as was then voted), he answered 25,000,000l. Considerable odds are taken that at the next badget (if he should ever see one) the diminution will be found still more considerable. (9) I engage upon an emergency to have fifty ships of the line ready for sea in a month."-Mr. Addington's Speech on Naval Estimate, Dec. 2, 1802.Ready for sea in the week beginning April 4th," or one month after the Message, according to some accounts 6, according to others 4 ships of the line. Quere, If the Message proved an emergency! Raise with dark spells the tardy loan, Ne'er shall thy virtuous thoughts conspire To wrap majestic Thames in fire! And if that black and nitrous grain, Which strews the field with thousands slain, Slept undiscover'd yet in earth Thou ne'er hadst caus'd the monstrous birth, Hail then-on whom our state is leaning! PARLIAMENTARY MINUTES, from p. 511. Thursday, March 31.-LORDS.-English Militia Officers' Bill read a second time. COMMONS.-The House proceeded to ballot for committees severally to try the merits of the petitions complaining of an undue election and return for Harwich and Berwick upon Tweed. - Mr. Smith brought up the Minutes of the Proceedings before the 1lchester Committee. Mr. White brought up Extracts of the Minutes of the Proceedings before the Dumfermline Committee, as far as they relate to James Trotter.-Leave given to bring in a Bill for erecting a new Work-house in the Parish of St. James, Westminster.-Roman Catholic Cath Bill read a third time.-Bill for increasing the Rates for Inn-keepers for quartering Soldiers read a first time. Friday, April 1.-LORDS.-Report of Clergy Nonresidence Bill put and agreed to-Roman Catholic Test Bill, and Woolwich Ordnance Trust Bill read a first time.-Bill for Naturalization of Christian Sanders read a second time. COMMONS.-St. Giles' Burial Ground Bill read a third time and passed. Mr. Rose moved "that there be laid before the House accounts of the value of the exports and imports for the last 18 years, ending Jan. 3, 1803, exclusive of the value of corn and other grain imported, and exclusive of the imports from China and the East Indies, setting forth the difference of the declared value of British manufactures exported in each year."-Ordered. Sir M. W. Ridley moved, "that the Charges contained in the Resolution of the Committee against John Simpson, Esq. the Major and returning Officer for Great Grimsby, be referred to the con*sideration of the House. Agreed-Sir M. W. Ridley then moved, "that the said Charges be re"ferred to the consideration of this House on Tuesday the 19th of April instant."-Ordered. "That the said John Simpson, Esq. do attend "this House on the said 19th day of April in"stant."-Ordered." That a Copy of the said "Charges be sent to the said John Simpson, Esq. "and that he be at liberty to be heard by his "Counsel thereon."-Ordered." That William Reeder, Esq. and several other persons named, "do attend on that day, in order to be examined "touching the matter of the said Charges.."-Otdered. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, "that as doubts existed as to the construction to "be put on Mr. Burke's Act, for Regulation of the "Civil List, it be an instruction to the Civil List "Committee, to consider so much of the Act as re"lates to the establishment of invariable order in "his Majesty's Civil List, and to provide for the "liquidation by classes of the debts affecting it." -Ordered.-American Commissioners Bill passed a Committee of the whole House, and Report ordered to be received on Monday.-Report of Four Millions Exchequer Bills brought up and agreed to.-Report of Sir J. Saumarez's Annuity Bill brought up and agreed to.-Bill for increasing the Rate of Subsistence to Inn-keepers on quartering Soldiers, read a second time. Monday, April 4.-LORDS.-Counsel finally heard respecting the claim of the Rev. Mr. Brydges to the Barony of Chandos, Bill for Naturalization of Mr. Maurice de Johnn, read a second time. COMMONS.-Mr. Tierney moved, "that James "Trotter, having been duly summoned with the "Speaker's warrant, &c. and disobeyed such war*rant and order, had been guilty of a breach of "the privilege of this House Carried nem..com. Mr. Tierney then moved, "that the said James "Trotter be for his said offence, committed to his "Majesty's gaol of Newgate." Ordered nem, con, that the Speaker do issue his warrant accordingly. -Sir J. Saumarez's Annuity Bill and Exchequer Bills Bill read a third time and passed→→→Mr. Corry presented a Petition from the Trustees of the Irish Lying-in-Hospital, praying for leave to present a Petition for the purpose of obtaining Parliamentary aid.-Leave granted. Report of American Commissioner's Bill brought up and agreed to. Tuesday, April 5.-LORD.-Sir J. Saumarez's Annuity Bill read a first time. COMMONS-Sir J. Frederick moved, for leave to bring in a Bill for rebuilding Christ Church in the County of Surry. Leave granted. The Solicitor General moved, for leave to bring in a Bill to empower the Lord Chancellor, or Lord Keeper of the Great Seal to direct the sale or mortgage of the freehold properties of Lunatics.-Leave given. Southampton Water Works Bill read a third time and passed. Mr. Tierney moved, that an ac"count of the sums paid into, and of the charges "upon, the consolidated fund from the 5th Jan. "1802, to the 5th Jan. 1803, he laid before the "House." Ordered.-Also that an account of the net produce of the permanent taxes on the 5th of January, and on the 5th April, 1803, be laid before the House, distinguishing the quarters.-Ordered. Mr. Addington brought up the Report of the Survey of the Highlands of Scotland. Ordeted to be printed.-American Commissioners Bill read a third time and passed.-Coroner's Bill read a second time. Wednesday, April 6.-LORDS-Roman Catholic Test Bill, Woolwich Ordnance Bill, &c.-Militia Officers' Bill read a third time and passed-Exchequer Bills Bill, and Sir J. Saumarez's Annuity Bill read a second time... COMMONS.-Sir J. Pulteney reported / from the |