1824.) 
be entered, and the defendant should be 
entitled to his costs, as if the verdict had 
been given in his favour, unless the judge 
should certify that the title of land was in 
question, or that the action was fit to be 
tried in England. This provision is now 
repealed; but it is re-enacted, with an ex- 
tension of the sum which a plaintiff must 
-recover, to fifty pounds, and with the addi- 
tion, that the plaintiff shall be for ever 
barred from bringing any action in any court, 
for the same cause. The act farther reserves 
to the judge who may try any Welsh cause 
in an English county, the power of except- 
ing a plaintiff from its operation, by certify- 
ing on the back of the record, that the title 
or freehold of land came in question, or 
that the cause was further to be tried in 
England. 
To prevent the expense and delay at- 
tendant on the issuing of writs of certiorari, 
for the removal of causes from the courts of 
Great Session into the courts at Westmin- 
ster, the act provides, that no such writ 
shall issue unless seven days’ notice shall 
be previously given to the opposite party, 
and unless sufficient canse for the removal 
be shewn to the court in which the applica- 
tion is made; and that the costs of the ap- 
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plication shall be in the discretion.of the 
court. 
After regulating fines and recoveries in 
Wales, the act provides, that no person 
shall be compellable to serve as a petit 
Juryman in any court of Great Session, 
unless he possess an estate of freehold or 
copyhold, of the clear yearly value of £8; 
or an estate for life, or term of ninety-nine 
years, of the clear yearly value of £15. 
Cap. CIX. An Act to enable the Earl 
Marshal and his Deputy to execute the 
duties of their office, without previously 
taking or subscribing certain Oaths or 
Declarations. 
This statute enacts, That it shall be law- 
ful for the Earl Marshal, or his deputy for 
the time being, to execute all the duties of 
his or their office or offices, without pre- 
viously taking, making, or subscribing any 
declaration or oath, save and except the 
oath of allegiance, and the oath for the due 
performance of the duties of these offices. 
1t also ratifies all the acts done by the 
Earl Marshal or his deputy, without having 
previously taken or subscribed any declara- 
tion on oath, except the oath of allegiance 
and of office. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS ; 
Including Notices of Works in hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
——a———_ 
UR countryman, Dr. Oudney, who 
was attached to the African expe- 
dition under Major Denham, has fallen a 
sacrifice to the horrid climate at Sondan. 
Mr. Toole was also another victim to 
the dysentery, when they arrived at the 
kingdom of Bournou. Fears are also 
entertained for Lieutenant Clapperton, 
who (very improperly) was proceeding 
alone in aroute to Sondan, making a 
circuit to meet his fellow travellers. 
The enterprizing French traveller, M. de 
Beaufort, is also pursuing his journey on 
the banks of the Gambia. In a letter 
to M. Jomard, dated between the Sene- 
gal and Gambia rivers in April last, he 
states: that he has been very successful 
in his collections of plants and natural 
history, and has made numerous expe- 
riments on atmospheric electricity, on 
the different levels of the country he 
passed through, and on geological facts. 
He sends home for analysis some shea 
or sute-ulou butter, which the natives 
prepare from vegetables, together with 
an oil from the butter of a vocility of 
the palm tree, which the author has 
not been able to refer to any of the 
Known genera ; the fruit is a drupa with 
avery thin coating, and contains an 
‘alkaline substance, from which the na- 
““Montury Maa. No, 403. 
tives prepare a kind of soap. He bears 
testimony to the accuracy of the lamen- 
ted Mungo Park, in his description of 
the Fang Jang, which produces an explo- 
sion, when the fruit is arrived at ma- 
turity ; at which time, it is so highly in- 
flammable as to require a great degree 
of caution in collecting and transporting 
itin any quantity. De Beaufort des- 
cribes the Gambia, as a river having a 
very deep channel; and, however asto- 
nishing, it appears to be very nearly 
horizontal one hundred and twenty leagues 
from its mouth: at a town called Kou- 
kougou, where the flux and reflux of the 
tide was distinctly visible, though the 
water is, in that part, so shallow as to 
admit only of causeways: contrary to the 
general opinion, he did not find the cli- 
mate very productive of poisonous plants. 
It is gratifying to the English reader, 
and no less honourable to this  distin- 
guished French traveller, to find bim thus 
speaking of the unfortunate Bowdich, 
“TI am indebted to the generosity of Mr. 
Bowdich, for most of the instruments 
with which I have been furnished ; he 
feels so ardent a zeal for science, that 
he gratuitously sent me all the mstru- 
ments I could require.’ . We fervently 
wish M. de Beaufort a more fortunate 
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