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setved as a law, during the term which 
intervenes between its first being pro- 
osed, and the rejection or confirmation 
of it by the presbyteries at its succeed- 
inz meeting. 
The church of Scotland receives 
annually from the exchequer of that 
country, 2000]. Of this, 5U0l. are set 
apart for the salaries of the procurator 
and agent of the church, the law-officers, 
clerks, &e,; and the remaining 15001. 
for the defraying of the expences incident 
to the dignified station of the represen- 
tative of the sovereign in the general 
assembly. Emoluments are also annexed 
to the offices of his Majesty’s chaplains 
for Scotland; and the deans of the 
chapel-royal. The stipends of the mi- 
nisters arise chiefly from the teinds or 
tythes, paid either in money or in kind 
by the titular of the teinds, who is not 
always tge landholder, but in some cases 
the’crown, in others an individual or a 
corporation, ‘The Jandholder in Scot- 
land enjoys a privilege in respect of the 
payment of tithes, which is not known 
in other Christian states: he may value 
his teinds before a court of session; and 
that valuation being established, how 
much soever the rent of his lands may 
rise by the improvements of agriculture, 
&c. the increase is entirely his own, be- 
‘cause the tends never go beyord the 
yate at which the valuation had fixed 
*them. The landholder, if he be not 
titular, as is frequently the case, may 
compel the titular to sell the teinds 
“Art. XX. Letters to Mr. Feiler on the 
THEOLOGY AND ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS. 
to him: excepting where the teinds are 
held by the crown, or when they have 
. beet granted for the support of public — 
If the titular does not 
institutions. 
pay the whole of the teinds, according 
to their valuation, to the minister, the 
court of session may grant an augmen+ 
tation, but never beyond the quantity or 
sum fixed when the teinds’ were valued: 
Besides the teinds, the minister of i 
country parish is provided with a-dwell- 
ing house, or manse; with a garden; — 
with a glebe of not less than four acres — 
of arable land; with grass for one horse. 
and one cow, and with the out-houses 
necessary for the management of his 
small farm. By another legal provision, 
called the ann, the half-year’s stipend 
that becomes due after the death of a 
minister, is paid to his widow or exe- 
cutors. 
We have thus:endeavoured to exhibit 
to ‘our readers, in the most succinct 
manner, the constitution of the church 
of Scotland. It has its excellencies and 
its defects both im theory and in prac- 
tice; but upon neither do we feel our- 
selves here required to offer any remarks, 
‘Vhe third part of Dr. Hill’s work, 
which contains ‘ Counsels respecting the 
Duties of the Pastoral Office,’ though 
designed for the Scottish-clergy, may be 
read with great advantage by those 
within the pale of our own establish- 
ment, and by the regular teachers of 
dissenting societies, 
Universal Restoration, with a Statement of 
Facts attending that Controversy, and some Strictures on Scrutator’s Review. By 
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Wirttam VipLeEr. 8yvo, pp- 13 
THE author of these letters is very 
well known to those who pay any atten- 
tion to controversial divinity, as the 
zealous advocate for the doctrine of uni- 
versal restitution, which Mr. Winchester 
preached with much success some years 
ago. In the year 1793, Mr. Vidler 
received from Mr. Fuller what he con- 
sidered a private letter, occasioned by 
his having openly avowed this doctrine. 
‘This letter was in 1795 published, with- 
out Mr. Vidler’s knowledge, in the 
Evangelical Magazine, a pericdical pub- - 
lication which was not open to a defence. 
Some time after this, Mr. Vidler began 
to publish a monthly work, called The 
Universalist’s Miscellany, which is still 
continued under the title of the Univer- 
sal: Theological Magazine. in this he 
offered to conduct the controversy, and 
several letters were »scordingly pub- 
lished by both parties. Mr. Fuller’s 
letters were afterwards printed separately, 
and soon occasioned, as was most pro- 
bably designed, a violent tract, called, 
« Leiters to an Universalist, containing 
a Review of the Controversy between 
Mr. Vidler and Mr. Fuller, on the 
the Doctrine of Universal Salvation.” 
The writer signed himself Scrutator, be- 
ing ashamed, as Mr. Vidler conjectures, 
and as he certainly with'reason might 
be, “ to put his name to the effusions of 
his anger.”?. The work before us cone 
tains the letters which were written in 
answer to Mr. Fuller, and which, in © 
fairness, ought to have been 
published 
at the same iime withthem, 
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