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he believed parliament would feel 

 equal readiness to come to its as- 

 sistance. But the forms of church 

 government in Scotland were so 

 different from those of England, 

 that an attempt to embody in the 

 same act of parliament the pro- 

 visions applicable to each, would 

 tend only to embarrassment and 

 confusion. The case of Scotland, 

 however, had not been overlook- 

 ed, and he hoped shortly to bring 

 before the House a proposition 

 upon this subject. 



The right hon. gentleman con- 

 cluded by moving " That his 

 majesty be enabled to direct ex- 

 chequer bills, to an amount not 

 exceeding one million, to be 

 issued to commissioners, to be 

 by them advanced, under certain 

 regulations and restrictions, to- 

 wards building, and promoting 

 the building, of additional 

 Churches and Chapels in Eng- 

 land." 



Some remaiks were made by 

 several gentlemen, after which 

 the resolution was agreed to. 



On March 17th, the report of 

 the committee on that part of the 

 Prince Regent's speech which re- 

 lated to the building of New 

 Churches in different parts of the 

 kingdom, was brought up, and a 

 motion made for reading it. A 

 remark being made by General 

 Thornton respecting the division 

 of parishes, the Chancellor of the 

 Exchequer assured him that it was 

 not intended to propose a division 

 of parishes for civil purposes. 

 He then distinctly stated what 

 were the objects of the present 

 bill. In the first place, it would 

 empower the king, in council, 

 upon a representation to that ef- 

 fect, to direct the division of a 



parish for ecclesiastical purposes, 

 into two or more parochial dis- 

 tricts. Secondly, to such divided 

 districts would be assigned its 

 church and minister. The third 

 provision would extend to the 

 erection of chapels of ease in pa- 

 rishes, the ministers of such cha- 

 pels to be nominated by the 

 incumbents of the said parishes, 

 subject to the approbation of 

 the diocesan, and without at all 

 deranging the civil or secular 

 rule of such parishes. 



The Resolution was agreed to, 

 and a bill was ordered to be 

 brought in thereupon. 



On March 18, Dr. Phillimore 

 made a motion in the House of 

 Commons relative to the Spanish 

 ships engaged in the Slave Trade. 

 He began by observing, that by 

 a treaty lately concluded, the 

 sum of 400,000/. was to be paid 

 by the British government to 

 Spain as a compensation for the 

 losses which the latter power 

 might sustain by consenting to 

 the abolition of the slave trade. 

 By a petition formerly presented 

 to the House from Mr. Page, de- 

 scribed as an agent for the per- 

 sons residing at the Havannah 

 concerned in the slave trade, it 

 appeared, that the Spanish pro- 

 perty employed in this trade 

 might be divided into three 

 classes ; the cases of vessels con- 

 demned in the colonial courts 

 where the appeal was interposed 

 too late ; the cases of appeals in 

 progress ; and the cases where 

 the decrees of the courts of this 

 country had ordered restitution 

 to the full value of the property. 

 With the two first classes he had 

 nothing to do ; and his cases ex- 

 clusively referred to that of those 



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