tion of the high court of admiralty of England, as fully as if the same had been thereby expressly given to the said judicial committee.

VIII. And be it enacted, that in all causes of appeal to Her Majesty in council from ecclesiastical courts, and from Admiralty or Vice Admiralty courts, in which any person duly monished or cited or required to comply with any lawful order or decree of Her Majesty in council, or of the said judicial committee or their surrogates, and neglecting or refusing to pay obedience to such lawful order or decree, or committing any contempt of the process under the seal of Her Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes, shall reside out of the dominions of Her Majesty, or shall have privilege of Peerage, or shall be a lord of parliament or a Member of the House of Commons, it shall be lawful for the said judicial committee or their surrogates to pronounce such person to be contumacious and in contempt, and after he shall have been so pronounced contumacious and in contempt, to cause process of sequestration to issue under the said seal of Her Majesty against the real and personal estate, goods, chattels, and effects, wheresoever lying within the dominions of Her Majesty, of the person against or upon whom such order or decree shall have been made, in order to enforce obedience to the same, and payment of the expences attending such sequestration, and all proceedings consequent thereon, and to make such further order in respect of or consequent on such sequestration, and in respect to such real and personal estate, goods, chattels, and effects sequestrated thereby, as may be necessary, or for payment of monies arising from the same to the person to whom the same may be due, or into the registry of the high court of Admiralty and appeals, for the benefit of those who may be ultimately entitled thereto. IX. And be it enacted, that all inhibitions, citations, monitions, and other instruments incidental to or arising out of such causes of appeal shall be issued in the name of Her Majesty, and under seal of Her Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes, and shall be of full authority in all places throughout the dominions of Her Majesty.

X. And be it enacted, that in all appeals in ecclesiastical and maritime causes to Her Majesty in council it shall be lawful for Her Majesty in council, and the said judicial committee or their surrogates, at the Petition of any person interested in the same, to decree monitions for the transmission of any sum or sums of money respecting which any order or decree may be made, or any questions may be depending arising out of such causes, and the proceeds of all ships or vessels, goods, and cargoes respecting which any appeals may be depending, into the registry of the high court of Admiralty and appeals, for the benefit of the person or persons who may be ultimately entitled thereto, or for payment thereof to the person to whom the same may be lawfully due.

XI. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for Her Majesty, by order in council, to direct that all causes of appeal from ecclesiastical courts, and from the Vice Admiralty court of the Cape of Good Hope, and all Vice Admiralty courts to the westward thereof, in which the appeal and petition of reference to Her Majesty shall have been lodged in the registry of the high court of Admiralty and appeals within twelve calendar months from the giving or pronouncing of any order, decrees, or sentence appealed from, and all causes of appeal from Vice Admiralty courts to the eastward of the Cape of Good Hope, in which the appeal and petition of reference to Her Majesty shall have been lodged in the registry of the high court of Admiralty and appeals within eighteen calendar

months from the giving or pronouncing any order, decree, or sentence appealed from, shall be referred to the judicial committee of the Privy Council, and the said judicial committee and their surrogates shall have full power forthwith to proceed in the said appeals, and the usual inhibition and citation shall be decreed and issued, and all usual proceedings taken, as if the same had been referred to the said judicial committee by a special order of Her Majesty in council in each cause respectively.

XII. And be it declared and enacted, that as well the costs of defending any decree or sentence appealed from as of prosecuting any appeal, or in any manner intervening in any cause of appeal, and the costs on either side, or of any party in the court below, and the costs of opposing any matter which shall be referred to the said judicial committee, and the costs of all such issues as shall be tried by direction of the said judicial committee respecting any such appeal or matter, shall be paid by such party or parties, person or persons, as the said judicial committee shall order, and that such costs shall be taxed as in and by the said act for the better administration of justice in the Privy Council is directed respecting the costs of prosecuting any appeal or matter referred by Her Majesty under the authority of the said act, save the costs arising out of any ecclesiastical or maritime cause of appeal, which shall be taxed by the registrar herein-after named, or his assistant registrar.

XIII. And be it enacted, that the registrar of the high court of admiralty of England for the time being may be appointed by Her Majesty to be registrar of Her Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes, and shall have power to appoint an assistant registrar, as provided by an act passed in the fourth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled an act to make provision for the judge, registrar, and marshal of the high court of admiralty of England, and shall during his good behaviour, and while he shall be registrar of the said high court of admiralty, hold his office of registrar of Her Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes, and shall do all such things, and shall have the same powers and privileges in respect to the same, as belong to his predecessors in the office of registrar of His Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes.

XIV. And be it enacted, that all records, muniments, books, papers, wills, and other documents remaining in the registry of the high court of admiralty and appeals, appertaining to the late high court of delegates and appeals for prizes, shall be and remain in the custody and possession of the said registrar of Her Majesty in ecclesiastical and maritime causes.

XV. And be it enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said judicial committee from time to time to make such rules, orders, and regulations respecting the practice and mode of proceeding in all appeals from ecclesiastical and admiralty and Vice Admiralty courts, and the conduct and duties of the officers and practitioners therein, and to appoint such officer or officers as may be necessary for the execution of processes under the said seal of Her Majesty, and in respect to all appeals and other matters referred to them, as to them shall seem fit, and from time to time to repeal or alter such rules, orders, or regulations: provided always, that no such rules, orders, or regulations shall be of any force or effect until the same shall have been approved by Her Majesty in council.

XVI. And whereas, in certain causes which were depending before the late high court of delegates, certain decrees or orders were made and interposed, and are not yet fully carried into effect: And whereas, in consequence of the death

of the Judges Delegate, or some of them, named in the several commissions under the great seal, such decrees or orders cannot be carried into effect; be it enacted, that all snch causes of appeal and complaint which were depending before the high court of delegates, and in which any decree, order, or thing, for the reason lastly herein-before mentioned, is outstanding and not fully ended and determined, shall be transferred to the judicial committee of the Privy Council; and the said judicial committee shall take up and proceed with the said causes in the same manner as if the same had been originally causes of appeal and complaint depending before the said judicial committee.

XVII. And be it enacted, that in this act all words denoting a male person shall be taken to include a female also, and all words denoting one person or thing shall be taken to include also several persons or things, unless a contrary sense shall clearly appear from the context; and that the words "arches court of Canterbury," used in this Act, shall be construed to extend to such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction of the said court or be substituted for the same; and that wherever the words "ecclesiastical court" have been used in this act the same shall be construed to extend to such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction or any part of the jurisdiction exercised by any ecclesiastical court or be substituted for the same; and the words "ecclesiastical and maritime cause of appeal" shall be construed to extend to causes appealed from ecclesiastical courts and such court as shall exercise the jurisdiction or any part of the jurisdiction exercised by any ecclesiastical court or be substituted for the same.

THE END.

FISHER, SON, AND CO., NEWGATE-STREET AND ANGEL-STREET, LONDON.

THE CABOT-LIBRARY.

A FAMILIAR acquaintance with authentic memorials of the enterprises of the inhabitants of the British isles, upon and beyond the sea, is indispensable to an enlightened understanding of their general history. Those memorials have been treasured up for centuries, and many of them are in print; but the difficulty of obtaining convenient access not only to such as are in manuscript, but also to those which are printed, is proportioned to their abundance. If our libraries are often rich in books descriptive of certain maritime enterprises, which happen to have secured due observation, they are often remarkably deficient of information upon other such enterprises of equal importance. Good collections of printed works exist respecting certain periods of time, whilst other periods are altogether omitted in those collections. In some cases, unsatisfactory abridgments are given, instead of the works whose value consists in their completeness; whilst in others, careless translations, or unfaithful transcripts, stand in the place of the invaluable originals, which no diligent student will leave unconsulted.

Strange too, to say, in regard to the British people, whose poets sing of the "thousand years" during which their "meteor flag" has floated so gloriously in the "battle and the breeze," their maritime history of these men of the sea, is comparatively of yesterday's date. Stranger still--because in one century, Columbus and Cabot laid the foundations of new empires in the New World, we seem by common consent to have abandoned to utter oblivion, all the heroic deeds done before them, to enable England to produce the Drakes and Raleighs of the sixteenth century; whilst even their deeds, as well as those of their predeces sors, have nowhere a sufficiently correct record.

The consequence of preparing the way to indispensable knowledge thus incompletely, is fatal to its general acquisition by the public. Indeed, a life devoted to this attractive field of inquiry is scarcely enough to do it justice, for want of well-arranged materials, of which some are so rare, even when printed, that they can be procured only

at a heavy expense, besides the time and labour bestowed in seeking for what might easily be placed within every student's reach.

From this neglect, spring the frequent and dangerous errors which are an opprobrium to our literature, our administration, and our philanthropy; as they exceedingly increase the difficulties of the colonists, and the misfortunes of the aboriginal people, among whom we are everywhere spreading. These errors are very far indeed from being of old date only. On the contrary, the last seven years have witnessed their most mischievous influence in every quarter of the globe. In West Africa, they have produced great misfortunes by our ignorance of the climate. In Canada, and in Guiana, they have caused a similar ignorance of boundaries, to the great aggravation of disputes with our neighbours. The same errors springing from ignorance, which produced the death of Cook at Owhyhee, led to the more deplorable end of the estimable John Williams at Erromanga. They were the true causes of our horrible disasters in Affghanistan; and to them are to be traced the equally horrible calamities of the last six years in South Africa.

An exact knowledge of our maritime and colonial history will make the recurrence of such events impossible.

Individual efforts cannot meet the difficulty of rendering that history accessible; which, therefore, it is proposed to remove by means of the contributions of a purely literary society, resembling several other literary societies* which have become eminently useful, without possessing superior claims to public support.

The general character of the proposed collection may be stated by a brief description of its contemplated contents.

Early voyages of every kind, as well as late ones; pilgrimages in all quarters; frequent visits to Rome; conquests; crusades; religious missions; diplomacy; colonization; scientific and commercial expeditions; and even buccaneering and the slave-trade-will furnish inexhaustible stores of journals, reports, trials, and other writings, from which one vast portraiture of our career upon and beyond the seas, may be made with the surest effect; and when the collection shall have well displayed the past, current events in future may afterwards be regularly recorded on the same plan, so as to secure attention before the calamities springing from ignorance can occur.

* The Parker Society, for the publication of Protestant Theology, has about 7,500 subscribers; the Woodrow Society, in Scotland, has upwards of 3,000 subscribers; the Anglo-Catholic Society more than 1,300; the Society of the Fathers more than 1,500; and the Camden, the Percy, the Shakespeare, the Ælfric, the Historical, and Royal Literary Societies, for publishing books of various kinds, are all well supported.