The United Service Magazine

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: general charters of the Ports, and most of the particular ones of each individual town, were, by the King's special command, delivered up to Colonel Strode, the Constable of Dover Castle, and were never afterwards recovered. Since then, several Acts of Parliament have been passed for the regulation of...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: general charters of the Ports, and most of the particular ones of each individual town, were, by the King's special command, delivered up to Colonel Strode, the Constable of Dover Castle, and were never afterwards recovered. Since then, several Acts of Parliament have been passed for the regulation of their elections, to facilitate the due execution of justice among the Ports, and, while confirming some of their most reasonable privileges, docking others so as to render them more suitable to the times. Thus had they descended to our own days, when the parliamentary Reform Act of 1832, and the consequent Municipal Bill, worked a very considerable revolution in the organization and relations of those aged corporations. They still, however, possess rights and immunities of the utmost value: among which are?freedom from certain port-dues, exemption from serving on county juries, and from service in the Militia. They can still hold their Courts of Brotherhood and Guestling; and they are in the full exercise of that branch of their jurisdiction called the Board of Lodemanage, which is armed with power for the licensing and regulating the pilots for conducting ships into the Thames. Among other distinctions, the representative Barons of the Ports have the privilege of holding the canopy over the Sovereign's head at coronations; and the Admiralty Jurisdiction, with other important powers, is still reserved to the Lord Warden, that functionary being, at the present time, the illustrious Dukb op Wellington?whom God preserve to his country ACCOUNT OF MR. WHEWELL S RESEARCHES ON THE TIDES. The Royal Society of London, at its anniversary on November 30, awarded one of the Royal Medals to Mr. Whewell for his Researches on the Tides, contained in various memoirs in the Philosophical ...