§ Lord A. Hamiltonbegged to state, that one of the barons of the Scotch exchequer, called the English baron, had lately died. It was therefore his intention to move, on an early day, that the place just vacated should not be filled up, but that, agreeably to the recommendation of the committee on that subject, the barons of the Scotch exchequer should remain permanently at their present number.
Lord Castlereaghinformed the noble lord, that his majesty's government did not intend to make any appointment in the place of the late Scotch baron to whom he alluded.