in 1771 and 1775, which had lain in the hands of the receiver-general of the land-tax fince the above period, might be appropriated to the building of a county jail. The Speaker explained, that the act which directed a fine to be levied on each county that failed in raifing its quota of militia did not appoint to whom the money fhould be payed, nor to what purpose it fhould be applied. From this deficiency in the act, no Chancellor of the Exchequer could receive it from the receiver-general, in whofe hands it had, therefore, neceffarily remained. Several members objected to beftowing money that had been raised for the public fervice, as a premium to the county of Stafford, which, from its opulence, was above the neceffity of fuch a requeft; and fome thought, that it ought to be applied toeafe the expences of thofe who had ferved in the militia. The petition was rejected, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer immediately moved for leave to bring in a bill, to compel all monies fo levied, to be paid into the Exche

quer.

Mr. Rofe moved that the inland duties on cocoa, coffee, &c. be taken off, and laid on the importation of them. Mr. Eden afked if any commutation duties were intended in lieu of these, and what they produced; and obferved that the exemption from inland duties would expofe the revenue more to injury from fmuggling. Mr. Rofe replied, that no commutation taxes were intended; the amount of the inland duties was about 25,000l. a-year, and what was laid on the imports was meaned only as an equivalent; but fuppofing the whole to be loft by an increafe of fmuggling, the Excife could not be a lofer, as the collection and management of this duty alone coft 40,000l. annually.

Mr. Pitt then fignified, that in confequence of the information which he had received from many gentlemen, relative to the intended duty on coals, it was not his intention to purfue it any farther this feffion, at the fame time, he declared that he had not wholly abandoned the meafure, which he was fill convinced, under proper reftricLOND. MAG. Sept. 1784.

tions, would turn out an ufeful and efficient fource of revenue.

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Mr. Burke moved that the refolutions of the laft parliament, for the recall of Mr. Haftings and Sir Elijah Impey, might be read. He understood that his abfence had been lamented by Mr. Pitt fome days ago, when he informed the Houfe of the arrival of Sir Elijah Impey, in confequence of these refolutions, as if it was expected that he fhould purfue the bufinefs. But fince the committee by whofe orders the motion had been made, and the Houfe of Commons who had addreffed the King to recall the learned judge, were now no more, he did not conceive it to be his duty, merely for having been a member of that committee, to profecute the charge against Sir Elijah Impey. The learned judge was officer of the crown, who held his office during pleafure, he flood charged on the journals of the Houfe with having illegally accepted a place under Mr. Haftings, and confcquently it be longed to his Majefty's minifters to inftitute an enquiry into his conduct, that he might be honourably acquitted if innocent, and punished if guilty. From the contemptuous manner in which a noble lord (Lord Thurlow) now high in office, had treated the reports of the Houfe of Commons, he certainly would not carry a caufe before a tribunal where it was already prejudged. In imitation, therefore, of the example which the Chancellor of the Exchequer had just set him, in giving up his own opinion to expediency, he would give up a profecution for which he ftill thought there were the beft grounds, and put it into the hands of Mr. Pitt, whofe duty it was, as prime minifter, to enquire into the conduct of all the fabordinate fervants of the crown.

Mr. Pitt faid that, becaufe Mr. Burke feconded the motion for the recall, he imagined he would have purfued the bufinefs. Since, however, he declined it, it certainly became the bufineis of his Majefty's minifters to confider what steps it would be proper to take refpecting Sir Elijah.

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we are little skilled in political architecture, confequently but ill qualified to point out to your Excellency the repairs neceffary to be made in this our once boafted conftitution. May we then indulge the fond hope, that the fame laudable zeal, which at first actuated you in promoting the emancipation of your country, will ftill be exerted in reftoring it to a flate of permanent fafety and profperity."

To the TEMPLE INFANTRY.
Young Fellow-Soldiers,

IT is related to the honour of the Spartan chief, that he was fond of fuperintending the fports of children. Your fports are fuperior to the fports even of the Spartan boys; but fhall I call them fports? No. They are that exercife which makes youths men; and without which men are but children. Milton, in his Treatife on Education, has given precepts respect ing military exercifes, which your worthy teacher has drawn into example; and I look upon your early yet confpicuous exertions with the fame pleafure with which the hufbandman contemplates the promife of a benignant fpring.-Go on, and fupply the fucceffion of thofe labourers for the public good whom time fhall take away; and believe me to be your affectionate admirer,

" HENRY FLOOD."

At a late Meeting of the Lawyers Corps of Volunteers, they came to the following Refolution:

"Dublin, July 15, 1784. "Refolved, That we confider the late outrages of fome ill-advifed and deluded people as likely to be highly injurious to the trade and manufactures, and fubverfive of the true liberties and civil rights of this country; and being decidedly of that opinion, we cannot but think ourfeives bound, by the first and fundamental principle of our inftitution, to use our utmost endeavours to prevent, by all poffible means, any fuch outrages in future; to convince our fellow-citizens, who may have been unhappily mifled, that all their just claims will be beft attained by a strict obfervance of the law, and fteady adherence to the fpirit of the conftitution.

"Refolved, That we confider it as particularly incumbent on this corps to exprefs its juft abhorrence and indignation at the late lawless and violent attack on the perfon of the high fheriff of this city in the execution of his duty.

"By order,

"WM. GLASCOCK, Secretary." In getting the above refolutions laid before the people of Great-Britain, we have done an act of justice to our fellow-fubjects in Ireland, who have been grofsly mifreprefented, for the bafe purpofe of ferving private ends.

Newbaufen, Feb. 12. The new road making to facilitate a communication between Tranfylvania and the Buckowine will foon be finished, and government have taken this opportunity to make a new military enrolment on the mountains, which feparate thofe provinces from Wallachia, by which it is found, that the population of those parts is fuch as to furnith 1045, men upwards of 15 and under 40 years of age, who are formed into two corps, fit to take up arms in cafe of need: they will be under command of the commandant of the fecond regiment in the nearest garrifon. Those mountaineers, who have hitherto been bet A 2 2

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little vifited, on account of the difficulty of coming at their habitations, are very plain in their manners, and pure in their morals; they have feveal cultons entirely new; fome of them adinit of polygamy, without any ditainution from the innocency of their morals; others, under the name of Christian Schifmatic Greeks, abfolutely profeis Judaifa. One of the most remarkable things obferved was, one family, confitting of 200 individuals, who all fubmitted to the great-grandfather as their chief; he is an old man et 109 years of age, but with the perfelt ufe of all his intellects; he is both their high-priest and legiflator, his name is Dodolka; he left his fight about a year ago. This family is a complete picture of a patriarchal life; their flocks are their riches, and furnifh them with both food and raiment; they alfo cultivate the ground, but with fo much negligence and fo little profit, that they feem rather to make it matter of exercise than eriolument.

Stockholm, March 5. The Barons Cl. and Jean d'Alftromer, one a commander of the order of Vafa, and the other director, have caufed a medal to be ftruck to the memory of Doctor Solander; on one fide of which is reprefented the buft of that naturalift, with the flower flandra, the infcription Daniel Solander; the following legend is on the reverfe," Jofepho Banks, Effigiem Amici Merito, D. D. D. CI. & Joh. Alftromer."

In the year 1724, Mr. Juftice Norman, of Norwich, by his will directed that the fum of 4000l. thould be given to build a charity-school fixty years after his deceafe; the fchool to contain 120 boys; and he directed that every boy fhould on Sunday have one pound of roaft beef for his dinner, and io ounces of plumb-pudding for his fupper-on Monday a pound of boiled beef for dinner, and 10 ounces of fuet-pudding for fupper-every Tuefday morning beef-broth for breakfast; and at dinner a pound of mutton or veal-every Wednefday pork and peas every Thurfday mutton or veal-every Friday beans or

peas-and every Saturday fifh, well buttered, &c. There were alfo a number of curious items, and he appointed the bifhop, the chancellor, the dean, the two members for the city, the twa members for the county, and eight worthy church men befides, to be his perpetual trufees. The term of the donation expired in May lat; and the original legacy, with fimple and compound intereft, amounts now to 74,000l.

M. Caffini, the French mathematician, having prefented a memorial by the French ambafador in London, praying that fome perfon would undertake to carry triangles from Greenwich to Dover, to meet the French at Calais, in order to determine the exact distance between the obfervatories of Paris and Greenwich, his Majefty, who, is ever ready to paticnife ufeful fchemes, immediately granted a thousand pounds for carrying it on, and General Roy was, by his own confent, fixed upon for the undertaking.

A medal has lately been ftruck, to perpetuate the memory of Captain Cock, the execution of which is equal to the fubject. On one fide is a bold relief of Captain Cook, with this infcription, IAC. COOK, OCEANI INVESTIGATOR ACCERRIMVS: immediately under the head is exproffed, in fmaller characters, Reg. Soc. Lond. Socio fuo. On the reverse appears an erect figure of Britannia ftanding on a plain. The left arm refts upon an hieroglyphick pillar. Her fpear is in. her hand, and her fhicid placed at the foot of the pillar. Her right arm is projected over a globe, and contains a fymbol, expreffive of the celebrated circum-navigator's enterprifing genius. The infcription round the reverfe is NIL INTENTATVM NOSTRI LIQVERE; and under the figure of Britannia-Aufpiciis Georgii ÎI.

The above medal was engraved at the expence of the Royal Society. Six impreffions have been ftruck in gold, and two hundred and fifty in filver. The gold medals are difpofed of as follows:

One to his Britannick Majefty, under whofe