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a circular letter addreffed to the Clergy, the author of Geber, a poem reviewed , calls upon, and earnestly recommends vol. LXX. P:. is a furgeon lately to them, to concur with the governors refident in Warwick, where thefe poand himself in this meature, by preach- ems are printed. If the firft was a pro-, ing a fermon and making a collection duction of his own genius, the prefent on Sunday, Auguft 17, whether in may be prefumed, from his preface, to churches, chapels, or meeting-houfes. be French imitations of Oriental imąIn chearful compliance with fo libe- gery; "and, as thefe tranflations have ral a request, Mr. K. propofed as the afforded fome pleasure to thofe who theme of his difcourfe Pfa. xli. 1, 2, 3, have read them, though perhaps no and improved it, by pointing out the language is lefs capable than the French objects of attention, the nature of the of tranfmitting with adequate fpirit the regard to be fhewn to them, and the charm of original poetry, I fhall hefihleffedness of those who compaflion- tate no longer to fend them on accomately confider, and confcientioufly re- panied with my own observations.” lieve them. The fermon is published for the benefit of the charity; Mr. Baker, the printer, having generously giyen up his profits.

23. A Treatife on the Bath Waters. By
George Smith Gibbes, M D. late Fellow
of Magdalen College, Oxfore, F. R. S one
of the Phyficians to the Bath City Difpenfary.
THE fubftance of thefe obfervations
has already appeared in Mr. Nicholfon's
philofophical journey. The Doctor has
repeated most of the experiments with
telis of his own preparing, and with
others made by Mr. Hume, chemift,
in Long-acre, whofe accuracy in every
kind of chemical preparation. is too
well established to need any praise of
commendation from him. The refult
of the experiments fhews in the Bath
water carbonic acid, gas, and azotic
gas, in very fmall quantities, iron in a
ftate of extreme divifion, fulphate of
Jime, or felenite, in the proportion of
40, of the folid refiduum. Superfatu-
rated carbonate of lime 40; filex 15;
alum, or fulphate of alumine, 05;
common falt and fulphate of foda, 20.
The folid matter forms about a 660th
part of thefe waters, The fand which
is thrown up by thefe fprings is com-
pofed of filex, felenite, carbonate of
lime, fome fulphur, and fome particles
of iron, which have been found to be
attracted by the magnet.

24. An Eligv, supposed to be written in the
Gardens of Ipahan; dedicated to ber Grace
the Duchess of Devonthire. By Merwan
Ebn Abdallah: Malek.

IF the Duchefs of Devonshire un-
derstands this attempt at fublimity, it
is more than Mr. Urban's reviewers
can pretend to.

26. Ode to the Memory of Wm. Cowper, Esq.

THE fubfequent Ode, of which fome copies were originally printed for the defire of a lady who was nearly reprivate circulation, is now published by lated to Mr. C. and clofely connected Thip." Advertisement. Those who have with him by the most intimate friendread a late abfurd and cruel funeral fermon for Mr. C. will conclude the

lady here alluded to be Lady Hefketh The poet introduces a feraph comforting the dying fervant of God, and announcing his reward.

27. Anti-revolutionary Thoughts of a Reveli tionary Writer, from The Sceret Hylory of the Revolution of France." By M. François Pagé *.

reader if we bring under his eve the "IT may not be uninterefting to the teftimony in foro confcientice of Mr. P. an ardent devotee to French revolutionary principles; one who, under the influence of rapturous enthufiatin, nay, in the middle of a climax of democra tie rant, that turgid eloquence of the modern Parifian fchool, appears as if the Spirit of Truth infpired him, and like Balaan, who blefled them he men, whom it was his intention to apcame to curfe, reprobated his countryprove." (p. vii.) Though he fet ont with announcing, in his title, his intention of extending his narrative no farther than the 1ft of November, 1796 (4th year), he treats of events in the 5th year. "Twelve revolutions within the pace of only feven years form the eventful hiftory now before us, the foundation on which treaties during that period between this country and France could have been elablished.

* Author of Troels round the World,

25. Perms, from the Arabic and Perfian, with
Notes, by the Author of Geher.
THERE is ground to fufpe&t that 1767, 1768, 1769, 1770, 1771,” 2 vols.

Among

productive, while thofe of an oppofite kind are many of them dininithing? That, with refpect to new taxes, those which bear on the general population ufually exceed, or at leaft equal, expectation; while thofe which bear on articles of limited ufe, or, like this, are founded on a ípeculation of greatly concentrated income, almoft always fall fhort of the first calculations?"

5. Thoughts on the Corn Trade *. "PROPOSALS to Government for the establishing a fyftem of regulations by which the buyer and feller would equally well know, at all times, the quantity of each kind of grain in the kingdom, the only juft and wife mode of regulating the price of corn or any other commodity; by a corn-dealer." It is a nominal excife. An act of parliament to appoint that every farmer fhall, under a heavy penalty, notify the produce of his harvest, build the wheat-ftacks of certain dimenfions, vifibly larger than that of other grain; no wheat to be ftacked in barns; an officer appointed to meafure and afcertain the page the different grains occupy; to publish in the Gazette or country papers the number of fuperficial feet of each kind of grain each man has grown. No unthrethed corn to be fold but on oath, verified by the proper officer, that the grower has not the power within himself of threshing it out; and fuch finall farmers to be relieved by Government as the WeftIndia merchants have been. Every grower or poffeffor of unthreshed grain to enter in a book every fort or quantity of grain he fhall fell, and the remainder to be examined by the officer. Every perfon having grain of any kind, the quantity to be fixed by parliament, to declare fuch quantity on oath; and, that the officer may have time to verify the fales, and give à certificate that the grain has been declared to Government, no grain fhall be fold but on feven days credit, and the debt not recoverable but accompanied with the officer's cercificate. The number benefited to thofe complaining without reafon would, by the best calculation, ou a population of 11 millions, be as 9 millions eating this bread cheaper to 2 millions felling their grain at its real value, and fully paid for any additional trouble they may have had from the

* This tract is printed on paper made over again.

new regulation, made purpofely to augment the happiness of the poorer clafles of the community.

6. Confiderations on the Increase of the Poor Rates, and on the State of the Workhouse, in Kingston-upon-Hull. To which is now added, Afhort Account of the Improvements in the Maintenance of the Poor of the Town. IN 1698, an act of parliament was obtained for erecting a workhouse in this town, and a corporation conftituted under the name of the Governor, Deputy-governor, Affittants, and Guar dians, of the Poor. They began by erecting a charity-house, at the expence of 3601, collected from houfe to houfe, and in the churches and chapels of the town, and applied it rather as a school for children, while the adult poor were fupported at their own houfes by weeky pensions. The annual amount of the poor-rates, from 4101. in 1728, has increated, 1793, to 83201. It might be expected that the poor-rates in every part of the country would increate pari paff with the population ; but in many places they have undoubtedly increafed much fafter. The num

ber of inhabitants in Hull was found

to be, in 1792, 29,286; and, in 1798. 24,094. During the American war, the demand for the manufactures of

per

this country, and the price of labour of、
all forts, were much lefs than at prefent,
but the poor-rates were not increased
in fo great a proportion. The induf-
trious poor were never better paid for
their labour, nor ever enjoyed greater
means of comfortable fubfiftence than
the extraordinary increafe of the poor-
at the prefent time: and, therefore,
rates must be attributed entirely to the
war. The great object of a workhoufe
is to provide employment for the poor:
and no perfons should be idle, and
fons of depraved character fhould be
made to work alone; but in this at
Hull vagabonds and women of the
town are allowed to affociate with the
children; and poor people of good cha-
racter refufe to go into it. In the
poor-houfe at Edinburgh the worft
paupers were employed; in the houfe
of induftry at Shrewsbury prayers are
read and attended morning and even-
ing, in this at Hull they make a per-
fect mockery of all religion, and the
poor-rates are increafed by the infa-
mous conduct of pandars and procu-
reffes; and fome men of property let
houfes to perfons of ill fame. Mr.

Thompfon

Thompfon propofes to make Hull
workhoufe a nursery for feamen, and
to have its receipts and expenditures
regularly kept. The average expence
of maintaining the poor in the houfe
is nearly 4s. cach per week; and the
total amount for one year (1799)
22321.; nor are the provifions purcha-
fed at the cheapest prices, whereas, if
bought by public contract, feveral
hundred pounds a year would be faved.
There fhould be a committee of five or
fix refpectable men, and a new roomy
houfe erected. Out-penfioners fhould
be vifited, and their mode of fpending
their time and money enquired into.
Much expence has been faved by the
earnings of the poor at Shrewsbury,
Oxford, Newcafile, and other places.
Mr. T. has fubjoined an etiimate of the
materials and tite of the old workhoufe,
and urges the erection of a new one in
a more airy, and healthful fituation.
The refult of his enquiries is annexed
to this pamphlet, and intituled,
fhort Account of the Improvements in
the Maintenance of the Poor of the
Town of Kingston upon Hull." From
the commencement of the reform in
the management of the poor there had
been a confiderable weekly faving of
money; and, after the receipt of the
quarter's poor-rate due the Ift of No-
vember laft, it appeared there would be
in the hands of the bankers a balance
of 2,5001. It was, therefore, refolved
to reduce the poor-rate, which was
83201. per annum, one-half, or 41601.
per annum; and this refolution was
accordingly published in the Hull
news-papers; and this when wheat
was felling at the high price of 11s. 6d.

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deduced from rational Principles and actual Experience. By Abraham Crocker, M. S. A.

MR. C's communications have been honoured with a place in the Tranfactions of the Philofophical Society in America, and in a very popular provincial Agricultural Survey in his own country. Our approbation will add little to fuch authority.

8. Reflections on the relative Situations of Maper and Servant, bifforically and peltically conficered; the Irregularities of Servants; the Employment of Foreigners; and the general Inconveniences refulting from the Want of proper Regulations.

THE number of fervants having fo enormoully increafed fince the reign of Elizabeth, the writer withes to extend to them the regulations of the ftatutes of labourers, the only fervants known at that time of day, while the prefent luxurious and oftentatious mode of li"Aving brings together fo many hundreds of footmen, coachmen, and chairmen, in one firect, and during the night, fo that it is abfolutely impoffible that difputes, riots, outrages, and defiruction of carriages, fhould not perpetually happen, as they actually do, to the difgrace of our police, unless the peaceable demeanour of servants of every denomination were enforced by adequate regulations. The argument will apply, in a greater or lefs degree, to every confiderable town in the kingdom, Nor is there any reafon why fervants fhould not be under regulation, as well as chairmen, hackney-coachmen, manufacturers, journeymen, and different branches of trade, continually laid under fpecific rules or bye-laws, to be enforced by the magiftrates, and combinations to increate their wages feverely punifhed. The ftatute-books do not contain oue regulation for our menial fervants, except the law, 32 Geo. III. to prevent counterfeit characters. Characters ought to be jufi and fair, and, except in the articles of honefty and fobriety, rather inclining to the favourable fide. It may be doubted whether high wages are a caufe of bad conduct. Competition fhould not be reftrained, or the juft claims of fuperior merit, talents, and induftry, limited in a free country. It is certainly true that the wages of menial fervants have of late years rilen extravagantly, and are perceptibly on the rife at the prefent juncture. Our author thinks there is no juft caufe for

bufhel. The balance in the ban-" kers hands is fill 15001. "though the poor in the houfe have beca inercafed to 320, and the neceflities of the times have greatly increated the out-penfioners. If thele improvements are followed up, and others made, which may be reported in a future publication, we may praife the benevolent and wife attention of the governor of Hull workhouse, and propose him as an example to fimilar officers in fimilar in ftitutions; with earneft wifles that men may be found in every age, in every great town, with equal capacity, integrity, and perfeverance; fenfible as we are how rapid are the inroads of evil on the fmalleft relaxation of good.

7. The art of making and managing Cyder,

it; because the articles of a fervant's wants when, in place have not confiderably advanced in price; whilt to the mafier, who is to lodge, feed, and clothe them, a thoufand circumflances augment the expence. He lays the fair and reasonable outgoings of a liveryfervant in London at 101. 10s. per annuin. As much more to fervants out of livery. A fervant's livery feldom cofts a mafter fo little. As to maidfervants, cooks excepted, whofe pretenfions are generally much beyond their merits, he apprehends their ordinary rate of wages is not unrealonable. Tea and fugar are not necellaries; but where allowed, an additional allowance must be made. A full third, or perhaps half more is neceflary to enable them to lay by for fickness or want of employ. Polfibly the cftablitument of a fixed rate of wages, and that a moderate one, might prove beneficial in another point of view, unconnected with the fubject itself, by withdrawing from our young men the temptation they now have to quit the ufeful ovenpations of agriculture and manufactures for the inore eafy labour of dometuc fervants. The power given the juftices to hear and remedy complaints of or against any fervant has been fo properly exercited that no other has been thought neceflary. This writer recommends a public regifter of menial fervants in London and every great town, defcriptive of their perfons, and afcertaining their employment and the intervals when they were out of place; and it might enable Government to calculate the number of able-bodied men following one particular occupation therein. All clubs of fervants, in or out of place, exceeding feven, except friendly focieties, to be declared illegal, and all difputes about wages, hiring, and liveries, to be cognizable by the magiftrate; as alfo drunkennefs, infolence, difobedience of lawful orders, and wilful or malicious injury of the houfe or property of the mafter or miftrefs.

9. Same Account of the Proceedings that took
Place on the Landing of the French near
Fithguard, in Pembrokeshire, on the 22d
of February, 1797, and of the Enquiry af-

terwards bad into Lieutenant-colonel Kox's
Conduct on that Occafion, by Order of bis
Royal Highness the Commander in Chief: to-
gether with the official Correspondence and
orber Documents. By Thomas Knox, late

Lieutenant-colonel-commandant of the Fishguaid Volunteers.

ON the landing of the French at Fifhguard, Lieut.-col. K.. haftened to the pot, and made what appeared to him the neceflary arrangements for difcovering their ftrength; and finding it inexpedient to attack them with the few men under his command, retreated towards Haverford Weft, to wait for reinforcements, which were hourly ex→ pected. In his retreat he was met by Lord Cawdor, who informed him, that, by the appointment of the Lord Lieutenant, he had affumed the command of the troops, which, by a recent letter, Mr. K. underfood had been given to Col. Colby. This put Mr. K. into a momentary dilemma; but Col. Colby having fiated that he had given up the command to Lord Cawdor, and that the prefent was not a fit time for difputes, Mr. K. followed his example, and put himself under the command of his Lordship, and received the thanks of the King for his conduct; but a letter from Mr. Haffall to Mr. Macnamara, which reprobated, in strong language, the conduct of Mr. Knox, led to an enquiry by an officer fent from the Duke of York; in confequence of which, Mr. K. demanded a court-martial, or a public invefiigation of his conduct; but was refufed both. The Lord Lieutenant requefied Mr. K, in the King's name, to refign his commiffion, which he did, and fent a chal lenge to Lord Cawdor, which was accepted; and when an attempt was made to bring the matter into a civil court, Mr. Macnamara informed Mr. K's folicitor that he was ready to fight. Mr. K. if he pleated. The fubject is a very delicate one. The officers in Mr. K's corps bear teftimony to his fpirit and conduct. Lord Cawdor calls the latter in quetion.

10. A Call for Union with the Established Church, adreffed to English Proteftants; being a Compilation of Paffages from various Authors. Seled and published by George, Ifaac Huntingfor, D. D Warden of St. Mary's College near Winchester.

THIS little work is prefaced with an affectionate dedication to the Speaker of the Houfe of Commons, whofe "well-adapted and convincing speech on the propofed legiflative union with Ireland thews his thoughts to be intent on the fubject of ecelétiaftical polity." In order to defeat the pernicious oppo