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New Publications in April.

thor of "Confiderations, &c. at the beginning of 1796," part 1 and 2, 35. Rivingtons. The Names of the Nobility, Gentry, and others, who contributed to the defence of the country at the time of the Spanish invafion in 1588; with a brief account of their fpirited and patriotic conduct on that occafion, 4to. 3s. 6d. Leigh and Co. A Warning to Britons against French Perfidy and Cruelty, &c. &c. felected, by A. Aufrere, efq. Is. Cadell and Davies.

A Difcourfe, addreffed to the Ladies of Great Britain and Ireland, inviting their aid in fupport of government in the defence of these kingdoms, under the prefent existing circumftances, 6d. Fry. Plain Facts, in five letters to a friend, on the prefent state of politics, 2s. 6d. Jordan. A Letter of a Freeholder to Mr. Johnes, M. P. for the county of Denbigh, on the fubject of his motion against the French emigrants, Is. Dilly. The Question, as it ftood in March 1798, Faulder.

6d.

An Inquiry into the State of the Public Mind amongst the lower Claffes; and on the Means of turning it to the Welfare of the State, in a letter to W. Wilberforce, Efq. M. P. by Arthur Young, Efq. F. R. S. 1S. Richardfons. A Letter to the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on his propofed fale of the land tax, by John Scott, 6d. Jordan.

Anecdotes and Characteristic Traits refpecting the Incurfion of the French Republicans into Franconia, in 1796, Is. 6d. or 12 for 15s.

Bell.

Three Plans for paying off the National Debt, and a fourth for raising money fufficient to bring about fo defirable an end, Is.

Richardfons. An authentic Copy of the Duke of Bedford's Speech in the Houfe of Lords, March 22, on his motion for the removal of his Majefty's minifters, 6d.

Debrett.

An Hiftory of all the real and threatened Invafions of England, from the firft landing of the Danes to the prefent period; including the defcent on the coaft of Wales in 1797, and the French expedition to Bantry-Bay, off Ireland. To which is added, an Appendix; wherein are enumerated the difficulties an invading army must encounter in England; together with the prevailing opinion on invafions, Is. 6d. Longman.

A fhort Addrefs to the Members of the Loyal Affociations, on the prefent critical fate of public affairs, by John Gifford, Efq. Longman. Matter of Fact for the Multitude, by A True Patriot, 6d. or 12 for 4s. 6d. Wright.

IS.

An Answer to an Addrefs to the People of Great Britain, by the Bishop of Landaff; in another addrefs to the people, by Benjamin Kingsbury, formerly a diffenting minifter at Warwick, Is. Westley. An Addrefs to the Grand Jury of Kirton,

Stirbeck, and Holland, by S. Partridge, A. M. 6d. Rivingtons.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

A View of Agricultural Oppreffions, and of its Effects upon Society, by Thomas Mafters, jun. 25. Jordan.

A Propofal for fupplying London with Bread at an uniform price, from one year to another, according to an annual amfize, &c. &c. Is. Becket.

A Plan for the Improvement of the Ports and City of London, illuftrated by four plates, by Sir Frederick Eden, bart. 2s. 6d. White. The fourth Report of the Society for bettering the condition and increafing the comforts of the poor, Is. Becket.

The Outlines of a Plan for establishing an united company of British manufacturers, 6d. Galabin,

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A practical Effay on the Club-Foot, and other diftortions in the legs and feet of children, intended to fhew under what circumftances they are curable, or otherwife; with thirty-one cafes, that have been fuccefsfully treated by the method for which the author has obtained the King's patent, and the fpecification of the patent for that purpofe, as well as for curing diftortions of the fpine, and every other deformity that can be remedied by mechanical applications, by T. Sheldrake, trufs-maker to the Westminster Hofpital, and Mary-le-Bone infirmary.

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New Publications.....Account of Difeafes.

The Chriftian Sabbath vindicated, by the Rev. R. P. Finch, D. D. 1s. Ginger. A Sermon at the confecration of the new church, Hackney, by J. Symons, 4to. Is. Rivingtons. A Sermon in aid of the voluntary contributions, by the Rev. W. Goode, A. M. Is. Rivingtons. A Philofophical Difcourfe on Providence, addreffed to the modern of Great Britain, by the Rev. Mr. Arcband, Is. Johnson.

An Abridgment of the Proteftant Diffenter's Catechifm, by the Author, price 6d. with allowance for a number. Conder.

A Scripture Catechifm: the answers being in the words of the bible. The 6th edition, price 4d. Conder.

Directions for hearing the Word with Profit: an ordination fermon, by S. Palmer, now feparately printed, price 6d. Conder & Palmer. An Examination of the leading Principles of the new Syftem of Morals, as that principle is ftated and applied in Mr. Godwin's Enquiry concerning Political Juftice, in a letter to a friend, s. 6d.

Longman.

TOPOGRAPHY, &c.

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Specimens and parts, topographical and hiftorical, of a Topographical, Commercial, Civil and Nautical History of South Britain, by Samuel Henshall, M. A. fellow of Brazen nofe College, 125. Faulder.

Two fucceffive Tours throughout the whole of Wales, with several of the adjacent counties, by H. Skrine, Efq. 8vo. 6s. boards. Elmley.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

Narrative of the Loss of the fhip Hercules, commanded by Captain Benjamin Stout, on the coaft of Caffraria, the 16th of June, 1796; alfo a circumftantial detail of his travels through the fouthern districts of Africa, 8vo. 3s. Johnfon

IN FRENCH.

Œuvres Mélées de M. L. Dutens, 3 vols 4to. boards, 21. 14s. Elmfley.

Effai fur les Caufes de la Perfection de la Sculpture Antique, et fur les Moyens d'y atteindre, par M. Le Chevaker Louis de Gillier, capitaine de cavalerie. Baylis.

ACCOUNT OF DISEASES IN LONDON,
From the 20th of March to the 20th of April.

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Difeafes....Public Affairs.

ftances, the fever was protracted to the unufual length of feven weeks. After the first two weeks, during which time the fymptoms were gradually aggravated; they continued ftationary for nearly three weeks, and afforded a hope that the difeafe was proceeding to a favourable termination. After this, however, the fymptoms again returned with fuch violence as to threaten a speedy diffolution. The pulfe became fo quick, fo feeble and indiftinct as to render it difficult to calculate the number of its strokes. Fœtid fools were discharged, and these fometimes came away without the patient being conscious of it. The delirium increafed, fubfultus tendinum commenced, and every thing feemed to prognofticate a fatal termination. Blifters had already been applied for the relief of different organs which had been effected in the courfe of the difeafe: but in this ftate of extreme debility, it was judged proper to apply them to the extremities; and they were accordingly applied, first to the upper and afterwards to the lower extremities; and the ufe of them was happily fucceeded by fome abatement in the quicknefs of the pulfe and the fubfultus tendinum. In this cafe a full dofe of opium, administered in the evening with a view to abate reftlefinefs and anxiety and to procure fleep, did not fucceed, but the fame quantity in divided dofes, combined with camphor and valerian, had a much better effect. After a long ftruggle, and in the courfe of the eighth week from the commencement of the difeafe, the fymptoms gradually abated, and the patient is now in a state of convalefcence.

At the clofe of the last month several cafes of hæmoptoe occurred, in which the repeated ufe of the lancet, the application of leeches and blifters, the use of antimonial remedies, and a flender diet happily fucceeded in the recovery of the patient. In one of thefe cafes a hard cough, quickness of the pulfe, and a confiderable heat of the fkin, continuing for fome time, afforded but an unfavourable prog noftic respecting the termination of the

difeafe: but these symptoms yielded at
laft to a steady perfeverance in the use of
the means juft mentioned. In fome in-
ftances, the difficulty of prevailing on a
patient to fubmit to that diet and regimen,
which is of principal confequence in this
difeafe, forms a material impediment to
the cure. The debility induced by the
lofs of blood, and the various means em-
ployed, is confidered by the patient as
a fufficient apology for taking in fome
cordial diet, and thus the circulation is
increased in spite of every effort of the
medical practitioner to diminish it, a fresh
hæmorrhage is produced, and a foundation
laid for the most fatal fymptoms, which
fooner or later occur as the confequence of
this imprudence.

The Deaths in the Bills of Mortality for
the last four weeks, are stated as follow:
Abfcefs
Abortive

Aged
Ague
Apoplexy
Athma

Brain Fever

Cancer

Child-bed

Confumption
Convulfions
Croup
Dropfy
Evil

Fever
French Pox

Gout
Hooping Cough
Jaundice
inflammation
Liver-grown
Lunatic
Meafles
Mortification

Pally
Pleurify
Rupture

Small Pox

Still-born
Suddenly
Teeth

Thrush

Water in the Head

STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
In April, 1798.

GREAT BRITAIN.

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Number, obliged us to poftpone the
principal part of the retrofpect of public
affairs till this month; therefore a fketch
of thofe, of both March and April, will
given in the prefent account.

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During feveral days in the month of Council was paid to the investigation of a treafonable correfpondence, faid to have been carried on between fome perfons in this country and France. After feveral

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examinations, Mr. O'Connor, Mr. Binns, Mr. Quigley, Mr. Allen, and Jeremiah Lary, were committed under a charge of high treafon; foon afterwards a commillion was made out for trying them at Maidstone, at the head of which was Mr. Juftice Buller. The commiffion was opened at that place on the 10th of April. On the 12th of April the prifoners were brought to the Bar, and informed by the Judge, that the Grand Jury of the county had found a bill of indictment against them for high treason, and that the court intended to adjourn to the 30th of April, when they would be arraigned.

About the fame time feveral perfons were taken into cuftody at Manchester, under a charge of high treafon, and brought to London, and alfo feveral perfons, members of the London Correfponding Society.

Mr. Wilberforce, in the House of Commons, on the ad of March obferved, that in pursuance of a notice which he had lately given, concerning the reimbursement of thofe cofts which magiftrates incurred by adminiftring the laws, he fhould now move" for leave to bring in a bill authorifing certain courts to defray the expences which magiftrates might incur in profecuting for mifdemeanors, by paying the fame out of their refpective county ftock." Mr. Mainwaring op pofed the motion. Mr. Rofe ftated, that a late decifion in the Court of King's Bench rendered fuch a bill neceffary to be passed into a law, and the motion was agreed to.

Mr. Pitt, having on a former day fignified his intention of propofing the repeal of the watch and clock tax, on account of its lamentable effects upon a very numerous clafs of mechanics engaged in the manufacture of thofe articles; on the 14th of March obferved to the houfe, that although he had occupied a confiderable portion of his time in forming a plan of affeffinent, to be adopted in lieu of the tax on clocks and watches, he had not then definitively arranged it, but should premife what objects he had thought proper to felect as fit for additional taxation. These were the duties on inhabited houfes, window-lights, horfes ufed in husbandry, and dogs. The tax on clocks and watches had been estimated to produce 200,000l. and this fum would certainly be obtained, if the duties he had juft mentioned were additionally affeffed by impofts of one feventh or one eighth of their prefent produce. It was his in

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tention, therefore, to make this a part of his plan. The adjustment of the taxes to be raifed in lieu of those repealed was deferred for a few days.

On the 2d of April, Mr. Pitt introduced into the House of Commons his plan for the Redemption of the Land Tax. He said, he had a plan to propose, which had occupied much of his attention, and of which, on a former day, he had given notice. He had no doubt but the country would derive ultimately the greatest benefit from this measure. The leading principle of his plan was to abforb a large quantity of ftock now in the market, by transferring it to the purchasers of the land tax, on conditions equally eligible to the purchasers and to the public. The wealth and induftry of the country, he was aware, were fubject to fluctuate in local instances, but looking to the general state of the national property in an aggregate point of view, and from carefully examining into the internal fituation of the country, he had the pleasure to state that we had now a greater command of capital than at any former period in the history of Great Britain. He would then, in the first inftance, fimply ftate that the amount of the land tax was 2,000,000l. per annum. For near a century this tax had not been lefs than the uniform rate of 4s. in the pound, fo that gentlemen could not have any great expectation of any diminution. By his plan, the public in point, of revenue would gain 400,000l. He propofed that when the 3 per cents. are at 50, for inftance, that the value of the land tax fhould be rated to the purchafer at twenty years purchase.

At 52 to be rated at 24 years purchase.

At 55 At 571 At 60

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By this plan, he faid, the public might have the advantage of four years purchase between the 3 per cents. and the fale of the land tax. This would alfo give a clear profit of eight millions of money; which fum being likewife invested, will produce an annual income of 460,000l. taking the price of the 3 per cents. at an average of 53.

In this manner the public would redeem about 80 millions of 3 per cents. yielding an annuity of 2,400,000l. per

annum,

in lieu of the annual grant of two millions from the land tax, and all the expences of collection. He alfo urged the further advantage to be derived from this fcheme of taking 80 millions of public debt out of the market. Notwithstanding thefe fpecious arguments, this plan of the

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minifter was ftrongly oppafed by feveral refpectable members. Lord Sheffield called it "the most extraordinary and unjuft measure he had ever heard of." Mr. Tierney and Sir William Pulteney were alfo against it. At length the queftion was put and agreed to without a divifion. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has been equally fuccefsful in fome fubfequent ftages of this bill.

On the 3d of April, Mr. Wilberforce made another effort in the Houfe of Commons to procure the abolition of the flave trade; but the majority of the members were as ufual inflexible to the tales of cruelty and oppreffion which are exercifed upon the unhappy Africans by civilized Europeans. The propofition was ftrongly oppofed by Mr. Bryan Edwards, whofe local knowledge of the fubject feemed to make a forcible impreffion upon the houfe. Upon a divifion there appeared for the motion 83, against it 87.

About this time, Mr. Secretary Dundas introduced a bill, which was fpeedily paffed into a law, to enable his Majesty to augment the internal force of this country by encouraging armed affociations throughout the nation; and in a few days afterwards he iffued to the Lords Lieutenants of Counties printed copies of directions how to act, refpecting the driving off cattle, and providing for the army in cafe of an actual invafion.

On the 20th of April, the fame gentle man prefented to the Houfe of Commons a meffage from the King, purporting that his Majefty thought it proper to acquaint his faithful Cominons, that from advices which had been received, it appeared that the preparations for the embarkation of troops continued to be carried on with encreafing activity in the ports of France, Holland and Flanders, with the avowed defign of an immediate invafion of thefe kingdoms; and that in doing fo, the enemy was encouraged by their correfpondence with traitorous focieties within the realm. That his Majesty had a firm reliance on the bravery of his fleets and armies, and on the zeal and confidence of his people. That his Majefty had embodied the fupplementary cavalry, and that it was his intention to embody the fupplementary militia and to make every other poffible preparation. That he recommended to the Commons to confider, without delay, of fuch further means as they might devife, in order to defeat the machinations of wicked and difaffected perfons within the realm.

Mr. Sheridan refe on the prefent oc

cafion, and faid, that he hoped to fee no common, no ordinary fpirit animate the people to a manly refiftance to the enemy, when they had to preferve their character as Englishmen, and their independence as a nation. With respect to the French Republic, he did not mean to retract a fingle iota of what he had formerly afferted; for he was firmly perfuaded that the attempt of the coalefced princes to crufh the infant Republic of France produced that gigantic republic, whofe object feemed to be that of fubjugating every other civilized nation in Europe. The object of the enemy was to obtain the dominion of the fea; nor from this would they depart, whether a monarchical or a republican form of government prevailed; any attempt, therefore, to retore the ancient monarchy would be as futile in effect, as it would be abfurd in fpeculation. He would not follow the high example in Ireland, of calling Buonaparte either a monster or a ruffian he conceived fuch epithets as foolish as they were improper. At this crifis, he faid, all party confiderations fhould cease this was no time for difcuffing the errors which brought us into our present predicament. The queftion was, whether we chofe to be conquered by France, or whether we fhould fruftrate their intentions by a prompt and manly refiftance. Thofe who had feceded from the whig party, he faid, had much to atone for they had deftroyed the confidence of the people by joining the ftandard of the minifter for places and emoluments, inftead of what they profeffed, the support of religion, morality and regular govern ment. He beftowed the highest encomiums upon Mr. Fox, and expreffed a great anxiety to fee him in fome fituation of oftenfible trust; because if the talents of any individual could fave the country, he poffeffed them. He concluded by giving his cordial fupport to the addrefs to his Majesty on the Meffage.-Mr. Pitt beftowed the highest compliments upon Mr. Sheridan for the manly and fpirited manner in which he had come forward; and hoped that his defire to promote unanimity would meet congenial fentiments in every corner of the country, The addrefs was agreed to nem. con.

On the fame day two Mafters in Chancery brought a bill from the lords, which had been carried through all its ftages on that day, for the fufpenfion of the Habeas Corpus A&t. It was read a first time, when the Houfe went into a com

ttee upon it, in which Mr. Sheridan

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