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holders , as the state will be to the subscribers , not only for the principal , but also for an interest of 5 per cent , per annum on the sum total so lent , the subscribers taking on themselves all trouble and expence , in consideration of being permitted to issue some ofthe smaller notes without interest , and the larger at lower rates than the interest allowed to them by government , which last will be also lower than any former loan has ever cost . ' These notes the Author considers as preferable to every species of

govern ment paper , from the currency which the double security promises , and from the advantage of a growing interest . To give them credit , and to supply the wants of the state , he thinks that no new loan in the common way should be raised ; but that some other mode of raising money should be adopted , as . faxing the income of every man in the receipt of more than 500 I . per annum for a part of that income ; men in trade whose income is uncertain , who would pay their share in another way , only excepted ; levying this tax

according to the last year ' s rent-rolls of lands , houses , ( those inhabited by the owners excepted ) or of any other fixed property in Great Britain , or our Colonies , where the owners do not personally reside , and on the income from property in the funds , or in the stock of any chartered companies , as may appear by the books of the Bank of England , East India Company , & c . All places and pensions , and all church livings above 500 I . a year , to be subject to the same tax . All persons in trade to contribute to the war fund in

certain classes , and liable in proportion . Lawyers ( the Judges excepted ) , medical men , army agents , faCtors , and brokers , should also be included . Such is the outline of this scheme , which is proposed to supersede the customary mode of supplying the wants of the state at the present crisis . With whatever approbation or diffidence we may consider it , we have thought proper to lay it before our readers , that , since new financiai measures are necessary , every man ' s pretensions who steps forward to aid the public may be impartially weighed .

Vindicia Regies ; or a Defence of the Kingl y Office . In tivo Letters to Earl Stanhope , ivo . zs . Wright . . CONSIDERING this nobleman as being politically dead , we were rather surprised at this attack upon him in consequence of the free declaration of his principles when he attended his parliamentary duty . . The letter-writer , however , who is a clergyman , gives as a reason for thus his lordshi creed

combating p ' s political , that one of his parishioners had been prevented from orthodoxy by it . But let the reason be as it may , we were well satisfied with this well timed defence . It sets the importance of the kingly office in a strong light , though , perhaps , the redundance of scriptural quotations might'have been spared at this time , of day . The silly remark made in the paroxysm of political intemperance by this celebrated peer , that monarchy is discountenanced in the Old Testament , is very ably answered by sturddivinewho shews himself ion for the

our y , a good champ jus di-vinum of kings . The pamphlet concludes with a comparison between the murder of king Charles the first and that ' of Louis the sixteenth . This resemblance is certainly very striking ; and the point wherein it should seem principally to fail is thus happily illustrated . ' Will your lordship be angry to be told , that your admired revolutionists of the present day exhibit ' over again rhe quondam puritans of our own country ? If wonder that of such

you men - different views can be compared together , it is easy to solve your doubt . Not to mention the pioverbial meeting of extremes , the difference is not so great as you imagine between the two parties . Hostility to the throne was essential to the success of both ; and those who would discard all religion , are not far removed from the bigots who proscribed all but their own . Though , in this instance , the ultimate objeCt was not the same , the previous means were

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LONDON. Article 2
TO CORRESPONDENTS, &c. Article 3
MEMOIR OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE RICHARD HELY HUTCHINSON, Article 4
LIFE OF MR. GARRICK. Article 6
ON THE INFLUENCE OF GOVERNMENT ON THE MENTAL FACULTIES. Article 8
OBSERVATIONS ON THE YELLOW FEVER. Article 11
TRAITS OF THE SCOTCH CHARACTER. Article 12
OBSERVATIONS ON THE ENGLISH STYLE OF WRITING. Article 14
THE CHANGE OF CLIMATE IN THE MIDDLE COLONIES OF NORTH-AMERICA, Article 16
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES FOR 1797. Article 18
ON THE PRESENT STATE OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY. Article 20
THE COLLECTOR. Article 22
ON THE INFELICITIES OF THE LEARNED. Article 27
AUTHENTIC PARTICULARS OF THE EVER MEMORABLE DEFEAT OF THE DUTCH FLEET, UNDER THE COMMAND OF ADMIRAL DE WINTER, Article 30
PLAN OF THE ACTION BETWEEN THE ENGLISH AND DUTCH FLEETS, Article 33
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF ADMIRAL LORD DUNCAN. Article 36
ADMIRAL DE WINTER, Article 37
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 38
MASONIC INTELLIGENCE. Article 41
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 43
POETRY. Article 51
PUBLIC AMUSEMENTS. Article 55
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 57
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 58
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 63
OBITUARY. Article 70
LIST OF BANKRUPTS Article 74
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holders , as the state will be to the subscribers , not only for the principal , but also for an interest of 5 per cent , per annum on the sum total so lent , the subscribers taking on themselves all trouble and expence , in consideration of being permitted to issue some ofthe smaller notes without interest , and the larger at lower rates than the interest allowed to them by government , which last will be also lower than any former loan has ever cost . ' These notes the Author considers as preferable to every species of

govern ment paper , from the currency which the double security promises , and from the advantage of a growing interest . To give them credit , and to supply the wants of the state , he thinks that no new loan in the common way should be raised ; but that some other mode of raising money should be adopted , as . faxing the income of every man in the receipt of more than 500 I . per annum for a part of that income ; men in trade whose income is uncertain , who would pay their share in another way , only excepted ; levying this tax

according to the last year ' s rent-rolls of lands , houses , ( those inhabited by the owners excepted ) or of any other fixed property in Great Britain , or our Colonies , where the owners do not personally reside , and on the income from property in the funds , or in the stock of any chartered companies , as may appear by the books of the Bank of England , East India Company , & c . All places and pensions , and all church livings above 500 I . a year , to be subject to the same tax . All persons in trade to contribute to the war fund in

certain classes , and liable in proportion . Lawyers ( the Judges excepted ) , medical men , army agents , faCtors , and brokers , should also be included . Such is the outline of this scheme , which is proposed to supersede the customary mode of supplying the wants of the state at the present crisis . With whatever approbation or diffidence we may consider it , we have thought proper to lay it before our readers , that , since new financiai measures are necessary , every man ' s pretensions who steps forward to aid the public may be impartially weighed .

Vindicia Regies ; or a Defence of the Kingl y Office . In tivo Letters to Earl Stanhope , ivo . zs . Wright . . CONSIDERING this nobleman as being politically dead , we were rather surprised at this attack upon him in consequence of the free declaration of his principles when he attended his parliamentary duty . . The letter-writer , however , who is a clergyman , gives as a reason for thus his lordshi creed

combating p ' s political , that one of his parishioners had been prevented from orthodoxy by it . But let the reason be as it may , we were well satisfied with this well timed defence . It sets the importance of the kingly office in a strong light , though , perhaps , the redundance of scriptural quotations might'have been spared at this time , of day . The silly remark made in the paroxysm of political intemperance by this celebrated peer , that monarchy is discountenanced in the Old Testament , is very ably answered by sturddivinewho shews himself ion for the

our y , a good champ jus di-vinum of kings . The pamphlet concludes with a comparison between the murder of king Charles the first and that ' of Louis the sixteenth . This resemblance is certainly very striking ; and the point wherein it should seem principally to fail is thus happily illustrated . ' Will your lordship be angry to be told , that your admired revolutionists of the present day exhibit ' over again rhe quondam puritans of our own country ? If wonder that of such

you men - different views can be compared together , it is easy to solve your doubt . Not to mention the pioverbial meeting of extremes , the difference is not so great as you imagine between the two parties . Hostility to the throne was essential to the success of both ; and those who would discard all religion , are not far removed from the bigots who proscribed all but their own . Though , in this instance , the ultimate objeCt was not the same , the previous means were

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