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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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Review Of New Publications.
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