too many horfes-too much bank-currency and fome hard taxes 1. True religion is the only mean on our part to avert judgements from Heaven, including temperance, and just industry to make the best of every feafon. 2. The laws already made feem as fevere against foreftalling, as the ftate of a free and commercial country can well admit. 3. Temporary prohibitions of exportation, with allowance to import, are good, but not fufficient. If in time of plenty, half the incouragement was fettled for proper granaries, as has been for a long time allowed for exportation, it would keep the corn-markets always from extremes, and prevent the lofing trade of importation. 4. If to this was added a tax on faddle and machine horfes, inftead of thofe on falt, candle, leather &c. (which is our 6th hardship on the poor and manufactures,) with a law obliging every plough within a fet time, to be furnished with two oxen, and in two or three years after with four, it would fave a vast quantity of grain, and greatly fupply the markets with butcher meat as fome late publications demonftrate. 5. For this caufe of dearth, which late writers take no notice of, and which is peculiar to Scotland, though its influence reaches to England alfo, by throwing more real cash into that part of the united kingdom, if the parliament, as they two years ago difcharged all bank notes under 20s. would do fo to all under 51. and reftrict them to higher values afterwards, this would gradually diminish the quantity of our currency, and of confequence the price of every thing, fo that our manufactures might be done as cheap as in France or Germany,which in our prefent fituation cannot be by our high price of labour, and thereby of our manufactured goods in a courfe of years,perhaps not many,our trade muft fail; our workers fhift to America or other countries, our land muft fall in their rents and prices, and Scotland turn bankrupt through this excefs of paper-currency. Thefe hints will eafily be understood by gentlemen who think, or read our Mr Law, and provoft Lindsay, with the larger minded Mr Locke, on money and trade. But it is to be feared there is too little public fpirit, to expect the deminition of fuch conveniencies, as horfes and bank notes, till our manufactures be ruined, and the remedies come too late. May all degrees of men think juftly, and do their part in time, is the prayer of, &c. SCOTICUS. Sent by a Freeholder. Extract from three Tracts upon the Corn trade, and corn laws, 2 Edition, LONDON 1766. OST of those who have wrote MOST upon this fubject have been miftaken; probably from confidering the corn trade, and laws as they regard or affect particular places, or parts of the kingdom only; whereas all laws made for the ufe of the whole nation, should be confidered in a more enlarged view. What is aimed at, is to fhow that this trade is at prefent under better regulations, and the corn laws, though they may want fome amendments, much better adapted to the intended purpose, than is commonly imagined: and that whatever may be the will of particular perfons, providence by the nature of the commodity, the large fums neceffary, and the number of hands required to carry on this trade, hath put it out of the power of the corn factors, and all others concerned therein, in any confiderable degree to opprefs the people, more efpecially while the prefent laws are in force, and we are fully perfuaded no better laws in general for conducting this affair can be framed or delivered, howmuch foever in particu lar lar inftances they may be improved. Let us reflect once more upon what they fay. To the Farmer.Till your land, and fear not having fo great a plenty as to be a burden and lofs to you, for we will give a bounty for the exportation of what can be spared. To the people.- -Be not uneafy at the exportation of corn,for when it begins to grow dear,the bounty fhall ceafe, and when it is dear, it shall be imported at fuch a moderate and proper duty, as whilft it adds fo little to the price as not to diftrefs you, fhall yet prevent fo great a quantity being thrown in, as may deter our own farmers from tillage, nay even when it becomes neceffary it fhall be imported duty free. To the corn merchants,factors,mealmen, meal-factors, and all concerned and employed in tranfporting corn and flower, from the growing countries, to fuch parts where the confumption exceeds the growth, and collecting it for exportation when allowed. Proceed freely in your bufinefs, for if the falfe notion, which the populace may of themselves conceive, or wicked men, for bad purposes, or for want of better information, may poffefs themselves with, fhould make them interrupt you, and forcibly take away or fpoil your property, the place where fuch interruption happens,fhall pay the damage, or those who do it fhall be punished. But, let not this promife of protection and recompence be fo ill received, and ungratefully returned by you, as to induce you to endeavour to get an unreafonable gain, and to opprefs the poor; for in that cafe, we will fet a price upon your commodity, and punish you if you do not comply with our orders. gentleman, who was an eye-witnefs of the facts, may serve to fhow their wifdom and forefight in making the laws we are provided with for that purpose. In Turkey, the grand vizir between twenty and thirty years ago, fuffered a more general exportation of corn to be carried on, and more openly, than any of his predeceffors had done; infomuch that three-hundred French vejfels,from twenty to two-hundred tons, were, on one day, feen to enter Smyrna-bay to load corn; and wheat was then fold for less than feventeen pence English,a bushel, with all the expences in puting the fame on board included. From thofe open proceedings, the janifaries and people took the alarm, pretended that all the corn was going to be exported, and that they, in confequence, must be ftarved; and in Conftantinople, grew fo mutinous, that they could not be appeafed till the vizir was ftrangled, and his body thrown out to them., His fucceffor took particular carenot to fplit on the fame rock, and would fuffer no exportation at all; many of the farmers, who looked on the expor tation as their greatest demand, neglected tillage to fave their rents, which in that country are paid either in kind, or in proportion to their crops, to fuch a degree, that in less than three years, the fame quantity of corn, which in time of export, fold for not quite feventeen pence, was worth more than fix fhillings, and the distress of the people in Symrna was fuch, that every bake-house and magazine of corn, was obliged to have a military guard, which took care that no one perfon fhould have more than a fixed quantity; and fo ftrictly was this order obfervHow far the farmer may by expor-ed, that an English fhip in the Turkey tation, for which we give a bounty, be trade was detained from failing fomeprompted to till, or by the prohibition time for want of bread. thereof generally or abfolutely, or by the fear of large importations, be difcouraged from tillage, our legiflators know; and the following fhort piece of hiftory, communicated to me by a The ill confequences of thefe proceedings were not removed in many years, and and to this day, the fate of the vizir, as an unfortunate good man, is lamented. While T AKE your potatoes, boil them, While we have a parliament, we A Receipt for making Potatoe bread. need not fear fuch ill confequences from the miftaken notions of the people, or the farmer; but, within memory, the people, in more parts of Great Britain than one, have proceeded to extremities upon as mistaken principles as the people at Conftantinople did in the cafe above related, and which, if they had not been timely checked, might have proved as much to their own difadvantage. peel them, and then rub them or break them to pieces into the flower, (either wheat or rye, or all wheat) then mix your dough as ufual, three parts flower and one of potatoes, this as the taste is, but once or twice baking, will make them the best judges. POETRY. To the PUBLISHER of the PERTH 'Tis English patch'd with Greek and DEAR MAGAZINE. EAR Sir, I hope you'll not refufe Thus gently breed her, Glamor, rixa, joci, mendacia, furta, GUL. LIL. Carm. Pæd. Latin, And praifes to give me that are not my due, For I'll tell you in truth how the cafe is. The Epigram, Sir, which you so much admire, Neither fprung from the two-headed mountain, Nor whispers of Mufes, nor Phabus's fire, Nor the waters of Helicon's fountain. Nathaniel Nettleton, Sir, is the name That the author takes; don't you obferve it? If not, fure the Publisher is not to blame; Nor I, who tranfcrib'd to preferve it. But what was his real name or place of abode, As he has not thought proper to tell, In me 'twou'd be whimsical and pretty odd. Such a mift to attempt to difpel. But to turn poetafter, I did not intend; When I wrote as a lover of Grambo: Tho' **As the Mufe evidently mifconfirues Horace's meaning here, (if not your correfpondents,) he does not feem to be quite fo expert at clearing dark extracti ons as Philanthropos fuppofes. P. C. Where you flatter her pride-by your claret and port, Which you quafft her with so much profufion. For my part I take you upon your own word, And believe you intend no offence, Sir; Be'ng confcious that what I had wrote could afford Provocation to no man of fenfe, Sir. But let not my Muse's impertinence to Edinburgh, Jan. 4th. } you Between us raise difputes or quarrels; 1773. Philo-Crambo. For freely return, as moft justly your P. S. Please excufe, Sir, the length their two grand-uaug....... WTwo hufbands with their two wired Two fathers with their two daught BuTwo mothers with their two fons, FoThe MINUTES of the Select Comm tee, appointed by the HOUSE COMMONS, to enquire into Eas INDIA Affairs. of this tedious epiftle, Accept o't-and fend me a better; Then follow't yourself, Sir, and let's wet our whistle, Without faying More on the matter. Infcription for General WOLFE's Monument. Ritania's fons, here turn a weep (Continued from page 85, VOL. II Bigeye, BR Veneris, 8 die Maii, 1772. Petition of Gregore Cojamaul rea Gregore Cojamaul-to give an a count of the circumftances of his bei taken up, and confined, to the time his releasement, and imbarking f England. F On the 14th of March 1768, Raja Bulwantfing's officer feized me at Ba Fort, and told me, it was in conf quence of an order the Rajah had r ceived from the Calcutta Governo Mr Verelft.-I was then taken to di ferent forts under forty men, wh guarded me. On the 17th they pu Ime in a boat, where was another pri foner, an Armenian gentleman, name Melcomb Philip. We were carried t Chauncey, where I received letters o B condolence from the Rajah and hi minifters on my imprisonment, and ap probation of my conduct. ofome days. we were carried VOL. III. Pay here to WOLFE the tribute of a figh: To WOLFE, who in his country's caufe expir'd, By patriot virtue, and true glory fir'd? The charms of eafe, the gen'rous youth withstood, Left peaceful fields, for fields of duft |