iv Derry Gown, &c. With "rafcal! and fcoundrel!" he falutes the poor clergy, And "get from my diocefe, firrah, I charge you!" They trembling expect the poor CARPENTER's fate, A kick on the britch, or a blow on the pate. V. His grace with his paffion, his pride, and his fury, Was fomewhat afraid to encounter a jury; Derry Down, &c. And, dreading the lawyers harrangues, and their clatter, Gave the Carpenter money to GLEW up the matter. VI. But the clergy afraid, and in awe of his grace, All tremble to fee his diftortation of Face: Derry down, &c. That his grace may confirm 'em each moment, they fear, Like the bishops of Rome, by a box on the ear. VII. Derry down, &c. Good God that lawn fleeves, and a rocket, and mitre, Should transform him thus to a bruifer and fmiter! And that no other bishop we know of alive, But this fon of a coachman his parfons can drive. VIII. His clergy, 'tis faid, with moft earnest devotion, Do heartily pray for his lordship's promotion: And fo eager are they for tranflating his grace, That they wish him fincerely in Lucifer's-place. gave 1 more i >Mr. an efti the pr tended The as the tion of pected fy-an weuld tainly fon. Mr.1 down, might quately Righ titioner County his age LION, U return ary. Mr. what w 511 means 6.] 1 Woollei contain house, tion of travaga yen on terial A by the manufa ployme grower Chan courage of peopl teret a clash, t the oth 1010101 JEM MY O THE GLEN. A favourite SCOTCH SONG. Auld Rob. the laird o ́muckle land, Tó · gvin me gas na pery blate. But spite o' a' his veer be fund He came to woo a day or late : A lad fabluch la full o' clee, my oute to the benefit of the frate, their very foles and exitavagancies are, not to mention that two-thirds of the tickets are fold abroad, by which confiderable accetion of cash is brought to the -country. A word has been faid concerning the gambling first introduced by lotteries. In answer he would only obferve, that while lotteries were I continued as a mode of finance in Great Britain, it would be ufelels to difcontinue them here. But he had fome fatisfaction in remarking, that the law of last feffion, by regulating infurance, had more effe&tually reftrained gambling, than any, law which abfolutely prohibited it would have done. Upon the whole, he believed the public would prefer the mode of reducing by lotteries the intereft upon this debt one-eight, to an excile upon the industrious trader or manufacturer; and being himself of this opinion, and convinced of the immenfe benefit that mult neceffarily refult to the national credit, he would maintain the utility of the late tranfa&tions, notwithstanding all the infinuations of disappointment. 7] Sir H Cavendish requested the attention of the House for a very fhort time. He faid, he underflood that the prefent would be but a very Thort feflion, and he had in a former feffion thrown out the idea of reducing the intereft of money. He had determined, in his own mind, to bring forward the meature-but he should not at the pretent make any motion on that head; at the fame time he was confident that the fubje&t ought to be agi ated; it was a subject of great national confequence, and the fituation and eir cumftances of the country were ripe for it; for his part, he fincerely wished that the measure Ghould originate on the fide of Administration; but if he found that they did not intend bringing forward fuch a mealure, he would, with very great humility, in the courfe of the prefent feflion, fudmit to the confideration of the Houfe a motica on that fubject. Chancellor of Exchequer, affured the Hcn. Baroner, that Government had for thefe two years pait entertained the idea of reducing the intereft of money; and with that view they fift adopted the principle of reduction of intereft, with lowering it on the public fund, which he faid was laying the foundation of a general reduction of intereft of money, and he should moft heartily concur with the hon. Baronet in any measure to extend the like principle to private fecurity. St H. Cavendish in reply faid, that there was more to the purpofe expreffed in the 5th of Geo. II. chapter the feventh, than if he was fpeaking for feven hours on the fubject. [On the 10th of March, 1731, which was the 5th of Geo II. the bill for reducing the intereft of money in this kingdom from 8 to 6 per cent. received the royal affent] Chancellor of the Exchequer then, without further pretace, moved for leave to bring in a bill to reduce to reduce the intereft of money from 6. to 5 per cen. Leave given and ordered, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Sir Henry Cavend th, do prepare and bring in the fame. Mr. Mafon brought up the report from the committee of ways and means. On reading the tobacco dnties, the duty on the importation of that article is reduced from 100. to 6d. and 4d which is the reduction transferred to the excife, fo that the duty on tobacco now tlands at 6d, customs, and 6d. excife, and the duty on manufactured tobacco, is at the rate of 160. for every five pounds manufactured. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved, that a licenfe duty of twenty pounds herling, be paid by every manufacturer of tobacco; and also, that a licence duty of ten pounds fterling, be paid by every perfon carrying on the bufinels of a pawnbroker-Which were agreed to. 8] A new writ ordered for a member of the county of Limerick, in the room of the Hop. Hugh Mafley, called up to the House of Peers. Sundry bills prefented. 9.] Right Hon. Secretary of State faid, he had a clause to move for, to be inferted in the bill, to promote the linen and hempen manufactures, which stood committed for this day, which be thought would very materially serve the linen manufacture of this kingdom in general. The claufe went to this effect-that the bounties granted for encouraging the growth of flax, and promoting a fufficient fupply of Irish flax-feed, which he understood was to be 7000l, should be diftributed in four equal proportions among the different provinces of this kingdom. He then moved, that the committee of the whole House, to whom said bill is referred, be impowered to receive the faid claufe. Mr. Corry faid, the claufe proposed by the Right Hon. Gentleman, involved a question of very great importance, no less than the welfare of our ftaple trade; and as the clause went to a total derangement of the present fyftem of this Linen Board, he hoped the commitment of the bill would be postponed for a few days, in order to give gentlemen fufficient time to confider maturely the natural and probable confequences of the claufe now moved for by the Right Hon. Gentleman, who he was well convinced, was a warm friend to the staple manufacture of this kingdom. Secretary of State affured the Hon. Gentleman, that if he imagined that the clause would be of the smallest prejudice to the linen manufacture of this kingdom, whofe profperity he had ever warmly at heart, he would be the last man in that Houle to propofe it; but he was of opinion, that the claufe he now moved for, would tend rather to ferve and increase the linen manufacture. The Chancellor of the Exchequer obferved, that the linen-bill was a money-bill, and by deferring it for any long time, it would be impeding the public business. It was then agreed to commit the bill on Wednesday next. Mr. D. Browne, after obferving on the nume rous ftatutes that are in force in this kingdom refpeating the fisheries, and that they are become to complicated, as are attended with much inconvenience, and in order to fimplify them, and bring them under one general head, he fhould move for leave to bring in a bill to explain and amend 1 amend the laws relative to the fisheries on the coafts of this kingdom. Mr. Corry perfectly coincided with the hon. Gentleman, that a revilal and digeft of all the fishery act, was rendered abfolutely neceffary. Leave was accordingly given to bring in the bill. Mr. Mafon reported the loan-bill; and on the Speaker's putting the question that the faid bill be engroffed, Mr. Parfons faid, he must once more trouble the Houle on the fubject of the loan bill. He declared he was by no means fatisfied with the ftatement of the lottery, as made by a Right Hon. Gentleman on a former right: In his opinion there remained 20,000l. to be accounted for fomewhere; and this he deduced from the lofs on 400,000l. borrowed at three one-half per cent. which by the three one-half debentures being now at 90, makes it amount to 40,000l.-But by the tickets iffuing to the fubfcribers, at 61. 108. there was a profit of 60,000l.-Out of this deduct the lofs on debentures, and he wanted to know what becomes of the remaining 20,000l. ? he denied the affertion made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, that a reduction of intereft on the public funds had taken place: He faid it was not a reduction in fact, but it is only a fining down; and he brought it home by comparing it to paying a rent of 80l. a-year for a house, but you reduce to 70l. a-year by paying down tool. This, he faid, was exactly the cafe with Government. He faid, if Government could get money at three one-half per cent, debentures would be now at par, infead of being only at 90. He condemned the measure adopted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, of making, what he termed, a close bargain for the fale of lottery tickets. He looked upon lottery tickets as a commodity at market, and the greater number of purchasers that offer ed, the price gained would certainly be the high er. He also reprobated the system of a close bar gain, for another reaton-for if there ever fhould be, in this country, a Minifter as corrupt, as the prefent Minifter is virtuous, he might turn it to the wort of purposes! On the whole, he was fo confident of the fallacy of the statement made by the Right Hon. Gentleman, on the fubject of the loan, that he declared, he fhould ftate his objections to it in print. Chancellor of Exchequer obferved, that the Hon. Genileman had allerted that no reduction on the intereft of the public fun is had taken place, this was an affertion he did not well understand, when the fact was, that 400,000l. were borrowed at three one-half per cent. The Hon. Gentle E PQE SONNET. man has objected to a close bargain; and he has faid, that if a different mode was adopted, in the negociation for the lottery, more bidders would have offered; but that was a general affertion which did not by any means apply. In England the advantage rifing from a clole bargain have been experienced for several years, and is now the mode conftantly adopted. He asked, would the Hon. Gentleman have Government hawk about the tickets, one by one? He must also in form the Hon. Gentleman, that tickets are a very fluctuating article; and he knew it to be a fact, that within three weeks of the drawing of the tatt lottery, there was a variation of twenty fhillings in the price of tickets. The Chancel lor of the Exchequer now once for all contended, that a profit to the nation had accrued of 38161. annual faving, by means of the terms on which he negociated the lottery, namely, 2000l. on debentures reduced from four to three one half per cent. and 18161 on treasury bills reduced from 4. 11s. 3d. to 31. 16s. o h. per cent, intereft; which fum of 38161. would pay the interelt of 95,000l. at four per cent.-and he likewise informed the Hon. Gentleman, that the purchasers of the lottery, mult make a depofit in the course of the current year, of 800,000l., which advance would, in all probability, be attended with fome benefit to Government, and certainly not to any emolument to themselves.. Mr. Parfons faid a few words in reply-it was then ordered that the bill be engrossed, Mr. Malon urged the orders of the day. Mr. Burgh (Oldtown) called the attention of the Houle to what he ftated, as of infinitely more importance than any of the orders, or any fubjects that have been brought before Parlia ment for a length of ume. He adverted to the fituation of public credit, fo long as the question of reducing intereft remained undifpofed of-the effect of a pause or irregularity in what was proverbially, and well termed the pulse of the nation. He wished much that the public should at least have the latisfaction of knowing when that mat ter was to be difpofed of. Leave had been unanimoufly given for the ipecific purpose of reducing interett. The Minifter of the Finance of the country was to bring it forward. He could not help expreffing fome furprise that he had not done fo previous to the introduction of the loan, as the mealure, if carried, must have enabled him to have treated with contractors on so much more advantageous terms to the public, particularly as the loan was biennial. (To be continued) In every breaft fhall reign ove's powerful fire, Txernal fofines of the ring year ret into Soon all creation at his altar bend. But vain for me, the fpring her charms dif Share our lives in your battles, we wish for no But fhare of that freedom which you hold fo dear, He heard their demands, found them loyal and So prefented Hibernia with freedom the trust;' On their spears let them grave it, on their knees. it adore, May they keep it unfullied till time is no more; On their tombs be it written, fo fhall after years Blefs the day that gave birth to our brave Volunteers. So you that are loyal, the bottle come fill,Let the giffes move round with a hearty good will; Since difcord no longer between as appears, Let the toast be King George and our brave Volunteers.> Epifle from bis Holiness the Pope to Jofeph II. Argumenta ad hominem, et rem.♥: READ ton of a Church, which I hope you revere, DREAD Incline your attention, and lend me an ear. But firft (which I hope you will do without preffing) Accept, on your knees, Apoftolical bleffing. Time was when the rulers of nations would Non ficut erat in principis nuno nec femper, nec in fæcula læculorum. Tempoia nutantnr, et nos, &c. Ultima Popei venit jam criminis ætas I know the old fellow loves Latin; part of the above is from his own Prayer-book-One muft thow one's larning now and theo. Be i |