the article was too good for those who had no judgment. a man, Thus, Sir, you fee, that ruin ftares this imprudent man in the face. Nor is this all: I have heard too that my daughter is likewife become an excellent horsewoman, and takes her leffons from Mr. who, it is faid, is no lefs famous for his ignorance than his impudence. No wonder fuch fellows get money while trade is daily declining. Pray, Sir, fay fomething about Riding-fchools and Boxing-fchools, if you regard my peace, and wish well to Old ireland and its rifing generation. Yours, Τ ABRAHAM ALLSPICE. Account of a new Difeafe, which bas lately appeared in Canada. HIS diforder is fomewhat like the fib bens of the Scotch, a disease certainly not owing to a combination of the itch and a venereal complaint, and in its symptoms and appearances, it very much resembles the account which the physicians of the fixteenth century gave of the fyphilis. Doctor Swediau'r thus defcribes it :It first manifefts itfelf generally by little ulcers on the lips, tongue, and infide of the mouth: but very rarely in any other part. Thefe little ulcers are of a very corrofive nature, and were observed in many children to have nearly deftroyed the tongue. table and increafing referve for the evening of our days. Not to tire you, Sir, it is about two years fince that we retired from business. Our daughter, who was brought up by her mother in a notable way, taking a liking to our shop-man, whofe friends could do fomething for him, we retired, after feeing the young folks married, and left them comfortably fettled in a good shop, and, what was better, a good trade tacked to it. Now, Sir, about a year ago, my fon-in-law paid a vifit to my rural retreat, which is about forty miles from the metropolis. My dame and I were glad to fee him, as it was on a Sunday, but advised him to fet off by day-break the next morning, in order to be in his business again as foon as poffible. But judge of my An furprife, Sir, on being told that he had taken a young man into his fhop, who was ve ry honeft, knew his bufinefs, and had been with him fix weeks; therefore, Daddy Allfpice, continued he, I mean to spend a week with you, and endeavour to divert myself by fifhing which you know I am very fond of. Touched to the quick, I replied with fome gravity, "Young man, I know of no fuch thing; I imagined when I gave you my daughter, that I was beflowing ner on a very different character than what I now fear I fhall find you. You feem to forget, by the free manner in which you treat me, that you once was humble, moleit, and industrious: these qualifications won upon my efteem, and induced me to give you my child." Perceiv ing my young gentleman look a little fullen, I thought proper to add, "I'll tell you what, Mr. Sloper, I have property in my hands to aflift you in your bufinels, if you are difpoled to attend it. But know this, that though I would fupport you as an honest tradefman, and a good husband, yet I have no means to throw away upon idienefs and diffipation." This remark feemed to have the defired effect; his brow became cleared, and, after fpending the day with me, he fet off again for town. On parting with me, he not on. ly confeffed hindi fenfile of the juftnefs of my conduct towards him, but affured me, that I fhould never have occafion to regret our relationship. But, Sir, I have had reafon, and, except you aflift us with your advice, my dame and I cannot fupport our afflictions. I have been lately informed that he has for fome time ftudied the art of boxing, in which he is become fo expert, as to be honoured with the approbation of the different mafters; and that the other day, as a refpectable country dealer was about making a purchase of fome fugars, he happened to find fault with a fample that my fon recommended, who, inftead of taking his chapman over, as was ever my way on fuch occafions, thought proper to tip the poor man a Mendoza, declaring at the fame time, that They firft appear in the form of little puftules, filled with a whitish purulent matter, the poiton of which is fo infectious, that it communicates with the fame spoon, drinking out of the fame mug, by fmoaking tobacco with the fame pipe; nay, it is even obferved, that it is communicated by linen cloth, &c. This poifon being abforbed from the ulcers, as it often happens, originally absorbed, without any external fymptoms whatever, breaks out afterwards either in large ulcers, or manifefts itself by violent nocturnal pains of the bones: the ulcers breaking out in the fkin or mouth diminishing the pain of the bones. The fymptoms are often accompanied with buboes under the arm, in the throat, or groin; which fometimes inflame and fuppurate, at other times remain hard and indolent. Such patients feel pains in different parts of the body, which increafe during the nighttime, or when they take fome violent exercife. This is the fecond stage of the diforder. In the third ftage, tetters, itching crufts or ulcers, appear coming or going in different parts of the body. The bones of the nofe, palatum, cranium, clavicula, tibia, arm and hand, grow carious, or tophi appear in several of these bones. At laft pains of the breaft, cough, lofs of appetite, fight, hearing, and falling off of the hair, close the scene before death: but fometimes all these symptoms appear at the very beginning of the difeafe. This dreadful diforder lurks in the conftitution many years, without giving any figns of its prefence; and fometimes even continues after the fymptoms have appeared without any manifeft exacerbations. It is cured, like fyphilis by diaphoreties and alterants, particularly by mercury. I Partridge Shooting,-A Rhapsody. Have drawn blood! in extreme hafte my gun is charged again, and I move on with pleafing trepidation--The partridge whirls from the pointer's nofe, and I take more certain aim-but drawing the trigger I difcover that in my hafte I had forgot to prime. Now with my eyes only I purfue the happy fugitive; and this fo occupies my thoughts that difappointment cannot find admittance; befides, I exult in the reflection, that had my piece gone off I should most certainly have killed my bird; and while I am engag ed in exultation, and in priming, the re A Curious Phenomenon, related by James St. mainder of the covey takes wing and points T John, M. D. HAVE fometimes obferved a phenomenon to take place during the putrefaction of human bodies, and which I cannot but think of great importance to be inquired into and known. This is the exhalation of a particular gas, which is the most active and dreadful of all corrofive poifons, and produces moft fudden and terrible effects upon a living creature. This I have more than once have had an opportunity of remarking in the diffecting room of M. Andravi, at Paris. I know that the carbonic acid gas, produced by the combuftion of charcoal, from liquors in fermentation, and by the respiration in animals, as well as all other elaftic fluids, except vital air, is incapable of fuftaining life; but the aeriform fluid, which has exhaled at certain times from animal bodies in putrefaction is infinitely more noxious than any elaftic fluids as yet difcovered; for it not only is incapable of fuftaining life, in the abfence of vital air, but is dreadfully deleterious, and does not at all feem to abate of its corrofive property, even in the prefence of the atmospherical fluid. So that it is utterly dangerous to approach a body in this ftate of putrefaction. I have known a gentleman, who by flightly touching the inteline of a human body, beginning to liberate this corrofive gas, was affected with a violent inflammation, which, in a very short fpace of time, extended up almoft the entire of his arm, producing an extensive ulcer of the moft foul and frightful appearance, which continued for feveral months and reduced him to a miferabie state of emaciation. He then went to the fouth of France, but whether he died, er efcaped with the lofs of his arm, I have not been able to learn. I have known a celebrated profeffor who was at tacked with a violent inflammation of the mares and fauces, from which he with difficulty recovered, by ftooping for an inttant over a body, which was beginning to give forth this deleterious fluid. the direction, we must follow. We now proceed, beating each field with unrelaxing diligence: we try fwathe oats, or wheat, or barley ftubbles; then look the clover; or turnips are more likely; in fhort, each piece of land we enter gives fresh hopes. We are fire they must be there; but having beat this field and that in vain, we have better founded hope of finding in the next adjoining; nor does expectation droop beneath repeated difappointment; at length the dogs are certain in the turnips, and we approach with ardour heightened by delay. 'Tis now a fportfman only can relish what I feel. The dogs ftand immoveable as blocks of stone, and the heart beats with rapture at the approaching moment, while I cautioufly examine whether I have primed or not. At length a partridge arifes with rustling noife and fpreads his wings-my well aimed gun quickly ftops him in his flight and kills him on the spot. This is the moment which a novice in the field would think the highest pitch of joy ; but he is mistaken, the pleasure ceases with the victory; the lifelefs animal is negligently thrown into the bag, and all the eagerness of hafty charging is repeated, left other birds fhould rife while I am unprepared. Thus the happiness of sporting, like that of every other object, is more in expectation than enjoyment; and having confined my illuftration to the country gentlemen, or fportimen, let none who ever drew a trigger at a partridge, presume to judge of extacies which they may think over-rated; but let them remember that energy, even in trifles, is neceffary to conftitute felicity in active minds; and that he who fecks happiness with indifference in any purfuit of life, will never find it; he must be in earnest whatever he undertakes, and what he does he must do heartily. ANONYMOUS. Political The Political Hiftory of Europe for the Year 1786. TH С НА Р. 1. (Continued from Page 488) HE chief objects of the additional propofitions were to provide, ift, That what ever navigation laws the British parliament hould he cafter find it neceffary to enact for the prefervation of her marine, the fame fhould be palled by the legislature of Ireland. 2dly, Againft the importing into Ireland, and from NO TE S. IV. That it is highly important to the general interefts of the British empire, that the laws for regulating trade and navigation fhould be the fame in Great Britain and Ireland; and, therefore, that it is effential, towards carrying into effect the prefent fettlement, that all laws which have been made, or shall be made in Great Britain, for fecuring exclufive privileges to the thips and mariners of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British colonies and plantations, "fuch laws imposing the fame reftraints, and conferring the fame benefits on the fubjects of both kingdoms, should" be in force in Ireland," by laws to be paffed by the parliament of that kingdom for the farme time, and" in the fame manner as in Great Britain. V. That it is farther effential to this fettlement, that all goods and commodities of the growth, produce, or manufacture of British or foreign colonies in America, or the Welt Indies, and the British or foreign fetlements on the coalt of Africa, imported into Ireland, should, on importation, be fubject to the same duties" and regulations" as the like goods are, or from time to time shall be fubject to, upon importation in to Great Britain; or if proh bited from being imported into Great Britain, fhall in like manner be prohibited from being imported into Ireland." VI. That in order to prevent illicit practices, VII. That for the like purpofe, it is alfo ex- identify the remainder, if fhipped at any further period, new certificates should be granted by the principal officers of the ports in Ireland, extrac ted from a register of the original documents, Specifying the quantities before shipped from thence, by what veffels, and to what ports. VIII. That it is effential for carrying into ef fect the prefent fettlement, that all goods exported from Ireland to the British colonies in the Weft Indies, or in America," or to the British fettlements on the coaft of Africa," fhould from time to time be made liable to fuch duties and drawbacks, and put under fuch regulations as may be neceffary, in order that the fame may not be exported with lef's incumbrance of duties or impofition than the like goods fhall be burdened with when exported from Great Britain. IX. That it is effential to the general commercial interefts of the empire," that fo long as the parliament of this kingdom hall think it adviseable that the commerce to the countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhall be carried on folely by an exclufive company, having liberty to import into the port of London only, no goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhould be importable into Ireland from any foreign country, or from any fettlement in the Eaft Indies belonging to any fuch foreign country; and that no goods of the growth, produce or manufacture of the faid countries fhould be allowed to be imported into Ireland but through Great Britain; and it shall be lawful to export fuch goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of any of the countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope to the Streights of Magellan from Great Britain to Ireland, with the fame duties retained thereon as are now retained on their being exported to that kingdom; but that an account fhall be kept of the duties retained, and the net drawback on the faid goods imported to Ireland; and that the amount thereof fhall be remitted by the receiver-general of his Majesty's cuftoms in Great Britain to the proper officer of the revenue in Ireland, to be placed to the ac count of his Majefty's revenue there, fubject to the difpofal of the parliament of that kingdom; and that whenever the commerce to the faid countries fhall cease to be carried on by an exclufive company in the goods of the produce of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope to the Streights of Magellan, the goods fhould be importable into Ireland m countries from which they may be importable to Great Britain, and no other; and that no veffel fhould be cleared out from Ireland for any part of the countries from the Cape of Good Hope to the Streights of Magellan, but fuch as fhall be freighted in Ireland by the faid exclufive company, and shall have failed In the course of the debates upon the propoftions as they flood with these amendments and additions, that which met with the most vigo NOT E. failed from the port of London; and that the fhips going from Great Britain to any of the faid countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope fhould not be restrained from touching at any of the ports in Ireland, and taking on board there any of the goods of the growth, produce, or manufacture of that kingdom." X. That no prohibition should exift, in either country, against the importation, ufe, or fale of any article, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other; except fuch as either kingdom may judge expedient, from time to time, upon corn, meal, malt, flour, or bilcuits; " and except fuch qualified prohibitions, at prefent contained in any act of the British or Irish parlia inent, as do not abfolutely prevent the inportation of good or manufactures, but only regulate the weight, the fize, the packages, or other particular circumittances, or prefcribe the built or country, and dimenfions of the thips importing the fame; and alfo, except on ammunition, arms, gunpowder, and other utenfils of war, importable only by virtue of his Majetty's li cence;" and that the duty on the importation of every fuch article (if fubject to duty in either country) fhould be precifely the fame in the one country, in confequence of an internal duty on any fuch article of its own confumption, confequence of internal bounties in the country where fuch article is gown, produced, or manufactured, and except fuch duties as either kingdom may judge expedient, from time to time, upon corn, meal, malt, flour, and bifcuits," or in XI. That in all cafes where the duties or articles of the growth, produce, or manufacture of either country, are different on the importation into the other, it is expedient that they should be reduced, in the kingdom where they are higheft, to an amount not exceeding" the amount payable in the other; "fo that the fame fhall not be less than ten and a half per cent. where any article was charged with a duty, on importation into Leland, of ten and a half per cent. or upwards, previous to the 17th day of May, 1782;" and that all fuch articles fhould be exportable, from the kingdom into which they shall be exported, as free from duty as the fimilar commodities or home manufactures of the fame kingdom. XII. That it is alfo proper, that in all cafes where the articles of the confumption of either kingdom fhall be charged with an internal duty on the manufacture, the said manufacture, when imported from the other, may be charged with a farther duty on importation, adequate to countervail the internal duty on the manufacture "as far as relates to the duties now charged thereon;" fuch farther duty to continue fo long only as the internal confumpthall be charged with the duty or duties to ba.. ce which it shall be impofed; and that where there is a duty on the importation of the raw material of any manufacture in one kingdom, greater than the like duty on law materials in the other, luch manufacture rous oppofition (independent of such general reafoning as went against the system altogether) was the fourth, in which Great Britain, it was afferted, affamed both a present and future power to bind Ireland by fuch acts as the should pass re lative to the trade and commerce of both kingdom. N O T E. may, on its importation" into the other kingdom," be charged with fuch a countervailing daty as may be fufficient to fobject the fame, fa imported, to "burdens adequate to the fe which" the manufacture composed of the like raw material is fubject to, in consequence of duties on the importation of fuch material in the kingdom into which fuch manufacture is to imported; and the faid manufacture, so imparted, thall be entitled to fuch drawbacks or bounties on exportation, as may leave the same subje& to no heavier burden than the home-made manufacture. XIII. That, in order to give permanency to the settlement now intended to be established, it is neceffary that no new or additional duties fhould be hereafter impofed, in either kingdom, on the importation of any article of the growth, produce, or manufacture of the other; except fuch additional duties as may be requifite to balance the duties on internal confumption, pursuant to the foregoing refolution, or in confe. quence of bounties remaining on fuch articles when exported from the other kingdom.” XIV. That for the fame purpose, it is neceffary, farther, that no prohibition, er new or additional duties, shall be hereafter impofed in cither kingdom, on the exportation of any article of native growth, produce, or manufacture, from "the one kingdom" to the other, except fuch as either kingdom may deem expedi ent, from time to time, upon corn, meal, melt, flour, and bilcuits. XV. That for the fame purpose, it is necess fary that no bounties whattoever should be paid or payable in either kingdom, on the exportation of any article to the other, except fuch as relate to corn, meal, malt, flour and biscuits," and except alfo the bounties at present given by Great Britain on" beer, and spirits diftilled from corn; and fuch as are in the nature of drawbacks or compenfations for duties paid; and that no bounty should be "payable" on the exportation of an article to any British colonies of plantations, or to the British fettlements on the coaft of Africa," or on the exportation of any article imported from the British plantations, "or from the British fettlements on the coaft or Africa, or British fettlements in the Eaft Indies;" or any manufacture made of fuch article, unless in cafes where a fimilar bounty is payable in Great Britain, on exportation from thence, or where fuch bounty is merely in the nature of a drawback or compenfation of or for duties paid, over and above any duties paid thereon in Britain; and where "any internal bounty fhall be given in either kingdom, or any goods manufactured therein, and fhall remain on fach goods when exported, a countervailing duty adequate thereto may be laid upon the importation of the faid goods into the other kingdom." XVI. That T doms. This was flated to be directly in the renounced-That it was bartering the liberties teeth of what had been folemnly ftipulated be- of Ireland for the advantages held out to that twixt the two kingdoms, namely, that Ireland kingdom by the fyftem now propofed, and therewas in future only to be bound by her own fta- by purchafing Irish flavery at the expence of tutes-That it was a refumption of the right of English commerce. legiflating for Ireland, which this country had NOT E. XVI. That it is expedient for the general benefit of the British empire, that the importation of articles from foreign countries" fhould be regulated from time to time in each kingdom on fuch terms as may "effectually favour" the importation of fimilar articles of the growth, product, or manufacture of the other; except in the cafe of materials of manufactures, which are, or hereafter may be allowed to be imported from foreign countries, duty-free; and that in all cafes where any articles are or may be fubject to higher duties on importation into this kingdom, from the countries belonging to any of the ftates of North America, than the like goods are or may be subject to when imported, as the growth, produce, or manufacture of the British colonies and plantations, or as the produce of the fifheres carried on by British fubjects, fuch articles thail be fubject to the fame duties on importation into Ireland, from the countries belonging to any of the ftates of North America, as the fame are or may be fubject to on importation from the faid countries into this kingdom." XVII. That it is expedient that measures fhould be taken to prevent difputes touching the exercife of the right of the inhabitants of each kingdom to fish on the coaft of any part of the British dominions." XVIII. That it is expedient "fuch privileges of printing and vending books as are or may be legally poffelled within Great Britain, under the grant of the crown or otherwife, and" the copy-rights of the authors and book fellers of Great Britain, fhould continue to be protected in the manner they are at prefent, by the laws of Great Britain; and that it is just that measures fhould be taken by the parliament for giving the like protection of the copy-rights of the authors and bookfellers of that kingdom. XIX. "That it is expedient that regulations fhould be adopted with respect to patents to be hereafter granted for the encouragement of new inventions, fo that the rights, privileges, and reftrictions thereon granted and contained, fhall be of equal duration and force throughout Great Bitain and Ireland." XX. That the appropriation of whatever fum the grofs hereditary revenue of the kingdom of Ireland (the due collection thereof being fecured by permanent provifions) fall produce, after deducting all drawbacks, re-payments, or bounties granted in the name of drawbacks, over and above the fum of fix hundred and fifty-fix thoufand pounds in each year, towards the fupport of the naval force of the empire, to be applied in fuch manner as the parliament of Ireland fhall direct, by an act to be paffed for that purpose, will be a fatisfactory provifion, proportioned to the profperity of that kingdom, towards defraying, in time of peace, the neceffary expences of protecting the trade and general interefts of the empire. With refpect to the laft propofition, which ftipulated, that whenever there fhould be a furplus of the revenue of Ireland, over and above the fum of 656,000 1. fuch furplus fhould be applied to the fupport of the British navy, it was urged, that if this was held forth as a compenfation for advantages voluntarily refigned by Great Britain, nothing could be more fallacious, the prefent net revenue of that kingdom being little more than 333.000 l, and therefore little more than half the ftipulated fum, over and above which the furplus only was to be applied in aid of the public revenue of this country. The arguments which were offered generally, and against the whole of the proposed system, went chiefly upon the fuppofed injury which the manufactures and commerce of Great Britain would fuftain from it: the former, from the comparative fmall price of labour in Ireland, which alone, it was contended, would foon enable, that kingdom to underfel us both at home and abroad; the latter, from the facility with which it was well known the revenue laws in Leland were evaded. The impoffibility of preventing the clandeftine importation of a variety of the most important articles was strongly infifted on; and it was added, that the competition which would arife betwixt the two kingdoms, which would fell cheapest, would of courfe encrease the evil. Finally, it was argued, that fuch was the nature of the propofitions, that in whatever proportion one country might benefit from them, in the ve ry fame the other would become a lofer; and that as to Ireland, whether the advantages gained on her part were great or fmall, they were to be purchaled at the price of her liberty. In favour of the fyftem it was argued, that it was a measure of abfolute neceffity, in order to put an end to the difcontents which prevailed to fo alarming a degree in the fifter kingdom. That if the preient propofitions were not paffed into a law, all that had already been done in favour of Ireland would prove nugatory, as it was clearly inadequate to the expectations of that country. That with respect to the fourth propofition, it was a condition which the fafety of our own navigation laws made it neceffary to annex to the boon granted to Ireland.That it was unfair to infer from hence that the British legislature had any views of trenching on the independence of Ireland, fince it left to that kingdom the option of taking or refufing the advantages held out to her, fubject to fuch a condition. That the condition itfelf was fuch as had frequently been adopted in the negotiations of independent states -as in the late treaty between this kingdom and France, when the latter bound herself to publish certain edicts, as foon as other edils ftipulated on our part were published by this country (a). Y y y 2 NOT E. With (a) In answer to this argument, Mr. Fox replied, that in the case stated, one nation bound |