612

Mr URBAN,

I will couce unter confideration of T is much expected the corn trade parliament this next feffions. Whether the bounty allow'd on corn exported is of real fervice to the nation in general, will be the fubject matter of confideration. I must confefs myfelf to be one of those who think it is not. The corn trade I will call a manufacture, and rank it amongst the best branches of tradewe have; but that, as well as any other of our manufactures, we must fell as B cheap abroad as our neighbours, clie we fhall foon lofe our trade. It then may be asked, why we cannot fell our corn abroad as cheap as other corn countries, without allowing a bounty? The chief reason, I think is, becaufe our corn lands are too high rented, in proportion to the corn lands of our neighbours. Inftead of remedying this great evil by fuffering the lands to fink to their natural value, it has been thought proper to allow a bounty, which I call an artifi cial value, and of no manner of service to the farmer, fhipper off, or any individual in the nation, but the land-owners, as every penny of it in my opinion goes into their pockets.

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2. 49) for if other corn countries ty, which, if it ex right policy, here fhould give their exporters a like boun-

may be adopted by them) we must double our bounty or lose the trade, which demonftrates that it is not on a natural but an artificial foundation.]

Exported from the Port of Charles Town, from Nov. 1, 1751, to Nov. 1, 1752. of Carolina Produce. Rice 77,002 barrels 2,265 half b. 180 bags Pitch 20,483 barrels Tar 2,651 barrels Turpentine 6,271 bar.

Deer fkins 370 Hhds.
Beef 519 barrels
Pork 1000 barrels

Corn 15.731 bushels
Peafe 4,384 bufhels
Leather4,111 hides

Imported there during that Time.

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Suppofe the growth of corn for two years to be alike in quantity and quality: Suppose the first year as much was fold as came to 100,000l. Suppose the next year the corn lands were lower'd in rent juft 100,000l. as much fold for export as the year before, and at the fame price as when the bounty was not taken off, Is it not plain the profit to the nation in general is the fame the fecond year as the firft? Is there not as much caf brought in, as much in the farmers pockets, the shipper off, and to every individual concerned? Of what real F fervice then is this bounty? Why truly I can fee none! It only takes from trade annually as much as the bounty comes to, and, as I faid before, puts itinto the land-owners pockets. I have much more to fay on this fubject, but am afraid you'll think this too long.

G

A CITIZEN. [Another gentleman hints, that if a fum was given (suppose, as above, or double, by parliament) to the land owners for which they fhould proportionably fall the rent of their tehants, it would be a great advantage to the nation; it would fave a prodigious H fum which is paid to officers; it would prevent giving bonds and much trouble to the merchant, and a great deal of perjury and frauds, (See Vol.xiii,

Mufcovado fugar 140 Hhds. 47 tierces, 3 boxes and 458 bar

Mortality for 1752.

Among authors.

7000

3000

Bit by mad dogs 300 Bit by a viper

10

Broken bones

2

329 Bruifed

3

558

Executed

17

Hard-bound 369 Yellow-fever in

Killed themselves 15

Starved

2079

1263

120

A

A.

Bfolution popifh 398
Abufes, feveral com-
plain'd of 82

Academy for paint-
ing, English, at Rome 288
Accidents 141,238,286F,333F

381

Accommodate, a medish phrase
in Len Jobnfon's time 3
Action in matter, new princi-
ples of
498,570-1
Actors, a fett of young ones
feized
190
Ats iv. 12. fenfe of 167
Acts paffed
140
Acts,concerning coroners, ac-
count of 407. relating to
the militia, abstract of 441
Addifox, Mr, his remark on
tragedy
254 note
Addreffes. London to the king
534. Bath to the Princefs
Amelia 381. Briftol 429
Admiralty, feffions of 89
Adventurer, a new paper, ac-
count of 521. Extracts from

522,601
Advertisements, remarkable
382,429,475-6,534
Alian confuted in the cafe of
Socrates
57-8.
Elian bridge defcrib'd 459
Age, great, inftances,f 143.
240,289,385,434,536

336

Ague cured by electricity 442
Air, general ftate of for 1751
152
Albanians, their bold attempt
433
Alberoni, Cardinal
Aldermen elected 286, 381.
Lift of
382
Alga candy'd 324. Of the na-
ture of Manna ib. Sugar
from it
325
Algebraical and Arabic terms,
in aftronomy, exploded 100
Al Souls College, trial in rela-
tion to a fellowship of 139
Allegories, diftorted by the

Rabbins and Fathers 306
4p, Mr,chofen ld mayor 285

171

228

Angelo, St, castle of 459
Animal growth and oecon. 19
Antigallican fociety, distribute
their rewards 381. Offer
other premiums
564
Antiquities, Roman infcrip-
tions found at Cerenza 155.
Bafs-relief 175. In Wilt.
fhire
408
Aphorifms on bathing 20
Arden of Feverfham, his trage-
dy
555
Arian opinion of the trinity
216
Ariofo, ftory from 130
Aristophanes, not inftrumental
in the death of Socrates 57-8
Armstrong's hiftory of Minor-
ca, account of 393, 394-5.
Extracts from it
ib.
Army, model of the prefent
dangerous 249. Not a de-
fence for our fea coafts 392
Art of preaching 194
Articles, 39, amendments in
propofed
445
Artificial well
132
Artifts, restraining, to one
trade, hurtful!
Afcites cur'd by scarifying 457
Abley, fentenced for pe jury
190. Pillory'd
Affizes

359

354
188-9, 39
Affociation to preferve the
game defended'
597
Aftronomical lecture, extraoi-
dinary one 99. Calculations,
uncertainty in

του

.ments in

204

401

443

397

565
395

346

Coney Island defcrib'd
Convocation,rights of afferted g
Convulfions in children, reme-
dy for
Cook, Mr, his extraordinary fu-
neral
385
Corn exported, bounty on,hurt-
ful 358. Beneficial 410-11
412. Spaniard's remarks
on 465. Objections against
the bounty further answer'd

561,605
Coralloids, uncommon ones
156 with a plate
Coroners, account of the act
concerning
407
Corfica, commotions in 434,
538,585

Covent Garden journal,extracts
from 26,27-9. Articles of
news from ib. Oppofed by
feveral writers 29. Further
extracts from 53-55, 130,
314,412

moved

Coventry number of houfes and
people in
347
Cough, pulmonary, how re-
458
Country fquire, story of 250
Courayer, excellent paffage
from
Courts martial
Cranes, three, that purchase
425
374

10 tons each

445

Cranfioun, Capt. his character
117. Inftigated Mifs Blan-
dy to poifon her father ib.

116

Creating power communicable

to creatures

14
Crefted fly catcher, colou. 572

Curate's letter to his fifter 213
Cure, remarkable, by electrici
ty
363
CUTS, Ramsgate harbour 18.
Of a contrivance to regulate
windmilis ib. Monument

for Smithfield 23. Yorkshire
maiden 32. Artificial rud-
der 56. Machine to raise
water 68.
A monftrous
birth 76. Plan of London
hofpital 103. Of ancient
Roman infcriptions 106-7-8.
Of a meteor in America 129.
Ebbing and flowing well 132
Antiquity at Cerenza 155.
Head of Caxton 170. Bals-
relief at Wilton 175. Indian
curiofities 212. Inftrument
to measure the growth of
plants 219. Statical diagram
229. Cromleech 230. Gran-
ville's monument 257. The
nightingale 265. Traps and
cages for that bird 267-8.
Engine to turn squares 271.
The painted finch and linnet
277. Head of Henry IV. of
France 303. Long Meg and
ber Daughters 310. The red
wing'd ftarling and candle
berry myrtle 317. Bin for
poultry 319. Dundugan fort
ib. Of a new electrical ma-
chine 327. Porcelain ma-
nufactory at Worcester 348
The cuckow of Carolina 364
A Roman infcription 402.

Parrot of Carolina coloured
412. The fox coloured
thrush 474. Crefted fly cat-
cher (See Plates) 572
Cyder, directions to make 517
Cyprefs of America, defcr. 412
Czarina, her public fpirit 433,
480

Eaftern, mourning 351. La-
dy, favourite station of 350
East India, company, courts of

. 140. Ships arrive 381.
Advices from 430. Victory
in 582. Ships, foreign, speech
on a bill to prohibit infe-
295

rance on

401

East Indies, opening the trade
to, the best way to make it
fleurish
248
Ecclef. xii. 2-5, no allegory 306
350. The differtation on
Edinburgh, to benlar g'd and
prais'd, &c.
Egyft, abounds with falt 311
improv'd
Electrical experiments 76,229,
263,335,560. New machine
for 327,383. In coal mines

Elec

477