AMERICAN PAPERS, &c. [xxx. 690.]. To the King's Moft Excellent Majesty. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE your Majesty's dutiful and loyal fubjects, the representatives of the freemen of the government of the coun⚫ ties of Newcastle, Kent, and Suflex upon Delaware, in general affembly met, most hambly beg leave to approach the throne, and in our own, and the names of our conflituents, to testify and declare our unfeigned and inviolable attachment, by principle and affection, to your reval perfon and government, and that we glory in being your subjects. We acknowledge with the utmost fincerity of heart, the tender and indulgent regard you have hewn to all your people from the beginsing of your reign, and that earnest deGre to make them easy, safe, and happy, under your government, however remote from your royal prefence. We want words to exprefs the deep lenfe we have of your great condescen⚫ fon goodness, and justice, in most gracioully hearing our complaints against the late American stamp-act, and giving your royal affent to the repeal thereof; and cannot omit this occafion of reiterating our gratitude and most humble thanks for the fame. [xxviii. 419.] We are perfectly latisfied that we lie under all poffible obligations to our parent-country; we acknowledge all due fubordination to the British parliament; we are convinced that it is our interest, as well as duty, to use our conftant en deavours, by every act of gratitude, o bedience, and loyalty, to endear ourfeltes to every branch of that auguft body, and to preferve that union and harmony between G. Britain and thele coloties, on which the fafety, strength, wealth, and happinefs of the whole empire fo much depends. But permit us, Royal Sir, as lovers of Britain and our excellent conftitution, as folicitous to enjoy the rights and liberties of freemen and Englishmen, and to tranfmit them to our pofterity, as your faithful and loyal subjects, to prostrate our felves at your royal feet, and humbly to implore your gracious attention to the following particulars, which ftrike us, and all the good people we reprefent, with the most dreadful apprehenfion and adiction. With the most humiliating forrow we have beheld your Majefty's ancient colo ny of New York deprived of her legitlative authority by an act of the late British parliament; and with equal concern we obferve, that duties for the fole and express purpose of railing a revenue in America, have been lately impofed, by other acts of the fame parliament, upon several articles of commerce imported into thefe colonies which we are obliged to purchase. By the operation of these acts, our affembly will be no longer the reprefentatives of a free people, but deprived of the right of exercising their own judgements, in confulting the good and profperity of their conftituents; our money will be taken from us without our confent, and we fhall not be allowed the opportunity of thewing our willingness to contribute towards the support of government, adininistration of justice, and defence of our country. Thefe measures and proceedings appear to us truly alarming; and if continued, or drawn into example, must, in our humble opinion, be totally deftructive of our property, liberty, and happiness. This fenfe of our deplorable condition will, we hope, plead with your Majesty in our behalf, for the freedom we take in dutifully remonftrating against the proceedings of a British parliament, confeffedly the wifeft and greatest assembly upon earth. But if our fellow-fubjects of G. Britain, who derive no authority from us; who cannot, in our humble opinion, reprefent us; and to whom we will not yield in loyalty and affection to your Majefty, can, at their will and pleasure, of right give and grant away our property; if they can enforce an implicit obedience to every order or aft of theirs for that purpose, and deprive all, or any of the affemblies on this continent of the power of legiflation, for differing with them in opinion in matters which intimately affect their rights, interests, and every thing that is dear and valuable to Englishmen; we cannot imagine a case more miserable; we cannot think that we shall have even the fhadow of liberty left. We conceive it to be an inherent right in your Majefty's fubjects, derived to them from God and nature, handed down from their ancestors, and confirmed by your royal predeceffors and the conftitution, in perfon, or by their reprefentatives, to give and grant to their fovereign those things things which their own labours and their own cares have acquired and faved; and in fuch proportions, and at such times, as the national honour and interest may require. Your Majesty's faithful subjects of this government have enjoyed this ineftimable privilege uninterrupted from its first existence till of late. -They have at all times chearfully contributed, to the utmost of their abilities, for your Majefty's fervice, as often as your royal requifitions were made known. And they cannot now, but with the greatest uneafinefs and diftrefs of mind, part with the power of demonftrating their loyalty and affection to their beloved king. When it is confidered, that your Ma. jefty has a negative upon our laws, and the fole execution of them; that our governor is only during your royal pleafure; and all honours and distinctions are derived from the crown, it is humbly hoped, that the dependence of this colony on the mother-country will appear to be fufficiently fecured. We are not infenfible, that it must fill your Majefty with concern, to perceive any uneasiness among your fubjects, and to fee claims fet up by one part of your dominions denied by another part; we alfo know, the wisdom, valour, wealth, grandeur, and power of your fubjects within the realm, may intitle them to your royal favour in preference to the people on this continent: but we are your fubjects alfo, and we fubmit our cause to your juftice, prudence, and goodness; thefe, we reft allured, will appear in our behalf. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE most humbly afk pardon for prefuming to give your Majesty the trouble of this reprefentation, which has proceeded from our love to our country, our care for our posterity, and the paffionate concern we have for our darling liberty. Our only hope, next under God, is in your Sacred Majefty, that by your great wisdom and goodness we fhall be relieved from our present distressing ap. prehenfions. We therefore, Dread Sir, moft humbly implore your royal interpofition in our behalf; and we truft, as our fellow fubjects in Britain are generous, fenfible, and humane, this our application will meet with a favourable iffue. Permit us to repeat the unfeigned pro feffions of our unalterable fidelity a affection to your Majesty's facred per and government, our zeal for the con nuance of the Proteftant fucceffion your illustrious house, and our tender fection for our parent-country; and, the fame time, to express our most f cere and ardent wishes, that your Maj fty's reign may be long, happy, and g rious; and that all your pious endeavo for fupporting the religious and ci rights of your fubjects, may be blef with the most profperous fuccefs. Signed by the order of the Hou State-Houfe, 0.27.1768. JOHN VINING, Speaker Some new experiments on the prefervati of corn, by M. du Hamel. From the history of the Royal Academy Sciences at Paris, for the year 1765, j published. THE prefervation of corn requires t indifpenfable operations: The f to deprive it of the moisture it contai which would foon occafion rottennel and the second, to fecure it from the vage of animals and infects. We should be deceived, if we imagin that the fort of drying which corn receiv from the fun and the external air, at ti time of its maturity, took away from a fufficient degree of moisture to keep from fpoiling. This drying may at m be fufficient to hinder its being damage fo long as it is kept in fheaves in the ba or elsewhere; but other precautions a neceffary to preferve it, when it threshed out, and feparated from its e In the first trials made by M. du H mel he employed the action of the ven lator: He laid up his corn in a wood cheft with two bottoms, of which upper was a fort of grating of wood vered with a canvas; and the pipe of a ve tilator, introduced between these t bottoms, forced, by the play of this i ftrument, the air to pafs through t whole depth of the mass of corn. T was already gaining much on the layi out and the manner of airing corn stirring it with the fhovel. But he fo perceived, that, unless this operatio which is always trouble fome and cofti was long repeated, the corn was still danger of being heated; and the vent lator, befides, did nothing more than di turb the infects, without destroying eith them or their eggs. He therefore fought after a more ef cacio cious remedy; and this was the ftove. orn dried by the ftove is fufficiently diafted of its humidity to be kept for a try long time without spoiling; and the eat of the ftove carried to a point fo as ot to damage the corn that is defigned or making bread, destroys equally the nfects and their eggs. Experiments have decided in favour of his method; and they alfo gave room > M. du Hamel to obferve feveral intestling particulars. They informed him, inftance, that the grains did not equally lose their weight; that the re moist lost more; that, notwithnding this lofs of weight, the grains t increased in bulk; that the grains, things otherwife equal, loft fo much more of their weight as they longer mained in the ftove; that they resumed part from the moisture of the air, if aced, on being taken out of the ftove, too cool a place; that it was an error believe that one might, by a greater eat, abridge the time of operation, and sat the moisture fhould have time to go at of the corn, to reduce itself into vayours, and pass away; that, though corn may be expofed, without running any to a heat of upwards of 100 defees of M. de Reaumur's "thermometer, șt a little more than 20 degrees may be ough; that corn dried in the stove was are eafily ground, and that the grindwas performed in a much morter me; that the flour abforbed more water an that of corn not dried by the ftove; at the dough kept itself more compact the oven; and, lastly, that it was much joner baked. The corn once dried, and the infe&s their eggs it might contain, being denoyed, it will be adviseable to lay it in lefts or bins of found wood that shut up ple, which will eafily fecure it from any mage rats, mice, birds, and cats may it. In the fame manner may be dried Hour, efpecially that fent in hogfheads aSroad, which, for want of this precaution, often spoiled before it arrives at the place of its deftination, The operation of drying corn by the Love is no way difficult. It is enough to throw it into a hopper placed above the fase, and it will place itself in proper order in the infide. When the operation is over, by only opening the paffage where it is to come out, it will fall of itSelf into the bags that are held to receive it. This method is now adopted in feveral VOL. XXXI. parts, but the best and most useful require often a confiderable time for being estabifhed. A Genuine letter from a NOBLE LORD to a R. R. PRELATE. My LORD, ******, June 15. 1754. Was yesterday informed, that your Lordfhip had laid your commands upon Mr ********, the vicar of this pa rifh, to repair to his living; your Lordfhip, it feems, being no longer difpofed to difpenfe with his non-refidence. The vicar and his friends give out, that this order is occafioned by a vote the vicar gave at a late election contrary to your Lordfhip's judgement. I do not pay the least regard to this reprefentation, nor have I any fufpicion that your Lordship was determined in this matter by any other confideration than a pious concern for the good of the parishioners. And on that account, I make my felf fure your Lordship will no longer infift upon Mr ********'s refidence with us, after your Lordship is informed that it is like to have a contrary effect. In fhort, my Lord, the parishioners of ****** defire to fee no more of their prefent vicar than they usually do, which is for about a fortnight or three weeks annually in partridge-time. They are a ferious good fort of people, and the dili gence, fobriety, good fenfe, and humanity of their prefent curate, are highly acceptable and edifying to them. This worthy man muft of courfe be difmified if the vicar comes to refide, and the people think they fhall be no gainers by the exchange. We acknowledge, my Lord, that Mr ******** has his accomplishments. He is a polite gentleman, plays a good fiddle, dances gracefully, knows whink perfectly, is no contemptible markiman at a partridge, or a woodcock, of an excellent taste, and exquisite judgement on the merit of claret and port, and by the firength of his head, is able to carry off his full thare of either, always with decency, and not feldom with glory. But the misfortune is, that the poor people of his parith have no opportunities of fitting under his miniftry when and where he is difplaying thefe admirable talents; and when it comes to their turn to profit by his paftoral gifts, it is an univerfal complaint, that their attention can not keep pace with his expedition, in read D ing ing the leffons and the prayers, and that their capacities cannot fathom the depth of his differtations on the Idea of Deity, Eternal Relations, or the Dignity of the Church, which last point he always con trives to touch upon either in the exordium or peroration of his difcourse. When the vicar is with us, the curate migrates to his master's other living, above fifty miles off, (though certified, by the by, to be only thirty); and what ever occafional duties are wanted in the interval, the parishioners are, for the moft part, obliged to have recourse to a neighbouring clergyman, as the vicar's engagements are not to be broken by fuch trifling avocations. Some little time before your Lordship's promotion to the Epifcopal bench, a motion was made in our houfe, for a bill to compel the incumbents of benefices yield. ing 1501. per ann. or upwards, clear of reprifals, to conftant refidence. The bench were in general against the motion, on account of the difcouragement this would be to learning, (as the motion was in effect defigned to exclude pluralities), and the bardfhip it would be on men of fuperior parts, to be confined to the performance of the ordinary parochial duty, which might be difchar ged by curates of much inferior qualifications; and to thefe were added an argument taken from the obligation there was upon the flate to protect the church in her rights and privileges. I did not, I own, comprehend the force of this reafoning; but however I ftruck in with the party against the motion, upon a plainer and more intelligible argument of my own, taken from the inconvenience of confining numbers of the more opulent and fashionable clergy, to their respective cures, with their in. triguing, ambitious, fecular, and fenfual Spirit about them. I thought then, and I continue fill to think, that they would be very bad examples to the people, and do more harm by their practice. than they would do good by their instructions. I expreffed my opinion, that where a man's confcience would not difpofe him to take the care of his parifi perfonally upon himself, he must have fome very unclerical qualities, which it could not be expedient for his people to imitate. I have known refident clerks, and fo perhaps has your Lordship, who have greatly contributed to corrupt their parifhioners, by their unedifying converfation, and the influence their fuperior fortun gave them. It is true, a curate may b vicious and diforderly, as well as a rect or vicar; but their bad example feldom doe any very extenfive mischief. Their im ftipend, and fubordination to their pri cipal, prevents their rifing to any gre degree of estimation, except what th purchafe by a virtuous conduct, and attention to their duty; and a poor fcou drel may always lay his account with ing contemptible. But this is a fubj which, being capable of fo clear illuft tion from facts, there is no occafion enlarge upon. And I have now only request your Lordship to confider as the amanuenfis of my well-me ing neighbours, fave only, that be interested in the fuccefs of their plication as a parishioner, I most he tily join in their request; and `am, Lord, your Lordship's most obedienti vant, [Lond. Ch.] SIR, 录 London, Jan. 17 MR Rouffeau having quarrelled " the magistrates at Bourgoin in D phine, hath obtained permiflion of minifter to take up his refidence in t principality of Dombes; and after departure the following notes were fo on a table in his apartments at B goin, which ferve as a confirmation the vanity and felf-importance of unaccountable man. I have attem a tranflation of them, which, toge with the original, I could with to communicated to the public through paper. Your's, &c. Lond. Ch Fugement du public, fur mon compu, les divers etats qui le composent. I ES rois et les grands ne difent p qu'ils pensent; mais ils me traite toujours genereusement. La vraie noblefle, qui aime la gl et qui fait que je m'y connois, m'hor et fe tait. Les magiftrats me haiffent, à caul torts qu'ils m'ont fait. Les philofophes, que j'ai dema veulent à tout prix me perdre, et firont. Les eveques, fiers de leur naifan de leur etat, m'eftiment fans me erai et s'honorent en me marquant de gards. Les pretres, vendus aux philof aboyent apres moi, pour faire leur Le peuple, qui etoit mon idole, ne voit of his faults, knows that I pardon him en moi qu'une peruque mal-peignée, et for them, and he would repair them if comme un homme décreté. he durft. Les beaux efprits fe vengent, en m’infitant, de ma fuperiorité qu'ils fentent. Les femmes, dupes de deux hommes qui les meprifent, batffent celui qui me ritat le mieux d'elles. Les Suiffes ne me pardonneront jamais le mal qu'ils m'ont faits. Le magiftrat de Geneve fent fes torts, fait qui je les lui pardonne, et les repajete teroit s'il osoit. Les chefs du peuple, elevés fur mes repaules, voudroient me cacher fi bien fin qu'on ne vit qu'eux. on Les auteurs me pillent, et me blament; deres fripens me maudiffent; et la canaille -mene büe. be Les gens de bien, s'il en eft encore, geeir miffent tout bas fur mon fort; et moi f hele le benis, s'il peut un jour inftruire les bartels. et Voltaire, que j'empeche de dormer, parodiera ces lignes; fes groffieres in**ures font un hommage, qu'il eft forcé de me rendre malgré lui. TRANSLATION. The judgement of the public concerning me, according to the different ranks which compose it. Kings and great perfonages fpeak not what they think; but they will altays treat me generously. The true nobility, who love honour, end who know that I am acquainted with honour me, and are filent. to The magiftrates hate me, on account the wrongs they have done me. The philofophers, whom I have unCked, are defirous, at any rate, to deroy me; and they will fucceed. The bishops, proud of their birth and k, efteem me without fearing me, and bonour to themselves by distinguishing alt with respect. The priests, flaves to the philofophers, grk at me to make their court. The people, whom I idolized, look e as a floven, and an ill-fated man. The men of genius revenge themselves infulting me, because they feel my fupriority. The women, dupes of two men who pile them, hate him who merits most rm them. The Swifs will never pardon me the ethey have done me. The magiftrate of Geneva is fenfible The chiefs of the people, elevated on my fhoulders, would conceal me fo effectually that none but themselves fhould be seen. Authors pillage me, and cenfure me; knaves curfe me; and the mob hoot at me. Good men, if there are any yet, filently lament my fate; and I blefs it, if haply it may one day inftruet mankind. Voltaire, whom I prevent from fleep. ing, will parody thofe lines: his grofs injuries are an homage which he is forced to render me, in spite of himself. SIR, Leigh, Jan. 16. 1769. IN the bills of mortality at London we often read two odd names, or titles, of distempers, which I fancy but very few know the meaning of, viz. Head mould foot, and Horfe shoe head, and which no phyfical author that I have met with, unlefs Allen, takes any notice of; yet but too many innocents are permitted to die of thefe two diforders, as do monthly appear in these mortality bills above faid. The first, or Head mould shot, is a diforder always born with children, i. e. they bring it into the world with them; and is no more than this, whence it takes its name: The edges of the skull at the futures, or feams, (especially the coronal, a little above the fore-head), o verfhoot or lap over one another, fo that the fibres of the meninges, as anatomists term them, or the membranes inveloping the brain, are fretched, or torn; and the brain itself, for want of due room, is likewife a little comprefled; whence fuch infants are often feized and carried off with convulfions; the cause of which calamity being unfufpected, is confequently often overlooked, or feldom found out. This disfiguration, by a long labour, or ftrainings of paffage, is generally produced in the birth. For the cure of which, call in a skilful furgeon, and let him dextroufly try by the motion of his hand, and the best of his art, carefully to extricate the overbearing edges of the fku I from each other, and by proper bandages to keep them fo. The second cafe is the Horfe fhoe head, called fo, because it fomewhat refembles the share of a horfe fhoe, by the vacancy and hollow dint it forms on the bead. This diforder is the very reverfe of the |