NUMBER II. Propofitions from the Court of Directors for an agreement with the Public on the following terms. 1. THat from the net annual profits of the company's trade there fhall be deducted, for the benefit of the company, fix per cent. on their capital, (which was the dividend to the proprietors before they had poffeffion of the Dewannee), and the remainder fhall be equally divi ded between the public and the company. 2. That the faid net profits thall be afcertained as follows. [By an account ftated by the company's accountant, of the net profit of the company's trade for the year 1768, it appears, 11.45 That the freight due for one year. cent. on the company's grofs fales is That the intereft on bonds, more than what is due from the public, is That what is due to private-trade proprietors, for goods belonging to them, included in the company's fales is That the difcount is And in lieu of warehouse-rent, falaries, and all other charges I.4 3.22 6.5 5 27-57 And in cafe of a war in Europe, these charges to be 32 per cent. The form, therefore, of making up the account will be as follows. There fhall every year be taken an account of the company's grofs fales for one year, ending the 1st of March, to which fhall be added luch fums as may be paid into the company's treafury in England for bills drawn on the prefidencies in India and China. And from the faid account shall be deducted the expences on the faid fates, confifting of the following articles. What fhall be due for bills drawn upon the company in England for the like vaJue paid into their treasuries in India and China. The amount of all goods and bullion exported. What fhall be due to government for indemnity on tea. And in lieu of freight, and all other charges whatever, twenty-feven one half per cent. and in cafe of a war thirty-two per cent. as before stated. The remainder, after thefe deductions, fhall be deemed the net annual profit o the company's trade.] 3. That the faid profits fhall be, exclu five of bullion, imported to Eupe from India during the term of five years, which the company agree fhall be equally divi ded between them and the public. 4. That the company fhall not be re ftrained from dividing eleven per cent. o their capital at Midfummer 1769; and when their fimple-contract debts bearing intereft are discharged, they may divide twelve one half per cent. for the re mainder of the five years, the time of this agreement. 5. That the company's proportion be yond the dividend of twelve one half pe cent. mentioned in the preceding articles fhall be applied to reducing the bond debt to what is due from the public to the company and if in the course of the faid five years the fame debt fhall be dif charged, and a furplus remain, fuch furplus fhall be lent to the public at two per cent. 6. That the company's capital be in creafed 400,000 1. each proprietor of 800! ftock to have 100l. additional stock at 250 per cent. 7. That the company's charter be prolonged fourteen years beyond the prefent term, for which they agree to pay the fum of 500,000l. in the course of the year 1769. 8. And that the company be impowered to borrow on bond 400,000 1. Though these two propofitions were offered to the Lords of the Tresfury, for them to make choice of the one that fhould appear beft calculated to comprehend the mutual advantage of the public and the company; yet it is natural to fuppofe, that No II. has been rejected. as there has been no notice taken of it by their Lordships. After the propofals were read, the chairman informed the proprietors, that the court of directors had, on the prece ing day, taken into confideration the an fwer they had received from the treafuryboard, and had come to the following refolution. "At a Court of Directors held on Tuel day the 20th of December, 1768, ReJolved, THAT it be recommended to the court of proprietors, to concur with the propo fitions from the board of treasury, as contained in the 1st, 20, 6th and 7th articles of the directors propofitions; but that a further reprefentation be made, fetting forth the neceffity for a prolongation of the charter for five years, and of a power being given to borrow 500,000l. on bond, in cafe the exigency of the company's afairs fhould require it; and that it be farther reprefented, that the company have no intention of leffening the value of their exports, yet nevertheless cannot confent to lay themselves under covenant to do that which must depend upon the fiate of the markets abroad, there being already a specific claufe in the charter relative to the exports." After which a debate enfued, which lafted until past five o'clock, when it appeared to be the sense of a great majority of the proprietors who fpoke, that the propofition (even though every article of it had been agreed to by the Lords of the Treasury) had not been formed upon a plan fuitable to the interests of the company. They feemed to be all unanimous in thinking that a fhare, and a liberal one too, fhould be allotted to the public from thefe foreign revenues; but that if the money is to be paid in England, the pu blic fhould not be fecured in a fixed determinate fum, whilft the proprietors were left to all the contingencies incident to an Indian war, besides those of commerce, in bringing home the returns of their merchandise, and the produce of their foreign revenues. SKETCH of a MORAL and POLITI- By Mr MOSER, Envoy from the Elector RUSSIA. THE motley creation of Peter, called the Great, imitators of all Europe, except Rullians; a country taught to rear the produce of fouthern climates to vapid life, and to neglect its own vigo rous offspring; hiftory, mathematics, geography, a general balance of trade, inhuman intrepidity, flavery, favage glare of wealth. SWEDE N. Private industry; public profligacy; a ftate abroad enslaved by bribes, and ruled at home by the fmell of furloins; the country of Linnæus and Artedi. DENMARK. A nation of voluntary flaves to a race of good-natured Kings: Dutch plodding; fome fenfe, no genius. POLAN D. The asylum of Socious; the fcymetar fupreme judge of right and wrong; of liberty and slavery. HUNGARY. The phantom of a people once free, vigorous, and acute; the clergy ruling; the prefs curtailed; the nobility creftfallen; a foil rich by nature, poor by po, licy. BOHEM I A. Moral forefts and deferts. GERMANY. Its heroes, like Italian pictures, fhew best at a diftance: the reft parcel out to deserts, petty tyrants, priests, pedigreed beggars, and pedants, and all her neighbours know Germany. Yet this is the mother of Arminius and Frederick; of Leibnitz and Wolfe; of Handel and Graun; of Mengs and Donner; of Winkelman and Reimarus. It alfo appeared, that the directors had been by no means unanimous in the above refolution of their court.-Some of them gave very forcible reasons for their dissent; whilst others with equal confidence, (and one of them with fome vehemence), fupported their opinions in having agreed to it, yet it was evident they had been led to make these offers, rather from a perfuafion that they could not obtain better terms from the prefent ministry, than from a conviction that they were confiftent with the intereft of the company, or even fuch as in their own opinion the company had a title to ask, and would have obtained, if they had not concluded fach an abfurd bargain two years ago. Upon the whole, the debate was carried on with great moderation and good order, and, what is rather remarkable in Lea-- A country through all its ages fertile of denhall-street meetings, with less animo- patriots, though now plethoric with ty and acrimony without than within the wealth, and unftrung by public indobar. Publ. Adv. lence. A nobility once full of republican metal, (neaking by degrees into courtiers. SWITZERLAND. The land of liberty. Trade, tafte, knowledge, difcovery among the Proteftants, vigour in all; defpilers of death; flaves of money abroad. Abroad a contemptible swarm of valets, clerks, officers, artifts, fchemers; the leeches of fools. HOLLAN D. Here Here are scholars, civilians, la orious triflers, trade. Here abfence of mifery is happiness; indifference, contentment; profit, bonour. Here fentiment is nonfenfe; plain fenfe, wit; jollity, pleasure; pofleflion, enjoyment; money, the anchor of minds, the gale of pallions, the port of life. ENGLAND. The domain of liberty and property, the country of extremes. Virtue is here divine, vice infernal. Here are liberty of confcience, political liberty, civil li berty, commercial liberty, liberty of thought, tongue, and pen, to and beyond the limits of the most profligate licence; news-papers, magazines, pamphlets, registers; heaven and earth a job; turfs, cockpits, clubs, Maccaroni's, blackguards, ftocks, lotteries, schemes, lame ducks, clever fellows, humour, and Novembers big with fuicide; post-chaifes, Italian mufic and pictures, but few ears or eyes; the neft of foreigners; the country of Shakespeare, Newton, Hogarth. FRANCE. The county of CITOYENS and MODE. Here things are estimated by their air a watch may be a mafter-piece, without exa&iness; and a woman rule the town, without beauty, if he has an air. Here life is a dance, and aukwardness of ftep its great difgrace. Character here is diffolved into the public, and an original a name of mirth. Cela le fait, & cela ne se fait pas, are here the fupreme umpires of conduct. Their religion is fuperftition, fathion, fophifm; the ladies lay on rouge in equilateral fquares, and powder with brick-duft. Tyranny may grind the face, but not the countenance of a Frenchman; his feet are made to dance in wooden fhoes. The parliaments refemble an old toothJefs maftiff. France was the country of Le Sueur and Racine, and is that of Voltaire. SPAIN. The dregs of a nation two centuries past, the arbiters of Europe, and leaders of difcovery. Still fenfe, fagacity, and cool courage, are tamely fubmitted here to the iron yoke of inquifition; and each note of humanity drowned in the yells of Dominic's victims. The prerogatives of fociety moulder here in provincial archives. These are the execrable lords of one hemisphere, and the humble factors of Europe. To see a fceptre in the gripe of women: Confeflors and favourites make uo characteristic of Spain; nor is the An unweeded garden, its inhabitants flies bred on a dead horfe. -Slavery, and licence. Each moral principle the pimp of pampered organs: The country of arts, tricks, caftration, and banditti of Raphael, Goldoni, Farinelli, Archangeli. To JOHN WILKES. I Cannot, my friend, conceal my fur prife at this your fecond refolution of being an Alderman; I am fure it cannot be thine own free will and choice: I know thou despisest the grandeur and vanity of this world; thou only doeft this to please thy friends in power; or (as fome people fay, though I cannot believe it) thole, I know not whether to fay in or out of power, the Mobility. Thou canft not think that an Aldermanfhip will add any happiness to thy life; for if thou thinkeft that feafting, which is the characteristic of an Alderman, will give thee any pleasure, alas! how art thou mislaken! it is a pleasure that lasteth but for a moment, it vanitheth away like a dream, and it is gone. Perhaps thou expecteft to reap fome joy from the grandeur of that carriage which is faid to be now building for thee; but let me tell thee, my friend, it is nought but vanity: though the populace fhould yoke themselves, and (fince I have not heard thou art at prefent master of any other a nimals) draw it for thee, it could not give thee half the happiness that innocen cy could; innocency, that jewel of the foul, which not all the jewellers of Eng land or Paris, nay not even thofe jewels thyfelf haft obtained, can equal. There fore, my friend, I advile thee to retire, and efcape from the noife and vanity of the world, as foon as thou art able: retire to fome place diftant from this troublesome town, where thou maye live in true felicity with thy wife and fa mily, fometimes, whilft thou looke back with forrow on thy time foolishly confumed in thefe frivolous contentions, remembering thy true and faithful friend and adviser. A QUAKER AME AMERICAN PAPERS, &c. [xxx. 690.] WE Your Majelly's dutiful and loyal fubjects, the reprefentatives of the freemen of the government of the coun⚫ ties of Newcailles K-nt, and Suflex upon Delaware, in general affembly met, most humbly beg leave to approach the throne, and is our own, and the names of our confituents, to testify and declare our rfeigned and inviolable attachment, by prin ple and affection, to your roval per In and government, and that we glory in being your fubjects. We acknowledge with the utmit fincerity of heart, the terder and indulgent regard you have then to all your people from the begin ning of your reign, and that earnest defire to make them eafy, safe, and happy, under your government, however remote from your royal prefence. We want words to express the deep fenle we have of your great condefcenfor goodness, and juftice, in most gracally hearing our complaints against the late American ftamp-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 intereft, as well as duty, to use our conftant en deavours, by every act of gratitude, o bedience, and loyalty, to endear ourfelves to every branch of that auguft body, and to preferve that union and barmony between G. Britain and these colonies, on which the fafety, ftrength, wealth, and happiness of the whole empire fo much depends. But permit us, Royal Sir, as lovers of Britain and our excellent conftitution, as folcitous to enjoy the rights and liberties of freemen and Englishmen, and to tranfmit them to our pofterity, as your faithful and loyal fubjects, to proftrate our elves at your royal feet, and humbly to plore your gracious attention to the flowing particulars, which strike us, and all the good people we reprefent, with the most dreadful apprehenfion and adiation. With the most humiliating forrow we ny of New York deprived of her legit. lative authority by an act of the late British parliament; and with equal concern we obferve, that duties for the fole and exprefs purpose of raising a revenue in America, have been lately imposed, by other acts of the fame parliament, upon feveral articles of commerce imported into thefe colonies which we are obliged to purchase. By the operation of these acts, our af fembly will be no longer the reprefenta. tives 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 fhewing our willingness to contribute towards the fupport of government, administration of justice, and defence of our country. These 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 act of theirs for that purpose, and deprive all, or any of the aflemblies on this continent of the power of legiflation, for differing with them in opinion in matters which intimately affect their rights, interefts, and every thing that is dear and valuable to Englishmen; we cannot imagine a cafe more miserable; we cannot think that we fhall 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 constitution, in perfon, or by their reprefentatives, to have beheld your Majefty's ancient colo- give and grant to their fovereign those 2 things which their own labours and their own cares have acquired and faved; and in fuch proportions, and at fuch times, as the national honour and intereft may require. Your Majefty's faithful fubjects 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 uneafiness and diftrels of mind, part with the power of demonftrating their Toyalty 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 diftinctions are derived from the crown, it is humbly hoped, that the dependence of this colomy 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 uneafinefs among your subjects, 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 caufe to your justice, prudence, and goodness; thefe, we reft affured, will appear in our behalf. Moft Gracious Sovereign, WE most humbly afk pardon for prefuming to give your Majefty the trouble of this reprefentation, which has pro'ceeded from our love to our country, our care for our pofterity, and the paf fionate concern we have for our darling liberty. Our only hope, next under God, is in your Sacred Majefty, that by your great wifdorn and goodness we fhall be relieved from our prefent diftreffing apprehenfions. We therefore, Dread Sir, most hum'bly 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 iflue. Permit us to repeat the unfeigned pro feflions of our unalterable fidelity affection to your Majesty's facred per and government, our zeal for the com nuance of the Proteftant fucceffion your illustrious house, and our tender fection for our parent-country; and, the fame time, to express our most cere and ardent wishes, that your Ma 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 blei with the most prosperous fuccefs. Signed by the order of the Hou State-House, Oct.27.1768. JOHN VINING, Speake: 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, ja published. THE prefervation of corn requires to indifpenfable operations: The fir to deprive it of the moisture it contain which would foon occafion rottennef and the fecond, to fecure it from the r vage of animals and infects. We should be deceived, if we imagine 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 me be fufficient to hinder its being damaged fo long as it is kept in fheaves in the bar or elsewhere; but other precautions an neceffary to preserve it, when it threshed out, and feparated from its ear In the first trials made by M. du Ha mel he employed the action of the venti lator: He laid up his corn in a woode cheft with two bottoms, of which th upper was a fort of grating of wood co vered with a canvas; and the pipe of a ven tilator, introduced between these tw bottoms, forced, by the play of this in ftrument, the air to pafs through the whole depth of the mals of corn. This was already gaining much on the laying out and the manner of airing corn by ftirring it with the fhovel. But he foon 'perceived, that, unless this operation which is always troublesome and coftly was long repeated, the corn was still in danger of being heated; and the venti lator, befides, did nothing more than difturb the infects, without destroying either 'them or their eggs. He therefore fought after a more effi cacious |