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DIVINITY and MORALITY.

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CONTENTS.

Hiftory of the last feffion of PARLIAMENT. || MEDICAL OBSERVATIONS.
Of the additional duties on news papers, &c.
561. and on coals exported 564. Of the
new annuities ib. Of loans to the King 565.
Proceedings relating to the high price of corn
566.

A locked jaw

cured 578.
A worm bred in the liver ib.
Convulfion-fits cured by electrification 580. Dr
Pye of a periodical blindness ib. M. Fournier
of the hemeralopia 581. Of the virtues of the
farfaparilla root ib.

BUFFON's table of the probabilities of the dura-Anecdotes of Dean SWIFT and STELLA 585.
tion of the life of man 568. Of insurances on
lives 569.

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progrefs of the fifter-arts 571. Mr Cibber's
ode for the King's birth-day ib. To Mifs P. B.
of W.
lls ib. Paftora and Thyrfis, a fong
572 Dr Free's ode to the King of Pruffia ib
On feeing a butterfly light on a gaily-dreffed
young lady 590. Epigram ib.

Discoveries at HERCULANEUM 573.
An account of the battle of AGINCOURT 577.
An examination of the act of the Affociate fynod

against the FREE MASONS 583. The form
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ry-court 584.

HISTORY. Schweidnitz taken by the Auftrians
590. Berlin infulted by them 591. Motions
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rians 598.

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The biftory of the last feffion continued. [523]

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O the remarks in our laft, on the refolutions of the ways and means committee, we have to add thefe following. The refolutions of March 21. for laying additional duties on news-papers, almanacks, and advertisements, occafioned fome buftle, not only in London, but also in many other parts of the kingdom; as thefe duties not only affected great numbers of people, but might probably put an end to that fort of bufinefs by which many of them then fupported themselves and their families. For this reafon a multitude of petitions VOL. XIX.

would, no doubt, have been presented

against thefe duties, if it had not been

for that rule of the houfe, which has
been most reasonably, and indeed necef-
farily established, Never to admit any
petitioners to be heard against a money-
bill. However, fome of the persons
to be affected, took care to have their
reafons againft thefe duties, printed, and
delivered to the members; and their
reafons were fo briefly and diftinctly sta-
ted, and fo decently drawn up, that
they deferve to have a place in this hi-
ftory. They were intitled, Confidera
tions on the propofed additional duty on news-
papers and advertisements; and were as
follows.
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"As a fcheme has been propofed to the legislature for laying an additional duty of a halfpenny upon all news-papers, and alfo an additional duty of one filling upon every advertisement inferted in them; and as there is great reason to believe, that the miniftry have, with refpect to the general ftate of news-papers, been mifinformed; we hope it will not be deemed impertinent to reprefent that branch of trade in a true light,

And, firft, As to the additional duty on the paper. It is generally agreed, that the money collected, by means of the duty already fubfifting, has hitherto exceeded the moft fanguine expectations of the government; and that increase has arifen merely from the induftry and application of people in the trade, who have, with great labour and expence, ftruck out, as it were, a new method of raising money for his Majesty's fervice, referving only a very fmall pittance for themselves; as will be proved in the fequel.

It is a truth univerfally acknowledged, and capable of the cleareft demonftration, that thofe who fet up any news-paper, labour a great while, perhaps many years, without producing any benefit to themselves, but to the government only; and if they chance to fucceed, (which does not always happen), it would furely be unreasonable to deprive them of the fruits of their la bour, without adding any thing to the public revenue.

But, in the first place, it is neceffary to fhew, that the prefent profit of thefe people will not enable them to pay fuch

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the experience of every day. It fol.
lows, therefore, that the profits of the
proprietors arife folely from the adver
tifements; which makes it neceffary to
ftate that account likewise.
Let it be fuppofed, that this paper has

forty advertisements; and, excepting
a few of thofe printed in London, half
the papers publifhed in England have
not twenty; and if the advertisements
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as much as ought to be reckoned, as
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Now, if only 21. 2s. 6d. (making no allowance for loffes by accidents or bad debts) remains as a profit on this account; it follows, that the proposed additional duty of 81. 1 s. 6d. and 21. making in the whole 101. 1 s. 6 d. cannot be paid. To pay it for the fale of the paper, is impoffible: for fuppofing the purchafer will agree to give a halfpenny more for the paper, it will bring in no more to the proprietor; fo that the lofs on the fale of the paper will be fill the fame. Neither can it be paid from the advertisements; for as many who gave three halfpence for the paper,

* It will appear, by comparing the commissioners account of the money received from the duty on advertisements, with the number of papers printed, that the number of advertisements here allowed is confiderably more than are really inferted. will

will not pay two pence, fo likewife many of those who used to advertise in it, will, on that account, withdraw their advertisements. The paper muft there fore be dropt, as being no longer worth the proprietor's confideration, and the government will lofe 101. 1 s. 6d. which it received on the publication of every paper. Not to mention the cruelty of depriving people of the long-expected fruit of their labour; or the public, efpecially the trading part of it, of the emolument it might receive by that me thod of intelligence.

It ought likewife to be obferved, that the value of advertisements in every paper, is estimated by the number of papers that are fold. For as the bufinefs of advertifing is to make fome want or fome commodity known, the more any paper fells, the more effectually is that purpose answered. And as increafing the price of the paper will undoubtedly affect the fale, fo will it alfo leffen the number of advertisements: for no man will so often be at the expence of advertifing in a paper, when it fells only two thoufand, as when it fold three; and not at all, perhaps, when, notwithftanding this difadvantage, he is to pay a fhilling extraordinary for each advertifement.

It is also very evident, that the large profit accruing to the government from the duty on advertisements, arifes from the great number of them that are published; confequently all meafares that tend to inhance the price of them, muft leffen their number, and of courfe the amount of the duty. This may be demonftrated, by referring to the ftampoffice for an account of the duty on advertisements for any number of years before and after the year 1731, when they began to be reduced to the prefent low price; from which time it will appear, that the great increase of advertisements took place.

This duty may likewife be confidered as a tax upon learning and ingenuity; for bookfellers will not be fo ready to purchase works of learning and genius, when they find this additional difficulty and expence in making them public.

There are, in town and country, above fifty news-papers printed; and it is well known, that far the greatest part of them do but little more than pay expences; thofe therefore muft inevitably fall, whereby many families will be reduced to extreme indigence, and his Majefty deprived of the duty they paid when these papers exifted.

It must also be confidered, that the mifchief which will be done by this fcheme to news-papers, especially those in the country, will be irretrieveable. If they are once loft, they are loft for ever: for as the raifing one of these papers is attended with many years labour and very great expence, few will be inclined to adventure a fecond time, after having once found, that a compensation cannot be fecured for their trouble; nor will they indeed be able, when the people they employed are difbanded, and their little fortunes thus fhipwrecked.

Add to all this, that reducing the number of news-papers, muft fenfibly affect the revenue arifing from the duty on paper manufactured in this kingdom.

Upon the whole, if this fcheme is intended to increase the revenue, it will, if reconfidered, appear to be altogether unfit for the purpofe; and the very experiment may do what the government will wish to have undone, viz. it may deftroy a great many news-papers, rain. many families, and moft fenfibly affect his Majefty's revenue." -Thus end the Confiderations.

But, in our prefent circumftances, it was abfolutely neceffary to borrow a large fum of money for the public fervice, and it was equally neceffary to contrive fome new or additional tax, as a fund for anfwering the growing intereft of that money, and fuch a fund too as might be fatisfactory to those who had the money to lend; and though great numbers of our people are fupported by the printing and bookfelling bufinefs, yet as it is a trade which does not here, as it does in Holland, increase our exports, and bring money into the kingdom, it was thought more adviseable to chufe a tax, by which that trade might be in fome degree affected, than

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