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This Day are published, in Four limp Volumes, hew. with Ninety4ix Quarto Plates, elegantly swayed, Price Three Guineas in lairds, RECREATIONS in MATHEMATICS and NATURAL PHILOSOPHY; containing amusing di.. 'mations and enquines concerning a variety of sub,eela, the most remarkable and proper to excite curiosity and attention to the whole range of the mathematical and philosophical antes; the whole treated in a pleasing and easy m.nnr r, and adapted to the comprehensiol of all who are the Ica,: in iti.ited in those sciences. First composed by M. Osatum, of the Royal Academe of SCMICCII. dm. Paris; lately recomposed and greati: eillar;nd, in a new edition, by the celebrated M. Moutucla ; and now firs translated into English, and impnive.l with many addition: and observations, Hr citAurs HUTTON, LL.D. and F.R.S. And Professor of Mathematics in the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich " Mathematical truth, naked and unadorned, possesses charms in the eyes of only the NAVA ; to allure many votaries, it mint be decked out with embellishments, mutt iulLanse curi. esity by half veiling and half exposing its mysteries .1114 se• crets, and ITIUA TO - Jae ambition and vanity by the promise of knowledge and power. For this mid, few books are better cats eulated Wan the volumes before us: the ample title pace of which sufficiently annotwers their contents, and not u ) if.iity indicates their merit. They teach much with little .160.biP, Ilk . little forena!ity ; they require no continual strain of at tension and stud.' ; and they endeavour to arrimge coven th.l mat simple truths under the must pleasing forint. - Moothiy Review May, 1504. hinted ler G. Kearsley, Fleet street, London. LIfPLRIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—FittoAv, MARCN IS Preview to the Order of the flay heing entered upon ; Lord AUCKLAND called the attention of their Loolshito to a sore which he cnneeited to he of vary serious and weighty importance and relative to which something decisive °twit to take place before the end of the S-imion. The Noble LAM seemed to refer to eases of a similar nattre with that now prn.lin; with respect to the ro:eedinge ;n the isistanoe of Mr. Justice Fox. With a reference to the principle he had so contemplation, lie acquainted their I.noiships, that he ;Mudd, on Tuesday next, bring forward three Poipositims for the con sideration of the Hover, in the shape of Motioro ; bung hastily run user by his Lordship, appeared to tire following effect tot That a Committee be appointed to search for Pin Aents of Cases of a Member of th.rt House bringing forward, in his place, accusations or charges against an individual, either upon his own authority, upon hearing, or upon the authority or in formation of Wier., &c. 2d. For an Inquiry into Precedents of the Modes of Proceed ing adopted us 'bet House in cases of charge. made arainst in diiiduals, otherwise than matters of Record, or by Petitions presented to th.it House ; and !id. For an EXallailliai PI into Precedents respectong Com plaints exhibited :vine any of His Majesty': Juilgts previous to the Act of Kiug William the Third, SIC Hia Lordship then mold, that the Lardy be sitoinioned for '1 weedily next. Lord GRENVILLE expressed his opinion, that a question ariiing out of the inunided Motion fi rst &sallied by the Noble Lord, should be refitted to the cunsAeration if the Twelve Judges. Lead AUCKLAND re,lied, that a question of the kind had bees wade decided in a case shot occurred in the year 1663. The ipeetion tang pot, the Lords were ordered to be imm ersing's/ Tuesday neat. - - - - MUTINY BILL. t., . •• Z: 4 c. The order of the day being read, for the commit ment of this Bill, Lord Walsingham accordingly took the chair. The different clauses and provisions of the Bill were agreed to by the Committee, until that which contains the previsions for compelling the admini stration of oaths to witnesses, on Regimental Courts Martial, was arrived at ; when The Marquis of BUCKINGHAM rose and ex pressed his disapprobation of that part of the clause, AS well in point of policy, as in the view of military regulation. He thought the old and uniform prac tice. with respell to Regimental Courts Martial, should be continued. jr the course of his long ex perience, he had never heard a single complaint made, or one objeCtion urged against it. The sol diers very seldom appealed from the decision of the Regimental to the General Courts Martial ; and, in the few instances where appeals were made, the sen tences of the Regimental Courts Martial were not only confirmed by the superior Court, but the punishment greatly increased; and he never knew an instance of their decisions being reversed, or any kind of slur or stigma thrown upon them by the General Courts. He entertained another objedion to the clause; no provision was made for the attend ance of a proper person or Officer upon these Courts Martial, where the evidence was now proposed to be taken upon oath, to take an account of the testi mony so given. He alluded to a person empowered the Deputy Judge Advocates, to take an account ' proceedings. and to transmit them to the Officio ; such a regulation was, the more - or, as the witnesses were liable to the pains penalties of perjury, and without it accusations must be made from the loose and vague is of the persons present. He ohjeCted to the arrangement, on grounds of wisdom aid policy. The course hitherto snrsued ought not to be departed from ; but if the new regulation was deemed an improvement, such a precaution as he had suggested ought at least to be adopted. He assured their Lordships he came forward on the present occasion, merely from a sense of duty, and from his zeal for the well-being of the army, and the general good of the service. Constituted as the clause then was, he mint oppose it. The Earl of CAMDEN. in general terms, de fended the clause as it then stood in the Bill. He conceived the provision by no means liable to the objeftions entertained by the Noble Marquis. He thought it would add a degree of solemnity to the proceedings at such Courts Martial, and obviously give a greater security for the correffness of the tes timony given by witnesses. The Duke of CUMBERLAND expressed his coincidence in the opinions of the Noble Marquis, on the present occasion ; and, after what had fallen from bim, a few words from himself would suffice. First, he should observe, that. in the course of his own experience, and as the result of his inquiries from able and intelligent Officers, he never heard a single objeflietti to the long-established mode ob served in Regimental Courts Martial ; then why adopt a measure which must induce the belief, that the former praftice was complained of ? Secondly, he °Netted to the alteration, as more likely to tend to an increased severity, instead of a more lenient system ; inasmuch as the discretionary power of the members of such Courts Martial, who were gene rally inclined, whenever it could be done with the least regard to propriety, to a lenient mode of pro ceeding, would be the more shackled, is conse quence of the proposed alteration. Lord HAWKESItURY observed, he agreed. with what wan stated by the Noble Marquis and the Royal Duke, with respe& to the general conduit of Regimental Courts Martial. He had every reason to believe, that, as much of what was coned, hu mane, fair, and honourable, prevailed in these tri bunals, as in any other whatever. He was free to admit, no absolute necessity existed for the altera tion ; yet he felt it would involve such advantages, as saould induce its adoption. He referred princi pally to the check and controul it would establish as to improper evidence on the part of persons not military ; with many of whom, an unfounded de gree of prejudice and clamour obtained, with re sped to the character all l profession of a soldier. It established some ilegtee of security as to evidence of that kind, and would give an air of proper so lemnity to the wholt. of the proceedings in Regi mental Courts Martial. The Duke of CLARENCE observed, he agreed with every thing that :lad fallen from a very near relation of his. as to the clause in question, but he disagreed with him, as to his approbation of His Majesty's pre , •ot Ministers. He cordially agreed with the sentiments of the Noble Marquis, in the present inst ince. particularly in the propriety of appointing a sii r erintendirg Officer to attend at the Regimental Courts Martial. for the purposes men tioned. and he seemed to think the Paymaster would be a pro -tr person for the purpose. Though he highly respeCted every thing that fell from the No ble Secretary of State, vet, in the ease before them, he disagreeil with him le every thing he observed, save one point, which was, that no necessity exi,!?.l for the proposed alteration ; and he appealed to the Revert nd Bench, whether, as Christian Prelates, they coeld approve a measure, tending to the multi plication of oaths ? Lord MULGR AVE defended the clause at some length, and with much ability. He differed from a Royal Duke, for whose charaEler and opinions he ha f the most profound resped, in his idea, that the alteration would tend to a system of increased se verity ; on the contrary, he thought, by providing additional securities for the correaness of the pro ceedings, it must have an Opposite effeet. With re. gird to the appeal made by another Illustrious Personage, to the Rev. Reach, if it went for any thing, it involved an application to the Bishops, to bring in a bill to abolish the administration of oaths in general. Upoa the whole, thinking the system of Regimental Courts Martial would be every way ameliorated by the clause, he felt it his duty to support it. The Duke of Cussar.RLaso, Lord I'l4%lMM:it Y, and the Duke of Cr. ARINCE. severally spoke in ex planation t after which the question being put, their Lordships divided, when there appeared, For the Clause, 22—Against it, 13— Majority for Ministers . 9 The Billbeing gone through without any Amend ment, the House was resumed, and the Report of the Bill forthwith received. After disposing of some private business, their LorJships adjourned till to-morrow. HOUSE OF COMMONS. M. JOHNSON, front the Irish Soerttart of States Office, presented an Account of a II the Ships and their Tonnage wh ch entered the different Ports of Ireland in the Year 11104. Or. dered to lie ow the Table. Sir JOIIN STUART prinented a Petition (mm Cupar of- Flo Scotland, praying for a Repeal of the Corn Act, which Wilt also order-t 1 to lie on the Mr. RAGWELL brought in a BM in alter and aninnd an much of the Act of the S'ith of His Majmn as related to the 20s. Freeholds in Ireland, which was read a first time, and or dered to ►e printed Mr HER NMI!) pee notice, that on Menntay nest lie should more fora Committee to inquire into the losses of the Grind Canal in Ireland. As the Depul of the pr'c Oc for and penaltie of that kind recoll•aions proposed at WAR WITH HOLRAR. Mr. FRANCIS gave notice that, on some con venient day in the week after next, he should draw the attention of the House to the general state of our possessions, and the nature of the war in India. Previou.lT to this, however, he wished to enquire of the Noble Lor,i ori,u , ,itc him (Lord CAltleleagli),wisether, since the time he men tioned the subjea of the present war going on again..t Holkar, there was any dire& communication on that subject, between the Marquie of Welle.slc ) and the Direaors of the East India Company Lord CASTLEREAGH said, he was not au• thoriseel to say that there had been since tie tune al luded to any dim& or official comniunicatsun maJe to the Dire fors. Mr. FRANCIS then observed, that the Afl rf Parliament was positive in eajoining the Govern^r General to transmit immediately the grounds of any war which micht arise in that quarter; hut, as it was necessary that gentlemen, when they cam. to the discussion, should be well acquainted with such ;animation as was attainable, he would take the liberty of recommending to their examination the leading papers of the Marquis of Wellesley's in structions to Colonel Collet and Colonel Crow, as well as the articles of treaty at Assyc, which would give them a general insight into the subject. Lord CASTLEREAGH wished to have the ob ject of the intended Motion more distinctly speci fied, as the general state of India was too extensive a subject to be discussed without considerable pre paration on the part of those who had not bcfcre very carefully attended to it. Mr. FRANCIS making no reply, the conversa tion ceased upon that point. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER brought up an accoant of the charges on the Civil List Revenue of the year 1804, and the alual payments made therefrom. Ordered to lic en the SALT TAX. Mr. FOX wished to state to His Majesty's Minis ters the substance of a communication which he re ceived by a letter from Yorkshire. It observed, that by the last Salt Duty Bill there was a severe penalty laid on all retail shopkeepers who should sell at any thing lower than the standard price, and the same penalty was exaaed in that now in its pro gress. IVhen the present Bill was first brought in, an officer was sent down to Rotherham, and the places adjoining, to announce the new duty, and take an account of the stock in hand. In consequence of this, the salt manufadurers ceased to sell; but the retail shopkeepers continued to sell at four pence halfpenny a quart, as before, for which infor mations were laid against them to recover the pe nalties. He wished to know whether these proceed ings took place by the authority of Government ? • The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied, that the sending down of the officer was certainly premature, and that it . would be unrea sonable to inflid any penalties upon the shop keepers. IRISH BUDGET. Mr. FOSTER moved the .O'rder of the Day for bringing up the report Of 'the 'Comniittee of the Ways and Means of Ireland. Mr. J. FITZGERALD opposed the bringing up of the Report. He contended, that the Loan was made to a larger amount than was necessary, and that if it were even necessary, the interest of it might be defrayed, without having recourse to any new taxes. The Revenue of Ireland was only taken at 4,000,0001. ; so every body knew that it would be considerably more. In the last year, the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Foster) imposed additional taxes of 1,150,(001. by way of ategglation, and 76.0001. to defray the expences of a direst loan ; and he now stated, that there was out of last year's revenue a surplus of 813.0001. but that it must re main locked up in the Irish Treasury until the pro portion of Ireland to the joint expences of the Em pire should be paid. Upon this pradice of retain ing the surplus of the Consolidated Fund since the Union. it w•-ild fnllow that there must be now a total surplus of about four millions applicable to the expences of the year. This was a mode of pro ceeding very disadvantageous to Ireland. Ile sa crificed much by opposing the Union; but, now that it was effeded, he considered the two countries as one, and thought they should be treated equally. The sums returned of Duties due but not imme diately payable were tnthe amount 0fi.i56,3461 which either were or ini;ht to be now in the Treasury of Ireland. Ibis, as well as the balances in the hands of the Colletiors, (ight to be a produdive fund, and if it was not, lie must call upon those who promised Ireland so much benefit from the Union to put an end to this system of patronage and influence. It was allowed on all hands, to be a very great grievance to that country, and yet, notwithstanding so many complaints, the Government had not re moved any °near these colledors, though in a man's private concerns he would not allow an agent to pay himself, and also retain an eighth part of his receipts, unless, on the assurance that the balance was quite safe. He had a right, therefore, to take it for grained. that this was a solvent and sufficient answer, fur which reason 1w should bring it into the general amount of the year. He would even venture to ask Mr. Foster whether he had reason to think that a remission was given of any of these balances ? and if he wanted a clue, he would refer to the me morable failure in 100. These balances were .o enormous a grievous, that as long as he had a seat in that House, he should bring the subjed annually under the consideration of Parliament. Were these sums available, they would have superseded the necessity of a 10;111 in this country, of two millions and a halt for Ireland, and it would be easy to re cede from the plan of borrowing another million, and to issue Government paper is the room of it. Even the four millions of revenue promised, must be ntore uncertain under this system, as it must come through the hands of the same baskrupt colledors, who were already so very much in arrear. To prove the hardships Ireland laboured under, lie con tended that one of its greatest difficulties arose from the debt it comrades' in the year Idol 3, for the pur pose of purchasing the representations of Bo roughs necessary to be disfranchise., for the pur poses of the Union. He did not see wby this should fall exclusively on Ireland. or why England, which benefited by the Uaion, should not pay a part (lithe expences of it. On these and various other grounds, he maintained that his country expeded from the Right Honourable Gentleman that he would resist new taxes in Ireland, while there was a considerable balance due to it from England, which had the means of payment. Mr. DAWSON said, the Right Honourable Gentleman who spoke last had anticipated much of what lie had intended to state. He confessed, that some of the taxes proposed appeared to him unex ceptionable, though there were many of the articles upon which he wished all taxes to be abolished in that country. Though he had no objeCtion what ever to the duty proposed on raisins, pepper, and coffee,yet he l had every objeffion toencreased duty on timber. Instead of being, as stated, a protedion to the growing plantations in Ireland, it would encou rage the cutting down of what little timber there was, and leave the cottages of the miserable pea santry perfedly unroofed. The present plantations being only in their infancy, would not be available in less than half a century. and, to depend upon them for immediate purposes, would be as absurd as that of a man who, being advised to drink cydtr, should set abnnt planting an orchard the tax upon horses, and he nate between horses for - as they were both so generally deprecated most was, the pr induce some future Chancellor extend the tax to horses touched upon all the arti taxes, and dwelt principal to which he would. h we, in consequence of the assin Hon. Gentleman, that thi ed, and he also hoped that , be collated with more regularity stead of costing the country, pence of 11. 16s. per cent. Whi I, he hoped be paid to the distrins of hi the distillery of that petni key, which, though under duce a shilling to the Et smugglers were stationed country. To prevent these hoped measures would bet ritime turnpike gates, between WAterford, and Donaghadee, communication opened ben -- con and Ireland. Sir .1. NEWPORT thought comprising such a multitude have been submitted to the ' men, as it was impossible House to be so good a judt s taxes may have in ditferenL more immediately concerned. schedule, he found the due' copper, tar, &c. raised w vier duties, while rattans, other inferior articles, experienced a diminution . As to timber, he said the last duty had diminished the consumption so much, since the Union, that the revenue on them was eleven thousand pounds. The present tax, he thought, would reduce the consumption so much, that the duty would not pay the expence of the collection, and would render the cottages uninhabitable. 1 he want of domestic comforts at home frequently encouraged the inha bitants of the country to idleness and riotous con duct at home. In the south of Ireland, the Want of timber was a most grievous hardship, as in the county of Tipperary there were farms to the extent of sometimes two miles without a hedge or bush to be seen upon them. Fle conaplained greatly of the want of security to the mails in Ireland. which were sometimes robbed in the middle of the day by single man, only armed with a stick. The effea of this was that the letters from Waterford to Clonmel were obliged to he sent by special messengers, as none but boys are employed by the post office. At the general pos office the letters were thrown by carelessly and promiscuoutly, and accessible to air one who should think proper to callfor them. Whza the letters were win out, it was ti.tt LI for the raw - man to go home first to dinner, and then leave the letters behind him, while he went tora pubic house; so that if the expeaant merchant went to tl.e mae's resid:uce, he found the letter, lying there totally unproteCted ; and the hills and notes were very generally either lost or embezzled. The costs of the accountants now were at their own discretion, liabl- to no check whatever, as there was so perion to check them ; and such he complained was the case in all the public boards and office; in Ireland. Mr. HAWTHORNE said, that the balances of the ColleCtors, though stared at 1,200,00 th. r ere ac tually no more than 130,0001. as the Duties were not yet paid, which were to produce the remainder. As to the general state of the country, he said, that so fat from Ireland's being unfairly dealt with, the expences of the Army, and works necessary for its defence, amounted to a much greater sum than the whole of its proportion to the joint expellee of the Empire ; so that its taxes mutt have been much greater only for the Union. To prove this, he re ferred to the accounts, which would chew, that the proportion of its debt accumulated ma re in the four years before the Union, than in the four years since it had b . ,en carried into effedt. Mr. FOSTER said, he deemed it unnecessary to go into a detail of all the branches of the valet al luded to. The appropriation cf the produce of the sinking fund is Ireland was to pay the expences of the loan, the ratio of its separate expences, and pay ing the usual sum towards the sinking fund. If then there were arrears of money, there were also ar rears of charges, and it was necessary to leave ba lances in the hands of the collectors to prepare for any contingency, and not be unprepared for any thing that may happen in ease of any attempt on the part of the enemy. In fact, if tb-se funds were taken away, there would be a necessity for other plies to defray the coming charges, and if any lint remained indisposed of, it would come in aid e: the supplies of the ensuing year He owned, indeed, that the balanczs remaining with the colleflors woo very great, in spite of all the exertions he had ma.' • to prevent it ; but such had been long the pri.e e • in Ireland, and old habits could not speed ly he g t rid of. In respell to the duty on timber, he WA. glad the obj •etions were stated, as this tar Nei nosily confined to deal board and staves; and ail timber used in the butter and provision tr.... were totally exempted. The new duty, which was no more than is. rid. on seventy-two cubic t , t of timber of the value of GI. would be scarcely f by any one, for when, in consequence of the war, t. e price of the same quantity of timber rose from 3 to 61. the buildings continued without any dimi nution. In regard to the Horse Tax, also, Gentle men would find the exemptions were extended to all horses which carried or brought home a load; to all those used by clergymen, physicians, etc. ; to those on which farmers rode to places of worship , to markets, or to the quarter sessions. He ad mitted that the conveyance of the mails was very insecure, and world remain so, unless, for the con- venience of the public, and the safety of letters, the Post Office was enabled to employ other mes sengers than boys, • io loitered on the way, and were exposed to robberies. To spew what uncer tain couriers these were, he mentioned an instance of a gentleman who met one of these post My' playing ball, and the bag of letters lying by him- When the gentleman asked him how he could he so careless and dilatory ? the boy replied—" Oh. please your honour, that is not the mail, it is only an 14 - . press." . In proportion to the trequentcy of rot :hard. repr4m e d he could #t pleasure sod h'orses for us e . ierally united ; bat what he :F :l cheili tu d r s e sc ; e7 Hl the precedent which migh t :ce u l se lu d r o in f t a l gese le articles in -the entsiogise of pally on the Postage fluty, wever, make no o . jai r), ssorance given by the Righ t the posts would be pmteet. hat the revenue of it would regularity and economy, in. awry, as it did now, an ex- it. While these suhjrcis were hoped some attention would f houses in Ireland, and for trnicions spirit called Whit.. ler the Excise, did not pro. Exchequer, while posts re td through all parts of hose smuggling abuse,. ; e betaken for establishin k rri nween the it.,r:s khadee, and a mut,- between the cuaat of C. tn.,- thought that the schedule, tude cf merchandise, should the inspection of mercantile ale for any Membitir of the, udge of the local effee such Ferent places, as the parties erned. In referring to that Julies on spermaceti candles, to seven times their fot tans, walking sticks, and experienced a diminution. he last duty had diminished uch, since the Union, that , as eleven thousand pounds. bought, would reduce the hat the duty would not pay :Pon, and would render the . Ihe want of domestic ands , encouraged the inha- ; K _