The National Register.
London, England, 1817-06-30 00:00:00

REVIEW OF Ll'

RE

Ao. XIX.

in the 19th Number
e now published, the
tolllb'esuouldy drawn
p, cm dia inst of

peer, and diminish the Matthew of segipartiag them lajic
state, be enlacing the hibeerlng part of them la contrib.:Co
esnail proportion of their wage*, wards *cif Is-
lane maintananre, when disabled firms by age mash*.
MM. merits the attentive of every me welfiiiiiiii -
seentry. The next article is point of Caere, and 111-
*
Met lesepartbly censected with the peeledieg .us, is the
mature alto stihieet is .
Sir Thomas Bernard's " Essay en the best Medawar
truffle( Employment and Subsistence for the Lis.
asese., and the benefit* Effects of the Salt
acs epos our Fisheries, Meaufactusse,, and At .
tAihivation of our Waste Lands.' . .
In confining sue attention solely to this Satter part of Lis •
sub)ject, we shall is foot be reedoriag a service W the pee-
Istifing parts of it, as a very abort ataterseet Mien show Ms •
immense adsautspo that woold malt to the *Mimi at large,
from a repeal of this odious impost, 'which occasions* greater
lost to the revenue in this check it Lays epos the predates of .
other articles laid§ would admit of more' entettoisc Warhol, -
than it brings la gain, he the shape of lb 41040. Of all-
countries, England is the tame favoured hr nature for the
production of Salt, in the infinite variety or created mate. r.
scarcely any form of it is so universally 'meta/ as this enwrap •
sition. In agriculture salt is nn admirable sureydaneuns for
lime—Wheve twenty acres of land revolt* Ilia bemired sift
loads oflime, the most moderate calenistiost tor.witicti owl •
he 101., twenty bnshels of salt, the cent of which, latirpro-
dent of the duty, would only be ten shillings, waved ansear
the same potrpop• : for rattle as for man. it is admirable on
dirt ; in oar manufactures, it is of unspeakable isepertanee.
In the composition of soap alone, we caw Chet oar readers
some iilea of the vtfcct of these duties. Mine's! Alkali ii
an essential ingredient in this article. One ton of it may
be made by three tons of rait.sshich. without tar duty, would
row forty eight shillings, with the duty, miens 111 *oaten., •
oar inantifactores arc therefore obliged to seppi, its pine*
by barrilla, which they have imported from Spahr, sometimes
at 801. per ton, could Sins mineral alkali be prepared wiihoils
this tame viewing tax upon it, it is calculated, that Whims '
tons of is, would be disposed of annually at home, and it*
lunch ranee imminent ly for foreign maims. All Sir The.
togs Henna-Wit arettiownis and calculations on this inkier',
are equally interesting and important, and' we 'rest tho y
will not by applied to the humanity and 'Mid sense of our •
legislature in rale.
" An Essay.' (by Mr. Prestonl,, on the Penr.l.aw.,"
is well worthy of *lotion. Sir J. Sinclair!, " sta..
tiniest Tables, retative -to- the present muse of Sixa—.
land r Mr. Smiths " Letter to Lord Li un
the eerie Coinage;'' and " Thoughts . n thveltitre
of Catholic Emancipation," by an Idlik Protestant,
*PI also be found deserving of observation.
•

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

•
LISBOV, Jtmt 4.—The Official Gazette of the Court
contains the following Prodlunation of the Portuguese '
Regency :
. • PROCLAMATION.
Towing with every certainty, the existence of a etinglkesh foam. W. ..
e b mane traitors; wbo to the disgrace of the hewelipsy *el V
the : had opeActiv!ktai watati4 . ~ . ,
' tr *del I 1 establishing a revolution*, Fideehmwen t whw,
~c, s ow vr
mil their' adherents to am tilt' ~ Flte.V. 0
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