Star.
London, England, 1822-07-13 00:00:00

A VOLUME OF CATECHISM&

This day was publi,hed, price 7s. bound, it tstrated with above
200 lingraviqs of the most remarkable objects in Nature and

Science,
91HE UNIVERSAL CATECHIST; or, TEXT
1 BOOK of the chief Branches of Human Knowledge, is
Question and Answer, for the ese of Schools and Students.
By JAMES 'MITCHELL,
This Volume is offered to the Schoolmasters and Governesses
of the lini:..d Kingdom, as a complete and perfect bonk of its
kind. It comprehends the actual state of knowledge in the prin-
cipal Arts and Sciences, persiicaciously expressed. It is, more-
over, printed in an entirely new, and much improved form, the
Questions being in Red, and the Answers in hack, which con-
fer on it a degree of unequalled clearness and elegance. No
school-book in the language is at the same time emit:lied with
so great a variety of attractive and instructive Engravings.
The following are the subjects successively treated of in this
volume, in distinct and complete Catechisms:
A RCHITECTURE G MOD 11•19111. 111/NCRA LOGY
ASTRONOMY GLOBES, use of MYTHOLOCIT
Acoustics HERALDRY NA-11111•L PIIII/060-
, BOTANY Burma: or Ema-
BuITISH CONSTITB- LAND
THIN
CHEMISTRY
CN noroLoar
CIVIL Lam
CRIMINAL. LA*
ELECTRICITY
Earromot.oGv
Being. 31 several Catechisms, with 200 ii.ngravings.
Printed fOr Sta. Rtcnann Putman and Co. 11.1.13.-s.reet ;
and to be bad of J. Cumming, Dublin; Stirling and
Edinburgh; H. Moziey, Derby; and of all Booksellers.
Also, just published,
GOLDSMITH'S Biographical Class Book, 7s.—Nteiroesou's Ma-
thematics, 21s.—Key, Is. GeL—JouNsoti's Grammar ui Classi-
cal Literature, Ss.
- -

rx T
OPTICS
OKNITHOLOOT
Pa YS:,ll.oer
PAEUMATICS
POLITICAL AQetH-

ONIZCZ
Roma
I IYDROSTA TIC&
IcTurouvr
M Gli rigs hir
M SMARMS

mmle
Zoowar

CATON ON DEBILITY, ILLUSTRA'fED wan •
CASES.
This day, was published, price :Ss. 6d. a New 'edition of
PRA el ICAL OBSERVATIONS on the DEBI-
LIT lES, natural and contracted, of the ENER ATI E
()ROANS of both Sexes; including Remarks on Onattisin, Se-
minal Weakness, Nocturnal Emission, Gleet, 'rabies I),:riialis,
Fluor Albus, &c. &c. with the Theory uf Generation.
By T. M. CATON, Surgeon.
No. 10. Stanhope-Street, Newcastle-street, Stand;
irate of the United Hospitals of St: Thomas's and Guy's.
Sold by W. Neely, 22, 'Change-alley; and C. grapple, 59,
Pall-mall; or by the Author, as above.
Where may be had.
Caton on the Venereal Disease and ha Consequences a New
Edition. rite Ss. illustrated with Cates: A Practical Treatise
on the Prevention and Cure of the Venereal Disease, exhibiting
the character, symptoms, and treatment of the diseases
irunr-
diately or remotely connected with it; containing Observations
on Glees Stiicture, hlueal Disehirges, the use of the Caustic
and common Bougie, Cbratieous Eruptions, Imaginary Venereal
Diseases, &c. &c. compri.has; an elementary Work for Sardents,
and a Oxide to• the general Deader; interspersed with welt::
Prescriptions applicable to each of the D!seasei

ELEGANT GLASSES, FyIitEITUUE, kc.—The No-
bay and Gentry ate invited to inspect the Ware-
rooms of COOPS& and Bork, 93, Ilishopsgate-street
Wi.hin, where is exhibited an assortment &f new and
second-hand Plate Glasses, admirably suited to every
description of drawing or diking-rooms. In the fur-
niture department is comprised every new and ele-
ef urholstery, cabinet, gad chair-svoik,
the prices of which are reduced to such a scale of
economy as to attract and ensure the patronage of
lank and fashion.—Among the m,-..elties, will be
found a newly invented chamber convenience (espe
cially useful to invalids), in which all eeuvia is caLe-
fully prcvented.,--10.• Turkey and ()O'er Carpeting,
greatlyalso-reduied kc.

Because this Bill repeals the regulations as enacted by the 55th
of George 111. chapter tiG, whereby, alter long and minute exa-
mination into the state of the agriculture of the United King.
dom, it was by Parliament provided, as necessary to afford to
agriculture a degree of protection equal to whet the law gives to
othST branches of industry; that wheat Ir:m abroad shouid not
be exposed to sale till the (rice in our maraets amounted to athi.
and at a time when it is admitted that foreige wheat can be in.
ported at 's4s. a quarter, it enacts that the iorei:;ti grower shall
in future be admitted to a competition will cur farmers when
wheat is at 70s. a quarter, on paying a linty of 17s. for the best
three months, and afterwards of 12s. till it rises tcsBo3.
Under this Bill, therefore, the farmer will not only be de-
privstl of the monopoly he enjoyed in the home market, till
wheat attained the price of SOs. the quarter, but he will be ex-
posed when it is at 70s. to a competiton with the foreign grower,
whose wheat, value ass. may, on paying the duty of 17s. be
brought into our market at 52,.. per quarter, and after the ports
have been open for three months, may be sold at 475. as it will
then only bear a duty r,f lies. •
That these regu'ations are rninons to the agricultural interest
cannot he doubted. The Petitions on the table of this Housr,
in the strongest terms deprecating the proposed alteration in the
law, sufficiently display the oiiininn of those whose habits give
them practical knowledge on the subject ; whilst the Committee
themselves, from whom the proposal emanated, by disclaiming
all intention of rendering worse the present condition of the Bri-
tish cultivator, and proposing, as the Bill enacts, that the 55th
of the late King should remain in force till wheat rises to 80s. a
quarter, have clearly avowed their opinion that the Bill,when it
takes effect, must prove injurious to the agricultural interest.
It is to me, therefore, a subject of deep regret, when the dis-
tress of the British cultivator is so feelingly described in the na-
nwrous Petitions on our table, that this douse should enact a
regulation which, though it is only to take place at a future pe-
riod, cannot but produce immediate discontent : for to me it ap-
pears, that every sense of political discretion, and every feeling
that actuates a generous mind, must unite in pointing out, iliac
the moment in which the Legislature is unwillingly compelled
to avow its incapacity to devise any means of present relies fix
the distreised farmer, is the time, of all others, in which it ought
to avoid announcing a future injury to his despairing mind.
LA UDE RDALE. •
PROTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF

THE CORN BILL.
VISSENTICKT :—Because the Act of the 55th of the late King,
chap. which is partially repealed by this Bill, Was brought
into Parliament by his Majest f $ Ministers to remove the admit-
ted iirpolicy of unlimited importations of foreign grain; and
30s. per quarter for our own wheat (and other grain in pectia-
tion) was with the greatest deliberation adopted as the lowest
price in our markets which could sustain foreign competition,
under which, therefore, it was euacted our ports should be sniit.
Because, front an obvious defect in that Act, whenever wheat
in our markets rose to 1101. per quarter (whet. grain in propor-
•tion), importation was lift free sod unlimited, by which the pro-
tecting standard immediately ceased to be protective ; as foreign
wheat might then generally, as now, ha in.ported at about 325.
per quarter, and to any extent; thereby manifestly enabling job-
bers and speculators to undersell British growtts, weighed down
since the late war with a pressure of taxation never helot elencre n
or beard of in the world.

Because, this defect in the Act of the 55th of the late King poet
became the subject of milversal compluint, three millions and a
half quarters id foreign grain having come free into our ports,
and at very low prices, before their being shut in February,
1819, to the great depressisti of our markets ever since.
Because the pricers of grain; from this and other canes, having
ceased to be remunerative, many Petitions were presented to his
Majesty's Ministers, and to both Houses of Partiament, playing
for relict iu this respect ; and thereui.ou a Committee was ap-
pointed to consider the justice of their complaititao
Because such Committee, a . appears by its Report in a former
Section of Parliament, having pronounced that agricuhurists of
every description were consuming their capitals without any pre-
sent or expected returns which could be remunerative, the
House of Commons directed its inquiries to be renewed in the
present Session, for the expruss and only purpose of originating
some further relief (tom the ruinous depression of our markets.
Because the House of Commons, theretore, in the considera-
tion or this subject, had no other duty cast upon it by the whole
course of its UWII proceedings but to attend impartially to the
universal complaints throughout the country, which unanimously
attributed the distresses to the undue and impolitic opening of
the ports under the existing law, without a reasonable and fixed
protecting duty, not liable to he defeated by fraudulent gess
nor disturbed by perpetuil fluctuations, when the ports were
open or shut at the adopted standard.
' Because it was therefore With cq'sal surprise arid regret that
I read this Bill when it was brought before us, which ought to
have been instantly reject:A, since it passes by altogether the
complaints of the Petitionera, which its authors have professed
all along to act upon and to relieve ; and althouo the super-
abundance of supplies over the demands on our markets had bees
',declared by bis Majesty's Mii:is-ttrs to be the grievances, yet this
Bill unaccountably adds to them, without measure or mercy, by
leaving the ports open at 70s. though before shut until 80s. and
by letting loose the hot:Lied grain at the lower standard, though
now in the country to a great amount, and without any proteet-
ing duty ; because, whet; it is notorious that foy ign wheat (other
grain in proportion) may be generally ins; orad at about 355. per
quarter, a duty of l 7 which, when ...oiled, amounts to Sts.
only, cannot, in common sense or common himraty, be consi-
dered as any security to the 13: i!'sh grower.
Because, to iusist, nevertheless, that this injurious change in
the existing law is a great advantage to those.whom it professes
I to relieve, though against their ow a universal voiCe, as expressed
without a single exception by all the Petitions upon our table, is
to maintain au opinion, which, however honestly and abiy sup-
; ported, may be conside:e.l by the stiffisrirs to be as unfounded as
it appears to me to be absurd. _

. Because, from the grezt preponderance in the representation
of other classes over the kaids....t F.urust in the !louse of Corn-
mons, the Petitioners who have laid their calamitous condition
before us naturally looked up to this!louse for Conschutioual
support. The Statute Boot h bled with almost innumerable
' Acts for the protection of our manufactures and commerce, by
duties and prohibitions, whilst the security of landed property
has brto wholly neglected. Indeed, when I contemplate
sudden invasion of the 55th of the tate kiss, at the very mooost
what t:t Footslog previsions might vaaniteetiy to have beet