Bless God if ever you meet with suitableness in marriage. For my spirit it wanted weight through many tossings, my head that composure others have, credulous and too careless, but never mischievous nor malicious: I thought my work was to serve others, and so mine Own garden not so well cultivated; only this I say, I aimed at a good mark, and trust the Lord in Jesus Christ hath accepted it. My faith in the everlasting covenant was and is, though feeble, yet faith. I could thus continue ripping my whole heart to you, who have very often had great success, even to the last hour of my last preaching, and am preaching the life of faith to myself, to which call in all prayers to the Father in Jesus Christ his dearest Son, to whom let us look, as the author and finisher of our faith, who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despised the shame, and now sits at the right hand of Majesty, making intercession for transgressors. Heb. xii. 12.-To whom be glory and praise, and thanks for ever. For he is worthy who bath washed us from our sins by his own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God the Father; to bim be glory and dominion for ever. For that part of my Lord Craven's estate which I have took no small place in my trouble. You may know that I was not in the city when that act was made, nor urged my Lord Grey to buy; nor ever advised the said lord (as I had time) but to good and just things and company, against that spirit of levelling then stirring: aud do heartily wish that taken offence might dye, for it was not intended by me, who could and can be as well contented without land as with it, never being ambitious to be great or rich since I knew better things. 31. And now I must return to yourself again, and to give you my thoughts about your own condition. I do first commend you to the Lord, and then to the care of a faithful friend, whom I stall name unto you, if a friend may be found in this juncture that dare own your name, (though there be more of your name); and if such a friend advise it, that you serve in some godly family, to which you seem to incline, and must (it seems); but truly, if not a good fainily, what will your condition be? Dwell where God dwells, and be in such company as you must be with in Heaven, and then you do but change your place not your company; though it be unexpected and uncouth, yet remember the best of men have been servants; Moses kept his father's sheep; so Jacob, and the patriarchs; David to Saul, and many more; I have before given thee rules for it; and be sure to be steady to family and private duties, your life will be dead without them: call your condition God's Ordinance, and he can bless it to you. But, if you would go home to New England (which you have much reason to do), go with good com pany, and trust God there: the church are a tender company: a little will carry us through the world, yea very little: Oh, godliness with content! your faithfulness to me and your mother will find acceptance in heaven I trust. My dear child, tell me how couldst thou be without God's rod? remember he hath a staff also. For your mother (considering her distemper) I have and shall say more unto you. To His grace, who is able to do above all we can ask or think, I commend you both. And, if I go shortly where time shall be no more, where cock nor clock distin guish hours, sink not, but lay thy head in his bosom who can keep thee, for he sits upon the waves. Farewel. 35. And, since we must part, must part, take my wishes, sighs, and groans, to follow thee, and pity the feebleness of what I have sent, being writ under much, yea very much, discomposure of spirit. FOR ENGLAND, &C. I wish that prince and rulers, all that guide, like: And that their care appear so to provide, That those of strength do not the weaker The end of rule's from Christian policy, I wish religion truly pure may grow, Above profaneness and idolatry; I wish this present government sur- All went before, and that in God's ac count. wish religion, learning, and the poor, May find sound patrons, and that holy life And that the saints would learn to suffer, Nothing can help more than a grown, or tear. Whosoever would live long and blesselly, let him observe these following rules, by which he shall attain to that which he desireth. to record intelligence as it comes to hand, true or false, of which we cannot always judge on its arrival. It is equally necessary that we maintain our fatnilies, and obtain good interest for our capital, by means of the public patronage. If our ducement to deal in truth only; but, if patrons prefer truth, we have every infalsehood and exaggeration are the only species of news which will pass generally current, is it to be expected that a Newspaper proprietor should make a useless sacrifice of himself, his family, and property, from a squeamish regard to abstract truth? We have been told from the highest law authority, that to pass pleasantly through life, something more is requisite than "the innocence of the dove;" and in humouring, rather than kicking against, the public prejudices, the Newspaper proprietors do but add "the wisdom of the serpent." In plain language, the Newspapers are made to sell; and the sole rivalry among the proprietors is naturally directed to the sale. Among us, the greatest man is he who possesses the paper of the greatest sale, and this can only be effected by humouring the public, not in gratifying the wise few who form, as the quack doctors well know, but one in ten of the community! I will illustrate these positions by one fact, and I request the sticklers for mere truth, to place themselves, commercially speaking, in our situation. A few days ago, some Russian and French Bulletins arrived, detailing additional particulars of some battles, the results of which had been before the public for several weeks; but containing also a notice of one new skirmish, in which each of the opposing Generals alleged that the other had lost two thousand men. As John Bull must be humoured, the Russian account was, as a thing of course, preferred; and the paper in which I am a thousand-pound proprietor, announced in its window, "Glorious defeat of the French by the Russians." We printed some extra papers, and were surprised at having no extra demand; till we found that a neigh bouring rival had added together all the alledged losses in all the engagements, old and new, and even the figures in the duplicate accounts, and had posted a bill "Total Defeat of the French Army, with the loss of forty thousand killed, including Murat, sir thousand prisoners, also, that his presses could not supply and eighty pieces of cannon." Ve beard the demand, and that the crowd of pur chasers - chasers nearly choaked up the street! Of course, it was as easy by his mode of calculation to make the number fifty as forty thousand. We resolved, therefore, like most other traders, to set off our paper also to the best advantage, and instantly changed our first Bill into "Of. ficial accounts of the total destruction of the French Army in Russia, with the loss of fifty thousand men, all their cannon, buggage, Bonaparte surrounded, Murat killed, &c." The bait took, and we turned the tables on our illiberal rival. His office was deserted, our's was crowded for the remainder of the evening; and, on a subsequent comparison, we find we sold above twelve hundred extra papers, while our rival did not sell an extra five hundred; and, as we both distanced every other paper in the quality and quantity of our news, none of them sold an extra score, though every paper contained the same official documents, and precisely the same intelligence! Let your fool-hardy sticklers for truth, unless indeed they are of that perverse race who prefer martyrdom to happiness, tell me what they would have done under similar circumstances? The anecdote, at least, proves, that there is nothing peculiar in the alleged venality of Newspapers, and that their policy is akin to that of other traders, who set off their goods to the best advantage, endeaYour to gratify the public, and make the most of their time, talents, and capital. A NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR.* Dec. 8, 1812. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, BY Y the hypothetical case inserted in your last, it seems to be proved, that taxes are the sole cause of the diminution of the value of the circulating medium in any country. Among the taxes which levy money directly from the pockets of individuals, what is called the Propertytax is the principal. But in this tax, it certainly is not the aggregate of any person's property, but the actual income, which forms the rule for payment. The terms property and income are confounded; for, if it were aggregate property which was intended to be taxed, no man in his senses could say that an annuity, We insert the above as a curiosity in ratiocination, and assure our readers that we feel, in regard to it, exactly as we suppose they cannot fail to do.-EDIT. MONTHLY Mag. No, 235, which terminated with the life of a person of seventy years of age, was of equal value with a farm, which produced the same annual income. But all annuities are inferior in value to land, as the number of years' purchase clearly demonstrate; and life annuities bear no proportion to any species of property in the soil. It is sufficient to say, that the general price of land in England is about thirty years' purchase, whereas an an nuity for life only, even for a young person, cannot be sold for above sixteen times its annual income. These are both property, aggregately considered: supposing then the land to be worth one hundred pounds a year, the real value would be three thousand pounds. Again, suppose the annuity to be one hundred pounds, at sixteen times the annual income, that is, sixteen years purchase, the real value would be sixteen hundred pounds. These two unequal properties pay the same sum to the public, under the term Property-tax. But this is not all; for, by the facts stated in the hypothetical case, it ap pears, that the farm increases in value in proportion to the diminution in the va lue of money, as every article produced upon it advances in money price: whereas the incoine of the annuitant is of less and less value to him, as he must pay more money for every article he consumies, This is a direct depression of his condition in the world; and the consequences show that this has been the case, by the necessity under which the government has been to raise the salaries of the judges, and of all other annuitants, who had power or influence sufficient to command attention. It appears strange that the discerning minds of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Fox, and their successors, should not perceive the effects of this mode of taxation, especially as these two enlightened ministers derived almost their whole support from life an nuities. Either they did not perceive the impropriety, or disregarded its consequences upon themselves. The misapprehension seems to lie in the vulgar error, that the proprietors of the soil are a distinct body, not concerned in any trade. From what is stated in the hypothetical case, this appears to be a gross mistake; for, so far from being unconcerned in trade, they are the greatest of all merchants, and, like other traders, always exact from purchasers the value of the duties which affect them. They 3 T have have an advantage over the wine mershant, whose prices diminish the consumers of his wine, but nothing can diminish the consumption of the produce of the soil, but diminishing the population of the country. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, BSERVING, many years ago, the doubts suggested by Dr. Watson, in his excellent Chymical Essays, as to the origin of Ambergris, I was induced to ask the opinion of a gentleman who had been long and very extensively concerned in the whale fishery. His answer was prompt, and implied not the least doubt that this valuable substance is no other than the extremely indurated fæces of the spermacœti whale, extruded in an extraordinarily costive, or perhaps dis eased, state of the animal; afterward ac quiring, from the action of the sun and salt-water, the consistence in which it is occasionally found among the rocks on the coast in southern latitudes. Doctor Watson admits the probability of a different origin-a more systematic formation in the body of the same fish: but, with this idea, how can we reconcile the great scarcity, and consequent high price, of this rare drug; of which, if it is correct, the supply would necessarily be far more regular and abundant. There is, however, a strong presumption, that legislators have not always perceived that taxation is the real cause of the diminution in the value of the circulating medium. For, if they had so viewed the subject, they never could have proposed or consented to the measure of laying on what are called the war-taxes, that is, to raise a great part of the supplies by taxes within the year. By this mode of raising the money, the whole fifteen millions of war-taxes were laid on within a very few years; whereas, had the same su been borrowed, the taxes necessary would only have amounted to about seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds every year. It follows clearly, that, by this mode of raising the supplies for the war, within the few years the most ruinous diminution in the value of money has taken place; and government itself has been obliged to pay double for provisions, and every article required for the support of the land and sea force, as To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. well as the necessity it has been under to raise the salaries and pay of many of its servauts: and, to balance all this, the only argument for the measure is the support of the public funds, which might have suffered some depression by the loans, but which the credit of the nation alone can support in any case; and which in tis could only have obliged government to borrow at an encreased interest. Then, supposing that the war-taxes amount, to fifteen millions, and that money, in consequence of these taxes, should diminish in value twenty-five or thirty per cent. it follows, that, if this sum had been borrowed, and five per cent. paid for the money, there would only have been seven hundred and fifty thousand pounds to be raised the first year, and the same sum additional to be annually added to the public debt. But, admit that one million would have been added, and the circulating medium diminished in the same ratio as above supposed; in the first years, the diminution in the value of money would only have been two or three per cent, instead of about twentyfive or thirty per cent. which probably actually took place soon after the war taxes were exacted. PHILOCLES. I SIR, W. N. WAS amused with the account of wax candles made in Nova Scotia, of the Myrica Cerifera; and I wish to ascertain whether any person has ever attempted, in this country, to make waxcandles in imitation of those said to be so common in Nova Scotia. There seems no reason why such an experiment should not succeed in the hands of an active and ingenious manufacturer. X. Y. Z. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, T2. in your Number for September, HE remarks of your correspondent on "the effect of Iron Pipes on Water," proved extremely interesting to me, and I doubt not to many others, inasmuch as the health of the community is so materially concerned in the general use of that metal, as a substitute for wood. The West Middlesex Company having recently extended their works to the se veral streets in Somers'-Town, I was induced, at the request of a friend (interested in that concern), to change my supply from the New River, to encourage the New Company, as did also several of my neighbours. But I soon found reason heartily heartily to repent the change, for the instance I should calculate thus: if 6 oz. Here it may be supposed, that there is an error of the press in the fourth line of figures, 11 being put instead of 1, in the place of ounces; but, how the fifth line of figures is brought out, I am alto Allow me to solicit information from your scientific correspondents, whether the stone water-pipes, of which so much has been said, and more seriously felt by the inhabitants of Mary-le-bone, for nearly two years past, answer the purpose intended; and, if the report is correct, that they have generally failed, and now only form the basis of iron pipes. Oct. 16, 1812. E. A. W. Again, with respect to the last line of figures, if 2 oz. 2 dr., or 34dr., lost 6 dr., surely 60lbs. would have lost 10lbs., 9 oz. 7dr. nearly: a result very different from that given, to say nothing of the palpable error of 22 in the place of drachms. AMBLUS. To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. SIR, ERMIT me, through the medium of PE your Magazine, to call the attention of the public to the prevailing custom of building cellar kitchens, underneath almost all our modern city dwelling houses. The confined situation, and general dampness of such rooms, render them, in my opinion, extremely unfit for habitations; and I have no doubt but, in many cases, they prove very prejudicial to the health To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. and comfort of those whose station in Havde ning in the Cyclopædia now publishing by Dr. Rees, I found a calculation of the loss of wheat and bar. ley by drying; the results of which I examined for myself, as I am much in the habit of verifying the calculations I meet with, when they do not require a process too laborious. It is there said, A quantity of wheat, weighed on the 22d of Oct, produced Weighed again twenty-four days afterward, afforded lb. oz. drs. 0 6 3 0 60 A farther quantity, weighed on Barley, weighed on the 2d of Sep 2015 022 tember, produced Weighed again on October the 18th, afforded 0 1 12 Loss of weight per bushel of 8 422 I observe that this objectionable mode of building has extended itself even to the small cottage residences about the outskirts of the town; and really, in passing them, it is quite painful to see human beings incarcerated in this manner, with scarcely room to turn themselves round, or air to breathe in. If health could, with propriety, be said to be more valuable to one class of society than to another, we might say it is most valuable to that class whose daily bread is dependent upon its daily labour: surely then this invaluable blessing ought not to be sacrificed to the pleasure, convenience, or caprice of those whom fortune may have enabled to command the services of their fellow creatures; who are so much the more entitled to protection, as they cannot be supposed very capable of advocating their own cause. It is, I think, desirable that the public should be put in possession of the most correct information on this subject; and, for that purpose, I would be glad if Now the loss of the wheat in the first any of your medical readers would fa sixty pounds |