The Scots Magazine (November, 1759)

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— oa ic ks Ho “+ 2 * : ? toa © . | e-Ae / ; . * ‘SCOTS MAGAZINE, 3 ; 'N O v EM “B ER; 1 59 _ OPP PR bebe EE ERED EEE EEE EDD EES Eb EE ESOT DD “Hittory of the feffion of Par LI AMENT 1758-9. Of the diftillery-bill’ 561° ° OF the bill to per- mit-the importation of falted beef, wc. from |} «) Treland:564.~ Amabitraét of the a@t sé65. Of py. ithe bill for the*better-prevention of piracies ib. M.de Mauperturs’s letter concluded. Of the *. puaifhment of criminals 568. On medicine "$69. OF experiments on’animals 570. Mi- -- ‘eroftopical obfervations 571. Of burning- - glafles ib. Of eleétricity 2b. Metaphyfical éx- ||: _ » periments $72. Inquiries to be difcouraged 573. _ The hiftory of the late CoMET 573. _An account of M. GurGnés’s eflay to ‘prove ~~‘that the Chinefé are an Egyptian colony 577. An abftraét of the NaTrIoONaL DEBT 580.’ ‘Forms of PRay ER for the thank{giving 5813 -Remarks on the terms in which the French _ sare defcribed in fome of our public prayers 5 82. -ScuURRILITY in writing reprehended 583. ~ “Poerry. For Gen. Wolfe’s monument 583. ‘The birthday-ode 584. Congreve on impro- - wing the prefeattime ib. An ode to Mifg L— -» §85. On the, French -flat-bottomed boats id. The end of time 70. “Eo N- 3283 $.° History 586,—604. Munfter furrendered te “the Allies 86. Motions and operations ‘in ‘Saxony 587. Apreat body of Pruffians under | Gen. Finck defeated and taken prifoners at Maxen 588. . The French {top payment, and coin their plate ib. The Breft fleet defeated. by Adm. Hawke 589. A pacific declaration "by the Kings of Britain and Pruffias92.. ~ ——- Advices from Quebec 592. from. Niagara 593» from Pittlburgh id. and §S. Carolina 594. =~ Speech and addrefles at the meeting of the patliament 594.—597- Addreflcs on our late faccefles 598.—600. A fire at London Gol. ‘Gen. Wolfe’s funeral proceflion, Ge. 602. ~ Propofals for teviving the diftitlery’in Scot- land 602.- Muflelburgh remonftrance againft the twopenny tax603. Of aScots militia 2. Lists, ce. 604.—607. | ‘ New Books, with remarks and extraéts. On the duty of an’attorney 608. Gardiner’s ac- ‘count of the expedition againf{t Guadalupe 6og. | Letters from M., Belleifle to M. Contades 612, High life below ftairs 613. Maj. Gordon’s: Prafliad 615. Daphnis and Menalcas 616. — LEDERER SEEEEE DEE AAT EEE SEL ER EEE EERE RD ES The hiftory of the laft feffion continued. [ 515.) 3 Rom the hiftory of this bill [for taking off the prohibition of the exportation of corn, &¥c.] we may perceive, that-it was paff- ed in a hurry ; which was indeed ne- ceflary, becaule of the relief chiefly in- tended by it: for though damaged corn may be made into malt, or even into.a _coarfe fort of bread; yet it muft be pre- fently converted to one of thefe utes ; ‘for it will not keep, not even in the beft fort of granary: and this hurry was - probably the caufe of the bill’s being fo much altered from what was at firit in- _tended ; for fome new regulations were VoL. XXI. areas : “2 ‘intended, both with refpect to the time . of exportation, and.with refpe& to the ‘allowance of the bounty; and in both thefe refpects fome new regulations feem — to be abfolutely neceffary. It has been often obferved,, that, generally {peak- ing, corn of every fort bears a better ‘price in the weftern counties of this kingdom, than,in the eaftern; proba- ‘bly becaufe the lands in the former are generally moft fit for pafture, and thofe in the latter moft fit for arable. And this was evidently the cafe when this . bill was ordered to be brought in, if the — » Pe facts fet forth. in the Norfolk’ petition were true. In that petition we are — told [s14.], that in the markets of eS ‘Norfolk,