and 29th of his prefent majesty's reign; and reprefenting many inconveniences and hardships which they alledged they were fubject to by the said acts; and therefore praying relief. This petition was on the 15, again read, the trustees under that act were impowered to appoint a perfon to infpect all fishing vessels coming from fea, and fishermen were obliged to make entries at Gravefend of the time of their arrival at the Nore, within three days after fuch and cargoes. and referred to a committee; and, April A their arrival, on forfeiture of their veffels 19, upon a report from that committee, leave was given to bring in a bill to amend an act of the 29th of his prefent majesty's reign, entitled, An Act for explaining, amending, and rendering more effectual an A&, made in the 2nd Year of his prefent Majefty's Reign, for making a free Market for the Sale of Fifb in the City of Weftminster, &c. On May 8, the bill was prefented to the houfe by Mr. Alderman Dickinson, read a first time, and ordered to be read a fecond time; and, on the 22d, it was read a fecond time, and committed. The bill for altering the last mentioned act, was brought in upon a petition, fubfcribed by only eleven fishermen, five of whom were weekly fervants to one man, who is a fisherman, falefman, and fishB monger, and who has engroffed almost the whole lobster trade, and has seven large cod fmacks employed in the fishery on his On the 26th, a petition of feveral of the C trustees for putting in execution the faid act of the 22d of his prefent majesty's reign, was prefented, alledging, that if the faid bill fhould pafs into a law, as it then stood, the said act would, in a great measure, be rendered ineffectual. On the 30th, a petition of feveral fish- D mongers, was prefented, fetting forth, that of late years the fcarcity of large fish had enhanced the price, which scarcity had been occafioned, in a great measure, by the large quantity of small fish brought to market, &c. After this the bill paffed thro' the other forms in common course, and, on June 14, was fent to the lords. But as their lordships could not have time to confider the bill fo maturely as it feemed to require, it was there dropped. own account. The alterations propofed by their bill, are, That the entries of fishing veffels for the future, fhall be made at the Cuftom-house, London (instead of Gravefend.) That the forfeiture of the vessel and cargo for neglecting to make fuch entries shall be repealed, and a pecuniary penalty fubftituted in the ftead-and in cafe of conviction a power of appeal to a quarter feffions. But as the fupply of London and Weftminster with good and wholefome fish, has always been thought of great confequence, and many endeavours have been made to reduce the price to the confumer, by preventing a monopoly, and by compelling E fishermen to bring their fifh to market within a reasonable time; and as no law has been made fo likely to answer those ends, as that paffed in the 29th year of the prefent king, it is to be hoped that no alteration will be made in it. In the year 1749, an act paffed for eftablishing a free market in Westminster, F for the fale of fish, that the cities of London and Westminster, and parts adjacent, might be better fupplied with good and wholefome fish, and at a reasonable price. To anfwer which ends, all contracts for fith were prohibited, and fishermen compelled to fell off their whole cargoes within eight days after their arrival on the British coat, between North Yarmouth and Dover, on forfeiture of their vessels and cargoes. But for want of power to oblige the tithermen to discover the time of their arrival, and an officer to take an account thereof, the intention of the act was defeated; therefore, another act passed in the 29th year of the reign of his prefent majefty, to explain, amend, and ren der more effectual the faid act, whereby G H On February 21, it was ordered nem, con. that leave be given to bring in a bill for giving a more speedy remedy to the fubject upon the writ of Habeas Corpus. March 8, the bill was prefented to the house by Sir John Cuft, read a first time, and ordered to be read a fecond time; which it was on the 17th, and after fome amendments, ordered to be ingroffed, and to be read a third time, and feveral amendments being made to it by the house, it was paffed, and fent to the lords. But tho' this bill had been brought in nem. con. and maturely confidered by the commons, fuch objections were started against it in the house of lords, that it was dropped upon the second reading; and the judges ordered to prepare a bill for the fame purpose, to be laid before that houfe the next feffion. [To be continued.] From Advantages arifing from fowing of Flax. From my Houfe about 300 Miles North. SIR, HAV AVING obferved many useful hints given through the channel of your Magazine, as a member of and well wisher to The community, I think myself obliged to give you the following information, which A you may prefent to the publick in what man. ner you please. C 227 importation of bad flax-feed, I determined to make an experiment, whether we might not preferve as good flax-feed at home, as any which comes from abroad; and at the fame time fave the flax, and make it fit for manufacturing early in the fame feafon. To this purpose I applied to Mr. David Melvil, at the Linen-hall, for his advice and direction; who approved of my letting apart one of my fields near Londonderry, containing three Scotch acres, which is very little more than two acres and a half plantation measure. I fowed my flax-feed in April laft, and moft strictly adhered to Mr. Melvill's direction, in the whole culture and management of my flax crop, in preparing the land, fowing, rolling, pulling, watering, and beetling the flax: as alfo in preferving the feed. In confequence of this I have nine hogsheads of as good flax feed as any ever imported from Holland or the Baltick, which I can fell at 21. 15 s. per hogfhead. I let the flax grow till it was full ripe. It was in length from three to four feet. After fermenting and beetling, it was made up into bundles, weighing 20 pounds each, of these D I had 658 bundles, which being dressed each bundle turned out five pounds and a quarter of clean flax fit for the market, which I can. fell at 5d. per pound: and I am well affured, that it can easily be heckled to spin into ten hank yarn. There is juft fet up in our corporation a new and uncommon trade, namely, the conveying of children to the Foundling Hofpital. I understand that charity is intended to be as extenfive as the country we live in. The be, B neficial effects which may arife from a prudent management of it, must be evident to every unprejudiced mind: but whether or not there is room for improvement, I refer to what follows. The perfon employed in this new trade is a woman of a notorious bad character: The undertakes the carrying these children at fo much per head; fhe has, I am told, made one trip already, and is fet out upon a journey with two of her daughters, and each a child upon her back. It is fuppofed they beg their way out and home. Another branch of her trade is enticing young girls to accompany her, promifing them good places; which no doubt will be in houfes of repute, and confequently fhe'll be well rewarded. From this relation, which I do affure you is every word true, may it not be proper to enquire, whether or not these poor helpless infants do really come fafe to their intended refidence, or what becomes of them? E The intention of the charity is to preferve and not to be the means of deftroying them. If they are fent from other parts of the kingdom under the fame circumftances, it is ea. fy to foresee what may be the confequence. Should thefe hints induce fome worthy gentlemen to confider of and point a more proper method for conveying these children with. fafety, and preventing other mischiefs and inconveniencies which may attend these new trades, my end will be fully anfwered. I am your conftant reader and friend. MEANWELL. To the PRINTER. Dublin, March 23. F G our Linen manufacture, through the neglect 1 had the misfortune to meet with bad weather when the feed was ripe, which obliged me to defer pulling the flax for nine or ten days, whereby near a third of the feed was loft. I loft alfo as much of the flax as would make up 100 bundles, by the accident of horfes breaking into the field. Notwith ftanding thele loffes, I have faved nine hogs. heads of flax feed, and 658 bundles of flax. The whole produce of the field comes to 911. fterling, out of which deducting 311. for the rent, feed, culture, and expence of faving the feed and flax, the neat profit is 601. I kept an exact account of all the expences, and I make a large allowance. The fuccefs I had in this my first attempt encourages me to prepare, and fow feven acres with flax-feed in the fame manner, this enfuing feafon. I have engaged above 40 of our Farmers to come into the fame method. And I hope this fuccefs will encourage all our farmers to purfue it, as they will thereby not only fave a fufficient quantity of feed for the ufe of the kingdon; but also will foon from experience be convinced of the fuperiority of ripe flax over the unripe (as it is now generally when pulled). It will have a much greater produce, will be easier manufactured, Gg 2 and and will be of confiderable advantage in every branch of the manufacture. By the method I purfued, the great objection from ftacking up the flax, and poftponing the manufacturing it for a feafon, is removed, for I had all the feed faved in Auguft, and the flax prepared for the market in September and October; and I apprehend, if this method of Mr. Melvill's is purfued, it will be an immenfe faving, and of the utmost advantage to the kingdom in general. I am, dear Sir, yours, &c. . Londonderry, Dec. 13, 1758. WILLIAM KENNEDY. An Account of the New Tragedy of the THI A B HIS Tragedy has for its fubject the conqueft of China by Gengis Kan, Emperor of the Tartars; who having put all the Royal Family to death, but a child C in the cradle, great fearch is made after this infant, in order to deracinate the whole houfe; but the late King in his dying moments having defired Zamti, a Mandarin, to preferve, at least, his youngest fon's life, he promifed, on his oath, to obey him, and accordingly fecreted the young D Prince. The Chinese History is fuppofed to be, twenty years advanced. The principal characters are, ZAMTI, the Mandarin, by Mr. Garrick. HAMET, Zamti's fon, by Mr. Holland. Etan. preffible fatisfaction at thefe generous fentiments of his Prince; and at the fame time meditates his fon's deliverance and Zaphimri's legal fucceffion. Young Hamet is then brought before the Tyrant and examined concerning himself: the account he gives ftaggers the opinion of Gengis Kan; but it is at length reconciled by Zamti's afferting (after many parental pangs) that he is the Prince. The Tartar then orders him to prepare for execution; and he, with truly heroic refignation, obeys his will. As he is upon the point of being put to death, his mother Mandane rushes in, and protests he is her fon and not the Prince; that Zamti her husband has been the cause of the impofition; and that in executing him they do not wreak the byperborean vengeance on the destined head. Zamti now appears, who at first is fhocked at the difcovery, but foon acknowledges him for his fon; and Zamti, Hamet, and Mandane, in one illustrious triumvirate, dare the vengeance of the Tyrant. This confequently produces their feparate imprisonment, in order to difcover where the concealed Prince, configned to Zamti's charge, really is. Ere this Zaphimri is acquainted with his importance, and configned over by Zamti to fome trufty Patriots for the common E Caufe, he difguifes himself, and has a conference with Hamet in his dungeon, in which fuch truly noble fentiments are difplayed on both fides as befpeak the one a Prince, the other his imagined self. F The kingdom ftill groans under the Tartarian yoke; and the Mandarin ftill retains his fentiments of liberty, and cherishes fond hopes of placing the young Prince, unacquainted with his station, G upon the throne. News is brought of the arrival of Hamet, at the head of fome Coreans, to dethrone Gengis Kan; but in the first skirmish he is taken prifoner, and thought by the Tartars to be Zaphimri. This intelligence no fooner reaches Zamti and Man- H dane than they are in great confterna tion: whilst the young Prince, not yet undeceived, demonftrates, in quality of Etan, the greateft ardour of going to refcue his King. Zamti conceives inex The scheme is unravelled, Gengis Kan is to be dethroned, and the young Prince fupported by the Coreans and his trufty Chinese, who only wear the Tartarian badge till a favourable opportunity occurs, to restore his country s freedom and its lineal Kings. The Tyrant orders Hamet to be conveyed to his Mother's prefence, in order by a quick termination of their conference for his preparing to die, to renew all her maternal anxieties; and, in expectation of still saving him, to make her ieveal the fecret of the Prince's concealment. But this has no effect; and Zamti and Mandane have an interview, in which all their love, friendship, and attachment are repeated: and the Prince implores an interview of the Tyrant, to whom he discloses, in order to fave Zamti, Mandane, and Hamet, that he is Zaphimri : but Gengis Kan imagines this another arti fice to deceive him. The General Forbes's Expedition to Fort Duquefne. The Tyrant is now informed by a Chinese forced into his service, that some of the Coreans and Malecontents are up in arms to fupport the young Prince's caufe: Gengis Kan, terrified by a Dream, is ready to arm and head his troops against them, but is diffuaded by his Officer, who tells him the enemy will eafily be difperfed; that the pretended Eran was really the young Prince, and as foon as he had difcovered it, his zeal forced him to destroy the source of rebellious diffention. 229 of transports and other accidents, and four companies of Royal Americans to be marched from New York to this place; but, by an uncommon affiduity, and proper manage. ment of the Quakers, and other Parties in this province, the Penfylvanians, not reA markable for their pronenefs to war, did more in granting fupplies and raising of troops than they had ever done before, tho' not all that was required. Virginia likewife fet about recruiting, to whom and to the other provinces his exhortations were not wanting. South Carolina the General made no demand on, judging it improper to rob them (as they lay at a distance) of the little force they could muster for their own defence. The Tyrant is fatisfied; and, when he leaft expects it, the young Prince is oppofed B to him fabre in hand. The Tyrant declines the combat under pretence of being unarmed. -Zaphimri generously tells him, againft his introductor's will, that he does not purpose Maryland raised no money for the pay of taking any advantage of him. When Gen- their troops, who for that reason were ready gis Kan has reached his fword, the young to mutiny and discharge themfelves at the Prince follows him; and, in upbraiding him C juncture when men were fo much wanted; for his tyranny, heroically decides the cause. which obliged Mr. Forbes either to dispense with them, or he in advance confiderable fums of money to keep the troops from ftarving, upon the faith that the Province, confcious of their error, would refund the fum advanced. In the mean while, the guards of Zamti, hearing of the infurrection, put him to the torture; and Mandane, through defpair, ftabs herself with a poignard. D North Carolina likewise set out a handful of men in the fame circumstances; not that I believe the Province would not, but that they could not, either cloath or pay them. These the General was alfo obliged to fubsist. Zamti furvives no longer than to give some prudent advice to the young Prince, who concludes the whole with a moral comment. The dreffes are not only new, elegant, and characteristic; but the fcenery is magnificent, uniform, and proper. We are at first prefented with an apartment in the regal Pa- About the beginning of June, or end of lace, which opens to an interior view of the May, Col. Montgomery's regiment of HighUfurper's Throne. His comments upon the E landers, that made up fo confiderable a part fumptuoufnefs of the place no way furpafs of Mr. Forbes's army, landed in Philadelthe reprefentation. The fepulchral fane is a phia; happy to be removed from the fultry new and masterly piece of architecture. heats of a more fouthern latitude, under which they had groaned for fome time. A Letter from an Officer who attended Brigadier General Forbes, in his March from F Philadelphia to Fort Duquesne, (now Pittsburgh) Feb. 25, 1759. Bferving the uncommon anxiety you exprefs in your letters about your friend General Forbes, and the bad intelligence they seem to have in England both of him and his operations, I could not avoid writing to you upon that fubject, as I have had for fe veral months paft the belt opportunity of obferving the many fatigues and hardhips he underwent for the preservation of those very people who idly reported him dead to you. In the month of May he arrived at Philadelphia with his Brigade Major, and an army upon paper, artillery to be fent from England, provincial troops to be raised when they ought to be taking the, field, Col. Montgomery's regiment to be brought from South Carolina, and liable to be detained for want G H After reviewing them at Philadelphia, the General with a few fix-pounders he picked up and a howitzer or two he had caft at New York, refolved to march the laft divifion of the army at all events, when he was agreeably furprifed by the arrival of Capt. Anderfon, with an additional train of artillery from England. Thus matters became lefs gloomy, the General fending off the troops in small divifions daily; and picking up a little strength, he himself marched, about the middle of June, for Carlifle, escorted by a few light-horse, having given orders to the artillery to follow, escorted by Major Grant, with the last divifion of Colonel Montgomery's regiment. Previous to these things, Sir John St. Clair was fent up with fufficient fums of money to lay in magazines of forage at proper distances for the waggon and artillery-horfes, on their march; a thing indifpenfably neceffary where an army was to be subsisted so long in a wil dernfs derness without the smallest affiftance from water carriage. Magazines of provifions likewife were to be laid up at our advanced pofts, the carriage of which, providing waggons, &c. was no fmall embarraffment; and in general the Quarter master's detail gave Mr. Forbes im- A menfe fatigue, while he had his other operations to manage as circumstances might vary. Col. Bouquet, who was second in command, was fent forward with as confiderable a body as could be brought together and fubfifted, to take poft within a hundred miles of the enemy, at a place called Raeftown, now Bedford; which he accomplished, and executed his orders in raifing a fort, entrenching the camp, and watching the enemy from fending large parties to harrafs our convoys with provisions from the inhabited parts of the country to Fort Bedford. B The enemy made attempts that way; but C as the General had ordered the efcoites to be pretty strong, they did not fo much execution as might have been imagined. the General and Col. Bouquet towards Fort From this appearance, however, you'll be apt to think matters in great forwardness; but on the contrary, provifions at Fort Bedford from the villainy of waggoners, death of horfes, breaking of carriages, &c. did not increase on our hands; the confumption being almoft equal to the fupplies; a dreadful confideration, the army being fome hundreds of miles advanced in a wilderness. Our General was obliged to fend the Quarter Master General, and several affiftants with him, to Philadelphia, to remedy this evil, if poffible. He wrote multitudes of Letters to the principal Men in the Affembly, craving their affiftance, and an alteration in the Law with D regard to carriages. Arguments were used drawn both from the publick caufe, and private friendship; and he being happily pretty well with them, a Law was paffed ordering waggoners to be paid according to the quantity they carried, and not by days; upon which a very confiderable supply arrived at Raeftown. Tho' a body of Indians came down to a place called Shippensburgh, where the General lay ill of a flux, and killed fome men within a quarter of a mile of us (a fort of mifchief they could perpetrate in a clofe country, if Xerxes's army was there to prevent it) the General who had only a few highlanders with him, kept thefe fo conftantly in chace of the favages, that the place became too hot for them, tho' they only got fight of the Indians once, after many days E tracing them, and wounded one or two. This I mention to give you fome idea of the ftrange fort of war that's carried on in this country. The General, by this time, is extremely reduced by a flux, and incapable of riding on horseback, or bearing the jolts of a wheel carriage; but being determined to go forward, he caufes himself to be carried in a litter fupported by two horses, and half a dozen of men on each fide to prevent the fwinging of the machine. : He arrives at Fort Loudoun, where a fmart fever feized him, which however he threw off in three days, with little other change produced than an encreafed weakneis nevertheless he wrote from this place to the Ministry, and ordered Col. Bouquet to advance fifty miles farther upon the enemy, and take up the most advantageous poft he could find; which he did, at a place cailed Loyal Hanning; which being now fortified and become refpectable, is known by the Dame and title of Fort Ligonier. During this long period, tho' innumerable Scouting parties had been fent out both by F G Parties all this while were employed, with a ftrong armed force to cover them, to cut and make the roads, which was the employment of our little army, befides ordinary duties, for fome hundreds of miles. Rainy weather came on; the roads over the Allegany and Lawrel Hills, which were interjected between the General, and the advanced part of the army, became deep, nay, almost impracticable, for carriages of any fort; and the remainder of our artillery, which had but just reached Fort Bedford, could not move forward. The tranfporting of provifions was now fo difficult, that the Commanding Officers at Fort Ligonier were obliged to send all the baggage horfes of the Officers, &c. down to Raeftown for flour and other provifions; which the General, now arrived in his litter at Fort Bedford, dispatched next morning with bullocks and back loads of flour to fupply their neceffities. Intelligence was now wanted, Colonel Bouquet, whofe attention to business was very confiderable, was determined to fend no more Provincials a fcouting; therefore |