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prejudices, fully satisfy us all that Hull pos- 

 sesses at least a due proportion of literary genius r 

 and that we have among us a sufficient stock of 

 talent, not only to preserve but to exalt our fair 

 fame and reputation.* It only remains, there- 



Hot only of the Society, of which he is an invaluable member, but of the 

 town at large. A pamphlet, now ready to issue from the press, entitled 

 " China Trade ; containing the entire substance of the Evidence laid 

 "before the House of Commons, in the Session of 1830; extracted 

 *' and condensed from the Report of the Committee; for commercial 

 " and political uses j by THOMAS JOHN BUCKTON, Honorary Secre- 

 " tary of the Hull Committee on the India and China Trades;" and 

 another, published anonymously, by his brother, Mr. EDWARD BucK- 1 

 TON, in 1815, under the title of a " Collection of conflicting Opi- 

 " nions upon the Corn Question, extracted from the writings of the 

 " most eminent Economists, and contrasted, in parallel columns, 

 " with notes and observations ;'' exhibit proofs of much ability and 

 great industry in their respective authors, both of whom are natives 

 of the town, and effective members of the Society. To the former, Mr. 

 THOMAS JOHN BUCKTON, the Institution is under great obligations for 

 the zeal and attention with which his duties, as joint secretary with Mr. 

 RICHAUD NORTHEN, are discharged. It would be an unjustifiable omis- 

 sion, to close this note without acknowledging the valuable assistance 

 afforded to the Society, by those Gentlemen of the public Press, whose names 

 arc enrolled in the list of its members. To them is fairly due, the merit 

 not only of contributing their share of information on the various topics 

 brought before its meetings for discussion, but of augmenting the reputation 

 of the Institution, by giving publicity to its transactions in judicious and 

 well-arranged abridgments of its proceedings. One of them, Mr. WILLIAM 

 GAWTRESS, the editor of the Hull Advertiser, is the author of "A Prac- 

 u tical Introduction to the Science of Short Hand, on the general princi- 

 " pies of the late Dr. Byrom :" of this work a third edition has just been 

 published; and it is certainly not an extravagant praise of its author 

 to say that, although his extraordinary talent in the practical exercise 

 of the art, which his little book professes to teach, may be equalled, 

 it can scarcely be surpassed. 



* The author is not without fear that he may be accused of want of 

 gallantry, in omitting to mention the writers among the Fair Sex, 

 <,f whom his native town may boast; but, were he to do so, strict justice 

 might, perhaps, call upon him to assign the foremost place in the rank of 



