perty, for the maintenance of the poor. It specifies, from 

 the result of decisions in the King's Bench and at the 

 Quarter Sessions, the difficulty of making and enforcing 

 the assessments on such property for that purpose ; states 

 several unsuccessful attempts to bring shipping within the 

 range of the rate, and recommends, as the only means of 

 remedying the defect, a legislative enactment, with peculiar 

 provisions. It created considerable sensation, which gra- 

 dually died away, the pauper authorities encountering, as 

 they thought, insurmountable difficulties in preparing the 

 provisions of a bill to meet the emergency, and experiencing 

 much opposition and opprobrium from the shipowners. 



In 1827, Mr. Frost published a quarto volume, entitled 

 <f NOTICES relative to the Early History of the Town and 

 "Port of Hull ; compiled from original Records, and unpub- 

 " lished MSS., and illustrated with Engravings, Etchings, 

 " and Vignettes ;" a work of deep research, which has thrown 

 new light on the origin of the town, and obtained for 

 the author flattering eulogiums from the most celebrated 

 antiquaries in the kingdom, and the most eminent lite- 

 rary periodicals of the day.* It is a compilation from 



In the Retrospective Review, for December, 1827, (p. 203,) there is a 

 long article, written by the well-known antiquary, Nicholas-Harris Nico- 

 las, Esq., on the work in question. That writer says," No other com- 

 " plaint can with justice be made, than that Mr. Frost should have limited 

 "his ambition to the humble office of assistant to the future historian.'' 

 " We sincerely hope that he will resume a task for which he has shown 

 <{ himself to possess every requisite j and that he will, by writing a gene- 

 " ral History of Hull to the present time, soon possess new claims to the 

 ?' esteem of his townsmen." 



