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we hold it an imperious obligation, that 
nothing, except in the shape of ac- 
knowledged and illustrative quotation, 
shall) appear, ‘but what originates. in 
our own research, and is conformable 
with our ‘own judgment and con- 
viction! But Editors of magazines, 
and other periodicals, have a body 
politic ‘as well as a body natural :— 
officially, indeed, like kings, they never 
die, till the state itself dissolves. . Sy/- 
vanus Urban still continues to live 
the Methusalem life of centuries; and 
Mr. Editor of the Monthly Magazine 
hopes to be alike immortal. But what- 
ever may be the lot of the body politic, 
the body natural is liable to mutation 
and mortality: and, perhaps, it may 
be sufficiently apparent, without either 
tolling bell or trumpet proclamation, 
that one or two such demises have, with- 
in a short time, occurred in our maga- 
zine state; atid as, in our present person, 
according to the established example of 
greater potentates, we commence our 
accessional career with liberal promises 
of restoring whatever was good, im- 
proving whatever was improvable, and 
reforming whatever was censurable, in 
all former administrations of our office ; 
so we request of the whole of our good 
peopie, correspondents, subscribers, and 
readers in general, not to lay to our 
charge any of the offences of our pre- 
decessors, or to suspect us of being 
capable of drawing into precedent any 
the least, of the mal-practices of any of 
the former administrators of our edi- 
torial functions. To our correspon- 
dent A.L.L., in particular, we readily 
concede all his objections. Whatever 
may be our opinion of the Poyais pro- 
ject and expedition, we cannot admit 
that an acquittal of an accused party 
by a tribunal of the accused, is to them 
any acquittal at all, or throws any satis- 
factory light whatever upon the sub- 
ject of accusation. Neither do we give 
our implicit consent. to the conclu- 
siveness of that logical induction which 
is attempted to be arithmetically drawn 
from custom-house returns, and fiscal 
details and calculations. We do not 
admit that revenual amounts, and what 
is even called national prosperity, are 
inevitably identified. Still less do we 
admit, that what is called national pros- 
perity —#. e. the increasing opulence of 
the already opulent classes—necessarily 
includes. the idea \of ‘the increasing 
comfort and bettered accommodation 
of the people: for the days are’ yet 
too recent ‘to be forgotten we should 
> 
Comparative Expenses of Toll Roads in different Counties, 
(Jan, 1, 
be glad, to be. conyineed, that.,eyen, 
yet, they have, passed, entirely awaysh 
when these two assumed concomitants 
were directly in inyerse, progression, 
when the miseries. and privations ofthe 
people increased, .in parallel proportion 
to the augmentation of the rent-rolls of 
proprietors, and the profits of capitalists. 
But these are topics which; no, one, .we: 
believe, is more capable of demonstra- 
tively illustrating than, our\conrespon- 
dent A.L.L, himself; «Tov his’ cate and 
elucidation we recommend: and ‘resign 
them, with the unqualified ‘admission, 
that the proof of real and genuine na- 
tional prosperity must be demonstrated, 
not by the reported increase of revenue 
from customs and taxation, but from 
authenticated facts of the condition, 
comfort and accommodation of. the 
great mass, or industrious classes of the 
community.—Ep1rT.] 
——— ; 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
Sir: roibod 
ILL you allow-me; through the 
medium of your widely ¢ircu- 
lated publication, to request some accu- 
rate information respecting nie 
Samuel Ward, Master of Sydney 
College, Cambridge, afterwards Bishop ; 
but of what Diocese, I am not. aware. 
Thomas Goad, D. D.; and 
Walter Balcanqual, B. D.; who: wer 
three of the Theologians sent to the 
Synod of Dort, at the commencement 
of the 17th century ? 
Yours; &c.' | Q. 
——a— 7 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
On the ComMpARAtiIvE EXPENSES, of 
Toit Roans in different CouxTuEs ; 
—and Queries on M‘Apamizine 
SvTREETs. d 
PAPER lately printed: by order 
A of the House of Commons, ¢on- 
tains important information respecting 
the extent of turnpike roads in edch ot 
the several English counties, and in 
Scotland and in: Wales, with the cor- 
responding annual revenue and expen- 
diture of each: but the official table of 
these particulars contains, no column 
shewing the same expenditure per mile. 
I have, therefore, been at the. paims) to 
calculate these with care, and) have 
altered the arrangement. of the table 
from an alphabetical one, to a classifica- 
tion of the several countiés, and’ éach 
principal division and total of ouf island, 
in the order of the comparative-expen=—— 
siveness of its public roads. , This tableyy 
follows below, and will, T think, need no 
i 
explanation 
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