1822.] | 
tracted and calculated from a return 
lately made to the House of Commons, 
from the Tax-Office, viz. the greatest, 
least, and average, and the annual 
Description of Tax. 
Inhabited Houses -----++ 
Windows 
Male Servants 
Hair-powder ---- 
Armorial Bearings 
Carriages : 
Horses, for riding and 
drawing Carriages++ § 
1810-- 
1220-- 
1820 +6 
1812:- 
Ditto, of other descrip- i 1814.5 
tions, and Mules. --- 
Horse-dealers:++++++++- 
Dogs 
Game Licences -+++-++++ 
Composition at 5 per 
- Cent. for increase of +|1819++ 
establishment, 2 years 5 
1812++ 
1812. 
1819--" 
Gross Amounts, &c.+-+- 
Net Amounts, &c.++-++- 
Total Expenses of Col- ) 
lecting 
Per £100. gross ditto «+ 
Assessed Taxes.— Mr. Weekes on the olian Harp. 
Year greatest. 
z£ & 
1820 1,115,505|1810-- 882,575 
1818 2,374,725|1816 2,245,132 
1814++ 530,681/1810-- 402,635 
60,980|1820++ 
41,334/1816-- 
496,558|1810-- 
793,516|1820-- 
748,872|1817-- 
13,200|1816-- 
171,499|1811-- 
134,861|1816-- 
35,087/1820.- + 
1814. 6,209,826|1810 . 5,688,601 
1814. 5,915,734|1811 . 5,420,380 
1819+* 397,571/1810-- 267,865 
1819--£5 6 1011818. £41154] £4 16 8 
127 
gross amounts, in the eleven years 
ending the 5th of April, 1820; show- 
ing also the expenses of collecting :— 
Average 
Amount, 
ross Amount) 
Year least. in 1] years. 
£ 
11,209,892 
25,279,822 
5,468,490 
= 
1,019,081 
2,298,165 
498,954 
45,542 
40,236 
462,932 
715,251 
32,924 
39,025 
424,950 
643,429 
564,428 
9,440 
141,355 
111,280 
634,623 
11,698 
154,581 
124,435 
34,853] 34,945 
6,011,850 
5,721,308 
290,542 
66,130,346 
62,934,391 
3,195,955 
= 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
ae eSERG 
EING, with your correspondent 
C. R. as I presume, an enthu- 
siastic lover of the delightful strains 
of the Lolian harp, and having during 
several years directed my attention to 
the improvement of that instrument, 
I very gladly avail myself of the op- 
portunity to communicate a few hints 
on the subject for his information. 
The best method of stringing the 
féolian harp, agreeably to my expe- 
rience, is to employ two of the fourth 
or silver strings applicable to the vio- 
lin, while the remainder should be con- 
stituted by the first (best Roman) 
strings of the same instrument. I 
think it best to dispose of the silver 
strings in a lateral situation in regard 
to the smaller, so that one silver string 
form the first in order of notation, and 
the other the last, with all the smaller 
Roman strings intermediate. As I 
am at present on matter of fact only, 
I shall not attempt any theory to ac- 
count for this rule in stringing the 
A®olian harp; but merely assure you, 
many experiments have established in 
my mind a conviction that it is pre- 
ferable, and produces the greatest 
effect. 
If your correspondent strings his 
A®olian harp agreeably to the above 
directions, he will find that the degree 
of tension of the strings, most suscep- 
tible of the action of the wind, is that 
which he will obtain by tuning them all 
in concert to the pitch of the little in- 
strument denominated a tuning-fork, 
(the one marked A,) which he may 
purchase, if he has not one, at any 
music-seller’s shop in London, and in 
most provincial towns. 
From the situation in which the 
fZolian harp is usually placed, the 
high degree of susceptibility of the 
best kind of strings to expand and con- 
tract from atmospheric causes, and 
that unequally in regard to each other, 
the instrument requires to be very 
frequently re-tuned. 
About three years ago my views 
were directed, during some hours of 
leisure, to the formation of an instru- 
ment on the principle of the Molian 
harp; which invention I ultimately 
completed, and, if you will excuse 
want of diffidence, 1 will add, much to 
the satisfaction of myself and several 
scientific acquaintances. It is diffi- 
cult, if not impossible, by words alone, 
to convey an adequate idea of the in- 
strument to which I allude: it was not 
confined in its use to the window of a 
room, like the AXolian harp, but made 
to 
