THE CHRONICLE. 
cern. Is ita thing to be believed, 
that the king of Poland would have 
been deserted, as he has been, by 
_the natural enemies and rivals of 
Russia, it this conquest had not 
made part of a more extensive sys- 
tem, concerted among them, of 
which Poland is only the first vie- 
tim, and which is to furnish the 
means of equal aggrandizement to 
the other contracting parties? We 
may rely on our internal strength, 
or we may confide in our situation. 
But what solid security have we 
that this powerful confederacy may 
not be able to create, or collect, a 
maritime force, sufficient to con- 
tend withthe navy of Great Britain? 
If that should ever happen, a single 
event might lay this island open to 
the same armies of disciplined bar- 
barians, to which the rest of Europe 
may have been compelled to sub- 
mit. When the force is sufficient, 
the pretences never fail. In the 
case of Poland there was. none. 
All we have heard is, that it did 
not suit the views of Russia that a 
limited monarchy, an hereditary 
crown, or a reasonable constitution 
of any kind, should exist in that 
country ;—that the mass of the 
people should have a Jaw to appeal 
to, or a government to protect 
them.—We submit thesereflections 
to the wisdom and generosity of the 
nation, with a thorough conviction 
that, on this subject, their wisdom 
and their generosity will lead them 
to the same conclusion.—We have 
no doubt of the success of our for- 
mer addresses to the public, and 
that a sum would have been col- 
lected, which it would have been 
Honourable in us to offer, and to 
the Polish nation to have accepted, 
But the object is gone. We have 
therefore determined that the seve- 
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ral sums subscribed shall be return- 
ed ta the subscribers, deducting a 
small per-centage to defray the ex- 
pences incurred. 
Standing Orders of the House of 
Commons, of the 7th Day of June, 
» 1792, with respect to Navigable 
Canals, Agqueducts, ad the Na- 
vigation of Rivers, 
Resolved, 
ft his AT the standing orders. of 
the House, of the 28th of Ja- 
nuary 1771, the 925th of April 
1774, the 15th of November 1775, 
andthe 20th of July 1789, respect- 
ing Navigation Bills, be repealed, 
Resolved, ‘{hat, when any appli- 
cation is intended to be made to 
the House, for leave to bring ina 
bill for making any cut or canal, 
for the purposes of navigation, or 
any cut, canal, or aqueduct, for the 
purpose of supplying any city, town, 
or place, with water, or for varying 
or altering any such cut, canal or 
aqueduct already made, or for mak- 
ing cr improving the navigation of 
any river, or for altering any act of 
parliament passed for any or either 
of those purposes (in which bill for 
altering any such act it is intended 
to give power for raising any farther 
or additional rates, tolls, or duties) 
notice of such intended application 
shall be inserted three times in the 
London Gazette, in the months of 
August and September, or either of 
them, previous to the session of 
parliament in which such applica- 
tion is intended to be made; and 
that such notice shall also be insert- 
ed in some one newspaper of every 
county through which any such cut, 
canal, or aqueduct, is intended to 
be carried, or in which such cut, 
G 4 canai, 
