1792. on the milky way. 6i 



smuggling been as near the origin of society in Gal- 

 loway, as fighting was in Rome, 'virtue * would have 

 implied dexterity in smuggling in the former, as it 

 did bravery in the latter. How often do we hear 

 of spightful murders being committed in Kent, of i-e- 

 bellious combats in Galloway and Ayrfliire, betwixt 

 his majesty's officers and the people ; and of un- 

 paralleled, and bragged-of feats of swindling in all 

 the smuggling counties of Britain ? All are owing 

 to smuggling. 



I could enumerate many more instances of the 

 baneful effects of illicit commerce, all of which ope- 

 rate most powerfully in those very parts of our coun-- 

 try that are destined by nature tofiiine in commerce, 

 and spread wealth and happinefs around them, if that 

 evil were removed ; but I must hold for the present, 

 and in my next paper I fliall probably state what are 

 the effects of exorbitant duties on the amount of the 

 revenue, which is the primary object of considera- 

 tion in imposing them. 

 Leiih, i7y2 Trader Political. 



ON THE MILKY WAY. 

 For the Bee, 



If our sun were viewed by a person at the nearest 

 fixed star, that star would appear a sun, and our 

 sun would appear a fixed star. How grand is the 

 idea that every fixed star is a sun to a number of 

 planets around it ! And yet, if we reason from ana- 

 logy, it is not more strange than true. The breadtli 



• y]rtuSi in Ljtin, signifies bravely. • 



