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Its name, is the greatert: curfe. In proportion, therefore ,as the 

 one is cheriflied, the other ought to be reprefled. Men advance 

 not to licentioufnefs in any ftate, but by complufion. When 

 they fufTer injuftice in one inftance, and are compelled to feek 

 redrefs by the vigour of their own exertions, who can pretend 

 to fay, that after they have felt their flrength, they will not 

 try to make an improper ufe of it? Every wife government, 

 therefore, will be ftudious, by a mild mode of adminiftration; 

 to prevent them from being ever compelled to" try their 

 fliength in the time of reform ; nor is any mods of conduft 

 more eafy, or more certainly efficacious, than this is. Every 

 ■wife man will be anxious to fee all appearance of an oppofite 

 conduft fuddenly reprefled, and I truii there is as much wif- 

 dom in this part of the country, as to make this v/ifli general 

 among thofe who have it in their power to carry it into effefl, 

 and prevent tiiis bufmefs from being ever more iieard of. 



NAVAL AFFAIRS. 



Captain Joseph Brodie at Leith, feveral of whofe ingenious 

 inventions have been already mentioned in the Bee, continues 

 to exercife his talents in the nautical line, which, if duly attend- 

 ed to, would prove highly beneficial to the public. 



He is juft now preparing, and has in great forwardnefs, a 

 Jiew nautical chart of the Eaftern coafls of Britain, from the 

 liouth Foreland northward, with many improvements, which 

 his great experience on that coaft, aided by a peculiar talent 

 for accurate obfervation, has enabled him to make. 



He has alfo finiflied a buoy of a new conftruftion, on very 

 Ingenious and fimple mechanical principles, which is calculated 

 To carry a fiag-ftalT of confiderable height (with a flag upon 

 it), which in^very poflible fituation of the furge, will retam 

 its perpendicularity ; a difcovery, the utility of which is too 

 manifeft to require to be pointed out. In fome future num- 

 ber of this work, a particular defcription of this contrivance^ 

 illuftrated with a plate, will be given. 



He has likewife connived a boat of a new conftruclion, on 

 which plan avcflcl might be built of any fize, and at a fmal- 

 Jer expence, than ufual, and fit to undertake any length of 

 voyage, tiiat would only draw a very few feet of water, (a 

 boat the fizc of a paflagc-boat at Leilii, need not draw above 

 tv/o feet at moft,) though there is every reafon to believe, it 



