€.7 
1811.] Danger of entering into Stock Com panics. 
eonstitutional use of the influence of the 
crown to give and take away places ac¬ 
cording to the support which individuals 
3n parliament may give to Ministry or 
to Opposition*. 
Now places ought purely to he given 
or taken away according to the fitness 
of the party to perform the duties : or if 
they are sinecures (which ought not to 
be numerous or great), according at least 
to the general merit of the party. He 
observes, indeed, that probably no mili¬ 
tary otiicer thinks he hazards the loss of 
bis commission by voting against govern¬ 
ment. Itisnot quite accurate to identify 
ministry with government : but if an 
officer in the army or navy should have 
cause only to believe that his rising ac¬ 
cording to priority or merit will be thus 
retarded, or may be accelerated beyond 
bis merit, the system which gives room 
for such a belief is a pernicious system. 
In another place it is observed that 
the minister for the time being ought to he 
fertainof having, means of their confi¬ 
dence in him, his patronage^ and their 
interest in his continuance^ a majority in 
the house of commons on all important oc¬ 
casions; but if there be a probability of 
a bad minister, or if a good minister, 
may (as he is a man) have very erroneous 
and pernicious ideas and designs in some 
one instance or other, it seems very evi¬ 
dent that he ought to be, and in a 
rightly constituted parliament would be, 
certain of no other influence than the 
wisdom and goodness of his plans and 
measures should deserve. 
Mr. Kanby suggests that jj, friend to 
a reform in the representation” (which 
would bring the democratic part of our 
eonstitution nearer to the principle) which 
representation of the Commons, could' 
not easily be other than an enemy to 
the constitution of the British Empire. 
Lastly, Mr. liauby. supposes that th^ 
mdvocates of reform may mean anarchy ; 
or at least what would end in it: and 
asserts that their attempts can be, and 
ought to be, repressed by law ; but the 
friends of reform do not yield in birth, 
education, rank, landed-property, know¬ 
ledge of the constitution, love of peace 
and order, and love of their country, 
to their adversaries ; and proceeding by 
peaceable and constitutional iDeanc, they 
anight expect to- have no adversaries 
* P. p. 31, 37. 
d* P. 4. note., 
% p. 4-L 62, 64, 65. 
among the well-informed and the'good ; 
and laws we neither have, nor ought t® 
have, to repress attempts for these ends, 
atid by these means. 
Capel LoffTo 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine^ 
SIR, 
BSERVING the same defect this 
year as usual in the grapes which 
grow in my pine-stove, I shall be very 
much obliged by your inserting the fol¬ 
lowing in your next Number. 
In my pine-stove, are several vines; 
and 111 most of the bunches of t rapes, 
(the crop of which has been usually good] 
are many withered and sour berries? As 
this arises from some defect either in the 
vine border, or in the grapes not being 
sufficiently thinned out while they are 
green, or some other cause, as the bor¬ 
der is made very rich with manure, and 
is ten feet wide, I shall esteem it a favour 
it any of your horticultural friends can, 
through your Miscellany, point out the 
delect and add a remedy. 
An Horticulturist. 
Warwickshire, J«(y8, 1811. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
AVING observed, that wherever 
the subject of joint-stock compa¬ 
nies comes under the observation of the 
judges, their lordships invariably dis¬ 
countenance such institutions; I was 
led to imagine that it arose from an over- 
rigid interpretation of the laws, without 
making proper allowance for the various 
circumstances in trade, which‘at the first 
sight induce mercantile men to give them 
their sanction. 
A recent occurrence has, hovveveiv 
afforded me an opportunity of correctin'^ 
my judgment in this respect, and I think 
it ray duty to lay the particulars before 
the public, w ith a view to prevent unwary 
persons, particularly females with re¬ 
stricted incomes, from risking their nto- 
ney in concerns liable to so many ob¬ 
jections. About three years ago I em¬ 
barked one thousand pounds in an 
institution of this kind, considering my¬ 
self under no further responsibility than 
the amount of tny portion of share in the 
capital, (as the pi ospectus held out) and 
that I could at any time dispose of my 
shares at the market-price. It turned 
out, however, at a meeting of the com¬ 
mittee, they came to a resolution that 
L) 2 each 
