7 
47098.) 
hiftory, hiftory over morals, morals over 
politics, and the analyfis of thought over 
sll. But the ftriéteft bond which unites 
them, confiits in their common devoted~ 
nefs to the caufe of liberty; towards this 
point it is that all their efforts converge ; 
their glory is to contribute to the fupport 
and to the profperity of the republic, in 
collecting for it the lights of philofophyy 
the inftru€tions of hiitory, the elements 
of moral inftitution, and the materials of 
a wife and ftrong legiflation, 
[ The Proceedings of the other Clafs will be given 
in our next Number} 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
HE land-tax, till the pafling of the 
late act for perpetuating it, differed 
from the other branches of the public re- 
venue (except part of the duties on malt) 
in being impofed annually, whereas other 
taxes have been granted either for a term 
of years, or more commonly, of late years, 
forever. But though granted for only 
one year at a time, the land tax has been 
regularly continued from year to year, 
fince the revolution; having never been 
wholly taken off, but lms varied with re- 
fpeét to the rate, being ufually reduced 
during peace, and increaled again in time 
ef war, to anfwer in part the increafed 
expenditure. In 1693 it was firft raifed 
to four fhillings in the pound, upon a 
- valuation given in, in the preceding year, 
and according to which it has continued 
to be raifed to the prefent time, at the 
fgilowing rates : 
In 1698 and 1699 ~ ~- at 4s. 
£7090) ye = wate2s% 
DION ym at ae, 
2702. FO" 1712, = =) atlas. 
P77 as ADO 7 PG 3! at ose 
1716-2") iat as: 
D757 tO T7216 = at. 33: 
1722 to 1726 = -. at/2s: 
727 = < ‘at. 4s. 
1728 and 1729 - = at 3s. 
1730 @nd 1731 = = at 25 
D7 Sa ane te 3s) e. At ee 
1734. to 1739. - -. at 2s, 
1740 to 3749 - «= at 4s, 
tb 1s a ty Rs ea oy fo 
ETS SLO S755 ay = ae) Ze, 
1756 ‘ta 1766. =" = ‘at 4s: 
4707, to ‘1770 @= = at? 4s. 
NPE ei.) Stet 
E772 tor 2775. =) => at 9s. 
1776 to 179% - - at 4s, 
The fums to be raifed at 4s. in the 
pound, is ftated in the annual a& at 
1,939,673). 7s, sod, tor England, and 
Dan Tex. Merope aad Mafinge. 
exercife over one another, geography over. 
tax as if comes in. 
nagement of this tax, for England and 
Sn 
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so eee | 
4759541. 1s. 2d. for’ Scotland, making 
together 2,037,627]. gs, ofd.; and uporm 
credit of this affeflment, 2,000,000l. is 
ufvally borrowed of the bank in antici- 
pation of the tax, for which fum exche-~ 
quer bills are given them, which ought 
to be cancelled out of the produce of the 
The charges of ma- 
Wales, in the year ending sth January, 
1797, amounted to 54,8401. 3s, ad. and 
there are payments made out of it for 
the militia, deferter’s warrants, and 
bounties for the growth ° of hemp. and 
flax, which in the fame year amounted te 
16,6301. 2s, 3d. in England and Wales, 
and 3111. in Scotland, which payments 
mult be provided for in fome other mode, 
af the propofed redemption is carried into 
execution, unlefs anew land tax is to be 
immediately impoled. Thefe fums be- 
ing deducted, would make the total nett 
produce 1,965,846]. 3s, std.; but the 
full amount of the affeffment is feldom if 
ever collected, fo that the nett payments 
into the Exchequer always fall fhort of 
the fum borrowed on the credit thereof, 
exclutfive of intereft on the bills, and the 
deficiency is made good out of the fup~ 
ples of the next year. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine, 
SIR, 
BEG the favour of your infertine 
the two following fubje&ts of inquiry 
to your numerous literary readers, 
Can any one give intelligence of a 
tranfiation of the “ Merope” of Maffei, 
faid to ave been made by Pope, but 
net mentioned by any of his biogra~ 
phers ? 
What has become of the colleGtions 
made by the tragedian Rowe for an edi- 
tion of the works of Maffinger? 
Your’s, &c. 
A LOVER of LETTERG, 
eer R ie 
fo the Editor of the Iv onthly Magazine. 
SIR, | 
A riche be much obliged.to any of 
your correfpondents who can tell me, 
through the medium of your Magazine, 
how Hat-making was firff invented, or any 
that can favour me with its hiftory; and 
if any machines were ever invented for 
that purpofe? 
I alfo with their advice on the follow- 
ing fubject: I am forming at prefent a 
{mall colle&tion of books, under the title 
ofa “ kitchen Library,” for the ule of 
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