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cuted. They fay it is becaufe his flefh 
was putrid from his illnefs that the fcull 
has fo foon been left bare; and as to the 
jaw, Sir,which, you may obferve, is broken 
and hanging down, that was broken by 
fome boys of the town who amufed them- 
felves in throwing ftones at it!’? I turned 
away with difguft trom this fhocking tale. 
What morals, faid I, what feeling, what 
humanity, what virtue can exift among a 
people, where to infult the miferable re- 
mains of mortality is the amufement of 
the populace ! 
Nor is it merely among the lower order 
of the people that this fpirit of ferocity 
has been excited and is kept alive in Ire- 
land, On the faine day on which the 
above converfation took place, I happened 
to dine in compiny with fome of the firft 
people of the town; there were fome 
ftrangers prefent befides myfelf, who after 
dinner turned the converfation to the topic 
of thefe heads. It was obferved by one 
itranger, that it was a violation of public 
decorum to obtrude fuch horrid fpectacles 
Yo near the eye and obfervation of the paf- 
fenger;. by another, that it tended to 
harden and brutalife the public mind; 
and by a third, that it was.impolitic, now 
that the rebellion was completely cruthed, 
to keep alive the animofity of party by 
fuch public and difeufting monuments of 
crime and punifhment; better would it be, 
he obferved, to obliterate every remem- 
brance of what was pafled by removing 
from the eye and ear of the public what- 
ever could revive that remembrance or 
perpetuate fentiments which might again 
kindle into partial infurreciion. <¢ Sir,”” 
_ faid one gentleman of the town, who feemed 
to {peak the fenfe of his countrymen, 
** T wifh we had more heads up if it were 
likely they could again route the villains 
to infurrection ; for we are fully able to 
put them down, and the more of them we 
difpatch the bettem!’? Such are the prin- 
ciples and fuch the feelings which feem to 
actuate every de{cription vf men, in.a coun- 
try once remarkable for good-nature, af- 
fection, and humanity. WwW. 
—e ie 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
P*ROUGH I do not apprehend that 
the plan for the current circulation 
of property in the public funds, of which 
an outline is given in your Magazine, 
p- 613, will ever be carried into execution, 
the projector of it at Jeaft deferves thanks 
for his intention, the defign of the plan 
being to procure afliftance to thofe. who 
want to borrow money on the fecurity of 
4and, to enable them to pay their debts, 
Circulation of Stock—Saltne/s of Trees and Hidzes. 
593 
or to improve their eflates; fuch loans 
having been of late very difficult to ob- 
tain. This difficulty, however, by no 
means arifes from a want.of a fufficient 
quantity of paper money, which we are 
now taught to confider as the proper 
circulating medium of the country; but 
from the circumftance of there being at 
prefent many ways { which perfons hav-~ 
ing money to {pare, can employ it with 
much greater profit than by lending it 
on mortgage. It is well known, that pre- 
vious to the war money was readily ob- 
tained on landed fecurity, and “it was 
thought a favour to have the difcounting 
of good bills: if ever 3 per cents fhould 
be again at 80 or go, and the profits of 
foreign trade fomewhat reduced by France 
and Holland recovering their’ fhare there- 
‘in, loans on Janded fecurity will be ob- 
tained with as much facility as ever; but 
without fome fuch change of circum- 
ftances, no iffue of papcr money would 
produce this effe&, as it would foon be 
all abforbed in the channel that produced 
the greateft gain. Projects di this na- 
ture fhould be attempted with the ut- 
moft caution, they fhould be formed on 
general principles, and the propofed -be- 
nefits not be confined to a particular clafs 
of perfons, nor the execution of them be 
likely to encourage dangerous fpecula- 
tions. If ftockholders obtained a double 
profit on part of their capital by iffuing 
notes thereon, the poffeflurs of many other 
{pecies of property would think themfelves 
entitled to the fame advantage; and if 
landholders could borrow monty at amo- 
derate rate of intereft, why fhould not 
manufacturers and others be accommo- 
dated on the fame terms ? 
Augujt 16,1799- ey 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
OT finding. an anfwer given to 
i your correfpondent, who requefted 
in your Magazine for May an explana- 
tion of the caufe of the faltnefs’ he ob- 
ferved on trees and hedges m April laft, 
in the county of Kent ;—-I beg leave to 
repeat the folicitation; at the iame time 
obferving, the phznomenon was firft no-" 
ticed-by me inan extraordinary manner, 
in the month of April 1792, on the confines 
of the counties of Warwick and Oxford, 
The wind for fome time had been brifk, 
proceeding from the points betwixt north 
and eaft, with a confiderable hazinefs and 
_moifture in the atmofphere, which with. 
out rain fuddenly changed to drynefs and 
clearnefs. At this time being obferving 
the difference of appearance of the buds 
of 


