1797+) 
cumftances are, however, not unufual in 
the fmall-pox: the only difference is, 
that in the fmall-pox, there is an inter- 
yal of eight days between the two erup- 
tions. The firft eruption always confifts 
of large diftin& pocks = in the fecond, 
the pulftules are {mall and coherent, or 
fometimes cdnfuent. 
In one cafe of the malignant fever, 
which was attended with coma, a weak 
and very quick pulle, and a black incruf- 
tation of the tongue andtceth, there ap» 
peared cn.the extremities large {pots,. of 
a dark-red colour, intermixed with pe- 
techie ; and. about the fourth day, con- 
fiderabte veficles, filled with a blackith 
lymph. On the fifth day, the tongue 
was dry and rigid ; the jaw became like- 
wife conftrifted and immovable, fo that 
no liquid could be paffed into the mouth. 
¥n this dreadful fituation,, the pains a 
delicate young lady, 17 years of age, ex- 
pired on the 6th day of the difeate. 
The following lift of deaths is given 
by the bills of mortality, for the lak 
four weeks. 
State of Public Affairs —Great Britain. 
Apoplexy ani fuddenly ~ - 9 
Atthma and Confumption - 940 
Aged - @ a Th. 
Abortive and Still-born - 52 
Brain Fever - - « 2 
Convulfions - ~ 4° soso 
Croup - - my 2 
Child-Bed- - ~- a ih. 
Cancer - - - if 
Dropfi - pa ue t 
A o = a 4 
Gout - - - «~ 5 
Hooping Cough “ ~ 2° 
Jaundice se “ heat 
Inflammation and Abfce(s - a 23 
Locked Jaw re A 3B 
Lunatic - ~ - “ 3 6 
Meafics - © = - ‘ 1S 
Mortification > ~ is 
Palfy - - * s 3 
Small -Pox tit - 22 
Sore Throat - be 5 Si 
St. Anthony’s Fire “ vid x 
‘Teething. - Pe alte 26 
Thruth : o - he 
Worms - “ ke X 
Water in the Head - = % 

STATE 
OF 
i Great BRITAIN. 
rPHE correction of fome deficiencies in 
the minifter’s budget, and hurrying 
his unfinifhed bills through the honfe,. 
has been the principal employment of 
parliament during this month.. On the 
30th of Tune, the Houfe of Commons 
Raving rejolved itfelf into a committee of 
ways and means, the Chancellor of the 
Exchequer arofe, and obferved, that as 
it was his duty to offer to the confidera- 
tion of the committec, fubftirutes for the 
deficiencies that had take place in the 
eftimated product of the late taxes, he 
fhould take the liberty of {tating refpec- 
tively, what thofe taxes were on which 
any deficit had happened. He firlt pro- 
pofed a fubftitute for the propofed Toll 
Duty, which was eftimated at the fum of 
450,000]. There were feveral objec- 
tions to this tax, particularly to the man- 
mer of collecting it, which had’ induced 
him to give it up. The. next propofed 
tax, which he defigned to relinquifh, was 
that on parcels. The deficit occafioned 
by the whole relinquifhment and. regu- 
lation of taxes, appeared as follows : 

Tol! Duty, &c. ~ £,-450,202 
Inland Navigation - 90,000 
Newfpaper Advertifements 40,000 © 
Transfer Property # 80,000 
Tatal deficit £660,000 
PUBLIC AFFAIRS, 
dn Fulp, 1797+ 
The new taxes. which the minifter 
now propofed, towards making good this 
deficit, ftood as folfows: 
3s. on every. Horfe ufed in Agri- 
culture, eftimated to produce £.150,0Ce 
Pepper - - - 15,cO@ 
Coals - - = 14,000 + 
2s. 6d. on Silver Watches 
ros. on Gold Watches 200,000 
58a on every Clock 
Eftimated-at - ; 
Having thus fiated to the committec, 
the principal fubftitutes which were to 
provide for the deficit af 660,000l. he 
concluded with moving the firit refo- 
lution. 
Mr. SHERIDAN faid, that when the 
tax upon turnpikes was. originally pro- 
pofed, he mentioned his belief that it 
was both impolitic and improper, and 
advifed Mir. Pitt to deliberate upon it ; 
now it appeared,: that his opinions were 
correét, and he fincereiy wifhed his ad- 
vice had been taken, becaufe it was 
a ferious thing ac fo late a period of the 
feifion, and at a time too when the houfe 
was fo thinly attended, to abandon taxes 
to the amount of 640,o000l. and be obliged 
to feck out fubftitutes. He thoughr ~ 
that the tax on horfes ufed in agri- 
culture, was very unjuft and-impolitic. 
At length, the houfe divided on the re- 
folution for th¢ horfe tax, when there 
appeared 
