1809.) 
Art. XVII. That there be no re-elec- 
tion within the year; but, in case of a 
vacancy, the next in ‘number of suffrages 
of the non-elected Candidates in the 
respective lists to be summoned. 
Art. XVIII. If there should ever be a 
deficiency of Candidates, providing also 
for succession in the proportion, of one 
non-elected to every three Members, the 
electors to be at liber ty to choose addi- 
tional names ef their own’ selection, re- 
sident within the county, and free from 
the disqualifications specified ; such Re- 
presentatives to be paid two guineas per 
day, during their parliamentary attend- 
ance, and one shilling per mile travedling 
@x penses. 
Art. XIX. When the number of suf- 
frages should be equal for any two Can- 
didates, the decision to be made by lot. 
Art. XX. No man to be entitled to 
vote for more places than one; nor to en- 
roll himself ina new place without cer- 
tificate of his name being erased from a 
former roll. 
Art. XXI. Regulation with the view 
of preventing votes of occasional resi- 
dents in their own parish, and temporary 
residence. 
Art. XXI, In London, and other po- 
pulous cities and towns, parishes, where 
too large, to be subdivided, so as to ad- 
mit of elections being every where begun 
and completed on the same day. 
Art. XXII. The Parliament to meet 
on a fixed day, without summons, unless 
éarlier assembled by the King. 
Art. XXIV. The parish rolls to be well 
and truly kept, and regularly numbered, 
and no alteration to be made in their nu- 
merical order, ull after the expiration of 
seven veats. At the commencement of 
every eighth year anew roll to be madeout. 
Art, XXV. All rolls to be made on 
paper of a fixed size, printed in a form 
prescribed by law. 
Art. XXVI. All placemen, and _ ail 
military men (except of the militia), to 
be ineligible to sit as Representatives of 
the Consmons ; 
the Civil Department, and of the Navy 
and Army, to be allowed a Seat in the 
House, and freedom of speech, without 
vote. Your’s, &c. ! 
Lroston, near Bury, (Cave Lorrr. 
Aug. 24, 1809. 
— ge 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
S, through the medium of one of your 
last Numbers, [dared to make a pro- 
. fane attack on Shenstone’s famous ballad, 
The Banks of Belize, @ Honduras Pastoral, 
. Canoes, 
but a certain number of - 
55 
an effort of the Pastoral Muse exquisitely 
delectable to all] the love-stricken swaing 
and damsels throughout the United King- 
dom, | now beg leave, by your permission, 
to give your isamorae readers, of both 
sexes, the full opportunity of retort by 
unmereifully criticising the following Pas- 
toral in the Shenstonian strain, which I 
adventured to indite, one-and-twenty 
years ago, in the Bay of Honduras, as 
well-as the notes I have now added, ile 
Justrative of the Natural Hisiory, &e. of 
that country.* Your’s, &c. 
James BANNANTINE. 
Temple-street, St. George’s Fields, 
May 15, 1809. 
THE BANKS OF BELIZE (1), 
A PASTORAL BALLAD. 
While songstcrs their rivers to carol come 
bine, 
Their Arnos and Banas, their Tweeds and 
their Dees; 
To the Fair (2) of Honduras the pleaswte be 
mine 
To sing the more beautiful Banks of Belize. 
Hark! the nymphs and the swains in their 
doriés (3) a- singing, 
While Echo the music resounds through 
the trees (4) ; 
And the fishes around them are jumping and 
springing, 
Their joy to express, in the .crystal Bee 
lize (5). Here 
* A brief account of the British settiement 
in the Bay of Honduras, by the same author, 
is to be found in the Monthly Magazine, for 
1799. EDITOR. 
(x) Belize is the principal river ia 
Honduras, a most inhospitable clime, and 
about as much adapted for pastoral as Newe 
gate, which Gayintended to have made the 
scene of a burlesque on this species of poetry, 
but which idea he happily transmuted to the 
Beggar's Opera.—The Belize is a deep slugs 
gish river, navigable above 20 miles from 
the mouth for craft, and at least 80 for small 
There are also three other navigae 
ble rivers in the settlement, Sibun, the New 
River, and ‘Rio Hondo. 
(2) The Fair, here alluded to, are, for 
the most part, either d/ack or browz ! 
(3) Dories are a sort of canoes used in trae 
velling up and down the rivers (the only 
highways inthe country), in paddling which 
both the.mymphs and the swains are very dex- 
terous. , 
(4) The banks are nearly every where coe 
yered with wood, and the margin of the wa- 
ters fringed with the aquatic oush, the mane 
grove, to which (where growing towards the 
mouth of the rivers) adhere clusters of smalt 
but delicate oysters. 
{®) Fishes are in great variety and abund- 
ance 
