1807.) 
fic to be given, or the phyfician to be 
called to children, efpecially if he be a 
bufy man, that will prefently fill’ their 
windows with gallipots, and their ttomachs 
with drugs.” Vide Thoughts on Educa- 
tion, p. 32. 
“And thus I have done with wha 
coucerns the body and health, which 
State of Fublic Affairs in February. 
177 
reduces itfelf to thefe few and eallyMb 
fervable rules: plenty of open air, exer- 
cife, and fleep, plain diet, no wine, or 
ftrong drink, and very litle or no phy- 
fer OIC By aoe 
Journ Retp. 
Grenville-fireet, Brunfwick-fquare, 
Feb. 25, 1807. 
STATE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS IN FEBRUARY. 
Containing official Papers and Authentic Documents. 
. —sse 
GREAT BRITAIN. 
‘OUR great objects have occupied the 
legillature during the laft month, all 
of them honourable to the admniniitration 
which has encouraged or brought them 
forward, 
1.. The Abolition of the African Slave 
Trade, a bill for which was brought into 
the Houfe of Lords by Lord Grenville, 
in which Houfe it has paffed, attendel by 
no other oppolition than fuch.as ferved 
to bring into action the great talents by 
which the abolition was tupported. The 
bill is now pafling through its various 
ftages in the Commons, and hwnanity 
has never known a more exalted triumph 
than it will enjoy on the annihilation of | 
a traffic in the human fpecies which fa- 
ture ages can fearcely believe to have 
exifted. 
2. The formation of a Committee for 
reducing Sinecure und ufele/s Offices, and 
Jor diminifhing the unnecejjury Expences 
ef the State. A motion to this effect was 
made and carried by Lord Henry Peity, 
the Chancellor of the Exchequer; anda 
meature more honourable fo men in of- 
fice, and more demonftrative of the pa- 
triotifm and integrity of the prefent admi- 
nitration, could not have been propofed. 
3. A new difpofition of the Financial 
Rejources of the Country, by means of 
which, even if the war continue, no ad- 
ditional taxes will be neceffary within 
three years, and none of any confequence, 
(probably none,) within the fubfequent 
feven years, and none at all during the 
hext ten years. This propofed meafure 
is grounded on the flourithing ftate of the 
permanent revenue; on the great pro- 
duce of the war taxes; on the high and 
accumulating amount of the Sinking 
Fund;, and on fome inferior aids to be 
derived from revenues fet free by annui- 
ties orivinally yranted for aterm of years, 
and now expiring. Thefe circumftances, 
fo favourable to the introduétion and: 
Monrury Mac. No. 154. 
maintenance of a new fyftem, are juftly. 
to be attributed to the wife, provident, 
and f{pirited. exertions, which have been. 
made by the new adMniuiftration, and in, 
which they have been fo liberaily fup- 
ported by the voice of the people. . 
Tne plan is adapted to meet a fcale of 
expenditure nearly equal to that of the: 
year 1806; and it aflumes, that during 
the war, the annual produce of the pers 
manent and temporary revenues will con= 
tinue equal to the-produce of the fame 
year 1806. Tt is underttood, that any 
further or unforefeen Charge, or any def- 
ciency of revenue, fhall be feparately and 
{pecially provided for. 
Keeping thefe premifes in view, it js 
propoted, that the war loans for the years 
1807, 1808, and 1809, fhall be twelve 
millions annually; for the year 1810, 
fourteen millions; and for each of the ten 
following years, fixteen millions. 
Tkoie feveral loans, amounting for the 
fourteen years to 210 millions, are to be 
‘made a charge. on the war taxes, which 
are eftimated to produce 21 millions 
annually. 
The charge thus thrown on the war 
taxes is meant to be at the rate of ten 
percent. on each loan. Every tuch loan 
will therefore pledge fo much of the war 
taxes as will be equal to meet -this 
charge:—that is, a loan of 12 millions 
will pledge 1,200,000l. of the war taxes. 
And in each year, if the war fhould be 
continued, a further portion of the war 
taxes will, in the fame manner, be 
pledged. And confequently, at the end 
of fourteen years, if the war thould lait 
fo long, 24 millions, the whole produce of 
the war taxes, would be pledged tor che 
total of the loans, which would at that 
time have amounted to 210 muilions. 
The ten per cent. charge thus accom- 
panying each loan wil be applied to pay 
thie antereft of the loau, and to form a 
Sinking Fund, wifich Sinking Fund wil 
z evidenily 
