430 
Jian, has publifhed a work containing 
fome very curious extracts from nearly 
one thoufand Greek and Latin manu- 
{cripts, preferved, before the late war, in 
the library of St. Mark, at Venice. 
Among other articles which it contains is 
2 more complete lift than any hitherto 
known of the fignatures of the prelates 
who attended the council of Nice; in 
which is the fignature of a Bifhop of So- 
dom, who calls himfelf Severus, and who 
fined with the other bifhops of Arabia. 
The exiftence of ruins, lefg ancient than 
the remote period of Lot, in the lake Af- 
phaltites, which ingulphed ancient Sodom, 
was before well known. This Ggnature 
proves, that in the jfourth century, the 
land, which had again covered part of the 
lake, atually bore a new Sodom. It mutt 
doubtlefs have perithed, like the old one, 
in confequence of fubterraneous fires, fo 
common in that country, but in an age 
| New Ais of the Britis Legiflature, 44 Geo. 111, 
[Dec, I, 
when the events which there occurred were 
not collected by any hiftorian. 
Mr. AgTHUR O'Connor has lately 
publifhed, at Paris, a Review of the Pre- 
fent State of Great Britain. In this work ~ 
he pretends to prove that the Bank of Eng- 
land is aétually in a ftate of bankruptcy, 
and that the Government muft inevitably 
and {peedily be overthrown. This, in- 
dependent of every other confideration, he 
fays, the progrefs of information and in- 
dufiry among the neighbouring nations 
is capable of effecting, France alone, by 
the flourifhing condition fhe enjoys in con- 
fequence of the deftru€tion of all privi- 
legés, is capable of producing this revo- 
lution. The motive which induced the 
Government to engage inthe prefent war, 
he fuppofes to be, that they might mere 
conveniently bring about a general bank- 
ruptcy. : 
NEW ACTS OF THE BRITISH LEGISLATURE. 
Being an Analyis of 
all A&s of General Importance, paffed during the laf 
Sefion of Parliament, 44.Ge0.IT. 
s¢ An A& to repeal the feveral Duties under 
the Commiffioners for managing the Du- 
ties upon ftamped Vellum, Parchment, 
end Paper, in Great Britain, and to grant 
new and additional Duties in lieu thereof. 
43 Geo. 3, Cap. 98.” (Paffed July 28, 
1804.) : 
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PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMI- 
NISTRATION. 
ROBATE of will or letters of admt- 
niftration for any efiate in England, 
or for any teftament, teftamentor, or tefta- 
mentative dative, or eik rent, to be ex- 
peded in any commiflary court in Scot-- 
land, for any eftate above the value of 2ol. 
and under the value of 100].—10s. 
Of the value of 1ool. and under 200). 
== Zi, 
Two hundred, and under three hundred 
om sl, 
Three hundred, and under four hun- 
dred and fifty—28I. 
Four hundred and fifty, and under fx 
hundred—11}. ye 
Six hundred, and under eight hundred 
= sl. 2 
ight hundred and undez one thouland 
One thoufand, and under one thoufand 
five huncred—jol. 
One thoufand five hundred, and under 
two thoufand—gol. 
- Two thoufand, and under three thou- 
fand five hundred—sol. 
Three thoufand five hundred, and un- 
der five thoufand—6ol. : 
Five thoufand, and under feven thou- 
fand five hundred—7s}. . 
Seven thoufand five hundred, and under 
ten thoufand—gol. . 
Ten thoufand, and under twelve thou- 
fand five hundred—yrol. 
Twelve thoufand five hundred, and 
under fifteen thoufand—135]. 
Fifteen thoufand, and under feventeen 
thoufand five hundred—i6ol. 
Seventeen thouiand five hundred, and 
under twenty thoufand—185l. 
Twenty thoufand, and under twenty- 
five thouland—z1ol, ; 
Twenty-five thoufand, and under thirty 
thoufand—z6ol. ‘i 
Thirty thonfand, and under thirty-five 
thoufand—3jrol. 
Thirty-five thoufand, and under forty 
thoufand—36cl. af 
Forty thoufand,.and under forty-five 
thouland—-41 ie 
a Forty- 
