arrived, fix commiffioners of the nèv of the new tax upon income; and as the people of this country are fo partial and attached to each other, that endeavours to evade this duty, might be connived at, to the injury of his majesty's révenue, the commiffioners have brought over with them four Surveyors or Doubters-general, who, we are told, áre properly qualified to determine the precife income of every perfon; they are very acute fenfible men, though they have had the misfortune to have been fome years confined in the Fleet prifon; but as they have no connexions whttever, in this country, they are confidered ås very proper perfons for the appointment. : Tuesday laft, the carpenters began to erect whipping pofts in the different wards of this city; it has been found, that the old method of trying by jury, evidence, &c. for fedition and feditious practices, has been attended with great trouble and expence to government as none of the corps of teftimony would give evidence to a perfect truth, without being highly paid; and where the cafe was otherwife, nothing lefs than a thoufand a year, or a government, or appointment equal to that that fum, could bring them on the table: this corps is accordingly to be referved for cafes of high treason, and then only to be called on duty. And we are informed, that a proclamation will iffue, in the next week, empowering all magiftrates-high conftables-maitres de police, &c. to take up any fufpicious looking perfons, who may be found (as has been ufual) in ftreets, lanes, or alles, reading newspapers, or fpeaking Irish, or in any other fuch feditious occupation, and tye him or them up to the nearest post, to receive, at the difcretion of the magiftrate, conftable, &c. from twenty to an hundred lafhes; and if it fhall be found, that the culprit fo offending fhall be of the mere Irish, and have ruffles to his name, he fhall receive one dozen more lashes, over and above what he otherwife might receive, on that mere account; and as it may prove difficult, to procure perfons to inflict fuch punishment, 'tis faid, the 4 Bs have offered their fervices, to come forward as Lictors, and twelve of them will wait in rotation every day, to be employed in that way, by the Pretor Urbanus. It It having been reprefented to government, by the commiffioners of victualling, as well as the contractors for provifions, that a vast quantity of beef and pork has been uselessly confumed, by the midling and lower orders of people in this island heretofore; infomuch that it is with difficulty the immenfe quantities wanted for the use of his majefty's navy, and many of the home and diftant garrifons, can be obtained even at their present advanced prices: to obviate which, we are told, a bill will be brought into Parliament this feffions, to prevent fuch waste of thofe neceffary articles; and that from and after the ift of January next, no perfon in this ifland will be permitted the use of the above-mentioned meat, that does not pay twenty pounds per ann. to the new duty on income. A Correfpondent has favoured us with the following truly affecting converfation he held with a relative, who has refided many years in America, and arrived last week on fome urgent1993 bufinefs in this his native town. My old friend{ (fays our Correfpondent) in our stroll thro' poor Dublin, obferved with a figh, that the town put him in mind of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, when he return ed to it, after the dreadful fever that raged there in the year 1798! So ruinous, fo melancholy in its appearance, fo few people in the streets, many of the houfes fhut up, fcarce a carriage to be feen; (and by the bye thofe belonged to the people of the revenue) coming to College-greenWas not this great building, faid he, your Parliament-houfe in days of old? You are right enough, faid I, but now the people of Exeter Change have hired it as a Menagerie, to exhibit ww wild beasts in the fummer, and there are Puppet Shews in it every winter. Pray, faid he, does any of your great folks live in the College, or have you any prifoners there-I think I fee centries at the gate? Blefs your heart! the College was turned into a Horfe Barrack two years after the Union; the Library is made a Granary, the books have been fold by auction and exported. What a change! But what use is made of the Play-house in Crow-ftreet, where I remember to have feen Barry and Woodward play? It has been hired by the Commiffioners on Income, faid I, as a warehoufe to depofit all goods or furniture that may be feized for nonpayment of the tax; and tho' there are fales every week, yet the houfe is not fufficiently large, large, and it is in contemplation to make ufe of Patrick's Church for the fame purpofe. Pray did not that Houfe at the Corner of Parliamentftreet, which is now occupied by a miferable Barber, formerly belong to Alderman Faulkner? It did, and that miferable Barber you fee there, is the grandfon of our laft S of the H な Cs! Good God, faid he, what fad revolutions has this Union brought about! But what has become of the laft Editor of Faulkner's Paper? Ah! poor man, faid I, he is dead thefe fome years back; government had no more occafion for party writers; he was difiniffed; not without fufpicions, however, that while he appeared moft vehement in the fapport of government, he held illicit correspondence with his friends in the country during the late infurrection. I am extremely grieved to find the fatal effects this Union has had on my native country, and that were I fo difpofed, I could at this time flave in its capital cheaper than in any part of Africa, from Cape Blanco to Guardafui; many, very many families and individuals, artificers and others, have applied to me, with offers to indent for any length of time, or their whole lives, to fettle in my western eftate, (Kentucky) and I shall carry |