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Government Annuities-Canal and Dock Property.

Schofield J. Saddleworth, merchant, May 13
Scory J. Blandford, miller, May 30

Shaw T. Rateliff-highway, cheesemonger, May 30
Sheath A. & Co Boston, inerchants, May 27
Silvester J. Clifton, dealer, May 30

Smith T. Old Barge-house, corn dealer, May 23
Starkey W. Huddersfield, merchant, May 23
Steel J. Fiskerton, bauker, June 10
Tongue W. Birmingham, jeweller, June 10
Trew T. Chichester, brewer, May 30

Waddington II. New Bridge-str. merchant, June 3

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Wallis J. Caxton, innkeeper, May 13
Weatherby J. N. Alnwick, brewers, June 3
West J. Brainsley, grocer, May

Wild M. Whitehaven, innkeeper, June 10
Williams T. Back lane, Bethual-green, insurance
broker, May 23

Wilson J. jun. Sculcoates, mahogany-mersh. May 5
Worthington S juu. Liverpool, corn-dealer, Jose I
Wright C. Dowgate hill, wine merchant, June 3
Wykham F. Farthingo, scrivener, May 27

Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England. 3 per cent. Stocks being now 58, and under 59.

"A single life of 35 receives for 100l. stock £4 11 O average rate 1001. money £7 15

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N. B. The annexed is a short scale of some of the rates, upon which Government are now granting Life Annuities: they are payable half-yearly, at the Bank of England, the same as the dividends, and may be received by power of attorney. The Life-Annuity Act having been amended, they may henceforward be purchased when the 3 per cent. Consols, or Reduced Annuities, are at or above $0.

Annuities are granted on Joint Lives also.

Particulars may be had, gratis, at the Government Life-Annuity Office, Bank-street; or by writing to the Superintendant, if the postage be paid.

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DAILY PRICES OF STOCKS, FROM APRIL 26, 1815, TO MAY 25, 1815, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

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Notice has been given that all Exchequer Bills dated in the months of March and April, 1814, are to be paid off on Tuesday, June 20, or exchanged for new bilis carrying an interest ord. per day. To be taken in until and including Tuesday, June 13. Interest to be cast up to the said 20th June. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to March, 1814, have been advertised to be paid off, and the interest thereon has ceased.

N. B. The above Table contains the highest and lowest prices, taken from the Course of the Exchange, &c. originally published by John Castaign, in the year 1712, and now
ublished, every Tuesday and Friday, under the authority of the Committee of the Stock Exchange, by
JAMES WETENHALL, Stock-Broker, No. 7, Capel court, Bartholonew-lane, London,
On application to whom, the original documents for near a century past may be read.

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METEOROLOGICAL REGISTER.
From April 25, to May 25, 1815.

Kept by C. BLUNT, Philosophical Instrument-maker, 36, Tavistock-st. Covent-Gardeni.

Barometrical Pressure. Temperature

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THE

NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.

No. 18.]

JULY, 1815.

[VOL. III.

MONTHLY MAGAZINES have opened a way for every kind of inquiry and information. The intelligence and discussion contained in them are very extensive and various; and they have been the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree hath enlarged the public understanding. HERE, too, are preserved a multitude of useful hints, observations, and facts, which otherwise might have never appeared.--Dr. Kippis.

Every Art is improved by the emulation of Competitors.--Dr. Johnson.

MR. EDITOR,

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

TO the most extraordinary events of the day belongs the restoration of the Jesuits so prematurely decreed by Pius VII. On this subject, the patriotic ARNDT, whose works during the last three years have so powerfully contributed to rouse the spirit of Germany against the tyranny of Buonaparte, thus expresses himself in one of his late per formances:"Every thing in the world has its appointed time, which it cannot escape. That time came for the Jesuits also. The Order fell in a manner that astonished the world. Men of the most prodi- bus means, of the most resolute courage, of the utmost subtlety and address, were puffed away as by a breath by persons every way inferior to themselves. What was so easily demolished, ought not to be again erected. The Jesuits, who have since that time with difficulty prolonged their existence, were with their arts, with their skill in languages, with their crooked policy, with their sneaking, adulatory, and casuistical versatility, a paltry instrument in the hands of the church. If the latter desires to become again a truly catholic church, it must renounce all that is worldly and little in the treatment of external things, and in the use of external means."-It is only by magnanimity and mildness towards those of a different persuasion, and by laying aside every thing that looks like defiance and a spirit of proselytism, that it can recover its splendor and honour. Thus, then, the wish of Riccini, the new general of the Order, (who, on the festival of St. Ignatius, pronounced a panegyric upon Loyola in the presence of the Pope and all his cardinals), that his Order might have a nest, that is, a college, in every town in Europe containing 10,000 inhabitants, cannot but be considered as premature. It cannot be denied, that in whatever related to instruction in philology, the NEW MONTHLY MAG.-No. 18.

belles lettres, mathematics, and the higher branches of education, the Jesuits have, upon the whole, been serviceable to science, and that in this respect, Bacon's words, talis cum sis utinam noster esses, might be applied to many learned Jesuits. Much, too, might be said in praise of their missions, and the model of a state founded by them in Paraguay; but it is no longer for such purposes that the Holy See wants these emissaries, or that they are now re-esta blished. They are destined by ancient incantations to lay the new spirit of the times, as they were when a new æra began with Luther; in a word, to found afresh the empire of darkness. When Catherine admitted the Jesuits into her dominions, it was for the sake of the political advantages which the Russian trade to China and South America was expected to derive from them. But why should they again be let loose upon Europe? To secure thrones from revolutions?-to counteract free-thinking by a more rigid morality? Should such an idea be held out, it could not be better refuted than by extracting their political maxims and secret instructions from their own writers, and laying them anew before a too forgetful public. Such a work might have the effect of rousing those minds that are now lulled into a dangerous security. Meanwhile, the following extract of a letter from Rome, written at the end of February last, may afford some matter for reflection:"New embellishments, and even the continuation of those already commenced, are now entirely out of the question. This is but natural; for bread must first be obtained, and even this his Holiness can no longer procure for the people, who are reduced to the last extremity. But, as if the government were bent on rendering itself odious, it strives to undo all that has been done. The arena of the Coliseum, whose works and VOL. III.

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Mr. Böttiger on the Restoration of the Jesuits.

aqueducts have occasioned so much speculation, bas, with the whole wonderful substructure, been again covered with rubbish, that the chapel and the stations of the Passion might be replaced where they formerly stood. The whole army of monks is again in active service. At Rome, and in all the Ecclesiastical State, the convents have been re-established. The order of the Jesuits is here making considerable progress. Young men of the first families in Rome and in all Italy, are admitted into it. A Marchese Patrizi, son of the Senator and the Princess of Saxony, a Prince Altieri, a Pallavicini of Genoa, a Marchese from Turin, belong to the number. There are already eighty of them in Rome alone; in one college in the Quirinal are not fewer than eighty novices. Hence some idea may be formed of the extensive views of the Propaganda of the Order. Nevertheless well-informed persons of long experience and profound knowledge of the world are of opinion, that on the return of more tranquil times, the furious bigotry which is the consequence of irreligion and despair of earthly assistance, would soon subside, and that the Order, which in these days can scarcely expect gifts and endowments, will languish and expire for want of support. May the Protestants only avoid two rocks, indifference and mysticism! The past will never return."

I shall conclude these observations with the following just remarks by the late Charles Villers in his prize essay On the Influence of the Reformation: "To model science according to the papal interest, was the sole tendency of the system of instruction adopted by the Jesuits; to place certain objects in a clear light, and to envelope others in profound darkness; to cultivate the memory and the imagination, whilst the fields of reason and judgment were left fallow; to instil learning, but at the same time submission into the minds of their disciples, whom they wished to keep in ignorance of such things only as might shake that submission. In this respect, the Jesuits resembled the slaves of the great among the ancients, who were grammarians, poets, rhetoricians, skilful dancers, and musicians-in a word, who understood every thing, except the science to be free."

An effectual antidote to the Loyolists upon the Continent would be the fraternity of Freemasons, especially if upon the system of the old English lodges, which admits of no more than three de.

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grees, and which has spread from Ham.
burgh over the greatest part of the north
of Germany.
C. A. BOTTIGER.

Dresden, March, 1815.

MR. EDITOR,

SOME of the later biographers of Milton have in the warmth of their admiration of his political principles, thought proper to wander into a discussion of the merits of the Restoration, for the purpose of vilifying the royalists and panegyrising Oliver Cromwell and John Bradshaw. This republican zeal has gone even so far as to pour a torrent of abuse upon Charles the Second for his cruelty, though that accusation is at direct variance with all that we read of this monarch's character in the writings of those who knew him most intimately, and who had little inclination to speak of him in terms of flattery. That Charles, however, did not deserve the obloquy which has been heaped upon his name, I shall now prove, by the adduction of a very curious fact and document, from which it will appear, that at the very be ginning of his restoration he shewed more indulgence to Milton than the House of Commons would have wished him to extend towards that great man. On the 16th of June, which was less than three weeks after the landing of the king, the house came to a resolution, "That his Majesty be humbly moved to call in Milton's two books, and John Goodwin's, and order them to be burut by the common hangman."

In consequence of this vote the fullowing proclamation was issued :—

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