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1814.

ART. I. Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of employing Indian-
built Ships in the Trade of the East India Company,
and of admitting them to British Registry.
The First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's
Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues. Ordered by the
House of Commons to be printed, 13th June, 1812. -

II. The Letters of Mrs. Elizabeth Montagu, with some of
the Letters of her Correspondents. Part the Second,
containing her Letters from the Age of Twenty-three
to Forty, ending with the Coronation of George the
Third. Published by Matthew Montagu, Esq. her
Nephew and Executor.

III. Substance of the Speech of the Earl of Harrowby, on
moving for the Recommitment of a Bill for the better
Support and Maintenance of Stipendiary Curates.

IV. Correspondance Littéraire, Philosophique et Critique,
addressée à un Souverain d'Allemagne pendant une
partie des Années 1775-1776, et pendant les Années
1782 à 1790 inclusivement. Par le Baron de Grimm,
et par Diderot.

V. 1. History of Dissenters, from the Revolution in 1688-to
the Year 1808. By David Bogue and James Bennett,
2. Wilson's History and Antiquities of Dissenting
Churches.

3. Neal's History of the Puritans. Abridged in Two
Volumes by Edward Parsons.

VI. Collections from the Greek Anthology, and from the Pastoral, Elegiac, and Dramatic Poets of Greece. By the Rev. R. Bland and others.

VII. An Inquiry into the State of National Subsistence, as connected with the Progress of Wealth and Population. By W. T. Comber.

VIII. A Journey through Albania, and other Provinces of

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90

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Turkey,

Turkey, in Europe and Asia, to Constantinople, during
the years 1809 and 1810. By J. C. Hobhouse

IX. 1. The Speech of Doctor D. Antonio Joseph Ruiz de
Padron, Deputy to the Cortes, from the Canary Islands,
spoken in the Sitting of January 18, 1813, relative to
the Inquisition.

2. Bread and Bulls, an Apologetical Oration, on the
flourishing State of Spain, in the Reign of King Charles
IV. Delivered in the Plaza de Toros, Madrid. By
Don Gaspar Jovellanos.

X. A Letter on the Conduct and Situation of Denmark, from a Dane to an Englishman; written 30th May, 1813.

XI. A Tour through Italy, exhibiting a View of its Scenery, its Antiquities, and its Monuments, particularly as they are objects of Classical Interest and Elucidation. By the Rev. John Chetwode Eustace.

XII. Mithridates, oder Allgemeine Sprachenkunde. Mithri-
dates, or a General History of Languages, with the
Lord's Prayer as a Specimen, in nearly five hundred
Languages and Dialects. By J. C. Adelung, Aulic
Counsellor and Professor at Dresden.

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QUARTERLY REVIEW.

OCTOBER, 1813.

ART. I.-Reports and Papers on the Impolicy of employing Indian-built Ships in the Trade of the Eust India Company, and of admitting them to British Registry. London. 1809. The First Report of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed, 13th June, 1812.

OF the Resolutions passed by the House of Commons as the

ground work of an act for continuing, for a further term, to the East India Company their exclusive privileges, the seventh runs thus:

That it is expedient that ships built within the British territories in the East Indies, and employed in the commerce between India and the United Kingdom, should, during the present war, and for eighteen months after the conclusion thereof, be permitted to import any goods, wares, or merchandize, the produce or manufacture of any countries within the limits of the East India Company's charter, or to export any goods, wares, or merchandize, from this kingdom to the British settlements in the East Indies, or to any of the places within the said limits, (with the exception of China,) in the same manner as ships Britishbuilt, and duly registered as such, and that after the expiration of the period above mentioned, the said India-built ships should be liable to such other provisions as parliament may from time to time enact, for the further increase and encouragement of shipping and navigation.'

By this Resolution, the private trade, so far from gaining any enlargement of a privilege already granted by the act of 35 Geo. 3. (which allowed the importation of goods from India and China in ships not British-built, nor registered as such, during the continuance of the war then raging, and for eighteen months after its conclusion, which privilege was further extended by the act of 42 Geo. 3. to such ships during the continuance of the exclusive trade granted to the East India Company,) may, in fact, be said to have suffered an abridgment, both as to time and place. As China, however, was generally excepted from all the provisions of the intended bill which regarded the opening of the trade, little or no objection was made on that score to the Resolution in question. Let us now see in what manner it has been introduced into the new charter.

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