An act for the improvement of the port of London, by making East India docks at Blackwall. July 16. An act for collecting duties on spirits and malt in Scotland. An act for issuing exchequer bills for the service of the year 1806. An act granting a duty on fish from Newfoundland. An act for regulating the excise, customs, and port dues in Ireland. An act for rectifying mistakes in the names of commissioners of taxes. Training act for England. An act for permitting free interchange of grain between England and Ireland. An act for the more effectual performance of quarantine. An act for granting a duty on oil of vitriol exported from Great Britain. An act for amending certain acts relating to letters and parcels conveyed by the post. July 31. An act for reducing the duty payable on the exportation of refined sugar and laying it on sugarcandy. An act for an additional duty on the exportation of silk manufac tures, An act for erecting a light-house on the Bell rock in Scotland. An act to enable his majesty to accept the service of volunteers from the Irish militia. An act for augmenting the salaries of masters in chancery. An act for amending the sale of his majesty's crown-rents, &c. in Ireland. An act for amending the laws of excise in relation to counterfeiting the stamps on paper-wrappers. An act to permit French wines to be imported from Ireland into England. An act to amend an act preventing the importation of gunpowder and arms from Ireland into England. An act to allow certain merchandises to be sent direct from Gibralter and Malta to America. An act for permitting the importation of timber for naval purposes from America. An act for the relief of insolvent debtors. An act for revision of the schools in' Ireland. An act to prohibit for two years certain ships from engaging in the slave-trade. An act for increasing the rate of subsistence to be paid to persons on whom soldiers are quartered. July 22. An act for enabling his majesty to settle annuities on the royal family. An act for appropriating the supplies of 1806. An act for granting a sum to be raised by lotteries. An act for purchasing an estate for earl Nelson. An act to continue his pension to lord Rodney. An act for amending the laws of excise upon malt. An act for the security and expedition of the post in Ireland. An act for consolidating the several acts for redemption of land-tax. An act for providing for a more speedy and regular audit of the public accounts. An act to repeal part of the con-. travailing duty on Irish hops, and for for granting an excise contravailing An act to amend the laws of bankrupts. An act for augmenting the regular forces of the realm, and for the gradual reduction of the militia so far as the same relates to the city of London. An act for limiting the number of persons to be carried on the outside of stage-coaches. July 23. of the forfeited estates in Scotland to the making canals, bridges, &c. and to the use of the fisheries. An act for regulating the office of receiver-general of the customs. An act for the preservation of the public harbours of the united kingdom. An act to stay proceedings, till next session, in actions under an act for regulating the cutting of leather, and the purchase of rough hides, oak-bark, and calf skins in the hair. An act for taking down the buildings, in which the treasury chamber &c. in Scotland were situ An act for applying the balances ated, and erecting new ones. LITERARY BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES AND CHARACTERS. "FRO MEMOIRS Of Dr. JOSEPH WARTON. [From Mr. WOOLL'S BIOGRAPHY of the DOCTOR.] ROM the earliest period of his boyish days, till he entered into his fourteenth year, Dr. Warton was chiefly indebted to his excellent father for knowledge and instruction. On the 2d of August 1736, he was admitted on the foundation of Winchester College; and whilst under the tuition and discipline of that school, Where Bigg presided, and where Burton taught, exhibited the most evident marks of strong intellectual powers. During his Wykehamical education, he, in conjunction with his friend Collins and another boy, sent to the Gentleman's Magazine three poetical pieces of such sterling value as called forth a most flattering critique from Johnson; and 1 have seen, though in too imperfect a state to warrant insertion, a genuinely humorous poem penned by him when a præpositor, and spoken by one of his pupils from the rostrum, then usually introduced into the school.". "In the month of September, 1740, being superannuated, he was removed from Winchester; and, as few vacancies occurred, in the course of the current year, at New College, Oxford, it was the involuntary misfortune of that society not to reckon amongst its fellows the editor of Virgil and commentator on Pope: he, therefore, about this time commenced his residence at Oriel College, of which he had been admitted a commoner in the preceding January, and very soon gave ample proofs that he had not neglected the blessing of a mind so highly gifted.-I can form no idea of the "laudis arrecta cupido,” fostered by the sacred ardour of gratitude and filial piety, exhibiting a more highly finished portrait than in the following letter: • Hon. Sir, I hop'd to have found a thousand kindly severe criticisms on Wintonia, when I opened yours; but, alas, am quite deceived! I believe "Bellositum Wintoniense" may be a more proper name, and even more suitable to the verses A 2 already |