Account of the Rife and Fall of the STOCKS, or PU BY Dec. Jan. 1762, 3 per cents. 64 Dec. per cents, 651 Dec. 3 per cents. 88 Jan.1773, 4 per cents. 92 3 per cents 87 4 per cents. qr Jan. 1763, 3 per cents. go Dec. . 4 per cents. 10 Dec. 3 per cents. 85 Jan.1774,3 per cents. 87 Jan.1764,3 per cents. 83 Dec. Dec. 4 per cents. 93 3 per cents. 84. Jan.1775, 4 per cents. 97. Jan.1765, 3 per cents, 86, Dec. 4 per cents. 98 3 per cents. 92, Jan. 1776, 4 per cents. 103 Dec.. Jan.1766,3 per cents. 89 Dec. 4 per cents, 1021 4 per cents 102 Dec. Dec. 4 per cents. 102 Jan. 1768, 3 per cents. 92 Dec. 4 per cent.104) 3 per cents. 89 Jan.1779, 4 per cents. 100 Dec. Dec. 4 per cents. IC 3 per cents. 86 fan. 1780, 4 per cents. 931 Jau.1770, 3 per cents Sept. 3 per cents. 87 4 per cents. 84 4 per cents 62 3 per cents. 61 4 per cents. 63 3 per cent. 60 4 per cents. 61 3 per cents. 61 4 per cents. 61 3 per cents. 61 4 per cents. 94 4 per cents. 61 During the above period of twenty years, the national debt has increafed from ainety-five uillion, one hundred and fifty thoufand, four hundred and forty-eight pounds, to nearly two hanin which time dred millions, its prefent amount; the three per cents. have fallen and decreased in their value (reckoning from the higheft, which was 94, to the lowest 61) 33 per cent, and the four per cens. (from 104 to 61) 43 per cen'. "A continuance of the war tor only five years longer (fays the author of the Eflay on the Publick Funds), which in all bumon probability will be the cafe, and perhaps it may be ten, at the rate of feven millions annual increafe of the national debt, which is a very moderate allowance, will make the amount 235 millions; at which period the flocks will become fo very low (for probably the 3 per cents, will not be worth more than 20), and the alarm in confequence will be to general and affecting, that there is the greatest re.fon to imagine, when the debt shall arrive at the fum above-mentioned, it will toon af er put an end to its owa caillence. In our prefent fituation, therefore, we cannot profecute a war, unless it be the determined refolution of My to effect this national bankruptcy; in which cale, if they have no feeling for the peo ple, let them at least reflect on what terms they muft expect to have future loans, if any can be had; and how much more advantageous the terms of each in pro greffion must be, the nearer the maner draws to this period: and, laftig, whe ther it is not most probable that the ne tion will be left with a general war agaich France, Spain, and America united, in the midst of a na iona, bankruptcy, and what in fuch a cife would be the inevita ble confequence?" W. The SPECULATOR. No. I. "Nocet empta dolore voluptas. "HoR.Ep.IL "Picafure hurts that's bought with pain." CREECH. IN no age have obscene and impious pleafores more vigorously flourished, and more numeroully increafed, than in the prefent. Never was the pen of the moralift more needful: and though the horrors of vicious, and the joys of innocent pleafures, have been to fully reprefented by many learned writers, fill mankind perfevere in their deftructive courfes, ftill a repetition of thofe falutary inftructions becomes neceffary. It is the duty, therefore, of every man to make fome attempts to retard the rapid progrefs, to check the impetuous career of thofe who are running in the paths, and to arm the innocent against the inares, of baneful pleafures. To this end, the miferable effects of the one, the happiness of the other, the excruciating pains, the grateful fenfations, the torments of confcience, the heart felt joy,-all hould be depicted in their true colours; for would youth obferve the numerous precautions again&t thofe poignant ftings, thofe deadly poifons, which will ever attend excefs of pleafore, we should not fee fo many daily fall victims to their folly. What pity, what fhame it is, that the generality of mankind fhould fo ardently feek after fenful, and wilfully negle& mental qua lifications! What a reproaen to the prefent times, that vice should daily become more frequent, virtue more rare! How greatly mult it fhock traly virtuous minds to fee fuch multitudes of theirowa race wallowing in every luxurious excefs, lingering under a thousand corrup tive difcafes, and groaning on the point of death under the agonies of a guilty confcience! Did we ufe pleasure with that moderation which is abfolutely neceflary Speculator, No. 1-Extract from Carte's Hiftory of England. 469 neceffary for the pure enjoyment of it, and now and then beguile the tedious hour with fome innocent recreation, what a far greater degree of felicity fhould we enjoy! Then fhould we acquire that health of body, that peace of mind, that ferenity of temper, that clearness of confcience, that real happinefs, which will ever be the concomitants of those whofe enjoyments are kept within the bounds of moderation. Inebriety is generally the first step to infamous pleafure; us this which lulls the foul into its destructive lethargy, blinds the eyes of our understanding, and precipitately hurries us into the gulph of perdition. Poffefs we therefore fobriety and temperance, and we fhall ever be armed against the delufive allurements of noxious pleafures. P. R. Mr. URBAN, from Carte's History of England, out their content. "THE heavy taxes during the late reign, for the fupport of the war with France, which did not lie fo much on the nobility and gentry as on their copyholders and tenants, had caused a general difcontent among the latter, and made them repine at their unhappy condition, which fubje&ed them to infupportable payments, impofed withThefe difcontents were encouraged by the feditious preaching of John Ball, and others, who maintained, in their fermons, "that by nature all men were equal; that fervitude was introduced by the unjuft oppreffion of wicked men, contrary to the will of God; and that it behoved them to shake off the yoke and affert their liberty." They were in a proper difpofition for that purpof: when the poll-tax was impofed and the nomination of the collectors being left to the crown, there did not want corrupt and rapacious perfons about the court to fuggeft that it had not been honestly raised, and to offer a fum of money for the furplus. This procared them commillions according to their defires; and they are faid to have executed them in fo infolent, oppreffive, and tyrannical a manner, as provoked the common people in their fury to kill fome of them, and then take arms to avoid being punished for that offence. Walfingham fays, that the infur rection began in two towns in Effex; and immediately imputes it to fome feditious perfons, who, fpreading reports that the copyhoiders and peasants of thofe towns were to be plundered, their houses burnt, and their heads cut off, incited them all to rife in their defence. There is nothing fo abfurd that an English peafant is not capable of believing the inhabitants affrighted quitted their ploughs, and ran to arms. They foon amounted to 5000, and their numbers giving them courage, they fancied themfelves masters of the realm; and, fending agents to their neighbours in Kent, preffed them to join in afferting the common liberty, for changing the ftate and evil customs of the kingdom, and for getting rid of all the taxes but the fifdifpofed for it in Kent, catched there teenths. The flame, finding matter immediately, and spread thence through Suffex, Surrey, Hertford, and the counties which formed of old the kingdom of the Eat-Angles. The gentlemen neglected them at firft; but through daily: and a parcel of needy, debauched this connivance their numbers increased nals of all kinds, flocking to them, rafcals, immerfed in debts, and crimiwere made their chieftains, under the names of Thomas Miller, Hob Carter, Jack Straw, Wat Tyler, and the like, which they affumed to express their bale original. They then began to puil down the houses of the nobility juftices and all practitioners in the and gentry, to feize and put to death law, to burn all court-rls and evidences that could be of nfe to fhew the rights and customs of manors, or the antiquity and noblesse of families; would be true to King Richard, and and to make all paflengers fwear they would join with them in oppofing all taxes but fifteenths. Wat Tyler at the head of the infurgents of Kent, and Jack Straw chieftain of thofe of Effex, at last joined their forces, and came, on Wed nefday, June 12, with 100,000 men, The next day, Friday, June 14, the king, attended by a few noblemen, all unarmed, rode to the body poffed at Mile-end, who had fent for him to come to them immediately, or they would pull down the Tower, and not let him live a moment longer. He had no other party to take, but that of obeying their fummons; for though he had 600 men of arms, and as many archers, with him in the Tower, thofe The difperfion of fuch a number of the populace was a great blow to the reft of the rebels, but did not abate Wat Tyler's pride, nor divert him from purfuing his bloody measures and treafon treasonable defigns. He continued the next day, June 15, to demolift houses in the city, and cut off heads, as he had done the day before; and gave inftructions for the like practices at St. Alban's. The king fent to acquaint the Kentishnien that their companions at Mile-end green were gone home, upon receiving their charters of freedom, and he was ready to grant them the fame, if they would accept thein: but Wat their leader, an artful fellow, would vouchsafe no other anfwer than that he would embrace peace, if he liked the conditions. Three feveral charters were sent him, but none pleased him; his view being to delay matters till night, when he propofed to execute his design of killing the king, with the great men that adhered to him, and of plundering and burning the city, thinking himself fure of all the indigent people. When nothing drawn by others would content him, he was invited to come and treat himself with the king; and when Sir John Newton, the meffenger, prefied him to make hafte, he bade him, if he was in hafte, return to the king; he would come himfelf at his leifure. The king had gone that day, after dinner, to Westminster abbey; and, in his return through Smithfield, found an innumerable multitude of people there, with Tyler at their head, who carried himself with furch intolerable infolence, that the king ordered W. Walworth, mayor of London, to take him into cuftody. Walworth immediately truck him fuch a blow on the head, as almost felled him from his horfe; and others of the king's followers running him through, he dropped down dead at the king's horfe's feet. This prince, not full fixteen years old, had fcarce appeared in any thing before, being under the management of his felfish, haughty, and imperious uncles, who governed the realm at their pleasure: but if one may judge of him by the firit specimen of his conduct on this occafion, there is room to think he would not have wanted talents for government, if they had given him a better education. The Kentifhmen, feeing their leader fall, cried out, "Our captain is killed; let us revenge his death" and draw. ing their bows, prepared to let fly their arrows. The king, with a won derful intrepidity, tetting spurs to his borte, rode up to thein, and faid, "What is this, my lieges! what are you going to do? would you fhoot your king? Don't be concerned for the death of a traytor and a scoundrel. I am your king; I will be your captain and your leader: follow me into the open fields, and you fhall have whatever you defire." He was afraid they fhould, in their rage at Tyler's death, fet fire to the houses in Smithfield, and therefore rode before them into the felds; they following, as yet undetermined whether they should difpatch him, or accept his charter, and return to their abodes. The mayor in the mean time rode into the city, and fummoned the bett and most fubftantial citizens to come to the king's fuccour; which they readily did, to the number of 1000 well armed, under the conduct of Sir Robert Knollis, who chanced to come thither in that inftant, and drew them up in good order. When this body came up to join the king, the rebels immediately threw down their arms; and, falling on their knees, fued for mercy. Some of the military men were for putting an hundred or two of them to the fword; but, as abundance had joined them purely by force, or out of fear, the king would not fuffer it, left the innocent fhould fuffer with the guilty. He only caufed proclamation to be made in London, that none of the citizens fhould hold correfpondence with them, or admit any of them that night within the walls of the city. This was done by way of precaution against the dengn propofed to be then executed: and the Kentifhmen, receiving the next day a charter of enfranchifement, upon the model of that granted to thofe of Effex, difperfed and returned to their own habitations. The tenants in villenage of the abbey of S. Alban's, the townsmen of the place, and the pealants of the neighbourhood, had likewife rifen in armis, and forced the abbot and convent to grant them letters of manumiffion, to enlarge the liberties of the town, and to deliver up all their charters and grants of privileges, which they burnt in the market place. They had at the Lame time burnt the hoyfes, defroyed the goods, and cut off the heads, of fuch as they thought their enemies. There were the like commotious ia Suffolk, Norfolk, the thires of Cambridge and Euntingdon, and the Ide of Ely, the pealants every where committing the like outrages, and at Edmund's YOU have done well, in p. 444, by preferving the ceremonial of Mr. Kirkman's funeral; and I now give you an opportunity of fupplying an omiffion in your last volume, by fending you the best account which appeared in the public prints of the funeral of Mr. Garrick, the pride and ornament of the ftige, who was interred in Weftminster Abbey, Feb. 1, 1779. about two feet from the monument of Shakfpeare. And I the rather fend you this account, as a mutilated copy only of it is given by his very entertaining Biographer Mr. Davies. "At ten o'clock in the morning, the Adelphi terrace, and the fireet leading to it, began to be crouded with people, and feveral of the mourners came to Mr. Garrick's house before eleven; at twelve the Strand, all the way from thence to the Abbey, was thronged; the windows of all the houfes, and the very houfe tops, were crooded with innumerable fpectators, and fo many carriages in the streets that they were not pillable, for curicity hardly ever appeared fo very preffing as on the above occafion. The time fixed for the commencement of the ceromony was one o'clock; about a quarter atter, the company got into the coaches, and in a flow folemn pace proceeded to the Abbey in the exp& manner below defcribed, and arrived there at about a quarter past two; but the whole of the "proceffion were not out of their carriages till near a quarter past three, when on entering the church they were met by the Dean and Chapter, who accompanied the corpfe to the grave, whilft the gentlemen of the choir fung a platm accompanied by the organ; and the corpfe was interred.midtt the tears of a great number of his friends, who ap peated to speak a heart-felt woe. The ORDER of the PROCESSION. State lid of feathers. Six pages-Hearfe, with the body—Six pages Six horiemen with cloaks. Chief Mourner. 8th. coach, R. B. Sheridan, Efq; Two Train-bearears. 9th coach. family mourners, Rev. Carrington Garrick, David Garrick, Efq; Nathan Garrick, Efq; Capt. Schaw. 10. Physician and Apothecary, Dr. Cadogan and Mr. Lawrence. Butler, Carpenter to D. L.; Fofbrook, Book keeper,two ho femen with cloaks. Gentlemen of the Theatre, Drury-lane. 11. Mefirs. King and Smith. 12. Mefli. Yates, Dodd, and Vernon. 13. Mellis. Palmer, Brereton, Bensley, Moody. 14. Meffrs. Aickin, Parfons, Baddeley. Two horfemen in cloaks. Gentlemen of Covent Garden Theatre. 15. Meffrs. Mattocks, Clarke, Aickin, Baker. 16. Mellis. Hull, Lewis, Wroughton, Reinhold. 17. Mefirs. Lee Lewes, Whitfield, Quick, Wilion. Two horfemen in cloaks. Gentlemen of the Literary Club. 18. Lord Althrop, Hon. T. Beauclerk, Sir Ch. Bunbury, Edm. Burke, Efq: 19. Jhn Dunning, Efq; Dr. Percy Dean of Corlife, Dr. Samuel Johnfon, Dr. Morlay Dean of Ferns. 20. Edward Gibbon, Efq; Geo. Colman, Eq: Jofeph Banks, Efq; Ant. Cha mier, Efq. 21. Wm Jones, Efq; Sir Joshua Reynolds, Hon. Cha. Ja. Fox, Wm Scot, Etq; 22. Dr. G. Fordyce, Robert Orme, Efq; Beanet Langfton, Efq; Chet 23. wynd, Efq; Two nien on horfeback with cloaks. Sir Grey Cooper, Bart. Tho. Harris, |