98 Government Annuities-Companies Shares-Exchange. [Aug. 1, Rates of Government Life Annuities, payable at the Bank of England. 3 per cent. Stocks being now 69, and under 70. 0 average rate 100l. money £7 4 4 A single life of 35 receives for 100 stock £4 18 75 and upwards 12 16 · 18 13 9. All the intermediate ages will receive in proportion. 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 50. 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. Monmouthshire, div. 10. Montgomery 208/. Rock, 204. sh., 21. pd. 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Stock. Anns. Sea An. Ind. 7 6 6 6 9 pr. pr 13 11 pr.5 16 14 pr.15 3 pr70 3 pr.71 70+ Do. 15 13 pr. 5 2 pr704 69 16 14 Fr. 5 17 16 pr. 6 17 16 pr.6 16 14 pr. 5 3 pr.703 + Do. 3 pr702 3 p703 3 pr70 701 Do. 2 pr701 69+ Do. 3 pr69+ Do. + Do. Do. + Do. 1 Do. Do. Do. 97 *3per Cent. Consols, and 5 per Cent. Navy sell as above with the dividend for the opening. +3 per Cent. Consols, and 5 per Cent. Navy, as above without the dividend. All Exchequer Bills dated prior to the month of June, 1814, have been advertised to be paid off, and the interest thereon has ceased. On application to whom, the original documents for near a century past may be referred to. TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. R. Rose will perceive from our present number, that we shall endeavour in future to remedy the ir regularity complained of. A reference to the title on the wrapper will shew to whom letters for the Editor are to be addressed. Felix would oblige us by forwarding the remainder of the article, the beginning of which has been some time in our possession. We fear that the selections of Q. Z. though excellent in themselves, might be objected to, as deficient, in that novelty which is so essential a requisite of a periodical publication. C. A. is probably not aware that the pamphlet mentioned in his letter was reprinted a few years since in London. The gentleman who has several times inquired respecting the promised article on the New Bridges, is informed, that it has been deferred solely in compliance with the wishes of the correspondent who has engaged to furnish it. S. R.'s Ode on peace is inadmissible. X. Y. Z. is informed, that the number completing our second volume will be published on the 1st of January, and that the transactions of different years will thus be kept quite distant. The Extracts from the Prospects of a Hill in Fife, shall have as early a place as possible. J. P.'s anecdote of Dr. Johnson-Dr Perkins' second letter on the Oriental Languages-The account of Mr. Broad's invention, and various other papers, are intended for our next number. We cannot help entertaining some doubts of the originality of Leonius's communication. Robertus is requested to accept our best thanks for his valuable communications, a continuance of which will be highly acceptable. We hope we shall not be accused of want of gallantry, if we decline the insertion of Emilia's verses. She does not seem to be aware that one of the pieces which she has translated, is itself only a trans. Iation of Pope's well-known Ode on Solitude. J. Gillet, Printer, Crown-court, Fleet-street, London. THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. No. 8.] SEPTEMBER 1, 1814. [VOL. II. 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 Leen the means of diffusing a general habit of reading through the nation, which in a certain degree bath 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. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. MISREPRESENTATIONS of MR. WAKE- AMONG the various writers who contribute to our information, or to our amusement, few perforin a more useful part than statistical authors and tourists, by diffusing knowledge that would otherwise be confined to a few, and by pointing out errors that from habit have ceased to be considered as such; but, whilst their utility is thus allowed, it must be admitted to depend entirely upon the fidelity with which their reports are made. I have been led into these observations, by the perusal of Mr. Wakefield's Account of Ireland, &c. in which, together with a great mass of information, many errors and misrepresentations will be found, by those who are acquainted with that country. Why they should exist in a work, such as it professes to be, I shall not take upon me to inquire;-that they do exist, the following remarks will fully prove; but as Mr. Wakefield's book, both from its price and from its size, is not accessible to all, I shall at present advert to some of those parts which form the basis of the criticism of the Monthly Review, as they, of course, will be more generally circulated than the rest of the work, reserving to myself the liberty of extending my strictures at any future period. After some general remarks from the Monthly Reviewers, the first topic that offers is under the head of Family Influence. Here, indeed, Mr. W. shews a very extraordinary inattention, to what he could not have avoided hearing, if in any well-informed circle where he was, the Family Influence of Ireland was adverted to. That Mr. Foster, whom he mentions as one of the three powerful families that rule Ireland, is a man of high political qualifications, and has always been a promoter of the great NEW MONTHLY MAG, -No. 8. interests of his country; that he pos◄ sesses accurate statistical information, every one who knows this kingdom will readily admit; and likewise, that he always possessed a certain degree of political influence: but the interest, when taken in the parliamentary scale, is very much limited, when compared with many others; and howsoever great the Ponsonbys have been, it is well known that they are not now a great political family. The Monthly Review proceeds to notice in the next place, Mr. Wakefield's observations on the ignorance of the great political parties which divide the state, that prevails amongst the lower orders; with this exception, that they detested the name of Pitt, as much as that of Cromwell, and that they did not speak of Buonaparte in terms of detestation; and that in the wilds of Connaught, although entirely ignorant of political parties, they were unanimous in their hatred of the government of the Custle." Surely, Mr. Wakefield, when you reported these sentiments, it might have struck you, that the hatred to Cromwell, to Mr. Pitt, and to the government of the Castle, all proceeded from the same corrupted source,-from Cromwell's first putting down the efforts made to shake off the connexion of Ireland with Eng land, and of Mr. Pitt and the govern ment of the Castle, for persevering in the same system. On the state of paper currency, Mr. Wakefield is certainly very outre, forgeries on the Irish banks being more uncommon than on those of England. Consult the newspapers of both countries, into which every intelligence finds its way, and the proportionable balance of that species of swindling will certainly be found in favour of England. That great poverty prevails among the peasantry of the south and west of Ireland is not to be denied; but there is VOL. II. Р 102 Misrepresentations in Wakefield's Ireland. much rather an apparent than real poverty, even in those parts; for it is well known, that numbers who live in the poorest manner, and who are badly cloathed, have amassed consider able sums of money, which is produced when sufficient inducements of laying it out to advantage occur. But allowing all that Mr. Wakefield says of these parts to be true, why did he shut his eyes in traversing Leinster and Ulster, especially the latter? What is said of the feuds and discords which prevail in those regions, is but too true, and calls loudly for remedy. Under the head of Rural Economy, I find something particularly to reprehend, especially where it is said, "that the old plan of discharging public burthens by labour instead of money, still subsists; and that it is thus the farmer acquits himself of the county cess." This is not the case; for the farmer must first pay his cess to the constable who collects it, and transfers it to the high constable, who pays it to the treasurer of the county, who issues it to the undertakers of the roads, who hire cars or carts of the farmers at the usual price paid in the county. Respecting the agreements between landlord and tenant for work done, it certainly is not so clear a mode of paying as with money; but circumstanced as the part of the country that we are speaking of is, the bargain is generally in favour of the tenant; and where the labourer is not a holder of land, the accommodation is great, in having a cow kept, ground for potatoes or flax, and money, which in his situation he could not probably procure; and for the want of which, the labouring poor of England suffer so much, who, being without any object on which they can employ themselves, after their task is performed, often finish the day at an alehouse. But under this head, there is another passage which cannot be passed without notice," When at Mr. Stewart's, at the Ards, in Donegall, Mr. W. found that he paid his labourers every Saturday night." He adds, "he was the only person in the county perhaps that thought of it," and then recounts the miracles performed by this Saturday night's payment. He, notwithstanding the ponderous volumes with which he was labouring, skips to the Rev. Dr. Dudley's of Shillower, in the county of Wexford, to record the same wonders, from the same cause. I shall not quarrel with Mr. Wakefield, respecting Mr. Stewart's Saturday night's payment. I [Sept. 1, am certain it is true, though not his in- On the subject of roads, Mr. Wake field is in some parts fair enough, but in the table of the annual assessment fo making and keeping them in repair, an for other county charges, he is mos egregiously misinformed. He rates An trim and Down at 20,000l. whereas reality they pay above 30,000. In th same section, this gentleman attempt being very facetious on our posting, and on our inns: neither, I agree, are to b compared with those of England; bu his perhaps "the wuiter's hands had no been washed for a month," has too grea a resemblance to the perhaps, alread quoted. But, Mr. Editor, I shall not trespas on you much longer at present; I sha pass by much that I could object to Mr. Wakefield's observations on Disti leries, Education, and other topics; an notice what he says of the province Ulster. He remarks that althoug you find the people of this province mo industrious and better clothed than the rest of Ireland, and living in a ma comfortable manner; yet in the mout tains you will meet with a barbaro language, intelligible only to those w speak it, and a race whose wretched co dition almost exceeds description:" an again, "that the beneficial effects of t linen manufacture are not to be observ in the appearance or the habits of the |