256 New Acts of Parliament. 4.-1. CXXXI. An Act for discontinuing certain Deductions from Half-pay, and for further regulating the Accounts of the Paymaster General. July 4.-1. CXXXII. An Act to continue until the end of the next Session of Parliament an Act of the last Session of Parliament, for regulating the trade in Spirits between Great Britain and Ireland respectively. July 4.-1. CXXXIII. An Act to grant further Powers to the Commissioners of Chelsea and Greenwich Hospitals with respect to Pensions on those Establishments. July 4.-1. CXXXIV. An Act for altering the Rate at which the Crown may exercise its right of Pre-emption of Ore in which there is Lead. July 4.-1. The rate to be 251. instead of 91. per ton. CXXXV. An Act to alter the Conditions and Regulations under which Blubber and Train Oil of Newfoundland are admitted to Entry. July 4.-1. CXXXVI. An Act for the Relief of the Out-pensioners of the Royal Hospital of Kilmainham. July 4.-1. CXXXVII. An Act to prevent poor Persons in Workhouses from embezzling certain Property provided for their use; to alter and amend so much of an Act of the 36th year of his present Majesty, as restrains Justices of the Peace from ordering Reliefto poor Persons in certain Cases for a longer period than One Mouth at a time; and for other Purposes therein mentioned relating to the Poor. July 4.-2. Property in goods, clothes, &c. provided for the use of the poor to be vested in overseers, and to be marked. Persons buying or receiving any such property into pawn, or defacing the marks, to forfeit for every offence not more than 51. nor less than 1. upon conviction on oath before one or more justices. On non-payment of the penalty, offenders may be committed to gaol or the house of correction for two months. Justices may order relief to persons at their own homes for any time not exceeding six months; and may direct the payment of such relief to be discontinued. The sums ordered for any longer space than one month shall not exceed 33. per week for each per [April 1, son. Persons guilty of misbehaviour in workhouses may be committed. Persons having the management of the poor not to be concerned in contracts whilst in office, under penalty of 1001. CXXXVIII. An Act for vesting in his Majesty certain Parts of the Forest of Exmoor, otherwise Exmore, in the Counties of Somerset and Devon; and for inclosing the said Forest. July 4.—9. By this act the forest of Exmoor is disaf forested. It directs that when the populachurch may be erected; that it shall be a tion of the forest shall render it necessary, a perpetual cure, and be called the parish church of Exmoor. CXXXIX. An Act to grant an Additional Duty of Excise in Ireland upon Spirits made or distilled from Corn cr Grain. July 6.-2. An additional duty of 6d. per gallon is imposed by this act upon spirits distilled from corn. CXL. An Act to make further Provisions for the Collection of certain Duties on Male Servants, Carriages and Horses, and in respect of Houses in Ireland. July 6.-1. CXLI. An Act to amend an Act made in this Session of Parliament, to repeal former Acts granting exclusive Privileges of Trade to the South Sea Company, and to indemnify the said Company for the loss of such Privileges. July 6.-1. CXLII. An Act to reduce the Duties on all Sheep Wool the growth of the United Kingdom, which shall be sold by Auction for the Growers or first Pur chasers. July 6.-1. The duties granted by former acts are reduced to 2d. on every 20s. of the purchase. CXLIII. An Act to amend the Acts relating to the building and repairing of County Bridges. July 6.-2. Surveyors of county bridges, and other persons employed under contracts, are empowered, with the consent and by the order of two justices for the county, to take stone for the building or repair of such bridges, from any quarries within the county, unless they be situated in gardens or pleasure grounds, in which case the consent of the owner must be obtained. Satisfaction must be made for the stone so taken and damage done. In case of refusal on the part of the owner to treat, the justices at quarter sessions shall cause the value of the stones and the amount of the damage done to be ascertained by a jury. CXLIV. An Act to enable the Commissioners of Customs and Port Duties in Ireland to purchase Premises for the erecting additional Docks, Warehouses, and Offices in Dublin. July 6.-2. CXLV. An Act to increase the Al lowance to the Post Office in Ireland, in respect of Packet Boats to Great Britain. July 6.—1. Until packet boats shall be established from Ireland to Great Britain, the post office in the latter shall allow the Irish post office 9000!. per annum, instead of 4000l. hitherto paid. CXLVI. An Act to authorize his Majesty to regulate until the 1st day of July, 1816, the Trade with any French Colony which may come into his Majesty's Po-session, or remain Neutral. July 6.-1. CXLVII. An Act for enabling Spiritual Persons to exchange the Parsonage or Glebe Houses or Glebe Lands belonging to their Benefices for others of greater value, or more conveniently situated for their Residence and Occupa tion; and for annexing such Houses and Lands, so taken in exchange, to such Benefices as Parsonage or Glebe Houses and Glebe Lands, and for purchasing and annexing Lands to become Glebe in certain cases, and for other purposes. July 6.-3. Premises given in exchange to be subject to the same tythes, modus, or composition, as those taken in exchange. After the exchange the incumbent not to be evicted. Copyhold land purchased, to be annexed to benefices to be holden as freehold; and by mortgage of the tythes, a sum not exceeding two years net income may be raised for such purchase. The governors of Queen Anne's bounty are empowered to lend for the purposes of this' act sums not exceeding 100%. in respect of benefices whose net an 257 nuai value is less than 501.; and 2001. if their value exceed 50%. The consent of the patron and bishop to all deeds of exchange, mortgage or purchase must be obtained. Deeds and instruments to be deposited in the archbishop's or bishop's registry. CXLVII. An Act for raising the sum of 4,500,0001. by Exchequer Bills, for the service of Great Britain for the year 1815. July 6.-1. Treasury may raise the above sum by Exchequer Bills, bearing an interest of 3 d. per cent. per diem, and which may be taken in payment of the revenue after April 5, 1816. The bank is authorized to advance the money. CXLIX. An Act for raising the sum of 1,500,000l. by Exchequer Bills, for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1815. July 6.—1. The provisions of this act are the same as those of the preceding. CL. An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of the Land Tax Commissioners, and for appointing additional Commissioners, and indemnifying such Persons as have acted without due Authority in the execution of the Acts therein recited. July 6.-4. CLI. An Act to amend the Laws for of unlawful Distillation of Spirits in Ireimposing and levying of Fines in respect land. July 11.-3. CLII. An Act for granting to his Ma-jesty the sum of 20,000l. to be issued and applied towards repairing Roads between London and Holyhead, by Ches ter, and between London and Bangor, by Shrewsbury. July 11.-2. ORIGINAL POETRY. PARIS; A SATIRE. FROM BOILEAU. GOOD God! why rings the air with doleful cries? I've scarce retir'd, and is it time to rise? What spiteful demon each revolving night Brings hither cats to caterwaul and fight? Oft from my bed I start, convuls'd with fear, And think, amaz'd, all hell's convened here. One, like a tiger, grumbles deep and wild, Another screams just like a squalling child: This is not all, the very mice and rats, cats. To plague me more, have join'd the cursed Night's friendly glooms more tedious wear Tho' I complain of woes sustain'd at home, How are those woes increas'd when forth I roam ? At ev'ry step o'erwhelming crowds I meetThey throng each lane, each alley, and each street; Some thrust their elbows galling in my side, My hat's knock'd off-in vain for me to chide. [shew, Next comes a fun'ral train, with solemn Silent they pass, with mournful steps and slow. crowd. Further, some lacquies, insolent and loud, Urge dogs to fight, and vex the passing [make room, Here a street's clos'd, the paviours scarce There a tall cross o'ershades the mind with gloom.* From houses' tops the slaters' careless tread, Rains showers of slates or tiles upon your head. Still passing on, a timber wain I see In turning quick, a coachman, inexpert, dirt; One at that moment tries to force his way, I turn for aid imploring to each saint, For now declines apace the orb of day. Grumbling, into a corner I Letreat, [street. yore It is customary in Catholic countries to erect crosses in memory of deceased friends, which are sometimes placed opposite their houses. [April 1, To 'scape the storm which rages far and wide, Rais'd on two stones this tott'ring bridge is Darkness o'er half the world her curtain And peaceful tradesmen firm secure their shops, Then home repair with care-inspiring looks, To count their gains, and regulate their books. O'er the new market reigns a peaceful calm, Returning by some unfrequented way; Should he resist, he falls beneath their rage; Each night I lock my door, retire to rest, As sinks the sun within the golden west; But in my chamber danger still is near, Pursues me still, and pierces even here: Scarce round my room its beams my candle throws, Ere yet my weary eye-lids taste repose, Murder and death in ev'ry breeze resound: Uncertain where I run, till morning light. High rise the flames in one connected blaze; Our quarter now a second Troy displays: Here famish'd Greeks and greedy Argians Paris, for him who riches can command, With milk and honey flows like Canaan's land; Nor need he roam to seek the verdant fields, HELEN OF KIRKCONNELL. By JOHN MAYNE. Author of "The Poems of Glasgow," ," "The Siller Gun," &c. &c. The following verses are founded on a tradi- I wish I were where Helen lies! Still seems to beckon me; Where Kirtle-waters gently wind, Took deadly aim at me : On fair Kirkconnell-Lee! Though Heav'n forbids my wrath to swell, And tore my love from me! Ah! what avails it, that amain I see her spirit in the air- I hear the shriek of wild despair, O! when I'm sleeping in my grave, 259 Then from this world of doubts and sighs On seeing a SWALLOW in the MONTH of Still dost thou linger, thoughtless guest, By instinct taught, have quitted long, Nor join their conscious farewell flight; Till summer blossoms smile again?— Fate will have urg'd a debt of pain. Thy trembling wings, and drooping head. One upward look impressive cast; THE SAVOYARD. A SONG. S. M. When Morning beams with golden ray, Dear are to me the native strains! The merry Savoyard! The bounding chamois' steps to trace: As sounds the triumph in the vale- The merry Savoyard! When Labour rests at ev'ning's close, The village dance beneath the tree; Dear is the rural dance to me! The merry Savoyard! GENERAL TREATY, [260] STATE PAPERS. Signed in Congress at Vienna, June 1, 1815. In the Name of the Most Holy and THE Powers who signed the treaty coneluded at Paris on the 30th of May, 1814, having assembled at Vienna, in pursuance of the 324 article of that act, with the Princes and States their allies, to complete the provisions of the said treaty, and to add to them the arrangements rendered necessary by the state in which Europe was left at the termination of the last war, being now desirous to embrace in one common transaction the various results of their negotiations, for the purpose of confirming them by their reciprocal ratifications, have authorized their plenipotentiaries to unite in a general instrument the regulations of superior and permanent interest, and to join to that act, as integral parts of the arrangements of Congress the treaties, conventions, declarations, regulations, and other particular acts, as cited in the present treaty. And the above-mentioned Powers having appointed plenipotentiaries to the Congress, that is to say- [Here follow the names of the plenipotentiaries, in the same order as the signatures at the end.] Such of the above plenipotentiaries as have assisted at the close of the negotiations, after having produced their full powers, found in good and due form, have agreed to place in the said general instrument the following articles, and to affix to them their signatures. Art. I The duchy of Warsaw, with the exception of the provinces and districts which are otherwise disposed of by the following articles, is united to the Russian empire, to which it shall be irrevocably attached by its constitution, and be possessed by his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, his heirs, and successors in perpetuity. His Imperial Majesty reserves to himself to give to this state, enjoying a distinct administration, the interior improvement which he shall judge proper. He shall assume with his other titles that of Czar, King of Poland, agreeably to the form established for the titles attached to his other possessions. The Poles, who are respective subjects of Russia, Austria, and Prussia, shall obtain a representation and national institutions, regulated according to the degree of political consideration, that each of the governments to which they belong shalb judge expedient and proper to gran: them. II. The part of the duchy of Warsaw which his Majesty the King of Prussia shall possess in full sovereignty and property, for himself, his heirs, and successors, under the title of the Grand Duchy of Posen, shall [April 1, be comprised within the following line:Proceeding from the frontier of Eastern Prussia to the village of Neuhoff, the new limit shall follow the frontier of Western Prussia, such as it subsisted from 1772 to the peace of Tilsit, to the village of Leibitsch, which shall belong to the duchy of Warsaw; from thence shall be drawn a line, which, leaving Kompania, Grabowice, and Szczytno to Prussia, passes the Vistula near the lastmentioned place, from the other side of the river, which falls into the Vistula opposite Szczytno, to the ancient limit of the district of the Netze, near Gross Opoczko, so that Sluzewo shall belong to the duchy, and Przylranowa, Hollander, and Maciejewo, to Prussia. From Gross Opoczko it shall pass by Chlewiska, which shall remain to Prussia, to the village of Przybyslaw, and from thence by the villages of Piaski, Chelmce, Witowiczki, Kobylinka, Woyezyn, Orchowa, to the town of Powidz. From Powidz it shall continue by the town of Slupee to the point of confluence of the rivers Wartha and Prosna. From this point it shall re-ascend the course of the river Prosna to the village of Koscielnawics, to within one league of the town of Kalisch. Then leaving to that town (on the side of the left bank of the Prosna) a semi-circular territory measured upon the distance from Koscielnawies to Kalisch, the line shall return to the course of the Prosna, and shall continue to follow it, re-ascending by the towns of Grabow, Wieruszow, Boleslawiee, so as to terminate near the village of Gola, upon the frontier of Silesia opposite Pitschin. III. His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty shall possess, in full property and sovereignty, the salt-mines of Wieliczka, and the territory thereto belonging. IV. The way or bed of the Vistula shall separate Gallicia from the territory of the free town of Cracow. It shall serve at the same time as the frontier between Gallicia and that part of the ancient duchy of Warsaw united to the states of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias, as far as the vicinity of the town of Zavichost. From Zavichost to the Bug, the dry frontier shall be determined by the line drawn in the treaty of Vienna of 1809, excepting such modifica tions as by common consent may be thought necessary to be introduced. The frontier from the Bug shall be re-established on this side between the two empires such as it was before the said treaty. V. His Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias cedes to his Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty the districts which have been separated from Eastern Gallicia in consequence of the treaty of Vienna of 1809, from the circles of Zloozow, Brzezan, Tarnopole, and Zalesczk; and the frontiers on |