salt, and for authorizing the seizure of utensils in cases where vessels used in excise manufactories are subject to forfeiture. An act to amend several acts passed in the last and present sessions of parliament relating to the local militia. An act for the amendment of the laws now in force in Ireland, relative to persons entering into recognizances in criminal cases, in custody under any fine, or under such recognizance. An act for amending the Irish road acts. An act for defraying, until the 25th day of March, 1810, the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia of Ireland; for holding courts martial on serjeant-majors, serjeants, corporals, and drummers, for offences committed during the time such militia shall not be embodied; and for making allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers of the said militia during peace. An act to make provision in certain cases, for the wives and families of ballotted men, substitutes, and volunteers serving in the militia of Ireland. An act for defraying the charge of the pay and clothing of the militia and local militia in Great Britain for the year 1809. An act for making allowances, in certain cases, to subaltern officers of the militia in Great Britain, while disembodied.: An act to revive and continue until the 25th day of March, 1810, and amend so much of an act made in the 39th and 40th years of his present majesty, as grants certain allowances to adjutants and serjeantmajors, of the militia of England, disembodied under an act of the same session of parliament. An act for providing relief for the wives and families of the militiamen in Scotland, when called into actual service. An act to empower the judges to try civil causes in their own counties in England. An act for charging the sum of 11,000,000l. raised for the service of Great Britain for the year 1809, and the sum of 7,932,100l. in Exchequer bills, funded. pursuant to an act of this session of parliament, upon the duties granted to his majesty during the continuance of the present war, and for certain periods after the ratification of a definitive treaty of peace. An act to enable the commissioners of his majesty's treasury to issue exchequer bills, on the credit of such aids or supplies as have been or shall be granted by parliament for the service of Great Britain, for the year 1809. An act for granting to his majesty a sum of money, to be raised by lotteries. An act for further regulating the constitution of the board of commissioners for auditing the public accounts. An act to provide for a durable allowance of superannuation to the officers of excise, under certain restrictions. An act for empowering the board of ordnance to exchange lands at Purfleet in the county of Essex, for other lands in the said parish. An act for repealing the several duties of customs chargeable in Great Britain, and for grauting other duties in lieu thereof. An act to amend the several acts for the regulating and securing the collection collection of the duties on spirits distilled in Ireland, and for the regulating the sale of such liquors by retail. An act to amend the several acts for securing the collection of the duties on auctions in Ireland. An act to regulate the fees payable by persons charged with treason, felony, and all other offences, at assizes and quarter sessions in Ireland; and for amending an act of the parliament of Ireland, made in the 36th year of his present majesty, relating thereto. An act to appoint commissioners to enquire and examine, until the 1st day of August, 1811, into the nature and extent of the several bogs in Ireland, and the practicability of draining and cultivating them, and the best means of effecting the same. An act to amend an act, made in the last session of parliament, for making provision for the building and rebuilding of churches, chapels, and glebe houses, in Ireland. An act to amend several acts, made in the parliament of Ireland, for granting life annuities with benefit of survivorship. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1810, an act of this present session of parliament, to suspend the importation of British or Irish made spirits into great Britain or Ireland respectively. An act for allowing further time for taking goods out of warehouse, and paying duties thereon. Au act for the more effectual recovery of penalties and forfeitures, incurred in the British colonies and plantations in America. An act to amend the several acts respecting the payment of wages and prize-money, and allotment of wages to persons serving in his majesty's royal navy. An act to repeal several acts respecting the woollen manufacture; and to amend other acts relating to the said manufacture; and for allowing persons employed in any branch of the woollen manufacture to set up trade in any place in Great Britain. An act to rectify a mistake in an act, made in this session of parliament, for continuing and making perpetual several duties of one shilling and sixpence on offices and employments. An act to continue, until the 25th day of March, 1811, an act of the 45th year of his present majesty, for appointing commissioners to enquire into the public expenditure, and the conduct of the public business in the military departments therein mentioned. An act to amend an act, passed in the forty-fourth year of his present majesty, to provide for the defence of the realm, with respect to the purchase of lands and hereditaments for the public service. An act for better regulating the office of agent general for volunteers and local militia. An act for enabling his majesty to raise the sum of 3,000,000l. for the service of Great Britain. An act for the relief of certain insolvent debtors in England. An act to make further provision for the execution of the several acts relating to the revenues, matters, and things, under the management of the commissioners of customs and port duties, and of the commissioners of inland excise and taxes, in Ireland. An act for lowering the duty of excise on coffee, of the growth of his majesty's dominions in Africa. An act for better securing the independence and purity of parliament, by preventing the procuring or obtaining of seats in parliament by corrupt practices. An act to give to the persons named by his majesty, pursuant to an act, passed in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act concerning the administration of justice in Scotland, and concerning appeals to the House of Lords,' further time for making their report or reports. An act for amending and reducing iuto one act of parliament, the several laws for raising and training the militia of Ireland. An act to alter and amend the laws relating to bankrupts. An act for preventing frauds and depredations committed on merchants, ship-owners, and underwriters, by boatmen and others; and also for remedying certain defects relative to the adjustment of salvage in England, under an act made in the twelfth year of Queen Anne. An act to explain and amend an act, made in the forty-fifth year of his present majesty, for the encouragement of seamen, and for the better and more effectually manning his majesty's navy during the present war; and for the further encouragement of seamen, and for the better and more effectually providing for the interest of the Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and the Royal Hospital for Soldiers at Chelsea; and to extend the pro visions of the said act to cases arising in consequence of hostilities commenced since the passing of the said act. An act for altering, amending, and explaining certain acts relative to the removal of the poor, and for making regulations in certain cases touching the examination of paupers as to their settlement; and for extending to all parishes certain rules and orders in workhouses, under an act of the twenty-second year of his present majesty, entituled, 'An act for the better relief and employment of the poor.' An act to amend an act, made in the thirty-third year of his present majesty, for the encouragement and relief of friendly societies. An act for the further prevention of the sale and brokerage of offices. An act for further augmenting the salaries of certain of the judges of the courts in Westminster Hall, and of the chief and second justices of Chester, and justices of the great sessions in Wales. An act for granting to his majesty certain sums of money out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, and for applying certain mónies therein mentioned for the service of the year 1809; and for further appropriating the supplies granted in this session of parlia ment An act to prevent the enlisting of local militia-men into the regular militia of any other county or stewartry than the county or stewartry to which they belong. DEATHS DEATHS in the Year 1809. At his house in Hertford-street, the author, but coutented himself May Fair, the Earl of Liverpool.The Right Honourable Charles Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool, and Baron of Hawkesbury, was descend,ed from a family which had been settled more than a century, at Walcot, near Charlbury, in Oxfordshire. His grandfather, Sir Robert Jenkinson, married a wealthy heiress at Bromley, in Kent; and his father, who was a colonel in the army, resided at South Lawn Lodge, in Whichwood Forest. Charles Jenkinson was born in 1727, and received the first rudiments of his education at the grammar school of Burford. He was afterwards placed on the foundation in the Charterhouse, from which seminary he was removed to Oxford, and was entered a member of University college. There he took two degrees, that of B. A. and A. M. and seems to have made himself first known to the public by some verses on the death of the Prince of Wales, father of his present Majesty. In 1753, he removed from Oxford, and possessing but a small patrimonial fortune, he commenced his career as a man of letters, and is said to have supplied materials for the Monthly Review. He next commenced political writer; and, in 1756, published "A Dissertation on the Establishment of a national and constitutional Force in England, independant of a standing Army." This tract abounds with many manly and patriotic sentiments, and has been quoted against himself in the House of Peers, on which occasion his lordship did not deny that he was with apologising for his errors, on account of his extreme youth. Soon after this he wrote "A Discourse on the Conduct of the Government of Great Britain, with respect to neutral Nations, during the present War." To this production, his rise in life has been falsely attributed; it was indeed allowed by every one to be an able performance; but, like many others of the same kind, it might have lain in the warehouse of his bookseller, and he himself remained for ever in obscurity, had it not been for the intervention of a gentleman of the same county, with whom he luckily became acquainted. Sir Edward Turner, of Ambroseden in Oxfordshire, being of an ancient family, and possessing a large fortune, was desirous to represent his native county in parliament. Having attained considerable influence by means of a large estate, and a hospitable and noble mansion, since pulled down by his successor, he accordingly stood can didate as knight of the shire. He was, however, strenuously but unsuccessfully opposed; for in addition to his own, he possessed the court interest. The struggle, nevertheless, was long and violent, and it still forms a memorable epoch in the history of contested electious; but for nothing is it more remarkable, than by being the fortunate occurrence in Mr. Jenkinson's life, which produced at his subsequent greatness. The contending parties having, as usual, called in the aid of ballads, lampoons, verses, and satires, this gen tleman tleman distinguished himself by a song in favour of Sir Edward and his friends, which so captivated either the taste or the gratitude of the baronet, that he introduced him to the Earl of Bute, then flourishing in all the plenitude of power. It is known but to few, perhaps, that his lordship, who placed Mr. J. at first in an inferior office, was not at all captivated with him; for it was entirely owing to the repeated solicitations of the member for Oxfordshire, that he extended his further protection. After a longer trial, he became the premier's private secretary, and in some respect a member of his family, participating in his friendship and favour, and living with him in an unrestrained and confidential intercourse. Such a connexion as this could not fail to prove advantageous; and, accordingly, in March, 1761, we find him appointed one of the under secretaries of state, a station which presupposes an intimate acquaintance with the situation of foreign affairs, and a pretty accurate knowledge in respect to the arcana imperii in general. He now became a declared adherent of what was then called "the Leicester-house party," by whose influence he was returned to parliament at the general election (in 1761) for the borough of Cockermouth, on the recommendation of the late Earl of Lonsdale, his patron's son-in-law. He, however, did not remain long in this station; for he soon received the lucrative appointment of treasurer of the ordnance. This he relinquished in 1763, for the more confidential office of joint secretary of the treasury; a situation for which he was admirably qualified, by his knowledge of the state VOL. LI. of parties, and the management of a House of Commons, of which he himself had been some time a member. To the Rockingham administration, which succeeded in 1765, he was both personally and politically odious, and he accordingly lost all his appointments; but in the course of the same year, he had one conferred on him by the king's mother, the late Princess Dowager of Wales, which no minister could bereave him of; this was the auditorship of her Royal Highness's accounts. That circumstance, added to his close intimacy with the discarded minister, awakened the jealousy of the patriots; and, if we are to credit their suspicious, he became, in the technical language of that day, the "go-between" to the favourite, the princess-mother, and the throne. When Lord Bute retired into the country in disgust, promising to relinquish public affairs, a great personage is said to have construed it into an abandonment, and to have looked out for advice elsewhere; from that moment Mr. Jenkinson was ranked as one of the leaders of the party called "the king's friends," and his majesty ever after distinguished him by a marked partiality. Honours and employments now fell thick upon him. In 1766, he was nominated a lord of the admiralty, and in 1767, a lord of the treasury, in which place he continued during the Grenville and Grafton administration. But under that of Lord North, we find him aspiring to some of the higher offices of government; for in 1772, he was appointed one of the vice-treasurers of Ireland, on which occasion he was introduced into the privy council, In 1775, he purchased of Mr. Fox, S s the |