the arts of fupplying man with food, this of defending him against fire, muft be ranked among the moft capital'; nay, we need not fcruple giving it the fuperiority over that of fecuring him from water, fince he can do infinitely better without expofing himself to danger from the laft, than from the firft of these elements. Ac cordingly, we fhould have given an account of this noble invention, at the head of our article of Projects; but that we expected fomething on the fubject from the ingenious and beneficent Inventor's own pen, till, through the nature of our publication, the opportunity of placing it there, flipt out of our hands. TABLE TABLE, exhibiting, at one View, the SUPPLIES granted for the Service of the Year, 1776, with the WAYS and MEANS of raifing them; each Article being accurately arranged under its feparate Head, &c. as ftated by LORD NORTH, in the House of Commons, on the 24th of April, 1776. SUPPLIES. ARMY. £. s. d. i. do 20752 land forces with 3213 invalids 659200 2 10} Plantations and Africa 723432 11 74 Irish and British pay for troops in} 42530 19 4 America NAVY. 2800 feamen, with 6665 marines Ordinary and Navy Building and repairing hips Greenwich Hofpital Towards difcharge of navy debt ORDNANCE. Ordinaries Extraordinaries - 1000000 3227055 196 249655 18 6 223171 11 II 472827 10 5 54070 4 10 92421 15 I 1250000 0 Malt WAYS and M E A N S. 9097577 17 10} 56652 6 5/13 9154230 4 4 2000000 750000 0 Surplus 8700∞ 1500000 O 2905 8 2 Surplus of American revenues Sundry furplufies in exchequer, confifting of furplus of duty on rice, cambrick, apples, militia money, &c. Total of Ways and Means Annuities and lottery at 3 per cent. 11444 4 34 7154230 4 2000000 O 9154230 4 47 When Lord North had gone through the foregoing ftate, he acquainted the Houle, that he fhould, on a future day, communicate to them a meffage from his Majefty for a vote of credit; and, accordingly, delivered the following on the 2d of May. "GEORGE R. "His Majefty, relying on the experienced zeal and affection of his faithful Commons, and confidering, that, during the prefent troubles in North America, emergencies may arise, which may be of the utmost importance, and be attended with the most dangerous confequences, if proper means fhould not be immediately applied to prevent or defeat them, is defirous that this House will enable decr. 69054 5 10 112489 14 11 ditto him to defray any extraordinary expences incurred, or to be incurred, on account of military fervices for the year 1776, and as the exigency of affairs may require. And his Majeft, having judged it expedient to iffue his proclamation, in purfuance of an act of parliament, paffed in the fourteenth year of his reign, for calling in the remainder of the deficient gold coin, doubts rot but that his faithful Commons will enable him to make good the charges which shall be incurred in this fervice, and which cannot at this time be af certained. G. R." And, in confequence of faid meffage, the Houfe immediately paffed a vote of credit for one million, STATE STATE PAPERS. Petition of the City of London, prefented, feparately, to both Houfes of Parliament, with only the neceffary Variation in the Title, &c. at the Opening of the Second Seffion of the Fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain, The bumble Petition of the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Commons of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, Sheweth, THAT HAT this court having taken into its most ferious confideration the prefent diftreffed fituation of our fellow-fubjects in America, are exceedingly alarmed for the confequences of thofe coercive measures, which are pursuing against them-meafures that mult (notwithstanding the great uncertainty of their fuccefs) eventually be productive of new and more burthenfome taxes, the increafe of an enormous national debt; and finally, we fear, the lofs of the most valuable branch of our commerce, on which the exiftence of an infinite number of induft:ious manufacturers and mechanics entirely depends. That his Majefty having been graciously pleafed, in anfwer to a fate humble and dutiful addrefs and petition to the throne, praying a ceffation of hoftilities with America for the purpose of obtaining time, and thereby giving an opportunity for a happy and lafting reconciliation with his Majefty's American colonies to declare, that be fhould abide by the sense of his parliament, this court conceived it to be their indifpenfible duty, thus early in the feffion, in the moft refpectful manner to apply to this Right Hon. Houfe, that it will be pleafed to adopt fuch meafures for the healing of the prefent unhappy difputes between the mother country and the colonies, as may be fpeedy, permanent, and honourable. |