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Parliamentary, Naval, Military and Literary JOURN NA L.

For JANUARY, 1786.

Embellished with Two Eaft India Views, elegantly engraved, viz. Surat, and the Harbour of Bombay.

1 Obfervations on a late Narrative of the Operations of the Troops under General Matthews in India

2 Further Remarks on the fame fubject 3 Original Anecdotes of Peter the Great 4 Character of the late Lord Sackville 5 Two Letters relative to Dr. Johnfou 6 Narrative of the Sufferings of a Collier Description of the City of Surat, &c. 8 Anecdotes of the Earl of Mornington 9 Account of Dr. Moyes, a blind man TO PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 11 Commercial Situations with Ireland 12 Lord Beauchamp. Mr. Dempfter. James Erkine. Mr. Pitt. Mr. Fox 13 Diftilleries in Scotland

40 Mr. Pitt. Mr. Burke, Mr. Fox. Sir W. Lewis

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41 Germanic League

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42 Remarkable Speech of Mr. Fox

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43 Authentic Lift of the National Debt

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44 Defcription of the Inland and City of Bombay, &c.

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45 Great Improvements in the North

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46 On the Liberty of the Prefs, &c.,

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48 Of Great Men and Dr. Johnfon

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49 Obfervations on the Abuse of the Poor

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18 Mr. Pitt. Lord Beauchamp. Mr. Jen- 57 Fortifications at the Havannah destroyed 72

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Printed for J. MURRAY, No. 32, Fleet-Street, and fold by all Booksellers

in Town and Country.

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HE purpose of the POLITICAL MAGAZINE, which has

been carried on for feveral years, with a large fhare of fuccefs, being that of a faithful Register of the Times, we will fay but little about the plan, which must be now fufficiently known and understood. The chief ufe and advantage of our Work, as a Public Chronicle, is the producing an authority for every thing we infert, and often in the very words of the parties themfelves-not artful commentaries, calcu lated frequently to difguife, rather than to illuftrate the facts. In a refined age, elegance of compofition must have great powers of attraction, and great influence on the public mind; but every candid man, every one who regards the welfare of the state, fhould infist on having produced, as often as poffible, an authority for every affertion or event of importance, as almoft the only guide left, amidst the clamour of party, for the difcovery of truth.

In regard to the affairs of India, now of fo great national intereft, every material piece of intelligence has been carefully inferted, and it has demanded all our attention to distinguish between interested fabrications and real facts: On this fubject the Public ought to be particularly cautious and guarded, as on none are greater pains taken, to exeite and keep alive publie prejudices.

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The debates on the Irish Commercial Propofitions, certainly the greatest and most important, as well as the most diffufive, that have occurred for many years, are given entire and complete, no argument of weight, on either fide, having been perverted or omitted: It is this that has induced the neceflity of bringing out a Supplement at the end of the year, which has enabled us to compleat our work, to our own, and, we hope, to the public fatisfaction. We shall close the subject with obferving, that the Minifter, as well as both countries, appear to us to have had a fortunate efeape; for though we believe the plan to have been formed with the very beft intention, yet was it of that nature as to furnish fubject for unceafing altercation and difpute. In the nion of England with Scotland, the one Legiflature being funk and abforbed in the other, it followed, that from the time of its completion, all further difcuffion ceafed and determined; but in the plan with Ireland, the Legislatures of both Countries remaining feparate and diftinct, endless heart-burnings and difcontent would have enfued, and excited fuch ill humour between them, as might have been attended at laft, with the most dangerous confequences to both.

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Average Prices of CORN, by the Winchester Bufhel of Eight Gallons

From January 16, 1786, to January 21,

1786.

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