63 75 68 ,08 66 Fair 19 67 76 66 72 61 The Average Prices of Navigable Canal Shares, Dock, Stock, and Fire Office Shares, in June 1808, at the Office of Mr. Scott, 28, New Bridge Street, Blackfriars, London. The Trent and Mersey, or Grand Trunk Navigation, £980 to £1000 per share, with the half yearly divid: paying £40 per share per ann. clear. -Oxford Canal, £450 to £465 per share, the last half yearly divid. was £11 per share.-Grand Junction, £116 with the half yearly divid. of £2 per share-ditto Bonds, £90 for £100.-Ellesmere, £53 to 54. Kennet and Avon, new shares, £4 10 per share prem.-Ashby, £22 per share. Globe insurance, £116 per cent.-West India Dockstock, £155 to 156 per cent. with the half year's div. of £5 per cent.-London Dock, £117 to £119, t £116 per cent. ditto. Riga, Revel, Narva, or Petersburgh Brazil and South America..... Carron, Leith, Perth, Aberdeen Glasgow 12 gs. 2gs. Dublin, Cork, Waterford, Newry, Bel-21gs. 'fast, and Londonderry... Limerick, Galway, or Sligo...... 5 gs. Portsm. Spith. Poole, or Isle of Wight.. 1 gs. Weymouth, Exeter, Dartm, or Plym..... 14 gs. Bristol, Wales, Chester, Liverp. Whith. .2gs. Yarmouth, Lynn, Hull, Newcastle, &c... 14 gs. Alderney, Guernsey, or Jersey............ 2 gs. Inverness, Shetland, Orkney Islands... 2 gs. Tonningen (neutrals).......... Gottenburg, Christiana, &c.......6 gs. ret. 31. Musquito shore, Honduras, &c. ........ 10 gs. Newfoundland, Coast of Labradore... 10 gs. ret. 57. Madeira...... Jamaica or Leeward island.. Un. States of America (Brit, ships) Ditto........ (American ships).. Dublin, Cork, Waterford, To London.. Lisbon or Oporto... United States of America (Brit, ships) 6 gs. &c.. 4gs. ret. 21. 8gs.ret.al. 6gs.ret. 31 203. Lo 2 4 Prices Current, June 20, 1808. Mahogany- ft.Lo 13 4 2 0 ....... 3 10 0 4 6 Oak plank, Dantz. -last 11 Ditto American 95 0 0 7 10 0 Ditto Florence, chest 4 00 Pitch, Stockholm,-cwt. 2 2 0 31 13 96 10 33 10 0 4 5 0 .1 00 049 Saltpetre, East-India, cwt. 3 8 0 Shellack Silk, thrown, Italian-lb. 280 5 15 0 056 0 4 6 390 10 O 500 Ditto China none Beng. novi Organzine Sugar, Jamaica-cwt. 3 4 0 0 19 0 6 6 0 Raisins, bloom Ditto East-India 2 0 0 Jamaica.. 0 1 44 0 18 Rum, Jamaica -gal. 0 4 6 0 3 9 1 4 0 4 15 .0 215 O Daily Prices of STOCKS, from 20th MAY, to 20th JUNE, 1808. In Ordinary.. 42443 76 ༤ 334 PPP In Commission Building.... Of the line. 50 to 24. Frigates. Sloops. Gun-bgs. Total. 50: 53 THE LITERARY PANORAMA. ཙ FOR AUGUST, 1808. PARLIAMENTARY EXERTION. HINTS ILLUSTRATING THE LABOURS OF PARLIAMENT, DURING THE Late SesSION-Introductory to the Report and Resolutions of the Committee of the Hon. the House of Commons, appointed to exaanine the Subject of PUBLIC LOTTERIES: with Extracts from the Evidence adduced before the Committee, on which those ReSolutions were founded. THE PANORAMA was fortunate in its prediction, when the present Parliament was chosen, that the Salvation of this Country, and perhaps of Europe, would depend on its wisdom and fortitude: events have taken place, and are now passing over our heads, that have every appearance of verifying this prediction to its fullest extent. But what was completely beyond our power to anticipate is, that spirit of diligence and dispatch of business, which has hitherto animated our National Representation, and we trust will continue so to do. The times call for exertion; slumbering and sleeping would be mis-timed now. Gentlemen who are honoured with the most important commission which it is in the power of their fellow citizens to confer, must expect to be called to discharge it with zeal and alacrity. Their post requires them to be on the alert; vigilance and prompti tude are the order of the day: like our gallant tars, they must be ever on the look out; and to this spirit they will owe their safety. After a crujze, to relate the events of it, is a matter of course: after a session, it is proper that constituents should be acquainted with the diligence of their deputies. We shall, therefore, communicate in a few words, some notion of the labours which have been undergone by the Members of the House of Commons, especially, during their late meeting. VOL. IV. [Lit. Pan. August, 1808.] The number of Acts that have been ma tured and passed is about three hundred and fifty. One object of these has been, the increase of our national revenue, now become an immense total, and requiring the greatest skill, as well as the most extensive knowledge! This increase of revenue is effected principally by the increase of our trade, since happily we have no mines whence our currency may be ob tained, but depend on foreign parts for the supply of our coinage, and the whole of our metallic accommodation. But the increase of foreign trade would add little to the wealth, and less to the comfort of the people, unless our internal resources were called into activity, and the land in which Providence has cast our lot, were. cultivated with as much skill and to as much advantage as our commerce. Bills for draining of lands, now in a state of unprofitable humidity; and neither water nor earth, properly speaking, neither breeding fish, nor supplying food for animals, always meet with our hearty approbation; and these, with others for enclosing of wastes, and for improving our roads, and internal communications, have greatly occupied the Parlia ment during the last session. These bills are not of that vociferous description which calls on the whole nation for attention, and are rumoured and reported, commented on and canvassed, by all the world; but they do good silently with little observation, these are the real strength of the state; and when that which is trumpeted about as glory, and the generation which it dazzles under that character, is forgotten, the benefits derived from the augmentation of our internal capabilities and powers, will be permanènt, extensive and sincere. A : But, beside what bills have been completed into statutes, a number of curious 2 G We wish to hint further, that the same of suppress Reports have been produced during this the mean time if any thoughts on the matsession. These have embraced a variety of er, purporting to prevent the evils comquestions of great importance both in po plained of, should occur to our friends, lities, in trade, in commerce, in agriculture, we should be happy to be the means of and have prepared the way for a full con- their publicity: in a case like that before eration of them, and, we trust, for aus, neither the Parliament nor the Nation view of the means by which they will be above deriving benefit from the may be brought to promote the interest of suggestions of an individual, though not the commonwealth. We believe, we are invested with a public character. safe in asserting, that not so few as thirty committees were sitting at the same | evils and the same difficulti period and so great was the pressure of business, that, three, or four, or even on one occasion six committees (on priváte? bills) occupied the same apartment." A slight degree of the amusing, connects itself with this circumstance; for report affirms, that even the apartments of the servants were not regarded, by the wealthiest.commoners, or by the sons of our noblest peers, as uncomfortable, oras un dignified, when the number of committees was so great as we have reported. ing them exist in foreign countries, as in As to the election committees, we need only state, that several have been truly arduous and perplexing, The Downpatrick committee sat upwards of fifty days! a subject, well calculated to try the temper a length of time capable of putting the patience to the test most thoroughly... From among those Reports that have apdences examined before the committee, peared to us most interesting to the public, and our confidence rests on our personal at this time, or most likely to become so knowledge of some of them) to believe when reference to them will be desirable that the same folly infatuates our comon future occasions, we have already insert- patriots but the fact is so and it is fitt ed a selection in our work; others lie that the truth should be developed, that before us, awaiting insertion, and every tlie necessity of applying some efficient, possible attention will be paid to them in corrective may be the more apparent.org their turn. But, we have been particular- But quitting that ungratifying theme, ly struck with the Report presented by Mr. we close this introduction by expressing Whitbread, their chairman, from the our unreserved conviction that the ensuing Committee on LOTTERIES: it combines the Session of Parliament, is one of the most united interests of morals and finance; of important, perhaps, we ought not even public welfare, and of personal advantage: to suggest a parallel, but to say frankly, the the extraordinary nature, too, of the evi- most important, that British annals ever dence adduced on this occasion; the cha- had, or ever can have, to record. The racter of the evidences, the extent of the measures to be taken, to be approved tort subject; the embarrassments attending it; disapproved, involve not only our very exwith the acknowledged difficulty of reme-istence as a nation, but that of Europe alsoge dying the evils from which it has hitherto nay we might safely add that of the whole o been inseparable, form a very curious world for all the world looks up to them chapter in the history of the human mind; British Isles! the British Parliament an and have induced us to give it the earliest if our plans be either perverse, or in place in our power. The following ex- becile, if either weak or wicked, faretracts, though copious, have not exhaust- well, a long farewell to all our greated the subject: which, no doubt, will ness!"-May that gracious Providence, again be pressed on the consideration of which has hitherto been our munificent the legislature; when these excerpta will benefactor, be still our guide, our wisdom, possess a distinguished acceptability. In and our protection! and |