1751.

Summary of the laft Seffion of Parliament.

guards, and regiment of horfe reduced; and to fuperannuated gentlemen of the four troops of horse-guards, there be granted for 1751

Feb. 11, Refolved,

1. That for maintaining the forces in the plantations, Minorca, and Gibraltar; and for providing for the garifons in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Gibraltar, and Providence, there be granted for the year 1751 2. That for the pay of the general and staff-officers, there be granted for 1751

Feb. 14, Refolved,

1. That for the ordinary of the navy, including half-pay to fea-officers, there be granted for the year 175!

2. That for Greenwich hofpital there be granted

4747 35 30 749940 6 3

290302 7 10 - IOCOO

3. That towards the buildings, rebuildings and repairs of the navy, there be granted for 1751

4. That for the charge of the office of ordnance for land fervice, there be granted for 1751

5. That for the extraordinary expence of the office of ordnance for and fervice, not provided for by parliament, there be granted

Feb. 19, Refolved,

1. That fuch part of the refpective stocks of old and new S. S. annuities, as have not been fubfcribed, in pursuance of two acts paffed laft feffion, for reducing the interest of annuities, be redeemed and paid off. 2. That for this purpose there be granted

Feb. 25, Refolved,

1. That for making good the engagement with the elector of Bavaria pursuant to treaty, there be granted

2. That to replace to the finking fund the like fum paid out of the fame, for a year's intereft on the million lent on the falt duties, there be granted, 3. That to make good the deficiency of the additional ftamp duties for 1749, there be granted

4. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency of the duty on licences for retailing spirituous liquors at Lady-day 1750, there to be granted

5. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency of the duty on fweets at Michaelmas 1750, there be granted

6. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the additional duty on wines at Midlummer 1750, there be granted

7. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency of the duties on glafs and fpirituous liquors, at Midlummer 1750, there be granted

8. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency of the rates and duties upon houses, &c. at Michaelmas 1750, there be granted 9. That to replace to the finking fund, to make good the deficiency at Michaelmas 1759, of the fubfidy of poundage on all goods imported fince March 1, 1747, there be granted

March 12, Refolved,

1. That the propofal of the South-fea company be accepted in full difcharge of all demands, which the company could or might claim of the king of Spain, on account of the affiento, or annual ship, or on any account whatsoever, over and above the sum of 100000l. paid pursuant to treaty.

2. That for the charges of Nova Scotia in the year 1750, not provided. for by parliament, there be granted

3. That for maintaining the faid colony, there be granted for the year

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Summary of the laft Seffion of Parliament.

4. That for the extraordinary expences of the land forces, and other fervices incurred in 1750, and not provided for by parliament, there be granted

5. That to make good the deficiency of the grants for the year 1750, there be granted

April 22, Refolved,

1. That towards paying off feamens wages, there be granted 2. That for fupporting the fettlements on the coart of Africa, there be granted

3. That for making a road for the paffage of troops and carriages between Carlisle and Newcastle, there be granted

May 6, Refolved,

That one other feaman be allowed, upon the books of every ship of war in fea pay, in every 100 men that their complement shall confist of, for fuch time only, as the number of men, employed in the fervice of the royal navy, fhall not exceed 20000; and that the produce of the wages of fuch feamen, and the value of their victuals, be given and applied towards the relief of poor widows, of commiffion and warrant officers of the royal navy, according to fuch rules, orders, and regulations, as his majesty hath or fhall establish or appoint for that purpose, over and above the one feaman allowed them by an act of the 6th of his prefent majesty's reign.

Sum total of grants last session

These grants we shall distinguish into fuch as were, 1. For paying off debts. 2. For making good deficiences, in which we include all fums for replacing to the finking fund, the like fums paid out of the fame. 3. For expences incurred and not provided for. 4. For the fervice of the current year.

Of the first fort are the ad refolution of Feb. 19, and the first of April 22, amounting to

--

Aug.

£. 3. d.

47984 14 3

4939865 10 1

2525023 7 11

245575 19 5

Of the fecond fort are all the resolutions of Feb. 25, except the first and the 5th refolution of March 12, amounting to Of the third are the 5th refolution of Feb. 14, and the 2d and 4th of March 12, amounting to And the remaining resolutions are all of the 4th kind, amounting to 2061998 15 7

As the committee of ways and means is generally established, as foon as any particular fums have been granted by the committee of supply, and upon report agreed to by the houfe; accordingly, on Feb. 5, it was refolved, That the house would next morning refolve itfelf into a committee of the whole house, to confider of ways and means for raifing the fupply granted to his majefty; and from that day it was continued by adjournment to June 5, when it was adjourned to the Friday following, and then dropt. In this time the following refolutions were agreed to in the committee, and upon report approved of by the houfe, viz.

Feb. 8, Refolved,

That the duties on malt, &c. fhould be continued from June 23, 1751, to June 24, 1752, amounting, by the ufual computation, to Feb. 18, Refolved,

1. That the propofal of the governor, and company of the Bank of England, for advancing the fum of 1,026,4761. 4s. 6d. upon fuch terms and conditions as are therein mentioned, be accepted.

2. That the fum of 36. in the pound be raised in 1751, upon lands, &c. amounting, as before, to

107267 7 11

4939865 10 11

700000

1500000 0

Feb

1751. Extracts from a Pamphlet on NAVIGATION.

Feb. 21, Refolved,

That there be raifed by lottery and annuities, at the rare of 31. per cent. per ann. to be charged on the finking fund redeemable by parl.a

ment

Feb. 28, Refolved,

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That his majefty be enabled to borrow a fum not exceeding 225,0221. 18. 7d. at an intereft of 31. per cent. per ann. to be charged on the finking fund

April 29, Refolved,

1. That there be iffued and applied out of fuch monies as have arifen or fhall or may arife, of the furpluffes, exceffes, or overplus monies, commonly called the finking fund, the fum of

Befides this, there were 17 other refolutions of the committee of ways and means reported this day to the houfe, relating to fpirituous liquors or for continuing expiring laws, in which the revenue was concerned; all of which, except two relating to the Greenland fishery, were this day approved of, and bills or claufes accordingly paffed into laws therefore we need not here infert them particularly; and as to the two refolutions relating to the Greenland fishery, the laws mentioned therein had been continued by an act paffed in the 22d of his present majefty.

From these refolutions it appears, that, befides the above mentioned fum to be advanced by the Bank, the provifions made by this feffion, amounted in the whole to

So that the provifions made by this 'feffion exceeded the grants in

the fum of

225023 11

600000

369

5125023 11 7

185038 0 74

For as to the money to be advanced by the Bank, it was only to pay off their own unfubfcribed annuities, for which they accepted of Exchequer bills at 31 per cent. per ann. therefore it was not neceffary to have it made a refolution of the committee of supply, but only of the committee of ways and means, as a foundation for a bill. Thefe bills the Bank were to circulate, and in purfuance of the above mentioned refolution, a bill was brought in and paffed for enabling his majefty to iffue them. And in pursuance of all the other refolutions, bills were brought in, or claufes inferted in bills brought in, and paffed into laws, [To be continued in our next.}

As Navigation is of fo much Conféquence to this Kingdom, we shall, for the Ufe of our Sailors, give fome Extracts from a Pam. phlet lately published, intitled, An Effay towards the Improvement of Navigation, &c.

T

HE author first confiders the three A methods of keeping a fhip's reckoning, viz. plain, middle latitude, and Mercator's (properly Wright's) failing, and gives the preference to the laft; but obferves as follows:

"There is another thing, which cannot mifs of being the fource of frequent errors in reckonings, and that is, the want of duly obferving and keeping à proper regifter of the lee-way a fhip makes: The quan-" tity of the leeway (when a fhip makes any) is altogether as neceffary to be known, in order to determine the courfe the makes

good, as is the point at which she capes ; and it is certainly as unreasonable to guefs at the lee-way from the fail the ship has a='

broad, without fetting her wake by a compafs, as it would be to guess at the point The capes at, without consulting the compafs. It may be perhaps objected, that in August, 1751.

the night, there is no way of fetting the fhip's wake by a compafs, and therefore, it must be geeffed at in the best manner one can: But I fhall propofe a way, by which it may be known then, as well as in day-time. Thus, at fome small diftante from the enfign-staff, and each fide of it, let there be fixed a quadrant of wood, of about 18 inches radius, the arch turned outwards, one radius placed parallel to the direction of the mafts, and the other will be parallel to the beam; and let the plain of each quadrant dip about 20 degrees. below the horizon, in fuch manner, that when a log or any nall piece of wood is let go aftern by a log-line, till out of the Beddy of the ship's wake, this line may be nearly parallel to the plain of the quadrant; let the arch of each quadrant be divided into eight equal parts, and wooden pegs. fixed in the center, and in each point of divifion; and each of thefe parts being subdivided into four, may have fmailer pegs fixed in their points of divifion; by this Cmeans each quadrant will, by the great pegs, be divided into points of the compaís, and by the fmall pegs into quarters of a point, Suppofe now, in a dark

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night,

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MATHEMATICAL QUESTIONS, &c.

night, the fhip makes lee-way, and I
want to know how much it is: Imagine
the ftarboard tacks on board, I go to the
quadrant on the ftarboard fide, and hav-
ing veered aftern the common length of
a ftray line, I make a bight in it, and put
it over a peg I fuppofe fixed in the center
of the quadrant, and feeling whether the line A
bears against any of the pegs upon the arch,
if it does, I let it at liberty, till it plays
freely between fome two of the pegs: Then
I reckon (beginning at the end of the arch
toward the right hand) how many (paces
between the great pegs till you come to the
line, for fo many are the points of lee-way,
and if you have any odd fmaller spaces,
fo many quarter points. If the larboard B
tacks are on board, you go to the qua-
drant on the larboard fide, and proceed
in every respect as before, only when you
count the points of lee-way, begin at the
end of the arch toward the left hand. The
reason why the plain of the quadrant must
be placed fo as to fhelve towards the water,
will appear if we confider, that the ftray- C
line will be in a direction oblique to the
horizon, fuppofing the ship upon an even
keel; befides the allowance which must
be made for her heeling to leeward, &c."

D

The author then proceeds to examine the ufe of the log, the compafs and the quadrant, and propofes fome methods for rectifying the defects of each, for which. we must refer our readers to the pamphlet itfelf; and he concludes with fome obfervations upon that which has proved a fruitless fearch to many philofophical projectors, the difcovering the longitude a ship is in at fea, from obfervation; on which he writes thus: " But it is certain, that if the variation of the compafs were obferved with great care through the whole E course of most voyages, and these several variations of the needle properly registered, with the latitude well determined from obfervation, and the longitude as well as could be gueffed at, in which each varia

Aug.

tion was obferved, this would be one very good step towards coming fomewhat near finding the longitude from obfervation, &c.''

And in order to difcover the longitude by obferving the eclipfes of Jupiter's moons, he proposes thus: "A reflecting telescope of about fix inches, of Mr.Short's making, will very diftinctly difcover Jupiter's moons; imagine fuch a small one properly fixed to fomething in form of a leathern cap, the eye-piece fo near the eye as may be most convenient, and a finder to collimate nearly with the telescope; and at fuch a distance, that when the glafs is thrown off the object, the other eye by means of the finder may readily bring it back into the field of view; and let this cap or headpiece be fo made as to be eafily fastened to the oblerver's head; then has nature provided us with a curious apparatus for the management of the telescope, I mean the capacity every man in health will find he has, of moving his head to a great nicety, fo as with his eye, to trace the real or apparent motion of any object."

"In this manner, fays he, one would be led to think, that if the observer could not keep a conftant view of the planet and his moons, he might at least have them in the telescope as often as the fhip came to be a little more Ready, which the will often, as one fea has loft its effect upon her rolling, till another meets her. If, in fact, by this means a diftinct fight of the planet and his moons can be had once or twice in a minute of time, I am well affured, that no man, whose fortune and leifure would incline him to try the experiment, would have any reason to repent his well intended labour, &c."

These extracts we have given with the fame view the author wrote, to wit, for the improvement of our navigation; and for the fame purpose we must recommend the pamphlet itself to the perufal of every ingenious failor in the kingdom.

A QUESTION in SURVEYING.

N order to furvey the triangular Feld, ABC, Incafured from to B, 130 poles, and as I was taking the angle ABC, I obferved a remarkable high tree at D, in the fence AC, which trifceted the angle ABC; that is, the angle ABD the angle DBC, then

B

A

D

I measured along from B to D, and found BD 60 poles, alfo A D 40.

Required the fides and area of the field?

Portsmouth, July 9, 1751.

1

JAMES TEREY:

ANSWER

Of Bethlem and St. Luke's Hospitals.

ANSWER to the fecond QUESTION in the Mag. for June laft, p. 272.

ET ABCD be the folid given; let it be cut by a

let its distance from the plane CD=x: Let AB
feet 2 inches t; IK 9 inches = c; CD1 foot
3 inchesd, and its height
&c.

the diftance from CD

of the angular point made by producing AC and BD.

Again, d-c: b::c:: the distance of the angular

point the other way, from the plane AKBI.

The fluent of which (after writing h, for x) is =

Xzb=the content of the folid ABCD; letz of a foot = the diameter of the wire, and y = its length; then will its folid content znny = dd+di+te+de dd+de+c+de 3 3nn