grave precepts, and even examples of others. 2462. If ever it comes to this, that thou can'ft fay of thy confidant, that he would have deceived thee, thou haft faid enough to annihilate and abolish all pretences of friendship. And it would be intolerable impudence in him to offer at the name of friendship after fuch an attempt. 2844. Infamy is according to the receiver: if thou frettest or formet at it, 'tis thine if thou difregardeft and contemineft it, 'tis his. 2097. Give not prefently, and upon flight grounds, credit to an accufation, or infamous report: it will make men fufpect thou art malicious thyfelf, or foolish. 2132. Have patience a while: Slanders are not long lived Truth is the child of time; ere long, fhe fhall appear to vindicate thee. 2133. Slight not a reproach, though it be utterly falfe; for a good name is no lefs wounded for the time with that, than with a juft crimination. 2152. Words of feandal are but words, they fly through the air, but hurt thee not, unlefs thou receiveft them. 2345 Thou art not the first innocent that hath been perfecuted; and if thou can'ft not bear detraction and flander, thou art more delicate and dainty than princes and heroes, who forbore not doing well, though, for their well doing, they were evil Spoken of 2642. In matters of flander thou oughteft to fufpend thy judgment, and examine the thing; and not, as the common cuftom is, perfuade thyfelf, that common report is fufficient warrant for the truth of the matters. 2762. If thou art falfely accused, have patience a while; when thy innocence comes to be cleared, the calumnies of the envious and Spiteful, instead of eclipting, will add more Tuftre to thee; and the harder the ball is ftruck, the higher it will rebound. 2789. could juftly blame in thy demeanour and conduct. 3038. with them: nor is it impoffible that fome very expert foldiers from both France and Holland may be found among the Aborigines. It will, therefore, occur to thofe who have the conduct of this fettlement, that much circumfpection upon landing the troops will be requifite. When we reflect that this liland extends from the oth to the 38th degree of fouth latitude, we may ealily guess how uneafy the Dutch are for fear we fhould rival them in the growth of what their Spice Ilands produce, and which have proved to them of fuch immenfe value. That confideration alone is of great confequence: but how ought we to be elated when we are well aflured that indigo and filk may be cultivated there in vaft abundance, befides rice and tobacco; and in the feas adjacent the Whale Fishery may be carried to a great extent? In fhort, with proper attention, the lofs of the thirteen rebellious provinces may foon be made up, with this fcourge to them for their ingratitude, that a rival in all their productions will be found to be in the power of a country from whom they cannot have the effrontery to expect much favour; and as the loyalifts, whom they have fo inhumanly oppreffed, will probably be the principal Malice is that whirlwind which has farmers on this new colony, every exertion fhook states and families, no lefs than on their part will be made to raife fuch private perfons; a paffion fo impetuous articles as are more immediately calculatand precipitate, that it often equally in-ed to cut them totally out of the Briti volves the agent and the patient. And market, as well as to fupplant them in while this fin of calumny has two fuch po- every other European port. These are no tent abettors, we are not to wonder at its small advantages. To which let us add growth. ib. ib. others. In cafe of a rupture, our flects in India will readily be fupplied with fresh provifions, and recruits of men abundantly furnished on nearly the fpot; at the fame time our enemies muft fend to Europe for them. When thou receivest injuries, if thou art a good man, thou'lt be more concerned for the malice of thy adverfary, than for thy own wrongs; and will be fooner moved to compaffion than anger. 2340. If thou fuffereft thyself to be hurried into an excess of concern, when thou findeft thy felf injured, thou thereby fatisfieft the defign of him that fought to offend thee; and rendereft thy enemy plecfed, when thou giveft him teftimony, that he hinders thee from being fo. 2773. Whatfoever others do to vex thee comes to nothing if thou flightest it; but if thou theweft thyfelf much concerned, thou betrayeft thy weakness, or thy guilt; and makes it appear that thou well deferveft the abufe. 2521. So much at prefent for Doctor Fuller. No man, fuys the other writer, will own himfelf a faife accufer; for if modesty do not reftrain him, yet his very malice will; fince to confefs would be but to defeat his defign. Indeed it is of all other fins the Indeed it is of all other fins the moft diabolical, it being a conjunction of two of Satan's moft eflential properties, malice and lying. Government of the Tongue, fect. v. 2. In hopes that the above may have its ufe, by inferting it in your valuable periodical publication, you will oblige probably more than one of your readers. I remain yours, I SIR, A. B. Vex not thyfelf when ill Spoken of. To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. Contumelies, not regarded, vanith; but repined at, argue either a puny foul, or a guilty confcience. The beft answer to a flander is, to answer nothing; and fo to carry it, as though the adverfary were rather to be defpifed than minded. 2855 If what is faid of thee be confonant to truth, entertain it as an advertisement of great importance: if it be a falfehood, never be troubled at it; and affure thyfelf, that calumny will but augment thy reputation. It will be a glory to thee that thy enemy was forced to make ufe of detration and impofture, as having found nothing he I am, Sir, your obedient fervant, MERCATOR. EPITAPH On WILLIAM HOGARTH, Esq. in Chifwick Church-yard. Who reach'd the noblest point of art, FAREWELL, great painter of mankind! And through the eye correct the heart. Whofe pictur'd morals charm the mind, If Genius fire thee, Reader, stay— If Nature touch thee, drop a tearIf neither move thee, turn away, For Hogarth's honour'd duft lies here. D. GARRICK. Am juft arrived from a journey through part of France and Holland. In various companies I have heard the opinions of many refpecting the land in the East Indian Sea, to which we intend fending our convicts. As I apprehend neither France nor Holland would with this very extenfive country to become a colony of Great Britain, it is very probable our troops will find the natives not fo unacquainted with the efficacy of powder and ball as they were when Captain Cook was N. B. He died the 26th October, 1764, aged 67. A S the preceding month was marked by the change, fo this is diftinguifhed by the fall of the leaf. This laft is fo ftriking a circumftance, that the whole declining feafon of the year is often, in common language, named the Fall. There is fomething extremely melancholy in this gradual procefs, by which the trees are ftripped of all their beauty, and left fo many monuments of decay and defolation. The first of poets has deduced from this quick fucceffion of fpringing and falling leaves, an apt comparison for the fugitive races of men. Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground. Another race the following fpring fupplies, So flourish thefe, when thofe are pait away. POPE'S HOMER. This lofs of verdure, together with the fhortened days, the diminifhed warmth, and frequent rains, juftify the title of the gissmy month of November: and other animals feem to fympathize with man in feeling it as fuch. In penfive guife, Of let me wander o'er the ruffet mead, And thro' the faddened grove, where scarce is heard One dying ftrain, to cheer the woodman's toil. To be continued Monthly. 1786. Price Three-Pence. Haply fome widow'd fongfter pours his plaint, | The forest-walks, at every rifing gale, Far, in faint warblings thro' the tawny copfe. Swell'd all the mufic of the fwing fhades, fit On the dead tree, a dull defpondent flock; With not a brightness waving o'er their plumes, And nought fave chattering difcord in their And nought fave chattering difcord in their note. THOMSON. however, frequently occur; and, in geIntervals of clear and pleasant weather, neral, the autumnal months are, in our correfpondent ones in fpring. It long ifland, fofter and lefs variable than the continues Roll wide the wither'd wafte, and whistle bleak. THOMSON. doves, the latest in their arrival of the Flocks of wood-pigeons, or ftockbirds of paffage, vifit us in this month. Salmons now begin to afcend the rivers to fpawn. Their force and, agility in leaping over cataracts and other obftacles to their afcent, are very furprifing. They are frequently taken in this attempt, by nets or bafkets placed directly below the fall, into which they are carried after an unfuccefsful leap. Cattle and horfes are taken out of the then lays up his utenfils till the enfuing to finish all his plowing of fallows; and The farmer ftrives during this month. exhaufted paftures, and kept in the house year. or yard. Hogs are put up to fatten. Sheep are turned into the turnip-field, or, in ftormy weather, fed with hay at the rick. In fair weather, the mornings are fome-fhelter; and the pigeons in the dove-house Bees now require to be moved under foon vanithes after fun-rise. what frofty; but the hoar froft cr thin ice to be fed. Salisbury; thofe in the Salisbury gave a London paper produced the fame in the birth to my letter; and my letter is brought to bed in the County Magazine: whether it is a legal iffue, must be left to your High winds frequently happen in No-readers to determine. It refers me to vember, which at once ftrip the trees of their faded leaves, and reduce them to their winter ftate of naked nefs. O'er the fky the leafy deluge ftreams; Till choak'd and matted with the dreary fhower, Y Blackstone's Commentaries, to leffen ny opinion of a qualification, and to convince me, that a lord of a manor has fome little right to be confulted whether perfons fhall come on his ground. But I really cannot difcover but what a perfon, with a hundred, or a hundred and fifty pounds. a-year, is as truly and properly qualified to kill game, as one with ten thousand. As to an action for trefpafs (as I faid before) it has nothing to do with the game laws, confequently eighty or a hundred pounds a-year is totally out of the queftion but I think we may give a jury credit for fo much difcernment-as to difcover where an action is brought for a real trefpafs, and where it is brought for the purpose of litigation, and to revenge a game fquabble, which generally requires pretty good fwearing to prove a pennyworth of damages. But it appears to me that the tenant is the propereft perfon to confult on this bufinefs: for if a Lord gives permiffion, the tenant may bring action for trefpafs all the same, as no one can authorise another to commit a trefpafs on a third perfon's property; but if the tenant gives permiffion, I fancy the Lord would have but little ground to fupport an action. No one is readier to pay a compliment game difputes originate with thofe who, Your correfpondent attacks, with great feverity, the obfervations on buying game, but very prudently avoids every legal argument, and enters very learnedly on the tremendous doctrine of confequences; and proves to a demonstration, the clofe connection there is between buying a hare, and being acceffory to murder: and fhould think it quite fufficient to give every good member of fociety a total difrelish to the tale of hare for ever after. - For if it is fo great a crime to buy a hare, what muft it be to eat it? And as it plainly appears that there is an illegal flavour in it, it is to be hoped no perfon will be fo wicked as to buy another.- -That the poachers are generally a fet of idle rafcals, no one ever attempted to deny; but all muft join in reprobating thofe laws which drive them to the difagreeable neceffity of dealing with them. If the lords of manors wish to preferve the game, they must grant more liberal liberty to fuch as can kill game legally, and not place them in fuch a predicament | To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. as amounts to a total prohibition. I am, Sir, Your humble fervant, A QUALIFIED PERSON. To the Editor of the COUNTY MAGAZINE. SIR, your Ma As you gave Patty a Place in E S. rural fwains, who range the plains, And through the valleys wander, She's ftrait and tall, and fair withal, Who weds this Alexander. For all agree, that none can be More chalte than Alexander. How happy he whofe lot 'twill be Unto the church to hand her; She'll fave his wealth, preferve his health, Subftantial blifs he cannot mifs, Who weds young Alexander. In wedlock I'd demand her; Indulgent prove, and live in love, SIR, In cafe you think the under might any ways conduce to the more general Eftablishment of that excellent Inftitution, " SUNDAY SCHOOLS," be pleafed to give it a place in your Magazine. OME few weeks ago being on a vifit SOME at Winborne, a converfation took place on the utility of Sunday Schools, and the unexpected fuccefs that had attended them there, though yet in an infant ftate, their eftablishment being no earlier than laft Lady-day.-Having a good opinion of the inftitution, and wifhing to get the best information I could, in order to recommend them in my own neighbourhood, the following Sunday I went to church, where obferving feveral forms ranged in a particular manner, on afking their ufe, was told that the children of the Sunday Schools fat upon them, and that they were juft coming; this gave me an opportunity of feeing their entrance at the feveral doors: I was much truck with their appearance ;-near a hundred poor children, under five teachers, entered the church in proper order and decency; and though many of them were in rags, they were clean; and though from fix years of age to fixteen, their general behaviour was becoming. Morning fervice ended-in a regular manner they attended their teachers; and in the afternoon came to church in the fame order. When evening prayers were finished, the offici ating Minifter, with as many of the committee as were prefent, made enquiries of the teachers of their feveral children's be haviour; then difmiffing all the fchools but one, they were heard to read, fay their catechifm, and fuch admonitions and inftructions made ufe of as fuited their capacities and apprehenfions. This excellent method of examining one school every Sunday, I found was the conftant prac tice. It certainly anfwers many geel purposes, besides noticing their prof ency. Many of them, who fcarcely kiew their letters before, read, faid their cate chifm decently, and were rewarded with commendations, and fuch little books as were adapted for their improvement. I faction, or furprife I felt at the progress cannot fay which was greateft-the fatisthefe poor unlettered children had made. Nor did the good effect of the inftitution reft with the children only; for many of the poorer fort attended, who could not fail of being highly benefited by the plain familiar explanations given by the Minifter. On my return from church my heart burst out-Good God, what an exalted piece of charity is this! the rescuing W. T. many outcaft, unhappy children from ig EPIGRAMMATIC LINES. Written by the Author, on his Wedding-day. INCE firft that I was wed, fays Will, SINCE for twice lev'n long years; I keep my wife with pleasure still, She!-lovely fill appears; My prayer fhall be, with my dear wife FOR norance, idlenefs, and deftruction, and the initiating them into fuch a courfe, as bids fair to render them ufeful members of fociety, instead of a difgrace and a peft, the general confequence of debauched principles.To reclaim old inveterate habits is nearly a forlorn attempt: even the most fevere and frequent pains and penalties fall fhort of the purpofed end; but to train up the rifing generation with impreffions of virtue, appears the best plan of reforming the lower clafs, and infilling into their minds a due fenfe of their duty to God and man, which will render them, 'as citizens, honeft and induftrious; and not only nominal, but practical Chriflians. NOVEMBER, of divine wisdom in forming the world, it would have been fufficient for that wildom, which does nothing in vain, to have produced an indigefted chaos, in which, like worms in cheefe, we might have indulged in eating and fleeping: food and reft would then have been the only things for which we fhould have had an inclination; and our lives would have paffed like thofe of the flocks, whofe only care is the gratification of their appetite. But our condition is far otherwife. For the Author of eternal falvation is alfo the Lord of nature. He who has destined us for future joys, has at, prefent placed us in this world. Whoever, therefore, fhall regard with contempt the economy of the Creator here, is as truly impious as the man who takes no thought of futurity. And in order to lead us toward our duty, the Deity has fo clofely connected the ftudy of his works with our general convenience and happiness, that the more we examine them, the more we difcover for our ufe and gratification. There is no land fo barren and dreary, that any one who fhould come there need perifh with hunger, if he knew the bodies which it produces, and how to use them properly; and we fee conftantly, that all rule and domeftic econoSTUDY OF NATUR E. my, founded on the knowledge of nature, PHILANTHROPOS. REFLECTIONS ON THE (Continued from our left, p. 153.) WHEN we fubject the human body to the knife of the anatomist, in order to fnd in the structure of its internal organs fomething which we do not obferve in other animals, to account for this operation; we are obliged to own the vanity of our refearches: we must therefore neceffarily afcribe this prerogative to fomething altogether im material, which the Creator has given to man alone, and which we call foul. If therefore the Maker of all things, who has done nothing without defign, has furnished this earthly globe, like a mufeum, with the most admirable proofs of his wifdom and power; if, moreover, this fplendid theatre would be adorned in vain without a fpectator; and if he has placed in it man, the chief and moft perfect of all his works, who is alone capable of duly confidering the wonderful economy of the whole; it follows, that man is made for the purpofe of studying the Creator's works, that he may obferve in them the evident marks of divine wisdom. Thus we learn, not only from the opinions of moralifts and divines, but also from the teftimony of nature herself, that this world is destined to the celebration of the Creator's glory, and that man is placed in it to be the publisher and interpreter of the wisdom of God: and indeed he who does not make himfelf acquainted with God from the confideration of nature, will fcarcely acquire knowledge of him from any other fource; for "if "we have no faith in the things which are "feen, how fhould we believe thofe things "which are not seen ?" The brute creation, although furnished with external fenfes, all refemble thofe animals which, wandering in the woods, are fattened with acorns, but never look upwards to the tree which affords them food; much lefs have they any idea of the beneficent Author of the tree and its fruit. If our probation had been the only object rifes to the highest perfection, whilst other 1786. 163 If we trace back the multiplication of all plants and animals, as we did that of mankind, we must ftop at one original pair of each fpecies. There muft therefore have been in this ifland a kind of living mufeum, to furnished with plants and animals, that nothing was wanting of all the prefent produce of the earth. Whatever nature yields for the ufe or pleafure of mankind was here prefented to our happy. If that favoured man was obliged to firft parents; they were therefore compleatly acquire the knowledge of all these things in the fame order, and according to the fame laws of nature to which we are fubje&t, that is, by means of the external fenfes; he muit have taken a view of the nature, form, and qualities of each animal, in order to diftinguifh it by a fuitable name and character: fo that the chief employment of the first man, in this garden or muleum of delights, was to examine the admirable works of his Creator. Among the luxuries therefore of the prefent age, the moft pure and unmixed is that afforded by collections of natural productions. In them we behold offerings, as it were, from all the inhabitants of the earth; and the productions of the most diftant fhores of the world are prefented to our fight and confideration: openly and without referve they exhibit the various arms which they carry for their defence, and the inftruments with which they go about their various employments; and whilft every one of them celebrates its Maker's praife in a different manner, can any thing afford us a more innocent pleasure, a more noble or refined luxury, or one that charms us with greater variety? The magnificence and beauty, the regularity, convenience, and utility of the works of creation, cannot fail to afford man the highest degree of pleafure; fo that he who has feen and examined most of thefe, muft the To man, made for labour, due intervals of more perfectly admire and love the world as the work of the great Creator, and muft the relaxation are no lefs neceffary, than fleep is more readily acquiefce in his wife govern- to the body when exhaufted by watching; ment. To be an interpreter of the perfect and truly unhappy may that mortal be reckwisdom of an infinite God, will by him beoned, to whom nothing affords amusement. He who is exhaufted by the more weighty efteemed the highest honour that mortals can attain. Can any work be imagined more for- labours, has the greatest need of reft: but cibly to proclaim the majesty of its author, reft, not tempered with pleafure, becomes than a little inactive earth rendered capable torpid infenfibility. The principal reward man, is leifure with enjoyment; and mortals of contemplating itfelf as animated by the of labour, which the Creator has granted to hand of God? of studying the dimenfions and revolutions of the celestial bodies, rolling at generally exert their utmost efforts to oban almost infinite diflance, as well as the in-tain it. Almost all Princes have had their favourite numerable wonders difperfed by the Creator over this globe? in all which appear manifeft amufements to refresh them when fatigued traces of divine wifdem and power, and the with bufinefs. Some of them, in early times, confideration of which affords fo much de- when men had fcarcely left off eating acorns, light, that a man who has tafled it would employed their leifure hours in feafting and dancing, in games and ufelefs fports, wreflchearfully prefer it to all other enjoyments. Nature always proceeds in her accustomedlings, or other public exhibitions, in hunting order, for her laws are unchangeable; the omnifcient God has inftituted them, and they admit of no improvement. It is fo evident that the continent is gradually and continually increafing by the decreafe of the waters, that we want no other information of it than what nature gives us : mountains and valleys, petrifactions and the ftrata of the earth, the depths of the ocean, and all the various kinds of ftones, proclaim it aloud. As the dry land increafes at this day, fo it is probable that it has all along gradually extended itself from the beginning: if we therefore enquire into the original appearance of the earth, we fhall find reafon to conclude, that instead of the prefent wideextended regions, one fmall island only was in the beginning raifed above the furface of the waters. parties, or in the feraglios of women: but Y 2 Sloane, and delicated it to public ufe. The Stadtholder of the United Provinces, a little before his death, fitted up a museum at Leyden; and Peter I. emperor of Mufcovy, has teken care to buy up all the collections of this kind that he could meet with, in order to enrich a mufeum with them at Peterburg. In this manner, the pleafure which results from contemplating the wisdom of the Creator in his works, has been diffused over the globe, and has entered the palaces of princes. Our auguft Monarch, with his royal confort, are the first Swedish Princes who have foftered thefe fciences. His Majefly has adorned his fplendid museum, in the palace of Ulricfdahl, with a variety of quadrupeds preferved in fpirits of wine, a great number of ftuffed birds, an innumerable quantity of infects and fhells arranged in cabinets: not to mention the valuable Herbarium, and the beautiful : prefis gigantea) of the Indies has its head (To be continued.) A fhort Inquiry into the FEES claimed and (Concluded from our laft, p. 154.) ONE of the pleas ufed in favour | Sheriff;) and it is further exprefsly de. clared by the faid acts, that whatever is fhall be allowed to him in his account at the thus paid by the Sheriff (and every thing ought to be paid which is of right due) Exchequer, without any fee or reward whatfoever and it is to be observed, that the acts of the 8th of George I. c. 18, and 9th of George I. c. 22, though they do not and fifty pounds therein respectively given exprefsly direct that the rewards of forty fhall be paid without fee or reward, have words equivalent to a direction of that kind; for they emphatically declare, that the fpecific reward given fhall be allowed to the Sheriff in his accounts at the Exchequer. Every fum therefore which is received on this account by the Sheriff, more than what the legal intereft on forty pounds may Menagerie in which living beafts and birds II. of this practice, on the part of amount to for one month on account of are kept. The Queen has taken delight in collecting infects and fhells, as well as corals and cry itals, from all parts of the world, and has ornamented her palace of Drottningholm with them fo fuccefsfully, that I doubt whether any other collection of the kind can be compared to it. Thus does this royal pair take pleafure in contemplating the wonderful works of the Creator, and daily behold in them, as in a glafs, the figns of his wifdom and goodnels. in the world always take their rife in the As the manners and cuftoms which prevail courts of Princes, as from a never-failing ipring; whatever magnificence or vanity, whatever luxuries or amufements, whatever converfation and opinions reign there, are for kingdom: happy is that people who may the most part diffused through the whole learn from their fuperiors to love the works of nature; inafmuch as they beget a veneration for the Deity, and lay the foundation of all economy and public felicity. I know not what to think of thofe people who can, without emotion, hear or read the accounts of the many wonderful animals which inhabit foreign countries. the Sheriff, can be fupported, for the prac-prompt payment, (and this only with the er than the law will warrant. But this agree- defiance, can never fanctify the proceeding: As a further proof of thefe laft affertions, with refpect to the illegality of deducting vance, or at the Exchequer, under the any thing from these rewards, either by Vance, or at the Exchequer, under the the Sheriff, under pretence of being in adtitle of fees, the act of the 3d of George I. act, after exprefsly taking notice of the c. 15, ought not here to be omitted; that difficulties and inconveniences to which SheLiffs may be put, not only by paying down the 10th and 11th of Will. c. 17; and by great fums of money for the rewards, given by 4th and 5th of Will. and Mary, c. 8; the 5th of Anne, c. 31, before the public revenue writ out to them in procefs could be levied or collected by them, but also by reason that fuch Sherift cannot have a cer What principally trikes us agreeably at fire before the month is expired, yet he ought tificate of his furplufage from the clerk of fight is colour, of which the good and great Creator has given to fome animals a rich variety, far beyond the reach of human art. to know, that, if the Sheriff is willing to Scarcely any thing can equal the beauty of birds in general; particularly the brilliant fplendor of the peacock. India, indeed, boafts a number of fiihes, whofe painted fales al- cannot be maintained, becaufe by repeated The two other pleas for this practice moit equal the plumage of birds in beauty; acts of parliament, viz. 4th of Will. and not to mention the Indian fifhes, trichiurus Mary, c. 8; 6th and 7th of Will. c. 173 lepturus, (word-fifh of Brown's Jamaica) and zeus usmer, whole brilliant white colour ex- 5th of Anne, c. 31; and 6th of George cels the purest and most polished filver: or the gold-th (cyprinus aureus) of the Chinese,hall be paid without fee, reward, or deducc. 23,-it is provided, that thefe rewards which fhines with fuch golden fplendor, that tion, (except the five fhillings allowed by the metal itfel is by no means comparable the eth of George I. c. 23, on writing and to it. People of rank in India keep the lat-drawing the certificate, and this by fairnefs mentioned fifh alive in their apartments in of conftruction is to be paid to the officer earthen veffels, as in fish ponds, and feed them who draws fuch certificate, and not to the with their own hands, that they may have fomething to excite admiration perpetually before their eyes. The Author of nature has *This defcription is not fo applicable to the bufrequently decorated even the minuteft in-preffis gigantea as to the buprellis fernicornis; for the fects, and worms themfelves, which inhabit both the head and thorax of the latter may juftiy be head of the former is not remarkably brilliant, while the bottom of the fea, in fo exquifite a manner, that the most polished metal looks dull compared to gold ftudded with jewels: but even belide them. The great golden beetle (tu-cies of the fame fplendid family. this animal must yield the palm to fome other spe obliged to bring, or charge in his accounts, aforefaid, enacts, That no Sheriff fhall be any fum or fums of money to be paid for the rewards above mentioned, or any of them, from and after the 9th day of July, for the fame to the Lord High Treasurer of 1717 but fhall and may immediately apply Treafury for the time being, who, upon. infpecting a due certificate of the convicGreat Britain, or Commiffioners of the tion of fuch offender or offenders for which aforefaid, by virtue of the faid acts, or any fuch reward fhall be ordered to be paid asquittances of the parties intitled to receive of them, together with the receipts or acthe fame, fhall forthwith repay to fuch Sheriff or Sheriff's refpectively all fuch money fo difburfed and paid as aforefaid, without any fee or reward whatsoever, any thing in |