Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Clogher Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Derry The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster Right Hon. Earl of Romney Right Hon. Earl of Moira, Governor General of India Right Hon. Admiral Lord Gambier Right Hon. Lord Headly Right Hon. Sir Evan Nepean, Bart, M.P. Governor of Bom. bay Right Hon. Nicholas Vansittart, M.P. Chancellor of His Ma jesty's Exchequer Sir William Pepperell, Bart. Sir Thomas Bernard, Bart. Charles Grant, Esq. M. P. William Wilberforce, Esq. M. P. Thomas Babington, Esq. M.P. In the lists of subscribers and benefactors annexed to the annual reports of the Society, not to mention those of numerous tributary associations, we find the names of persons distinguished for talent and virtue, for rank and influence, of which we cannot attempt the detail, With this statement of its office-bearers, subscribers, and benefactors, we would not have detained our readers, had it not been to furnish to those, who either have not opportu nity, or will not take the trouble, to examine the annual reports, that it possesses a respectability of the highest order -a respectability, to which no other Society in his Majesty's dominions can lay claim. In other institutions indeed, we have the names of men, distinguished for rank, learning and piety, but in none, to the extent we have in this; and all, harmoniously and zealously, co-operating in a work of pure disinterested benevolence, END OF NO. XI. CONTENTS OF NO. XII. 1. On the COMMUTATION of TYTHE. By JOHN II. A LETTER to Dr. H. MARSH in confutation of his assertion that the desigus of the DISSENTERS are to obtain III. Dr. H. MARSH'S ANSWER to the Preceding. IV. OBSERVATIONS and REFLECTIONS on the BILL for "Better regulating the MEDICAL PROFESSION as far as regards APOTHECARIES;" Proving it to be a measure best suited to the Public Convenience, and most conducive to the Preservation of the Community from the effects of existing Frauds and Abuses. By R. M. KERRISON, Esq. V. History of JAMES MITCHELL, a Boy born BLIND and DEAF; with an account of the OPERATION performed for the recovery of his Sight. By JAMES WARDROP, Esq. VI. AMERICAN ENCROACHMENTS on BRITISH RIGHTS; or Observations on the importance of the British North Ame- VII. A SHORT ACCOUNT of the CAUSE of the DISEASE in CORN, called by Farmers The BLIGHT, the MILDEW, and the RUST. By Sir JOSEPH BANKS, Bart. And a LETTER to Sir J. BANKS on the ORIGIN of the BLIGHT, and on the means of raising LATE CROPS of GARDEN PEASE. By T. A. KNIGHT, Esq. VIII. The SUBSTANCE of a SPEECH on the subject of UNION, delivered in the Irish House of Commons, January 1799, and now reduced to the form of an ADDRESS to the PEOPLE OF IRELAND. By the Hon. Sir Wм. CUSACK SMITH, Bart. IX. REPORT from the COMMITTEE of the HOUSE of COMMONS On the KING'S BENCH, FLEET, and MARSHALSEA, PRISONS, &c. X. LETTER on the SITUATION of FRANCE; written from Dresden to a friend in Paris. [Translated exclusively for the Pamphleteer.] XI. SECOND REPORT of the ASSOCIATION for the RELIEF of the Manufacturing and laboring POOR, relative chiefly to the GENERAL SUPPLY of FISH in the Metropolis and the Interior. 401 421 473 521 541 XII. A LETTER to the EDITOR on REFORM IN PARLIAMENT. BY MODICUS. 361 XIII. Outlines of a PLAN for BUILDING TWENTYFIVE CHURCHES or CHAPELS at an expense of 100,000l. to Government; or at no expense to Government, if it should be thought advisable to have recourse to the Fund called QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY, for this purpose. By THOMAS FALCONER, M. A. C. C. Coll. Oxf. Index to Vols V. and VI. 509 577 ON THE COMMUTATION OF TITHES: TO WHICH WAS ADJUDGED THE BEDFORDEAN GOLD MEDAL. BY THE BATH AND WEST OF ENGLAND SOCIETY, FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF AGRICULTURE, ARTS, MANUFACTURES, AND COMMERCE. AT THEIR ANNUAL MEETING, DECEMBER 13th, 1814. BY JOHN BENETT, ESQ. OF PYT HOUSE, WILTS. AN ESSAY ON THE COMMUTATION OF TITHES. THE Bath and West of England Society, for the Encour agement of Agriculture, &c., having offered its most honorable reward for the best Treatise on a Commutation for Tithe, I hereby send it, the result of long reflection on that subject, though it has been very hastily written down. I have not been urged hereto so much by a desire to obtain that reward, as by a wish to promote the Society's most laudable endeavours; feeling as I do, in common with it, that a commutation of tithe for some unobjectionable property would produce the greatest possible benefit to the agricultural interest of this country; and would, at the same time, strengthen the interests of its Church. The late Mr. Pitt had it certainly in his contemplation to effect a commutation of tithe; his successors have been so much occupied with war measures, that all great national improvements and ameliorations have naturally been obstructed thereby. |