No more his lips with eloquence fhall charm, Nor his fweet accents all the bofom warm. Quench'd is the eye that mildest luftre show'd; Ghaftly the face where aged beauty glow'd; Mute is the tongue which truths fublime convey'd; And the cold corpfe lyes in oblivion's fhade. reign; So long fhall Campbell's deathless name furvive, So long his fame and memory fhall live. When fceptic Hydra rear'd her baneful head, And gloomy doubts and darkness round her spread : A His theme on miracles, with cheering rays, And genuine taste a lasting station find, He rhet'ric plac'd on philofophic throne, And taught the learn'd to make the reign their own. He bade the gospel history divine In our own tongue with native beauty fhine; His faithful care each glowing thought tran-fus'd, That God might fpeak, and man be difabus'd, Works, yet unpublish'd, will put in their claim To fwell his honours, and embalm his name. lord: In him yon feat of lit'rature expler'd As master, but the heav'nly guide alone. To reach conviction, guilty fouls to move, Was all his reas'ning and inftruction fraught ! To earth, to heav'n, his piercing eyes he turn'd, While ev'ry word with glowing ardour burn'd. Guilt food abash'd, low penitence was rais'd, And pious lips th' ador'd Redeemer prais'd. Ye who have witnefs'd his extenfive lore, When grand Ifaiah's depths he did explore, Can tell your children how his doctrine flow'd, And how the heart was warm'd and rais'd to God. Ye who have known him, and his life furvey'd, From high meridian prime to ev'ning fhade, Can tell his hours were pafs'd exempt from blame; His morals pure, as was rever'd his name; No overbearing pride deform'd his days, Nor vanity that pants for empty prafe. Sweet, affable, he felt the focial glow, That only can from warm benev'lence flow, At length, when age impair'd his mortal frame, Tho' unabated, burn'd the mental flame; * For an account of Dr Campbell, fee p. 31 of this number. His PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH SESSION OF THE SEVENTEENTH PARLIAMENT OF GREAT BRITAIN. HOUSE OF LORDS,-April 7. LORD LAUDERDALE tail, he rofe on behalf of a Noble Friend (Marquis of Lanfdowne,) who had named this Gay as a time when he would fubmit a motion to their Lordships' confideration. -The papers neceffary for that purpole were not yet laid upon their Lordfhips' table, and when they were, it would be neceffary that their Lordships fhould have a fufficient time to perufe and examine them. One part of his Noble Friend's motion he begged leave to amend, by fubmitting another in its room, that on account of the Exports and Imports to the Colonies, for the years 1792, 93, 94, 95, be laid before the Houfe, diftinguithing each year and the particular colony. The motion was accordingly put and agreed to. April 14. Lord Grenville having moved the second reading of the Perfonal Legacy Tax Bill, without prefacing the inotion with any obfervations, Lord Lauderdale with great warmth remarked, that the Minifter infulted the House by not attempting to enter into any explanations of a Bill which involved fuch ferious confequences. By fuch Bills as thefe, the whole landed property would be fwept into the coffers of Government in a certain fpace of time; for he understood this Bill was to be followed by a fimilar one affecting the fucceffion to landed property. Had fuch a tax fubfifted during the last century, not one of their Lordships would have now poffeffed property enough to fupport their rank and their character. Even the moft affluent and the most noble would have been reduced to indigence. The Duke of Norfolk's fortune, in the courfe of a century, would have been mortgaged to the extent of 600,ocol. to pay the revenue to Government, to which this tax would have expofed the family. It was a fpecies of Agrarian Law, melting down every little piece of property to fwell the enormous mafs of the public revenue. There might be fome degree of policy in fuch a tax.The Minifter might wish to level and to deftroy every barrier that exifted to oppofe the encroachments of power, or the measures of Government. In the way of influence it was complete and decifive. Impoverished and degraded, the Members of this Houfe would be the convenient tools, the ferville followers of a Minifter. They would have neither independence to withstand, nor influence to check his defigns. Nothing would be left to make head against the influence which was already too power ful. His Lordship concluded by obferving, that the prefent Bill ruinoully taxed every fpecies of property but that of the Church; that its tendency was to make Excife Officers acquainted with, and iaterfere in the property of the individuals of this nation; and that it would in the end be found to have the moft ferious effect upon our commercial tranfac tions. cies of the State, than any other mode of taxation. The Earl of Lauderdale replied, and was called to order. The Bishop of Rochester (Dr Horley,) faid, he was not furprited that the Noble Earl fhould make an attack upon the Church: it was confiftent with his principles and practice of debate: alifcheines of innovation began with the deftruction of religious establishments, and therefore it fuited the Noble Earl's moue of argument, and thus he blamed Minifters for not beginning with the Courch.--The alliance between Church and State, he faid, did not depend upon the imnunities of the Church being granted to the exigencies of the State by taxation. The Church had upon former occafions taxed themselves, and, at the prefent, there was no tax that they did not bear their part of. By the prefent Bill, Churchmen were equally liable with others, when they fucceeded collateral to perfonal property; and the only Churchmen who were exempt from taxes were a few who, from local circunftances, were extra-parochical. Lord Grenville faid, he must be excufed rifing at all times to fpeak when the Noble Earl declared himfelf inclined to bear. He then defended the. Bill. A tax upon fucceffion had already been recognised by two Acts of the Legiflature; and he verily believed the prefent Bill was better calculated to meet the exigen Lord Lauderdale faid, he had not be gun any attack upon the Church: and that he defired equalization of property and rank, and to overturn the Church eftablishment, he would deny, and defpifed thofe who could make the infinuation. However lofty in his tones, harsh in his expreffions, or prefumptuous in his manner, the noble Prelate might be, he was perfectly conscious that what he faid in that way would go but for very little with the public at large. Some further altercation took place between Lords Grenville and Lauderdale, and the Bill was read a fecond time without a divifion.. April 19. The Houfe went into a Committee on the Collateral Legacy Bill. Lord Lauderdale laid, the principle of this Bill, in his idea, was fo repugnant to the fpirit of the Conflitution, and he had fuch averfion to its principle, that he fhould not attempt to do any thing with it in the detail, but gave notice, that he fhould oppose it again on the third reading. The Houfe then went thro' the Bill, which was ordered to be read a third time on Thursday, and the Houfe to be fummoned. The Marquis of Lansdowne con plained that the Papers which he moved for before the receis, were not yet upon the table. This neceffarily caufed a delay โล of of the great and important motion which -he intended to bring before their Lordfhips. Lord Grenville affured the Noble Lord he was equally unwilling to delay the motion as the Noble Lord, and the caufe of delay did not reft with him. The Offices which were to furnish the Papers were not those under his direc tion; that he would endeavour to accelerate them, for he was anxious that the Noble Marquis's motion fhould not be delayed. April 21. On the third reading of the Legacy Bill, Lord Lauderdale renewed the objections which he made upon a former occafion, urging, that if carried into effect it would abforb all the Capitals of the country, and injure its commerce most effentially, by taking away thofe funds, which, by their reproduc tion, conftituted the wealth and profperity of the nation. The Bishop of Rochester defended the Bill, and maintained, that fo far from anfwering the calculations, of Lord Lauderdale, in abforbing by degrees the entire wealth of the country, it would require 220 years, paying the tax of 61. per cent. eleven times, to confume a capi tal of fool. The Bill was then read a third time and paffed.-Adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS,-March 16. Mr Manning moved the fecond reading of the Bill for the making of Wet Docks between Wapping and Shadwell. In the beginning of the prefent century, he faid, but 8,800 fhips were employed in the commerce of London, there were now 13,500 and upwards, and there was not accommodation for more than 7000 between Blackwall and London Bridge. The Lord Mayor, and the other City Members, and Mr Sheridan, oppofed the Motion. The Bill, they argued, would, infringe the privileges of the City; was to occafion an immenfe expence of money, upon which individuals were to pocket an intereft of ten per cent. it would pull down 1700 houses, and fend forth 10,000 people into the open air to feek habitations, and the plan would not be completed for feven years; whereas the Corporation of the City had a plan to propofe, by purchafing fome houses, and the right of mooring chains on the river, and widening Thames-ftreet, which would infwer all the purposes required, and be finished in less than three years. Mr Pitt.thought the neceffity of better accommodating the fhipping of London was fo great, that the principle of fuch a Bill fhould not be deferted. On this ground, therefore, he would give a decided negative to the amendment for poftponing the fecond reading for 4 months; but he thought it would be reasonable, on all fides, to defer the fecond reading till after the Eafter holidays; and, in the meantime, that a Select Commirtee should be appointed to fit up ftairs, to enquire into the circumftances of the grievance complained of by the trade, and to examine the comparative merits of the planto be propofed by the City of London with that which had already been brought forward by the merchants. This was at length affented to, and the reconfideration of the fubject was ordered for the 11th of April. March 17. Mr Curwen brought up the new Game Bill, which was read a firft time. Mr Pitt faid, he did not rife to oppose the Bill, but merely to ftate that the fecond reading ought to be put off till after the holidays; and that in the meantime it be printed, being a Bill of fuch importance that it was neceflary that men's minds fhould be properly informed thereon. The fecond reading was therefore fixed for the 22d of April. 18. Mr Ryder brought up a report from the Corn Committee, recommending the feveral modes by which corn ought to be measured, and the House adjourned. 21. General M'Leod rofe to bring forward his promifed motion refpecting the hundred Blood-hounds and thirty Chaffeurs imported into Jamaica froin Cuba, for the purpose of hunting down and extirpating the Maroons. He read an extract from a letter to prove that complete fuccefs was expected from the enterprife, and from a book, to explain that thefe dogs were trained up for the purpofe by being fed on human flesh. The Maroons he reprefented as freemen, with whom the Government of Jamaica had entered into treaties; and thought the Houfe called on to inftitute an inquiry to preferve the country from the infamy of introducing a favage fpecies of warfare, which, if retaliated in the Weft India iflands on us, would occafion a fcene too horrible to think on. He concluded by moving an Address to his Ma jefty jefty for all neceffary information receivable quantities of Corn, he was perfuaded, were ftill illicitly exported from this country, and made a motion on the lubject. ed from Jamaica on the subject of the Maroon war. Mr Dundas faid, that as foon as Minifters heard of the importation of the Blood-hounds, a letter was fent to direct that no improper ufe be made of them; and he believed they were only intended to find out the hiding-places of the Maroons, and to detain them, as they were employed at prefent by the Spaniards againft the Negroes. The Maroons, according to his information, did not exceed 3 or 400 men, inhabitants of the mountains, and, poffeffing the faftuelles and defiles, poured in the night time on the inhabitants of the plains, the militia and regulars, carrying wherever they went devaftation and murder, and retreating in the day to their impenetrable receffes. Mr Sheridan thought there was ambiguity in the word improper in the inftructions fent by Minifters to prevent the ufe of the blood-hounds, any ufe made of thefe ferocious animals being improper. The Maroons were not our fubjects, but an independent race, living in amity with the British Government; and by a treaty with Lord Trelawny in 1738, if a a Maroon was guilty of an offence, he was to be punished by his own people. The offence that occafioned the prefent war was the ignominious punishment of a Maroon, by a public whipping, for ftealing a pig, and the refufal of the Government to repair this infraction of the treaty. This was by no means a cafe that required the total extermination of a race of men, who at least fhewed their courage in waging fuch unequal war against the whole island of Jamaica, yet who fhewed the effect that in one part of the world was produced by the refiftance of a minority. Mr Dent mentioned an inftance where the Maroons furrounded a' tent in which were fixteen gentlemen, whom they fhot one by one; but as a fort of compromife, he said, that he would on a future day propofe a triple tax on all fuch dogs. General M'Leod faid, he had fo far fucceeded in his object, as to have it admitted, that if blood-hounds were introduced in the island of Jamaica, his Majefty's Minifters would not fanction their ufe; but if they perfifted, he declared,that he would ftick by them as clofe as thefe blood-hounds fluck by their prey. The General concluded by withdrawing his motion. March 22. Mr Lechmere faid, confider Mr Long had no objection to the motion, but denied that there now was any illicit exportation. Mr Alderman Newnham, Mr Fox, and Mr W. Smith, oppofed a new Legacy Bill, as creating a fpecies of fecre and inquifitorial power into private property, rendering every deceased's affairs the fubject for converfation for Coffee-houfe loungers, and vexatious inveftigation of impertinent Collectors of revenue; as bearing exceeding hard upon fome defcription of legatees (patticularly natural children;) as injurious to commercial people, as a litigious man from private pique might difclofe the affairs of any houfe with which a teftator was concerned; and as rendering the truft of executorship an office of the greatest trouble and risk. Mr Pitt, and the Attorney and Solicitor General, in fpeeches of confiderable length, anfwered thefe objections, and denied their validity, and on a divifion there appeared for the Bill 46-againft it 16. The report of the Bill was then received. March 24. Lord Gower Sutherland having moved the third reading of the Caldon Canal Bill, it was fupported by Mr Ryder. After fome argument the House divided, when there appeared for the Bill 51, against it 63-Majority 12. So that the Bill is loft for the prefent Seffion. The House then adjourned for the holidays.`. April 5. The Chancellor of the Exchequer moved the third reading of the Legacy Bill. General Smith opposed the whole principle of the Bill. Mr Fox agreed with his Hon. Friend, (General Smith) that this was a tax altogether objectionable. This was, he said, a tax laid on perfonal property, and it would be unfair if a fimilar tax was not: laid on landed property; he would therefore move an amendment, "That it do not pafs until confidered together with the Bill laying a fimilar tax on Land Property;" he therefore moved an amendinent, "That it do pass this day fortnight.' Mr Pitt oppofed the amendment.This tax, he laid, would not be an unfair one, though the other on landed property should be found impracticable. This |