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T0 PHILOMATH.

Since an answer in prose you'll not take,

‘9 verse I shall shew unto thee, That 99 1; will make

The 100 proposed; and agree. That 9 and :9 subtracted

Willleave the 90 exacted. 0 March, 20, 1833.

Jnswcr to Philomath’s Question.

Two nines first place them side by side, The other two let each divide, The Ninety-nine and quotient one, Will certain give the proper sum. Front ninety-nine l'd now subtract One nine, and ninety leave exact. The other nines, pray discharge too An answer Philomath you view. JUVENIS.

ARTICLE! FOUND IN A KITCHEN DRAWER.

Three aprons, two dusters, the face of a pig, - A dirty Jack-towel, a dish-clout and wig, A foot of a stocking, three caps and a frill. A bush and three buttons, mouse-trap and a quill, A comb and a thi-bls, with Madona bands, 'A box of specific for chops in the hands. Some mace and some cloves, tied up in a rag. An empty thread-paper, and blue in a bag. some pieces of ribbon, both greasy and black. A garter and nutmeg. the key of a jack. Aa inch of wax candle, a steel and a flint, A bundle ofmatches a parcel of mint, A lump of old wot, a crimp for the paste, ‘ A pair of red garters, a belt for the waste, A rusty bent skewer, a broken brass cock. Some onions and tinder. and the drawer lock, A bag for the pudding a whetstoae and string. A penny cross-bun, and a new curtain ring, A print for the butter, a dirty chemise. Two pieces of soap, and a large slice of cheese, Five tea-spoonsoftin, and a large lump of rosin, The feet of a hare, and corks bytthe dozen, A card to tell fortunes. a sponge and a can, A pen without ink, and a small patty-pan,‘ . Awning-pin pasted, and a common prayer book, Are the things which I found in the drawer of the Cook

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THE BRITISH AMERICAN

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On ,the columns of your Journal, [per- ceive the address of 9. King’s County Elector, not only to his fellow Electors, but to the inhabitants of the Island at large; and as this is a subject of vital im- portance to the Colonists—and as you seem inclined to hear both sides' of the question, Ihope you will allow me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to an- swer, ifnot refute, some of his sophisms; and as he assures those whOm he addres- ses, that the British flmcrican will thunder them through the very recesses of the petricrania of their Representatives, I, lest that pure unsullicd ount ofunerring wisdom, should be pollute by his, (I think,) false reasoning, hope the dying reverberations of your Heaven shaking thunder will, gently as zephyrs, whisper in the ear of the cor.- anrrvn WISDOM, my refutatioan his falla- cies!

Last year, a few demagogues, no doubt with disinterested motives, sounded the tocsin ofalarm. ascuesr! nscrreui! ascnm'r!!! was the cry from every bawler you could meet from the North‘ Cape to the East Point: in every village they swarmed toge- ther like pismires on an ant-hill on a sunny dayfindeed it was, “ devil take hindmost:” -—well, proper officers were chosen; and babblers who could onlypronounce Excheat, (Escheat) commenced speechifying, “ na- sonurxons” were framedtand “ thundered” from the Royal Gazette; Aye faith, “to the very brains of their Representatives!” they, rightly thinking the V02 Populi to be V0.1: llei, passed the Magna Charta, Tm nscrrna'r BILL, and that too, mind you,with- out a suspending clause, it was forward- ed to the Court ofSt. James’s, but was sent back to us as an Ignus Fatuus, to warn us, if we had as much brains as mus-

, quetoes, how we should break our shins, or

run through swampsand mire after Jacks-0’ the-lantern; but faith, that won’t do—ano- ther despatch sets our heads awool-gathering after another Will-with-the-wisp, I mean the Civil List.

The King’s County Elector commences by assuring his readers, that “alrigth im- portant crisis has arrived;” this I readin grant him,wheu the hitherto peaceable minds ofour community is disturbed by the machi- nations of agitators— self-interested agita- tors; no wonder if commotions, such as the present, would set the minds of our peo- ple at work to seek, to them a real good, to me an imaginary one; this is not to be wondered at. ’Tis a principle in the human mind to search for the most good, with the least mixture of evil, but the means to attain it'is the thing I am about to consider.

The Elector, like all , would-be-Patriots, assures us his motives are disinterested, the cunt of many who have made a gain of the loss of “others, but as Ihave not

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the honor of knowing the gentlem shall for the r s i ' in” "or (1,! p e ent, take him at In. on He says in No. I. “We will short] be obliged to pay our Civil Liston believe we shall; but whether in fivi o ten years, I believe is as equally unkno’wl to him as to me- The truth is, poor Job: Bull whose limbs are tottering under hi more from a heavy load of debt, than from age, should be exempt from paying,lm say, a few sinecure officers, “Ir-q;th jor ornament than use” to amuse us! The Elector next asks, “How are we to pay our Civil List!” He very logical}, answers himself, “By a Land Ta; . Six Shillings for every one hundred acm,” Admirable financier! “This will amount to 40001. per annum, after deductingth expenses for collecting.” I’ '

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the expense of collecting. I shall, by. and-by, produce a document to shew, this cheap collecting, verifies the old adan of “ Eating the calf in the cows belly!”

He has a long tale about ,weal ‘ absent proprietors, poor farmers, Perma ‘ Revenue; a curious calculation of the .. posts on what he is pleased to call . comforts of life, but, in reality, usel nay; pernicious superfluities, namely: R 1 Tea, and Tobacco! In my opinion . Elector is a travelling merchant, v might sell like ‘ Cheap Jack,’ were th obnoxious duties removed. a notion of taking a farm too, and of or ing from his perigrinations, as he hi at ‘ The most effectual escheat ever km in America.!’ Oh how keen sighted Who could have foreknown the glad dings! Thanks to the Temperance Soci ties! The ‘Elector‘s’ solicitsde for t farmers paying duty for grog, that an comfort of life, may soon cease! Ibo a Tobacco and Tea Temperance Soci may spring up among us, to ease him the rest of his uneasiness! and as to advalorem duty, we may avoid it, by king ourown clothing, and we then mayd' pel our fears as long as we remain so and industrious, and not trouble ourhe about what Government may do for permanent Revenue!

The Elector lays great stress on number 4000! I believe he makes it number of the beasts, which, in 151 amounted only to 606!. He ingeniously ~' culates that, one fourth of the Island is - tied, and therefore only subject to payo fourth of the tax, that is 1000 pounds; i other three fourths in a wilderness st! subject to pay 3000l. Now at 5_ 51111“ per hunderd acres,20,000 acres willamo to 601. Three fourth of which. (forty ponnds) the proprietor has to pay. I the quarter of 90,000 acres is 5000: which, the occupants together, must pay

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