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     Troop, a, have not yet been enabled to procure Grants 
     
     “Deeds ofLand made In manner prescribed and'dt. 
     
     tecttdbythc laid Royal Instructions. and the Heirs. 
     
     “Sign, or Representatives of such persons respective, 
     
     I" shall be entitled to receive Grants of such parcels 
     
     film as may appear by the records of Hts Majesty's 
     
     Council or other sutticrent authority to have been duly 
     
     ,pplied for, or to have been lorated,’ or ordered to be 
     
     lowed or granted to such last mentioned Emigrants 
     
    

    
     ,fld disbanded Troops. 
     
    

    
     And be it further enacted that the Lieutenant Cover- 
     
     norotolher administrator of the Government for the 
     
     time being. by and with the advice and consent of His 
     
     Majesty's Council be, and he is hereby authorised and 
     
     required to issue Grants as above mentioned. and all 
     
     such Grants so to be made or given. shall contain no 
     
     other terms than those mentioned and set forth in the 
     
     aid additional Royal Instructions. and all Covenants 
     
     and conditions in former Deeds or Grants to the Loyal- 
     
     ists or disbanded troops to the contrary. are hereby de - 
     
     dared null and void. 
     
    

    
     And be it further enacted. that when and so soon as 
     
     His Majesty's royal allowance of this act shall have 
     
     beer. ohtaincd,it shall and may be lawful to and for the 
     
     Lieutenant Governor or other administrator of the Go- 
     
     vernment. and he is hereby directed to cause a Pro- 
     
     clamation to issue, notifying the Royal allowance 
     
     thereof. and shall also nominate and appoint by wri~ 
     
     ling under his hand and seal, so many competent and 
     
     indifl'ereut persons as to the said Lieutenant Governor 
     
     or other administrator ofthe Government may seem 
     
     in. to be Commissioners to inquire into and decide on 
     
     theclsims of all those Persons being Loyalists or dis- 
     
     banded Troops, or their Heirs or Legal Representa- 
     
     tives as aforesaid. who may not yet have received any 
     
     Grants or Deeds of any of the Lands aforesaid, under 
     
     and by virtue of the said Memorial. Poyal Instruction 
     
     and Proclamation. and the Heirs. Assigns. or represent- 
     
     atives of all and every such person or persons, and not- 
     
     withstanding that locations of Lands may not have 
     
     been heretofore made to such Emigrants or disbanded 
     
     Troops respectively in manner promised and engaged 
     
     by the aforesaid Proclamation. 
     
    

    
     Provided, that in such Proclamation or proclama- 
     
     tions so to be made as aforesaid. a sufficient time, not 
     
     being less than Two Years, shall be limited or allowed 
     
     for all and every claim or claims. so to be put in, and 
     
     nude under and by virtue of this Act. and from and 
     
     alter the expiration of the time which may be allowed 
     
     tomalte such claims, all the Lands remaining unclaim- 
     
     tdslisll become the property of. and revest to those 
     
     persons to whom they would have respectively belong- 
     
     ill. in case the said Memorial to Lord North had never 
     
     been signed or presented. or the said Lands had my" 
     
     hon so resigned as therein mentioned. 
     
    

    
     And be it further enacted that ifit shall appear in 
     
     the investigation ofthe claims ofany persons for Land 
     
     as aforesaid. that the Claimant is entitled to Land on a 
     
     Township where the fourth part or share thereof re- 
     
     tigned as aforesaid, and drawn for in council, shall be 
     
     fully settled or possessed by actual Occupants. then. 
     
     Ind in every such case the Claimant so circumstanced, 
     
     thall receive a Grant of Land on some other part of 
     
     rash Township which may be unoccupied and proper 
     
     for settlement and cultivation. and in case the whole 
     
     ofsuch Township shall be settled and in the actual oc- 
     
     cupancy of the settlers, then, the Claimant shall re- 
     
     teive a Grant Of unoccupied Land on the Loyalist 
     
     Share ofsome other Township, at the discretion of the 
     
     Administrator of the Government Of this Island for the 
     
     time being. 
     
    

    
     Provided that nothing herein contained shall have 
     
     "it force or effect, until his Majesty‘s pleasure thereon 
     
     uni ire known. ‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BRITISH AMERICAN 
     
     P O E 'I' R Y- 
     
     A TORY PROPHECY or PhENTY rOR THE 
     
     YEAR 1333. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     From Frazer‘s Magazine. 
     
     Listen, good reader! Ising unto thee 
     
     The plenty we’ll have in the year thirty-three 
     
    

    
     ENGLAND 1N1833. 
     
     Plenty of changes, and all for the worse, 
     
     Plenty of blessings exchanged for one curse; 
     
     Plenty ofnostrums that never was tried, 
     
     Plenty oflibcrty, all on one side. 
     
     Plenty to overturn, few to uphold, 
     
     Plenty of poverty, great lack of gold! 
     
     plenty ofpromises, and nothing in hand; 
     
     plenty of paupers all gaping to r land; 
     
     plenty ofdupcs to a haanul of kuaves, 
     
     l’lentyoft‘reemcn fast verging to slaves. 
     
     Plenty ofAtheists scofling at God, 
     
     Plenty of faction at home anti abroad; 
     
     Plenty ofcolouies cutting adrift; 
     
     Plenty of dcmagogues lending a lift; 
     
     Plenty of newspapers springing the mi ie, 
     
     Plenty of readers to think it all fine. 
     
     Plenty Of project with misery fraught, 
     
     Plenty of fools by no precedent taught; 
     
     Plenty of Quixotry—still in the wrong, 
     
     Plenty of humbug that cannot last long. 
     
     Plenty oflawgivcrs, “ tatter’d and torn," 
     
     Plenty of delegates fctter'd a nd sworn; 
     
     Plenty of nobleman swamping the peers; 
     
     Plenty Conservatives all by the ears; 
     
     Plenty of gentlemen cutting their throats. 
     
     Plenty of wavercrs turning theircoats; 
     
     Plenty Of rogues with it all their 0 wn way, 
     
     Plenty ofhonest men skulking away; 
     
     Plenty of Whigs to send England to ruin, 
     
     Plenty of Tories to let them be doing. 
     
     Plenty ofmeddling without a pretence, 
     
     Plenty ofwar that is all for “ offence;” 
     
     Plenty ofmitrcs that tottering sit, 
     
     Plenty ofchurchcs with notice to quit. 
     
     Plenty ofanccstry,just to disown, 
     
     Plenty of rats undermining the throne; 
     
     Plenty to-day to work mischief and sorrow, 
     
     Plenty to vote a republic to morrow. 
     
     Such is the plenty I promise will be 
     
     In the landofold England, once merry and free 
     
     In the year eighteen-hundred and thirty-and 
     
     three. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VARIETIES. 
     
    
   
   
    
     NATURAL HISTORY or 'ron.tcco.—In a 
     
     «phamphlet under this title in the Harleian 
     
     Miscellany, are some curious anecdotes 
     
     .reSpecting the growth of tobacco. In the 
     
     {reign of James I. English tobacco appears 
     
     "to have been very generally grown “in 
     
     l several gardens in Westminster and Middle- 
     
     fsex.” It was also planted in great plenty 
     
     lin Gloucester, Devonshire, and the wes- 
     
     lteru counties; “ but his Majesty sent every 
     
     year a troop of horse to destroy it, lest the 
     
     trade of our American plantations should 
     
     be incommoded thereby.” The English- 
     
     are said to have had their pipes of clay 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
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     barbarians, and the origin of manufactu- 
     
     ring tobacco into snuft'is thus given tathe 
     
     sister kingdom: The lrishmen do most 
     
     commonly powder their tobacco, and snuff 
     
     it up their nostrils.” The Indian priests, 
     
     however, discovered a still more imposing 
     
     use ofit, for they, according to this writer, 
     
     “ being always consulted about the events 
     
     of war, do burn the leaves of tobacco, and 
     
     sucking into their mouths the smoke by a 
     
     reed or pipe, do presently fall into a trance 
     
     or extacy; and as soon as they ever came 
     
     out of it, they discover to the Indians all 
     
     the secret negociation which they have had 
     
     with the great demOn, always delivering 
     
     some ambiguous answer.” Notwithstand- 
     
     ing all these facinating properties of tobac- 
     
     co, it appears to have been much dis- 
     
     couraged by many Sovereigns. The 
     
     Great Duke of Muscovy seriously threate- 
     
     ned all merchants who dared to import 
     
     it into his territories. Seach Abas, the 
     
     Great Sophy of Persia, leading an army 
     
     against the Cham of Tartary, issued a pro- 
     
     clamation, that if any was found in the 
     
     custody of any soldier, he should be burnt 
     
     alive together with his tobacco.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     Tm: IRISH House or Commons—A 
     
     member Ofthe Irish House of Commons, 
     
     who always voted with Government. 
     
     and when he spoke constantly insulted 
     
     the Opposition on account of the thinness 
     
     of their ranks, was observed one night du- 
     
     ringa Division, when the minority, was 
     
     going into the lobby, to stand near afriend. 
     
     Of his, who composed a part of that mino- 
     
     rity, to exclaim with earnestness—“ The 
     
     Lord increase your questions—the Lord 
     
     increase your numbers; I shall never be a 
     
     Commissioner of the Revenue, or anything 
     
     else at this rate.” 
     
    
   
   
    
     DON’T BE mscoomGED.—lf in the out- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     set oflife things do not go on smoothly, 
     
     it seldom happens that the hopes we che— 
     
     rished of the future are seldom realized. 
     
     The path of life, in the prospect, appears 
     
     smooth and level enough, but when we 
     
     come to travel it, we find it all up hill, and 
     
     generally rough enough. .The journey is a 
     
     laborious one, and whether poor or weal- 
     
     thy, high or low, we shall find it so, to our 
     
     disappointment, if we have built on any 
     
     other calculation. To endure what is 
     
     to be endured with as much cheerfulness 
     
     as possible—and to elbow our way as 
     
     easily as we can through the great crowd, 
     
     hoping for little, yet striving for much, is 
     
     perhaps the true plan. But 
     
    
   
   
    
     Don’tbc discouraged. if occasionally, you 
     
     slip down by the way, and your neighbours 
     
     tread over you a little; in another words, 
     
     don’tlet a failure or two dishearten you, 
     
     accidents happen; miscalculation will some- 
     
     times be made; things will often turn out 
     
     differently from our expectations, and we 
     
     may be sufl‘erers. It is worth while to re- 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     from the Virginians, who were styled 
     
    
   
   
    
     member fortune is like the skies in' April,