dditional duty on the stock of malt in
hand: but no regard was paid to this remonstrance; and the bill, with
several new amendments, passed through both houses, under the title of
"An act for granting to his majesty several duties upon malt, and for
raising the sum of eight millions by way of annuities and a lottery, to
be charged on the said duties: and to prevent the fraudulent obtaining
of allowances in the gauging of corn making into malt; and for making
forth duplicates of exchequer-bills, tickets, certificates, receipts,
annuity orders, and other orders lost, burned, or otherwise destroyed."
The other three bills that turned wholly on the supply were passed
in common course, without the least opposition in either house, and
received the royal assent by commission at the end of the session. The
first of these, entituled, "A bill for enabling his majesty to raise
a certain sum of money for the uses and purposes therein mentioned,"
contained a clause of approbation, added to it by instruction; and the
Bank was enabled to lend the million which the commissioners of the
treasury were empowered by the act to borrow, at the interest of four
pounds per cent. The second, granting to his majesty a certain sum of
money out of the sinking-fund, for the service of the year one thousand
seven hundred and sixty, comprehended a clause of credit for borrowing
the money thereby granted; and another clause, empowering the Bank to
lend it without any limitation or interest; and the third, enabling his
majesty to raise a certain sum of money towards discharging the debt of
the navy, and for naval services during the ensuing year, enacted, that
the exchequer bills thereby to be issued should not be received, or pass
to any receiver or collector of the public revenue, or at the receipt
of the exchequer, before the twenty-sixth day of March, in the year one
thousand seven hundred and sixty-one.

PETITIONS RESPECTING THE PROHIBITION OF THE MALT DISTILLERY.

As the act of the preceding session, prohibiting the malt distillery,
was to expire at Christmas, the commons thinking it necessary to
consider of proper methods for laying the malt distillery under such
regulations as might prevent, if possible, its being prejudicial to the
health and morals of the people, began as early as the month of November
to deliberate on this affair; which being under agitation, petitions
were presented to the house by several of the principal inhabitant