A collection of political tracts. [electronic resource] : On the following subjects, viz. 1. Ways and means to man the navy upon any emergency, with less expence to the government, and no wifeinconvenient to the merchants and traders. II. Stock-Jobbing whether prejudical to, or the support of the publick credit of Great Britain. III. The advantage of accruing to the landed interest of Great Britain, from promoting the British distillery, by encouraging the exportation of manufactured spirits to the baltick, and other foreign parts. IV. Considerations on the more effectual punishment of criminals, whereby the transporation act will not be eluded, and to prevent digging human bodies out of their graves for anatomical dissections. V. A dissertation concerning the laws of China, as they were instituted in the time of Kao, who was emperor 1700 years before the birth of our Saviour. To which is added; a philosophical essay on the effects of the bite of a mad dog; and a prescription, whereby any person labouring under that misfortune, may infallibly cure himself. By Eboranos.