  We have used the Effelsberg 100-m radio telescope to conduct a 1400-MHz
($\lambda$ 21-cm) search for young and rapidly rotating radio pulsars along a 2
deg$^2$ strip of the northern Galactic plane defined by $28^{\circ} \leq l \leq
30^{\circ}$ and $|b|\leq0.5^{\circ}$. This region lies close to the Scutum
spiral arm which is already known to contain a number of radio and X-ray
pulsars. The search was nominally sensitive to pulsars with 1400-MHz flux
densities above 0.3 mJy; this represents a threefold improvement in sensitivity
over all previous searches of this region of the Galaxy. Four new long-period
pulsars were discovered as a result of this survey. All three previously known
pulsars in this region were also detected. The four new pulsars are relatively
young ($<$ 0.5 Myr), weak ($<1$ mJy) sources with dispersion measures in the
range 180--910 cm$^{-3}$ pc. None of the newly-discovered pulsars are
associated with catalogued supernova remnants.
