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204 to correspondents. Dee. 14, 
-tirely free. This is such an incentive to industry, that 
even the most supine are tempted to exert themselves. 
THE EXTENT OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY’S TERRITORY. 
I, is observed by major. Rennell, in his memoirs of 
India, as a new phenomenon in the history of the world, 
that a company of merchants, subjects of a kingdom, 
fhould pofsefs in full sovereignty 162,000 square miles 
of land, containing 11,000,000 inhabitants, z. ¢, 30,000 
square miles and 3,000,000 inhabitants more than is pofsef- 
sed by their own sovereign in Great Britain and Ireland: 
that their grofs revenue fhould amount to L.4,600,c0@ 
sterling, besides subsidies from country powers: that their 
military establifhment, in time of peace, is 10,000 Euro- 
-peans, and 52,000 regular sepoy infantry: that, in their 
‘mercantile capacity, they employ roo large fthips, with 
upwards of 10,000 seamen, in which they import, annually, 
-from five to six millions sterling, of merchandise, into Great 
Britain. Such is the magnitude of the Britifh East India 
Company, unknown in any former period of the world. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Tse Editor fears, that, by an accidental circumstance, the very sen- 
sible communication by Werva has been too long omitted to be noticede 
He hopes the ingenious author Will forgive this unintentional omifsion. 
He has likewie to request pardon of Eusebius for a similar omifsion. 
His efsay was duly received, and hopes he will hear more of it in a -fhort 
time; but its having been marked as already notieed, made the Editor 
think it had been done, Mistakes of this kind are solely occasioned 
by a part of the notices to correspondents not being admitted in one num- 
ber for want of room, and the copy of that part being forgot, or its 
having fallen aside when the following number was printed, 
The communication by A Reformer is received; and though it is the 
with of the Editor to keep clear of political discufsions at present, which 
are too apt to degenerate into party squabbles, that would be a disgrace 
to a literary journal 5 yet as the writer is so importunate, and as the com- 
_ position seems to be a harmlefs jew d’ esprit, he will try if he can indulge 
-him 3—but it is too long. 
Acknowledzements to several others deferred, 
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