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agriculture than manufactures. Halifax, Wakefield, and 

 Leeds, enjoy only a few of the advantages that the coun- 

 tries I now describe pofsefs in perfection j and the in- 

 fluence of these markets is felt for hundreds of miles a- 

 ■ round them. It is those alone who have seen and com- 

 : pared the natural capabilities of the two countries, who 

 ' can form an idea of the infinite disproportion that sub- 

 sists between them j yet it is this country which nature 

 has formed, as it were, with the sole view of fliowlng to 

 what an astoniftiing degree of perfection manufactures and 

 •trade may be carried. It is this very country our (hort 

 sighted politicians despise, and by laws which nothing but 

 ignorance could dictate, and insanity continue, is ren- 

 'dered a dreary solitude. The people, by artificial re- 

 straints, are deprived of the very means of subsistence, 

 and driven in despair to seek for refuge elsewhere. "While 

 the heart bleeds for individual distrefs thus produced, it 

 is impofsible to say whether contempt for the folly, or in- 

 dignation at the atrocity of such proceedings fliould pre- 

 vail. It Is clear, however, that the minister who pafsive- 

 ly and inadvertently permits these things to be done, k 

 far lefs to blame than those are, who, seeing these great 

 evils, are at no pains to developc to the minister and the 

 : nation at large, the alarming consequences of not afiPord- 

 ing timely redrefs of such intolerable grievances. 



NOTICES OF IMPROVEMENTS NOW GOING ON IN INDIA. 

 The benefits that would result to the community from a 

 free correspondence carried on upon liberal principles, 

 are inconceivably great. This Is made particularly 

 •evident by the perusal of Dr Anderson's correspondence 

 in India, the continuation of which I received by the 



