73: 
THE BEE, 
OR 
EITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
FOR 
Wenbnespay, May 9. 1792. 
MEMOIRS OF DR JAMES ANDERSON __ ,-¢ 
PHYSICIAN AT MADRAS. 
With a portrait. 
Ip is a trite observation that the life of a literary 
person furnifhes few materials for the biographer : 
It is still more true, that a person, whose exertions 
have been uniformly directed by beneficence, goes on 
in a smooth and uniform tract in his progrefs 
through life, that exhibits none of those tremenduous 
scenes, which, by fhocking the mind, rouse the attention 
of the vacant spectators, so as to afford them amuse- 
ment. Hence the life of a Howard or a Hanway is 
pafsed over with indifference ; while that of Jenghiz 
Khan rouses the active faculties of the mind. 
The object of the present memoir has been in In- 
‘dia upwards of thirty years; and during all that time 
thas been engaged in enterprises, calculated to promote 
the welfare of the natives of that country. Instead of 
applying his talents to the acquisition of wealth as his 
principal object, which is so generally the case with 
“those who go to that country from hence, he has ever 
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