1791' LITERARY INTELLIGENCER. I53 



In 1 7 S3, tlie miniller of 1790 was in leading firings, of 

 which he did not know the value. — Having broke loolc from 



his nurfe, he now itands upon his own legs. Behold the 



confequence ! 



A Citi-zen. 



Intelligence refpeBing Sciences, Arts, 'k^c. 

 Afta. 



Since the eflablifhment of the Britifh power in India, a 

 fpirit of inquiry has begun to prevail there, refpedling thofe 

 /Yiiatic countries in which we have now fo near an intereft. 

 This had a beginning feveral years ago ; but its operations 

 were feeble, before the arrival of Sir William Jones in that 

 country, v.-hdfe ardent tafte for literary purfuits is well 

 known, and who no fooner fet foot in Alia than he excited 

 a general fpirit of inquiry there, which promifes to be pro- 

 duftive of the happieil effecls. The ATiatic fociety, which 

 owes its inftitution entirely to him, has already fent a print- 

 ed volume cf their tranfaftions to Europe, which affords the 

 happieft prefage of farther advances in that country in the 

 paths of literature and oriental knowledge : And we are 

 glad to think, that Sir William will obtain a powerful coad- 

 jutor in this department in Mr. Richardfon, the well known 

 author of the Perfian grammar and diftlonary, who has 

 lately gone to Calcutta in a high law department. 

 Cochineal. 

 Among the individuals who nave diflinguifhed themfelves 

 Jn India by an active Ipirit of literary reiearch. Dr. James 

 Anderfon, phyiiciau to the prefidency of Madras, deferves 

 to be particularly mentioned. In the courfe of his ufual in- 

 vefligations, this gentleman, in the year 1787, difcovered 

 an infect of the coccus tribe, very like the real cochineal 

 infect, in great numbers, feeding on a kind of marine grafs, 

 frequent in the ntighbourhoud of Fort St. George. It im- 

 mediately occurred, tliat if this iniecl poflfeffed any thing of 

 the qualities of the true cochineal, it might turn out greatly 

 for the benefit of this country, by rearing it there. as he ea- 

 fily forefaw it would be furnifhed at a much lefs expence 

 Vol. I. f U , 



