158 THE B£E, OR Jan. 26, 



for the culture of the great crppj.aiyi ad\ants^e of the re- 

 venue. 



I would recommend that villages be marked out in thofe 

 parts of the Jaguliire that remain unoccupied iinee the late 

 war, where the native penfibner.s may be permitted to fettle 

 at pleafure, exempt frojn all taxation for at lealt ten years 

 to come, and in the home farms of lilie dcferted defcription, 

 the wotters, who do all the heavy work, of removing earth, 

 may be permitted to fettle Vi Ith great advantage to Ma- 

 drasi •, ' , 



It gives me much fatisfa^l ion to obferve the direftors 

 correfpouding dn the article of indigo, with men of fuch ade- 

 Quate information as the Lords committee of thp privy coun- 

 cil for trade, as publilhed in Oftoljer lail by tho Honoura- 

 ble Governor General; and requell you will tranfmit tlie 

 honourable court a fmall box, filled with tlie white cover- 

 ing of infc£ls mentioned in my lafl letter, which I now find 

 to be the covering of an infeft, funiiar to the Lac infect, de- 

 fcribed by Mr. Keir of Patna. I am, &e. 



James Anderson. 



HISTORICAL CHRONICLE. 



INTRODUCTION. 



A Curfory View of the Prcfent POLITICAL STATE of 

 Europe, conthiucd fro?n page 120. 



France. 



1 o a contemplative mind, the fituation of the European na- 

 tions already mentioned, will afibrd matter fcr many ferious 

 reflexions. It would feem, as if at prefent there was a general 

 ftrugglc between error and truth, between light anddarknefs : 

 that darknefs as yet preponderates, though there are fomc 

 feeble rays of light beginning to break forth, which give 

 room to hope, that the dawn of that day is app'roacliing, 

 when man fnall think each man he meets his brother, with- 

 out dillindion of rank, of country or condition j and when 

 the profpcrity of each fhall be generally known to depend 



