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' TO FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS. 



To thofe gentlemen in foreign parts who have been fo kind as honour 

 the editor with their correfpondence, or who in future Ihall be<"() obhg- 

 inp- as favour him with any communicarious, D;-. Anderlbn begs leave 

 m'oft refpeafully to expreD his grateful fenfe of pail favours, and 

 warmly to folicit from them, and every ocher liberal minded friend to 

 fcienee'and literature into whof^ hands th^ie propofals may fall, fuch 

 future eommunications as flull appear to them fuitable to the nature 

 of his work. It fhall be his ftudy at all times to do julbcc to their 

 rcfptdive performances, and to lay them bcf.^re the public in the 

 m-'ft advantageous manner he can. . 



To avoid the necellity of writing a great many private letters, which 

 would become expenfive to correfpondents, and could no* be fo eafily 

 / read as a printed paper, he has adopted this method of laying be- 

 fore them a" few memorandums, under the form of general queries, to 

 put in their view forae particulars which at times might chance td 

 tfcape their notice. Thefe queries, it will be eafily perceived, are 

 merely hints ferving to av^aken the attention, and nothing more. 

 Thofe who (hal! fpeculate on any fubjed will eafily perceive that they 

 lead to many interefting difcuflions that are not neceffary to be men- 

 tioned. This circumftance is here noticed, merely with a view to pre- 

 vent our correfpondents from thinking thefe particulars were meant to 

 be excluded. 

 But before he proceeds to thefe queries, Dr. Anderfonbegs leave to fug- 

 geft, that as the objeds there alluded to may furnifli the fubjeclis of 

 future difcuffion, during the whole time that thi, work fhall be con- 

 tinued, thefe may be left till opportunity and inclination ftiall bring 

 them forward. He cannot help, hov.-ever, remarking, that it would 

 be particularly obliging in them, and fingularly grateful to him, if he 

 ihould be favoured as early as polTible from every quarter, with fuch 

 general noticed as (hall occur to each individual in particular, as of im- 

 poitance, refpe-Aing the Hate of literature, arts, manufafturej and com- 

 merce in their own country ; their ftate of improvement or decline ; 

 concife accounts of fuch late publications as prove interefting, witli 

 extrafts where thefe appear to be neceffary ; notices concerning in- 

 tended literary publications; or any information th:it fecms to be cal- 

 ciil i;ed to convey to ftrangeis a general idea of the ftarc cf the coun- 

 try at the p.-efcnt time, without entering at the iiril; into too minuti 

 paiticular«. 



