72. 

 THE BEE, 



OR. 



LITER ART WEEKLY LNTELLLGENCER, 



FOR 



Wednesday, May z. 1791. 



"To the Editor of the Bee. 

 Sir, 



A HE first lour volumes of the Bee have reached 

 your subscribers in Rufsia this autumn, and I must 

 own that we were far from being prepofsefsed in its, 

 favour, from the reports of some young gentlemen 

 who had read the first part in Britain. However, 

 I can by no means subscribe to the censure of my 

 young acquaintances, nay I even suspect that the 

 part which furnilhed them least entertainment, is that 

 which w^ill recommend it the most to a large clafs of 

 your readers, for the following reasons ; 



In forming the plan of a periodical publication, 

 on such a moderate scale of expence as to suit the 

 largest pofsible circle of readers, it is certainly pro- 

 per to take into consideration, not only the state of 

 the country, with regard to its progrefs in letters, but 

 likewise in agriculture, commerce, and the useful 

 arts, before we arc able to determine what species of 

 .instruction ^hey stand most in need of. 



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