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poor part of the inhabitants. 

 In the pettah, or town of Ban- 

 galore, it is said, there were 

 J 2,000 weaving families, and 

 we found great quantities of 

 cotton -j^ — he had introduced 



the manufacture of silk. ; 



his southern countries, where 

 soil and water would admit of 

 great cultivation, are every 

 where full of inhabitants, and 

 every where cultivated. My- 

 sore proper is rather a poor 

 country ; but a great deal had 

 even been done there since the 

 time of General Smith, so that 

 three immense Indian armies 

 have every where found water, 

 and hitherto provisions, which 

 ^vas no"t before thought pofsible. 

 We have frequent reports of 

 ]ieace, but the Mahrattas are 

 too inveterate against Tippoo, 

 for his treatment of the brah- 

 mins, to be satisfied with lefs 

 than his extirpation. If every 

 •thing is amicably settled, it is 

 likely that InJia will enjoy 

 peace for a long time j but 

 Lord C. has a dithcult card to 

 play with his allies, they are 

 a very po%verful, " enterprising 

 people, and the Mahrattas, 

 though th.-^y cannot fight us, 

 ni*y harrals and rurn. our coun- 

 tries by their multitudes of 

 horse." 



V»lnle the military gentle- 

 men in India, are thus con- 

 tiiving destruction to a great 

 many unhappy wretches, who 

 have no knowledge of th^m 

 aor their conceinS; one gentle- 



man in India, Dr James An- 

 derson physician, at Madras, is 

 exerting himself to the utmost 

 of his cower to provide some 

 remedy for these evils j not by 

 trying only to heal the wound- 

 ed, in the way oi his profefsion : 

 but by devising means for pro- 

 curing a subsistence for the 

 people after the devastations of 

 war ihall cease. He has kind- 

 led a generous ardour in pur- 

 suit of useful knowledge, and 

 a general desire to provide em- 

 ployment for the people iii 

 peace, throughout the whole 

 peninsula of India, the effects 

 of which will be felt, long after 

 he ihall for ever cease from his 

 labours * ! The rearing of co- 

 chineal, of indigo, of silk, of 

 vines, and spiceries, not yet 

 known there, are the objects of 

 his succefsful pursuits ; an ac- 

 count of which we fnall take 

 an early opportunity to lay be- 

 fore our readers. May the 

 time soon arrive, when the 

 sword ihall be beat into a plough- 

 ihare, and the spear into a pru- 

 ning hook ; when the wolf ihall 

 lie down with the lamb, and 

 the child fliall lay its hand on 

 the cockatrice den 5 when every 



* Mr S. Towns writes thus from Vi- 

 zagipilnam, 19th May 1791: Certain 

 1 am that this country is not cultivatej 

 to one half of iiS value, where it is in 

 best order;' and ic is an obvious ar.J de- 

 plorable truth, tl:at upwards of 50CO 

 Inhabitants have died this. year fn.m trie 

 w nt of empjc.yment, .lu.l that sjveral 

 '.ilijg'-s are dcstiruie of pccp'.s which 

 i;3£'J ij bi.f.iny inhabited. • 



