QUIT RENTS. 201 



which is well worthy of imitation ; and if our 

 worthy rulers would only forego their anti- 

 colonization, and anti-improvement notions, even 

 before the present rapid strides of a reforming 

 age compel them to do so, they would do well 

 to cause this island to rival, or rather excel, Bin- 

 tang in its productions."* 



* Since the above was in the hands of the printer, I under- 

 stand that the Calcutta government have taken into consi- 

 deration the subject of quit-rents, and that more judicious 

 regulations have been instituted ; so it may be hoped that 

 the rising prosperity of the settlement will no longer be im- 

 peded. 



