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of making tea is preferable to another, it 

 should be attended to, however trifling it may 

 be considered. 



We need entertain no fear of having our 

 tea too new, as the East India Company have 

 generally in their warehouses a supply for 

 three years, and by an act 13 Geo. 3. cap. 44, 

 no licence can be granted to that Company 

 to export tea, unless there remain in their 

 warehouses a quantity not less than ten mil- 

 lions of pounds weight. 



The rapidity with which the East India 

 Company has obtained territories, and the 

 stability of its government, is unparalleled in 

 the history of any age. Dominion over an 

 extent of more that 300,000 square miles, 

 containing a population that exceeds forty 

 millions, has resulted from an establishment 

 in its commencement purely commercial, and 

 confined to a few obscure individuals. Such 

 are the wonderful consequences of commer- 

 cial enterprise. It is commerce that civilizes 

 mankind, and imparts happiness to the re- 

 motest quarters of the globe. The savage 

 of the other hemisphere feels its beneficial 

 effects, while the enlightened European, by 

 its aid, circumnavigates the globe in safety, 

 increasing the stock of knowledge, as well as 



