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I CONGRATULATE the inhabitants of this burning region, 

 that the art of ice-making has been difcovered, and moft fuc- 

 cefsfully purfued. I refer the reader to the account given of 

 the procefs by Sir Robert Barker, in vol. Ixv. p. 252 of the Phi- 

 lofopbical 7'ranfaciions, which is in ufe at Allahabad, Motte Gill, 

 and Calcutta ; places between 25 i and 23 1 of nortli latitude, the 

 narrative tedious, and unneceflary to be tranfcribed in a climate, 

 where the natural cold feldom fails producing ice fufficient for 

 the luxury of every returning year. By this means the Dives 

 of this country may have the comfort of cooling his tongue 

 while he is tormented in that flame ; but let me admonifli him 

 in time to remember the Lazaru/es, leaft hereafter he fliould 

 find himfelf tranfported to that Torrid Zone, where no ice- 

 makers will be found, where the wretched Pan'ar will no more 

 receive his evil things, nor the luxurious Nabob his good ! 



The government of Bengal, and its vaft dependencies, was Government. 

 firft veiled in a Governor General, and a fupreme council, con- 

 fiding of a prefident and eleven counfellors. This mode was 

 altered by the T3th of George III. or in 1773, into a Governor 

 General and four counfellors, of v/hich the firft Governor Ge- 

 neral was Warren Hajiings ; and Lieutenant General Cla'uermg, 

 the Honorable George Monfon, Richard Barwel, and Philip 

 Francis, who had the direction of all affairs, civil and military, 

 over the territorial acquifitions and revenues in the kingdoms 

 of Bengal, Bahar, and Orixa, and they or the major part to have 

 power of fuperintending and controlling the Prefidencies of 

 Madras, Bombay, and Bencoolen ; in particular that they Ihould 

 have no power to make war or peace with any of the bidian 

 ftates without their approbation. 



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