QUIT RENTS. 



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which is well worthy ot imitation ; and if our 

 worthy mkrs wmM only f6te%Q tlieir mU- 

 colonization, and aBti-improvement notions, even 

 before tlie present rapid strides of a reforming 

 ngc compel tlicm to do so, they would do well 

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

 tmg in its prodtietions*'** 



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

 stand that the Calcutta government have taken into consi- 

 deration tlie si^bject of quit-rents, and that more judicious 

 regulatbns have been instituted ; so it may be hoped that 

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

 peded. 



