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Co Puro ea Ce, 
Though we confider the general plan of our work as now fully 
fettled, yet we fhall never oe backward in making fuch alterations or 
additions as may feem to be real improvements. A monihly article of 
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE has appeared to us to be of this kind: 
we have lately adopted it, and nope to be favoured with the affiftance of 
our corre:pondents im fu pporting it, We confider as another important 
improvement, the enlargement of our Retrofpedt of Britifh Literature, 
and its extenfion on the fame plan, to German, Spanifh, and French 
Literature ; in a future Supplement it will be alfo extended to the North 
of Europe, Italy, and Americ. | 
We cannot too often repeat, that the communications we moft 
value, are thofe which convey new and autlientic information refpecting 
matters ot fact, important to the progrefs of ufcful knowledge, and 
tending to amelicrate the condition of mankind. Were all that is partially 
known, freely thrown into the general ftock by reciprocal difclofure, 
We are convinced that more immediate good would refult, than by pur- 
fuing the moi promiling vein of difcovery. We prefume to fay, that 
the extenfive circulation of our Mifceliany renders it a peculiarly fit 
vehicle for this purpofe; and we fhall take care, by anearly infertion of 
fuch matter, to forward the views of our. correfpondents. With 
refpect to the literary articles neceffary to make a pleafing variety in a 
work of this kind, as we hope we have not hitherto been deficient in at- 
teinpts to gratity our Readers, fo we fhall continue, with the aid of our 
kind contributors, to make the beft provifion in our power. We ac= 
knowledze, with gratitude, the copious fupply of papers of this kind 
with which we have conftantly been favoured. It has made a felection 
neceflary, which we have always impartially conducted according to 
our beft judgment; our only aim in this, as in other paris of our duty,’ 
being to deferve the approbation of liberal and enlightened Readers. 
Lonpow, 
Fuly 115 1798. 
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