354 
In the year’ 1794, the income of the 
company, according to a ftatement of the 
com niffaries, was 18,422,601; and the 
company expecied to feil goods as fol- 
lows : 




Florins. 
Ma coffee, to the amount of , 4,637,500 
epper 237373500 
Sugar —- —-= 348,000 
Spices 4,311,000 
‘The expences, onthe other hand, were 
18,281,625, as appears by the following 
account : 


Florins. 
Intereft and capitals to be paid 4,000,000 
Dividend of 124 per cent. to the 
proprietors  —— o31,626 
Bills drawn by Batavia and 
Ceylon 3,000,000 
Goods and cafh fent to India 2.5400,000 
Deficit expected to ceafe in 3795 800,000 
Whole of the expences in Europe 7,000,0c0 



Accidental expences — 250,000 
Total 18,281,625 
SESE 
To the Editor of toe Moathly Magazine. 
LaSLRS ; 
N the fecond volume of your Mifeel- 
- lany (p. 527) are inferted a few Ob- 
fervations on the Influence of Climate. 
E quoted from the third volume of the 
Memcirs of the Manchefter Tranfaétions, 
an account of the Cretins, a people in- 
habiting the Pays de Vallais, a {fouth- 
eaftern diftritt of Switzerland. They 
were ftated to be affii€ted with general 
idiocy, fo long as they imbibed the ex- 
halations from the Rhdne and its marfhes, 
but that removal from this unfavourable 
climate effected a total extirpation of Cre- 
tinage in a few generations. 
The influence of climate on the human 
mind is fti]] farther corroborated by a fi- 
milar fact, which Sir George Staunton 
has related in his valuable and emufing 
publication, the account of his ‘* Em- 
baffy to China.’’ Having paffed the 
great wall, his way to the Emperor’s 
palace at Zhe-hol, in Tartary,lay through 
a very mountainous country, and he ob- 
ferved, that, in the villages difperfed 
among the vailies, the inhabitants labour- 
edunder a diforder fimilar to the gevr¢, 
which prevails among the people of the 
Alps.- Dr. Gillan efiimated that this de- 
formity was attached to nearly one fixth 
of the inhabitants whom he faw. ‘Thefe 
“¢ preternatural tumours,”’ fays Sir George 
Staunton, ‘ did not appear to be at- 
“‘ tended with any other fymptoms af- 
Dutch India Company... Influence of Climates: 
[ Nov. 
“* fecting the general health or corporeal 
*‘ functions of thofe in whom they were 
“‘obferved; but the minds of many of 
“* them were much weakened, and, per- 
“‘ haps, all in a Jefs degree. Somé were 
“‘ reduced to a ftate of abfolute idiocy. 
“The {peétacle of fuch objeéts, which 
‘* fails not to convey a ferioas and even 
‘** melancholy impreffion to perfons who 
“* view them for the firft time, produces 
“no fuch effect upon thofe among whom 
“they are bred. Phe objeéts themfelves 
*‘ are, in their general habits, cheerful, 
* and lead a mere animal life, as contra- 
“‘ diftinguifhed from that in which any 
‘*‘ thought or reflection is concerned. As 
“‘ they aét alone from inftin@t, or the 
‘‘ mere impulfe of the fenfes, fo their ac- 
‘‘ uons, however injurious to others, are 
‘‘ free from intentional malice, and occa- 
“‘fion no refentment. Their perfons are 
“‘confidered in fome. degree as facred,” 
‘‘ and they are maintained by their fami- 
‘hes with peculiar. care.” —Embafy ta 
China, Vol. EI. P. 202% AU Eee 
I have extraéted the whole of this paf-_ 
fage,becaufe it bears a firiking fimilitude to 
. Sir Richard Clayton's account of the Cra- 
tins of the Wallais. Thefe latter beings, 
like the former, are happily treated with 
the utmoft care and kindnefs. “In fome 
‘* places they are looked on as the idiots 
‘‘of Turkey; in others they are con- 
‘* fidered as predeftinated beings, the de- 
‘“* voted victims of the wrath of Provi- 
““ dence, and punifhed by its viftation 
“‘for the fins of the reft of the family. 
‘¢ Either idea infures them kindnefs and 
‘¢ attention : in the firft inftance, they are 
‘* objeéls cf religious veneration ; in the 
‘‘fecond, they are recompenfed out of 
‘* gratitude, on account of their fuppofed 
‘‘ jufferings for the:frailties of their pa-. 
“rents and their friends, ’—Maxebcfler 
Tranfactions, Vol. III. P. 266. 
Could nothing farther be urged in fa- 
vour of the phyfical and irrefiftible influ- 
ence of climate, the eftablifhment of 
eitner of thefe two faéts would, in m 
cpinion, be fufiicient to overghrow all the 
arguments of Mr. Hume, with whatever 
ingenuity and learning they may be, and | 
undoubtedly are fupported. 
Your's, &c. 
T.S.N. 

To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
ALTHOUGH it is yery rarely the 
practice in this neighbeurhood to 
lay down land without acorn crop, yet, _ 
R : : As as 
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