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fiderable capital, I availed myfelf of the 
favourable opportunity offered by the un- 
happy fituation of this city at the com- 
mencemen: of the late rebellion, and, with 
the fanétion of Government, but at my 
own private expence and toil, began a 
cenfus of the inhabitants of the city of 
Dublin early in the month of May 1798. 
‘¢In gcing through the houles of the 
poor (he fays), my affitants and I, un- 
deterred by the dread of infeéticus difeafes, 
undifmayed by degrees of filth, ftench 
and darknefs inconceivable by thofe who 
have not experienced them, explored in 
the burning mcnths of the fummer of 
1798, every room of thefe wretched habi- 
tations, from the cellar to the garret, and 
on the fpot alcertained their population. 
In this bufinefs I expefed oppofition, but 
experienced none. 
“Twas at firft much embarraffed by 
tke inexperience of my affiltants. I em- 
ployed them therefore in taking furveys of 
the ftreets which } had already furveyed 
mylelf, until I difcovered that they had 
attained a fufficient degree of accuracy. 
T never, however, relied on their returns 
with implicit confidence, but made them 
frequently a€t as checks oneach other, 
and if any material variation occurred, I 
inveftigated it myfelf on the {pot. I was 
befides conftantly engaged during the 
continuance of the furvey in taking the 
population of the pooreft and moft thickly- 
inhabited houles of the pooreft ftreets, as 
thefe were the mott likely to produce con- 
fufion and error, in order to ferve as checks 
on their returns. Hence st happens, in 
the poorer parts of the city, there are few 
ftreets that have not been twice, and fome 
even three times, furveyed.”’ 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
oie years ago propofals were printed 
Y and circulated by a gentleman of 
Cambridge, for publifhing by fubicription 
a Tranflation of Profeffor Eichhorn’s In- 
troduction to the Oid Teftamert. | 
It is currently reported that this gen- 
tleman was threatened, that, if he went 
on, his preferment would be ftopped. 
What truth there may be in this report I 
know not ; the publication however ap- 
pears to be laid afide. But, from the ac- 
count given of the original work in the 
Appendix to the Monthly Review for Au- 
gut 1797, it appears to bea very inte- 
relting aod valuable: performance, and 
theretore it is hoped fome perfon, treating 
Eichhorn’s Introduétion.—Correflions of Reinhard. = 8 
this fort of zon-imprimatur as it defervesy 
will favour the public, if not with a tranf- 
lation of the whole, yet of its moft valuable 
parts. ae Le 
Hull, Dec. 16, 1805.¢ 
= 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazines 
SIR, 
UCH of your readers as have met 
with Dr. Reinhard’s ** Obfervations 
on the Prefent State of Britifh Com- 
merce,”” mutt be pleafed to find this fub- 
ject fo well underftood, and its impor- 
tance fo juftly appreciated, by a dittin- 
guifhed foreigner, whofe account of it 18 
much improved to the Englifh reader by 
the appropriate notes of the tranflators 
Some parts of it however admit of correc= 
tion, particularly with refpeét to the Eat. 
India trade. The principal commodities 
imported from thence are laid to be raw- 
cotton, filk, and ftuffs. From a note to 
the firft article, ftating the total quantity 
of cotton-wool imporied into Great-Bri- 
tain, the total value of the manufacture, 
and the rumber of perions employed in its 
any perfon unacquainted with the fact 
would infer that the principal part of the 
cotton-wool impo:ted comes from the 
Eaft-Indies, whereas it is well known 
that a very fimall proportion comes from 
thence, whiléit isa priscipal article in 
the Welt-India trade, under the account 
of which branch ‘he ngte would certainly 
have appeared with infinitely more pro- 
pricty. The quantity of filk imported 
from Bengal is faid to have formerly 
been 1000 bales of 300 pounds each, for 
the ufe of the ribbon-manufaétories ; the 
prefent amount is not ftated. The quan- 
tity imported during the year 1804 on the 
Company’s account was 2719 bales of 
140 pounds each, befides 118 bales of 
different weighis 10 private trade, making 
inthe whole upwards of 435,000 pounds, 
the confumption of which is by no means 
confined to the ribbon-trade, the improve- 
ments in the culture of Bengal raw-filk 
having rendered it proper for moft other 
branches of the filk-manufactory. What 
is meant by the article of ftuffs I cannot 
pretend to determine ; furely it cannot be 
meant to comprehend under this term the 
moflins and callicoes which form fuch a 
principal part of the imports from Bungal, 
In addition to tea, the main object of the 
trade to China, raw-filks and nankeens 
might have been mentioned, thefe being 
regular articles of import from thence, 
though of inferior importance 
pe Aes 6, 1805, j.J.G. 
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