that those who may find themfelves in a fituation to put the methods here recommended in practice, fhould not be difcouraged at the feeming bad fuccefs of their firft endeavours. Some of the fubjects whofe complete recovery is related in these publications, exhibited no figns of returning life, till a very confiderable time had been employed in the charitable work. Putrefaction alone, more particularly in cafes of this nature, feems, as we have already hinted, to be the only certain criterion, that the vital principle is irrecoverably fled, and that all attempts to recall it are fruitless, To the Honourable the Commons of Great-Britain in Parlia ment affembled. The bumble Petition of the United Company of Merchants of England trading to the Eat-Indies. (Prefented Dec. 14, 1772.) Sheweth, TH HAT your petitioners are informed by the votes of this Honourable House, that in purfuance of a report from the Committee of Secrecy appointed to enquire into the ftate of the EaftIndia Company, it was ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill to restrain the Eaft-IndiaCompany, for a time to be limited, from making any appointment of commiffioners for fuperintending and regulating the Company's af fairs at their prefidencies in the Eaft-Indies." "That your petitioners, with all deference to the wisdom of this Honourable Houfe, and to the fupreme authority of Parliament, cannot help confidering fuch a bill as fubverfive of thofe rights which they hold under their charter; the original privileges of which, and the continuation thereof, have been purchafed by their predecessors from the public for a valuable confideration, and repeatedly con firmed by feveral acts of parliament, the provifions of which your petitioners are not in any degree confcious of having violated. "That your petitioners do with all humility conceive it to be their undoubted legal right to fend out any perfons whom they judge proper to enforce and execute fuch regulations (agreeable to the powers of their charters) as the faid Company fhall think neceffary for the good government of their several fettlements in India, or for correcting fuch abuses as may have prevailed therein. "That the present state of affairs in India, appears to your petitioners to be fuch as requires many new orders and regulations to be speedily fent out, as well for reftraining exorbitant and unneceffary expences, as for correcting other abufes: and it has been found upon examination, that favings may be made in the feveral fettlements and prefidencies of the Company to the amount of many hundred thousand pounds. "That, under thefe circumftances, your petitioners have thought it neceffary, to chufe certain com miffioners, who appeared to them to be qualified for so important a truft, and to grant them a commiffion with extraordinary powers for carrying into effect fuch regulations, and enforcing fuch favings as have been, or fhall be deemed neceffary and expedient. "That "That your petitioners beg leave to reprefent to this Honourable House, that the calculation of expences, upon which (according to the report of the Secret Committee) the prefent bill proceeds to restrain your petitioners in the exercife of their legal rights, appears to them to be incomplete and erroneous; and they are confident, if their affairs had been examined in a public manner, agreeably to the genius of this happy conftitution, whereby your petitioners (as well as the particular perfons who are fo deeply affected by the prefent bill, fhould it pafs into a law) might have had an opportunity of attending to their several interests, that the Honourable Members of the Committee would have made a report very different from that which has appeared. "That as the expences of the commiffion are intended to be defrayed from a part of the favings proposed to be made thereby, fuch expences, your petitioner do moft humbly apprehend, cannot in any degree injure the creditors of the faid Company, but on the contrary, muft tend to their advantage, more efpecially as your petitioners are determined to proportion them, with the most exact œconomy, to the prefent circumftances of their affairs. "That your petitioners intreat this Honourable Houfe to confider the dangerous confequences of fuch a bill to the credit of the Company, which, by preventing them from taking the neceffary tteps for the arrangement of their affairs, may deprive them of the means of fulfilling their engagements to the public. "Your petitioners therefore do, Tow of September, 1771, a veffel of uncommon appearance arrived at Macao, a Portugueze fettlement near the entrance of Canton river, with fixty-five perfonson board, most of them military. The commanding officer bore the rank of colonel, and title of Baron de Benyorky, which he held under the Queen of Hungary. There were in the veffel five perfons in women's apparel. The following account is taken from the colonel: He was fent by the Queen of Hungary with a body of five thousand men, in May 1769, to join the catholic Confederates in Poland, against the Polish proteftants, who were ftrongly fupported by the Ruffians. A battle foon enfued, in which the proteftants, defeated and took prifoners the greater part of their enemies. The colonel, with many of his countrymen, was carried to Cafan. They were clofely confined and cruelly treated, which which determined them to refolve on an escape. An opportunity foon favoured their defign, by their guard being reduced, which they overpowered; and, having taken their arms, with incredible difficulties, they directed their rout to Kamfchatka, on the fea-coaft of Tartary, where the colonel knew a friend, on whofe affiftance his hopes depended. On his arrival at Kamfchatka, his friend furnished him with a veffel, in which he embarked with eighty-five of his fellow prifoners. As he had been formerly in the marine fervice of the states of Malta, he knew fome. thing of navigation, by the affiftance of which he determined to fail to China; but, being fcantily provided, he refolved to keep near the coaft. A ftrong gale of wind, which he foon met with from the weftward, defeated his purpose. The colonel then giving up all thoughts of regaining the coaft, failed to the eastward and fouthward till he faw part of NorthAmerica, in lat. 57. 00. N. Here he refreshed his people, hav. ing encountered every difficulty nature is able to fuftain. From hence he endeavoured to go to Acapulca, but contrary winds prevented him. This obliged him to fail for the. Philippine Islands, intending to go into Manilla, but was again difappointed by contrary winds. He proceeded then for Macao, having once more experienced furprizing difficulties, being five months on his paffage from Kamchatka. I am Sir, &c. "P. S. Since I wrote the above, the following strange account has reached me from Macao, (every day brings forth new matter con * Probably California. cerning thefe people): One of the perfons dreffed like a woman, died a few days fince. The body was fent on fhore with the following very extraordinary request to the governor, That the corpfe should be interred where none had lain before, and in an honourable spot; that the baron might have liberty to attend the funeral to pay particular honours to the deceased, This remarkable request producing that never-failing curiofity peculiar to the Romish priesthood, two worthies of the Francifcan order, taking advantage of the night, peeped into the coffin, and difcovered the body of a man. This deception difgufting the Portugueze exceedingly, the body was ordered common interment. Various are the accounts we have of the rank of the deceased: fome fay the baron declares he was a prince of the empire; others report him a bishop. This account has produced many conjectures, not very favourable to the remaining petticoats." Copy of a Paper fent by Baron de Benyorfky from Macao to a Gentleman at Canton. "Became prisoner in the year 1769. "Carried away into exile with the Princes P. Szolti, Bishop of Cracowia, P. Sangufko, P. Rzfeviuzky, P. Paez, Bishop de Kiowe. "Kamfchatka, under 63d. degree of north lat. 175 deg. longitude, month of May, 1771, failed on board the S. Peter Galliot, in order to pass as far as 238 N. deg. of long, and 57 N. deg. of lat. from whence failing we were to pass to the ifle of Marian, with a great tempeft and very strong wind came came to Japan; rounded that place from the port of Namgu; went on fhore; from thence came to the ifle of Tonze es Bongo; from thence proceeded as far as Nangeafaki; from which place, after taking in wines, failed out again and paffed by the ifles of Uljina, as far as Formofa and the ifle of Baftee; Jaftly, took the ftraight courfe to Makaw, where I arrived in the month of September, 1771. "Signed, Baron Maurice Aout of Aladar Went out with 85 men, they effected; and by a fingular fortune, and extraordinary concurrence of circumftances, difcovered a paffage, which may be of great future confequence, through unknown and untried feas, and arrived fafe at China. Difference in the Probabilities of Longevity between living in the Coun great Cities. try and in DR R. Price, in his obfervations on reverfionary payments, has published five tables, thewing the probabilities of life, in the diftri&t of Vaud, Switzerland, in a country parish in Brandenburgh, in the parish of Holy-Crofs near Shrewbury, at London, at Vienna, and at Berlin. "My chief purpofe (fays he) in giving thefe ta bles is to exhibit, in the most strik. ing light, the difference between the ftate and duration of human life, in great cities and in the country. It is not poffible to make the comparifon without concern and furprize. I will here beg leave to lay it in one view before the reader, defiring him to take with him this confideration, that (for reafons elfewhere explained) it can be erroneous only by giving the difference much too little." Proportion of Inhabitants dying annually in Country Pa- | Holy-Cross, 1 rifh in Bran Pais de near Shrew. London. Vi nna. Berlin, Proportion of the inhabitants who reach eighty years Pais de rish in Bran-Holy-Crofs. London. Vienna, denburgh. i in 22 of age. Berlin. I in 11 I in 40 I in 41 1 in 37 Country Pa- 44 25 341 351-1 30 312 28/ 50 171 18 16 83631 ONG IN 1875 rith in Bran 32 years 334 years 18 years 16 years 18 years London Vienna. Berlin. 21/ 22 19 17 145 20 16 64 351 22 201 "From |