The paria came and seated himself on the same mat with his guest; and they both began to eat. Meanwhile the doctor enjoyed some pleasure in being in a place of security in the midst of the tempest. The hut was undisturbed by the tempest. Besides its being situated in the narrowest part of the vale, it was built under a var, or banian fig tree, whose branches, which strike out roots at their extremeties where they touch the ground, form so many arches which support the principal trunk. The foliage of this tree was so thick, that not a drop of rain pafsed through it; and although the hurricane resounded with terrible bellowing blasts of wind, intermixed with claps of thun der, the smoke of the fire which ascended through the middle of the roof, and the flame of the lamp, were not even disturbed. The doctor admired still more the tranquillity of the Indian, and of his spouse. Their child, black and smooth as ebony, was asleep in its cradle, its mother rocked the cradle with her foot, and amused herself with making for it a necklace of Angola pease, red and black. The father cast alternately the glance of affection upon each. In short, even the house dog fhared the common happiness, lying beside the cat before the fire; he half opened from time to time his eyes and looked up to his master with complacency.

To be continued.

A VIEW OF THE PROGRESS OF THE TWO BANKS OF SCOTLAND, CONSTITUTED BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT.

The old bank.

THE original Capital of that bank which was instituted A. D. 1692 was 100,000l. divided into shares of roool. Scots, or 831. 6s. 8d. Sterling.

In the year 1773, they were allowed by act of Parliament to increase their capital to 200,000l. In the year 1784, they were allowed a farther increase of 100,cool. and last, year (1792) they obtained an act allowing them to double their capital, making it in alĮ 60,000l.

At each of these enlargements, the stock-holders had the privilege of subscribing, at par, their proportion of the increased capital.

The bank of Scotland divides 8 per cent. annually, upon their subscribed stock; and the current prices of a share (831. 6s. 8d,) before the late enlargement of Capital in 1792, with the privilege of subscribing an equal sum into the increased stock, was 250l.

The royal bank.

Has run nearly the same course, and differing only in the im mediate appropriation of profits. Their mode has been to

apply a certain proportion of their profits to an annual dividend, and to let the remainder run up to accumulated stock.

This bank was incorporated by royal charter in 1727, upon a capital of 111,000l. subscribed from the stock, and by the partners of the equivalent company.

They have since had several renewals of their charter, with aditional powers and privileges,

In the year 1783, they were allowed to increase their capital to 300,000l. and they completed that sum from their accumulated fund, without making any call upon the proprietors.

Upon the last renewal in 1788, they were empowered to increase their capital to 6c0,000l.; and, towards that enlargement, the accumulated fund was already able to afford 100,0col.; the remainder of the subscription was made up by the partners.

The annual-dividend upon the subscribed stock of the royal bank is now 54 per cent.; and the price of a share (of 1001.) from 2381. to 2431.

CONSUMPTION OF MILK IN LONDON.

From a general view of the agriculture &c. of the county of Middlesex published by the new board of agriculture.

Though the yielding of a great quantity of milk, is naturally the principal quality wished for by the London cow-keepers in the cows they purchase, yet so indifferently have they as yet succeeded in attaining that object, that though it is well known that cows in Scotland, of the true Dutch breed, yield at the rate of 16 Scotch pints, er English gallons per day, and sometimes more, yet in the neighbour. hood of London, they seldom give more than 6 gallons, even in the height of the season; indeed 5 gallons in summer and 4 in winter, is a high enough average.

The account of each cow will then stand as follows:

On the supposition that there are 600 cows necefsary for the supply of London and its suburbs, there are consequently 9,852,000 gallons of milk sold there in a year, or at an average, about 27,04 galFons daily; for which the cow-keepers get 246,300l.; and as the retailers get 15. per gallon, it costs the inhabitants of London 492,600l. per annum, or about 1350l per day, to be supplied with milk and cream. The butter consumed there comes at a greater dis tance, particularly from Epping, Cambridge, &c.

A CARD.

Edinburgh Sept. 1. 1793.

Jaques A-la Greque hereby presents his compliments to Anti-Saturnus, and after exprefsing approbation of his piece on the poison of lead &c. with all which opinions he intirely coincides; would be glad to have an explanation of the last paragraph but two, vol. xvi. p. 332, the meaning of which he is altogether at a loss to under. stand.

[The_meaning seems to be that the Bachanalians ought to avoid the poison of lead, est it should cut them off sooner even than the poisonous liquor itself they so greedily swallow; which would soon produce that effect.]

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He would also be much obliged to the author of the hints on the study of natural lis o addressed to a young ady, if he would shew by what means he came to know that "The art of printing, that choice blessing to society, was discovered by a goldsmith's fhopman trying experiments with stamping with shoe black, on wet paper from some of his master's puncheons.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

THE Communication by an observer is received and fhall be attended

to.

Philomanthes wishes to see some mathematical questions inserted in the Bee. It is with much concern the Editor observes that the study of mathematics is so much on the decline in this country at present, as to make it probable that complying with this request would prove disagrecable to a great majority of his readers. He knows nothing that indicates so much an approaching decline of useful knowledge in Britain as this does, and he would be glad to see a neat disquisition by an able hand tending to explain the cause of this alarming neglect of the funda mental principles of all true knowledge in mechanics. May it not in part be ascribed to quackery in the mode of teaching it?

** The engraver not having been able to get the plate ready that Should have accompanied this number it is delayed till the next, ra ther than to give it now in an imperfect state.

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THE BEE,

OR

LITERARY WEEKLY INTELLIGNCER,

FOR

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1793.

IVAN CZAROWITZ,

OR THE ROSE WITHOUT PRICKLES, THAT STINGS NOT,

A TALE.

WRITTEN BY HER IMPERIAL MAJESTY.

Translated from the Russian language, for the Bee.

stances.

The following little tale was given to the Editor by a gentleman of literary eminence in this place, who afsured him he might depend upon its being the performance of the august personage to whom it is ascribed, which he had access to know from particular circum.. The translation was made by the favour of a friend who is well acquainted with the language in which it is written. It is done with an elegant simplicity which the Editor considers as perhaps the rarest, and the most valuable literary acquirement. In the original the name of Hlor, is a combination of letters so unusual in English that it was thought advisable to change it into the more familiar name Iván; Tsar a title of royalty, Tsaritsa the technical word denoting the Tsar's wife, and Tsarovitch that of their eldest son, as well as a female exercising royalty, to adapt them to the English orthogrophy, are made Czar, Czarina and Czarowitz. BEFORE the times of Kij Knæse of Kieff, a Czar li ved in Russia, a good man who loved truth, and VOL. XVii.

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wished well to every body. He often travelled through his dominions, that he might know how the people lived; and every where informed himself if they acted fairly.

The Czar had a Czarina. The Czar and the Czarina lived harmoniously. The Czarina travelled with the Czar, and did not like to be absent from him.

The Czar and Czarina arrived at a certain town built on a high hill in the middle of a wood, where a son was born to the Czar, and they gave him the name Ivan. But in the midst of this joy, and of a three days festivity, the Czar received the disagreeable intelligence, that his neighbours do not live quietly, make inroads into his territories, and do many injuries to the inhabitants of the borders. The Czar took the armies that were encamped in the neighbourhood, and went with his troops to protect the borders. The Czarina went with the Czar, the Czarowitz remained in the same town and house in which he was born. The Czar appointed to him seven prudent matrons*, well experienced in the education. of children. The Czar ordered the tow to be fortified with a stone wall, having towers at the corners ; but they placed no cannon on the towers, because in those days they had no cannon. The house in which the Czarowitz remained, was built of Siberian marble and porphyry, and was very neat and conveniently laid out.

Behind the palace were

The original word is Nyanya.

These Nyanyas are generally

old women appointed to look after children.

The wet nurse in Rufs

is Kormilitsa, from the word Kormit, which signifies to feed.