enlarged and magnanimous a plan of policy. To
the French nation alone, therefore, was reserved the honour of setting
an example of wisdom and humanity, which, I trust, will not,
hereafter, be so uncommon in the history of mankind."

The illiberality of his contemporaries, it may be remarked, is not one
of the least evils with which a mind advanced beyond their standard,
has to contend; but he has always one consolation in which he may take
refuge--the time will come when the gratitude of science and humanity
will vindicate his views, though charity, perhaps, forbid their
jealousy and prejudices to be remembered as a contrast. Nations never
more injure themselves in opinion, which is so closely connected with
their best interests, than when, from narrow policy and unfounded
suspicions, they obstruct, or attempt to obstruct, the prosecution of
undertakings which have the welfare of our common nature for their
object. The best apology which it is possible to make for them in such
cases, is, that they are too ignorant to comprehend how the general
improvement of human concerns implies the enlargement of their own
advantages.--E.

[108] The English settled here in the year 17O2, when the factory of
Chusan, on the coast of China, was broken up, and brought with them
some Macassar soldiers, who were hired to assist in building a fort;
but the president not fulfilling his engagement with them, they
watched an opportunity, and one night murdered all the English in the
fort. Those without the fort hearing a noise, took the alarm, and ran
to their boats, very narrowly escaping with their lives, but not
without much fatigue, hunger, and thirst, to the Johore dominions,
where they were treated with great humanity. Some of these afterward
went to form a settlement at Benjar-Massean, on the island of Borneo.-
-_East India Directory_, p. 36.

[109] Mr Bingley informs us, that buffaloes have been introduced into some
of the countries of Europe, where they are now perfectly naturalized.
Thus in Italy they are said to constitute an essential part both of
the riches and the food of the poor. So far as the writer knows, they
have not yet been brought into England, and, indeed, notwithstanding
the high opinion entertained of their good qualities, he thinks it
doubtful if they would prove any acquisition to