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HE Importance of the Commerce of India, and the Advantages of a Territorial Etablihment in Bengal, have at length awakened the Attention of the Britih Legilature to every Circumtance that may conciliate the Affections of the Natives, or enure Stability to the Acquiition. Nothing can o favourably conduce to thee two Points as a well-timed Toleration in Matters of Religion, and an Adoption of uch original Intitutes of the Country, as do not immediately clah witht the Laws or Interets of the Conquerors.

To a teady Puruance of this great Maxim, much of the Succes of the Romans may be attributed, who not only allowed to their foreign Subjects the free Exercie of their own Religion, and the Adminitration of their own civil Juridiction, but ometimes by a Po- Rh