plain rice, with a few vegetables, stewed, much the same as for a curry, but without its catalogue of spices, compose the ordinary bill of fare. It cannot be owing to any thing favorable in the climate, which is peculiarly unhealthy. The hospital for the reception of natives requiring suigical assistance, now supported in Calcutta by voluntary contribution, was founded about the year 1793 ; before which time, those unfortunate persons who met with accidents had no asylum, wherein they could find either solace or remedy. The establishment is, as yet, rather limitted ; but, it is to be hoped, will, in the course of a few years, rise superior to the disadvantages under which it labors, in conse-quence of the great expence incurred in lodging the patients, many of whom labor under coin-plaints purely clinical; contrary to the first intention, and indeed, to the first proposal for such a charity, which was started about 1791, in a letter published in ' the World,' (a Cal-cutta weekly paper,) addressed to the Reverend Owen, one of the chaplains at the Presidency.

In that letter was suggested the expediency of causing all those deformed persons who infest the streets of Calcutta, in quest of elecmosynary aid, to be sent to some hospital, which should likewise accommodate such natives as might be injured by accidents within the city. The