Siyar al-mutaʾakhkhirin 42.28.5

42.28.5

for coals may be had in Cape Breton and all over Nova Scotia, even at the surface, but surely at no greater expense than digging five or six feet; whereas in Old England, digging for coals, and bringing them up to the surface, required an immense deal of ingenuity and a most expensive machinery." This letter contained likewise a variety of new remarks upon America and England respectively. These two Pamphlets Colonel Monson sent to England, after having declared here, that they considered a subject already trite, under a new point of view. But they were immediately followed by a letter, intituled State of Europe in 1800. This also was a novel subject treated in an original manner. All three were sent to England, anonymous, all three were printed in London with not a single note of emendation, and all three passed for done by an Englishman. The reviewers in giving a list of the new works printed, mentioned them both, without adding a word of encomium or blame, and just as they had mentioned fifty more publications, of which they only indicated the contents and date. This last transaction, Mr. Champain, now at Dacca, is well informed of; indeed, the author of these three pamphlets never kept a copy of any of these papers, and he had forgot them totally. But the gentleman having chanced to find him in 1779 at a certain Armenian girl's, called Mrs. Drivers, he mentioned the letter on the year 1800, and told him that he knew more of it than was suspected; for he had a copy of it.