[36] See Montesquieu’s Works. London 1777, vol. i. p. 180. [37] This nabob of _Arcate_ or _Arcot_, is merely a nominal prince. His whole territories are beset with English troops; and he is suffered to exist, as is the case with many others, merely that it may appear as if the country were actually ruled by native Indian or at least Oriental princes. _F._ [38] The author here means, without doubt, Mr. Christian Frederick Schwarz, missionary at Tanjaur, sent thither by the English Society for promoting Christian knowledge. This missionary, in the 51st part of the _New History of the Evangelic Missionary Establishments in India_, p. 275-284, has defended the newly-converted Christians there against the illiberal accusations of Secretary Montgomery Campbell, and clearly shewn that the avaricious British commissaries, by their oppression and extortion, are the cause of the poverty of the country and of the wretched state of agriculture.--The author calls Mr. Schwarz a Dane. He has probably been led into this mistake by his connection with the Danish missionaries at Tranquebar; for, as far as I know, Mr. Schwarz is a German. _F._ [39] _Tapissendis_ is a general name given to the cotton stuffs procured from India. They are partly painted and partly printed with wooden blocks. _Gingam_ is properly the name given to those cotton stuffs which come from Bengal and the coast of Coromandel. They are distinguished by this particular circumstance, that a thread made from the bark of a tree is interwoven with the cotton. _A._ This information respecting the difference between the _Tapissendis_ and _Gingams_ is new. It is, however, a pity that the author did not give the name of the tree which produces the bark employed in manufacturing the latter. Had he made it known, he would have deserved thanks from all naturalists and technologists.--In Madagascar, the inhabitants of the sea-coast manufacture, from the long leaves of a tree called by them _Vattulala_, but which is no farther known to botanists, a kind of very strong stuffs, sometimes as fine as the best camblet, and frequently employed by the women at the Cape of Good Hope to make under-petticoats. _F._ [40] _Tirunaveli_, near the fortress _Palamotta_, is called also, on the modern maps, _Tinivelly_. _F._