In w hat manner did you aicertain the number of Newspapers circulated by von within the period ot the three years ending the gth January 1801, and in each fubfecment year?- 1 he circulation ot Newspapers being principally confined to the General Poft Nights, at the period when the original Returns claiming compenfation were Submitted to the Poftmafter proportion in arithmetic, thus, if 21 quires 10 papers produced on Such average £. 378. o. 6. which was the amount of my fixed income, what would the number of Papers circulated within the year produce, which being found, the product was deducted from 378. o. 6. and compensation claimed for the difference. . ' . n ,, What induced vou to adopt this mode?— I believe it arofe from its being the leaft trouble- Some and from considering that if the original average was juftly and truly formed, its refult in a number of vears taken together would be pretty nearly correct, as I find from an Account I have made up of the actual profits of my own Road in the firft five years after the arrange- 1 . . 1 i i R. I. A I^ + K/- » A/,/, r » nntc m; u P nr* rnr pnmnpniatiMn