:

Monday, the 28th of July, on which of directors, are published for gedate the interest thereon will cease. neral information : The remainder will be applied by Extract from a letter from the hothe commissioners in the purchase norable the court of directors, of the bonds and notes of this go- dated the 25th of Muy, 1798. vernment, on tenders being made Par. 105. “ You will have obto them in the usual manner. Pub- served by our dispatches from ijine lished by order of the honorable to time, that we have invariably the governor-general in council. manifested, as the occasion requi

Thos. Brown, red, our disposition for the encouActing chief-sec. to the govt. ragement of Indian literature; we

understood it has been of late Fort William, Public Department, years a frequent practice among our

June 27, 1806. The honorable the governor, make collections of Oriental manu

servants, especially in Bengal, to general in council has been pleased to direct, that the following extract scripts, many of which have afterfrom a letter from the select com

wards been brought into this counmittee of supra cargoes at Canton, hands, and being likely in a course

try. These remaining in private dated the 30th of March, 1806, of time to pass to others, in which and received this day, be published for general information.

probably no use can be made of " In consequence of a scarcity them, they are in danger of being of grain which has been suffered of neglected, and at length, in a great late by the inhabitants of this pro

measure, lost to Europe, as well as vince, the happo, or superintend- matter of greater regret, because

to India, We think this issue a ing magistrate of the port of Canton, we apprehend, that since the decline has given public notice by an edict, of the Mugul empire, the encouwhich has been communicated to us through the channel of the Hong Persian literature has ceased, that

ragement formerly giverr in it to merchants, that any vessels importing rice will be admitted free of hardiy any new works of celebrity measurage, and exempted from the appear, and that few copies of book's

of established character are now payment of other duties, provided made; so that there being by the that they arrive before the month accidents of time, and the exportaof October next, and we think it

tion of many of the best manuright to apprize your honorable board of this circumstance, and to

scripts, a progressive diminution of request that notice thereof may be

the original stock, Hindoostao may given to the merchants of Calcutta.”

at length be much thinned of its Published by order of the honor

literary stores, without greatly en

. To prevent in able the governor-general in coun- riching Europe. eil.

part this injury to letters, we have Thos. Brown.

thought that the institution of a Acting chief sec. 1o govt. Oriental writings, would be useful,

public repository in this country for Fort William, Public Department, and that a thing professedly of this June 27, 1805.

kind, is still a bibliothical desideThe following extracts from ratum here. It is not our meaning letters from the honorable the court that the company should go into

any considerable expence in forming a collection of Eastern books, but we allot apartments for the purpose of think the India house might, with our Oriental repository in the addiparticular propriety, be the centre tional buildings then erecting in of an ample accumulation of that Leadenhall-street, and that all nature, and conceiving also that Eastern manuscripts transmitted to gentlemen might chuse to lodge va- that repository, would be careluily luable compositions, where they preserved and registered there." could be safely preserved, and be- 28. “ We have now to inform come useful to the public, we you, that the apartments for the therefore desire it to be made Oriental library, being completed known that we are willing to allot according to our intentions, bave a suitable apartment for the purpose been placed under the charge of of an Oriental repository, in the Mr. Charles Wilkins, formerly of additional buiidings now erecting our civil service in Bengal, and that in Leadenhall-street, and that all a considerable number of manuEastern manuscripts transmitted to scripts, and printed books, upon that repository, will be carefully Oriental subjects, with objects of preserved and registered there." natural history and curiosity, have

106. “ By suchi a collection the already been placed in it, among literature of Persian and Mahome- which are many valuable presents dan India, may be preserved in this from individuals and public bodies country, after, perhaps, it shall, in this country." from further changes, and the fur- 29.

“ As our original views in ther declension of taste for it, be establishing this library have by no partly lost in its original seats.” means been abandoned, and we

107. “ Nor would we confine still entertain hopes, that the invithis collection to Persian and 'Ara- tation held out to individuals in bian manuscripts. The Sanscrit India, in the above mentioned parawritings, from the long subjection graphs, would be successful, if of the Hindoos to foreign govern- properly seconded by our supreme ment, from the discouragements government, we again refer you to their literature in consequence ex- them, and desire that the subject perienced, and from the ravages of may be entered into with alacrity time, must have suffered greatly; and zeal.” The new building in we should be glad, therefore, that Leadenhall-street, being prepared copies of all the valuable books for the reception of books, coins, which remain in that language, or or other articles which may

be

prein any ancient dialects of the Hin- sented for the Oriental library and doos might, through the industry of museum of the honorable court, individuals, at length be placed in the public are hereby informed,, safety in this island, and forin a that whatever books in any of the part of the proposed collection."

Asiatic languages, or other articles Extract from a letter from the ho- coming within the object of the

norable the court of directors, honorable couri's collection, may dated the 5th of June, 1805. be transmitted to the secretary to Par. 26. “ In our public letter 'the government in the public deof the 25th of May, 1798, para- partment, for the purpose of being graphs 105, 106, and 107, we in- presented to the honorable the court formed you of our willingness to of directors, will be duly forwarded.

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By order of the honorable the go- treasury notes or treasury bills of vernor-general in council.

this government ; accepted bills of Thos Brown, exchange drawn on the governorActing chief-sec. to the govt. general

in council, after deducting

in. rest at the rate of six rupees, Fort William, Accountant-General's thirteen annas, and six pice per

Office, June 25, 1806. Notice is hereby given, that the cent. per annum for the period treasury notes of this government, bills for arrears of salary, whe

which the bills may have to run ; which may be outstanding from No. 2,083 to No. 2,310 inclusive, advertised for payment or not ; and,

ther the same shall have been will be discharged on application at the general treasury, on Thurs- generally, all authorized public

demands. day, the 3d July, on which day the

3d. The paymasters of the army interest thereon will cease. H. ST. G. TUCKER,

are also authorized to transfer any

demands which may be payable by Accountant-General.

them respectively to this loan, and JULY.

to grant drafts for the amount in Fort William, Accountant-General's the usual manner on the military

Office, July 9, 1806. paymaster-general, which drafts Notice is hereby given, that the shall be received by the several treasury notes of this government, officers above-mentioned, in paywhich may be outstanding from ment of subscriptions, on being No. 2,501 to No. 2,700 of 1805-6 tendered to them for that purpose. inclusive, will be discharged on ap- 4th. Subscriptions to the loan plication at the general treasury, on will be received at a discount of Thursday, the 17th instant, on two per cent, that is, for every which day the interest thereon will subscription of one hundred and

two sicca rupees, a receipt will be H. St. G. TUCKER, granted, entitling the subscriber to Accountant-General. a promissory note for one hundred

sicca rupees, to be issued on the Fort William, Public Department, terms of the present loan. July 10, 1806.

5th. The treasury. notes of this The public are hereby informed, government, bearing an interest of that the sub-treasurer at the pre- ten per cent. per annum, and the sidency, the resident at Lucknow, public obligations of government and the several collectors of the generally which bear that rate of land revenue, have been authorized interest, will be received, until to receive, until further orders, further notice, in subscription on any sums of money in even hun- this loan at par. dreds, (not being less than sicca ru- 6th. The sicca rupee of Luck* pees one thousand) which may be now and Benares, will be re

tendered on loan to the honourable ceived as equal to the Calcutta sicca company, at an interest of eight per rupee. cent. per annum, as hereafter spe- 7th. A receipt will be granted cified.

for each subscription, bearing inte2d. The above-mentioned officers rest at the rate of ten per cent. per have been authorized to receive, in annum from the date of such retransfer to this loan, all outstanding ceipt, until the fifteenth of FebruVol.9.

ary

cease.

ary next, when the accounts of rest either in cash at the general this loan will be made up.

treasury at the presidency, or by 8th. The interest wbich may be bills to be drawn by the governotdue on the ofteenth February next, general in council on the honorable on receipts granted for subscriptions the court of directors, at the exto this loan, will be paid in cash at change of twoshillings and sixpence the general treasury at the presi- the sicca rupee, payable twelve dency, or at the treasuries of the monthsafter sight; provided always resident at Lucknow, or of the in the latter case, that the interest collectors of the ceded and con- for wbich bills may be so required, quered provinces, in cases where amount to the sum of fifty pounds the subscriptions shall have been sterling, at the least, and no bills made at those treasuries respectively, will be granted for any smaller and for the principal, a promissory amount, note or notes will be granted, bear- uth. For the accommodation of ing date the fifteenth of February, persons returning to Europe, the 1807, and be numbered and regis- subscribers to this loan, their exetered in the order in which the re- cutors, adniinistrators, or assigns, ceipts may be presented at the shall be entitled, on application to accountant-general's office. the governor-general in council, to

gth. The principal of the pro- have their promissory notes (promissory notes shall be payable, vided they amount to the principal either in Bengal, under the rules sum of sicca rupees 1,000) depoestablished for the payment of the sited in charge of the sub-treasurer register debt now existing, or by for the time being at the risk, and bills to be drawn by the governor- under the security of the company. generalin councilon the honourable Anacknowledgment will be granted the court of directors, at the ex- by that officer for the promissory change of twoshillings and sixpence notes so deposited with him ; and the sicca rupee, payable twelve the interest accruing thereon will months after sight, (which bills shall be remitted, as it shall become due, be granted at any time on the by bills on the terms above-menapplication of the proprietor of the tioned, which bills will be forwardnotes, either when the principaled by the deputy-accountant-geneshall have become payable in Ben- ral to the proprietor, his agent or gal, or at any earlier period ;) and assign, according to the instrucany bills which may be so granted tions which may be given for that will, if the proprietor desire it, be purpose. forwarded by the deputy-account- 12th. All applications to the ant-general in the public packets governor-general in council, to have to him, or his agent or assign accord- promissory notes deposited in the ing to the instructions which may treasury, must be accompanied by be given for that purpose.

the notes so to be deposited, 10th. The interest of the pro- and directions must be written in missory notes shall be payable balf- the following terms, on the face yearly, viz. on the 15th February and across the lines of each note, and 15th August, from year to year, and be attested by the signature of until the principal shall be dis- the proprietor, or his constituted charged, and it shall be at the op- attorney or attornies. tion of the proprietors of the notes “ The interest accruing halfto receive payment of such inte

yearly,

cease.

yearly on this promissory note, and for an order to the sub-treasurer to the principal, as it shall become receive the promissory notes in depayable, according to the order es- posit, and will forward the acknowtablished for the discharge of the ledgment of that officer to the proregister debt, are to be remitted prietor of the notes, or to his agent (unless it shall be hereafter directed or assign, according to the instructo the contrary) by bills to be tions which may be furnished him drawn on the honorable the court for that purpose. of directors, pursuant to the tenor of this promissory note, and the Fort William, Accountant General's other conditions of this loan, pub

Office, July 25, 1806. lished in the Calcutta gazette of

Notice is hereby given, that the the Joth July, 1806, payable to treasury notes of this government, and be forwarded to

which may be outstanding from but this promissory note

No.2,851 to No. 3,050, of 1805-6. shall not be pledged, sold, or in any application at the general treasury,

inclusive, will be discharged on manner negotiated, or delivered up .to any person whomsoever, nor are

on Thursday, the 31st instant, on these directions with respect to the which day the interest thereon will mode of payment, of the interest

H. St. G. TUCKER,

Accountant General. or principal to be in any manner altered, except on application to the

Fort William, Public Department, governor-general in council, to be

July 25, 1806. made by myself, my executors, or The public are hereby informed, administrators, or under the autho- that the sum expected to be appli. rity of a special power of attorney, cable to the redemption of the pubspecifying the number, date, and lic debt by the commissioners of the amount of this promissory note, to sinking fund in the month of Aug. be executed by me or them, for is sicca rupees 3,00,000. Of this that purpose."

sum sicca rupees, 48,000 will be 13th. For the satisfaction of per- applied to the discharge of the sons who may propose to return to bonds and notes of the general reEurope before the period prescribed gister of 1792-3, from No. 4,736 for the final adjustment of the to No. 4,750, both inclusive, on accounts of this loan, and who may Monday, the 25th of August, on be desirous of availing themselves which date the interest will cease. of the accommodation offered them The remainder will be applied by under the foregoing articles, the the commissioners in the purchase deputy-accountant-general will, on of the bonds and notes of this gotheir part, write the declaration vernment, on tenders being made above prescribed on the promissory to them in the usual manner. notes, provided he shall receive in-. Published by order of the structions for that purpose by an honourable the governor-general indorsement to be executed on the in council. receipt or receipts, under the sig

Thos. Brown, nature of the proprietor, or his

Chief Sec. to Govt. constituted attorney or attornies. The deputy-accountant-general will

AUGUST. also make the necessay application

Whereas doubts have been ento the governor-general in council tertained whether under sections

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XII.