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SELECTIONS

FROM

CALCUTTA GAZETTES

OF THE YEARS

1806 to 1815 inclusive,

SHOWING THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF
THE ENGLISH IN INDIA UPWARDS OF

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Published under the sanction of the Government of India.

CALCUTTA:

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT GOVERNMENT PRINTING.

1868.

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PREFACE.

A fourth volume of "Selections from Calcutta Gazettes,” bringing the reader up to a comparatively modern date, cannot be expected to contain so many curiosities as its predecessors, although it furnishes many items of interest which might otherwise be lost or forgotten in the lapse of time.

The present volume embraces a period of ten years, from 1806 to 1815, or the third year of the rule of the Marquis of Hastings, to the conclusion of peace in Europe.

Accompanying the volume are a map of Bengal as it existed in the year 1769, and a plan and view of Calcutta in the year 1756, when there were but seventy houses in the Town, when the site of the present Fort was a jungle, and modern Chowringhee, with other parts of the Town, consisted of bamboo groves and paddy fields. For the reproduction of these maps, I am indebted to the kindness of Captain Melville, of the Survey Department. They belong rather to the first than to the present volume of the series of Collections.

RECORD COMMISSION,

15th October, 1868.

HUGH SANDEMAN.

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