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PRINTED FOR T. CADELL

LONDON:

AND W. DAVIES, (BOOKSELLERS TO THE
ASIATIC SOCIETY) IN THE STRAND; AND BLACK, PARRY, AND
KINGSBURY, (BOOKSELLERS TO THE HONOURABLE THE EAST-INDIA
COMPANY) IN LEADENHALL-STREet.

1811.

PREFACE.

THE proprietors are afraid that, in their wish to relieve the anxiety of some, and to gratify the curiosity of other readers, by the early publication of the eleventh volume of the Asiatic Register, they send it forth to the public in an imperfect form, and under other disadvantages, which more time and leisure might have enabled them to avoid. But their first endeavour is to bring up a long arrear of historical matter, in as speedy a manner as may be, so as to permit their publication to keep pace with the public interest, which has been excited, in a very unusual degree, by late occurrences at the several Indian presidencies. In promoting one desirable object, they are aware that they may have failed in another.

The volume for 1809, now published, presents the first detailed and connected view of the events of a year, as interesting as in any like period of Indian history. These events are substantially described in the Chronicle, and under the dates and places of occurrence, and are more particularly explained by official documents and correspondence, in an ample series of

State Papers. To assist the reader further, in the comprehension of certain circumstances, not adequately described or treated in the Indian accounts, some chapters are prefixed to the Chronicle, partaking of the character of an historical, or more methodized narrative, and indulging, perhaps, more than is strictly allowable in such a province, in animadversions on the transactions in detail. This latter is the only new feature in the present volume, as premised, and, indeed, promised, in the prefatory observations to the last.

The volume for 1810-11, for it will be more convenient and useful to enlarge, in future, the scope of the publication, by including a blended period of two years, will be published, it is hoped, at the commencement of 1812, continuing the account of current events to the latest possible date.

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