7 ries; and the Debates on it, both in Parliament and at the India-House, are given in detail. Having determined, from motives of convenience, as well as by the advice of a great number of our Subscribers, not only to make some reduction in the size of our volumes, but to confine the different departments of the work within certain limits, we were obliged, in our Account of Books, to postpone a review of some of the most interesting publications of the year. According to the plan we have adopted for reviewing works of conspicuous merit, each publication necessarily occupies a considerable space; as we give a full and complete analysis of its contents, together with illustrations whereever any part admits of embellishment, or the manner in which the author has treat ed ed it, requires to be elucidated or explained: And, when we find occasion to differ from an author, our remarks are often copious, because we are no less anxious to prove the facts we advance by the evidence of the best authorities, and to support our opinions by logical deductions drawn from the established principles of criticism, than to qualify our strictures by the most liberal construction, and invariably to temper them with moderation. This plan appears to us so well calculated to promote the interests of Asiatic Literature and Science, and to enable the Public to form correct notions on Indian affairs, that we cannot depart from it on account any partial considerations. of Of the general aspect of Political Affairs in Asia, in regard to the continuance of peace, it is only necessary to say a few words. The conclusion of the war in Europe, and the glorious termination of the campaign in Egypt, have completed the restoration of that tranquillity, of which the Mysorean conquest laid the foundation. There is no immediate prospect of any interruption to the general peace which has been thus established. The gigantic power which the British empire in India has acquired, renders her the arbitress of that part of Asia where hostilities are chiefly to be apprehended : and as peace is, at present, particularly conducive to her most essential interests, all her vast influence will be exerted to preserve it. LONDON, July 26, 1802. CONTENTS. CHAP. III. Recapitulation of the Subjects of the First and Second Chapters-Ob- fervations on the Conftitution of the Mogul Empire, and on the Political and Commercial State of India, at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century An Account of the early Intercourfe between Great Britain and India-the Origin of the English East India Company-the Firit Charter granted to that Company by, Queen Elizabeth-the Arguments againft the India Trade and the Eftablifh- ment of an exclufive Company, with the Replies to thefe Arguments-the first Trading Voyages to India, by the Company's Ships-the Embally of Sir Thomas Rowe to the Court of Jehangeer, the Emperor of Hinduftan-the Establishment of English Factories in different Parts of India, during the Reigns of that Prince, Extract of regulations relative to the difpofal of prize goods at the Cape of Good Hope Appointment of the Committee for afcertaining the progress of the Civil fervants in the Hindustance and Perfian languages Extract of a letter from an officer in the ceded diftricts Public edict, addreffed to the Receiver-general of the Customs at Canton ibid. Account of a Hindu woman facrificing herself on the funeral pile of her deceased ibid. Trial of Cruftna Posjee and Huron Cooley, at Bombay, for murder Discovery of a fubmarine grotto on the Malabar coaft Particulars of the capture and re-capture of the Calcutta Eaft-Indiaman, Capt. Some particulars of the foundering of the Thetis, extra ship ibid. Particulars of the feizure of the head of a gang of robbers, and the dispersal of Further account of the melancholy death of Capt. Pavin, at Sooloo Prohibition of the Malays from trading with any of the enemy's ports Mutiny on board the Company's fhip Unicorn Execution of the rebels at Jemaulabad Public teftimony of the Governor-general of the fervices of the Bengal Honorary badges beflowed on Ibrahim Cawn and the hávildars of the Bombay native infantry, by the Governor Capture of L'Uni, French privateer, and re-capture of the Friendship, by his Majefty's fhip Arrogant, Capt. Ofborne Rencontre between the Arniston and a French privateer Epitaph on the monument of Colonel Bruce. Appointments in the college at Calcutta Particulars of the generous and humane conduct of Capt. Lynch, in delivering eight perfons from diftrefsful captivity under the Sultan of Magindanas Major General Braithwaite's thanks to the Hon. Col. Wellefley and the army Page Lofs of the fhip Bhavani, Capt. Carfe Addrefs of the Colonial Affembly to the colony of the Ifle of France Account of the drowning of a schoolmaster, together with twenty boys, his pupils, ibid. Capture of the privateer General Malartic, by the Phoenix, Capt. Moffat Engagement between the Albatrofs_and_L'Adele Addrefs, of the British inhabitants of Bombay, to the King Addrefs from the British inhabitants of Ceylon to his Majefty, on his late pro- Engagement between the Company's cruizer Intrepid, and a French privateer Addrefs from the Cadet Company at Madras, to Capt. Armstrong Account of a malignant fever on the West Coast Prefentation of a fword to Capt. Moffat, of the Phoenix, by the order of the Account of the thipwreck of a fmall veffel bound for Columbo, wherein thir- |