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culations which seldom turn epee 
account. The resultin this respect strongly 
exemplified the truth of Milton's observa- 
tion: e 
That, not to know at large of things ¢ 
-From use, obscure and subt.e 5 but: 
That which before us lies in daily life 
Is'the prime wisdom. 
r 
now 
a. 
macy with, Alterman Ba skec iemehs 
of the East-India Company, procured his 
young relative phe appuintment. of a river 
_ in the Company’s. service... In Neti .. 
1752, he was placed on the Maaras est. ss 
oO 
ment, and about the middle ot the fol} 
month embarked at Gravesendy on board th 
Syielk Indsamag, commanded by Captain 
Wilson, for Hens of bis destination. On 
his arrival at Madras the badness of the hand 
he wrote occasiuned him to Mee ut first 
& 
e¢, tae only sch 
under tire store keepets instead. of h 
‘ployed imthe secretary's ‘ ol diaman was ‘to have followed. y inheehe ree 
in, which a general kno ¢ of the Gempa- ainder: but London v ack 
ny’s attairs can Ge pequire -) Hew > how- rom. England, 
ever, suum femoved intu the Tatrer, and from 
the instructivns of Lor Pigot, 
tectiva lig was particularly zec 
- fluent dand,. Yo this i 
in some mea i 
fisiipagtne public 
t whatever 
ng tothe maps 
and charts wiit n pul lished by Mr. 
Valeyn oH 
oO 
yu obtdinsd the patro- 
nace ir €y the. celebratedphistorisn, 
aud Mx.Dupré, tie secretary, who, by his ap 
plisation, procured him to be “profited hi 
oilice, Mr. 
deputy., Witiiijne. was. in this 
Dalrymple was assiduously suns exa- 
mining ihe 9 
FSi lity hitr- 
self, by an. antdece ‘with chen, to 
fill the. office ot secretary, which he’ was 
ia succes ssingaaippe=nest. While thus em- 
employed, h und that the commerce.of the 
Eastern Islauds was an ubject OF great consi- 
‘denation with the Company » and he conceived 
Ay pS 
Account of A. Dalrymple, "Esq. 
‘or the labours necessary to his subsistence, bea earnest desire to recover that important 
were generally devoted to those a truse spe- “object for this country. A’ favourable opp 
pose to go in the Cuddal chooner to the 
< eastward, ona voyage of ge observation, — 
- and Governor Pigot acceded ¢ plan. He 
whase pro u 
oe. d, hele wes follo 
speedily learned to write asvery. good and” 17.69 
(Aug, 1 
tunity offered for an attempt to exec 
design. Mr. Dalrymple was induced 
ed on’ the 28d: of April, 
_ accordingly em a 
Wiache' eon eae ay 
17595 on oard: 
China, ani rama sly 
° 
4A + th >. al 
At his house in igh street, Merve. arn a ive hisiphiese bee Me 
bone, in his 71st year, lex ander ees le, in| nate a in st peo tact 
esg. who, by his abilities, and tt he ‘in sec tl ee: the Win 
labour of half a century, Hee eatee ney an board the er vessel, 
well-earned reputation of ur ndisp pres jore he secret ot rder: 
emimence,in the important stiemce Pn vu rs ‘not thought paper to'a Cima 
graphy. This gentleman was born on the the peta uch a@ cargo as Was necessary 
4th of July, 1737, at New Hailes, near Edin- countries wh w regu) ar Cor: 
burgh, the seat of hig fataer, Sir James Pa nitstion, anc ev pie aie could 
bare of Hailes, His motaer was Lasy Ch _ probably by barté 
tian, 3 danghter « of the Earl of Hadington, and small ae é put on boi 4 Bey 
Alexander was the seventh son, out of six- expence of Aor, who e 9 
teen children, whom She brough x coftima cae aker, to J egy 
band... He received his edacation at a cave ng whidiewer p ight ac- 
of Mr. Dayid Young, o oe crbe bi € three: PAs oe Da 
he Jefe it t before he was teen, am at tthe age the € lore visite 
was at the University». hi scholastie attains ‘So ‘age ate A nilla is i where Mr. © 
_ meatawere gory fimived dis. Judges’ Dzl- Dalryri.p.e Chemitae treaty w as Sulean 
rymple-died in 1750; und Ge ‘eg Stas Tiled Bontlinacdedandy made a tante 
who bad. ma:yied his sister, thteagh hig inti. principal i er ac me, be bre htvw, 
the Kast-lo ageing which 
pany’: 
natives ie we sevive at 160 O per cbt 
profit, and to provide a ¢ wtgo for Shind, which 
i cogozed cee an ivalent To? 
fit.there. “Arter am absence 5 hice 
cad 
ation ing 3 # 
d resolved to sé 
years, Mr. Dalrymple 
Whe Company's ainiinis 
proved hiiproceediagsy 
the stip a i y emp thin hit in expe- 
oh iby. ie sh t first ine filed 
choc nim vald tifa proceeded in the Royal 
Gevrge 9 With part of cargos. ‘and an in-_ 
reasons, recomme 
bstituted for 
i he was ap ed by commission Caps 5 
rain of the London. ‘The unfortunate issue 
of this voyage’ may be asc 
stance, chnalithd dndi a big 
London could not find her way ou, and. 
carriedythe, re va ° China i 
whence it was | ayathen-in ~ 
ur possession, and fr ue am 
where ie. i i, befure 4 
the for ccount was settled is ps ‘ 
fval at Svoloo. Mr. ple fe that 
small pox { many of the pria- 
cipal inhabi andealpeved the rést, so. 
thot very ineffectual sures had been taken) — 
towards providing the intended cargo: and to 
this disappointment the death of Bandabars, 
svon after the former visit of the English, f 
Contributed perhaps stilt more. ‘These acci- 
dents, 
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