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and natural history of India and the Indian seas; from the knowledge acquired by the 

 Frenchlnstitute, while in Egypt, relative to that country and its connection with Asia; 

 and finally, from her having established at Paris a society, whose sole object is to carry 

 on researches relative to the literature and science of Asia, must be considered as one of 

 the most able and efficient coadjutors, which the Royal Asiatic Society of Great 

 Britain and Ireland can have, in prosecuting the researches for which it was instituted. 



For these reasons, the Committee have already opened a communication with sonic 

 of the governments, and with many of the most distinguished characters on the con- 

 tinent of Europe; and have received from all of them the most encouraging assu- 

 rances of co-operation and literary assistance. Monsieur Faick,* Baron Bulow, Count 

 Ludolf, Count Moltke, and Baron Cetto, the Ministers at the British Court, from the 

 Netherlands, Prussia, Naples, Denmark, and Bavaria, will procure for the Society an 

 accurate account of all the collections of Oriental manuscripts in Prussia, Naples, 

 Rome, Denmark, Bavaria, the Netherlands, the archives of the late Dutch East- 

 India Company, the island of Java, and all the Dutch possessions in Asia. Count 

 Funchal, the Minister of Portugal at Rome, will draw up for the Society a pricis 

 of all the information which the Portuguese possess relative to Asia ; and Lord 

 Stuart de Rothsay, the English Ambassador at Rome, will, as soon as his Portuguese 

 manuscripts are arranged, allow the Committee to look over such of them as relate 

 to the different Portuguese settlements in the East-Indies. 



With respect to France, the Committee beg leave to report, that they have on every 

 occasion received the most ready, and most material assistance from Prince Polignac, 

 the French ambassador at this Court; and that they feel it their duty, in referring the 

 Society to the letter, of which the annexed is a translation (See Note 6), from Mons. 

 Abel Remusat to Sir Alexander Johnston, most particularly to call the attention of 

 the Society to the very cordial and friendly manner in which the Duke of Orleans, as 

 President of the Asiatic Society at Paris, and all the Members of that Society, received 

 the communication which Sir Alexander Johnston made to them upon the subject of 

 Mr. Danicll's proposal to publish, under the patronage of the Royal Asiatic Society of 

 Great Britain and Ireland, his very valuable collection of drawings of different parts 

 of India. 



* Monsieur Falck is descended from a family wliose services in India have been productive of the 

 greatest benefit to the Dutch East-India possessions, and is a cousin of tlie late Dutch Governor of 

 the Island of Ceylon, William Emanuel Falck, whose name is still revered on that island, and is invariably 

 associated in the minds of the natives of the country with the idea of the most impartial justice and 

 the purest integrity. Sir Alexander Johnston, out of respect to the memory of this great man, has presented 

 to the Royal Asiatic Society a very interesting drawing, in which Governor Falck is represented as 

 signing, in the presence of his Council and the Candian ambassadors, the treaty of 17G6, by which 

 the King of Candia ceded to the Dutch East-India Company the whole circumference of the island of 

 Ceylon, the acquisition of which bad been the principal object of their policy from the time they first got 

 possession of that island. 



