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NOTE 2. 



Royal Asiatic Society's House, 



14, Grafton Street, Bond Street, 



October 20, 1827. 



To the Honourable the Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Court of Directors of the 



United East-India Company. 



Honourable Sirs : As your Honourable Court has ever been forward in promoting the interests of that 



extensive empire over which you preside, by the patronage of oriental literature, we beg leave to represent 



to your Honourable Court, that the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has resolved, wth 



the assistance of such of its members as are eminent for their knowledge of Asiatic languages, to translate 



and publish oriental works of general interest; and we, therefore, beg to solicit from your Honourable 



Court such assistance as it may be disposed to grant for the promotion of this object. 



We have the honour to be. Honourable Sirs, your most obedient humble servants, 



(Signed) H. T. Colebkooke. 



G. T. Staunton, 



E. H.East, 



Alex. Johnston, 



G. FiTZCLARENCE. 



NOTE 3. 



Sir : East-India House, 26th October 1827. 



The Court of Directors of the East-India Company have had before them the letter addressed to 

 them from the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland on the 20th instant ; 

 and I am commanded to acquaint you, that the Court have voted the sum of (f 105) one hundred guineas, 

 in aid of the Society's general funds; and that a subscription of the same amount will be contributed 

 annually from this time during the Court's pleasure. 



The donation now granted will be paid to any person whom the Society may authorize to receive it. 

 I have the honour to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient humble servant, 



J. Dart, Secretary. 

 H. T. Colebrooke, Esq., &c. &c. &c. 



NOTE 4. 



Letter from Baboo Radkacant Deb to Sir Alexander Johnston, Knight, Chairman, the Deputy Chairmen, 

 and the Committee of Correspondence of the Hoyal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. 



Gentlemen : With sentiments of respect, I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a very 

 kind letter from you, together with a copy of the Prospectus of the Society. 



Your proposal to insert my name among your correspondents is most gratifying to me ; and I beg to 

 present my best and respectful thanks for the honour the Society intends conferring, which cannot but 

 be highly acceptable to me. 



Born and residing in such a country as this, where mechanical knowledge is very little cultivated, it cannot 

 be expected that the natives should possess any elevated degree of knowledge in arts and manufactures, 

 with the exception of what they are daily practising, the scanty remains of that which their forefathers 

 have left, and the knowledge of which has descended through Mahoracdan despotism and cruelty. As 



