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ofhis professorship, Colonel Baillie was twice called into active service as political 

 agent to the Governor General in Bundelkhund, and for the zeal and ability displayed by 

 him in this capacity, he was honoured with the public thanks of the Government. In 

 the year 1801, he published a series of sixty tables, elucidatory of the first part of his 

 course of lectures at the college, on the inflexions of Arabic grammar ; and in 1802, 

 he published the two first volumes of his edition of the original texts of the five most 

 esteemed works on Arabic grammar, namely, the Mint Amil ; Shurhu Miut Amil ; 

 Misbah ; Hedayet un Nuhvi ; and the Kafeea of Ebn Hajeb. In consequence of his 

 employment in Bundelkhund, the work was not completed till 1803; and his intention 

 of publishing an English version of the third volume, and indeed all further literary 

 exertion, appears to have been put a stop to by his appointment to Lucknow, where he 

 remained till 1815. In 1818, he retired from the service, and in 1823, succeeded the late 

 Mr. Cotton as a Director of the East-India Company. 



" M. Abel Remus at was born at Paris on the 5th of September, 1788, and was 

 consequently in his fifty-fourth year at the time of his death. He was originally de- 

 signed for the medical profession, and applied himself successfully to the requisite 

 studies ; but at the same time he indulged in a taste for Oriental literature, and se- 

 lected as his principal object of pursuit in this direction ths almost inaccessible lan- 

 guage of China. He was unassisted in this task either by grammars or dictionaries, 

 for none at that period existed in print ; yet, in spite of this disadvantage, he persever- 

 ed, and succeeded in overcoming the difficulties opposed to his progress ; for it was 

 not until after he had published his Essays on the Chinese Language and Literature 

 that he became possessed of the Dictionarium Latino-Sinicum, in manuscript, of the 

 French Mission at Peking. The talents thus signally displayed at this early age by 

 M. Remusat secured him exemption from the law of conscription, so rigidly enforced 

 throughout the French empire. In connection with the Chinese, M. Remusat studied 

 the Mandchu and Tibetan langxiages ; and when in the year 1S14, at the suggestion 

 of the Baron de Sacy ; two professorships were founded in the Royal College of 

 France, for the more effectual cultivation of the Sanscrit and Chinese languages, M. 

 Remusat was nominated to fill the latter, and this hoaourable post he maintained till 

 the period ofhis decease. In 1820, he published the first volume of his Recherches 

 sur les Langues Tartares, a work in which the literature of these nations is ably dis- 

 cussed. The sequel to this work, intended to contain the original texts of which 

 translations had appeared in the first volume, has never been published. In 1822, he 

 produced his Grammar of the Chinese Language : a work arranged in a lucid and 

 methodical manner, which has reflected high credit on his abilities and acquirements. 

 M. Remusat contributed many papers of value to the Memoirs of the Academy of In- 

 scriptions ; and the notices of and extracts from the Oriental MSS. in the Biblioth£- 

 que du Roi. A few years back, he published his translation of the Chinese novel en- 

 titled Yukiao-li ; or, the Two Fair Cousins. He has left behind him three import- 

 ant works in MS., two of which, however, are unfinished : one of these is a Philo- 

 sophical Dictionary of the Budd'hist Religion, translated from one published at Pe- 

 king, in Sanscrit, Tibetan, Mandchu, Mongol, and Chinese : the second is a trans- 

 lation of the Travels of the two Chinese Priests of Budd'ha, inTartary, India, and 

 Persia, which he had undertaken to prepare for publication by the Oriental Translation 

 Fund of Great Britain and Ireland, when death, from a disease in the stomach, in- 

 tervened, and prevented the fulfilment of this intention. The third is an account of 

 the Natural History of the eastern countries of Asia ; and in this laborious enter- 

 prize he was to have been assisted by the powerful aid of the first naturalists of 

 France, and indeed of Europe, for among them may be recorded the names of Cuvier, 

 Brown, Correa de Serra, Petit Thouars, Jussieu, Valenciennes, &c. &c. 

 " On the retirement of the venerable and illustrious Baron de Sacy from the 

 President's chair of the Asiatic Society at Paris, he was succeeded by M. Remusat, 

 who retained it until his decease ; and the Baron de Sacy has since resumed the 

 office thus left vacant, at the earnest solicitation of the Society. 



