VI PREFACE. 



some sacrifice and risk. Had our edition been sufficiently ex- 

 tensive to allow a large reserve for future sale, there might 

 have been hopes of retrievement — but the 500 copies have all 

 disappeared, and of our early volumes it is almost impossible 

 now to procure a copy. The only method, then, left to meet 

 this difficulty, is to levy a heavier assessment on our supporters 

 for the future ; and to this step, however reluctantl}-, we shall 

 be obliged to resort from the beginning of the year 1837, still 

 always adhering to our engagement of giving the maximum 

 of matter for our means, and reminding our subscribers that 

 we are not in fact heightening our charge, but enlarging our 

 work ; seeing that from 82 pages we have gradually augment- 

 ed the monthly quota to 80, a quantity which experience has 

 proved to be more than can be covered by a rupee subscrip- 

 tion. Our rates from 1837, therefore, will be 1^ rupee per 

 number to subscribers, and two rupees to others. The pecuni- 

 ary details on which this measure is founded are as follows : 



Payments. 1836. Receipts. 



Co.'s Rs. A. P. Co.'s Rs. A. P. 



To Balance due 1st Jan... 6/5 3 7 By Collections in 1836,.. 4319 



To Establishment one year, 175 7 By Asiatic Society for co- 



To Postages, .; 143 14 3 pies supplied to Mem. 



To Binding 209 4 7 bers in 1835, 1088 



To Printer's Bill dis- By sale in England, 336 8 



charged, 4277 9 6 



To Engravings and Litho- 

 graphs, 1566 5 



7047 12 5743 9 1 

 Outstandings. Dependencies. 

 To printing Bills unpaid By Subscriptions due for 



for 1836, 5221 1836, in Calcutta, 960 13 3 



Ditto Mofussil, 1100 



Ditto Memb. As. Soc. .. 1284 



Ditto Madras, 777 15 



Ditto Bombay, 830 3 9 



Ditto Ceylon, 183 10 7 



12,268 12 10,880 3 8 



Loss, supposing all the outstanding claims realizable, 1,388 8 



If, in our last volume, we could not refrain from noticing, as 

 the most prominent object of interest in its contents, the sus- 

 pension of oriental publications by the British Indian Govern- 

 ment, and the general discouragement under which oriental 

 studies were doomed to languish ; we must not on the present 

 occasion omit to make honorable mention of the patronage and 



