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be such a destruction of their hopes, as the experience of British rule had 

 by no means prepared them for. And your Memorialists are well assured, 

 that if your Honorable Court shall deem it inexpedient to alter that appro- 

 priation of the Parliamentary fund, which the local Government has 

 determined upon, you will readily and cheerfully devise some other means 

 of continuing that encouragement to the cause of Asiatic literature, which 

 reflected honor on the hand that dispensed it. 



Your Memorialists, therefore, humbly pray, that your Honorable Court 

 will be pleased to continue the encouragement hitherto afforded to the 

 revival of learning among its native subjects, and to direct that such rea- 

 sonable sum may be supplied from the territorial revenues, as may be 

 sufficient for promoting amongst the natives at large the study of the 

 ancient language and literature of their country." 



Resolved unanimously, that the Draft be approved and adopted, and the 

 Memorial signed by the President, on the part of the Society, be transmitted 

 without delay to the Honorable Court, through the local Government. 



The Secretary reported the general opinion of the Committee of Papers, 

 in favor of continuing the publication of the " Researches," in the quarto 

 form, which was accordingly Resolved. 



The report of the Committee of Papers, on the proposition of the Catho- 

 lic Bishop of Isoropolis, was submitted, as well as a letter from Govern- 

 ment, declining to patronize the publication of his Cochin-Chinese and 

 Latin Dictionary. 



Resolved, that the Bishop be made acquainted with the unfortunate 

 result of the application to Government; and with the great regret of the 

 Society, at having of itself no means to undertake such a work : with an 

 offer also, should it meet his wishes, to transmit the manuscripts home 

 to the Royal Asiatic Society, of which the Oriental Translation Commit- 

 tee may probably be induced to undertake the publication. 



The Secretary submitted the determination and arrangements of the 

 Committee of Papers, in regard to the Oriental Publications made over by 

 Government. 



[The substance of these will be found in the Prospectus published with the 

 July No.] 



Library. 



The following Books were presented. 



Notes of Lectures delivered at the College Hall of Madras, by G. Noton, 

 Esq., Advocate Genl. of Madras, on the system of Government and adminis- 

 tration of Justice in India — by Cavelly Venkata Laxmiah, through Kumar 

 Radhacant Deb. 



Col. Beaufoy's Hydraulic and Nautical Experiments — by his Son, the publisher . 



The Indian Journal of Medical Sciences, No. 21, for September — by the Editor. 



Meteorological Register, for July, 1835 — by the Surveyor General. 



Hutchinson's Report on the Medical Management of the Native Jails through- 

 out the territories subject to the Governments of Fort William and Agra — by the 

 Author. 



Museum. 



A letter from H. Blundele, Esq. Commissioner at Arracan, presented 

 for the Society's museum, a cast metal Drum, as a specimen of the skill of 

 the rude and barbarous tribes on the northern frontier of the Moulmein 

 district, called the Red Kayrens. An extract from Dr. Richardson's MS. 

 journal of his mission to the Shan countries was read in explanation. 



[This Journal should have been published long since; but it has been accident- 

 ally mislaid — we refrain from publishing the extract, in hoi es of obtaining another 

 copy of the whole.] 



A letter from M. Des Noyers, of the Mauritius, acknowledging his 

 election as an Honorary Member, and presenting a stuffed " Devil," ( Das- 

 yurus Ursus,) from New South Wales. 



