64 Asiatic Society. [No. 133. 



3. As you have been pleased to present my Manuscript to theAsiatic Society, I have 

 the honor to solicit that you will favor me by presenting Mr. Griffith's Manuscript 

 to the Asiatic Society, with a view, that it may appear in the same volume of the So- 

 ciety's Researches, in which my Manuscript is to be printed. 



4. Mr. Griffith has offered to correct the press when he shall have arrived in 

 Calcutta. 



5. Finally, I beg to apologize for the unavoidable delay which has taken place in 

 the transmission of the accompanying Manuscript. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



(Signed) T. Cantor, 



P. W. Island, the 10th October, 1842. Assistant Presy. Surgeon. 



(True Copy.) H. V. Bayley, 



Deputy Secretary to the Government of Bengal. 



Ordered — That the thanks of the Society be returned to Government, 

 and that the MSS. be published in the Transactions. 



No. 317o/1842. 



From G. A. Bushbv, Esq. Officiating Secretary to the Government of India, to H. 

 Torrens, Esq, Secretary to the Asiatic Society. Fort William, the 1th Decem- 

 ber, 1842. 

 Political Department. 



Sir, — I am directed by His Honor the President in Council to forward to you for 

 submission to the Asiatic Society, the accompanying Fac Simile of an Ancient Inscrip- 

 tion recently discovered in Aden, by work people employed in excavating a new road, 

 together with transcript of a letter from the Political Agent at Aden to the Secretary 

 to the Bombay Government, forwarding the same, with his observations, 



I have the honor to be, Sir, 



Your most obedient Servant, 

 Fort William, the 7th December, 1842. G. A. Bushby, 



Officiating Secretary to the Government of India. 



Ordered — That the letters be duly acknowledged, and that Captain 

 Haynes' letter with a lithograph of the Inscription be referred to the Secre- 

 tary for early publication in the Journal. 



Read extracts from private letters of Major Troyer to Mr. Torrens and 

 to Baboo Ram Comul Sen, enquiring as to the transcription of the Vedas 

 for the French Government. The Hon'ble the President stated that this 

 had been a private account between the late Mr. J as. Prinsep and the 

 French Government, and that on the retirement of M. Guizot from office, 

 the allowance of 1500 francs annually had been stopped; that the accounts 

 had been duly rendered ; and that there was even a small balance due. Upon 

 enquiry of Kamalakanta Pundit, who had conducted the Benares corres- 

 pondence, he stated, that about "seven anas" 7-16ths were copied and 

 sent, and that the remainder 9-lGths could be obtained whenever cash 



