144 MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. 



In 1877, Mr. Hervey having extracted it from the 

 " Weekly Register ", had a few copies of the Maritime Code 

 printed for private distribution. Mr. W. E. Maxwell, who 

 obtained a copy, was struck by the internal evidence and 

 by some remarks of Newbold pointing to Sir Stamford 

 Raffles as being" the true though unacknowledged author of 

 this paper ; and communicated to the Society his reasons 

 for thinking so in a short Memorandum. It was shortly 

 after ascertained that Mr. Maxwell's suspicions were 

 correct, and that Sir Stamford Raffles had in fact commu- 

 nicated this paper to the " Asiatic Researches " in 1809. 



The question, however, still remains: how came the editor 

 of the" " Weekly Register " to be ignorant of this ? there 

 can be little doubt that he published the paper from M.S. S. 

 for it is full of errors which would be otherwise un- 

 accountable. 



But how did he come across the M. S. S. ? Possibly 

 they were left by Raffles with some friend in Malacca, and 

 after changing hands were ultimately made use of by the 

 Editor of the Weekly Register. In Raffles ' Memoirs by 

 his widow, ed. 1830, extracts are given of the paper as it 

 appeared in the " Researches," and a comparison of thes( 

 with the Code as re-printed in the Malacca paper, shews 

 that in places the latter is the more full of the two, which 

 suggests the inference that it was printed from the original 

 and unre vised M. S. S. of the author. It would be interest- 

 ing to discover these if they are still extant in Malacca. 



The errors in the Code as it appears in the Weekly 

 Register, are numerous, and many of them important. Th e 

 bulk of these have been corrected in the present re-print 

 by Mr. Maxwell and Mr. Hervey, who have also appended 

 a few explanatory Notes. The " Maritime Code" alone is 

 in this Number, the "Remarks" being reserved for the 

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