1835.] Biographical sketch of CoL Machenzie. 355 



documents^ and charts of different descriptions, suppos- 

 ed to be in depot with the present government. 



ir. MILITARY. 



Of military plans numerous pieces exist still, though 

 some of them, particularly connected with the views of 

 the late government, are unattainable, and supposed to 

 be lost in the confusion attending the victory and re- 

 treat of CoRNELis ; those remaining appear in the regis ■= 

 ter. There is reason to think that much of the con- 

 tents of the depots at the Bureau de Genie, and that 

 of military movements, were lost at the period referred 

 iOj or carried off. 



in. TERRITORIAL. 



Of the resources and revenues of the island, the 

 whole, it is believed, are saved of the numerous me- 

 moirs, reports, and productions arising from the dis- 

 cussions and plans of reform of late years, where the 

 opinions and sentiments of the most intelligent and ex- 

 perienced men in India and Holland are to be found — 

 the result of their reasoning, with a vast body of infor- 

 mation in memoirs^ reports, and documents,* in the 

 depots of archives which, previous to the late government 

 of Marshal Daendels, were preserved on a regular sys- 

 tematic plan : the indexes, or rather abstracts of the 

 proceedings and resolutions of the government from its 

 first establishment, were particularly curious ; under the 

 heads Realia, Secret Realia, Personalia, and Miscel- 



* The whole of the voluminous minutes, correspondence, and 

 proceedings of the commission sent from Holland in 1793, of 

 which Mr. Medenburg was president, and which terminated in 

 1800, are deposited in a great almyra or cabinet. Mr. Medenburg 

 afterwards returned to Holland, and was one of the leading mem- 

 bers of the Secret Committee on India affairs that sat at the 

 Hague, whose final report in 1807 seems to have been the basis 

 on which the plans adopted by the late government of Holland 

 for their oriental colonies were founded» 



