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on which he collected during the recent voyages which he made to 

 Borneo, and many of the islands in the Eastern Archipelago. 



The following circumstances show that various descriptions of per- 

 sons in Egypt, Arabia, India, Malacca, and China, are anxious to ac- 

 quire literary fame themselves ; to respect those who have distinguish- 

 ed themselves by their scientific discoveries ; to promote the improve- 

 ment of the condition of their fellow-creatures, and to co-operate with 

 the Society in the attainment of the objects which they have in view. 



In Egypt, the Pasha of that country, who is an Honorary Mem- 

 ber of this Society, by the attention with wdiich he receives any 

 Members of the Society who may visit his country ; in Arabia, the 

 Arabs who inhabit both banks of the Euphrates, i ^ by their conduct to- 

 wards Colonel Chesney, and the expedition under his command ; the 

 inhabitants of Bagdad, by the reception which they gave the steam- 

 boat, the Euphrates, when it came up the Tigris to that place ; 

 and the Imam of Muscat, by the policy which he has pursued 

 in sending the Liverpool, one of his 74-gun ships, as a present to 

 the King of England, by Captain Cogan, an officer of the Indian Navy, 

 evince the feelings which they respectively entertain in favour of the 

 improvement of the condition of their countrymen. At Bombay, the re- 

 solution which the nephew of that distinguished scholar, the late MuUa 

 Firoz, has adopted, to publish, by subscription, with the aid of the So- 

 ciety, a translation into English of his uncle's work, called the George 

 Nameh, on the discovery of India by Europeans ; the application 

 which Manockjee Curse tjee, and sixteen of the most distinguished 

 Parsis, thirteen of whom are Justices of the Peace, made some time 

 ago, through their friend, Sir Charles Forbes, to be elected Members 

 of this Society, show the value which the natives of the highest 

 respectability at Bombay attach at present to literary distinction, and 

 the honour of becoming Members of this Society. 2 o At Calcutta, the 



1 8 Captain Mackenzie, a very intellifrent corresponding member of the Society, 

 who recently came tlirough Egypt from Calcutta to England, had an interview while 

 at Alexandria with the Pasha, and was received by him with the greatest attention. 



19 It is understood that the inhabitants of Bombay have determined to erect a 

 monument at Alia, the place near that part of the Euphrates where the steam-boat, 

 the Tigris, was overset, to the memory of the officers and men who were lost on that 

 occasion ; and that the inhabitants of Alia, so far from being averse to this measure, 

 are ready to assist in erecting the monument. 



2 0 The circumstances which led to the first extension by Act of Parliament to the 

 natives of British India of the right of sitting upon Juries, and of being appointed Jus- 

 tices of the Peace, have made the natives of the highest distinction at Bombay anxi- 

 ous to have the honour of holding this responsible oflice. Sir Alexander Johnston, in 

 1810, when President of His Majesty's Council in Ceylon, conceiving that the surest 

 way of improving the education, and raising the character and the situation of the ua- 



