Excerpt from The Asiatic Annual Register: Or a View of the History of Hindustan, and of the Politics, Commerce and Literature of Asia, for the Year 1804 Personal, and therefore too immaterial to be mcnfiqned.. But it may somewhat lessen that dissatisfaction which the irregular publication of the Work has occasioned, to know, that it has been compiled and written, in the midst of the mostdisttjessing difficulties, from my own sources of int'6rmation, arid by my own labour, with inconsiderable assistance from the contributions. Of correspondents, and with no -other encouragev ment than the barren commendation of the pub lic. With a just sense, however, of that com. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.