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Printed for BLACK, PARRY, and Co. Booksellers to the
Hon. East-India Company, Leadenhall Street, and
J. HATCHARD, Piccadilly.

1813.

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PREFACE.

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IN submitting this volume to the candid judgment of the public, the author feels that it should be accompanied by some explanation of the circumstances under which it appears.

The idea was long since suggested to him of composing a work, which should comprehensively treat the whole question respecting the most eligible system of connexion between Great Britain and her extensive dependencies in the East-Indies. In lending himself, at length, and with great reluctance, to this advice, he was not actuated by any conception of his own competence for the undertaking, particularly amidst the interrupted opportunities which alone he could command. But the actual dearth of information, at once accurate and popular, on the impor

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