SELECTIONS FROM CALCUTTA GAZETTES OF THE YEARS 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796, AND 1797, SHOWING THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL CONDITION OF SEVENTY YEARS AGO. BY W. S. SETON-KARR, C. S., JUDGE OF THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE, AND PRESIDENT OF THE RECORD COMMISSION. VOL. II. Published under the sanction of the Government of India. PREFACE. The first number of "Selections from Calcutta Gazettes" having excited some amount of interest from its details of Indian life, political and social, a second number is now published, under the sanction of the Government of India. It was stated in the Preface to the first number that the Gazettes for 1789 and 1792 were unfortunately missing, but after considerable research by Mr. Talboys Wheeler, the Secretary to the Record Commission, copies of the Gazettes for the missing years were discovered in another of the public offices, but in an imperfect and mutilated condition. These copies, however, substantially fill up the gaps in the Gazettes which had been procured from the Home Department, and thus complete the series. The first number comprised the years from March 1784 to the close of 1788. The present volume extends from the commencement of the year 1789 over the remaining portion of the Administration of Lord Cornwallis, to the end of the year 1797, or almost to the close of Lord Teignmouth's rule; the important operations against Tippoo, during the first siege of Seringapatam, are consequently included in this number. As regards the plan and object of these Selections, little more need now be said in addition to the Preface to the first volume. The object throughout has been, to present as full and complete a picture of the social and political life of the AngloIndian in the close of the last century, as the materials would allow. The public must judge whether these objects have been attained. |