THE INVESTIGATOR. VOL. II. JANUARY AND APRIL, 1821. "Whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things EDITED BY THE REV. WILLIAM BENGO COLLYER, D.D., LL. D., F.A.S., THE REV. THOMAS RAFFLES, LL. D., (OF LIVERPOOL), AND JAMES BALDWIN BROWN, ESQ., LL. D. LONDON: Printed by James Moyes, Greville Street, FOR THOMAS AND GEORGE UNDERWOOD, 32, FLEET STREET; BLACK, KINGSBURY, PARBURY, AND ALLEN, LEADENHALL STREET; 1821. BIBL PREFACE. They THE Editors submit the second volume of their work to the Public, with many thanks for the increased encouragement with which it has been honoured, and which they will still most assiduously endeavour to deserve. have great satisfaction in stating, that they have recently obtained some important additions to the valuable list of their stated contributors, in several gentlemen, who still hold, or who have recently held, exalted stations in British India, and who have promised to render this work the medium of communication to their countrymen of much that is novel and interesting, in reference to this distant, but most productive portion of the empire. CONTENTS TO NUMBER III. BIOGRAPHY. ESSAYS, &c. |