The following works of Major Stewart may be had at Messrs. Parbury, Allen, and

Co. Booksellers to the Honourable East India Company, Leadenhall Street.

1. Descriptive Catalogue of Tippoo Sultan's Library, 1 vol. 4to.

2. Travels of Abu Mirza Talib, 3 vol. 12mo.

3. History of Bengal, 1 vol. 4to.

4. Introduction to the Anvari Soohyly, 1 vol. 4to.

5. Original Persian Letters, 1 vol. 4to.

OF THE

PROCEEDINGS

OF

THE THIRD ANNUAL MEETING

OF THE

SUBSCRIBERS

TO THE

ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND,

WITH THE

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE,

LIST OF THE SUBSCRIBERS,

REGULATIONS,

&c. &c.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY J. L. COX, 75, GREAT QUEEN STREET.

1830.

Patron and Vice-Patrons

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Report of the Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Subscribers to the Oriental

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His Royal Highness the DUKE of CLARENCE.

His Royal Highness the DUKE of SUSSEX.

His Royal Highness the DUKE of CAMBRIDGE.

His Royal Highness the DUKE OF GLOUCESTER, Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

His Royal Highness PRINCE LEOPOLD of SAXE COBURG.

His Grace the LORD ARCHBISHOP of CANTERBURY.

The Right Honourable the LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR.

His Grace the DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

The Most Noble the MARQUESS of LANSDOWNE.

The Right Honourable the EARL SPENCER.

The Right Honourable the EARL AMHERST, late Governor-General of India.

The Right Honourable LORD W. H. C. BENTINCK, G.C.B., Governor-General of India.

The Right Honourable LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE.

The Right Honourable LORD VISCOUNT GODERICH.

The Right Honourable LORD GRENVILLE, Chancellor of the University of Oxford.

The Right Honourable LORD ELLENBOROUGH, President of the Board of Commissioners for

the Affairs of India.

The Right Honourable C. W. WILLIAMS WYNN, M.P., President of the Royal Asiatic Society of

Great Britain and Ireland.

The Right Honourable SIR ROBERT PEEL, Bart., M.P.

The Right Honourable HENRY GOULBOURN, M.P.

The Right Honourable S. R. LUSHINGTON, Governor of Madras.

Lieutenant-General SIR E. BARNES, K.C.B., Governor of Ceylon.

Major-General SIR JOHN MALCOLM, G.C.B., Governor of Bombay.

H. T. COLEBROOKE, Esq., Director of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

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OF

THE PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

THIRD ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SUBSCRIBERS

TO THE

ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND.

Ar a Meeting of the Subscribers to the ORIENTAL TRANSLATION FUND, held on MONDAY, the 14th of JUNE, 1830, at the House of the Royal Asiatic Society,

The Right Honourable the Earl AMHERST in the Chair :

The Right Honourable Sir GORE OUSELEY, Bart., informed the Meeting, that he was authorized by His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, to express his sincere regret, that His Majesty's lamented illness prevented his taking the Chair on this occasion.

The Minutes of the Proceedings of the last Anniversary Meeting were then read by the Secretary, and confirmed.

The Right Honourable Sir GORE OUSELEY, Bart., Chairman of the Oriental Translation Committee, having read the Report of the Committee's proceedings since the last anniversary, and the Auditor's Report of the Receipts and Expenditure of the Oriental Translation Fund for the year 1829:

It was moved by the Right Honourable Lord SELSEY, seconded by D. POLLOCK, Esq., and Resolved Unanimously,

"THAT the Committee's and Auditor's Reports be approved and printed." Some amendments in the Sixth and Ninth Regulations for the Committee having been proposed by Sir ALEXANDER JOHNSTON, and seconded by JAMES ALEXANDER, Esq., M.P., It was Resolved Unanimously,

"THAT the proposed amendments in the Regulations be adopted."

The Right Honourable the Earl AMHERST, then, in His Majesty's name, and accompanied by appropriate addresses, presented one of the Royal Medals to the Rev. Professor LEE; and the other to the Chairman of the Committee, as the Representative of J. F. DAVIS, Esq.; and one of the Institution's Medals to Sir WILLIAM OUSELEY, as the Representative of Major DAVID PRICE.

The Chairman having left the Chair,

It was moved by the Right Honourable the Earl of CARLISLE, seconded by Count de LASTEYRIE, Vice-President of the Asiatic Society of Paris, and

Resolved Unanimously,

"THAT the warmest thanks of this Meeting be given to the Right Honourable the "Earl AMHERST, for his able conduct in the Chair."

WILLIAM HUTTMANN,

Secretary.