Catalogue of manuscripts in European languages belonging to the library of the India Office ... / Published by order of the secretary of state for India in council.

  • Great Britain. India Office. Library
Date:
1916-
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Credit: Catalogue of manuscripts in European languages belonging to the library of the India Office ... / Published by order of the secretary of state for India in council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    III, TERRITORIAL. Of the resources and revenues of the island, the whole, it is believed, are saved of the numerous memoirs, reports, and productions arising from the discussions and plans of reform of late years, where the opinions and sentiments of the most intelligent and experienced men in India and Holland are to be found—the result of their reasoning, with a vast body of information in memoirs, reports, and documents,* in the depots of archives which, previous to the late government of Marshal DAENDELS, were preserved on a regular systematic plan: the indexes, or rather abstracts of the proceedings and resolutions of the government from its first establishment, were particularly curious; under the heads Realia, Secret Realia, Personalia, and Miscellanea, reference might be made with ease to any subject that had ever occupied the delibera- tions and orders of government. There is reason to believe the Miscellanea, consisting of eight volumes, were lost; at least they could not be found on inquiry since the reduction of Java. 2. The reports of the committee of archives, translations of which, it is believed, have been sent to India, will fully explain the number and description. Colonel MACKENZIE, confining himself more particularly to the geographical and hydrographical parts, has only brought copies of the reports relating to them, and of the register of Reports and Memories from the Dependencies, particularly what regards India. 3. Memoirs or Reports in succession of the Governors and Directors of the Dependencies in India,.—lt may be proper here to notice, that in the course of inspection of the archives and library of the late government, he casually * 'The whole of the voluminous minutes, correspondence, and proceed- ings of the commission sent from Holland in 1793, of which Mr. NEDERBURGH was president, and which terminated in 1800, are deposited ina great almyra, or cabinet. Mr. NEpERBURG[H] afterwards returned to Holland, and was one of the leading members of the Secret Committee on India affairs that sat at the Hague, whose final report in 1807 seems to have been the basis on which the plans adopted by the late BPVORA MON of Holland for their oriental colonies were founded.
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