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 Resident at Hyderabad. This last manuscript was purchased at Baroda by a Parsee, at the sale of the Colonel's effects, on his death as Eesident at the Gaikwar's Court. The first portion of this manuscript proved to be Grant Duff's narrative in another form, with some uncomplimentary observations upon the great Nizam-ool-Moolk, in which the Mahratta historian does not indulge ; but the second portion, as comprising the subsequent history reaching to Colonel Malcolm's own times, is invaluable, not only for the ability with which the work has been performed, but the patience and care that must have been necessarily bestowed in obtaining and arranging the materials. Colonel Malcolm also wrote, in 1844, an account of the "Hyderabad Contingent," which was largely absorbed in an article on the subject that appeared in the Calcutta Review of March 1849. I need scarcely do more than notice a trifling memoir of Nizam Alee which appeared in Calcutta about the year 1803, under the joint auspices of Colonels William Kirkpatrick and John Malcolm, from the pen of one Hollingbery, who was probably some time previously in the Eesident's office at Hyderabad.

I think it merely necessary to mention the foregoing, since my own collection of works on India and upon Oriental subjects, is second only to that of the Asiatic Society in Western India. For much of the matters relating to individuals I have to thank friends, in different parts of India, familiar with them.

I would now entreat of those interested in the welfare of India to notice specially, that when the British Government was in debt to the Nizam, we took not only our time