ENSIGN ON THE HON. COMPANY'S BENGAL ESTABLISHMENT} LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, IN THE STRAND. M DCC XC. 16938 TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES EARL CORNWALLIS, KNIGHT OF THE MOST NOBLE ORDER OF THE GARTER, Lib.Com, huttall 2-5-42 44787 PREF A CE. THE Author of the following Pages being a fupernumerary Officer on the Bengal Establishment, and defirous of employing his leifure time, by improving himself in the knowledge of the Perfian language, as well as to gain information of the history and manners of the nation, obtained a furlough for that purpose; from which circumftance these OBSERVATIONS arose. The |