A. M. and A. S. S.-To this curious little Work,

profits of the establishment should be granted to him and his heirs, &c. But this offer was not accepted; and soon after the settlement of Balambangan was lost to the Company-From the time Mr. Dalrymple returned to England, he was almost constantly engaged in collecting and arranging materials for a full exposition of the importance of the Eastern Islands and South Seas; and was encouraged by the Court of Directors to publish various charts, &c. It is positively affirmed that the chart of the Northern part of the Bay of Bengal, published in 1772, was the occasion of saving the Hawke Indiaman from the French, in the war.-Mr. Dalrymple had taken every occasion to keep up his claim on the Madras establishinent; but after Lord Pigot was, in 1775, appointed Governor of Fort St. George, he was advised by the then Chairman and Deputy Chairman, to make a specific application before the arrangement of the Madras Council was made, his former letters being considered as too general. Accordingly, March 3, 1775, he applied to be restored to his standing on the Madras establishment; which application the Company were pleased to comply with, and he was appointed in his rank, as a Member of Council, and was nominated to be one of the Committee of Circuit. In the proceedings of the Council at Madras, no man, however violent in his animosity or opposition, ever imputed to Mr. Dalrymple any want of integrity or zeal for what he thought was for the Company's interest; and he had the satisfaction to find that the Court of Directors gave him distinguished marks of their approbation. April 1, 1779, when the Company were pleased to accept of his services in the employment he held till his death, namely, that of Hydrographer, by advice of Sir George Wombwell, the then Chairman, he accepted on the 8th that employment by letter, read in Court on the 9th of April, on condition it should not invalidate his pretensions at Madras. May 27, 1780, the Court of Directors resolved that Messrs. Russell, Dalrymple, Stone, and Lathom, having come home in pursuance of the resolution of the General Court in 1777, to have their conduct inquired into, and no objection having been made in so long a time, nor appearing against their conduct, should be again employed in the Company's service. The other gentlemen were afterwards appointed to Chiefships; Mr. Dalrymple continuing in his present employment, with the reservation of his Madras pretensions. When the employment of Hydrogra. pher was confirmed on the 19th of July, he expressed by letter, that he trusted, if he wished to return to Madras hereafter, that the Court would appoint him; and this letter was ordered to lie on the table. In 1784, when the India Bill was brought into Parliament, there was a clause precluding the Company from sending persons back to India, who had been a certain time in England. Mr. Dalrymple represented the injustice this was to him, who had accepted his employment on condition that it

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of which only Eighty copies were printed, an Appendix of eight pages was added by Mr. Nichols.

should not injure his pretensions at Madras; a clause was thereupon inserted, precluding that measure, unless with the concurrence of three-fourths of the Directors, and three-fourths of the Proprietors. He was still not satisfied, and carried on a sort of controversial correspondence with the Directors, the merits of which would now be but imperfectly understood.—It having been long in contemplation to have an Hydrographical office at the Admiralty, this was at length established, with a salary of 5007. a year, during the Administration of Earl Spencer. In 1795 Mr. Dalrymple was appointed to the office of Hydrographer; and received the assent of the Court of Directors, under whom he held a similar office, and who had lately given him a pension for life. From this time little occurred in his history worthy of particular notice till May 1808, when, having refused to resign his place of Hydrographer to the Admiralty, on the ground of superannuation, and to accept of a pension, he was dismissed from his situation; and it is said, that, in the opinion of his medical attendants, his death was occasioned by vexation arising from that event. A motion was shortly afterwards made on this subject in the House of Commons; when the Secretary to the Admiralty, after bearing the most ample testimony to the talents and services of Mr. Dalrymple, fully justified the conduct of that Board, which had adopted a necessary measure with much reluctance. Mr. Dalrymple, indeed, had exhibited so many symptoms of decayed faculties, joined to an irritable habit, as to lessen the value of those services for which he had been so highly respected.-He died, at his house in High-street Mary-lebone, June 19, 1808, æt. 70; and was buried in the small cemetery adjoining the church. His collection of books was very large and valuable; and particularly rich in works pertaining to Geography and Navigation, which were purchased by the Admiralty. His valuable collection of Poetry he bequeathed to his heir at law, to be kept at the family seat in Scotland, as an heir-loom; and his miscellaneous collection, containing, among others, a great number of valuable foreign books, particularly in the Spanish and Portuguese languages, was sold by auction, by King and Lochée, in 1809; the First Part, May 29, and twenty-nine following days; the Second Part, Nov. 6, and twenty-eight following days, and afterwards a Third Part; the whole producing a considerable sum.

He had been elected F.S. A. June 24, 1770; and was then styled "Alexander Dalrymple, Esq. of Soho-square, a considerable Navigator and explorer in the East Indies, and author of several curious publications." In June 1771 he was also elected F. R. S. and communicated to the Royal Society a valuable paper " On the Formation of Islands," vol. LVII. p. 394; and the "Journal" noticed in p. 32, vol. LXVIII. p. 889.-His printed works were very numerous, The following list, exclusive of his nautical

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"Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq. Member of

"Two Letters

publications, was furnished by himself, at the end of the Memoirs of his Life, in the European Magazine for December 1802. Those marked * were never published, and those marked † were not sold: "Account of Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean before 1764, 1767," 8vo. "Memorial to the Proprietors of East India Stock, 1768," 8vo. ↑ "Account of what has passed between the East India Directors and Alexander Dalrymple," intended as an Introduction to a Plan for extending the Commerce of this Kingdom, and the Company in the East Indies, by an Establishment at Balambangan," as first printed, 1768, 8vo. "Account of what has passed.-Do.-Do."-as published, Svo. "A Plan for extending the Commerce of this Kingdom and the East India Company, by an Establishment at Balambangan, by Alexander Dalrymple, Esq. 1771," 8vo. * "Letter concerning the proposed Supervisors, 20 June, 1769," 8vo. to the Court of Directors concerning the proposed Supervisorship, 1769," 4to. "Vox populi Vox Dei, Lord Weymouth's Appeal to the General Court of Proprietors, considered, 14th August, 1769," 4to. "An Historical Collection of the several Voyages and Discoveries in the South Pacific Ocean, Vol. I.; being chiefly a literal Translation from the Spanish Writers, 1770," 4to. A Second Volume, containing "the Dutch Voyages," was published in 1771, 4to. "Proposition of a benevolent Voyage to introduce Corn, &c. into New Zealand, &c. 1771," 4to. "Considerations on a Pamphlet (by Governor Johnstone) entitled 'Thoughts on our Acquisitions in the East Indies, particularly respecting Bengal', 1772," 8vo. " General View of the East India Company's Affairs (written in January 1769), to which are added some Observations on the present State of the Company's Affairs, 1772," 8vo. " A Paper concerning the General Government for India," 8vo. "Rights of the East India Company."―N, B. This was printed at the Company's expence, 1773, Syo. "Letter from Mr. Dalrymple to Dr. Hawkesworth, occasioned by some groundless and illiberal Imputations on his Account of the late Voyages to the South, 1773," 4to. *Observations on Dr. Hawkesworth's Preface to second edition, 1773," 4to. An opinion of Sir David Dalrymple, that there was too much asperity in this Reply, retarded, and the death of Dr Hawkesworth prevented, the publication. "Memorial of Doctor Juan Louis Arias (in Spanish), 1773," 4to. ↑ "Proposition. for Printing, by Subscription, the MS Voyages and Travels in the British Museum, 1773," 4to. "A full and clear Proof that the Spaniards can have no claim to Balambangan, 1774," 8vo. "An Historical relation of the several Expedition from Fort Marlbro' to the Islands off the West Coast of Sumatra, 1775," 4to. "A Collection of Voyages, chiefly in the South Atlantic Ocean; published from Original MSS. by Dr. Halley, M. Bouvet, &c. with a Preface concerning a Voyage on Discovery, proposed to be undertaken by Alexander Dalrymple at his

own

Parliament for the City of Bristol, on presenting to

own expence; Letters to Lord North on the subject, and Plan of a Republican Colony, 1775," 4to. "Copies of Papers relative to the Restoration of the King of Tanjour, the Imprisonment of Lord Pigot, &c. Printed by the East India Company, for the use of the Proprietors, 1777," 4to.-N. B. In this collection are many Minutes of Council, and some Letters by Alexander Dalrymple. † Several other Pieces on the same subject, written by Alexander Dalrymple, were printed by Admiral Pigot and Alexander Dalrymple, but not sold; those particularly by Alexander Dalrymple are 4to. 1777. "Notes on Lord Pigot's Narrative." "Letter to Proprietors of East India Stock, 8th May 1777." "Account of the Transactions concerning the Revolt at Madras, 30th April 1777. Appendix." "Letter to the Court of Directors, 19th June 1777.-Memorial, 19th June 1777." "Account of the Subversion of the Legal Government of Fort St. George, in answer to Mr. Andrew Stuart's Letter to the Court of Directors, 1778," 4to. "Journal of the Grenville," published in the Philosophical Transactions, 1778," 4to. Considerations on the present State of Affairs between England and America, 1778," Svo. "Considerations on the East India Bill, 1769, Svo. 1778." "State of the East India Company, and Sketch of an equitable Agreement, 1780," Svo, "An Account of the Loss of the Grosvenor Indiaman, commanded by Captain Coxen, Aug. 4, 1782; being the Report given in to the East India Company, by Alexander Dalrymple, Esq. published with the Approbation of the Court of Directors, 1783," Svo. "Reflexions on the present State of the East India Company, 1783," 8vo. "A short Account of the Gentoo Mode of collecting the Revenues on the Coast of Coromandel, 1783," 8vo. "A Retrospective View of the Antient System of the East India Company, with a Plan of Regulation, 1784,” 8vo. Postscript to Mr. Dalrymple's Account of the Gentoo Mode of collecting the Revenues on the Coast of Coromandel, being— Observations made on a perusal of it by Moodoo Kistna, 1785," 8vo. "Extracts from Juvenilia, or Poems by George Wither, 1785," 24mo. "Fair State of the Case between the East India Company and the Owners of Ships now in their service; to which are added,-Considerations on Mr. Brough's Pamphlet, concerning East India Shipping, 1786," Svo. "A Serious Admonition to the Publick on the intended Thief Colony at Botany Bay." "Review of the Contest concerning Four New Regiments, graciously offered by his Majesty to be sent to India, &c. 1788," Evo. *Plan for promoting the Fur-trade, and securing it to this Country, by uniting the Operations of the East India and Hudson's Bay Companies, 1789," 4to. *"Memoir of a Map of the Lands around the North Pole, 1789," 4to. "An Historical Journal of the Expeditions by Sea and Land, to the North of California in 1763, 1769, and 1770, when Spanish Establishments were first made at San Diego and

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the House of Commons (Feb. 11, 1780) A Plan for the better Security of the Independency of Parliament, and the economical Reformation of the Civil and other Establishments *."

"The Works of the English Poets, with Prefaces Biographical and Critical. By Samuel Johnson; with Heads engraved by Bartolozzi, &c." small 8vo.

Monterey; translated from the Spanish MS. by William Revely, Esq. to which is added,-Translation of Cabrera Bueno's Description of the Coast of California, and an Extract from the MS Journal of M. Sauvague le Muet, 1714, 1790," 4to. "A Letter to a Friend on the Test Act, 1790," 8vo. "The Spanish Pretensions fairly discussed, 1790," 8vo. "The Spanish Memorial of 4th June considered, 1790," Svo. "Plan for the Publication of a Repertory of Oriental Information, 1790," 4to. * "Memorial of Alexander Dalrymple, 1791," 8vo. "Parliamentary Reform, as it is called, improper, in the present State of this Country, 1793," Svo. "Mr. Fox's Letter to his Worthy and Independent Electors of Westminster, fully considered, 1793," Svo. "Observations on the Copper Coinage wanted for the Circars. Printed for the use of the East India Company, 1794," 8vo. "The Poor Man's Friend, 1795,❞ 8vo. "A Collection of English Songs, with an Appendix of Original Pieces, 1796," Svo. * "A Fragment on the India Trade, written in 1791, 1797," 8vo. Thoughts of an old Man of Independent Mind, though Dependent Fortune, 1800," Svo. "Oriental

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Repertory, vol. I. 4to. April 1791 to January 1793." "Oriental Repertory, vol. II" 4to. (not completed.)

"This noble and wonderful piece of oratory, of which we have here an authentic copy, will immortalize the name of BURKE." Monthly Review, vol. LXII. p. 242.

"The long-expected beautiful Edition of the English Poets has at length made its appearance. Promises that are delayed, too frequently end in disappointment; but to this remark the present publication is an exception. We must ingenuously confess, that, from the first of its being advertised, we considered Dr. Johnson's name merely as a lure which the proprietors of the work had obtained, to draw in the unwary purchaser; taking it for granted that he would just have allotted, as he owns he originally intended, to every Poet, an advertisement, like those which are found in the French Miscellanies, containing a few dates, and a general character; an undertaking, as he observes, not very tedious or difficult; and we may add, an undertaking also that would have conferred not much reputation upon the Writer, nor have communicated much information to his readers. Happily for both, the honest desire of giving useful pleasure, to borrow his own expression, has led him beyond his first intention. This honest desire is very amply gratified. In the walk of biography and criticism, Dr. Johnson

has