By extraordinary Talents and Enterprize, ROSE FROM AN OBSCURE SITUATION TO THE RANK OF A GENERAL, IN THE SERVICE OF THE NATIVE POWERS IN THE NORTH-WEST OF INDIA. THROUGH THE WORK ARE INTERSPERSED, Geographical and Statistical Accounts of several of the States compofing COMPILED AND ARRANGED FROM MR. THOMAS'S ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. BY WILLIAM FRANCKLIN, CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY; Member of the Asiatic Society, Author of a Tour to Persia, and MORES, POPULOS, ET PRÆLIA DICAM. CALCUTTA PRINTED. London: RE-PRINTED FOR JOHN STOCKDALE, PICCADILLY. ADVERTISEMENT. THE Publisher having been favoured by a friend with a copy of the following interesting Biography, which was printed at Calcutta, conceives that it could not but be acceptable to this country, which is fo materially interested in whatever is connected with its vaft poffeffions in India. As it is a work which will probably excite a very general intereft, he has thought it most advisable to print it in octavo, whereby it could be afforded at confiderably less than half the price of the quarto original. LONDON, 20th Sept. 1805. 512031 |