Excerpt from The Bengalee: Or, Sketches of Society and Manners in the EastOut of every ten Prefaces, or attempts at introductory matter, to publications as tri ¿ing as that which follows, nine of the num ber may fairly be considered as merely apo logetical, or, in other words, they are lowly intercessions with the public for undue mercy and indulgefme. ?that niine should be similar to most otbemgz timrefiire, is no very great wonder t men, when they bespeak to set forth in goodly array, all the little claims they fancy they may possess for such cousi~ deration towards themselves, in this partia cular, also, must I follow the example of my neighbours, and explain, as well as the occasion will allow me, why I venture, in the following pages, to intrude on the pub lic notice.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.