to time presented themselves, and the extraordinary charges thus resulting, which fall entirely on myself,—the costs of this complete victory, obtained by an individual over a powerful conspiracy, by which, all that wealth, rank, and influence, could accomplish, was essayed in vain, will be little short to me of One Thousand Pounds sterling, independantly of the suffering and loss inflicted on me by the effect of these widely-spread slanders in India. There, indeed, the injury occasioned to me by their influence was immense; for they undoubtedly led, in their results, not merely to my being banished from that country, without a trial or a hearing, at the very moment of my bringing the abettors of these calumnies before a British Court of Justice; but also to a total annihilation of all my future prospects in life, and to the wanton and utter destruction of all the property I had lawfully and honourably acquired, by the labours of my pen, and left behind me in India, while I came to England to seek redress. This property, amounting in saleable value to Forty Thousand Pounds, and yielding, at the moment of my being torn from it, a clear and improveable income of Eight Thousand Pounds sterling per annum, was, as soon as I had quitted the shores of India, forcibly transferred, with all its advantages, to other hands, in consequence of a premeditated design (since discovered by secret papers produced before a Committee of Parliament) first to get me to leave the country, in the confidence of its being safe from violation, and then, as soon as I was absent, to destroy it altogether; the Government of Bengal making a local regulation for this express purpose, which regulation has since been declared, by the King's Judges in the Supreme Court of Justice at Bombay, to be utterly repugnant to British law, and in violation of the rights of the subject; which no Court of Justice could therefore legally sanction. To crown the whole of this career of treachery and iniquity, the Indian authorities in England,—including the Directors of the East India Company, and the Members of the Board of Controul, to each of whom all these facts are as well known as to myself, -have not only denied me all redress for this illegal plunder of their servants abroad, but have refused me even permission to return, for a few brief weeks only, to my ruined concerns in the East, in order to gather up, if possible, some fragments from the scattered wreck, which is now, therefore, entirely and irretrievably swept away for ever! J. S. BUCKINGHAM. TAVISTOCK-SQUARE, FEBRUARY 5, 1827. INDEX. A. ABASSIDES, empire of this dynasty of the Eastern Abdallah, a Christian pilgrim met with at Orfah, 57. Abgarus, king of Edessa, 72. 86. Abraham, feasting his angelic visitants, 19; his birth- Academic building called Medrassee el Mostanseree, Accommodations and rest, agreeable, 69. Adventurers, military, 49. Agate, cylinders found at Nineveh, and sculptured, 500.. Agriculture, particulars relating to, 17. 24. 505.507. Akkerkoof, or Nimrod's palace, supposed by early tra- Alexander the Great, cities built by him, 29. His expe- Aleppo, river of, 5. Al Hheimar, mound of, (near Hillah and Babylon,) 442. Altoun Kupree, or the Golden Bridge, town so called, 328. Amooda, Koord village of, 235. Antiques, valuable collection of, 498. 499. Anazie Arabs, strength of this tribe, 2. 117. 158. Arab-el-Belled, encampments, 131. Arabian Nights Entertainments, not a copy to be pro- Arabic, the language, 292. Not so generally spoken at Arabic letter, dictated. Its nature, 162 Arabic pointed niches in various architectural remains, 525. Araske, temple of, at Nineveh, 306. Ark of Noah, tradition respecting it, 267. Arrest of a Koord for debt, 222. Artillery, dismounted in the town of Diarbekr, 213. Assad, Pasha of Bagdad, 383. 541. 542. Astronomical observations made at Bagdad, 515, 516. B. Babylon, extent of, 301. Approach to the first mounds, 368. 370. Its walls, 372. Description of the Bairam, feast of the, 540. Baldwin, of Jerusalem, 74. Balkh, city of, in the ancient Bactria, 545. Barker, Mr., British Consul at Aleppo, 3. 5. 121. 127. Bokhara, town of, 545. Bricks, masonry of burnt, similar to those of Babylon, 528. Bricks, unburnt, in various great ruins of antiquity, Bridges of boats, passage across them, 310. 471. That Brousa, or Boursa, ruined site of, 476. Bruce, the traveller, anecdote respecting a statement of Buckingham, Mr., agreement respecting his journey from 222. Burnisht, hospitable reception of the author at, 231. C. Cabalistic devices and gems, 501, 502. Calcutta, Bishop of, sails in the Aurora, 498. Calneh of the Scriptures, attempt to identify its position Camels eaten, 117. Camilla di Jesu, Padre, an Italian traveller to Damascus, Canal from the Euphrates to the Tigris, 401. The Nahr Caravan, that which the author joins, commences its the coast of Syria, 519. Caves, remarkable, 33. 36. Cawasses, or silver-sticks, attendants of the Pasha at Cemeteries. At Beer, 26. At Orfah, 52. 65. In the Chamoorly, its mosque in ruin, 10. Chastity of the Turcoman females, 44. They have no 46. 143. Dances, eastern, 57, 58. St. Cyprian and Volney quoted Dangers of the author's route from commotions and Daniel, the son of Khasdai, "Conductor of the Cap- Dara, or Kara Dara, 237. Its history, 238, 239. Its Darius, disquisition respecting his defeat, 316. Deer Zafferany, convent at Mardin, 182. Della Valle, Pietro, his observations on Babylon, 423. 425. Dew, fall of, 275. Diala, bridge of boats over this river, broken, 581. Diodorus Siculus, describes Babylon, 419. 429. 446. 478. Domestic economy in private families at Bagdad, 549, 550. Doogher, village of, 254. Drought, distressing near Bagdad, 497. Dye, black; called Hindi, 536. E. Edessa, its site occupied by the town of Orfah, 62. 70. Eesa, a Christian pilgrim, 57. El-Assr, the hour of afternoon prayers, 152. El Modeien, residence of the King of Persia, 399. El Mazar, a camp of Bedouins, 145. Eliezer Ben Isamah, claimed a descent from the Prophet Emblems sculptured on silver coins; a Greek galley,- Environs of Babylon, particulars relative to the neigh- Eruptions, cutical, 87, 194. Esau, Bek, a powerful Arab of Hillah, 474. 248. 535. Euphrates, river of, 26. Comparison of its width at Beer, Hadjee Abd-el-Rakhman, merchant of Mousul, admits Hadjee and Mokhoddesy, the signification of these titles Hamed, Pasha of Mousul, 282. His stud, 283. His Ice brought from the summits of Taurus for sale, 85. Inscriptions, 34. Extremely ancient and undecyphered at Beer, 35. At Orfah, 123. Intaglios and gems from the mounds of Nineveh, 307. Isa, remains of the canal of, which connected the Islamism, 47. 61. Its injurious effect on the mental |