TO
WARREN HASTINGS, ESQ.

SIR,

PERMIT me to dedicate this Translation to you, who so amply patronized my attempts to make myself useful to my honourable employers, when in India. The distinction you were pleased to confer upon me, by an appointment in your family, and the favour of your friendship, I shall ever regard as honours of which I may reasonably boast: and I trust a time will come, when far more important pages than mine will acquire merit with the nation, from being adorned with the name of HASTINGS.

I am, SIR,
Your most obedient
And grateful humble servant,
LONDON,
12th May, 1786.
JONATHAN SCOTT.