MY LORD,
I have the honour to dedicate to your Lordship the Memoirs of Humâyûn, Emperor of Hindûstan; the vicissitudes of whose reign bear a great resemblance to those of our Royal Stuart family, and of the late Bourbon dynasty.
It affords me great pleasure to have an opportunity of dedicating these pages to a Personage who, from his own knowledge of the Oriental tongues, can duly appreciate the difficulties of clothing in European language the ideas and idioms of the natives of Persia and Hindûstan.
That you may long continue to support that praise-worthy Institution, of which you are the Founder, is the sincere wish of,
Your Lordship’s
Most obedient, very humble Servant,
CHARLES STEWART.