Excerpt from Some Account of the Services of Sir Charles Oakeley, Bart. In India: Consisting of a Narrative of Events, Drawn Up by Himself, and a Collection of Official Letters, and Other Documents

The brief Narrative, which stands first in this volume, was drawn up by my father many years ago, for private circulation, and with a view to the establishment of certain claims, which he was then prosecuting. The Collection of Papers which follows-consists of official letters, and other documents ex tracted from public records, relative to his services in India, during a period of twenty seven years. A sketch of his public life being afforded by these materials, combining facts and testimonies highly honourable to his memory, I have been induced to put.

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