Excerpt from An Historical Relation of the Origin, Progress, and Final Dissolution of the Government: Of the Rohilla Afgans, in the Northern Provinces of Hindostan Here, perhaps, the writer might be tempted to enlarge fomewhat beyond the bounds which the confined nature of his fubjeet prefcribes to him, were it not that, in fuch a difcufiion it would be fcarcely poflible to avoid animadverfions which, in the eyes offome, would bear the confiruetion of finifier defign or of per fonal invective, rather than of the fober invefiigation of truth. - Much abfirafied reafoning, indeed, might be advanced on the abfurd improbabi/igz of the very grofs and univerfal depravity, which has been declared to contaminate the minds of our countrymen in that department of the 'empire, where they have been depie'ted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.