London: Printed by W. Clowes & Sons, Stamford Street,
for Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE
Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.
The [first page] of the book ("HISTORICAL RECORD ..."), and the [page after] the Introduction, are virtually identical—there are some slight variations in font sizes—and both have been retained in the etext.
Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, daylight, day-light; Field Marshal, Field-Marshal; situate; negociations; rencounters.
[Pg xxiii], 'SERINGAPTAM' replaced by 'SERINGAPATAM'.
[Pg 36], 'on this ocasion' replaced by 'on this occasion'.
[Pg 50], 'additional orces' replaced by 'additional forces'.
[Pg 53], 'TWELTFH foot continued' replaced by 'TWELFTH foot continued'.
[Pg 60], Sidenote '1799' moved up 3 paragraphs.
[Pg 70], 'againt England' replaced by 'against England'.
[Pg 95], 'stanch supporter' replaced by 'staunch supporter'.