خلاصه ماشینی:
The second number explained the scope and objects of the publication, which were declared to be the promulgation of articles of news from the English newspapers and the procuring and making known intelligence of all that passed at the principal cities of Hindustan whether foreign or within the East India company's territories; and it in• vited, in obscure and affected language, all persons who might have any wish or plan to communicate or any state• ment of facts to publish, to send the same to the editor who would insert it in his paper and carefully conceal the name of the writer.
· Conformably with the intentions thus avowed, the editor acted upon the principle of copying from the English papers and publishing in Persian any articles which suited his purpose, of inserting all sorts of correspondence, and more especially of discussing openly and 'unreservedly the systems of government pursued in Oudh and other Indian States allied to the British Gov• ernment.
· · The contents of the other Persian paper, the Miratu'l• Akhbar, were much in the same style as the above, but the editor's (Raja Ram Mohan Roy's) known disposition for theological controversy, led him to seize an occasion for publishing remarks on the Trinity which, although covertly and insidiously conveyed, were deemed exceed• ingly offensive.