Editorial Note: "The following materials from Captain George Baker?s diaries and other records and notes were originally published in Alexander Dalrymple?s Oriental Repertory in 1808. Baker has left numerous other reports, many found in the Records of Fort St. George for the period. These latter materials will be published in later editions of the SBBR. Baker?s account is especially useful for being one of the few firsthand accounts written by a European, of Alaunghpaya, the founder of the Konbaung Dynasty." M.W.C.