เ their favorite hymn, Only to Thee, Lord Jesus | the uniform tenor of his life. The one had been Christ!' and finished the first verse; when on com-eminently pious and consistent, exemplary and mencing the second, to his astonishment and de- holy; the other was accompanied by those evident light, the venerable missionary revived, accompa- tokens of the divine presence, and those bright beams nied him with a clear and melodious voice, and of divine consolation, hope, and joy, with which the completed the long cherished hymn before he heavenly Master, whom he had so long and so breathed his last. faithfully served, seldom fails to irradiate "the chamber where the good man breathes his last." "About two hours after we had retired," continues Mr. Kohlhoff," he sent for me, and looking upon me with a benignant countenance, he solemnly imparted his last paternal blessing. On offering him something to drink, he wished to be placed on a chair; but as soon as he was raised upon the cot, he bowed his head, and without a groan or a struggle, he shut his eyes, and died, between four and five in the afternoon, in the seventy-second year of his age. The loss of so excellent and valuable a person, who had, during nearly half a century, occupied so conspicuous a place in the sphere in which he moved, could not but be deeply felt by all who had either witnessed or participated in the important benefits of which he had been, in various ways, the instrument or the author. His missionary brethren, his native converts, the Society which he had so faithfully served, and upon whose Christian ef"Though our minds were deeply afflicted at the forts he had reflected so much honor, the Hindoo loss of our beloved father, yet the consideration of prince, of whom he had been the most disinterested his most edifying conduct during his illness, his in and able guardian and friend, and the East Indian credible patience under his severe pains, his tri- government, both at home and abroad, to which he umphant death, and the evident traces of sweetness had been so cordially attached, and whose best inand composure which were left on his countenance, terests he had so zealously and effectively strengthprevented the burst of our sorrows for the present, ened and promoted, all vied with each other in the and animated us to praise God for his great mercies expression of their regret and sorrow at his remobestowed on us through his faithful servant, and to val, of their admiration and love of his singular exentreat him to enable us to follow his blessed exam-cellences, and of their grateful veneration for his ple, that our last end might be like his. "His remains were committed to the earth on the 14th of February, about five in the afternoon, in the chapel out of the Fort, erected by him near his habitation, in the garden given to him by the late Tulja Maha Rajah. "His funeral was a most awful and very affecting sight. It was delayed a little beyond the appointed time, as Serfojee Rajah wished once more to look at him. The affliction which he suffered at the loss of the best of his friends was very affecting. He shed a flood of tears over his body, and covered it with a gold cloth. We intended to sing a funeral hymn, whilst the body was conveyed to the chapel; but we were prevented from it by the bitter cries and lamentations of the multitudes of poor who had crowded into the garden, and which pierced through our souls. We were of course obliged to defer it till our arrival at the chapel. memory. The feelings of his immediate colleagues and friends at Tanjore aud Trichinopoly, have been already expressed in the pious and affectionate memorials of Mr. Gericke and Mr. Kohlhoff. His brethren at Tranquebar, who, from his early connection with that mission, always regarded him with peculiar esteem and love, in their letters to their European friends, mentioned his death "as an almost irreparable loss," and sympathised deeply on the occasion with their brethren of the English mission, as they all considered him more as a father than a brother. "Many tears," they write " had been shed on his death throughout the country, by Europeans and natives, and even by the Rajah of Tanjore, who looked up to Mr. Swartz with filial reverence, and for his sake showed much kindness to the missionaries and Christian congregations in that country. They praised God that he had not been taken from them on a sudden, but gradually, and On Mr. Gericke's return from Tanjore, he passed a few days at Tranquebar, when he and his Christian brethren there "mutually encouraged each other to follow the high example that had been set them by Mr. Swartz.' "The burial service was performed by the Rev. Mr. Gericke, in the presence of the Rajah, the resi-in so edifying a manner." dent, and most of the gentlemen who resided in the place, and a great number of native Christians, full of regret for the loss of so excellent a minister -the best of men. O may a merciful God grant, that all those who are appointed to preach the gospel to the heathen world may follow the example of this venerable servant of Christ! And may he send many such faithful laborers to fulfil the pious intentions and endeavors of the honorable Society for the enlargement of the kingdom of Christ! May he mercifully grant it, for the sake of our Lord Jesus Christ! Amen." CHAPTER XXII. Reflections on the death of Swartz-Testimonies of respect and veneration for his memory; from his brethren at Tanjore and Tranquebar; and from Serfojce Rajah-Interesting anecdote of the latter-He erects a Monument to Swartz at Tanjore-Epitaph by the Rajah-Other proofs of his regard-His conversations with Dr. Buchanan, and Bishops Middleton and Heber-Reflections on the continued Superstition of the two Rajahs-Monument to Swartz at Madras, by the Court of Directors-Honors paid to his memory by the Government of Fort St. George Eulogy by Dr. Kerr-His last Will "Our loss," he writes, a few months afterwards. is his gain; but there are thousands of Christians, Mohammedans, and heathen in India, both high and low, rich and poor, who will deeply lament his death; and in Europe also many will most sincerely regret it. The Lord Jesus grant, that we may as entirely and unreservedly follow him, our divine Head and Master, as our dearly beloved brother did! O may he not take his holy Spirit from us; but impart it both to our congregations and to ourselves, in a still richer measure, yea, 'exceeding abundantly,' as Swartz expressed it shortly before his death! We cannot but anticipate much tribulation both from without and from within. The presence and influence of a man of Mr. Swartz's stamp and established character, proved a more powerful protection to us than the patronage and support of kings." The missionaries at Tranquebar thus touchingly advert to this painfully interesting subject in an SUCH was the calm and peaceful, yet triumphant de-official letter to Professor Schultz. "The first event which we have to communicate is one of supreme importance to the mission, and which affects us most deeply. It is the death of our invaluable fellow-laborer Swartz. God took him to himself on the 13th of February. He has entered into rest, and his works do follow him. And who should not rejoice with him on account of the state of blessedness which he has now attained! But our eyes overflow with tears. We remember and lament him as children would an affectionately beloved father; and the loss occasioned by his death is rendered still more painful by the consideration, that we can scarcely now expect from Europe fellow-laborers of the mind, spirit, and temper with which Swartz was so eminently endowed. Our dear Gericke was present both at his dying bed, and at his funeral." In a summary of the state of the Tranquebar mission at the commencement of the following year, the same excellent men recurred at still greater length, and in a strain of Christian and pathetic eloquence, to the death of their revered friend and father. "The happy and peaceful entrance of the late Mr. Swartz into the joy of his Lord, is already known," they write, to the Christian public.Thousands in India, who knew him as their teacher, friend, father, brother, and benefactor, have shed tears of sorrow and sympathy over him; and we are confident that numbers in Europe, and especially in England, who made his personal acquaintance, will bless his memory. Indeed his name will be handed down to posterity. If all could be collected that he has been enabled to accomplish for near half a century, not for the benefit of the mission only, but for the Indian population at large, it would, we are fully persuaded, constitute one of the most remarkable, interesting, and instructive biographies. If it be such an unspeakable privilege and blessing to be an instrument in the hand of God for the salvation of one single soul, what will it be in the case of Swartz? Doubtless a numerous company of redeemed souls will meet him in the mansions of the blessed above, and welcome him as that endeared friend and benefactor, who, both by his oral and by his written instructions, first produced in their minds an earnest concern for their own salvation, and who afterwards led them on from step to step in the narrow way to heaven, encouraging, cheering, and strengthening them; among whom there might be mentioned some 'noble after the flesh.' Many others, who are still in the land of the living, will be greatly stimulated by a remembrance of his pure doctrine and bright Christian example to a renewed zeal in their holy career, and the lively wish will be excited in their breast, *Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!' "Indeed his death was no less instructive to us than his life had been. He was not taken from us by a sudden stroke, which would have proved too great a shock to our distressed minds; but the kind providence of God removed him gently and gradually from us. For these several months past he began to die to the world, and to worldly business at large, in consequence of repeated attacks, of sickness which deprived him almost entirely of the power of recollection; but he was yet spared to the more select circle of his congregation, to which he addressed the most affectionate exhortations, and with the members of which he joined in most earnest prayers, like one who had already reached the antechamber of heaven, his eyes beaming with sacred joy and a silent tear often falling upon his animated face. On his dying bed, he exemplified, in an eminent degree, before his colleagues and fellow Christians, an unshaken faith, a fervent love, and the most cheering hope. Thus he continued to communicate blessings all around, both by word and deed. The bitterness of death was entirely taken away; peace and serenity were perceptible in all the features of his countenance up to the last moment of his earthly existence, and he literally fell asleep in Jesus. A very large company of high and low, Christians and heathen, accompanied him to the grave. The prince (now reigning king) of Tanjore, expressly desired to see his corpse, bent over it, and suffused the face of him, who had been his tutor and protector-nay, more than this-who had acted the part of a father, with a flood of grateful tears. Our whole missionary cause and work will long enjoy the fruits of this happy and providential connection." We have already seen that the efforts of Mr. Swartz to establish the validity of Serfojee's adoption, having been sanctioned by the approbation of the supreme government in Bengal, waited only the decision of the Court of Directors to be crowned with complete success. Intelligence of this important event reached India in the month of June 1798; when Ameer Sing was formally deposed, and the young prince was raised to the throne. "On the 28th of June," write the Tranquebar missionaries, "Serfojee, the adopted son of the late Rajah of Tanjore, was proclaimed king. This prince is under the greatest obligations to the late venerated Swartz, as well as to his fellow-laborers in the English mission; and we cannot but cherish the pleasing hope, that he will be sensible of the eminent services thus rendered to him, and that the missionary cause, as well as the whole country, will derive lasting advantages from this change." These anticipations were, happily, well founded. It will, indeed, be readily believed, that the affection which had prompted the young Tanjore prince voluntarily to depart from the customs of his country, in bedewing the remains of his venerable friend with his tears, and following in the train of Christian mourners at his funeral, was no transient effusion of grateful feeling. On his accession to the musnud, mindful of the admonitions of his departed benefactor, he corrected various abuses, and endeavored to render his subjects of every denomination happy, by a just and mild government and was particularly beneficient to the poor Christians at Tanjore, in furnishing a large supply of grain for their support during a time of scarcity. A treaty having been concluded with the new Rajah in the following year, in consequence of which the forts of Tanjore were evacuated by the British troops, the English service was discontinued in the fort church; but the Rajah permitted the missionaries to perform the Tamul service there, and promised to protect them from all molestation. Notwithstanding this assurance, no sooner had the British garrison been withdrawn, and the forts replaced under the sole and absolute authority of the Rajah, than a report prevailed that it was the intention of his highness to take down the Christian Church which had been erected by Mr. Swartz, and to rebuild it on the esplanade. The whole of the small fort of Tanjore being holy ground, devoted originally to the purposes of the pagoda, together with the extreme anxiety displayed by the Rajah, to efface, by extraordinary purifications, all the effects and traces of the pollution which had been inflicted on the pagoda, for twenty years, by its contact with an European garrison, gave a degree of probability to the report, that inclined the resident, Mr. Torin, to take an opportunity of speaking to the Rajah on the subject. "I was present as interpreter," observes Colonel Blackburne, in whose expressive and elegant language the following anecdote, equally honorable to the Rajah, and to the pious missionary, is related, "at the interview between the Rajah and the resident, when the latter, in the course of general TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. CHRISTIAN FREDERIC SWARTZ, and familiar conversation, alluded, with as much | with the following chaste and appropriate inscripdelicacy as possible, to the supposed intention of his tion: highness to remove the church. The effect on the Rajah was very striking. He became agitated; the color heightened; he half rose from his seat, and his first words, in answer to the resident, were an indignant reproach to that gentleman for paying any attention whatever to a calumny, which could be credited by none but those who were alike ignorant of his disposition and principles, and of the early events of his life. He eulogized, in glowing terms, the character and conduct of Mr. Swartz, spoke of his various obligations to the venerable padre, and concluded in a loud and somewhat passionate tone, as follows: "So far from pulling down any church built by Mr. Swartz, I would, if his successors wanted a church in the fort, and could not find a convenient spot to build it on, give them a place in my own palace for the purpose.' "Although thirty-three years have passed away since this conversation, I retain a very lively remembrance of the force of the Rajah's expressions, and of the energy of his look and manner, when he spurned the report as a calumny, injurious to his honor as a prince, and to his undecaying feelings of grateful and affectionate attachment to his preceptor, benefactor, and friend." In the year 1801, the Hindoo prince gave another remarkable proof of his gratitude and respect for his late excellent friend, by requesting the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge to send out a monument to his memory. "Enclosed," Mr. Gericke writes, "I beg leave to send you a letter from Serfojee, Maha Rajah of Tanjore, and to recommend its contents to the Society. No son can have a greater regard for his father, than this good Hindoo had for Mr. Swartz, and still has for his memory." The letter of the Rajah is as follows: "I have requested of your missionaries to write to you, their superiors and friends, and to apply to you in my name, for a monument of marble, to be erected in their church that is in my capital and residency, to perpetuate the memory of the late Rev. Father Swartz, and to manifest the great esteem I have for the character of that great and good man, and the gratitude I owe him, my father, my friend, the protector and guardian of my youth; and now I beg leave to apply to you myself, and to beg that, upon my account, you will order such a monument for the late reverend missionary Father Swartz, to be made, and to be sent out to me, that it may be fixed to the pillar that is next to the pulpit from which he preached. The pillars of the church are about two cubits broad. May you, honorable sirs, ever be enabled to send to this country such missionaries as are like the late Rev. Mr. Swartz! "I am, honorable Sirs, "Yours, faithfully and truly, "Tanjore, May 28th, 1801." The Society to whom this interesting letter, probably the composition of the distinguished writer, was addressed, feeling the importance of the testimony thus borne to the high character of their late invaluable missionary, readily acquiesced in the request of the Rajah; and a monument, executed by Flaxman, was, in consequence, sent out to Tanjore, The similarity of his situation to that OF THE FIRST PREACHERS OF THE GOSPEL, THE APOSTOLIC CHARACTER. His natural vivacity won the affection, as his Unspotted probity and purity of life alike commanded the reverence of THE CHRISTIAN, MAHOMEDAN, AND HINDU ; The medium of political negociation with the The liberal affection and esteem of the MAHA RAJAH SERFOJEE. tiful monument is composed, represents, in basso The group, in white marble, of which this beaurelievo, the death-bed of the departing saint, Gericke standing behind him, two native attendants and three children of his school around his bed, and the Hindoo prince at his side, grasping the hand, and receiving the blessing of his dying friend. For some time, the Rajah, unwilling, perhaps, to lose sight of an object which recalled a scene so dear to him, retained this monument in his palace; in the principal saloon of which, amidst the portraits of his ancestors, he had also placed that of Swartz. It was at length removed to the church in the inner fort; the western end of which it now adorns, and where, it is hoped, it may long remain -a striking and gratifying memorial of Christian excellence, and of Hindoo gratitude and affection. The following lines inscribed on the granite stone, which covers the grave of Swartz in front of the altar, in the chapel of the mission garden, were composed by the Rajah himself; and if we may not claim for them any great degree of poetical merit, they must be considered curious as the only specimen of English versification known to have been attempted by a Hindoo prince, and are justly entitled to the far higher praise of presenting a testimony as graphical and interesting, as it is affectionate and sincere, to the character and worth of his revered guardian and friend. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF CHRISTIAN FREDERIC SWARTZ, MISSIONARY TO THE HONORABLE IN LONDON; WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 13TH OF FEBRUARY, 1798, AGED SEVENTY-ONE YEARS AND FOUR MONTHS. Firm wast thou, humble and wise, Blessing to princes, to people, to me; From the time of his accession to the musnud, the kindness of the Rajah to the Protestant missions was marked and unceasing. In June 1802 his highness was at Tranquebar, and honored the senior of the Danish missionaries with a visit. "A few days ago," writes the Rev. Mr. John, "the present king of Tanjore, who is now about twenty-five years old, paid us a visit at Tranquebar, accompanied by a numerous suite. I stood with my family near my house door, in order to see him pass. He was on horseback, and when he saw me, he dismounted, embraced me three times, and conversed with me in the street for several minutes. He promised to pay me a visit, which he did, and afterwards requested me to meet him in his tent, where he received me in the most friendly manner, and conversed with me for nearly two hours alone. We spoke in English, chiefly about his dear Father Swartz, as he called him. He expressly stated, that he held him in constant remembrance; and that his instructions and admonitions were often present to his mind. He added, that he was not unmindful of what I had so frequently told him at our interviews in Madras. He also expressed his unfeigned respect for Mr. Gericke and Mr. Kohlhoff, as well as for my fellow-laborers in this city, one of whom, Mr. Cammerer, he had already seen. 'I highly esteem them,' he said, 'because I find them men of the same mind and character as Mr. Swartz; and such men, I hope, will always be sent as missionaries to India.'" The piety, it may be added, of Mr. Kohlhoff's mother, had recommended her to the Rajah's attention, and had induced him to take her second son into his service as a writer. thankfulness to God for his great mercies shown to them."* Such were some of the more prominent proofs given by this excellent Hindoo prince of the respect and affection which he entertained for the late venerable missionary, and which he evidently cherished and manifested upon every occasion during his whole life. When Dr. Buchanan was introduced to the Rajah, as soon as the first ceremonial in the grand hall of audience was over, his highness led him up to the portrait of Swartz."He then discoursed," says that generous friend of missions, for a considerable time concerning that good man,' whom he ever revered as his father and guardian." 66 When, ten years afterwards, Bishop Middleton visited Tanjore, "his highness dwelt," "observes the biographer of that eminent prelate, "with evident delight on the blessings which the heavenly lessons and virtues of Swartz had shed upon him and his people, and concluded by professing the warmest respect for those excellent men, Mr. Kohlhoff and his fellow-workers, who had succeeded to the labors of their venerable predecessor." The Rajah afterwards selected a portrait of Swartz as the most acceptable memorial he could offer to the English bishop. The account which Archdeacon Robinson has givent of the interview of Bishop Heber with this grateful prince, ten years after that of his learned predecessor, is equally honorable to the memory of the great and good missionary, and in a high degree interesting. "The bishop," he writes, "paid a visit of ceremony to the Rajah, accompanied by the resident, and attended by all the clergy. We were received in full durbar, in the great Mahratta hall, where the Rajahs are enthroned. The scene was imposing, and, from the number of Christian clergymen in the court of a Hindoo prince, somewhat singular; the address and manners of his highness are, in a remarkable degree, dignified and pleasing. The bishop sat on his right, the resident next to his son on his left, and the rest of the party on each side in order. He talked much of his 'dear father,' Swartz, and three times told the bishop he hoped his lordship would resemble him, and stand in his room. Perhaps few things in the mouth of an Eastern This generous prince, a few years afterwards, gave a still more unequivocal and substantial proof of his affection and esteem for his late venerated friend, and one which would have been peculiarly gratifying to his benevolent mind. Having erected a very extensive and costly building, about sixteen miles from Tanjore, for the support of Brahmins, and of poor of every description, together with an institution for the maintenance and education of Hindoo children of different castes in various Ori-prince, with whom compliment to the living is ental, and in the English, languages, "his tender generally exaggerated, could show more strongly regard," says Mr. Kohlhoff, "for the memory of the sincerity of his affection for the friend he had the late Rev. Mr. Swartz, induced him also to es- lost. The openness of his gratitude and reverence tablish in the adjacent village of Kanandagoodi, for the Christian missionary in the midst of his which is inhabited by a considerable number of Brahmins, and himself still constant in his own reChristians, a charitable institution for the education ligion, is admirable; and if on some occasions it and support of fifty poor Christian children; thirty be a little too prominent, who would not pardon poor Christians are also maintained and clothed at and even love a fault which is but the excess of a the same munificent institution; and at a choultry virtue ? And John Kohlhoff,' said he, 'is a good near the Fort of Tanjore, fifty poor, lame, and man, a very good man; we are old school-fellows.' blind, and other real objects of charity, all belong--On the whole, much as we had heard of this celeing to the mission are entirely supported by his bounteous hand. He has likewise given orders that his Christian servants, civil and military, should not be denied by their officers liberty to attend divine service on Sundays and festivals, and that they should be excused from all other duty on such occasions." In the year 1826, Archdeacon Robinson, then accompanying the late lamented Bishop Heber, visited the different charitable establishments of the Rajah just described, to which had been subsequently added two hospitals for the sick, and a beautiful bungalow for the accommodation of European travellers; when he was much pleased to see a large congregation of Christians assembled in the chapel at Kanandagoodi, whom," writes Mr. Kohlhoff, "after morning prayers, he gave a kind address, animating them to to brated person, we found our anticipations had not been raised too high. Much, doubtless, of the interest excited before we saw him, sprang from the hallowing and endearing associations with the name of Swartz, which in heathen India, or the nations of Christendom, must ever be 'Magnum et venerabile nomen." It may, perhaps, appear extraordinary, that the Hindoo prince who had, during his youth, been under the tuition of the pious and zealous missionary, who was evidently so warmly attached to him, and for whose virtues he had so deep a reverence, *Bishop Heber's Journal, vol. i. p. 461, and Last Days of Bishop Heber, p. 200. + Last Days of Bishop Heber, p. 159. In his interview with Bishop Middleton, the late Rajah of Tanjore avowed his very natural feeling of exultation in having been the first to do honor to the character of Swartz, by giving orders for a monument to be erected to his memory. The Directors of the East India Company were equally anxious to mark the high sense which they entertained of his personal and public worth, by sending out another monument to Madras. The following is an extract of a general letter from the Court to the government of Fort St. George, dated October 29th, 1807. should have continued during his whole life, and truth, with respect more particularly to Serfojee apparently with entire sincerity, a devoted ad- Rajah; the intelligence of whose unexpected deherent to the wretched idolatry of his country. cease, in the course of the last year, only serves to Greatly as this must be lamented, both for his own awaken, with increased interest, the regret it is imsake and that of his people, it must be remembered, possible not to feel, that the pupil and friend of that the first twelve years of Serfojee's life were Swartz should have lived and died a stranger to the spent amidst the listless indolence and the childish exalted hopes and consolations of the gospel. May amusements of the Zennanah, and that with the the successor of this amiable prince, trained, as he exception of the scattered hours during which he has been in hereditary respect for Christian misreceived the instructions of Swartz, and, when sionaries, and partly under the care of the excelcalled to the throne, of occasional and chiefly official lent Kohlhoff, by the grace of God, advance beintercourse with him and other Europeans, his ha-yond his two immediate predecessors, in the acbits and associations were almost exclusively Hin- knowledgment of revealed truth; or if this be, as doo, and consequently subversive of any more en- yet, too sanguine a hope, may he, at least, tread in lightened views, and any better impressions, which their steps, and continue, like them, the protector he might have derived from his Christian tutor. It and friend of Christians.* has been suggested by Bishop Heber, that the good missionary might have been restrained by a feeling of honor from any direct endeavors to convert his distinguished pupil. Doubtless, he felt and acted with the most perfect good faith in all that concerned so responsible and delicate an office. But, to say nothing of the inconsistency of any such reservation with the known principles and invariable practice of so faithful and uncompromising a servant of his divine Master, no such restriction appears to have been imposed upon him by Tuljajee Rajah, with respect to the education of his adopted son; and it is evident from the preceding details of his intercourse with both the Hindoo princes, that he felt himself at liberty to exhort them to renounce their idolatry, and to worship the true God according to the revelation of the gospel; an affecting instance of which occurs in the last solemn interview between the younger of them and the dying missionary. Both were probably convinced of the folly of the native superstition, and impressed with the superior excellence of Christianity, as they perceived it attractively exemplified in their revered friend; but, as in too many instances in every age and country, whether under the form of false religion, or of indifference and unbelief, the pure and practical demands of the gospel were, as Tuljajee once ingenuously confessed, too directly opposed to the corrupt propensities of human nature to be readily complied with, while the sacrifice not merely of caste, but, as they erroneously apprehended, of princely revenue and authority, and possibly even of life, was too formidable to be overcome by any thing short of that divine grace, which can, in spite of every opposing influence, "bring every thought into captivity to the dominion of Christ." Both these eastern princes, therefore, contented with that sincere admiration and esteem of the faithful missionary, which induced them to show kindness for his sake to their converted subjects, for themselves, unhappily, turned aside from the heavenly vision, and were only "almost persuaded to be Christians."* Such appears to have been the While the second edition of these Memoirs was passing through the press, the author discovered, in a letter from Mr. Swartz to the Rev. Mr. Pasche, in September, 1775, the following remarkable reference to the apparent conviction of Tuljajee Rajah, at that period, as to the truth of the gospel, "There is at present," he says, "here in Sirengam, a Brahmin, who, being exhorted to become a Christian, related the interesting fact, that the king of Tanjore had at one time felt a strong desire to adopt the Christian faith, and assembled all the chief ministers and officers of his court for the express purpose of submitting to them a proposition to this effect-but that they had all united in remonstrating against it; stating, that all his ancestors had served their long-established gods, and had By our extra ship, the Union, you will receive, in four packing cases, a marble monument, which has been executed by Mr. Bacon, under our di rections, to the memory of the Rev. Christian Frederic Swartz, as the most appropriate testimony of the deep sense we entertain of his transcendent merit, of his unwearied and disinterested labors in the cause of religion and piety, and the exercise of the purest and most exalted benevolence; also of his public services at Tanjore, where the influence of his name and character, through the unbounded confidence and veneration which they inspired, was for a long course of years productive of important benefits to the Company. "On no subject has the Court of Directors been more unanimous, than in their anxious desire to perpetuate the memory of this eminent person, and to excite in others an emulation of his great example. We accordingly direct, that the monument be erected in some conspicuous situation near the altar, in the church of St. Mary, in Fort St. George, and that you adopt, in conjunction and with the assistance of the Rev. Dr. Kerr, the senior chaplain at your presidency, any other measures that your judgment shall suggest, as likely to give effect to these our intentions, and to render them impressive on the minds of the public at your settlement. As one of the most efficacious, we would recommend that, on the first Sunday after the erection of the monument, a discourse adapted to the occasion be delivered by the senior chaplain. We desire also prospered. He should, therefore,' they added, 'utterly renounce any idea or intention of this sort.' "No wonder," continues Mr. Swartz, "that a scheme thus pursued should meet with a complete failure. It deserves notice, that all the king's official advisers on this occasion are either immured in prisons, or wander about in the country as vagabonds and beggars." * Early in 1835, the author had the honor of receiving, through the kindness of Colonel Blackburne, a letter from this young prince, now the reigning Rajah of Tanjore, in reply to one accompanying the present of a copy of the first edition of these Memoirs. It is peculiarly gratifying to him, not only as affording a powerful and unequivocal testimony to the truth and accuracy of his representations, but as evincing feelings of grateful re |