right and wrong; but, after all, they very much resemble a curious walking-stick, which was sent to me from your Bengal capital. It looked like a stick, and was loaded with air, but it was in fact a gun." To a rather tiresome visitor, who commented at somewhat greater length than was convenient on the rapid growth of the plants in his garden, he remarked, "Sir, they have nothing else to do."-" You have lately made three presents to the country," he one day remarked "and they all came in with the administration of the Marquis of Hastings: the gout, the choleramorbus, and the supreme court; we never heard of any of them up here until he arrived."

to me,

The figure of the Hakeem is perfectly in keeping with his character. The ample but deeply-furrowed brow, the sarcastic yet smiling expression of the mouth, the ardent and awakened eye, which leaves nothing unnoticed, nothing unexamined. There is even in his dress, always remarkable, nay, studiously neglected, that impress of singularity, and disregard of all form, in a country of forms, which makes his conversation one continued stream of information and intelligence.

The Nawaub is advanced in years, but his mother is a still more remarkable instance of longevity. This lady perfectly recollected the entry of Nadir Shah into Delhi; and the event was still fresh in her recollection after the lapse of ninety years. She had the gratifica

tion of seeing five generations united under a roof, which the poorest never entered without a welcome, nor quitted without relief.

The Hakeem, as his title imports, is practised in the medical science of his own country; and he is fond, not only of the theory, but of the practice of medicine: in which, I shall remark in passing, he considers himself something of a Machaon; and consequently rather too much inclined to underrate those modern discoveries in a science, which he says Avicenna, Hippocrates, and Galen, very certainly learnt from his countrymen. Of calomel he always expresses undisguised abhorrence. On the other hand, I went to pay him a visit one day, when he was unwell, and I found him taking an amalgam of pounded pearls, gum arabic and leaf-gold. Observing a smile on my countenance at so unusual a prescription, he asked me if I thought there might not be some virtue in one metal as well as another. Joking with him one day on a new plantation of orange-trees, from which at sixty-five it was scarcely possible for him to expect much fruit, he remarked, "One of your great poets mentions a people whose eyes were at the back of their heads; consequently they never saw any thing in front. You must be that people; you never think of what is likely to be hereafter, but what has been already." He who sent to the distant, and to him unknown valley of Cash

meer, the splendid benefaction, which could relieve a whole city desolated by an earthquake; he who could construct a bridge for our government, and one for that of Persia, at an expense of £30,000; the Mahommedan, who believes that good men of all nations and religions may be saved-that man's character belongs to the history of his period. If the traveller merits. reproach who omits the description of a noble building, why should it not be penal alike to pass in silence the far more rare example of worth uncorrupted by wealth, of religion divested of bigotry, and of charity unmixed with ostentation.-Beng. Chron., Aug. 3, 1830.

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