Chinsurah. Ter Gedagtenisse D' Ed Heer CORNELIS DE JONCE in zyn Ed leeven gedesigneerd Directeur Deser diretie Gebooren te Middelburg in Zeeland den 16th September A. 1687. Albier Overleeden den 10 October A. 1743. bIC anna sopIt trans Lata VII DeCeMrIs (These letters taken, numerically form MDCCLIII.) Hier rust CORNELIA MARIA DE MAUREGNAULT Mr. Andreas Franciscus Immens Christoffel Mourits Doeve in Leeven-Koopman en en Negotie Boekhouder tot Hougly Ter gedagenisse Van Wylen JAN HENDRICK ZINNER Zoon van den MEIVFFROUW ANTOINETTE THEODORA VAN overleeden den 15 December Anno 1774 in To the memory of Lieut. On the obverse Sacred to the Memory of Charles Weston, Esq. of Calcutta, Grave and modest in her conversation, Untainted by the fluctuating fashion of the Age, A faithful wife, A tender mother, The early exit of these Daughters dear, May swell the heart and force the parent's tear, No more they weep, no more they mourn or sigh, Hier rust PIETER DE BRUEYS Opperkoopman & Hoosd Adminst Overleeden den XVII Augustus MDCCLXXXIII LII Jaar IX Maanden XVII dagen. EDWD. HAWEIS SCAWEN BIRCH, B. DEMPLINGH, obiit 23 Mart 1800. JOHAN FRIEDRICK GELISER, junior Zer Memorie, CAROLINA VAN'T HART, Obit. Den 16 Maij 1803, Oud 18. Jr. 10 Mn. 20 Dn. en Des zelfs dochterje, Carolina Forsyth Van't Hart Overlu. 28 Sept. 1803, Oud 4 Mn. 17 Dn. De Heeze heeft gegeren, De Heere heeft gen omen de Odat sij wijs waren; sij souden dit vermemen sij souden But bless his name, his Son, and love remain. Job 1, 21. These things, O God, teach all to learn and know : FK. KL. HOFF, A. C. HOFF.-H. L. HOFF. JAN HENDRIK CARELL BRAND, Oud 1: Jr. 9, Mn. 10 Da. The Portuguese of Calcutta. The Portuguese under Vasco de Gama, discovered the passage to India by the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. Goa was captured, and Fort Emanuel founded by Albuquerque in 1510 from thenceforward to the present day, this Island has been considered as the capital of the Portuguese conquests, and the seat of the Primate and Metropolitan of all Asia. Goa, the first city in which any European power effected a settlement, our contemporaries have been compelled to solicit even the means of existence from the Schismatic descendants of Europe: during the famine in 1793, a Carmelite monk of the Monastery of Nossa Senhora de Carmo, was soliciting alms in the streets of Calcutta for the support of his Convent: he came with a memorial signed by the Heads of his Orders. In Goa, as in all other places where a Papal Government exists, poverty is to be seen linked with wretchedness. Yet the Portuguese invariably have made choice of the finest situations wherever they have fixed their abode-as a proof, Goa presents one of the most romantic scenes from the sea, of any on the Malabar Coast. The Fort of Alguaida forms one side of the entrance to the harbour, and the Monastery of Nossa Senhora de Carmo situated on an high point of land, and whose beautiful appearance invites to other sentiments, than those of horrid soli tude, and still more horrid celibacy. The Portuguese first entered Bengal, as military adven turers in the service of the King of Gour, about the year 1538, the last year of the Government of Nuna de Cunha, the tenth Viceroy of India. In the year 1599 the Portuguese built a Fort at Houghly, in the place now called Goleghat. In the same year the Missionaries of the Order of St. Augustine founded the Convent of Bandel, the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, and the Church of Miseracordia, to which was attached a Recolhimento for the protection of ladies: the foundation of these sacred buildings are to be seen at this day. The Convent of Bandel was demolished in 1640, aud rebuilt by John Gomes de Soto. In 1632 the Portuguese committed excesses on the Imperial Mahal at Houghly: the Emperor demanded satisfaction, which was denied him. The incensed Monarch immediately ordered a powerful army, commanded by twenty-two Omrahs, to extirpate the Portuguese. Michael Rodrigues |