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ways, for works of usefulness, places of influence, and scenes of domestic peace. I may not draw aside the veil from my aged friend's death-couch, and obtrude upon him the gaze of a receding world; or yet open the privacy of widowed seclusion, and shew the " widow indeed," as a Mary at the feet of her beloved Lord, who hath chosen that good part which shall not be taken away from her. Many loud plaudits have been sounded to the names of some as good or great, many vivid pictures have been delineated to exhibit departed talent or worth; but, I believe, in few regions will there be found so many silent memorials, so many Ebenezers, so many stones of help, legibly and deeply engraven, as shall be revealed here when God makes up his jewels; when He writeth up the people, and numbers the treasures of his grace. With not a few it will then be accounted "an honour to appear as one new-born and nourished there." On week-day and sabbath-day was this house a Bethel and a Bethlehem ; a house of God, and a house where the bread of God was daily broken for the hungry soul.

Let my reader accompany me to other scenes ; to Vellore and Sautghur. The valley of the Pallar narrows and draws toward the Ghauts, passing by Vellore. It is verdant and fertile, and extends to Paligonda, where there is water enough for two crops of rice. This fine valley was in former times well peopled, and contains yet vestiges of former opulence and security. Vellore is a wellbuilt town, and was strongly fortified in the early history of the country. It was, in the time of the Mogul, deemed impregnable, and afforded defence to a refractory or temporising chieftain. The walls of the fort are still rendered so much the more secure by a deep running fosse, or ditch, supplied from the Pallar, which contains many immense and frightful alligators. The destructive powers and propensities of these amphibious monsters serve as effectually as armed battalions for the mounted guard of the glacis or batteries. They may be seen basking upon the waters in all their huge proportions; but the daring intruder is never sure where they are not, and it would be a perilous, most probably a fatal adventure, to attempt to cross the waters of the ditch. Vellore was chosen as the prison for the sons of Tippoo, when their father's kingdom passed away, and his fortress of Seringapatam was taken. Many restless and warlike Mussulmans hovered round about, and longed for the deliverance of the captives and their restoration to power. It was not wonderful if the slightest pretext should serve to excite the retainers and followers of Tippoo's house, and to attach Mohammedans in the Company's army. Certain military regulations, adopted by the government, which interfered with the prejudices and superstitions of the native soldiery, created extensive dissatisfaction; and the emissaries of Tippoo's family, perhaps, also, of the European enemies of England, seized the moment as favourable for

successful resistance. At two o'clock in the morning of July 10, 1806, the attempt was made. The European barracks at Vellore contained four complete companies of the 69th regiment. Two battalions of sepoys in the Company's service surrounded the barracks, and poured in, most unexpectedly, a heavy fire of musketry at every door and window, upon the English soldiers. At the same moment, the European sentries, the soldiers at the mainguard, and the sick in the hospital, were put to death. The officers' houses were ransacked, and every European found in them was murdered. A messenger, however, escaped to Arcot, and Colonel Gillespie brought up the 19th dragoons to the rescue of their countrymen. The butcheries within were so engrossing, that the insurgents had not guarded the gates of the fort, so as to resist the force brought against them. The sepoys were immediately attacked; six hundred were cut down on the spot, and two hundred more were dragged from their hiding-places and shot. One hundred and sixty-four of the soldiers of the 69th regiment had been destroyed, besides their officers; and many officers of the native troops had shared the fate of their fellow Britons, being murdered by their own sepoys. I received the story of this Vellore mutiny from Captain J-, who was in the 69th at the time, and was one of the few survivors. He described his own utter helplessness and alarm,-how he fled into a go-down, or cellar, pursued by the panting and sanguinary

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murderers, with their weapons of destruction in hand; and how he had just time to say his prayers before his pursuers could have overtaken him, and directed their musket toward his defenceless person. Their attention had been arrested by some other object; he was forgotten in the mêlée. In a few hours-hours of torturing and agonizing suspensehe was rescued from so near a death. The alarm created by this affair was unjustly turned to the prejudice of christian missions, which were in no measure concerned as cause and effect. There is no danger to British power in India from Christianity, so long as the work of evangelization is carried forward by an agency distinct from the government, and left to subsist by the voluntary liberality of those who embrace its creed and submit to its authority.

The sons of Tippoo were removed to Calcutta, their adherents were dispersed, and their influence in the peninsula wholly subsided. One of these princes died; his surviving brother has been for some time in England pursuing certain pecuniary negotiations with the governing authorities-who, he asserts, have become remiss in the discharge of obligations which were undertaken by the Company. He is represented as an intelligent and pleasing gentleman; perhaps, with all his privations, the loss of a throne, and separation from courtiercounsellors, he is not less happy or capable of enjoying the means of improvement and information, though he be not permitted to rule on the thrones of Beejanugur and Mysore. He was not in Vellore when I visited that fort; but every thing smelt of Tippoo. There were fragments of the harem, or the divan, favourites and menials, for whom the English government still provided a daily support. As a visitor, my inquiries and curiosity were excited, and I had every opportunity for attaining my 'desires. A friend and acquaintance of old standing was commandant; and through his attentions I was introduced to all that was deemed interesting. The fort is now a station for troops, rather than a stronghold for defending the country. The barracks within and outside of the citadel are employed only for native battalions. The station is hot, and does not suit the constitution of Europeans; yet it is often chosen as the best place for a native corps whose last station has been marshy, subject to malaria, or visited by fevers. There was here no chaplain; the pious, or well-inclined officers, used to ride over to Arcot, ten or twelve miles, on sabbath morning. It is one of the penalties which a Christian pays for continuing in the army, that he is often placed at a distance from the ordinances of a profitable ministry. It is one of the occasional services which a missionary renders to the people of his Lord, to turn in as a wayfaring man for a night, and lead his brethren in the way, where they may draw water with joy from the wells of salvation.

Sautghur is a stage beyond Vellore, where the luxuriance of the East, the variety of tropical

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