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He must be © pattern’ man—always pre- 
senting an example —and an example 
which nobody wishes to imitate. The ridi- 
cule of the thing is incomparable—a bishop 
must do—and for the sake of example—— 
what nobody will imitate, or would be 
toierated if he did. Any body would as 
soon think of playing harlequin, or a mounte- 
bank, as take the tone, or mask, or wig of 
episcopacy. No, Reginald Heber had a 
soul above forms, in spite of all ceremonial 
and conventional necessities. He loved 
poetry, read novels, enjoyed romances— 
even in the book before us, and which we 
had nearly forgotten, quotes Scott, and 
Southey, and Byron—talks the language of 
common life—shews an intimacy with its 
sentiments and ways—withoui a desire to 
eonceal it—and talks of chance and luck, 
where another would cant about Provi- 
dence. The sacrifice of such a man is 
greatly to be lamented ; he was calculated 
to adorn, and instruct, and soften the most 
cultivated, instead of being thrown among 
the roughest, and would have honoured the 
English bench. A very inferior man would 
have done for India. The idea of forcing 
a man to make the tour of India every 
three years is absurd—it will kill every one 
who attempts it. 
The Journal, edited by his widow, con- 
sists of his visitation tour from Calcutta, up 
the Ganges, through the Upper Provinces 
of India, by Oude and Rohileund, to the 
very confines of the Himalaya Mountains, 
returning, by the way of Delhi, Ferrucka- 
bad, Jeypoor, and Surat, to Bombay. His 
professional business is of course minutely 
detailed, but these matters constitute not 
only the least interesting, but, in fact, the 
smallest part of the book. That is filled 
with the objects that struck his observation, 
and few things escaped his vigilance—mo- 
rails, manners, politics, scenery, the condi- 
tion of the people. In all he shews himself 
a thoroughly amiable and good man, ac- 
cording to his best measuze of good—unde- 
terred, also, from expressing disapprobation 
occasionally of the mighty Company, under 
whose protection he was journeying. The 
kind feelings he betrays at every tuzn—the 
soothing services he was ever ready to per- 
form to the poorest—his consideration for 
the humblest—his conciliating manners— 
neither affecting fhor coveting popularity, 
make the reading one of the most gratify- 
ing enjoyments—he has often beguiled us 
of onr sympathies. Without pursuing him 
repularly—the book is too bulky for that— 
we shell pick out aspecimen or two. On 
leaving the court of Oude, he had made a 
distribution of small coiv, accerding to the 
custom of the country, and had the mortifi- 
cation of seeing what he had given—more 
than to the rest—to a miserable old woman, 
torn forcibly from her— 
T observed (says he) that my chobdar, and the 
rest of my escort, seemed to think that it was 
atrange to give more toa woman tlian to most ofthe 
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men; and I had noticed on’ many oceasions, that 
all through India any thing is thought good 
enough for the weaker sex, and that the roughest 
words, the pourest garments, the scantiest alms, 
the most degrading labour, and the hardest blows, 
are generally their portion. The same chuprassee, 
who, in clearing the way before a great man, 
speaks civilly enough to those of his own sex, 
cuffs and kicks any unfortunate female who 
crosses his path without warning or forbearance. 
Yet to young children they are all gentleness and ~ 
indulgence. What riddles men are, and how 
strangely do they differ in different countries! 
An idle boy in a crowd would infallibly, in Eng- 
land, get his head broken ; but what an ontery 
would be raised if an unoffending woman were 
beaten by one of the satellites of authority. Per- 
haps both parties might learn something from 
each other; at least I have always thought it 
very hard to see beadles, in Evgland, lashing 
away children on all occasions, as if curiosity 
were acrime at an agein which it is, of all others, 
most natural, 
Among the Rohillas he noticed some 
fields of tobacco, which he had not often 
observed before. The Hindostanee name 
is tumbuccoo, evidently derived, as well as 
the plant itself, through the Eurepeans, 
from America. ‘‘ How strange it is,’’ he 
adds, ‘ that this worthless drug should 
have so rapidly become popular all over the 
world, and among people who are generally 
supposed to be most disinclined from the 
adoption of foreign custems.”? But why 
this vituperation of tobacco? It is mani- 
festly a source of high enjeyment, and that 
to those who cannot be said to have too 
much. The fastidiousness of his own ha- 
bits, we must suppose, betrays him. here. 
It is the hardest thing in the world to enter 
inio other people’s tastes. 
When at Agra, [took this opportunity (says he) 
of inquiring in what degree of favour the name 
of the French stood in this part of India, where, 
for so many years together, it was paramount. 
I was toll that many people were accustomed to 
speak of them as often oppressive and avaricious, 
but as of more conciliating and popular manners 
than the English sahibs. Many of them, indeed, 
had completely adopted the Indian dress and cus- 
toms, and most of them were free from that ex- 
elusive and intolerant spirit, which makes the 
English, wherever they go, a caste by themselves, 
disliking and disliked by all tieir neighbours. 
Of this foolish, surly, national pride, I see but too 
many instances daily, and I am convinced it docs 
us much harmin this country. We are not guilty 
of injustice, or wilful oppression, but we shut out 
the natives from our society, and a bullying, inso- 
lent manner is continually assumed in speaking to 
them. 
At Broach is an hospital for sick and 
infrm animals. He was not able himself 
to visit it. My. Corsellis, the commercial 
agent, described it to him as a 
Very dirty and neglected place, which, though 
it has considerable endowments in land, only 
serves to enrich the brahmins who manage it. 
They have really animals of different kinds there, — 
