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MISCELLANIES. 



DEATH OF A PARSEE AT BOMBAY, perfect reliance on the wisdom 



and goodness of God. 



He addressed them with great 

 afFection/and with all that strength, 

 clearness, and precision of lan- 

 guage, for which he was held in 

 so much estimation through life. 

 He told them that he felt his hour 

 was come, and that as such was 

 the will of the high Providence 

 that watched over them, he sub- 

 mitted himself to Ids gracious dis- 

 pensations. That death was ihe 

 last tribute to be paid in this world 

 — the universallnt of human nature 

 — and that it must be paid sooner 

 or later, when God determined 

 the time, it is therefore the duty 

 of n)an to submit without further 

 struggle, and to prepare himself 

 for an event which he cannot de- 

 lay. That as he felt dll hopes of 

 recovery were vain, he gave up, 

 as far as man can be supposed to 

 do, the very wish to live ; and 

 conjured his friends to imitate him 



(From the Asiatic Journal. J 



WE have copied the following 

 from the Bombay Courier. 

 The deceased was, we learn, a man 

 of the greatest opulence and in- 

 fluence among the native subjects 

 of the British government at Bom- 

 bay. — On the 21st instant, at half- 

 past two o'clock in the morning, 

 I'estonjee Bomanjee, the well- 

 known and very resj)ectable Par- 

 see merchant, paid the great debt 

 of nature, after having jvist com- 

 pleted his lifty-eighth year. 



He had, for some time, linger- 

 ed under a very painful and de- 

 pressing illness, which he bore 

 with great fortitude, cheering his 

 family and friends with the hopes 

 of his recovery to the last. A few 

 hours, however, before his disso- 

 lution, he became sensible of the 

 near apjjroach of death ; and, in 

 the full possession of his faculties, 

 prepared his surrounding I'clatives 

 for the awful separation that was 

 about to take ])lace, with a com- 

 posure and resignation worthy of 

 the most enliglitcned philosoj)hy, 

 exalted and refined by the most 



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in that resignation which was now 

 his greatest comfort. He desired 

 them to look back on the part he 

 had so long played in life ; that 

 if they were satisfied he had con- 

 ducted himself well, his memory 

 would remain to th?m as a conso- 

 2 P latioa 



