2 memos of Dr Fames Anderson. May 9. 
considered that object of inferior importance to those of 
beneficence and kindnefs ; and though he has long occu- 
pied a place of such consequence in India as might 
have enabled him to acquire, in an honourable way, 
such a fortune as might have satisfied the wifhes of 
the most avaricious, he has contented himself with 
applying what wealth came in his way, to acts of 
kindnefs to those who have merited it at his hands, 
and to generous efforts, to better the state of 
the poor people around him. To accumulate wealth 
for other purposes is a study that he despises. He 
has adopted that country as his own: nor can he 
ever feel the effects of languor, while he is engaged 
in the active pursuits of measures that promise to 
diffuse immediate happinefs around him, and to pave 
the way for general prosperity, after he fhall be. re- 
moved from this active scene. 
A character so uncommon, when joined with su- 
perior talents, and a liberal education, could not fail 
to attract, in timve, the notice of gentlemen in India; 
but time was required to ascertain the real bent of 
that character. In India, as well as in Europe, there 
are to be found, men who strive to advance their 
own interest, under the specious pretext of general 
philanthropy ; so'that there, as well as here, it is 
not at once that the true value ofall such pretensions 
ean be ascertained; for many years, therefore, the 
efforts of this man were confined only to a narrow 
sphere; they were known only to his intimate acquain- 
tance, nor did he make any particular efforts to make 
them be publicly taken notice of. His operations, 
however, were steady anduninterrupted. He took plea- 
gure in useful researches, and pursued them; nor did he 
