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they could ferve the Company with moH honour and 

 advantage to their emph)yers and themlelves. I may, 

 I believe, venture confidently to add, that tlie FAift 

 India Company bad not at that time any two I'ervants 

 fo young and lb well acquainted (at the lame time) with 

 the languages and learning of JiJ^a^ and particularly 

 with the VcrfiiDi tongue and the authors who have writ- 

 ten in it. Pardon, Gentlemen, this mention of a much 

 loved and much lamented brother, to which I have 

 been tempted by the pleafure of uniting his name 

 with tJiat of our late much honoured Prelident. 



SoorsT after the time of which I have fpoken, my 

 brother, led by motives of private convenience, be- 

 took himfelf to an humble courfe of life, in which he 

 palled his davs with more utility than luftre, but with- 

 out ever deferting his favourite ftudies, till it pleafcd 

 the Almighty that he ihould reft from his labours. 

 Mr. Shore with that confciouinefs which every great 

 mind has of its own powers, was not content merely to 

 perfevere with affiduity in his attention to Per/tan liter- 

 ature, but applied himfelf at the fame time to every 

 fcience and every part of knowledge which might quali- 

 fy him for the ntoll important and fplendid offices in 

 the Britijh dominions in yijia. He became eminent 

 for his minute acquaintance with the revenues of Ben- 

 gal, as well as for his general Ikill in finance ; for his 

 knowledge of the politicks o^ India in particular, as well 

 as of the fcience of Government in general ; and no 

 one was liirpriled when after vifiting his native country, 

 he returned to Bengal 2iS Sir John Shoke, the deliined 

 luccellbr of Lord Coknwallis. 



To Ipcak of his conduct lince he became Governor 

 General, would be unbecoming, becaufe prelumptu- 

 ous, and is totally unnecetlary, becaufe almoft every 

 member of this Society is as well acquainted with his 

 merits as I can be. I mention him as Governor Ge- 

 neral only becaufe while in that flation he accepted the 



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