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After a variety of sound reasoning and good policy, this excel- 

 lent recorder thus closes his charge ; — a charge which bears a true 

 testimony to the British character in India, opposed to all the ef- 

 forts of senatorial eloquence to prove the contrary. 



" I am convinced, that both as jurors and as private gentle- 

 men, you will always consider yourselves as intrusted, in this re- 

 mote region of the earth, with the honour of that beloved country, 

 which I trust becomes more dear to you, as I am sure it does to 

 me, during every new moment of absence ; that in your intercourse 

 with each other, as well as with the natives of India, you will 

 keep unspotted the ancient character of the British nation, re- 

 nowned in every age, and in no age more than in the present, for 

 valour, for justice, for humanity and generosity, for every virtue 

 which supports, as well as for every talent and accomplishment 

 which adorns, human society!" 



Mr. Gambier, the former chief of Baroche, having completed 

 his fortune, took his passage for England in the same ship with 

 myself. His successor, Mr. Nalsey, who enjoyed that situation 

 little more than a year, and had it not in his power to leave India, 

 was, on his return from Baroche, appointed chief of Salsette. 

 After being settled at Tannah, he invited a party of his Baroche 

 friends to the durbar, where we were hospitably entertained for 

 some days, and passed our time as happily as a retrospection of 

 evanescent pleasures in Guzerat, and the idea of a speedy separa- 

 tion, would allow. Tannah, the capital of Salsette, had then be- 

 come a flourishing town ; the fortifications had been repaired, the 

 Mahratta houses improved or rebuilt by the English gentlemen, 

 and the durbar rendered a commodious residence. 



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