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For thee shall Philomel each note prolong, 

 And choose her sweetest, most entrancing song ; 

 Zephyr shall follow through the silent dell, 

 And Echo call thee from her rocky cell. 



" Adieu ! when garlands crown returning spring, 

 We will return, and vernal offerings bring : 

 Accept, to sooth thee in Elysian bowers, 

 Our hymns, our tears, our sorrows, and our flowers !" 



Chara Maria, vale ! 



The General Elliot was to receive her final dispatches for 

 Europe from the governor and council at Bombay, by a cutter to 

 be sent after us to Tellicherry. This vessel arrived on the 17th of 

 February, with the packets for the court of directors, and orders 

 for our immediate departure to St. Helena and Europe, without 

 touching at the Cape of Good Hope. By this opportunity I re- 

 ceived a letter from the government secretary at Bombay, enclos- 

 ing a copy of a paragraph from the governor and council's address 

 to the court of directors, dated the 10th of February 1784, per 

 ship General Elliot, which closed my public career in the com- 

 pany's service. Self-respect and a laudable pride of character, 

 induce me to insert in these memoirs the most pleasing recompence 

 I could have received for having zealously devoted to them the 

 best years of my life, and suffering much from the enervating in- 

 fluence of the climate. 



" In the month of December last Mr. James Forbes, senior 

 merchant on this establishment, addressed us a letter, requesting 

 permission to proceed to England for the benefit of his health, 



