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** terview with yourfelf. The letter which you addreffed to me, 

 " and the prefents you fent by Mr Bogle, I have likewife re- 

 " ceived fafe. May your happinefs and profperity daily in- 

 " creafe. All the particulars which Mr Bogle verbally repre- 

 " fented to me, I perfectly underftand. You were pleafed to 

 " write me, that you had fent orders for eftablifhing peace with 

 " the Debe Doria, agreeable to my requeft. True ; the pleafure 

 " thefe particulars gave me, it is impomble to.exprefs. When 

 •" you, out of pure friendfhip, are induced thus readily to com- 

 " ply with a requeft of mine, what return can I make you for 

 " it, but offer you my prayers ? You have laid me under an ob- 

 " ligation to you for ever ; and I hope that you will every where 

 " prove victorious and fuccefsful. What can I fay to you of my 

 " own fituation ? In former ages, I repeatedly received my ex- 

 " iftence from Allahabad, Benares, Patna, Purnea, and .other 

 " places in Bengal and OrifTa ', and having ever enjoyed much 

 " happinefs from thofe places, I have imbibed a partiality for 

 " them ', and a fincere love and affection for their inhabitants 

 * c are ftrongly impreffed on my heart. The well known place of 

 " Outragund gave me my laft exiftence; and thanks be to God, 

 " the inhabitants of this quarter are all content andfatisfied with 

 " me. Where my fpiritual effence will tranfmigrate to next, will 

 " hereafter be feen. At prefent, here I fit in this icy country, 

 " in obedience and fubjeclion to the Emperor of China. I have 

 u long had a defire of feeing you, and the dominions and people 

 " over whom you rule; but hitherto many caufes have occurred 

 " to prevent me, whatever may happen in future. My travelling fo 

 " far as your country, to obtain a perfonal interview with you, 

 " muft, however, be attended with many unfurmountable diffi- 

 " culties, and Providence has decreed that we fhould be at this 

 " neceffary diftance from each other. From this confideration, 

 " I am induced to requeft that you will grant me a piece of 

 " ground near the fea-fide, that I may build a houfe of wor- 

 " fhip thereupon § and for the expences of building it, I have 



" fent 



