316 €EESMONiES OBSERVED IT THE 



caD of ceremony of the high pried of the Temple of Jemfalem was 



not unlike it. 



This ceremony on the whole affords two fubjeds worthy of con- 

 fideration. Firft, the rite of fprinkling rice ov-er the crown, whilH: on 

 the head of th« raja, io different from any praBicc in the weft of 

 modern or ancient times. The rite now in ufe of anointing princes 

 at their coronations is of modern inftitution, and generally admitted to 

 have been borrowed or imitated from the Jewso Secondly, the cif- 

 cumilanceof its being a ceremony arifing oat of a feudal fyftem of 

 government, at which all the vaffels were obliged to appear, and to con- 

 tribute to the expence of it, each accordmg to his rank ; and that it 

 fliould have been reforted to for the purpofe of filling the raja's coffers 

 . in a fimilar manner to that in which our Own princes often rendered 

 , £he feudal ceremonies fabfervient to fimilar purpofes. 



2 have the honor to be, Sir, 



.Your moil obedient fervant, 



A, BROWN. 



