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bequeathed to charitable purposes. Fame he may probably obtain, 
but it is a species of fame that no good man would desire ; and, if 
he is handed down to posterity, as a man who raised himself to 
riches and power from the condition of a private soldier, it will also 
be added, that his riches were contaminated by the methods em- 
ployed in obtaining them, and that his character was stained by 
almost every vice that can disgrace human nature. The present 
visit was to a Mr. Quiros, a Portuguese native, who having acted 
as clerk to the late General, was by him left one of the executors 
to his will, by which he has thriven well, and is now becoming 
a man of considerable property. 
After dinner several of us visited the General's tomb, which is 
down stairs in the centre of the house. It is a plain marble slab, re- 
lating that he came out to India a private soldier, and died aMajor- 
General ; and though he nominally died a Protestant, yet by his 
special directions, the spectators are in the last line requested to 
pray for his soul. The tomb is placed in an arched vault, the ap- 
proach to which is by a circular room of larger dimensions. There 
are two other similar vaults, one on each side. His apartment faces 
the entrance, and the four doors answer to each other. On a niche 
over the tablet is placed his bust, which is said to be like, though he 
himself never was pleased with it. Mr. Quiros, to show his taste, 
has placed there, in niches, four paper grenadiers, with reversed 
arms, leaning over the tomb. Constantia cost seven lacks of rupees ; 
the furniture was mostly sold : the girandoles and mirrors were 
bought for the new Government-house in Calcutta. To the house 
is annexed a very noble garden, and extensive mango tope. The 
country around is a barren sand, and dead flat. Indeed the General 
