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him from paying me a visit, but that he hoped I had received every 
proper attention on my journey, according to his instructions. 1 in 
return told him that I had every reason to be gratified by the com- 
phments I had received, but that I hoped he woukLpermit me to 
pay the bearers who carried my palanquins. He said that he feU 
much hurt that I should think of such a trifle ; that the Rajah had 
ordered those people only to attend, who were bound to do so ; 
and that he hoped I would not mortify his father by mentioning it 
again. 
I thought that it would be rendering a service to the people of 
Bangalore, if I reported the misconduct of Purneah's bt'other-in-law, 
the Aumil ; I therefore hinted that I had experienced more neglect 
there than in any other place, contrasting his behaviour with that 
of the Foojadar of Colar. Narsingrow assured me it was only owing 
to ignorance, but that he should instantly communicate the circum- 
stance to his father. 
The usual Asiatic conversation now took place. Bucherow ex- 
pressed the satisfaction of the Rajah on my honouring his country 
with a visit ; the gratitude he felt to my countrymen, and particu- 
larly Lord Wellesley, for having removed him from a dungeon, 
where his life was in danger from violence, and even from poverty, 
to a throne, and the protection of the English ; and represented in 
very pathetic terms, the distress to which the poor little boy, the 
last of his line, had been reduced, with his mother and relations. 
He and Narsingrow declared, that no other nation would have given 
up to the lawful sovereign, a country w^hich they had conquered 
from a tyrant ; and that all they could do would be to express their 
gratitude, by an inviolable attachment to their benefactors. I assured 
