tlirop v and benevolence, which every where adorn the English 
character, impregnated in their native soil, flourish vigorously 
when transplanted in a foreign country, where fortunes are gene- 
rally more easily obtained than in Europe; where a distressed 
individual, separated from parents, friends, and every natural 
source of redress, seems to have a double claim upon the compas- 
sion of his more fortunate comrades; and where an annual increase 
of wealth admits of more unrestrained bounty than a limited in- 
come. During my abode in India, there were no arts or sciences 
to patronize; no literary or charitable institutions to support; and 
neither hospitals nor infirmaries to call forth private benevolence; 
the Company provide for the Europeans, and the natives in gene^ 
ral, take care of their own poor: the chief expenses of the English 
are therefore confined to convivial pleasures, and domestic arrange- 
ments: whereas, in Britain's favoured isle, how abundant are the 
channels for an ample fortune; and how numerous the worthies 
who appropriate a very considerable portion of their income to 
Felieve the distresses of their fellow creatures! 
As far as the climate admits, the English fashion in houses, 
equipage, and dress, is generally adopted: very few ladies or 
gentlemen kept European servants; the former were better served 
by young female Malabars, trained by themselves; and by negro, 
or Malabar boys, who were our favourite personal attendants; 
while the upper servants were usually Mahomedans and Parsees-; 
men of character and family, in most respects preferable to Euro- 
peans, and less expensive. Our clerks and writers were mostly 
Hindoos, who from being liable to so many religious and ceremo- 
nial pollutions, were seldom domestic servants; these writers at 
