our native land, I may be still honoured with a friendship inseparably associated in my heart with the name I can never cease to love. I remain, my dear Madam, With sincere respect and esteem, Your obliged friend and servant, Madras, July 11th, 1829. THOMAS ROBINSON. ΤΟ THE BRITISH INHABITANTS OF MADRAS AND ITS DEPENDENCIES. THREE years have now elapsed since you became personally acquainted with the subject of these pages, and in that brief interval through how many scenes of personal and private sorrow have we not all passed! But one sad event of deep and overwhelming interest, in which we were all mourners, is still fresh in our recollection, and even private and individual feeling seems to have yielded to the universal grief for our common loss, and the sudden termination of his labours amongst us. Wherever he was known, in the wide sphere of his influence and duty, he was followed by the admiration and love of all; but I have a melancholy .satisfaction, and, from my present connexion with you, an honest pride in recollecting, that no where was the noble simplicity of his mind, and the purity of his Christian virtues, more highly and justly appreciated than by yourselves. That spontaneous and universal impression, which the intercourse of a few weeks had excited, has deepened LAST DAYS OF BISHOP HEBER. BY THOMAS ROBINSON, A. M. ARCHDEACON OF MADRAS, AND LATE DOMESTIC CHAPLAIN -"Dear Friend! so pleasant didst thou make those days, That in my heart-long as my heart shall beat- Still be the source of joy." 1 NEW-YORK: PUBLISHED BY T. AND J. SWORDS, No. 127 Broadway. |