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 940 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. in the meeting-house of the first Presbyterian con- gregation, Belfast, on the roth of November, 1833 :— “Never have I knowna person who brought a greater variety of knowledge to bear upon almost every topic on which he conversed, never one whose remarks were more original, solid and use- Posi. ,—one of the most extraordinary men whom the world has witnessed for centuries.’’ * The Rev. J. Fox spoke of the Raja in his sermon delli- vered at Finsbury Chapel, South Place, on Sunday October 14, 1833, ‘‘His presence has passed away And, ‘being dead, he yet speaketh’ with a voice to which not only India but Europe and America will listen for generations.”t The Rev. R. Aspland preached a funeral sermon in the New Gravel Pit Meeting, Hackney, in the course of which he said ‘the name of Rama Mohana Roy will.endure as long as the history of religious truth.” { Lieuten- ant-Colonel Fitzclarence, latterly Earl of Munster, wrote (in his Journal of a Route across India through Egypt to England in the years of 1817 and 1818. ‘‘ The most extraordinary Brahmin....... His learning 1s most extensive, as he is not only conversant with the best books in English, Arabic, Sanskrit, Bengal and Hindusthani but has even studied rhetoric in Arabic and English, and quotes Locke and Bacon on all occasions.’’"5 The English editor of the /mdia Gazetta referred to him while writing about his controversy with Dr. Marshman as ‘a most gigantic combatant in the theological + do. do, do. 242. ৯ do, do. do. 4o.
 * Last days of Rama Mohana Roy Page 223.
 * do. do. do. 207.