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 942 BENGALI LANGUAGE & LITERATURE. [ Chap. bring over the Raja to his socialistic opinions. He persevered with great earnestness, but the Raja, who seemed well acquainted with the subject and who spoke our language in marvellous perfection, answered his arguments with consummate skill, until Robert somewhat lost his temper,—a_ very rare occurrence which | never witnessed before. The defeat of the kind hearted philanthropist was Other accompanied with great sauvity on the part of his কচি? 011১9761010. Dr. T. Boot wrote about the Raja to Mr. Estlin, in November 1833 :—‘‘to me she stood in the single majesty of, | had almost said, perfect humanity, no one in past or present ever came to my judgment clothed in such wisdom, or humility.” Another Englishman spoke of him as ‘a rare com- batant. We are constrained to say he has not met with his match here.’ ‘It is well known’ Mary Carpenter (p. 252) ‘that Mr. William Adam a Baptist of Criramapore, who endeavoured to make writes him a convert to orthodoxy, concluded his task by acknowledging himself a convert to the true 1) Kvangelical opinions of the 1২215. The greatest philosopher of England at the time, Jeremy Ben- tham, gave him a cordial reception and addressed him as “intensely admired and dearly beloved collaborator in the service of mankind.’ “ Your works,’ wrote Bentham to the Raja, ‘‘are made known to me by a book in which I read a style which, but for the name of a Hindu, | should certain- ly have ascribed to the pen of a superiorly educat- ed and instructed Englishman ’’ and in the same letter while praising the great work of James Mill on the History of India, Bentham remarked, ‘‘though as to the style | wish | could with truth and