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388 strange part of the world; should anything happen to me during the voyage, remember that they will look to you for help, comfort and friendship. I am obliged to leave some debts behind. But I shall write to you by and by as to what you must yet do for me. "Monday, 20th November. "I went to the Court of Common Bench in Westminster to put my name down in the list of English Barristers.

"I have no news of importance to give you. So I must hasten to conclude. I have changed the spelling of my name and given it the true Sanskrit form. I am "published" Barrister as Michael Madhusudana Datta, Esquire. You might drop the vulgar form "Dutt."

Madhusudana's outbursts of "grateful thanks" did not end in his letters only. A great poet as he was, he poured forth his heart in verse in his Chaturdasapadi Kavitabali, which is sure to reawaken, in the minds of the readers of Bengali, feelings of deep veneration and esteem for the universally benevolent Vidyasagar to the end of the world. But it must be said with sentiments of profound regret, that Michael did not afterwards act up to Vidyasagar's advice, and latterly stabbed