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 gives an account of the poor lady, who was evidently regretting her lodgings in Fort William, and very uneasy as to her fate.

This second volume of the diary concludes with an account of Bájí Ráo, the famous Peshwá,

We are now in October, 1825, and the beginning of the cold weather. A ghastly event has just occurred in the immediate neighbourhood of Calcutta:

'A young man having died of cholera, his widow resolved to mount the funeral pile. The usual preparations were made, and the licence procured from the magistrate. The fire was lighted by the nearest relations; when the flame reached her, however, she lost courage, and amid a volume of smoke, and the deafening screams of the mob, tomtoms, drums, &c. she contrived to slip down unperceived, and gained a neighbouring