he was, if possible, held in still deeper reverence by the Natives of this Country, of every degree and every sect; and their unbounded confidence in his integrity and truth was, on many occasions, rendered highly beneficial to the public Service. THE POOR AND THE INJURED looked up to him as an unfailing friend and advocate. THE GREAT AND POWERFUL concurred in yielding him the highest homage ever paid in this quarter of the globe to European virtue. THE LATE HYDER ALI CAWN, in the midst of a bloody and vindictive war with the Carnatic, sent orders to his officers “to permit the venerable father Schwartz to pass unmolested, and show him respect and kindness, for he is a holy man and means no harm to my Government”. THE LATE TULJAJEE, RAJAH OF TANJORE, when on his death-bed, desired to entrust to his protecting care his adopted son, Serfogee, the present Rajah, with the administration of all the affairs of his country. On a spot of ground, granted to him by the same prince, two miles east of Tanjore, he built a house for his residence and made it AN ORPHAN ASYLUM. Here the last twenty years of his life were spent in the Education and Religious Instruction of Children, particularly those of indigent parents, whom he gratuitously maintained and instructed; and here, on the 13th of February, 1798, surrounded by his infant flock and in the presence of several of his disconsolate brethren, entreating them to continue to make religion the first object of their care, and imploring with his last breath the divine blessing on their labours, he closed his truly Christian career in the 72nd year of his age. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY, anxious to perpetuate the memory of such transcendent work, and gratefully sensible of the public benefits which resulted from his influence, Caused this monument to be erected ANN. DOM., 1807.