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King in Council against the abolition of the practice of burning Hindu widows was to be heard before the Privy Council ; and his Majesty the Emperor of Delhi had likewise commissioned me to bring before the authorities in England certain encroachments on his rights by the East India Company . I accordingly arrived in England in April , 1881 . ' *
The najarT ~ was accompanied by his youngest son , Ram Roy , and two native servants , one of them a Brahman . He landed at Liverpool , and soon after proceeded to London . The excitement respecting Reform in Parliament was at its height at the time of his arrival , and all who saw him recollect the ardour with which he entered into the discussions respecting it , and the intimate knowledge which he showed of the condition and necessities of the kingdom and its dependencies , and the bearing upon them of thafe great measure . He saw it accomplished , and he rejoiced .
His official relation and titlef were recognised by the British Government ; but the East India Company never acknowledged either , though they always treated him with great consideration as a highly distinguished individual . He was , however , presented to his Majesty by trie President of the Board of Control , and had a place assigned to him at the coronation among the ambassadors . He appears , indeed , to have had no reason for dissatisfaction -with our Governmentj either in his indivMu al or official capacity .
The great notoriety of the Rajah , together with his own un varying urbanity and solicitude to avoid giving pain to any one , even to the inconsiderate and presuming , exposed him to extreme interruption and inconveniences and at times to much vexation . Habitual caution to shun every overt act by which his rank as a Brahman mi g ht be forfeited , to his own and his children ' s injury , and to the impairing of his hopes and means of usefulness , seems
occasionally to have given to his system of conduct the air of uncertainty , if not of ambiguity . Perhaps , also , there were occasions when questions proposed , with the skill of the practised disputant ,. to / elicit an - expression which mig ht support some preformed opinion respecting the Rajah ' s sentiments , led him , through ignorance of the real bearings of the ^ c ^ se , to accord with that which his remarkable clearness of discrimination would have
rejected at once , if the whole tendency of the inquiry had been before him j and this effect may have been aided by those nice shades in the import of words , which are , as opinions modify , continuall y varying intheir influence ; And sometimes that dispOsir tion to acquiescence 7 which eastern politeness requires , and which his own kindness of heart contributed to strengthen , wag known to place him in circumstances , and lead him to expressions , which
* Letter . f That of Rajah , which was regularly conferred on him by his Majesty the King of Delhi , to whom he rendered the important service of procuring him an income of 30 , 000 / . per annum additional , from the Honourable Company ' s treasury , —Athmceum
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; RAJAH RAMMOHUN ROY . 327
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1833, page 327, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2625/page/7/
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