Star.
London, England, 1816-07-30 00:00:00

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werdehe regret awailictioo, in short, Alai can cease
"antistemos. _ • •
" • pit MOW, Dear Sr, known you long ; and though Mine
etas have Ached shatisppliaesslin of late years, we all equally
ifeel.snat it is impossible to know you without acquiring that
c,rdial and heartfekaitachtuent which hinds us .u. you, es it were,
Woo ;16 life, and renders us at Interested in your happiness and'
prowl 1. y, as we Molt, in our own.
• Whitever may be our future destination, and however ft
may bq our obance.to be scattered, when we return to our dif-
' fermi fixed skuatioas in lite, we can newer forget the time we
have passed in Java. The public sentiment lons expressed what
is due there to the energies and value of your administt.ition,
which. the more sr is examined, the niore.it will be admired. I-
beionp rather to us to expresi what we have witnessed and felt—
to best' testimony to the spotless Integrity and antiabie qualities
which abed, a mild lustre over -your private life. Their we ac-
knowledge with gratitude, and these are imprinted in our hearts
WO strongly to be ever erased.
64 You will not receive these expressions of our regard until
you have left as ; and when, perhaps it will be long ere we meet
again. . •
" Accept than then, Dear Sir, as the genuine feelings of our
hilbrts; and allow us to request year acceptance of a small token
aloof resneotbrauce, in the shape of a Viace of plate, which we
have requested our mutual friends, Captains Tracers and Gara-
ham, to purchase and deliver to In England. It bears no
great value among the more t tokens which you have re-
ceived of the public esteem; but may serve to remind you of
those who arc, with the sincerest rat ird and attachment,
" Dear Sir, your faithful friends and servants,
" C. ASSEY, C. MRIHVEN,
M " THOMAS 'QUOID, T. SEYESTRE,
" R. C. GARNISAM, J. ECIEFORD,
• " THOS. 0. TRAVERS, THOMAS wATsoN,
" J. DALGAIRNES, H. 0. JOURDAN.
TO the Hon. T. S. Raffles, Eel. &c. Ste.
" Ramie, March 24, lids"
" On hoard the Ganges, off Angier,
March 26, 1516.
" MI DEAR AND VALUED !mums —lbis last and unexpected
proof of your attachment and esteem Is too much for me, it is
more than in thoohattered state of my existence I can bear with-
out an emotion, which renders it impossible fur me to reconcile
my feelings with the ordinary course of consideration. You have
struck chords which vibrate too powerfully—which agitate me
too, much to admit of any attempt to express to you what my
feelings are on the occasion of your Address.
" You have been with me in the days of happiness and joy—
in the hoer, that ware beguiled away under the enchanting spell
of one, of whom the recollection awakens feelings which I can-
not suppress. You have, supported and comforted me tinder the
Abate', of her loss—you have witnessed the severe hand of Pao-
YIDS/ICI, In depriving me of those whom I held most dear,
snatched from us and the world, ere we could look around us
Yost have seen and felt whet the envious and disappointed have
done to supplant me is the public opinion, and to shake the credit
of public, and the value of my private character; and now
that I bend before a storm, which it le neither in my power to
avert nor .cootrool, you cease forward to say, that as children of
one family, you will hold to me through life. What must be
my emotions I leave to the feelings which dictated your Address
to decide, fore in truth, I cannot express my own. I accept
your gift, sad will hold it as a meted &emir dear to me from
assay abitter,and yet many a pleasing recollection. I dare not
say snore, but in the same spirit, my dear and estimable friends,
in which you have often seen me brave the adversities of this
life, let. me turn from the sad remembrance of my sorrows to I
the bright and cheering prospects that are now before yaw.—'
Let me congratulate those of you whom I leave behind, on tire
protecting and losteriug care under which you 'are now placed—a
consideration and delicacy towards me personally, unexampled
as st was unexpected, may have first badueed the wish, bet it is
to your own endowments, your own virtues, your own amiable
dispositions dose, that you are chiefly indebted for that decision
•In your favour, which has induced my noble-minded aced ho-
nourable successor to continue you about his person in the same
relation as you stood towards Mine.

" In yeti truth 1 cannot answer your appeal to my heart—it
bas struck too deep, but the wound, though painful, is flatly/kh-
an agreeable sensation. You have opened a spring that win for
ever now in the purest kindness and afection towarsts you.
" May the day be not disuse, when, after a fair and I.oumr-
able carter of public life we may meet againin that happy laud,
to While, eventually, ail our views ore turned. 'I hen, when
we :duct epee the duties we have performed for oar country,
and upon the many happy days we have par.seil in Java, may it
be my pride to say. that, while at the head of th Gtivernraent,
I directed my Country's cause in the track of honour and ante.
gnty ; I bad the support and advice of men as able as honour.
abk ; that while, as the bead of a great family, it was my farth!
nate lot to dispensr liberty and rights among millions, as the sim-
ple head of a domestic circle, it was my still greater good for-
tune to endear to me sum whom it is honourable to call friends
—men whose honour and Integrity are beyond reproach, whose
hears beat wish the genuine warmth of human nature, and
whose private viruses and personal qualifications are acknow-
Weed by all.
" Let this last mark of your attention —let your kind present,
which I value beyond the wealth of Golconda (for it is she gift
of purr friendship), be as a seal to the band of union among us,
and let us ever meet u sincere and attached friends.
" May every blessing attend you, and may you long continue
to he distinguished as the brightest ornaments of the prolessisui
to which you belong. (Signed) " T. S. RA7FLIES.
" To Charles Asset' and Thomas hil•Quold, Esp.'.
Captains Garnhrm, Travers, and Dalgairnes; .
Sir I homes Sevestre • Capt. Watson. and Lieu-
tenants Methuen, eckford, and Jourdan."