He prevented the Prince's teachers from having access to him, shut up his servants, and denied permission to merchants to bring their wares to him.

Mr.Swartz was absent at the time, and Serfojee wrote a letter to him, begging that the English Government would again interfere.

It was found that any remonstrance put the Rajah into such a state of fury that the lives of the youth and the ladies we're really unsafe while they remained within his reach, and it was therefore decided that they should be transplanted to Madras.

It was a wonderful step for Hindoo princesses to take, and was only accomplished by the influence of Mr.Swartz, backed by a guard of soldiers, under whose escort all safely arrived at Madras, where Serfojee's education could at length be properly carried on.
The youth was so entirely the child of Swartz and of the Government, that it is disappointing to find that he did not become a Christian.

No stipulation to the contrary seems to have been made by Tuljajee; but, probably, the missionary refrained from a sense of honour towards the late Rajah, and because to bring the boy up in the Church would have destroyed all chance of his obtaining the provinces, and probably have deprived him of the protection of the Company, who dreaded the suspicion of proselytizing.