I found him sitting by a fire in a carpeted library.

He received me with the greatest kindness, frankness, and hospitality.

He is, as far as I can yet judge, all that I have heard; that is to say, rectitude, openness, and good-nature, personified." Many months of close friendship and common labours did but confirm Macaulay in this first view of Lord William Bentinck.

His estimate of that singularly noble character survives in the closing sentence of the essay on Lord Clive; and is inscribed on the base of the statue which, standing in front of the Town Hall may be seen far and wide over the great expanse of grass that serves as the park, the parade-ground, and the race-course of Calcutta.
To Thomas Flower Ellis.
Ootacamund: July 1, 1834.
Dear Ellis,--You need not get your map to see where Ootacamund is; for it has not found its way into the maps.

It is a new discovery; a place to which Europeans resort for their health, or, as it is called by the Company's servants--blessings on their learning,--a _sanaterion_.