SWARTZ, an eminent Christian missionary and linguist, for whom a monument has been erected in St. Mary's Church, Madras, inscribed : Sacred to the memory of the Reverend Frederick Christian Swartz, whose life was one continued effort to imitate the example of his Blessed Master, employed as a Protestant missionary from the Government of Denmark, and in the same cha racter by the Society in England for the Propa gation of Christian Knowledge. He, daring a period of fifty years, went about doing good, manifesting in respect to himself the most entire abstraction from temporal views, but embracing every opportunity of promoting both the temporal and eternal welfare of others ; in him religion appeared not with a gloomy aspect or forbidding adieu, but with a graceful form and placid dignity.' Among the many fruits of his indefatigable labours was the erection of the church at Tanjore. The savings from a small salary were for many years devoted to the pious work, and the remainder of the expense supplied by individuals at his solicit ation. The Christian seminaries at Bemired puram and in the Tinnevelly Province were established by him. Beloved and honoured by Europeans, he was, if possible, held in still deeper reverence by the natives of this country, of every degree and in every section, and their unbounded confidence in his integrity and truth upon many occasions was rendered highly beneficial to the public service. The poor and the injured looked
up to him as an unfailing friend and advocate. The great a,nd powerful concurred in yielding him the highest homage ever paid in this part of the globe to Europeans. Hyder Ali, in the midst of a bloody and vindictive war with the Carnatic, wrote to his officers to permit the venerable Father Swartz to pass unmolested, to show him respect and kindness, for he is a holy man, and means no wrong to any Government. Tuljajee, raja of Tanjore, when on his death-bed, desired to entrust to his protecting care his adopted son Serfojee, with administration of all affairs of his country. On a spot of ground granted to him by the same prince, two miles cast of Tanjore, he built a house for his residence, and made it an orphan asylum ; here the last 20 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 efforts, and imploring with his last breath for the divino blessing to attend them, he closed his truly Christian career in his 72d year.