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chap, ii.] FIDELITY AND LOYALTY.
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volence and charity will at that moment be your
highest consolation."
In acknowledging this high honour, the following
characteristic words of Sir Jamshedji among other
expressions of grateful thanks are worth recording in
these pages :—
" I shall hand down this medal to my children's
children with pride and reverence! I shall teach
them to look upon it with feelings of veneration
towards the high source under whose sanction it has
been conferred,—to consider it as a token that our
gracious Sovereign and her Government take a
deep interest in all her distant subjects, and that
occasions are sought to prove it. They shall be
taught that fidelity to the British Crown is their
first duty,—loyalty the first virtue."
Another signal honour which was conferred for the
first time on a native of India was the presentation
of the freedom of the city of London to the munifi-
cent Parsi knight. At a Common Council held at
the Mansion House, by the Lord Mayor of the city
of London, on the 14th day of April 1855, it was
unanimously resolved that the freedom of the city
be presented to Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai of Bombay, in
the East Indies, Knight, as a testimonial of the high
estimation entertained of him by the Corporation of
the city of London, and from respect for his justly
renowned character as a princely benefactor of
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volence and charity will at that moment be your
highest consolation."
In acknowledging this high honour, the following
characteristic words of Sir Jamshedji among other
expressions of grateful thanks are worth recording in
these pages :—
" I shall hand down this medal to my children's
children with pride and reverence! I shall teach
them to look upon it with feelings of veneration
towards the high source under whose sanction it has
been conferred,—to consider it as a token that our
gracious Sovereign and her Government take a
deep interest in all her distant subjects, and that
occasions are sought to prove it. They shall be
taught that fidelity to the British Crown is their
first duty,—loyalty the first virtue."
Another signal honour which was conferred for the
first time on a native of India was the presentation
of the freedom of the city of London to the munifi-
cent Parsi knight. At a Common Council held at
the Mansion House, by the Lord Mayor of the city
of London, on the 14th day of April 1855, it was
unanimously resolved that the freedom of the city
be presented to Sir Jamshedji Jijibhai of Bombay, in
the East Indies, Knight, as a testimonial of the high
estimation entertained of him by the Corporation of
the city of London, and from respect for his justly
renowned character as a princely benefactor of