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HISTOR Y OF THE PARSIS. [chap. ii.
his country and mankind, — a noble example of
blameless private life and public worth, as a citizen
of Bombay, and of spotless commercial integrity
as a most eminent British subject and merchant
in India.
We have said before that Sir Jamshedji's bene-
factions were not confined to his own race and
country. There are several instances on record in
which he rendered timely assistance when distress
or calamities occurred in other parts of the world.
" When the bones of thousands of heroic men,
Europeans and sepoys, were whitening in the snows
of Kabul, when famine decimated the Highlands of
Scotland, when a mysterious dispensation of Provi-
dence deprived the poor Irishmen of their daily food,
when the widows and the orphans of the brave men
who died for the right at Alma and Inkermann
stretched forth their hands for aid, none evinced a
more generous sympathy, none showed more alacrity
in giving bread to the hungry and binding up the
wounds of the broken-hearted than the benevolent
Parsi knight."
We give prominent insertion here to a letter of
Baron M. F. Hausmann, the Prefect of the Seine,
addressed to the Lord Mayor of London, on the
receipt of a donation from Sir Jamshedji of £500,
for the benefit of the sufferers from the inundations
in France in 1856.
HISTOR Y OF THE PARSIS. [chap. ii.
his country and mankind, — a noble example of
blameless private life and public worth, as a citizen
of Bombay, and of spotless commercial integrity
as a most eminent British subject and merchant
in India.
We have said before that Sir Jamshedji's bene-
factions were not confined to his own race and
country. There are several instances on record in
which he rendered timely assistance when distress
or calamities occurred in other parts of the world.
" When the bones of thousands of heroic men,
Europeans and sepoys, were whitening in the snows
of Kabul, when famine decimated the Highlands of
Scotland, when a mysterious dispensation of Provi-
dence deprived the poor Irishmen of their daily food,
when the widows and the orphans of the brave men
who died for the right at Alma and Inkermann
stretched forth their hands for aid, none evinced a
more generous sympathy, none showed more alacrity
in giving bread to the hungry and binding up the
wounds of the broken-hearted than the benevolent
Parsi knight."
We give prominent insertion here to a letter of
Baron M. F. Hausmann, the Prefect of the Seine,
addressed to the Lord Mayor of London, on the
receipt of a donation from Sir Jamshedji of £500,
for the benefit of the sufferers from the inundations
in France in 1856.