The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

SYLVFSTER DA6GERWOOD.

Sylvester Daggers/owl, Mr. J. Rowell; Fastiaii, Mr. Wil-
liams.
Doors to be opened at Half past Six of Clock—the Play to
begin at Serrii.
Plares fur the Boxes to be taken of Mr. Massingham, at
She Theatre.
To-morruw, Lorre', Quarrels—Match-breaking—mid the
Opera of Fontaiaebleaa.
Oa Saturday, Match-breskiug—The Marriage of Figaro—
mid Seeing is Believing.

*DELPHI THEATRE, STRAND.
By Authority of the Right Husuurablc the Lord
Chamberlain.

THE Nobility, Gentry, and Public, ire Mod
respectfully Wu. wed, that thus Theatre baring under-
gone extrusive alteratii t s, and the whole of the interior
completely re decorated and beautified, m a very considers.
Lie expense, by Artiste of the first relchi ity, to as to appear,
in almost every respect, an entirely New Theatre, will RE.
OPEN fur the Season on MONDAY NEXT, October I,
1821, with a New Comic Bueletia, in three atm, in which
Mr. Wrench, from the Theatre Royal, Eintli.h Opera-House,
wain is earned at ibis Theatre, snit Mr. Wilkinson, will
perform. Keveral new Performers of the first eminence have
been added to the old favourites of this Establishment; and
it is noufidently asserted list no pains or expense have berm
spared to render the Adelphi Theatre worthy the very high
patronage wish which it has been so particularly honoured.

Boxrs, 4s —Pit, Ss.--Gallery, Is.
Doors open at SIN, and commence a Quarter befo►e Seven.
Snead Price at Haltpast Light.
Places to be taken of Mr. Callan, nt the Box Office, of
whom may be had a Private Bux nightly, and nee Ad-
missions fur the Season.

TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION,
By %Ir. COI.I.INS

At bis AurOon Room, town sorrel, Town of Porton, Da
MONDAY next, October 1, 1821, am/ fulioning days,
at Mx o'Clot k,

ACOLLECTION OF UNREDEEMED
PLEDGES: ronsprising Gold, Silver, and Metal
{Vetches ; useful Nett ; MPli'd and Woinen's Wearing
Apparel ; Brd sad T.,61,. Berl hanging, sad va.
none othe► wades, pledged ii, months prior to the month
of October, 1820, with the (ullowunE Pawribrokers, viz.—
Ediss, Colie2e.strcei ; Sayer, Havant-Areet ; Krutp, Marl.
horongb-rue ; usd Nathals, SI. James'e.airret, Town of
Porisra ;—with Stow, Pniedisr-row ;
st►eet ; rood Gdbert, ChArloite.strert, Island of Porters :
wish Price, IVailding: us.stree•t ; Entanuu•l, Broad sir, ,•t ;
wad Deverrna, Be oath street. Portsmouth ; wills
South-itrcrt King, suuth-at,rrt ; Moire. Sowth•sorrt ;
Hart, North•strcer ; and Pion, tr, North•dreel, Gosport.
May be viewed nod Cairdogurs bad al the Boom.

THREE OF £30,000! NO TWO BLANKS TO A
PRIZE-ALL MONEY PRIZES!
NO CLASSES!-NO STOCK PRIZES!

lIAZ AHD and Co. the Contractors for the
pi-racist popular Lottery, Warm their Fritts& and the
Public that the Drawing will begin the 30th of NEXT
MONTH (OCTOBER). The Srlsense has hero received in
parts of the kitigdoni with the I decided approbation,
mid a very great denniod fur the 1 !diets and Shares is ca-
rried both in Town and Country.
HAZARD aad Co. hope their anxiety to meet the public
wishes will secure In them ihst pwtiuu of favour whirls
hies hitherto distinguished their old and Antitumor Offices,
113, Royal Exchange; 40, Cornbill ; and 314, Oxford-street,
where they Sold iis the last Lonely,
15,702
6,054
brides massy other Capitals ; also Al.!. the 30,0001 PRIZES
us Dor Loner,.

The CHAIRMAN reported several sets of paper.,
alloyed for at the previou. Court, to have bees§ pre-
pared by order of the Court of Directors, sud now
Intl before the Court.

On the titles of papers relative to allowances,
superanruatiotts, and grants, being rend—
Mr. RIGBY said, that as it most be of essential
importuner to the Prap►ietuss, to be acquainted
with the contents of the several sets of papers, lie
wished that they might be printed and disnihuted
to the Proprietor., as was done by the House of
Commons. Ile wiaheti t• know if any objection
existed as to this course being taken.
The CHAIRMAN said, the practice of printing
papers was not usual. The papers ordered of the►u
by the House of Commons were generally printed,
mid the custom was to supply the Proprietors with
copies on applying for therm In the mean time
the pipers ordered by the Directors to he laid
before that Court were kept open for the inspec-
tion of soy Proprietor who might wish to extuume
them.

Another Member suggested that a book, with an
hides of mien-owe, "night to be kept iii the Pro-
prietors' room, w which all the paper,' ordered noel
furnished should he described, by which means the
object of each party would be secured, and the
expense of printing saved.
Mr. ItiGnv approved of the plan suggested, and
recommended strongly its adoption by the Direc-
tors, as it was important that the Proprietors should
have access to papers iu which they were so much
iotereeteel.
The CHAIRMAN mild (hut the by-laws allowed no
such thing as 1,6111115 g. Gentlemen hied only to
sek for information, and it would he funiislied.
Mr. R. /ACHIM?' said, that those who knew the
bulkiness of the papers generally, being aware
therefrom of the expense as be was, would not he
anxious to have them printed, especially as the
courtesy of the Flouss of Commons went so far as to
acme °date the Proprietors nth copies of such
pipers as were ordered, and prisitrd by them. The
plan of keeping a book its the mom set apart for
the Proprietors, coot:mein., a list duly atranged of
the papers laud before the Cowl, had his concur-
rence, and he had no doubt of its being imme-
diately c shied into effect by the Chairman.
Mr. 1-lusut said, that he was not aware of any
oltjecttott to the proposrd plan contained in the
by-lows ; nor was there shy necessity for pre'-
lasing a by-law for that purpose. The papers
laid afore the Court were held to be open to the
hispectsou oh the Proprietors. If the Court of
Directors thought lit to yield the pro. used accom-
modation as to imprinted papers to the Proprietors,
no one would have a right so object to it.
The CHAIRMAN thought lie mutt have been mite-
understood. lie had noel that the by-laws did
not allow the Directors to order the prisititsg of
peepers. As to the book with an index referring to
'misers laid before the Cour!. it should be imme-
diately furnished.
Mr. Messy wished to I:04T how then they. the
Proprideno, were to get, IteMll to the papersf
The CHAIRMAN said, t any of the papers

The CHAIRMAN moved, that the Resolutiou of
the Directors be adopted.
Mr. Mime, after causing the original resolution
to be read, said, that he would detain the Court
but a few minutes on the subject. He never rose
with feelings of greater satisfaction et the conduct
of the Coon of Directors than be now felt. There
was no question in the whole policy of the Com-
pany's afairs more deserving their attention. While
England, and Europe generally, had *hewn them-
selves so anxious for the diffusion or education, it
was astonishing to see the Company's indifference
on the subject in those territories where they held
eighty or ninety millions under their govern-
ment. The subject was of so much more import-
ance to them, as these means of education were to
be applied to the minds of those who were to rule
and direct the eighty or ninety millions held in sub.
jection in India. It was a blot to those whose re-
sidence in India should hove taught them the im-
portance of the subject, that the present Chairman,
not having been iii ludia,was the first who hadatten-
lively exerted himself for the purpose, by patroniz-
ing the cheap and easy method of Dr. Gilchrist,
for diffusing education among the civil and military
seivants of the Company, suitable to the duties
inttesited to them. In 1805 a resolution passed,
declaring it to be essential for the interests of the
service, to have a plait of education adopted at the
colleges, which would secure the servants of the
civil departments a more adequate k nowledge of the
oriental !engorges. He was sorry to say that the
ample means furnished by the Company for
that purpose had been almost all thrown away.
By the accounts presented of the expenses
of the year 1818.19, there were 52,8331. ex-
pended ; 27,0001. at the Bengal and Madras
establishments, the remainder uu the colleges
at home. This was more than enough
money to have educated all the servants of the ,
Cotupaiiy who had gone out in the time ; and yet
after the exp. tilliture of so much money, it ap-
peared that out of 6uo who left England, not more
than one-sixth had toren qualified in any way with
• knowledge of the casters languages. 'Plus was •
misapplication of the properly of the Company.—
He was happy to see that the plan of Dr. Gilchrist
was to be enforced, and that by an expense of
350/. they trete likely to have the whole of the
service, bush civil and iniliterv, duly educated be-
fore their departure in that must useful and import-
ant language, the liiiidutratoiree. Of un agregate of
434 cadets *rut out from Aediscoinbe there were 55
who were qualified with oriental education—the
test were destitute of sue knowledge even of the
rudiments of the languages, without which, how.
ever, it was impossible that they could become effi-
cient and useful servants to the Company. lie
appealed to the communicetions from, and remarks
of, the Marquis of [Listings, Mr. Culbrook and
the late Lord Mures, to show the necessity for the
servants of the Company being accomplished in
the dialects of Bengal and linidostaii, and the
iiiconventeeee which arose from the greater part
of them b wholly i4liorant of it. The
Persian, Ilindoo, and Bengal tongues, which
were necessary to qualify ihriii fur the civil service,
erre neglected, while die Sanscrit and the Ara-
bic, which were wholly useless, were alone studied.
Su perverse were the feelings and opinions on the
subject of eastern education, that at Addiscombe,
the plan of spelling the words in the oriental
hinguages, invented by Sir Win. Junes, was still
retained, though fur years it had been exploded in
the India colleges to snake way fur the inure simple
and comprehensive method invented by Dr. Gil-
christ, mid adopted by Marquis Wellesley on
establishing the Beriberi college. He quoted the re-
rommendations made of the Doctor's system by
Lieut. Irwin, Sir J. Mackintosh, Mr. Campbell, and
other.. Notw it liatanding all that he had mentioned,
at Addiscombe they continued the old system,
though the books the students used there must be
thrown away when they arrived in India, where nut
one ii 300 book. but was printed recording to the
system of Dr. Gilchrist. He trusted that the Di-
rectors would interfere and opply some of their
laudable efforts to the correction of so obstinate an
error. Coming hack to the Resolution before the
Court, be expatiated on the great learning, honour-
able zeal, mid highly-useful exertiotis of Dr. Gil-
christ. by whom there was reason to hope, tinder the
patronage of the Company, that the service would
be improved in all theeisentiel particulars of orien-
tal education upon which he bad been dwelling.
As a proef of ins talents, he mentioned that Dr.
Gilchrist was the first translator of the articles of
wiar into the Persian, the Company having ruled

India for 50 years without letting the swhjewts
know to whit laws they owed obedience. Not one
alte►atina in the Doctor's trunslation had been tootle
since the completion of the work. He commented
on the great advantages to be derived to the stn•
dente themselves, by being led under the guidance
of such a preceptor, tip to the highest sonrees of
oriential literature, fie haul token some pains
to ascertain the number of cadets and military
medical officers sent out to Win from the year
1793 to the year 1812, Need lie mentioned it for
the purpose of showing that if those "arsons had
all been instructed in the Hinton-temee language,
almost all the officers employed in India in the last-
mentioned year would have been ■equsin'ed with the
language. In the period which he hail mentioned
there were 4.738 cadets and 59? Anisiant-Surgeons
sew eareir:lssche, asaitior, in the whole 50380 - 'At
the expiration of the Cutttpsny's Charier NI .181 e,
the number of military officer* rem
service was 3.467 ; so that if the whole of the
ut►mher sent out from the year 1793 had been in-
structed in this manner, almost every individual
officer remaining in the service in 181,2 would have
been thoroughly acquainted with the language of
the country. In the present year the number of cadets
sent eat amounted to 496, of which 55 only had re-
ceived any education iii the Hindoostaiere language.
Of the Europeans sent out to India in the year 1819,
there were 165 who went out after receiving in-
structions from Dr. Gilchrist, at all expense of
2001., that were equal to the education given to
twice that number who hail gone out without his
Instructions. at II charge of 20,000/. a year. In the
year 1820, there were !28 ; and the year 1821, 426
persons sent out : making a total in the three years
of 619 persons instructed by Dr. Gilchrist. Those
persons were not all of them in the Company's ser-
vice; but whether in the service of the Company,
or in private service, it was to the interest and bene-
fit of the Company that all who went to India
should understand the Hindoostanee language.
It was iu•leed much to be lamented that many
Europeans carried themselves in India with such
lofty airs of superiority as not to give themselves
any trouble or :ern whatever in acquiring the
language of the country, and many unpleasant
occurrences, some of a very disastrous nature, had
taken place, which might have been avoided by a
general knowledge of the language. He entreated,
therefore, that the system which had been adopted
with regard to the medical students, might be ex-
tended to the officers and servants of the Company
generally. He saw an Hon. Director smile, but
he begged him to observe that the knowledge they
would acquire in the term of two months oceaspiad
in attending a course of these lectures, would am- -
ply repay them for any habits of dissipation into
which they might be led in that period, and if the
cadets found that a certificate of attendance for
those two mouths was necessary towards proving
their appointments. they would apply themselves
with greater diligence to the study of the language.
Besides, he had much rather that they should
learn a little of the world, as much at least of such
knowledge a• could be acquired by the two months'
residence in London, which the eittendauce on a
course of these lectures would require, would be
far preferable to their hemp; shipped off, as be had
known many young men, when they were, as it was
termed, just caught, before they had been even
twenty-four hours in London. lie thougbt it
would be far better than to have them seed out, as
at present, at an expense or 40 or 50,0004 a•year.
Mr. Lows DEll—" 40 or 50,000/. ?"
Mr. Hess —" Yes ; the last year's account states
it at 53,0000
Mr. Lows Des-1, Sent out at an expense of
53,0001. to get ate Asiatic education ?"
Mr. Hume said. he should have no objection to
the antenna if it were well applied ; but he thought
the present seam quite enough. Dr. Gilchrist had
before been authorised to demand three guineas
from each studetot on his admisa* , but that lie bad
declined to do lest he should thereby deter some who
might be willing and glerirous from attending
his lectures through their inability to ;my the fee.
The lion. Gentleman then proceeded to relate, us
an Moaner of the disinterestedness of Dr. Gil-
christ, that the Marquis Wellesley, finding that
by the services of Dr. Gilchrist a number of Moon-
sheer, or iseterpieters, could be dispeosed with,
offered that Gentleman as a salary the amount of the
allowances to those Mootishees so saved to the Com-
pony. but the latter declined to accept any greater
salary than that assigned to the other piolessois. He
(Mr. H.) should therefore recommend, that the whole
of the cadets and other servants of the Company
going nut
to India should beobliged to attend Dr. Gi-
lchrist's lectures, and thut each person so attending
should pay one guinea, to be at the disposal of
Dr. Gilchrist. The sum thus raised, with the allow-
ances already made, would form an income of about
8 or 900/. a-year, and for that sum the Compuny
would have the whole of their servants educated
sufficiently to go upon their vova{,•e, in the course
of which they might so improve themselvea as (la
obtain a great proficiency in the language before
they arrived in the country. lie agreed most fully
in the Resolution, and hoped that with the amend-
ment he had suggested, it would wove a most be-
utficial measure.

Mr. li*tilPau JACICSON said, that distinguished
as his H 0,,. Friend bud ever been for his correctness
of re.earch and the usefolsiers of the proplisals lie
from time to time brought forward. never had lie
made a more successful appeal to the reason mod
judgment of both sides of that bar than on that
day. in enforcing the utility of educating the whole
of the servants of the Company in ludic, previouvly
to their selling out from tins country. in the Ifni-
doostanee language, the medium of communication
of the officer with the soldiers under his command,
of the medical man with the patient under hiscare,
and of the civil servants of the Company with the
natives of the district in which they were employed.
He fully concurred in all the arguments and views
of his lion. Friend on this subject, and he bore him
vut to the fullest extent in his eulogies of the still,

Mr. LOW N DES, at some length, enforced the uti-
lity and advantage of all the servants of the Com-
pany being well instructed in the Ilisidoostanee lan-
guage. It was of the greatest consequence that
military meu should speak the language of the
country where they had to fight their bsttlet. It
was of the utmost importance, too, that young men
who went net to ludls should speak the language
in its purity ; but such was the high opinion he et,-
tertained of the exalted talents and ability of bur
W. Jones, that lie should be ye:l-y loth to chauge
his system of teaching it for any other, until riper
rience should prove that the system of Dr. Gil-
christ was superior.
Mr. HUME begged that he might not be under-
stood ss having raid that to no instance had the
flindoostattee and Persian languages been taught
in the colleges, but only that those latigurizes hid
out formed, as they ought to have dour, a promi-
nent part of the education of the btudtists in those
colleges.
The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN defended the system
of instruction pursued at the colleges, and strongly
objected to compelling young mend ust caught. as
It had been termed, to spend two months ill Lou—
don !rehire they embailsed for India, as likely to
induce habits of dissipation, extravagance, and in-
dolence, and to involve them In heavy and rui.icruir
ex penses.

Mr. EDMONSTONE said, no man was more fully
convinced of the great merits of Dr. Gilchrist than
he was, and it would be difficult for hint to express
his sense of the exulted settlers of that gentleman
in stronger terms than he had already used on
former occasions, trod in public documents to which
allusion had lweu made. Ile dial nut, however,
feel the force of the objection %%loch in Honour-
able Proprietor had made to the wording of the
Resolution. Thee:permit-lit who lt it recommended
to be repeated was nut of Dr. Gilchrist, nor of his
mode of teachiug the I lindstrostasoce language; the
merits of both had Leen sufficiently tried, were well
ascertained, and on all hands admitted. Hut it
was far otherwise with the system of these lectures
on the Hinduostanee iu Losatoo; that system was
but recent—there was little doubt but that some
advantages would be derived from it, but the
extent of those advasitagtai could not us yet be
well ascertained, and istioil they were fully deve-
loped, the system could only be tecutinutioded as
one of experiment.
The question was now about to Le put, when a
person, whose name we uudeoatood to be Structre,
rose fur the purpose ref stating what be termed a
ease of unexampled grievance, but bring att.. d
the Chairman whether he was a Proprietor. s• .1
answering in the negative ; he was informed that by
the Act of Parliameut, lie could not be allowed to
speak in that Court. and was recommended to sub-
unit his case to the Chasitnian in private, or to the
Court of Directors.

The question was then put, and the Resolution
unattimoualy agreed to.
A Resolution was then read for grunting a ono of
2,0004 to John Hitide Yrlly, Esq. of the Bombay
establishment, as a conipentatioit for losses sus-
tained by biro iu a ciiiitiact for supplying the
Crimpaity's establishment at Bombay with newt,
and ropes.
Mr. RIGBY contended, that if this Resolution
were agreed to, the Cutitt of Director, lied acted
with a degree of rigour cod injustice ti► re jtctissz;
within the last two mouths, the taemostal i t a Ali,
Hortiblower, a matnafactuser in this country, who
had been obliged to pay the penalties foe non-pee.
'continuer of a contract, which hr had nut uutitttd