The Sun.
London, England, 1824-01-28 00:00:00

Constitutionalists appeared on that night at the
gates of the Curate of S. Narcisso, to carry off
the guard, but failed.

a situation of even lower rank and less difficulty
than that of Madrid. Indeed the French
themselves seemed unprepared for his promo-
tion, for in some of the Journals M. Alarcellus,
the Deputy for Bordeaux (not the Viscompte),
was mentioned as the new Ambassador. But be
this as it may, has the Viscompte any known
character or principles as a politician ? We
venture to say he has not. The best mode of
judging him, then, is by the influence under
which he has been bred up—which is that of M.
Chateaubriand and the Deputy above named,
who is, we believe, his uncle. Every one knows
more or less of the former, from his career as an
author or as a Minister.

[NEW TIMES.]
The death of the Spanish Prime Minister M.
de Casa Irujo was accelerated, if not wholly oc-
sasioned, by a calamity of a domestic nature—
the loss of an only son, who was lately killed in
a' duel. It has been supposed, and we believe
truly, that the influence of this Minister was
greatly counteracted by that of the Clergy, who
regarded him as a person too much inclined to
the doctrines of the Liberal school. This oppo-
sition, however, was not certainly of so violent
and harassing a nature as to break the health of
the Minister, hut he sunk under the afflic-
tion above-mentioned. Some pains seem
to be taken to persuade the Public that
a serious disagreement has arisen between
the French and Spanish Governments, and that
the former has sent an ultimatum, insisting on
the adoption of an amnesty by the latter, under
certain specified conditions. We venture to
assert that these are exaggerations. Every
Power that has- any communication with Spain
must wish to press upon the Government of that
country the necessity of a spirit of moderation
and conciliation in its policy ; but it is per-
fectly inconsistent with national independence
to assume so arbitrary a direction of Spanish
affairs as France is suggested to have done. The
Ministry of M. de Casa Irujo received all the
support which- the countenance and favour of '
the foreign Sovereigns could give it ; because
they regarded him and'his associates as likely to
make moderate principles the rule of their con-
duct. One of those associates, M., de Heredia,
is understood to be nominated as his successor;
and therefore, so far as the power' of the Minis-
ters extends, we may hope that the same mode-
ration may prevail in. the Spanish Councils. It
must, however, be confessed, that the generally
disorganized state or the kingdom leaves no great
hope of tranquillity to that unhappy country for
a long time to come..

INDIA.

THE COLLEGE OF FORT WILLIAM.
Friday the 18th of July last, being the day
appointed by the Hon. JOHN ADAM, Esq., governor-General
and Visitor of the College of Fort William, for the diStribution
of the Prizes and Honorary Rewards, adjudged to the several
Students reported qualified for the Public Service during the
past year the President, and Members of the College Council,
the Officers,. Professors, and Students of the College, met at ten
o'clock in the forenoon at the Government House, where the
Honourable John Fendall, and the Honourable J. H. Har.
ington, Members of the Supreme Connell, the Honourable
Sir A. Butler, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court, Mrs.
Fendall, Mrs. Udny, and a great number of other Ladies, and
manyof the Civil and Military Officers of the Settlement, with
several respectable Natives, were assembled.
Soon after 10 o'clock the Honourable the Visitor, attended
by the Officers of his Staff, entered the Hall.
'When the Visitor had taken his seat, W. B. Bayley, Esq.
the President of the College Council, presented to him the se-
veral Students of the College who were entitled to receive Me-
dals of Merit or other Honorary Rewards adjudged to them at
the Public Examination in June, and read the Certificates
granted by the Council of the College to each Student about to
leave the College—( See Table suyoined. )
The Prizei and Medals which -had been awarded to the se-
veral Students having.been distributed to them 'respectively,
the Honourable the Visitor delivered the following Discourse :
GENTLEMEN OF THE COLLEGE OF FORT WILLIAM,
• It is a soarce of high satisfaction to me to meet - you on this
occasion as Visitor of the College. You will do me the- justice
to believe, that from the infancy of the Institution up to the
hour at which it becomes my duty to address you, the interest
I have felt in the welfare of the College has been great and un-
remitting. The favourable anticipations, which I. originally
formed of its influence on the character of the service; and the
general administration of the country, laid the foundation of
that affectionate solicitude for its success which, as .a Member
of the Civil Service, it is natural I should entertain, and which
the associations created by that connection incite me to cherish.
Those anticipations have been abundantly confirmed. ' •
I have beheld a succession of illustrious and eminent men,
on whom the _Rule of this Empire has devolved, bearing the
strongest testimony to the utility of the Institution, and mani-
festing the warmest interest in its prosperity and renown. The
course of my own experience has given me ample opportunities
of formingeeri intimate acquaintance with affairs of the College ;
I have seen it send fords from time to time individuals, whose
cultivated talents ' and extensive acquirements have reflected
the highest honour on their own character, on the Institution,
and on' the service to which they belong; whose subsequent
conduct has redeemed the fair pledge of their earlier years, and
• who have left to succeeding candidates for distinction examples
worthy of the most earnest and 'sedulous imitation.
I entertain the most sanguine hope that the College will still
maintain, its high character and its claims to public confidence
and support; and that it will not cease to supply a succession
of wise; able and virtuous public setVants, whose successful. ex-
ertions in the cause of humanity •and good government will
continue to do justice to the enlightened and comprehensive
views ()Nile founder, 'and of those whose fostering care has
watched-over its-progress .to_ maturity.
The exigencies of the public service, and the consequent de-
et hose exigencies have 'for some
marids for public officers to carry on the indispensible business
of the Government, must always have: a powerful influence on
the affairs of the College,
years past compelled. us to rest satisfied with a 'scale of distinc-
tion 'somewhat 'belOw diet to which.. we might naturally and
reasonably aspire under a different state of circumstances.
.The facilities which,' in order to meet this urgent demand,. ,
have•been afforded to the Students, on leaving College on proof
of their competence for the public service, not merely at the
half-yearly-examination, but at the interrnediale periods, necese
earilse operate to prevent the .sittainment in College of that pro-
ficiency wheel% would otherwise he manifested by many of
ahein ": but the diepositien and abilityshewn by such Students,
to.qualify themselvee ate soon as practicable for the public ser-
.vice,und the steady application necessary to effect that object,
may generally be considered to warrant the inference, that they.
will on leaving College continue, iiithe intervals of• official
duty, to proseceee those 'studies so -atecessfealY
.cortnenced
'Within its walls.. While the causes to which I have referred
continue to operhte, we must be content to forego the attain-
uient, and even in a great degree the puseeuit, ot those high aca-
deniic hanours ley which other periods of our annals are adorn-
ed ; but the.moee conspicuous will he the merit of those dis-
tinguished stedents, whose Zealand ardour overcoming circum-
stances so discouraging', shall enable them to reach distinctions
denied to. their less fortunate
, competitors. • •
These observations have been naturally suggested by a con-
sideration of the 'Small number of students who are now to en-
ter on public service,' and by 'the fact that on this occasion no
•
IMORNI NG. HER A LD.] e student has obtained that eminence inhe scale of proficiency,
, .
which entitles leien to hold a disputation, or to receive .a degree
Some 'importance i
Ispears to he attached to of honour. No inference Unfavourable -to the charader of the
• Institution, or to the general abilityand '• ' •
qtu-
changes which have taken place at Madrid, in dents,
ga
the Ministry, and the Foreign Le the causes are to be sought exclusvely in the increasing and
—M. lleredia, already.,. a Minister has sue- paramount demands-of the 'public eervice, and the rules framed
1 to meet them. While the College is-able to-furnish an annual
ceeded the deceased, [lead of - Administration,. s„”Fply
of iecialified candidates for
public employment, bearing
Casa .Irujo—and, M. .Marcellus has succeeded suah a proportion to the whole number of students as 'the 're-
M. Talaru as .French Ambassador. . These have suits of .the present year exhibit, lecarinot be affirmed with any
colour. of justice that ,it has failed in the principal object of its
been regarded as symptoms of moderation, and institution.
even Coustitutienalism, in the Spanish Councils ;. I shall now proceed to offer a few observations on the results
think
presented by a review of
the period of the last meenag. the.. transactions of the College. since
but upon data which we have reason to.
are mistaken. Persons who had the best- means Sixteen Students have been examined this year at
of knowing Casa Irujo. are far from regarding the annual exarnination, of whom three only have been re-
. by their proficiene ' two languages
him in the light in which he is represented.— IT r teendt4 qualifiedon
the public service; buty fourteenh more have
It is true there are means of accounting been I examined. intermediately at various periods since
satisfactorily for the supposed moderation -of the last annual examination, and reported qualified for.ths pub-
his charaCter and liberalism of his politics, As sic service. The total number of proficients therefore in two
•languages this year is seventeen, which is five more than were
far as he had any fixed public or political reported quffie prig- a d the -preceding year.
1
ciples, he was' a partisan ief fanaticism and stn. ' Of the seventeen students who have qualified themselves
vilism—and cceteris paribus, he no doubt would this year for the public service, by a competent knowledge of
go with. the worst class of politicians in Spain.— • .'
two of the prescribed languages, four have-been -rewarded by
, pecuniary prizes for ng 1 proficiency
1 • i in two languages, and
But he has served other parties,, and was willing one has obtained Medals of Merit, for rapid and considerable
to serve any party that had power .for the time . • proficiency in two languages. The number of medals awarded
- hi -
being—for t s reason, that his political princi- been . this year, for rapid proficiency and meritorious conduct, has
ten—eleven were awarded last year to the Civil Students,
pies held only the second place. Interest—rank, and four to the Military.
sordid interest was the god of his idolatry. We Of the three students now entering upon the public service,
Mr. Thomason- stands first in the general list of proficiency.
have either heard or read an anecdote which Ile was admitted to the College iv December, 1822, and in the. .
will fully show how he was governed ley short period of five months has raised himself to the first place
this his ruling passion, He preceded the in Persian, ' .and the fourth 'in Hindoostanee and has obtained
Medals of Merit for rapid and considerable
progress in both of
Duke of San Lorenzo as Spanish Ambas- those languages. He `has alsosmade some progress in Arabic;
sailor of the Constitutional Government at and the Persian and Arabic Professor reports, that "heis by
Paris. The discovery of his intrigues caused rfa the beit scholar of the present year, and his progress has
been creditable both in Arabic an Persian." He brought
his rather precipitate recall, and he was re- with him from Hertford College some knowledge of the Per-
d to resign, his official trust instanter. He
q .uire elan and Hindoostanee lanuages. Mr. Thomason': assiduity
readil com lied thus far, but contended that and rapid attainment of the requisite degree of proficiency en-
y ptitle 1 i
den to high commendation. Since the late examination
the pecuniary appointments were his until th'e Mr. Thoniason has applied for and obtained the permission of
iixpiration of the quarter. The claim was equally 'Government to continue his studies in the College till Decern- •
her next, withsthe.view of acquiring a more extensive know_
sordid. and untenable. But his successor, who ledge of the Native languages. The Government
willingly
': •
was as liberal in his private as he was in his granted this permission to Mr. Tho Mason, and the Governor
. .
in Council will be glad to encourage the disposition to
public sentiments, instantly yielded , it. It is General
hard • •
to conceive what good auspice can be study, manifested by students who, II r. may
have proved by their stead application and acquirements and '
derived from the continuance of such a regular habits that they will niake a suitable return for.the in-' '
• n's
rnapolicy over the councils of the Kin,
-• dulgence of remaining in College.
Kite; Mr. Patton-, who stands next to Alr.Thomason, was admitted
of Spain. The hopes founded upon the succes- to the College in July, 1822, and was reported qualified in the
sion of M. Marcellus to M. Talaru, as French Persian language at a private examination On the 25th of
April last. At the present examination he is classed first in the
Ambassador, are equally futile. The former Wa s first class of Hindoostanee Students, and reported as proficient
Secretary to the Viscount Chateaubriandl and' 'in that language, and qualified to enter upon the public
became Charge d'Affairs, as a matter of course service.
3 Mr. Morris, who was admitted to the College in August,
in the absence of the Ambassador. His post, 1822, was examinedwith M Patton, and found qualified in
e r.
during that period, it is well known-, was Persian. He is placed third in the first class of Hindoostanee,
a sinecure—and it may be matter of Surprise and reported qualified for the public service.
The following Gentleineniwere reported qualified for the- üb-
that lie should become a diplomatic principal in lie service at the half yearly Examination in December rest :