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INDIA.

GENERAL ,ORDERS.
GOVERNMENT GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
MADRAS, FR/DAYZJLTLY 4, 1823.
COLLeG* OF FORT' .ST. GEORGE.

The first half yearly examination of the junior civil servants
studying at the College of Fort St. George having been con_
pleted, and the report submitted to Government, the Hon. the
Governor was pleised to signify his intention of visiting the
College on Monday* the, 30th of June. Accordingly, on that
day, the Students having assembled, the Hon. Sir I'. MUN RO
attended by his personal staff, was received on his arrival by
the Members of the Board of Superintendence, and conducted
to the top of the hall,—when the Governor was pleased to ad-
dress the Students nearly in the ollowiug words
K smog Be'Antiiif ad-
vantage over those of former times in the -aid.alforded to them
by this institution in acquiring a knowledge ofthe native Lan-
guages. Before the establishment of the College many of the
Civil Servants never learned any of these languages ; and being.
incapable of acting without interpreters,the public duties entrust-
ed to them were often imperfectly executed. But since the estab-
lishment of the College almost every young man, who has passed
through it, has been able, I believe, to discharge his official
duties without an Interpreter. This has already produced a
considerable improvement in the service, which I have no doubt
will continue to be progressive as long as the standard of quali-
fications, now required in order to be enabled to leave College,
shall be maintained—No relaxation in this standard can be al-
lowed ; and though a strict adherence to it may now seem a
hardship, from its detaining you here so much longer, you will
be sensible of its utility hereafter, when you come to experience
how much your intercourse with the Natives, and the transaction
of public affairs, have been assisted by your acquaintance with
the languages ; and you will then perhaps look back with plea-
sure to the time you have spent here in the study of them—By
the exertion of a little industry you now learn, in about two
years, what many of the older Civil Servants from the want of
such an Institution never learned at all,—and you now enter
°Pnn your public duties qualified to become every day more and
more efficient as servants of the Government, instead of
stealing through the service useless and unnoticed like
some men who with very respectable talents have been lost to
the public from their never having acquired any of the Native
Languages—As a knowledge of these languages is so eminently
calculated both to benefit yourselves, and the Government, 1
trust that those, who are now leaving College, will endeavour
to improve their skill in them by constant practice, and that
those, who remain in it, will prosecute their studies with spirit
and perseverance.
" It is highly gratifying to me to observe by the report of the
Board of Superintendence.that the progress of the Students has
in general been satisfactory; but that that of Messrs. -Elliot
and Freese has been highly creditable; that the exercises of
-Elliot:itr -translating . from -Tamool into English may be,
said to be without a fault, and to be of a nature to manifest a
knowledge of the language beyond what is usually attained;
that Mr. Freese's translations from Teloogoo into English, and
evoluiliaeble
from Englieh into Teloogoo, were executed with great correct-
ness, and evinced a perfect acquaintance with the idiom of the
language ; that the proficiency of both in Hindoostanee is
highly commendable; and that botk have established their claim
praise like this from men so well
to the honourary reward—To
qualified to judge, I can add nothing but my wish, that by
diligence to the execution of the
public duties, on which they are now about to enter, they may
one day the
nime servants of the State."

MADRAS, TUESDAY, AITGUST 12, 1823.
PROLAM A TION.
Fort St. George, Bth Aug. 1823.—The Hon. the Governor
being about to proceed on a visit to the Central Provinces, is
pleased to declare in Council, that the Administration at the
Presidency will, in his absence; be conducted by the remain-
ing Members of the Government,—His Execellency General
Sir Alex. Campbell, Bart. and K.C.B. officiating as Presi-
dent, and exercising as such the accustomed Military Com-
mand of the Garrison, and all the powers and authorities ap-
pertaining to the office of Acting President.—All official Cor-
respondence is to be carried on, and the resolutions of the Go-
vernment will continue to be passed in name of the Governor
in Council.

The Hon. the Governor, during his absence from the seat
of Government, will exercise all the powers which are vested
in him by Law when in Council at the Presidency ; and the
several authorities in the Provinces, Civil, and Military, are
hereby required to yield ready and implicit obedience to all
such orders and instructions as_the Hon. the Governor may
deem proper to issue.
By order of the Hon. the Governor in Council,
E. WOOD, Chief Secretary.

MADRAS, SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1823.
. Calcutta Government Gazette Extraordinary.
FORT -WILLIAM, AUG. 1,1823.
The Hon. Company's yacht Nereide, arrived titls morning
at six o'clock, having on board the Right Hon. Lord Amherst,
appointed by the lion. the Court of Directors to the office of
Governor-General of Fort William in Bdigal: His Lordship
landed at half :past eight o'clock this morning, and was received
with the usual honours. • _
At nine o'clock Lord Amherst took the prescribed oaths and
his seat as Governor-General.
The following Proclamation is published by Order of the
Right lion. the Governor-General in Council :