The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-08 00:00:00

THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1827.

EAST INDIA HOUSE, FEB. 7.

(Concluded from our Paper of yesterday.)
Dr. GILCHRIST resumed,- and took occasion to mention, in
terms of high commendation, the London University. He should
read an extract from a newspaper in defence of it. (Loud inter-
ruption.) He was obliged to Honourable Proprietors for the
patience they exhibited. (Laughter.) The establishment of the
London College would promote the education of young men going
out to India. The erpence of conveying an elementary knowledge
of the Oriental languages to these individuals would not exceed
101. It had been objected that the Hindostanee was not the uni-
versal language of India. This he admittsd ; but it was the
principal one, and contained the best key to all the other dialects.
The Learned Proprietor then proceeded to deprecate the too great
attention paid in our system of education to the Greek and Latin
languages. Among the authors with which our youth were ex-
pected to be conversant was Juvenal. Now, what sort of a jockey
was Juvenal? (Laughter.) Certainly not one of the writers most
desirable to be put into the hands of youth. The Company's
oriental establishment was equally expensive and inefficient. In
, coming to the 6th and last proposition (Groat applause), he felt
that little need be said. He should only illustrate the imperfec-
tion of the English pronunciation of Latin, by telling them a
story, (Laughter.) At the eonans.ion of the Duke of Marlbo-
rough's wars, an English Man, a Scot, and a German, met on the
Continent. Tie Englishman, addressing the German, said,
" Suntne omnia peccata (pacata) in Germania?" The Eng-
lander pronounced pacata (pacified), peccata (crimes), • in his own
way, so that the inquiry ran—You have all sorts of crimes in
Germany, haven't you ? To this the German, naturally indig-
nant, replied, " multa aunt peccata, in Germania sed Spero non
omnia." Bloodshed might have ensued, but the Scot set all right
by crying out pacata—pacata—not peccata.—(Great laughter.)—
Here the Doctor proceeded- to read long letters from his pupils in
the East Indies, setting forth their great success there in conse-
quence of his instructions, and a rhetorical and somewhat flimsy
discourse communicated to the College of Calcutta by the late Mar-
quis of Hastings, on the excellence o the English language. In
this language be could produce an epigram which might stand be-
tide any in any other language. -When Garrick was on the stage—
The CHAIRMAN called the Doctor to order.
Dr. Guccunisp said he would soon come to an end. A Pro-
fessor in Garrick's time complaining of certain alterations made
by the actor in pronouncing the letters U and I
The CHAIRMAN-Oh; you need not give us that, Doctor;
we have all seen it in Joe Miller.

Dr. Giumntsrr—Well, perhaps sox but for all that a- good
thing can't be too often repeated. Garrick answered the Profes-
sor's -objections by the following lines :
" If it's true, as you say, that I've injured a letter,
I'll change my note Soon, -and I hope for the better,
Devoutly I wish that each man had his due,
And that I raay be never mistaken for you."—
(pointing to the Chairman,) a laugh. After this, the Doctor re-
sorted again to the quotations 'of long extracts from books, to
prove the utility and necessity of the Company's officers learning
the Hindostanee, and was frequently interrupted by cries of ques-
tion, and loud murmers of disapprobation and impatience. He
hoped be would not be cut short in his exposition.—(Laughter.)
He would move, in conclusion, that as many of his resolutions
should be carried into effect as may be found practicable for the
good of the Company's service in India.
Colonel STANHOPE seconded the motion.

The CHAIRMAN said, that according to regulations of the army,
an interpreter was required for each native corps,- and no officer
was allowed to act as interpreter to a corps, or on a court-martial,
before be had proved the sufficiency of his knowledge in the Hin-
dostanee in two examinations. The competency and ability of
the Company's servants, civil and military, bad been proved by
the extraordinary extension of the Empire of India, Under such
circumstances, he Noma meet the propositions of the Learned
Proprietor, with an amendment to the effect, " That, in the opi-
nion of the Court, it would he equally unnecessary and imprudent
to adopt the propositions beTore it, on the ground that due atten-
tion had been given by the Court of Directors to the subjects con-
t tined in them, and their prosecution would be most properly left
in their hands.
Mr. PATTisoN seconded the aMendment.

Mr. S. DIXON thought native talent always able to do .more
than learning. They had • that day had a proof of what great
learning could do. It had led the worthy Doctor to take four
hours to do that which a plain man might have done in a quar-
ter of an hour.—(Laughter.)—Yes, the Doctor had entertained
them for that time telling his story ; a story which would have
been still longer, only for the interruptions that had occurred.—
(A laugh.)=-He (Mr. Dixon) had entire confidence in the Direc-
tors as a body, and would support the amendment. • •
Mr. CAURUTHERS denied that the Members of the Court of
Proprietors were governed by subserviency to the Directors, as
the Learned Doctor had asserted.
Dr. CilLelintsr —I am neither Learned nor Doctor—l disclaim
the titles.

Mr. CARRUTHERS-The worthy Doctor has spoken long, yet
said not a word to the point.
Col. STaNnorß-,-The worthy,
.Proprietor himself has not vet
said a word on the question before the Court.
Mr. DIXON--" Aye, but he will by-and-bye."
A PROPRIETOR contended,.that the deficiency'of the Company's
Officers in theEindostanee, was proved by Colonel Lushington's
admission—he could not consent to the amendment.

Colonel LvsitirraTox explained.—There was not one officer in
99,.. who did not understand the articles of war in the 1-lindosta-
nee ; but it was not necessary to expound them to the men, as
they were quite familiar with them.
ColOnel STANHOPR admitted, that the Judge Advocates might
be acquainted with the native language; but the Jury on Court
?partials, the officers, not possessing a knowledge of the language
in which the testimony was given, were not of course enabled to do
justice to the parties.
Colonel LusniNcrox explained. No native soldier was .tried
by European officers.
Doctor GILCHRIST replied.—His original motion was then put
to the vote, and was lost by a large majority, six bands only being
held up in its favour. The Amendment was then put, and carried
in the affirmative.

.The appointment of Mr. Elliot, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the
Depot at Chatham, with a salary of 3001. and 40/. allowance for
house rent, was next submitted for approbation, and after a few
questions by Mr. Hume, Colonel Stanhope, and Dr. Gilchrist,
was unanimously approved.
Colonel STANHOPE gave notice of the following resolutions for
the next Court day.
" That as the King of England's most upright and Learned
Chief Justice, Sir Edward West, and his Majesty's Judges; Sir
Ralph Rice and Sir Charles Chambers, have declared in open Court,
at Bombay, that the licensinc, of the Press in that settlement is un-
lawful and inexpedient, and have, therefore, refused to register
the Calcutta regulations ; ata .as no. Censor existed during the
rule of- W. Hastings, Lord Cornwallis, or Sir John Shore ; and
as the Marquess of Hastings, after haying beat down the Mah-
ratta Confederacy, did, on his triumphal entry into the Metro-
polis, • sacrifice the upstart monster, and 'set the public mind at
liberty ; and, as Mr. Canning, when President of the Board of
Controul, prevented shackles from being again fastened on the
onittiing, under either native
of late, enacted, ll
press, and was thanked by this Court for his wise administra-
(r
t)ionE;uraonpdeaasn
Governments,
no ega
l restraintswere ever,
ex-
cept under the frightful Inquisition at Goa ; this Court doth
implore the Court of Directors not to extend this base mono-
poly over the mind, this curse, to Bombay. By enthroning the
licenser in that Presidency, they would make Great Britain guilty
of the inconsistency of depriving 180,000,000 of her own sub-
jects of a blessing, which she has promoted in Portugal, and in
South America.

a 1. That England, by the Treaty of Gulestan, and by aban-
doning the wise measures- of Sir J. Malcolm, in training a por-
tion of Persia's troops to discipline, and placing her fortresses and
passes in a state of defence, has laid that country open to the all-
powerful legions of Russia.
on the Asiatic and defenceless Side,
British India, unsupported by the
is "the2.reTbyhatenCdoannsgtaenretdin;o
talents, the loyalty, and the valour of Colonists, and having no
public defences; could with difficulty oppose, with her valiant
Sepoys, the simultaneous, persevering, and wide-spreading attack
of a swarm of Cossacks, Persians; Sieks, Mahrattas, and Bur-
mese, backed by a small corps of infantry and artillery, which

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