Star.
London, England, 1805-03-06 00:00:00

SEMINARY FOIL TFIR INSTRUCTION OF YOUNO MIN

DESIGNED FCIS THE SERVICE OF THE COMPANY.

The Chairman opened this bonnet's with a very
few Wet vationg.
The Clerk then read the Refolutions, which ex-
preircd in the fulleft and moll minute terms the re-
gulations to :re adopted in the outline of the cll.&
lithment. The young gentlemen are to receive a
commetcialanda clallicaleducation—they arc to have
fume knowledge of the Mathematics, of Oriental'
Literature, of trench, Geography—and where a ge-
nius is exhibited, they will perhaps receive fame in-'
ftrutlions in Drawing. A veneration fur the ellab-
lithed religion of this c rune y. and•an ardent love of
the principles of the Dritith Conflit ution, is to be in-
(tilled into their minds ; and their parents arc to pay
one hundred guineas per annum for the expellee of
their education.

The Chairman declared that he thought there Re.
folutions to be 1 very full and explicit in themielves,
that they tequired or would admit of no comment of
his to illuflrate the utility of the propofed inftitution.
The Letter from Bengal, of the z7th of January,
18oz. relative to the ettablithment, was alfo read.

Mr. RANDLE JACKSON fupported the Refolutions,
in a very animdted fpeech, and declared that in his
opinion the plan would lead to the fupercegon of the
faperfluous part of College education. Young men
would have an education which fuited them for
every purpofe of the fervice of the Company, and
would have that attachment to their native country
which the place that is the fource of education is

'apt to create in the minds of young then. The leant:
of fuch a fyftem was fincerely to be deplored in the
infiance of the feparstion of America from this coun•l
try, as the fiream by which a young mind was non-
rithed and improved, was ever fondly dwelt upon by
thole who received it. The Honourable Member, at: 1,
ter dilating upon the minute objets and extreme uti-
lity of the plan, which was fubmitted to the confi-1
deratior. of the Court, moved two other Refolutions,
esprcffive of the entire concurrence of the Proprie
tors with the Dircaors, in the adoption of the plan
before them.

The Ref,lutions were feconded by Mr. Rock.
Mr. JON ES Ao.ta declared, that he felt snore fin.
cerely the importance of the meafiire than be did.
He was apprehenfivc, however, that by the adoption
of the plan for educating young men for the Com-
pany's fervice at home, we might h tve a duplicate
here of the eßablilliment at Calcutta, which he con-
ceived to be unnecetfary. He then adverted to the
words of the Refolutions, and conceived that they
expreffed an acknowledgment of the continuance of
the eliablifhment at Calcutta. This was, in his op'.
nion, onerous, and we would thereby have a dupli-
cate at home of the fyftem which was adopted
abroad. The Court had not to confider of Sir Tho-
mas More's fancied Republic of Utopia ; they were
a plain home bred body of merchants, and would,
no doubt, dire& their views to what was aettially
ufeful ; there were many branches of education in the
plan propofed, which it was impatible for the minds
of youth to comp?. !bend in the lhort time allowed to
them, and he therefore obje&ed to the motion.
Mr. LowunEs alfu obje&ed to the propofition then,
before the Court.

Lord litasastan highly approved of the enthufiafm
of the Governor-General, in the fupport of the Com-
pany's interell, and in the furtherance of literary
views. But declared that the plan now propofed mutt
eventually fufpend the eflablifhment at Calcutta.
Mr. P. Mooart, after ionic prefatory obfetvations,
alked to whom it was that the Company owed the
relent extenflon of their territory in India, butt to
their tintwnred fervants ? From his acquaintance
with Sir Wm. Jones, he had no realen to believe
that a knowledge of Oriental literature in particular,
cnuld not pnffibly be obtained in England, as that
Gentleman had told him that, notwithitanding his
having been a proleffor of the Eallern languages in
England, he was feveral months in India before he
was able to bring his knowledge into adual fez vice
for the Company.
The CHAIRMAN did not think it incumbent on him
to anfwer every thing that had been laid in the
courfe of debate. He would, however, fay a few
words, principally in anfwer to his Honourable
Friend who had junk fat down. The education of the
number of young Gentlemen propofed, would colt
in India upwards of 70,0c01. per annum, and here it
could not pollibly exceed 6ocol by the plan which
was propnfed, and in a little time it would be reduced
to ioool. This could not fairly be et-infidel-eel to he
burthenfome to the Company, for the a,tain ment of
fuch an °hied as the improvement n: their fervants
in general 'knowledg-, and attachment to the religion
and conffitution of their country. With refpeel to a
principal part of the fpeech of the Honourable
Ccn-
tlem.in who fpoke la ft, the declaration of Sir W iiliam
Jones with relpeet to a knowledge of the Eallern lan-
guages, it mull be confidered that he was too refined
afchnlartolook at the plain utility of the acquirement
of this fort of knowledge. He lo::ked at the pnlifh—
the Court of Diret9ors had the !Uhl-lance in view;
and if the Company had men of good found fenfe en-
gaged in their fervice, who were capable of conver-
ting plainly ttrion bulinefs, it was not to be fuppofed
that any thing more was wanted. A fufficiency of
Inch knowledge as was neceffary was eafy to be ac-
quired in England, and the pronunciation would be
loon obtained by converting with the natives of India.
As to the other branches of education, the Mathema-
tics, &c. the youths were not intended to be made
profound feholars ; they mull be wen reloaded before
they would he admitted into the ferninary now pro-
poled to be eflablifhed, and they would then have
nothing added but a general outline of the hi 'her
branches of knowledge which were necelfary for til-
ling their different fit nations with credit to themfelves
and a ith ufefulnefs and honour to the fervice of the
;mpany. It would alto be very gratifying to the
parents• of thnfe Gentlemen that they Would he
educated in Willy ions air, and under their own im-
m:diate obfervation.

Mr. MOORS explained, and the Chairman exprefred
himfed fati•fied with the esplanati..n.
Mr. G. JOHNSTONE expreired hinifelf highly Eric.
fled with having heard in private report that A NCti)ie
Lord (Lard Cornwallis) whole iervices had barn of
moR elfential benefit to the Company, had again con-
tented to reform the direCtion of their affairs in
he only wilhed to have force explanation as to the
continuance or rejedlion of the f} Item (l education at
Calcutta.

The CHAIRMAN arerved that the adoption of the
prelim plan mull tend to the atw!ition of the fyilem
alluded to, notw•ithilanding it could nut poaibly be at
once relinquithed or clellroyed.

The DEPUTY CHAIRMAN declared that he thought
Europe was the finch place for the ail Jinrocin of Eu.
ropean knowledge, and the youths wfuild be belt
fitted for the advancement of . their owt, iwerell and
the promotion of the benefit of Con.r.ii.v. by
having a particular line of Itudy pointed out for a
particular branch of employment. He then enu-
merated the difF.tent branches of education which
were to Le comprehended in the fvlteni ; and fol-
lowed the Right licrymrable the Clia;rman in de-
claring, that it W.IC nit the iate Ation of tLr Court
to create unntceffary expellee, or aim at th- valt
fyßem of learning which fume Honour:llde Nltmbers
had imagined. After a iew other ohlervations, the.
quellion was put and carried un3nimoully.
The grants to perfons already mentimcd, were,
after fume little debate, carried unaritnolifly. The
only objeFt of the debate wag, whether the annuity
fhould be granted during widowhood or f,l- lite?—
' But the original propolition was carried without a
diffenting voice, on the mound that an annuity dur-
ing the continuance of widowhood wal the means of
preferring the attachment of the Lady to the children
of a meritorious ferrant.

A penfion was then vetted to Mr. P. Braham, and
a Ballot was fixed for next Thutftl.iy, for the put plfe
of deciding the queaion of the reanration of Mr.
Betty to the Compan)'s fervicc.—Aficr which the
Court adjourned.

Sir rutty Itrtt, 11I.D F.ILS. at Pari.:, and
of the Royal Order of Sweden, tindiog the hilt
tants of thii country at this fe:Jim of the year par:-
cularly afflieted with Coughs. Colds, and Allbruatic
complaints, tnitnel out a method of concentratiar
that valuable Extra& of flowers, called Honey, aiAi
bringing into a Imall compafs a very .large ro•ti..n
of its excellent virtues. Sir
_Num HILL's Baltim of
Homey is therefore recommended as the mull (a 1..,
innocent, and effeCtu 41 remedy for Coughs, Cold.,
and Animas. Children and the molt delicate may
take it with the greated fafety. It i; to he had at
Me& Shaw and Edward, N 0.66, on the Foot-way.
St. Paul's Church yard, who have purchared of the
lion. Lady II t Lt.'s executors all the property iu
J„aw Medicines, price 3s. 6d. If their nam.s
are nut on the Ramp it is a counterfeit.