Star.
London, England, 1807-12-26 00:00:00

MARQLTIS WELLESLEY.

No. XVIII.
Ste, •
Although the generality of ibbr Reader s ahead,'
anticipate the molt honourable acquittal of Marquis
Wellefley, it may be fatisfaitnry to mention, that one
bf the principal charges intended to have been brought
forward, and to which very many Proprietors of India
Stock attached confiderable blame, was the Inflitu-
tion at Calcutta of a College, for the purpofe of
qualifying the junior civil fervent: to difcharge even-
tually the feveral arduous and important duties in
the judicial, fifcal, financial, and political depart.
ments of the Government.

By the recent advices from India we are now
informed, that, after all the objeflions flatted by the
Court of Direflors, they are at length become fo
fenfible of the advantages of the Intlirution, that on
the 2d of left March, the Students at the College in
Caleurta were informed by Sir George Barlow, the
ailing Governor and vifitor, that the oriental ferni-
nary eflabliffied at Hertford, is intended as a pre-
paratory collegiate inflitution, and not to fuperfede,
but to fugport the efficiency, and to accelerate the
operation of the College in Calcutta ; thus evincing
the favourable opinion entertained by the Court of
Direetors, of the Plan propofed in the Minute of
Marquis Wellefley, that the foundation for the edu-
cation of the young men for the civil fervice thould
be judicioufly laid in England, and the fuperffruc-
tore Oftematically completed in India.
The civil fervants of the Englifh Eafl India Com-
pany can no longer bt confidered as the agents of a
commercial concern ; they are in fait the miniflers '
and officers of a powerful Sovereign. They are re•
quired to difcharge the funtlions of Magiftrates,
Judges, Ambaffadori, and Governors of Provinces,
in all the complicated and extenfive relations of
thofe facred trolls and exalted Rations; and under
peculiar circumflances, which greatly enhance the
folemnity of every public obligation, and aggravate
the difficulty of every public charge. Their duties
are thofe of Statefmen in every other part of the
woild, with no other charaeleriflic differences, than
the obflacles nppofed by an unfavourable climate, a
foreign language, the peculiar ufages and laws of
India, and the manners of its inhabitant,.
During the adminiffration of Marquis Wellefley,
thole Iludents who had made the greater/ proficiency
in the Oriental languages and general literature, in
addition to the degrees of honour and honorary re•
wards adjudged by the Committee of public exami
nation, were removed from the College to the office
rf the Governor General, for the pur pole c•f being
regularly brought up in the diplomatic line, under
his own immediate infpeetion.
The principal rule in the Office of the Governor-
General of Britifh India appears to have been, viz.
Every young man had an opportunity of reading
the molt keret flare papers, but not of difcuffing
the fubjcfl•s with any other perfon, either in or out of
office ; and to their honour it deferves to be mention-
ed, that in no one infiance whatfoever was any in-
fringement ever known to have been made, even in
their gayer/ moments, to this rule ; fd completely
were the principles of honour and propriety of con. '
duff engrafted in their minds by the Noble Marquis,
who frequently, during a prefure of political brrfi-
nefs, has affilled thee young Civilians in copying
his own difpatches in cypher, and thus, by his own
etample, has tepeatedly kept them in conflant em-
ploy the whole day, and greaten part of the night.
PLAIN FACTS.

Lady Flt Mien TOLLE mArHE, finer to the Earl of
Dysasr, died on Friday lel, at her cottage, in the
isle of Wight. Lady Louisa MANNERS was with
Lady FRANCES during the greater part of her illnefs,
and Hill remains at the cottage. The intertneht will
take place in the family vault in Suffolk.
The late Mr. ABRAHAM NEWLAND.—The will of
Mr. Newland has not yet b:en regillered, but we are
enabled to Rate the principal c,,ntents of it :
Mr. Newland was the fon of a baker in Southwark,
and owed the confpicuons fituation he held in the
Bank to his own per-levet-ante and afliduous attention.
He died worth 2comool. in (lock, betides tcool. per
anniim arifing from eaves, and he has difpofed of
it in the folkwing manner :
To Mr. H. Ilafe, 2501. per annum, 'wiring from the Broad-
ftrcet Annuity (money Icnt by Mr. Newland to the parifh, and
when the annuity (hall eeafe the principal to be paid), and ?col.
Con fuls

Mr Rippnn, fecnnd cornier. 7co guineas—Mr. Bras ;coo gui
near—Mr Attwood so,ccol.

To each of tht faulty of the Goldfrnids, eight in nunaber, yocl.
to purchafe a ring.
To the Gentlemen belonging to the Chief Cal:bier's Office
?about it) in rumber) from 3cl. to cccl each, With about two
exceptions.
To the Porters at the Bank and Lodge, from sol. to scL each,
and to the Domenic, of the decrAfrcl's honfejold the like fnms.
To Mr. Henry Ha'e now Chief Caihier; Mr. R ippon. Second
Catlike; Mr Attwood ; Mr Brofs—cool each, as Executors.
'l'n the Houfeheeper to the &cadet!, the Intereft of 60,00 cl ;
soca in enfh ; the Houle and Furniturt at Highhury ; and the
Ho►fes, Carriages, &c.

The relidne of the property is left among the se
latives of the deceafed, who are in needy circum
fiances. Amongti them, a Chelfea penfinner, who,
during the life of Mr: Newland, received Sol. per
annum, has been left tool. a year. A farmee's fer.
vant, at Hornfey, who did not partake of Mr. New-
land's b.-iutity during his life, has been left 3col. per
annum.

A waggoner, who has driven a waggon for many
years between Chichefler and Lr,ncion, was molt
agreeably fut riled lail week by the information that
the late Mr. ABRAHAM NItWLAND, to whom he was
diaantly related, had bequeathed him a legacy of
2COCI.

ARCTUTECTURL.—The city of Weflminfler is at
length :Aiming a beauty and.charader worthy of the
Metropolis. Ertentive improvements are to be con-
tinued by widening Duke (beet to St. James's Park,
terminating with iron gates, and a firnilar ilteet is
to be made actofs Warwick Greet, in a direct line
with the Haymarket. On the North and South fides
of the parade, public buildings are to be projeded
from the Admiralty and Treafury Office., and an
elegant (lone edifice, of the Grecian Doric order, is
propofed to be crated on the weft fide for the refi-
dence and Office of the Commander in Chief ; the
whole forming one entire quadrangle. A new Ilreet
has alfo been fuggelled opoofite the Hrnfe Guards,
terminating with a magnificent triumphal arch to.
ward% the Thames.

FOR ?AR S 7 4R.