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London, England, 1821-09-27 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COLLEGES.

An Account was next laid betbre the Court, !hew-
ing the number of Students admitted into the Com-
pany's Colleges at Addiscombe and liayleybury,
the annual expense of their cdocation, &c.
Mr. HOME wished to know what was the total ex-
pense, and the number of Wt iters and Cadets sent out
from the body of Students educated in those Colleges?

It was then stated from the Accounts, that from
Midsummer, 1820, to Midsummer, 1821, there had
been 40 Students admitted, and no Petition for ad-
mission rejected ; and that 40 had been appointed
Wtiters, the net annual expenditure £8,002, viz.—
gross expenditure, £18,887 ; receipts, £10,885 ; net
expenditure, £8,002. Within the same period, 879
Cadets had been :appointed, 5.5 admitted to ill! Mili-
tary seminary, and two Cadets rejected: gross ex.
penditure, 1:13,679 ; receipts, £4,871; net expendi•
tine, £B,BOB.

The Cit AI II w then submitted the following Reu
solution, to the Court of Proprietors :

" That the Court having, in the year 1818, resolved to en.
courage DT. JOHN BORTIIWN't GILCHRIST in his Lectures in the
Hindostanee Language, by granting to hint for the term of
three years a salary of £2OO per annum ; and the Court having,
on the :29th ultimo, come to a Resolution to continue that salary
for the further term of three years, and to grant to Dr. Gll,
cualsr for that period, an allowance of £l5O per annum, to en.
able hint to provide a suitable Lecture &Hun, the same be now
allowed."

Before the question was put upon this Resolution,
At the request of Mr. HumE the Resolution of the
Court of Directors of the 4th of November, 1818,
was read: it was expressive of the opinion of the Di-
rectors, that all Medical Assistants going out to In-
dia, should previously attend to the study of the Hin-
dostanee language, under Dr. Gilclaist, for at lea*
two months, and that before their embarkation they
should produce a certificate of such attendance from
the Doctor. Three guineas wore named as the re-
muneration to be paid for attending the course of
Lectures.

Mr. HUME then said, that he never rose in that
Court with so much satisfaction as at present, when
he meant to call their attention to the state of educa-
tion in their possessions in India. There was no
greater question connected with the policy of theist
system of government in India than that of educa-
tion ; and it was very remarkable, that while a simi-
lar subject occupied universal attention in Eng-
land and indeed in Europe, so little had been done
to consider its imperative necessity in India, where it
affected a population of 80 or 90 millions of human
beings. It was a blot upon the system of their In-
dian government, that so little had been done in a
long course of years for diffusing a knowledge of the
colloquial language of the natives, under circum-
stances and in a situation where that knowledge was
so important in its consequences to the interest and
happiness of so many millions of people. What had
they done for education in India since the year 1805?
On the 27th February of that year, the Court adopted
a Resolution declaratory of the importance of the
education of their civil servants in the native lan-
guage of India, and for the purpose of more effec-
I tually giving it, the College system was established
for the Company's servants. Now, the object of that
ICollege was unquestionably the diffusion of a su-
perior civil and oriental education for their ser-
vants appointed to office in India, and a great ex-
pense had been incurred ; but the practical results
`fell very far short of what they would have been, had
a different plan been pursued. It could not be said
that a system of economy had interposed to prevent
the realization of their hope; ; for, accordintz to the
aggregate accounts of the years 1818 and 1819 k the
expenditure incurred amounted to £53,833 a-year :
that expenditure was for the Colleges both at home
and in India. Such a sum as that was more than
' adequate to provide education for the whole of their
servants. Yet, notwithstanding the large amount be
had just stated, the education it conferred did not
comprehend more than in the proportion of cite to
six of the Company's servants. He had no doubt
that Dr. Gilchrist would do considerably more for
the expenditure of £350 a-year than had been pre-
, vieusly done for the £50,000: indeed, the Doctor,
with proper regulations, would educate the whole of
`their civil and military servants in Ilindo:tattee„