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their studies, they would render themselves equally competent in Teloogoo.

Mr. Hutt's name appeared in the list below several of his brother students, both in Tamil and Teloogoo, to whom he stood superior at the last examination; but we trusted that by diligent application to the grammar of the Tamil language, in which he was more particularly defective, and by an assiduous cultivation of the knowledge he already possessed of the Teloogoo he would regain the rank which he had lost.

Mr. Bushby, for his progress in Tamil, and Mr. Thomas, for his acquirements in Teloogoo, merited commendation. The former gentleman, we observed, had just commenced the study of the latter as a second language, and Mr. Thomas had acquired the general rudiments of Tamil. Mr. Cameron and Mr. W. Mason had improved their knowledge of Tamil, and we had pleasure in observing that Mr. Cameron had made some progress in Mahratta also.

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Mr. De Mierre, we remarked, since the last examination, had commenced the study of the Teloogoo. To acquire the first rudiments of a new, although a kindred language, the attention of the student, we observed, must necessarily be diverted from that to which he had previously applied but we trusted that in prosecuting conjointly his studies in the Tamil and Teloogoo, Mr. De Mierre would find that each rendered aid to the other, and that at the next examination we should have to report favourably of his advancement in both.

We had great satisfaction in bearing testimony to the attention paid by Mr. Montgomerie to the study of Tamil and Teloogoo, during the last term, and we trusted the continuance of his laudable application would hereafter enable us to report favorably of his success.

Mr. Wrey, we observed, understood Tamil sufficiently to give the general import of official papers of ordinary difficulty, and could understand easy sentences addressed to him in that language, but was not able to carry on a general conversation. Mr. Wrey informed us that indisposition had prevented the prosecution of his studies in Teloogoo, in which he declined examination.

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The list of those whose attention had been directed to the study of two languages closed here; but we thought that the right honourable the governor in council would be well pleased to learn, that several of the students who had recently joined the college had particularly distinguished themselves at the late examination. The progress of Mr. Gleig in Teloogoo, and of Mr. Kindersley, Mr. Hudleston, Mr. French, and Mr. Horne in Tamil, was, we remarked, very satisfactory for the

time that they had been attached to the college, and we begged leave to recommend that each of these gentlemen might obtain the lowest of the increased allowances, as an encouragement of which we doubted not they would prove themselves well deserving, by a continuance of their honourable assiduity.

It was with concern that we found ourselves compelled to place Mr. Ogilvie's name below those of many gentlemen who had recently arrived in the country; but as severe indisposition had materially impeded his studies during the last term, we trusted that he would soon occupy a higher place.

In the hope that the four gentlemen, whose names were entered last on the list of Tamil students, would enable us, at the next examination, to report favourably on their progress, we refrained from any particular mention of them.

In closing this part of our report, we thought it right to observe, that we found the students, in general, to be least perfect in the grammatical exercises; apparently from a mistaken notion adopted by some of them, that because these form a principal part of the earliest examinations, their knowledge of them would not be inquired into at the more advanced stages; we recorded our desire to impress on the minds of the students that, as grammar is the frame of language, the desultory knowledge which they might acquire without its aid would be dependent on chance, or at best on practice, for its preservation; whereas, after a solid grammatical foundation had been once laid, the superstructure, even when impaired by long disuse, might at any time be restored with little comparative labour.

A knowledge of the leading principles of the laws enacted for the administration of justice, and for the realization of the revenues in these territories, being essentially necessary to the members of the civil service about to be engaged in the discharge of those important duties, we stated that we had directed the attention of the students to the code of regulations, as part of the course to be pursued at the institution under our superintendence.

Of the gentlemen examined in the regulations, we found Mr. Chamier to have an intimate knowledge of both the judicial and revenue system, as well in their leading principles as in the mode of their administration.

Mr. Viveash, Mr. Whish, Mr. Dent, and Mr. Uhthoff also merited praise for their acquirements in this branch of study.

Mr. De Meirre, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Newbolt, and Mr. Hutt gave evidence of hav ing paid attention to the code of regula tions; and this part of their studies had not been neglected by Mr. J. G.. Mason,

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We had also the satisfaction of stating that the general conduct of the gentlemen attached to the institution had been unexceptionable and although we had learned from the inquiries which it had been our duty to make, that debt had been contracted at an earlier period than had come under our observation on any former occasion, there was, we remarked, no case which called for the notice of government-we stated, however, that we had deemed it our duty to direct the attention of the junior civil servants to the very great importance attaching to freedom from pecuniary embarrassment, and we doubted not that the appeal we had made to their good sense and honourable feelings would have the desired effect.

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The high attainments of Mr. Chamier in two of the vernacular languages of the peninsula, aud his very considerable knowledge of the Persian, and the extensive acquirements of Mr. Viveash in Tamil and Mahratta, had qualified them to be eminently useful as public servants, and as these gentlemen had made good their claim to the honorary medal, had received the highest rate of college allowance, had passed a satisfactory examination in the regulations, and had distinguished themselves for general propriety of conduct while attached to the institution, we begged leave to recommend that the honorary reward of 1000 pagodas should be granted to each of them on quitting the college.

Mr. Whish and Mr. Dent, we observed, had fully qualified themselves for promotion; and, should their services be required, we had no doubt that they would prove highly useful in whatever department it might be the pleasure of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council to employ them. In justice, however, to those gentlemen, we thought it our duty to observe, that if permitted to avail themselves for some time longer of the advantages which the college affords, they would be enabled to secure the highAsiatic Journ.—No. 15.

est honors and rewards which it hold, out to eminent acquirement.

Mr. Phillips and Mr. J. G, Mason had very nearly completed three years residence at the college, and as they had both acquired a knowledge sufficient for the transaction of ordinary business in one of the native languages, and had made some progress in a second, we considered them eligible to the general duties of the service, and begged leave to recommend them to the favorable consideration of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council.

It did not appear to us that Mr. Wrey's further continuance at the college would be of advantage, either to that gentleman or to the public interests; and as he had completed a residence in India of three years, it only remained for us to recommend that he might be permitted to quit the institution.

In concluding our report, we begged leave to submit a descriptive list of the several works printed or printing at the college press, and of such also as had received or had been offered to the patronage of government; which we begged leave to recommend might be published for general information. A copy of this list will be found in the present report, under the head "State of the Press."

Soon after our report above recited, was forwarded to the government, Mr. Chamier, Mr. Viveash, Mr. Whish, Mr. Dent, Mr. J. G. Mason, Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Wrey were employed in the public service, but no communication on the subject was made to us.

On the 7th of September following, we had the honor to report that two of the gentlemen of whose proficiency we were unable to make favorable mention in our address above mentioned, were that day examined at their own request; and we had much pleasure in stating that their progress since the last examination had been satisfactory.

Mr. Crawley and Mr. Elliot, we'remarked, had very materially improved their knowledge of Tamil grammar; and they were now, we observed, tolerably well versed in the elements of this language; but their command of words, we remarked, was yet very limited, and consequently, their translations of even the most easy papers very incorrect and defective, and their means of colloquial intercourse with the natives restricted to the most common and simple questions. The laudable attention, however, which these gentlemen had lately evinced to study, and the success which had attended their assiduity and application, induced us to recommend that the Right Honorable the Governor in Council might be pleased to confer upon each of them the increased allowance of seventy-five pagodas per mensem, which we trusted 2 Q

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would not fail to encourage them to further exertion.

That the success of the establishment placed under our superintendence depended entirely on a continuance of the encouragement and inducements to study, which the liberality of the government of late so constantly afforded to their junior civil servants, was, we observed, a truth that required from us no illustration; and we trusted that our anxiety to maintain unimpaired the same emulation which had hitherto so happily animated the studies of the gentlemen attached to the.college, would render it unnecessary for us to offer any apology for respectfully remark ing, that our report of the 15th of June last, in which the merits of the students were brought under the observation of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council, continued, in the month of September following, unnoticed by the go

vernment.

To our two addresses here recited, we were not favored with the orders of government until the 3d of November last, when we were informed that the Right Honorable the Governor in Council was pleased to graut, from the 7th of June preceding, the established increase of allowances to the several gentlemen we had recommended in our first report for that mark of approbation and reward. The Governor in Council also granted the reward of 1000 pagodas, for which we recommended Mr. Charmier and Mr. Viveash, respectively; but having adverted to the orders of the honorable the Court of Directors on the subject, as well as to a reference to those orders made in a recent dispatch from the hono rable Court to the supreme government, the Governor in Council was of opinion that the reward of 1000 pagodas could not be granted in any future instances and desired that a communication to that effect might be made to the gentlemen at present attached to the college.

In reply to our report already noticed, under date of the 7th of September, we were informed that under the marked distinction betwixt the terms in which we had recommended Mr. Elliot and Mr. Crawley, for the increased allowance of seventy-five pagodas per mensem, aud those in which a similar recommendation was submitted in favour of others in our previous report of the 15th of June, the Governor in Council declined sanctioning the proposed mark of approbation and reward to those two gentlemen; but trust. ed that, by their assiduity and progress, they might be entitled, at a future examination, to a favorable report expressed in less qualified terms.

It was added that it was the intention of the Governor in Council to transmit to the Court of Directors the list of books printed, printing, or preparing for the

press at the college, which was received along with our first report, in order that the honorable Court might decide as to the extent of encouragement that the respective authors might receive.

The Right Honorable the Governor in Council having been pleased to signify his opinion, that the reward of 1000 pagodasi could not be granted in any future instance, we remarked, in a reply, that we were unwilling to occupy the time of the Governor in Council on this subject (our sentiments thereon having been so fully stated in our letter bearing date 20th November, 1813, recited in our general report for the year 1813) further than to express our extreme regret that it should have appeared necessary to come to this resolution, and to solicit permission to delay the communication of the orders of government in this respect until after the periodical examination, which, we observed, commences on the 6th of the following month; and as the immediate inforcement of the resolution for discontinuing the honorary reward, would have a retrospective effect against the claims of any gentleman who might, during the then present term, have been qualifying himself to receive it, under the rules of the institution, as they had hitherto obtained; we hoped to be permitted to recommend to the favorable consideration of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council any student who, at the ensuing examination, might prove to have attained to such proficiency as, in the opinion of the board, would entitle him to the highest rewards.

The Right Honorable the Governor in Council having declined to sanction the increase of allowances to Mr. Elliot and Mr. Crawley, as recommended by us, under date the 7th of September, and having declared that determination to be founded on the marked distinction be"twixt the terms in which we recom"mended these gentlemen for the in"creased allowance of seventy-five pago"das per mensem, and those in which a "similar recommendation was submitted "in favor of others in our general report," we perceived, with much concern, that our recommendation was deemed to be not borne out by the report on which it had been founded.

Although, in announcing this determination, the Right Honorable the Governor in Council had been pleased to withhold all expression of disapprobation, yet the public act of government, withdrawing in a particular instance a general trust reposed in a public body, by a resolution published under its authority, was, we thought, in itself a declaration that, in that particular instance at least, the confidence of the government in the proceedings of that body had been impaired.

It was therefore, we conceived, our duty, not less to the government than to ourselves, to offer such respectful explanation to the consideration of the Right Honorable the Governor in Council, as would appear calculated to remove the impressions under which his confidence has been withdrawn; we deemed it also our duty to the gentlemen to whom the recommended increase of salary had been denied to offer such explanation, in the hope that they might yet be permitted to benefit by our recommendation, made under the discretion vested in us by the resolutions of government, under date the 7th December, 1813. We trusted that we should be able to remove all unfavour able impression from the mind of the Right Honourable the Governor in Council, by explaining the construction which had hitherto been given to the orders for the grant of the increased allowances, and by shewing, that in submitting our recommendation in favour of Mr. Elliot and Mr. Crawley, we strictly adhered to the principle laid down for our guidance, the principle which we understood to have been sanctioned by the orders of government of the 7th December, 1813, and that the distinction adverted to by the Right Honorable the Governor in Council, in consequence of which he had been pleased to decline sanctioning the

proposed mark of approbation and reward to Mr. Elliot and Mr. Crawley, was a distinction in the style only of the report, and did not involve any deviation from the principle by which we had always been guided in this respect.

We begged leave to advert to the difference between the terms on which the higher and the lower rates of increased allowance were proposed to be given in our letter of the 20th November, 1813, which letter we observed had received the approbation and sanction of the Right Hon. the Governor in Council, recorded in the minutes of consultation under date the 7th December, 1813. The highest allowances it was there declared, should be granted for such proficiency in two languages as, on the recommendation of the board of superintendence, might appear to merit this increased reward. In the spirit of this resolution we explained, that we had endeavoured, as far as the nature of the subject would permit, to fix a standard to which it should be necessary for the stu"dent to attain before he would be recommended as deserving of this reward, and the sum of knowledge acquired, and not the rapidity or tardiness of its acquisition, had, we observed, been made the measure by which the title of the student to the superior increased allowance had been ascertained.- (To be continued.)

ASIATIC INTELLIGENCE.

CALCUTTA.

Letters from Khatmandoo have been received, which mention that the British residency had at last removed from Thankote to the capital. It was received with every mark of respect by the Nepal authorities.

Intelligence from Jypoor has been received to the 26th of June, by which it appears, that that city still held out, although Umeer Khan continued to push the siege with great vigour. He had been joined by a reinforcement of four thousand troops; and having made every preparation for a general assault, intended immediately to attempt to carry the city by storm. It was expected that the assault would be made the night after the accounts came away. The Raja in the mean time has called for assistance from the British power, which application Um eer Khan affects to treat with indifference, and says, it shall not deter him from the accomplish ment of his purpose.

Holkar. We find by our cative papers of the middle of last month, the family of Holkar preparing to leave Dubooreeu, their old place of encampment, and to proceed to Bhanponru for the pur

pose of paying adoration to the remains of the late Juswunt Rao Holkur. The extreme severity of the rains, which frequently inundated the camp and killed many horses and cattle, had for some time retarded the holy expedition. We are told that Juggu Babu had fled from the rage of his troops, and concealed himself in the obscurity of a private dwelling; and that Balaram Seeth, the old and confidential adviser of his master, had been accused by Deewan Kumput Rao of taking large bribes from the army, and thereupon enhancing their claims. We read of warlike operations in Jypoor. The heads of the Rajpoot and Mahratta and Pindaree forces, exhausted by their late struggle, have now no other enemy to oppose, than their own factious and discontented soldiery. It is difficult to say which of the two is in the most pitiable situation. Meer Khan, although now master of forty thousand men, and dreaded throughout the Duknin, is so fettered, that he cannot move a foot without the previous assent of the meanest of his followers. Finding that he could obtain no further supplies in the vicinity of Madhooraj poor, he lately intimated his intention to march to Na.

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waee. He was, however, soon informed by his refractory bands, that until he had discharged the whole of their arrears they would resist every attempt even to change ground. An offer of two lacks of rupees was insufficient to change their resolution, or gain them over to obedience. In the Jypoor lines the troops took means still less ceremonious of extorting their pay. They surrounded the house of Rao Chand Singh, and planting batteries near its walls, threatened the owner with immediate destruction, if he did not at once comply with their demands. With great difficulty Rao Manjhee Dass prevailed on them to wave their pretensions for a few days. The Jypoor papers have now dropt all mention of negociation between their government and any other power.--An action is stated to have been fought between a body of troops from Joudpoor, and a body of Mahrattas at Nurdown, which after considerable slaughter, terminated in the defeat and expulsion of the latter from the contested position.-There is nothing new from Lahore. Runjeet yet remains in that city, oppressing all around him, and seeking new means of amassing treasure, and of gaining fresh cessions of territory. He still keeps Uhmud Khan the Raja of Jhuk, and Raja Sooltan Khan in confinement; and so will probably do until he has squeezed from them every rupee in their possession. Thinking however that he sins enough for himself and his people, he by no means extends mercy to those who, imitating his example, forget the rules of religion and good faith. Bhoop Chund and Milap Chund, two brothers of the venerable house of Baboo Nanuk, having quarrelled, determined to settle their disputes by the sword. Aided by their followers, they several times fought with various success. The story came to Runjeet's ears.

Horror struck at the unnatural conduct of relations so closely connected, he immediately ordered them to cease, and decreed that both parties should pay a large fine to the state, as the only means of appeasing the insulted manes of their divine ancestor.

Calcutta, June 6.-The Lucknow papers intimate that the treasure of the late Begum of Fyzabad, was escorted by a guard under command of Captain Robertson, of the 11th regiment native infantry, into the Nabob's treasury, on the 18th. It amounted to eighty-four lacs and fifty thousand rupees.-These papers state that during one of the Nabob's visits to the Resident, mention having been made of the great pearl now for sale at Calcutta, His Highness produced another of nearly a similar description, with the body of pearl, and the head, arms, and tail of gold and enamel. with this difference only, that it was unbored, that its face was that of a man, and

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that in its hand it held a sword and buckler. This curiosity surprized and delighted the spectators.-The Honourable Edward Gardner was at Lucknow in the middle of last month-Major General Ochterlony had not arrived: but private letters, of later date inform us that he was a few days afterwards very magnificently entertained by the Nabob.

The following singular circumstance is said to have occurred during the late campaign in the Nepal mountains. An artillery-man having deserted from the British camp was carried by the enemy to Muckwanpore, , and on reaching the heights which command that fort, suddenly exclaimed," is this your boasted fort of Muckwanpore? Why "raising his stick to his shoulder, and looking along it so as to embrace the whole of the works with his eye, "I can fire into every part of it; the English will take it without a moment's delay." It happened that the Nepalese Havildar in charge of this deserter, sometime afterwards ing mentioned the foregoing circumstance, came over to the British camp; and havwas asked, if he could recognize the spot whence the artillery-man pointed on using the exclamation? This he readily agreed to do; and accordingly on the approach of the army, led the officers to a rising ground which completely overtopped the fortress, and was judged to be the best position for our batteries.

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Major General Sir David Ochterlony left Delhi for Kurnaul on the 2d of July, and on the same day Major-General Marshall set out from Cawnpore for Agra.

July 15.-A meeting was held at the town hall for the purpose of taking into consideration the propriety of establishing an Annuity Fund, to provide for the families and dependants of subscribers in case of their death, and to secure the means of subsistence to contributors at advanced periods of life. A plan of regulations was proposed, which will be submitted to the consideration of a general meeting, to be convened at no distant period.

We are informed that the following gentlemen have kindly consented to undertake the duties of the Committee, for the present:-J. Palmer, G. Cruttenden, A. Colvin, junior, A. Hogue, R. Robertson, and J. Bentley, Esqrs.

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Letters from Moorshedabad state, that the rising of the river has done much damage to the crop of indigo in the low grounds of that vicinity. Jepore and Rungpore have also considerably suffered from the same cause; while in Oude, and other northern provinces, a heary drought was complained of,"

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