"The following gentlemen were reported qualified for the public service, at the half-yearly examination in December last: Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Ravenshaw, Mr. Prinsep, Mr. Udny, and Mr. Bacon; and to the four first were adjudged pecuniary rewards and medals, for high proficiency in the Persian and Hindoostanee languages.

"Mr. Hawkins, who was admitted to the College in July 1822, was ranked at the half-yearly examination, first in the first class of Persian, and first in the first class of Hindoostanee; and obtained prizes of 800 rupees, and medals, for high proficiency in those languages. The knowledge acquired by Mr. Hawkins, both of the Persian and Hindoostanee languages, at Hertford College, was very considerable, and, no doubt, enabled him to attain that high proficiency here, which he has reached in the short period of four or five months.

"Mr. Ravenshaw was admitted in August 1822, (the month after Mr. Hawkins,) and stands next to him both in the Persian and Hindoostanee languages. He has also obtained pecuniary rewards and medals, for high proficiency in those languages. This gentleman, I am informed, brought with him from Hertford, a degree of proficiency rarely acquired at the institution; and his diligence did not slacken after he was admitted here.

"Mr. Prinsep was admitted in July 1822, and Mr. Udny in August of the same year. The former is ranked third in Persian, and third in Hindoostanee; the latter is placed immediately below him; and to both have been adjudged pecuniary rewards and medals, for high proficiency in both those languages. Al. though these four gentlemen have some time since entered upon the public service, I cannot, without injustice, withhold the declaration of my high approbation of their signally meritorious conduct while attached to the institution.

"Mr. Bacon, who was admitted to the College in July 1821, stands fifth in Persian, and fifth in Hindoostanee, in the list of students examined in December last, at which time he was reported qualified for the public service, by a competent knowledge of both languages.

"The following students were examined privately at different times, and found qualified for the public service: Mr. Davidson, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Moore, Mr. Benson, Mr. Lindsay, Mr. Lowis, Mr. Paxton, Mr. Deedes, Mr. Jackson, and Mr. Thompson.

"Mr. Davidson was admitted in June 1820; he was examined, and found a proficient in the Persian language, on the 11th of January last, and on the 3d of February following was reported qualified in Hindoostanee, and admitted to the public service.

"Mr. Moore and Mr. Benson were admitted to the College on the 12th of November 1821, and being allowed a private examination, were reported qualified for the public service, by a competent knowledge of the Persian and Hindoostanee languages, in September 1822.

"Mr. Lindsay, who was admitted to the College in June 1820, was pronounced qualified for the public service, on the 26th of March 1823. He had been previously examined, and declared qualified in Hindoostanee, on the 14th September

1822.

"Mr. Lowis was also admitted so far back as September 1820, and, at a private examination in April 1823, was found to have attained a competent knowledge of the Persian language; and in the month of June following, having passed an examination in Hindoostanee, was reported qualified to enter on the duties of the public service.

"Mr. Paxton, who was admitted to the College on the 4th of July 1821, was examined privately in Hindoostanee, and found qualified in that language, in June 1822, and afterwards in Persian, in November of the same year, and reported qualified for the public service.

"Mr. Deedes entered the College on the 29th of May 1821, but was compelled some time afterwards to make a voyage to sea for the recovery of his health. Previously, however, to that period, he had been examined, and found qualified in the Persian language; and on the Sd of February 1823 was reported qualified for the public service, having acquired a competent knowledge of Hindoostanee.

"Mr. Jackson was admitted to the College on the 21st of January 1822, and was reported qualified for the public service on the 1st of October of the same year, having previously been examined, and found a proficient in the Persian language in April.

"Mr. Thompson, who was admitted on the 2d of March 1821, was examined, and found qualified in Persian, at the annual examination in June 1822, and afterwards on the 3d of May last, in the Hindoostanee language, when he was admitted to the public service.

"It is painful to me to be compelled to mention, that Mr. Dampier, who was admitted to the College in December 1818, and was removed on account of his repeatedly absenting himself from the lectures of the Professors, without any cause assigned, and who was re-admitted on his return from Europe (9th of September 1822), whither he had proceeded for the benefit of his health, has been removed a second time for his remissness in study, and disregard of the regulations of the College. Mr. Dampier has recently applied for an examination, and I trust

be will be found to have profited by his past experience.

"The Government has also been under the necessity, at the recommendation of the College Council, of removing three other students, who have made little or no progress in their prescribed studies since the half-yearly examination in December last. I forbear from publicly mentioning the names of these gentlemen, in the confident hope that, by the assiduous and diligent prosecution of their studies, at the stations to which they will be sent, they will speedily retrieve the time and credit which they have lost.

"Mr. Thompson, of the Madras establishment, who obtained the permission of Government in February last, to study in the College for six months, having made no progress whatever in any language, has been desired to return without delay to his own Presidency.

"Only two students were attached to the Bengalee Professor's class in the past year. I am concerned to observe, that neither of them is reported to have made adequate progress in the language; but there is sufficient ground for hope, that they will make amends for past neglect, to justify a further trial.

"The small number of students attached to this class, has attracted my particular notice. A disinclination among the students of the College for the study of the Bengalee language, has been made the subject of animadversion by former visitors, and dwelt upon with regret. I cannot refrain from adding the expression of my own concern, at the prevailing indifference for the attainment of this useful language: a knowledge of the Bengalee is not useful merely, but almost indispensable for those who are called upon to exercise public duties in the province of Bengal, which bring them in contact with the mass of the people. The lower classes of the natives of this province, especially those in the interior, are generally ignorant of every other tongue; there are but few who can converse intelligibly in Hindoostanee. In the course of communication with them, therefore, those public officers who are not versed in the vernacular language of the country, are constrained to employ the aid of interpretation: a practice attended with a degree of abuse and evil, on which I need not dilate. I trust, therefore, that these important considerations will, in future, have an influence on the students, and induce a larger proportion of them to apply themselves to the study of this language. "I deem it proper to call to the recollection of the students of the College, that the statute recently enacted, requires the College Council to report to the Government when, after a reasonable period of trial (which term is in ordinary cases

not to exceed two months) any student may not appear to be deriving advantage from the College. The strict execution of this duty is not more desirable for the discipline and respectability of the institution, than for the real interests of the students. A student who, from whatever cause, except sickness, fails to make reasonable progress in the acquisition of the languages, proves that his continuance in College cannot be beneficial to himwhile, on the contrary, habits of idleness or extravagance may be generated which can best be checked and corrected by an early removal from the Presidency.

"I take the opportunity of repeating what has already been declared, that in the selection of individuals for office, the period of leaving College qualified for the public service, and the relative rank of the students as to proficiency, will be taken as the criterion of their claims to preferment, rather than length of residence in the country, or their standing in the list of civil servants.

"The recent re-establishment of pecuniary rewards during the past year, both to students in College, and to those who subsequently to leaving College may acquire such a knowledge of the Sanscrit and Arabic languages, as shall enable them to read and explain the books of Mahomedan and Hindoo law, was noticed in a former discourse from this chair. I trust I am not too sanguine in anticipating the best effects from the incitements thus held out to emulation and exertion in more useful and honourable pursuits. An additional proof has recently been afforded of the high importance which the Government attaches to an accurate knowledge of certain Oriental languages, by those whose duties lead them to constant intercourse with the natives of the country, by the resolution of the Governor General in Council, providing for the examination of military officers who may be nominated to the situation of interpreters to native corps. In order to give full effect to this regulation, measures are in progress for facilitating to the members of the Hon. Company's army, the acquisition of the Hindoostanee and Persian, by rendering useful class-books more accessible to those who may feel a desire to cultivate those languages.

"A list of the literary works published during the year, will be appended to this discourse. Although not immediately connected with the College, I cannot allow this opportunity to pass, without congratulating the institution and the public at large, in the publication of a new and revised edition of the first volume of the elementary analysis of the Laws and Regulations of this Government, one of the fruits of the learned and respected author's leisure during his short residence in Eng

land. This volume comprizes the whole of the Judicial Regulations down to the middle of the year 1821, comprehending the important enactments of the year 1814, and other material improvements in our judicial code.

"The College Council have stated to me their entire satisfaction at the attention and conduct of all the officers of the College, since the period of the last meeting; a report which has caused me much gratification, and demands the expression of my cordial acknowledgments to those gentlemen. They are also justly due to the learned natives attached to the institution.

"To the members of the College Council themselves, who so ably and impartially preside over the affairs of the establishment, to the infinite advantage of its concerns, I desire to tender my warmest thanks. Can I offer to the students a stronger incitement to study and generous emulation, than the honourable example of those gentlemen who, one and all, in their progress to the high and responsible offices which they fill, signalized their early career in India by the acquisition of proud and distinguished honours in that institution, over which they now exercise a parental care?

"It cannot be irrelative to the present occasion, to advert to the condition and prospect of other collegiate institutions established under the protection and patronage of the Government of this country. The Madrussa, or College for Mahomedan Law, founded by the illustrious Warren Hastings, has lately attracted the particular attention of Government. Through the liberal and disinterested exertions of the superintending committee, aided by their learned and zealous secretary, Dr. Lumsden, the most important reforms have been introduced into the discipline and studies of that institution.

These

measures have been crowned with the most signal success, even during the short period in which they have been in operation, and they promise the happiest results. The annual examinations of the students which are now publicly held, may be confidently referred to, in proof both of the actual improvement that has taken place, and the spirit of zeal and emulation that has been created.

"Similar good effects have attended the reform so judiciously introduced into the Hindoo College at Benares, which had gradually fallen into neglect and decay, until the deteriorated condition of the institution, as well as the means of restoring it to vigour and efficiency, were brought to the notice of Government by a distinguished Oriental scholar, whose public duties called him to that city. To Mr. Wilson also is the Government indebted for the plan of a college about

to be founded at the Presidency for Sanscrit and Hindoo learning, under the liberal encouragement held forth for the revival and improvement of literature and the encouragement of learned natives, by the Hon. Company and the British Parliament. Other institutions, both Mahomedan and Hindoo, will gradually be reformed or founded, in pursuance of the wide and benevolent views to which I have just alluded.

"The attention of the Governor General in Council is sedulously directed to the important subject of public instruction. In furtherance of that object, public aid has been afforded to those useful and laudable institutions, the School-book Society and the Calcutta School Society, as well as to the Hindoo College founded in 1817, and superintended by some of the principal Hindoo gentlemen of this city. No wise or just government can be indifferent to the literary and moral improvement of its subjects; and other and more extensive measures may hereafter be framed for the education of the various classes of the inhabitants of the British possessions. The subject is one of the highest importance both to the Government and the people. The diffusion of liberal education among the natives of India, may be rendered a blessing or perverted into a curse to the country, according to the manner in which it is carried into effect. If by any improbable combination of circumstances, a misguided zeal or overheated enthusiasm should mingle in this important pursuit, the most disastrous consequences may be predicted, both to the people and their ruler: but directed to its proper and legitimate ends, and conducted with the judgment, discretion, and sobriety, which I trust will never be lost sight of, and above all, with the full concurrence and cordial co-operation of the natives them. selves, it cannot fail to produce the most extensive and decided benefits, both to the Government of the country, and to the millions under its sway."

Works now in the Press, and patronized by Government, at the recommendation of the Council of the College of Fort William.

1. A Dictionary and Grammar of the Bhite or Thibetian language, prepared partly in Latin, and partly in the German and Italian languages, by the Roman Catholic missionaries and the late Rev. Mr. Schroeter, during their residence in that country, under the countenance and authority of the late Major Barre Latter, agent to the Governor General at Titalya, and now translated and prepared for the press by the Rev. Dr. Wm. Carey, professor of the Sanscrit, Bengalee, and Mahratta languages, in the College of

Fort William.-These works may be considered highly valuable on two accounts: First, they are the labours of men of learning, who resided for a long period in the country, and who were in every respect qualified for the task; and secondly, the country where the Bhote language is spoken is the only one which lies between the British dominions and those of Russia, to which may be added the great probability, or rather certainty, that this is the current language of the whole of Chinese Tartary. It has been hitherto unknown to Europeans.-The Dictionary is very copious, and will contain between 900 and 1000 quarto pages. The words are arranged in alphabetical order.

2. The Arabic poems termed Mooallaquat, with a commentary on each poem, in the Arabic language, by Moolavee Abdoor Ruheem of the College of Fort William.

3. The Law of Inheritance and Division of Property contained in the Daya Bhaga, in Sanscrit and Bengalee verse, by Pundit Lukshmee Narayuna Nyaylwerkura of the College of Fort William.

4. A Translation from the original Sanscrit into the Bengalee Language of the Mutakshura of Lagyuvulkha, a celebrated work on Hindoo Law, by Pundit Lucknaraen Naya, of the College of Fort William.

CALCUTTA.

GOVERNMENT GENERAL

ORDERS.

FINANCIAL.

Notice.-The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Honourable Company's Debt in India hereby notify, that Promissory Notes to the amount of Sicca Rupees 12,92,88,800 have been tendered in transfer to the Loan opened on the 14th February last, and that the acknowledgments issued to the parties from whom the said tenders have been received will be discharged in the manner following, subject to the provision contained in the 11th clause of the advertisement of the above date: that is to say, for 7-10ths of the amount tendered, 5 per Cent. Promissory Notes will be issued under the rule contained in the 10th clause of the said advertisement, and the remaining 3-10ths will be paid under the 12th clause.

J. A. DORIN,

Sec. to Comm. for Transfer. Acc.-Gen.'s Office, 3d May 1823.

MEDICAL.

Fort William, March 29, 1823. 1. The Government having, with reference to General Orders, June 21, 1822, sanctioned and adopted the recommendation of the Medical Board, as to the propriety of a previous examination in the Native Languages of the Medical Officer selected for the situation of Superintendent of the School for Native Doctors, it is hereby directed, that previous to confirmation in that office, the person so selected shall undergo a regular examination in the Persian and Hindostanee languages, by the Officers of the College of Fort William.

2. No candidate shall be considered entitled to confirmation, unless he shall produce a certificate, signed by the examining Officers of the College, of his "possessing a competent knowledge of the colloquial and written languages of the country, especially the Hindostanee and Persian, and that he is capable of reading the native treatises on medicine, and discoursing with the pupils on ordinary sub jects of native, science, in intelligible, if

not in accurate terms."

3. Should the candidate require examination in the Sunscrit, Arabic, or other useful Oriental languages, it is to be granted by the Public Officers of that College, and noted accordingly in their report, and in their certificate of qualification or otherwise.

4. The examinations above prescribed will take place on the application of the Medical Board to the Secretary of the College Council.

MILITARY.

Fort William, April 18, 1823. The proceedings of two Courts of Enquiry, held at Neemuch and Kurnal, having clearly established that Jodah Sing, Havildar 4th troop 4th regiment Light Cavalry, conducted himself in a brave and soldier-like manner in support of his officers, in the affair with the troops of Kotah, on the 1st October, 1821: The Governor General in Council is pleased, in compliance with the recommendation of His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief, to promote Jodah Singh, Havildar, to the rank of Subadar in that regiment, in reward of his gallant conduct. This promotion to have effect from the same period as that assigned to Subadars Meer Musnad Ally, and Shaikh Nadur Ally, who were promoted by Government to that rank for their bravery on the same occasion.

Fort William, April 18, 1823.

A claim having been preferred to Government by the Officer in charge of the Dacca Provincial Battalion, to be reimbursed the expenses of providing Recruits for that corps from Buxar, the Governor General in Council is pleased to notify to all officers in command of local, provincial, or other irregular corps, that the practice of recruiting at a distance from the zillahs in which they are employed, is wholly inconsistent with the views with which such corps were formed, and is most positively prohibited in future.

The objects which Government have had in view in the formation of all Local, Provincial, or other irregular Corps of Infantry, were, to provide for the local duties of each district or city from the mass of its own population, or of the zillahs immediately adjoining-the advantages held out being an inadequate provision for the men if removed to any distance from their homes and families; and in the case of provincial troops affording no prospect of a support on retirement in old age, unless when disabled, or wounded in the performance of duty; while in many cases, the insalubrity of the provinces or districts to which local or provincial corps are assigned is such, as to render it unadvisable, on the score of humanity, that any but the Natives thereof should be enlisted for them.