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intentions of the Government, on the general question discussed in your 

 address. 



3. With respect to the specific requests and recommendations contained 

 in the address, I am desired to state as follows : 



4. The Government has no intention of soliciting from the Court of 

 Directors any specific pecuniary aid, to be appropriated exclusively to the 

 support of native literature, beyond the sums already devoted to that 

 object, in conjunction with the encouragement of English literature. Its 

 reluctance to take this step is not influenced by any doubt that larger 

 sums might be beneficially appropriated to both these objects ; but by that 

 financial difficulty which necessarily limits within narrow bounds the aid 

 to be so afforded. 



5. The Government having resolved to discontinue, with some excep- 

 tions, the printing of the projected editions of Oriental works, a great 

 portion of the limited Education Fund having hitherto been expended on 

 similar publications to littJe purpose but to accumulate stores of waste 

 paper, cannot furnish pecuniary aid to the Society, for the further printing 

 of those works, but will gladly make over the parts already printed, either 

 to the Asiatic Society, or to any Society or individuals, who may be dis- 

 posed to complete the publication at their own expense. 



6. The Government has the highest respect for the Asiatic Society, 

 and the valuable and laudable pursuits in which it is engaged ; but must 

 nevertheless consider the Committee of Public Instruction as the appro- 

 priate organ for dispensing the patronage bestowed by the Government 

 on Oriental studies, from which, as justly supposed by the Society, it is not 

 the intention of the Government to withdraw its support. 



I have the honor to be, &c. 



Council Chamber, \ (Signed) G. A. BUSHBY, 



the 10th Jane, 1835. J Secretary to Government. 



Copy of orders issued to the Committee of Public Instruction, 7th March, 1835. 



" The Governor General of India in Council has attentively considered the two 

 letters from the Secretary to the Committee, dated the 21st and 22nd January 

 last, and the papers referred to, in them. 



"His Lordship in Council is of opinion, that the great object of the British 

 Government ought to be the promotion of European literature and science among 

 the natives of India, and that all the funds appropriated for the purposes of 

 education would be best employed on English education alone. 



" But it is not the intention of His Lordship in Council to abolish any college 

 or school of native learning, while the native population shall appear to be 

 inclined to avail themselves of the advantages which it affords ; and His Lordship 

 in Council directs, that all the existing professors and students at all the institu- 

 tions under the superintendence of the Committee shall continue to receive their 

 stipends. But His Lordship in Council decidedly objects to the practice which 

 has hitherto prevailed of supporting the students during the period of their 

 education. He conceives tbat the only effect of such a system can be to give 

 artificial encouragement to branches of learning which, in the natural course of 

 things, would be superceded by more useful studies, and he directs that no stipend 

 shall be given to any student who may hereafter enter at any of these institu- 



