800 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Sept. 



Resolved, that the work be printed on joint account with the Nawab, 

 an advance of 1000 rupees to be made by both parties to the Secretary 

 (account Oriental Publication Fund) to meet the expences. 



The Reverend John Wilson, President of the Bombay Literary Society 

 solicited the Society's patronage to the George Nameh, a Persian epic 

 written by the late Moolla Feroz, and now under publication by his 

 nephew. Referred to the Committee of Papers. 

 fSee advertisement page."] 



The President then, in compliance with the resolution of last meeting, 

 rose, the members also standing, and read the following 



Address to Dr. Mill. 

 The Asiatic Society, to the. Reverend W. H. Mill, D. D. Principal of Bishop's 



College, their Vice-President. 

 Reverend Sir, 



The intelligence of your intention to return immediately to Europe lias been 

 received by us with feelings of deep regret, impressed as we are with the con- 

 viction that India is about to sustain, by your departure, a loss which cannot 

 easily be repaired. 



It will rest with higher authority than the Asiatic Society, to bear witness to 

 the unwearied zeal and fervent piety by which you have been uniformly distin- 

 guished in the discharge of the sacred duties committed to your care ; but it is 

 peculiarly our privilege to testify, in the most public manner, our sense of the 

 benefit we have derived from your abilities and learning, as well as to convey 

 some parting token of our esteem and respect to a Scholar whose presence among 

 us we have always regarded with feelings of pride and satisfaction. 



It is now sixteen years since you arrived in this country. While yet a young 

 man, you had established for yourself a literary reputation of no common order, 

 having excelled on an arena where excellence could have been won only by the 

 united efforts of genius and industry. We hailed your arrival therefore with no 

 ordinary feelings of satisfaction, indulging in the hope that the classical languages 

 and literature of the East would receive from you a share of that attention 

 which had already been so successfully devoted to the learning and science of 

 the West. This hope has since been amply realized. 



The Journals of our Society contain abundant evidence of your patient research, 

 of your correct judgment, and of your profound erudition. 



Your translation from the Sanskrit of the first part of C&lid&sa's Umd, affords 

 indisputable proof of your skill as a poet and a commentator ; while your 

 qualifications as a historian and a philologist have been clearly established by 

 your restoration, with valuable critical and historical notices, of the Allahabad 

 Inscription, and by your full and accurate translation of the Shekh&wati Inscrip- 

 tion found in the temple of Harsha at Oncha pahdr, and of that discovered at 

 Bhittri near Ghazipore. Tn your comments on the Macau Manuscript of the 

 Alif Leila, we trace at once the minute accuracy of au experienced critic and 

 the refined taste of an accomplished scholar. 



In your Arabic Treatise on Algebra, and in your Hebrew collation of the 

 Psalms in the same language, we have a durable monument of your learning 

 and piety. But the most valuable of your literary undertakings is your Sanskrit 

 Poem, the Christa Sangita. In that beautiful work the praises of our Redeemer 

 have been for the first time sung in the sacred language of the Vedas. It is your 

 peculiar boast that you have caused the purest doctrines to flow in the stream 

 of this noble language. To the whole body of the learned Hindus you have 

 thus rendered accessible the sublimest truths, by conveying them in a channel 

 to which, as to their own venerated river, they ascribe the power of purifying 

 all it touches. To a mind like yours this must be an inexhaustible source of 

 gratifying reflection. 



But, Sir, we feel that we should be doing you an injustice, were we to describe 

 at greater length, the fruits of your studies already before the public. We feel 

 that no conception can be formed of the stores of your capacious mind from the 

 comparatively small samples of your labours which have been given to the world. 

 We feel that to the unobtrusive nature of your character is owing the infrequen- 

 cy of your appearance as an author, and we know that you have assiduously 



