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and agriculture of their country. At Malacca, the Chinese, who have 

 been educated at the College at that place, atFord a decisive proof of 

 the benefit which the people of China must derive from a good educa- 

 tion, and of the influence which such an education must give them over 

 the opinions and feelings of their countrymen, and over the moral and 

 political changes, which, owing to the progress of knowledge, must 

 sooner or later take place in that country. At Canton the establishment 

 of the Ophthalmic Hospital ; at Macao that of the Morrison Education 

 Society ; at both of these places the exertions of Dr. Colledge and other 

 professional gentlemen, to afford medical and surgical relief to the Chi- 

 nese ; and the various European and American institutions at Canton and 

 Macao, must gradually produce amongst the Chinese people a convic- 

 tion of the practical benefits to be derived from European science and 

 European acquirements. The liberal and enlightened conduct of the 

 foreign merchants at Canton and Macao, as well of those who are sub- 

 jects of the United States, as of those who are subjects of all the dif- 

 ferent sovereigns of Europe, in unanimously resolving to subscribe a 

 large sum of money, for erecting a monument in honour of the me- 

 mory of the late Captain Horsbm'gh, shows the estimation in which 

 they hold scientific acquirements. The resolutions which were passed 

 by them on the occasion, whether we consider the person to whose 

 memory they relate; the persons by whose co-operation they were 

 passed ; the place at which they were passed ; the nature of the mo- 

 nument, and the situation in which it is to be placed, must afibrd the 

 highest encouragement to scientific pursuits, by holding out the high- 

 est honours to those who succeed in them. The person to whom the 

 honour is paid, is one who left his home in Fifeshire as a cabin-boy^ 

 who, having been employed as a sea-faring man in the Indian seas, was 

 wrecked between Batavia and Ceylon, on the Island of Diego-Garcia ; 

 and was, in consequence of this misfortune, first led to make those va- 



that in the years 1781 and 1782 some of his troops were so near Madras, as to render it 

 unsafe to reside in any of the garden-houses near Fort St. George, and Lord Macartney, 

 the then Governor, and his private Secretary, the present Sir George Staunton's father, 

 derived great credit from being able to get him to conclude, in 1783, that treaty, in al- 

 lusion to which, the portrait of Lord Macartney, and Sir George's father, now in the 

 present Sir George Staunton's possession, was painted. Scarcely twenty years after- 

 wards, tlie British army succeeded in annihilating altogether, under his son Tipoo, Ry- 

 der's dynasty, and Prince Jamh-ud-din, the son of Tipoo, and a pensioner of the British 

 Government, is now in England, and qualified to exercise, as a Proprietor of East India 

 Stock, a greater influence over the British government in India, than his grandfather, in 

 the plenitude of his power, had ever exercised. 



