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The splendid Institution established at Fort William by the Marquis 
Wellesley, for the education of the junior European servants of the 
Company, is now no more ; and it is ever to be regretted that so 
magnificent and useful a plan should have been abandoned from 
interested motives, that would better have become the little spirit 
of a retail dealer, than the liberal policy which ought to actuate 
the government of a powerful empire. Indeed, when we consider 
the magnitude of our Indian possessions, their immense import- 
ance to Great Britain, and the difficulties which must arise in 
administering justice throughout so extensive an empire, it is ob- 
vious that the Company is bound, by a sacred duty, to provide 
for the welfare of its subjects by an unremitting attention to the 
education of those servants, who will be appointed to employments 
that can be entrusted with safety only to men of abilities, exten- 
sive information, and unsullied integrity. Nor will these qualifica- 
tions alone enable them to discharge the duties which their situation 
imposes ; they must also possess a thorough knowledge of the 
different languages of the natives, an intimate acquaintance with 
their tempers and characters, and a clear insight into their various 
manners, habits, and customs. 
To form characters at once combining so many virtues and ac- 
quirements, is a task of considerable difficulty, even under the 
most favourable circumstances, and can only be accomplished by 
a scrupulous attention to the early education of those ultimately 
destined to take so large a share in the government of India. 
Obvious as this reflection must appear to every thinking mind, it 
is somewhat singular, and greatly to be regretted, that the India 
Company should, for so long a period, have delayed the formation 
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