CALCUTTA. 
of any establishment tending to regulate the morals, and instruct 
the understandings of its junior servants, and to prevent the re- 
currence of those irregularities and excesses, which have formerly 
disgraced the annals of our Indian history. Considering ail the 
disadvantages under which the young writers laboured, and the 
many powerful temptations to which they must necessarily have 
been exposed, it is not so much matter for astonishment that 
numbers should have fallen, as that any individuals should have 
been found able to encounter them. That many such characters 
have been formed in India is incontrovertible ; but it is also not less 
strictly true, that, generally speaking, the licentiousness and in- 
capacity of the Company's civil servants had long continued an evil 
of serious magnitude, loudly calling for reform. It cannot how- 
ever be denied, that, in spite of the many abuses which existed 
from the want of education and capacity in those invested with 
the magistracy of the country the situation of those provinces, 
where the administration of the Government had been chiefly con- 
fided to Europeans, was, under every disadvantage, happier and 
more flourishing than the situation of those principally ruled by 
native authorities. The judicious policy of Marquis Cornwallis, 
which prompted him to extend this system throughout the pro- 
vinces of Bengal, is therefore deserving of praise, though it is to be 
lamented that the same policy did not also induce him to institute 
some regular mode of education, calculated to qualify the Euro- 
pean civil servants for those important posts which they were 
destined to occupy. It is true, indeed, that under his Lordship's 
Government, the comparatively small extent of our Indian posses- 
sions might not perhaps require so comprehensive an establish- 
