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CALCUTTA. 
inducement than their own sense of right, to keep them from every 
thing approaching to dishonour, yet it is nevertheless certain, that 
some are still found unable to resist the temptation. Whenever 
this deviation from the paths of rectitude has unfortunately oc- 
curred, it has uniformly originated in the misconduct of the young 
writer on his arrival in the country, and his consequent dependence 
upon his Dewan. 
The most effectual mode of remedying this evil, is to place the 
young man in a situation where his conduct, and expenses, would be 
subject to the inspection and control of respectable persons, selected 
with judgment for the important office. Under such circumstances, 
the employment of a Dewan ought to be prohibited, and disobedi- 
ence rendered liable to immediate detection and punishment. Had 
Lord Wellesley's plan of a College been acceded to, this desirable 
end would have been attained, and the young men subject to the 
restrictions and discipline of such an Institution would no longer 
have met with those facilities in raising money with which their 
present situation so often presents them. They must, in con- 
sequence, have been obliged to confine their expenditure to the 
liberal allow^ance of the East India Company, till called to the 
higher appointments, when, unincumbered in their affairs, and un- 
corrupted in their minds, they might rapidly and honestly have ac- 
quired, at an early period of their lives, that opulence which would f 
ensure them affluence and comfort in their native country. This ' 
important object would also have been promoted by the early age 
at which the writers, when subject to collegiate restrictions, might 
have been sent to India; they might have gone at the tender age 
of fifteen, or even fourteen ; and this would have enabled them to 
