^58 CALCUTTA. 
Marquis Wellesley was correct; and it is a little singular that, 
although the exhausted state of the Company's finances was declared 
to be the immediate occasion of the rejection of his Lordship's plan, 
much heavier expenses have been incurred by the present scheme 
than would have attended the completion of the former, without 
having in any respect answered the important objects, which origi- 
nally suggested the expediency of its adoption. This failure is by 
no means to be attributed to the gentlemen appointed to super- 
intend the College, many of whom are men of great talents and 
knowledge ; and it is only to be regretted, that their exertions are 
not employed at the place where alone they can be of essential 
service — at Calcutta. 
In England their efforts are completely thrown away, as the 
students, during a few months residence in India, would gain a 
greater insight into the necessary branches of Eastern literature, 
than the study of many years in this country could afford ; and with 
respect to the customary acquirements of classical education, the 
pupils had equal opportunities of previously attaining them at any 
of our public schools. 
The School attached to the College is almost too insignificant to 
deserve mention. Where can masters be procured qualified to teach 
the different languages of the East ? Will the menial servants of 
gentlemen returned from India be appointed? Can such men be 
supposed competent to so important an undertaking? If not, 
where then are masters to be procured ? The whole appears to 
have been a mere pretext for the extension of patronage, unless 
indeed it was intended as a seminary for missionaries, a purpose it 
has been publicly recommended to answer in a Prize Dissertation 
