1806. ] 
Amid thefe troubles, the Bollandifts 
printed the fifty-fecond volume of the 
A&ts of the Saints, to the 6th tom of the 
mooth of Ogtober. The fifty-firt volume 
is little known in the courfe of trade, be- 
caufe the fale of it has been interrupted by 
the continual changes of the refidence of 
the Bollandifts. The fifty-fecond is much 
more f{carce: few perfons know of its ex- 
iftence. I have read 296 pages of it, 
which I believed was printed in the abbey 
of Tongerloo: the remainder of the vo- 
lume was perhaps printed at Rome. 
Citizen Dherbouville, prefect of the 
department of Deux-Nethes at Antwerp, 
in the [Xth year, ufed his endeavours 
with the old Bollandifts to engage them to 
vefume their labours ; but his efforts were 
not fuccefsful. In the month of Frimaire, 
in the XIih year, the Inititute wrote to 
the Minilter of the Interior, to requeft 
him to prevail with the Prefect of the 
Dyle, and with that of Deux-Nethes, to 
make a new attempt with the Bollandifts, 
ither to continue their colle&tion, or, on 
certain conditions to be agreed uon, to 
part with their manu(cripts, and the other 
materials whieh they have prepared. T. 
For the Monthly Magazine. 
4 PRELIMINARY VIEW of the EAST- 
INDIA COLLEGE in HERFFORDSHIRE, 
for the EVUCATION of YOUNG PER- 
SONS appointed to the CIVIL SERViCE 
7# INDIA. 
di HE object of this eftablithment is, 
to provide a fupply of perfons 
duly qualified to difcharge the various and 
Important duties required from the civil 
fervants of the Company, in adminiiter- 
ing the government of India. 
Within the laft thirty or forty years a 
great change has taken place tn the ftate 
of the Company’s affairs in thatcountry : 
the extenfion of empire has been followed 
by a great increafe of power and autho- 
rity: and perfons of the fame defeription, 
who, before, had acted in the capacity of 
factors and merchan's, are now called up- 
onto adminitter, throughout their refpecs 
tive diftriéts, an extenlive fyftem of 
finance, and to fill the important offices 
of magifirates, ambafladors, and proviu- 
cial governors. 
Ii. As this extenfion of dominion in In- 
dia hath been gradual, the wants thence 
a:ifing have not oithe:to been provided for 
in any way fitted to fupply them ; for 
though the private and fol-tary ftudics ot- 
individuals have enabled them to dif- 
charge, with ability and honour, the du- 
Account of the Eaft-India College in Hertfordjbire. 
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ties devolved upon them, yet the growing 
exigencies of territories fo enlarged have 
Joudly called for an eftablifhment at home, 
which, upon a wife and well-adapted fyf 
tem, might provide and prepare, in the 
moft direct manner, a fucceflion of civil 
fervants, for their deftined funétions. 
The neceffity of fuch an eftablithment 
fo generally felt in England, induced the 
Company to expect that fome inftitution 
would have arifen, immediately applicable 
tothe fuppiy of their wants. But all 
hopes from other quarters having been dif- 
appointed, they judged itto be aduty incum. 
bent upon themfelves to devife and to in- 
ftitute a plan, that might not only fill up 
the time of thofe young perfons defigned 
for the civil fervice of India with general 
advantage ; but thould alfo afford the belt 
means of qualifying them to difcharge the 
duties of their fiations there ; and to fend 
them thither early enough to engage in all 
the concerns of-active life. 
This plan comprehends two inftitutions : 
a {chool, into which boys may be admit- 
ted at an eariy age 5; and acoliege, forthe 
reception of itudents at the age of fifteen, 
torema.n till they are eighreen, or till they 
are fent by the Court of Direstors to their 
selpective deftinations. 
In the {choo]l, the pupils wil} be taughe 
the elements of general jearning, and fuch 
other accomplifhments as are the u‘ual ob- 
jects of inftruéction in the larger feminaries 
of this country. Efpeciai attention will 
be paid alfo to fuch parts of education as 
may ferve to qualify tnem for public buii- 
nefs, and for the higher departments of 
commercial Itfe. 
In the college, tce fudents will be in- 
firugted, by courfes cf Ie€tures, upon a 
plan fimilar ro tnat adopted in the univer- 
fities: and as it is defigned that the fchool 
fhouid be introductory to the college, 
thefe who fhali have pafied through both 
Inftitutions will enjoy the advantage of an 
uniform fyftem of eaucation, begun in ear- 
ly youth, and continued to their departure 
for the duties of their public ftations. 
Vif, After‘ having thus provided for 
the acquifition of learning in general, it 
is further mtended to furnifh them with 
the means of inftruction in the elements of 
Oviental literature. For this purpefe hey 
will not only be taught the rudiments of 
the Afiatic languages, more efpecial'y 
the Arabic and Perfiun, but be made ac- 
quainted with the hiftory, cuftomss, and 
minners, of the different nations of the 
Ealt s and as the fludy of Jaw and poli- 
tical economy 1s to form an affential part 
in the general fyftem of education, it will 
be 
