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be required, that, in the le€tures upon thefe 
fubjects, particular attention be given to 
the explanation of the political and com- 
mercial relations fubfifting between India 
and Great Britain. 
Among the variety of ffudies which 
may be purfued with pecuitar advantage in 
this country, it is not to be expected that 
any very great portion of their time can 
be allotted to the acquiring a knowledge 
of the feveral languages of the Eaft ; but 
it is prefumed that the main object of the 
infitution will be attained, 1! the tudents 
be well grounded in the rudiments of the 
tavo languages already {pecified ; and thar, 
on their leaving the college, fuch inftruc- 
tions be given them as may erable them to 
profecute their Oriental ftudies during 
their paflage to India. 
IV. The college is to be under the di- 
reftion and authority of a principal and 
feveral Profeffors, according to the follow- 
ing arrangement. 
The Rev. Samuel Henley, D.D., Pria- 
eipal. 
Profefars of Mathematics and Natural 
Philofophy, — Rev. B. Bridge, A.M. ; 
Rev. W. Dealtry, A.M. 
Prafefors of Humanity and Philology,— 
Rev. E. Lewtcn, A. M.;3 J. H. Batten, 
Efq., A.M. 
Profefor of Hiffory and Political Econo- 
my,—Rev. T. R. Malthus, A.M. 
Prefeffor of General Polity and the Laws 
of England,— 
Profeffor of Oriental Literature. 
To the college will be attached a 
French mafier, a drawing-mafier, a fenc- 
ing-mafter, and other proper inftructors. 
The Rev. M. H. Luicombe, A.M., of 
the Univerfity of Cambridge, is appointed 
head mafter of the {chool. 
V. Befides the general fuperintendance 
of the college and {chool in their refpe@ive 
d-partments, it will be the office of the 
principal more efpecially to watch over 
the moral and religious conduct of the ftu- 
dents ; to infrué them in the principles 
_of ethics and natural theology ; and in the 
evidences, doctrines, and duties, of reveal. 
edreligion. Whilit in this refpeét he is 
confidered as difcharging the dury ofa pro- 
feflor in divinity, fo, in the ordinary exer- 
eife of his clerical funétion, he will be re- 
quired, in conjunction with fuch profediors 
as are in holy orders, to preach in the col- 
Jege chapel, and, at the ttated feafons, to 
perform the folemn rites of the Eftablifind 
-Church. . 
VI. The leStures of the profeffors may 
be arranged urder four difiin@ heads, in 
the following manner: 
Account of the Eaft-India College in Hertfordfbire. {April 1, 
I. Oriental Literature. 
/r. Practical intruction in the rudiments 
of the Oriental languages, more efpeci- 
ally the Arabic and Perfian. 
2. Acourfe of lectures to illuftrate the 
hiffory, cuftoms, and manners, of the 
people of India. 
II, Mathematics and Natural Philofophy. 
a. A courfe of. praétical inftruction in the 
elements of Euclid, algebra, and trigo- 
nometry ; on the moft ulefal properties 
of the conic fections, the nature of lo- 
garitlms, and the principles of fluxions. 
2. A courfe of lectures on the four 
branches of natural. philofophy ; me- 
chanics, hydroftatics, optics, and aftro- 
nomy ; illuftrated by occafional experi- 
ments : and, if it fhould be thought ne- 
ceflary or proper, the Principia of Sir 
Ifaac Newton wiil form a part of this 
courfe. 
It is here ofimportance to obferve, that 
the more abftrufe parts of pure mathema- 
tics will be utterly excluded from thef 
lectures, as altogether inconfiltent with the 
object of the inftitution. The mathema- 
tical iectures will be made entirely fubfer- 
vient to the purpofes of natural philofophy. 
The lectures in natural philofophy will 
have for their {cope and end the arts and 
_objeé&ts of common life ; and to render 
this depaitment of thefe le€tures more ex- 
tenfively ufefal, as foon as a proper collec- 
tion of fpecimens fhall be procured, it is 
intended to give the ttudents fome elemen- 
tary inftructions in chemiftry, mineralogy, 
and natural hiftory. 
UI, Ciaffiical and General Literature. 
1. A courfe of lectures to explain the an- 
cient writers of Rome ard Greece, more 
particularly the biftorians and orators. 
2. A courfe of lectures on the arts of rea. 
foning and compofition ; and on fuch 
other fubjecéts as are generaily under- 
{tood by the ** belles-lettres.”” 
Thefe Ic&ures will be altogether plain 
and praétical. Peculiar care will be taken 
to make the ftudents well acquainted with 
the Eoglith language, and wi:h the merits 
of its moft approved writérs. They will 
be exercifed alfo in every fpecies of com- 
pofition appropriate to their’ future occu- 
pati: ns. ; 
IV. Law, Hiftary, and Poiztical Economy. 
1. A courfe of leétures on general hiftory, 
. and.on the hiftory and ftatiftics of the 
mcdern naiions of Europe. 
2. A courte of lectures on politica} eco. 
nomy. 
3. Acourfe 
