bationary state, she is surely in her fate, as she was in her faculties and her accomplishments, most enviable.-Alas! I speak-as a philosopher: but, when I turn my eyes to my own little prattling daughters, I shudder at the uncertainty of fate; I mingle my tears with those friend; I feel-as a man. of my A DISSERTATION On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World. Originally Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth.* MISERERE INOPUM SOCIORUM. Jur. viii. 89. IN entering upon a discussion like the present, professing to suggest plans for the immediate improvement of sixty or seventy millions of people, and the contingent salvation of perhaps nearly one half of the human species, the mind pauses under the magnitude of the subject; and is struck with awe, as she contemplates the grandeur of the scene spread before her. We view a country, which for If the Author could have induced himself to print two Letters, which he received from the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, recently Governor General of India, and Charles Grant, Esq. at that time Chairman of the East India Company, subsequent to the Adjudication made by the three Academical Judges (Dr. Seale, Dr. Jowett, and Mr. Outram) he feels assured, that his readers would not charge him with presumption in giving to the Public a Dissertation, which they honoured with their most decided preference. A [Only 50 copies printed separately.] bationary state, she is surely in her fate, as she was in her faculties and her accomplishments, most enviable.-Alas! I speak-as a philosopher: but, when I turn my eyes to my own little prattling daughters, I shudder at the uncertainty of fate; I mingle my tears with those of my friend; I feel-as a man. A DISSERTATION On the best Means of civilising the Subjects of the British Empire in India, and of diffusing the Light of the Christian Religion throughout the Eastern World. Originally Dedicated to the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth.* MISERERE INOPUM SOCIORUM. Jur. viii. 89. IN entering upon a discussion like the present, professing to suggest plans for the immediate improvement of sixty or seventy millions of people, and the contingent salvation of perhaps nearly one half of the human species, the mind pauses under the magnitude of the subject; and is struck with awe, as she contemplates the grandeur of the scene spread before her. We view a country, which for If the Author could have induced himself to print two Letters, which he received from the Right Hon. Lord Teignmouth, recently Governor General of India, and Charles Grant, Esq. at that time Chairman of the East India Company, subsequent to the Adjudication made by the three Academical Judges (Dr. Seale, Dr. Jowett, and Mr. Outram) he feels assured, that his readers would not charge him with presumption in giving to the Public a Dissertation, which they honoured with their most decided preference. A [Only 50 copies printed separately.] extent, fertility, and population baffles the cold conceptions of European fancy: a country, of which in ancient times the looms supplied splendid apparel, and the fields abundant and permanent subsistence, when the skin-clad savages of Europe sought their precarious diet from the woods; and which, regarded in it's modern fortunes, has been the prey of successive hordes of fierce or rapacious adventurers, and the dungeon or the grave of it's afflicted inhabitants. Confining our observation however principally to it's existing state, we see this noble region, by the almost-continuous ravages of eight hundred years, reduced to the lowest degree of political wretchedness: with it's manufactures nearly ruined, and with a small portion only of it's exuberant soil brought into rude cultivation by a degraded and starving peasantry; while the rest of it's surface is abandoned to the beasts of the forest, or to the luxuriance of rank and useless vegetation. With reference to it's religious condition, we behold it divided between the followers of Brahma and Mohammed, separated indeed from each other by a long intervening space, but aliens alike from Christ, and strangers to the Covenant of grace. Of these erroneous and discordant religionists, the latter, with the usual composition of bigots, are a blind and bloody sect; making the diffusion of their faith a |