who are wealthy enough, and disposed to send their children to boarding schools, or private tutors.

In the times of their greatest prosperity, those who exercised the control over the Grecian and Roman colonial politics, seemed more anxious to secure a reciprocal affection and intercourse, by a community of privileges between the mother country and her distant emigrants and colonists, and to possess their attachment and cooperation, their efficiency and courage, in times of danger, than to reserve a mercantile monopoly of the produce, manufacture, or civil immunities of distant possessions. There has hitherto been a departure from the ancient model in our colonial arrangements in respect of India; we do not determine whether this has been wise, but we anticipate that a change may ere long be found practicable and judicious.

"A Briton knows, or if he knows it not,

The Scripture placed within his reach, he ought,

That souls have no discriminating hue,
Alike important in their Maker's view;

That none are free from blemish since the Fall,
And love divine has paid one price for all."

There are many intelligent and generous minds among this class of our eastern fellow-subjects, who are not only capable of discriminating the justness of principles, and rectitude of procedure, but have also a keen eye to detect the blemishes, or to discover and estimate the consequences of the political and judicial administration: every expanded and unprejudiced mind will desire the increase of such talent. But the general character of the Eurasians does not reach so high a standard. For one mature mind and judicious observer, who will sustain an equanimity and inflexible adherence to purpose and principle, fifty will be found whose attainments are limited and superficial, and whose opinions are as various, fickle, and incoherent, as may be the vicissitudes and uncertainties of revolving time. As an isthmus between two contiguous continents, connecting European and Asiatic society, their materials may be characteristic of the temperament and constitution of the opposing masses with which they are united. Too long, and unjustly, and from a most impolitic principle, shut out from desirable and improving society among Europeans, and habituated to the intercourse of uneducated mothers, of frivolous and dissipated societies; it is not to be wondered that they should imbibe the crude and erroneous fancies of the one race, and that while claiming the lineage and rank of the others, they should ape such manners of the Europeans, as most corresponded with their earliest and heartfelt predilections. Their employments are unfavourable for the development of mind, or the increase of intelligence. The incessant repetition of manual labours in the transcription of official documents, the mere mechanical details of mercantile transactions, or the fractional calculations of the merchant's counting-room, without any of the excitement incident upon hazard and enterprise, will not expand the intellect, nor exercise nor improve the judgment; while the hours of their pleasure and their seasons of recreation, are times of dissipation and of gayer follies. There are few manufactures where they may be led to study the practical operations of scientific principles, and observe the progress, and be excited to emulation by the advancement of others; and the wholesome, active, and vigorous engagements of the field or garden, can seldom engage their attention, or lead them to devout, rational, and elevated contemplation of a great First Cause.

Yet there are means which may be employed for their moral amelioration. They know the English language-a key to every science and storehouse of literature; they are ambitious of conforming to English manners, and they appreciate English society; they trace their relation to the nations of Europe, and participate with a keen sympathy and a fond ambition in the honours of their parent stem. They are accessible to the European teachers; and while in an infant state of society, they possess immediate access to the sacred Scriptures, that fountain of pure knowledge and cheering consolation, of practical wisdom and ennobling principles: and if they can be induced to study this hallowed record from the pen of inspiration, and to walk in the way which it prescribes, then will their course be as the path of the just, which shineth more and more unto the perfect day; and their experience and example will prove,

that to scale the heights of heaven, to behold the Sun of eternal truth, and receive his rays; to grasp the things of an everlasting age, and to be filled with all the fulness of God; to receive the first principles of heavenly science; to soar on the wings of contemplation, aided by the breath of the infinite Spirit; to explore the tracts of uncreated light, and dive into the things which are displayed in heavenly places by Jesus Christ; to be permitted to look into the unseen world, and peruse the records of the New Jerusalem; to be enabled by an infallible standard, more truly unerring than a mathematical axiom; to weigh and compare the things of redeeming love, and to live as seeing Him who is invisible, shall, without doubt, elevate the human mind, and dignify all who are so employed. There are now lending libraries, and reading societies among them: already are there several congregations of them as Christian worshippers, and some of them are engaged even in missionary operations. The Bishop's College, Calcutta, presents an opening and an invitation to such of them as shall prove themselves fitted for the good work of promulgating truth and peace. Many of them are enrolled among the liberal patrons of evangelical exertions, and are themselves monuments of what the Lord Jehovah has done by the instrumentality of missionary effort. It will be well when the congregations are supplied with duly qualified pastors of their own order: this would hold forth a stimulus to the early pious to seek the

gifts and endowments which would adorn the Christian ministry, and be profitable for the instruction of the community. It might, too, exercise a diffusive influence, and inspire the body of the people, not merely with a desire to support their own religious teachers, but also with a zeal to become the labourers who shall long be required for the poor heathen; not as the colonial agents of a distant mother country, but as the principal and responsible representatives of their own church. In a multitude of instances, they are able to speak the language of the Hindoos; they are also conversant with the manners of the heathen; they might become even erudite in the literature of the Brahmins; and by a holy character, a temperate zeal, prayerful diligence, and unceasing application, they might become harbingers of good to the people, and faithful stewards of the manifold grace of God.