LORD WELLESLEY'S SCHOOL FOR ADMINISTRATORS. [To TIM EDITOR or THR
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Sra,—Can you spare me a few lines to say, in answer to a correspondent in your issue of October 7th, that I was only concerned with Lord Wellesley's effort in founding the College of Fort William in Bengal t I was perfectly aware of the subsequent foundation of the East India Company's College at Haileybury, which has been the alma mater of so many distinguished administrators, some of them (if I may be allowed to say so) relatives and friends of my own. In referring to the older institution I had no thought of ignoring the later one. But a reference to Lord Wellesley's Order in Council, as quoted in your article of September 9th, shows that his design was to protect young men on their arrival in India from the wily Hindoo, as well as to afford them a better opportunity of learning the language of the peoples among whom their lot would be cast. The moral of the whole is : Spare no pains and grudge no expense in the due training and equipment of those whom you intend to employ in administering the affairs of our extended
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