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from ambition , domination and secularity among the teachers . Your publication has given
^ us in England a great insight ioto the state of Christianity in India , as well as into the general state of learning amongst you ; and it has excited in me the warmest
wishes for the prosperity of the College of Fort-William . It is an institution which would have done honour to the wisdom of Solon or Lycurgus . I have no
knowledge personally of the Marquis WellesJey , but I shall think of him and of his coadjutors in this undertaking , with the highest respect and admiration , as long as I live .
1 cannot enter into any particulars relative to &ri ecclesiastical establishment in India ; nor would it perhaps , be proper to press government to take the matter into their consideration , till this country is freed from the danger which threatens it : but I have that opinion of his Majesty ' s ministers , that they will , not only from policy , but from a serious
sense of religious duty , be disposed to treat the subject whenever it comes before them with great judgment and liberality . May God direct their counsels ! c Our empire in India , ' said Mr . Hastings , ' has been acquired by the sword , and must be maintained by the sword / I cannot agree with him in this sentiment . All empires have been originally acquired by violence , fotit they are . best established by moderation and ^ justice . There was a time when we shewed ourselves to the
inhabitants of India in the character of tyrants and robbers ; that time , I trust , is gone for ever . The wisdom mi British policy , the equity of its
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jurisprudence , the impartiality of its laws , the humanity of its penal code , and above all , the incorrupt administration of public justice will , when they are well under ! stood , make the Indians our wjl . ling subjects , and induce them to adopt a religion attended with such consequences to the dearest interests of the human mind . They will rejoice in having exchanged
the tyranny of Pagan superstition , and the despotism of their native princes , for the mild mandates of Christianity , and the stable au . thorlty of equitable laws . The difference between such different
states of civil society , as to the production of human happinesses infinite ; and the attainment of happiness is the ultimate aim of all individuals in all nations . I am , Reverend Sir , Yojir obliged and faithful servant , R . LLANDAFF . To Rev . Dr . Buchanan ^ Via-Provost of the College oj ' Fort-William * Calcutta .
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Account of Lalande , the Astronomer . From Walsh ' s American Review . Printed , Philadelphia ; Reprinted , London . No , i . The elder Lalastue , the celebrated professor of astronomy , and
one of the most extraordinary men of his age , vras among the first of the distinguished Savons , with whom it was my good fortune to become acquainted - He die during my residence at Paris , after his decease , had that justice
done to his stupendous power . aw . acquirements , which , as ' ' * I ? . to many others , was refused to hin > during the last years of his i » Lalande , if not the most proioun
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U 6 * Account of Lalande , the Astronomer .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1811, page 264, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2416/page/8/
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