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    The Committee Of The Unitarian Fund Wish...

    What _if | _el 4 ton should _^ subsist _between two a * tiiqr « ilVf _^ ionaiie _^ _s _^ _ps _^ _ttei from ike _aajne funds , and living . in t _^ e same city _^ or _© _rovdiice , f _^ co _^ l _^ y ? Each should be perfectly independent of all the rest , and all _^ _hoid dj _^» yi _$ _&« _fj by their _common employers yifh equal affection _# p _$ confidence . $ _| jhfP _4 _>&* various instances of a most injurious partiality shown by _Missioqaoy _^< H _$ _e-r ties to tl _* ose who _hwe happened to originate a Mission , _Nothing _^ pigre _depressing to , the spirits *) f junior Missionaries , nothing more fetal tqr : the success of _& H , by sowing the seeds of dissension and of every _^ vil _wcjjrjLT , , \

    5 . In sending out Missionaries and fixing upon stations , a system _si _* _m * lq b _$ adopted and steadily followed . This has not in any _instance , as far ; _, _^ I _pm aware , been even attempted . Missionaries have been sept fort | i _eapt , w _^ _gt _^ north and south , without any calculation of the probabilities or _proprieties of the thing . The proposed Unitarian Missionary Society Should confine it _* ritish in

    attention to the B possessions the East—a field of _exertion . Bttfl & r eiently wide _^ and embracing a numerous and highly intere & _tigg popuia _^ oa _. Missionaries should first be sent to the thre _^ Presidencies of _iaOTa— -Calcutta _^ Madras and Bombay , and to . Columbo the capital of Ceylon : for each # 1 which , four Missionaries would perhaps" be sufficient . Missionaries _shpuld then be settled at the military stations attached to these , and for each of

    them , perhaps , two Missionaries would be enough . Attention should , thea be given tq the principal Hindoo and Mussulman cities , for e _$ c _$ * of _vdbjftjh _af least two _vvoijld be required . By proposing to send first to the Pre _^ de _itti _^ _es and the military stations , and last of all to the Native cities , the _stroDger claims of th _^ Natives upon our attention are by no means overlooked , for wherever you find a European you are sure to find a Native population , j _^ 4 the cliar _^ MC _^ ey l _^ f , the former is povverfully _opexating- to form that of the latter $ from _whiqRat fp _ljovvs _, that if you wish to _affect the Native character yo _^ must npt _^ biiiy work directly upon it _, but also indirectly , by _wprkAug upon

    the European _character . - > 6 . The _Miseionaxies , who are sent to the Presidencies and to ColumUo _, should be accompanied , without foil , by a printer , and , if possible , wiih a letter-founder , with as complete a supply of the _-apparatus of their _respective arts , as your funds will enable you to & end _. If a pap « _er-maker , as we _^ l a 3 a _"printer and letter-founder , were sent to each of these places , tlifc ad ? ant 8 _^ jc » would be still greater . In this country tjiese three arts are in a very low state of cultivation , and Vet all three are eminently useful , if not indispensa'

    11 * .. 1 i */ v » _t _» * 1 m t •¦• • mt _. _*_ __^ bly necessary in the diffusion of knowledge and religion . The _eqmppqK _^ of these persons would be at first expensive , but they wofild more tnan repay you on their arrival in India . A schoolmaster , well acquainted with the Lancasterian system of education , would be very useful also at each of these places , but from his labours no emolument could be expected to arise . His equipment , however , would be attended with far less expense . 7 * In order to promote that good understanding' between Missionaries ' reis so seldom

    siding at the same place , which is so _desirable but wh _^ ch wit _*» nessed , there ought to be a division of labour . A printer _should d 4 notb _| _m | but print ; _ia letter-founder should do nothing but cast _typefi , a _pdpfer-iDialc _< 5 r _should do _Nothing but make paper , and a _schotilmaster ahoula _ddQOlil | M | but instruct youth . This , although so plain and so manifestly proper _tp pi done , has seldom , if ever , been adhered to . But I will go further and _say _^ that of tUe four Missionaries , whom I shall suppose to be stationed at Cat uttaof the four at of the four at Madras d of the four at

    c , Bombay , , an Columbo , two ought to enrage in _Jabours which , hfive the English _lanjniag _^ for their basis , and the other two in labours which require the use of tne Native la _^ _gyag es _^ . Qf the two who engage in N ative studies and labours , one should devote his exclusive ftttention to Hindoo , and the _qtiier to _Mufts _^ lman

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1823, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/smrp_01061823/page/5/