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    What if | el 4 ton should ^ subsist between two a * tiiqr « iM & moiuuie ^ s ^ ps ^ ttei from ike sajne 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 Missioqaay ^ Sc *^ ties to tlkope 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 wc ^ rtV , , \

    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 , ^ 1 pm aware , been even attempted . Missionaries have been sept fort | i east , w # & t * north and south , without any calculation of the probabilities or proprieties of the thing . The proposed Unitarian Missionary Society should confine xt ^ ritish in

    attention to the B possessions the East—a field of exertion . Bttfl & r ciently wide , and embracing a numerous and highly interesting popuia ^ oa . Missionaries should first be sent to the thre $ Presidenciea of iaOTa— -Calcutta , Madras and Bombay , and to Columbo the capital of Ceylon : for each ^ f 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 wkic ^ a | 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 stronger 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 aff ^ ci the Native character yoi * must not bixity work directly upon it , but also indirectly , by wprkAug upon

    the European character . - > 6 . The Missionaries , who are sent to the Presidencies and to Columb / Q ^ 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-niaker , 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 shoula ddQOlil | M | but instruct youth . This , although so plain and so manifestly proper tp 14 done , has Beldom , 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 Catuttaof the four at of the four at Madras d of the four at

    c , Bombay , , an Columbo , two ought to enrage , m labours 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 hid exclusive attention to Hindoo ^ and the otji » tp Mufts ^ lman literature and t ^ olo ^ y ; and , pwhaps , 9 $ M ^ l ^ ' ^^ S ^ W % i r kSt ! 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1823, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1714/page/5/