language, and Braminical science and literature. The superior importance of planting this College in the Metropolis was beyond dispute. Calcutta being necessarily the resort of a vast number of Asiatics, its celebrity as a city, its European masters, its opulence, its centrical situation with regard to the Peninsula, and the upper provinces, and the facility of access to it, whether by land or water, all contribute to render it attractive to the natives of India, and therefore peculiarly adopted to the situation of a seminary, which it was intended should be accessible to students from every part of the country. Besides these and other advantages unnecessary to enumerate, the establishment of the institution at the seat of government, would secure a facility and efficiency of control and superintendance, which could not be obtained in a more distant quarter.
Influenced by these considerations, the Governor General in Council determined in the year 1821, that a Hindoo College should be founded in Calcutta, on a footing similar to that of the College already established at Benares, with such modifications as should subsequently prove necessary or advisable; that the sum of 25,000
