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success, in a procession & thanksgiving
service after the conquest of Mysore. But
his greatest desire in his civil work was
to carry out his plan for the better education
of the Company's servants on their
arrival in India. Now that the Company
was so much more than a mere trading
body, the young men who came out -
fit as they were for nothing but clerkships -
were totally unsuited to the judicatory
& official posts which they would
have to occupy in helping to rule the
British Empire in India. To give them
adequate instruction in their duties,
Wellesley - at great trouble & considerable
cost - founded a college at Fort William
(Calcutta). It made a very successful
start, but no sooner was its foundation
reported to the Directors than, taking
it for granted that it was waste of
their good money, they ordered its immediate
abolition; & even after pressure
had been brought to bear on them, the
most that they could be induced to
allow was that the college should remain
solely for the teaching of Eastern
tongues, & that to Bengal "writers" only. But
Wellesley's plan did see light in a modified
form when in 1806 the English College of