| 6 || & the work of reformation; seems' a measure so manifestly impolitic, inexpedient, dangerous and unwise, as scarcely to admit of any excuse, short of the unhappy impulse of insanity. The Reverend Claudius Buchàmam, Vice-provost of the College of Fort-William, is that member of the Church, to whom I here allude. He has recently published a Memoir, on the expediency of an Ecclesiastical Establishment for British India; chiefly with a view to “the ultimate civilization of the natives.” by their conversion to Christianity. This measure he considers as “A soleMN AND “ IMPERIOUs bury, Exactep by our RELIGION AND PUBLIC PRINCIPLEs”;”—it BEING By No
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