পাতা:বিবিধ প্রবন্ধ (প্রথম খণ্ড) - রাজনারায়ণ বসু.pdf/১৪৯

হিন্দু অথবা প্রেসিডেন্সী কলেজের ইতিবৃত্ত। ১৪১ ৷৷ বিষয়ে গাবৰ্ণর জেলেরল লর্ড আমহষ্ট সাথে বিকে ইংরাজী শিক্ষায় অনুমোদন করিয়া এক পত্র লিখেন, তাহার অবিকল প্ৰতিলিপি, মিলে । দেওয়া গোল। । "To His Excellency the Right Honorable Lord Amherst, Governor General-in Council, MY LORD Humbly reluctaqt as the natives of India are to obtrude upon the notice of Government the sentiments they entertain on any public measure, there are circumstances when silance-would be carrying this respectful feeling to culpable excess. The present rulers of India, coming from a distance of many thousand miles to govern a people whose language, literature, manneть, customs, and ideas, are almost entirely new and strange to them, cannot easily become so intimately acquainted with their real circumstances as the natives of the country are themselvę, We should therefore be guilty of a gross dereliction of duty to ourselves and afford our rulers just grounds of complaint atour apathy, did we omit on occasions of importance like the present, to supply them with such accurate information as might enable them to devise and adopt measures calculated to be beneficial to the country, and thus second by our local knowledge and experience their declared benevolent intentions for its improvoment, The establishment of a new Sanskrid School in Calcutta evinces the laudable desire of Government to improve the natives of India by education-ablessing for which they must ever be grateful, and every well-wisher of the human race aust be desirous that the efforts, Baade to promote it, should begaids