_Statements_, p. 103, &c. This idea of the proper preparation for a civilian’s career in India chimes in with Malthus’ idea of the first requisite of good citizenship at home and everywhere. Footnote 1011: A hare-lip. Miss Martineau, who describes it, adds that “his vowels at least were sonorous, whatever might become of the consonants.” But she understood him without her ear trumpet. _Autobiogr._, i. 327–8. Cf. above, p. 58. Sydney Smith says, “I would almost consent to speak as inarticulately if I could think and act as wisely.” _Life_ by Holland, vol. ii. p. 326. He attributes a similar physical defect to Talleyrand, with perhaps as much seriousness. _Life_ by Holland, vol. ii. pp. 256–7. Footnote 1012: _Letter to Lord Grenville_ (1813), p. 14. Cf. what he says of the importance of teaching Political Economy in elementary schools, &c. _Essay_, IV. ix. 438 n. Footnote 1013: Jeffrey, _Life_, vol. ii. pp. 339, 340. To Mrs. C. Innes, 9th May, 1841. Footnote 1014: _Autobiogr._, i. 327. Other visits of Malthus to her are recorded, iii. 83, i. 253. For her view of him and his work see especially i. 200, 209, 253, 331. Footnote 1015: _Ib._ I. pp. 328–9. Footnote 1016: Cf. 1st _Essay_, pp. 225–6, which shows him on the Hunting-Field. Footnote 1017: A slip of the pen for “Professor.” The Principal was J. H. Batten, F.R.S. Footnote 1018: Where the fear expressed in some quarters (see _Statements_, p. 87) that the place would become a barrack has been realized architecturally. Footnote 1019: _Life_ by Holland, vol. ii. p. 73. Footnote 1020: _l. c._ vol. ii p. 150. Footnote 1021: Debate in House of Lords, April 9th, 1813, Hansard, pp. 750, 751. Footnote 1022: ‘Statements respecting the East India College, with an appeal to facts in refutation of the charges lately brought against it in the Court of Proprietors’ (1817). Cf. his ‘Letter to Lord Grenville, occasioned by some observations of his Lordship on the E. India Co.’s establishment for the education of their Civil servants’ (1813). Cf. _Edin. Rev._, Dec. 1816. The Letter to Lord Grenville (1813) states the case a little less fully; but both pamphlets contain substantially the same arguments. Footnote 1023: A property it often was, in the most literal sense, being bought and sold for cash. See _Hist. of Peace_, Introd. II. ii. 329–30. Footnote 1024: _Statements_, p. 103 n. Footnote 1025: Candidates were to be nominated in groups of four, the best of the four to have the appointment. Cf. Mill and Wilson’s _Brit. India_, Vol. IX. Book III. ch. ix. p. 381. Footnote 1026: The steps of the change may be followed in the fourth _Report (1858) of the Civil Service Commissioners_, pp. xix. _seq._ and 228 _seq._ Cf. also their first Report (1855). Footnote 1027: