“The modes of instruction used by our Church are, also, exactly suited to the state of the people professing christianity at these places; and they are usually as anxious for the prayer-book, (translated) as for the New Testament. If our Society could but supply labourers for this field, doubtless, on a proper representation of the subject, government would readily permit them to proceed hither. “Their Christian subjects have a claim upon government for such permission, to say the least: and in this way, part of their subjects would become attached [to them] no less from duty, than from interest. The professedly Christian part of the natives, are as little attached to us as any other; a sincere lover of his country cannot but wish that this portion of the population, at least, should be brought to feel common interest with us. Our civil Institutions have furnished much new information to the natives, on the subject of moral right and wrong; and from the increase of respectability, of late years, in the Honourable Company’s servants, as well as from the growth of real piety among them, much religious knowledge is gone abroad; add to this, also, the considerable distribution of translations of the Scriptures, in various languages, of late years. From all this, an attentive observer cannot but conclude, that as the subject of civil liberty becomes better understood by the natives, more political danger is to be apprehended from this quarter; unless it be counteracted by those motives to contentment, and obedience to the “powers that be,” which the gospel alone supplies, than from any temperate attempts at evangelization. Of these attempts, the plan of schoolmasters, such as our society could approve at the different stations, as above suggested, seems to me the least objectionable, and to imply no cause of irritation whatever in the natives. Whilst there is every ground, from reason and Scripture, to expect that the blessing of God would attend endeavours of this kind.” As, also, the government of Lord Moira then professed to have in contemplation some scheme for the education of the natives of India at large, Mr. Corrie thought it his duty to write to Sir George Nugent, to request that the Native christians might not be overlooked. With reference to that important matter he observes in a letter TO J. W. SHERER, ESQ. “April 21, 1814.