“Three native Battalions are usually cantoned here; two are now at the station. I have been taking measures for the establishment of a school for the younger drummers and fifers, and for the children of native Christians attached to these Corps. I have already twenty-four names of children, whose parents desire that they should become scholars too. We also, on Sunday [Feb. 8th.] began Hindoostanee worship, and about fifteen of the above class attended. For the school, I have met with a small bungalow conveniently situated, offered for six hundred rupees. In this bungalow Mr. Adlington could also reside for the present. I beg, therefore, that the Committee will consider whether they can adopt this bungalow and premises for a Missionary residence; or whether they would wish Mr. Adlington to reside altogether in Benares; and that premises should be procured for him there on his return from Agra?[101] Let me repeat, then, that at this place there are immediate calls on the Society for assistance; and that not merely in the hope of probable benefit, but from the actual wants of professing native Christians; whilst many of the natives, Mahomedan and Heathen, are awakened to discern the importance of Christianity, and will probably be encouraged or discouraged by the readiness or otherwise which we manifest in meeting these wants of our Christian brethren.” Mr. Corrie had the satisfaction to find that the Committee in Calcutta readily entered into his views, and authorized him to purchase the premises referred to in the preceding letter. He was thus enabled to open a school, to the support of which many of the European residents at Benares contributed, by monthly benefactions and subscriptions. Early in February Mr. Corrie visited Chunar, his first station in India, and where the native church was now under the care of Mr. Bowley. It appears from the report he sent to the Calcutta Committee of the Church Missionary Society, that Mr. C. found the mission at Chunar in a satisfactory state. Under date of Feb. 9, 1818, he writes: