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In accordance with their instructions we
have and, and deliberated
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the measures
which appear requisites to secure the future Prosperity of the above Institution, and we hope
Your
: Excellency will excuse us for taking the present opportunity to submit a brief outline for your consideration,
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The original and unalterable objects of the
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C. College is twofold the reciprocal cultivation of Chinese and English literature, and the spread
of
the gospel of Jesus Christ; the former being carried with a view to the promotion of the latter. It is necessary for us to refer at length to its past
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many years
in which it has
OD during the been in operation in Malacca, several hundreds
" Country Com Chinese have received in it
a very
tolerable
tolerable English Education. Some of them act
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Interpreters to the Courts in the several settlements
in the Straits, and others
are
among
native merchants, Their progress
the wealthiest
in Chinese was
necessarily more slow and incomplete, Malay
- tongue, and there being
being their mother tongue,
no
motives sufficiently weighty to counterbalance the labour necessary to obtain a mastery of that most difficult of languages.
The location indeed of the College in
settlement was
that-
unfortunate, for in a few years
after it had been founded, the Community of
Malacca was almost entirely
transferred to Singapore,
and the number of Chinese inhabitants decreased. The young
necessarily decreased. The
young and enterprising
flock'd to that island, where they found an appropriate field for the employment of their Energies, and the Institution was left amid
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